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180-10143-10227 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/17/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch84373 and id is 1 raw text is: 180-10143-10227 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 Classification: SECRET 1 of 9 pages (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.) INTERVIEW OF THOMAS CASASIN AUGUST 17, 1978 AMERICAN. EMBASSY/ PARIS, FRANCE By Surell Brady Casasin stated that he retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1973. At the time of the assassination of President Kennedy in November, 1963 he was stationed in Paris; he was working in the area of Soviet operations, but had no official cover. He arrived in Paris in September, 1962. He stated that in September, 1960 he was assigned cover as Branch 6 Chief. He worked for two years in Section e- Casasin said that during his assignment in Paris he had not infrequent contact with the CIA station in Paris. He estimated that the contact occurred every two and a half weeks. The contact was made on the outside by telephoning a person with official cover. He said he never made written contact with the station. Casasin explained that the function of Section 6 was operations in support of the Soviet Russia Division of the CIA. He said the work consisted of amassing information in support of the SR Division;4 * he characterized that work as classical espapnage work against the' USSR. He said it involved penetration for the .purpose of espidna. and included cartography, demography, sociology, and experts iri the fields of science and political science. He stated that the section was in a down phase when he entered and that it consisted of only 20-25 persons. Casasin worked in Japan from February 1955 to June 1960. He served as Chief of the Soviet Base of the North Asia Command. He said his unit was attached to the Far Eastern Command, of the Armed Forces. He explained that his unit was one of four bases: Soviet, Japan, North Korea and Red China. -Each- of those geographical areas was a target. The Soviet base in which he worked was therefore targeted against the Soviet Union. He was assigned head of that base in 1955. He said the operations out of the Soviet base included espionage. The covert operations consisted of psychological warfare and radio transmission to internal Soviet audiences. He said the espionage also included spying against Soviet naval and industrial targets in Soviet ports, using mainly Japanese operatives who had access to the ports. Casasin said that his base had extremely limited work with the CcSECRET RETURN TO CIAa :0 Classification: Saokground Use Only % D o Not Reproduce Classified by derivation: Lo 1V3 -/a ~7

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