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CIA Inquiry on Lee Harvey Oswald's Helsinki Travel (1964)

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T104-10004-10720
Box 8
13-00000
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE
iS SECRET
2
TO
FROM :
ACTION:
INFO
: DIRECTOR
ROUTING
4
5
6
C/SR 5
DCI, D/DCI, DDP, C/CI,
C/CI/SI,
c/WH 4, VR
SECRET 0513002
DIR CITE
2547
• REDWOOD GPFL OOR
REF DIR 24936*
HOPE TO REPLY TO REF ON: 10 JUNE.
SECRET
1. 5J0: 64IN99375
* Hqs requested the time of Oswald's arrival in Helsinki
and the working hours at the Soviet Consulate on 10 Oct for the
Warren Commission.
Documant Numbor 125-844
•for FOLA Review on
JUN 1976
CS COPY
201-289248
D- 200-5-41
SECRET
REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED
macerea
GROUP I
Excluded from automarie
downgrading and
Copy No:

Frequently Asked Questions

CIA document 104-10004-10120 is a brief internal message noting that Headquarters, for the Warren Commission, requested the exact time of Oswald's arrival in Helsinki and the working hours of the Soviet Consulate there on 10 October 1959.

The message, dated 5 June, indicated the station hoped to reply by 10 June.

Public-Interest Summary

This declassified CIA document, identified as 104-10004-10120, is a brief internal communication regarding an inquiry from the Warren Commission. The message, dated June 5, concerns a request from CIA Headquarters for specific information related to Lee Harvey Oswald. The inquiry sought to establish the exact time of Oswald's arrival in Helsinki, Finland, and the operational working hours of the Soviet Consulate in that city on October 10. The document serves as an administrative record of the agency's efforts to gather and verify factual data for the commission's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The communication indicates that a formal reply to the request was scheduled for June 10. The document is marked as secret and includes routing information for various CIA divisions, including the Director of Central Intelligence and the Deputy Director of Plans.