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[23]SUBJECT: YEVGENY RUNGE - NAME APPEARS IN BOOK
[24]REF: NONE . .
[25]TEXT:
[27]1. ACTION REQUIRED: FYI.
[29].2. ON 16 JULY, SUBJECT WAS MET IN COSTA MESA BY IC FORTAW
[30](IN PNINFINITE ALIAS D.B.D.) TO PROVIDE SUBJ WITH INFORMATION
[31]CONCERNING. THE APPEARANCE OF HIS NAME IN THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK
[32]"THE MAN WHO KNEW TO MUCH", BY DICK RUSSELL (CARROLL GRAF PUBLIS
[33]HERS/RICHARD GELLEN, 260 FIFTH AVE, NY, NY 10001, COPYRIGHT 1992).
[34]THE BOOK IS A "CONSPIRACY THEORY" INVESTIGATION INTO THE
[35]SSASSINATION>OF, .PRESIDENT<JOHN=F..<KENNEDY>THROUGH INSIGHTS
[36]Pi VIDED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF RICHARD ‘CASE NAGELL, ALLEGEDLY A CIA.
[37]*(INTERALIA) "AGENT" AND ASSOCIATE OF <EERis! >
[38]*TO HAVE INFORMED THE US GOV’T OF THE PLAN "TO<AS ASSINATE>THE
[39]PRESIDENT. SUBJ HAD BEEN MET ON 29 APR AT HIS REQUEST, AT WHICH
[40]TIME HE ASKED THE RCO TO DETERMINE WHY SUBJ’S NAME HAD APPEARED Ww
[41]THE BOOK AND WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IT MIGHT HAVE. .
[43]3. RCO OBTAINED A COPY OF THE. BOOK AND AFTER REVIEWING IT,
[44]PROVIDED SUBJ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON 16 JUL. REQUEST HOS
[45]COMMENTS ONLY IF IT IS BELIEVED NECESSARY.
[47]4. THE NAME APPEARS ONCE IN THE BOOK, SPECIFICALLY, IN
[48]CHAPTER 29 "NAGELL'S DISAPPEARANCE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN:
[49]1968-70," ON PAGE 657, IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH:
[50]NAGELL WAS ALSO QUESTIONED IN THE USSR ABOUT A KGB LT COL,
[51]YEVGENY RUNGE, WHO HAD SOUGHT ASYLUM FROM THE CIA IN WEST
[52]_ BERLIN IN THE EARLY FALL OF 1967. RUNGE’S DEFECTION WAS SAID TO
[53]HAVE EXPOSED THE WIDESPREAD USES OF "ILLEGAL" AGENTS, UNATTACHED
[54]TO ANY EMBASSY, BY SOVIET INTELLIGENCE (RUNGE HIMSELF HAD
[55]POSED AS A TRAVELING JUKEBOX SALESMAN). (24)
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[63]FOOTNOTE 24, CHAPTER 29 STATES: NAGELL MENTIONED RUNGE, BRIEFLY AND
[64]CRYPTICALLY, IN ONE OF HIS LETTERS TO (ARTHUR) GREENSTEIN. FOR
[65]‘BACKGROUND ON THE RUNGE CASE, SEE DAVID BINDER, "BONN EXPERTS SAY:
[66]DEFECTOR WAS ONE OF THE SOVIETS’ ABLEST AGENTS," NEW YORK TIMES (27
[67]OCT 67); "THE SPIES THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND," TIME (27 OCT 67)
[68]P.35; BENJAMIN WELLES, "DEFECTION OF A SOVIET SPY VIEWED IN US AS
[69]WINDFALL,".THE NY TIMES (10 NOV 67) P.1.
[71]5. CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING UP TO NAGELL'’S INTERROGATION. BY THE
[72]KGB IN MOSCOW: ON 10 JUN 68, WHILE ENROUTE TO WEST BERLIN THROUGH
[73]EAST GERMANY, COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES DETAINED AND THEN IMPRISONED
[74]NAGELL. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WAS SENT TO THE SOVIET UNION FOR FURTHER .
[75]INTERROGATION, EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASED AT THE BERLIN BORDER TO
[76]AMERICAN AUTHORITIES ON 23 oct 68.
[78]6. GREENSTEIN, A PERSONAL FRIEND OF NAGELL’S, ORIGINALLY MET
[79]NAGELL IN MEXICO CITY IN 1962 WHILE GREENSTEIN WAS A STUDENT AT THE
[80]NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO. GREENSTEIN, WHO EVENTUALLY OPENED AN
[81]ADULT BOOKSTORE IN WILLMINGTON, DELAWARE, WAS THE RECIPIENT OF MANY
[82]*LETTERS FROM NAGELL CONCERNING THE<KENNEDY ASSASSINATION>BOTH WHILE
[83]NAGELL WAS IMPRISONED AT LEAVENWORTH DURING. THE PERIOD JUL 67 TO APR
[84]68, AND SUBSEQUENTLY. IT APPEARS THAT AT NO TIME DURING THE COURSE
[86]_ OF GREENSTEIN’S ASSOCIATION WITH NAGELL, THAT GREENSTEIN WAS
[87]PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN ANY CLANDESTINE OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
[88]GREENSTEIN’S MENTIONING OF RUNGE’S NAME WAS SOLELY IN THE CONTEXT OF ©
[89]IT HAVING BEEN MENTIONED BY NAGELL AS ONE OF THE NAMES THAT THE
[90]SOVIETS BROUGHT UP IN THE COURSE OF NAGELL’S INTERROGATION. NAGELL
[91]HAD NO INFORMATION CONCERNING RUNGE.
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