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104-10534-10101 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/3/1964)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85922 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10534-10101 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992




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                                                                         DB 33B( #6585
                                                                         3 January  1964



                        l Bl ORA2 IFOR:  Chief, Wf/2

                        ATmNTION:          g5~Chsarlma I .d.3y

                        BUC'T:           TSehnical Analysis of Letter and &velope  -
                                           DS CASK #4361

                        RCI:             W&/Q 'mmo dated 13 December 1963



                             1.  In response to referenced request, an original typewritten
                        letter and envelope addressed. to the Amarican Imbassy, Stockholm,
                        were examined in order to determine the origin of the letter and the
                        nationality of the writer.

                             2.  The following conclusions were drawn concerning the letter
                        and envelope:

                                  a.  The typewriter in question is equipped with an obsolete
                             style of German-ade  type which, according to our references, Was
                             fitted on a mabr   of typewriters made in Germany during the 1920s
                             and early 1930s.  The possible makes would be Stoever, Torpedo,
                             Mercedes, Rheinmetall, Urania, Orga, Fortuna, Continental, Ksppel,
                             Grom,  Triumph, Mars and possibly same others.  Of these makes,
                             the Torpedo, Mercedes, Eheinmetal. and Triumph were probably the
                             most widely distributed.

                                  b.   he machine in question is equipped with a black and red
                             ribbon.  The keyboard is very probably Swedish, as shom by  two
                             strike-overs:  umlaut-u for hyphen and s for a. These
                             characters are adjacent on the standard Swedish keyboard, but not
                             on the German.  The umlaut-a Was not used in the street address,
                             Strandvagen (where the dots should have been placed over the
                             second a).  This might be either a sisple oversight or an attempt
                             to conceal the writer's familiarity with the correct spelling.

                                  c.  Te  paper of the letter is of the international standard
                             (DIN) size A4 'which is almost universally used in Sweden. The
                             linen-textured stationery semss to be rather eaamton in Sweden.
                             The two smaller pieces of blank paper match the letter paper with
                             respect to width, thickness, color, texture and look-through, and
                             were probably cut frau another sheet of the same type.  Th. envelope
                             matches specimens of Swedish envelopes taken fron lB/5+PostSl.
                             Intelligence files.

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