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It is noteworthy, for example, that when Lee Oswald prepared
to return from Russia the State Department approved his return
(it could have opposed his return as a defector). * It authorized
the American Embassy in Moscow to lend him the money (in behalf
of State) for his return
It is also noteworthy that a State
Department regulation provides that such a repatriation loan
cannot be made unless "loyalty to the United States beyond
30
question" has been established with regard to the recipient.
The State Department's Passport Office found "no reason" why his
passport should not be renewed** and the Department authorized
the American Embassy to renew it
(In fact subsequently, in
1963, when he applied for his passport again, he received it
within 24 hours
- a circumstance which would have been
utterly impossible had his "defection" to Russia been genuine) .
This governmental pattern demonstrating almost paternal
solicitude for Lee Oswald's welfare - -following his fiery
"defection" in Moscow, and, 30 months later, following his return
--
*The Department's report stated that it had determined that
Oswald "had not expatriated himself" by his actions upon arriving
in Russia in 1961. It added that there was no indication in the
reports on Oswald sent to the Department by the F.B.I. that
Oswald was a communist
X
*Ordinarily, when an American citizen goes abroad and commits an
act indicating allegiance to another country (such as the Soviet
Union) the Passport Office automatically prepares a "lookout"
card to catch its attention in the event the party ever attempts
to review his passport. In Oswald's case, no such "lookout" card
ever was prepared. Like the American Embassy, the Passport
Office gave Oswald a "clean bill of health. "
C
1984
Jim Garrison
NW 12640 oclId:59167984 Page 40
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