RICHARD COTTEN'S CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT SCRIPT NUMBER 163-166 BROADCAST ON JULY 11-14, 1966

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Sct Number 163-166 Broadcast on July 11-14, 1966
Vol. 4, No. I, Section 28
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VIEWPOINT.
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may recall that we brought you what I
You
thoucjht t
to be valuable information some months
ago relative to the strange case of Colonel Go-
leniewski who is in reality Aleksei Nicholaevich
Romanoff, the son of Czar Nicholas Ii, the last
of the Russian Czars.
This transcript will deal with an interview
which I recently had in New York with Aleksei
Nicholaevich Romanoff, Mr. Herman E. Kimsey
who was formerly associated with the C.I.A., and
Mr. Cleve Backster who is a leading lie-detector
expert. The interview with these gentlemen be-
gan as follows:
MR. COT TEN: I believe it might have merit if
we found a simpler way of expressing your name
for the purpose of this interview, as your official
title is: HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS, THE HEIR TO
THE ALL-RUSSIAN IMPERIAL THRONE, TSARE-
ViCH AND GRAND DUKE ALEKSEI NICI-iOLAE-
ViCH OF RUSSIA AND AUGUST ATAMAN -
KNIGHT OF ORDERS: OF ST. ANDREW, ST.
ALEKSANDR NEVSKI, ST. GEORGE, ST. NICH-
OLAS of SERAPHINS OF SWEDEN, LEGION
D'HONNEUR ETC., ETC.
MR. ROMANOFF: If you please, Sir, you may
address me as Mr. Romanoff.
MR. CO T TEN: Then I will be pleased to do so.
Another gentleman who is to be included in this
interview is Mr. Cleve Backster and he is with
the Polygraph Research Committee of the Academy
for Scientific Interrogation. You will see that
Mr. Eacksier had an important part to play in the
establishment of the identity of the sister of Alek-
sei Romanoff, who was ANASTASIA NICHOL-
AEVNA, the GRAND DUCHESS OF USSIA
a/k/a/ EUGENIA SMITH. The third person in-
cluded in the interview is Mr. H. E. Kimsey,
a former official of the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy, who has personal knowledge that the C.I.A.
has information in.their possession which would,
beyond any doubt, establish the proper identity
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N DU t of r.;e roan known to our overnment as o one
Goler.iewski. I wonder if at this point it would
not be wise to refer to the Herald of Freedom of
ebruary 1.1, 1966 and March 25, 1966 entitled
"The Strange Case of Col. Goleniewski", which
was developed by Frank Capell, and ask if, in
your opinion, Mr. Romanoff, you find these facts
about yourself to be true and accurate.
M.R. ROWIANOFF: Yes Sir, I can state that the
contents of the two issues of the Herald of Free-
dom by Frank Cape ll,regarding my real identity
and r,y voluntary support for the national security
of the United States and other areas mentioned in
these two issues are truthful and correct.
MR. COTTEN: `thank you, Sir! As we develop
this, 1, too, feel that America Must have this in-
for mation and we wi I l do al I that we can to com-
pile it in this transcript, making it understandable
and concise. We will also reproduce information
from the Herald of Freedom and other pertinent
documentation. Mr. Backster, would you at this
time give us some information regarding the facts
you have established concerning the Romanoffs?
MR. EACKSTER: My entry into the Romanoff case,
or the "Reappearance of the Romanoffs" as we
have captioned the case, started with an account
of a client of mine in the Polygraph business bring-
ing to me an account or a story of an individual
who stated that she was a close friend of Anas-
tasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II,
who was not represented as being initially alive,
but then later was actually admitted as being
alive because of discrepancies that were found in
the initial story of this woman and she was then
tested on the Polygraph (or the so-called Lie De-
tector) regarding her identity. As a result of
these tests, there was no doubt in my mind (as the
Polygraph expert involvec.), and no doubt in the
minds of individuals with whom I shared these
charts, that this person was indeed the real Ar. -
tasia. To be quite certain that we were not mak-
ing ci mistake, as far as dealing with a delusional
individual, we had this person, Eugenia Smith,
(as she called herself at that time) attend four
interviews with one of the top c;ychiatrists in the
Fountry who has dealt, and is dealing with miss-
ing persons and amnesia cases and things of that
azure. This psychiatrist stated that there were no
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this, combined with the Polygraph examination is Anastasia and, through her, the proof that this
results, we felt certain of one thing -- this was is her brother.
