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104-10067-10383 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (02/08/1979)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70650 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10067-10383 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992















                                             OLC 79-0113/8
                                             5 February 1979


MEMORANDUM FOR:  Director of Central Intelligence

VIA              Legislative Counsel

FROM          :  S. D. Breckinridge
                 Principal Coordinator, HSCA

SUBJECT       :  House Select Committee on Assassinations References
                  to Overseas CIA Stations


     1.  Action Requested:
set forth in paragraph 11.


That you approve one of the options


      2.  Background:   CIA's participation in the investigation of
 President Kennedy's  assassination was limited by the pattern of Lee
 Harvey Oswald's  life.  He served in the Marine Corps in Japan,
 although he did not  come to the attention of the CIA at that time.
 He travelled to the Soviet  Union in 1959, returning to the United
 States in 1962.  He did  not come to CIA's attention until his
 defection was reported  by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.  He
 travelled to Mexico City  in late September 1963, returning to
 the United States in early  October after a five-day stay.  CIA
 detected his presence and  reported it.

      3.  False allegations  by a disaffected CIA employee claiming
 CIA-Oswald ties in Japan consumed  some of the Committee's time and
 attention.  They discredited  his testimony, but in the process of
 discussing it, they talk about  the things he said, including his
 duties in Tokyo.     a ave never con irme    e exist ence o a  ta ion
QCII Ryo)   We would endeavor  to have the Committee sanitize and
downplay  this section of  its report simply because of the discrediting
of  the witness' testimony,  if thisAunsuccessful,  unclassified publication
may  become an issue.

      4.  Oswald's entry to the  Soviet Union, with a visa given by the
 Soviet Consul in Helsinki,  leads to HSCA discussion in its report of
 existence of the CIA  tation  in He sinki and the file held on the


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