Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in the mid-afternoon at "Cowes Roads," deep water outside the Southampton harbor's mouth, aboard the liner Liberte. Oswald arrives by tug on the mainland at either 7:50 p.m. or 8:40 p.m. He tells cusom officials at Southampton that he has $700, and plans to remain in the United Kingdom for a week before proceeding to a school in Switzerland. He likely joins a British Rail train, after passing through customs, bound for Waterloo Station in Central London, likely arriving London late in the evening.

LRH, learning that East Grinstead has been unable to fill a vacancy for a Road Safety Organizer, volunteers for the job. As he explains to a meeting of the East Grinstead Road Safety Committee, he is anxious to make a contribution to the community and he feels that the experience he has gained can be put to good use in East Grinstead. He gives an interesting talk on road safety campaigns in the United States, puts forward many ideas on how to reduce accidents locally, confidently answered questions and is unanimously elected as the town's new Road Safety Organizer by a grateful committee.

Quoted from the source:

To the USSR Supreme Soviet
16th October 1959

I, Lee Harvey Oswald, am asking to be granted citizenship of The Soviet Union. My visa is valid from 15th of October and expires on 21st of October. My citizenship should be granted before this date. In the mean time I am waiting for your decision about my citizenship.

Currently I am a citizen of the United States of America. I want citizenship because I am a Communist and working class person. I have lived in a decadent capitalist society, where the workers are slaves. I am 20, I served in US marines for three years, I served in occupation forces in Japan. I have seen American militarism in all its forms.

I do not want to return to any other country outside of the Soviet Union's borders.

I wish to reject my American citizenship and accept the responsibility of a Soviet citizen.

I saved up some money while serving for two years as a private in the American military service in order to come to Russia with one purpose, to obtain citizenship. I do not have enough money to live here indefinitely or to return to any other country. I do not want to go to any other country. I am asking you to consider my request as soon as possible.

Sincerely yours.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Note from translators: The writing on the graphic of the envelope in Russian appears to be in a different hand, and from what we can decipher, is simply translating what appears in English. The phrase, "very urgent!" is underlined twice at top right of the envelope, and MAY be in a hand similar to Oswald's, but that is really speculation.

LRH leaves London flying first-class on BOAC via Calcutta and Singapore to Melbourne, Australia, for lectures there. At the Hubbard Communications Office in Spring Street, Melbourne, he is greeted by an ecstatic crowd of Scientologists who cheer noisily when he announces his belief that Australia will be the first clear continent. Between lectures, he spends hours with local HASI executives discussing ways of persuading the Australian Labour Party and trades union movement to adopt Scientology techniques

Text of State Department telegram to Secretary of State, JFK Exhibit F-534:

[ILLEGIBLE] TELEGRAM Department of State [Handwritten: 15]

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Control: 20261

Rec'd: OCTOBER 31, 1959 7:59 A.M.

FROM: Moscow

TO: Secretary of State

NO: 1304, OCTOBER 31, 1 P.M.

FOR PO [MAYBE ? SEMI-LEGIBLE]

LEE HARVEY OSWALD, UNMARRIED AGE 20 PP 1733242 ISSUED SEPT 10 1959 APPEARED AT EMB TODAY TO RENOUNCE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, STATED APPLIED IN MOSCOW FOR SOVIET CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING ENTRY FROM HELSINKI OCT 15. MOTHER'S ADDRESS AND HIS LAST ADDRESS US 4936 COLLINWOOD ST., FORT WORTH TEXAS. SAYS ACTION CONTEMPLATED LAST TWO YEARS. MAIN REASON "I AM MARXIST". ATTITUDE ARROGANT AGGRESSIVE. RECENTLY DISCHARGED MARINE CORPS. SAY HAS OFFERED SOVIETS ANY INFORMATION HE HAS ACQUIRED AS ENLISTED RADAR OPERATOR.

