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104-10181-10128 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/8/1959)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch14697 and id is 1 raw text is: 8 October 1959 MEMOANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECTI Robert Edward Websier, ProjectLONG8TID 1a The attached cable from Rabassy Moscow ia selt explanatory. it wa brought to my atte&ntion this morning by Mr. Robert CrowSy of Contact Diviaton tso. 2. Mr, .Xebs ter was employed 13Y Rand -Corporation last spring _ to acoompay 1Cr, a -to Koc; for the opening of the Sokoln F air and for the pursuit of Rand's interest as egots for several Amerian exhibitors who wanted to dis- po hs of t i di pl y At th, end Of the fair. Webster is in bgeryt±ties, 'i- believed to have a business manage- sent background, but several attamptg to Obtain biographIc data about him from our files hat drawn a blank, it appears that he was assigned as tempoary Offric manager of the Moscow office and charged primarily with the responsibility to sell Rand services to American exhibitors as agents to liquidate their displays at the end of the fair. ot September Mr. Crowley of OOCD informed me that Cif Last West Contacts 00 had received word i Mqur. werai el B eat Contacts State Department, that Inquiry vas being made by'Rand Corporation of State Departsont to determine the whereabouts of Mr. Webster who had departed his office without notice to the parent company. t seems that Rand Corporation also made direct inquiry through the Soviet BEabaaay Washington for Information about Mr. Webster. At this point I relayed thin information to Major Carol&, UBAF/ACSI, who phoned me a day later to say that the Soviet Embassy had informed Rand Corporation that Mr. Webster was on a t ~ weeks tour arranged by Intourist, Since Webster was about to conclude his assignment for Rand in Moscow and return home this Information was considered quite satisfactory. 4. During our conversation on 28 September with General Dougher and other ATIC representatives, a question As to Mr. Webster situation and whereabouts was answered with the information that he had been on a vacation trip and was believed to be enroute to tie U. S. It was also stated that he was a temporary employee and was not intended to be the Moscow office manager. RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce

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