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[24]suyjecT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE #351164
[26]1. According to a newspaper column of "Allen and Scott" in tha
[28]' Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CEAYES,
[30]Legal Officer of the State Department, was one of two persons im-
[31]mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return to the
[32]United States from the Soviet Union in June 1952. The other individvel
[33]named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. Another
[34]said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALD's case was Samuel
[35]‘WISE, Counsel of the American Embassy in Moscow.
[37]2. Abram CHAYES, #7352234, who as of 16 February 1961 was described
[38]"the new Counsel in State" » was grented Security approval for Lieison
[39]‘contact with J. Foster COMBINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
[40]Action Staff) on 6 March 1961. The request for CHAYES' clearence was a
[42]-"Blanket" request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 metters cn -
[44]a need-to-know basis...
[46]3. In September 1961 there was a. White House nemecheck request Ou
[47]CHAYES! wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDDER « |
[49]4.. In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a renewal of his liaison
[50]contact clearance with C/CA on a continuing basis. This time his contact
[52]was Archibald ROOSEVELT, Jr.
[54]5. On LO February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with
[55]reference to CHAYES: _
[57]"SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis E, Walter (R.~-Pa.),
[58]Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
[59]scored the new State Department regulations on passports, clain-
[60]ing they would allow Reds denied passports to "rifle freely the
[61]confidential. files of the FBI, the CIA and other investigative
[62]agencies." The man behind the new regulations, which Walter
[63]claims violate the Internal Security Act of 1950, is reportedly
[64]State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes. Chayes, a Kennedy :
[65]appointee, is an ex-Harvard professor who was Chester. Bowles
[67]top legal.adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecti eut.
[69]‘Walter has introduced. Legislation to remedy the new passport ;
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[94]6. Samuel WISE, "Counsel in the American Embassy in Moscow" who
[95]is referred to above, may well be Samuel. Griffin WISE Jr., #74574,
[96]SD & SSD, who apparently was once a contract employee on ARACTIVE.
[97]The State Department reviewed WISE's file on 2 June 1954; and as of
[98]September 1962 a Samuel G. WISE was Second Secretary of the American
[99]Imbassy in Moscow. At that time WISE advised in a cable’ to the State
[100]Department ent re
[102]' /DAVIS' case is very similar to that of
[104]. OSWALD; and he, like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet Union for two years
[106]after his defection and prior to making application for return to the
[107]United States wi .
[109]7- WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and
[110]was security approved subject to polygraph on 11 August 1953. He did
[111]not enter on duty and in September 1953 the office which had been
[112]interested in him was "no longer interested". On 13 November 1953,
[113]WISE was granted a CSA.to permit his use as a contract employee on
[114]AEFACTIVE in New York City. His CSA was cancelled on 24 March 1958.
[116]8. WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, #61693-Dz,
[117]during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1952.
[118]WISE, according to MUNSELL's landlady and social acquaintance in Washington,
[119]D.C. during the pericd of about a year which ended. in April 1952, was the
[120]only person she mew by name with whom MUNSELL was friendly. According
[121]to the informant, WISE was a student at Columbia University whose address
[122]was 423 Furnald Rall. MUNSELL was Security disapproved for CIA employment
[123]in June 1952 because of' his close association on a professional and social
[124]basis, while attending Denver University from 1946 to 1951, with persons
[125]of questionable loyality. In November 1954, MUNSELL was of interest to
[127]. project FJALIVE with reference to assignment to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;
[129]however, the interested office withdrew their request on him, after
[130]Security advised of the derogatory information regarding hin.
[132]9. WISE from 1951 to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale,
[133]New York, which was attacked by a Citizen's Group, which alleged Communist
[134]influence in the school system. He had several questionable associates in
[135]addition to MUNSELL.:
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