A PASSPORT WHICH WAS QUICKLY OBTAINED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400340007-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: REPORT

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One may assume#~t t desired to have a lied ~or pro-Castro
patters Oswald, jed to have' met .while he
{Which he' Zisase f e ` his duties
p+alc for the Fair: Cuba movement.
regardless of a ex G."reaeons for having furnished Inonioad to:
furnish this inforn tjon were for
personal gain or patr3rit~ one" thing
,appears clear: be
teaP- anti
-Castro syraathi eaa, not in his
'in - eyes a 'very pleasant ray a ce out a livelihood. '
~e bier s
rev. iation of Os~rald's ,double role (1N. he was in the
the pro-Castro` ,lp'BI' and of
arleans}, Oswald beck sus .its eyes of
both. He left agar `or Texa , 'tiros which it he be tamr,
or for three
or four masters."
I in fact do not believe that the FBI Was the only i93eral organ which
was interested in Odd`.
There are some very valid reasons for thinking that other organs, such
as the Central Intelligence Agency, were interested in this spy under authority.
In no other way can the following fact be explained: 00 24; June 1963,
Oswald, who at the time of his return from the USSR wrotetbat-he detested that
country, submitted a request to the Department of State flay a passport in order
to return to the-Soviet Union. This request, from an avowed pro-Cowunist and
former turncoat, was not only approved, but the .prows.!' was given within
twenty-fo;u^ hours of the request. Whoever requests a passport in the U.S.,
even far a visit to Western urope, knows that it takes a special act of in-
tervention Co get it within twenty-four hours. But in the case of Oswald,
whose background was well known, a detailed investigation of his request was
autcznatic, indeed obligatory under terms of the McCarran At, which inter
alia prohibits American Cc=nmists from traveling outside of the Western
Hemisphere.
We therefore have two precise facts: Oswald got his passport without
undergoing an investigation under terms of the McCarran Act; and he was also
employed as a clerk by the city of Dallas without the investigation which a
Texas law on the control of subversives requires. He could not have gotten
either without the intervention of a governmental organ. which had him under
authority.
Now it appears that there was not one but two official interventions, .
and it is quite possible that neither of the two governmental organs was know-
ledgeable that each considered Oswald as one of its members. This is the
danger in the US: there are so ninny different organs investigating Cosmaunism
and so few authentic Cc unists that the secret services are:'coslpelled to.,
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