“4-00000 DISPATCH CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING PRO ACCOM SECRET POSCD ACTION PLIS)€.D TO MARKED foe INDEXING Chief, 13 XXX NO INCOMING REQUIRED CIFO. Chief, KUWOLP, Chief, KUDSSK; Chief, FE; Chief, A7; CAL, QUALIFIED ny Chief. WE: CCS, Paris Chief,-LGPIPIT; COS, Bruss”
“14-00000 *r* of • i are - ■ Richard Thomas GIBSON Born: Los Angeles on 13.5.31 Address; 30, Stockleigh Hall, Prince Albert Road, London, N.W. 8. GIBSON has been connected with the pro-Chinese Communist publication "Revolution" and its predecessor, "African Revolution"”
“mA clAssincanOn TO DISPATCH SECRET PRO POSED PROCESSING ACTION ACCOM PUSHED UE rcs INDEXING --RD DEXING REQUIRED B*O. Chief, WS- onv QUALifimn KEACQUARTERS DESM CAN MG INDEXING FROLS SUBJECT Chief of Station, London KUDSSK/LCHARVEST Debriefing of Richard T. GIBSON”
“RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON.) CAN HQS SHED ANY LIGHT? E 4. SINCE ARRIVAL LOND, GIBSON HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH CUBAN EMB - SECRET L want”
“4-00000 6 1 SECRET • . TO: Chief, /V2 ESX FROK: Chief of Station, London Separate Cover Attachment to ORuA-43,522, 2 July 1965 W 1rerese CemSome* Xa a . I 0 Richard Thomas GIBSON 206 ^55X1,8 0atto26. •2. The following further information has 2 AS$ been recei”
“23 MAR 1965 CLASSIFICATION SPATCH PRIORITY SECRET PRO POSCO PROCESSING ACTION ACCOM PLISIED An MARKED foR INDEXING Chief, HE______________________ xYx *o INDEXING REQUIRED INFO ONLY QUALIFIED NEASCLARTERS DESA Chief. ZUDESKi Chief. FEt.Chief. AF CAN ADGI INDEXING ”
“- 20 0 0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF . JSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to San Francisco, California File No. June 13, 1969 SEC RE T RICHARD GIBSON INFORMATION CONCERNING In June, 1969, a confidential source, who has furnished| reliabl”
“SSnCATION PROCESSING ACTION TO DISPATCH S-E-C-R-E-T MARKED Ni necnaa Chief of Station, London No Attention:__ KATZENBACH RO IDDUNG MQXMD Chief of Station, Paris ONLY QUALIFIED CIS* CM noct ax* ___ Chief, LCPIPIT FROM ___ Chief, WE micmorl SUBJECT DEBRIEFING OF RICHA”
“CONFIDENTIAL DIRECTOR, FBI (105-186336) 2/11/72 AITE33309: 02X LEGAT, PARIS (105-5616)(P) ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE. 1 2 n ARAB TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IS - MIDDLE EAST Re Paris letter dated 1/27/72. 08 - 1 Enclosed ”
“3 D Airtel to SAC, Atlanta RE: RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON SECRET 105-93072 In the event the presence of Gibson comes to the attention of recipient offices, the Bureau should be promptly furnished all details, but no specific inquiries or investigation should be conducted. The”
“14-00000 DBB 71942. 25 January 1967 100-300-004 Abstracted from pages 36 and 37 q At a meeting held on August 14, 1966, STANFORD mentioned that Rbbert Williams allegedly has $1, 000, 000 available for the use of RAM. NY T-10 advised on September 26, 1966, that STANFORD ”
“1 4-00000 06 “ iae i CLASSIFIED MESSAGE SECRET 1M ms12. PAGE 2- AND MR. KENNETH TYNAN CLATTER IN CONNECTON JOB POSSIBILITY FOR GIBSON). (THIS INFO SENSITIVE, FROM SMOTH. HQS SEE OEL 39690 AND OEL 39490.) 5. SMOOTHERS HAVE PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED THEY WOULD LIKE SCUTTL”
“also his tendency to make corrections in the debriefing questionnaire, as when the wrong name would appear for a political group in Szitserland.) 16. GIBSON’s present status is that he is out of work, in debt, and without any prospects of reasonable employment in the near futu”
“0 W 00 SECRET RICHARD GIBSON NOTE: The above information was furnished by six Ad Hoc Committee (AHC) informants who have been in close contact 6 with Leibel Bergman during the past several months. The AHC is an intelligence cover operated by this Bureau. Richard Gibso”
“*vwn 5/1 0 0 1 ■4. &smelted 2As 0 monaay DANGER - AMERICAN AGENT AT WORK.. 1. Many people on the left tend to get a little ,paranoiac about the C.I.A., and to suspect . absolutely everyone. There io, however, one 1 person who moves around in the British left :v.ho”
“Committee, Sweden, that agents for the CIA had tried to infiltrate the committee to break it up, it was determined at CIA that Richard Thomas Gibson, an informant of that Agency, had been maintaining some contact with US deserters. Gibson had been involved in at least one oper”
“B 3 SECRET ACE MFOROREM LORrwen HEREIN IS UnC FEES EXCEPT WHERE SH0WW OTHERWISE Airtel 1 - Mr. G. C. Moore 1 - Mr. Shackelford 11V 1 - Mr. Wannall 1 - Mr. Ryan • To: SACs, Atlanta New York (105-42387) Chicago Philadelphia * Detroit San Francisco (100-47327) Los Angel”
