JFK Assassination System Date: 4/14/201 Identification Form aus AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy Wssassination Records FBI 124-10326-10058 Ollection Act of 1992 HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). ase# iN 53150 Date: 67-182287-251 / H6—-01-2017 pe ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: * PAGES.: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Document Information FBI TURNER GALE 11/26/1963 3 ELBERT T. TURNER, LHO PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 4 Redact 04/29/1998 INDEFINITE a v9.1 HW 53130 Bocld: 32313130 Page 1
r. aie “hana? ron” Nd.* 10 C Cy “UNITED STATES GOVER’ ‘ENT () ' Liane \ A Mohr ~ Memorandym et C ( ; i, : : DeLoach . ie by = ” Evans TO : J. ATE ; DATE: 11-26-63 Gale . ‘ Sullivan’ 7 a. 1 - Gale Fora FROM : FE, T, ms 1 - Sullivan Tele. Room 1 - Branigan Gendt Ah qt ner U\{ supyecr: LEE ne OSWALD | iF ai 8 ie | /' _ INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA . feo EVO thay Bt SCL At Sai vor BMH , In accordance with your request, the rononike Der hon are submitted with regard to my participation in the captioned case: 1. Why I did not review the complete file during the period 10-10 to 11-22-63: | . During this period the work on my desk was extremely heavy. The publicity on the Jack Edward Dunlap case broke in the newspapers on 10-10-63 and for the next 3 or 4 weeks a major portion of my time was involved in handling that case. In addition, the Special Espionage School which began on 10-14-63 required that lI lecture or lead discussions for 13 hours during the 2-week school. This required considerable preparation. In addition, during the reorganization of the Espionage Section which occurred just prior to 10-10-63, assigned to.me and an effort was made to become-acquainted other cases assigned to me (total case load approximately 95), a block of new cases dealing with Soviet espionage activities in Mexico (and Canada) vas // : fi th as fete many of these-as possible as well as handling the normal mail on une and to | landle the other duties on my desk which includes review and approval of signature mail in the Officials Unit of the Soviet Section. When the teletype from CIA date Fle | 10x63.HaS: ‘received, LEG 3 do not recall if I made a preliminary review of the file b ‘OFe i gat alling} the teletype for the file. In this connection] it is snot! eile 2 ail. in this case prepared by other supervisors in the"Unrt had previously crossed my desk and I had a general idea of the background of the case. it appeared that additional information would be forthcoming from CIA and other action at that time did not appear warranted. Correspondence which came in subsequently concerning the subject's activities with’ the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was: of primary interest it® the Nationalities Intelligence Section although it was ireviewed by me. receipt of WFO airtel dated 11-19-63 indicating < aycontact with, the’ Soviet Embassy in” Washington, 1 called the”? “file” for the, s purpose of | reviewing it in ‘detail and. to. y analyze “the case.” The fi Lehi shad bes been’. received but had not yet been reviewed Beery 63k py gh A ofa ‘on 2555 Joa 25 DEC 27 19 186 SOVIET SHCTID ; AW 53130 DocId: 32313130 Page 2?
Memo for Mr. Gale Re: LEE HARVEY OSWALD 105-82555 it first nor.do I know the date on which.Ireceiyed it. It is noted that a new file had been opened on it and it was later changed to this file. As indicated above I do not recall if I made a preliminary review of the file before initialing the teletype. Again, “| it is noted that the publicity on the Dunlap case broke on 10-10-63 and that during the week beginning 10-13-63 I had 11 hours’ lecture before the “Special Espionage School. I do not know if I received or initialed the CIA teletype prior to recapt of the Legal Attache’s cahbbe and the preparation of a reply thereto. ACTION |e the. Espionage Section. I_do not_know which Section received For information. ¥ ADDENDUM: ETT: A 11/27/63 I would like to add that during the reorganization of the Division in early October, 1963, I volunteered to take over the work involving Soviet cases in Mexico (and Canada,\ C sJ inasmuch as I already had approximately six double-agent cases relating to those countries already assigned to me and there appeared to be a need to correlate all of these cases and handle them as a group. : AW 53130 Docld:32313130 Page 3