104-10437-10079 * ’ . Newtgaee” . Seer : Genoa FORM NO, 10 ee Det 2 , . LeBaned . $010~106 ~ . re C.. “UNITED STATES covil — MENT a , ( tf} an, Ansa lAemoranduin TO : Files Ge “2 DATE: 29 January 125) ee ae : ; FRoM : H. D. Stevens -"Blanket"” request to permit discussion i ith: him. of “sc Shi2/ 2.mebters.c supjecT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE = 7351164 1. According to a new wspaper colwm of "Allen and Scott" in tha Chicago American of 6 Dacenfer 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYES, Legal Officer of the State De epartnent, was one of two persens im- mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return to the United Stetes from the Soviet t+ Union in June 1952. The othar indivigvel named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the. then Ambassedor to Russia. Another . said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALD's case was Samucl WISE, Counsel of the American Embassy in Moscow. 2. Abram CHAYES, 735223h, who as of 16 Febroery 1961. Vas deserted as "the new Counsel, in State", was grented Security anprovall, for Iieison . contact with J. Foster COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covart Action Staff) on 6 Mavch 1961. The request for CHAYES! clearence was a- needwto-know -pasis. DO es 3. In September 1961 there was a ‘White House namecheck’ reqiest Ot CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLER. hk. In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a renewal of his liaison contact clearance with c/ CA on a continuing basis. This time his contact was Archibald ROOSEVELT, Jr. 5. On 10 February 1962, HUNAN EVENTS reported as follows with — reference to CHAYES: LG "SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis E. Walter (R.-Pa.), Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has scored the new State Department regulations on passports, cle eine ing they would allow Reds denied passports to "rifle freely th confidential panes | of the FEI, the CIA and other investigative agencies." The man behind the new regulaticns, which Welter clains violate the “internal Sccurity Act of 1950, is reportedly State's chief legal officer, Abrau Chayes. Chayes, a Kennedy appointee, is an ex-Hfarvard professor “mo was Chester Bovles! top legal adviser vhen Bowles was Governor of Connecticw , Wolter has introduced legislotion to romedy the | new passport regulations ." Document Number bet Lain L° for PFOA Roviaw az Pag ae
13-00000 al “~~ | — 6. Samvel WISE, "Counsel in the American Embassy in Moscow" who * is referred to above, may well be Samuel. Griffin WISE Jr., wot, SD & SED, who apparently was once a contract empil.cyée on AEACEIVE [fhe Etate Dea epartment reviewed WISE's file on 2 June 1954; and as o. September 1962 a Samuel G. WISE was Second Secretary of the Ayoyi j a - Imbassy in Moscow. & thas time WISE advised in a cable to th Department + ig ley c Cut Me i :. Sy 2 veut * fete eee ee DAVIS' case is very similar to that of OSWALD; and he, Like OSYALD, lived in the Soviet. Union for two years after his defection end prior to making application for return to the United States. / 7. WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and was security approved subject to polygraph on 11 August 1953. He did not enter on duty and in September 1953 the office which had been interested in him was "no longer interested". On 13 November 1953, WISE was granted a CEA to permit his use as a contract employee on 5: AEACTIVE in New York City. His CSA was cancelled on 2h March 1958. 8. WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, #61693-DD, . during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA euployment 4 in 1952. WISH, | according to MUNSERL' s. landlady and social acquaintance in Weshington, .. D.C. during the period of about.a year. which ended in “April 1952,. 4 Wes che” nent only person she knew by name with who MUNSELD was friendly. Acesrding 7" to the informant, WISE was a student at Columbia University whose addres was 423 Fornald Hell. MUNSELL was Security disapproved for CIA e¢ employment. in June 1952 because of his close association on a professional and social ‘basis, while attending Denver University from 1946. to 1951, with persons of questionable loyality. In November 1954, MUNSELL was of interest to project FUALIVE with | reference to essignment to Security ‘advised of ‘the derogatory “Snformation regarding him. 9. WISE from 1951 to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York, which was attacked by a Citizen's Group, which alleged Commzmist influence in the school system. He had several questionable associates in addition to MUNSELD. é . M. D. Stevens wel TA Rk eee seems rte SENS 5 nee A Aenununins Seeegiee sat Wee “naps Sew eel Gear newebg = 4 eye ween cewumgue sup ed be ee nee