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

Letter is classified Confidential because it contains information about the
U-2 program, including some from the enclosure which was so classified.
Former Marines furnishing information about OSWALD'S assignments
abroad were Owen Delanovich, Donald Peter Camarata, Donald Patrick
Powers and William K. Trail. Since the U-2 program was primarily
managed by the CIA, it is the proper Agency to handle this. Of course,
even if it turns out OSWALD was assigned to a base from which U-2
airplanes were flying reconnaissance missions in 1957 and 1958 and
could have had knowledge of this, which he may have given the Soviets
when he went to Russia in October 1959, it is believed the Russians were
aware of the U-2 flights several years before. Nevertheless, it should be
run out. It is not felt it would be worthwhile to re-interview Hobbs since he
possessed no direct information about OSWALD and since the information
he furnished regarding the base at Atsugi was from 'gossip' he heard while
stationed there. [FBI 105-82555-3262]
Owen Dejanovich, who became a professional football player, was contacted in 1993.
He said he was with OSWALD at El Toro, Jacksonville and Biloxi, Mississippi, but not at
Atsugi. The only other thing he would say was "I gave the FBI no information about the
U-2." Owen Dejanovich told Frontline a different story:
There was a small business section across one bridge. We were allowed,
as Americans, to go into that sector of the residential portion of Iwakuni.
The other sector was considered to be communist, Japanese communists
and it was an off-limits area.
Owen Dejanovich claimed OSWALD made pro-Communist remarks and was seen with
a beautiful White Russian. Why didn't he report the presence of a subversive in the
ranks of the Marine Corps to his commanding officer?
JOHN E. DONOVAN'S FAKE U-2 REPORT
By erroneously putting himself in Japan and the Philippines with OSWALD, John E.
Donovan falsely linked OSWALD with the U-2: "LEE was a radar man and he surveilled
for aircraft both known and unknown. He plotted the position of the aircraft. He saw, or
one of his counterparts saw...we did up [the U-2]...you could see it on our altimeter."
Gerald Posner wrote that of "the more than 200 Marines spoken to by researchers, only
one claimed OSWALD ever mentioned the plane." This was Charles Donovan. (Posner
meant John E. Donovan).
ANGLETON ASSURES FBI OSWALD HAD NO ACCESS TO U-2 DATA
ANGLETON or members of his Staff drafted a reply to the FBI inquiry regarding
OSWALD'S access to information regarding the U-2 and had Richard Helms sign it.
[CSCI - 3/781,351] It assured the FBI OSWALD had no access to information on the U-
2: