Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: LEG, LO
Document date: 2/9/56
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/1/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10279-10228

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 105-42489-3

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TO: LEG, LO

TITLE :

DATE: 02/09/1956

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

PPJM, BKG, RES, JOURNALIST, SOVIET LAW STUDENT,

PASSPORT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC RPT

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT BUREAU

REPORT MADE AT

LONDON, ENGLAND

TITLE

DATE WHEN

1/23/56

1/19/56

REPORT MADE BY

J. PHILIP O' BRIEN

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PRISCILLA POST

JOHNSON

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - R

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

#CREIN IS UNCLACGIELED

EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

OTHERWISE

I-1, La contidential source abroad, advised subject, born 1/19/20

at Glen Cove, New Jork, holding Passport 664545, issued Washington,

D. Co, 5/24/55, attempting to obtain visa for Russia

en 9/28/55

subject requested U. S. Embassy, London, to validate

Passport for

Russia which she desired to visit, as student of Soviet Law, to

talk with legal experts, visit law classes, and as amateur journalist,

to cover stories for North American Newspaper Alliance, 229 West

43rd Street, New York City. On 11/17/55,

Russian Embassy, London,

advised visa had arrived and on 12/22/55 her Parport was valicated

pursuant to State Department instructions.

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FOR

Uniten States Department of Justire

Rederal Tureau of Inueatigation

Washington, D. C.

January 24, 1956

SECREE

DUS

GLASSIFIEN

MC FRALETH

COMMITTCE 10R0I

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BY

ED

9/9/92

Re:

PRISCILLA POST JOHNSON

Confidential Informant T-1, a confidential source abroad,

vised that the subject, a United States citizen, born on July 19, 1928,

at Glen Cove, New York, and holding Passport number 664545, issued at

Washington, D. Co, on May 24, 1953, took steps in London to

obtain a visa

to visit the Soviet Union.

According to I-1, subject described herself as

RELEAS

A FULL

PRELAT: IN PART

TODAA DENIALL

T-l said it was not known to him whether subject's efforts to

obtain a Russian Visa were successful.

The records of the Passport Section, American Embassy, London,

indicate that on September 28, 1955, subject requested her passport be

validated for travel to Russia. During her interview,

subject stated she

received a B.A. Degree at Bryn Mawr in 1950, and an M.A. at Harvard in

1953. She claimed to have done research for Senator JOHN F. KENNEDY of

Massachusetts; had worked for the "Current Digest of the Soviet Press,"

405 West 117th Street, New York City, from the spring of 1953 to the

fall of 1954; and was in the Research Department of "Colliers Magazine"

in the spring of 1955. She claimed membership in the World Student

Federalists, whose purpose, according to her,

was to expand and strengthen

the United Nations, and ultimately, to form a World Government.

On September 27, 1955, subject wrote to the Embassy to say that,

as a Student of Soviet Law, her purposes in applying for a Soviet Visa

were to talk with legal experts, to attend court cases, and to visit classes

at Moscow University.

She further stated that

hoped to cover a story, previously unreported in the West, and also trace

the case histories of

one or more of the soldiers formerly stationed in

Austria who were then being demobilized.

She identified her newspaper out-

let as the North American Newspaper Alliance, 229 West 43rd Street, New

York City.

On October 21, 1955, the Department of State authorized the

Embassy to validate subject's passport for travel to Russia providing

Soviet permission to enter that country was granted.

1955, subject presented a letter from the Russian Embassy, London, which

notified her that her visa to Russia had been received.

November 22

APPROPRTATE AGENCIES

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ADMINISTRAAVE PAGE

HELORE

SOURCE T-2: Fire 1. TOLSON, MI

LEAD

THE LONDON OFFICE

AT LONDON, ENGLAND

Will report results of recheck with Mi-s to ascertain whether

subject is still in United Kingdom or what is known about her travel - A

NOTE:

by MI-5 who

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