ALSOP, JOSEPH W.

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005528186
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-01109
• Publication Date: March 27, 1957

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
(''TATE 06-10-2009 BY 60324 uC baw/dk/t1t
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Washington, D. G.
Subject: d ~~ e
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
APPROVED FOR
RELEASEL DATE:
11-May-2011
I attach a memorandum with regard to subject which is
self explanatory.
The information on which the attached memorandum is
based was passed to me Subject
specifically requested that the information be brought to your
attention and to mine, and further requested that it be kept out
ti# the general files and placed in a special file. I am also com-
'-municating the substance of this memorandum to the State Depart-
rnent at the highest level, It has otherwise received no dissemination
except to the person through whom this letter is reaching you,
Allen W .ulle s
Director
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 27 March 1957
Subject admits that since youth he has been a congenital homo-
sexual; sought medical advice and was told that there was nothing to
be done about it.
During his recent visit to the Soviet Union and while in Moscow,
subject states that he was exposed to pointed homosexual overtures
and in the end committed the incredible folly of walking into the trap.
This trap, subject stated, was a carefully prepared, professional KGB
frame up. After the trap was sprung, subject states that on several
occasions, in Moscow and Leningrad, he was subject to long political
conversations largely based on his writings. Allusions were made to
Lubyanka and the fact that homosexuality was a crime. According to
subject no questions were asked which were of a classified nature but
he apparently feared that this was merely a warming up exercise.
subject reports that
signed nothing for the KGB interlocutors despite their efforts in that
direction.
Subject states that as a safeguard against KGB pressure he wrote
out a-loniz account of what had trans-oired, F-
While some mild efforts were apparently made to delay subject's
departure, when the Embassy ordered the tickets for him, he was
allowed to leave via Prague with a day's delay and was not molested
en route to Paris and London or since then and prior to the date of
this information, which is March 17, 1957. (The incidents in the USSR
presumably took place sometime around the latter half of February 1957.)
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