Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK (79 page)

59. NARA, JFK files, CIA 1994 microfilm release, reel 7, folders I-J, Joseph Dutkanicz. October 2, 1964, memorandum from SR/CI/R/ to Chief, Cl Liaison, Subject: Questions Concerning Defectors Joseph J. Dutkanicz (201-289236) and Vladimir O. Sloboda (201-287527).

60. NARA, JFK files, CIA 1994 microfilm release, reel 7. folders I-J, Joseph Dutkanicz. October 2, 1964, memorandum from SR/CI/R/ to Chief, CI Liaison, Subject: Questions Concerning Defectors Joseph J. Dutkanicz (201-289236) and Vladimir O. Sloboda (201-287527). The CIA's Counterintelligence chief, James Angleton, lost no time in putting all this in a November 4, 1964, memo to the assistant chief of staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army, Attention: Director of Security, filed in same location at NARA.

61. CIA Information Report No: CO-3167710; NARA, JFK files, CIA 1994 microfilm release, reel 7, folders I-J, Joseph Dutkanicz. The informant's report also said this:

3. Dutkanych seemed to be quite familiar with the city and knowing I was a clergyman, suggested I visit a well-known Russian Orthodox church, just up the street. Looking out the window I called his attention to a billboard advertising the latest movie, "Moscow Souvenir." He suggested, however, that I take in another movie that was playing around the corner from the hotel. That afternoon I saw the recommended movie. It was an old war film, depicting the heroism of a young soldier defending his native village from the invading German armies.

62. WC Vol. XV1, CE 24, p. 100.

63. CD I. p. 52; see also Oswald Historic Diary, CIA document XAAZ 35813, p. 10; WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 100.

64. Warren Report p. 700. Oswald described the manuscript, which amounted to fifty typed pages, as "a look into the lives of work-a-day average Russians." After his return to the U.S., he hired a stenographer to type a draft from his notes.

65. FBI Dallas, report of Wallace Heitman and Hayden Griffin, September 8, 1964, Dallas 100-10461; WC, CD 1546.

66. The FBI report explained:

Marina exhibited the following photographs which were obtained from Lellie May Rahm at Ketchikan, Alaska, on August 4, 1964. Rahn is the mother of Anita May Setyaeva. These photographs were described as follows:

1. Wedding photo of Marina (last name unknown). At far left is head of Marina's mother, Anita May Setyaeva (Setyaev), nee Zuggef, and her son, Kostia Henkin; unknown woman, Marina (last name unknown) and Vashi (last name unknown), who is Marina's husband, unknown man, woman, man and woman.

2. Head photo of Anita May Setyaeva.

3. Full-length photo of Anita May Setyaeva in Moscow.

4. Full-length photo of Antia May Setyaeva at Moscow University.

5. Photo of Radio Moscow personnel, taken December 27, 1957, left to right-Lucy Pravdina, Anita May Satyaeva, Sergei Rudin, Joe Adarov and sitting, Nikolai Sergeyev.

6. Photo of Radio Moscow personnel, taken September 9, 1960, left to right-Joe Adakov, Anita May Setyaeva, Annabella Ducar, Sergei Rudin.

7. Photo of Radio Moscow personnel-Sergeio Rudin and Anita May Setyaeva; standing-Lucy Pravdina, Joe Adamov, Nikolai Sergeyev.

8. Photo of Radio Moscow personnel-Sergei Rudin, Anita May Setyaeva, Joe Adamov, Lucy Pravdina, Nikolai Sergeyev.

9. (First name unknown) Henkin, Anita May Renkina, now Setyaeva (Setyaev), and Kostia (Bunny) Henkin, taken June 1, 1957.

10. Photo of Radio Moscow personnel, left to right-Sergei Rudin, Lucy Pravdina, Joe Adamov, Anita May Satyaeva, Nikolai Sergeyev, taken December 28, 1958.

Marina could identify none of the individuals appearing in these photographs. When the above-described photographs were examined by Marina Oswald in the presence of interviewing Agents, no unusual reactions were noted.

67. HT-LINGUAL soft file, Document No. 1994.04.13.14:53:55:500005, May 1, 1994, memorandum, subject: HT-LINGUAL items relating to the Oswald case. ["Material from this Operation is handled on a need to know basis within this Agency and such of the material that is given to the FBI receives special handling and limited distribution within the the Bureau."]

68. WR, p. 691

69. NARA, JFK files, CIA box 6, folder 6, document 05806.

70. CIA memo to FBI, August 27, 1964; NARA, JFK files, CIA Document Number 806-351.

71. Peter Wronski, 1991 interview with Setyaev, in "Oswald in the USSR: A Preliminary Report from a New Investigation," Third Decade, May 1992, p. 33.

72. Peter Wronski, June 1991 interview with Ella German. Peter Wronski did some unique and valuable work in the former Soviet Union in 1991; it is reported in Third Decade, May 1992.

73. Peter Wronski, 1991 interview with Setyaev, in "Oswald in the USSR: A Preliminary Report from a New Investigation," Third Decade, May 1992, p. 34.

