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104-10073-10274 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/10/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70923 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10073-10274 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 . .. _ _ - i r . - ; SECRET . CENT AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY c . WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 . - ,1*0 JAN 1908 RETURN h4TOiC 1 CIA _ . 82~ck~9U iu s .Only. .~~~ ~ ~ ~ . ---- '~Not:eprodu~e MEMORANDUM FOR The Honorable Walt W. Rostow - Special Assistant to the President * -= SUBJECT - s Beheiren and the Four U.S. Navy Deserters . ,, .. . - - 1. The following infoimation on Beheiren was compiled.. by a -representative of this Agency in Tokyojand comprises his personal interpretation and knowledge based n overt 11 and covert information available to our Station. in TokyoJ (3 3 as of 20 December 1967. Copies of this memoran um are being furnished to Director, 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, Counterintelligence 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. ' 2. . Summary. On 13 November 1967, when the leaders . :=. 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 indolvin two sailcrs from Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, and Beheiren . t . .' - C)AS-'. K.. . , E E -k CsnIci- '.^ -a--0 -.Iisj ;hi/- - C T EVE- S. C: E). t.i a e er ! .

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