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104-10219-10110 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/25/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch77371 and id is 1 raw text is: 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
8 5 JAN 196
DAMVRAJWUM YOR:  Director                        -1 1         <
National Becurity Agency
SUNJICT       I William 5. MARTIN
1. On 15 January 1968 this Agency received the
following information from our liaison contact in the
a. The Canadian Press Correspondent in Moscow,
William DUCKLEY, approached our Embassy informally in the
silodle of ioceaber on behalf of 6illias MARTIN, the
ex-employee of NSA who defected to the Soviet Union in 1960.
b. Accoraing to SUCKLI!, MARTIN wishes to see-his
parents for compassionate reasons and wants to Know if he
would be admitted to Canada without fear of extradition to
the United States if he were to arrange a ren-iez-vous with'
his parents in Vancouver. We do not taow ohether MARTIN
still has a United States passport or whether he has become
a Soviet citizen. In any event MARTIN considers himself
inadmissible to the United States.
c. 3UCfLSY met MARTIN at the apartment of
Moward RAUSCS, the Moscow corresponaent for M<Gra'-Iill
Publications. In addition MARTIN later telephoacd BUCKLEY
to indicate his interest in lindina out whether or not he
could como to Canada. LUCKLEY assumes, quite rightly I
would think, that the wanner is ebica MARTIN bus made his
request indicates that his Russian hosts are aware of his
interest in getting out of the Soviet Union to see his parents.
d. We have informed our Eabassy that it should
take no action to encourage BUCKLEY or MARTIN to believe that
a visa would be granted if KARTIN were to make formal
application. Since, however, IARTIN's interest in coming to
Canada is already in a newspaperman's hands, we cannot rule
out the possibility that BUCKLEY might write about ARTI's
interest. Such a story would probably lead to the need for
an expression of the Canadian Government's attitude. In
making recoAmenoations on the kind of response that might be
made in the event that a question is put to my Minister, it
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