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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch77365 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10219-10097  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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. Joseph Bulik had 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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