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From: CIA
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Document type: NOTES

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A CIA memorandum dated March 17, 1964, for Chief

CI/R&A, quoted this allegation and made the following

reply:

M.

this

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This allegation is absolutely unfounded as

the following facts bear out:

Fist

a. The article cites a State Department

"cable"

, No. 234, dated 2 November 1959.

such "cable" probably does not exist;

however, the State Department dispatch,

No. 234, dated 2 November 1959, from the

U.S. Embassy in Moscow is no doubt the

:.

one which the article intended to cite

The dispatch carries the security

classification "Confidential." (See tab b?

How?

I the disguis earnin he seniomes or

Quetag b. the dispalch containe no statement of

inference that Richard E. Snyder, the

Second Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in : :

Moscow who talked with Oswald on 31 October

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1959, has CIA connection?

Snyder's name

is the only name of a person mentioned

who might have spoken with Oswald. The

only other U.s. official whose name was

mentioned in that State Department dispatch

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b. (Cont'a)

was Edward L. Freers, who signed the dispatch

as Charge

d'Affairs, ad interim.

Brief History of Agency Interest in Subject

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been. shown

c. Richard E. Snyder (DPOB: 10 Decenber 1919,

Possaic, N.J.) applied for employment with

the CIA in June 1949 and submitted a

complete pus fogn at that tine.

He

entered on duty with CIA in June 1949

and submitted a complete PHS form at that

time. He entered on duty with CIA on

8 November 1949 as a GS-9 ($4600.00 per

annum). According to his personnel

file (see tab c), he was assigned to

OPC

and was slated to serve in Tokyo

(the file contains no entry showing that

he actually served in Tokyo). He did,

however, serve in Heidelberd, Sparing

in March 1950. While in Germany he

apparently resigned effective 26 September

1950 in order to assume a position with

HICOG:

There are no further entries

in his

personnel file. The SR Division,

however, has an unofficial file on him

(see tab d)

That file shows that

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c. (Cont'd) .

term

Nelson BRICKHAM, an SR Division

staff employee, was in contact with

SNYDER for about one year (1956-1957).

BRICKHAM used

snyder as a spotter at

Harvard where Snyder was studying Russian

and had access to other students who

might be going to USSR. There is no

record of

POA, OA Or CSAvaction in

that connection. In March 1959

(probably just before SNYDER's departure.

for Moscow), State requested that he be

given two weeks of OBS Course (probably

ORR's training in Soviet Order of

Battle!.

poli

Chuck

Brief History of Agency Interest in Subject

d. Edward L. Freers was never an employee

(cite)

of the CIA:

He has been an employee

of the Department of State since 1941

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and has served in various countries.

In

derm

1952, while a

"Peripheral Officer" with

is a device

used to derrite state Dapartment in Rome, opt requested

Lagliaison dearance

" on him: the clearance

setter

i.e.

Meresto

"at"

was granted in April 1952. The interest

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•d. (Cont'a)

cancelled. From September to November

1956, 10; Division officials were in

official contact with him because of

his position at the Department of State.

For that purpose, IO requested and received

there'

liaison clearance from the

ffice of

Security. In addition, the office

of Security file contains the following

record of interest and clearance action

concerning FREERS:

April 1957

April 1958

August 1958

August 1959

January 1962

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(Memorandum (Classified Secret) for Chief CI(R&S)

Subject: Article Alleging Oswald was Interviewed

by CIA Employees, 17 March 1964, located in CIA

Loose Documents on Richard E. Snyder/

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(Classified Secret)

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In a memorandum dated March 18, 1964 for J. Lee

Rankin, General Counsel: of the Warren Commission, CIA

Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms made the

following

statement about Allen and Scott's

allegation

that Oswald met with CIA representatives

in Moscow:

3. I desire to state for the record that the

allegation carried in this press report is

utterly unfounded as far as the CIA is concerned.

/Memorandum (classified Secret) for MI. J. Lee

Rankin from Richard Helms, Deputy Director for Plans,

Subject: Article Alleging that Oswald was

interviewed by CIA in Moscow, 18 March 1964,

located in CIA 201 File on Richard E. Snyder./

(Classifed Secret)

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CIA INSERT

However,

section 2.c. of the CIA memorandum

of March 17, 1964, which was previously quoted,

states

that Snyder

served with the CIA in Heidelberg,

Germany beginning in March 1950, and that while he

was in Germany, he apparently resigned effective

September 26, 1950.

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In addition,

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However, section 2.c. of the CIA memorandun

of.

March 17, 1964, which was previously quoted,

states that for approximately one year (1956-1957)

a CIA employee, Nelson Brickham, used Snyder as

spotter at Harvard University where Snyder was

studying Russian and had access to other sutdents

who might be going to the USSR.*

*This letter is included in Official Personnel Folder

on Snyder at the CIA.

Also included in this file and

in the CIA Office of Security File on Snyder are

copies of a reply from the cIA personnel office to lylu

nyder, dated October 12, 1970.mive /ubujmta..

The CIA memorandum also states that in 1959 the State

Department requested that Snyder be given a two-week

course, probably in the Soviet Order of Battle.

concerned

Snyder estate that he peason eh existe heade a course...

State Department personnel who are headed

overseas tidentif military objecte, but that he dia

not take the mura probat because the timing or lif

secianmont. in Mocror in 1959 did not permit it.

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The CIA 201 file on Snyder contains a

memorandun dated June 30, 1949 regarding foreign

service candidates.

The memorandum lists

a number

of candidates, including Richard E. Snyder and John

A. McVickar.

/CIA Memorandum (classified Secret) re Foreign Service

Candidates, 6-30-49, located in CIA 201 File on

Richard E. Snyder

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