Warren Report, p. 712. U.S. Consul Richard E. Snyder at the Moscow Embassy stated in a State Department telegram: “I was sole officer handling Oswald case” (Commission Exhibit 909, WCH, vol. 18, p. 100). According to CIA documents, Richard E. Snyder had joined the CIA on March 27, 1950, only to “resign” six months later to begin a career of overseas U.S. embassy assignments for the State Department (CIA letter to Richard E. Snyder, March 27, 1950. JFK
