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*SUBJECT: NEWS STORY-ON LEE HARVEY OSWALDAND CIA IN JAPAN

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE PROVIDE NAME AND PHONE NUMBER OF

* PROJECT OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR DECLASSIFICATION OF<KENNEDY>

* ASSASSINATION› PAPERS.

EMBASSY PRESS OFFICER/ADVISED-COSJAI RECEPTION LAST NIGHT

THAT LOCAL UPI REPORTER IS ABOUT TO FILE A STORY BASED ON LOCAL

RESEARCH AND AN INTERVIEW WITH A RETIRED MARINE OFFICER WHO CLAIMED

*TO BE<LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S>COMMANDER IN JAPAN THAT OSWALD WAS

RECRUITED BY CIA WHILE STATIONED WITH THE MARINES IN JAPAN IN THE

UPI CORRESPONDENT OFFERED PRESS OFFICER>A CHANCE TO COMMENT.

PRESS OFFICEEDECLINED. (COS SUGGESTED THAT MUCH, IF NOT ALL PAPERS

ON OSWALD'S PERSONAL HISTORY HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFIED FOR USE BY MEDIA,

*RESEARCHERS AND< ASSASSINATION>BUFFS AS PART OF OVERALL<KENNEDI>

* ASSASSINATION>DECLASSIFICATION PROGRAM. LCOS ALSO RECALLED THAT THE

JPI REPORTERS STORY,

PORTERS STONE SEE PEM IS RELATED STORE FROM SURFACING

THE HISTORICAL OFFICE ATCHEADQUARTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEALING WITH

PUBLIC QUERIES TO THE REPORTER, ADVISING THAT HIS SCOOP MAY, IN FACT,

WOULD THEREFORE APPRECIATE NAME AND/OR NUMBER THAT UPI

REPORTER COULD CALL AT HEADQUARTERS HISTORICAL OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR

*<JEK ASSASSINATION> INQUIRY DECLASSIFICATION.

IF THERE IS ANOTHER

OFFICE AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES OR ELSEWHERE THAT HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR

SUCH INQUIRIES, THAT WOULD BE FINE AS WELL. THANKS FOR THE HELP.

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