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104-10213-10022 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch16361 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10213-10022 I.-- I - :4 p I -~~~~ II#I-kevVV Lee Harvey CS;:!ALD first came to attention upon receipt of AIRGRAM no. 1301, dated 31 October 1959, from the United States Embassy in Moscow, in which it was stated tha: OSWALD had appeared at the Embassy on 31 October to renounce his American citizenship. He stated that he had applied in Moscow for Soviet cLtizenship after his arrival in the Soviet Union on 15 October. The first public reference to OSWALD appeared in the Washington Post of 1 November 1959. On 2 November 1959, the FBI liaison officer requestedha_ trace be run on Lee Harvey OSWALD in the Agja§phr central hold- T1%4 ings. W response on 4 November was negative. Because of the counterintelligence implications of OSWALD's action, the Counter Intelligence Staff opened an offi- cial file on Lee Harvey OSWALD to accommodate biographic infor- mation developed by the Agency in response to a Department of State inquiry, dated 25 October 1960, on a list of American de- fectors in Soviet Bloc countries. OSWALD's name was one of those appearing on the list. CIA forwarded an interim reply on 3 November 1960; a final reply on 21 November 1960. Until early October 1963, the content-s of the OSWALD file held by'CIA consis-, ted entirely of press clippings and'reports disseminated by the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the, Department of the Navy. , 1 On r October 1963, the CIA Station in Mexico City receiYed in~i~ r ~ :crci tAt~o~.f't hatan Ameni- can named Lee OSWALD had contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, 1 October 1963. He had spoken in halting Rusa sian to the Soviet Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to_- whom he said he had visited the Embassy two days earlier, on Saturday, 23 September. He asked whether there ha- been a reply to a telegran that the Consul; with whom he had spoken, but whose name he could not recall, had promised to send to Washington. I j * . I

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