TO VICTOR[I].

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP00M01914R001000030070-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: September 13, 1944
• Content Type: CABLE

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From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No.: 1313.
13 Sept 1944
To VICTOR[i].
Your number 4247[a]. SERGEJ[ii] has three times
attempted to effect liaison with PANCAKE [BLINNiii] in
CARTHAGE [KARFAGEN][iv] in the line of cover[v] [9% but]
each time PANCAKE declined [C% on the grounds of] being
busy with trips. IDE [YaZI] has carefully attempted to
sound him, but P. [B.][vi] did not react. P. occupies a
very prominent position in the journalistic world and has
vast connections. To determ;pe precisely his relations to
us we will commission ECHO [EKhO][vii] to make a check.
No.733.
Your number 4246[a]. NICK.[NIK][viii] has been[b]
summoned to TYRE [TIR][ix] and a meeting has been arranged
[69 groups unrecoverable]
character [KhARAKTERISTIKA] given to BOB[x] by IKS[xi].
However, BASS [BAS][xii] said that he did not intend to
embark on a [9% risky][c] business as there was no need. In
time he and BOB will get big commissions for the deal in CHILE.
BASS said that BOB was behaving rather [Q% despicably] with the
companies who were intending[d] personal representation in Chile
[C% and] if it had not been for BASS'S insistence they would have
broken off business relations with BOB. BASS saya that BOB is not
keen to get an appointment in Chile, preferring to remain in the
COUNTRY [STRANA][xiii]. In our work with BOB allowance shOuld be
made for the difficulties which are encountered in carrying through
affairs begun by others and witholit having received in good time
exhaustive characters [KhARAKTERISTIKI] of probationers.
No.734
MAY [MAJ][xiv]
T.N.: [a] Not available.
[b] Or "is being".
[c) Or [C% compromising].
[d] A group with some such meaning as "to set up"
appears to have been omitted at this point.
Comments: [i] VICTOR: possibly Lt. Gen. P.M. FITIN.
[ii] SERGEJ: Vladimir Sergeevich PRAVDIN.
[iii] BLINi Isidor Feinstein STONE. See S/NBF/T23,
Item 4, in which on 23 October 1944 MAJ reported
on a meeting between SERGEJ and BLIN in WASHINGTON.
[iv] KARFAGEN: WASHINGTON, D.C.
[v] i.e. in SERGEJIs capacity as TASS representative
(cf S/NBF/T23). (OVER)
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[vi] B.: i.e. BLIN.
[vii] EKhO: _possibly Bernard SCHUSTER (Communist Party name
CHESTER).
[viii] NIK: Amadeo SABATINI. Compare S/NBF/T166, in which
on 6 Sept 1944 MM said: "In DOUGLAS's opinion
he should not continue to work in the West"
(apparently referring to NIK?. SABATINI is known
to have acted as "go-between' on behalf of Grigorij
KhEIFETs, Soviet Vice-Consul in SAN FRANCISCO.
[ix] TER: NEW YORK, N.Y.
[x] BOB: Robert Owen MENAKER.
[xi] IKS: Joseph KATZ.
[xii] AS: Michael BURD (originally WEISBURD).
[xiii] STRANA: The United States of America.
[xiv] MAJ: Pavel Ivanovich FEDOSIMOV.
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