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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70525 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1001- 10013- -2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ]
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Walt W. Rostow --r-c-
Special Assistant to the President
SSUBJECT AiBeheiren and -the Four U.S. Navy Deserters
* -.. 1. The following infonation on Beheiren was compiled
by a representative of this Agencyin Toky nd comprises
his personal interpretation and knowTdge based on overt
and covert information available to i Station .in Tokyo
- as of 20 December 1967. Copies of thiiemorandum are-
being furnished to Directr, Naval Investigative Service,
Assistant Chief of Staff , Intelligence, Department of the
* Army, Deputy Assistant Secretary for-Security, Department
*of State; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief
SCounterintelligence Division, Directorate of Special-
Investigations, The Inspector General, USAF; Commandant,
Headquarters United States Marine Corps; and Chief,
Counterintelligence & Security Office (DIACI), Defense
Intelligence Agency. This report partially answers DIA
letter S-4845/CI-4 of 29 -December 1967 and oral. requests
of similar nature- from the Department of the Navy. j
*~~ 9 Vtrnn, fn 13 ).Nnafhb r 1967 - hn th + lw d rse*.IL*L~aJ .~ A 5J41. 1&J~. LJ~S, WAJA UA
.ummary. n ov me , w en a ea %,
of the Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee (Beheiren)
dramatically.announced at a press conference in Tokyo-
that four. U.S. sailors from the aircraft carrier USS .INTREPID
°.had deserted their ship. because of opposition of the Vietnam
War, the name Beheiren suddenly assumed a degree of prominence.
The'four sailors' successful flight to Moscow, with Beheiren
aid, where the Soviet propaganda machinery proceeded to
make capital out of this windfall, has kept Beheiren in the
public spotlight in succeeding weeks. The incident has
already stimulated a new would-be defection case involving
tw 'sailors from Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, and Beheiren
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