John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[David Josephs]

There is new information from just the last few days sure to be of interest to those following the research of John Armstrong about Harvey and Lee Oswald.

It concerns the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which was founded in 1946 by Leo Cherne following a request by Albert Einstein. For four decades, from 1951 to the early 1990s, Cherne served as IRC chairman and seemed to have reasonably obvious CIA ties. In its first year, 1946, the IRC began resettling Eastern European WWII refugees to the United States, including children.

The startling new information involves an FBI report from 12/9/63 indicating that six days earlier an IRC official had informed the NYC FBI office that the IRC had "information pertaining to OSWALD and that same would be made available to Special Agents of the New York Office." This is clearly another fascinating indication that Russian-speaking Harvey Oswald may have been removed from Europe as a child and resettled in the U.S.

JA has worked up several drafts examining the new information, and his finished report should be up on harveyandlee.net within a few days. Thanks to all here for keeping interest in John's work alive.

Jim

Hey there Jim...

The only info I can find on the IRC and the Oswalds has to do with their requests to return from Russia in 61/62. And that EKDAHL was his Stepfather for 3 years... (why include that??) and his divorce info (Fred Korth his attorney)

Are you referring to something else that suggests involvement between LHO and IRC prior to 1961 ??

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/FBI%20Rec...05-37a.pdf
Information received re EDWINALBERT EKDAHL, subject's
stepfather, set forth.Information contained in files of International
Rescue Committee, NYC, re subjectset forth. Interview
of DORIS EBEL, whose sistermarried subject's stepbrother, and
interview of MARY FUHRMAN, motherof EBEL, set out. On 12/5/63,
JOHN J. ABT, Attorney for GUSHALL - BENJAMIN J. DAVIS Defense
Committee, NYC, furnished itemsor correspondence between subject (LHO)
and above Committee and same setout herein. Employee of General
- Services Administration, NYC,advised that one HUGO T. SEGARRA,
a co-worker, had stated to herPresident KENNEDY would probably
- be killed some day by either aCuban or a Cuban organization.
SEGARRA's interview set forth.

(DJ: This is the beginning of last of the 4 letters in the archives from the IRC....)
LEE H.OSWALD
Kalininia St.4, Apt. 24
Minsk,U.S.S.R.
[B]January 26,1962[/B]

InternationalRescue Committee
215 Park Ave South
'New York, NY

"DearSirs,

"I'dlike to request your aid in helping myself
and my wifeto get resettled in the U.S.A. I am a citizen
of theUnited States, I have lived in the Soviet Union since
October 1959. My wife is a Soviet citizen, bornin the USSR
in 1941.