Angleton Received FBI Report on Oswald a Week Before JFK's Assassination
The accused assassin was monitored by top CIA officers from 1959 to 1963.
On Monday, Nov. 2, 1959, the CIA’s counterintelligence office—run by the fabled spy hunter James Angleton—first learned the name of man named Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jane Roman, liaison officer with other federal agencies, received a daily call from Sam Papich, her counterpart at the FBI. Papich asked her about a story that appeared on page A7 of the Saturday Oct. 31, Washington Post:
"Ex-Marine Asks For Soviet Citizenship"
The wire service story reported that a 20-year-old former Marine from Texas named Lee Harvey Oswald had shown up at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and announced his intention to renounce his U.S. passport and become a citizen of the Soviet Union.
Papich wanted to know more. When Roman received a cable from the State Department about Oswald, she scrawled on the top. “Mr. Papich would like to know about this ex-marine who recently defected into the U.S.S.R.” She routed the cable to a colleague who might have answers.
Two days later, Roman received a…
