==================================================
Page 1
==================================================
14-Q0000 104-10120-10398] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
return t0 CIA
Background Use Only
Do Not Reproduce
SEND' :R Will ChECK CLASS :Ation Top AND bottom
UNCLASSIFIED L~NFIDENTIAL IXX SECR ET
OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP
To NAME AND ADDRESS DATE INITIALS
Chief; LEOB
2 Deputy_Chief, SRS 3Z_
3 ( ; / _2144
5 ktt Zk
Action DIRECT REPLY PREPARE REPLY
AppRoval DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION
COMMENT FILE RETURK
CONcURRENCE InFORMATION SiGNATURE
Remarks :
4 $57 4$
(5) Ehck ReilchTn Gtld &
4AL _El a,n64
1s'ic Hv L
4 e E K s ~izY
FOLD HERE To RETURN To SENDER
FROM: NAME_ ADoRESS AND PHONE NO DATE
Sarah Hall 8/28 /72
UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL XX SECRET
FoRM Mo_ 237 Use previous editions (40)
1-67
==================================================
Page 2
==================================================
14-QQQQQ SECRET
28 August 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Chief, SRS
THROUGH Chief, LEOBISRS
SUBJECT KORENGOLD, Robert J. #495685
REFERENCE CLA Cable No_ 689548 dated
22 August 1972 from[London]
15-|
1S Information contained in Subject's file is of a miscellaneous
nature. He has had no Agency affiliation or use.
2 . An FBI reply dated 19 October 1966 to an inquiry from this
Agency stated that FBI files contained references to Subject's
assignment in Moscow as a corre spondent for Newsweek but did
not contain any information of a derogatory nature conce rning
KORENGOLD.
3_ Extract of Foreign Service Dispatch No. 392 from Amembassy
Moscow to the Department of State, Washington, DS C. dated 12 December
1960 listed Robert KORENGOLD as UPI correspondent in Moscow. No
remarks were made concerning KORENGOLD_
43 An Overseas Press Bulletin dated 24 April 1965 reported
that Newsweek 's bureau chief, Robert KORENGOLD, gave a cocktail
party for visiting Newsweek'8 foreign editor, Robert CHRISTOPHER:
5 _ On page 4 of a Department of State report of investigation
dated 14 December 1965 regarding the activities of a Department of
State employee in Moscow, William Henry LUERS, LUERS said that
Robert KORENGOLD, Newsweek corre spondent, wa 8 interested in
interviewing a Soviet painter whose work had been shown in Paris.
The report further stated "At KORENGOLD'8 request, LUERS
CLASSi?'s) EY
EXznift FRZ: {s? 325.aTmf
SCii_ii:? 6; E 8. 1: :dG:
53:: (3_ (; e0f0)
A:' 4-0 8;;
SERS;:;
cGnJ
LLALL
unicss impossibie, insert' &zte 0f creof) SECRET
Re
==================================================
Page 3
==================================================
14-QQQQQ SECPE"
attempted to arrange for such 3 meeting through Andre AMALRIK_
After calling from the Embassy to arrange the appointment,
LUERS
and KORENGOLD went to AMALRIK s apartment. The painter was
not there, and shortly after their arrival two militia men and KGB
officers came to AMALRIK's apartment. AMALRIK was arrested,
tried, and sentenced for a parasite LUERS said that his
superior at the Embassy, Malcolm TOON, was unhappy about this
activity and wa S critical of LUERS in his efficiency rating because
of it. LUERS said he did not previously mention it to the interviewing
agent because he did not wish to further complicate matters_ M[
(LUERS was security approved a8
a GS-7 JOT in June 1957, subject
to technical interview, but his case wa8 cancelled when he accepted
another position. He was subsequently granted liaison clearances in
February and March 1962.)
6 A New York Times article for 11 January 1970 reported that
Karel VAN HET REVE had given an exclusive interview to Neweweek's
Robert J. KORENGOLD concerning the trial of four Russian dissidents_
(Karel VAN HET REVE #839052 _was granted a POA in June 1969_
for use as an informant by SB/PO/M, West Europe,
under Project Zy
AEEGGHEAD:
7 _ Subject's file contains & copy of his business card identifying
him as UPI corre spondent in Moscow_ A notation by E. MENDOZAISRS
dated August 1960 states "KORENGOLD's card wa5 picked up by
Barbara POWERS in Moscow during trial of Francis POWERS. "
15 - |
8_ CIA Cable 389853 dated 29 July 1971 from-London advised that
Mr . Robert James "Bud" KORENGOLD, London correspondent,
Newsweek, had told Mr_ Eugene ROSENFELD, Press Attache, American
Embassy , London, that Newsweek was planning to do a cover story
on the Agency and KORENGOLD was looking for anecdote8 favorable to
the Agency . Headquarters guidance was requested in cable. A CIA
Book Message dated 30 July 1971 was sent priority advising that
Newsweek magazine wa8 in process of a major story on U. S.
intelligence community, including CIA, and while cable recipients
were not to seek out Newsweek correspondents, were to be
responsive under certain limitations which were specified in detail
in the book message.
C
Sarah K_ Hall
SRs/os
SKH:jmn SECRET
"2 _
Gq
being
doing
they