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180-10147-10175 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/00/1978)

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              Robert  S. Anson, author of They've  Killed the

       President    The Search for the Murderers  of John F. Kennedy,

       offered a  critical appraisal of Lee Harvey  Oswald's travel

       through Western  Europe prior to his appearance  in Moscow

       on October  16, 1959.  Anson expressed particular  concern

       over the  issuance of a Soviet tourist visa  in Helsinki,

       Finland to  Oswald prior to his entry  into the Soviet Union.

       Anson wrote  that /o /n Monday, October  12, Oswald went

       to the  Soviet Consulate and applied  for a visa.  It was

       granted  two days later. (Anson, p.  159)1 Anson concluded:

                  Oswald also managed to secure  a Soviet
                  visa in record time.  The  CIA told the
                  Commission that under ordinary  circum-
                  stances obtaining a visa  in Finland
                  took one or two weeks; Oswald  got his
                  in two days.  (Ibid., p. 160)*




,      * Anson was  referring to the Warren  Commission Report where  it
         is  stated:

               The Department of State has  advised the Commission
               that it has some information  that in 1959 it usually
               took an American tourist  in Helsinki 1 to 2 weeks to
               obtain a visa, and that it  has other information that
               the normal waiting period  during the past 5 years has
               been a week or less.  According  to the Department's
               information, the waiting period  has always varied  fre-
               quently and widely, with  one confirmed instance in  1963
               of a visa routinely issued  in less than 24 hours.  The
               Central Intelligence Agency  has indicated (continued)

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