Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: DIRECTOR, CIA
Document date: 12/4/67
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10050-10186

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-1ST NR 5897

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TO:

DIRECTOR. CIA

TITLE:

DATE: 12/04/1967

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT: JFK, ASSA, IZVESTIA ARTICLE, OPINION, SMITH, JOHN D.

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JFK Act 6 (4)

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NOTE:

Smith, born 3/31/26, Quincy, Massachusetts,

cryptographic technician for the Department of State 1950-59,

disappeared abroad in late 1960 or early 1961.

He was

characterized as a paranoiac and a drunk) who thought his wife

was a CIA agent and that he was under constant surveillance

by the cIA.

coe io24/57 that Jon Suite of Quincy,

the soviet news agency, announced in

Massachusetts,

& former CIA agent, had acquired soviet citizenship and was

writing an expose of CIA in the loscow publication "Ilterary

Gazette." Since that date installments of his expose have

appeared in "Literary Gazette" and interviews (purportedly)

of Smith by Soviet broadcasters have been primarily beamed

to India where Smith was assigned to the U. S. Embassy,

New Delhi, 1954-59.

The Bureau had an interest in Smith because our

Shanrock source turnished a film roll containing & KGB

many of whom had served in India and the adjoining areas.

Bureau investigation prior to the soviet publicity determined

that Smith would have had knowledge of the various

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