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104-10133-10437 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/29/1964)

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                OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10  *
                UNITED  STATES GOVrs NMENT

                AMemorandum                                         V         7ST

                To       Files                                      DATE:  29 January 1964


                FROM     M. D. Stevens


                SUBJECT: THE LEE HARVEY 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 was 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 COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
                Action Staff) on 6 March 1961.  The request for CHAYES' clearance was a
                Blanket request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 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 ROOSEVELT, Jr.

                     5.  On 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with
                reference to CHAYES:

                     SOFT ON COMMUNISM:  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..

                                                 SECRET    Pocument N(umber
                                             fxctede trsi' a iomatlk for FOEA Review on  FEB 1977
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