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President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
James J. Rowley Chief, U. S. Secret Service
SUBJECT: Secret Service Report
There is attached report covered by Secret Service
Control Number 1635.
Attachments
U. S. SECRLT SERVICE File No. CO-2-34,030 DATE: June 25, 1964
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Dear Chief Rowley:
Enclosed for your information is a memorandum and attachments received in this office covering state-ments made by Superintendent Atsuyuki Sassa of the National Police Agency of Japan.
- This letter is classified LE.LITED OFTICIAL USE because of the attachments. It may be declassified upon.re-moval of the same.
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Dear Chief Rowley:
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NEW LIGHT ON THE ASSASSINATION:
A SECRET AGENT'S STORY
More light on President Kennedy's assassina-
tion comes from a Japanese agent's report to
his Government, published here for the first
lime. The agent was assigned to the FBI in-
vestigation of the Kennedy-Oswald murders
because the Japanese feared a wave of as-
sassinations in Japan. Glenn Troelstrup, in the
Tokyo Bureau of "U. S. News & World Report,"
talked to the agent and sent this dispatch.
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President Kennedy, os the assassin's bullets struck
TOKYO
In January, the Japanese Govenuneet secretly assigned a special security agent from the Japanese national police to join quietly with the American FBI in its in-vestigation of the assassination of Presi-dent Kennedy. - The agent was 33-year-old Atsuyuki
Sassa. I have just spent four hours with agent Sassa and Kuniyasts Tsuchida, di-rector of the Tokyo metropolitan police guard division.
Only one man. It may take more than the Warren Commission report to convince many people that the assassina-tion was not part of a larger conspiracy. The official report to the Japanese Gov-ernment. however, holds that President Kennedy was shat by Lee Harvey Oswald and that it was the "impulsive act" of that one man.
Said agent Sassa: "President Kennedy was hit by a steel-jacketed high-pow-ered bullet. It hit the buck of the skull, pushing ahead a skull fragment the size of a quarter through the side of his brain.
"A sliver off the bullet came out of the lower left of the neck, giving rise to early speculation that it was from a shot made from in front of the car."
Sassa continued: "President Kennedy was dead before he arrived at the hospi-tal. If he had not been a President, no doctor would have tried an operation."
Then why was it attempted? "There was one chance in a million he could be revived," Sassa said.
'There have been one or two exam-
pies of ::milar head injuries resulting from auto accidents in which the vic-tims miraculously sorsived. So the op-eration was carried out for three reasons:
"A miracle chance to revive the President.
"To make use of time—an leper or more—to ensure the safety and de-parture from the area of N'ice Presi-dent Johnson.
—To permit last rites of the Cath-olic Church to he carried out before an official death was recorded." In refutation— . At this point. Sassa
tore into what he (Idled the "emotion-ally imaginative speculations" of Ameri-can expatriate writer Thomas which are being widely (imitated in Asia. Buchanan has theorized that Os-wald and Jack Ruby were hirelings of wealthy U. S. right-wing interests who connived with the Dallas police to carry out the assassination.
Refuting Buchanan's theories, Sassa re-ported, are these facts:
"The bullet sliver wound on the Presi-dent's neck kit a sear so clean it was overlooked at first. Theu it was thought it might be an entrance %% lanai from a shot fired in front of the President's car. Later, however, the sliver was found on the car floor. Its route was traced in the autopsy. lint even without that evidence, to make such a wound from the front the assassin would have had to lie on
the pavement ahead of the car. Also his shot would have had to penetrate the front windshield.
"No shut from a nearby bridge could have made such a hit.
