FBI
Originator: FBI
Document date: 02/20/1956
Document type: Paper

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Heleased under the John F.

Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note].

Case#: Nvy 64954 Date:

11.14-2022

Date

Page

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11/04/98

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : INSCOM/CSF

RECORD NUMBER : 194-10001-10281

RECORDS SERIES : DOD AFFILIATED PERSONNEL AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : C6013559P - PAGES 195-200

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM

TO

TITLE : FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS

DATE: 02/20/56

PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS : WILLIAM FREDERICK ONICK

VALENTINA BELOBRODSKI

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: SECRET

RESTRICTIONS : 1B, 1C, 3

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 11/02/97

OPENING CRITERIA : COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY FBI

COMMENTS : COORDINATION WITH FBI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND

DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE, PER MEMO DTD 5

NOV 1997.

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LICHRIG

* 9ED-72

(3-9-54)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

FORM NO. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

SAN FRANCISCO

REPORT MADE AT.

San Francisco

DATE WHEN

MADE

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

2/10/55;1/12,23,

2432/7,13/56

REPORT MADE BY

WAYNE K. WELCH

ig

TITLE

FER 2 l 1956

WILTIAM FREDERICK ONICK, aka

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - R

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

0 0г

SECRET

WILLIAN FREDERICK ONICK'S Son, FREDERICK WILLIAM ONICK, advised U. S. Army

12/12/55 at Seattle that his father was associated with RAS, San Francisco,

during World War II for the purpose of giving aid and assistance in the

manner of old clothing for the Russian people. Stated his father with

drew support of RAS around 1945 as he felt RAS had served its purpose as

Russian aid group and as he felt RAS was becoming political. Source

familiar, with CP and CP front group activity in Marin County, Calif

could provide no information regarding ONICK.

ONICK presently employed

as carpenter. Records Marin County Sheriff's Office contain no record

of ONICK. Description set forth.

5-7-96

GLASSIFICD EY 5668 SUDASR

EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC RECRIO SEY CO

DETAILS:

DOD DIR 3200.10. DOES NOT APPLY

JFK

AI SAN FRANCISCO, CALTF.

San francisco T-1, who has provided reliable data in the past,

, advised on December 3, 1945 that ANDREI ROMANOVICH ORLOV,

an employee

of the Soviet Government Purchasing Commission, San Francisco, was then

REVIEWED BY FBIJFK TASK

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

SECRET

O RELEASE IN FULL

& RELEASE IN PARTI

I TOTAL DENIALI

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

PROPERTY OF THE FBI

5 Bureau (Reg.)'

This report is loaned to you by the FiBT,

6th Army,

Presidio, San Francisco(Reg. bnd neither it nor its contents are to be

2 Seattle (1,65-3458) (Info.) (Reg.,

distributed outside the agancy to which

3 San Francisco: (105-3907)

loaned.

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PROPERTY OF FBI-This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed

outside of agency to which loaned.

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

16-60637-8

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SF 105-3907

informed by a Commission employee that Mr. ONICK, Telephone Hemlock 4499,

was waiting for ORLOV to look at the apartment.

T-I advised that the

apartment was for GUDKOV (phonetic), and CRIOV agreed to contact ONICK.

This source provided no additional identifiable data regarding GUDKOV or

ONICK and it is not known if the aforementioned ONICK is identical with

WILLIAM FREDERICK ONICK.

It is noted that the 1945 San Francisco Street Address Telephone

Directory reflects that WILLIAM ONICK then resided at 2952 Jackson Street,

San Hrancisco, Telephone Fillmore 7859.

DATA PROVIDED BY FREDERICK WILLIAM ONICK, SUBJECEIS SON

FREDERICK WILLIAM ONICK, Captain, U. S. Army Reserves, was inter

viewed inder oath by a representative of the U.S. Army at Seattle, Wash.

on December 12, 1955 and provided the following information.

ONICK advised thät he resided at 3717 26th Place West Seattle,

Wash., and that he was employed as issistant Field Director, American

Red Cross, 13th Naval District Headquarters, Building 205, Pier yI,

Seattle, Wash. He advised that he held the rank of Captain, 0468853,

Infantry, USAR, 6122 Control Group, California Military District, Presidio

of San T'rancisco, Calif. He advised that his father, WILLIAM FRED ONICK,

resides at 26 Rocklyn Court, Corte Madera, Calif., and that his stepmother,

MARY ONICK, nee SOKOLACKO, resides with him at that'address.

his mother, ANISIA ONICK, nee SHUSTOFF, is deceased, and that MARY

SOKOLACKO married his father in 1952.

VAIENTINA BELOBRODSKI on April 28, 1955, in Vancouver, BeC. and that sne

was

residing with him in Seattle.

He stated that he was formerly

married to VERA ONICK, nee ORLOFF, from whom he was divorced in 1949:

He stated that her present husband had adopted their child, whose name

he did not lanow.

Sän Francisco indices contain no record identifiable with MARY

SOKOLACKO.

The Russian American Society (PAS),

mentioned hereafter, has

been designated by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant

to Executive Order 10450.

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ONICK expressed the belief that he initially associated with the

RAS in 1945 when he attended

social functions of the RAS at the Russian

Embassy, San Francisco.

He stated that he night have attended one or

two other social gatherings of the RAS after 1945.

