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104-10120-10380 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/16/1972)

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                                           16 June 1972




  MEMORANDUM FOR:        Deputy Chief, Security Research Staff

  FROM                   Acting Chief, FIOB/SRS

  SUBJECT             :  BROMBERGS, Arturs
                         AKA:  LINDE,  Arturs                        IL/
                         #47281

                         UNKNOWN SUBJECT, KGB Agent, ANDRE
                         Kaufbeuren (B  VISION Lead)

         1. Arturs BROMBERGS was born   on 31 August 1913 at Kandeva,
   Latvia. BROMBERGS   was once. an officer in the Riga, Latvia Police
   and during the German occupation in the early 1940's, he was mobilized
   into the German controlled Latvian Legion. He fought against the Soviets
   at Ostrov, .deserted, and joined the Latvian resistance movement against
   the Soviets in 1943. In 1945, he fled Latvia to Sweden and subsequently came
   to the attention of this Agency in January 1951. He came, or was brought
   to West Germany in early 1951, leaving his wife and daughter in Sweden,
   and shortly thereafter was contracted by the
                            for usage as a spotter and recruiter for Agency
   directed operations to train and dispatch agents into the Soviet Union.
   BROMBERGS' case   officer in Munich, as of September 1951, was Edward-.
   rN1-kNOWLE    and during tham    month, he was given a polygraph
   examination 137y Doonald D. -TEDDING. Shortly thereafter BROIVBERGS
   became  involved in A-gency operations emanating from             5-
   directed at agent penetration of the Soviet Union,. and subsequently, as
   will be detailed later, engaged in similar operations originating in the
   Washington, D. C. area from the Domestic Operations Base of SR.
   Division.  On 6 May 1954, BROMBERGS   was himself dispatched into
   the Soviet Union as an agent, and as of at least July 1957, was under KGB
   control in the Soviet Union. Instant memorandum will not attempt to
   examine the BROMBERGS   case in any detail. The purpose of this memo-
   randum is to identify certain Agency personnel, both Staff and Contract,







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