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RECORD SERIES: REPORT ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S TRIP TO MEXICO CITY
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CIA, METHODOLOGY, PHOTOSURVEILLANCE
SOVIET EMBASSY
OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN P’ERIOD, TRAVEL, TRIP TO
MEXICO
CUBAN EMBASSY
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OUTLINE: LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA AND MEXICO CITY.
Part I.
I. Introduction.
A. Issues Addressed. (p.1.)
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B. Differences Between the Warren Commission In-
vestigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities
in Mexico City and the House Select Committee
on Assassinations' Investigation. (p. 3.)
C. Conclusions. (p. 5.)
D. Structure and Relevancy. (p. 10.)
II. Central Intelligence Agency Surveillance Operations
in Mexico City in Ser tember and October 1963.
(p. 12.)
A. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed
at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound.
1. Introduction. (p. 12.)
2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance Bases
and Targets. 'p. 12.)
3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of Coverage
Provided. (p. 13.)
4. Disposition of Production from the Operation. (p. 30.)
B. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed at
the Soviet Diplomatic Compound. (p. 31.)
1. Introduction. p. 31.)
2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance Bases
and Targets. (p. 31.)
3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of Coverage
Provided. (p. 33.)
4. Procedure and Timing Involved in Processing
Production from the Operation. (p. 45.)
5. Responsibility for the Operation. (p.47.)
6. Coordination of Photographic and Electronic
Surveillance Operations. (p. 52.)
C. Electronic Surveillance of Telephones at the
Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic Compounds in 1963.
(p. 53.)
1. Existence. (p. 53.)
2. Responsibility. (p. 53.)
a. General. (p. 53.)
b. Analysis and Reporting of Information
Obtained. (p. 54.).
3. Telephone Lines Covered.
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4. Production from Operation.
a. Types. (p. 59.)
b. Handling Procedures.
(1) Resuma. (p. 59.)
(p. 58.):
(p. 59.)
(2) Cuban Tapes. (p. 60.)
(3) Soviet Tapes. (p. 61.)
(a) General Handling.
(p. 61.)
(b) Retention and Reuse of Tapes. (p. 62.)
(c) English Language Conversations.
(p. 64.)
(d) Handling by Tarasoffs. (p. 66.)
(e) Expedited Procedure for English
Language Coversations or other
Conversations of Special Interest.
(p. 67.)
(f) Handling in the Station. (p. 70.)
(g) Format of Transcripts.
C. Voice Comparisons. (p. 72.)
(p. 71.)
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 Information.
A. Information that was Available. (p. 72.)
1. Information Available to the Mexico City
Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed
at the Soviet Consulate and Military Attache's
Office. (p. 73.)
a. September 27, 1963, Friday. (p. 73.)
b. September 28, 1963, Saturday. (p. 76.).
c. October 1, 1963, Tuesday. (p. 78.)
d. October 3, 1963, Thursday. (p. 79.)
2. Information Available to the Mexico City CIA
Station from CIA Headquarters. (p. 80.)
3. Information Available to the Mexico City Station
from Electronic Surveillance Aimed at the Cuban
Diplomatic Compound. (p. 81.)
4. Information Available to the Mexico City Station
from Photographic Surveillance of the Soviet and
Cuban Diplomatic Compounds.
(p. 81.)
5. Possibility that Additional Information from the
Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet Compound
was Available to the Mexico City Station. (p. 82.)
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( 6. Possibility that the CIA Photosurveillance
Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald.
(p. 90.)
a. Missing Materials. (p. 91.)
(p. 91.)
b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance
Operation would have Missed Oswald.
c. Reports of the Existence of a Photograph.
(p. 93.)
(1) Phillip Agee Allegation. (p. 93.)
(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation. (p. 97.)
(3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation.
(p. 99.)
(4) Joseph Piccolo, Jr. Allegation. (p. 102.)
(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir. (p. 105.)
d. HSCA Investication of the Possibility that the
Mexico City Photosurveillance Operation Produced
a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald. (p. 107.)
:(1) Introduction. (p. 107.)
(2) Investigation of the Allegations.
(p. 108.)
B. Information Connected to Lee Harvey Oswald by the
Mexico City Statior Prior to the Assassination.
1. Introduction. (p. 115.)
2.
Information Available from the Soviet Wiretaps
that was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey
Oswald. (p. 11.)
3. When were the intercepted Conversations Linked
to Lee Harvey Oswald? (p. 120.)
The Photograph of the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 122.)
IV. Reconstruction of the CIA Mexico City Station an Head-
ters Actions Prior to the Assassination of President
JŒ: F. Kennedy.
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Introduction--CIA Interest in and Liaison with FBI
Regarding Americar Cityizens in Contact with Soviet
Eloc Embassies in Mexico City. (p. 123.)
E_ Tærrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior to
The Assassination. (p. 124.)
V. Metro City Station Reporting of Information Concerning
Oseld After the Assassination...
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of the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 178.)
B. Reporting of Information Concerning Lee Harvey
Oswald from the Electronic Intercept Operațion
Aimed at the Soviet Embassy. (p. 180.)
PART II
C. Silvia Duran. (p. 184.)
VI. Information Not Available at the Time of the Warren
Commission Investigation.
A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran). (p. 191.)
1. House Select Committee on Assassinations
6/6/78 Interviewo of Silvia Tirado. (p. 191.)
2. CIA Information Not Available at the Time of
the Warren Commission Investigation. (p. 194.)
a. LIRING/3 Allegation. (p. 194.)
b. Possibility that Silvia Duran was an Agent
for either American, Mexican or Cuban
Intelligence. (p. 197.)
(1) Was Silvia Duran an Agent, Asset, or
Source for Mexican or American Intel-
ligence? (p. 197.)
(2) Was Silvia Duran a Cuban Intelligénce
Agent? (p. 201.)
3. The Cubans. (p. 202.)
1. Eusebio Azcue Lopez. (p. 202.)
2. Alfredo Mirabal Diaz. (p. 205.)
C. Elena Garro de Paa. (p. 206.)
1. Elena's Story as Reported October 5, 1964.
(p. 206.)
2. October 12, 1964, CIA Memo for the Record.
(p. 208.)
3. November 24, 1964, CIA Informant Report.
(p. 209.)
4. November 24, 1964, Elena Garro Meeting with
Mexico City Legal Attache Officers. (p. 210.)
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5. Charles Thomas Meeting with Elena Garro on
December 10, 1965. (p. )
6. Charles Thomas' Meeting with Elena Garro on
December 25, 1965. (p. 216.)
7. December 27, 1965, Legal Attache Memo to the
United States Ambassador re Elena Garro.
(p. 221.)
8. CIA Investigation of Elena's Allegation that
She created a Disturbance at the Cuban Embassy
on November 23, 1963. (p. 223.)
9. Legal Attache 2/23/66 Memo to the United States
Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegation.
(p. 225.)
10. Legal Attache Memo to Winston Scott re Elena's
Allegation that She Had Stayed at the Hotel
Vermont from the Day After the Assassination
Until November 30, 1963. (p. 225.)
11. Charles Thomas' September 30, 1969, Letter to
State Department and Legal Attache's Response.
(p. 226.)
12. House Select Committee on Assassination's In-
vestigation of Elena Garro's Allegations.
(p. 228.)
D. Oscar Contreras Lartigue. (p. 235.)
VII. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico
✓ City.
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A. Introduction. (p. 240.)
B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact the
Cuban and Soviet Consulates in Mexico City? (p. 242.)
C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico
City? (p. 250.)
D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald Alone While He Travelled to
Mexico? (p. 259.)
Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 1. (p. 261.)
Appendix II:
HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 1.
(p. 265.)
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Outline: Page Six.
Appendix III: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 2.
(p. 273.)
Appendix IV: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 2.
(p. 287.)
Appendix V: Biography: Elena Garro de Paz. (p. 297.)
Appendix VI: Glossary of Terms Used in Report.
Appendix VII: Listing of CIA Documents Cited.
(p. 301.)
(p. 305.)
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ADDENDUM TO FOOTNOTE # 614 OF "LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA
AND MEXICO CITY.
Some controversy has arisen in regard to the question
of whether the tapes existed at the time of the assass-
ination due to a memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the
head of the Secret Service which said:
The Central Intelligence Agency advised that
on October 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive
source had reported that an individual iden-
tified himself as Lee Oswald, who contacted the
Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring as to
any messages. Special Agents of this Bureau,
who have conversed with Oswald in Dallas,
Texas, have observed photographs of the indi-
vidual referred to above and have listened to
a recording of his voice. These Special Agents
are of the opinion that the above-referred-to
individual was not Lee Harvey Oswald.
