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104-10051-10106 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/29/1964)

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        FROM  :M.   D. Stevens


        sujurr:  THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE  #35116 4




             1. According to a newspaper column of Allen and Scott in the
        Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYE?,
        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 descr:to
  e     as the new Counsel in State, was grmated Security approval for liaioon
        contact with J. Foster COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
        Action Staff) on 6 March 1961. The request for CAYES  clearance was a
        Blanket request to er:it. discussion writh 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, ELNAIN EEINTS reported as follows with
       reference to CHAYES:

            SOFT ON COMM4UISM:  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.
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