13-00000 i i j 1 "MEMORANDUM FOR: Me. J. lee Ranidin “good enough to tele- » by which time I FORM NO. 101 REPLACES Form 1Or 101 AUG 584 WHICH MAY BE vu SED. oe QR ge Te a7 . 2 Nb e ™ . 78, » & * By got, a oe ° eat * nae . -, rm . * . ° “ : , nh ne Pea nn gos we Bo aye - as pF — Sitio’ Cte cae dueed sntepe i { - ¥ = _ gf ae ~~ 7 ~ ~~ it — TT “— eee ete re = °2 ere ae ee a. ee - oo.”
13-00000 Name anditte o 0: | | "REPRODUCTION Pare ° LO sn Commission No. | ra CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY in WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 Mee 6 - MAR 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mrende Lee Rankin SUBJECT: ~Tntosimation j in CIA's Possession Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD aon Prior to November 22, 1963 & Be 1. . This.vefers to your letter of February 12, 1964 addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which has been; Basadd to me for reply. . 2, Paragraph three of your letter requested the Agency a ‘to: ‘supply the Gommission with a report on information in the “Agencyts possession regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD prior to November 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footnote on page two of CIA's report to the Commission dated 31 January 1964, entitled: ‘Information Developed by GIA on | © . pois. the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 Sep. __ pS tember « 3 October 1963", eee oP 3, There is attached an exact reproduction of the | per Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1960. The entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, On the basis of clearances from the Federal-Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the ‘Department of Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, who were queried by us after the receipt | of.’ your ‘letter, we are able to make available exact copies;' of, all materials in the file up to early October 1963. The: s include: “ae ae e¢ Pe 3p ee eT ape grace: swe oe a “y CLASSIFICATION ON Lt. By authority of: QA Ly. - PP fe — joo < aa ae re ng the CHa Reyot
LO bth Bo b, Ten documents received from the Department . 8 of State, 13-00000. _ a 18 . c. Two documents received from the Department. “i of Navye V4! d, One document (a name check request) from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, e. Four newspaper clippings. ‘iy £, Five internal CIA notes, ge CIA report dated 31 January 1964 to the Commission which covers all substantive developments affecting CIA in the matter of Lee Harvey OSWALD from 9 October to 22 Noveimber 1963. The report indicated the disseminations be : of. infor tation developed by CIA that were made to other Federal agencies during that period. This item, as was a ”* pointed out at the time, is particularly sensitive and bears _— ‘appropriate sensitivity indicators. ed eR we | } é aS 4, You will note that almost all of the documents carry _ Pe ig markings required for CIA's internal records processing, A pee few of the papers contained the names of our employees or i identifications of specific organizational components, We have Brie taken the liberty of blocking out these items as they do not bear foe on the substance of the Commission's request, if . : recs Richard Helms Deputy Director for Plans Attachment ‘ATION Bile, By author ity of: bijte af weyrad nied ing the chawies Name and the est
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION Bens - mana I) nea a a 2, HiGuoee TeLEBR Departinens of State a \ 35 -. Action Control: 20261 PPT Rec'd: OCTOBER 31, 1959 FROM: MOSCOW 7:59 AM. Info L TO: Secretary of State H NO: {304, OCTOBER 31, 1 PoM. INR , EUR P FOR PG STHC LED HARVEY OSWALD, UNMARRIED AGE 20 PP 1733242 ISSUED VSIA “SEPT 10, 1959 “SEPEARED. A EMB TODAY TO RENOUNCE AMERICAN | ao CITIZENSHIP, STATED APPLIED IN MOSCOW FOR SOVIET CITIZENSHIP BCL FOLLOWING ENTRY USSR. FROM HELSINK! OCT 15. MOTHER'S TRC ADDRESS AND HIS LAST ADDRESS US 4936 COLLINWOOD ST., FORT WORTH TEXAS. SAYS ACTION CONTEMPLATED LAST TwO CZA ; } cer YEARS. MAIN REASON "1 AM MARXIST". ATTITUDE ARROGANT wavy AGGRESSIVE ...RECENTLY DISCHARGED MARINE CORPS. SAYS HAS OF FERED: SOVIETS ANY. INFORMATION HE HAS ACQUIRED, AS. ENLIS7ED- RADAR OPERATOR » nen Hoteind ts mtae 00 “TN VIEW PETRULL I CASE WE PROPOSE DELAY EXECUTING RENUNCIATION UNTIL SOVIET ACTION KNOWN OR DEPT ADVISES. DESPATCH . FOLLGWS. PRESS INFORMED. FREERS JR ; a _ UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED” COM ie matAL - ° REPROOUCTION FROIM THIS —e . + COPY IS PROHIBITED. CoCLTe™E eau Oe Pa
13-00000 } REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED fo. ag Ls hs SS i / tte | DEPARTMENT OF STATE ‘ we 7? 6am . ' ° - fh to an on, . : THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH yeaa apne yeDEETOAALSTTNOIOS Po aoe : : Hobo o . f yO a ; SECRET | - “9 1960. " | | . ! : | rf: Dear Dicke .- - Sob a ne ‘Our efforts to answer recent informal inquiries, including some... > \:' from the White House Staff, nave revealed that, though CIA and the --. PBI have detailed records concerning Americans who have bean recruited ‘". asp intelligence agents by Bloc countries, there does not appear to be ont, | a complete. listing of thosc Americans now living in Bloc countries ris) 2 who might be called "defectors". Using the definitions of DCID 4/2, ae ' ' these. persons might be described as those who have either been ‘ @gapable of providing useful intelligence to the Bloc or those whose _ ' desire to resettle in Bloc countries has been significantly exploited -- )' ; - for communist propaganda purposes. This would mean that no attention - a | p.. meed be paid to Americans whose resettlement within the Bloc had no ee hn Det RE ee ° eee an oat whee mee Re ee eon oes . “., | ° counter-Lntelli gence implications or had attracted no particular ty . + 4...; attention; for instance, this definition would not cover individual vt ',, US citizens of East European or Chinese origin who returned to the . - ..” “Shomeland" because they had never been completely assimilated into a the Anerican society. . _ eas, Pe There is attached a list of such persons, covering the last 18 le as months, and it would be appreciated if the Agency could verify and a _.‘: 4° possibly expand this list for the use of interested Bureaus of. the . ee ° i Departments te ee a te | Hugh S, Cumming, dros) ti oo . “es Sees . .. . 4. Lemeatibere exrutmes wremmomwamutcnawennine tine Bene Geen ve 8 wi’ * ; “Sincerely yours y, y - Tast of American "Defecters" tT 0 EE _ from May 1959 = October 1960. : oo aa co OP roa. om te Saat oe ome eee ee : ‘i * oe Richard Me Bissell, Jre- oo mo, Te, oe Pb Deputy Director, Plans, oe ren ne ; wo Central Intelligence Agency. ; rn ee i. ’ GCGUE DL