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$e E | oe UNITED STATES DEP‘ RTIMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU cd! INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON 25, D. & May 27, 1960 LC PORDIATION CONTAINED Re: PAUL LEROY ROBESON BES Fill fs Bure 1 a + aac DATE _¢-e9-9¢_ BY 4-5 4ly (le) The following is a statement given by ROBESON in. the form of an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to before American Consul WALTER M, WALSH at the American Embassy, London, on May 17, 1960, es "I, PAUL ROBESON, was born at Princeton, New Jersey on April 9, 1898, I am the holder of American passport 1145187 issued to me by the Department of State, Washington on June 25, 1958, . “In August 1959, I travelled to Bucharest to fulfill engagements there, I travelled from Amsterdam ona KIM | Dutch Airliner to Budapest, where I had to change planes as the plane I was travelling on was going to Turkey. I was at Budapest Airport for no more than 3 hours during which time & reporter from a newspaper or radio (I cannot remember which) interviewed me, JI was asked if I would come to Hungary and sing, I said I would like to very much, I also said that I : would be coming back again next week, as at that time it was I my belief I would have to change planes again in Budapest, I also stated that I hoped to come back again one day for recitals, I made this statement knowing that Olympic athelets and a lawyer whom I know personally and many other people had been granted permission to travel in Hungary, and it was my inten- tion to make application to the Department of State, for travel to Hungary at some future date, had the ban not been lifted, I would also like to add that whilst I was waiting at the Airport in Budapest, word got around that I was there, and I was taken on a tour of the City. ey t il “(cD £/ BY s4& rs. ety A EAANTT Jiory sys be et MATION CONTAINE "With regard to the statement supposed to have been made by me that I would visit China in March, I have never said that. I may have said that I would like to visit China at some future date, and would probably make application to the Department of State for permission to do so, I could not have travelled to China in March even if I had wanted too . as I had committments in Great Britain, I would like to state that the reporter who interviewed me could not speak English and the interpretor did not speak English at all well.” P? ALL INFOR DATE “7% HERE feen2e or aK . eq. Rec'd eo, Pam ane: Date Forw. é-%- od LOO —_ J 2 Be Jf ~ rd / - 0 EF —-ENCLOSupg qi La