OSWALD CASE FIGURE PROMOTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400400002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: NSPR

Oswald Case figure' Promoted
s., Kingston, Jamaica, where he- report, dated July 11, 1961, in- light of his bad judgment of :.
he, , dicating the defector had under- Oswald..
served as deputy chief of the'''
WASHINGTON -- Boris H. :-secret ;police, Intelligence dnd grams already has questioned
Klosson, the State Department ^' assassination organization).." Abba Schwartz, head of the Bu
official who played a'key` role, BACK IN MOSCOW reau of Security & Consular In .clearing the way for Lee According to' the records of fairs, about, Klosson's dispatch.
I.. Harvey Oswald's retum', from ' the' Warren Commission, which Rep.. John Slack ' .Jr. (D-,
I Russia, is slated for a major investigated the assassination of W.".), member of the sub
promotion. '.' President Kennedy, Klosson was committee, Is seeking additional
1 A career foreign service offs- U. S. counselor for political af- Information about Klosson from
cer, Klosson Is scheduled to re- fairs in Moscow in 1961' when . both the State and Justice De"
place Frank C. Siscoe as the de- Oswald sought visas for himself, partments.''
partment's : director ' of lobviet and his new wife to return to'. The House judiciary subcom
gone to mittee on Immigration, headed.1
and Eastern European exchange be U.S. Oswald had
bb staffs. -Russia in 1959. by Rep. Michael Feighan, D-O.,
.While no, official announce. FBI officials credit Klosson'also is seeking further details
ment of his new assignment has with clearing the way for Os about: Klosson's dispatch, and,,
been made, Klosson has checked wald's return by sending the why he Is being given the lm-,
ifin at the department from State Department a three-page portant' new assignment in the
Department authorities arrang Much of the arrogance Johnson s immigration proposal.
Klosson, 46, was born In Buf
Ing the exchange and screening and bravado which character- falo,'N.Y.,-and has been In the
~'of several thousand U. S., Rus= ized him on.his first visit to the State Department since 1945. He
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In this strategic position, Klos was signed by Klosson and ..a revised version of President
I son will be in charge `of State . stated, In part, as follows:
;`room number and, telephone as Titled "Citizenship and Pass-
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mittee by FBI Director J. Edgar Klosson's vital communication
Hoover. reported Oswald's bride as be. ' 1959, he became first secretary
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ing Marina Nikelaevna Pusa- of the U.S. embassy in Moscow
MANY. SPiES ' kova Instead of Marina Nike- and later counselor for political
A, He warned that spies are 1n- laevna Prusakova,, and listed affairs-a diplomatic post some.
eluded in virtually every Soviet ..her occupation as "dental 'tech- times filled by the CIA.
group that visits the U.S.-diplo. nician" instead of "assistant Klosson, fluent In Russian, re-
mats, scientists, businessmen,,, pharmacist." ceived a B.S. degree from Ham-
F' students and cultural exchange Elton College In 1940 and M. A.
missions-stating: LOOKING HIM OVER degree from the Fletcher School
'1 "The numerous Soviet scien ' Two congressional committees of Law and Diplomacy in 1941.
tific and cultural delegations ' are quietly looking. into Klos- He studied a year (1938-9) at
which arrive in the U.S. to visit son's new assignment and his the Institut' Universitaire de
our universities and scientific role in paving`tj '' way for Os- Hautes Etudes Internationale
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a 12g the r members scientists- . . IFous approp~laHOns su [ng" Tn d t " ~ service,
Klosson s proposed appoint
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'ghan's subcommittee when It?,
takes another look at the East-
'West exchange program later
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