(Memorandum from Hoover to James J. Rowley, 11/23/63,
The HSCA has determined that this statement
pp. 4-5.)
was probably based on another FBI memorandum which said:
Inasmuch as the Dallas Agents who listened to the
tape of the conversation allegedly of Oswald
from the Cuban Embassy to the Russian Embassy in
Mexico and examined the photographs of the visitor
to the Embassy in Mexico and were of the opinion
that neither the tape nor the photograph pertained
to Oswald, I requested Shanklin to immediately
send a photograph of Oswald to our Legal Attache.
(Memorandum from Belmont to Tolson, 11/23/63, p. 1.
Belmont was reporting the results of a conversation with
the Special Agent in Charge in Dallas, Gordon Shanklin,
that occured at 11:50 A.M.
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Later that same day SAC Shanklin informed the Director
that the tape of Oswald's voice had been erased: "It
should be noted that the actual tape from which this
transcript was made has been erased."
(Teletype from
SAC Dallas to Director, # 232220, 7:30 P.M. CST, 11/23/63.
Emphasis in the original.)
The confusion about whether or not there was a tape
apparently continued for several days after the SAC in
Dallas informed the Director that such a tape did not
exist. On 11/25/63 the FBI Legat in Mexico City sent a
Cablegram to the director which said:
There appears to be some confusion in that no
tapes were taken to Dallas but only typewritten
transcripts supplied by CIA, the tapes not being
available because they had been erased.
(Cablegram #2 182 & 183, F. 2.)
The FBI was asked to explain the paragraph from the
Hoover memorandum quoted above. It responded:
The paragraph appearing on pages 4 and 5 of the
leterhead memorandum, which is quoted in your
(FBI) request of March 17, 1978, contains some
incorrect information regarding a tape recording
of the voice of an individual who identified him-
self as Lee Oswald.
Retrievable information contained in files
of the FBI indicates that this Bureau received
information derived from transcripts of tape
recordings furnished by another government
agency which conducts intelligence type inves-
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tigations. The transcripts indicated that on
September 28, 1963, and October 1, 1963, the
voice of an individual identifying himself as
Lee Oswald was recorded by the other govern-
ment agency conducting intelligence type inves-.
tigations. Additionally, this government agency
provided the FBI with photographs of an individ-
ual who appeared to be an American; these photo-
graphs being taken by said agency on October 1,
1963.
It is noted that the FBI never received the
actual tape recordings from which the transcripts
were derived, as the tapes were erased by the
other government agency providing the transcripts....
As a result, no FBI employee ever listened to a
tape recording purporting to contain Lee Harvey
Oswald's voice as no tape was ever provided to
this Bureau.
(JFK Classified Document # 131.) No FBI agent interviewed
by the Committee recalled listening to any tape recording
purporting to contain a corversation involving Oswald.
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I. INTRODUCTION
A.
Issues Addressed
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations'
investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City
has been directed at answering the following questions:
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2)
Did Lee Harvey Oswald visit the Soviet and
Cuban Consulates or Embassies in Mexico City?
In addition to the visits which may have been
made to the Embassies, what were Lee Harvey
Oswald's activities while he was in Mexico City?
3) Was Lee Harvey Oswald alone in Mexico City?
If not, who were his associates and what were
their activities?
4) Did the Central Intelligence Agency maintain
any surveillance operation(s) aimed at the
Cuban and Soviet diplomatic missions in
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Mexico City?
If so,
what kind?
What information, if any, about Oswald's
stay in Mexico was known by the CIA
Mexico City Station prior to the
assassination and what was the source of
that information?
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6)
7)
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Was the information, if any, in the
possession of the CIA Mexico City
Station reported to the CIA Headquarters
accurately and expeditiously prior to
the assassination?
Was the information in the possession
of the CIA Mexico City Station reported..
to the CIA Headquarters accurately and
expeditiously after the assassination?
Was the information developed by the
CIA in Mexico City communicated to the
Warren Commission in an accurate and
expeditious manner?
.9) Did the CIA photo-surveillance of the
Cuban and Soviet diplomatic compounds in
Mexico City, if such photo-surveillance
existed, obtain a photograph of Lee
Harvey Oswald? If so, what became of
that photograph”
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B. Differences Between the Warren Commission
Investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's
Activities in Mexico City and the House
Select Committee on Assassination's
Investigation.
The approach taken by this Committee's investigation
differs from that of the Warren Commission primarily
in terms of scope. The Warren Commission and the
investigative agencies at its disposal went to
great lengths to establish Oswald's travel to and
from Mexico, but devoted minimal effort to
evaluating Oswald's contacts with the Cuban and
Soviet Consulates. It is the conclusion of this
Committee that the Warren Commission correctly
established that Oswald had traveled to Mexico
Hence, this Committee has chosen not to
reinvestigate Oswald's travel to and from Mexico City.
Instead, the Committee's approach has been to focus
narrowly an Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and
Cuban diplomatic missions in Mexico City and on
the Warren
City.
evidence that was not available to
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Commission that could possibly shed light on
Oswald's activities in Mexico City outside of the
Soviet and Cuban installations.
The Warren Report limited its discussion of
Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic
missions to information obtained from Sylvia Duran
and the Cuban Government. 1/
At one point in the Report the Commission referred
to other information:
By far the most important confirmation
of Senora Duran's testimony, however, has been
supplied by confidential sources of extremely high
reliability available to the United States in
Mexico. The information from these sources
establishes that her testimony was truthful and
accurate in all material respects. The identities
of these sources cannot be disclosed without
destroying their future usefulness to the
United States.2/
The Warren Commission did not print anything in
the twenty-six volumes of evidence to support
its statement that Silvia Duran's testimony was.
confirmed by "confidential sources of extremely
high reliability."
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In an attempt to answer the questions posed by
Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to Mexico City in September
and October of 1963, the House Select Committee on
Assassinations has pursued the following investigative
: procedure:
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2 )
Conducted extensive interviews, depositions,
and executive session hearings involving
Central Intelligence Agency personnel;
Interviewed Cuban citizens who could have
knowledge of Oswald's sojourn in Mexico;
3) Interviewed Mexican citizens who could have.
knowledge of Oswald's activites and
associations while he was in Mexico;
Conducted an extensive review of the files
of the Central Intelligence Agency and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation that
pertain to Oswald and Mexico City.
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1 ) Someone who identified himself as
Lee Harvey Oswald called the Soviet
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individual indicated that he had
visited the Soviet Consulate at least
once. Other evidence from the CIA
wiretaps, and witness testimony, indicates
that the individual visited the Soviet
and Cuban Consulates on five or six
different occasions. While the
majority of the evidence tends to
indicate that this individual was indeed
Lee Harvey Oswald, the possibility that
someone else used Lee Harvey Oswald's
name during this time in contacts with
the Soviet and Cuban Consulates cannot
be absolutely dismissed.
This Committee has not been able to
determine Lee Harvey Oswald's activities
outside of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies
with certainty. There is a report, which
has not been confirmed, indicating that.
during his stay in Mexico Oswald attended
a "twist party" at the home of Ruben
Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of
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· Silvia Duran. There is also unconfirmed
evidence which, if true, would indicate
that Oswald, spert one night and parts of
two days with a group of pro-Castro
students from the University of Mexico.
This
There is a report that Oswald may have
been in the company of a tall, thin,
blond-headed mar while in Mexico.
repanet has not been confirmed. If
true, it is possible that this same
individual may, on occasion, have used.
Oswald's name in dealing with the Cuban
and Soviet Consulates. The man's. name,
if there was such a man, is not known.
4) On the dates that Oswald was in Mexico,
the CIA had photographic surveillance
operations which covered entrances to
the Soviet Embassy and the Cuban Embassy
and Consulate. The CIA also had electronic
surveillance on telephones in the Soviet
Consulate and Military Attache's Office
and Cuban diplomatic compounds. The
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subject to that
surveillance.
5) The CIA's Mexico City Station definitely
knew of Oswald's contacts with both the
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and of his desire to obtain an intransit
visa for travel to Russia via Cuba.
The source of this information was the
electronic surveillance on the Soviet
Consulate and Soviet Military Attache's
Office.
All information n the possession of the
CIA Mexico City Station was not reported
to CIA Headquarters in an accurate and
expeditious manner prior to the assassination.
7)
With the exception of a few, possibly
benign, irregularities, and considering
the possibility that not all of the
information ava lable to the Station has
been provided to this Committee, the
information in the possession of the
CIA Mexico Stat on was reported in an
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accurate and expeditious manner after
the assassination to headquarters.
8) With the exception of those areas that
involved sensitive sources and methods,
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such as the information pertaining to the
electronic and photographic surveillance
of the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic
compounds, information developed by
the CIA in Mexico was generally relayed
to the Warren Commission in an accurate
and expeditious manner.
It is the conclusion of this Committee
that the CIA's photo-surveillance
operations in Mexico City probably
obtained a photograph of Lee Harvey
Oswald entering either or both the
Soviet and Cuban Consulates. The CIA
denies that such a photograph exists.
Hence, the dispostion of this photograph
is unknown.
