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X CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON 25 D.C. 1 July 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel General Counsel President's Commission on the Assassination President's Commission on the of President Kennedy Assassination of President Kennedy it SRBJECT: Lee Harvey Oswald's Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959 SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD 1. In response to your memorandum of 25 May 1964, we have established that the only direct flight from London to In response to your request, I forward information Helsinki on 10 October 1959 was Finn Air flight 852 which ar- rived in Helsinki at 2333 (11:33 P.M.). If Oswald had taken this flight, he could not normally have cleared customs and regarding Lee Harvey oswald's stay in Helsinki. landing formalities and reached the Torni Hotel downtown by 2400 (midnight) on the same day. This is based on the judg- According to a reliable source, OSWALD stayed at the ment of officers in this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport. Torni Hotel in Helsinki from 10 to 11 October 1959 and then 2. We are presently attempting to determine if Oswald moved to the Klaus Kurki Hotel where he stayed until could have taken a more circuitous flight from London, with a stop at Stockholm, Copenhagen, or some other city. Any i additional information received will be forwarded to you 15 October, apparently waiting for a visa to be issued him by promptly. the Soviet Consulate in Helsinki. He traveled to the USSR by train, crossing at Vainikkala on 15 October. Michaed Human Richard Helma Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms COMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2677 Deputy Director for Plans COMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2676 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date 12/1/63 2 1 MO 89-25 Mr. ROBERT J. FITZPATRICK, S.J., Scholastic, Jesuit House of Studies, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, advised education in the United States. he recalled LEE HARVEY OSWALD very well. FITZPATRICK said he was studying the Russian language and learned EUGENE MURRETT. an- He said Mrs. OSWALD stated she was not a commus st other Jesuit Scholastic, was a cousin of OSWALD and that OSWALD Mrs. OSWALD'S love for Russia was not the same and 1c9 Russia and the Russian people He explained that spent three years in Russia. He said that gements were tipe then made

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