CABLE-HQS WANTS TO KNOW MINIMUM TIME REQUIRED TO OBTAIN SOVIET TOURIST VISA.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 07/17/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

AAAAr

104-10418-10255

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

12-62

ORIG :

Le.

HI. Wigren:cl

ROUTING

UNIT.:

SR/CI/R

• INDEX

S-E-C-R-E-I

4

EXT

7735

B NO INDEX

DATE :

17 July 1964

I FILE IN CS FILE. NO.

17 J0L 61 23

TO

(HELSINK and STOCKHOLM

FROM

DIRECTOR

CONF

SR7

DEFERRED GEN

ROUTINE

INFO: LEG, A GI, CHORSO CIRA, VR

Riguert tor lafo on Length 7

ne to ontain dorat

TO

HELS, STOC

gourictVisi

CITE DIR

36101

REDWOOD

I. HCS WANIS TO KNOW MINIMUM TIME REQUIRED IO OBTAIN

SOVIET TOURIST VISA. INFO AVAILABLE HERE INDICATES SOV AMBASSADORS

AUTHORIZED ISSUE VISAS LOCALLY WITHOUT AWAITING MOSCOW

CLEARANCE, IF APPLICANT APPLIES PERSONALLY AT CONSULATE (AS

AGAINST OBTAINING THROUGH TRAVEL AGENCY). REQUEST YOU HAVE

1976

STATION MEMBER OR CLEARED CONTACT, AMERICAN OR LOCAL, PHONE

3, SOVEMB WITH STORY OF IMMINENI DEPARTURE FOR VACATION IN AUSTRIA

Document Number

Review

AND POINTS SOUTH, EXAMINING POSSIBILITY SPENDING FEW DAYS IN

ASKING

MOSCOWONLY EN ROUTE, "E CAN GET VISA AND DEPARI WITHIN I WO OR

for FOIA

POSSIBLY THREE DAYS. YE

2. ABOVE INFO NEEDED ASAP SO WOULD APPRECIATE EXPEDITE

DI

furt

ACTION. NO SENSITIVITY CONNECTED THIS REQUEST.

END OF MESSAGE

- AC/SR

Asten

149

Goes

C/WE/

RELEASING OFFICER.

WE/1/S •

-201-289248

C/SR/CIR

_COORDINAIIND OFF

Pr 12

GROUP 1

Excluded from automatic

downgrading and

declassification.

WIHENILCAIING

OFFICER

S-E-C-R-

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROFIBITED QUE OF

Copy No.

---