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

Richard C. JACOB, #291 610, was born May 24, 1936 in Altoona,
Pennsylvania. JACOB was a CIA employee from 1960 to 1969. He was
p.n.g.‟d as a result of the PENKOVSKY case. Clearance was issued for
him for use as a spotter-assessor in March 1972. Is now a stock broker in
New York City.
Nancy Dammann spent 17 years with USAID as a Communications Media Advisor in
countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Richard C. Jacob, was a
twenty-four-year-old CIA case officer from Egg Harbor, New Jersey, listed on the
embassy rolls as an "archivist" who was assigned the task of picked up some
intelligence information from Colonel Penkovsky at a dead drop: "The message has to
be in a matchbox," Case Officer Paul Garbler stated, "Hold it in your hand until you get
out on the street, and if you're jumped, drop it, try to drop it in the gutter, the sewer if
you can. Don't have it." Jacob nodded, and Garbler went on, "They'll try to sweat you.
Don't admit anything about clearing a drop. Demand to call the embassy." When Jacob
arrived at the Pushkin Street drop, the KGB was waiting. He had walked straight into a
trap, just as Garbler had feared. [Molehunt David Wise] No traces on the others, other
than their names appeared on a Soviet visa blacklist. At this time this document is a
conundrum for me.
OSWALD'S KGB FILE
OSWALD'S KGB File (No. 31451) contained no indication that he supplied information
to the Soviets.
There is one more interesting detail in his records. KGB insists, that it is
not mentioned in the papers even once of the Soviet intelligence officials
ever interrogating OSWALD. It is very strange because the fact that
OSWALD arrived in the Soviet Union, and his further behavior, must have
(and it did) caused strong suspicions of the KGB: it was not every day that
American tourists in 1959 kept asking for political asylum so
persistently...The KGB officials assure that he wasn't recruited by them.
Though it is impossible to check this fact out, the thick file of records on
OSWALD can be good proof that he had nothing to do with the KGB. Six
volumes - this is too much for a file of a person who is working for the
KGB. Usually they would keep a thin and absolutely secret folder.
OSWALD's KGB file indicated that OSWALD was never interviewed by the KGB. This in
itself was strange. If a secret folder existed that linked OSWALD to the U-2 dump it
would have been destroyed after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As of
1995 there was no KGB record that indicated OSWALD had any connection with the
KGB, however, the KGB was a covert action arm of a totalitarian power. It did not keep
records on everyone it killed or everyone who contacted it. Perhaps there were no
written records to be destroyed.