indeed Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar
Nicholas li, despite all of the alleged evidence
that was compiled saying otherwise!
MR. CO f T EN: Now, how does this become per-
tinent, if you please, to the identity of Mr. Rom-
anoff as we will be seeing?
MR. BACKSTER: This becomes quite pertinent
because of a book that was published by Robert
Speller & Sons in 1963. This book attracted the
attention of an individual who visited the offices
of the Publisher and stated that he would like to
meet this woman. This person stated that he was
Aleksei Romanoff.
MR. COTTEN: Subsequent to that, the testimony
I have seen substantiates that there was a con-
frontation between these two persons. Mr. Back-
ster, could you tell us what developed?
MR. BACKSTER: Yes indeed I On December 31,
1963, these two individuals were introduced to
each other as for as physical presence is concern-
ed, without any prejudice as to identity, and the
conversation was tape-recorded with the consent
and knowledge of Anastasia (or Eugenia Smith as
she was called then); the tape, indeed, was quite
interesting and revealing.
MR. COTTEN: Did she recognize Aleksei as her
brother?
MR. BACKSTER: She certainly did, and it was
quite an emotional scene.
MR. COTTEN: In your opinion and your business,
is it fully authenticated? Do you accept it at
face value?
MR. BACKSTER: As far as the tape being authen-
tic I can state this -- that I did the tape record-
ing so I can authenticate its existence -- and the
details surrounding this before, during and after
this confrontation had fully proven to the com-
plete satisfaction of many, individuals that this
person is indeed Anastasia.
MR. BACKSTER: Actually, the brother and the
proof regarding his identity are separate issues
that were confirmed in quite another channel and
by another means, but the two do dovetail and
agree.
MR. COTTEN: Might I say this? We have an
audience, by and large, of the opinion that the
entire family was murdered many, many years ago.
We are now tolling this audience that there is not
only a daughter living, but also a son of the Czar.
Since we will go into this a little later, can you
give us a few words as to what has been developed
to show that this execution simply did not take
place?
MR. BACKSTER: In the examination of the evi-
dence, in my capacity as coordinator of the in-
veztigation of the return of the Romanoffs, the
careful study of the circumstances reported to have
taken place or existed during the time of the al-
leged murder were based on their own merits, not
accurate from'a scientific standpoint. There were
many other indications that came to light, even
published data in newspapers, published accounts
in such honored newspapers as the New York
Times, the New York Tribune, etc., stating after
the alleged murder of the family that the family
was indeed alive!
MR. COTTEN: I certainly wish to thank you.
At this point, Mr. Romanoff, would you care to
comment on what we just had from Mr. Backster?
MR. ROMANOFF: I am of the opinion that the
statement of Mr. Cleve Backster is correct. It is
true that I met my sister, Anastasia Nicholaevna
on December 31st, 1963 at the office of her P ~a-
lisher, Robert Speller, in New York City, and at
this time took place a mutual recognition between
us which was tape recorded and which appears
also as a separate statement of said Publishing
firm, Robert Speller & Sons, Inc. I met Anas-
tasia Nicholaevna, my sister, the first time here
in the United States. She arrived or respectively
immigrated to the United States in 1922. Since
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1922 1 had not seen her. I met her for the first
time in 1963 in New York City. From the point
of investigation of Mr. Backster and his Academy,
there is no, question that she is the real person,
the Grand,Duchess of Russia, Anastasia Nichol-
aevna. I believe that certain high officials in
the United States Government were informed a
long time ago about her real identity; there is no
question about this fact today, and we have the
publication of her autobiography which is not in
all parts truthful. I had the, opportunity to meet
her because during this time between 1961, after
I arrived in the United States and supplied com-
petent officials of the C.I.A. and F.B.I. with
data regarding my sister in the United States, for
reasons beyond my control I couldn't see my sister
up until December 31, 1963.
