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DATE7-12-20-2005 CLASSIEIED-BY CECLASSIEICATICN AUTHORITY DERIVEC TROM DEGLASSIFY ON: 25x 3.3(6) 12-20-2030 ERI AUTCMATIC DECLASSIFICATION GUICE CATE 11-02-2015 b6 ALL-SNEORMATION CONTAINEE b7C HERESN IS-UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT SECRET {U) NHERE SHOWN CTHERWISE SAC, Newark 5/6/76 NOT FOIPA DELETION Bufiies reveal the followinq information regarding one Philip J. Klass, whc may or nay not be idantical to the subject of your inguiry. Kiass has, fron time to tine, come to the Hureau's attention by virtue of the fact that he has.. Jean in contact with official Soviet personnel in this country. Tireue contacts appoar legitimate and consistent with Klass' occupation as a writer in aviation and spaced technology. He has offered his services to the Bureau as source Lut has not bsen utilized as such on a continuing pr.. fornal basis. He las twice been under Fsl investigation jin spnnection with ths unauthorised publication of classified information. No prosecution resulted and both cases are closed. In l963, an Agent at our Washington Field Office (wro) 1976 pserved that perhaps due to the influence of these investi- MAILED 14. gations, Klass *... displays a sardonic attitude when he dontacts wro. It is felt that he only notifies this Bureau. MAY 6 df his contacts with the soviets to protect himself and not. to be of assistance to his government.* Klass has been affiliatad with Ayiation Week and Space Technology nagazine for at least the past 20 years. This periodical is pablished by McGraw-Hill, Inc., with Offices in New York. However, Klass is based in washington,. D. C., and maintains an office in the Press Building on Assoc. Dir. l4th Street, Northwest, and is listed in the D. C. telephone Dop.AD lnv. Asst.Dir. Admin. A book.review concerning one of his published works. Comp. Syst. entitled TpoIo *agnoh wopuey Aq poystIqnd 'potFtauopI--sOan. Ex.Affcirs Filosacm..him with a scientific approach to axplaining the uro phenonena Gon. In Ident SECRET 1@y 43 Ins pe Inteiil Labc RLC-42 Lega! Coun. GJF:r. 6} J Plan.& Evol. NOT FOIPA DELETION 21 MAY 10 1976 Spec. Inv. Training Tolephone Rm Director Sec'y MARDOM GPO :1075 0 - 594-120 6 2 MAY 2 0 1976 AD