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.)-72-C. Voice ComparisonsIn addition to his translation and transcription duties, Mr. Tarasoff as a matter of routine attempted to identify the voices of the participants in a conversation.299/ This eventually led to Mr. Tarasoff's collecting voice samples from tapes of Russian officials whose voices he had identified.300/ Mr. Tarasoff also made comments about the personality and dispositions of the participants in conversations that he transcribed. Generally, these comments, or "personality assessments" were made on separate pieces of paper and not on the transcripts themselves.301/III. Information About Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico that was Known by the CIA Mexico City Station Prior to the Assassination of John Kennedy and the Sources of that InformationA. Information that was AvailableIn 1963 the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City Station surveilled both the Cuban and Soviet diplomatic compounds electronically and...
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-73-photographically.302/The Mexico City Station received daily transcriptions of the telephonic surveillance of the Embassies.303/The Station received twice, or three times, a week the photographic coverage of the Embassies and Consulates.304/1. Information Available to the Mexico City Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed at the Soviet Consulate and Military Attache's Office.From the electronic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy, the CIA Mexico City Station learned of the following conversations that were subsequently linked by Station personnel to Lee Harvey Oswald:a. September 27, 1963, Friday(1) At or about 10:30 a.m. an unidentified man called the Soviet Military Attache looking for a visa to Odessa. He was referred to the Consulate. The man then asked for and was given directions to the Consulate office. The directionsClassification:Classified by derivation:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-74-were not noted by the transcriber. The entire conversation was transcribed in Spanish.305/(2) At 10:37 a.m. a man called the Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. He was told that the Consul was not in. The man outside stressed that it was necessary for him to get a visa to Odessa. He was told to call back at 11:30. This conversation was also transcribed in Spanish.306/(3) At 1:25 an unidentified man called the Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. The man was told that the Consul was not in. The man outside asked, "when tomorrow?" The Soviet official told him that on Mondays and Fridays the Consul was in between four and five. This conversation was also in the Spanish transcriptions.. 307/(4) At approximately 4:05 p.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet Embassy. She told the person at the Embassy that an American citizen seeking a visa was at the Cuban Consulate. Silvia explained that the American citizen wanted to know the nameClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-75-of the official he had dealt with at the Soviet Embassy. Silvia had sent the American to the Soviet Embassy, stating that his acquiring a Cuban visa was contingent on his previously acquiring a Soviet visa. Silvia explained to the Soviet official that the American had stated that he was assured that there would be no problem. At that point, the Soviet official put another official on the phone, causing Silvia to repeat the story. The official then asked Şilvia to leave her rame and number so he could call later. This conversation was also in Spanish.308/(5) At 4:26 p.m. an unidentified Soviet official called Silvia Duran inquiring whether the American citizen had been co the Cuban consulate office. Silvia responded affirmatively, stating the American was at the office at that time. The Soviet official told Silvia that when the American visited the Soviet Consulate office he had displayed papers from the Soviet Consulate in Washington. He also had a letter stating that he was a member of an organization that favored Cuba. The American wanted to go to the U.S.S.R. with his Russian wife and remain there aClassification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-76-long time. The Soviet official had not received an answer from Washington to the American's problem. The problem traditionally took four to five months to resolve because Washington had to secure authorization from the U.S.S.R. The Soviet official added that the American's wife could get a visa in Washington very quickly and she could have it sent anywhere, but he felt that the American would not get a visa soon. Silvia said that the Cuban government could not give the American a visa because he had neither friends in Cuba nor authorization for a visa from the U.S.S.R. The Soviet official added that the Soviets could not give the American a letter of recommendation because they did not know him. This conversation was also in the Spanish transcripts.309/b. September 18, 1963, SaturdayAt 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet Consulate. She said that there was an American citizen at the Cuban Consulate who had previously visited the Soviet Consulate. The Soviet asked Silvia to wait a minute. Upon his return to theClassification: TOP SECRET
