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CIA Officer L.H. Wigren Cables on Obtaining a Soviet Tourist Visa, 1964

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Wigren was a CIA Soviet Russia Division counterintelligence officer who also authored the Agency's 1964 memorandum reconstructing Lee Harvey Oswald's Helsinki travel, elsewhere in this archive.

It asked a European station to find out the minimum time required to obtain a Soviet tourist visa, using a cover story about a vacation in Austria with a possible short stopover in Moscow.

Public-Interest Summary

A July 1964 CIA cable, codenamed REDWOOD, from officer L.H. Wigren of the Soviet Russia Division's Counterintelligence branch, asking a European station to determine the minimum time needed to obtain a Soviet tourist visa and to have a cleared American or local contact call the Soviet Embassy with a cover story of an imminent Austrian vacation, asking about a possible short stopover in Moscow en route. L.H. Wigren is the same CIA officer who authored the Agency's 1964 memorandum on Lee Harvey Oswald's travel through Helsinki elsewhere in this archive, and this cable shows him working the practical, operational side of understanding how quickly the Soviets processed tourist visas — directly relevant background for the Warren Commission's contemporaneous reconstruction of Oswald's own 1959 Soviet travel.

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L.H. Wigren Austria Moscow 17 July 1964

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https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10004-10203.pdf

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