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JFKWHP-1962-08-29-F / 1962 August 29
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"[124-10179-10217) 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 % SECRET 1 Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall Re: Samuel Adason Jaffe 105~28333 5 7 HW Soviet defector Sammy Kh advised that Jaffe was recruited by the KGB, in about 1962 while he was in Moscow, through his relationship with a Soviet female. /Soviet de fector "Shamrock” has confirmed that Jaffe was approached but does not believe the approach was successful. Jaffe reported to 'the' New York Office in 1963 what he interpreted as a recruit ment effort, and he was extensively reinterviewed in 1969 concerning his association with KGB officers in Moscow. /Thera is no information in Jaffe's file that he was ever reported on by Col. Penkovskiy, as Jaffe reportedly has claimed. During the interviews with Jaffe, he denied any overt acts helpful to the KGB, although he admitted a continuing relationship with several KGB officers. Both the New York and Washington Field Offices came to the conclusion that Jaffe was a KGB agent while in Moscow, but that there was doubt as to whether he continued IX/U) in that role after he was expelled. Our relations with Jaffe were"
"… rned from a British Intelligence contact in long Kong that his recall from that city was caused by his refusal to coop-\ 10 23 crate with CIA. He also related that he later mentioned this n Washington who responded that the British to a CIA contact ins:"
"… lt his relationship with them had cooled off. There is no evidence contained in Jaffe’s file that either New York or Washington Field or the Bureau has ever taken any action which would affect Jaffe’s' livelihood. Following his return from Hong Kong, Jaffe told his handling Agents tha …"