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104-10300-10124 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/29/1964)

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                 UNITED  STATES GOViL.. NMENT

                 Memorandum

                 TO       Files                                      DATE:  29 January 1964


                 FROM


                 SUBJECT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE   #351164




                      1.  According to a newspaper column 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 the Soviet Union in June 1962.  The other individual
                 named was Llewellyn 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 was 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 namecheck 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, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with
                 reference to CHAYES:

                      SOFT ON COMMUNISM:  Representative Francis E. Walter (R.-Pa.),
                      Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
                      scored the new State Department regulations on passports, claim-
                      ing they would allow Reds denied passports to rifle freely the
                      confidential files of the FBI, 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.

                                                  DCH1       ocument Number I

                                                dExdcfl a .t and  for FOA  Review  on  FEB  1977
                                                  declasifica io

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