SUBJECT: SNYDER, RICHARD EDWARD.
Originator: CIA
From: MICHAEL E. SCHNEEBERGER
To: MFR
Document date: 05/28/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

28 May 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: SNYDER, Richard Edward

# 38 984

1. On 15 April 1976 the Japanese Communist Party (JCP)

held a press conference in Tokyo and distributed a "handout"

containing Subject's name as one of many U.S. Government

officials alleged to be affiliated with the CIA. Although the

JCP named some bona fide Agency employees,

many were bona fide

State Department employees or employees of other government

agencies who had previously been listed in Who's Who in CIA.

2. The purpose of this memorandum is to document the

security files of those Agency employees named by JCP as being

formerly assigned to the Peter redom plus those State Depart-

ment employees for whom a security file exists.

It should be

noted that the Directorate of Operations is currently in the

process of formally notifying those Agency employees formerly

assigned to

of their inclusion in the JCP list.

3.

For complete details concerning the JCP exposure, the

reader

is referred to a memorandum dated 6 May 1976, subject:

exposure.

4. Comments: Retired State Dept employee

Who was on USSPRS contract May 7l- Aug 75;

forMer ¿EA employeo, Det 49- Sep 50.

Listed in who's who in cIA

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