74. WC, Vol. XVI, CE 315, p. 871.

75. See The Trial of the U2 (Chicago: Translation World Publisher 1960), pp. 89-90.

76. CIA Document Disposition Index, documents 1187-436, 1189-1001, and 1190-1002, pp. 270-271.

77. Church Committee interview with Sam Papich, May 29, 1975, p. 13; NARA, JFK files, RIFI57-10002-10152.

78. Peter Wronski, 1991 interview with Setyaer, "Oswald in the USSR: A Preliminary Report from a New Investigation," Third Decade, May 1992, pp. 33-34.

79. CIA LINGUAL item 60F240; NARA, JFK Files, CIA Document Number 1572-1115-L.

80. Peter Wronski, 1991 interview with Setyaer, "Oswald in the USSR: A Preliminary Report from a New Investigation," Third Decade, May 1992, p. 34.

Chapter Twelve

1. August 18 White House meeting on Cuban policy FRUSC-VI, document 577. pp. 1057-1060.

2. Memorandum of a meeting with the president, White House, August 18, 1960, USFRC-VI, document 577, pp. 1057-1060.

3. August 18 White House meeting on Cuban policy FRUSC-VI, document 577, pp. 1057-1060.

4. Memorandum of a meeting with the president, White House, August 18, 1960, USFRC-V1, document 577, pp. 1057-1060.

5. Memorandum of a meeting with the president, White House, August 18, 1960, USFRC-VI, document 577, pp. 1057-1060.

6. Church Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 74. A footnote to this part of the text states: "Although Castro closed the gambling casinos in Cuba when he first came to power, they were reopened for use by foreign tourists in late February 1959, and remained open until late September 1961."

7. Church Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 74. A footnote to this part of the text states: "Although Castro closed the gambling casinos in Cuba when he first came to power, they were reopened for use by foreign tourists in late February 1959, and remained open until late September 1961."

8. Church Committee index card on May 23, 1975, testimony of former CIA director William Colby.

9. Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 75.

10. I.G. Report, p. 16.

11. Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 75; see also I.G. Report, p. 16.

12. Alleged Assassination Plots, p. 79.

13. Church Committee interview with Sam Papich, FBI liaison to the CIA, August 22, 1975, NARA, JFK files, RIF157-10005-10068.

14. Church Committee interview with William Harvey, September 14, 1975, pp. 7-8; NARA, JFK files, RIF157-10011-10124. There is no question, according to Harvey, that this pressure on Bissell continued under the Kennedy White House.

15. WC Vol. XXIII, CE 1697, p. 171.

16. The Kennedy Years, New York Times, p. 233. Present at this meeting were the following: President Kennedy, Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lemnitzer, CIA director Allen Dulles, and CIA's Plans director, Richard Bissell, Senator Fulbright and White House aides Schlesinger and Goodwin also attended.

17. One significant part of the White House today stands as a monument to that tragedy. In June 1961, in a directive resulting from his investigation of the failed invasion, Kennedy ordered that a portion of the White House bowling alley be set aside and that the CIA set up a new operation center where he could keep a close eye on any given situation. The failure at the Bay of Pigs led to the creation of the now famous White House Situation Room. Stuart H. Loory in Los Angeles Times, 3/28/69, pp. 1, 10.

18. FBI Report, CD 1, p. 57.

19. WC Vol. XVIII, CE 985, p. 404.

20. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1127, pp. 102, 118; VOL. XXVI, CE 2681, pp. 39-40, 124.

21. For the CIA copy, see NARA, JFK file, CIA DDO 201 file on Oswald, boxes 1-2.

22. WC Vol. XXVI, CE 2681, p. 39.

23. WC Vol. XVI, CE 245, pp 685, 686.

24. WC Vol. V, p. 277 (Snyder); WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 102, entry of February 1, 1961.

25. Oswald's letter was postmarked February 5 at Minsk, February II at Moscow, and finally received by the embassy on February 13; see WC Vol. XXII, CE 1138, p. 119.

26. See WC Vol. XVIII, CE 933, p. 135.

27. WC Vol. XVIII, CE 932, pp. 133-134 (dispatch from the American Embassy in Moscow to the State Department, February 28, 1961). Also see WC Vol. XVIII, CE 948, p. 186, which is part of the State Department's May 8, 1964, answers to questions from the Warren Commission.

28. For Snyder's letter, see WC Vol. XVIII, CE 933, p. 135.

29. WC Vol. XVIII, CE 940, p. 151.

30. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 102, Historic Diary, entry for March 1-16, 1961.

31. WC Vol. XVI, CE 25, pp. 121-122; Vol. V, pp. 407-408 (Marina Oswald).

32. WC Vol. V, p. 278 (Snyder).

33. WC Vol. XXVI, CE 2666, p. 23. Oswald's occasional contact with American tourists possibly increased his determination to return. Every once in a while he would make the acquaintance of one, such as the University of Michigan band member he met on March 10, 1961 (at the time the band was touring in Minsk); Vol. XI, p. 211.

