AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: ~ RECORD_SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ORIGINATOR: FBI AGENCY INFORMATION FBI. 124-10169-10269 DL 100-10461-1973 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FROM: MORRISSEY, JAMES F. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: Released under the John . Kennedy WSssassination Records DATE: 12/20/1963 Ollection Act of 1992 — (44 USC 2107 Note). PAGES: 8 ase#:NWU 54463 Date: ——, HO-12-2017 SUBJECT: ” SEE FBI 105-82555-808 DOCUMENT TYPE: _ PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL NEW ORIGINAL | Confidential NEW CLASSIFICATION: onneena CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 05/13/1996 UPDATE DATE: 02/12/2001 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JEK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 54463 DBocld: 32169450 Page 1
' FD-263 (Rev. 5-1-59) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHARACTER OF CASE REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN’; j Tint - DATE. A ; | INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD WASHINGTON FIELD DALLAS ~ | 12/26763 | 12/9 ~ 19/63 TITLE OF CASE REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD __JAMES F, MORRISSEY. ss ss} peb GH IS = R qusettlel REFERENCES: Report of SA JAMES F. MORRISSEY, 12/9/63, at ~~~ Washington, D. C.; WFO airtel to Dallas, 12/17/63; WFO airtel to Director, 12/18/63. - Pp . SPECIAL AGENT APPROVED IN CHARGE COPIES MADE: J) Bureau (105-82555) G. Dallas (100-10461) (RM) 1 - Richmond (Info) (RM) 2 = Washington Field (105-37111) Dissemination Record of Attached Report HW 34463 Docld:32169450 Page 2
WFO 105-37111 JFM: lke - ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Te ®) On December 18, 1963 AWE [912 dvised that a clerk in his office had just made an annual review of his subscription - file, preparatory to purging it of~all inactive accounts. The file on LEE H. OSWALD was noticed and brought to informant's attention. He immediately contacted this office and made © available the entire file. Informant could furnish no information other than reported in instant report. _ Informant expressed concern that if his bookstore was publicly identified as processing subscription orders for subject, adverse publicity might result. For this reason, the identity of the bookstore was not set forth in the FD 302. Bureau airtel December 12, 1963 forwarded a copy of memo prepared December 5, 1963 by ALBERT W. PAYNE and forwarded by Major GATELY DANIEL, Room 4611, Munitions Building, Washington, D. C. PAYNE is WF T-2 herein. For info Bureau DANIEL is Special Security Officer at the Foreign Science and Technology Center, U. S. Army located in the Munitions Building where PAYNE is employed. DANIEL was very cooperative and highly complimentary of the Bureau. ; — PAYNE was interviewed by SA JAMES F. MORRISSEY. As indicated in WFO airtel December 18, 1963 PAYNE said his entire knowledge of the matter is contained in the above memo and furnished copy of same. He requested that both his and his wife's identities be concealed; that the matter be handled such ‘that it would not obviously pinpoint his wife as source. Mrs. HELEN PAYNE, WF T-3 herein, telephonically advised SA MORRISSEY information regarding DIESSELHORST child. The content of PAYNE's memo, including misspellings, is as’ follows: , "MEMORANDUM FOR: Major Daniel 5 December 1963 FROM: Albert W. PAYN , GS-14, FSTC, Munitions Building "1. My wife Helen K, PAYNE, 308 Maple Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia, Phone JE 2598975" is a the Pine Springs School, Falls ¢ JE 28563 ~ is the principal. "2, Recently my wife asked her students to write a theme on the death of President KENNEDY. , got Sd -B- HW 54463 DocId:32169450 Page 3 ‘COVER PAGE
WFO 105-37111 ReWFO airtel to Dallas December 17, 1963, set forth information re allegation concerning photo in | possession of RANDODPH ELLSWORTH, said that descriptions available to WFO do not reveal any tattoos as indicated, nor do military assignments of OSWALD as indicated in his personnel file suggest a common locale for a meeting of ELLSWORTH and OSWALD. Info submitted to Dallas for whatever action deemed necessary, WFO contemplating no further action. Info copy of WFO December 17, 1963, airtel sent Baltimore and New York. INFORMANTS Identity of Source File where located WE T-1 sift ae fis4(307 Sub a~556(C) | WF T-2 is RT W. PAYNE nstant file WF T-3 is HELEN K. PAYNE Instant file Both PAYNEs reside . . 308 Maple Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia LEAD WASHINGTON FIELD AT WASHINGTON, D.C. Leads in this case are being ‘received and covered. on a continuing basis in WFO. . co D* wo 8 eee HW 54463 DBocld:32169450 Page 4