Dear Howard, 6/6/76 Yowtzr mailing of I think the 24th, from ihile.,came yesterday. I've read most

of it and \as you recommeded, ignored the memo of Rlaston. eot worth the time. sick kid. I thick no worse. Indulged by wealthy parents.

I'll get to your excellent memo on LRO's wallet and the chain of possession on it. First I want to get to Agent Oswald. Which means beginning with my own timeeee'

problems. I've not yet been able to write the single chapter missing in the firef two parts of The King Conspiracies. I had planned it for yesterday but a frieperwho did not

r running my own plans to

h he pulled them with I had to vit. But

and resting. I was too trate. Today, because of the

, I raked the accumulation of gain had to rest. When I feel if

et more water into the pond but to . And so it goes. I just can't get college buffs you do not k4ow, a day's

s and the daveno you know. he did okay ut it is the exoeption.With a replace-

o continue. It means work will pile up and dered tentative and not likely to be real. cast when I'll finish the draft of The King

a are and I know there will be an immediate ing here. I plan to try to complete this chapter ureday. Depending on what transpires than I plan

"new" evidence. The only trey I can see of completing third part and weave in the onntructionism, telling the story of the obstructions, co I can continue

era down. gent Oswald han expressed a willingnesn to he compensation but that you are willing to help

the semester after the coe• ke to be able to give him a better idea of what this will entail in =1 .nev and whattime you have in mind. The beginning and the end. (I'm glad you are fee liar with the Ilavisoe/Feekovsky angle, as I see from the memo.) What I would really like may not se t you. it is a really definitive thing, not just going over files and removing what s nild be included, the normal way of a research assistant. I have man files I thine you wil want to. read that are relevant. CIA stuff. The Coleman/Slawson retreading of the CIA's tuff. I the course of this I would hope that you'd be able to organize these into files, a Pewe not been able to do. Not just for me and now but for access of others in the fut . While the extra amount of work is not great it can accumulate into more time. As you ow I'd like you to be able to correct and edit, too.

Complicating this is the fact that I have •:ree cases in court now, must have more ehen I can, and of all the pending FOIA/PA maters that can wait there is one that really is pressing: files on me. They are not ireell.:.t to this. Renamber, when it was not known that Praeger was a CIA publisher, in early 1965 Whitewash was read there. It says LSO was an agent (p.238, beginning as I remember, line 4 for one place and else-where).

Our personal financial situation is going to be ,lieved somewhat. Montgomery (=Aunty now says they sill settle for the Eyattstown por• rty within a month. While with a lay-aside for taxes when we put what we'll get this- year on our debrs and have

have any pressing work of his own to do at his own place and did get w into the pond again. Naturally, with that requiring doing, I abando help him to the degree I could. this meant prying massive logs w an old car. It was too much for me. As soon as the logs were it was disconcerting and I spent the rest of the day rem uncomfortable, if not terriay so, to risk trying to cone good work of yesterday, instead of taking a morning wal leaves and trash out of the inlet, or half of it, and id fogey I'll have to finish the raking. ''ot only to keep the first tigkxee rain from washing the rest help when I need it. I Made a deal with one of work for two haINsised two-drawer file sabine and it was very helpful ai an important time meet coat of $50.00. I haveto expect this all my plans and schedules have to be con

What this means ie that I cant f Conspiracies. I can tell you what my p interruption, court papers deled ge prior to the status call on the ̀case to write more on the third partOt the book at all is to reorder thi the story of the evidence throug writing while trying to break

A friend who is inters helpful. I told him you'd re

?aid for the new roof we'll have little or nothing left, it will be an enormous relief. We will not be able to indAlge extravagances but we will be able to do more copying to save time, with an occasional few copies on my machine and with any possible lerger jobs commercially. If I have to put an extra $50 in a box of the paper this machine uses that will be no problem. There will be no nest egg, no plenty. But the oppression will, I hope, be ended. There may be a little on hand. Dell has offered an inadequate settlement. Jim is preparing to file suit. There would be no problem at all if Duane would like to come - if he can get a leave of absence. lie could be quite helpful in so many ways, as he was with Post Mortem. More geomme of what he learned then.

By the way, we have a new sofa/bed in the room. And I've obtained but do not yet have here a cabinet for all the index cards. What a thing he coul4 do with that if he&d care tolBut I'll have more room in it long before you_omd"come on this. (I do hone you can come sooner. On this digression let me telklou for your publisher that there are other TV talk shows I forget to tell yea-et-out. One is Take it from Here on t'le UBCJttation. Panorama on Metromedia.e.AltWashington on 'LBO's.)