He observed that he

had never been a member of the RAS and that he participated in the social

functions "for the purpose of a social activity." "ONICK advised that from

approximately 19L:2 until 1945, his mother and father were associated with

the RAS for the ourpose of giving aid and assistance in the manner of old

clothing for the Russian people.. He empressed the belief that they were

not RAS members although they were closely associated with the RAS.

advised that his father had worked as head bartender at the RAS hall on

Divisadero in San Francisco.

been officials of the RAS but that on ceremonial occasions his father

had been selected to hold the Russian flag. and he noted that his father

had been selected for this purpose apparently because he had an old

Russian peasant costume.

"According to ONICK, his aunt, ANNA BORDEN, nee ATEXANDROFT, 1915 York,

San Irancisco, associated with the RAS during World War II, but terminated

her activity in about 1945.

• The indices of the San Francisco Office contain no record identi-

fiable with ANNA BORDEN nee ALEXANDROFF •

ONICK related that in approximately 1915, his father withdrew

his support of the RAS because he felt that the RAS had served its

purpose as a World War II Russian aid group and his father, therefore,

ceased participation in RAS social functions•

ONICK stated that he had never contribüted financially to the

RAS but expressed the belief that he had donated old clothes to the Society.

He stated that none of his relatives have had any connection with the RAS

since his father's withdrawal in approsimately 1945.

ONICK observed that he initially met VALENTINA BELOBRODSKI in

June or July, 1951, in Vancouver, Bow., and that he became acquainted

with her through his aunt, ANNA BORDEN, an earlier acquaintance of his

wife. He stated he saw VALENTINA'nearly every week end from Christmas,

1954 until their marriage in April, 1955.

She was then employed as a

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ST 105-3907

Research Chemist

at the American Can Co. and had held that position for

about ten years.

He advised that his wife is now employed as Secretary

at the Sylvania Radio Co., 3346 E. MarginalWay, Seattle. He stated

that his wife was born at

Szereszow, Poland, on February 12, 1923 and

arrived in Canada when she was six years of age.

She is presently a

Canadian citizen. He advised that he was not acquainted with any

organizational affiliation on the part of his wife.

ONICK was asked it he would care to make a statement concerning

his beliefs regarding Communisn and he advised that "There may be some-

thing good about it, there may be something good about the English Govern-

ment or any other government or, on the other hand, there may be something

bad about it. I have never had a taste of it sö I really don't know."

He indicated that some péople may like Communism as a form of government

and "söme people may not, but it is completely foreign to my own type of

governnent."

He was asked if he believed Conmunism would be a threat to

the American way of life and he stated, "Communism is not a threat to the

American way of life, there is not any reason to be scared of them ,that's

for sure."

He was questioned regarding his sentiments concerning leg-

islation outlawing the Communist Party and he advised that "as far as

I am concerned it makes no difference to me because I am not interested

Regarding VATENTINA BELOBRODSKI, San Francisco I-2, a confidential

source abroad, advised in July, 1955, thät VAIENTINA BELOBRODSKI, born

February 12, 1923, in Poland, had been employed as a Private Secretary, by

SERGEI GRIGORIEVICH LUKIANOV in the office of the Commercial Counsellor,

Vancouver, B. Co, from May, 1946 to February 1947.

T-2 advised that VALENTINA BELOBRODSKI advised upon interview

on 3/31/50 that she had formerly been a member of the Board of Directors

of the National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society in January,

1945• She stated that in 1950 she was a member of the Federation of Russian

Canadians. This source advised that the aforementioned society and federa

tion were Communist controlled organizations.

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AT MARIN COUNTY, CALIF •

San Francisco T-3,,

an acquaintance of WILLIAM FREDERICK ONICK

advised on January 12, 1956 that ONICK is a member of Carpenters Local

35, AFT,

San Rafael, Calif. and that ONICK is employed at the Crown

Development, Larkspur, Calif

FRANK TURCO, 17 Rocklyn Court, Corte Madera, Califo, advised SA

PAUL F. SHARKEY on January 24, 1956, that UNICK is the owner of the residence

at 17 Rocklyn Court and also owns four other homes in that neighborhood.

TURCO stated that WILLJAM ONICK is a man of adequate financial means and

that OVICK works as a carpenter only to obtain Social Security payments in

the future. TURCO advised that in frequent conversations with ONICK he

had been a rich man in Russia and that he had been absent from Russia when

the revolution occurred and that he had lost all his property and had never

returned to Russia.

San Francisco I-4, who has provided reliable data in the past,

advised on December ID, 1955, that he was aware of CP front group activity

in Marin County, Calif. and that he had been recruited into the Communist

Party in Marin County in 1955. T-4 stated that he possessed no informa

tion regarding ONICK®

Records of the Marin County Sheriff's Office, as reviewed on

January 23, 1956 by SA SHARKEY, contained no record identifiable with

WILLIAM FREDERICK ONICK.

DESCRIPTICN

The following description of WILLIAM FREDERICK ONICK was obtained

from FRANK TURCO and FREDERICK WILLIAM ONICK:

Age:

Height:

Weight:

Complexion:

59

58101

195 Ibs. to 200 Ibs.

Dark

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Hair:

Build:

Peculiarities:

Occupation:

Employer:

- Marital Status:

Residence:

Relatives:

Dark Brown, balding

Heavy

Heavy accent

Carpenter

Crown Development, Larkspur, Calif

Married

26 Rocklyn Court, Corte Madera, Calif

MARY ONICK, nee SOKOIACKO - Wife

ANISIA ONICK, nee SHUSTOFF, first wife

deceased.

FREDERICK WILLIAN ONICK, SOn

Photograph available in San Francisco file.

-P-

200

GROUP I

Ezcluded from automatid

downgrading and

declassification,

~ 6-

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