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104-10105-10278 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch38461 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 Henry L_ BRETTON Office of Security records contain a file on a Henry L. Bretton. who was born on May 18, 1916 in Berlin, Germany. As Of 1963, this person was Professor of Political Science at the University Of Michigan. He also has been known as Henry.Hans Heinz Bismark and Henry Burk. The information in the following paragraphs pertains to this-Henry L. Bretton who is probably identical to the writer f t e l t e a e a u r 9 5 t the Director ro h etrdte aur 95t In July 1945 Bretton, who was an Army enlisted man attached to MIS (Fwd) FID-, was under consideration for transfer to OSS. An investigation at that time raised questions a's to Bretton's Political sympathies. Consequently, Bretton w:is security dis- approved in August 194.5 for transfer to 055. Bretton was informed in 1945 that he would not be hired by OSS because Washington Security would not approve his enlployment Breton reprtely as distressed: by this decision, In December 1945, when Bretton returned to the U.S., he personally called at the Security Office and stated he was aware he had been disapproved and requested the reason thereof. 'He was told there were no openings.. In addition, according to a memorandum in Bretton's file dated 19 November 1945 from the Strategic Services-Unit, Msion to Germany, European Theater, earlier that fall that Unit had tentatively recruited MIS T/4 Henry L. Bretton and that the Security Branch in Washington failed to pass him. Accord--ng to this memorandum, when Bretton was told the Unit cou ld not employ him, Bretton was very much upset. The memorandum indicated that Bretton had earned the high regard of the officers immediat.-ly concerned for, some tentative work Bretton had done for the Unit. In April 1949 Bretton was still evidencing concern for being dismissed from SSU. Bretton was given a statement that the Adjutant General had no informat ion that the circumstances of his 'honorable discharge from the service might in any way be considered derogatory, In.July 1956, Bretton was of interest to the Domes .tic Collection Division as a po-tential source of foreign intelligence information. In connection with this interest, National Agency Name Check was conducted on Bretton at Army Intelligence. The OS 5 0021/A 104-10105-10278 0

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