WHY DID INTELLIGENCE AGENTS OF U.S., RUSSIA CONTACT HIM? 'MYSTERIES' DEVELOPING IN OSWALD PROBE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: February 28, 1964
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Why Did Intelligence Agents of U.S., Russia Contact IN 1,11?
CPYRGHT
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
and PAUL SCOTT
- to most "n-
sitive" question confronting to
special 'commission investigat g
President Kennedy's assassins n
is whether Lee 11arvey Osw d
was a double agent at the time f
the slaying.
On this sensationally signi:fie it
enigma, the probers have dire
conflicting testimony.
BOTH U. S. and Russian auth r-
Wes have flatly denied that e
was in their. employ. At the e
time, the commission has Indisp -
able information from intellige e
and s, -:;y agencies of the I.
ooun1 'k that they were "in
c
tact" with Oswald on various
casions in the four years prior
the Kennedy s1-a Ong.
Following are highlights of
CPYRGHT
st eries ` Develo
Oswald Probe
published et ence in the luinds
of the special investigators:
0 The Oswald file the Soviet
turned over to the State Depart-
ment reveals that Russian intelli-
gence and security agents con-
tacted Oswald a number of times
between 1959 and 1962 - when
he was living in the Soviet as an
avnwnA ",laFnnfn,- ?
;, b?` """ ! sensitiveness about inforniation'mst associations. So far, the com-
er, in an affidavit, discloses mission has no ex
that his agents made "three con ~relating to that agency. planation for this
tacts" with Oswald after he re-`I FOR EXAMPLE. At Dulles' official dereliction. Authorities of
vigorous insistence, certain ques-, the Passport Division are to be
turned to the U. S. All of them, 6
Hoover explains, were wholly-
In-vestigative. At no time was Os-
wald in the FBI's employ, nor was
money
iven t
g
ent i transcribed and are not recolxle i formation about Oswald's being!
A Former Central Intelligence In the testimony. ;a double agent, The lawyer reput.;
Director Allen Dulles, a member Throughout , the inquiry, Dulles wily learned this from a client)
of the commission, has told the
has displayed a militant nroierawho has been operating In llnn,_
show that Oswald had several mounting to several hundred dol
meetings with the CIA represen-'tars, during his frequent periods
tative in the U. S. embassy in~of unemployment.
Moscow. During this period, the o How. Oswald was able to ob-
assassin was seeldng to renouncel-tain a passport in New Orleans
his citizenship. One State Depart- to go to Russia despite the fact
meet cable, No. 234, dated Nov.ithat the State Department had a
2, 1959, reports that Oswald was; file detailing his "defection" in
!interviewed by the CIA and other.Moscow and four years' resid'encel
uveness. regarding the CIA.
knowledge of Oswald's acting"as Other mysteries being cxploredj
a CIA agent. John McCone, pres ~ try the commission are:
cut head of CIA, has said the same
thing. i a Nkliere Oswald obtained all ap-
0 S t a t E Department records, parently steady flow of money.'
munist circles for a number of
years.
Yuri Nossonko, the important
Soviet security official who recent-
ly defected to the U. S., may be
questioned by the commisiion.
In his position as a key nicnt-
ber of the Amciicai.n sceilon of
KG-11, Nossenko would have had
a c c c s s to files on Oswald. .
111iether he did is not known.
Staff members of the commis-
lion are -slated to confer with
him to determine whether het
testifies before the commission. tt
Lately, the commission's closed
0 Mrs. Marina Oswald, 23-year-. - ? v- !idoor sessions have been sparsely
'old widow of the accused killer,. This passport, Do92u211, was is. attended.
,told the commission that, Soviet sued on June 25, 1963. In his ap Only one of the Seven membersi
security agents contacted her hus. piication, Oswald stated he pro. was present during the interroga-
band a number of tunes - while posed traveling from three to . lion . of. Oswald's brother., T h I they were living in Russia. Under 12 months as a tourist to Eng. member was former CIA Director
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questioning, she emphatically; ltuid, Franco, : perinany, Rol., Dulles, who balked at any testis
denied fdtttt she or Qstwald halo mony that might reLlcct on the
.,. ,intelligence ,yagatcy.,_
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been KCB (secret- police) agentsi lend, Finland, Italy, Poland and
organization. Mrs. Oswald con-
firmed that her uncle is a Soviet
"military colonel," and that, site
and Oswald resided near him in
Minsk.
One of the curious backstage
aspects of the investigation is for-
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Nis second passport was given
him the day after he asked for'
it, and without the required "name
check" for individuals known to
lions and answers about Oswald s:gtleshoned about that,
possible training as a secret ag-i ? A SENATOR has given the in-
ent - while in Russia were put off vestigators the name of a Texas
the record; that is, they were not attOracy who -claims to have in
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