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10) The CIA telephore surveillance on the Sov-
iet Embassy taped several calls of a man
using the name 'Lee Oswald." These tapes
were retained for a routine two week period
and were most likely erased shortly after
16 October 1963. These tapes were probably
existence at the time of the assassination.
11) The Committee is
aware of the allegations
that Silvia Tirado de Duran may have been
an intelligence agent for either the Cubans,
Mexicans or Americans. Ms. Duran was pro-
bably never employed by Cuban intelligence.
While there is no direct evidence on the
question other than Ms. Duran's denial, the
Committee believes that the circumstantial
evidence that tends to indicate that Ms.
Duran had a relationship of some type with
either Mexican or American intelligence is
of such a nature that the possibility can
not be dismissed.
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D.
Structure and Relevancy
The following report detailing the results
of this Committee's investigative efforts regarding
Mexico City is divided into general areas:
1) CIA surveillance operations in Mexico
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City during September and October of
1963;
Information about Lee Harvey Oswald's
stay in Mexico City that was known prior
to the assassination;
Reconstruction of the CIA Mexico City
Station and Heacquarters activity
regarding Oswald prior to the assassination%;B
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Mexico City reporting of information
after the assassination;
Witnesses from the Cuban Consulate;
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6) Investigation of related information
that was not available to the Warren
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Reconstruction of Oswald's activities
in Mexico City.
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The reader should be advised at the outset
that the first section following is technical in
nature and may not appear cirectly relevant at
There are many gaps
first blush. But the report is cumulative in nature.
The specific, detailed analyses of the standard
operating procedures in the first section are
necessary to, and form a partial basis for, the
reconstruction of the Mexico City Station's
handling of the Oswald case.
left by the documentary and testimonial evidence
concerning the manner in which the CIA's Mexico
City Station and Headquarters reacted to Oswald's
presence in Mexico City. A knowledge of the
way in which the Mexico City Station operated and
the procedures involved in those surveillance
operations which detected Oswald is valuable in
filling the gaps of the specific case which is the
subject of this report.
II. Central Intelligence Agency Surveillance Operations
in Mexico City in September and October 1963
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A.
Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed
at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound
1.
Introduction
The Mexico City Station of the Central
Intelligence Agency maintained photographic
surveillance on the Cuban diplomatic compound during
September and October of 1963.3/ The purpose of
this operation was to get identifiable photographs of
all individuals who visited the Cuban diplomatic
compound.4/
2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance
Bases and Targets
The Cuban diplomatic compound covered one
city block in Mexico City between Tacubaya, Francisco
Marquez and Zamora Streets. The entrance to the Cuban
Embassy was located on the corner of Tacubaya and
Francisco Marquez. 5/ Next to this entrance on
Francisco Marquez Street was another entrance for
automobiles. 6/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate,
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which was in a separate building from the Embassy,
was located on the corner of Francisco Marquez and
Zamora. 71. The CIA surveillance post was located
at 149 Francisco Marquez Street. 8/ An agent
photographed visitors to the Embassy from one
window in the third floor apartment at 149 Francisco
Marquez Street. 9/ A pulse camera covered the
entrance to the Consulate from a second window in the
same third floor apartment. 10/
3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of
Coverage Provided
One CIA officer, who claimed to have had a
marginal role in this surveillance operation, remembers
that they had trouble covering both the Cuban
Embassy entrance and the Consulate entrance. 11/. "The
Cuban Embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipment
Dusing a pulse camera which frequently developed
mechanical difficulties. "12/ Two former CIA employees
I who were in Mexico City in 1963 remembered that there
were two cameras covering the Cuban diplomatic
compound. 13/ Ms. Goodpasture, a case officer in the
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Mexico City Station, testified that she could not
remember the locations of the two cameras.14/ David
A. Phillips, Chief of the Cuban Section in the Mexico
City Station, testified that the Consulate entrance
was covered along with the Embassy entrance. 15/ Mr.
Phillips was not absolutely sure of his recollection,
but thought that it was possible that the Embassy
entrance had been covered by a manned photographic base
and the Consulate entrance was covered by a pulse
camera.16/
The CIA staff technician who serviced the
cameras and trained the agents at the CIA photographic
base that covered the Cubar compound was interviewed
by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The
technician stated that he had set up the cameras in
the photographic base at the inception of an
operation in the early 1960's designed to provide
photographic surveillance of the Cuban compound.
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a short time after the inception of the operation,
the technician had been responsible for maintaining
liaison between the agents inside the base and the
Station. After the agent's training was completed,
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the technician turned the liaison responsibilities over
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to a case officer.17/ He could not remember with
certainty the identity of that case officer, but
thought that it may have been Robert Shaw. 18/
technician remembered that the operation had originally
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covered the Cuban Embassy entrance with a manually
operated Exacta or Leica camera. He said that this
camera had been set up on a tripod and was equipped
with a Bal-Scope. 19/ Late, according to the technician,
Ibid P3
a pulse camera was installed in this base." "The pulse
camera was set up to cover the Consulate entrance,
while the agents continued covering the Embassy
entrance with the manual camera." The technician could
not remember with certainty when the pulse camera was
installed in the base. The technician told the House
Select Committee on Assassinations that the exact
time of installation could be checked by reviewing the
project files maintained at CIA Headquarters.20/
The technician remembered quite a few details
about how the pulse camera had been set up and how
it worked. He remembered that the shutter was triggered
by a device attached to a spotting scope 21/ The
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triggering device was activated by changes in light
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The spotting scope was trained on a very
narrow area of the door latch of the Cuban Consulate
entrance. The camera itself covered a much broader
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field than the spotting scope: The camera was set up
so as to make sure that a person triggering the camera
by passing between the spotting scope and its target,
the door latch, would be photographed from the waist
up.22/1 bi
The technician stated that the agent in the
photographic basehouse serviced his own cameras, and
developed the film and made contact prints in the
basehouse. 23/ The agent covering the Embassy entrance
kept a log corresponding to the photographs taken.24/
The project files for this operation bear out
the technician's recollections. An examination of these
files by the House Select Committee on Assassinations
revealed several of the technician's monthly reports.
An examination of the chronological file of dispatches
passing between CIA Headquarters and the Mexico City
Station turned up one additional monthly report that
was not located in the project file. A third relevant
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dispatch was made available to the Committee on
20 November 1978. The report in the dispatch
chronology covers the period of 1 September to
30 September 1963.25/ The dispatch reports that on
23 September 1963 the agent who ran the Cuban
photographic basehouse called the technician into the
basehouse to discuss the layout of the Cuban
Consulate.26/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate had
been closed in 1961 due to harassment and stink
bombings.271 A few days prior to the 23rd, the Consulate
had once again opened its door to the public.
Prior
to this reopening of the Consulate door, the photography
agent had limited his coverage to the main Embassy
gate.28/ He used an Exacta camera with a Bal-Scope
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with a 30-power eyepiece. The dispatch reported,
however, from the position he had to cover the main gate,
he could not cover the newly reopened Consulate
entrance.29/
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The base agent told the technician that at
that time, approximately seventy percent of all the
visitors to the Cuban compo and were using the Embassy
entrance and the remainder used the Consulate entrance. 30/
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The technician discussed this problem with the case
officer for the project, Robert Shaw.31/ Mr. Shaw
asked the technician to add additional photographic
coverage to the basehouse so as to cover the
Consulate door.32/ On 26 September the technician tested
equipment for use in the basehouse.33/
goes on to say:
The dispatch
On the morning of 27 September, PARMUTH
installed the VLS-2 Trigger Device at the
LIERODE basehouse and used the 500 mm
lens issued with this system, one 400 mm
Telyt, one reflex housing to be used with
the Telyt adapted to fit the Robot Star
camera, one Robot Star Camera, one solenoid
release for mounting and triggering the
Robot Star camera, one Kodak K-100 adapted
for single or burst type exposure, one sole-
noid release to be used with the K-100...
one 152 mm f/4 Cine Ektar Lens, and two
additional tripods. 34/
The photography agent was instructed to test
each camera for four days. The report says that the
results of these test days will be forwarded to the
Technical Services Division at Headquarters as soon
as they become available.35/
On 7 November 1963 the Mexico City Station
filed a report on the functioning of the pulse
camera.36/
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HMMA-22307, paragraph 5, c. 37/
It says that the
VLS-2 triggering device had been performing well with
little false triggering. The 500 mm lens was
replaced with a 6-inch lens so as to obtain wider
coverage of the Consulate door. 38/ During the first
two weeks that the pulse camera was in operation,
the VLS-2 triggered the camera anytime that anyone
entered or left the Consulate door. This dual
photography used an excessive amount of film, so the
base agent adjusted the VLS-2 so that it only
photographed people leaving the Cuban compound by
the Consulate door. 39/ The base agent used "the
a
K-100 camera with the 152 mm lens for one day, and
turnengin 10 fee (sic) of 16 mm film."40/ Samples
of the photos taken "on that day" with the camera are
enclosed with the dispatch.41/ The Robot Star camera that
was placed in the base on September 27 broke down after
four days of operation and was replaced with a second
Robot Star camera.42/ This Robot Star broke down after
five days of operation.
