URGENT 11-29-63 6-10 PM RCS TO DIRECTOR AND SACS, DALLAS AND PHILADELPHIA
FROM SAC, BOSTON /89-43/ 2-P

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, NOVEMBER
TWENTY-SECOND, SIXTYTHREE, DALLAS, TEXAS.

RE DALLAS TEL INSTANT DATE.

ON NOV. TWENTYNINE SIXTYTHREE FRED MILLER, SALESMANAGER
OF SMITH AND WESSON INC., ADVISED SA THOMAS F. SULLIVAN THAT
RECORDS SMITH AND WESSON, INC., SPRINGFIELD, MASS.,
DISCLOSE THIRTY-EIGHT CALIBER REVOLVER, SN EIGHT NINE THREE
TWO SIX FIVE, WAS SHIPPED ON JANUARY THIRTEEN, FORTYTWO, TO
U.S. GOVERNMENT, HARTFORD ORDNANCE, HARTFORD, CONN.
HARTFORD ORDNANCE AT THAT TIME WAS DIVISION OF SPRINGFIELD
ARMORY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS., AND ALL FIREARMS RECORDS AT THAT
AGENCY WERE FORWARDED DURING NINETEEN FIFTY TO MISMS RECORDS
CENTER, LETTERKENNY ORDNANCE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

MILLER ADVISED HE BELIEVED SHIPMENTS TO HARTFORD
ORDNANCE AT THAT TIME WERE DESTINED FOR ENGLAND UNDER
LEND-LEASE AGREEMENT AND STAMPING ON CYLINDER IS PROBABLY
A PROOF-MARK OF THAT GOVERNMENT CERTIFYING ITS ACCEPTANCE.
SUCH WEAPONS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SOLD SURPLUS IN

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ENGLAND, ALTERED AND RECHAMBERED IN THAT COUNTRY TO
ACCOMMODATE THIRTY-EIGHT SPECIAL AMMUNITION. SUCH
WEAPONS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY IMPORTED FOR SALE BY U.S. GUN
DEALERS.

PHILADELPHIA CONTACT MISMA RECORDS CENTER, LETTERKENNY
ORDNANCE, IN EFFORT TO FURTHER TRACE WEAPON WHICH,
ACCORDING TO RETEL, WAS FOUND IN A PAPER BAG IN THE
IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF ASSASSINATION AREA.

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