IN VIEW PETRULLI CASE WE PROPOSE DELAY EXECUTING RENUNCIATION UNTIL SOVIET ACTION KNOWN OR DEPT ADVISES. DESPATCH FOLLOWS. PRESS INFORMED.

FREERS

"My first contact with Scientology was through a High School teacher who loaned me some of the books. This was in Auckland, New Zealand. I joined the org as an employee in late '59. I was a student at the time. The org was in two parts, HASI [Hubbard Association of Scientologists International] and HCO [Hubbard Communications Office]. HCO was Hubbard's own office within the org. I worked for HCO starting from end '59 and I started having correspondence with him. The lady who had hired me, Betty Turnbull, was in charge of HCO and her husband, Frank, was in charge of the HASI. LRH was displeased with Frank and Hubbard started sending me letters expressing displeasure and asked me to do an investigation. They ended up quitting or were fired. He accused them of being Communists and they were in the org to try and destroy it and sabotage his plans." --David Mayo

[NOTE: Date is taken from the text--the day Nibs blew]:
"...In early November I ordered all organizations to give an E-Meter check on all staffs preliminary to auditing these on the new overt/withhold-responsibility combination. I also forbade Central Orgs to employ persons with hidden social crimes that might be used to hurt Scientology (blackmail) until expiation could be accomplished and auditing completed.
"This began by suspending one Doug Moon in HASI Melbourne until he had been cleared since he was such a social liability.
"Almost instantly on receipt of the E-Meter check order Iain Thompson in HASI London, long-time friend of Moon, unexpectedly resigned and caused Kaye Thompson to resign from HCO WW.
"...The day I returned to Saint Hill Norma Webb, a Peter Stumbke and another non-Scientologist named Dinah Day resigned and ran away.
"On November 23rd at the urgings of Nina West, close friend of Webb, Nibs Hubbard deserted his post in Washington and left no forwarding address. It transpires that he had been caught up in the Moon-Webb-West connections. He tried to find nerve to face an E-Meter the Saturday he left but did not report for his scheduled session with his Washington auditor on that day. He has since been heard of here and there borrowing money and staying out of sight.
"The registrar in Melbourne subsequently left before she could be put on a meter.
"The only action taken concerning these people is suspension or cancellation of certificates pending E-Meter checks and clearing of overts against Scientology. None except Moon were dismissed, but they have been heard to say that they were. They resigned without notice to me.
"...As Nibs Hubbard was probably being blackmailed it is creditable that he removed himself from post before he could be made to harm the Washington Organization."

MR. DeWOLFE: Okay, sorry. I left Scientology November 23rd, 1959. ...And, the weekend around November 23rd, my wife - twenty years at the moment - she just flatly--she's the type of person that's very calm, cool, and collected; she gets angry about once a year--about once every five years. She flatly just came out and said, "Okay, you've got a choice between me and the children or Scientology. Make up your mind." This was on a Friday. And I said, "Okay. It's you and the children." Zip, off we went.

Daniel Ellsberg goes on a trip "to the Pacific" for the Office of Naval Research. Ostensibly, the purpose of the trip is to "study nuclear command and control." Among his stops apparently are Okinawa and Japan. [NOTE: This is a truly out-pointy entry. Almost certainly there was some other purpose for the trip to "the Pacific," and there is no accurate information about where Ellsberg went. The only time indication in the source is "late 1959, so date is estimated, but there is evidence that Ellsberg is in Japan in early 1960 on this same trip (see 15 c. January 1960), so this is being placed at 1 c. December c. 1959.]

By the time LRH arrives in Bremerton, his mother is in a coma. He goes in to see her, holds her hand and talks to her; he tells the family afterwards he was sure she knew he was there. She dies the following day. LRH organizes the burial, orders the stone, pays all the expenses and makes arrangements for a man from the Church of Scientology to come up and accompany the body with LRH's father, Hub, and his aunt, Tollie to the funeral in Helena. Then he flies back to England from Bremerton.

