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Z CIA Personnel in Tokyo? Japa

The Committee investigated the allegation of former

CIA employee

James Wilcott

, who testified in executive

designated is is.

session that shortly after the assassination of President

Kennedy he was advised by fellow employees at the, cIAls

Tokyo Station that Bee-Ha

Hey Oswald was a CIA agent who

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had received financial disbursements under an assigned

cryptonym.

wilcott explained that he had been employed

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•by the CIA as a finance officer from 1957 until his resignation

from the Agency in 1966.

In this capacity, he served as a

fiscal account assistant on the support staff at the Tokyo.

Station from June of 1960 to June 1964.

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wilcott advised

that in addition to his regular responsibilities, he had

performed

served" security duty on his off-hours in order to supplement

his income.

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other employees of the Tokyo Station

who would come by the

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office and engage in informal conversations regarding

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told the committee that

on the day after President

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Kennedy's assassination

He was informed by a CIA case

officer that toe Harvey Oswald was

artIA agent.

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further testified that he was told that Oswald had been

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assigned a cryptonym and that Wilcott himself had

unknowingly disbursed payments for Oswald

-project using

that cryptanym.

Although Wilcott was unable to identify the

specific case officers who had initially informed him of

Oswald's Agency relationship, he named several employees

of the Tokyo Station with whom he believed he had subsequently

discussed the allegations.

Wilcott advised the Committee that after learning

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of the alleged Oswald connection to the CIA, he

had

never

rechecked the Tokyo

Station disbursement records for

evidence of the Oswald project. He explained that this was

because at that time he viewed the information as mere shop

talk and gave it little credence. Neither did he report

the allegations to any formal investigative bodies, fatbowing

ination as

he considered the information to be hearsay.

In an attempt to investigate Wilcott's allegations,

concerning lee Harvey wald'o relatienship with the GIA,

Committee interviewed several present and former CIA

employees who were selected on the basis of the position each

had held with

the era during the years 1954-1964. Among

those persons interviewed were individuals whose responsibilities

covered a broad spectrum of areas within the Tokyo Station).

during this-period, including the chief and deputy chief of

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station

as well as officers in finance, registry, the Soviet

Branch and counterintelligence. _I The committoo's

investigation-refuted Wilcott alregation.

During the course of their employment in the Tokyo

Station, none of these individuals interviewed had ever seen

any documents or heard any information indicating that Lee.

lazuay Oswald was a agent.

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This allegation was not

known to anyone until the time epubtication of Warren

commission crittoat. literature.and-the-Gami-soninvestigation

in the late 1960's.

/ Some of the individuals, including

the chief of counterintelligence within the Soviet Russia

Branch in Tokyo, expressed the belief that it was possible

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that Lee

-wey Oswald had been recruited by the KGB

auring his military tour of duty in Japan, as the CIA's

Tokyo Station had identified a KGB program aimed at recruiting

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U.S. military personnel in Tokyo during the period that

Oswald was

stationed there. An intelligence analyst whom

Wilcott had specifically named as having been involvede

followiny the assassimationd in a conversation

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regarding

the Oswald GIA agent allegation told the Committee that he

was not in the Tokyo Station at that time. A review of this

individual's Office of Personnel file confirmed that, in

fact, he had been transferred from the Tokyo Station to the

United States in 1962.

The chief of the Tokyo Station from 1961-1965 stated

that, had Oswald been used by the Agency within

his the Jokie ot

jurisdiction, they certainly would have known about it.

Similarly, almost all those persons interviewed who worked

in the Soviet Russia branch of that station indicated that

they would have known if bee Harvey Oswald had, in fact,

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byte

been recruited as a CIA agent when he was in Japan.

These persons expressed the opinion that had Oswald been

recruited without their knowledge, it would have been a rare

exception contrary to the working policy and guidelines of

he Tokyo Station

bee Harvey Oswald's CIA File (Cic)

os an indiaidual.

The CIA has long acknowledged that, prior to the

date about oswald/

President's assassination, it had a personality file on

that is, a file that containi

tee Harvey Oswald, This file, which in Agency terminology

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is referred to as a 201 file, was opened on December 9, 1960.

The Agency has explained to-the Committee that 201 files are

opened when a

person is considered to be of potential

intelligence or counterintelligence significance.

The

opening of such a file is designed to serve the purpose of

bringing all of the CIA's information pertaining to that

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been recruited as a CIA agent when he was in Japan.:

These persons expressed the opinion that had Oswald been

recruited without their knowledge, it would have been a rare

exception contrary to the working policy and guidelines of

the Tokyo Station.

Lee Harvey Oswald's CIA File

The CIA has long acknowledged that, prior to the

President's assassination, it had a personality file on

Lee Harvey Oswald. This file, which in Agency terminology

is referred to as a 201 file, was opened on December 9, 1960.

The Agency has explained to the Committee that 201 files are

opened when a person is considered to be of potential

intelligence or counterintelligence significance. The

opening of such a file is designed to serve the purpose of.

ringing all of the

information pertaining to that

Consolidating Certain

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or indirectly, in

any capacity for the CIA after his

resignation on

26 September 1950."

The Committee

thes 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 Uniond nor was the Agency actually able to explain

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

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