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[20]MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, FI/Division D
[22]SUBJECT: ZRGRACE - Tokyo Aspect;
[23]George PERIS aka George PERISTEROPOULCE aka
[24]George PARIS, Identifind Contact of Valentin HAHN
[25]aka Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN aka Won-shin HAN,
[26]Self Confessed Soviet Agent
[28]1, Fellowing information was made available to the writer by
[30]eer... ee TATION ~~ 2 CAVED AF ce fcve fanan the Sammoten Maa file an
[32]V lontin HAHN, ‘he information herein reported was provided by oral brief- . !
[34]ing only, and the writer was not permitted to review the HAHN file itself.
[35]. Following details are tserefore based entirely on notes taken during the
[37]mecting which tock piace in CARRICO's office on 6 September. i
[39]2. Valentin HAHN, who was born as Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN on ;
[40]22 April 1908, Slavyanka,. Russia, and who is a Russian of Korean origin,
[41]admitted ia the course of a Polygraph examination administered on an ‘ ‘
[42]unspecified date, that be bad acted a6 aa agent ia Sehalf of ths Soviets. MANN
[44]bas beoa in the employ of CIA since approximately 1952, originally in Seoul, :
[45]H Korea, later in Tokyo, Japan, subsequently being transferred to Okinawa. | i
[46]; He was terminated on unspecified date ae a contract agent of the SR Division, i
[47]; and currently is or has been-resetiicd in Hokkaido, where he has been given &
[49]i job as a translator with the FBIS listening post at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
[50]During the debriefing which accompanied his Polygraph testing, HAHN advised :
[51]that during his service in Tokyo, Japan, his closest associates had been the ;
[52]following individuals in the order listed:
[53], a. Arseny YANKOVSKY and wife. i
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[55]b, [Basil EFREMOFF)- CLA Staff Employee of[Tokyo Station,] who
[57]a been terminated on unknown date. Hae was identified as a
[59]Japancce Intelligence agent,
[61]e. John Mc COY and wife - Mc cor was or still is an employee of a
[62]SR Division, stationed in Japan.
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[73]d. Vadim MEDIS) CLA Contract Agent in employ of 5R Division
[74]stationed infT <3) ln process of being terminated after
[75]stationed inf as former NKVD agent, a former Abwehr agent,
[77]and subsequent agent activity in behalf ef the Soviets while in
[78]DP camps.
[80]e. Kasua KANAZAWA - Cousin of Valentin HAHN; atone time wae
[81]proposed for operational use by this Agency.
[83]{. Charlotte BERGHOLTZ - Close friend of Ansstasiya SNOW neo
[84]YANKOVSKILY.
[86]g- Golli-Grigorevna and Margucrita PODSTAVINA - PODSTAVINA
[87]is the Godmother of Arseniy YANKOVSKIY,
[89]b. wets Anstels Clg SIT - CLA Suatd empioyee of SR Division
[90]fn [fol BoE Pepartinent of State] cover. Former FBI
[91]employee. 30
[93]i. George PARIS (Spelling as picked up oviginaily by Office of
[94]Security in written report of Polygragh examination report, and
[95]~ therefore likely phonetic.) - Greek businessman in Tokyo.
[97]3. In the course of further debriefing in connection with his Polygraph
[98]Test, HAHN clsimed that George FERIS or PARIS was the individual who had
[99]introduced HAHN to a club in Tokyo lecatei off the Ginza, the name of which
[101]- clud transtiated into English is “Tomorrow is Too Late". At this club HAHN
[102]- meta Japancse hostess by the name ef Noriko AWAJI, whose real name was
[104]later established to be Noriko MATSOZAKAYVA, whom he subsequeniiy dated.
[105]There is no further information curreatly available on thie hostess. In the
[106]interim, HAHN has obtained a divorce from his wife, who had been a witting
[107]participant in his agent activities for the Soviets, and is known currently to be
[108]living in a common-law relationship with a Japanese zirl who may be identical
[109]with Noriko MATSUZAKAYA. Aa indicated above, HAHN and his current
[110]mistress are currently in Sapporo, Hoxkaido,
[112]4. The ex-wife of Valentin HAHN, whose fail name is not known to the
[113]writer, and the two HAHN sons, are currently being sponsored for resettle-
[114]ment by the Agency in the United States, where all three are scheduled to
[115]receive their U.S. citzenship under CIA sponsorsbip.
