104-10007-10167 Grong r @ MAR 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR: Direetor Federal Bureay of Investigation SUBJECT t Marvin KANTOR; Possible Connection to Investigation ef Lee Harvey and Marina OBWALD 1. Reference is made to your file aumber (8) 108-77772, eubject s Marvin KANTOR and to your file number (3) 105-82555, subject: Lee Harvay OSWALD. 2. It may be of interaet to your effiea te note the following ecineidences in the backgrounds ef EANTOR and Lee Harvey and Marina OSWALD: a. Ae you know from previous correspondence regardiag KANTOR, he reportedly wes in Minek, USSR, for eiz weeks during the summer ef 1958 and during the period 2 June to 8 September 1959. Although OSWALD apparently did not arrive in Miusk entil January 1960, Marines OBWALD, according te her own testimony, arrived in Minsk toward the end of August 1959. b. In interviews on 3 and 4 May 1961, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an employee of this Agency whe was known to KANTOR ae "a representative of American Intelligence", KANTOR claimed to have been something of an eddity ia Minsk since he wae the enly American reeiding there et the time. As such, he claimed te have attracted to himself a growp of yomg Soviets whe displayed an unusual curiosity about the standard of living in the United States and Western Europe and whose interests centered arownd girls, cars, having a good tima and listening to jage music on the Voice of America. Among these young Sovieta, aceording to KRANTOR, was a young man named Igor (LNU), "whose father was a Soviet army general”, It is interesting that OSWALD also reportedly SEP 1876 lar FOIA Review on MAL eoeitts tak et 4s pape ve cap meres Td A ere eh re gees bag Fi C34 aay ta CH 7 thee beams 7 | BDV-I¢9 29 3
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