3, dated 30 November 1983, Field MEMORANDUM FOR: Dlvecter . BUBIEGT DALLAS (89-43), | Subject: LEE HARVEY OSWALEn pesaesination of President . JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDT, 1/88/69, I Ballas, ascres wtih her cabente euilh ales wae 16, 2 USER. Ghe romainnd tn Be hapa tg fabeai men erahag tiga Al When the ear ended she entered With ber puahand she catered iaigican at gn nkaven dete aad Fesided in Antwerp. Repertedly-che was a member of the Union of Soviet . Patriote in Belgium from 1948 te 1952. Sometime in early 1952, while still married to VERHELST, Lydie began living Vasiliy Gavrilovich Pavel) KOSTENKO in Bresesls. A E Police me ihe | — fiavestigation of her 2 SEORET
13-00000 “SECRET ef has vaiaisnnthlp with KOSTENKG resulted tn her being filmed for adultery in September 1932. Ghe was divorced by VERHELST im Movernber 1953 and continued Mviag with KOSTENKO, agparentiy aa common-law wife, antl) late 1944 or 1965. { Vasiliy Gaveilevich (aha Pavel) KOSTENKO, allegedly bora on 5 September 1922 in Tula, UESR, served in the Bovict Army in World War If befere joicing the Viaasov forces in fighting against the Soviets. After the war he lived in Germany and Beigtun and wae active fn eeveral eniti-GComrmeuacict Russian emigre organizations including the Natienal Labor Aliiasce (NTS). ia 1955 KOSTENEO was identified oc o Soviet agent in clandestine contact with the Geviet Embassy in Bruesels. He was fom he NYG in February 1937 and on 20 August 1957 he left Beeasele for Mescow, ts a adie broadcast from East Berlin on 17 September 1957 sponsored by the Soviet Committee for Return to the Homeland, KOSTENKO bitterly attacked Ruesian emigre organizations in the Weet. Frior te leaving Belgium fer the USSR KOSTENKO repartediy revealed that he bad worked fox Geviet intelligence since 1942 aud that he was trained in the Seviet Union for intelligence work and dispatched te the West as a Seviet agent. ] b. On 27 Jenn 1956, in Inelles, a suburb of Brassele, Lydia | married Pavel DYMITRUK who wae bora 26 February 1924 in Stariye- Doreli, USSR [ Staviye-Deregt, Belorussian 85%) , and who was éeseribed ag @ Belorussian student at the University of Louvain in Belgium. Atan unknown Gate, possibly before his marriage to Lydia, Pavel DYMITRUK teomigrated to the United States. It was reported that im July 1957 he returned te Belgium to attempt te expedite a visa for Lydia te join Bim im the United States. Aa of August 1957, BYMITRUK's U.S. residence wae listed a6 159 East Division Street, Rechferd, Michigan. — «. in an interview tn February 1957 in Antwerp, Belgium, eoncerning her application for a viea te the United States, Lydia DYMITRUK disclosed that: (1) Her father managed a macaroni inctory in Rostov-Don during the war and did met serve in the army. In 1945 he was arrested by the NAVD end held for five or six months on a /charge concerning his
13-00000 ‘that she was unaware of the exact ¢ PB EGE aa ZT cer o> gene ad ae non] charge concerning nie activities during t the. war (upéia clsimed father}, He was algo removed from his position as onnages of the macaroni factory; (2) She wrote te her mother often and eccastonaily received correspondence from her. Her mother is glad that Lydia is in the West. (3) She had been aasociated seit the ‘Union of Soviet Patriots fer about two years but denied knowing that the Union ef Soviet Patriots was politically motivated or wae in contact with the Communist Party of ‘Belgium. (4) Her vies applicatic ay which she: putmitted on 27 July 1956, was drawn up for her by her husband, Pavel DYMITRUK. In filling out the application form her husband had indicated a negative response to a question concerning agsociation with a Communist Party or an organization affiliated with a Communist Party because she had not been “an actual member ef the Union of Seviet Patricts, and furthermore, it was her husband's belief that she wae net a Communist. (5) She arrived in Brussels from Antwerp in February 1952 and lived with her eister,\Annia BOUCHAT, for several menthe. Her sister was in contact with one (fnu) MARKACHUK, an officer with the Soviet Repatriation Mission in Brusselé who had been attempting to have the sister repatriate te the Soviet Union. Shortly after her arrival at her aister's, a woman from Liege (not further identified), gave her an address to go to for ald in resettling in Brussels. Lydia went to this address and wae surprised to find : that it was the Soviet Repstriation Mission. There she met \MARKAGHUK who tried to persuade her to return to the USSR. Aga result, ahe and her sister wrote to their mother for her opizxien on the matter and the mother advised them te stay in the Weat. /(6) She Hived with downgrading and ' daclasstfization SEGRET TE - “| . Excluded from automat.
Signed: James Angleton Orig. & 1 ~ Adé@ressee C/E A+ C/CHSG 1 « €/Ci/RAA 1-¢/sR +e - eyan/er _ SR/GI pery pegs <7 & cometack cn 1s 201-209,848 le ‘RI/FT (201-150; 620) a “SERT on 1 downgrading and declassitication