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aao 104-10300-10124) 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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UNITED STATES GOVL_ NMENT
Memorandum
TO Files DATE:
29 January 1964
FROM
SUBJECT: TEE CEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE 4351164
T Ii 14 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 Depertment, was One of' two persons im-
mediately responsible for OSWALD 's being permitted to return to the
United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962_ The other individual
named was Llewellyn THOMPSON, the then Ambassador to Russia _ Another
said to have been involved in the handling of OSWATD 1 S case was Samuel
WISE, Counsel' of the American Embassy in MosCOw
2, Abram CHAYES , #352234, who 88 of 16 February 1961 was described
I as "the new Counsel in State was granted Security approvel for liaison
contact with J Foster COTLINS (in the office of the Chief of the Covert
Action Staff) on 6 March 1961 _ The request for CHAYES clearance was a
II "Blenket request to permit discussion with him of NSC 5412/2 metters on
8 need-to-know basis ,
3 In September 1961 there was a White House namecheck request on
CHAYES wife Antonia (Toni) Leigh CHAYES, nee: HANDLER _
4. In March 1962, CHAYES was granted a_ renewel of his liaison
contact clearance with c/CA on a continuing basis . This time his contact
was Archibald ROOSEVET , Jr .
5< On 10 February 1962, HUMAN EVENTS reported &8 follows with
reference to CHAYES :
Ii 'SOFT ON COMMUNISM: Representative Francis Eo Walter (R.-Pa.),
Chairman of the House Comittee on Un-American Activities, has
scored the new State Department regulations on passports, claim-
ing would allow Reds denied passports to "rifle freely the
confidentiel files of the FBL, the CIA and other investigative
M agencies _ The man behind the new regulations, which Walter
claims violate the Internal Security Act of 1950, 18 reportedly
State 's chief legel officer, Abram_Chayes _ Chayes , a Kennedy
appointee, is an ex-Harvard professor who was Chester Bowles
legal adviser when Bowles was Governor of Connecticut
Walter has introduced legislation to remedy the new passport
M1 regulations
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6 Samuel WISE, I Counsel in the Anerican Embassy in Moscow" who
is referred above , may well be Samuel Griffin WISE Jr #74574,
SD & SSD , who apparently was once a contract employee on
The State Department reviewed WISE 8 file on 2 June 1954; ana as of
September 1962 a Samuel G: WISE was Secona Secretary of the American
Embassy in MOSCOw _ At that time WISE advised in a cable to the State
Department that it appeared that Bruce Frederick DAVIS, #352267, who
defectea from the United States in Germany on 18 August 1960, had
not expatriated himself_ DAVIS case is very similar to that of
OSWALD; and like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet Union for two years
after his defection and prior to making application for return to the
United StatesJ
7 < WISE was an applicant for CIA employment in early 1953 and
was security approved subject to polygraph on 11 August 1953_ He did
not enter on duty and in September 1953 the office wich had been
11 interested in him was no longer interested" On 13 November 1953,
WISE was granted a_ CSA to permit his use as a contract employee On
ANNTIVE' in New York City . His CSA was cancelled on 24 March 1958.
8 . WISE was named as a friend of William Orville MISEL, 461693-DL,
during an investigation of the latter for possible CIA employment in 1952=
WISE, according to MUTSELL's landlady and sociel acquaintence in Washington,
D.C. during the period of' about a year wnich ended in April 1952, was the
only person she knew by name with whom MUNSEL was friendly _ According
to the informant, WISE was a student at Colubia University wose address
was 423 Furnala Hall - MUNSEL was Security disapproved for CIA employent
in June 1952 because of his close association on a professional and social
basis, while attending Denver University from 1946 to 1951, with persons
of questionable loyality_ In November 1954, MNSELL was of interest to
project #uAUWbawith reference to assignment to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;
however , the interested office withdrew their request on hin, after
Security advised of the derogatory information regarding him.
9. WISE from 1951 to 1954 attended Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale,
New York, which was attecked by a_ Citizen '8 Group, which alleged Communist
influence in the school system. He had several questionable essociates in
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