"The accusers say that three shots cannel he fired from a Iciest-epic-sight equipped, higlipmvered nthe in slightls over lite wr•iiiirls. %Veil. the Fill /official-ly timed the slitioting ie. taking mer %I's
541.3/1141S— frum 6.5 In lilt serombi. Also n•nivitiber that step (191111 after the lust shot isitquevied. That 1111..IIIS Heckman tseitteels two inure slues conlilii't be
fired accurately in about fi seconds. Do
you see the psychological falsification or trap in the Buchanan are' iiiii An marksman van, ten what 54',14 done ante hit the target. Any /11HIPWITI 16 it
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with a telli•SCIpir sight is to let the rifle
nx-k upward and hat i, lulu position fir firing without este taking sour eye all the sight and the pima where the sight cross hairs intersect. This fact is so well killevil among pilfer nffitials that tell you frankly that dime is absolutely nothing we can do in Japan to pre-vent the assassination of some important perm's, by some rifleman similar to Oswald.-
Fear in Japan. Sassa then paused to explain that the Japanese blase had a number of assassinatkin attempts and that there was fear of a chain reaction from the President's assassination.
"You see," he said, "these things usu-ally come in strings. ‘S'e have had a number of ass.sssiiiation attempts in Ja-pan over the past decade. We feared.
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the next tries would he made with high-powered rifles. So I was sent to j ' the FBI's assassitiati'm investigation*: .
*ale of Tippa. Sassa turned again to Huchanan's willings:
"Buchanan holds that PAIN:MIMI Till-pit.[J.D. Tippit, killed by Oswald about an hour after the President's assassi-nation] was in um al right-sing plot to kill Kennedy. lint let's look at the facts:
"There are in er a thousand men on the Dallas police force. More thou half were assigned to guard the President. •Huchatian sass Tippet was driving alone. something minsnal.
."Of mime it wits 511111 not to hale two 111C11 in a prIlirt• entiser. But the reason 'on that half of the force was on guarcl dolts."
Sassid alsii 'Sditl this allow police work at tin' time of the assassination:
—The F111 and Dallas police were conemdrating their siorseillame on some 30 potentially dangerous uhrariatists in the Dallas area. They were lint paying lunch attention Ii, leftists. Recent as-saults, such as that upon Acllai Steven-son. had been made by rightist elements. We've made the same mistake in Japan. I served as ;I IAMIS guard For Russia's inastas Aldan alb. for evample. We watched the rightists, not leftists.
"I met a ttlIfilher of Dallas police-meta who were frosmentls in Ruby's place [Jack Roby shot Oswald to death
two days after the President's assassina-tion]. and regularly accepted free driuks. No good policeman leas-es without paying for his owto drinks no matter what the deal is with the management. But I conk! find 111) Intik:01M 1lf albs polite connivance in exposing Oswald to possi-ble ilISSASSilliltiOlo. In any security opera-tion there's aruhm (negligence). It's al-ways obsimis later. We are guilty of this in Pavan too. In retrospect. we've done some foolish thing."
Oswald: beatings and halted. As for °m old, the accused oissassin of President Kennedy, agent Sassa said this:
"Oswald tried to pre-arse a small Ros-si.' in ION irWII hinny. Ile beat Marina Ihis Russian-born wife] if she wore lip-stick or any other Lindy of makeup. demanded that she never speak English in their hamar and that she never wear gay American clothes.
"In Washington'. the FBI pssehiatrists notml that Oswald oh, ionsly hat/KI his father for abandoning him. So, Oswald readils disliked ans • who wielded alithorits. lle probably saw his own fa- ther in President he Is."
.Agent Sassa said his report conwhodes that the assassination "was not planned much in advance. Oswald apparently got the idea after the President's visit to Dallas was illiiiii1111[1.11. All evidence 'vain% Ilk' shooting .o a vompietel%
impidsixe act. Oswald was not a man who could prepare or plan things. Ile was tlxl a111StAk'."
In the womb; of agent Sassa, that is the core of his official report to the Jap-anese Government.
The findings of Japanese Agent Sas-Sa, Min uenv has been transferred to a different Japanese agency. agree in all respects with the facts of the Kennedy assassination as they have been made 1.1311W11 in the U. S.
OrI May.:21 insestigalors for the War- ren Cos iii re-tmacted the assassina• Lion in Dallas. in order to prove. with photographs and other evidence, that the Indicts fired at the President could have clime only from the Texas School Book Depository Building, and not from in front of the car.
"The Dallas Times Herald" said the re-enactment proved conclusively that if the bullets bad been fired from in front of the car they would have had to gn throligh the limusine's windshield to hit either the President or Governor John C ally who was wounded by one of the assassids linnets.
