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124-10164-10151 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFRASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY: FBI
RECORD NUMBER: 124-10164-10151
RECORD SERIES: HQ
AGENCY FLLE NUMBER: 62-109060-8169
DOCUMENT NNFQRMATION
ORIGNATOR: CIA
FROM: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS
IQ: DIRECTOR, FBI
TTLE:
DATE 02/22/1980
PAGES:
SUBJECT: JFK, ASSA, ASSISTANCE, OPINION, SUSPECTS
DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
ORIGNAL NEW
Secret
CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION:
REVIEW DATE: 06/30/1997 PPDATE DATE: 02/12/2001
STATUS Redact
RESTRICTIONS:
JFK Act 6 (1HB)
CQMMENTS: INC FBI MEMO
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCvS:
WASHINGTON, Dc: 20505 Sins(y
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PROGRAM 2 2 FEB 1980
MEMORANDUM FOR: Dfrector
U.S. Secret Service
Attention: Intelligence Division
'@cssied] &
Daczly 63; 06x Director
V Federal Bureau 0f Investigation
Attention: Intelligence Division
FROM Deputy Director for Operat5ORSL gOVBRNHEia
SUBJECT Alleged Information on Assassination of
President Kennedy
1 The follol information was provided byour repre
sentativesin Rio de Janeiro and is being forwarded tor Your
informatio and such action a5 You deem appropriate_
a An unidentified caller phoned the Consul General
in Rio de Janeiro 29 January 1980 , to offer "secret informa
tion" on the assassination of President John F Kennedy An
Agency officer interviewed the individual on 30 January in the
Consulate_ #I6 DE4Z k2 - /09060
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b At first, the walk-in refused to identify him-
self or give the names of persons in his story but agreed to
do S0 after the interviewer impressed 0n him the importance
Ihen evaluating information of the identity of the source and
of the other persons involved The walk-in reluctan pro -
duced an ID card (1061.51 issued by the technical police on
8/29/66) identifying hinself as Laszlo KOVACS__boro_3V_Octos
ber 19.2.6 in Sao Paulo parent sTGergchy NGAn+
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eyes, no glasses , light brown hair receding at the temples and
graying _ His hands appear those of 2 mason, Whicherle"cEaimsmzs
to be _ The interview was conducted in Portuguese 6f which
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SUBJECT Alleged Information on Assassination of
President Kennedy
cause of Vlasenco 5 nationality and the timing of the assassi-
nation six months after the blockade of Cuba, Kovacs concludes
that the assassination was ordered by "Brezhnev and Fidel
Castro 1
Vlasenco told Kovacs in November , 1963 that he
rented the apartment, dealt in precious stones and had lived
there for four Years Vlasenco was away from the apartment dur -
the dressed well had no family and no car Kovacs
guesses he saw him three times during the two week period_
f Kovacs asked that the above story be passed to
Senator Edward Kennedy and at first refused to 'identify himself
and the characters in his story to anyone but the Senator or
his emissary because he was afraid for his life It was for
that reason als0 that he claims he did not come forward until
now Kovacs was assured that his story would not appear in
any newspaper or magazine (which he feared would happen) , but
would be sent to Washington by a coded message Towards the
end of the interview Kovacs alluded to his for money
(CR $500 ,000 about US S11
3
500) to fund his inventions one a
dirigible which could carry "any amount of cargo , M and one a
pump which could pump liquids hundreds of miles When asked
if he had made an effort to interest local en trepreneurs; Kovacs
replied that he had expended considerable effort "but they
laugh at me 81 Kovacs appears to have a confused thinking
process and lively imagination and his story is contradictory.
He probably came forward in the hope that his information
would be worth money . We do not know whether he himself be-
lieves the story he related
2 _ [our representative} In Rio de Janeiro has been advised
to have no further contact with Kovacs Should addees wish to
pursie the matter, Kovacs present address is Rua 4 46 , Vila
Luiza
9
Pavuna , Rio de Janeiro
3_ This Agency has no identifiable traces on Kovacs or
Vlasenco .
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