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

January 4, 1961 One year after I received the residence document I am
called in to the passport office and asked if I want citizenship (Russian) I
say no simply extend my residental passport to agree and my document is
extended untill Jan 4, 1962.
January 4, 1961 to January 31, 1961. I am stating to reconsider my desire
about staying. The work is drab that money I get has nowhere to be spent.
No nightclubs or bowling allys no place of recreation acept the trade union
dances. I have had enough.
On January 12, 1961, S.A. John W. Fain was still assigned to the OSWALD case and
was under the supervision of ASAC W. David Breen and SAC Curtis O. Lynum.
OSWALD: FEBRUARY 1961
OSWALD: "February 1, 1961. I made my first request to American Embassy, Moscow,
for reconsidering my position, I stated "I would like to go back to the U.S."
On February 1, 1961, the State Department sent Airgram A-127 via diplomatic pouch to
the American Embassy, Moscow, which requested that the American Embassy inform
the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Marguerite Oswald was worried about her son.
Delivery time for such pouches was from three to ten days. On February 5, 1961, before
the American Embassy passed this message to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
OSWALD mailed a letter dated February 1, 1961 to the American Embassy, which the
American Embassy received on February 13, 1961. In this letter, he expressed his
interest in returning to the United States. American Embassy officials stated this was the
first time they had heard from, or about, OSWALD, since November 16, 1959.
Marguerite Oswald's letter and OSWALD'S decision to leave the Soviet Union were
unrelated. His mission had ended and he was not admitted to Patrice Lumumba
University. The Warren Commission concluded: "The simultaneity of the two events was
apparently coincidental. The request from Marguerite Oswald went from Washington to
Moscow by sealed diplomatic pouch and there was no evidence that the seal had been
tampered with." [WR p275] Richard E. Snyder: "All we could do in cases like that would
be to forward a letter to the Foreign Office with a request that they forward it. We could
not contact the individual himself."
REFERENCE TO LETTER U.S. EMBASSY NEVER RECEIVED
OSWALD'S February 5, 1961, letter to the American Embassy, Moscow, contained a
reference to a December 1960 letter allegedly mailed to the American Embassy from
Minsk, which the American Embassy never received: "Since I have not received a reply
to my letter of December 1960 I am writing again asking that you consider my request
for the return of my American passport." The CIA reported: