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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72652 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10120-10380 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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16 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Chief, Security Research Staff
FROM Acting Chief, FIOB/SRS
SUBJECT : BROMBERGS, Arturs
AKA: LINDE, Arturs //
#47281
UNKNOWN SUBJECT, KGB Agent, ANDRE,
Kaufbeuren (B4VISION Lead)
1. Arturs BROMBERGS was born on 31 August 1913 at Kandeva,
Latvia. BROMBERGS was once. an officer in the Riga, Latvia Police
and during the German occupation in the early 1940`s, he was mobilized -
into the German controlled Latvian Legion. He fought against the Soviets
at Ostrov, deserted, and joined the Latvian resistance movement against
the Soviets in 1943. In 1945, he fled Latvia to Sweden and subsequently came
to the attention of this Agency in January 1951. He came , or was brought
to West Germany in early 1951, leaving his wife and daughter in Sweden,
and shortly thereafter was contracted by the
for usage as a spotter and recruiter for Agency
directed operations to train and dispatch agents into the Soviet Union. j
BROMBERGS' case officer in Munich, as of September 1951, was Edwa
-V-KNOWLE and during the same month, he was given a polygraph
examination by ~onald D. TEDDING. Shortly thereafter BROMBERGS
became involved in Agency operations emanating from
directed at agent penetration of the Soviet Union,. and subsequently, as
will be detailed later, engaged in similar operations originating in the
Washington, D. C. area from the Domestic Operations Base of SR.
Division. On 6 May 1954, BROMBERGS was himself dispatched into
the Soviet Union as an agent, and as of at least July 1957, was under KGB
control in the Soviet Union. Instant memorandum will not attempt to
examine the BROMBERGS case in any detail. The purpose of this memo-
randum is to identify certain Agency personnel, both Staff and Contract,
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