CABLE - 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 TO REMAIN IN THE UK FOR ONE WEEK FOR VACATION.
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To: WITHHELD
Document date: 11/29/1963
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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 UNITED KINGDOM ONE WEEK FOR VACATION BEFORE

GOING "SOME SCHOOL: IN SWISSE." (HOS COMMENT: PROBABLY REFERRING ALBERT SCHWETTZER

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

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10 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING SAME OFFICIAL BRITISH TRAVEL RECORDS OSWALD

LEFT LONDON THIS DATE BY AIR FOR HELSINKI.

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OCTOBER 1959:

STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER "DAGENS NYHETER" 25 NOVEMBER 1903

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

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

•THO DAYS AFTER HE ARRIVED STOCKHOLM OSWALD TRAVELED DIRECTLY MOSCOW.

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SENTENCE ARTICLE STATES "THIS INDICATES THAT RUSSIAN IMBASSY (STOCKHOLM) GAVE HIM

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

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

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SOURCE INDICATED WAS DIFFICULI 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 DIRECTLY FROM SOVIET EMBASSY STOCKHOLM WHICH OCCASIONALLY DONE

SPECIAL CASES BUT SOURCE HAD NO EVIDENCE CONFIRM THIS ASSUMPTION.

D. 10 TO 15 OCTOBER 1959: ACCORDING VERY RELIABLE BUT EXTREMELY SENSITIVE

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

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

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

VAINIKKALA 15 OCTOBER.

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

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

17 JULY 1941 INSTEAD OF 19 JULY 7942 AND SEVERODVINSK INSTEAD OF MINSK. THERE NO

RECORD HER HAVING ACTUALLY TRANS FAD NETHERLANDS.

F. 1962: OFTICIAL BRITISH RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT OSWALD RETURNED UNTUED

STATES 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.

G. 1963:

ACCORDING EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AND RELIABLE SOURCE, ON

23, NOVEMBER MARIA SMETHLAGE, HEAD OF "WERKGROUP INFORMATIE CUBA," TOLD EMPLOYEE

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CUBAN EMBASSY HAGUE SHE WAS SURE SHE HAD MET "THAI MR. LDE IN HAVANA WEO DID THE

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

THAT IT POSSIBLE THIS MAN HAD RUIN MISUSED BY A GROUP. SHE SAID SHE HAD WRITTEN

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

FAIRPLAY FOR CUBA REP IN GENEVA ALMOST THREE HOURS LATER SMETHLAGE AGAIN CONTACTOD

CUBAN EMBASSY HAGUE AND SAID "MR LEE OF THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE HAD BEEN

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

SLIMED 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 COMMITTE IN NEW YORK. ALSO IME HARVEY OSWALD HAS USED ALIAS O. H. LEE;

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

H. ACCORDING RELIABLE INFO SMETHLAGE WAS IN CUBA JANUARY 1963 AND ACCORDING

IO OFFICIAL, DUICH SOURCE SHE AGAIN TRAVELED CUBA FOR MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS 1963-

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