CABLE: FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND BRIEFING AND TO ASSIST IN EVALUATING
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To: BOOK CABLE/5 EUR STATIONS
Document date: 11/29/1963
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1... FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND BRIEFING AND TO ASSISI IN

EVALUATING ANY OPS LEADS GENERATED BY CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS: •

A. 9 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS

OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUTHHAMPTON THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD THAT HE HAD

NO FIXED ADDRESS BUT PLANNED REMAIN UNTIED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACATION BEFORE

GOING "SCME SCHOOL IN SWISSE." (HOS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCHVEITZER

COLLEGE SWIIZERLAND WITH WHICH HE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE.)

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10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING SAME OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS OSWALD

LEFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI.

C. OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYHETER" 25 NOVEMBER 1953

STATES LIE OSWALD PASSED THROUGH SWEDEN OCTOBER 1959. ARTICLE ADDS THAT OSWALD UN-

SUCCESSFUL OBTAINING VISA TO USSR IN-HELSINKI WHICH RESULTED HIS RETURNING STOCKHOLM.

TWO DAYS AFTER RE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECILY MOSCOW. CONCLUDING

SENTENCE ARTICLE STATES "THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HI

A VISA. ".. ACCORDING RELIABLE SOURCE THERE WAS NO RECORD THERE WAS ANY REQUEST FOR

Sor FOlA Review

USER VISA PROCESSED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS FOR OSWALD ANY TIME DURING 1959 AND

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SOURCE INDICATED WAS DIFFICULT EXPLAIN HOW OSWALD MIGHT HAVE RECD. VISA IN TWO DAYS

WITHOUT GOING THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS: ONLY CONCLUSION WHICH CAN BE DRAWN IS OSHALD

MUST HAVE RECD VISA DIRECILY FROM SOVIET EMBASSY SIOCKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALLY DONE

SPECIAL CASES BUT SOURCE HAD NO EVIDENCE CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPIION.

D. 10 TO 15 OCTOBER 1959:

ACCORDING VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELY SENSITIVE

SOURCE OSWALD STAYED AT TORNI HOTSE HELSINKI 10 TO 11 OCTOBER AND THEN MOVED TO

KLAUS KURKI HOTEL WHERE STAYED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER, APPARENILY WAITING FOR VISA BE

ISSUND HIM BY SOVIET CONSULATE HELSINKI. HE TRAVELED USSR BY TRAIN CROSSING AT

VAINI KALA 15 OCTOBER.

E. 13 MAY 1962: ACCORDING TO DUTCH OFFICIAL SOURCE, DUTCH CHARGE MOSCOW

ISSUED TRANSIT VISA, OSWALD'S, VIFE 13 MAY 1962. THEIR RECORDS REVEAL. WIFE WAS BORN

17 JULY 1941 INSTEAD OF IS JUX 794L AND SEVERODVINSK INSTEAD OF MINSK. THERE INO

RECORD HER HAVING ACTUALLY TRANSTIED NETHERLANDS.

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1962: OFFICIAL BRITISE RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT OSWALD RETURNED UNITED

STAINS FROM USSR THROUGH UNTIED KINGDOM.

HOWEVER IF HE WERE MERELY TRANSITING IT

WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY FOR HIM FILL OUT LANDING CARD AND THEREFORE THERE

WOULD BE NO RECORD HIS TRAVEL IN OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX.

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1963:

ACCORDING EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AND RELIABLE SOURCE, ON

23 NOVEMBER MARIA SMETHLAGE, HEAD

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CUBAN EMBASSY HAGUE SHE WAS SURE SHE HAD MET "THAT MR. LEE IN HAVANA WHO DID THE

MURDER. " SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS MAN OF VIOLENCE AND ENTIRELY FULL OF HATE AND INDICATED

THAT IT POSSIBLE THIS MAN HAD BEEN MISUSED BY A GROUP. SHE SAID SHE HAD WRIHYEN

"GIBSON" ABOUT BAD IMPRESSION SHE HAD HAD OF THIS LEE. (HOS COMMENT: GIBSON IS

FAIRPLAY FOR CUBA REP. IN GENEVA) ALMOSI THRNE HOURS LATER SMELLAGE AGAIN CONTACTED

CUBAN EMBASSY HAGUE AND SAID "AR LEE OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMIT

LEE" HAD BEEN

SLANDERED AND IT WAS ANOTHER PERSON NAMED LEE OSWALD WHO HAD DONE IT.

SMETHLAGE

SEEMED TO BE GLAD TO HAVE HEARD "CORRECT" VERSION. (HOS COMMENT:

MR. LEE MAY BE

IDENTICAL VINCENT THEODORE LEE WHO REPLACED RICHARD GIBSON AS HEAD OF FAIR PLAY

FOR CUBA COMMITTEE IN NAY YORK. ALSO LEE HARVEY OSWALD HAS USED ALIAS O. H. LEE;

HOWEVER NO TRACES TRAVEL TO CUBA LOCATED AS OF THIS DATE.

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ACCORDING RELIABLE INFO SMETHLAGE WAS IN CUBA JANUARY 1963 AND ACCORDING

TO OFFICIAL: DUTCH SOURCE SHE AGAIN TRAVELED CUBA FOR MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS 1963.

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