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handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch84461 and id is 1 raw text is: 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


    Henry L. BRETTON

         Office of Security records contain a file on a Henry L.
   Bretton  who was born on May 18, 1916 in Berlin, Germany.  As
   of 1963,  this person was Professor of Political Science at
   the University  of Michigan.  He also has been 1known as Henry Hans
   Heinz Bismark and Henry  Burk.  The information in the followings
   paragraphs pertains to  this-Henry L. BrettowhisPbal
   identical to the writeroth        ttraenwnuy195o
   the Director.                e letter  dated 3 January 1975 to

        In July 1945 Bretton, who was an Army enlisted man  attached
   to MIS (Fwd) FID, was under consideration for transfer to OSS.
   An investigation at that time raisedqutionr     as   to   os
   political sympathies.  Consequentl   question  s s   rity dis-
   approved in August 1945 for transfer toe On  was security dis

       Btton  was  informed in 1945 that he would not be hired by
  OSS because Washington  Security would not approve his enopynt
  Bretton reportedly was  distressed by      decision.  In December
  1945  whn   retton returned to the  U.S.,h   Personll   calledembt
  the Security Office and stated he was aware herhad  beencdisad rove
  and requested the reason thereof.  He was told  there were no
  .openings..                                                  p

       In addition, according to a memorandum in Bretton's file
  dated 19 November 1945 from the Strategic Services-Unit, Mission
  to Germany, European Theater, earlier that fall that Unit had
  tentatively recruited MIS T/4 Henry L. Bretton and that the
  Security Branch in Washington failed toBrass hi      d  atrth    t
  this memorandum, when Bretton was told thesUnitmcould not employ
                ngt nwsthat Bretton had earnedutheuhigh regad he   offrndm   icstmedial

 concerned for some tentative work Bretton had edoneforst hem Unit.

      In April 1949 Bretton was still evidencing concern  for being
      dimise fomS     n reftton was gvna  statement that  the
 Adjutant Generdashano   iformationvthat  th acircmstancesh ofn
 his honorable discharge from the service might in any way be
 considered derogatory.

     In July  1956, Bretton was of interest to the Domestic
Collection Division as  a potential source of foreign intelligence
information.  In connection with  this interest,.National Agency
Name Check was conducted on Bretton  at Army Intelligence. The






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