| Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted ; from ClA-——controlled documents.) He visited with embassy consul Richard Snyder on July 16, 1961, and denied that he had ever given any information to the Soviets. / Snyder advised Oswald on an informal basis that, while no assurances could be given, the embassy did not perceive any basis for prosecuting Oswald for an offense involving any severe punishment.  / There is no record that the State Department ever gave Oswald any assurances that he would not be prosecuted. Upon his return to the United States, Oswald was interviewed twice by the FBI. On each occasion, he denied ever giving any information to the Soviet Union.  / Ina response to a committee request, the Department of Justice indicated that prosectition of Oswald was never considered because his file contains no evidence that he had ever revealed or offered to reveal national defense information Classification: | Classified by derivation:
Classification: | (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) to the Soviet Union. _/ In a subsequent response, the Department acknowledged the existence of some evidence that : Oswald had offered information to the Soviet Union, but stated that there were, nevertheless, serious obstacles to a possible prosecution: It (Department file) does contain a copy of an FBI memorandum, dated July 3, 1961, which is recorded as having been received in the Justice Department's Internal Security Division on December 10, 1963, which states that the files of the Office of Naval Intelligence contained a copy of a Department of State telegram, dated October 31, 1959, at Moscow. The telegram, which is summarized in the FBI report, quoted Oswald as having offered the Soviets any information he had acquired as a radar operator. The FBI report did not indicate that the information to which Oswald had access as a radar operator was classified. June 13, 1962. He was interviewed by the FBI on June 26, 1962, at Fort Worth, Texas, at which time he denied furnishing any information to the Soviets concerning his Marine Corps experiences. He stated that he never gave the Soviets any information which would be used to the detriment of the United States. we In sum, therefore, the only “evidence" that Oswald ever offered to furnish information to the Soviets is his own reported statement to an official at the Classification: Oswald returned to the United States on ( | Classified by derivation: ae, , a mw
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) U.S. embassy in Moscow. That statement, of course, was contradicted by his denial to the FBI, upon his return to the United States, that he had ever made such an offer. In the prosecution of a criminal case, the Government cannot establish a prima facie case solely on a defendant's unsupported confession. The Government must introduce substantial independent evidence which would tend to establish the trustworthiness of the defendant's statement. See, Opper v. United States, 348 U.S. 84 (1954). Accordingly, in the absence of any information that Oswald had offered to reveal classified information . to the Soviets, and lacking’ corroboration of his statement that he had proferred information of any kind to the Russians, we did not consider his prosecution for violation of the espionage statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 793. _/ ; Based upon this analysis, there is no evidence that Oswald received favorable treatment from either the State Department or the Justice Department regarding the possibility of a criminal prosecution. 7 : 6. Oswald's Contacts with Americans in the Soviet Union % a) Priscilla Johnson McMillan Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author of Marina and Lee, f became a subject of the Committee's inquiry because she was Classification: | Classified by derivation: _
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from CiA—controlled documents.) one of two American correspondents who had obtained an’ interview with Lee Harvey Oswald during his stay in Moscow in 1959. The Committee sought to investigate the allegation that Ms. McMillan’ s interview with Oswald had been arranged by the CIA. , John McVickar, a consul at the American embassy, testified that he had Oswald's case with Ms. McMillan, and and help him in dealing with what appeared to be a very strong personal problem if she were able to talk with him." _/f McVickar stated, however, that he had never worked in any capacity for the CIA, nor did he believe that Ms. McMillan had any such affiliation. The Committee's review of Mr. : 4 \ McVickar's State Department and CIA files confirmed that he had never been associated with the CIA. Classification: that he thought "she might help us in communicating with him ; | Classified by derivation: - ee em
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) According to Ms. McMillan's testimony about the events surrounding her interview with Lee Harvey Oswald, in November 1959 she had just returned from a visit to the United States <= <a <=, ~<, where she covered the Camp David summit between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev. On November 16, 1959, she went to the American embassy to pick up her mail for the first time since her return to the Soviet Union. The mail pickup ‘facility was in a foyer near the consular office. Consular Officer John A. McVickar came out of this office and welcomed McMillan back to the Soviet Union. They exchanged a few words, and as she was leaving, McVickar commented that at her hotel was an American who was trying to defect to the x Soviet Union. McVickar stated that the American would not speak to "any of us," but might speak to McMillan because she was a woman. She recalls that as she was leaving, McVickar Classification: | Classified by derivation: i. @ @ @ @ ff ff tf