NODULE X7 OSWALD IN MINSK AND THE U2 DUMP: JANUARY ...

SUBJECT: OSWALD, Lee Harvey
Address Book - FBI Report December 31, 1963.
On page 11 of the above FBI report, showing listings in Subject address
book on page 27 there appears the name "Alizberg, Vera V...." followed by
a notation "illegible."
The files of OS contain no information identifiable with the name as listed
above. In view of Subject's poor spelling, as evidenced in the address
book, a possibility exists that the name was written phonetically. A
possible correct spelling might be "Eliasberg" or "Eliazberg."
The following was found in the files of OS/Security Reseach Staff
regarding Vera ELIASBERG.
Vera ELIASBERG #350923, was previously known as Vera FRANKE, or
Erna Vera FRANKE. As Erna Franke she was listed in the “German
Wanted List” for 1936 – 1938 with birth date indicated as December 21,
1910, at Leningrad in a section captioned Address Unknown.
As Erna FRANKE she was listed in the German Security Handbook of the
USSR as follows:
Erna FRANKE 21.12.10 Leningrad Stenotypist in RSHA A 2 (a category
described as “open terrorist attacks and forgery.”)
A reliable confidential informant of SRS has advised that Erna FRANKE
was born in Russia of Jewish parents, who moved to Germany when she
was a child. She was a member of the New Beginner group in Germany
during the early 1930‟s and as a result of her underground work she was
arrested with others of the group and placed in a concentration camp. She
escaped to Paris in 1935 and continued to work with Paul Hagan. She
made her way to Spain or Portugal and eventually entered the United
States at New York. In 1941 she was married to George Eliasberg, whom
she had known in Germany at the time of their arrest by the Gestapo,
although Eliasberg had been permitted to travel to Palestine, from which
he later emigrated to the U.S. See additional information on Vera
Eliasberg in file of her husband, George Eliasberg #341773 [CIA 1319-
487]
Hagan worked with the OSS during WW II on the shadow war against Hitler. This from
an anti-immigration website:
Soviet agents, front groups, and infiltration and espionage techniques
composed a broad strategy to undermine the United States. Immigrants
as well as traitorous natives played a role in the communist threat. For