Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) told her to remember that she was an American. McMillan proceeded to her hotel, found out the American's room number, knocked on his door, and asked him a _ TE. for an interview. The American, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not ask her into the room, but he did agree to talk to her in her room later that night. No American government official arranged the actual interview with Oswald. She met with Oswald just once. She believes that McVickar called her on November 17, the day after her interview with Oswald, and asked her to supper. That evening at supper they discussed her interview with Oswald. McVickar indicated a general concern about Oswald and felt that the attitude of another American consular official might have \ pushed Oswald further in the direction of defection. McVickar indicated a personal feeling that it would be a sad thing for Oswald to defect in view of his age, but he did not indicate Classification: | i | Classified by derivation: aN ee ee ee
TF FF 9 SF LF LD LD LT TF ~ Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted f from ClA—controlled documents.) that this was the U.S. Government's position (p.18). Ms. Millan also testified that she had never worked for f the CIA, nor was she connected with any other federal government agency at the time of her interview with Lee Harvey Oswald. According to an affidavit that Ms. McMillan filed with the Committee, her only employment with the federal government was aS a 30-day temporary translator for the Joint Press Reading Service, an organization that was operated by the American, ; British, and Canadian embassies in Moscow. Finally, Ms. McMillan testified that because of her background in Russian studies, she applied for a position with the CIA in 1952 as an intelligence analyst. The application ‘ was withdrawn, but the CIA completed its security check on her and denied her a security clearance. She acknowledged being debriefed by an Agency employee in 1962 after returning Classification: <a “Ee OS EPA | Classified by derivation: e of’ , ee ee ee ae
Classification: | (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) from her thrid trip to the Soviet Union, but explained that this contact was in some way related to the confiscation of her notes by Soviet officials.* The Committee's review of CIA files pertaining to Ms. McMillan corroborated her testimony. There was no indication in the file suggesting that she had ever worked for *In November 1962, I had a conversation with a man who identified himself as a C.I.A. employee and gave his name as either Donald Jameson or James MacDonald. I agreed to see him “in part because the confiscation of my papers and notes had utterly altered my situation -- I now had no hope of returning ~ to the U.S.S.R. and was free for the first time to write what I knew. I was preparing a series of articles for The Reporter which would contain the same information about which Mr. Jameson had expressed a desire to talk to me. Finally, during the latter part of my 1962 trip to the U.S.S.R., I had been under heavy surveillance and the K.G.B. knew what Soviet citi- zens I had seen. Many of those I had talked to for the Reporter articles were Russian "liberals" (anti-Stalin and pro-Khrushchev) What reprisals might befall those whom I had interviewed I did not know, but since my notes were now part of the K.G.B. files, I felt that it might help them if the C.I.A. knew that \ which the K.G.B. already knew. My meeting with Mr. Jameson, which occurred at the Brattle Inn, Cambridge, was a reversal of my usual effort to avoid contact with the C.1I.A., and the subject matter was confined to my impressions of the Soviet literary and cultural climate. Classification: | Classified by derivation: : LY LF LF I
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted ( from ClA—controlled documents.) the CIA. In fact, there was some evidence suggesting-that the Agency was reluctant even to debrief her after her trips to the Soviet Union. An interview with the former Agency official who had been deputy chief and then chief of the American legal travelersprogram during the years 1958 to 1961 confirmed that Ms. McMillan had not been used by the CIA in that program. There was information in Ms. McMillan's file indicating that on occasion during the years 1962-65 she had provided ¢ cultural and literary type information to the CIA. None of this information, however, was suggestive in any way of a clandestine relationship. Accordingly, there is no evidence that Ms. McMillan ever worked for the CIA or received the Agency's assistance in obtaining an interview with Lee Harvey Classification: | Classified by derivation: bo |
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) Oswald.*. b) Richard E. Snyder Richard E. Snyder was the consular official in the United States Moscow embassy who handled the Oswald case. It was Snyder with whom Oswald met in 1959 when Oswald sought to renounce his American citizenship. Two years later, when Oswald initiated his inquiries about returning to the United States, Snyder again became involved in the case. Warren Commission critics have alleged that Snyder was associated in some way with the CIA during his service in the Moscow embassy. In his Committee depositon, Richard Snyder acknowledged that for an eleven-month period during 1949-50 he worked for *Nor is there any basis, based upon Ms. McMillan's testimony, CIA files, and an affidavit provided by McMillan's publisher, Harper and Row, to support the allegation that the CIA financed the book Marina and Lee. Classification: <a. ~azz—.. Sa, ~~. N ~  N ~ LN Bo i=, LN “EE, az. | Classified by derivation: a