[117]5. With reference to the "Tomorrow is/Too Late” Club, HAHN stated
[118]that a number of CIA Staff Employees of the (Tokyo Statiox frequent or have
[119]frequented this establishment and have dated the Japanese hostesses employed
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[129]there. Date of HAHN's introduction to the Club and to Noriko MATSUZAKAYA
[130]by George PARIS aka George PERIS was ectimated by Mr. Sayle to have been
[131]somewhere between 1954 and 1957. With regard to Valentin HAHN's own
[132]inclinations toward sharing his knowledge of romance with others, Mr. Sayle
[133]advised that Security Office had established that while employed as a contract
[134]agent of the [Tokyo Station] HAHN had pimped for CLA Staff personnel in Tokyo.
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[137]6. As attachment herewith, the writer appends additional background
[138]data on the professional intelligence activities and contacts of Valentin HAHN
[139]and family as noted during the oral briefing by Sayle.
[141]7. On baste of the above, it can be safely assured that the George
[142]PARIS known to HAHN is identical with George PERISTERGPOULOS aka
[143]George PERIS, well-known Tokyo businessman and Honorary Deputy Consal
[144]of the Royal Greek Consulate in Yorohama, Japan, as reported in SCTCGKY-63
[145]and SCTOKY-64. it is noteworthy that PERIS' contacts throughout ais career.
[146]commencing ¥‘{n f19 origina: reported employment in Tientsin, China, through
[147]hie activities and contacts in Shanghai, Cuina, and later in Tokyo, not exciud-
[148]ing his marriage to Aurelia CZZRWINSKA, have been exclucively with
[149]individuals of Russian or Eastern European background, many of them of
[150]Ruselan Jewish background, who are eitber highly suspect or have been iden-
[151]tified as long-time agents of Soviet inteliigence. PERIS' reported route of
[152]arrival in Tokyo via Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai, as well ae his employ-
[153]ment by Sondovich Srothars and.contacts with individuals who te in with the
[154]Boris SOLOMONIK complex and Borsol Fur Trading Corporation, smacke
[155]very strangly of the old Comintern Apparat of the 20's and 30's. Also it
[156]parallets the travel patterns of a number of individuals involved in the SOBLE
[157]case, principally the SOBLZS themselves who were exfiitrated irom the
[158]Soviet Union via Toxyo, Japan, to the U.S.A. and who, most notably of all,
[159]ales were under cover of operating a Bristie Susiness as is Sondovicss Brothers.
[161]8. According to earlier reporting in the ZRGRACE investigation,
[163]_ George PERIS is alleged to have been a contact of William Hamilton MARTIN
[165]in Tokyo, and to have offered MARTIN some type of job or business partner-
[166]ship deal in connection with the rug business.
[168]9. Myr. Carrico informatly indicated that he personally suspects that
[169]MARTIN's introduction to the fine art of masochistic tortare by an unidenti-
[170]fied Japanese female, as reported by Mro. Ardeiie GASDA to FSI agents,
[171]may have been effected at or through his patronage of the ‘Tomorrow is Too
[172]Late” Club to which he may well have beon taken or introduced by bis friend
[173]PERIS, This possibility, however. is subject to further investigation.
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[176]10. As initial follow-up to[SCTOKY]-63 and[SCTOKY}64, outgoing cable
[177]of 7 Sept. 60 requesting further check-out of the Club, etc. was prepared.
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[188]A second cable to be sent by Privacy Lank to Seoul, Korea, has also been
[189]drafted, and requests check of PERIS' arrival, activities and contacts,
[190]departure from Korea subsequent to 28 January 1960. This cable has been
[191]presented separately for your approval and may likely be exdject to revision,
[192]wierefore no copy is attached. It ie further suggested that Cifice of Security
[193]be authorized to pass to NSA Security Officiale working on this case the
[194]information on PERIS relayed in above SCT KYbables, such information te
[195]be properly sterilized of course, and that NSA in turn be recueeted to check
[196]and obtain from U.S, Navy Personnel Records full copies in duplicate of the
[197]oxginal reports on the specific duty stations or assignments, including dates
[198]of service at each, to which MARTIN and MITCHELL were cetaiied, also
[199]detailed leave records, travel records, and other pertinent background data
[200]contained in euch files, to cover the entire period of their respective service
[201]with the U.S. Navy. It is also suggested that NSA officials be requested to
[202]obtain similar detailed original reports in duplicate from the Denartment of. y
[203]ths Aomy lo weve. cus poriga of MAR LIN's civilian employment in Japan,
[204]with special emphasis on any reports of MARTIN's extra-curricular activities,
[205]contacts, club memberahbips, identified personal contacts with persons sot
[206]employed in his own office, leave travel, etc., which may be reflected in
[207]official records. One copy of all such reports are requested for thie Agency,
[208]to permit further checking of known or newly identified contacts he may have
[209]had in Japan. .
[211]ANITA POTOCKI
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[215]1 Attachment: es stated
[218]Orig & 1 - ZRGRACE File /
[219]1 - MARTIN 201 file
[221]lL - PERIS file
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