Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 12 -conversations about or involving Oswald intercepted at the Soviet Embassy reveal that a man later identified as Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate at least three times on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28. They also reveal that he was at the Soviet Embassy at least twice on those same days.[^365] The CIA technician who serviced the Cuban photographic installations said that it was possible that the operation missed Oswald if: (1) Oswald's visits were after dark; (2) Oswald's visits were on Saturday afternoons or Sundays; (3) the case officer had given the photographic basehouse agents the days off that Oswald visited; (4) the pulse camera was not working.[^366] It is known that Oswald's visits were on a weekday curing daylight hours and a Saturday morning.[^367] This Committee has not been able to determine with certainty, because of the missing production, whether all of the basehouses were operating on the days of Oswald's visits.[^368] This Committee believes that the pulse camera was in operation on at least one of the days that Oswald visited (Friday, September 27, 1963) the CubanClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:[^365]: [^366]:[^367]: [^368]:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-93-Consulate and that the LILYRIC base covering the Soviet gate should have been operating at the time of Oswald's visits to the Soviet Consulates on September 27th and 28th.369/c. Reports of Existence of a Photograph(1) Phillip Agee AllegationOn 6 January 1978, Phillip Agee telephonically contacted two House Select Committee on Assassinations staff investigators at their office in Washington, D.C. Mr. Agee informed the investigators that he "would give the true story on the photograph produced by the CIA which the CIA claimed was taken of Oswald in Mexico City in 1963."370/ Phillip Agee was interviewed by HSCA staff investigators on 11 and 12 January 1978.Mr. Agee told the investigators that he had been assigned to the Mexico Branch of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA's Clandestine Services in September of 1966.371/ Mr. Agee was assigned to work on the Headquarters support for the Agency's operations in Mexico City that were aimed at theClassification: TOP SECRET
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-94-Soviet Union and other Socialist countries, excluding Cuba.372/ At the time that he assumed this job, a woman named Elsie Scaleti was in charge of the operational support projects for Mexico 373/ Agee stated:... [S]heShe was the officer n Washington in charge of all of the paperwork and other administrative matters relating to the support in Washington to these operations which were underway in Mexico City.374/Ms. Scaleti trained Mr. Agee for his new position. Mr. Agee characterized Ms. Scaleti as "the key figure in the Mexico Branch in Headquarters, because she had been there for so long."375/After his transfer to the Mexico Branch, Mr. Agee heard a story about photographs of Oswald. Mr. Agee could not remember with certainty who it had been that told him the story, bu: thought that it may have been Ms. Scaleti.376/ Mr. Agee's recollection of the story he had heard was that on the day of the assassination Ms. Scaleti was working in the Mexico Branch in much the same position that she occupied in 1966.377/ When the news about Oswald's arrest reached Ms. Scaleti, she recalled seeing his name and a photograph taken by an observation post in MexicoClassification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-95-City.378/ Within an hour or two, Ms. Scaleti had located the photograph of Oswald visiting the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.379/ Mr. Agee went on to say:I don't know, don't recall in fact, how she had been able to reconcile or how they were able to reconcile in Mexico City the photograph with the name, unless someone had known the face. Because the problem with these observation posts is that you can get a lot of photographs from them, but to find out the exact identity of the people is not always an easy thing to do. And it may be that as they were listening to the telephones of the Soviet Embassy, and also the Cuban Embassy, that she remembered the name Oswald or Lee Harvey Oswald from the telephone tap, if in fact he had identified himself over the telephone, and tried to make an appointment with the consul or whoever. And then they were able somehow to reconcile the telephone conversation with the photograph that was taken from the observation post the same day or more or less whenever the appointment was made. On the other hand it may be that this photograph had not been identified until the time of the assassination but that she had heard or recalled perhaps either reading the transcript from the telephone tapping or getting a condensed report perhaps a weekly report or something of the take from the telephone tap that she remembered the name Lee Harvey Oswald and then went back into the files of all the photographs and looked through all the photographs until eventually she found a photograph that was similar to all the photographs of Oswald that immediately began to come over the television and the news services. So those details I don't rememberClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 107
