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Sept. 25, 2007 -- Congressional committee inquired about CIA mail monitoring of Oswald publication date: Sep 25, 2007 Download Print Previous | Next Sept. 25, 2007 -- Congressional committee inquired about CIA mail monitoring of Oswald WMR has obtained a letter, dated June 7, 1976, from New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug to then-CIA Director George Bush asking him for files concerning the CIA's monitoring of Lee Harvey Oswald's mail to and from the USSR before and after Oswald renounced his U.S. citizenship in Moscow on October 31, 1959. Abzug was the Chairwoman of the House Government Information and Individual Rights Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. Abzug posed several questions about the CIA's 1953-1973 mail intercept program but was particularly interested in the agency's intercepts of Oswald's mail. Abzug's questions were: "Was Lee Harvey Oswald (or aliases) on any US-USSR mail intercept watchlist, or any other watchlist, either before or after he renounced his U.S. citizenship before consular officials at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, on October 31, 1959? How many envelopes to or from Lee Harvey Oswald (or aliases) were photographed or copied, how many letters to or from Lee Harvey Oswald (or aliases) were photographed or copied, and what was the date of each interception?" Abzug further requested "that copies of all envelopes and letters photographed or copied involving Lee Harvey Oswald (or aliases), as well as any memoranda, messages, index entries, documents and other records relating to mail intercept or mail cover operations involving Lee Harvey Oswald (or aliases), be promptly supplied to this Subcommittee." CIA files also contained an August 1973 article in Penthouse titled "The Oswald-FBI Cover-UP," by George O'Toole. The article concerned the release on June 6, 1974 of a formerly Top Secret document from the National Archives. It was the minutes of a Warren Commission meeting held on January 27, 1964. Although the Warren Commission concluded Oswald was the lone assassin, the meeting on January 27 discussed a phone call to the Commission from Waggoner Carr, the Attorney General of Texas. Waggoner informed the Commission that Oswald was recruited by the FBI as an informant in September 1962 at a salary of $200 a month. Furthermore, Oswald was assigned FBI informer number S-179 and remained an informer until his arrest after President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carr told the Commission that his source on Oswald's status was Henry Wade, the District Attorney of Dallas. Wade also had some other startling information for the Commission: Oswald had also been a CIA informant and was assigned the number 11069 by the CIA. On January 27, 1964, the Commission's General Counsel, J. Lee Rankin, informed the Commission that the Secret Service provided him the same information about Oswald and the FBI the day before Waggoner's phone call to Rankin. One Commission member was not present on January 27 to hear the startling revelations: Gerald R. Ford. Ford appointed George H. W. Bush as CIA Director in 1976.
