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*SUBJECT: NEWS STORY ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND CIA IN JAPAN
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1. ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE PROVIDE NAME AND PHONE NUMBER OF
* PROJECT OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR DECLASSIFICATION OF<KENNEDY>
* <ASSASSINATION>PAPERS.
2. EMBASSY PRESS OFFICER ADVISED-COS AT RECEPTION LAST NIGHT
THAT LOCAL UPI REPORTER IS ABOUT TO FILE A STORY BASED ON LOCAL
RESEARCH AND AN INTERVIEW WITH A RETIRED MARINE OFFICER WHO CLAIMED
*TO BE<LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S>COMMANDER IN JAPAN THAT OSWALD WAS
RECRUITED BY CIA WHILE STATIONED WITH THE MARINES IN JAPAN IN THE
1950S. UPI CORRESPONDENT OFFERED (PRESS OFFICER A CHANCE TO COMMENT.
PRESS OFFICER DECLINED. COSY SUGGESTED THAT MUCH, IF NOT ALL PAPERS
ON OSWALD'S PERSONAL HISTORY HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFIED FOR USE BY MEDIA,
*RESEARCHERS AND <ASSASSINATION>BUFFS AS PART OF OVERALL<KENNEDY>
*<ASSASSINATION>DECLASSIFICATION PROGRAM. CCOS ALSO RECALLED THAT THE
UPI REPORTERS STORY, IN SOME FORM, ALSO HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN.
HENCE, AS A LONG SHOT AT KEEPING A CIA-RELATED STORY FROM SURFACING.
CIN JAPAN, THEREBY PROMPTING JAPANESE JOURNALISTS TO PURSUE THE SAME,
INFORMATION, COSSUGGESTED TO PRESS OFFICER THAT SHE PASS NUMBER OF
THE HISTORICAL OFFICE ATCHEADQUARTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEALING WITH
PUBLIC QUERIES TO THE REPORTER, ADVISING THAT HIS SCOOP MAY, IN FACT,
BE OLD NEWS.
3. WOULD THEREFORE APPRECIATE NAME AND/OR NUMBER THAT UPI
REPORTER COULD CALL AT HEADQUARTERS HISTORICAL OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR
* <JFK ASSASSINATION>INQUIRY DECLASSIFICATION. IF THERE IS ANOTHER
OFFICE AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES OR ELSEWHERE THAT HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SUCH INQUIRIES, THAT WOULD BE FINE AS WELL. THANKS FOR THE HELP.
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