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he was all r ight to our government- we was their man. Oswald
always received preferential treatment- aetion in his favor that
makes) no sense whatever except on the assumption he was a govern-
ment man.
Sylvia Meagher has provided a particularly valuable service
in calling to our attention government inaction where there should
have been action and vice versa. A "lookout card" is prepared
by the State Department Passport Office in order to have adequate
information in the event action should be taken to refuse a pass-
port. When Oswald sought to (renounce his citizenship at the end
of October 1959 there were. grounds for preparing a lookout card,
but none was prepared. On two other occasions preparation of a
lookout card was mandatory. One was when the Embassy lost contact
with Oswald, and had no way of knowing whether he might have taken
an allegience to the Soviet Union. The second occasion was when
money was advanced to Oswald by the State Department. In neither
case, however, was action taken, and a lookout card was not ever
prepared. Sylvia Meagher states:
"An article in the New York Times of October 20,
1963, charged that 1 for the past 15 years, the
(State) department has attempted to deny passports
to many Americans on the ground that their travel
might be embarrassing. Yet four months before this
charge was published, Oswald applied for a passport
(on June 24, 1963) and it was issued to him without
a murmer only 24 hours late!"
She continues:
"The radical deviation from orthodox practice where
Oswald was involved cannot be dismissed as random,
inadvertent, or innocent- it is too consistent and
uniform, vertically and horizontally, to be attri-
buted to recurrent clerical error. It is a pattern
that makes sense only in the context of a secret
arrangement which places Oswald outside of the scope
of normal measures of attrition: "Oswald and
the State Department, The Minority of One, Oct. 1965,
p. 24.)
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