CABLE: TRAVEL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD.
Originator: CIA
From: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
To: WHITE HOUSE, DEPT OF STATE, FBI
Document date: 11/29/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT: TRAVEL OF LAB HARVEY OSWALD

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I. THS FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN GATHERED FROM RELIABLE SOURCES

REGARDING THE TRAYKL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND HIS WIFB:

A. 9 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS

OSWALID ARRIVED IN SOUTHAMPTON THIS DANS CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD IRAT HE HAD

HO FIXED AUDRESS BUT PLANNED TO REMAIN IN THE URLITO KINEDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACATION

BEFORE GOING CY TO "SOME SCHOOL IN SWISSE." (HRADQUARTERS COMMENT:

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HOFERRING TO THE ALBERT SCHWIZER COLLEGE IN SUTURIAN SHEATERSAVE

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TO HAYB BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE.)

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B. 10 OCIUBER 1959: ACCORDING TO THE SALL OFICIAL. BRILISH TRAVEL

RECORDS OSHALD LEFT LONDON THIS DALE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI.

C. OCTOBER 1959:

STOCKIOLEM HUMSPAPER "DAGINS NYRSIER" OF 25 NOVEMBER

1963 STATES IIIS OSMALD PASSIED VIROUGH SHIDEW DURISE OCTOBER 1959.

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¿ADDE THAT OSHALD WAS UNSUCCESSIUI II OBTAINING VISA IO THE USER IN ISTANINT WHICH

RESULSO IN HIS RETURNING TO STOCKHOLM. TWO DAIS APISA IS ARRIVED IN STOCKHOLM

JOSHALD TRAVELSO DIRSCILY TO MOSCON, COHCLNDIRE SAVEN OF ARTICLE SPASS "IS

INDICATES JHAT THE RUSSIA BABASSY (STOCKHOLM) CAVE HIM A VISA. " - ACCORDING

TO A RELIABLE SOURCE THERE WAS NO RECORD THAT THERE WAS ANY REQUEST FOR À USSR

VISA PROCESSED IHROUGH NORMAL CHANNKIS FOR OSHALD AT ANY TIME DURING 1959, AND

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BOTROS INDICAL IT HAS DIFFICULI TO EXPLAIN HOW OSHALD MICHT HAVE RECEIVED HIS

VISA IN 1N0 DAYS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS, THIS ONLY CONCLUSION

KHICH CAY BE DRAST IS THAI OSWALD MUST HAVE RECHIVED HIS VISA DIRECILY FROM THE

SOVIET EMBASSY IN STOCKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALLY IS DONE IN SPECIAL CASES, BUT THE

SOURCE HAD HO IVIDENCE TO CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPIION.

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1O TO 15 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO À VERY RELIABLE BUT EXUREMBLY

SENSITIVE SOURCE OSHALD STAYED AT THE TORNI HOTEL IN HELSINXI FROM 1O TO I1

OCTOBER AND THRA MOVED TO THE KLAUS KURKI HOTEL WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER,

APPARENILE WAITING FOR A VISA TO BE ISSUED HIM BY THE SOVIST CONSULATE IN HELSINKI.

EE TRAVELED TO THE USSR BY TRAIN, CROSSING AI VATVIKKALA ON 15 OCTOBER.

I. 13 MAY 1962: ACCORDINE IO A DUTCH OFFICIAL SOURCE, THE DUICE

CHARGE IS MOSCON ISSUED A TRANSIT VISA TO OSHALD'S WIPS ON 13 MAY 1962. TURKIR:

RECCHOS REVRAL HIS WIVE HAS BORN ON 17 JULY 1941 INSTRAD OF 19 JULY 1941 AND IN

SBVSRODVTNSX INSTEAD OF MINSK. THERE IS NO RECORD OF HER HAVING ACIUALLY TRANSLIED

I. 1962: OFFICIAL BRITISH RECORDS DO NOT REFLECI THAT OSHALD RETURNSO.

TO TEX UNITED STATES FROM THE USSR THROUGH THE UNTIED KINGDOM. HOWVER, IF HE

WERE MERLILY TRANSITING, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEE NECESSARY FOR HIM TO FILL CUT A

LADING CARD, AND THEREFORE THERE WOULD BE NO RECORD OF HIS TRAVEL, IN THE

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021 23 JOYABER MARIA SUBTILACES, HAD OR THE "HEEKGROUP INFORIATIS CUBA," TOLD AN

PLOYS OF THE CUBAN RMBASSY IN THR HAGUE THAT SHE WAS SURE SHE HAD MET "THAT

N3. IBS IN HAVARA, WIO DID IHE MIRDER. " SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS À MAN OF VIOLENCE

AND ENTIRALY FULL, OF HATE AND INDICALSO IHAT IT' WAS POSSIBLE THAT THIS MAN HAD

BZXH MISUSED BY A GROUP. SUL SAID SHR HAD HRITIVAT IO "GIBSON" ABOUT THE BAD

INPRISSSICH SHS HAD HAD ON THIS LEZ. (HZADQUARTERS COMMENIS: PLEASE REFER TO OUR

TRISTYPTY NOS 85182 AND 85665 FOR ADDITIONAL INPORMATION ON GIBSON.) ALMOST

THREE YOURS LATER, SHEILACE AGALI CONTACIED ISIE CUBAN EMBASSY IN THE HAGUE AND

SAID THAT 'HS LET OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTI?" HAD BEEN STANDERED AND THAT

II WAS ANOIHER PERSON HAMKD LET OSWALD WHO HAD DONE IT. SNETHLAGE SREMED TO BE

GLAD 10 HAVE HBARD THIS "CORRECT" VERSON. (ERADOTARTERS COMMUNI: MR. IRE MAY BE

IDENTICAL WIN VINCENT THEODORE LRE WHO REPLACED RICHARD GIBSON AS HRAD OF 148

FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMINSB.)

B. ACCORDING TO RELIABLE INFORMATION SNEILAGE WAS IN CUBA IN JANUARY

1963, AND ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL, DUTCH SOURCS, SIS AGAIN TRAVELED TO CUBA FOR

THS MAY DAY CELKERATICNS IN 1963.

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