TELECON FROM SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF.
Originator: CIA
From: CI/OG/SO
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 12/04/1975
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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4 December 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Telecon from Senate Select Committee Staff

of the Senate homiere staf Petem Deten era Mined Do enquire

about the Oswald file.

Specifically he wanted to know if

the DCD holdings were reviewed for any information relating

to Lee Harvey Oswald: Initially I replied that I believed

they were, however, as i was not sure, I would make the

appropriate inquires and if they were not, would initiate

the necessary check.

Mr. Dwyer then asked for the full

name of Mr. Ben Pepper who had been interviewed by the

Senate Staff last week. (Ben Pepper appeared before the

Senate

Staffers under an alias and I did not know what

that alias was.) I advised Mr. Dwyer that I would make

inquires as to whom he spoke to and would provide him

with the name. The final query of Mr. Dwyer was to ask

whom or how the Agency handled Immigration and Naturaliza-

tIon requests on form G-135A.

I replied that I was un-

aware of the form, therefore

I could not give him an

adequate response.

However, occasionally I have seen

queries on some sort of government form which required

response to either the FBI or Department of State re-

lating to visa applications.

He asked if it were possible

to determine if a G-135A check was made on December 13,

1961. I asked on whom

was the check being made and Mr.

Dwyer advised he did not know if it was Mr. Lee Harvey

Oswald or his wife, Marina. I told him I would look into

it and advise him when next he came to the building.

2.. On advise from Mr. Fred Randall, I contacted

Ms. Helen Spilman of DCD regarding the first question of

Ms. Spilman looked into the material and ad-

vised that DCD holdings had been reviewed several times

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and any materials related to the Oswald case had been

made available to CI Staff for incorporation into the

official 201.

She further commented that it was her

recollection

that the only material found in DCD files

was related to the Garrison investigation.

In discussions with Mr. Mike Cleffy regarding

the G-135 check, latter advised that there was no possible

way of determining if such a check had been

requested on

13 December 1961.

He suggested that the CI Staff search

the Lee Harvey Oswald file and Marina's file.

This was

done and we found in the Office of Security file on Oswald

a G-135A name check dated 5 December 1961. With respect

to Marina Oswald, there is a Department of State Division

of Security request for security information on her

dated 9 December 1961.

With respect to the alias used by Ben Pepper,

I checked with Mr. Norman Shepanek who provided it.

5.

None of the above information has, of this

writing, been made available to Mr. Dwyer.

It is in-

tended that it will be best to tell him verbally when

next he comes to continue his review of the Oswald file.

(Daniel R. Niesciur

CI/OG/SO

DO/C/06/SoD. Vieselux/1731/4 December 1975

Distribution:

VI - Mr. Waller

1 - Mr. Breckenriäge

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