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[15]UNITED STATES GOViANMENT .:
[17]Memorandum ©
[19]_TO : Piles ws . DATE: «29 January 1964
[21]FROM : -M. D. Stevens
[25]1. According to a newspaper ° ‘Colum. of "Allen and Scott" in-the
[27]' Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYES,
[29]legal Officer of the State Department, was one. of two persons im-
[31]. mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return:to the
[33]United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962.. The other individual:
[34]named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. ‘Another - -
[35]said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALD 's case -was Semel
[36]WISE, Counsel, of the American Embassy in Moscow.
[38]2. Abram CHAYES, #352234, who as of 16 February 1961 was described
[39]as "the new Counsel in State", was granted Security approval for liaison
[40]contact with J. Foster COBLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
[41]Action Staff) on 6-March 1961. ‘The request for CHAYES' clearance was a
[42]"Blanket" request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 matters on
[43]a need-to-know basis. . .
[45]3. In September 1961 there was a White House namecheck request on
[47]CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLER. /
[49]. 4. Im March. 1962, CHAYES was grented a renewal of his Liaison are
[50]contact clearance with C/CA on a continuing basis. This time his contact -
[51]was Archibald ROOSEVELT, ob
[53]5. on 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with 7
[54]reference to CHAYES: ,
[56]"SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis E. Walter (Ro-Pas),
[57]Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
[58]scored the new State Department regulations on passports, claim-
[59]‘ing they would allow Reds denied passports to "rifie freely the
[60]. confidential files of the FBI, the CIA and other investigative
[61]agencies." The man behind the new regulations, which Walter —
[62]- claims violate the Internal Security Act. of 1950, is reportedly
[63]State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes. Chayes, a Kennedy ~~
[64]appointee, is an ex-Harvard professor who was Chester Bowles *
[65]top legal adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecticut.
[66]Walter has introduced legislation - -to remedy the ‘new passport ~
[68]regulations “
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[72]Exctoded from automatic!
[74]: Cawngrading and
[76]declassification
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[85]6. Samuel WISE, “Counsel in the American Embassy in Moscow" who
[86]is referred to above, may well be Samel Griffin WISE Jr., #74574,
[87]SD & SSD, who apparently was once a contract employee on (ARACTIVE.
[88][The State Department reviewed WISE's file on 2 June 1954; and as of
[89]September 1962 a Samuel G. WISE was Second Secretary of the American~
[90]Embassy in Moscow. At that time WISE advised in a cable to the State
[91]Department that it appeared that Bruce Frederick DAVIS, #352267, who
[92]defected from the United States Army in Germany on 18 August 1960, had
[93]not expatriated himself. DAVIS' case is very similar to that of
[94]OSWALD; and he, like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet Union for two years
[95]after his defection and prior to making application for return to the
[96]United States./
[98]7. WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and
[99]was security approved subject to polygraph on 11 August 1953. He did
[100]not enter on duty and in September 1953 the office which had been
[101]interested in him was "no longer interested". On 13 November 1953,
[102]WISE was granted a CSA to permit his use as a contract employee on
[103]CARACTIVE in New York City. His CSA was cancelled on ak March 1958.
[105]8. WISE was named ds a friend of ‘Willien Orville MONSELL, #61693-DLj
[106]during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment” in 1952.
[107]WISE, according to MUNSELL's landlady and social acquaintance in Washington,
[109]' D.C. during the period of about a year which ended in April 1952, was the
[111]only person she knew by name with whom(MUNSELD.was friendly. According
[113]to the informant, WISE was a student at Columbia University whose address
[114]was 423 Furnald Hall. (MUNSELD) was Security disapproved for CIA employment
[115]in June 1952 because of his chose association on a professional and social
[116]basis, while attending Denver University from 196 + to 1951, with persons
[117]of questionable loyality. In November 1954, (MUNSELL) was of interest to
[118]project QYALLVE with reference to assignment to! ‘Dhahran; ‘Saudi udi_ Arabia;
[119]however, the interested office withdrew their request on him, after
[120]Security advised of the derogatory information regarding him.
[122]9. WISE from 1951. to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale,
[123]New York, which was attacked by a Citizen's Group, which alleged Communist
[125]influence in the school system. He had several questionable associates in
[126]addition to’ MUNSELD.
[128]Ma a Klecws
[130]M. D. Stevens
[132]ScunET
[134]GROUP 1
[135]Excluded from automatic
[137]downgrading and
[138]dectassification