“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 ”
“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”
“A J ' -CG 105-10280 . - - % :A : SERE1 2 of peaceful co-existence. He also assessed the outcome of the Jordanian crisis as a defeat for the guerilla forces under YASSIR. 0@ ARAFAT. GIBSON mentioned to the informants that he had recently been in Amman, Jordan where he sp”
“F 1 . 04 **, TOR C2 * butted 61 .. % l-b-C6c.4bdd IeT. 4: - 2"n •**-fpr Hft Us 1i,oa 73 EH1193 12 CONFIDENTIAL ED02 RR RUENIA Classification. KF ACTION i IOS INFO: IAE DE RUDTCR 3516 1271020 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 021012Z MAY 69 FM AMEMBASSY LONDON 02940 1' 1 PE88 ”
“Vietnam Solidarity Campaign". 4. Once GIRSC3 went to the Foreign Press Association claiming that MORRISON had forged en application for and was not working for "Zambian Mail". MORRISON is now a weekly contributor to that paper but was not when he first applied to the P.P.A. M”
“14-00000 19 SECRET IN 58385 0g. 2 /‘ 64; JAGUAR TRYING FIND OUT WHOM HE VISITED BUT THINK HE DID N01 SEE GIBSON); GIBSON HAS CONTACTED 28C IN SEARCH OF JOB AND AT LEAST ONE PERSON OF "PREVIOUS RECORD" AS LEFTIST; JAGUAR HAVE COPIES OF SEVERAL OF GIBSON’S LETTERS OVER PAS”
“NOCa vEs NO C 7 CLASSIFIED MESSAGE TOTAL COPsEs - 24 wee Classify TO F NO n-age to ME wo 201-366652 SECRET ot €000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED FILEo res BET tO JANCH 31 PERSON/UNIT mOTIFIEB —aestaps — 4 FROm — COL 2 1 PARIS ACTION ADVANCE cOPv UNIT YIK sv J essuce”
“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”
“up the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign". 4. Once GIBSCI went to the Foreign Prose Association claiming that MORRISON had forged an application form end wan not working for "Zambian Mail". MORRISON is now a weekly contributor to that paper but was not when he first applied to the ”
“correspondent. GIBSON indicated to the informants that he planned to travel to Detroit on 9/27/70 to meet with ROBERT WILLIAMS, and thereafter go to New York City. He did not mention that he would, travel to San Francisco or any other US cities. (8) (c) 0 The informants and '”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“* * * 4*0% • AMS ,A. ---.* wv the fiw -ClaSSFY to vat NO___ 3441 w e a n n to e s h te w in o ie n ry * noge to mt NO CLASSIFIED MESSAGE TOTAL COPIES Pgam RfT TO BRANCH •9 CoPv scee caocei DtSTtOY 27 SECRET can.cme ceon avvoma mexercatvom REPRODUCT ION PROMIB ITED s”
“a number of GIBSON’s activities, for instance “the HANCRASDA attempt to break up the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign". 4. Once GIBSCY went to the Foreign Press Association claiming that MORRISON had forged an application for end 989 not working for "Zambian Mail". MORRISON is no”
“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”
“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 ”
“.Francisco, and Philadelphia to visit old contacts and oW 4 to "become reacquainted with the scene in the United States." M ■ V110 BNEC-32 105-131 .o From past experience, Gibson may be expected to endeavor SJ 174 to contact Negro militant activists in all the above citie”
“-2- 3. Against the background of this vulnerability, it must also be stressed that the sources to be contacted such a field investigation would include many individuals whose suspicions of government interect--and hostility toward it-v could not reasonably expect to disarm. QRE”
“etcer @ L enol MORurset and Richard oresok OEPA- II LORY007 -en B*.c*u—! eresce <i minninp for him beoxuse he is too involved with OIjiB'ii wife SArn. UORAI8ON had had an affair with Sara when he was working for the "Afro-Aslan- Journalist" and was visiting London. GIBSC h”
“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”
“14-00000 HI hats 2R30-725837 20 Jhj-3oca18 Lionel MORRI 7 and Richard CTB80N Le all - OEPA- = ----------------o••* oe-oc-ew •apo PORRI803 seye Richard GTBSC is gunning for his bocanes he is too involved with OIRSON’a wife Sara. LOBRISON had had on affair with Sara whe”
“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,”
“1 4-00000 e Lionelsofsn and Richard ornc OEPA- <1 PORMZSCT news Miahent TN?" <t mneine for hle because he is too involved with OISSI’m wife SAm . LORAI* had had an affair with Sara when he was working for the "Afro-Asian P Journalist" and was visiting London. GIBSON ha”
“become the European "representative” of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), ca American organization of which he knots little but which 60893, iron west he does huou, be consistent la its outlook with his ostensible political orientation. 3- In this connection, ve would ”
“CLASSINfICATION DISPATCH STMEC AND NO vr.eawcreste. CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECRET CELA-42,410 A fow of the phrases that do not appear too clearly on the tape are included on the list. Occasionally the names are written phonetically, indicated by (ph.). 6. GIBSON’s off”
“was in touch with members of the pro-Chinese Communist splinter group in the United Kingdom - the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity — it is not known whether he has resumed contact. It has been reported that he still keeps in touch with the coloured South A”
“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 ”
“26* AU information available on the Afro-Asian Journalists Association, head. quartered in Cairo. (Note, KAJA confer sace la slated for March Algiers). ’ *• Identify any of the individuals (outalds af Morrisca) cassetted with tr. Idoutify say AAJA contacts in Euroj Africa. ”
“- 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”
“/CI/SI, VR SECRET 0215552. PRIORITY DIR INFO GNVA CITE BERN 2525 RYBAT GPFLOOR REF BERN 2519 (70810) SAME AS 267-674 2 Dec 63 IN 71478 1. MORNING 2 DECEMBER ODENVY REP FINALLY RECD GUIDANCE FROM ODENVY HOS WHICH ASKED HIM PROCEED ALONG LINES REF. MATTER DISCUSSED WITH AMB AND DCM”
“0000 i f - W iefits 1 7 ***** nageo : CLASS from IP DISPATCH PROCES/NO • wiichewranNavi SECRET vhow B gang *9* <U« Chief, jonmoro-mn *2/ ’fomer 9..w-rp- % or Chief, KUBOLF; Chief of Station, Paris i««^M»*tlw ors more Chief of Station, Parie(lCPIPIT): Chi ‘K”
“amount of amazement at GIBSON’s encyclopedic knowledge of many, many groups, personalities and parties of the far left, literally from America to Zanzibar. We leave it to Headquarters, of course, to evaluate GRCUP 1 201-306052 Distributions DATE TYPED DATE DISPATCHED Exclud”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“4-00000 1 Buc. c 99 hh 0 PAGE 2 LCPIPIT 7388 SECRET 3. 0 THINKS ENTRY NORTH VIETNAM MAY BE . e DIFFICULT AT PRESENT BECAUSE OF MILITARY SITUATION AND PROBABLE NORTH VIETNAMESE DESIRE NOT TO ENTERTA IN ELEMENTS OPENLY HOST ILE SOVIET UNION. LIONEL MORRISON SAYS W”
“CLASSIRCATION - PROCESSING ACTION to DISPATCH SECRET/RYBAT MARKED FOR NDEXMEG Chief, WOLIME X =0 DUNG EQUEED W. ONLY QUALIFIED DESK Chief, EUR; Chief, LCPIPIT/London CAR JUDGE INDEXING FRON Chief of Station, London SUCEOF SAC QRPREY/QRPHONE/MHPROBE/JAGUAR ACTION REQUIRED”
“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”
“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”
“7% SECRET 9 .4- The best likely assignment to fulfill these requirements is that of a . journalist, preferably operating from Europe, capable of credible travel 2 in Europe, Africa and even Asia, with some associations which will pre serve his bona fides with target Afro”
“Agency from London. Gibson has widespread contacts with leftists and black extremists 2 % in both Europe and the U.S. By separate communication we are alerting appropriate field offices to the expected presence of Gibson within their (S) ,field office territories. Classified ”
“then SECRET SECTION VI OPERATIOBAL USE - CORTACT 1. IE SUBJECT HAS BEEN USED OR CONTACTED BEFORE, INDICATE ACTIVITY IB MM 1CM HE HAS ENGAGED AND THE TYPE OF ihroR- MATION ME HAS FURNISHED. 1 No Change 2. INDICATE MOV AND Flow ENow SUBJECT OSTAIBS INFORMATION. No Change”
“-- groups have placed ad is the magazine. What did they pay for the space? Mow? 38. Any tafe a GIBSON contacts with ERsmbers of the pro inese Communist Party of Saitserlend Vormnerly disside: Montreux) 39. DM4 GIBSON or any other member o the Revolution staff ov nave deali”
“(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”
“et photographs used by the magasino? CRIPPA 22. Explain hte relationship to other pro-Chineso dissident factions La Western European CPs. Is he in contact with VERGES? with ANDERSSON? Details. 11. Why was GRIPPA not asked to assist in finding a new printer for the English ”
“It is the Responsible property Group for the the FBI and is of National loaned to your Palestinian agency; and Committee it the and Palestinian are not to be its contentsCommittee-Brussels without other members of either group being consulted. Raindori a according to ”
“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"”
“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”
“14-00000 -3- somewhat irregular, but we went ahead with it principally on the grounds that this was necessary to head off the security and morale problems posed an irate wife. 6. In the course of his initial talk with s/1, Rodigast pursued the natter the allegations made”