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104-10132-10092 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/29/1964)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch73245 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10132-10092 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 (..ON 10 . O UNITED STATES GOVL.kNMENT Memorandum TO Files DATE: 29 January 1964 FROM : M. D Stevens SUBJECT: THE LEE' H 4E OSWALD CASE #351164 / 1. According to a newspaper column of Allen and Scott in the Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYES, 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 wes Samuel WISE, Counsel of the American Embassy in Moscow. 2. Abram CHAYES, #352234, who as of 16 February 1961 was described as the new Counsel in State, was granted Security approval for liaison contact with J. Foster COFLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert Action Staff) on 6-March 1961. The request for CHAYES' clearance -vas a Blanket request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5432/2 matters on a need-to-know basis. 3. In September 1961 there was a WhiteHouse 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 ROOSEVE[T, Jr. 5. On 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS .reported as follows with reference to `CHAYES: SOFT ON CONMU'IS: 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 0ow Reds denied passports to riflh N-eely the confidential files of the FfC, 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. SECRET oimZN berOZ9 - sIaowi l 1Ezcmtea ub=HC for fOlA Review on \ -'i-o -

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