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104-10106-10188 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10213 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-i16~O SUBJECT: Sam Jaffe 1. Sam Jaffe's relationship with the Agency predates his assignment to Moscow as an ABC -correspondent. During the period 1958-60 while in New York Jaffe was a confidential informant of the FBI on his Soviet contacts in New York. In addition, he had several meetings with the New York office of CIA's Domestic Contact Division. While in Moscow with ABC daffe felt he was the subject-of a recruitment attempt by the*KGB in 1962. He recounted his story to the Regional Security Officer at the American Embassy in Moscow, copies of which went to both CIA and FBI. Jaffe covered the Gary Powers' trial for ABC and flew on the same plane from New York to Moscow with the Barbara Powers' party. Prior to that trip he was briefed by a CIA psychologist on ways to observe Powersts behavior and demeanor. Jaffe was never ordered to cover the Powers' trial, but simply acted as an enterprising newspaperman befriending Barbara Powers while her party was enroute and in the Soviet Union. 2 During the latter part of his time in Moscow Jaffe was in contact with a KGB officer, Kuvkov, and this relationship is a matter of record.with the FBI. There is some evidence that Jaffe was given preferential treatment by the Soviet authorities. Some western pressmen felt that Jaffe,.as an aggressive newspaperman, was giving a little to get a story. Jaffe has given his version of his dealings with the KGB in a lengthy 1969 interview with the FBI. 3. The defector Nosenko provided information on Jaffe's relationship to the KGB in 1964. However as time went on, further debriefings of Nosenko indicated that Nosenko was.not as sure about Jaffe's relationship as he had been originally. By 1968 Nosenko was positive only that Kuvkov had been in touch with Jaffe, but Nosenko was not certain that Jaffe was a paid and witting agent of the KGB. 4. During Jaffe's tour in Hong Kong, and subsequently in Washin ton he was in to ch with CIA officers. He provided good information on a news official -and he was -helpful to the Agency-in reporting on a organization, All fficial contact with 'Gaffe ended in 19/1. 1 5. Central to Jaffe's charges about CIA, which he has made public many times, is Jaffe's belief that the CIA passed derogatory information about him to his employers. Attached is a 24 November 1975 letter from Mr. Colby to Jaffe which states categorically that no information in the CIA files had ever been passed outside of official channels. In addition to this letter Jaffe has been reassured on this point verbally on at least four other occasions.. .The CIA is positive that Jaffe's recall from Hong Kong in 1968 NU TO CIA

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