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104-10534-10101 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/3/1964)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch20336 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10534-10181









                                                                         as  ain#6585
                                                                         3 January 1964



                        Xw* FPRm: Chief, V/2

                        ATWRIOs         Mr

                        SUBJEC          Tehnical  Analysis of Letter and Envelope -
                                          DB CAS  #4361

                               1E:      wH/R lano dated 13 December 1963



                            1.  In response to referenced reqests  an original typewritten
                       letter and envelope addressed to the American Eabassy, Stockholm,
                       vare examined in order to determine the origin of the letter and the
                       nationality of the  riter.

                            2.  The following conclusions were drawn concerning the letter
                       and envelope:

                                 a.  The typevriter in question is equipped with an obsolete
                            style of Germaneade  type which, according to our references, was
                            fitted on a nmber  of typewriters made in Germany during the 1920s
                            and early 1930s.  The possible makes reald be Stoever, Torpedo,
                            Mercedes, RheMinetall, Ursnia, Orga, Fortuna, Continental, Kappel,
                            Gram,  Triumph, Hers and possibly sme  others.  Of these makes,
                            the Torpedo, Mernedes,  heita1l and Triumph were probably the
                            most widely distributed.

                                 b.  The machine in question is equipped with a black and red
                            ribbon.  The keyboard is very probably Swedish, as shoum by two
                            strike-overs:  mlaut-u  for hyphen end s for a.   Thse
                            characters are adjacent on the standard Swedish keyboard, but not
                            on the German,  The umlat-a  vas not used in the street address,
                            trandvagen  (where the dots should have been placed over the
                            second a) . This might be either a simple oversight or an attempt
                            to conceal the writer' a familiarity with the correct spelling.

                                 c.  The paper of the letter is of the international standard
                            (DIN) size A4 which is almost universally used in Sweden.  The
                            linen-textured stationery sems  to be rather  omon  in Baden.
                            The two smaller pieces of blank paper match the letter paper with
                            respect to width, thickness, color, texture and look-through, and
                            were probably out fram another sheet of the sm   type.  The envelope
                            matches specimens of Swedish envelopes taken from M/5LPost&l.
                            Intelligence files.

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