At the time of this
dispatch in November, a Robot Star camera was in
operation.43/ Samples of this camera's photographs
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were also sent with this dispatch.44/
Hence, between
September 27, 1963 and November 7, 1963, at least three,
and possibly four, cameras were used in the photo base
with the VLS-2 automatic triggering device. On the
27th, the photo-technician installed two cameras, the
K-100 and the first Robot Star, with the VLS-2.
triggering device.45/ The K-100 was used for one
day. 46/ The first Robot Star worked for four days;
a second Robot Star worked for five days.47/ On 11/7/63
a Robot Star was in operation at the base.48/ It is
not clear whether the Robot Star which was working
at the time of the November dispatch was a third
camera or one of the earlier ones which could have
been repaired. In any event, the Station asked that
a new camera be sent to replace the Robot Star.49/
On June 1964 the CIA Mexico City Station sent
a cable to Headquarters alerting them that they were
sending up the negatives from the pulse camera coverage.
of the Cuban Embassy. 50/ 411 available negatives
and five packages of undeveloped film were sent to
Headquarters by transmittal manifest #252572.51/
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The cable apologizes for the delay in sending the
negatives caused by "consolidation and dating." 52/
The cable suggests that Headquarters retain possession
of the negatives and informs Headquarters that the
negatives will be forwarded to them on a regular
basis. 53/
A transmittal manifest is "unaccountable." 54/
That means that the document and the material it
transmits is not made part of the record and is, there-
fore, unretrievable. 55/
The CIA made the photo-technician's monthly
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ber 1978. 56/ On the morning of 17 December 1963, a
nd
35 mm Sequence camera was installed in the base house with
the VLS-2 trigger device. 57/ The installation of this
Sequence camera was probably in response to the request
for a replacement camera in HMMA-22433.
On 22 June 1965 the CIA Mexico City Station sent
a dispatch to Headquarter; to familiarize them with the
details of the pulse camera operation. 58/
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This dispatch is intended to familiarize
Headquarters with the details of the Pulse
Camera operation in Mexico City, which was
mounted in December 1963 and is targeted
against the (Cuban) Embassy and Consulate.59/
The dispatch goes on to report that a technician from.
Headquarters brought a pulse camera to Mexico City in
mid-December 1963, installed and tested it, and
instructed the technician resident in Mexico City and
the base agent in the use and maintenance of the camera.60/
On the basis of HMMA-22307, HMMA-22433 and MEXI
9940, the Committee believes that it is probable that
the pulse camera was in operation on the days that
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Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate.
Committee requested the photographs produced by the
pulse camera by the project's cryptonym on 22 June 1978..
The CIA informed a House Select Committeeon Assassinations
researcher on 7/20/78 that the cryptonym did not
refer to a photographic project.61/ A more specific
request for the photographs was made on 21 July 1978.62/
On 13 October 1978 the Committee, as a result
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of a review of materials taken by James Angleton from
Win Scott's safe at the time of his death, 63/ addressed
another letter to the CIA on this matter.64/ This letter
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said, in part:
First, while admittedly there are contra-
dictions in the Agency's written records,
these records nevertheless suggest that an
impulse camera was in operation when Oswald
visited the Cuban Erbassy. Such a camera
would have automatically been triggered
to photograph any person entering the Embassy.
In addition, it has been determined by this
Committee that Oswald entered and exited
from the Cuban and Soviet compounds on at
least five separate occasions, resulting in
a total of ten opportunities during which
Oswald could have been photographed by CIA
surveillance cameras. The existence of an
Agency photograph of Oswald has been further
corroborated by CIA personnel both in Mexico
City and at Agency headquarters who claim to.
have seen this material.
Finally, on October 6, 1978, a manuscript
written by the late Win Scott, former Chief'
of Station of the CIA's Mexico City Station,
was reviewed by a staff member of this Commit-
tee. While the criticism can be offered that
Scott's manuscript has not yet been established
as a true record, relevant portions of this
manuscript do suggest that the contents are
accurate and that photographs of Oswald were
in fact obtained by the CIA's Mexico City sur-
veillance operations. At page 273 of the
manuscript, Scott wrote:
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These visits and conversations are
not heresay; for persons watching these
embassies photographed Oswald as he
entered and left each one; and clocked the
time he spent on each visit.
conversations are also known to have taken
place, including the one in which he told the
Soviet to whom he was talking that he
should have heard, received a message, from
the Soviet Embassy in Washington, indicating
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obviously that a Soviet Embassy official
in Washington had offered to help
Oswald.
Scott's comments are a source of deep concern
to this Committee, for they suggest your
Agency's possible withholding of photographic
materials highly relevant to this investigation.
Therefore, the Committee reiterates its
request of May 2, including but not limited to
any and all photographs in the CIA's possession
of Lee Harvey Oswald resulting from CIA
surveillance operations directed against the
Soviet and Cuban Embassies and Consulates in
Mexico City. In addition, the Committee
requests a detailed explanation regarding the
withholding of any and all photographs in the
CIA's possession of Oswald resulting from
CIA surveillance operations directed against
the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and Consulates
in Mexico City.65/
The CIA responded to this letter on 25 October
1978.66/ The CIA informed the Committee that it was
their belief that the pulse camera was not in
operation during September of 1963.67/
First, there was no pulse camera...
..opposite
the entrance to the Cuban Consulate until
December 1963... In fact, there had been no
photographic coverage of the Consulate
entrance prior to the visit of Lee Harvey
Oswald to Mexico City... The Consulate
entrance had been closed for some time, and.
after it was reopered the 27th of September
was scheduled as the day for installation
of photographic equipment for its coverage..
Difficulty was experienced in the installation
and the technicians had to machine a part for
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hand for furn
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the equipment... The technicians probably
had to make the part in question. On that
date, or at some date not long afterwards,
there was test photography of the entrance..
Various difficulties were experienced with
the equipment, which seems eventually to have
been resolved by installation of the pulse
camera in December 1963. There is no question
about the sequence set forth above.68/
HMMA-22307 definitely reports the installation
of the two cameras and a V-S-2 trigger device on
27 September 1963.69/ But the cameras did not
function smoothly.70/ HMMA-22433 reported that the
K-100 camera broke down after one day's operation. 71/
It was replaced with the first Robot Star, which had
also been installed on September 27. The first Robot
Star broke down four days after its installation.72/
A second Robot Star broke down after five days of
operation.73/ A Robot Star was working on 7 November
1963, when HMMA-22433 requested that Headquarters send
a replacement camera to Mexico.74/ In all likelihood,
that request was filled with the installation of the
Sequence camera on 17 December 1963 detailed in
HMMA-22726.75/ Under this interpretation of the
documents, the operation would have gone into continuous
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operation in mid-December 1963 as claimed by the CIA.
But the first pulse camera was set up on Friday,
September 27, 1963. The documents do not specify the
days that the original cameras functioned. HMMA-22307
says:
(The base agent) was requested to test
the Robot Star Camera for four days and the
K-100 for another four days.76/
HMMA-22433 says:
(The base agent) used the K-100 with a 152 mm
lens for one day, turning in 10 fee (sic) of
16 mm film... The Robot Star and the Telyt
400 mm lens are now being used with the VLS-2.
on this project... The Robot Star camera which
was given to (the base agent) with the VLS-2
broke down after four days of photographing.
(The technician) replaced this with another
Robot. Five days later the second camera
failed to advance properly.77/
This Committee believes that it is reasonable to assume
that the base agent started using the equipment
immediately after it was installed. 78/ Hence, the one
day that the K-100 was used would have been either
the 27th (the day it was installed), the 28th (a
Saturday) or the 30th (the following Monday). It
is also reasonable to assume that the Robot Star was
put into action the day of, or the day following, the
breakdown of the K-100. This camera worked for four
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days. So the Consulate was probably the subject of
photographic surveillance from 27 September to
1 October, assuming that the five days of coverage from
the original cameras started on the day of installation
and ran continuously, except for Sunday, September 30th.
The base agent developed the film from the
pulse camera and turned it over in negative form to
his contact.79/ The film was probably routinely
sent to Headquarters. 80
The technician who set up the cameras in the
base house said that the objective of the operation
was to get identifiable photographs of all visitors
to the Cuban compound. 81/ The goals of the operation
were spelled out in the 1966 Project Renewal request.