MR. COTTEN: Thank you, Mr. Romanoff, for
this information. I would now like to give you a
little background on Mr. Herman E. Kimsey.
From 1941 to 1944 he was a Section Chief of the
U.S. Army Combat Intelligence G-2. This in-
cludes the briefing of Staff Officers and Generals.
In 1946 to 1953 he was a Special Agent of the U.S.
Army Counter Intelligence Corps - this is the
C.I.C. In 1953 to 1963 he was Section Chief and
Officer for the United States Central Intelligence
Agency. In 1964 he was Assistant Chief of Se-
curity including Presidential Campaign of the Re-
publican National Committee. In 1964 he was
Security Consultant, Security Associate in Be-
thesda, Maryland. 'Mr. Herman Kimsey has an
affidavit that will be photo-reproduced with this
transcript and which will be much more meaning-
ful with this interview with Mr. Kimsey. Mr.
Kimsey, it is my understanding that the affidavit
develops the fact that the C.I.A. has in its files
the documentation needed to establish the identity
of the man whom our Government knew for so long
as "Col. Goleniewski" actually is that of Aleksei
Nicholaevich Romanoff. Could you give us some
information on this?
MR. KIMSEY: Yes, Mr. Cotten! This informa-'
tion which you have just mentioned and which is
in the files of the Central Intelligence Agency,
was brought to my attention some time ago. T'nen
early in the stages of this investigation, after my
severance of relationship with the Central Intelli-
gence Agency in 1962, 1 became interested in this
ccse through the intercession on the part of an old
Counter Intelligence Agent friend of mine, Mr.
Scckster, who felt that there was a development
phase of this case which was not within the realm
of his technical capacities and which I believe
you have discussed in a previous interview. He
had asked me to intercede, considering the fact
that my background was particularly directed
around identification techniques, including per-
sonal identification.
MR. COTTEN: Then you will be developing your
finger-print impressions, sole prints, dental charts,
measurements, face prints, blood tests and, in
other words, many, many various facets all to
complete the identification. Is that correct?
MR. KIMSEY: Yes, that is correct. !might add
while we are talking about these particular tech-
niques, as a group they are rather interesting, I
would imagine, to a layman, in the sense that
they are primarily techniques which have not been
exercised widely by Police Departments for ap
proximately fifty years. Going back, by deduc-
tion alone, without going into the actual facts of
the possession of these comparative materials on
hand 1n the C.I.A. files, this takes us back tcr*a
period of time when the initial material was col-
lected from all members of the Russian Imperial
Family for the purpose of possible future identifi-
cation and placed on deposit in the files of other
Countries. At this particular period of time they
were using precisely some of the methods and
techniques described by you, known as the An-
thropometricai Test, which goes all into the old-
fashioned Berti l lon system of identification.
M.R. COTTEN: Mr. Romanoff, were you aware
of this material having been preserved by another
Gc rnmenti?
MR" ROMANOFF: Yes, the statement of Mr.
Herman Kimsey regarding this matter is truthful.
At this point I can tell you,' Mr. Cotten, that my
father, His Imperial Majesty Imperator of all
Russia, Nicholas 11, placed in the British Trust,
prior to our going into exile, certain information
and proofs, including fingerprints, sole prints,
pictures and some medical records for necessary
identification in some c itical case, so this is a
fact that the C.I.A. co.:~ucted all necessary and
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aw,ut verification tests regarding my person with
the aid of the British Secret Service, based in
principle aspect on this material for comparison
which my father placed in the British Trust. (Now
at this point y wish to ernphasiza T'ha't the C.I.A.
