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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78690 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-100010124] 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
cVONJAL U'$ NO. 10 ~I1
UNITED STATES GOVL. NMENT
Memorandum
TO Files DATE: 29 January 1964
FROM :
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 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, 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 FE, 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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