MEMO: REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES AND TRAVEL OF L. H. OSWALD AND MARINA OSWALD
Originator: CIA
From: HELMS, DDP
To: RANKIN, WARREN COMMISSION
Document date: 03/31/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM FCR: Mr. J. Loe Raskin

SUBJECT:

"Reporta on Activities and Travel

of Los Harvey OSWALD god

Marisa Nicalavna OSWALD as

to. Warren Commission

Transmitteel

1. Reference is made to the second paragrapa of your

memorandum dated 12 February 1964, and the seconil para-

graph or your memoranium of 16 March 196%, relative to

dissemisations of information made by ClA to the Secret

Service.

2. Immodistely after the assassination dí Ixestdent

Kennedy CIA undertook to assemble through its stations in

Europe all avallable dats, including information in the illes

of other governments and intelligence services, on the

travels and activities of Ice Harvey OSWALD and Marina

Nikolevra OSWALD. This information, as it was collected,

was made avallable to the Whito House, the Department of

State and the Federal Burcau of Investigation Copies of

these messages were aiso sent to the Secret Service.

3. Attached to this memorandum are exact copies of

two taletyped messages relative to the travels and activitios

of the OSWALDs (Attachments A and 8).

Paragrapas g and h

'al Attachment 6 ate paraphrased. In Attachment 6, OUT

Teletype No. 85715, are found referencea to two other tele-

typed messages (OUT No. 85182 and QUI No. 85665) which

describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON, 2 negro journalist

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now rasiding in Switzerland who has been active in the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee, Paraphrases of No. 95182 and

No. 85665 are included as Attachments D and E. Acceas to

origival texts of paraphrased items will be provided wher

membera al your stali visit Langley, The isformation on

which paragraphs g and h al Attachment C are based Was

received at CIA Headquarters on 27 November and dissemi-

nated on 28 Noveraber.

This memorandum and the attachments contain

very sensitive imformation which has a direct bearing on

sources and methods. An approprlate sensitivity indicatos

bas thorefore been affixed.

Richard Helms

Deputy Director fox Plans

Attachsanta-

as stated

Distribution:

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Attachmest A

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Teletype messago, OUI No. 86702, dated 4 December 1963,

filed at 14ll hours, to the Whita House, the Department of

State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the

SUBJECT: LoA Harvey OSWALD

Recordo oí tho foreigners records office of the German

Federal Republic in Cologne, Germany, show that Marina

Nitolayerna Pusakova OSWALD crossed West Germany frors

East Germany to Holland on 3 June 1962. She travoled by rall,

crossing into West Germany at Helmstedt on 3 June and enter -

ing Holland by rail at the Benthoim croasing point. She had

Weat German visa 694/62 isaued at the West Germany Embassy

in Moscow. She listed her final destination as U.S.A. Comment:

This confirms information from the U.S. Embasay la Moscow

to the effect that the OsWALd family traveled fram Moscow to

Rotterdam by rail arousd 3 June 1962, Helmetedt and Berthelm

are on the main rail routo from Russia to Rotterdara, While

Let OSWALD himsalf and their infant daughter aro not recorded

in Gerraan recorda thia is probably bocause little attention is

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Attachment B

Teletype message, OUT No. 87520, dated 6 December 1963,

filed at 1829 hours, to the White House, the Department of

Stato and the Federal Bureau af Investigatios, with copy to the

Secret Servico.

SUBJECT: LeD HATreY OSWALD

Reference is inade to our OUT telegrams No. 86702 of

4 Decamber 1963 which gave information on the travel of

Marina OSWALD land presumably aldo list Harvey OSWALD

and thois daugater) across West Gertsany on their return

from the Soviet Unior, Information now available from Dutch

authorities seems to confirm thia. On 3 June 1962 one

M. OSWALD, listed as & male Russian citisen, entered The

Netherlands by train at the Oldenzaal border poist.

Comment: It is belioved that the listing of this person

as a male instead of female was just an erros of the border

officials. Note that Oldensaal ls ppposite Bentheim, the

German border point where Marina OSWALD left Germany.

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MICRORIMES

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Attachment C

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Teletypo message No. 85715, dated 29 November 1963, filed

at 1310 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and

the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secrek

Service.

SUBJECT: Travel a Lee Harvey OSWALD

I. The fallowing information has been gathered irona

reliable sources regarding the travel of lee Harvey OSWALD

and his wife:

a. 2 October 1959: According to official

British travel records OSWALD arrived in

Southarpton this date claiming on his landing card

that he had no fixed address but planned to remain

in the United Kingdom one week for vacation baíoro

going on to "some school" in Switzerland. (Head-

-quarters comment: Probably referring to the

Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland with which

he is knows to have been in corxesposdence.)

bo 10 October 1959: According to the same

Déficial British travel recorde OSWALD left London

this date by air for Helainist.

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c. October 1959: Stockbalm newspaper, Dagens

Nybetes, of 25 November 1963 statea Leo OSWALD

passed through Swedes during October 195% Article

also adds that ONWALD was unsuccessial is obtaining

visa to the USSR in Helsinki which resuited in his

returzing to Stockholm. Two days after he arrived in

Stockhoirs OSWALD traveled directly to Moscow.