,ot sc e of the comparison material also from other
sourccc). Especially this kind of material was the
principle material, and this included all of the
records and conclusions and results and is the ma-
terial of value just for me, because it is exclu-
sively my private possession.
MR. COTTEN: Correct, Sir. Well, I certainly
hank you for that, and if we may, now, we will
Burn to Mr. Kimsey and develop the nature of the
ecumentation which was just outlined briefly and
hat it is you say the C.I.A. has that would
stablish his identity.
;R. KiJVS /: The information which we received
tom highly competent and qualified sources in
ritish private investigating circles was that the
ritish Government had issued the information to
hem thgt this material had been taken from the
iles of the Russian Imperial Family and given to'
he American Intelligence Service.
R. COTTEN: Mr. Kimsey, would you comment
n depth on the affidavit of the Czarevich case?
i R. KIMSEY: Some of this material which was
fisted, take fingerprints for example, as was listed
nder Affidavit as Section A, is listed as being
ken from the Czarevich in 1909. During this
articular period the Czarevich was going through
considerable period of severe illness, due to his
lood disease of Hemophilia, and he had been
t ken there (England) to a specialist and during his
-visit there is when most of this material was so-
I cited from him by his father, his family and
edical sources, and this involved a considerable
amount of medical knowledge, which is referred
to further down in the listing on the affidavit.
Much of this information about his medical back-
ground,- his blood type, many of his peculiar facets
and problem, involving the under-development of
his legs a:?,;; feet (a prc`!em which he still suffers
from today in a mild form), these at one time
served two purposes -- the information was gath-
ered both for medical reasons and then recorded
for possible future identification purposes. This
apparently was a custom not unusual among Royal
families of the day as they knew the possibilities
of problems inherent with the overthrow and turn-
overs of Governments, the losses of people and
memories of families. This was not an unusual
thing to file such information; this-was a very
common thing, and had been throughout history.
MR. COTTEN: Could you say, with your ex-
perience and training with the C.I.A., that it is
reasonable to assume that the documentation is
more than adequate to establish his identity?
MR. KIMSEY: I would say that almost any one of
the following items would be enough to substan-
tiaterha identity of this man in any Court of Law
in the United States, let alone the entire- list.
The fingerprints alone are positive identification.
The sole prints alone are positive identification.
Dental charts, as listed under "C" on the affi-
davit, are used to identify dead bodies in almost
every major disaster, this is common. These all
would be accepted by Courts of Law. Blood tests
of certain types, especially one so unusual and
having such unusual medical relationship, this
can, on occasion, become positive identification
also. These are all individually quite strong
enough to more than do the job.
MR. GOTTEN: This, then, goes on into various
medical records? You have the word "Anthro-
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pometrical" tests. What does this term mean?
MR. KIMSEY: Initially, a Belgian anthropolo-
c: - in Brussels about 1832, 1 believe it was, dis-
covered the fact that all human skeletons were
measured differently. This was seized upon by a
much harried clerk in the French Surete, or a
man, Berti?lion (as the English pronounce it).
This man had been faced with the problem of try-
ing to record the identification of criminals who
were second offenders, and trying to prove that
this was the same man who had been involved be-
fore, because in those days second offenders
were dealt with very severely. He compiled this
in a systematic form, the skeletal measurements of
the human being, and he developed this into a
tremendous system in which you run into break-
downs even more vast than fingerprints in number,
and he was making positive identifications by
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comparing these measurements even at different
age brackets or extended age periods. This is the
basis system which, incidentally, became so cum-
bersome that he had to cease this and resort to a
much shorter and more accurate system which is
that'of the artist drawing a sketch of a human face
from a verbal description by a trained man.
MR. COTTEN:- Mr. Kimsey, could you tell us
something about your current relationship with the
C.I.A. and their attitude in regard to your int-
crest in this?
