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104-10067-10383 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/8/1979)

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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.
           We would endeavor to have the  Committee sanitize and
downplay this section of its repor~t 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
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