LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM F. TOMPKINS FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000700170059-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: August 11, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. William F. Tompkins
Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
asbingtoo. U. C.
Dear Tommy:
Reference is Made to your letter dated 19 July 1956
concerning the United States versus Otto VERWI and }curt L.
PONE R, in which a final appraisal is requested of the
completeness. accuracy and true efu*n+ess of the information
supplied to this Agency by the defendants, as Well as any other
material which might bear upon the good faith of YLRf17;R and
PONUl & in their interviews with. representatives of U.S.
This Agency must first note that it has proves impossible
to check the major portion of the information supplied by YER l
and PO 26ai > ,
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ided. Perhaps the most reasonable overall evaluation
of their information would be to state that our subsequent inv.s-
:ion of the modss ee!andi of Soviet Intelligence
has I aedicated that most of the information. provided by VEX Is 25X1
and PONGZ t appears to fall within a pattern consistent with the
picture of Soviet Intelligence activity new In our possession. This
jr +lgreeet uhouJd not be Interpreted to moss that we evaluate their
information as complete or accurate in every detail or that our
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investigation Indicates that they provided the ftdt story of their
contact with S vi?t ante igenee rather it should be said that
crtpa on of their has ing by Soviet is#+ tge . passe s
no glaring discrepancies, when compared with Information
possession.
cerely,
n W.
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