Its original objectives, still current,
include furnishing photographic coverage during
daylight hours of the Embassy and Consulate
entrances...82/
Even though this was the stated objective, Ann
Goodpasture testified that she was not sure, but
thought that the coverage of the Cuban Consulate and
Embassy would have been continuous only during office
hours. 83/ This was also the recollection of David
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Phillips.84/ During September, October and November
of 1963, the Cuban Consulate was open to the public.
from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; the Embassy was open
to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.85/
A blind memo, dated 11/27/64, entitled "Memo
passed to Mr. Papich of FBI with info on photo
coverage of Embassies and info on Kostikov," implies
that the coverage on the Cuban Embassy was of a
continuous nature during daylight hours. This memo….
also implies that there was a coverage of the Cuban
Consulate.86/ The technician who serviced this
operation in Mexico City remembers that he tried to
get full daylight coverage of the compound but that
it was very difficult.87/ He said that the manual
coverage was usually good but that human error had to
be taken into account when considering the manual
He pointed out that it was hard for a
coverage.
person to maintain constant attention in such a
sedentary job and, hence, some visitors would get by
the manual operation.88/ The technician also remembered
that he had set up the pulse camera to provide constant
daylight coverage.89/ By 1965 the pulse camera was
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FOR LEE HARVEY OSWALD, MEXICO CITY
AND THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
See Warren Report, pp. 299-304, 733–736. In support of
its account of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and
Cuban diplomatic missions, the Warren Commission pub-
lished the following as exhibits:
1) A note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
to the Swiss Ambassador in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-
bit 2445.)
2) Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba's letter
denying the visa. (Commission Exhibit 2564.)
3) Letterhead Memorandum to J. Lee Rankin from Richard
Helms re: "Technical Examination of Photographs of
Lee Harvey Oswald's Application for a Cuban Visa."
(Commission exhibit 31:27.)
4) The pages of Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook with the
telephone numbers of the Cuban Consulate, the Soviet
Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's office.
(Commission Exhibit 2121.)
5) A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee Harvey Oswald to the
Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.. (Commission Ex-
hibit 15.)
A letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission
listing the contents of the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to
the assassination. (Commission Exhibit 834. This
document listed a Central Intelligence Agency "release"
dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)
7) A memorandum dated 5/11/64 to the United States Em-
bassy in Mexico City from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for Mexico. (Commission Exhibit 2120.)
8) A memorandum dated 6/9/64 from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Mexico to the United States Embassy in
Mexico City. (Commission Exhibit 2123.).
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only working for six hours a day.90/ The House Select
Committee on Assassinations has not been able to
determine the scope of the pulse camera coverage
during September and October 1963 by examination of
the production because that production, if it exists,
has not been made available for review.91/
The CIA has made the photographic production
and logs from the manual coverage of the Embassy
entrance available for House Select Committee on
Assassinations review.92/ All production from the
manual camera coverage of the Cuban Embassy for the
months of September, October and November was examined.93/
This examination revealed that the coverage of the
Embassy was fairly consistent between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on weekdays.95/ There was
coverage, with a few exceptions, on every weekday.96/
There was no coverage on weekends.97/ During the three-
month period examined by the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, only four weekdays were not covered
by the photographic surveillance operation aimed at
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There was no evidence in the
files of serious technical difficulties or camera
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problems in the manual operation during these three
months.99/
4. Disposition of Production from the Operaton
The photographs from the manual camera were
maintained in a chronological file at the CIA
station in Mexico City.100, These photographs were
routinely shown to a penetration agent in the Cuban
Embassy for identification purposes. 101/ After this
agent left the employment of the Cuban Embassy in
1965, the photographs were sent to the JMWAVE
Station in Miami, Florida For review by Cuban
defectors such as AMMUG/1.102/
The disposition of the pulse camera photographs
in general, beyond the fact that as of 1965, and
possibly earlier, the production was routinely sent
to Headquarters, is unknown.103/ The CIA denies
that the pulse camera was functioning during the time
Oswald was in Mexico. 104/ If the Committee's belief
that the pulse camera was functioning on the days that
Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate is correct, then
the ultimate disposition of the photographs produced
on those days remains a mystery.
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B.
Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed at
the Soviet Diplomatic Compound
1. Introduction
The Mexico City CIA Station maintained
photographic surveillance on the Soviet diplomatic
compound in Mexico City in 1963. Three photographic
sites, or bases, were used in this operation.105/
The primary objective of the operation was to photograph
people who visited the Soviet Embassy. 106/ The
operation, generally, covered the main gate of
the Soviet compound between 900 and 1800 (or dark)
on weekdays and from 900 to 1400 on Saturdays. 107/
2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance
Bases and Targets. 108/
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There were three bases which provided photo-
graphic surveillance of the Soviet diplomatic compound
in 1963.109/ One of the bases overlooked the enclosed
garden or "backyard". area of the Soviet Embassy.110/
The other two bases, of primary concern to this
Committee, covered the entrance to the Soviet
compound. 111/ The primary base, LIMITED, was.
directly across the street intersection from the main
Soviet Embassy gate; the secondary, or "back-up,"
LILYRIC base was across the street and down a little
way from the main Embassy gate. 112/
3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of
Coverage Provided
The purpose of this operation has also been
described as being to obtain photographs of Soviet
officials and their families; all foreigners
(non-Latins) who visited the Embassy; and cars with
foreign license plates. 113/ One of the main purposes
of the photographic bases that covered the Embassy gate
was to obtain a photograph of every "foreigner," or
non-Latin, in contact with the Soviet Embassy. 114/
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This was done in an attempt to identify possible
Soviet espionage agents.
My understanding of that was that it was to
be used to identify those people who might
be working for the Soviets as espionage
agents who were U.S. citizens who went down
there driving a car with a U.S. license
plate on it, or people we did not know
but could identify. The same procedure was
also used for trying to identify people
other than U.S. citizens...115/
It is reported that the Mexican nationals who manned
the photographic bases and actually took the
photographs had an "uncanny ability" to pick out
foreigners.116/
The House Select Committee on Assassinations
next attempted to determine the scope of the photographic
coverage on the main gate of the Soviet Embassy. At
a minimum, the Embassy was probably covered by the
photographic operations during office hours. "The
instructions were to cover the entire work day.
(office hours)..."117/
"Instructions were to cover
office hours, photograph each new Soviet and family,
all foreigners and foreign license plates. "118/ The
normal work hours of the Soviet Embassy during September
and October of 1963 were from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.119/
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There are some indications that the photographic
coverage was more extensive than just office hours.
Even though the Embassy was not open past 6:00 p.m.,
visitors could still gain entrance by ringing the gate
bell. "Russian speakers can get in any time."120/
One CIA officer who was in Mexico City remembers'
"that the photo surveillance was constant except for
instances where it would be down for security reasons.
or equipment malfunction." :21/ A blind memorandum,
dated 11/27/63, entitled "Memo passed to Mr. Papich
of FBI with info on photo coverage of embassies and
info on Kostikov," says, in part,
We have photographic coverage during daylight
hours on the USSR, Cuban, Czechoslovak and
Polish Embassies. Their consulates are
located in the embassies and therefore the
coverage of the embassies would include
coverage of the consulates. The photographic
coverage is of a continuous nature during
daylight hours. However, weather conditions
and other factors affecting any photographic
efforts require that the coverage not be
considered as total or complete. 122/
Ann Goodpasture was questioned about the scope
of the photographic coverage on the Soviet compound.
She said:
I cannot give you the exact times (of coverage).
I can guess, and my guess is that they were
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open most of the time when the Consulate was
opened for business hours. But the per-
son who would have that information, the only
person who would know, is the case officer who
was handling the project at that time. 123/
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Ms. Goodpasture explained the discrepancy between the
time of coverage as stated in her notes and testimony
and that in the 11/27/63 memorandum by saying that the
memorandum referred to the coverage instituted after
the assassination of John Kennedy. 124/ An examination
of the photographic production from the LIMITED
base shows that the coverage from that base prior
to the assassination was fairly uneven. 125/ The log
sheets for this operation show that, if anything,
coverage decreased after the assassination. 126/
The House Select Committee on Assassinations
reviewed production and log materials from one base,
LIMITED, which covered the gate of the Soviet diplomatic
compound. 127/ The LIMITED ase was referred to as
the "primary" base because it began operation before
the LILYRIC base opened.128'
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LILYRIC was planned as an alternate base to
LIMITED. It was in an upper story on the
same side of the street as LIMITED but in the
middle of the block South. It had a slanted
view of the front gate of the Soviet Embassy. 129/
The following chart lists the production from
the LIMITED base which was made available to the
House Select Committee on Assassinations.130/
Date
Hours of cover-
age stated
Time of 1st
photograph
Time of last
photograph
Number of Photo-
graphs taken
Aug. 31
800-1400
956
1220
8 (Saturday)
Sept. 1
800-2000
1009
1321
6 (Sunday)
.2
830-1900
935
1556
19
3
830-1800
1131
1334
18
830-1800
1001
1715
43
5
1200-1900
1238
1510
12
6
830-1800
926
1702
39
7
*****NO COVERAGE **************
*******
8
*************NO COVERAGE *****
9
900-1900
1159
1640
3
10
830-1800
855
1119
17
11
900-1900
1132
1550
14
12.