Results of the re-enactment will be part of the report by the Warren Com-mission. Ih•adcd by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission was appointed In President Johnson to find and tell all the facts the a5Si1liSillilti011.
In re-enactment of Kennedy assassination in Dallas, federal agents sought to de-termine beyond all doubt exactly how tragedy occurred. At left: Circle shows window of school-depository building where assassin fired. Bottom: White marks on agents show where bullets hit the President, left, Texas Governor Connally, right.
—Wide World Photos
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To Whim It Mny Concern
Subject: Sarin hnnnedy Arionssinntion inveritigation Story
- Thrnngh COMItin arreement or the parties concerned, the fnllnwing
bo stated for the record.
The dincussinn or Lint linnnndy Cnso, centering on Duchnnian statements,
woo carried nut in Jnpanese. Although Correspondent Trnelstrnp
hns n gnnerni comprehenoien of anpaneoe he checknd his materinl for
a total of Iwo hours on twn.sepnrate ncensinno with another Japnnese
participant (neiLlnar Morinro. Sason nor Tonehidn) who bnd invited
him to the discussion. Nevertheless, Correspondent TrnelaIrlip
AAHfiMOR any rnopiansihility for thn following errors in trrinolntinn:
O Agnnt wns asnigned to study nvprnlINirairity menmnrom
techniques in LW: D.S. and his interest in the Eennedy nsonssination
wnoxsia n part. of Una sandy. However, the Correspondent. erred in
saying thnt Agent Stismn's "rim] ammignment" owl to "juin" the
susammiuntion investigation. This rns not possible hecaome or rol
policy which forbids Ow rigout nf' n Foreign governmnnt from such
porticipntion or receiving concerned official documents. Agent Snman
did receive rra cooperation in snch witterm no n study of filing
VALPMR. MIL iL won mode clear In him thnt, cnncnrning the
nosnosinnLinn investigation, heennon or specific Presidential orders,
be could receive no cooperation. So Agent Sassa's conclusions are
based entirely upon unofficial, informal sources,
o Exact period of Agent Sassa's stny in the U.S. was February 26
to Mnrch 2G, 1964.
o Because of n reverse Irnnsintion, an Agent Sasso compliment
For the Wino Police Department nppearnd Om n criticism. Agent.
Snanndid not say "I met. a number of DnIlari policemen..." Rather, hn
complimnnted thnm with "1 never mni. nay..."
o Unlike Correspondent. Trooltarup, Agent Samoa was informed . -- •
hoforehnnd Wint,•whatover 'inn ani0 lit On meeting was assumed In be
If Lhe record. He had no knowliedgn that neither Correspondent nor , -
anyethers hnd not been so informed. r
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Ito It Also ;:sown by Those Concornod:
n Corrempoodeui Troelstrup, the dnpnnean porticipnnt with whom
he checked his story, and Agent. Snson mot at the meeting for the
first. Limn. The three organizers knew n11 'the participnnta but. all
the pnrLiciprintm did not know each other. NJ.0ther Correspondent,
Trontrarnp nor his niding participant were nble to learn unlit ring s
after Lhe meeting who was the sponsors of or had paid the hill for
thn_grithering or Lint trun nriturn of din meeting.
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Snosn Kennedy
o At no time either before, during,. or after the meeting
hold on the evening rf April 24, 1964, wns it made
known thnt any
material wart off the record. In response to Corrpsoondent
Troelstrup'n inquiry, it was mnde known that Eke mnterinl might
he made nvailnhle to n certain Japanese mngazine
nett that Agent
SAMS° Wan fres, to sny whnt ho soil in the company of the group.
