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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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THE CLANDESTINE SERVICE HISTORICAL SERIES
CS HP 334
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
SOVIET RUSSIA DIVISION
1946-1965
by
Frederick Walters
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August 1972
David H Blee
David H. Blee
Chief, SB Division
VOLUME I
Copy No. 1: SB
Copy No. 2: 0/DDP
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available to SR/CI/Research on that particular sub-
ject. Some of these studies were sterilized sub-
sequently for passage to a wider list of recipients
than the sensitivity of the original production
permitted. Some studies were translated and given
to foreign liaison services.* Many of these studies
were the result of suggestions for research topics
from other SR Division offices, CIA-wide components,
and organizations outside the CIA.
Throughout the period of this history, SR/-
Reports, in coordination with Chief,SR/CI, had re-
sponsibility for the dissemination of timely general
CI reports on the RIS. The area division concerned
disseminated CI reports on the RIS which were clearly
of only local significance.
J. Warren Commission Studies
The President's Commission on the Assassina-
tion of President Kennedy, also known as the Warren
Commission, through its General Counsel, Mr. J. Lee
Rankin, frequently called upon the CIA for information
* Attachment C lists the more important studies
disseminated by SR/CI/Research and its predecessor
organizations.
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in 1964.
SR/CI/Research Branch responded to many
of these requests for information working through
CI Staff which assumed managerial control for CIA
communications with the commission. The branch
furnished information to the commission on a wide
variety of topics concerning the RIS, Lee Harvey
Oswald, and Oswald's associates in the USSR.*
In a meeting between CIA representatives and
Messrs. Allen Dulles and Rankin of the Warren Com-
mission on 14 January 1964, Rankin asked that CIA
draft questions to be included in a letter to the
Soviet Government concerning the Oswald case. The
questions were to be "not too technical," should
be sent soon, and were to be phrased in generalities
in order to allow the Soviets more flexibility than
would a longer, more pointed letter based on con-
crete US Government findings. These questions con-
stituted the first direct involvement of Wigren and
his Research Branch in the commission's work.
The commission wished to account in detail
for all of Oswald's activities outside the United
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States. Bagley, Chief, SR/CI, subsequently di-
rected Wigren to begin a chronological tabulation
of Oswald's activities in the USSR as collated
from various sources. The commission made avail-
able to Wigren documents and reports already ac-
quired from other US Government investigative
agencies. The commission agreed in principle to
honor CIA sensitivity classifications to documents
originated in the Agency for use of the commission.
The Agency's role was limited to written communica-
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tions to the commission.
By 21 January 1964 Wigren and his colleages
had prepared and transmitted the questions to the
commission for relay to the Soviet Government.
Soviet defector Petr Deryabin had contributed to
this endeavor. The questionnaire had four basic
parts. The first series of questions sought to
make an assessment of Oswald's mental and physical
condition. The Soviets were requested to furnish
information on his medical treatment in the USSR
while in the hospital following his suicide at-
tempt in 1959 as well as any psychological evalua-
tions of him. The second series of questions
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sought to assess Oswald's use of and dependence on
weapons. He had owned a shotgun in the USSR and
had joined a hunting organization there. The
third series of questions sought to complete Warren
Commission documentation of Oswald's background and
career in the USSR. Those items particularly
sought were his correspondence with the Soviet Gov-
ernment, Soviet Government documents issued to him
concerning his request for asylum and permission
to reside in the USSR, documents and registrations
of his residence and employment in the USSR, and
documents concerning his departure from the USSR.
The final question asked whether Oswald had a police
record in the USSR and requested information and
documents if so.
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A comprehensive SR/CI/Research paper on the
Oswald case went to the commission on 25 January
1964. This was a detailed chronology of Oswald's
sojourn in the USSR together with an alphabetical
listing of persons in the USSR whom the Oswalds
knew or mentioned. Identifying information was in-
cluded whenever available. This chronology was in
preliminary form but the commission urgently required
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collated material to support the taking of direct
testimony. The source material for the chronology
included personal documents, interviews, and official
and private correspondence. Traces were based on
CIA files and the Moscow and Minsk telephone direc-
tories. These preliminary name traces were also
sent to the commission on the same day as the chron-
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ology. The final version of the name traces based
on a review of the Oswald papers came to over 150
names; the results were furnished to the commission
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in late March 1964.
