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+ LAD 2 ls eae 8 eR an ny ene ne om ~ UNITER STATES coven wr a _ Memorandum %. TO : Mr. Belmont DATE: _June 23, 1963 _—* ai yaas. Belmont ma FROM: WW. Cc, su Seal? co Mipsis . Mohr yp Toler a: ot) oH ir, DeLoach © SS" —— Se oS LY 1 = Mr, Sullivan CHRISTINE KEELER; hy 1 ~ Mr. Branigan JOHN PROFUMO O45 ML 1 - Mr. Stewart 1S Sis date in the issue of the "New York Journal American" entitled "V-Girls at UN Held U. 8. Security Risk.” This memo reviews another article of the same series appearing in the same paper dated 6/23/63 entitled "Reopen Towers Case, Sift Call Girls* Link to UN Aides,” by James D, Horan and Dom Frasca, and my memo points out unfounded inferences made, Lnaccurate Statements made aba a corrected statement made, appearin in this article, No derogatory references are made to the n/a article is attached, wo | ed This second article is almost a complete repeat of fhe first article. It once again makes reference to the Harry Alan Towers case, r involving Maria Novotny, Towers, a former British TV producer, was arrested on 3/3/61 by the New York City Police Department 2 ng with Maria Novotny and both were held on prostitution charges, 3/7/61, a Federal complaint was filed against Towers charging him wjjn violatio of the White Slave Traffic Act. umped $5,000 Federal bail and $5,000 New York City bail in lattes 1, 1961, and subseqpently entered Iron Curtain countries, one. couhtry- pened ‘was Czechasiovakia, Novotny also departed the U. S. We were not derelict in ou¥F duties when Towers and Novotny fled. We had no reason to surveil Towers and Novotny was an INS responsibility. Federal process has been outstandin; since Towers jumped bail. Towers Ec Peer ar aay not kn u —_ This articie, practicnlts a veplat or the previous articie, again infers that some prostitutes well known around the UN have travel in the same set with Christine Keeler, who enjoyed the patronage ‘of. Britain's ex-War Minister, John Profumo, and Soviet Naval Attache Yevgeni Ivanov and, therefore, could he engaged in intelrigenhe s activ ities, This inference is backed u by a remark of an unnamed investigator (probably INS as follows: “These aa certainly appear more. than a coincidence,” Again the artie! activities of an unnamed Huigarian girl (Novotny is of Engif parentage) who allegedly had given a reco to.ap upnened “€ : trottaps | "\who delivered it from New York to an ‘unnaned person - wie H .- tif c ut. I 1 f Enclosure : Aspe : 1963 | 65-68218 \- ee et OFT Be mi alee tga yaerry Alan Towers) = ~~ E Pre ‘aed - . G2 JUL" BES be oa, ela . 2 PCE =f Sof ' ae