WARREN GROUP REPORTEDLY 'FILES' PAPER LINKING OSWALD, RED POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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BY ROBERT S. ALLEN
* the :'Soviet secret police, Soviet. There can be no:
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Students of history are 1 members led by Warren e
going to find the Warren ! lily for. the intelligence, dered. by th KGB to Ue;
Commission's report on ordered the documents inl?tltt alien and terroristic 'potential agents for either
the assassination of Pres delivered to the archives, operations of the Soviet specific or future' as
where the papers will be .:' Union and its alliod Com- signnients.
ident I?snnedy as fascin- Available ' if they don't munist network around.
acing for what it doesn't disappear-to researchers, ?The KGB arranged tot
include as for what it future' investigators and th" world. Oswald's allow Oswald to engage in',
contains. students of history. arrival in Moscow, the target practice and shoot-
Before sending t ii e i r Pillion's l e t t e r chal- r'KGB arranged press con-: lag during his more than`;
'historic document to lenged the commission's ferences to publicize 0,-' two years' stay in Minsk.
President Johnson t his findings that Oswald was wild's defection. Shortly The use of a rifle and .
week, four of the commis- not directed or instigated i,llereafter, the KGB pro- politely f o r b i d d e n ato;
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the National Archives
several documents
charging that Lee Harvey 1
Oswald, the suspected as- .
by any known or secre
.vided a job for him in the
Communist a g e n c y, or : ,'sliestmetal shop of a radio foreigners in the Soviet.
that his Marxist-Leninist'factory in Minsk. Oswald "From about June,.1962,:
associations were not re-.,!,was not a skilled sheet When Oswald returned to';
lated to his assassination metal worker. His job was the U.S., until his arrest
`of President Kennedy. a clerical job 'of 'checker.' 'for the murder of. Pres-
was a sham 'cover'` ident Kennedy on Nov.'22,
whose offer to TJ
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testify was rejected by the
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400-ruble neon- predccupied with com-
Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R commission
charged that . "ri'lle 1
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Mich.), one of 'th.e. four' !'the commission's conclu- thly income of Oswald was' was. munism.. His efforts to`
congressional members,. sions were contrary to the comparable to, the. salary earn a living for his family,
sought unsuccessfully. to. . evidence, ii of the general manager f were only. incidental.
include these papers, in=I Pillion 'traced Oswald's the factory where he was "It is' immaterial whe
cluclin; a letter from Rep., activities in 'the Soviet allegedly employed in an -they Oswald was specifi-
John Pillion (I3-N.Y.), in I Union, his close' associa- unskilled :labor capacity.: ? cally assigned to assas-
the co'mmission's official Lion with the KGB, hiss The KGB provided. Os- sinate President Kennedy.,
report to the President.
marriage. to the niece of a wall with 'a scarce and' The fact remains that his-
However, when Ford's lieutenant colonel of the 1 comparatively luxurious `entire Communist back-
motion to. include these Soviet MVD, and his later apartment in Minsk for a 'ground and training had-.
documents was offered, it visits to Mexico City, re- 'period of. more than two conditioned him to kill."
was blocked when the , porting: years.. T he other documents
o t? other four` commission ' IIImmediately upon his'! "The grant of an exit'. - sent to the National Ar-.
members present, includ- arrival in the S, o v 1' t"' visa to Oswald and to his chives by the commissionr
lug -Chief ?lustice Earl ; Union, Oswald.volunta.rily I wife, Marina, Is a most ex- involve classified'. infor.
Warren, chairman, re i raordinary Soviet a c t. m a t ion relating to Os-
mained silent. -.Oswald knew more than a wald's contacts with CIA
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CPYRGHT
his wife would receive bassy in Moscow.
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