MR. KiMSEY: From the very first day I was ap-
proached by Mr. Backster to aid in this case, I
went directly to the Chief of Security of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency and I told him the situa-
tion that was developing. I voluntarily said if he
could give me any adequate reason to cease and
desist at any time in this investigation, if he felt
that we were getting into something which was
disastrous to national security in any sense of the
'word, we would be very happy to stop this in-
vestigation instantly. We have no desire to harm
the security of the United States, and we don't
want to embarrass the C. I.A. or anybody else, if
this can be done. We do feel that this man's
identity is something of a personal nature, that it
belongs to him and no one has a right, we feel,
to steal it.
MR. CO i U EN: Thank you very much, Mr. Kim-
spy. ; tr. BaC ter, there is a photograph that we
have available, taken here in May of 1942, and
I wonder if you would describe that for me please.
M.R. BACKS T ER: Yes, this photograph was taken
on the occasion of the 74th birthday of Czar
Nicholas II, and in May 1942, which was quite a
long time after the alleged massacre. This was
the first release of a photograph of Czar Nich-
olas 11 of Russia, taken 24 years after his al leaed
murder in 1918. The announcement and release of
This photograph was made by the Academy For
Scientific Interrogation Research Committee of
which 1 am Chairman. In this photograph is pic-
tured the Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna and
her ather the Czar, Nicholas, II of Russia, and
Aleksei Nicholaevich.
MR. COTTEN (Turning to Mr. Romanoff): Can
you identify this picture as that of your sister,
Maria?
M:. ROMANOFF: Oh yes! That is my sister.
MR. COT l_N: Would you tell me who was the
youngest of your sisters, Mr. Romanoff?
MR. ROM,ANOFF: Anastasia was the youngest
sister, then Maria is the second one in age and
she is two years older than Anastasia who was
born in 1901, and Maria was born in 1899. 1 was
born August 12, 1904 (by the new calendar) which
rnckes me now 62 years old as of August of this
year.
MR. COTTEN: You have held your age marvel-
ously well, and my congratulations to you!
MR. BACKSTER: Also released by the Research
Committee of the Academy For Scientific In-
terrogation is the accounting of the content and
photo-copies of two letters that are of quite some
interest. One is a hand-written letter from the
Emperor,, Nicholas 11 of all .-,e Russians, and
dated January 6th, 1919, nearly six months after
the alleged death of the Emperor.. Another hand-
written letter was from the German Emperor, Wi I-
helm 1I, signed "Wilhelm", and the, contents in
these letters helped to destroy the rhyth of the
massacre of the Russian lm -:al Family.. Clear
photo-copies of these letters are on file?with my
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ommittea and also in proper archives are the
riginals of these letters.
AR. CO: TEN: in other words, if and when this
an be handled in the proper method to substan-
co; so, consequently, it is already now probably
some billion dollars which could, in my opinion,
be used to support people who are fighting for
their freedom and are fighting the Bolsheviks.
iateyour identification, there is simply no lack MR. COTT.N: Am I correct in feeling that it
f scientific documentation available. would, be a tremendous boon to all of those, our
AR. ROMANOFF: Yes! I am sure ;hat your
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tatement regarding this maJ rten is correct. i wish
o make a statement in regard to one made by Mr.
l imsey referring especially to two points. The
irst point is regarding the Bertillon Method de-
eloped in 1905 by a highly classified French spe-
ialist for the identification of individual persons.
By my knowledge, this method is exactly good
nough as is a comparison of the finger prints.
ncluding the picture which was described by Mr.
ackster are pictures which are substantial evi-
'ence of this method. Results of this method have
Iready been introduced by some statements of
ome authorized persons, including a very irnport-
nt portrait painter. Now, the second problem
egarding my hereditary blood disease -- the ex-
ression "Hemophilia" is not exactly the right ex-
ression because my hereditary blood disease is
'ranger i . e. more rare than Hemophilia 1 The
evelopment of the hemotology knowledge, from
hat time 07/8/14, was going pretty quick -- and
yen from the point of my blood disease and from
ome damages done by this blood disease -- from
his point there is no question that it is very def-
nitely the right identification. No one can have
he same'medical records, face prints, the same
inger prints, the same hereditary blood disease,
he same dental charts, the same sole prints --
nd sti l l be some other person.
f o'r mer allies who were so cruelly betrayed at the
end of World War ii, to learn of your existence?
