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104-10073-10368 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/24/1976)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch08824 and id is 1 raw text is: ~OO73~O368 S E C R E T 241830Z AUG 76 STAFF CITE DCD/MIAMI 13477 TO: PRIORITY DCD/HEADQUARTERS. TO: OPERATIONS SERVICES GROUP/OSBI k W NINTEL SUBJ: ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL REF :HENNESSEY/FRENCH TELECON, 23 AUGUST Y 76p SAME SUBJECT 1. THIS IS TO CONFIRM REFERENCED TEL99ON. ON 23 AUGUST 19762 W E R E C E I11 E D A C al I R~o m EI IN WHICH HE INDICAThly TMA HEHAD HAD A VISIT ON THE SAME DATE BY FRANK STURGISd STURGIS HAD TOLD MORGAN THAT HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO MIAMI FROM NEW YORK CITY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED FOR THE TOMORROW SHOW ON NBC. (THIS INTERVIEW WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN TELEVISED AT 0100 HOURS, 24 AUGUST, BUT WAS NOT.) 2. STURGIS SAID THAT WHILE IN NEW YORK HE HAD STAYED THE WEEKEND (PRESUMABLY 21 AND 22 AUGUST) WITH MARITA LORENZ, WHO STURGIS SOMETIME AGO PUBLICLY CLAIMED TO HAVE HIRED TO POISON CUBAN PRIME MINISTER FIDEL CASTRO, LORENZ GAVE STURGIS A BOOK CONTAINING CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL THAT SHE SAID SHE HAD STOLEN FROM THE ALBANIAN MISSION IN NEW YORK. MORGAN WAS SHOWN MACHINE COPIES OF THREE OR FOUR PAGES OF THIS MATERIAL, WHICH CONSISTED OF FIVE DIGIT NUMERICAL GROUPS IN SERIES ACROSS THE PAGES. EACH OF THE GROUPS HAD A SINGLE LINE DRAWN THROUGH AS IF A DECODING OPERATION HAD BEEN PERFORMED. STURGIS TOLD MORGAN THAT HE HAS DISTRIBUTED PAGES OF THE BOOK IN VARIOUS PLACES IN MIAMI FOR SAFEKEEPING UNTIL HE CAN TURN ALL OF IT OVER TO SENATOR HOWARD BAKER. TO THIS END HE ALREADY HAD PLACED A CALL TO BAKER'S STAFF ON 23 AUGUST. STURGIS TOLD MORGAN THAT LORENZ HAD GIVEN HIM THE BOOK BECAUSE ONE OF HER MAFIA CONTACTS IN NEW YORK TRIED TO BLACKMAIL HER (FOR SOME REASON UNKNOWN TO MORGAN OR OURSELVES), AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEAT HER SEVERELY AND THREATENED HER LIFE. AS A RESULT, SHE NO LONGER WANTED ANY PART OF THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN QUESTION, STURGIS PROMISED TO GET IT INTO OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT HANDS, E2 IMPDET CL BY 011668 SECRET A () .4,44, 44.' ~ ,

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