Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 usc 2107 Hote). . ed - Ne By. A. RK. Belmont _ we. W. C. Sullivan “January 30, 1964 i- dr, Belmont LEE BARVEY OSUALI ee | eRe d= ke, Be ; ~ tr - N. ~ i ~ tir. ry de Brennan Purpose of memorandum is te explore allegation Lee Hervey Qewald was FBI informant and related points covered by President's Commission last week during appearance before Commission of feary Wade, si Bistriet Attorney of Dallas County, Texas, and to set ferth pureuant to "| A Director’s request (1) precedures wo uge in developaent and control of | : FBI informants, (2) the eystes used in handling tagvermants in Special | | Intelligence Service (SIS) program, and (3) details concerning Wade’ a SI8 service while in the FBI, Contrary to testimony, Oswald was never PRI informant, was | never paid money for information and was never Sagigned any symbol i number, Procedures we use in informant program preclude the posedbility | of Oswald's connection with FBI as an informant without knowledge of  ” Seat of Governeent, We closely supervise all aspects of informant prograa, field offices canret develop security informants without Bureau authorization, which is based on exhaustive background investigation te determine reliability, trustworthiness and stability. y Ghen we de authorize, we fallow infermant’s development i through progress letters which field offices submit at four-month 4 intervalg, . Ge epprove use of symbole and code Homes, mainteia an iedex (Of these anduone may be used twiee by the same field office. - Ye authorise payments on regular basis and meintain current records of every expenditure made showing to whem made and why. SAC has only limited authority to make payments without Bureau authority in certain insteaaces and we contre] thia by Limiting amount, and by ond-of-aonth accounting procedure which lists all suck payments, to whom made, and for what ® » MatSaic i Ae is ie SDS: kmj , . (9) | V~ penitent ts ae agin bee Docld:32319369 Page 2
vHeleased under the John F. Kennédy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 3107 Hote). *! DATE: 11-14- 2017 7 Memexendem lr. B. C, Sullivan ‘ Sod any of our - offices: even msde payments to mim : under the f4c's autherity, these would heave been shown in the reesipts andi vouchers eubmitted by each office, These records have been ehecked end double checked and ne such paynent was ever meade. 2. i 2 eynbol aumber, thin i would be 8 matesy ef record aot pet by sunber but nigo by ss mane. Ae a matter of fact, ge can identity every syabo} , Rumbar used, past or present. The mumber 175 supposedly eeigned Gaveld is currentiy used by the Belles Office for a werimined informant, Veimn Yvonne Grehan, o Hegre medam. whe Tims s house of prostitution. In New Orléans, ghere Gawald i gpent soue tine, the mumbo 179 was used by the Neg Orlenng 1 @fzice back in 1941 to designate en interment, Joseph A ddge, whe wes repe . porting security information and who was : diacoatinned ie 1944. Ae previously noted, onee a number is j used in any capacity, ynether to designate a security or a 4 oviminal informant, it epnnot be used by the field office egnin. . in Mexico, to whieh Gaypld traveled just prier to the assecsi~ Poy nation er” ‘President Kenuedy,.our Legal Atteche there currently ui Mes a seourity informant 179 eho wae so designated in 1960, i He t¢ Ignacio Olive, who furnishes information on the Mexkenn~ f ; Buestan inatitute of Cultural Exchaere in forelis, Hichoscen, { 4 Hexieo, yp ee Shem eadd & syubol aunber without a rior t poole: round investigation BD: ‘any ; field office considering bin for ‘development. Hed any field : oe considera loping him, it would have had to ebtein i apgroval by the § et ghere 4a no record of any euch : Fomnent by ony fhela oftico’ ‘and iO Fecord of auy eaeh appre YEA \qeo BZ Docld: 32319369 Page 3
Released under th DATE: 11-14-201 2 sassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote SIF E Se ety an ig NE ect ng 0 EIT on OPNONAL FORM NO. 10 3 A . MAY 1982 LOITION “5 of GSA GEN, RIG. NO, 27 y 3010~106 y? Toison ; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | 1- Belmont | wa" , Af 1 - Mohr -—Callehan Memorandum , 1 = DeLoach = re a : t il - Callahan Oo Evans . cee TO W. C. Sullivan | E: 1-25-64. : Sullivan Do : : l- Rosen  - . Trotter i oO . ae 1 = Sullivan | "| Tele. Room : FROM; W. A. Branigan . - Malley Holmes — . Gandy — - Branigan Gheesling — LEE HARVEY OSWALD. _ = - INTERNAL SECURITY. + RUSSIA.» reviews an article concerning the assassination tf. dy in the March, 1964, issue of "Saga" magazine by Agent William W. Turner (E.0.D. 2-5=51 - Dismissed wRO is presently appealing his dismissal before the Circuit the District. . Turner's self-centered, embittered, illogical is well known. to us and his article is what we might expect vir * ‘ a - rin cprer ne cmremrrerem nnn enti wane neon areenimnn in ST se ee nes Teer ece rts RR Ee ET De ETON ITD Pe ER CE Te SUMMARY J i 3 y 0) OO tO ct attempts to argue that the blame for the assassination it o ¥5i bungling by way of not prewarning the Secret Service ntiai as an assassin and that the cause of this was a. ¥ ion and communication between the Bureau and the &. in the lead paragraph of the article, Turner claims to Dallas "just a few hours" after the assassination to sesonal FBI-~type inquiry as he sensed that "there were too unanswered, too much information concealed." This is t2i~ball nonsense and at the outset shows his true in light of his stated conviction that Oswald was indeed and that he acted on his own without left wing, right wing e plotting, the article is particularly vicious-in its Oo few @ YO ) et PDS Gh ae) Oo ¢ Oneal 2 i WIS © et reviewed point by point. His argument consists of part i naccurate and irresponsible newspaper reports and. 2.Sehoods., He endeavors to lend credence to his argument 3 2S past experience as a Bureau Agent and it is in this -: learly lies in discussing Bureau investigative techniques He concludes his article with a four-point appeal to ‘ Sidential appearances henceforth not be in open cars. ident be required to wear a bullet-proof vest when... “c. 2, That an attempt on the President's life be ffense. 3. That President's route in amiout of city — acd and 4, That a permanent Federal Commission. be vO insure proper cooperation and communication between 4 oOo as Bureau: and Secret Service and that the Commission be vO Override the Bureau when necessary to guarantee proper 2 ta bY ao phan ee er ane ey roamed oo. - oo a JN
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U5 c a407 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 a. . Cota I Memorandum to Mr; Sullivan nm ARE | Re: LEE HARVEY OSWALD @CEru es Statement: Oswald prudently transferred. his political activities to oe New Orleans (date not indicated) as Dallas is a city that = | jeans to the right and because of local. Dallas Police. gilance against communist-type activity. Left Dallas and traveled to New Orleans in late April, as he was out of work and at the urging of his wife due to | a v hy 7£ Q cP ng attempted to assassinate General Walker on April 10, _ ‘he inference that Oswald feared Dallas police vigilance | nse for he returned to the. Dallas area five months later _ s FBI ‘responsibility to nake dissemination to . et Service but there is historical evidence that proper, emination is not always made at the Washington level, support he cites that in 1945 the Royal Canadian : Mounted Police (RCHP) told the Bureau about Klaus ‘Fuchs who they suspected was a Soviet agent, however, the FBI took no action, He aiso cites. that in 1960 the FBI. |... ' COllected damaging information about Bernon F. Mitchell .. \ and William K, Martin, National Security Agency (NSA) © employees, and again failed to alert anyone after which Bitchell and Martin fled to Cuba thence to Russia where a chey compromised U. S. Secret codes throughout the world. Te a5 f Fuchs ahd his British address came to attention of ter arrest of Israel Halperin in February, 1946, as a. 4 f the disclosures of Igor Gouzenko, Soviet Code Clerk cs efected in Canada in 1945, Halperin, a Canadian, was , 4 by Gouzenko as a member of a Soviet military intelligence * yorix in Canada, Fuchs’ name and his address in England were in gress book and diary in Halperin’s possession, . The book 4 iiary were furnished to the Bureau on 3-12-46 and names and | resses of Americans appearing in the documents were furnished the field, The documents were furnished by the Canadians ‘to. e British and no action was taken by the Bureau with respect | Oo individ duals living abroad. chs first ce fit an espionage "on ' t Oa eg et } a 0 7 mo fe Ga bed o 9 9 [3 i i) wea ¢ tee add to th a ispect in 1949 on the basis of{Bureau Source 5/information (not © be disseminated). We, however, advised the inuary, 1950, Fuchs confessed in England to his espionage .§ _: ctivities. When Mitchell and Martin defected to the Soviets So in June, 1960, we had never conducted any. investigation of | chem nor had we received | any allegations concerning them. ritish and in 6 Gi ct ce Cr ch i thal 8B © @ Cr ci ‘N see reenter ree eet epee enreegnce ence eee ame x — a ee ee eee Docld: 32319369 Page 5