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Classification: TOP STORET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-16-exactly, but I do recall that it was considered a coup of some sort for her to act so fast in digging out the photograph and the information. on Oswald's visit to Mexico City.380/Mr. Agee could not remember whether he had actually seen the photograph that Ms. Scaleti allegedly found.381/ When Mr. Agee was told that the photograph that the CIA produced from the Mexico photosurveillance operations did not look anything at all like Lee Harvey Oswald, Mr. Agee said that that was the first time he had ever heard that. He stated :I was led to believe all along that it in fact was Oswald's photographe. I had been always led to believe that that was considered a very significant achievement on the part of the Agency and Elsie in particular for having done that so fast. And so accurately. But now there seems to be some doubt. And it wasn't anything that was particularly secret around the Branch. It was just one of those shop-talk stories that persist over the years.382/Mr. Agee speculated that the production from the photosurveillance was routinely sent to CIA Headquarters and that Ms. Scaleti would have had access to the file at Headquarters.383/Classification:| Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 108
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-97-(2) Daniel Stanley Watson AllegationOn June 4, 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviewed Mr. Daniel Stanley Watson in Mexico. Mr. Watson served as a CIA officer in Mexico City from approximately 1965 to 1969. Mr. Watson was the Chief of Covert Action (propaganda) from 1965 to 1967. He was the Deputy Chief of the Mexico City Station from 1967 to 1969.384/Mr. Watson told the HSCA staff members that sometime between 1965 and 1967 he had had occasion to request Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Station personality file,385/ When this file was delivered to him, it contained only one or two photographs and intercept transcripts.386/ Mr. Watson stated that the file was very thin and that the photo(s) was a 3/4 shot from behind -- "basically an ear and back shot."387/ Mr. Watson said that he did not think that there was anyone else in the photograph and he thought that it was a photograph of Oswald.388/Classification:
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Classification TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-98-Mr. Watson said that he could not recall why he had requested to see Lee Oswald's file in 1965 or 1966.389/Mr. Watson said that it was his understanding that the file was the complete Mexico City personality file on Oswald.390/ Mr. Watson said that he would be surprised if Oswald's Mexico City personality file was seven volumes long.391/ Mr. Watson was asked whether or not Winston Scott, the Chief of the CIA Station in Mexico, would have destroyed files or photographs.392/ Mr. Watson said that that would not surprise him.393/At that point, Mr. Watson volunteered that Mr. Scott often kept highly sensitive information in a personal safe in his office. He said that this information would not have been filed or indexed in the usual manner.394/Mr. Watson said that when Winston Scott retired he had taken the contents of this personal safe with him and stored them in a safe in his home.Mr. Scott died, James Angleton flew to Mexico and removed the contents of this safe before Mr. Scott's funeral.. 395/ Mr. Watson said he did not know what had been in Mr. Scott's safe or what happened to theClassification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-99-things that Mr. Angleton removed at the time of Scott's death. Mr. Watson said that his source for this allegation was Winstor Scott's widow, Janet.396/Mr. Watson stated that he thought the CIA Mexico City Station had given the Warren Commission all the material in its possession but, he added, he also knew that Winston Scott was capable of "phonying a photo if asked to produce one. : never believed Win Scott the first time he to'd me something."397/(3) Joseph Burkholder Smith AllegationMr. Joseph Smith, a retired CIA officer, was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations on 19 October 1977. At this interview Mr. Smith mentioned that the Mexico City Station had been very proud of finding "the picture of Oswald."398/ He mentioned this in connection with a woman who worked for Winston Scott in Mexico.399/ Mr. Smith was reluctant to speak about this at the time and the topic was not pursued.400/Classification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-100-Mr. Smith was reinterviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations on 20 April 1978. Mr. Smith was shown the omribus CIA release letter and fully cooperated in answering the staff investigator's questions at this interviev.[^1] At this time, Mr. Smith recalled hearing a story that someone, at the time of the assassination, had remembered seeing Lee Harvey Oswald's face somewhere in the photographic coverage of the Cuban or Russian Embassies.[^2] This person went back through the files and found the picture.[^3] Mr. Smith sad that he does recall that the discovery of the picture had greatly pleased President Lyndon Johnson and that it had made Winston Scott his "number one boy.'[^4]Mr. Smith said that he could not recall when he had first heard this story about the photograph, but he said he was certain however, that he had heard the story more than once.[^5] He said that the earliest that he could have possibly heard the story was in 1964 while he was scationed in Argentina.[^6] He said that not long after the assassination he may have heard the story from someone "coming through"Classification:[^1] 401/[^2] 402/[^3] 403/[^4] 404/[^5] 405/[^6] 406/
