Allen J. Ellender

Allen J. Ellender

F.B.I. Soviet contacts memo

On July 28, 1970, the F.B.I. issued a top secret memo entitled CONTACTS BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOVIET, UNION AN MEMBERS OR STAFF PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA

The memo stated;

A review of information we have developed through our coverage of Soviet officials and establishments in Washington, D. C., has disclosed a continuing interest by representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to maintain contacts with and cultivate members or staff personnel of the U. S. Congress. There appears below a compilation of such contacts which have come to our attention from January 1, 1967, to date:

Senators

• 1967 77
• 1968 34
• 1969 53
• 1970 to date 16

Representatives

• 1967 55
• 1968 23
• 1969 10
• 1970 to date 6

Staff Employees

• 1967 265
• 1968 224
• 1969 239
• 1970 to date 104

Based on a review of the information disclosed through our coverage, it appears that soviet officials are making more contacts with the following Congressmen or members of their staff than with other U. S. Legislators

• Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts
• Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana
• Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas
• Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon
• Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts
• Senator Michael J. Mansfield of Montana
• Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota
• Sena tor George S. McGovern of South Dakota
• Sena tor Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota
• Sena tor Edmund S. Muskie of Maine
• Representative James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania
• Representative Robert L. Leggett of California
• Representative Donald W. Riegle, Jr., of Michigan

Group 1

Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification

The document was declassified on September 12, 1997.

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