34. On March 12, 1961, Oswald writes to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The embassy received it. On March 20, 1961, the U.S. Embassy, Moscow, received a second letter from Oswald again stating he wanted to leave and needed permission; See WC Vol. XXII, CE 1085, p. 33. On March 22, 1961, Oswald wrote to the embassy; see Vol. XVI, CE 213, p. 602; Vol. XVIII, CE 950, p. 262; Vol. XXVI, CE 2766, p. 24.

35. WC Vol. V, pp. 352-354 (Bernice Waterman); Vol. XVI, CE 94, pp. 367-368; Vol. XVIII, CE 940, 970, 971, pp. 152, 367-368; Vol. XXII, CE 1074, p. 24.

36. State Department cable to the American Embassy in Moscow, April 13, 1961, WC Vol. XVIII, CE 971, p. 368.

37. Marina thought that the date was March 4. WC Vol. 1, p. 90 (Marina Oswald); VOL. XVI, CE 24, p. 102, entry of March 17, 1961; Vol. XVIII, CE 904, p. 600; Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 748; Vol. XXIII, CE 1792, p. 407.

38. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1138, p. 120.

39. Later that same evening, Marina learned that Oswald was an American; WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 261; CE 994, p. 5. The Commission learned that it would have been unusual for Oswald to have become so proficient in Russian given the length of his stay; see WC Vol. II, p. 347; Vol. XVIII, CE 994, pp. 596, 600; Vol. XXII, CE 1041, p. 745; Life 2/21/ 64. George deMohrenschildt was reportedly amazed by Oswald's Russian proficiency; see WC Vol. IX pp. 226, 259. The Oswald who visited Mexico City in the summer of 1963, however, was not so proficient, perhaps because by that time he had lost the facility. It is more likely, as discussed in Chapter Eighteen, that person speaking Russian in Mexico City was not Oswald, but an impostor.

40. WC Vol. XXIII, CE 1789, p. 402.

41. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1041, p. 753.

42. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 102, entry of March 17, 1961. Marina testified that she told Oswald that she might see him at another dance, but did not give him her telephone number. WC Vol. I pp. 90-91 (Marina Oswald); Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 267; Vol. XVIII, CE 994, p. 7

43. WC Vol. 1, p. 91 (Marina Oswald); Vol. XXII, CE 1401, pp. 267-268; Vol. XVIII, CE 993, p. 7.

44. On March 14 and 15, 1961: On November 30, 1963, Marina says that Oswald was admitted to the 4th Clinical Hospital on the outskirts of Minsk, where he stayed for eleven days; WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 749. Perhaps this hospital was special, but it does seem odd that Oswald was admitted to a hospital in the outskirts of Minsk when he lived in the central part of the city.

45. WC Vol. XVIII, CE 985, p. 450.

46. WC Vol. 1, p. 91, (Marina Oswald).

47. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 749.

48. WC Vol. XVIII, CE 994, pp. 603-604; WC Vol. 11 302 (Katherine Ford).

49. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 750, Vol. XVIII, CE 994, p. 9.

50. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, pp. 749-750; Oswald's diary puts the date five days earlier. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 102, entry of April 1-30, 1961.

51. June 1961-Mrs. Dorothy Gravitis, Dallas resident who is Ilya Maman- tov's mother-in-law and Mrs. Ruth Paine's Russian teacher, says that Marina tells her that they were married in Moscow and then moved to Leningrad. WC. Vol IX, p. 135. Mrs. Thomas N. Ray, resident of Detroit, Texas, meets Marina at Glover's party in 1963 and hears Marina say that they lived in Moscow for a year. WC Vol. IX, p. 31. Paul Gregory, Fort Worth resident who meets the Oswalds in 1962, says that Oswald shows him pictures of Leningrad and Minsk. WC Vol. IX, p. 142.

52. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 750.

53. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 102.

54. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 749; but see WC Vol. I1, p. 302 (K. Ford).

55. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 103, entry of May 1, 1961.

56. WC Vol. XVI, CE 24, p. 103, entry of June 1961.

57. Marina's recollection is that she learned of his plan between May and July.

58. WC Vol. XVI, CE 252, pp. 705, 707.

59. WC Vol. XXII, CE 1401, pp. 740-764; HSCA, Vol. 11, p. 288.

60. New York Times, 12/9/63, p. C-38.

61. The date May 18, 1961, would be indicated, based on 273 calendar days until June Oswald's birth on February 15, 1962.

62. WC Vol. XVII, CE 833, p. 790.

63. Special Agent Kenneth J. Haser, memorandum to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Washington, D.C., field office (WFO) of the FBI, August 9, 1960; Subject: Lee Harvey Oswald, Internal Security-Russia. NARA, JFK files, FBI WFO (105-37111), box 1.

64. The "100" had clearly been changed from "105," which can still be observed beneath the "100." This raises the possibility of a possible connection to the FBI Headquarters and Dallas field office 100/105 file compartments for different aspects of the Oswald case.