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104-10064-10013 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/10/1968)

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of the Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee (Beheiren)
dramatically.announced .at a press conference in Tokyo.
that four U.S. sailors from the aircraft carrier USS INTREPID
had deserted their ship. because of opposition of the Vietnam
War, the name Beheiren suddenly assumed a degree of prominence,
The'four sailors' successful flight to Moscow, with Beheiren
aid, where the Soviet propaganda machinery proceeded to
make capital out of this windfall, has kept Beheiren in the
public spotlight in succeeding weeks. The incident has
already stimulated a new would-be defection case involving
twcf'sailors from Yokosuka U.-S. Navy Base, and Beheiren

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               CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505




                                         10JAN 198      .*





MEMORANDUM FOR:  The Honorable Walt W. Rostow
                 Special Assistant to the President

SUBJECT.         Beheiren and the Four U.S. Navy Deserters


     1.  The following infoimation on Beheiren was compiled
by a representative of this Agency inE  land   comprises
his personal interpretation and knowledge based on overt
and covert information available to lbu3
as of 20 December 1967. Copies of this-riemorandum are
being furnished to DirectQr, Naval Investigative Service;
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the
Army; Deputy Assistant Secretary for-Security, Department
of State; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief,
Counterintelligence Division, Directorate of Special
Investigations, The Inspector General, USAF; Commandant,
Headquarters United States Marine Corps; and Chief,
Counterintelligence & Security Office (DIACI), Defense
Intelligence Agency.  This report partially answers DIA
letter S-4845/CI-4 of 29 December 1967 and oral requests
of similar nature- from the Department of the Navy.
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