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 01 -Argentina.407/Des (Fitzgerald) might have even mentioned it when he came through, which was in early '64, or Gerry Droller might have mentioned it when he came through, talking about how the Mexico City Station was helping out during the investigation.408/Mr. Smith stated that he did know Elsie Scaleti. He described her as a "very severe person and very diligent and very much the Counter-Intelligence mentality."409/ Mr. Smith stated that he also knew Ann Goodpasture. He said:Annie was another one of Win Scott's case officers. She was in Mexico City for about 14 years. Annie was what we called the "resource person." Annie knew everything.410/Mr. Smith said that Win Scott also had another very knowledgeable woman who worked with Ann Goodpasture in the Mexico City Station whose name he recalled as Leach or Lynch.411/ Mr. Smith's recollection associated Ms. Leach (or Lynch) with the discovery of the photograph of Oswald, but Mr. Smith was not at all sure of this recollection.412/ When asked if he had any recollection of Ms. Scaleti finding the photograph, he said:Classification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-102-It could very well have been, and Annie, too. But I thought it was this other girl, Lynch. But no, I don't think I ever heard specifically who found the damn picture. I guess...I didn't care.413/(4) Joseph Piccolo, Jr. AllegationMr. Joseph Piccolo, Jr. was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations on 11 August 1978. Mr. Piccolo is an operations officer in the CIA. He was stationed in Mexico City from December 1957 to January 1960 and again from August 1965 to January 1968. Mr. Piccolo was involved in anti-Cuban operations from 1962 to 1968.414/During this interview, Mr. Piccolo told the HSCA that sometime after the assassination of John Kennedy he had seen photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald.415/ Mr. Piccolo said that he had been shown these photographs by an individual who told him that they were photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald that were obtained from the CIA's Mexico City surveillance of the Cuban diplomatic compound.416/ Mr. Piccolo could not remember the identity of the person who showed him the photographs, nor when nor where he saw theClassification: TOP SECRETNW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 114
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)-103-photographs.417/ Mr. Piccolo stated that the The first picture shown was a three-quarter full shot of Oswald, exposing a left profile as Oswald and that the looked downward, The second photograph which Mr. he Piccolo remembered seeing was a back of the head view of Oswald.418/ Mr. Piccolo remembered that both of these photographs were taken from above Oswald and to his left.419/ Mr. Piccolo was shown a copy of Warren Commission Exhibit #237, the famous Mexico Mystery Man photograph. He stated that this was definitely not the man in the photographs exhibited to him.420/ Mr. Piccolo correctly identified an unlabeled frontal photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald shown to him by the HSCA.421/Mr. Piccolo was also asked whether he knew anything about the circumstances surrounding the Agency's initial discovery of the photographs he claims to have seen. He stated that he did not have any first-hand knowledge of their discovery, but that it was the type of thing, "a coup," that would have traveled through the Agency."grapevine."422/Classification: TOP SECRET Classified by derivation:NW 48327. DocId: 32263889 Page 115
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-114-Mr. Piccolo stated that he had heard stories about a surveillance photograph of Oswald being found both in Mexico City and at CIA Headquarters in Langley.423/He stated that Ann Goodpasture may have been the person who found a photograph of (swald in Mexico City.424/Mr. Piccolo said that he has heard several times that Elsie Scaleti found a photograph of Oswald.425/ The last time that he heard this story was two weeks prior to his interview by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.426/Mr. Piccolo stated that he currently shares an office at CIA Headquarters with a man who worked on the Oswald case during a recent CIA "in-house" investigation.427/ Mr. Piccolo said that they were discussing Oswald's case because of the House Select Committee on Assassinations' release of several unidentified photographs. Mr. Piccolo stated that during the course of this discussion his office-mate, Mr. Dan Niescuir, stated that Elsie Scaleti, "the gal at the Mexico desk," had found the surveillance photographs of Oswald.428/ Mr. Piccolo stated that he assumed Mr. Niescuir had become aware of Ms. Scaleti's coup through his research into the OswaldClassification:Classified by derivation:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-105-case.429/ Mr. Piccolo was not certain as to when he first heard the story that Ms. Scaleti had found the photograph, but he was certain that he had heard it prior to hearing it from Mr. Niescuir.430/Mr. Piccolo speculated that the Mexico City Station may have routinely sent photographs of unidentified Americans who visited Communist Embassies to Headquarters for possible identification.431/Mr. Piccolo also told the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviewers that he