MARVIN KANTOR: POSSIBLE CONNECTION TO INVESTIGATION OF LEE HARVEY AND MARINA OSWALD.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 3/2/65
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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R MAR 1965

MEMORANDUM FOR:

SUBJECT

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Marvia KANTOR; Possible Connaction to Investigation

of lse Harvey and Marina OSWALD

1. Reference la made to your fila number (8) 105-77772, eubject:

Marvin RANTOR and to your file number (5) 105-82555, subject, kee Harvey

OSWALD.

2. It may be of interest to your offlee to note the fellowng

colneidences in the backgrounds of KANTOR and Lee Harvay and Marina

OSWALD:

# Ao you know from previous correspondence regarding

KANTOR, he reportedly was In Minak, USSR, for ela

weake during the sunner of 1958 and during the pertod

2 June to & Septamber 1959. Although OSWALD apparently

did not arrive in Mask until January 1960, Martas

OSWALD, according to her own testimony, arrived 1a

Minsk toward the end of August 1959.

Document Mumber

100

la, FOlA Revier on

SEP 1376

KANTOR claimed to have been sowething of an oddity fa

Minsk since he was the only Anerican reelding there at

the time. As such, he claimed to have attracted to

himself a group of young Soviets who displayed an

unusual curiosity about the standard of living 1a the

United States and Western Europe and whose Intreate

centered around girls, ears, having a good time and

Listaning to jase muste on the Volce of America. Among

chese young sovlets, according to RANTOR, wAs & young

man naned Igor (LNU), "whose father was a Soviet army

general".

It Is Interesting that OSWALD also reportedly

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