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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001018027
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Case Number: F-2009-01406
• Publication Date: May 2, 1958

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OFFICIAL DISPATCH
APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 15-Jul-2010
 INFORYIATION RECEIVED FROM
1. Leo Villiers-Silberman
DOB : 19 clay 1918
POB: Frankfurt, Germany
Citizen of Union of South Africa.
2. Silberman has been described as short, dark complexion, black hair,
fast talker. and is regarded as a "smooth operator." He was also described
by another source as glib, slick, quick-tongued, fast talker, and creates
impressions which are not true. It was also stated that he writes exceedingly
well, and has had considerable experience in Africa.
3. Silberman was originally described as being attached to the Planning
Department at the University of Chicago in Anthropology. Further information
indicated that he was a senior research associate and professip~al`lecturer
in planning at the University of Chicago from February 1955 through January
1956. From February 1956 through June 1956, be was simply a lecturer in plan-
ning, not a staff position.
4. Silberman's current mailing address is reported to be c/o Balliol
College, Oxford University.
5. Silberman's alleged connection with Oxford University was checked
through various publications with negative results. He is not listed at all
in a 1957 catalog regarding Balliol.College. He is not listed in another
1957 Oxford index relating to their Political Science Department. Nor is
he listed in the "Coiramonwealth University Yearbook for 1957" which is a
general index of all e e associated with U K and Commonwealth educational
institutions.
serious doubts of his alleged connection with Oxford*
for the purpose of making a study of the Somali-Ethiopia Border Dispute.,
7. Silberman notified) that
he had been awarded a grant by the Carnegie Endowment or International Peace.
He said that this grant was in the amount of eleven thousand dollars and r.as
 Other miscellaneous information on Silberman:
a. That he was associated with the Free French during World War II.
b. That he has connections in the British Airline Industry.
c. That he spent the years 1948-52 at the Institute for Social.
N.'edicine, Oxford University.
d. That he is a pilot, a sociologist, and a statistician..
e. That his BBC talk, "Ethiopia Elects" was published in "The
Listener" of 14 November 1957?