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104-10105-10278 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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    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 known as Henry.Hans
    Heinz Bismark and Henry Burk.  The information  in the following
    paragraphs pertains to this-Henry L. Bretton  who is probably
    identical to the writer  f t  e l t e   a e     a u r   9 5 t
    the Director          ro    h   etrdte         aur      95t

        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 raised questions a's to Bretton's
   Political sympathies.  Consequently,  Bretton w:is security dis-
   approved in August 194.5 for transfer to 055.
        Bretton was informed in 1945 that  he would not be hired by
  OSS because  Washington Security would not  approve his enlployment
        Breton reprtely as distressed: by this decision,  In December
  1945, when Bretton  returned to the U.S., he personally  called at
  the Security Office  and stated he was aware he had  been disapproved
  and requested the  reason thereof.  'He was told there were no
  openings..
       In addition, according  to a memorandum in Bretton's  file
  dated 19 November 1945 from the  Strategic Services-Unit, Msion
  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 to pass  him.  Accord--ng to
  this memorandum, when Bretton was told the  Unit cou ld not employ
  him, Bretton was very much upset.  The memorandum  indicated
  that Bretton had earned the high regard of the  officers immediat.-ly
  concerned for, some tentative work Bretton had done for the Unit.

      In April 1949 Bretton  was still evidencing concern  for being
 dismissed from SSU.  Bretton  was given a statement that  the
 Adjutant General had no  informat ion that the circumstances of
 his 'honorable discharge from the service might in any way  be
 considered derogatory,
      In.July 1956, Bretton was of interest  to the Domes .tic
Collection  Division as a po-tential source of foreign intelligence
information.   In connection with this interest,  National Agency
Name Check was  conducted on Bretton at Army  Intelligence. The






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