CHECKING INTO OSWALD'S RECORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600170040-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: February 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approved Fo Releas
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CPYRGHT
Oswald's Record
lleiz-Scott Report
Checking Into
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
AND PAUL SCOTT
CPYRGHT
Full details of the granting
visas to Oswald and his Baas
In June 1963, five months almost The house Anmigralion sub-, an 7362 - after he spent three
to the day he assassinated Presi- committee, 'headed by Ropresen-
1ears in Russia. This as pert of
dent Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald Native Michael Feighan, D-O., years
case involves a mysterious s
obtained a passport to go to Rus- wants to know the circumS a official in another government
sta. es surrounding the lall"er. At a
closed-door hearing, a "morals" agency who reputedly had a
This p` assport, for hamself hand in securing these visas and
only, was issued in Now Orleans issue was' Schwartz is raisrd, definitely 1? slated t~! providing funds for Oswald's re-!;
the day after he applied for it. he Interrogated by the speciall ,turn. This money included $43a-,1
That was done without the cus- commission. ?.71 borrowed from the, U.S em-.
. tomary name check" required As a result of Mrs. ? Marina' 'bassy in Moscow, 'which Os.
for persons known to be Cbm? Oswald's testimony and informa? Wald repaid between October.,
munists or to have Communist' IJ tion from other sources, the as s 19G2' and January .1963:
associations. Oswald's widow told the ape
sassinalion probers want the
At the time Oswald was grant- eial commission that her maid ,?
ed his passport to Rus- State Depart ment official to ? en name was Marina Mikele
sia, there was a detailed file. :.clarify a number of matters, ., yavna Pruskeva, aiid that she
orw him in the State Department among them the following was born in Leningrad in 1941.,i
recording the following: Reason for the omission of;.;' She is still a Soviet citizen, al-
That Oswald had formally de- the '"name check" in granting though her, two daughters, born
clated\his "defection" to the So- ' Oswald a -passport to Russia,:.. 'here, are U.S. nationals.
viet in the U.S. embassy in Mos- Particularly as he was distinct-, The Justice Department has-,,,
cow; that he had married a Rus- ' '1y a so-called "red-filag" case.' assigned two attorneys, to study
Sian whose father is a colonel This category includes individu?'3' what legal recourse would ,be !;
in the Soviet Intelligence serv. ; als whose fides are tabbed with ?I available should, Mrs, `Oswald
ice; that Oswald had been ar? !, a "red-flag." decide to return to Russia. So
rested in New, Orleans for dis.,'t, Whether Oswald's passport ap- , far, they have come up with no y
I:, tributing virulent pro Castro ht-nlication was referred lo'! anstivers, She has said she' wants ? t
erature; and that he had mys?;, Schwartz for decision; if not,' to remain in the. U.S. and be-;j
terious ties with a certain gov . why not; and if It was, 'why the come a citizen. But legally,
: ernment agency, passport was authorized in view l there apparently is no. way to'l
As in the matter of the re- r, of Oswald's "defection" record..' prevent her going back to `the
duired "name chock," ,this in- What was ,done . about Os?`1 ;Soviet if she should change her
criminatory State Department' wald's , State Department file"mind.
file apparently was completely : the day President' Kennedy was Charles Bohlen, U.S. Amebas
ignored in giving Oswald a pass- murdered. . Commission mem sador iii Paris, has informed the
port to Russia the day alter he bers have been told this file,was , ,State- , Department . that Spain
asked for, it. removed'..',- and' ioc:lred' in . very probably will establish dip.
This sensational discovery by Schwartz' desk not long after lomatic relations with Russia in
,'the special presidential investi '; Oswa d's arrest was announced. a', few. months; Bohlen reported ;!
gating commission has focused'f;,Also that' Schwartz and Abram that"backstage 'discussions' On'j
t,? troversia'l, head of the Bureau, State. IDepartncent, conferred re t ssadmiAlt level"? in Pans
diction over the Passport ' Divi
Schwartz, who has had his of=