“Wood High Street. (A potential problem exists beret GIBSON and I live within a few blocks of one another and not infrequently ride the same bus line. This problem can only be met when it manifests itself.) JAGUAR, incidentally, has alerted its immigration contaots (prior to o”
“***** t SECRET 14 April 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution ‘FROM : CA/CF; CI/ICG SUBJECT : Richard Gibson 1. Areas of Knowledgeability. A reading of the transcription of Gibson's taped debriefing clearly underlines KATZENBACH's assessment that Gibson possesses an enc”
“-00000 -LL 8 -2- (a) denouncing, in 1958, an unidentified negro, possibly a Communist, who was expelled from France; (b) informing the publication's contacts in China that "Revolution" was disintegrating; (o) providing "Newsweek" and the "New York Herald Tribune" with”
“could range out from there into Europe or the rest of Africa (the two best targets, apparently) and maintain a regular flow of information on Algerian affairs while ‘'at home." He has spoken several times of the ease with which he is integrated into the Algerians environment,”
“0 0 d SEGNE ‘,e US Army Intelligence, Fort Holabird, Md., on ’ 8/6/68, -provided 'a list of ‘personalities with whom Roy Ray Jones (105-172600) came in contact while in Denmark and Sweden which included Richard Gibson.. In data given by Jones and his wife, Gibson was said t”
“labelled a "CIA agent." Could he, then, work for EUBARK successfully? GIBSON himself is certainly a better judge of that than the London Station, and we feel that there are only two indices that can be used to judge the matter. The first and most immediate is GIESON’e own opi”
“from his present and difficult position, "forgiving all", and providing him with a measure of respectability (at least in his own eyes) that he has henceforth been,. unable to achieve and maintain. In sum, we feel that a reasonably strong combination of control factore exist,”
“that the paper contains information received from a number of secret sources, and they request that we not give it any distribution beyond KUBARK without consulting them, unless, of course, we have the information from other sources. JAGUAR have made a copy available to 01123”
“talks.) 7. Where GIBSON really comes into his own, and really astonishes with the breadth of his, personal information and understanding, (and largely, it appears, without the same personal involvement and bias) is in African affairs (especially in left-wing fields), Europea”
“(lP. CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH PROCESSING A 7 ACCOM TO INFO. FROM Chief, WE Chief, KUVOLF, Chief of Station, London ___ Tape of Interview with Hioh ACTION REQUIRED • REFERENCES they SR Chief, KUDESK; Chief, WE; COS, Paris; Chief, LCPIPIT: COS, Brussels Chief, F”
“0 0 M7ABCT SCKE The following references in the file captioned "Robert Alexander Wood" set forth information pertaining to the activities of Richard Gibson during the period late 1959 through 2/3/64, in the United States, New York, Cuba, Europe, England, France, Switzerland”
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“ry 000 •00 0 th ELE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATION “S - CEAY TDYIED MESSAGE e ,Dru Topit., ,‘lourf Jann/on iniTsaLS-StEN av StesOn/LAIT NOTIFAED $ 1. t SECRET curten € 12. =,1 Svanct Cory "sLovvao REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPY PROH:811E0— Issuco 4 5 so ELessirv t* cs Pise s”
“Mr. To’gon _ . ) .Mr. Sulli 17 _ / FBI CoBpn SECRET/ . Date: 10/1/70 Transmit.the following in_ Sp8By Kwy pe in plaintext or code) ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED Via AIRTEL Desseasky mm 08mq 11/1189 310,050 (Priority) EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE 5-04”
“I CLASSIFICATION DSate STeBOi AND NO CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH PRIORITY SECRET OKLA-42,750 14. GIBSON and security, to this pointe GIBSON has met only myself, under alias, and under the impression that I was here temporarily. This idea was apparently made to etiok, throu”
“0 J 03 T tea 8 (continued) REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 100-387728-142 -147 (5T -174 -201 -298 0.1/60.1 r6 -A "NY Times" 9/9/69 (52 / This reference concerns questions that CIA was requested to pose to Richard Gibson regarding Howard Bruce Franklin (not furt”
“CLASS*CATON DPPatCn StuBOi a NO CONTINUATION OF PRIORITY . DISPATCH SECR E T 0ELA-42,750 his material; to the London Station, however, it appears to be not only rather massive but detailed as well. We do not doubt that he will be caught out from time to time on facts, and ”