Wouldn't this be a tremendous lift to them?
MR.- ROMANOF F: Yes, in part I believe so.
Of-cousse, the political situation of status quo
is very complicated and we have to see the matter
in this complicated situation. But by all situa-
tions, it is my right that this money belongs to
me as well as the proofs, records and conclusions
in retard to the recognition of my identity. They
are of my private possession and 1 have the right
to them here in the United States.
,MR. COTTEN: May I ask in what form this sub-
santial treasure was held and in what countries?
MR. ROMANOF-: Well, it was deposited by my
father in several forms. it was deposited in the
rank of England and three other Banks in England
as there were some deposits in money and stock in
Paris and also in Germany, especially stocks in
Germany. There are also stocks and money in
Tanks in the United States, the Chase Manhattan
Eank, for one. The subway which you used to
reach my little apartment is a subway which in
part, by stocks, belonged to me because my father
many, many years ago made a deposition of capi-
tal for the development of this subway 1
MR. COTTEN: Might I ask when the subways in
MR. COTTEN: Is it correct that a sum of some Moscow came into being?
four hundred million dollars, held in Western
banks, would belong to you upon proper identifi-
cation? And is it true you have stated that for
the most part the money would be used in com-
bating the International Communist Conspiracy
and freeing the one billion people held in the
most tyrannical rule the world has ever known?
MR. RO ANOFF: Any money in deposit belongs
to me or, in part, to my sisters, but you have to
understand that there was approximately 400 mil-
lion dollars that was deposited a long, long time
MR. ROMANOFF : The.development of the sub-
ways in Moscow came much later than that of the
subway in the United States.
MR. COTTEN: Mr. Romanoff, I would think
everyone would he vitally interested in the cir-
cumstances that brought you to America and your
present relationship to any Agency of our Govern-
ment and what it is you hope we can accomplish.
Would you fill us in on some of this, information,
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MX. Yes! Is a very comp ;ca,ea
matter in order to give a clear picture of the
whole situation and the developments during the
fast year;,, in the first place, I wish to bring to'
your attention the fact that after my recovery
from a heavy illness, which I got during the time
of imprisonment in Siberia by the Bolsheviks, and
because of my hereditary blood disease, I also Cot
Malaria. This illness kept me, for probably flan
years, very, very ill and in 1930 1 was introduced
by my father, His imperial, Majesty Emperor Nich-
olas II of Russia, to the All-Russian Imperial
Anti- Bolshevik Movement. i was in this move-
ment up to January 1961, at the time I was brought
by authorized persons of the C. i.A. with the
knowledge of Mr. Dulles, the former Director of
the C.I.A. and with the knowledge of Mr. Hoo-
ver, the present Director of the F.B.I. in the
United States. I arrived with my wife on January
12, 1961, by M.A.T.S. transportation via airpla .e
at the Military Airport in Dover by Washington.
From this time we have been living here in the
United States.
Going back to some developments after the
Second World War, I was forced Co enter the
Polish Army because I was poisoned in December
of 1944 by some fungus bacteria. I had a very
heavy operation and I was dying ct this time and
this parr prevented my father and my sister, Maria,
nd myself from going out frc: ;a Western part
of Poland to Portugal in order to 1 ive further there
in exile in the underground before the Red Army
took power all over Poland and closed the border.
never was a member of the Polish Communist
Party, even by the assumed identity of Colonel
Michel Goleniewski. The card membership was
nanipulated by some members of the Imperial All-
Russian Anti-Bolshevik Underground for my cover
ecause it was necessary. I believe that during
l he time from April 1958 up to December 1963, I
erved voluntarily with great results for the na-
ional security of this Country and other allied
ountries in Western Europe in the fight against
he Bolshevik and the Bolshevik penetrations, the
KG3 operations, GRU operations and other satel-
lite - Red - Secret Service operations. This is a
natter of record of the United States Congress and
in n the records of the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and other
Services.