was aware, when he was in Mexico, that Win Scott had a personal safe in his office. He said that "restricted materials" were held in Mr. Scott's safe. "Restricted *he* materials" *were* defined as very sensitive materials that did not find their way into the routine files and indexes.432/(5) Statements of Dan NiescuirMr. Neiscuir stated that he had never been involved in any of the CIA's "in-house" investigations of the Kennedy assassination or Oswald.433/ He did state, though, that he had once worked on anClassification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-106-"Oswald Task Force."434/ He said that this occurred in late September or October of 1975, when at that time, there were two or three FOIA suits pending brought against the Agency concerning the Agency's files on Oswald.435/ These files had to be processed and the task was delegated to the Counter-Intelligence Staff and he was assigned to the task force.436/Mr. Niescuir stated that he was also one of the primary contacts with two investigators from the Senate Select Committee who were looking into the Agency's files on Oswald at approximately the same time.437/ He stated that the task force that he was part of conducted no research and analysis of which he was aware.438/ Mr. Neiscuir stated that the only photograph he remembers seeing is the Mexico Mystery Man photo.439/ He said that he did not recognize the name "Elsie Scaleti."440/ He stated that he did not recall ever being told that there was a photo of Oswald from the Mexico City surveillance operations.441/He denied ever telling anyone that such a photo was found.442/ He did admit, however, to discussing the assassination with Joseph Piccolo.443/Classification: TOP SECRET
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 107 -d. HSCA Investigation of the possibility that the Mexico City Photosurveillance Operation Produced a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald(1) IntroductionThis Committee has conducted a general investigation into the CIA's photographic surveillance operations in Mexico City in addition to the specific investigation into the allegations mentioned above. 444/In an attempt to determine whether the CIA'S Mexico City photographic bases did, in fact, photograph Oswald, this Committee requested the CIA to make available to the HSCA the production of these bases. 445/ The CIA has in part responded to this request. 446/ However, the production from LILYRIC, the second base that covered the Soviet Embassy entrance, and the pulse camera that covered the Cuban Consulate entrance, has not been made available for review. 447/ The Agency's withholding of certain production materials from the photographic bases has prevented the Committee from determining whether a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was taken by these photo-surveillance operations.Also in the course of its general investigation into the CIA's surveillance operations in Mexico CityClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extractedfrom CIA-controlled documents.)- 108 -and Oswald's visit to that city, the Committee has inter- viewed many CIA officers who were stationed in Mexico City, or worked in 1963 at CIA Headquarters in support of Mexican operations. They uniformly testified that the Station had not obtained a photograph of Oswald from the photosurveillance operations in Mexico City. 448/(2) Investigation of the AllegationsMs. Elsie Scaleti worked on the Mexico Desk in 1963. 449/ Ms. Scaleti could not recall her particular responsibilities while she was assigned to the Mexico Desk. 450/ She told the HSCA that she would have been doing routine case officer work which would have involved name traces, projects, budgets, et cetera. 451/ She could not recall any specific projects that she worked on and she stated that the case officers on the desk would not have had specific titles such as "Chief of Support Operations." 452/ She stated that the work of the Desk was assigned to the case officers by project and that work that was levied that was not part of an assigned project would have been done by anyone on the desk who happened to be available. 453/One of Ms. Scaleti's supervisors, Mr. JohnClassification: TOP SECRETNW 48327. DocId: 32263889 Page 120| Classified by derivation:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 109 -Scelso, Chief of the Mexico Branch in 1963, remembers that:(Elsie Scaleti)...was the, sort of the Major Domo of the Branch. She managed all the records, handed all of the cables from Mexico that dealt with security suspects, or asked for traces on security suspects. 454/Ms. Scaleti was in the position that Mr. Agee said she was in 1963. 455/A major part of the allegations is dependent upon whether or not the CIA Mexico Station sent the photo- production to Headquarters. HSCA review of CIA files has revealed no evidence that the photoproduction was routinely sent to Headquarters in 1963. 456/HMMA-22307 detailed the installation of a pulse camera to cover the Cuban Consulate on September 27, 1963. 457/ The dispatch states that the results of the testing would be sent to Headquarters as soon as they were available. 458/ The Committee did not find any indication that photographs from this camera were sent to Headquarters prior to 6/19/64, when Headquarters was notified that some production was being sent by un- accountable transmittal manifest, 459/ with the exception of HMMA-22433, 11/7/63 which sent samples of the photographic production from the camera. 460/ TheseClassification: