104-10015-10227 ; } ae bs: 32 ). CLASSIFIED MESSAGE - 2-627 vat /3 jitaxt eo CO) INDEX SECRET 5640 (HNO INDEX 29 HBoverber 63  cRFILE IN CS FILE NO. 202 NO, 201 -287248 Dest OTe GHITS HOUSE ATIN: MR. NCGEORGE BUSDY THs STATE DEPARTMENT ATIN: MR. U. _ALEXIS JOHISON att ib ude FEDERAL BUREAU CF INVESTIGATION 4.2 Pa Panay wolvy 1 C/WH 4 So ees oct, D/OCI, DOP, C/cl 2, vR INFO CITE D a SUBJECT: TRAVEL OF LEE HARVZY OSWALD . 85715 1. ‘THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN GATHERED FROM RELIABLE SOURCES REGARDING THE TRAVEL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND KIS WIFE: —_ A. 9 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING: TO OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUTHAMPTON THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD THAT HE HAD HO FIXED ADDRESS BUT PLANNED TO REMAIN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACETION BEFORS GOING ON TO "SCMB SCHOOL IN SWISSR." (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING TO THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER COLLEGE IN CONDUCTED ON aaa MAY 1976 once 70 RAYE BEEN IN CORRESPORDENCS. ) B. 10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING To TSE RECORDS OSWALD LEFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI. C. OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLSM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYESTER” OF 25 NOVEMBER APR sb 1963 STATES LEB OSWALD PASSED THROUGH SWEDEN DURING OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE AISO Sanps THAT OSWALD WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING VISA TO THE USSR IN HELGKINKT WHICH © RESULEED IN HIS RETURNING TO STOCKHOLM. TWO DAYS APTER HE ARRIVED IN STOCKHOLM 2 oswata TRAVELED DIRECTLY TO MOSCOW. CONCLUDING SENTENCE OF ARTICLE STATES "THIS Smprcares THAT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM A VISA.' ‘accorpinc TO A RELIABLE SOURCE THERE WAS NO RECORD ‘THAT THERE WAS ANY REQUEST FOR A USSR VISA PROCESSED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS FOR OSWALD AT ANY TIME DURING 1959, AND > en oo, oo. oo Qeji -2EU LYK “ ~ COORDINATING OFFICERS GRouP I RELEASING OFFICER as ee eaepa AUTHENTICATING S E c BR E tT : gelassitecation OFFICER REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, v! rv Copy No,
13-00000 ) CLASSIFIED MESSAGE 12.62 ‘ ROUTING So, ow |  szeree | fp ap ae . CJ FILE IN CS FILE NO, a ae fe an ie aed t+ 4] an Le +25 7 : &g pare ye) ~ DIRECTOR FOR fe PN MeO, || DEFERRED S06 P| don ROUTINE te, ~ INFO CITE DIR) * ‘SOURCE INDICATED IT WAS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN HOW OSWALD MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED HIS VISA IN TWO DAYS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS. THE ONLY CONCLUSION 7 WEIGH CAN BE DRAWN IS THAT OSWALD MUST HAVE RECEIVED HIS VISA DIRECTLY FROM ‘THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN STOCKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALLY IS DONE IN SPECIAL CASES, BUT THE SOURCE HAD HO EVIDENCE TO CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPTION. . ‘D. 10 TO 15 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO A VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCE CSWALD STAYED AT THE TORNI HOTEL IN HELSINKI FROM10TO1l OCTOBER AND THEN MOVED TO THE KLAUS KURKI HOTEL WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER, APPAREWILY WAITING FOR A VISA TO BE. ISSUED HIM BY THE SOVIET CONSULATE IN HELSINKI. HE TRAVELED TO THE USSR BY TRAIN, CROSSING AT VALVIKKALA ON 15 OCTOBER. B. 13 MAY 1962: ACCORDING TO A DUTCH OFFICIAL SOURCE, THE DUTCH CHARCE IN MOSCOW ISSUED A TRANSIT VISA TO OSWALD'S WIFE ON 13 MAY 1962. ‘THEEIR . . RECORDS REVEAL HIS WIFE WAS BORN ON 17 JULY 1941 TUSTRAD OF 19 JULY 1941 AND IN SEVSRODVINSK INSTEAD OF MINSK. ‘THERE IS NO RECORD OF HER HAVING ACTUALLY TRANSITED THE NETHERLANDS. ¥. 1962: OFFICIAL BRITISH RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT THAT OSWALD RETURISD.-- TO THS UNITED STATES FROM THE USSR THROUGH THE UNITED KINGDOM. HOWEVER, IF HE WERE MERELY TRANSITING, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY FOR HIM TO FILL GUT A UINDING CARD, AND THRREPORE THERE WOULD BE NO RECORD OF HIS TRAVEL IN Tue GROUP 1 Erctuded from automatic doangrading and dee assibe ater OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX. COORDINATING OFFICERS RECLASING OFFICER ieee nine | , | _ BEGCRET _ REPRODUCTION BY “HER “HER THAN TE THE ISSUBNG OFFICE IS) OHIBITED, Cozy No. AUTHENTICATING OFFICER
13-00000 a C] INDEX SECRET 7 ROUTING . C]) NO INDEX 5 CY : C] FILE IN CS FILE NO, Ppa ; DIRECTOR PAGS THRES | | DEFERRED | ROUTINE INFO CITE BIR G. 1963: ACCORDING TO AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVZ AND RELIABLE SOURCE, {| 23 ROVEMBBR MARIA SNKTHLAGE, HEAD OF THE "WERKGROUP INFORMATIZ CUBA,” TOLD AN PLOYES OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN THE HAGUE THAT SHE WAS SURE SHE EAD MET "CHAP? \» LES IN HAVANA, WHO DID THE MORDER.” SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS A MAN OF VIOLENCE BOTTRELY FULL GP HATS AND INDICATED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THIS MAN HAD MISUSED BY A GROUP. SHE SAID SHE HAD WRITTEN TO "GIBSON" ABOUT THE BAD _SSSICN SHE HAD HAD OF THIS LES. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENTS: PLEASE REFER TO OUR “~YPEx NOS 851982 AND 85665 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GIBSON.) ALMOST @ HOURS LATER, SNETHLAGE AGAIN CONTACTED THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN THE HAGUE AND THAT ’ME LS OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA CCMMITTE2” HAD BEEN SLANDERED AND THAT AS ANOTHER PERSON NAMED LEZ OSWALD WHO HAD DONE IT. SNSTHLAGE SEEMED TO BE "0 HAVE HEARD THIS "CORRECT" VERSON. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: MR, LEE MAY BS ICAL WITH VINCENT THEODORE LEE WHO REPLACED RICHARD GIBSON AS HEAD CY THE PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE. ) H. ACCORDING TO RELIABLE INFORMATION SNETHLAGE WAS IN CUBA IN JANUARY AND ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL DUTCH SOURCE, SHE AGAIN TRAVELED TO CUBA FOR ~~ . . Ly ° wi END OF MESSAGE ne (SP (Co an Oe Oia ea tA f_—C/S COMMENT: *DISSEMINATION APPLICABLE TO RYBAT GPFLOOR CABLES. EELS ~ po/P COORDINATING OFFICERS GROUP 4 OFFICER a  jommgradingand. SECRET AUTHENTICATING OFFICER Eeclassiication scpnopucrioney OTHER THAN THE ISSU:SG OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, Copy No.