SR/CI/Research prepared for the commission at
its request a paper survey of known data on Soviet
use of assassination. This study was intended only
for background information of commission members
with the caveat that CIA as an organization did not
believe that the Kennedy assassination was a Soviet-
sponsored operation. Much of the material in the
assassination study had been published previously
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within the Agency.
A fortuitous aspect of the SR/CI/Research
concerning the Oswald case occurred when Mr. Alex-
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ander W. Brasko] of the branch discovered by accident
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a photograph of Oswald in Graphics Register in
March 1964.
Brasko was seeking photographs of
buildings in Minsk, USSR, where Oswald was resettled
by the Soviet Government after 1959. Brasko found
a copy of a color transparency which showed in a
casual setting a young man who bore a remarkable
facial resemblance to Oswald and was wearing a
shirt identical in pattern and color to a shirt
Oswald was wearing in photographs found in his ef-
fects following the Kennedy assassination. (Figure 1,
page 77).
The photograph was taken by an American
tourist in Minsk's Central Square in August 1961 at
the Palace of Culture. Copies of the photograph
were also furnished to the FBI. The Bureau inter-
viewed the photographer and her companions who could
contribute little to their original statements when
first interviewed by Agency representatives following
their Soviet tour in 1961 (not about Oswald, however,
whom they did not recall). A copy of this photograph
was published on page 268 of the Warren Commission's
report.
Some of the reports prepared by SR/CI/Research
were deemed suitable for publication in the Commission's
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Palace of Culture, Central Square, Minsk, USSR
(Oswald is the young man on the right)
Figure 1.
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report in the public record, either as textual
material or as footnotes backing up general com-
ments. This required explicit permission from the
DDP, and the rewriting or declassification of some
material previously submitted to the commission.
In August 1964 Warren Commission Assistant Counsel
W. David Slawson requested permission to publish
in the commission report some memorandums submitted
to the commission by SR/CI/Research via CI Staff.
Since some of the material submitted to the commis-
sion earlier was intended for background use only
or contained operational information, the reports
in question were resubmitted to the commission in
sanitized versions modeled on the originals.
revisions were identified as coming from CIA and
appeared primarily in textual and footnote material
on pages 258 to 280 of the commission's report.'
K.
2.
National Intelligence Survey on
USSR Intelligence and Security
The
An important, recurring document written in
* Report of the President's Commission on the
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, US Gov-
ernment Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1964.
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Appendix C
Source References*
1.
Survey of CE in SR Division, Volume II, by
Robert H. Hicks, CI Staff. Aug 55. TS 110604.
2.
FY 1955 USSR Operational Plan. TS 91403.
3.
SR Division's Operational Program and Budget
for the USSR, FY 1956-57. TS 107830.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Memo, Chief, SR for the DDP, sub: Field Trip
Report, 3 Oct 55.
Survey of CE in SR Division, by Robert H.
Hicks, CI Staff, Aug 55. TS 110604.
1958 Inspection and Review Staff review of
SR Division: "The Role of SR Division,"
23 Dec 58. TS 153028.
Memo, I&R Staff for the DDP, sub: Inspection
of SR/CE Staff, 22 Dec 58. TS 153026.
Аб
8.
SR Division Operational Program, FY 1961,
pp 16 ff. 22 Mar 60, TS 175603.
9.
See
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11.
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SR Division Notice No. 450, 17 Aug 61.
also CSHP 76, pp 57-64, for a more detailed
discussion of the 1961 functional reorganiza-
tion, and a list of the members of the
Special Group which proposed it..
Memo of Conversation, 16 Jan 64; sub: CIA
Work in Support of the Warren Commission;
by Tennant H. Bagley.
XAAZ-22407, 21 Jan 64, sub: Questions to be
submitted to the Soviet Government, filed
in 201-288248 (Lee Harvey Oswald).
Unless otherwise indicated, all source references
may be considered classified SECRET.
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XAAZ-22409, 25 Jan 64, sub: The Oswald
Chronology, filed in 201-289248.