“he paid frequent visits to '’Revolution's'' Paris office until the end of the year when "Revolution" was banned in Switzerland and he was refused permission to continue to live there. Be then settled in Paris where, according to one report, he and his wife lived in "quite a l”
“there- fore requested that "Sugar" be contacted for any information he may be able to furnish in this regard GAT 1- 105-93072 (Richard Thomas Gibson) s 21 Oastedlby:(FR) 12,50 7% - * Declassify on * OADR ■LLA:amf:ler (7) *--*-- NOTE: _ Original information in this matter”
“14-00000 1 2R16-725837 20 30-30.08418 Lionel ORRISCT and Richard CIBSON L— - OEPA- 21 PORRI803 cays Richard OTBSC is gunning for him because he is too involved with GIRSON‘a wife Barn. LOBRISOR had had on affair with Bara when he was working for the "Afro-Asian Journal”
“provided adequate time for the initial tape to be reviewed and for requirements to be prepared and pouched to the field. At any rate, the total sum given to GIBSON, for his time and a shot at his mailing list, was $700. 3. LCHARVEST may well feel that it has been done out of ”
“0 SECRET This reference in the file captioned "Deserters" pertains to an article which appeared on 3/20/68 in "Tidsignal" , a leftist newspaper in Sweden, entitled "This is How LBJ’s Agents Operate in Sweden" by Bo Hammer (not further identified). The article concerned alleg”
“1 GIBSON, AS "RACIAL REVOLUTIONIST, ENTHUSIAST AND OPPORTUNIST" ULD RESPOND BADLY TO OPEN KUBARK PITCH: R 1 C B. MEANWHILE LASKY GIVE GIBSON 109 POUND GRANT TO TRAVEL C O AND PREPARE ARTICLES WHICH WO ULD NOT BE PUBLISHED UNT IL EVIDENT Y P 1j Y THAT GIBSON BURNED AMONG ”
“Richard Gibson. Schleifer had worked with Gibson in the FPCC movement but had lost some of his confidence in Gibson as a true revolutionary after the latter "jumped" at a bureaucratic position with the Politbureau. Schleifer had lived with Gibson in Algiers and regarded him a”
“$ 1 y 3 0 : • va C. - •J• 2 . DANGER - AMERICAS AGENT AT WORK...." i Many people on the left tend to get a little, paranoiac about the C.I.A., and to suspect • ! absolutely everyone. There is, however, one : person who moves around in the British left ■v. ho. sh”
“straight information-collecting basis. To use him as a propaganda tool would be not only repugnant to him but destructive of his utility as well. Presumably he could be permitted to continue to write, not only for his overt emplyere (in a straight news fashion), but perhaps o”
“D. o SAC, Boston 11/9/70 REC-2 1 7 EX-113 Director, FBI (105-93072) 178 1 3 0 r1Rya M Jan @ RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON INFORMATION CONCERNING CUSS.BY SP20P/IAC 86. Now APErOn 1A. DATE OF RERICW 108 5M CW TAP 20. 2 ReBusirtel 9/17/70, copies not furnished Boston”
“SECRET‘ LISSEM - Plans for the Sale of "Afro-Asian Journalist" gol-3060521 Richard GIBSON, the former editor of the pro-Chinese Communist publication "Revolution", left London towards the end of January 1965 . and returned in the second half of March, having visited Lausan”
“instance "the HAXCHASID attempt to break up the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign". 4. Once GIBSON went to the Foreign Press Association claining that MORRISON had forged 673 application for end E59 not working for "Zambian Yail". MORRISON 1c now a weekly contributor to that paper”
“Opportunistic? Or someone who has a wife and two kids to support, and no job for the past eight months? GIBSON acknowledges that he has become somewhat bored with the "rpro—biology" of chasing petty ideological differences, the kind that make factions of six members or less. ”
“DISCUSSED WITH AND AND DOM 2 AND CABLE TO DEPT VIA KUBARK CHANNELS BEING PREPARED 2. Der 63 IN 71478 WHEN INANITION ADVISED THAT INFO FROM LAUSANNE (PRESUMABLY FROM PHONE COVERAGE), SHOVED THAT GIBSON PLANS LEAVE SUISSE 2 OR 3 DECEMBER AND TRAVEL TO FRANCE. 2. GIBSON ADDRESSES FR”
“SECRET -3- might undertake continuing assignments for us, but this is not an unusual area of uncertainty with a new agent and one which a proba tionary period should dispel. (It should be noted that in one instance, be volunteered a name as an operational lead — i.e., as s”
“GIBSON DOES HOT :1 HAVE JOB: E.BonNOT STAYING WITH KAYE (IN-LAW), BUT in SEPARATE FLAT m lam lnrest WITH WIFE AND KIDS; MAYE (BROTHER-IN-LAW) HAD BEEN SUBSIDIZING iR GIBSONS; GIBSON CORE SONDING VIIH (NESRC) SOUTH AFRICAN ABC ACT VITIST : I o — CURRENTLY IS INDONESIA WI”