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104-10132-10092 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/29/1964)

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     Memorandum

     TO       Files                                     DATE:  29 January 1964


     FRom  : -M. Do Stevens


     SUBJECT: THE LEE        OSWALD CASE  #351164




          1.  According to a newspaper colimn 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 thd Soviet Union in June 1962.. The .other individual
     named was Llevellyn 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 COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
     Action Staff) on 6-March 1961. The. request for CHAYES' clearance vas 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.nmecheck request on
     CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni) .Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLER.

          4.  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, HMAN EVENTS reported as follows with
     reference to tOHAYES:

          SOFT ON COMUNISM:   Representative Francis E. Walter (R.-Pa.),
          Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
          scored the new State Department regulations on paspporta, claim-
          ing they would a3.ow Reds denied passports to rifl .iee3, the
          confidential files of the FM:, 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 new passport
          regulations.

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