MEMO: JFK BOARD REQUEST- -KGB FILE ON OSWALD
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From: NOTE FOR:  THE FILE
To: JOHN PEREIRA
Document date: 01/19/1996
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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:MEMO: JFK BOARD REQUEST- -KGB FILE ON OSWALD

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FOR: The File

SUBJECT: JFK Board Request-KGB

File on Oswald

19 January 1996

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

RELEASE IN FULL

2000

tha Be art

1. On 17 January, David Marwell asked me if the Agency

had any information concerning a UPI report of January 1994

that Belarus had given President Clinton KGB files on

Oswald. (Report attached)

2: On 19 January, I called Marwell with the following

interim response:

- A check with the Do, including the CI Center,

did not turn up any information.

- I asked David Van Tassel at the NSC if he

knew anything about the subject.

He said that he

remembered something about the report, but could

not recall whether there was any validity to it.

He said that he would check further and let me

know the result.

John Pereira

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SUBJECT :

JFK Board Request

KGB File on Oswald

DCI/CSI/HRG/JPereira:bas/x30373 (19 Jan 95)

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Copyright 1994 U.P.I.

Sinuary 23, 1991, Sunday, 8C cycle

SECTION: Intomational

LENGTH: 235 words

HEADLINE: Belarus leader says he taught Aussian to Lce Harvoy Oswald

DATELINE: MOSCOW

The leader of the former Soviet republic of Balarus revealed Sunday that

ha laught Russian 1o Loc Harvey. Oswald, the accused assassin of former

President Johnif. Kennedy.

Stanislav Shushkench, a former academic who is chairman of the Belanus

Parliäment, said in an intervicw with Russian iclevision that he was

Oswald's languagu coach when tho ex-marine lived in the Belarus capilal

Minsk in the carty 1960s

"I personnaly laught Russian language lo the man who is considered the

murderer of Kennudy," Shushkovichi said.

Shushlovich was answering a question about Delarusian KGB files on

Oswald that were handed over, along with Russian archal documents relating

1o the Kennedy assassiriation, 10 U S. President Bill Clinton during his

racont visit lo the imo republics.

Before he shot Kennedy in Dallas in Nov. 1963. Oswald lived in the

Soviel Union from 1959 10 1962, where tie sought political asylum and Soviet

cilicriship.

Oswald spent much of that time in Minsk, where he was given a job at a

local television factory, met his future wile Marina Prusatiova and went

hunting in the surrounding forusts.

Aocording to the daily Izvesta, he was under constant surveilance by

the Sonci secret police.

Oswald's stay In the Sovict Union raised suspicions that hc was a KGB

agent, bur the Sovict aulhontios denied ever recruiting the loner, who

showed fille inturest in Mandsm.

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