Concluding sentenco of article states "Thia indicates

that the Russian Embaasy (Stockholms) gave hita a viad. "

According to a reliablo source there was no record

that thero was any regusat for a USSA visa processed

through normal channele for OSWALD at any time

during 1959, and spurce indicated it was difficult to

explain how OSWAID might have received his visa in

two days without going through nor Inal channels. Tho

only conclusion which can be drawn is that OSWALD

must have received his visa directly from the Soviet

Embausy in Stockholm which occasionally in done in

special cases, but the source had no evidence to confirm

this assumptian.

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do 10 to 15 October 1252: According to a very )

reliablo put atremely sonsitive pourer OSWALD stayed

at the Torni Hotel in Helsinki from 10 to 11 October and

then moved to the Klaus Kurki Hotel where he stayed

until 15 Octobex, apparently waiting for a visa to be

issued him by the Soviet Consulate la Helsinki, Fie

traveled to the USSR by train, crossing at Vairikiala on

15 October.

e. 13 May 1962: According to a Dutch official

source, the Dutch Charge in Moscow issued a transit

visa to OSWAiD's wile on 13 May 1962, Their records

rereal his wife was born on 17 July 1941 instead of

19 July 1941 and in Severodvinak instead of Minsk.

There is no record of her having actually transited

The Netherlands.

f. 1962: Official British records do not reflect

that OSWALD returned to the United States from the

USSR through the United Kingdom. However, li he

were merely transiting, it would not bave been

necessary for him to fill out a landing card, aud

therefore there would be no record of his travel in

the official trailic index.

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go. 1963: According to an extremely sensitive and

reliable source, on 23 November Maria SNETHLAGE,

head of the "'Werkgroup informatie Guba" (Workgroup

Information Cuba), told an employee of the Cuban

Embaasy in Tha Hagus that she was sure sho had set

Itbat Mis, LIt is Havasa, who did the murder". She

described him as a man di violence and entirely full of

hate and indicated that it was possible that this roaz bad

been misused by a group. She said she had written to

"GIBSON" about the bad impression she bad had of this

LENE,. (Headquarters comment: Please refer to our

teletype Nos. 85182 and 85665 for additional information

On GIBSON.) Later, SNETHLAGE told Castzo Cubans

In The Hague that "MI. LEE oi the l'air Play for Cuba

Committes" had been slandered and that it was another

person samed Los OSWALD who had doze it. SNETHLAGE

stened to be glad to have heard this 'correct" version.

(Headquarters comment; Mr. LEI may be identical with

Vincent Theodore LEE who replaced Richard GIBSON as

Head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.)

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Lo According to rollable information, SNETHLAGE

was in Cuba in Jamary 1963, and according to an official

Dutch source, sha again travoled to Cuba for the May Day

colebrations in 1963.

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Attachment D

Teletype No. 85182, dated 22 November 1963, filed at 1932 hours,

to the White Flouse, the Department of State and the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service. (paraphrase)

MICROFILMED

NUv 2 & 1867

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SUBJIGI: Lee Harvey OSWALD

I. In conversation with a close friond in Bars.

Switserland, on 23 Noverber 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON

Ismarked that OSWALD iS "ORe of Us", OSWALD and GIBSON

had corresponded two years previously, and OSWALD had

jolsed the Cormittee, (Comment: Reference is presumably

to the Faix Play fox Cuba Cammittee.) GIBSON added that he

had destroyed all his letters from OSWALD. OSWALD is

crazy, GISSON then remarked that he la happy that he was

not in New York. He feit sorTy for "LEE" in New York and

for "TIBOR".

2. The information given above was supplied by an

•extremely sensitivo source who is ubually reliable.

3. According to other information that was available,

Richard Thomas GIBSON, born 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles,

California, is a negro journalist who has been active in the

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Fair Play fox Cuba Committee since 1960. He has residod

since April 1963 at Lausanns, Switzerland. In this lattor

country GIBSON has participated in the publication of La

Revolution Africaine.

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Attachmoont E

Teletype message, OUT No, 85665, 28 November 1963, filed

at 1826 hours, to the White House, the Department of Stato and

the leteral Bureau ol investigation, with copy to the Secret

Service, (paraphrased)

1. Our station in The Hague has reported that os

23 November 1963, a local Castroite ramed Maria SNEIÁLAGE

told Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Guban Embassy in

The Hague that sho know the 'Mr. LIE" (sic) who murdered

President Kennedy. Sha described "'ILE"' as a man full of hate

and violence, and speculated that he had been misused by a

group'. She said she had writtes to GIBSON (undouatedly

Richard GIBSON, U.S. citizen of Lausanne, Switzerland, born.

13 May 1935, a Castro sympathixes, who had visited The

Notherlands recently and had been in contact both with the

Soviet Ambaasador and the Cuban Embassy)

2. Later that same day Maria SNETHLAGE told Secretary

SANTOS that "Mr. Lite of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee"

bad been slandered. The assassin had been another person,

Lee OSWALD. SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba

in January and again in May 1963.

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3. According to Dutch authorities on 7 November 1963,

in talking about attacks by Cuban refugees against the Cubas

mainland, SANTOs had replied "just wait and you will sse what

we can do.

# will happen soon," Asked to be more precise,

SANTOS had replied "Jast wait, just wait", SANIOS is reported

to have a pro-Castro brother in the U.S. A.

4. A very sensitive source reports that altor his conver-

sations with SNETHLAGE, SANTOS was very angry because she

had contacted him.

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27 March 1964

Internal memo containing biographic information

on two members of Warren Commission.

Document Number

626-820

for. FOIA Review on JUN 1976

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