NODULE X7 OSWALD IN MINSK AND THE U2 DUMP: JANUARY ...

midnight, she gives me a small "Boratin" clown, for a New Years present
she is very nice. I found out only recently she is married, has a small son
who was born crippled, that this is why she is so strangly tender and
compeling.
January 1, 1959 to January 4, 1960. No change in routine."
On January 4, 1960, OVIR granted OSWALD a stateless passport, which required him
to report to the Soviet Passport and Visa Department three times a year:
January 4, 1960 I am called to passport office and finilly given a Soviet
document not the Soviet citizenship as I so wanted, only a residence
document, not even for fourigners but a paper called "for those without
citizenship." still I am happy. The offial says they are sending me to the
city of "Minsk". I ask "is that in Siberia? He only laughes; he also tells me
they have arranged for me to recive some money through the Red Cross.
To pay my hotel bill and expensis. I thank the gentelmen and leave later in
the afternoon. I see Remma "she asks are you happy" "yes". [CIA 646-
265]
The CIA was unable to determine if it was unusual for OSWALD to be allowed to remain
in the USSR: "Not knowing how many would-be defectors have been turned back, it is
impossible to say whether the acceptance of OSWALD and five others is unusual.
Acceptance of KGB agents is certainly not out of the ordinary." [CIA Les Roades draft]
January 5, 1960. I got to Red Cross in Moscow for money with interruptor
(a new one). I recive 5000. Rubles. A hugh sum!! Later in Minsk I am to
earn 70 Rubles a month at the factory.