104-10051-10106 or ee “OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 . ne Cre oe ; $O10-108 sy i ne oad. ae _— _ a “ UNITED STATES Govi MENT OO” ae OOF “Memoranduin TO : Files oe) 4 . DATE: 29 January 105) . ste to Le mie “2? FROM : NM. D. Stevens suuject: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE #351164 | | wen te atearearnaenees ote cab tne cae nate Le According to a newspaper column of "Allen and Scott" in the ' Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CEAYIE Legal Officer of the State Department, was one of two persons im- mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return to the United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962. The other individuel named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. Another said to have been involved in.the handling of OSWALD's case was Samuel -WISE, Counsel. of the American Embassy in Moscow. ned. tenes _ 2. Abram CHAYES, #852234, who as of 16 February 1961 was deserined o as "the new Counsel. in State", was grented Security approval. for lieison contact with J. Foster COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert Action Staff) on 6 March 1961. The request for CHAYES' clearence vas a -"Blanket" request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 metters on: a need-to-know basis... 3. In Sept tember 1961 there was a White ,House namecheck request ou | CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni ) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLER. , pe h.. In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a renewal of his liaison contact clearance with C/CA on a continuing basis. This time his contact i was Archibald ROOSEVELT, Jr. 4: 5. On LO February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with — - reference to CHAYES: . , "SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis E. Walter (R.-Pa.), Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has ba scored the new State Department regulations on passports, clain- ing they would allow Reds denied passports to "rifle freely the ' confidential. files of the FBI, the CIA and other investigative be agencies." The man behind the new regulations, which Walter I: claims violate the Internal Security Act of 1950, is reportedly ‘| State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes. Chayes, a Kennedy appointee, is an ex-Harvard professor who was Chester ‘Bowles! top legal adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecticut. Welter has introduced. Legislation to remedy the new p sport 026 fo : regulations." a - Document Number 1-22 i i (271-1029 ' Phe or | for FOIA Review on FED 1977 i . |
14-00000 on eo wg aia . ™ 6. Samvel WISE, "Counsel in the American Embassy in Moscow" who is referred to above, may well be Samuel. Griffin WISE Jr., ETUSTE, SD & SED, who apparently was once a contract employee on AFACTIVE. [fhe State Department reviewed WISE's file on 2 June 1954; and as of September 1962 a Samuel G. WISE was Second Secretary of the American Mmbassy in Moscow. At that time WISE advised in a cable to the State - /DAVIS' case is very similar to that of OSWALD; and he, like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet. Union for two years after his defection-and prior to making application for return to the United States./ . {- WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and was security approved subject to polygraph on 11. August 1953. He did not enter on duty and in September 1953 the office which had been interested in him was "no longer interested". On 13 November 1953, WISE was granted a CSA to permit his use as a contract employee on AFACTIVE in New York City. His CSA was cancelled on 24 March 1958. 8. WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, ¥61693-DL, during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1952. WISE, according to MUNSELL's landlady and social acquaintance in ¥ ashington, D.C. during the pericd of about a year which ended in April 1952, was the only person she knew by name with whom MUNSELL was friendly. Acco rding to the informant, WISE was a student at Columbia University whose address was 123 Furnald Hall. MUNSELL was Security disapproved for CIA employment in June 1952 because of his close association on a professional and socic basis, while attending Denver University from 1946 to 1951, with persons of questionable loyality. In November 1954, MUNSELL was of interest to . project FYALIVE with reference to assignment tof | however, the interested office withdrew their request on him, after Security advised of the derogatory information regarding hin. 9. WISE from 1951 to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York, which was attacked by a Citizen's Group, which alleged Communist influence in the school system. He had several questionable associates in addition to MUNSELL. NM. D. Stevens OLUNEE