EVIDENCE POINTS TO OSWALD'S TRAINING BY REDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400310007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

found himself In truly strange Kremlin wher. he allegedly fired
and foreign surroundings., From,the shots that killed Kennedy.
he had been hastily removed to;military intelligence had a big.
the small, bleak city of Minsk in,?job ahead: ".. to obtain every
the winter of 1959. particle of information from
Oswaldis interrogation-
11.,1t flay in ..Los ? Angeles two;tronics and call signs (Oswalclldragged on into the spring of station of an alleged sheet metal:
months ear?lihr ''hen his pass=had been a radio lecbnician)1960, Smith estimates. When it worker, for he met and began.
.port application to travel abroactjbut also on Marine Corps pro=lfinally ended, intelligence offi- courting Marina * Nikolayevna
was epprnved. cedures ... i?cials, probably began debating Prusakova, reportedly the niece
He.had made his :way to Rus~ "An interrogation iob of sev-I how best to utilize him. of a Soviet intelligence colonel.:
sia seeking Soviet citizenship in eral months tacr.d Snviri hitelli-i Did Oswald have agent paten-i -]n February, 1963, Oswald
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a land where the political way of`gence, especially if Oswald had
life conformed with his own dis- been alert and had used his
torted views. - I Marine Corps lour to prepare
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Oswald's arrival in Moscow' in
-id-October had undergone a
rapid change. His hoped-for citi-
zenship was denied him and he
was moved to an out-of-the-way
place.
SOVIET AGENTS
In the' opinion of Edward El-
li:; Smitlt of Palo Alto, a former
v.U oc~ut,t-ul wau6UM U uut1,C1 ,nG De.J1,:Ve, Me )oli was snnpcyworps asking that he be dls-i -
Y rerlcfecting with a Russian wife,
for the Army, State Depart-a "cover" rtltriiig the interroga- charged as a reservist so hey "The logical interpretation,"
anent and Central intelligence tion period.''. could accept Soviet citizenship.
Agency, Oswald was at this junc- RIFLE CLUB (The Marines complied with an Smith Continues, "is that by this
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lure in the hands.of Soviet. mill- Continuing with his analysis of unsatisfactory discharge.)
tary intelligence agents. Osiald's r e p o r t e d stay in j, It is almost incredible that the
Smith, who has lived in Mos-'Minsk, Smith says: ,letter passed Soviet censorship,
,cow and was the first full-time We are told that while In ,Smith acknowledges, because it
State Department security of-'Minsk Oswald joined a rifle club (could have damaged Oswald's
?ficer of the American Embassy.and practiced marksmanship. "agent potential."
there, has traced Oswald's odys- Now, there are no rifle clubs in There could have been some
say from the time he obtained a the Soviet Union. Unless one be- reason for the letter, but it is
passport in Los Angeles ui-tirlongs 'to a hunter's "Sovkhoz' Smith's assessment that it got
the day four year; later %vhcii (for professional hunters), a So- through censorship as the re-;
President' John'F. Kennedy was vice.citizen. is. allowed to pra'c- s u I t of some Inexplicable)
assassinated in Dallas. ;,. lice shooting only within - thet "snafu." i
framework of the All-Union Vol- Despite this jolt, Soviet intelli-
untary. Society for Cooperation gence decided to take Oswald
with the Army, Air Force and into the fold, 'Smith is . c o n-
Navy-a sort of combination na- vinced. As evidence, he cites the
tional guard and reserve train-
ing program:,
made as to what (Oswald's)l
mission was to be.
"Furthermore, the intelligence
operators had decided to estab-
lish 'control' through a Russian
wife who would leave hostages
behind, who was susceptible to
discipline and suitable for train-
ing., and who could he used as
Oswald's assistant---anion; ol.h-
er things, for communications,"
Smith asserts.
In subsequent Irttr : 'n his
mother, Oswald re 1Ir( i
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not allowed to join them. There-
fore, Oswald either was a mem-
ber of a Soviet outfit or, more
likely, a special arrangement:
was made for him so he could,
practice shooting."
Lee Harvey Oswald suddenlylwas'not acting on orders of thejmental direction Foreigners are letters from Minsl: in which her
n
tial or was he too unstable? wrote the American Embassy
re-
This was one of the prime goes-f new 'Moscow stating e wanted to
tions confronting them, Smith; passport and return
believes. home.
son dropped sly, inli-Sovict hints
and made mention of a desire to
return home. This represented
a sudden and uncharacteristic
change of heart, Smith believes.
- Oswald apparently began
mixing in circles well above the
I -On April 30, 1961, Oswald
gation," Smith continues. While waiting for a decision tn. married the attractive, ]9-year
"It is ultcriv inc:onccivablelbe made. Oswald annarcutly,
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rogation did not tate These latter two. acts ate c'-l
.place. he to take on disastrous propor-Iprc.inlly significant and co III-
adds. - tions a few short years later,
~l,let ~ly contradictory under So-
As for rrpnrls Oswald was givSmith believes. vier conditions, Smith contends.
en a low?payin;, (80 ruble or $881 Still hungering for Soviet cili- itie implies the Russians would
a month) --beef metal worker's zenship, Oswald managed Wool look kindly on an American
inh in Mine): L-nlith Ic skeptic l
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1061, Oswald announced he and
his family would receive exit
visas in February and be home
about March, 1962.
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