UNITED STATES DEPAWEMUENT OF JUSTICE! a oNS ‘® on Me oe TAD OF Ves ous FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION , In Reply, Piease Refer to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma File No. ' June 13, 1973 CIA HAS NC CRVECTION TO . | “46 “OQ BBAQWUS DECLASSIFICATION ANDCR d | RE! EASE OF THIS DOCUMES LEE HARVEY OSWALD ; On April 5, 1973, a confidential source, who is a professional man and in a position to know, furnished a document which is described as follows: A 4x5 inch piece of paper bearing a yellow letter- Vhead with Western Union International Communications Cablegram rfoimprinted thereon with the following message to one Jack : Nellville dated September 20, 1963, via western Union Cables atftTulsa, Oklahoma. teenagers "Meet me at Sheritan Hotel in Dallas at 4 PM on 9/21, room 567 stop expecting something big . stop dash be on. time dash signed o/s Oswald” PRRESS EE O f= ESSAGE jpoflom Le@& HARVEY OSto4tD (> 2E9244 APOR / PU Scarce advised he discovered this document arches unloading a 14-volume set of medical books from his pick-up truck. Source was aot certain whether this document had faLien from these particular books or had fallen into the truck from other books which he had recently collected. Source stated he has been collecting veterinary books for the past several months in order to establish a veterinary library in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and that these books had all been contributed to him by various veterinarians in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. Source also advised.he had previously received some books from Dr. Everett J. Hickok and Dr. Fred L. Hutton, both practicing veterinarians using the same office space at 3550 South Peoria, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Source advised that both Hickok and Hutton are known to be “right wingers” and at the local veterinary meetings these two individuals had requested to bring in speakers who would talk about Communism, law and order, and other topics completely unrelated to the veterinary field. Source stated they no longer attend the local veterinary meetings. On April 5, 1973, Harold Anderson, Manager, Western Union, 15 West 5th Street, Tulsa. Oklahoma, was shown the Western Union document without revealing its contents, and he advised that this document appeared to him to be a Western Union memo form. Anderson stated he has been in the Western | r ap eery | : This do RECORD neither, DBD 57/66 recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of A, the FBI and is leaned to your agencys- °° it and its contents are not to be — distributed outsics your agency. . So gl van - 2y(- 287246. HW 54559 Docld:32108041 Page 4 " f™.
2 oe . ~ a . . : LEE HARVEY OSWALD Union organization in Tulsa for 11 years and this form became obsolete sometime during 1964, and it appears it had never -been sent, or if it had been sent it may have been phoned into his office since it does not bear the Western Union stamp number or time sent. Anderson further advised that these forms may have at one time been given out for promotional purposes and also given to large companies who had extensive dealings with Western Union. An official of Western Union at Minneapolis, Minnesota, advised on April 12, 1973 that Western Union, Minneapolis is the central nationwide repository for Western Union money order records only. He further advised Western Union messages are not filed in any central location, but are maintained at the originating office for a period of 6 months to one year. On April 13, 1973, JOmn Fedak, Assistant Controller, advised the Sheraton Hotel was in existence in Dallas, Texas during 1963. He furthe advised _registration cards for the hotel are maintained for about 6[ years, He stated there would be no registration cards for the Sheraton Hotel in Dallas going back to September, 1963, and there were no hotel records that would establish who occupied room 567 on September 21, 1963. A summary of residences, schools and employments for subject maintained at FBI Headquarters and the Dallas Division of the FBI, reflects information from Mrs. Ruth Paine, Irving, _ Texas with whom Marina Oswald, wife of subject, was residing at the time of the assassination, who stated she drove Marina Oswald to New Orleans, Louisiana on May 10 - 11, 1963 to be with subject and sne returned from New Orleans with Marina Oswald on September 23, 1963.  . Information from above file reflects that Mrs. Jesse James Garner, 4911 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, had substantiated that subject Lee Harvey Oswald resided at 4905 Magazine Street, New Orleans from May 9, 1963 through September 23, 1963. It -is also reflected that subject filed claims with the New Orleans Division of Employment Security on both September 17, 1963 and September 24, 1963, in person. The above file indicates Lee Harvey Oswald was in New Orleans on September 21, 1963, but. does not specifically. establish he was in that city on September 21, 1963. is = Da HW 44559 Docld: 32108041 Page 5
uo. “3, ry * 3 oe om B Bs o . & ‘ yo soa . " vine! ~ oa an Lo . « a . . . * . . . > ry . ’ LEE HARVEY OSWALD FBI Laboratory letter dated May 4, 1973, indicates typewriting on above noted cablegram most closely resembles a Remington pica style of type used on a Cadet portable machine model 4 B. ‘This ¢yle of type dates back to 1938. The age of this document could not be determined. FBI Laboratory letter dated May 8, 1973, noted no latent prints of value developed on submitted specimens. On May 18, 1973, John M. Adams, Assistant Manager, ‘Washington ‘District “Office of Western ‘Union Telegram Company (WUTC), 1405 G Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. advised that while above document could conceivably serve as a rough draft for a subsequent telegram and/or cablegram it, basically, is a sheet from a Western Union International Communications promotional type note pad, then (1963) readily available at hotels, Western Union offices, etc. But, only up until about October 23, 1963, when Western . Union. Telegram Company was legally required to discontinue all cablegram operatins, Western Union International, Inc., (WUI) came to be established as a separate company. Mr. Adams noted originating offices - gre required to hoid file copies only up to 7 months, or if charged, thereafter until paid. ; _ On May 21, 1973, Mr. Henry G. Catucci, Vice-President for WUI Washington operations, 2100 M Street Northwest, Washing- ton D. C. stated he was of the opinion such memo pads were generally available and questioned item could have been tendered as the text for an actual telegram and/or cablegram. He was .of the opinion that the item in question, most likely, was simply a personal message typed for some unapparent reason and possibly passed along by some other means, rather than an actual WUTC telegram or cablegram. On June 5, 1973 a Special Agent for the FBI contacted. the following agencies regarding Dr. Fred L. Hutton, Jack Nellville, Dr. Everett J. Hickok,and Dr. R. E. Bailey with negative results: Pat Malloy, Records, Tulsa Police Department; - Retta Cook, Records, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office; Debra Williams, Records, Tulsa Credit Bureau. — 4 : an 3K HW 54559 Docld:32108041 Page 6