Throngh this failure to q unlify nay statomnnto it is agreed that
thn subsequent confusion resulted.
n Correspondent Trnelstrup was not informod thot
shortly
thernafto e t
r thorn seen nn nfficinl pollen decision no to mnke
tho mnterinl available to the dnpnneMe p ress in any form. Ho
thereforo mw e material avnilnble•te th
to his editors throngh a
memo throe works later.
o As soon as Corrempondont Troolstrup WAS informed
that the
mnterinl would form the bnais for a published story, it woo going
to proms AL that very 'moment on the night of Mny 29, 1961, Japan
time, he imfnmrx informed n key participa
nt who in turn informed
concerned officinle. De made the memo available to the concerned
officials for purposes of any clarificati
on. This mituntinn gave
Agent Snosn and Correspondent Troolstrnp An op ortunity La stop
the story or make the foregoing corrections. I
ip's to be regretted
that this worked to the grenler disadvnntngo of Agent Snosa. •
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It is agreed that both Agent Snnsa a
nd Coreepondent Troolstrup
acted in good faith and thet neither
was fully informed of the 1
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Signed: Atmuynki SARRA
411 AV& 19 Dr. ilitoshi Mho
t-71:7 %..4.4c03nn C. Troelstrup
Noboru Kojima
Witnessed by:
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ni$ Ilidnaki Kano
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Tokyo, Japan June 3, 1964
I, Glenn Troelstrup, wish to voluntarily make the following
explanation of any inaccuracies appearing in the article attributed
to me in "U.S. News & World Report" magazine of June 8, 1964,
titled "Now Light on the Assassination: A Secret Agent's Story."
This statement must be considered as a part of and not
separate from the five-party participant statement agreed upon
yesterday.
The entire discussion in which I participated with 1.4...
Atsuyuki Sassa, Mr. Kuniyasu Tsuchida and others on April 24,
1964, at International Nouse, Tokyo, was conducted in the Japaueee
language, in which I do not have complete fluency. In all, about
eight persons were present. Most contributed comments to the
discussion, which was carried on in an informal manner and lasted
for about two hours. Of that time, Mr. eases expressed his opinion
for at least a total of one and one4half hours. I made no notes on
anything that wns said during the discussion. Immediately after,
I made notes and on two occasions checked my information with a
Japanese participant who has proved reliable in the past. Then I
put together the notes which served as the basis for the June 8th
article.
The article contains a number of statements set forth as direct r' f.
quotations from Mr. Sossa. Such representation, as po;nted out in th
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statement of yesterday signed by Meesre. Sanaa and myself and three °- 1 .4..
other Japanese participants, contain inaccuracies as in the first
place only the Japanese language was used, and in the second place,
no notes were taken so as not to interrupt Mr. Saseals talk.
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Title of the article uses the wording "Secret Agent's 3Lory."
The term "Secret Agent" is the term used by myself based on the
journalistic definition. Mr. Sassa was introduced us a bona fide
official of the Japanese Police.
Again in the second line of the article appears the phraseology,
"secretly assigned" to the FBI investigation. This is a journalistic
leader expression drawn by this writer from the total content of
the discussion.
In paragraph 3 the article descrives what may be inferred to
be the full contents of an official report to the '4apaneee
Government. I have never seen the official report. Mr. Sassa
revealed only the information gathered from unofficial sources
in the U.S.
Column 3, page 38, paragraph 1 quotes Sassa as saying,
"Well, the FBI officially timed the shooting as taking place over
six seconds..." Nr. Sassa in making this observation explained
that his information was based on the assassination movie timed and
reported by "Life" magazine.
Page 39, line 2 quotes Sassa as saying, "So I was sent to
join the FBI's assassination investigation." Sassa did no in
fact, 'say he was sent to join the FBI. he said, in effect, he
hsd boon cent to the United States for the purpose of ntudying overall
Presidential-level protection procedures. Be. said that the FBI
was not responsible for the assassination investigation.
Page 39 further quotes Sassa as sayng, "The FBI and Dallas
police were concentrating their surveillance on some 20 potentially
dangerous ultrarightists..." Sassa mentioned that according to
some U.S. publication the police, were concentrating their
observation on some 20 ultrariphtiete. Mr. Sassa made no mention.
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of the FBI in this connection.
Page 39, columns 1 and 2 quote 3assa as saying he had metna
number of Dallas policemen who were frequently in aubyt s place."
Mr Sassa did not say this. What he actually said in that one
of the most controversial points was whether there was any
connivance between Jack ruby and members of the Dallas police fo
rce.