What I woUld really like to be able -ao is get this done and while I'm trying to find commerical interest have Dil s retyoing it for my own printing. I'd be willing to go into debtefor it. Thee ak will sell. however, if I an to do this the retyping aid indexing muatebe pleted prior to the beginning of the Lax season or during this year. 4efort end of theoyear I'll also have some reprinting to do, at least PW and WW I. On,bdth PlaNdown to damaged copies. On WW I'll lase have to gec new half-tones. l'nelike to add “newematerial" so the copyright can be extended.

Here I'filiaying, too, that there- no respite of any kind ahead. And Wit completing Agent Oswald will be easy. I. don t recall if you have read what I did ,;_ers ago. I can send you a copy if

you have not: I know it now needs some ohangee but I dOnetethink they are that major. Welter finally foind the ribbon copy. "e dnd ''antam's fiction editor had gone for it but they could not interest Bantam. I know I have et least one carbon, returned by Jim Schmitt before he suicided.

----tr-therrtari.nere-Yota to understand, ask, - Because e now have to get back to ;he ditch I'll have lose time for your memo. Whether or not you realize it you have crossed over into work I did in 0 in NO,

the Martell° slip. I'll file this mere in a file I know 1 have because of space pro-blems, flOswaldePorperty." After that book wee out it suddenly struck ae that those numbers I could not understand having to do sith garments might be metric sizes. I've never checked. This does not explain anything except,xxerperhaps, the numbers. ihiw-ever, I sugeest this kind of eimplification to you about that pace-rat, LHO. Why could not the Ga-Jo Hotel be Japanese?

Do you kaow of anything he aver throuegh away? If he hen this in hie wallet when he was given the phone number iu eussia, coule ha nut hu%a written that uuwber on this card?

In any analysis of the N.O. end I think you should bogie with the assumption there was another FBI agent with Quigley. Add what withholding this can mean. I think it was Kaack. Add also what LHO did with this arrest. I said it in WW and in 0 in NO.

On your 3: I have no doubt that LHO made this list when he was preparing to leave the IlSeR. There is no doubt about the gun because there is no other gun he could even have sold. Only that Russian shotgun. I think there is other proof he did. (This gets into areas where, as I've indicated above, you'll want to read some of the recent .„ stuff, the CIA's and State's checking out of reality an practise in the USSR. t all worked, even the unlikely.)

You conclude saying you've made no effort to make sense out of the eartello slip. IA the future Irecomeend this, beginning where I left of and critically of it. I'll be using this again in Agent Oswald because it was in his pocket when he got hieself arrested and it all points to the US3R. Or, as in WW: establ ahing a cover.

5/1/76

1.11,1,10: LHO WALLET--Chain of Possession and Contents

By: Howard Roffman

Ny interest sparked Ly other matters, I decided to try to

trace the chain of possession of the wallet Oswald supposedly carried

when arrested 11/22, and its contents. Sylvia has an excellent

discussion (AAF 185-9) which examines in detail the gross contradiction:_

between the stories of those wlio told of finding the wallet and of

what was done with it subsequently.

For the first couple of hours LHO was in police hands, his

wallet and its conie'nts, by the various accounts, were nothing short of

ubiquitous. Bentley supposedly recovered it in the car on the way

to the police station. He says he turned itxmagiatax over Oswald's

"identification" to Det. T.L. Baker (24H234). Bentley was later shown

photos of 5 of the items supposedly in the wallet. According to the

HI he verified that these were photos of items he found in LHO's

wallet while in the car (24H421-2). It is interesting to note that

when Rankin asked the FBI to make this check, he specified that the

originals were to be shown. (Letter not printed.)

Once LHO is at the police station (arrived homicide office

circa 2:15) it is impossible to trace what happened to the wallet.

Rose and Stovall first said they "obtained" his ID (24H292). In

testimony, Stoval said Oswald had his billfold at the 1st interrogation

(7H187-88) while Rose said LHO had the contents of the billfold but

not the billfold itself (7H228). When FBI agent Clemients saw LHO in

the interrogation room by himself at 10 that night, the wallet was on

a desk in the room (7H320). While LEO was out of the room, Clements

went through the wallet and listed its contents (H 615-17).

The next mention of the wallet that I can find is interesting. On

11/24/63, Fritz furnished the FBI with Photos "of all the articles

contained in the wallet of" LHO at time of arrest. These were

apparently given to Bookhout, whose report lists 17 items (24H17).

