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104-10114-10167 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/6/1961)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10660 and id is 1 raw text is: 104101-1 0 7 File M. Stevens SRS/0S NORMmur Herbert Lee, Jr. #48923 According to what appear to be partial reports of interrogation which the CIA Security Office received in connection with Subjects defection to East Germany on 6 July 1960. He defected to escape an alcoholic mother and heavy debts. Subject, an Airman Second Class, assigned as an analyst with the German unit of the 6900th Security Wing AFSS, defected to East Germany on 6 July 1960 taking with him two suitcases and a brief case. He left his West German apartment at 1800 hours with the intention of defecting (having' earlier in the day left a note for his mother stating that he 'was going to East Germaxy for good) and disappeared into the East German controlled subway. He returned to his apartment at 0015 hours in the early morning of 7 July 1960 without luggage and was placed under arrest. During interview by military authorities on 11-12 July 1960, O RUP said that he took with him, when he defected, official document containing top secret information in order to establish his bona fides and turned himself in at the defectors reception center in East Berlin. According to Subject he spoke there with two officials who told him to sleep there that night and return in the morning for further discussions. He was deeply disturbed, he said at the lack of interest shown in him and began to realize the seriousness of his actions. After illing around he finally returned to his apartment in West Berlin to turn himself in. He claimed to have defected in a fit of despondency caused by long standing fro- tration. He stated that he first considered defecting in November or December 1959 because he believed he bad no future in the service and felt that he had to get away from his mother who had become a confirmed alcoholic. It would appear, however, that Subjects long time interest in the U.S.S.R. may have played a part in his defection. He has admitted to a sympathetic interest in the Soviet Union dating back to his high school days when he frequented the office of the Soviet American Friendship Society in Miami and did volunteer work for them. This SECRET

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