CABLE: CHAIRMAN SHUSHKEVICH WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S RUSSIAN TEACHER
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From: SECSTATE WASHDC
To: AMEMBASSY, MINSK
Document date: 07/13/1992
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUEJECT: CHAIRMAN SHUSHKEVICH WAS LEE

OSWALD'S RUSSIAN TEACHER

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2. DURING MEETING JULY 13 BELARUSIAN SUPREME

SOVIET CHAIRMAN STANISLAV SHUSHKEVICH

SUPRISED CHARGE BY STATING OUT OF THE BLUE

THAT HE HAD ONCE GIVEN RUSSIAN LESSONS TO

PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSIN, LEE HARVEY

OSWALD.: SHUSHKEVICH SAID HE HAD NEVER BEFORE

TOLD A FOREIGNER OF HIS CONNECTION TO OSWALD.

THE YEAR WAS 1961 AND OSWALD HAD BEEN

ASSIGNED TO WORK AT THE MINSK RADIO-TECHNICAL

FACTORY AS A METAL CRAFTSMAN (SLESAR').

SHUSHKEVICH, WHO LATER BECAME A PHYSICS

PROFESSOR, AT THAT TIME WAS ALSO EMPLOYED AT

THE PLANT AND WAS TOLD.

HE SAID, TO

GIVE

OSWALD RUSSIAN LESSONS.

SHUSHKEVICH SAID HE NEVER WOULD HAVE

BELIEVED THAT "SOMEONE OF OSWALD'S MENTALITY

AND CHARACTER" (NOT FURTHER SPECIFIED) COULD.

POSSIBLY HAVE PLOTTED AND CARRIED OUT THE

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

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