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180-10142-10351 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch50986 and id is 1 raw text is: 18,i14~135 -M - -r -W -0 -W -~ -~ - * Anson 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 (continued) 2 C11 I Classification: - Classified by derivation: moo, I A Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted I from CIA---controlled documents.) TO CVIA Robert S. Anson, author of They've Killed the President! The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy, 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)* I I

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