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104-10105-10278 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/0000)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch84461 and id is 1 raw text is: 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 Henry L. BRETTON Office of Security records contain a file on a Henry L. Bretton who was born on May 18, 1916 in Berlin, Germany. As of 1963, this person was Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He also has been 1known as Henry Hans Heinz Bismark and Henry Burk. The information in the followings paragraphs pertains to this-Henry L. BrettowhisPbal identical to the writeroth ttraenwnuy195o the Director. e letter dated 3 January 1975 to In July 1945 Bretton, who was an Army enlisted man attached to MIS (Fwd) FID, was under consideration for transfer to OSS. An investigation at that time raisedqutionr as to os political sympathies. Consequentl question s s rity dis- approved in August 1945 for transfer toe On was security dis Btton was informed in 1945 that he would not be hired by OSS because Washington Security would not approve his enopynt Bretton reportedly was distressed by decision. In December 1945 whn retton returned to the U.S.,h Personll calledembt the Security Office and stated he was aware herhad beencdisad rove and requested the reason thereof. He was told there were no .openings.. p In addition, according to a memorandum in Bretton's file dated 19 November 1945 from the Strategic Services-Unit, Mission to Germany, European Theater, earlier that fall that Unit had tentatively recruited MIS T/4 Henry L. Bretton and that the Security Branch in Washington failed toBrass hi d atrth t this memorandum, when Bretton was told thesUnitmcould not employ ngt nwsthat Bretton had earnedutheuhigh regad he offrndm icstmedial concerned for some tentative work Bretton had edoneforst hem Unit. In April 1949 Bretton was still evidencing concern for being dimise fomS n reftton was gvna statement that the Adjutant Generdashano iformationvthat th acircmstancesh ofn his honorable discharge from the service might in any way be considered derogatory. In July 1956, Bretton was of interest to the Domestic Collection Division as a potential source of foreign intelligence information. In connection with this interest,.National Agency Name Check was conducted on Bretton at Army Intelligence. The OS 5 0021/A 1104-10105-102781

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