1(04-10408-10434 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Je Lee Rankin SUBJECT: . , ° Reports on Activities and Travel pf Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD as Transat fl trol te. Warren Comm Sey ‘eve ~, ‘1. Reference is made to the second paragraph of your memorandum dated 12 February 1964, and the second para- graph of your memoramium of 16 March 1964, relative to disseminations of information made Py CIA to the Secret Service, 2, tnmediately after the assassination of President . Kennedy CIA undertook to assemble through its stations in Europe all available data, including information in the files iof other governments and intelligence services, on the _ ‘travels and activities of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikoleyna OSWALD. This information, as it was collected, © was made available to the White House, the Department of. State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copies af  athese messages were also sent-to.the Secret Service, 3, Attached to this memorandum are exact copica of - ‘two teletyped. messages relative to the travels and activities of the OSWALDs (Attachments A and B).. Paragraphs g and h ‘af Attachment € are paraphrased, In Attachment C, OUT ‘ Teletype No, 85715, are found references to two other tele-— .typed messages (OUT No, 85182 and QUT No. 85665) which describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON, a negro journalist . S/6 NA Mo mensY Vigg 10} (eee or KAAZ~ 22661 |
13-00000 membera of your staff visit Langley. The information on has therefore been affixed, . Richard Helms ‘Deputy Director for Plans Attachments~ BB stated Distrib ution: CI/R&A/TRHall/6664/26 March 1964 now residing in Switzerland who has been active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Paraphbrases of No, 35182 and No, 83665 ave included as Attachments D aml E, Access te original texts of paraphrased items will be provided when which paragraphs g and h of Attachment C are based was. received at CIA Headquarters on 27 November and dissemi- nated on 23 November. 4, ‘This memorandum and the attachments contain very sunsitive information which has a direct bearing on sources and methods, An appropriate sensitivity indicator Original & 2.~ Addressee w/atts 1 » DDP Chrono w/atts . 1 «~DDP subject w/atts * - Mr. Rocca w/atts 1 »« G/GI/SiG w/atts 1 - C/WH/3 w/atts Ll» 201-6 SCP -20l-294249 te
13-00000 ( ( [reser se bo | | Teletype measage, OUT No. 66702, dated 4 December 1963, were onthe main rail route from Russia to. Rotterdam, While  _ filed at 1411 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service. SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD Records of the foreigners records office of the German Federal Republic in Cologne, Germany, show that Marina Nikolayevna Pusakova OSWALD crossed West Germany from East Germany to Holland on 3 June 1962, She traveled by rail, crossing into West Germany at Heimstedt on 3 June and enter- ing Holland by rail at the Bentheizg craasing ‘point, She had Weat German visa 694/62 issued at the West Germany Embassy “in Moscow, She Hsted her final destinationas U.S.A, Gomment: This confirms information from the U.5, Embassy in Moacow ‘tothe. effect that the OSWALD-family traveled from Moscow to. . Rotterdam by rail around 3 June 1962, Helmatedt and Bentheim., Lee OSWALD himpelf and their infant daughter are not recorded in German records this is. probably because little attention is paid to U.5, citizens and to infants in keeping travel recone Mer - (9 PONE A er eee gtr, e — Bo | Cc Sh1-9 99245
13-00000 vanes oom “Teletype message, OUT No. 87520, dated 6 December 1963, . filed at 1829 howrs, to the White House, the Department of State aml the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service. SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD | “Reference is made to our OUT telegram No. 86702 of 4 December 1963 which gave information on the travel af “Marina CSWALD land presumably also Lee Harvey CSWALD and. their daughter) across West Germany on their return “$roun the Soviet Union, | information now available from Dutch authorities seems to confirm thia, On 3 June 1962 one . OSWALD, listed as a male. Russian: citizen, extered. The . “Netherlands by train at the Oldenzaal border point,. | Comment: It is believed that the listing of thie person as a male instead of female was just an error of the border . officials, Note that Oldensaal is opposite Bentheim, the “German border. point where: Marina OSWALD left Germanys 3/- Mew - (764 US GOP 2e!- 229245 a waz? ATT. 2 te te Ganz -2.2¢0))
13-00000 7 yg} | Attachment C i z i le pore | ™>- Teletype message No, 85715, dated 29 November 1963, filed at 1340 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secrat Service, SUBJECT: Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD 1, ‘The following information hae been gathered from reliable sources regarding the travel af Lee Harvey CSWALD and hig wife: | a. 9 October 1959: According to official British travel records OSWALD arrived in Southampton this date claiming on his landing card that he had no fixed address but planed to remain | in the United Kingdom one week for vacation before ; J going on te “some school in Switzerland, (Head- =quarters comment: “Probably veferring to the | Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland with which | he is knows to have been in correspondence. } de . 10 October 1959: According to the same | official British travel records OSWALD leit London this date by air for Holeinkt, — | oo 201-955 (LES Sco MRS EY ATT 3 tes XAAZ- 2266).
