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104-10107-10132 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/19/1969)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch00015 and id is 1 raw text is: 110.4 'I. SEC7 7 Summary of Debriefing of Thomas L. Roberts (19 - 21 February 1969) 1949 Feb 1950 July 1950 1950-1953 Oct 1953 While an undergraduate student at Harvard, Roberts on his own initiative contacted the Boston office of the FBI when he became aware that the student movement was a highly sophisticated and organized one under outside direction. Roberts' contact with the FBI was an agent named McLaughlin. At one point Roberts planned a trip to Paris and was requested to take a written message to some leftist students in Paris, which activity was approved by the FBI. Roberts had completed his courses at Harvard but had not written his thesis and had some disagreement with the school authorities as to the subject of his thesis required for receiving honors. Therefore, Roberts went to Paris in February 1950 and remained there for three months returning in June for his graduation. While in Paris Roberts contacted French student organizations which had received invitations from the Yugoslavian students to send a delegation of students to visit Yugoslavia. Roberts was invited to visit Yugoslavia with the group. He did report this to the legal attache at the American Embassy in Paris. The FBI contacted Roberts who was working with tree crews in Bangor, Maine, and outlined to Roberts a program of targets, namely the Labor Youth League and the Student Division of the National Lawyers Guild, since Roberts had been accepted by Harvard Law School. While a student at Harvard Law School Roberts became a national co-director of the Student Division, National Lawyers Guild, and, as such, was a member of the National Board of the Lawyers Guild reporting his activities to the FBI throughout his student years. Roberts was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and took a job with a Boston law firm of Dodd & Greenberg, which firm was engaged principally in admiralty matters, and c' :~ r f [ -1 1

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