CABLE - TRAVEL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND HIS WIFE ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS.
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From: CIA
To: WH, DOS, FBI
Document date: 11/29/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEAN. GATHERED FROM RELIABLE SOURCES

REGARDING THE TRAVEL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND EIS WIPB:

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9 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL ERITISH TRAVEL RECORDS

OSWALD ARRIVED II SOUIHAMPTON THIS DALY CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD THÄT HE HAD

HO FIXED AUDRISS BUT PLANNED IO REMAIN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR YACHTION

BEFORE GOING OT TO "SOME SCHOOL IN SHISSE." (HRADQUARTERS COMMINT:

PROBABLY

REFERRING TO JHIS ALBERT SCHWETIZER COLLEGE IN SWITZURICE SHEN USEd IS KNOWN

TO HATE BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE.)

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B. 10 OCIOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO THE SANE ORSICIAT BRILISA TRAVEL

EZCORDS OSWALD LIFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI.

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C. OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLIM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYASTER" OF 25 NOVEMBER

-Z963 STATES IS OSAID PASSISO TEROUGH SWEDEN DURING OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE ALSO

JADES THAT OSWALD WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING VISA TO THE USSR IN HELSKINKI WHICH

EUID I LIE RENUINE TO STOCKHO DO DANS ARE IS ARRIVED IN STOCR

@OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECILY TO MOSCOW. CONCLUDING SEVIENCE OF ARTICLE STATES "JHIS

S INDICATES THAT THE RUSSIAN BABASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM A VISA. " ACCORDI

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

VISA PROCESSED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS FOR OSHAID AT ANY TIME DURING 1959, AND

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SCUROS INDICATED IT WAS DIFFICULI TO EXPLAIN HOW OSHAID MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED HIS

VISA IN INO DAYS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS. THE ONLY CONCLUSION

THICH CAN BE DRAMS IS THAT OSWALD MUST HAVE RECEIVED HIS VISA DIRECILY FROM THS

SOYIET EMBASSY IN SICKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALUY IS DONE IN SPSCIAI CASES, BUT THE

SOURCE HAD 170 EVIDENCE TO CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPTION.

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1O TO 15 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDEIG IO A VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELI

SENSITIVE SOURCE OSWALD STATED AI LES TORNI HOTBL IN HELSINKI FROM 10 TO 11

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

APPARENILE WAITING FOR A VISA TO BE ISSUED HIM BY IHE SOVIET CONSULATE IN HELSINKI.

EE TRAVELID TO THS USER BY IRAIN, CROSSING AT VAIVIKALA ON 15 OCTOBER.

E. 13 MAY 1962: ACCORDING IO A DUICH OFFICIAL SCURCE, THE DUTCH

CHARGE IS MOSCON ISSUED A TRANSIT VISA IO OSWALD'S WIFE ON 13 MAY 1962. THENIR

RECROS REVEAL HIS WIME WAS BORN ON 17 JULY 1941 INSTRAD DE 19 JULY I941 AND IIN

SEYSRODVIISX INSTEAD OF MINSX. THERE IS NO RECORD OF HER HAVING ACTUALLY TRANSITED

1962: OFFICIAL, BRILISE RECORDS DO HOT REFLECI THAT OSWALD RETURNSE

TO THE UNTIED STATES FROM THE USSR THROUGH THE UNITED KUNGDOM.

HOWEVER, IF HE

WERE MERELY TRANSITING, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY FOR HIM TO FILL OUT A

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

OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX.

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G. 1963: ACCORDING IO AN EXTREMBLE SENSITIVE AÑD RELIABLE SOURCE,

¡ 23 HOVIMBER MARIA BNSIELACE, HBAD OF THE "HEEKGROUP INFORMATIS CUBA," TOLD AN

PLOYSS OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN THE HAGUS THAT SHE WAS SURE SHE HAD MET "THAT

!. IBE IN HAVANA, WHO DID THE MURDER." SHA DESCRIBED HIM AS A MAN OF VIOLENCE

ENTIRELI PULL OR HATS AND INDICATED INAT II WAS POSSIBLS THAT THIS MAY HAD

MISUSED BY A GROUP, SUS SATO SES HAD TRITIST IO "GIBSON" ABOUT INS BAD

_SESICH SHE HAD HAD OP THIS LES. (HEADQUARTERS COMMEIS: PLEASTS REFER TO OUR

AMPSY NOS 85182 AND 85665 FOR ADDITICNAL INFORMATION ON GIBSON.) ALMOST

3E HOURS INTER, ENGIALAGE AGATE CONTACTED ILE CUBAN EMBASSI IN THE HAGUS AND

THAT ME LOT OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMINTER" HAD BEEN SLANDERED AND THAT

AS ANOTHER PERSON NAMED IBE OSWALD WHO HAD DONZ IT. SNETHLAGE SEEMSD IO BE

T'O HAVE HEARD THIS "CORRECT" VERSON. (ERADQUARTERS COMMEITT: MR. LEE MAY BE

ICAL MILE VINCENT THRODORE LIE WHO REPLACED RICHARD GIBSON AS BRAD CF THE

PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEB.)

H. ACCORDING TO RELIABLE INFORMATION SNAILAGE WAS IN CUBA IN JANUARY

AND ACCORDING IO AN OFFICIAL DUTCH SOURCE, SHE AGAIY TRAVELED TO CUBA FOR

DAI CHLBBRATIONS IN 1963.

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