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180-10142-10338 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/20/1978)

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                    Robert S. Anson, author  of .Theytve Killed the

             President   The Search for the Murderers  of John F, Kenned

             offered a critical appraisal of  Lee Harvey Oswald's travel

             through Western Europe prior to  his appearance in Moscow.

             on .October 16, 1959. Anson expressed  particular concern

             over the issuance of a Soviet tourist  visa in Helsinki,

             Finland to Oswald prior to his entry  into the Soviet Union.

             Anson wrote that. /o 7n Monday, October .12, Oswald went

             to the Soviet Consulate and applied  for a visa.  It was

             .granted two days later. (Anson, p. 159)  Anson concluded.

                       Oswald also managed to  secure a Soviet
                       visa in record time.  The  CIA told the
                       Commission that under ordinary  circum-
                       stances obtaining a visa  in Finland
                       took one or two weeks;  Oswald got his
                       in two days.  (Ibid., p. 160)*




     . F *C _ZAnson  was referring to the Warren  Commission Report where it
               is stated:

                    The Department of State has  advised the Commission
                    that it has some information  that in 1959 it usually
                    took an American tourist  in Helsinki 1 to 2 weeks to
                    obtain a visa, and that it  has other information that
                    the normal waiting period  during the past 5 years has
                    been a week or less.  According  to the Department ' s
                    information, the waiting period  has always varied fre-
                    quently and widely, with one  confirmed instance in, 1963
                    of a visa routinely issued  in less than 24 hours.  The
                    Central Intelligence Agency  has indicated (continue

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