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13-0000 Tnput + to US. Defector ay oon EX - 786 5 December 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT? "American Defectors to the USSR'' l, The attached material was part of a soft file entitled "American Defectors to the USSR", which was set up by SR/6 (Support) around 1960 and maintained by various SR components until ca. 1963, The compilations were derived from a variety of sources, and contain both classified and overt data, 2. Inthe fall of 1966, the files were turned over to CI Staff, In most instances, basic“information was then abstracted for the US Defector Machine Program, In all instances in which the material was unique, or represented a valuable collation effort, it has been incorporated into the appropriate 201 file, along with a copy of this memorandum, 3. It is suggested that any dissemination of this data should be coordinated with SB Division and with CI Staff (CI/MRO), in view of the frequently inadequate sourcing and of the fact that disseminations have already been made through the US Defector Machine Program, Orig - CI/MRO . 103(- 405 1 - a /FI Document Number 1- SB/RMO 1-CI/R&A for FOIA Review on SEP 1976 A/chr ono Sey Dey -2 9K
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13-00000 . cee merce ene eta oes ede tetlhneint telah alae teneeitemntetn a eben ern ate apap te nmnie = i - cerned AP ag OSWALD, Lee Harvey (20/~ 2 89.29% 2755° Date of Birth: 18 October 1939. Kew Orleans, Leuisiana ~ Date of Defections October 1959 Educations High school. Always a studious type, read books that were considered “desp*. Military Services Joined the Marines at 17. Saya he did this because he didn't want to be a burden on his mother. Became a PYG, radar operators 14 months service Japan and the Philippines, Honerable discharge on 3 September 1959 (dependenay diecharge). Backgrounds Father, an insurances salegman, died before Lee was born. Has a@ brother who is @ salesmen at Acme Brick Company, Port Werth, Texas, and a half brother Jehn Edward Pie age 28, 0S att Pores Staff Sargeant etatiened in Japan. Mother is currently &@ supply mother at the Methodist Orphans Heme, Waco, Texaa. DBF 49476, 25 May 1960) According to newspaper article, reasons for his defection were. a combi~ natien of family poverty, what he considers the plight of US negroes, and _ the US Marines or American imgerialien abroad. At 15 or eo he read "Das Kapital” and agreed with ite theerdes. A year before his discharge, he began te prepare for life in the Seviet Unien by using a Berlits grammar to teach himself how to read and write fusalan. Never, however, did he consider deserting the Marine Corps, After discharge from the Marines, Lee visited his mother 4n Fort Worth for about 3 days, then left for few Orleans viere he planned to resume employment with an én export-saport company fer which he had worked prier te enlisting in the Marines. Shortly after he arrived in Hew Orleans, he sent his mother a note saying that he had becked passage to Europe, that he was doing something he felt he must de. His arrival in Moscow oame ag @ shock te the femily. Travel money probably came from that saved while in the Marines. He had never any eympathy for the Seviet Unien er Commundem. He had been interested 4n Gaba and South America and his family vould have expected him te go there, if anyvhere. Mail sent to him sines his defection hae been addressed te the Hotel Metropole, Moscow. He acknowledged regeipt of his mail in 1959, but - letters sent in 1960 have been returned te the senders. (DBF 49478) In November 1959 the Sovieta were investigating the possibility of se lee to a Soviet higher technical institute. (Waah.Evening Star) May 1 Mrs. Oswald received a letter from the Albert Schweitzer College CONE CUA 20f - L872
ren SCONEIDINTI 4 in Switserland, and which was addreasa to Lee, which said in effest that this college was expecting Lee Oswald on 20 April 1960. After receipt of the letter, Mra. Oowald planned te vrite to the college te eo learn if her son was in actual attendance (BBF 49478] The Soviets neither encouraged nor discouraged Oswald's desire to become . a Soviet citisen. The American Embasay wanted him te think it ever before hearing his eath reneunoing American eitisenship. As a result, . Oswald ia bitter tewards the conesl there, He has stated that regardless. Of Any material shortoomings he sees while in the USSR, he will never go back to the ® Res.ang Wrus'c. Weswes reduipn ys . vuder ceva cudhonfa n Beuwnord Neate Was who Qtr sven s fer duns {deoe \eaa\ Pree dinns omech BBE BAC 4 Sued nave ed Warne Nidtelaguna Crosakowa, born duly Al, Na leleusks; Br ehange KG Wl. Lalrorattry WOES. Segr ter ayphed WiS& come. wsh wi Oswald, Unless so noted, info is from the Washington Evening Star, 26 Nov. 1959. tw ID La 5 Shot. + katte 4 ge Ruby ow ae nevembe 963 whe bent mane fam Baller Sud CON Depa GGL