Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BRANIGAN, W. A.
To: SULLIVAN, W. C.
Document date: 4/4/67
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107

DATE: 11-14-2017

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10144-10095

RECORD_SERIES: HO

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 62-109060-5058

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

BRANIGAN. W. A.

TO: SULLIVAN. W. C.

TITLE:

DATE: 04/04/1967

PAGES: 3

SUBJECT:

JFK, REACTION TO ASSA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

05/01/1997

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/09/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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The purpose of this memorandum is to recommend that

we disseminate information from our Shamrock informant bearingS

on the assassination of the late President kennedya

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the sensitive Soviet source who contacted

the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) I-16-67 and volunteered

to furnish information.

He is being handled by representatives

Of CIA and Special Agents of our New York Office

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Shamrock has recently reported certain details(S

concerning Soviet

Kennedy.

Shamrock fiction to the assassination of President

reported the soviets had-the KGB (committee

for State

Security. make-an extensive studvdof the assassin-

ation and, as a, result of this study "the" KGB" concluded that&

President

Kennedy, was killed by representatives of a group of l

monopolists, characterized as the military-industrial complex

in the United

The KGB felt that President Kennedy

tried to limit the activities of this group of monopolists

nd thereforesthey planned his assassination

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Shamrock further, reported that the soviets felts

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that Presiden't Kennedy's death was a great loss, not only

the United States

world.

According

to this the sov stee the the

the soviets felt that they.

could trust President Kennedy and' could deal with him on a"

cooperative basist

Shamröck further stated that the Soviets

mourned President Kennedy's death, a situation which Shamrock

considered very unique inasmuch as

the person- wetig. mourned

was a leader of another country

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"The information furnished by Shamrock is very, similar (

that previously furnished to

a soviet

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Memorandum Branigan to Sullivan

RE:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN FITZGERALD. KENNEDY\

62-109060

OP. SECRE

We feel we should disseminate this data since

we have previously disseminated the information we received

from Yuri Nosenko regarding the assassination even though

we recognized some of the data was not subject to proof,

particularly, that occurring within the Soviet Union.

We feel that

by documenting (Shamrocklas a "confidential

informant, contact with whom has been insufficient to

establish his reliability," we will alert other agencies

that the information has not been established as true

We have received information from numerous other

sources that the Soviets did mourn

the death of President

Kennedy and that soviet leaders felt they could work with

president Kennedy.Au/

ACTION:

If you approve, we will disseminate the data furnished

by the Shamrock informant as set out herein to the Department; (S)

to sècret Service,

to State Department and to Central

Intelligence AgencyTE

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