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[20]suyject: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE #735116)
[22]1. According to a newsvaper colwm of “Alien and Scott" in the
[23]Chicago American of 6 Dacenber 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CH.
[24]Legal Officer of the State Department, was one of tyo persons im-
[25]mediately responsible for OSWALD's being permitted to return to the
[26]United States from the Soviet Union in June 1952, The othar individual
[27]named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. Another .
[28]said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALD's case wis Samuel
[29]WISE, Counsel of the American Embassy in Moscov.
[31]2. Abram CHAYES, # 735 223h, who as of 16 Febrnery 1961. vas desorived
[32]as "the new Counsel. in Sete” was grented Security anprovall for lieison -
[33]contact with J. Foster COLLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert -
[34]Action Staf?r) on 6 March 1951. The request for CHAYES' clearence was a
[36]a'need~to-know bash Se
[38]3. In September 1961 there was a ‘White House namecheck request Ou
[39]CHAYES! wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLE:
[41]4. In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a renoval of his Liaison
[42]contact clearance with of CA on a continuing basis. This time his contact
[43]was Archibald ROOSEVELT, Jr.e
[45]5. on 10 February 1962, HUNAN EVENTS reported as follows wi th,
[46]reference to CHAYES:
[48]"SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis E. Walter (R.-~Pa.),
[49]Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has
[50]scored the new State Deoartment regulations on passports, clein-
[51]ing they would allow Reds denied passports to "rifle freely the °
[52]confidential files of the FBI, the CIA and other investigative
[53]egencies." The man behind the new regulations, which Welter
[54]claivis violate the Internal Sccurity Act of 1950, is reportedly
[55]State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes. Chayes, a Kennedy
[56]appointee, is an ex-rarvard pro: c wilo was Chester Bowles!
[57]top legal adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecticut.
[58]Valter has irtroduced legislobion to remedy the new passport
[60]regulations." :
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[74]WISE, according te MUNSELL's tand lady: and social fequaintanee - in Weshi
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[78]6. Samuel WISh, "Counsel in the American Embassy in Noscow"™ vho
[79]is referred to above, may well be Samuel. Griffin WISE Jr., #7hoTs,
[80]SD & SED, who apparently was once a contract employee on AEACTIVE.
[81]The Etate Depar’ tment reviewed WISE's file on 2 June 1954; and as of
[82]September 1962 a Sanuel G. WISE was Second Secretary of the Ameri
[83]Fnbassy in Moscow, % that time WISE advised in a cable to the
[84]Departrent _ :
[86]DAVIS' case is very similar to that of
[87]OSWALD; and he, Like ian, lived in the Soviet Union for two years
[88]after his defection end. prior to making appli cation for return to the
[89]United States. ./ . ;
[90]{- WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and
[91]was security approved subject to polysraph on 11 August 1953. He did.
[92]not enter on duty and in Septerber 1953 the office which had been
[93]interested in him was "no longer intere ssted". On 13 November 1953,
[94]WISE was granted a CSA to permit his use ag a contract employee on
[95]AEACTIVE in New York City. His CSA was cancelled on 2h March 1958.
[97]8. WISE wos nazed as a friend of William Orville MUNSELL, 261693-DL,
[98]during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1950.
[100]only person she ner by name: with who MONSELD, Vas" Priendly.
[101]to the informant, WISE was a student at Columbia University vhose. “addres 28S
[102]was 123 Furnald Hell. MUNSELL was Security disapproved for CIA explo: ant.
[103]in June 1952 because of his close association on a professional and social
[104]basis, while attending Denver University from 1946 to 1951, with persén:
[106]of questionable loyality. In November 1954, MUNSELL was of of interest. to
[107]project FJALIVE with reference to assignment to Dhahran, “Saudi Are ia;
[108]however, the interested office withdrew their requést on him, after
[110]Security advised of the derogatory information regarding hin.
[112]9. WISE from 19532 to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale,
[114]' New York, which was attacked by a Citizen's Group, which alleged Commmist
[116]influence in the school system. He had several questionable associates in
[118]-addition to MUNSELL.:
[120]he. “>. NX te Cee &
[121]M. D. Stevens