It is quite interesting to compare this with Clements' listing,

as I shall do in a minute.

Even more interesting is a receipt executed by none other

than Hosty, which reads (24H347):

"Received from Capt. Will Fritz at approxfimately 1:00 a.m. on

11/27/63: Billfold and 16 cards and pictures taken from Lee Harvey

Oswald on 11/22/63.

One notebook recovered from room of Lee Harvey Oswald at

1026 No. Beckley on 11/22/63. with names and addresses.

One 6.5 mm rifle hull 11

A most curious go-between for such items, especially the notebook with

its subsequent history!

As far as I can tell, many (most) of the items in the wallet

were never reproduced by the WC, if they had them at all (which I'm

trying to find out from Archives). But there is a real question as

to just what the contents were. The maximum number of items I have

found (excluding the cash) is 17 (24E17). Hosty's receipt lists

only 16 items. Clements lister'. 13 plus the cash, plus LHO's Social

Sec. card which LHO "had...in nossession."

Comparing the Clemens list with the Bookhout list of the photos Fritz supplied, I find the following items absent from Clements:

1. Photo of LHO in marine uniform 2. A.J. Eiden Certificate of Service 3. slip of paper with 2 addresses for The Worker

Also, both list a card from the Ga-Jo Enkanko Hotel, but Clements omits one thing about the card. Clements described "Card, 'Compliments GA-JO Enkanko Hotel, telephone number ED 5-0755 of (sic--should be on) reverse side." Bookhout describes the item like this: "...streeEmap, compliments of Ga-Jo-Enkanko Hotel, bearing telephone number ED 50755, and figure or telephone number 92463."

I can't find any other reference to this hotel, but it does intrigue me for many reasons. I hope I can get a copy of the card from

the Archives, for Perhaps that would reveal its location. It is surely not a Russian Hotel, but I can't be sure which US city it is from. I checked current Fort Worth and New Orleans directories and it is not listed. The phone number, an ED exchange suggests that it is (en in Forth Worth. LHO listed Pauline Bate's number in Forth Worth as an ED exchange (16H41) and I have found numbrous other ED numbers in LHO's address book and another small notebook of his (16H41, 42;°,69, 448, 449)--at least laimedifferent numbers, none of which matches or is close to that of the Ga-Jo. Assuming the Ga-Jo is in Ft. Worth, Oswald ,probably went there or obtained the card while he was in Forth Wrth in 1962 after returning from Russia. If this is so, the other number on the card, 92463, which was not mentioned by Clements, is quite interesting. (Note: I am assuming that 92463 is written on the card, not printed.)

92463 is the phone number of Rosa Kuznetsova in Minsk. When LHO arrived in Minsk on 1/7/60, he was met by two "Red Cross" workers who took him to the Hotel Ninsk, where 2 Intourist employees who spoke excellent English were waiting for him. One was Roza, who became his "close friend" and attended his 21st birthday party in 10/60. (R697; 16H99-100--Historic Diary). Rosa*s name appears twice in Oswald's address book, first at p. 45 (161-155):

Kuznetsova, Rosa Intor. Hotel-Ninsk"

92-463 House 130, Apt. 8

and then on the rear flyleaf (161168):

Rosa House 130 Apt. 8 92463

Rosa also appears on the mysterious piece of paper that was found in Oswald's wallet by Lt. Wartello when he was arrested in New Orleans (CE 1438). There she is listed at the top of a list on one side of the paper as "Hotel Minsk Rose 92 463." I have compared all the other entries of this slip of paper and have found all in one form or another in the adqress book ext for o T the number 22182, which is "Marina at work an appeArs Twice on

44s 14,r "

the slip of paper. This may not mean anything, but it_ is interesting

that the second Rosa entry in the address book is on a page which

appears to have been written iL both pencil and pen and on which that

carious listing of items and nbers appears, later copied onto the

slip of paper. In the address Pook, Rosa's name and ad&ress are in

pencil, but her number is in pen and appears directly at the top

of the list, followed by "APAWS (Drawers?)--46." (16H68)

Because there might be a relationship between Rosa (or her

number) and the list, I tried to find out more about the list. There

is, of course, virtually nothing to be found. A little notebook of

Oswald's contains a list of a somewhat comparable nature (1611448).°4-

This list has four columns, three labled "SOLD," "PRICE" AND "REC."