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-77-telephone, Silvia put the American on the line. At first the American spoke ir Russian and the Soviet spoke English. The conversation then proceeded in English until the Russian discontinued it and put another Soviet on the line. The Soviet spoke in English, but the American, speaking in broken Russian, asked him to speal Russian. The conversation resumed in Russian at that point. It also became incoherent and is thus quoted in its entirety:Russian: What else do you want?American: I was ust now at your Embassy and they took my address.Russian: I know that.American: /speaks terrible, hardly recognizable Russiar/I did not know it then. I went to the Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it.Russian: Why don't you come again and leave your address with us; it is not far from the Cuban Embassy.American: Well, I'll be there right away.310/Classification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-73-c. October 1, 1963, Tuesday(1) At 10:31 a.m. an unidentified man called the Soviet Military Attache and, in broken Russian, said that he had visited the Consulate the previous Saturday and had spoken to the Consul. The man wanted to know if the Soviets had received an answer from Washington. At that point, the Soviet official gave the man the Consulate phone number and asked him to call there. This conversation is in the English transcripts, indicating the man spoke in either Russian or English.[^1](2) At 10:45 a.m.[^2] a man who, according to the translator's comment, had phoned a day or so before and had spoken in broken Russian, called the Consulate and spoke to an employee named Obyedkov. The man calling introduced himself as "Lee Oswald" and stated that he visited the Soviet Consulate the previous Satırday. He told Obyedkov that he spoke with the Consul on that day. Oswald added that the Consul had stated that they would send a telegram to Washington and he wanted to know if theyClassification:Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 90[^1]: 311/[^2]: 312/
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Classification# TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-73-had received an answer. Oswald also said that he did not remember the name of the Consul with whom he had spoken. Obyedkov asked if it had been Kostikov and described him as "dark." The man outside replied affirmatively and repeated that his name was Oswald. Obyedkov asked Oswald to hold on a minute while he inquired. When Obyedkov resumed the conversation, he stated that the Soviet Consul had not yet received an answer but the request had been sent. Obyedkov then hung up the telephone as Oswald began another sentence with the words "ard what." This conversation is in the English transcripts.[^313]d. October 3, 1963, ThursdayAn unidentified man called the Soviet Military Attache and spoke in broker Spanish and then in English. When the man inquired about a visa to Russia, he was given the Consulate phone number. The man then inquired if they ssued visas at the Consulate. The Soviet stated that he was not certain but that the caller should call the Consul nonetheless.[^314]Classification:NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 91[^313]: /[^314]: /
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled clocuments.)-80-2. Information Available to the Mexico City CIA Station from CIA HeadquartersOn October 11, 1963, three days after the Mexico City Station made the initial report to Headquarters of Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy, the Mexico City Station received some information about Lee Oswald from CIA Headquarters. Headquarters informed Mexico that the Lee Oswald who visited the Soviet Embassy may be identical to Lee Henry (sic) Oswald.315/Mexico City received this cable on 11 October 1963.316/This cable described Oswald as:born 18 Oct. 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana, former radar operator in United States Marines who defected to USSR in Oct. 1959. Oswald is five feet ten inches, one hundred sixty five pounds, light brown wavy hair, blue eyes.317/The cable reported Oswald's defection in 1959; his desire to return to the United States in 1962; his employment in Minsk; his marriage to a Russian citizen; the return of his passport; and the State Department's issuance of visas for Oswald and his family.318/Classification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-81-3. Information Available to the Mexico City Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed at the Cuban Diplomatic CompoundAn examination of the production from the electronic surveillance of the Cuban diplomatic compound's telephones failed to reveal any telephone conversation that directly mentioned Oswald or information that clearly and directly referred to him.319/4. Information Available to the Mexico City Station from Photographic Surveillance of the Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic CompoundsAn examination of the production from these operations failed to reveal a photograph of Oswald.320/ This Committee has not been able to rule out the possibility that a photograph of Oswald was obtained in Mexico City by these operations since the material made available for review was incomplete.321/ The possibility that such a photograph was obtained is discussed in Section III.A.6. below. The photograph that was mistakenly linked to Oswald by the Mexico City Station is discussed in Sections III.B.4.Classification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled cocuments.)-82-5. Possibility that Additional Information from the Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet Compound was Available to the Mexico City StationMs. Anna Tarasoff assisted her husband, Boris, in the transcription of tapes from the Russian Embassy.[^322] Ms. Tarasoff testified before this Committee on 12 April 1978.[^323] She was shown the transcripts from the conversations that were intercepted on 10/1/63 at 10:31 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.; 9/28/63 at 11:51; and 10/3/63.