900-1900
1015
1233
7
13
******NO COVERAGE
14
1000-1400
1047
1344
**
10 (Saturday)
15
16
*************NO COVERAGE****
*************NO COVERAGE****
*******
*******
17
900-1900
1133
1549
19
18
*****NO COVERAGE *
**
19
900-1900
1105
1654
13
20
21
22
*************NO COVERAGE ***
*************NO COVERAGE ***
*************NO COVERAGE **
***
***
23.
900-1900
1137
1300
7
24
***:
25
900-1900
*****NO COVERAGE: ****
1040
***
1137
6
26
*******NO COVERAGE:
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900-1900
1018
1146
16
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*****NO COVERAGE******
29
22
30
*****
*************NO COVERACE*****
******NO COVERAGE'
Oct.
.1
900-1900
1291
1251
2
2
900-1900
1139
1259
14
3
900-1900
1200
1222
5
900-1900
1103
1251
21
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*************NO COVERAGE*:
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7
900-1900
11 58
1235
6.
8
900-1900
1219
1232
5
9
900-1900
1108
1210
4
10
900-1900
.1031
1719
18.
11
900-1900
1522
1733
9
12
1000-1400
1002
1015
2 (Saturday)
13
****NO COVERAGE**
**
14
800-1900
831
944
12
15
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*
16
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17
900-1900
16 24
1649
18
1200-1900
1404
1437
19
**
*******NO COVERAGE**
7
2
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20
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21
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22
1200-1900.
1305
1307
**
*
3
23
2222
1200-1900
N.A.+
N.A.
8
24
1200-1900
N.A.
N.A.
22
25
1200-1900
N.A.
N.A.
21
26
1000-1600
N.A.
N.A.
14 (Saturday)
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Given the somewhat uneven nature of the coverage
maintained by LIMITED, 131/ the House Select Committee
on Assassinations staff asked whether the two bases
were run in conjunction so as to provide more
comprehensive coverage.. Thomas Keenan, the project's
case officer, did not remember that this was the case.
He did remember that both bases operated at the same
time so as to get the most complete coverage possible.132/
Mr. Keenan was not sure whether there was routine
coverage of the Soviet Embassy on weekends. 133/ He
said that it was possible that there was routine
coverage on Saturday mornings.134/
An examination of the project file maintained
by the CIA on the photographic coverage of the Soviet
Embassy does not bear out Mr. Keenan's assertion
that the two bases duplicated efforts. In fact, the
project file confirmed that the bases complemented each
other rather than duplicated efforts. This was the
case in 1960 when a project review stated:
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LIMITED This base compiles daily logs
indicating all arrivals, departures and where
possible, identities of every person visiting
or working at the LIMERICK target... LIMITED's
photographic coverage is still concentrated on
visitors, as opposed to employees, to the
LIMERICK installation... LILYRIC photographs
also are concentrated on visitors to the target,
as opposed to employees. It should be noted
that LILYRIC operates for photographic
coverage during the hours from daylight to
1400 hours each day of the week except Sunday.
The LIMITED base maintains photographic
coverage from 1400 hours to darkness each day
except Sunday. 135/
In 1961 the project review said:
1.
To collect operational information
pertaining to LIMERICK personnel and physical
facilities through use of photographic
base houses. Three photographic bases,
LIMITED, LILYRICF contribute to this
objective. To avoid repetition, the Station
is omitting the usual description of the functions
of these three bases and how they contribute
to the above objective. There has been no change
in the coverage as cescribed in the 1960
Request for Project Renewal.136/
Similar statements are included in the project reviews
for 1962 and 1963.137/ At one point a move was made
at Headquarters to close the LILYRIC base:
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FI/OPS recommends strongly that the photo.
coverage be reviewed from the standpoint
of value and usefulness with a view to
determining whether the LILYRIC activity
could not be safely eliminated and the
additional photographic coverage conducted
on a more selective basis, without
materially affecting overall usefulness.138/
The Mexico City Station took exception to this
recommendation:
While HMMA 14093_correctly referred to
LIMITED, LILYRIC is "photographic base-
houses," the Station would like to emphasize
that photographic coverage is only one of
their functions... LIMITED is used as a radio
dispatch base for automobile surveillance
teams in addition to physical surveillance
of persons entering the front gate. Their.
photography is negligible compared to their
other duties. The ILYRIC base performs.
the best photography of persons visiting the
front gate, perhaps because the vantage point
for taking the pictures is from the second
floor and above the street traffic which
partially blocks LIMITED photographs.
LILYRIC also does individual reports on
LIMERICK personnel entering and leaving the
main gate...139/
In 1964 the Mexico City Station restated the operating
procedures of the two bases in a dispatch referenced
to the above paragraph from HMMA-14793:
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The Station. feels that it would be helpful
to summarize at this time information
previously reported to Headquarters (see
paragraph 3, reference B) concerning the photo
basehouses under this project and thereby
give Headquarters an updated frame of
reference in which to view the roles of the
various basehouses.
The LIMITED and LILYRIC basehouses
provide coverage of front of the LIMERICK
installation. Although on the surface it may
appear that these two basehouses provide
duplicate take, this is not the case. It has
been the Station's experience in running the
unilateral LIEMPTY operation that a 0900 to
evening workday, which would be required of
a single basehouse in order to cover the
LIMERICK target effectively, is just too long
for any pair of agerts to remain effective.
This is especially true when it is considered
that these basehouse operators are essentially
unsupervised during their workday. It would
also be impossible for a single base-house to
provide the kind of coverage this station needs
on the target installation, especially during
the peak hours of activity, namely late
morning and early afternoon. For these
reasons, the LILYRIC basehouse generally
operates from 0900 o 1400 or 1500 weekdays.
LIMITED operates from 1200 to 1800 or dark
(as the daily situation dictates) on weekdays,
and 0900 to 1400 on Saturdays. (These hours
are subject to change to fit Station needs.)
Special coverage for Sunday is arranged on a
need basis; however, past experience has shown
regular coverage of Saturday afternoons and
Sundays is not rewarding. This schedule
provides for both basehouses to be in action
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during the peak activity hours of the LIMERICK
target. Although even this arrangement is not
completely airtight, anything less than this
would present unacceptable gaps in the coverage.
It must also be considered that without
two basehouses covering the front of the
target installation, any illness, personal
problem or vacation for operators of one
basehouse would terminate Station coverage..
It is the Station's opinion that as long as
the LIMERICK installation is a prime target of
the Station, it will be necessary to maintain
the present three basehouses. To eliminate
any one of the three would create a gap in the
Station's coverage that would not be
compatible with the emphasis placed on
this target.. 140/(phasigu
But the information in the preceding chart does not
correlate with the statement of the coverage in
HMMA-23343. The above chat, on pages 37-38,
refers to the coverage of the Soviet compound by the
base that the review of HMMA-23343 reveals covered
the compound from 1200 to 800 or dark. The chart
shows that while 1200 to 1800 coverage is sometimes
the case, the base's coverage of the Embassy, at least.
during the months of September and October, on days
when the base operated at 11, was not always in
that time period. This is the base that the dispatch
also states covered Saturday morning. Out of the
nine Saturdays covered by the above chart, this base
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was in operation on only four of those days. This
Committee has not been able to establish or disprove
the possible inference that LILYRIC covered those
days when there was no coverage from LIMITED because
the production and logs from the LILYRIC base were
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not made available for review." That material was
requested but has not been made available.141/
explanation of why this material is missing was
requested on 7/25/78.142/
An
The CIA's explanation stated
that the photographs and logs "may have been destroyed
in a purge of Mexico City Station files and that the
folders for the destroyed material were reused to
forward more recent photographic material to
Headquarters for retention."143/ The folders which
once contained the production were located at the
National Archives' Warrenton Records Center but,
according to the CIA's explanation, the folders
contained production material from 1967.144/
the CIA has not provided the photographic production
and logs from the LILYRIC for examination, no
precise determination detailing the effectiveness of
Because
the coverage of the Soviet compound can be made.
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the two bases, à question that may never be resolved
due to the conflicting evidence and missing production,
the surveillance was considered adequate:
Q: How thorough was the coverage?
A:
They covered the categories that we asked
them for on a routine basis, which was to
identify any people who appeared to be
non-Latin and any Soviets.
Given
that purpose, how thorough was the coverage?
Q:
I understand that was the purpose.
A:
I think it was accurate.
Q:
Was Win Scott satisfied with the performance
of the photo operation at the Soviet
Embassy?
