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104-10439-10043 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/17/1959)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch79688 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10439-10043  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
Offce Memoranduzm                       UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
To       Bruce L. Solie, C/RB/SRS/OS                     DATE:17 December 1959
FROM    M. D, Steven3, RD/SRS/OS
ScUIIFCT: KAMKIN, Victor Petrovich
AI-.2752 - SSD-90097
A review of Subject's file has been made in connection with
a request from the CI Officer, French Desk with reference to
information from the Chief of Stion, Paris, that Subject's Washington
book store, as of the summer of 1959;was' one of the four book stores
in the United States where subscriptions could be bought for RODINA,
the bulletin odited by the Repatriation Committee of Enst Berlin.
RODINA (LA PATRIE), which is distributed in various languages
-iK    and is horrid in sealed envelopes, has been forbidden distribution
in France. (See attached thermofax.)
Security files reflect that in April 1957 the FBI advised that
Victor Petrovich KAMKIN, Elena Andreevna KAMKIN and Nina SAPELKIN
had been the subjects of an Internal Security - R type investigation
as of 1951 and that:- There is no derogatory data of a subversive
nature in the files of this Bureau concerning the subject of your
inquiry (KANKIN). It should be noted, however, that Victor
Petrovich KA -KTN is currently of investigative interest to this
Bureau and, accordingly, it is requested that any contact of him
in behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency be handled by this
Bureau. It was advised oralty that the Bureau was uing KAMKIN
as a source.
According to an undated blind memorandum (possibly a Staff C
Map L    iTh-iheImmorandum), Nina SAPELKIN is Elena KAIKINIs sister and as of
h Ks JAL,-S 1951 was living with the KANKINs in Tennessa', Nina SAPELKIN was
tq     born in Russia 18 August 1912; and was evacuated from Shanghai to
Sa'ar, Philippine Islands under IRO auspices in April 19119,
accompanied by her husband Semen I. SAPELKIN and their two children.
Shg cake to the United States in 1951 and lived in Tennessee for
a time with the KAMKINs. The SAPELKINs reportedly renounced
Soviet citizenship in Shanghai in September or October 198.
The KAMKINa also were born in Russia and KAMKIN attended
high school and university in Harbin, Manchuria. Thereafter until
19L5 he was in the printing and publishing business in China; and
during 21946-47 says he was with Special Services, Section II,
Amph., Marine Corps, working on its newspaper, North China
Marins. In 1947 he was co-publisher of Free Word which he says
was an anti-Soviet newspaper closed by pressure of the Soviet

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