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104-10219-10097 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/19/1963)

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                                                     19 December  1963

                    MEMORANDUM  FOR:  Deputy Director for Plans

                    SUBJECT:           Discussion with Mr. Richard Davis,
                                      Deputy Assistant Secretary of
                                      State  for European Affairs

                           1.  I visited the Department today for discussions
                    of the Cherepanov and Martin cases with Mr. Richard Davis.
                    Also present was Mr. John Guthrie, Chief, SOV/EUR,

                          2.   I first showed Davis and Guthrie a copy of the
                    preliminary  traces on the Soviet officers whose names
                    appeared in the Cherepanov papers.  They were particularly
                    interested in  learning the true name of Counselor of the
                    Soviet Embassy Fomin.  Both officers were cautioned  that
                    this was sensitive  information and could not be used
                    overtly.   I also informed Davis that the University of
                    Illinois Librarian Miller had  just returned from his
                    trip and  that Mr.             1ad  left for Illinois to
                    interview him.

                          3.  With  respect to the dinner at the home of the
                    Soviet Consular Officer Begunkov attended by-Mr. Thomas
                    Fain  in Moscow, I informed Davis that our records indi-
                    cated that Begunkov was an  intelligence officer. Davis
                    said he suspected as much and that in his view  the Soviet's
                    principal interest in wining and dining Fain was to dis-
                    cover how we got  the Cherepanov documents and why we re-
                    turned  them. Davis added that if he needed anything  to
                    convince him further of the mistake in returning  these
                    documents, the  Fain-Begunkov dinner party offered final
                    proof.   Both Davis and Guthrie remarked that Ambassador
                    Kohler would  recognize the error and would insure-that
                    the error was not  repeated.

                           4.  Finally, on the Cherepanov matter, Dick Davis
                    asked if we had any  objection to his showing these papers
                    to Ambassador Thompson.   I said we had none and I mentioned
                    that you were also  interested in the Ambassador's seeing
                    the papers.   I asked that when the Department is finished
                    with them they be returned to us.

                           S. On  the Martin case, Davis was told that Drs.
                    Renninger  and White had a second meeting with Martin
                    who alleged  that he had been told by Soviet authorities







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