MFR RE REPORTER QUERY ABOUT CARSWELL.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 01/05/1961
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

5 January 1961

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The Manhattan Field Office advised today (apparently

(BARRY) called in this morning) that yesterday a reporter of

the Reporter Dispatch, an Eastchester County Newspaper, 06

contacted him and asked him about CARSWELL and BARRY) advised

him that CARSWELL maintained transient residence at his

address and occasionally received mail there.

He told the

reporter that CARSWELL was employed by the Victor Vachuta

Engineering Company and that in pursuing his duties with

this Company, he was out of town most of the time from his

address.ob BARRY advised the reporter that he saw CARSWELL

very infrequently.

The reporter inquired whether or not of

CARSWELL was an electrical technician or engineer and BARRY)

replied in the negative and stated that CARSWELL was a

management consultant, he belleved, for the engineering firm.

2. (BARRY) inferred from the reporter's remarks that he,

the reporter, believed BARRY and CARSWELL first met while

civilian employees with the U.S. Air Force several years

previously.

The reporter related that his paper obtained the

lead on CARSWELL through their contact in Havana who received

information regarding CARSWELL from the Cuban News Service,

Information indicated CARSWELL's Eastchester address:

(BARRY) believes that the reporter's interest was considerably

lessened upon learning that CARSWELL. 1s not a full-time

resident of Eastchester.

Notified -

HORTON

GROGAN

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