13-00000 (Ge October 1959: Stockholm newspaper, Dagens _Nyheter,. of 25 November 1963 states Lee CSWALD © passed through Sweden during October 1959. Article. ; also adds that OSWALD was unsuccessful in obtaining | visa to the USSR in Helsinki which resulted in his _ returning to Stockholm, Two days after he arrived in Stockholm OSWALD traveled directly to Moscow, a . Concluding sentence af article states ‘This indicates | that the Russian Embassy (Stockholm) gave him a visa." According to a reliable source there was no record | | | that there was any sequest for a USSR visa processed . ‘through normal channels for OSWALD at any time | daring 1959, and spurce indicated it was difficult to ‘explain how OSWALD: might have received his. visa in twa days without going through normal channels, The only conclusion which can‘be drawn is that OSWALD | “must have received his visa directly from the Soviet imbasay in Stockholm which occasionally is. done in . ‘special cases, but the source had no evidence to confirm this assumption, a
13-00000 d. 10 to 15 Sctober 1959: According to a'very | a ma s . . ' reliable Rutlgatremely ‘sensitive’ ource OSWALD stayed )¥ | atthe Torni Hotel in Helsinki from 10 to 11 Cctober and then moved to the Klaus Kurki Hotel where he stayed f ; issued him by the Soviet Consulate in Helsinki, He i traveled to the USSR by train, crossing at Vainikkala on \as October, é, 13 May 1962: According to a Dutch official j . | Ll | until 15 October, apparently waiting for a visa to be ° i \ source, the Dutch Charge in Moscow issued a transit visa to OSWALD's wife on 13 May 1962, Their records reveal his wife was born on 17 July 1941 instead of 19 July 1941 and in Severodvinek instead of Minsk, There is no record af her having actually transited The Netherlands, £, 1962: Official British records do not reflect that OSWALD returned to the United States from the USSR through the United Kingdom, However, if he were merely transiting, it vould not have been : necessary for him to fill out a lamiing card, and therefore there would be no record of his travel in the official traffic intex.
13-00000 on GIBSON.) Later, SNETHLAGE told Castro Cubans g- 1963: According to an extremely sensitive and reliable: source, on 23 Novernber Maria SNETHLAGE, head of the “Werkgroup Informatie Cuba’ (Workgroup Information Cuba), told an employee of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague that she was sure she had met ‘that Mr, LEE ie Havana, who did the murder", She descxibed him as awman.of.violence and entirely full of hate and indicated that it was possible that this man had been misused by @ group, She said she had written to "GIBSON" about the bad impression she had tad of this ‘LEE, _ Headquarters corament: Please refer te our | teletype Nos. 85182 and 85665 for additional information adm The Hague that "Mr, LEU of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee had been slandered and that it was another person named Lee OSWALD whe had done it. SNETHLAGE seemed to be giad to have heard this “correct” version, (Headquarters comment: Mr, LEE Yay be identical with ‘Vincent Theodore LEE who replaced Richard GISSON as Head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, } heen
13-00000 h, According to reliable information, SNETHLAGE was in Cuba in January 1963, and according to an official Dutch source, she again traveled te Cuba for the May Day celebrations in 1963,
13-00000 oe Attachment D Teletype No, 85182, dated 22 November 1963, filed at 1932 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service, Kpesephraseh wee | an SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD - | de de In conversation with @ close friend in Bern, Switserland, on 23 November 1963, ‘Richard Thomas GIBSON : remarked that OSWALD is one of us", OSWALD and GIBSON | had corresponded two years previously, and OSWALD. had - joined the Committee, (Comment: Reference is presumably to the F alr Play for Cubs Committee. ) GIBSON added that he . had destroyed all his letters from OSWALD. OSWALD is. crazy, GIBSON then remarked that he is happy ¢ that he was not. in Now York. ‘He felt” sorry for *LEE" in New York and “for “TIBOR, Ze The information given above was supplied by an extremely sensitive source who is usually reliable, | a According to other information that was available, Richard Thomas GIBSON, born 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles, | California, is a negro journalist who has been active in the ATT. “t tes XAAZ- 2266! ST Qe 254249 ene er te en snp ee EEA 9 eT
13-00000 Fair Play for Cuba Committee sizice 1960, He has resided ‘since April 1963 at Lausanne, Switzerland. In this latter a country GIBSON has participated in the publication of La “Revolution Africaine, | a 9 2OI-2IT2AES
13-00000 Attachment E E ‘ 3 ere Teletype message, CUT No, 85665, 28 November 1963, filed at 1826 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service, (paraphrased) 1. Qur station 4 in The Hague } has reported: that on "23 November 1963, a local Castroite named Maria SNETHLAGE told Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague that she knew the "Mr, LEE" (sic) who murdered ‘President Kennedy, She described "LEE" as a man full of hate — and violence, and speculated that he had been ‘misused by a group". ‘She said she had written to GIBSON (undoubtedly . Richard GIBSON, U.S, citizen of Lausanne, Switzerland, born. | “YS *May 1935, - Castro sympathizer, who had visited The ‘Netherlands recently and had been in contact both with the. Soviet ‘Ambassador ant the. Cuban Embassy). 2, Later thet same day Maria SNETHLAGE told Secretary SANTCS that “Mr, LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee" bad been slandered, The assassin had ‘been another person, ‘Lee OSWALD, SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba .in January and-again in May/1963. | 3 )-Mar- 17¢Y : 9 pnpy : QOl-239 2495
13-00000 3. According to Dutch authorities on 7 November 1963, in talking about attacks by Cuban refugees against the Cuban mainland, SANTOS had replied ‘just wait and you will sce what wecando, H will happen soon,'' Asked to be more precise, SANT CS had replied "just wait, just wait", to have a pro-Castro brother inthe U.5,A, SANT OS is reported 4, A very sensitive source reports that after his conver- gations with SNETHLAGE, SANTOS was very angry because she had contacted him, Bw “S35 Qof-2592VF_
13-00000 XAAZ-27220 27 March 1964 Internal memo: containing biographic information on two members of. Warren Commission. O26- 820° “for FOIA Review on Ut 8 Document Number <enem ae