Now, a,i?er Iving more than , ive years in the
United States, I find myself in a very difficult
situation, including my wife and my little daugh-
ter, Tanana Alekseievna Romanoff, who is the
first Tatiar.u, Grand Duchess of Russia born in the
United States. My wife wrote an Open Letter
expressiing our difficulties, published by the New
York Herald Tribune in January 1966, and by the
Washington Daily News in February, 1966, which
in fact brought no change in our situation.
-MR. COTTEN: this Open Letter will be included
with this .transcript. t is addressed to the Pres-
ident of the United States, Honorable Lyndon B.
Johnson, and to the Speaker of the House, the
Honorable John W. McCormick and to Members
of the United States Congress.-= wherein Mrs.
Rornanoff outlined their present circumstances
and the hardships, by virtue of Mr. Romanoff's
not being able to assume his proper identity, and
the fact that the C.I.A. had broken various agree-
ments, etc.
M.R. ROMANO.- : I wish to emphasize without
going into detail that this letter had to be set up
exclusively for the purpose of the regulation of
our daily lives. T;,iis Open Lester had nothing to
do with my recognition as Heir Apparent, etc.
It was just a matter of the proper identification
curds or obligation of C.I.A. by the United
Stales Government contract. This is very import-
ant, because during the whole six months my wife,
for reason of these difficulties, became seriously
i l l and she is the mother of our twnty-month-old
daughter. We got some nice and empty letters
from some Congressmen and from the office of the
Speaker of the House, Hon. McCormick. We also
got a nice and empty letter from the United States
Senator, Mr. Fulbright, and a nice letter from
Senator Robert Kennedy, but we are still in the
same, or even worse, situation than in January,
1966, before the letter from my wife appeared.
We'got no answer from tl,: White House (from
President Johnson), and we also sent another letter
to President Johnson's personal attention regarding
this matter.
MR. COTTEN: I have seen the letter from an
Anti-Communist Movement here in America, an
Organization in Philadelphia, addressed to the
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 ;resident. Would you like to comment or, that
letter?
MR. ROMANOFF: Yes! This organization is
supporting me voluntarily and has been doing so
for a pretty long time. They investigated my case
most carefully and they spent a lot of time. I be-
I love they were much more careful than the United
States Congress, as they had the time to do so.
This gentleman has already printed some statements
in the American Press and sent a letter to the per-
sonal attention of the President of the United
States, the ! onorable Lyndon B. Johnson, regard-
ing the release of my possessions which are proofs
Friday, September 11, 1964
The legend of the Ro-
anov "massacre" in Eka-
erinburg in July, 1018, is
estroyed by the reappear-
nee of Alexei Nicolacvich,
he czarevitch, in the Per-
on of Col. Michael Gol-
niewski, the' most impor-
ant defector from Commu-
ist military ranks.
On the night of July 16-17
he Red guards in the
patiev House brought the
mperial family downstairs
nto an empty room, at
vhich point in history the
vents have been blurred
or a variety of reasons.
According to Judge Nicho-
as Sokolov, who had been
rdercd by Admiral Kol-
hal: and General Dietrichs
f the White Russian army
o investigate the strange
ircumstances surrounding
and verification of my identity and it was done as
you ..n see from the letter.
MR. COT ; EN: With no indication yet of any
assistance?
MR. ROMANOF F : No, just an acknowledgement
tatter from a man by the name of Mr. Watson, who
is a Special Assistant to the President of the Unit-
ed States, but nothing else.
