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Telephone conversation of General Cushman and someone in White House, 23/7/71 |
R Bob, how are you. . to a. . ’ .
. DDCI: Just fine; I just talked to Jack Sherwood and he suggested I give you
a buzz. -y, Lo . i
1 deeply appreciate jt. I asked Jack to call you. I spoke to Rose yesterday,
. ‘and told her "I had a little project here for John Ehrlichman and I need very
discreet assistance from the Company, and I should: like to touch base with |
Bob. I met him at Jack Sherwood's, 7 . .
et ern mame ~ , . .
DDCI: That's right. : ’
That's right and beyond that I would like to ‘just establish a relationship because
: from time to time we have a few needs in your area. Let me tell you what we
need to know here. Your Agency would be the only one to help. I have checked
with the Bureau, Bob, and they have nothing on this fellow. Just a mere name °
check but it apparently has some significance, of course. Ray Finkelstein;
: born in Belgium about 1940; moved to Brazil about age 12 with his family.

. This might be helpful. He now is working with one Gilbert Straub, apparently
Straub is hooked up with that Kornfeld outfit: IOS. .We have a need to know what }
Finkelstein is all about. : - ’ . Co

. DPDCI: We will do our best, of course; we have some counterintelligence files
which somietimes turn up people but ordinarily, of course, we don't surveil
any Americans but this fellow might bave come to our notice. .
He may not be an American, just a European Jew; that is the problem, the
Bureau has come up with zero.
DDCI: Do you know where he is physically located? LC
He may be in Geneva; Straub is apparently in Geneva, . ’
DDCI: Well, let me get on this and I will get back to you.
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