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

concerning the Marine Corps, intimating he might know something special.
Later when he was applying in Moscow to reenter the United States, he
said he had not given the Soviets any information about the Marines, but
this was self-serving. He indicated to our Agents in an interview in 1962
that he never gave the Soviets information concerning his Marine Corps
specialty in radar. [FBI 105082555-5640] „
OSWALD informed Richard E. Snyder that he had offered the Soviets radar information
"including the specialty that he possessed." Edward Freers included this in his report on
OSWALD that he cabled to Washington. As a result, State Department Headquarters
sent the FBI a report on OSWALD, and the Bureau opened an inactive file on him. As
stated, the same report was sent to the Office of Security of the CIA.
THE UNASKED QUESTIONS
In May 1960 the questions that ANGLETON and CI Staff should have asked were: "Has
there been a report of anyone with access to the U-2's altitude offering this information
to the Soviets?" ANGLETON could access his defector files in 1960; by that year all CIA
files had been microfilmed and placed in an IBM computer specially-designed for CI. It
was a machine records system. When a CIA agent wanted a particular item, he fed in
25 key words about the subject. The computer found the correct microfilmed document
and photographed it with ultraviolet light. The tiny photograph was then projected on an
Intellofax viewing machine; the whole thing took five seconds. The CIA microfilmed
Richard E. Snyder's initial dispatch concerning OSWALD. Once it located OSWALD'S
threat about radar, the next question to ask would have been, "Did he have access to
the altitude of the U-2 ?" A simple check with the Navy would have indicated that, as a
radar operator at Atsugi, he very well might have. Edward Petty reported that there was
no CI/SIG file about the U-2 incident, yet after Francis Gary Powers returned to the U.S.
a CIA Counter-Intelligence Officer was a witness at a Board of Inquiry hearing into the
U-2 Affair. Why was there was no investigation by CI/SIG and ANGLETON? After the
Kennedy assassination CI/SIG commented: "CIA does not investigate U.S. citizens
abroad unless we are specifically requested to do so by some other government
security agency. No such request was made in this case." [First Draft of Initial Report on
OSWALD case Attachment to TX-1889] ANGLETON would never had waited for a
green like from the investigative agency the CIA termed ODENVY before initiating and
investigation, even of his own grandmother.
COULD SNYDER HAVE KNOWN?
According to the 1970 Yale University Yearbook Richard E. Snyder was the Embassy
official in charge of U-2 trial matters. Richard E. Snyder: "I wasn't in charge of U-2
matters (laughs). There wasn't anyone in charge of U-2 matters in the Moscow
Embassy. As the senior Consulate Officer in Moscow I attended the trial. I was the
Embassy Officer in charge of the trial." OSWALD had told him he was going to give the
Soviet Union information on radar. Why didn't Richard E. Snyder put two and two
together? Richard E. Sndyer explained,