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104-10133-10437 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/29/1964)

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         UNITED  STATES GOVreNMENT                       D    I>

         MAmorandum 'VAT                                                         T

         To       Files                                      DATE:  29 January 1964


         FROM   : M. D. Stevens


         SUBJECT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE   #351164




              1.  According to a newspaper column of Allen and Scott in the
         Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYES,
         Legal Officer of the State Department, was one of two persons im-
         mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return to the
         United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962.  The other individual
         named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. Another
         said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALD's case was Samuel
         WISE, Counsel of the American Embassy in Moscow.

              2.  Abram CHAYES, #352234, who as of 16 February 1961 was described
         as the new Counsel in State, was granted Security approval for liaison
         contact with J. Foster COI=NS  (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
         Action Staff) on 6 March 1961.  The request for CHAYES' clearance was a
         Blanket request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 matters on
         a need-to-know basis.

              3.  In September 1961 there was a White ,House namecheck request on
         CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee:  HANDLER.

              1.  In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a renewal of his liaison
         contact clearance with C/CA on a continuing basis.  This time his contact
         was Archibald ROOSEVELT, Jr.

              5.  On 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with
         reference to CHAYES:

              SOFT ON COMMUNISM:  Representative Francis E, Walter (R.-Pa.),
              Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
              scored the new State Department regulations on passports, claim-
              ing they would allow Reds denied passports to.rifle freely the
              confidential files of the FBI, the CIA and other investigative..
              agencies.  The man behind the new regulations, which Walter
              claims violate the Internal Security Act of 1950, is reportedly
              State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes.. Chayes, a Kennedy
              appointee, is an ex-Harvard professor who was Chester Bowles'
              top legal adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecticut.
              Walter has introduced legislation to remedy the unew passport
              regulations..

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