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

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• Publication Date: February 28, 1964
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published evidence in the Will s been I{GB (secret' police) agents an n an y, an an
and PAUL SCOTT of the, special hrvestigators:
or were "associated" with that Russia.
sitive" question confronting the turned over to the State Depart- firmed that her uncle is a Soviet ed Sept. 10, 1959, was numbered
special 'commission investigating ment reveals that Russian intellt?' .military colonel," and that, she 1733242.
President Kennedy's assassination gence and security agents con- and Oswald resided near him in His second passport was given
Iis whether Lee Harvey Oswald tacted Oswald a number of times 1V.finsk. hinm the day after he asked for
was a double agent at the time of between 1959 and 1962 - when one of the curious backstage it, and without the required "name
the slaying. he was living in the Soviet as an aspects of the investigation is for-;check' for individuals known to
On this sensationally significant avowed "defector." mer CIA Director Dulles' a.:ntcrlbe Communist or to have Commu-
enigma, the probers have directly 0 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov sensitiveness about information nist associations. So far, the com-
conflicting testimony. . er, in -an "affidavit," discloses relating to that agency, mission has no explanation for this
BOTH U. S. and Russian author- that his agents made "three con- FOR EXAMPLE: At Dulles' official dereliction. Authorities of
sties have flatly denied that he toots" with Oswald after he re- vigorous insistence, certain ques the Passport Division are to be
was in their. employ. At the same. turned to the U. S. All of them, lions and answers about Oswald's;grtestioned about that.
time, the commission has indisput- Hoover explains, *ere wholly, In- possible training as a secret ag- ' A SENATOR has given the in-
able information from intelligence vestigative. At no time was Oa- ent while in Russia were put off vcstigators the name of a Texas
and s, :, illy agencies _of the two wald in the FBI's employ, nor was the record; that is, they were notattoniey who 'claims to have m
count tes that they were "in con- money given him. 1 transcribed and are not recorded formation about Oswald's being,
tact" with Oswald on various oc- 0 Former Central Intelligence iu the testimony. a double agent. The lawyer reput
casions in the four yea's prior. to Director Allen Dulles, a member Throughout , the inquiry, Dulles ed'ly, , learned this from a client'
the Kennedy slaying. of the commission, has told the; has displayed a' militant proteca who has been operating in Conr1
Follov%ing are highlights of un? other six members that he ]ids no tiveness regarding the CIA. munist circles for a number of
knowledge of Oswalds' acting'as Other mysteries being explored years.
a CIA agent. 'John McCone, pros,' by 1.11(, commission arc: Yuri Nossenko, the important
ent head of CIA; has said the sam qI Soviet security official who recent-
thing ' 0 1%9rcre Oswald obtained an ap ly defected to the U. S., may be
0 S t a t e Department records' patently steady flow of money, questioned by the commisison.
show that Oswald had several' amounting to several hundred dot- In his position as a key mem-
'meetings.wJth the CPA represen-''pars, during his frequent periods her of the American section of
tative in the U. S. embassy in of unemployment. KGB, Nossenico would have had
Moscow. During this period, the O' How Oswald was able. to ob- access to files on Oswald.
assassin was seeking to renounce -tarn a passport in New Orleans Whether he did is not known,
his citizenship. One State Depart- to go to Russia despite the fact Staff members of the commis-
ment cable, No. 234, dated Nov.'tlrat the State Department had a Sloss are 'slated to confer with
12, 1959, reports that Oswald was, file detailing his "defection" in him to determine whether he ;:
'interviewed by the CLA and other Moscow and four years' residence) testifies before the c om nlsxion. t
embassy officials. Soviet. Lately, the commission's closed-
in . the
O Mrs. Marina Oswald, 23-year door sessions have been sparsely
old widow of the 'accused killer,,' This passport, 1Do92526, was is. attended.
told the commission that Soviet sued on June 2u", 1963. In his alp. Only one of the seven members
security agents contacted her bus- plfcation, Oswald stated he pro. was present during the interroga-
band a number of times while posed traveling from three to Lion , of Oswald's brother. T h i s
they were living in Russia, Under ;' 19- months as a tourist to Eng- (member was former CIA Director+
questioning, she emphatically;` ; d, -Fiance, : ,gennany, Hol-? Dulles, who balked. at any testis
denied ..that slref or,,: Qsvald ,had; elligence agency._
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