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AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-90140-10012 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 100-439769-302
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ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PAPICH TO: BRENNAN TITLE: DATE: 09/03/1963 PAGES: 1
SUBJECTS: CIA LIAISON MATERIAL PERMANENT STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR TRAVEL TO CUBA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/28/1998
OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS: MEMO
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 UNITED STATES GC Memoran
TO: D. J. BRENNAN
DATE: September 3, 1963
FROM: S. J. PAPICH
SUBJECT: PERMANENT STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR TRAVEL TO CUBA IS-C
Austin Horn, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), advised the Liaison Agent on August 30, 1963, that a reliable CIA source in Madrid, Spain, had been in contact with Mark Tischman one of the American students who accompanied the group which recently visited Cuba. This contact took place on August 27, 1963, at which time Tischman volunteered the following information to the CIA source:
Tischman identified the following students as "fellow travelers": Joseph Rex, Elena B. Fleming, John Milton, Don Ranmann, and Albert Maher.
Tischman referred to Levi Laub as a "communist in ideology" but not a Party member. He stated that Phillip Luce is "a person of Marxist-Leninist tendencies"; that Michael Brown is a Trotskyite; that John W. Thomas is a decided partisan of the policy of Mao Tse Tung; that Eric D. Johnston is "of communist, ideology though not a Party member, that Clinton M. Jenks is "the son of the number three ranking communist in California"; and that the only student in the group who is actually a member of the Party is Allan Sheffield
ACTION: Possible C. P. member
The above information is being directed to the attention of the Internal Security and Nationalities Intelligence Sections.
CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLD/KSR DECLASSIFY ON: 25X
1 - Mr. Baumgardner 1 - Mr. Wannall 1 - Mr. Simpson 1 - Liaison 1 - Mr. Papich