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Cryptonym: AEOCEAN-3

Definition:

Philip R. Neilson was the agent used by CIA Officer Jacques Richardson aka Thomas B. Casasin for the CIA's Legal Travelers Program inside the Soviet Union. This agent similar to Lee Harvey Oswald was able to marry a Russian woman named Tamara Kungarova and later immigrate to France with her.

Status:

Documented

Sources:

Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald, 104-10067-10212

A document that reveals the true name of Thomas B Casasin was Jacques Richardson. http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-July2017/JFK-July_2017_Release-Formerly_released_in_part/DOCID-32347922.PDF

104-10429-10239 :DISPATCH:LEE HARVEY OSWALD/FORWARDED MEMO BY THOMAS B. CASASIN

The document identifies AEOCEAN-3 as the first notable case of defectors immigrating with Soviet women and these women possibly being sleeper agents.

104-10065-10082: CABLE OF HSCA STAFFER BRADY INTERVIEW

A document which explains that Casasin (Richardson) did not need to identify his agent **OCEAN-3, the first two letters of the cryptonym are redacted.

Truth vs Evasion, Documents and Dossiers, Assassination Archives and Research Center

A series of documents and commentary reviews the CIA bungling of a defection case and related matters to the CIA Soviet Russia Division. One portion reveals a new document that details the marriage of AEOCEAN-3 (Philip R. Neilson) to Tamara Kungarova, his Russian bride while he was a tourist agent for the CIA. http://aarclibrary.org/truth-vs-evasion/

104-10012-10111: FOREIGNERS WHO MARRY USSR CITS

The document states "On his second trip to the USSR in January 1959, Philip Robert Neilson, REDSKIN agent, was given an INTOURIST interpreter/guide Tamara Stepanova Kungrova. A romance developed between them and Neilson became determined to marry her, which he finally did in the spring of 1962."