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104-10439-10043 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/17/1959)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch48729 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10439-10043











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        TO     Bruce L. Solie, C/RB/SRS/OS                   DATE:17 December 1959


        FROMt2-
               M. D. Stevens, RB/SRS/OS


        ~u1F-T: KKIMMN, Victor Petrovich
               Al-2752 - SSD-90097



                   A review of Subject's file has been made in connection with
              a request from the CI Officer, French Desk, with reference to
              information from theCief ofStilloni7Paiia_ that Subject's Washington
              book store, as of the summer of 1959, was one of the four book stores
              in the United States where subscriptions could be bought for RODINA
              the bulletin edited by the Repatriation Comttee of East Berlin,
              RODI&AO(LA PATRIE), which is distributed in various languages
              and is ziaLed in Sealed envelopes, has been forbidden distribution
              in France. (See attached thermofax.)

                   Security files reflect that in April 1957 the FBI advised that
              Victor Petrovich KAMKIN, Elena Andreevna KAMKIN and Nina SAPELKIN
              had been the subjects of an Internal Security - R type investigation
              as of 1951 and thatr There is no derogatory data of a subversive
              nature in the files of this Bureau concerning the subject of your
              inquiry (K 4KIN). It should be noted, however, that Victor
              Petrovich K.AKIN is currently of investigative interest to this
              Bureau and, accordingly, it is requested that any contact of him
              in behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency be handled by this
              bureau. It was advised orally that the Bureau was using KAMKIN
              as a source.

                   Lccording to an undated blind memorandum (possibly a Staff C
 LO  J:,,- Thmhe moranrd), Nina SAPELKIN is Elena KAKIN's sister and as of
      r /A. p. r 1951 was living with the KAYKIs in Tennesses Nina SAPELKIN was
   5_  tq ~r` born in Russia 18 August 1912; and was evacuated from Shanghai to
              Samar, Philippine Islands under IRO auspices in April 1949,
              accompanied by her husband Semen I. SAPELKIN and their two children.
              Shp cae to the United States in 1951 and lived in Tennessee for
              a time with the KYdKINs, The SAPELKINs reportedly renounced
              Soviet citizenship in Shanghai in September or October 198,

                   The KAMKINa also were born in Russia and KAMKIN attended
              high school and university in Harbin, Manchuria. Thereafter until
              1965 he was in the printing and publishing business in China; and
              during 1946-47 says he was with Special Services, Section II,
              Amph., Marine Corps, working on its newspaper, North China
              Marins. In 1947 he was co-publisher of Free Word which he says
              was an anti-Soviet newspaper closed by pressure of the Soviet


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