A Needle In A Haystack Is Easy To Find If You Place It There

              VULUME I NUMBER ? DECEMBER 22. 1976
A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK IS EASY TO FIND IF YOU PLACED IT THERE.
In the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, Volume 11, pages 212 and 213,
we find affidavits of Mrs. Monica Kramer and Miss Rita Naman. Both affidavits were
executed July 17, 1964, in Santa Barbara County, California.
These affidavits describe a trip the two women made to Russia in August 1961,
and refer to Kramer Exhibit 1, a photograph taken by Miss Naman in Minsk. Both
women identify the photograph as having been taken August 10, 1961, in the Central
Square in Minsk, and both women admit that a man appearing in Kramer Exhibit 1
resembles Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mrs. Kramer and Miss Naman state that their Intourist guide's name was
Svetlana.
In 1965, when we received the 26 volumes, we marveled at their memory and
dedication, as we envisioned Mrs. Kramer and Miss Naman searching through their
snapshots to find Oswald's face among the Soviet citizens they had photographed
in Russia.
In 1968, we purchased copies of CD 859b from the National Archives. Pages
2 through 4 are statements of Mrs. Monica Kramer and Miss Rita Naman given to the
FBI March 21, 1964, relating to the August 1961 trip and the photograph of Lee
Harvey Oswald. Mrs. Kramer cannot remember the Intourist guide's name. Since
she was referring to her travel notes, apparently she had not noted the guide's
name. Miss Naman does not volunteer the guide's name in her statement.
In January 1972, CD 1022 was released by the National Archives. Pages 2 and
3 of CD 1022 are statements made to the FBI by Mrs. Kramer and Miss Naman on April
28, 1954. They are now referring to a photograph furnished by 74-year-old Mrs.
Marie Loretta Hyde of Port Angeles, Washington, who was with Mrs. Kramer and Miss
Naman on August 10, 1961, in Minsk. Miss Naman had taken the photograph using
Mrs. Hyde's camera. In view of Mrs. Hyde's advanced age and the passage of more
than two years since the trip, we were amazed at her discovery of Oswald's face
among her photographs.
In July 1976, as a result of a suit brought under the Freedom of Information
Act, the Central Intelligence Agency released a number of previously classified
documents. Among these documents were two memos revealing that the Central In­telligence
Agency had discovered the Minsk photograph of Oswald in the CIA's
"graphics register." A March 20, 1964 memo from the CIA to the FBI requested the
FBI to withhold this photograph from the Warren Commission until the source (Kramer
and Naman) could be contacted. The CIA admits they copied a number of the 150
photographs submitted by Kramer and Naman.
Published statements in Voliime 11 reveal only the fact that Miss Kramer took
the photograph and nothing about its discovery or arrival in the hands of the
Warren Commission. In view of the March 20, 1964, memo, did the CIA wish to as-