LETTER TO J. EDGAR HOOVER FROM R.H. HILLENKOETTER RE SOUKHOMLINE AKA SAMARET

Created: 5/2/1950

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. C.

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J. Edgar Hoover Director

federal Bureau or Investigation United States Departaent of Justice.

Dear Mr. Hoover:

refer to previous Bureau concerning Vass

spondence between-this Agency and your _HOttLIJtt:ictor*SAUARET, and specifically to your letter dateaddressed to oe regarding the espionage activities of Dr, Eail Julius Klaus FtfCHS.

'rVe therefore request your permission toaraphrased form the material or.and his Contact iZarc s set forth in your memoranda dated U*ndogether with any additional data currently available to you or obtainable by your Bureau in the near future.

I am particularly interested in the statement made in your

oi0 that SOUKHOMLINK "was described as an alleged GPU agent ^

as oi. This information was not previously furnished us by

your cureauould appreciate it if you could advise me as to tho

nature of the source and your evaluation

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As of possible interest to

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publication. BURE, as you will recall, wasemorandum frou your Bureauubject: Communist Party, USA -Relations, Internals an Honorary President of

Sowing is presently in Paris wrllPIHPaWFS in contactlaiiKAGORHOV, Third Secretary at tho Soviet Embassy in Paris, and

BURE, Editor of the Frencha "nationalist"

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APPROVED FORREIEA DATE:0

T^Jrrrrr FrencaUa Orece Ifcmocratique". He had also beenrbJRmj,anian Corsnmnlst activities in France.and,,Wber. of the Executive Coamittee of the pro-Coaffiuniat "France-Roumania -

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yours,

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ft. H. HfUENKOETTER flfARCCTOO Or iNTFiilGfHCt

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