A:
To the best of my knowledge he was.145/
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4. Procedure and Timing Involved in Processing
Production from the Operation
The CIA photographic bases were manned by at
least one agent who took photographs and kept a log
sheet of people entering and leaving the Embassy and
of the photographs that he took. 146/ The film
remained in the camera until the whole role was
exposed, which often took two or three days.147/
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After the assassination of John Kennedy, this
procedure was changed and the film was cleared from
the camera on a daily basis. 148/
Alvarez
The CIA contract agent outside of the United
States Embassy who was in charge of the photographic
bases was Ramon-Joseph Alvarez Durant.149/
picked up the film, prior to the assassination, from
the photo bases three times a week. 150/ Alvarez
then took the film to his brother-in-law, who worked
at night, to develop it. The brother-in-law also
printed the film into eight-by-ten contact prints.151/
After the film was developed and printed, Alvarez
turned over the negatives and contact prints to
Thomas Keenan.152/
Ms. Ann Goodpasture picked up the photo
production if Mr. Keenan was not available.153/ Mr.
Keenan or Ms. Goodpasture, would then bring the
photographic production back to the Mexico City
Station in the American Embassy. 154/ Mr. Keenan did
not remember with certainty to whom he turned over
the material, but believed it was either Ms. Goodpasture
or Herbert Manel1.155/
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5. Responsibility for the Operation
There is some controversy as to who had
overall responsibility for this project. Ms. Good-
pasture testified that the responsibility was Mr.
Keenan's.156/ Mr. Keenan, according to Ms. Good-
pasture, made all the decisions and had all the
responsibility involved in the operation.157/
Mr.
Keenan was the most junior Operations Officer in
the Mexico City Station in 1963, and claims that his
role in the operation was largely limited to legwork.158/
Ms. Goodpasture testified that her role in the
operation was limited to acting as an alternate
Case Officer, internal rousing of the production,
and review of the photographs to insure the maintenance
of technical quality in the operation.159/ Ann
Goodpasture's annual Fitness Report for the period
1 January 1963 to 31 December 1963 specifies her
duties in regard to this operation. The fitness
report says,
Working with Keenan ((regular contact and case
officer), supervise work of three photo
bases operating against Soviet Embassy;
processes take; identifies Soviets and
intelligence function. Alternate contact with.
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Staff Agent.160/
Ms. Goodpasture denied that she had any supervisory
role in relation to this operation.161/
The House
Select Committee on Assassinations redeposed Ms.
Goodpasture in November 1978 and asked her about this
apparent inconsistency between her Fitness Report
and her testimony:
Se queste
Q:
Q:
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Now, having read your Fitness Report for
1963, 
are there any portions of your
prior testimony that you wish to modify?
Now, this LIEMPTY
No, not really.
project, this is a case of where I cannot
seem to 
make it clear how our functions
were. Now, the case officer had
responsibility for the operation of the
project. He decided how much to pay the
agents, 
what hours they worked, where
the meetings were held. He hired them%3
he fired 
them and he knew the identities;
he met 
with all of them.
He brought in the photographs, the product.
He dumped it on 
my desk and he was finished
with it.. 
I took the product film and
prints and the contact file and
distributed those.
I could levy any requirements of him or
other 
people in the Station which as he
remembered it it might have been for
supervision, but when he was out of town
I met with one agent with his so-called
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This (Fitness Report) is not accurate?
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sepquote
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Q:
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It is not precise the way the work was
divided...163/
Now, I don't uncerstand why, if you knew
this description was inaccurate, you
let this documert go to Headquarters?
(511)
I think it was made on the basis of trying
to get a promotion for me.164/
Alan White, who was Deputy Chief of Station
in Mexico City in 1963, testified that Ann Goodpasture
was "a Special Assistant" to the Chief of Station
and that "her main respons bilities were to handle the
surveillance operations."165/ Mr. White stated that.
this included both the photographic and electronic
surveillance.166/
Mr. White remembered that Thomas
Keenan "did help Annie with some of the pickup
(of production)" but that his main responsibilities
were with another operation.167/
testified that:
Mr. White also
(Ann Goodpasture) carried with her a lot of
invisible authority that devolved upon her
because of her operational relationship with
the Chief of Station, who had absolute
confidence in her. She had a marvelous
memory. She was meticulous in detail. I
think he had every reason to put that kind
of trust in her.
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She reported directly to him. While
she may not have been invested with any
command authority by virtue of her position
at the Station, certainly she was a kind
of unofficial deputy for the purposes of
the operations that she was involved in.168/
Ms. Goodpasture was asked about Mr. White's statements
as well as similar statements by other people associated
with the CIA's Mexican operations.169/
newk
Ms. Goodpasture: Well, I made more of those
statements as those people saw it in their
relationship with Mr. Scott's projects. They
are true the way they saw it but I had no
responsibility outside the projects that we
worked on, but the liaison projects and the
telephone tapping project touched every
operation in the Mexico Station.. I just
didn't think I was as important as other
people seemed to imply that I was.170/
Ms. Goodpasture also testified that her relationship
with Mr. Scott could be termed special in that she was
responsible for the day-to-day handling of the telephone
tapping operation of which Mr. Scott was the case
officer. 171/
Ms.
Mr. Keenan's recollection that he turned the
photographic production over to Mr. Manell or Ms.
Goodpasture was confirmed by Ms. Goodpasture. 172/
Goodpasture also testified that the primary
responsibility for the photographs after they were in
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the Station was that of Mr. Manell.173/ Ms. Good-
pasture testified that she was responsible for routing
the photographs and that the complete production
went to the Manells before it was filed.174/
Copies of the important photographs were given to the
Manells for them to retain for routine use in the
course of their work. 175/
The Manells' recollection of their role in
this operation is very different from that of Ms.
Goodpasture. Mrs. Manell estified that Ann
Goodpasture held the photographic production very.
tightly.176/ Her recollection was confirmed by
her husband.177/ The Manels stated that they did
not routinely review or see all of the production from
the Soviet Embassy photographic surveillance operation. 178/
.They claim they only Saw the
photographs
that Ms. Goodpasture thought were important enough
to bring to their attention.179/ According to the
Manells, access to this file was tightly controlled
by Ms. Goodpasture. 180/
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6.
Coordination of Photographic and Electronic
Surveillance Operations
The Mexico City Station employed an operating
procedure whereby the functioning of the photographic
base and the electronic intercept base could be
coordinated. If the listering post monitor heard
something that would lead him to believe that there
was someone at one of the Embassies that should be
photographed, he would alert the CIA technician in
the listening post who would then alert Ann Good-
pasture.181/ Ms. Goodpasture could then alert.
Thomas Keenan who would then notify the photographic
base.182/ The reporting to Headquarters of information
generated by the photographic surveillance operation
and the electronic operation was also coordinated. 183/
The Station was able to go back to the photographic
chronological file to check for photographs of
people that were picked up on the tap operation when
the transcripts were reviewed. 184/ It was a matter
of routine to check the photographic production when
reporting information developed from the tap operation
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that indicated a contact with an Embassy that was
subject to photosurveillance.185/
C.
A name trace could have been requested on
the basis of the name alone but that wasn't the
way Win Scott ran that Station. He wanted
the photographic coverage tied in with the
telephone coverage ..sometimes there
was a U.S. automob le license number.
was also part of the "numbers game" of
justifying a project by the number of
dispatches, cables or reports produced.186/
It
Electronic Surveillance of Telephones at
the Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic Compounds
in 1963
1. Existence
The Soviet and Cuban compounds were, in 1963,
the targets of a multiple line telephone intercept
operation. 187/ This operation was run in liaison with
the highest officials of the Mexican Government. 188/
2. Responsibility
a. General
Win Scott, the Chief of the Mexico City Station,
was, nominally, the case officer for the telephone
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surveillance project. 189/
Even though Mr. Scott was
the nominal case officer, the "routine case officer
functions" were performed by Ms. Ann Goodpasture.190/
An American technician was stationed in the listening
post to maintain the equipment and to protect the
Station's interests there.191/ Ms. Goodpasture's
'duties in this operation ranged from meeting with
the technician/officer inside the base for the purposes
of daily supervision of the operation to handling the
collection and distribution of the tapes and transcripts.192/
Ms. Goodpasture worked in this capacity until 1968.193/
With the exception of the echnician, the listening
post and the transcription room of this base were
staffed by Mexican Army officers.194/ This listening
post covered up to thirty Dines at one time. 195/
b. Analysis and Reporting of Information
Obtained
Mr. Herbert Manell was responsible for the
analysis, processing, and daily review of the Soviet
transcripts. 196/ The transcripts were reviewed on a
daily basis by Barbara Manell. Mrs. Manell would
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bring conversations of interest or importance to
Mr. Manell's attention. 197/
Mr. Manell was also responsible for reporting
the information developed from the Soviet wiretaps.
