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TLS signed “John Kennedy,” one page, 8 x 10.5, United States Senate letterhead, June 3, 1953. Letter to Francis C. Newton, Jr., in full: "This will acknowledge receipt of your recent letter, relative to your further interest in the case of Mr. Theodore K. Yantshev. In an effort to be of assistance to you at this time, I am immediately taking up the matter about which you wrote with Mr. Maney of the Visa Office of the Department of State here in Washington. I sincerely hope a clearer explanation can be extended to you in this connection, and will keep you advised of such information as is made available to me. As yet, I have not heard from the American Ambassador at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Needless to say, I certainly hope his reply will contain much more encouraging information, and such reply will be forwarded to you at the earliest possible moment." In fine condition, with two faint stains in the lower blank area, and three binder dings to the left edge.
On June 23, 1946, a young anti-Communist Bulgarian refugee, Theodore Konstantin Yantshev, arrived in Baltimore as a stowaway aboard the S.S. Juliet Victory, intending to seek asylum in the United States. He made his way to Boston, found work, and eventually secured a job as an electrical technician at MIT. His undocumented status was uncovered in 1947, leading to FBI involvement and a deportation order.
Despite the intervention of influential supporters including John F. Kennedy and Leverett Saltonstall, and the services of the Boston legal firm Powers and Hall, Yantshev exiled himself to Argentina in 1948 with hopes of re-entering the United States legally. While Powers and Hall supported his application for admission to the United States into the mid-1950s, Yantshev fell on hard times in Argentina and would never return stateside.
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