respectively. The only item under "SOLD" which appears on the other

list is "overcoat" which appears twice on CE 105. Perhaps there is

a correlation. The second time it appears, the "price" is listed as

70, with 32 "REC." (received?) The difference is 38. The first time

it appears, the difference between the two columns is 10. Total

difference, 48. On the slip of paper and in the address book, we

find the listing "Overcoat--48." On another page there is a list

headed "Take" followed by items such as radio, phonograph, records,

blanket, etc. (16H447) When Marina was shown CE 105 by Rankin,

she said "This is when Lee was getting ready to go to Russia, and

he made a list of the things that he wanted to buy and take with

him." (1H110) She specified she meant when he wanted to return to

Russia, which was allegedly in the summer of 1963, after the

moved to New Orleans. Narina's explanation does not seem cr.gl dible,

and I am more inclined to believe that both the lists in CE 105 ex

were made while Oswald was preparing to leave Russia and return to

the U.S. Assuming the list of "SOLD" items represents a listing of

things which LHO sold, I can't imagine when he could have done so

except when he meet moved back to the states. Also, the numbers listed

would seem more likely to represent rubles than dollars. Note also

on the "SOLD" list is "gun & case." This could mean the shotgun Oswald

owned in Russia. If this is a list of items sold by LHO in America,

the implications of this entry could be great. The notebook itself

is Russian.

If the list in CE 105 is related to the list in the address

book and on the slip of paper, and represents an itemization of what

Oswald sold before leaving RUssia, then perhaps the address book ia!ex liE

represents some items Oswald needed to buy or had bought before

leaving, plus their price in rubles (I write this not knowing the

exchange rate). Note that on the back of that page in the address

book, Oswald apparently did some figuring of expenses for various

means of getting back to the U.S. (16H69) So, perhaps the list was

a part of Oswald's efforts to figure out his finances at the time

he left Russia. This still would not really explain why the list

was copied onto the slip of paper.

The mat address book itself is confusing enough, but there

are some interesting correlations between it and the slip of paper,

with unmistakable implications of KGB connections.

Let's take the list that begins with Rosa and 92463. The

next two entries on the list evidently come from page 59 of the address

book (AB for short) (16H59) The next entry, concerning the RadioFactor;;

h.( IM*19 -•••

Experimental Ship where Oswald worked in Minsk, comes from p. 61 of

the AB (16H60) The AP and UPI listing on the slip of paper also

come from nage 61 of the AB. Mere is also another listing on

61 which is crossed out: "Comrade Roman works at Karl Earx Technical

Library." Comrade Roman is Roman Detkov, who appears on the list

and whose business phone is listed at page 35 of the AB (16H50)

The only other reference to Detkov that I can find is in the historic

diary. Apparently when Oswald arrived an in Minsk and met the city

mayor, with whom he conferred, Detkov was his interpreter (16H99--

1/8/60 entry). (Interesting but probably not significant, is that

Detkov's phone number is listed on the same page in AB as Mrs.

Hal Davidson, mother of U.S. Embassy Doctor, Alexis, who apparently

has U.S. intelligence connections) The next listing is Hotel Savoy

Moscow, with number K42980. On page 33 of the AB this hotel is listed

with the number K 41980 (16H1 48). There are 4 hotel listings in

the AB that I have found, one of - which was that just described on

page 33. There are two other hotel "Savoy" listings, both for

Hotel "Berlin", on pages 27 and 35. I'll return to that later.

The listings following Detkov are in the AB but I cannot identify

them. They are for Byadev, Kon. Narokhsov, and Sharanev. Sharapev's

number on the list is 20525, but it is listed twice in the AB as

20575, on pages 45 and 81 (16H53, 65). (There is another time on

the list that a "2" is mixed up with a "7". The Ass. Press number

in the AB is 726430, page 61, 16E60, but on the list it is 776430.)

The next list entry is that of Lev (misspelled Leo) Setyaev, Radio

Moscow, with number V (B) 3 6588. This name appears in the AB at

page 63 (16H61), and in fact is listed three times in. a row. The

first could be LHO's writing, but the next two defin/tely ate not.

This is interesting because the Report very matter-of-fact-ly states

that Lev "was probably working for the KGB," (R691) but never mentions

the fact that his name appears in the AB in writing other than LHO's

and on a list of names carried by Oswald in the U.S.

