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Jay David Whittaker Chambers — Part 1

577 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 10, 1949 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Jay David Whittaker Chambers · 577 pages OCR'd
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a». FD-86 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE oO et ont ws eee ae oe a ee wee es Transmit the following Teletype message to: BUREAU, BALTInORE AND NEW YORK F3I PHILA 3~-4-52 DIRECTOR ANDSACS . .. . . DEFERRED JAHAM-PERJURY-~ESPIONAGE-R. RE BA TEL MARCH THREE AND FOUR. CLAUDE HEACOCK, WOODSDALE TRAILER PARK, STATE COLLEGE, PA., EMPLOYED AS OPERATING ENGINEER, BALTIMORE CONTRACTORS, HOME ADDRESS NINE ONE ONE SECOND AVENUE, CATONVILLE, MD., ADVISED LOUIS LEISMAN MARRIED HIS SISTER, GERTRUDE HEACOCK, APPROX. NINETEEN TWENTYNINE WHEN LEISMAN WAS LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER, BROTHER, AND SISTER ON KERNAN AVE., IN LORRAINE PARK, BALTIsiORE COUNTY, ANDCHE COUPLE CONTINUED TO LIVE WITH LEISMAN'S MOTHER UNTIL HER DEATH IN APPROX. NINETEEN THIRTYSEVEN. HEACOCK'S RECOLLECTION OF DATE OF LEISMAN'S MOTHER'S DEATH VERY VAGUE BUT ESTIMATED NINETEEN THIRTYSEVEN. HE RECALLS LEISMAN HAD SERVED UNKNOWN PERIOD IN JAIL FOR UNKNOWN CHARGE AND BELIEVED LEISMAN RETURNED TO LIVE WITH HIS MOTHER AFTER RELEASE FROM JAIL. SAID THAT AFTER LEISMAN'S MOTHER'S DEATH, THE COUPLE LIVED AT A NUMBER OF ROOMS An APARTHENES..IN BALTIMORE, THE ADDRESSES oHWHICH HE DID NOT KNOW.* HE BELIEVES ONE OnTHE ROOMS WAS IN NORTHEAST BALTIMORE OFF BELAIR ROAD AND SOUTH OF WHITE AVENUE. HEACOCK DID NOT RECALL LEISMAN EVER LIVING ON EUTAH STREET IN BA AT ANY TIME. HE SAID GERTRUDE WAS EMPLOYED FOLLOWING MARRIAGE UNTIL SOME TIME IN MIDDLE THIRTIES AT HECHTS OR HUB DEPARTMENT STORE, BA. HE RECALLED THAT LEISMAN HAD OWNED OR LEASED A DINER ON WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ADJACENT AEH: ajgn gle: Se 7/ . 4A poe 65- Rep ved: etalon f sent / 27-74 Zt M BOChEG econ Special Agent in Char. S11 Inde 4- 03516 ™
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