XAAZ-22410, 25 Jan 64, sub: Name List with
Traces, and XAAZ-22416, 26 Mar 64; sub:
Name List with Traces, 201-289248.
XAAZ-22414, 28 Feb 64; sub: Soviet Use of
Assassination and Kidnapping, 201-289248.
XAAZ-22420, 29 Apr 64, sub: Photo of OSWALD
in Minsk, 201-289248.
RID AEPAGAN file 74-6-67/1, Archives Job
No. 64-619/32.
201-91182 (Irma Jung); SB/CI/P Archives
DA file-Germany.
201-96494 (Anatoliy Nikolayevich Krushin);
SB/CI/P Archives DA File-Germany.
201-46344 (Gennadiy Kotorovich); RID File
74-6-67/25, Archives Job. No. 65-117/79;
SB/CI/P Archives DA File-Germany.
201-89924 (Willi von Hohenegg); SB/CI/P
Archives DA File-Germany.
21.
201-286975 (Guenther Faltlhansl); SB/CI/P
Archives DA File-Austria.
22.
201-231917 (Calvin Floyd); SB/CI/P Archives
DA File-Sweden.
23.
201-313667 (Olafur Eggertson Briem) SB/CI/P
Archives DA File-Iceland.
24.
25.
201-248427 (Guenther Schulz); SB/CI/P
Archives DA File-Germany
201-314343 (Carlo Gulino); also RID 48-6-28;
SB/CI/P Archives DA File-Libya
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21 Jan. 1984
2. 22 Jan. 1964.
3. 25 Jan. 1964
4. 25 Jan. 1964
5. 5 Fab. 1964
5. Feb. 1964
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7. 8 Fab. 1964
8. 28 Feb. 1964
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28 Feb. 1964
10. 26 Mar. 1964
11. 6 Apr. 1964
8 May 1964
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21 Apr. 1964
13. 24 Apr. 1964
29 Apr. 1964
6 May 1964
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24 Jul. 1964
31 Jul. 1964
7 Aug. 1964
Questions to be cubmitted to the Soviet Government.
Questionaire for Marina OSWALD.
The "OSWALD Chronology".
Name lint with traces (preliminary varsion).
Biographic information on Mra. OSWALD and her relatives.
Letter explaining appendix designations.
Lotter regarding OSWALD'o weapon in the USSR.
Soviat use of assassination and kidnapping.
Soviet presa recction to the assassination of President
Kannady.
Name list with traces.
Response to "Cortain Questions Posed by the State
Department Filca".
Additions to the Chronology of OSWALD in the USSR.
Lydia DINYTALK.
Photo of OSWALD in Minsk.
Contacto batweca tha OSWALDs and Soviet citizens,
13 June 1962 to 22 November 1963.
Marina OSWALD's notebook.
Documents on Los Harvey OSWALD furnishad by the
Soviet Government.
Allegations regarding Intelligonco Training School
in Minck, USSR.
Apparent inconsistencies in material furnished tho
Commission by CIA and the Department of State.
Yekaterina FURTSEVA.
Length of time required for obtaining Soviet Tourist
Visas in Helsinki and Stockholm, 1964
Soviet hunting cocieties.
Konstantin Patrovich SERGRIVSKY.
KGB footnote.
KCB Handling of Foreigners in the USSR.
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26. 10 Sept. 1964
27.
10 Sept. 1964
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10 Sept. 1964
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10 Sept. 1964
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31.
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11 Sept. 1964
32. 11 Sept. 1964
33. 11 Sapt. 1964
34. 11 Sept. 1964
35.
18 Sept. 1964
36.
18 Sapt. 1964
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18 Sapt. 1964
38. 18 Sept. 1964
Acquaintances of the OSWALDs in Minsk.
Financial aid for foreigners in the USSR.
Sacrot training locations and procedures in the USSR,
Rates of compensation in the UGGR.
Emigration and travel of Soviet nationals.
Geographic-descriptive data on Minak.
Certain questions posed by State Department files.
Soviet hunting societies.
Length of time required for obtaining Soviet Tourist
Visas in Western Europe in 1964.
Identification of persons appearing in FBI photo D 33–46.
Passport and Visa office.
Rasettlement of US defectors in the USSR.
Inturist hotels in Moscow.