MR'. COT-EN: We are going to need a great
segr ent of the Nation asking that our Govern-
ment substantiate this or deny it.
TIlE C1NCI:N I
doubted that such a small
number of bullets could
have accounted for the
deaths of 11 persons.
HEEDING rumors, Soko-
lov investigated the aban-
doned mines near Koptaki,
a few miles from Ekaterin-
burg, and there he exhumed
the contents of the alleged
burial pit.
He found Anastasia's dog
Jemmy, assorted material
possessions including-' some
jewels belonging to the
czar's family, eyeglasses,
false teeth, one human
finger and some 40 bone
fragments, which he clas-
sified as marnmifer bones,
unspecified as to being
either human or animal.
No human skulls were
found in the pit. Sokolov
reported that there were
he disappearance of the- insufficient bones to recon-
imperial family, the czar struct even one human
and his wife and children skeleton.
and four servants had been The official reaction of
murdered. the Soviets to the mystery
The Sokolov investigators
)hotographed the so-called
death chamber," which
zad some bullet holes and
Hatchet marks in the walls
and floor, and blood of
splashed about. Although
Sokolov was quite pessi-
mistic that anyone could
have survived such a fusil-
1;1(de, Pierre Gillard, former
tutor of the czar's children,
who viewed in person that
already infamous room,
"The former czar will be
shot. In the night of July
16, 1913, the resolution (of
the regional council of the
Ural Soviets) was put into
effect. The family of Ito-
manov was transported to
another place more secure.
-Signed: Byko.v, Sakovica,
Y::ravsky, et al....,
According to the czare-
vitch he was given a sleep-
ing drug by hie mother, and
then he, the czarina, the
czar, and the Grand Duch?
ess Marie were taken from
the 1patiev House, put on a
truck and, conducted out
of the Ekaterinburg area
by Yurovsky. Months later.
they reached questionable
safety in Poland under the
protection of Mai steal Pii-
sudski. Olga, Tatiana and
Anastasia left separately
by different roads. From
late 1910 until late 1060, a
period of 41 years, the
czarevich lived in Poland,
most of the time under the
cover name of Michael Go-
leniewski.
1T WAS under the latter .
name that U. S. Rep.
Michael A. Feighan of Ohio,
a close friend of the late
President Kennedy, intro-
duced a private bill in Con-
gress (HR 5507) in the sum-
mer of last year which
clear::: the way for Colonel
Goleniewski to become a
citizen of the United States.
According to the bill. "his
services to the United States
are rated as truly signifi-
cant."
The CIA has, for some
reason of its own, prevented
the story of the services of
Colonel Goleniewski from
being made public, and
above all his claim to the
identity of Alexei N. Ro-
manov? only son of Czar
Nicholas II.
High officials of the CIA
were informed that Colonel
Goleniewski was in reality
the czarevitch.
When. questioned by a re-
porter for confirmation of
the Czarevitch's story that
he had known about it,
Allen Dulles, former di-
rector of the CIA, said, "It
may all be true or it may
not . . . I do not wish to
pursue the subject further."
In recent months, as the
czarevich has made at-
tempts to bring the fact of
his identity to the attention
of the American people and
all other people, important
influences have been at
work to prevent such publi-
cation. The word has None
out from Washington that
Colonel Goleniewski is un-
reliable, is perhaps "crazy"
(for whoever heard of a
Polish Ron,anov, especially
one who claims, to be the
czarevich?).
.~.
T .c -'Z CZr':IZEVICII h a s
been examined by compe-
tent medical doctors. He
has been given a clean bill
of health as to his sanity
and freedom from psycho-
sis. He is suffering from a
blood disease similar in ef-
fect to hemophilia, and in-
deed even more rare. He
has met with his youngest
sister, the Grand Duchess
Anastasia,
He has two of his other
sisters ready to proclaim
their own identity in the al-
most immediate future.
Even the "doubting
Thomas" will at once ad-
mit that he is a Romarov.
The question that con-
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