Keening all this in mind, before I nrocede, note a memo

dated 9/0/64 from CIA Dep. Dir. for Plans, Thomas Karamessines, to

Rankin. (CE 2760, 26H145) The memo concerns "KGB Handling of

Foreigners in the USSR." It notes that to fill its intelligence

duties re foreigners, the K3B 'makes extensive use of agents and

informers drawn from among Soviet citizens with whom foreigners

come in contact. For example, many if not all of the guides provided

foreigners by Inturist...are KGB agents or informants. Hotel and

restaurant personnel are also often used in this capacity by the

KGB. Only certain restaurants and hotels in the major cities of

the USSR are normally open to foreign visitors. A high percentage

of the employees in these selected hotels and restaurants are

KGB agents or informants."

With this in mind, the Intourist and hotel connections of

the people with whom LHO was close in Russia may be quite significant.

When LhO arrived in Russia he was met my Intourist and taken to the

Hotel "Berlin." His Intourist guide was Rimma Sherikova. (16H94)

"Rimma" is written at the bottom of page 63 of the AB (161:61).

her full name appears at page 81, where it is repeated several

times (16H65). Also, at this point, the name "Sherakov" appears with

phone number (I described it above because it is also on the slip of

paner). I think it li,kely that Sherakov, listed by the translator

as a man, is really Rimma in a somewhat misspelled manner. Oswald apparently misspelled her last name in other ways as well. Rimma is supposedly the one ho found him after his suicide attempt and brought him to th nospital. There he was visited by another Rosa, this one Rosa A,;afonova iteom the tour±st office. He apparently developed some sort of friendship with Rosa and Ludmilla Dimitrova , whom he Acribed as "Intorist office head," and he spent new years 1959-60 with this Rosa (see 16H94-96). Both names appear in his AB. Rosa Agadonova, Hotel Berlin (Savoy) is on page 27 (16H46). On page 35 there appears this, apparently written by LHO: "Iyudmir Dmitrievna, Hotel "Berlin" (savoy)." Under this is the entry for Roman Detkov (misspelled). Then, in someone else's handwriting, there appears "Dmitrieov Ludmila" and something else I can't decipher. (161150). This is also the page on which Mrs. Davidson appears. I assume the three names are enterred here because it is the page for the Russian letter corresponding to "D." When Oswald moved to Minsk, he became close with Rosa Kuznetsova, of Intourist and working at the Hotel Minsk. After LHO moved from k his first apt. in Minsk, he lost touch with Rosa, but became good friends with Pavel Golovacha. According to the Report, Oswald liked Pavel, who was a radio technician, helped Pavel learn English, and the two corresponded until Sept. 1963 (R698). The Report does not mention that Pavel's father "is Gen. Golovacha, Commander of Northwester Siberia. Twice hero of USSR in WW.2." (16H99) Pavel's listing in the AB is in Pavel's own handwriting (compare page 33 of AB, 16H49, with CE 42 and 79, letters to LHO from Pavel). Curiously, the listing above Pavel's is for "Hotel Savoy K 419807, which appears in a somewhat different form on the slip of paper list. Whehter there is any relation between this and Pavel I can't tell. I can't imagine why the hotel would be listed on this page of the AE. Also curious is the name of a town or street "Zhdanova" which appears at the top of the page with an asterisk. A similar notation appears at the top of page 45 (16E53), which is an interesting page in itself. Most of the entries on it appear on the slip of paper list, including Rosa K. and "Sharapov" (another corruption of Rimma's last name?). It is interesting to note that Pavel's name comes up in one of the documents recently released by CIA, according to the Village Voice article. This was a 3/2/65 memo from CIA to Hoover, pointing out similarities in the backgrounds of (DELETED) and LHO. One of the similarities was that whiltx in Minsk, (DELETED) became acqujytitted with the son of a Soviet army general. The memo states: "-It should be noted that Oswald listed among his close friends in Minsk a young Soviet named

Pavel Golovachev, whose father ostensibly was a Soviet army general." Pavel and Rosa K attended a party for LHO's 21st birthday, and the three of them (with another woman) xhm were photographed together (CE 2609). Later Pavel sent Oswald a photo of him (Pavel) repairing

a TV set (CE 3, "25").

I'm not claiming to make any particular sense out of the contents of the list on the slip of paper. My attention focused on it primarily because Rosa K's phone number, 2261 92463, appeared on the Ga-Jo hotel card supposedly found in Oswald's wallet. Without knowing more about how Oswald got that card, I can't imagine why Rosa's number would be written on it. What use would he have for it in the U.S.?

I welcome ideas and other information not reflected in this admittedly rambling memo.

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