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FOR RELEASE: JANUARY 23
EX-FBI AGEH? CHARGES BUREAU KEPT
OS'./ALD DATA FROM SECRET SERVICE
riEW YORK, Jan. 28--Charges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
failed to transmit information it possessed on Lee Harvey Oswald to the
Secret Service and the Dallas police were published today in an article
written by a former FBI agent.
Uilliam W. Turner, employed by the Bureau for 1CK- years, conducted a
private investigation in Dallas immediately following the assassination
of President Kennedy. His article, "The FBI Could /lave Saved Fresident
Kennedy's Life," appears in the current issue of SAGA magazine.
According co Turner, a Dallas FBI agent had interviewed Oswald 10
cays prior to the assassination. Two FBI men, whose names Turner says
he knows, had talked originally to Oswald's mother in an effort to locate
him in Dallas. And Oswald's Russian wife was visited twice during October
by FBI agents.
Although the Dallas police had no record of any sort on Oswald, his
name was in the files of the FBI's Dallas office. Turner reveals that
a "thick file" on the accused assassin was begun by the.Federal agency
after Oswald applied for Russian citizenship in Moscow in 1959* "It
was started at the urging of the State Department's security unit, and
it was reviewed and brought up to date every 30 days during 1962 and
1963. Here, the FBI did its duty," Turner writes.
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