[^324] She recognized these transcripts as being her husband's work.[^325] She testified that she could identify his work by the style of his writing or typing and the use of slash marks.[^326]In addition to these transcripts, Ms. Tarasoff testified that she remembered one more conversation that involved Lee Oswald.Classification: TOP SECRETClassified by defivation:[^322]: [^323]:[^324]: [^325]:[^326]:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled (locuments.)-83-According to my recollection, I myself, have made a transcript, an English transcript, of Lee Oswald talking to the Russian Consulate or whoever he was at that time, asking for financial aid.Now, that particular transcript does not appear here and whatever happened to it, I do not know, but it was a lengthy transcript and I personally did that transcript. It was a lengthy conversation between him and someone at the Russian Embassy.[^327]Ms. Tarasoff testified that the transcript that she remembered was approximately two pages long.[^328] She testified that the caller identified himself as Lee Oswald.[^329] She was certain that the 10/1/63, 10:45 a.m. conversation was not the one that she recalled.N.. This would not be the conversation that I would be recalling for the simple reason that this is my husband's work and at that time probably the name didn't mean much of anything. But this particular piece of work that I am talking about is something that came in and it was marked as urgent.[^330]In the call that Ms. Tarasoff recalled, Oswald spoke only English.[^331] Ms. Tarasoff testified that the 10/1/63, 10:45 conversation could not be the call she remembered because the transcript indicates that Oswald spoke in borkén Russian as opposed to English; the transcript is shorter than the one she remembers; the transcript is in her husband's style as opposedClassification: TOP SECRET[^327]: [^328]:[^329]: [^330]:[^331]:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled cocuments.)-84-to her own; and there is no mention of Oswald's finances in the transcript.332/Ms. Tarasoff remembers the procedure for urgent tapes.333/ Her memory is confirmed in this narrow respect by the project files reviewed by House Select Committee on Assassinations staff members.334/Ms. Tarasoff recalled that there would be a piece of paper enclosed with the reel which would indicate the footage number where the conversation occurred and ask for priority handling cver the other conversations on the reel.335/ After the conversation was transcribed, the Tarasoffs would immediately notify their contact and then turn the transcript over to him on the same day that it had been delivered.336/Ms. Tarasoff was questioned about the details of the conversation which she remembered. She stated that Oswald definitely identified himself and that he was seeking financial and from the Russians.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.)-85-(H)e was persistent in asking for financial aid in order to leave the country. They were not about to give him any financial aid whatsoever. He had also mentioned that he tried the Cuban Embassy and they had also refused financial aid.337/Mr. Boris Tarasoff also testified before this Committee on 12 April 1978. Mr. Tarasoff also recognized the four transcripts from September 28, 1963 and October 1st and 3rd as his work:338/ Mr. Tarasoff testified that he recognized the 10/1/63 conversation as his work because the name Lee Oswald was underlined.We got a request from the station to see if we can pick up the name of this person because sometimes we had a so-called "defector" from the United States that wanted to go to Russia and we had to keep an eye on them. Not I -- the Station. Consequently they were very hot about the whole thing. They said, "If you can get the name, rush it over immediately." Therefore, it is very seldom that I underlined the name because I put them in capitals. In this case I did because it was so important to them.339/Mr. Tarasoff testified that he did not know how Oswald had come to the Station's attention prior to this conversation or what led to the request to get his name.340/ He speculated that it was possibleClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 97
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-86-that Oswald first came to the Station's attention through Oswald's contacts with the Cuban Embassy.341/Mr. Tarasoff did not confirm his wife's recollection of another conversation including Oswald.342/ He said that he did not remember any other calls involving Lee Oswald or any details of Oswald's conversations that were not reflected in the transcripts.343/Although Ms. Tarasoff's memory was not confirmed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations review of the transcripts for the period while Oswald was in Mexico, there are several points of circumstantial corroboration for her story. There was a procedure by which tapes could be expedited in the manner in which Ms. Tarasoff recalls.344/ There are also indications that this procedure may have been used when Oswald's conversation was intercepted.345/ The first report that the Americans received regarding Silvia Duran made mention of the fact that Silvia claimed that she had told Oswald that the only aid they could give him was to refer him to the Soviet Consulate.346/Classification:NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 98Classified by derivation:202
