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Book Review — Part 33
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Office Memohindum * UNITED ths GOVERNMENT
TO Ot DIRECTOR, FSI QPS DATE: October 3, 1951
u FROM 1 SAC, WFO -
) — suayact: DONALD DURART-WACLEAN, et al.
ESPIONAGE ~ R
yo
By memorandum of August 31, 1951, to the Bureau the San
Francisco Office advised of the receipt of an anonydus, penciled, hand-
written letter postmarked August 17, 1951, Tuleleke, Californing This
letter was furnished to the WFO and reads as follows:
“Sir: I think there is a possibility that pS ee
Ee
Jpn aaa. may have had affiliation with GUY.
GESS, British-Russian spy. Description of GUY BURGESS as follows:
wearing sunpith helmet, age - 1943~l, = 33 or 34, blocky build - face
round = slightly fat, had protruding midwaist. Probably blond? About
S ft. 2 inchs height? Weight ebout_165-1757 i hort n
collar shirt. ,
Suggest your Dept. investigate at Cario to see of any
leakage of atomic information in 1943 or 19 via Cario. Check with
British military intelligence on Guy Burgess. Stand by for additional
data."
By memorandum dated September 1), 1951, the above letter was
transmitted to the FBI Laboratory with the request that it be compared
with e hongderittan and nrintead anangmeane latter nsateartad Navarnhar 19
duel RB MENGRD LUE Gna pPaveu ehGiyHCus acer pos imarncu xy Vos wy
1950, at Hot Springs, South Dakota, which was concern
and was furnished to the Bureau by the Denver Office.
as follows:
This letter read
"Sirs Suggest your Dept. at Washington investigate Say
at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Was trying to secure da
Foreign Economic Mission, Cario, t. Also suggest your Dept. in-
anata addres
maaddress 1943-lLL. Move cautiously & carefully.*
_—_
MW
The FBI Laboratory in a report dated September 24, 1951, to
the WFO advised that a comparison of the two handprinted words in the
commnication postmarked November 10, 1950, at Hot Springs, South Dakota,
2R—2 be Jews Se A22- wo wd .t.. 3
with the handprint ing in the wnerein before set cut letter poo WaT ECU
Qi
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