CABLE: FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND
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Document date: 11/29/1963
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1. FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND BRIDE ING AND TO ASSIST INI

EVALUATING ANY OPS LEADS GENERATED BY CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS:

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

OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUTHHAMPTON THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDIG CARD THAT HE ZAD

NO FIXED ADDRESS BUT PLANNAD REMAIN UNILED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACATION BEFORE

GOXTE "SOME SCHOOL IT SWISSE." (HAS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCHHEITZR

COLLEGE SWITZARLAND WITH WHICH HE KHOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE. D

B. 10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING SAME OFFICIAL BRITISE TRAVEL RECORDS OSVALD

LEFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI.

C. OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOIM NEVSPAPER "DAGENS NYHETER". 25 NOVEMBER 1913

STATES LIE OSWAID PASSED THROUGH SWEDEN OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE ADDS THAT OSWALD UN-

• SUCCESSFUL OBTAINING VISA TO USSR IN-HELSINKI WHICH RESULTED HIS RETURNING STOCKHOLM.

THO DAYS AFTER BE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECILY MOSCOW. CONCLUDING

SANITICE ARTICLE STATES "THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIS

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A VISA." ACCORDING RELIABLE SOURCE THERE WAS NO RECORD TRERE HAS ANY REQUEST FOR

USER VISA PROCESSED THROUGE NORMAL, CHANNELS FOR OSWALD ANY TIME DURING 1959 AND

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SCUROS INDICATED WAS DIFFICULT EXPLAIN HON OSWALD MIGHT HAVE RECD VISA IN TO DAYS

WITHOUT GOING THROUGE NORMAL CHANELS. ONLY CONCLUSION WHICH CAN BE DRAWN IS OSHALD

HUST HAVS RECD VISA DIRECTLY FROM SOVIET EMBASSY STOCKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALIY DONE

SPECIAL CASES BUT SOURCE HAD NO EVIDATICE CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPIION.

D. 10 TO 15 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELY SENSITIVE

SOURCE OSWALD STAYED AT TORNI HOTSI, HELSINKI 1O TO IL OCTOBER AND THEN MOVED TO

KLAUS KURKT FOLL WHERE STAYED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER, APPARAVILY HAITING FOR VISA BE

ISSUND HIM BY SOVIET CONSULATE HELSINKI. HE TRAVELED USSR BY TRAIN CROSSING AT

VAILSTALA 15 OCTOBER.

B. 13 MAY 1962: ACCORDING IO DUTCH OFFICIAL SOURCE, DUTCE CHARGE MOSCOW

ISSUED TRANSIT VISA, OSYALD'S VIPE 13 MAY 1962. THEIR RECORDS REVEAL HIFE HAS BORE

17 JULY 1941 INSTEAD: OF 19 JULY 1941: AND SEVERODVINSK INSTEAD OF BINSK. THERE NO

RECORD HER BAVING ACTUALLY TRANSTIEN NETHERLANDS.

F. 1962: OFFICIAL BRITISH RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT OSWALD RETURNED UNTIED

SISTES FROM USSR THROUGH UNTIED KINGDOM. HOWEVER IF HE WERE MERELY TRANSITING IT

WOULD NOI HAVE BEEN NECESSARY FOR HIM FILL OUT LANDING CARD AND THEREFORE THERE

WOULD BE NO RECORD HIS TRAVEL IN OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX.

G: 1963: ACCORDING EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AND RELIABLE SOURCE, ON

23 NOVEMBER MARIA SMETHLAGE, HEAD OF "WERKGROUP INFORMAIIE CUBA," TOLD EMPIOXES

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CUAAY EMBASSY HAGUE SEE WAS SURE SHE HAD MET "THAI MR. LEB IN HAVANA WHO DID TEI

MURDER. " SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS MAN OF VIOLENCE AND ENTIRELY FULI, OF HATE AND INDICATEI

TRAT IT POSSIBLE THIS MAN HAD BEEN MISUSED BY A GROUP. SHE SAID SHE HAD WRITTEN

"GIESCH' ABOUT BAD IMPRESSION SHE HAD HAD OF THIS IME. (HOS COMMENT: GIBSON IS

FAIRPIAY FOR CUBA RAP IN GENEVA) ALMOST TEREE HOURS LATER SMELLAGE AGAIN CONTACTED

CUBAN EMBASSY HAGUE AND SAID "MR LEE OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTER" HAD BEEN

SLANDERED AND IT WAS ANOTHER PERSON NAMED LEE OSWALD WHO HAD DONE IT. SMELLAGE

SEUMED TO ES GLAD TO HAVE HEARD "CORRECT" VERSION. (HES CONTENT: MR. LEE MAY BE

IDENTICAL VINCERI TEZODORE LEE WHO REPLACED RICHARD GIBSON AS HEAD OF FAIR PLAY

FOR CUBA CONMITIES IN NEW YORK. ALSO LEE HARVEY OSHALD HAS USED ALIAS O. I. LES;

HOWEVER NO TRACES TRAVEL TO CUBA LOCATIN AS OF THIS DATE.

H. ACCORDING RELIABLE INFO SMETHLAGE WAS IN CUBA JANUARY 1963 AND ACCORDING

TO OFFICIAL, DUTCH SOURCE SHE AGAIN TRAVELED CUBA FOR MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS 1963.

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