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) the CIA while he was on the waiting list for a foreign service appointment with the State Department. Snyder testified, however, that, since resigning from the CIA in March of 1950, he has had no contact with the CIA other than a letter written in 1970 or 1971 inguiring about employment ona contractual basis.* The Committee reviewed Snyder's files at the State Department, Defense Department, and the CIA. Both the State Department and Defense Department are consistent with prior to 1974 it had been red flagged and maintained on a segregated basis. The file contained a routing indicator which stated that the file had been red flagged because of a *Snyder also denied contact with any other intelligence service while active as a foreign service officer. Classification: his testimony. Snyder's CIA file revealed that at one time f | Classified by derivation: IW Daa waeaAaAaaAa ke
Classification: | (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) "DCI statement and a matter of cover" concerning Snyder. In response to a Committee inquiry, the CIA indicated that the DCI statement presumably refers to comments which former DCI Richard Helms had made in 1964 concerning the Oswald case when Helms had been Deputy Director for Plans.* The CIA also stated that Snyder's file had been elagged at the request of DDO/CI to ensure that all inquiries concerning Snyder would be referred to that office. The Agency was unable to explain the reference to "cover" because according to its records Snyder had never been assigned any cover while employed. Further, the Agency stated that "f “t 7h ere is no record in Mr. Snyder's Official Personnel File that he ever worked, directly *Responding to a newspaper allegation that Oswald had met with CIA representatives in Moscow, Richard Helms wrote a memorandum to the Warren Commission on March 18, 1964 in which he stated the “desire to state for the record that the allegation carried in this press report is utterly unfounded as far as the CIA is concerned. Classification: _ lc _O.lC LEC _.!lCO,].lC( C.lClCOC™|.lCAEETSN Classified by derivation:
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA-—~controlled documents.) or indirectly, in any capacity for the CIA after his resignation on 26 September 1950." The Committee does not regard this explanation as satisfactory, especially since Snyder's 201 file indicates that for approximately one year during 1956-1957 he was used by an Agency case officer as a spotter at Harvard University because of his access to other students who might be going to the Soviet Union, nor was the Agency actually able to explain f specifically why someone considered it necessary to red flag the Snyder file. The remainder of the Snyder file, however, is entirely consistent with his testimony before the Committee concerning the absence of Agency contacts. In addition, the CIA personnel officer who handled Snyder's’ case in 1950 confirmed that Snyder had, in fact, terminated his employment with the Classification: | Classified by derivation: a , et te ee
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA-——controlled documents.) * CIA at that time. Moreover, he added that Snyder did.not go to the State Department under any kind of cover arrangement. _/ This position was confirmed by a former State Department official who was aware of procedures for State Department cover for CIA employees. In addition, this individual stated that at no time from 1959 to 1963 did the CIA use the State Department's overseas consular positions as cover for CIA intelligence officers. (Insertion to follow -- Analysis) c) Dr. Alexis H. Davison Dr. Alexis H. Davison was the U.S. Embassy physician in Moscow from May 1961 to May 1963. In.May 1963 he was expelled from the Soviet Union in connection with the Penkovsky spy case. After Pl eassfesi pation of President Kennedy, it was ication: | Classified by derivation: <=. UN i nN <. LN See. Sen “ZA. aN <a. ~ . N
Classification: | (This form is to be used for material extracted ; 4 from ClA—controlled documents.) discovered that the’ name of Dr. Davison's mother, Mrs. Hal Davison, and her Atlanta address were in Oswald's address book under the heading “mother of U.S. Embassy doctor." In addition, it was also determined that the flight which Oswald, his wife and child took from New York to Dallas on June 14, 1962 had stopped in.Atlanta. h For this reason, it has been alleged that Dr. Davison was Oswald's intelligence contact. in Moscow. In a Committee interview, Dr. Alexis Davison stated that . he had been a physician in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Moscow as the U.S. Embassy physician from May 1961 to May 1963. In this capacity, it was his duty to perform \ physical examinations on all Soviet immigrants to the United States. He recalls that most of these immigrants were elderly, but he remembers two young women, one who was a mathematics Classification: | Classified by derivation: