CR 105-64470-36
Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: TEETER, FRANKLIN B.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/16/1959
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/26/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10211-10459

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : SEE TITLE

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

TEETER, FRANKLIN B.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

[Restricted]

DATE: 10/16/1959

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

DLH, ASSOC, MED/PERS HIST, RES, EMP

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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Report Form

FD-263 (5-12-55.)

SECRET

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Reporting Office

Office of Origin

NEW YORK.

NEW YORK

TITLE OF CASE

LEONID AFANASIEVICH KOVALEV (5

Date

OCT 1 6 1959

Report made by

Investigative Period

7/1/59-9/18/59

FRANKLIN Be

CHARACTER OF CASE

TEETER

INTERNAL SECURITY - RIC)

Typed By:

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REFERENCE:

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Report

York.

Of SA FRANKLIN B. TEETER dated 7/24/59, at

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ADNINISTRATIVE

learning

contacted the

owner of 40 West

York (S]

and also the building superintendent at 36(5

84thJStreet, New York City,

obtain a cover apartment from which special

investigative techniques could beloperated againstes

Approved

Copies made:

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Special Agent

in Charge

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[SECRET ]C(W)

NY 105-27652 (5)

With reference to the ANNETTE EPSTEIN, identified

y FOREMAN as being acquainted with KOVALEV, attention is

alled to the fact that the New York Office 1s currentl

conducting background investigation regarding this individual

and plans in future to give consideration to developing

her as a PSI.

However, attention is called to New York

airtel dated 9/10/59, captioned "BURTON VAN HORN FOREMAN;

PSI - DESECO - R"

which reflects derogatory information

concerning some of EPSTEIN'S nelatives.

This information

will be taken into consideration in evaluating her double

agent potential (5)

For the information of the Bureau, New ork does

treatment in past.

However, NY has opened a contact case

on HARBER and

will upon the completion of this investigation

Will evaluate this (individuals double agent potential](5)

in connection with the party given by KOVALEV S

in December, 1958, as reported by CSNY 2683+S, (NY: T-6)5

it is noted

that this is undoubtedly the same Christmas

Party about which Ny 2001-S and PSI LAWRENCE LESTER HOTTEN

have previously furnished information.

The Bureau's attention is directed to the fact

that NY 2601-S is MARY LOUISE LEACH, one of the individuals

concerning and other tialudual. Identicted or

CaN 25031s, as beine present at the December, 1950 party,

namely JERRY VERNER, attention is called to the fact that

VERNER is the subject of MY closed file 105-2358468

COVER PAGE

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SECRED

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[SECRET SE

[x 205-27652 ](5)

INFORMANTS

Identity

of Source

NY T-1

ALFRED RUDOLPH PELLETIER

Building

superintendent

40 w. 84th Street CS]

New York City

(By Request)

SNY 12570/336

NY 1-

LOSNY 51015704

SNY 1815-576

NY T-5

BURTON VAN HORN FOREMAN

160 Claremont Avenue,

New York City,

Instructor of Japanese,

Columbia University

(By Request)

NY T-6

CSNY 2683

File Number Where

Located

Instant report - pg. 3

Furnished orally to

SA FRANKLIN B. TEETER

105-27651-174, 185

105-27651-173

105-27651-196

105-27651-172, 189 and

Instant report - pg. 6-8

Furnished telephonically

to SA JOHN C. HESSIN

(105-27651-188](g)

COVER PAGE

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SECRED

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[SECRET IN

LY: 105-27652](5)

(EII. CONRACIS AND ASSOCIATES CPU

[wath NY I-516414)

On July 7, 1959 and August 13, 1959, NY I-5

voluntarily furnished information to the New York Office

of the FBI concerning his past association with various

Soviet nationals attached to the UN.

these Soviet

contacts:

Subsequently on September 17, 1959, the informant

and their subsequent

Informant first met KovALEy at a party which he

(NY I-5) gave at his place of

residence some time in June,

1958.

and BORIS S

unable to

artend the affair and KOVALEVI

in his place.

NY T-5 related that most of the people present at

this party

were instructors and pupils from the Berlitz

School of Languages, New York City, at which school the

Informant further

people present at this party,

S)LKOVALEY was friendliest with DENNIS HARBER, 454 West 22nc

Apartment 4W, New York City, who was also a Berlit

NY T-5 stated that during the party HARBER

became somewhat intoxicated and began talking about

Communism in Spain. X)

NY T-5 advised that as a result of weis meeting

at the above referred to party, he and KOVALEy decidea to

exchange English and Russian

Thereafter,

for approximately four weeks

they met on succeeding Wednesdays

USS!

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(N7 105-27651705)

M 1as related that on July 30, 1239, he anc

ANNETTE EPSTEIN visited KOVALEV at the UN. They spent

actually did not attend this function.

informant on August 9, 1959, apologized for not havingg

attended the party, and gave as his excuse the fact that

his automobile had broken down, and he was unable to make

the trip back to New York City from his summer residence

in Rye, New York.

Who attended

and that they had gone out socially on several

casions." niormant lurther advisea that he nao hear

rom another instructor at the Berlitz School that HARBEF

had undergone psychiatric treatment at a veterans' hospital

in the New York City area.

However, NY T-5 stated that he

thought HARBER presently resides somewhere in the middle

West.

With NY T-6l

514)

August 12, 1959, NY I-6 voluntarily furnished

the New York Office of the FBI with the below set forth

details of his association with (Soviet Translator LEONID

A. KOVALEV and his wife, RIMMA KOVALEVA: (5)

was an unguisn instructor

S at the UN in 1950. RIMMA KOVALEVA was one of several Soviets S

friendly with KOVALEVA And as a result she invited him to

attend a party which was given by her husband, LEONID A.

KOVALEV,

in December, 1958, at their residence.

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SECRET

D1-65075

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