CABLE: FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR COS BACKGROUND BRIEFING AND TO ASSIST IN EVALUATING ANY OPS
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To: HAGU, LOND, ET AL.
Document date: 11/29/1963
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FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR GOS BACKGROUND BRIEFING AND TO ASSIST IN

EVALJATING ANY OPS LEADS GENERATED BY CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS:

A. 9 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL BRITISH-IRAVEL RECORDS

OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUT

IMPION THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD THAT HE EAD

NO FIED ADDRESS BUT PLANNED REMAIN UNITED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACATION BEFORE

GOING "SOME SCHOOL IN SWISSE." (EQS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCEWEITZER

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

B. 10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING SAME OFTICIAL BRITISE TRAVEL RECORDS OSWALD

LIFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR -HELSINKE

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OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYHETER" 25 NOVEMBER 1943

STATES LEE OSWALD PASSED THROUGH SWEDEN OCTOBER 1959.

ARTICLE ADDS THAT OSWALD UN-

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

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IWO DAYS AFTER HE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECTLY MOSCOW.

CONCLUDING

SENTENCE ARTICLE STAIES "THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM

A. VISA."...

ACCORDING RHL IABLE -SOURCE THERE WAS NO-RECORD THERE-HAS-ANY-REQUEST -FOR

USER VISA

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SOURCS INDICATED WAS DIPTICULI EXPLAIN HOW OSWALD MIGET HAVE RECD VISA IN IVO DAYS

TOUT COING THROUGH NORMAL - CHANNELS !

ONLY-CONCLUSION-WRISE-CAN-BE-DRAWN -ES OSHALI

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

SPECIAL CASES BUT SOURCE-HAD NO EVIDENCE CONFIRM THTS ASSUMPRION

D. 10.00 15 00IOR-1959: ACCORDING VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELY SENSITIVE

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

KLAUS KURKI HOTDE WHERE STAYED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER, APPARUNILY WAITING FOR VISA BE

ISSUED HIM BY SOVIET CONSULATE HELSINKI. HE TRAVELED USSR BY TRAIN CROSSING AI

VAINISTALA: 15 OCTOBER.

T. 3,3 MAY 1962: -ACCORDING TO DUTCH OFFICIAL SOURCE, DUICE CHARGE MOSCOW

JASUED TRANSIT VISA OSWALD'S VIE 13 MAY 1962. THEIR RECORDS REVEAT. VITE HAS BORN

Í7 JULY 1941 INSTEAD OF 19 JULY 1941 AND SEVERODVINSK INSTEAD OF MINSK.

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1962: OFEICIAL BRITISH RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT OSWALD RETURNED UNITED

SIVES FROM USSR THROUGH UNIIND KINGDOM. HOWVER VHS-WERE-MERELY TRANSILING IT

WOULD.NOT HAVE REDN- NECESSARY-FOR HIM FILL OUT LANDING CARD AND THEREFORE THERE

WOULD. BE. NO, RECORD. HIS TRAVEL. IN OFFICIAL TRAFFIC INDEX.

G. 1963: ACCORDING EXTREMILY SENSITIVE AND RELIABLE SOURCEY ON

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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 VIOLANCE AND ENTIRELY FULL OF HATE AND INDICATE

THAT I POSSIBLE THIS MAN HAD BENT MISUSED BY A GROUP.

SHE SAID SHE HAD WRITIN

"CIESON" ABOUT BAD IMPRESSION SHE HAD HAD OF THIS LET. (HOS COMMENT; GIESON IS

FAIRPLAY FOR CUBA REP IN GENEVA) ALMOST THIRSE HOURS LATER SMETHLAGE AGAIN CONTACTED

SLANDERED AND IT WAS ANOTHER FERSON NAMED LUE OSWALD WHO HAD DONE IT.

SMETHLAGE

SEEMED TO SE GLAD IO LAVE HEARD "CORRSCT" VERSION.

(HOS COMMENT

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FOR CUBA COMMITTEE IN NEW YORK. ALSO INE HARVEY OSWALD HAS USED ALIAS O. I. LUE;

BONEVER -NO TRACES TRAVEL TO CUBA LOCAIND AS -OF THIS, DATE

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TO OFFICIAL DUICH SOURCE-SHE AGAIN, TRAVELYD, CUBA. FOR MAY-DAY GULEBRATIONS: 1963-

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1. FOLLOWING SYNOPSIS IS FOR BACKEROUND BRIEFING AND TO ASSIST I

EVALUATING ANY OPS LEADS GENERATED BY CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS:

A. 9 OCTOBER 1959:

OSWALD ARRIVED IN SOUTHHAMPION THIS DATE CLAIMING ON HIS LANDING CARD TEAT HE HAD

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

GOING "SOME SCHOOL, IN SWISSE." (EQS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCEWEITZER

COLICE SW

IZARLAND WITH WHICH HE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN CORRESPONDENCE.)

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10 OCTOBER 1959:

OSWALD

IT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR

OCTOBER 1959: STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYHETER" 25 NOVEMBER 1963

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

CESSFUL OBIAINING VISA TO USSR IN-HULSINKI WHICH RESULTED HIS RETURNING STOCKHOLM.

IWO DAYS AFTER HE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECTLY MOSCOW.

CONCLUDING

SENIECE ARTICLE STATES "THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM

- A VISA."

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