STATE DEPARTMENT HAS A PROBLEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160121-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: December 17, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

DEC 17 1963
Sanitized - Approved For Releas
State Department Has- a Problem
CPYRGHT
BY ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT
re ab e Department
Is uneasily pondering
what to do about admit-
ling a new large Influx of
"Old Believers"-this time
from Russrd.
Some 1,200 want to
come to the U.S. to join
the 250 members of their
sect who were allowed to
migrate from Turkey ear-
lier this year under a
r u l i n g by Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy.
The so-called "Old Be-
lievers" split from the
Russian Orthodox church
in the 17th century and
settled in Turkey. Last
summer, a number of their
descendants, through the
T o l s t o y Foundation of
New York, sought admis-
sion to the United States
on the ground they were
under heavy pressure by
oviet agents to return to
that country.
*
Around 1,200 did go
back to Russia in Septem-
r. Now they are fed up
nd want to get out.
They have asked for
'eadmittance to Turkey,
utit doesn't want them.
So Turkey, in turn, is
roposing the United
tates allow these 1,200
Old Believers" to join the
30 admitted last summer.
This tlhne Atty. Gen.
ennedy is passing the
tick to the State Depart-
ment -- specificially, Abba
c h w a r t z, Controversial
earl of the Bureau of Se-
urity and Consular Af-
irs. He was' a prime
oover in arranging the en-
ry of the -original band of
50.
Kennedy is holding that
re decision is up to the
fate Department because
the 1.200 "Old Believers"
are living behind the Iron
Curtain and determina-
tion of their case is outside
of Justice Department jur-
isdiction.
Last summer, the attor-
ney general ruled In favor
of the 250 "Old Believers"
on the ground they came
under Section 212(D) of
the Immigration Act
granting temporary ad-
mittance under emergen-
Kennedy
cy condiltions. Now Kenne-
dy apparently doesn't con-
sider this new proposal an
emergency.
Rep. Michael Feighan
(D-O.), chairman of a
House judiciary subcom-
mittee, who opposed the
original admittance, is also
against thia one. He has
summoned X11 wartz for
questioning on what the
State Department plans to
do.
Feighan has been told
the Soviet has signified
willingness to perrni-t the
1,200 "Old Believers" to
leave, provided Turkey or
the United States will take
them.
In challenging the ad-
mittance of the 250 ."01d
Believers" last summer,
Feighan wrote the attor-
ney general, "it semis
incredible' that Turkey, a
member of NATO,' is un-
willing or unable to pro-
vide these people with
adequate protection from
Soviet agents. I am unable
to understand that."
Lee Harvey Oswald
slashed his wrists in a
Moscow hotel in 1959
shortly after he notified
the U.S. Embassy there
that he was detecting to
the Soviet
That is one of the
'disclosures in the file the
Kremlin has turned over
to the State Department
on the assassin. According
to these records, Oswald
made this apparent sui-
cide attempt while unem-
ployed and living at the
Metropol Hotel.
His application to stay
In Russia and obtain ci-
tizenship went all the way
up to the Presidium. On
the recommendation of Y.
A. Furtseva, thq file
shows, Oswald was grant-
ed entry to prove himself
a reliable Marxist. There
is no indication in these
records what the Reds
thought of him..
Several years later, af-
ter working in various
Soviet factories and mar-
rvying'a Russian woman,
the killer got a U.S. visa to
return home.
The Central Intelligence
Agency is looking into
information that two wo-
men and- a man accompa-
nied Oswald on his trip to
,1Ir?s:ico last fall #Sept. 26-
Oci. 31, and that the man
uh eyucrrth flew to Cu-
ba.
'rh?' ,c'I.A anti other in-
te~li t?nc?e authorities are
tt t i v i n g. -the pnsa;ibilt-
fy th;i O,twald may have
berir engaged iri arranging
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