RICHARD EDWARD SNYDER
He was raised in New Jersey amid the nineteen twenties and was educated at South Side High School. Richard later graduated from Yale University before serving in the United States military and joined the ranks of military intelligence (G-2) during WWII. He worked for the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination in the role of intelligence officer amidst the late nineteen forties within Japan’s capital. Snyder reportedly left his Agency position in Berlin during nineteen fifty, aided military intelligence, and was subsequently the same year gained a job with US State Department. Richard eventually became the Second Secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow and worked for several years using diplomatic positions to support intelligence gathering.

Amid nineteen fifty-nine he encountered Lee Harvey Oswald when the former Marine renounced his American citizenship. Yet Snyder never processed Oswald's request purportedly due to his strange youthful demeanor and stored the former marine’s passport for years in his desk. Instead he facilitated press attempts to interview Oswald and was among those helping the defector’s family later immigrate to America. Subsequent congressional investigators would demonstrate that Snyder was spotting potential intelligence recruits for the Agency at Harvard University amongst the late nineteen fifties. This disproves longstanding official claims of severing his past intelligence relationship and extends his usage to a mere two years before encountering Oswald. Snyder would serve in the State Department for two decades and retired in the course of nineteen seventy.

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