TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH MR. LEON MOORE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00481870
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2023
• Case Number: F-2020-00509
• Publication Date: June 22, 1956

DISTRIBUTION Approved forRelease...2021.1.7 C00481870
Orig: DCI, Attn: Mr. Earman,r-
1 - Wisner
1 - Maury
, 1 - AD/CI
22 June 1956
MIMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Mr. Leon Moore
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1. On 19 June Mr. Leon Moore called me by telephone from New
York City concerning a newspaper article by Marguerite Higgins, called
More Soviet Secrets", which appeared in the New York Herald Tribune
of the previous day. The article in question is attached.
2. Mr. Moore pointed out that according to Marguerite Higgins
the United States had in its possession five important documents con-
taining information bearing on the Soviet leadership. Mr. Moore said
that helwas calling me in the absence of the Director to say that he
hoped soon to write an analytical letter to the Director on the whole
question of Soviet leadership. He said that if these documents actually
were in the possession of the United States Government he would like to see
them before he wrote this letter.
3. I undertook to convey this request to the Director on
Mr. Moore's behalf and to try to get him an answer of some sort dis-
patched to one of the two following addresses:
Hotel Principe di Monde, Turin, Italy
(30 June to 4 JulY)
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or
Hotel La Pace, Monte-batinii Terme Italy
(4 July to 18 July)
4. I fortunately was in a position when I talked with Mr. Moore
of being able to say that I had not read Miss Higgins' article and
therefore that I could not tell him whether or not she was referring
to documents actually in the possession of the agency or whether
Mr. Bialer, on whose Congressional testimony her article rninly relies,
might have been exaggerating the extent of his knowledge.
5. I called the Higgins article to the attention of both Mr. Wisner
and Mr. Maury, pointing out that the article and its treatment of Bialer's
remarks suggested--at least to Mr. Moore--that we had such documents and
were revealing their contents publicly.
6. I am sure Mr. Moore expects a personal message from the Director
failing that, a letter from me.
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