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Classification:TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-37-This statement in the original Mexican report given to the CIA in Mexico after the assassination would tend to add credence to Ms. Tarasoff's recollection that Oswald mentioned to the Soviets that he had also tried to elicit aid from the Cubans.347/At least one other CIA official who was in Mexico also remembers that Oswald indicated in his discussions with the Soviet Embassy that he hoped to receive assistance with the expenses of his trip.348/Daniel Stanley Watson, a retired CIA employee who was Deputy Chief of the Mexico City Station from 1967 to 1969, told the House Select Committee on Assassinations staff that he had seen a file on Oswald in Mexico City that contained only one or two intercept transcripts and surveillance photographs of Oswald.349/ Mr. Watson also told HSCA staff investigators that Win Scott had a private personal safe in which he maintained especially sensitive materials.350/ According to Mr. Watson, these materials were removed from the safe.NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 99Classification: TOP SECRET| Classified by derivation:203
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-E8-by James Angleton at the time of Scott's death.351/This Committee requested access to any relevant materials from this safe or July 6, 1978.352/Access was granted on October 6, 1978. Two statements by Mr. Scott contained in these materials lend circumstantial support for Ms. Tarasoff's testimony.In 1970 Mr. Scott wrote:*During my thirteen years in Mexico,I had many experiences, some of which I can write in detail. One of these pertains to Lee Harvey Oswald and what I know (emphasis in original) of his activities from the moment he arrived in Mexico, his contacts by telephone and his visits to both the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and his requests for assistance from these two Embassies in trying to get to the Crime, with his wife and baby. During his conversations he cited a promise from the Soviet Embassy in Washington that they would notify their Embassy in Mexico of Oswald's plan to ask them for assistance.353/*In his unpublished manuscript, Scott refers to a conversation in which Oswald gave the Soviet Embassy "his name very slowly and carefully."354/ Although the transcripts available do not bear out Scott's recollections, there are interesting parallels with the testimony of Anna Tarasoff and David Phillips.355/Classification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-19-There are indications also that there was one other additional call that may have been available to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. In the first statement by Silvia Duran provided to the CIA by the Mexican government, Silvia says that the Cuban Consul called the Soviet Consular official who dealt with Oswald.[^356]This statement is also missing from most subsequent reports of Ms. Duran's statements, with the notable exception of the first CIA report to the Warren Commission.[^357] Ms. Duran's early statement was confirmed by Eusebio Azcue[^358]. This conversation was not discovered by a review of the transcripts from the intercept operation. It is possible that the call made by Azcue was to a phone at the Russian Consulate that was not subject to electronic surveillance. It is known that two of the phones at the Soviet Consulate were subject to surveillance.[^359] This Committee has not determined how many telephones were in the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City.Classification: TOP SECRETNW 48327. DocId: 32263889 Page 101[^356] /[^357] /[^358] /[^359] /
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-90-While this Committee has not been able to find any direct corroboration of Anna Tarasoff's claim, the circumstantial corroboration is such that the possibility that there was an additional transcript concerning Oswald that was available to the Mexico City Station in late 1963 cannot be dismissed. In all likelihood, the Azcue call to the Soviet Consulate concerning Oswald was probably made on telephones not subject to CIA surveillance and, hence, would not have been available to the CIA's Mexico City Station.6. Possibility that the CIA Photosurveillance Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey OswaldThis Committee cannot state with certainty that a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was not obtained by the photosurveillance operations in Mexico City because of three reasons: (a) the photographs from LILYRIC, the "alternate" photographic base which covered the Soviet Embassy main gate, and the photographs from the pulse camera, which covered the Cuban Consulate entrance, with the exception of aClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 102
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-91-few samples were not made available for review by the CIA; (b) testimony from knowledgeable people that it would have been unlikely that the photosurveillance would have missed someone whom it had at least five chances of recording;36/ and (c) reports that such a photo did, in fact, exist.362/a. Missing MaterialsThe documentation and elaboration of the first reason can be fourd in Sections II.A. and B. preceding. Simply put, this Committee has not seen all of the photographs produced by the photosurveillance operations in Mexico City.363/ Hence, it cannot conclude that a photograph of Oswald does not exist among those photographs it has not seen.b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance Operation would have' Missed OswaldCIA officers who were in Mexico in 1963 and their Headquarters counterparts generally agreed that it would have been unlikely for the photosurveillance operations to have missed ten opportunities to have photographed Oswald.364/ The transcripts ofClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 103