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...fact, contend Canfield and Weberman, Oswald himself was a CIA agent. Trained as a marine on the Japanese base where the American U-2s were kept, Oswald defected for intelligence purposes, as the Russians themselves apparently suspected since they were reluctant to grant him a visa despite his "radar secrets." The American official to whom he renounced his citizenship in Moscow, the people who received him when he returned to the U.S., his associates in Dallas and New Orleans, and even his cousin can be traced to the CIA. Most crucially, Oswald travelled to Mexico City attempting to obtain...
Giorgio Napolitano should be re-invited to America, and the State Department should grant him a visa without delay...
...STATE Department's refusal last spring to grant an entry visa to an Italian Communist official invited to lecture at Harvard and other American universities is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger...
...when Napolitano tried to get an entry visa, he was told to wait, and wait he did. As the date the trip was supposed to start rolled around, Hoffmann and Lange tried to find out from the State Department what the problem was. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, counsellor to the State Department, finally let Hoffmann know...
...Ralph Smuckler, dean of international studies at Michigan State and a member of the consortium's board, wrote to officials at Riyadh University, asking permission to visit. Smuckler, who is Jewish, did not get answers to his letters to the Saudis, and there was no response to his visa application through the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. At that point Michigan State withdrew from the Riyadh project...