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AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER : 124-90027-10001

RECORD SERIES : HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 65-14303-333

Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BS TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 12/15/1966 PAGES: 3

SUBJECTS: MAURICE HALPERIN MAURICE HYMAN HALPERIN

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS : 1C;4 CURRENT STATUS : Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: LHM; ENCLOSURE

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In Reply, Pl.a•e Refer to · , M~~~~c~upetts File No. •. December 15i 1966

·l 7-;3-'11 . CLASS~IED BY ~I,_(, I' 5~£>. . ~ -- ~j DECLAvSIFY ON. 25X ~) , A foreign source abroad advised on August 10, 1966 that the "Frucuna" carrying a ge_nera 1 cargo anstthree passengers arrived at the port qf Mqntrea\L from on July 5, 1966. Arriving on the "Frucuba" were \ the following; - Maul;lice Halperip norn March 3, 1906~ Boston, Meis\ ~acn~setts~ · nearing Cub

This same source : adv1~~~ - ¢h . October 3~ 1966 that Maur:!_ce Halperin and his wife· departeq the port of Montreal for Cuba on August 10, ·1966 aboard tl)e "Bahia santiago De cuna'', This so'\,lrce ~dvised th~t both Maurice Ha~perih and his. wife showed tnelr last perfnanerit· address as 1250 Fort Street, . ppaptments 514 Find 219, Mon~r~a],, Q~e_ be? ~ .. (2) ' - Elizabeth T. Bentley, ~ ~elf bopfessed courier for a Soviet espionage ope~ation ih . th~ Uriitect States between 1942 -. and 1945 described Ma-urice Ha.lper:Ln ·as an employee of the .! oss who furnished her with information from the files of the oss and that incidental to her cont~cts with Ma~rice Haiperin she became acquainted with Edith - Hal~erih who was fully I cognizant of her husband's ~ctlvities and that on several : occasions Edith Halperin delivered information to and her ~usband. Maurice Halperin and .Edith Halperin also resided in where they were in qontact '\'lith a number of individuals in Mexico City from 1954 - 1958 who were members of the American Communist Group in Mexico (ACGM). Maurice an_q EcH th. ~a lper:t.n have also resided in Soviet Rtl.ssia and: ar~ 're·pb_r_tecily. l,i'ving . presently in , Cuba.- .t '"' ·i • : . · · · • ~ /'· • • v ••

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