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104-10213-10087 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/01/1976)

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MEMOflANDU   .{ FOR:  Director of Central Intelligence

FROM                  John H. Waller
                      Inspector General

SUBJECT             :  ashington Star Story, 1 October 197


    1. This is for yotr information only.

    2.  On 1 October 1976 the Wrashi4ton St .r publis.ed a r.es
story with an Associated Press credit line, headlined CIA
Viewed Oswald As  Iniormation Source (copy attached). The
lead stated:

        Contrary to sworn testimony, the CIA once con-
        sidered using presidential assassin Lee Harvey
        Oswald  as a source of intelligence information
        about the Soviet Union, according to a newtly
        released CIA document.

        In sworn testimony before the Warren Commission,
        former  CIA Director Richard Ielms said the
        Agency never had or even contemplated any
        contacts with Oswald.

The news story, in another section, madc the followin;
statement:


The November  25, 1963, memo explained that
the Agency's interest in Oswald as a potential
intelligence source was due to his unusual
behavior in the USSR, to which ho had defected
in 1959.


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