Somebody else in the gathering asked whether the Dallas police had
accepted free drinks from Ruby, and Mr. Sassa commented that
he had never met any such police officers in Dallas nor
detected any evidence that such was the case. This was twisted
in transaltion.
Page 39, column 2, q,:otes Sassa as saying, "In Washington,
the FBI psychiatrists noted that Oswald obviously hated his father.,."
Mr. Sassa did not refer at any time to "FBI psychiatrists." What
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he said was that nsvchiatrits had stated that Oswald hated his
father.
All the above observations reflect the correct character of
remarks made informally at the gathering in Tokyo on April 24,
1964. 4
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Enclosed is a letter fram Leonard C. Hemaer Adviser, Departnent of State, to J. lee 1- June 29, 1964, Ftrui the enclosures thkerato_ obtained in -the third enclosure to t-mio consistent with the comments made -by t. al Int.=111gence Agency in par3grapn6.of its mm-lorr---'7.-7, Zated. 4=11 6, 1564, subject:' "Reply to questions commaimed In yccr neciorandula dated 12 March 1964." We brim& this to yzrzz sttention because of the obvious imortance of the Icizr. at issue.-
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TREASURY DEPARTNIENT UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE
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August 13, 1964
Mr. J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel President's Cothwission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
200 Maryland Avenue, N. E. Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Rankin:
In response to your letter of August 7, 1964, con-cerning the entry in Lee Harvey Osweld's "Historic Diary", we have furnished Mr. Slawson reports re-garding our contacts with Dr. Donald C. Martin and with Mrs. William Edgerton Morehouse, Jr. We have also furnished Mr. Slawson with a recent address on Mr. Walder Boris Kar-patnitsky in West Berlin. We regret that the two Secret Service representatives in Europe are committed in connection with the visit of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy in Europe until August 19. In view of our inability to conduct the necessary interview of Kar-patnitsky pry=ptly, Mr. Slawson has advised us that he will arrange for the interview through another American agency with offices in West Berlin.
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Rer2ora tha me.m,;EreniaAat Lona Crua 7soarul1r, 4.4t.lcst:
Le* UoirTey datgd 2 JulY lticA (Cie Doe-wont 1a16) cf1=27niAg ataf,vnantat ;sad* by .a official la tha Zovisti:o=ulate Kasiro City.
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CC: Mr. Raymond Rocca Central Intellieence Asency
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Blehard Relos Deputy Director liar' Plano
Central LatallirNoula Agency
Doer Eir. IktLeas
2ho COmmlosion mould like perminsion to publiphyvur memorandum
- to ma dated 19 May 1S4.14, subjecti Douro of Work at Cuban and
Soviet Canaulates; Procedmrea and Regulations far Issuance of
Caen Visas; Mode= Control or U. 3. Citizono' Travel to and
iron Cuba. (Ccomdeniaa Doc eat Tao. 944).
ir it is not possibdo for 1.= to pUblich the entire document,
Zto vould lik4 at Iesot to b able to pulallet paragraphs
3 throwth 6.
Sincerely yours,
J. Lee 'twain Gee:arta Covasel
cc: Raymond Rocca Central Intelligence Agency
VIDSlawoon:NAB 9-12-64
cc: Rankin WillenB Liebeler Slawnon
LASSIPICATION CANCELED
By authority of: .C•5 21.173-..
Name and title of person making thechange: /A
Datie
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Dear Hr. tialme
September 12, 1964
The Commiesion weuld aerate receiving memoranda from the Central
Intelligence Agency which can be publiehed sled cited 1.3 authority for -Ws folleving propositions:
"It in not uneaual far a Latin talerican to cen;..eerete the lip etneas of* north Ameritean'e Okla or hair calor." Calla is in reference to gylvls Duranse identification of Oeweld as "bloed%)
The Betel Zerlin end the Hotel Netrepole etre both under the came
edelnietration and both zro cleeely witched by tho KGB.
The "Pa sport eM 'lien Office" whichPimma 221.reIcmptold Leo Hervey Cevald bad been notified of his deeire to became a citizen car the
Soviet Union, Se probably the Viza end Veeletration Department of
the Ydnistry of Intermark/Taira.
