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104-10300-10393 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/31/1977)

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                                                                 31 May 1977


                  MEMORANDUM  FOR:  Director of Security

                  FROM           :  John H. Waller
                                    Inspector General

                  SUBJECT        :

                  REFERENCE      :  Your 29 March 1977 memorandum; Subject: Allegations
                                    Regarding Lee Harvey Oswald File


                        1.  Pursuant to reference, representatives of this office
                   interviewed Mr. [extensively on 30 and 31 March regarding
                   what he thoughtappened   vis-a-vis the Oswald file.  When thel
                   incident happened in approximately May 1975 Mr.Z        ]was  a
                   GS-4 file clerk, brand-new to the Agency and working in the Security
                   Records Division of OS.  Further, during the time in question
                   Mr.    w     was  reading a popular book entitled They Have Killed
                   the President' by Robert Sam Anson.

                        2. Mr.E           convinced us that he was confused and there is
                  no  reason to believe that a name was erased from SANCA or that a file
                  was  destroyed.  It is quite possible that he became confused over the
                  reference  to one L. Oswald in a covert file on Raymond E. Wright.
   *A*            Mr. Wright was  investigated by the Agency in 1955 and contained in
                  that  file, as a part of a San Francisco Field Office investigation,
                  was a police  report listing 66 persons who on January 6, 1941 signed
                  a  petition in Los Angeles protesting the prosecution of a left wing
                  labor  leader. All  66 names, including L. Oswald were indexed.  Since
                  Lee Harvey  Oswald was 2 years old in 1941 they were obviously not one
                  and  the same.  However this may not have been apparent to a brand-new
                  GS-4 clerk.   Attached hereto are copies of 3 separate statements
                  prepared  by Mr.           which further explain how his confusion may
                  have  been caused.

                        3.  Representatives of this office have spoken to all partici-
                   pants in the 22 March farewell dinner in which Mr.           made
                   the statements about the Oswald file.  Finally, Mr.           was
                   convinced of the need in the future to report such concerns officially
                   rather than at a social gathering.  The purpose of this memorandum is
                   to enable you to close your records on the matter and to advise that
                   no further action will be taken.


                                                                 John H. Waller
                  Attachments:
                     a/s                                                E2 IMPDET
                                                                        CL BY: 055636

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