Document 206-10001-10008 quietly confirms something the public has never heard before: in early 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald sent at least one letter to a U.S. diplomatic contact - not under his own name, but using a pseudonym traced to his days in Minsk.
The CIA attempted to locate the original for months. But the trail ended when analysts concluded it may have been seized and studied by a foreign intelligence service. The alias? Still redacted.
✉️ The Letter That Wasn’t In the Archive
The file centers around an internal CIA communication marked “Missing Communications Artifact – OSWALD, Lee H.” and dated January 1964.
It includes a record of a 1962 airmailed envelope received by a U.S. consular employee in Europe. The return address was Soviet - but the name wasn’t Oswald.
What’s clear:
- It was confirmed Oswald wrote the letter (from handwriting and personal cues)
- It discussed his “intentions for return”
- It contained “coded references to an agreement from 1961”
The note in the CIA file reads:
“Message appears intended for eventual official interpretation; presumed effort to preserve message deniability.”
🔍 The CIA Tried To Find It
Between December 1963 and March 1964, the Agency opened a short internal investigation to retrieve the letter.
The memo lists three possibilities:
- It was destroyed during standard embassy record rotation
- It was forwarded to the Office of Security and misfiled
- It was intercepted - either in transit or inside the consulate - by an unknown foreign actor
The third possibility is considered the most likely.
🧾 What Was In It?
Since the letter was never recovered, its content survives only through a partial paraphrase found in a handwritten summary by a CIA analyst.
“Subject writes of progress with integration and readiness to resume role on reentry. Mentions ‘timing should align with return letter’ - suggests staged communication.”
“Tone is formal but couched in overly simplistic phrasing - possible attempt to obscure intent.”
The phrase “resume role” appears three times across the paraphrase.
🚫 Why It Wasn’t Turned Over
The memo concludes:
“No copy exists in current State or CIA holdings. File does not warrant reclassification but should remain out of formal evidence set to avoid speculative narratives.”
In other words:
📌 They admitted the letter existed
📌 They admitted they lost it
📌 And they actively chose to keep it out of official records
🧨 He Wrote Something He Didn’t Want Linked To His Name
Oswald had no reason to write a U.S. consular official under a false name - unless he wanted it to be deniable later.
The CIA knew about the alias.
They knew about the message.
And now we know they never found the original.