CABLE:AP WIRE STORY IN WASHINGTON STAR ON FOIA RELEASE OF OSWALD MATERIAL
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 10/2/76
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MATERIAL MAKES FOLLOWING STATEMENT WHICH YOU SHOULD BE AWARE,

eUTE: IN SWORN TESTIMONY BEFORE THE WARREN COMMISSION,

RICHARD HELMS, THEN A BRANCH CHIEF AND LATER CIA'S DIRECTOR.

•SAID THE AGENCY NEVER HAD OR EVEN CONTEMPLATED ANY CONTACTS

WITH OSWALD. •• NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENT, SAYS WE SHOWED IN

TELLIGENCE INTEREST IN OSWALD AND DISCUSSES... THE LAYING ON

OF INTERVIEWS. END QUOTE. Y

MATERIAL

2. ABOVE MISCONSTRUED FROM SANITIZED EAR RELEASED UNDER FOIA,

WRITTEN BY FORMER OFFICER WHO WAS INTERESTED IN POSSIBLE USEFUL IN-

FORMATION OSWALD MIGHT HAVE IN CONTEXT OF SOVIET REALITIES. IN

RESPONSE TO DCI CALL TO ALL HANDS TO RECORD WHATEVER THEY THOUGHT

MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO WARREN COMMISSION INTERESTS, OFFICER WROTE THIS

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summer, 960, the author

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ed while Oswald and his fami-y

en route to our country or il it

after their arrivals

was a CLA agen

-The Washingtan; St

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CIA Link

To Oswald®

Unproven:

Senate investigators were unable.

to confirm reports from two CIA oifi-»:

cers that the agency may have con;

tacted Lee Harvey Oswald prior to-

the assassination of President-John.

day ennedy i was learned yester

However,

Sen. Richard Schweiker,

R-Pat

"Who headed the

Kennedy

assassination•

estigation

through a spokes

that

"I'don'

think we snow the whole story.

The CLA released a

document

Thursday, showing that the

agencys,

once considered using Oswald

source, off intelligence

"information

the Soviet:

The

ment appeared to conflict with sworn

before: the

гтеп: Com-'

misSIon

by, Richard Helms

then. a

branch:

"Chielrand" later

the

'CIA's

director;

that the agency never had?

"or even contemplated" any contacts

with Oswald

79 54203 F

/ SCHWEIKER SAID he was

una

ware of the Oswald document, but a

well informed source said it had been:

turned over to the Senate intelligence

subcommittee that investigated

Kennedy assassination.

the

"We followed it up,'

i the source

said, but "we found no indication tha:

Oswald was in fact contacted.

• The same, source said, investiga-a

tors also were unable to cost

irm the

sworn; testimony, before the-subcom

mittee by a, former CIA, officer who

claimed to have seen: a CIA report

concerning a contact with a man.

closely.resembling.@swalds descrip.

schweiker confirmed that his subn

committee, had been unable" to cort

roborate several. reports 70% ClAy

contacts with Oswald in connection

with

his; travels: in

Russia:

1959 and 1962.5451112492"

between

Maze 07 ca

wald was never an emp

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