CLASTIFIED MESSAGE ~ Fore 2 R. Te “LSE ie : ROUTING UN = ME/Se0: C1 INDEX iSECRES is cs ‘DATE : 29 Nov 6% - [] FILE IN CS FILE NO, rap a ; DOC. MICRO. Beek ~ TO SEE BELOW SER. PSitav63 22 O8e MICROFIL The following , sehweiy ied cone: © MED J aut nase Bpepion is a DEFERRECY ao = L | ROUTINE INFO : “DCI, ‘b/otls ‘oP, “fel, cist, — 7 PRIORITY Sige: Ta TO 7300K CAI INFO R 0. Al - Uece 2op CITE _CHTE DIR af Aare ad te cee GPFLOOR en reasons and coordinate if appropr iate. 0 REF DER 85133 E__IppeT GL ey o/ados Le POLLO SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND B a OCTOBER 1959: "ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS EVALUATING ANE os LEADS GENERATED BY CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS: - A. OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUTHAMPTON THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD THAT HE HAD wo FED ADDRESS BUT PLANNED REMAIN UNITED ‘KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACARION BEFORE come "SoM SCHOOL, IN SWISSE." (Has comMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCHVETTZER COLLEGE SWITZERLAND WITA WATCH HE ont [0 HAVE BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE.) _ Bi 10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING SAME OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS OSWALD LEFT Y LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKT. C. OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER “DAGENS NYHETER" 25 NOVEMBER 1963 STATES LEE OSWALD PASSED THROUGH SWEDEN OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE ADDS THAT OSVALD UN- - SUCCESSFUL OBTAINING VISA TO USSR IN-HELSINKT WHICH RESULTED HIS RETURNING STOCKHOLM : Two DAYS AFTER HE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECTLY MOSCOv. - CONCLUDING » SENTENCE ARTICLE STATES “THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN EMBASSY ( STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM A VISA." ACCORDING RELIABLE SOURCE THERE WAS NO RECORD THERE WAS ANY REQUEST FOR “USER VISA PROCESSED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS FOR OSWALD ANY DE. -DURING 1959 AND “D280 -S—4 (_ RELEASING OFFICER REPRODUCTION BY OTHER- THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. , cookptnarine OFFICERS cROUP t 7 — ; Excluded from automatic downgrading and SECRET declassification 28 [- ASG FAILS AUTHENTICATING OFFICER . Sa0 M3IAO’ VIOF sof Copy No. o/6h ud
13-00000 [ec | CLASSIFIED MESSAGE | “ne | ou! Re. Walsh =: 7 7 UNIT:  W/SPO- a CI INDEX » bexr - +.” ENO INDEX Oo FILE IN CS FILE NO. t _ CITE OIR™ “e5et 7 ‘SOURCE SDIATED was | DIFFICULT + EKPLATY HOH oswALD Magu HAVE RECD VISA In THO DAYS wrmmoor cont TERUG wont CHANNELS. - ONLY conoLusToN WHICH cant Eo} DRAWN Is “OSWALD 0ST | HAVE ‘RECD ‘VISA DiReoILy FRM sovIsr EMBASSY STOCKHOL wETCH ‘OCCASIONALLY DONE” SPOCTML ches Tur SOURCE HAD 0 EvInEIICE coment ors ASSUMPTION. Ea Ds F 10 ES) 15 ocroBER 1959: | ACCORDING VERY RELIABLE or EXDREMELY SEIS TEIVE ‘SOURCE OSWALD STAYED AT TORN HOTEL HELSTNKT 10 mon OCTOHER AND SHEN MOVED 70 —_ AUS HORE HOTEL, WHERE ‘STAYED UNI 15 coroner, APPARENILY WATTING FOR VISA, BE {ISSUED HIM Be BY SOVIET | CONSULATE  HELSINEL. aE TRAVELED USSR BY TRAIN crossze AT — spose, rae emer | Se we Oo sewer ‘TSSUED, TE ‘TRANSIT = hy Cro vine. acy ikaw 1962. THEIR RECORDS: REVEAL, WEE WAS BORN crow ur ii on ae —— ea, - ae 1962: - OFFICIAL ‘BRITISH RECORDS DO Nor REFLECT OSWALD RETURNED NEED ; ‘STmTES ‘FROM ‘USSR THROUGH ‘UNITED. KINGDOM. ” HOWEVER iF ol WERE MERELY TRANSTPING Fa MOULD Nor HAVE BEEN NECESSARY FOR HIM FELL, OUT LANDING CARD AND THEREFORE THERE a ee oe ae “ WOULD 3 BE No RECORD: ‘HIS TRAVEL IN OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX. = 19638 # ACCORDING EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AND. RULTABLE SOURCE, ON. : 23 OVEGER MARTA. ‘SMETHLAGE; “HEAD OF “WERKGROUP INFORMATIE CUBA," TOLD EMPLOYEE ce : COORDINATING OFFICERS GROUP 2 . : oo Excluded from automatic RELEASING OFFICER Pk” downgrading and | AUTHENTICATING. declassification OFFICER —getrer + OFFICER _RERODUCTION yo OTHER Tr. oN THE ISSUING OFFICE ‘Sf “OHIBITED. ; Copy No. .
13-00000 vos - + | _ CLASSI" 2D MESSAGE ORIG‘; 2. Te. “Welah - ar ars uit: WE/SFO === INDEX {SECRET eres, .°, ENO INDEX Sf DATE :. ° ° . )  FILE IN CS FILE NO. OM? DIRECTOR PAGE THREE a SETS 7 “com B Bossy HAGUE ‘SHE was SURE eae EAD MET snar MR. aE IN HAVANA WHO DID THE - MURDER." | SHE ‘UESCRIEED HIM AS ‘MAN oF ‘VIOLENCE AND ENTIRELY FULL oF ATE AND aoroaren : THAT IT POSSIBLE THIS MAN HAD ‘BEEN MISUSED BY A GROUP. ° SHE ‘SAID SHE HAD WROTE oe “arEsoN" ‘ABOUr BAD ‘IMPRESSION sue EAD AD OF TaIS ‘LEE. (8. comesener: GIBSON 3B "PATAPLAY FOR CUBA REP. I GENEVA). "ALMOST. TERRE HOURS LATER SMETELAGE AGATN COMEACTED 7 CUBA BASY HAGUE ALD SAID "BE LES OF HE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA CORMETTEE" HAD BEEN coe “s SEEMED 70 F GLAD TO HAVE HEARD "coRRECT" VERSION. | “(res commas. MRS IEE MAY BE - IDENTICAL VINCENT ‘THEODORE LEE ‘WHO REPLACED RICHARD Grson as HEAD OF FARR FLAY. AOR CUBA CommETTTEE IN NEW YORK ALSO ‘IEE HARVEY OSWALD HAS USED “ALIAS Ok a o mas a "ACCORDING RELIABLE INFO subrinace was m CUBA JANUARY 1963 AND “ACCORDING , : 200 OFFICIAL 1 DUICH SOURCE ‘SHE AGATE TRAVELED CUBA FOR MAY TAY CELEBRATIONS 1963. Mee END oF MESSAGE as ae ne oo ie we a Bee a ne ony ME commen - - Requested Liaison and, station ‘traces Tee ervey ( Oswald. we - Re Te Welsh | jwm/se0" e. - - Ct “COORDINATING OFFICERS ROUPA =f. . RELEASING OFFICER: 8 “iment | - “organ | os OFFICER | Geclassificatian - ; REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING. OFFICE. IS PROHIBITED. Soa | Copy No. Ds 294 madd