“0 0 SAC, Chicago (100-41353) SECRET 11/22/66 Director, FBI (100-442715) 1 - Mr. Ryan AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR A MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY, USA INTERNAL SECURITY -C (S) Ankh ReCGlet 11/7/66 relating to correspondence dated 10/25/66 received at the Ad Hoc Committee (AHC) post off”
“clandestinely: his attitude, as RODIGAST can infer it, toward targets hostile to ODYOKE: in short, his ideological motivation. B. Estimate of his motivation generally: his personal reasons for association with KUBARK. C. Psychological suitability and staying power in leading”
“1 FEB / a May PM CLASSIFCAnON SP. PROCESSING ACTION 10 DISPATCH Chief, WOLIME SECRET/RYBAT BAKED FORWDEXWG ____ Chief of Station, Bern ' 4 _______ - NO BIDEeM9- REQUIRED 560. Chief of Station, London; Chief, EUR Division: I Owrouturdo DESK HM Chief of Base, Ge”
“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”
“resided in Europe and covered Africa, Asia and Europe. Watts asked if interviewers were acquainted with Gibson to which they acknowledged that a Gibson appeared on the masthead of the H Liberator". Watts also advised that Gibson had been involved in the FPCC. No significance ”
“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”
“CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH .320327 PPO : POPED1 PROCESSING ACTich Ip^o 1 40 (wr-go f22 as tExmS Chief, KUDBSK XXX lag ncBnt 89:2 IVO GilY QLALE Chief, LOPIPID; Chief, KE; Chief of Station, RLASQLARTERS CEEK Algiers: Chief, AF__ ___________________ CAN „C8E ICDLA FRCAS ABSTRA”
“14-00000 wSMS' th SECRET - 2 - E. RNSLIVER was particularly impressed by QREBONY/1's library of radical books and pamphlets. RISLIVER turned over to the under signed for copying and return a recent issue of Williams’ The Crusader. and a copy of QREBONY/1's own newsle”
“of what was granted to him last year c) that his temporary residence should be made "unconditional" which would be the normal procedure if there were no special considerations. Our feeling was that for ORPHONE/l’s cover purposes (c) would be undesirable; if his friends got ”
“14-00000 lore • 2 %a %S. a CEODET OLUALI «3> 4. Most of all, vs would welcome your comments on this Emeral probles, given your Agency’s broad knowledge of such organizations as DAZ in this country. As a negro expatriate with protended pro-chicom sympathies, SUGAR h”
“4-00000 0 Rod This 7 Draft readeshale 1958 CI Assessment Q/1 worked for Agence France Presse - Paris, lie was discharged by AFP " when Ollie Farrington (American negro) brought forgery charges against him. 0/1 sent to a weekly American publication and to to the British”
“14-00000 ___ militant Merxise-Leninism). March 1968, Stockholm. AFTONBLADET - Radical Social Democratic Daily 18 March 1968 published Fhoto and Blog Data on 8 r/1 in conjunction with story recent redefection a American soldier Ray Jones implying Q/1 responsible in part Jo”
“4 ve-ang+ es W • SECRET rowsstoiate D. Both to give QRPHONE/1 time to cleanse bis tattered image and because there are almost as important operational tasks in West Africa, the idea is to move him (1) to Nigeria or (2) to Ghana for perhaps a year. This is to be done ”
“following each —alleged breach, but no up-to-date summary exists. As for our own gut feelings on his personal security, one hazards that he is still in pretty good shape. I agree with you that many of the past charges leveled against him are of the same ilk as those leveled a”
“member from the Mid-West, which he left because of the people. He feels that the Mid-West is a part of the country where the Government ought to test nuclear warheads. QRPHONE also met with Earl and Lee Rose. Earl was in the RU delegation to China where he must have caused ”
“.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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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. ”
“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 ”
“find a peg for working paper approval, something else had to be found. None of his numerous present cover associations or stories had enough substance to provide a sufficiently plausible basis for working papers. The corporation being created for the QRMANTLE activity under th”
“Switzerland— in connection with his defense of Arab terrorists and feels that mteweebearcitonzmen if the Swiss are willing to do this for Identity B then they should also lift the ban on his entry into Switzerland. QRPHONE/1 obviously feels personally about this, and it may”
“RODIGAST’s handling of the man, not in terms of the personal relationship which RODIGAST has been able to build up with him, but maybe even because of that relationship. I remember when I first talked with RODIGAST I quickly realized that he felt he knew more than Headquarters”
“ROWTON to indicate that either of them has been identified as an intelligence operative. ROWTON has had no contact of any kind with Soviets in this area, nor has he detected any surveillance, either physical or technical, of his person or home. Both he and FRADYER, however, w”
“an overature from a U.S. newspaper QRPHONE/1 made a quick trip to New York to consult with Headquarters officers regarding the impli- . cations of this overature on his RVROCK status. See LCPIPIT 4222 and DIRECTOR 28728 for details. Through two unwitting female informants QR”
“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”
“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”
“least one of them urged QRPHONE/1 to return soon to WOCORK because this is where the action is. This same individual gave QRPHONE reading materials on the Communist dialectic and urged him to study them closely. This greatly impressed QRPHONE because it showed bow accurate w”
“14-00000 SECRET MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: CILIBERTI Conversation with RNSLIVER 26 April Concerning His Meeting with QREBONY/1 1. On 25 April BASTEAR told me that RNSLIVER was in London and was planning to meet with QREBONY/1. BASTEAR accordingly suggested that ”
“1* SECRteu I 3 of ethereal discourse, but QRPHONE was fascinated, captivated by it and clearly interestcnAh-nursuing that long ourky - .. path to "enlightenmont." / did an outstanding job in " setting the stage, describing the target, and then explaining step by step ho”
“00000 ? 3-e It is rot clear what this source is trying to report, but presumably he is trying to indicate that 1/1 is hoarding the AHNGRLD money he has been issued for his personal use. Anyone who ,nows A/1 knows that the last % thing he will ever give up is his magazine an”
“- CIA furnished copies of letters dated 8/13 through 20/65, from 1 Hodee W. Edwards (100-397465) to Sugar, who, because of operational considerations maintained contact with Edwards. The letters were of a political nature and contained an exchange of ideas between Edwards an”
“many reasons,including security, to make such commitments at this time. L/4 made it clear to |Rowton also that she realizes that he probably operating in an alias and is affiliated with sone sort of service or organization (this came out during discussion of contract and ackn”
“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 ”
“him any funds, but if others want to make the assumption, - - so much the better. - - 3 On 1 and 2 June, Tiffany expounded at some length on the importance of S/1 trying to get an Opposition (Soviet, Cuban, Algerian or ChiCom) sponsor for any further cover, such as the resea”
“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”
“* * * 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”
“4-00000 ,.*A SECRET 2 8 JUN !9u- MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans VIA: Chief, CCS/NC SUBJECT: Request for Approval for Operational Use of U.S. Free-Lance Writer - QREBONY/1 1. This memorandum submits a recommendation for your approval pursuant to CSI 240-6,”
“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”
“the WCOTP described to en Ageney repre-5. sentative an interview he had with Mike MacMANUS of TIME magazine on 1W 1967 who wanted to discuss the effects of newspaper publicity on। wcotp operations. MCMANUS was especially interested in any economies forced; on WCOTP and a requ”
“4-00000 LB-9,R otg. swiss explusion - 2 last Milan Jn 13 Jan. (M train reservation was made in Milan, not London.) I also spoke with Atkins of AP in Geneva, who told me he had filed a story after =7 wife’s call about an American Negro journalist being refused entry into S”
““Vow CKR SECRET/RYBAS 18 July 1972 1 -., . MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD - SUBJECT: Meeting with QRPHONE/1 .:*2. X net with QRPHONE/1 for much of the 12th of July and wearing two hats. Wo first went through the third phase of the training exercise in which X had been play”
“14A6AA0--------- 104-10072-10315. 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OFJ992 CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING ACTION TO DISPATCH SECR H T/R YBAT MARKED FOR INDEXING - 'Chief, WOLIME XX NO INDEXING REQUIRED NO Chief of Station, London; Chief,”
“* militant Marxism-Leninism). . : March 1968: Stockholm. AFTONBLADET - Radical Social Democratic Daily 18 March 1968 published Photo and Blog Data on 8 0/1 in conjunction with story recent redefection - American soldier Ray Jones implying Q/1 responsible in part Jones red”
“00000 1 CLASSIFICATION TO DISPATCH SECRET PRO POSED PROCESSING ACTION WARD FA ICEXING ACCOM PLISHED Chief, WE XXX HO MOMS REQUIRED ONLY Q.L SUD INFO. Chief, KUDESK; AF; FB, LCPIPIT; Chief of Stations, HEADQUARTERS CESK Algierst Pari s CAN AG ICEXINO FROM Chief”
“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”
“I : ASSIFICATION DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH S-E-C-R-E-T OELW - 21869 3. In line with the need to put the debriefing on a businesslike (rather than a "flexible") basis, it might be a good idea to start by getting Subject to supply a personal histor”
“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 '”
“exposed shale running a phoney "pro-Chinese" group in the U.K.: (It would probably be not too good In WOLALY, for the t matter, but 3 government could fall here as a result.) 3. Ve have now hid an opportunity to talk this over with CILIBERTI, LAGINESTRA and RODIGAST, and al”
“/1 OCOBCT (continued) OLCAL I REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 97-4196-26-60 p.2 (3) 97-4196-34-81 p.4,7,24 (31 & -83 p.2-4,10 -86 p.3,14 97-4196-50-26 p.23 17 Bundesamt Fuer Verfassungsschutz, (BFV- West German Federal Agency for the Protection - of the Constitutio”