Colonel J. C. King, chief of CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sends a confidential memorandum to Allen W. Dulles, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. King argues that in Cuba there exists a "far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against U.S. holdings in other Latin American countries."

As a result of this memorandum Dulles establishes Operation 40, named so because originally there are 40 CIA agents involved in the operation. The group is presided over by Vice President Richard Nixone. Tracy Barnes becomes operating officer of what is also called the Cuban Task Force.

Quoted from the source for structure of OSI and locations after change of this date:

OSI/WORLDWIDE
Established December 15, 1959

District Location
41 Anderson AFB, Guam
42 Clark AB, RP
43 Kadena AB, Japan
47 (Closed Oct 1, 1961)
46 Yokota AB, Japan
48 (Closed Oct 1, 1961)
45 Seoul, South Korean
44 Hickham AFB, HI
49 Taipei AS, Taiwan
50 TanSonNhut AB, SVN (Mar 1, 62-Mar 27, 73)
51 Bangkok, Thailand (Mar 1, 65 - ?)

[NOTE: Compare changes in district numbers to original structure 1 June 1949 (see) and structure as of changes of 1 July 1957 (see).]

Dr. Hubbard's experiments with plants come to the attention of Garden News, to which publication he reveals his conviction that plants feel pain. He demonstrates by connecting an E-meter to a geranium [also done with tomatoes?] with crocodile clips, tearing off its leaves and showing how the needle of the E-meter oscillates as he does so. The Garden News story, "PLANTS DO WORRY AND FEEL PAIN," describes LRH as a "revolutionary horticultural scientist." [IMPORTANT NOTE: See chronology entry for 1 c. July c. 1968, where CIA contractor Cleve Backster--later to become instrumental in connection with the CIA's "remote viewing" program--gains notoriety for doing polygraph experiments with plants that are near duplicates of what LRH has done in these experiments. His name has also been misspelled "Baxter," as in the following description: "San Diego polygrapher Cleve Baxter, the founder of the CIA's polygraph unit." --Christopher Anderson, Staff Writer, Boulder, Colorado "Daily Camera."]

Quoted from the source:

On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. Thereafter, in the last Eisenhower years, with Castro as a target and universal pretext, the fatal Cuban-vectored gangster section of the American government was assembled.

Several figures of the Eisenhower administration must be considered the fathers of this permanent Covert Action monolith, men who continued shepherding the monster after its birth in the Eisenhower era:

* "Gordon Gray", the shadowy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Prescott Bush's closest executive branch crony and golf partner along with Eisenhower. By 1959-60, Gray had Ike's total confidence and served as the Harrimanites' monitor on all U.S. military and non-military projects.

* "Robert Lovett," Bush's Jupiter Island neighbor and Brown Brothers Harriman partner, from 1956 on a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

* "CIA Director Allen Dulles," Bush's former international attorney.

* "C. Douglas Dillon," neighbor of Bush on Jupiter Island, became undersecretary of state in 1958 after the death of John Foster Dulles. Dillon had been John Foster Dulles's ambassador to France (1953-57), coordinating the original U.S. covert backing for the French imperial effort in Vietnam, with catastrophic results for the world.

* "Ambassador to Britain Jock Whitney," extended family member of the Harrimans and neighbor of Prescott Bush on Jupiter Island.

* "Senator Prescott Bush," friend and counselor of President Eisenhower.

...Averell Harriman...had no post in the Eisenhower administration. Yet he was perhaps more than anyone the leader and the glue for the incredible evil that was hatched by the CIA in the final Eisenhower years: a half-public, half-private Harrimanite army, never since demobilized, and increasingly associated with the name of Bush.

Following the rise of Castro, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency contracted with the organization of Mafia boss Meyer Lansky to organize and train assassination squads for use against the Cuban government. Among those employed were John Rosselli, Santos Trafficante, and Sam Giancana. Uncontested public documentation of these facts has been published by congressional bodies and by leading Establishment academics. [22]