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CIA Note on Reconstructing Oswald's 1959 Travel

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Dated 13 June 1964, it summarizes a message about a sensitive source's efforts to obtain flight information to help reconstruct Lee Harvey Oswald's 1959 travel to the Soviet Union.

That the station had no means to establish the working hours of the Soviet consulate on 10 October 1959 — a detail relevant to understanding how Oswald arranged his entry to the USSR.

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This brief CIA record, dated 13 June 1964, summarizes a message describing efforts by a sensitive source to obtain flight information in an attempt to reconstruct Lee Harvey Oswald's travel. The note states that the message also reported the station had no means to establish the working hours of the Soviet consulate on 10 October 1959, a detail relevant to determining how Oswald arranged his entry to the USSR during that period. The document, numbered 732-852, was processed for FOIA review in June 1976. It forms part of the Agency's post-assassination reconstruction of Oswald's movements before he defected to the Soviet Union, illustrating the practical limits investigators faced in verifying dates, transit points, and consular contacts years after the fact.

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Lee Harvey Oswald Central Intelligence Agency Soviet Consulate Soviet Union 1959-10-10 1964-06-13

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https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10004-10097.pdf

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