There have been alleentione that Sylvia C:ran and her beeband,
Vareeie Duran l'avarro, ars members of tr4 Communist Party.
Sh* usual Soviet procedure is to send defectors who have carried out their defection in leulcov to acme place in the Coviot Chien
other than Mbecow reaeonakly soon after it Las been determined to
accept 1jao defector. (la estatlieniee hoe lone Lee Aarvey Cteald
probably %gaited to be accepted by the Coviet Union for reside ca there, the Cemmisaiaa would like to have authcrity for relying
upon the fact that so long as Weald eus in Moacov etaying in a
room at the Motrepele Hetel, be probably had not yet been accepted
for residence in the Soviet Union.)
trIncerely youre, cc:. Rankin
Winans Liebeler Slaveon
cc: ,Reymond Rocca . :Central Intelligence Agency
, W.Devid Seauson:MAB 9-12-64 ; •
J. Leo Rankin. General Counsel
.Oct/Sher 13, 1964
Henorable Sohn A. MdZone, Director Central Intelligence Azoncy tr
Dear Mr. bilcCone Attention: Mr. Rocca
WO are enclosing a copy of your SECRET document dated January 31, 1964, concerning infermtien developed by CIA on the activity of
' Lee Harvey Os ,11 in Edocico City, 2U SeptoMber - 3 October 1963.
We have deleted all references to the Secret Agent by the marting„ V." Since this document vas cited in our summary report, 1,:e are requesting you authority to publish it in this form. If this icy not aaxecoblo, may we have a synopsis of this document idllichAlSy be jp23.1141344..
6.14-441,,rely.
D-L.1LASSIFIED • ;
-.13y Archivist of the United States
• *By....././1PV9 P:Ate.V.hi
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J. Lee Raahla Gezeral Cotase.l.
Enclosure --CD 31e7 and 1084
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NOV 16 1964
213 Liorporuble
Tin Decretery of tle Troaaury
1Ny dear W. EL.orcitaryi
On behalf of tho Commission and 2:Iyallf I With to thank you =1 the Boi2ortzent or the Tzvasta-y for tbo coy 7i cooperation that the Co=dosion received ou the luvectigation of t1 aSeat3Sination
of Prosident john, F. hairy. 143 visit to eaceciaLly acknowledge ti aid end asaistauce we received from Chief James ricrwley, your eseiStant Robert well, Inspector T.hotnas iislley, fir. Forest V. Sorzele, Hr. Willi= Baler, fir. Ecl„zzer W. 1,1xxo, Ste. John Jim Howlett, Mr. loon Gopedze, Mr. AI Diaercon, end W. Bob Jun-team.
Mee Cotaniation ca ad upon t1 ateret Service for et great rum& of agSiatancein cora:action vith the invoctication and it uze raver denied tho otoefreua and full cooperation et a.1.1.
With kindest Toroccoal regards, I art
Sincerely,
a. Lee Rankin Ce2vra3. Coll
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Dear Mr. Rankin:
Thank you very much for yo= letter
of November 16. It is always a rem: pleasure
to hear that our people ha-:eea ;cod job.
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,Mr. 3. Lee Rankin General Counsel President's Co. on
Assassination of Presid=7.: 200 Maryland Avenue, N. E. Washington, D. C. 23002
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Investigption and Evidence /
SZP 21 1354
Mr. Richard Helms Deputy Director for Plans .) Central Intelligence Agency yr .5-11 45
Dear Mr. Bolinst
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FBI photograph exhibit Va. D33-46 (Commission Exhibit No. 2625) shows Len Harvey Oswald with a group of men who . Marina has identified as follow workers at the Minsk radio and TV factory. A copy of this photograph has been enclosed with this letter in order to 449iat your ready -' identification of it.
I know that the CIA has already furnished to the Ccamission a "Ea me List kith Traces," (Appendix Coto =7; Chronology of Oswald in ussa, October 1955-June 1962-» Comniseion Document No. 6g0). Since ve do not know the names of the persons in the photograph, however, we have
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Sincerely
J. Lee Rankin General Counsel
cc: Hr. Rocca (with photograph)
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