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COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
SBCI-6957
29 November 1990
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USSR
Marina and Lee Harvey OSWALD
1981-1989
SOURCE: A former KGB officer
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[ACTION: Background Information]
1. According to senior staff officers from the Minsk KGB
Counterintelligence School [Minsk CI School] and Department 1
[American targets] of the Second Chief Directorate [internal
security and counterintelligence--SCD] Headquarters, ex-marine
Lee Harvey OSWALD was an agent of the KGB, and was one before he
met his future wife, Marina. The Minsk UKGB had recruited Marina
as a swallow [Soviet female prostitute] for use in sexual
entrapment operations. Marina was directed against OSWALD, who
fell in love with her, when he was living in Minsk.
[Headquarters Comment: It was unclear whether the local or
regional UKGB was involved.] Although she was interested in
OSWALD, Marina was more interested in getting away from the USSR
and poverty. The UKGB considered her an agent, albeit a
reluctant one.
2. Circa the late 1950s, following his defection to the
USSR, OSWALD was resettled in an apartment house close to both
the Minsk CI School and Victory Square in a beautiful area on the
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