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Agency: DOS
Originator: FBI
From: FBI WASHINGTON
Document date: 05/19/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : DOS

RECORD NUMBER : 1191000110440

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DS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 39-141-046

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

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FROM : FBI WASHINGTON

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DATE: 05/19/60

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SUBJECTS:

KENNEDY, JONH F

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COR

CONFIDENTIAL

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

TrASHINGTOrI, 25, D. C

May ThA 196

1960,33

OFFICE OF SECUATi

SOVIET DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIESI

NOT TO BE FILED

12/0 INVALE

A confidential source, who has furnished

reliable information in the past, advised that an

unidentified male told Nikifor Levchenko et the Soviet

Embassy,

Washington, D.C.G)

on May 19, 1960, that he had

reason to belleye that 1f an invitation was extended to

Senator John Fifennedy to visit Soviet Premier Nikita s.

Khrushcher on June TO, 1960, the Senator would accept

such an invitation. According to the source, the

unidentified individual indicated that he was a private

citizen in the moving business and believed that Senator

Kennedy would win the Presidential nomination and would

also be elected the next President. The unidentified

individual stated he feels that such a meeting would be

beneficial to all poople concerned.

The source advised

that Levchenko/remarked that he thought that the unidentified

individual might be with the press.

Subsequently, lIgor D. Bubnow!

advised the

source that an individual describing himself as Jerry

Dolittle (phonetic) of the washington Daily News, (contacted (S)

him at the Soviet Embassy Inquiring whother it was true

that an invitation had boen issued to Senator Kennedy to

violt the Sovlet Undon June 10, 1960. /Bubnov Stated that

he was not "au courant" on the matter, but would endeavor

to find out and advisa Dolittla.i Bubrov told the source

that Dolittlo stated that thera vas apperently a rumor

around and his city editor asked him to check on it.

(5)

The April

1960,/"Diplomatic List, "

published

by the United States

Department of Stato, lists Nikifor M

Levchenko as a Second Secretary and Igor D. Bubnov as a

Third Secretary of the Embassy of the Union of-Soviet

Socialist Republics,

Washington, D.C.

10=5m-

opery cf

TATe Desertment of State has no objection, & the a tis

release or declassification of this documera bl

under the provisions of the JFk Assessination Recol care not ic ba

Collection Act of 1992 (PL102-526)

Reviewed on estaste C

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