CABLE RE PRESS REPORT OF OSWALD TRAVEL
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR CIA
Document date: 11/28/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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NEWSPAPERS SQUIB "DAGENS. NYHETER" OF 25 NOVEMBER STATES

THAT LEE OSWALD PASSED THROUGH SUEDEN DÜRING OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE

ALSO ADDS THAT OSWALD WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING VISA TO THE

USSR IN HELSINKI WHICH RESULTED IN OSWALD RETURNING TO STOCKHOLM•

TWO DAYS AFTER ARRIVAL IN STOC OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECTLY TO MOSCOW.

CONCLUDING SENTENCE STATES "THIS INDICATES THAT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY

(STOC) GAVE HIM A VISA." TITRE BEING REQUESTED GET PRESS FULL

STORY AND SOURCE.

2. AT 27 NOV MEETING WITH TICRIBBAGE/1 REIDEMANN QUERIED T/1

AS TÖ KNOWLEDGE THIS TRAVEL. TÍI, AWARE THIS ARTICLE, HAD ALREADY

CHECKED ALL FILES OF IDEN 1, FOR THE YEAR 1959 FOR INDICATION OSWALD

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TRAVEL THROUGH IDEN 1. THI WAS NOT ABLE TÔ LOCATE ANY RECORD OF A

VISA REQUEST FOR OSWALD DURING EITHER OCTOBER 1959 OR ANY OTHER

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MONTH OF 1959. TY1 FINDS THIS MYSTERIOUS INASMUCH AS IDEN 1 HANDLED.

ALL AMERICAN VISA"REQUESTS FOR TRAVEL TO THE USSR AS WELL AS

"PRACTICALLY 100 PERCENT" OF ALL VISAS ISSUED FOR TRAVEL TO THE USSR

IN STOCKHOLM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CASES WHICH THE SOVIET EMBASSY,

STOC, VISAED DIRECTLY FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN INTEREST.

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CHECKED EVERY VISA REQUEST FOR 1959 PLUS ALL VOUCHER COPIES AS WELL

AS ORDER SHEETS

AND ALL CORRESPONDENCE FOR SUCH TRAVEL WITH NEGATIVE

RESULIS. THIS CHECK WAS MADE WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF TIL'S SUPERIORS

IDEN Z, WHO ALSO IS PUZZLED AS TO HOW OSWALD RECEIVED HIS VISA IN

"TWO DAYS" WITHOUT GOING THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS. AS A RESULT OF

T/I'S NEGÄTIVE CHECKS, IDEN 2 CAUTIONED É/1 NOT TO DIVULGE THIS

INFORMATION TO THE PRESS.

3. 7/1 AND IDEN 2 CONCLUDE THAT OSWALD MUST HAVE BEEN VISAED

DIRECTLY "BY THE SOVIET EMBASSY., STOC, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE

TO CONFIRM SUCH AN ASSUMPTION. T/S HAS CONTINUING ACCESS TO ALL :

FILES OF SUCH TRAVEL AND IS ABLE TO RE-CHECK FILES TO ATTEMPT TO

DETERMINE IF OSWALD COULD HAVE BEEN VISAED USING A DIFFERENT NAME.

INTERNATIONAL EDITION OF NEW YORK TIMES FOR 26 NOV PRINTED STATEMENT

BY DALLAS DISTRICT ATTORNEY THAT OSWALD HAD USED ASSUMED NAME OF •

"HIDELL" AND HAD ID CARD BEARING SUCH NAME. T/1 WILL CHECK FILES.

FOR POSS TRAVEL USSR BY "HIDELL". ALSO CHECKING VARIANT SPELLING

"A." HYDELL" PER QKFLOVAGE RELEASE.

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