</s>204-10133-10347 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECUREL, D.D.C. OFFICIAL FORM NO. 19 S01-10-19 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum INTEREST To: Files DATE: 29 January 1961, FROM : M. D. Stevens STATE INFO P.2. SUBJECT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE #351164 1. According to a newspaper column of "Allen and Scott" in the Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD Case, Abram CHAYES, Legal Officer of the State Department, was one of two persons in the medical office of the Soviet Union in June 1962. The other individuals, United States from the Soviet Legion in June 1992. The individual named was Lively Lively THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia. Another said to have been involved in the handling of OSWALLD's case was Samuel WISE, Counsel, of the American Embassy in Moscow. 2. Abram CHATES, #552323, was as of 16 february 1961. was described as "the Council in State," was granted Security approval for liaison contributed to the President of the United States, was granted security approval for the Chief of the Covert Action Staff" on March 1961. The request for the CHAYEs' clearance was a Blanket" request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5/12/2 matters on a need-to-know basis. 3. In September 1961 there was a White House namecheck request on CHAYES' wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYE'S, (Leigh ChAYES), handler. 4. In March 1962, CHAYEE was granted a white house namecheck request on contact clearance with a continuing basis. This time his contact was Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. 5. On 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported as follows with reference SOFT TO CHAYERS. "SOFT TO COMMITTEE: Representative Francis E. Walter (R.P.A.). Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has secret of the New State Department regulations on passport claims- ing they would allow reded denied passports to rifle freely the confidential files of the FBI, the CIA and other Western- confidential documents of the CIA to the other West- clandestine violate the Internal Security Act of 1950, a reportedly State's chief legal officer, Abram Chayes, a Kennedy appointee, is an ex-harvard professor who was Chester Bowles to the President's office, and the Chief Executive Walter has introduced legislation to remedy the new passport <loc_837>regulations." SECRET Document Number: <loc_916>(2/2/3/2)

Summary:  
The document contains two memos dated 29 January 1961 and 29 January 1964 from M.D. Stevens regarding the Lee Harvey Oswald case. It references Abram Chayes, a legal officer at the U.S. State Department, who was involved in handling Oswald's case. Chayes had security clearances for liaison with the White House and the Chief of the Covert Action Staff, granted in March 1961. In September 1961, there was a White House namecheck request on Chayes' wife, Antonia Leigh Chayes. In March 1962, Chayes received renewed contact clearance with Archibald Roosevelt Jr. The document also mentions Samuel Wise, Counsel at the American Embassy in Moscow, who may have been linked to CIA employment and had connections to William Orville Munsell, a subject of CIA investigation. Wise's file included interactions with the State Department and allegations of questionable associates.  

Key People:  
- Abram Chayes (Legal Officer, U.S. State Department)  
- Antonia Leigh Chayes (wife of Abram Chayes)  
- Samuel Wise (Counsel, American Embassy in Moscow)  
- William Orville Munsell (subject of CIA investigation)  
- Archibald Roosevelt Jr. (contact for Chayes)  

Key Locations:  
- Moscow (American Embassy)  
- Washington D.C. (White House, State Department)  
- Scarsdale, New York (Scarsdale High School)  

Key Events:  
- Security clearance requests for Abram Chayes (1961, 1962)  
- White House namecheck request on Antonia Leigh Chayes (September 1961)  
- Investigation of William Orville Munsell for CIA employment (1952)  
- Reference to Samuel Wise's CIA employment application and security clearance history (1953–1958)  

Key Organizations:  
- U.S. State Department  
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  
- American Embassy in Moscow  
- White House Covert Action Staff

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