He indicated that the reports were usually written
orpus off.nd
by himself or Barbara Manell.198/ These reports were
usually in the form of cables or dispatches to CIA
Headquarters.199/ The Manells also usually handled
the notification of representatives of various other
United States government organizations in Mexico City
when the information warranted such notification.200/
David A. Phillips, a CIA officer who was
stationed in Mexico City in 1963, testified that
information from the taps would be reported if the
information was important, if it was useful to another
Agency component, or if it was something that should
"go in the record."201/ Mr. Phillips said that only
a small amount of the information developed from the
taps would be formally reported to CIA Headquarters
and that the information that was reported was
generally something more important than the usual
conversations that were routinely intercepted.202/
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It should be noted, though, that an examination of
the project files shows that Americans in contact
with Communist diplomatic institutions were routinely
reported to Headquarters for name traces and dissemination
to the intelligence community.203/
3.
Telephone Lines Covered
This Committee has made an attempt to determine
which telephone lines at the Soviet and Cuban
diplomatic compounds were subject to this electronic
intercept operation in September and October of 1963.
The monthly operational report of this project for
the month of September lists the following phones
as targets of the operation:204/
Cuban Embassy
14-42-37
14-92-14
Cuban Embassy
25-07-95.
Cuban Embassy
14-13-26
Cuban Embassy
15-60-55
15-61-55
15-69-87
15-61-07
15-12-64
Soviet Embassy (Chancery)
Soviet Embassy (Chancery)
Soviet Embassy (Military Attache)
Soviet Embassy (Commercial Office)
Soviet Embassy (Film Representative)
The report notes that lines 14-92-14 and 25-07-95 at.
the Cuban Embassy were disconnected on 23 September
1963.205/ The monthly report for October says that
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there has not been any change in the lines covered
since September.206/
A review of the transcripts produced by this
operation revealed that the CIA has transcripts on
file from the two-month period of interest.
14-42-37,
to this Committee from three Cuban lines:
14-13-26, and 25-09-14.207' It is noted that the last'
telephone line was not listed in the monthly reports.208/
A review of the Soviet transcripts revealed that the
five lines listed in the monthly reports were tapped
on 27, 28 and 30 September. 209/ Only two of the
lines, 15-61-55 and 15-60-55 were covered on Sunday,
29 September.210/
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations
has found some indications in testimony given before
this Committee and CIA documents that more Cuban
lines were tapped at that time. 211/ This Committee
has not been able to determine with certainty whether
three lines (the number of lines on file in the
transcripts), two lines (the number given by the
contemporaneous monthly report), or five lines (the
number given by some witnesses and documents) were
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subject to the intercept operation.
It should be
noted, though, that there were five lines tapped in
the Cuban compound in 1964.212/ They were:
The Ambassador's private telephone
The Chancery
14-42-37
25-07-95
14-13-26
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The Chancery
25-09-14
11-28-47
The Commercial Office
The Corsulate
One CIA employee who was involved in Cuban
operations in Mexico City remembered that there were
taps on the telephone of the Cuban Consulate.213/ It is
possible that the employee, Mr. Phillips, who was stationed
in Mexico City from 1961 to 1966, was incorrect, after
a fifteen-year hiatus, in placing this tap in 1963.214/
As the above notes, an examination of the project
files fails to support Mr. Phillips' memory,
although those files do show that the Consulate
telephone was tapped in 1964.
4. Production from Operation
The intercept listering post operated from
approximately 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day. 215/
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Thirty recording machines that were impulse activated
every time a tapped telephone was used taped the sur-
veilled conversations. 216/ In addition, the
intercepted conversations were monitored by personnel
in the listening post. 217/
a. Types
The production from this listening post was
broken down into three categories for the purposes
of handling the tapes and transcripts: (1) intercepts
of interest to the Mexican officials (these included
such groups as the Movimento de Liberacion Nacional,
individual Communists, the Mexican Directorate of
Federal Security); (2) Cuban intercepts; and (3) Soviet
and bloc country intercepts.218/
b. Handling Procedures.
(1) Resuma
A summary of the conversations deemed of
sufficient interest by the listening post monitors was
prepared as they were monitored.219/
These summaries
were called "resuma."220/ The resuma were given to
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Ann Goodpasture by the technician early in the morning
the day after they were prepared.221/ Ms. Goodpasture
had the previous day's resuma on Win Scott's desk by
9:00 a.m. on the morning of the day after they were
prepared.222/ Win Scott marked these resuma for
action by his case officer: before routing them through
This Committee has requested copies
the Station.223/
of these resuma from the C.A but they have not been
made available for review. 24/
The resuma covered all thirty lines that were
covered by the intercept operation.225 Only important
conversations were included in the resuma.226/ The
monitors made the decision as to which conversations
were important.227/
After the resuma were prepared,
the tapes from the lines of interest to the Mexicans
were held for approximately ten days and were then
reused.228/ The resuma were maintained in a
chronological file at the listening post. 229/
(2) Cuban Tapes
The Cuban tapes (taxes produced by taps on
the Cuban telephones) were left on the machines until
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the reel was used up. 230/
When the reels were full,
they were removed and transcribed in the listening
post. 231/ The
transcripts would be turned over
to Ms. Goodpasture at the same time as the resuma. 232/
The tapes produced by the Cuban taps were maintained
in the listening post. 233/ There was a special rack
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for those tapes in the technician's workshop, which
was situated on the floor above the room in which
the listening post was located.234/
rack had thirty slots in it. The tapes from each
day's production went into a separate slot, with the
oldest tapes going back into use in the monitor:
room; i.e., the tapes from the Cuban intercept were
held for thirty days prior to reuse.235/ The tapes
were not turned over to Ms. Goodpasture unless she
requested a specific tape. 236/
(3) Soviet Tapes
(a) General Handling
The Soviet tapes were removed daily from the
machines.237/
The Spanish language portions of the
tapes would then be transcribed in the listening
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post. 238/ The transcripts and tapes from the Soviet
lines were then routinely turned over to Ann
Goodpasture along with the resuma and Cuban transcripts.239/
Ms. Goodpasture then turned the tapes over to Robert
Zambernardi, who then delivered them to Boris
Tarasoff for translation and transcription of the
Russian language portions of the tape.240/
(b) Retention and Reuse of Tapes
There is some question about how long the Soviet
tapes were retained before reuse. There are
indications that the tapes were routinely held for two
weeks and then reused.241/ The technician who ran
the listening post could not state with certainty
what the practice regarding retention and reuse of
the Soviet tapes was. He said that he did not
hold the tapes at all once they were returned to him
by Ms. Goodpasture. 242/ He stated that he assumed that
some of the tapes were retained by either the station
or the Russian translator because his supply of tapes
for the Russian taps kept dwindling.243/ The tapes
were not retained by the translator.244/ It is possible
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that the tapes were held for two weeks in the station
before they were erased and sent back to Arehaṛt
for reuse. 245/ Robert Zambernardi remembers that
Thomas Keenan spent a lot of time in the Station
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erasing tapes on a special machine for that purpose. 246/
One of the main sources for the two-week period.
being ascribed to retention of the Soviet tapes
is DIR-88680, which says:
Upon receipt you may resume usual practice
of keeping Cuban and Soviet tapes two weeks
and then erasing.241/
This Committee has not found any evidence that would
contradict the above-quoted statement in regard to
the Soviet tapes.
There was a procedure whereby the tapes could
be held for longer than two weeks if someone thought
that the tape should be preserved as well as the
transcript.248/ The interested officer could make
a note on the transcript or he could notify Ann
Goodpasture, orally or by rote, that he wanted the
tape preserved.249/ There were no written rules or
regulations governing this procedure.250/
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(c) English Language Conversations
There are some indications that English
language conversations were transcribed at the
listening post. The Tab F Draft says:
Reels which contained Russian or a language
other than Spanish or English were taken to
another location (other than the listening
post] for translation and typing.251/
Goodpasture's notes say:
Those transcripts which had Russian or another language
besides Spanish or English went out of the
listening post the cay after the transcript
(of the conversations on the reel) was typed.
These reels were taken to another location where
they were translated and typed. 252/
But, in her testimony before the House Select Committee
on Assassinations in executive session on 4/13/78, Ms.
Goodpasture said:
If
The transcribers, or the transcription that
I picked up, the transcribers were working
at the same place with the Spanish text.
the language were other than Spanish, it
would have to be taken to another location.
to be transcribed. The material that was
picked up the day after the date on which it
occurred was in the Spanish language, normally. 253/
It is clear that the reels of tape with
conversations in the Russian language were delivered
to Mr. Boris Tarasoff for translation and transcription.254/
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Mr. Tarasoff has testified that he was also responsible
for the transcription of the English language
conversations although his wife, Anna Tarasoff, usually
This testimony is
did the actual transcribing.255/
confirmed by the testimony of Anna Tarasoff.256/
Arehart, the technician in the listening post, could.
not clearly remember whether or not any of his
Mexican transcribers did the English language
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conversations.257/
He remembered that these tapes
were usually sent to the Station. 258/ He said that
he did remember that monitors would often come to
his workshop and ask him to come downstairs to
listen to a conversation in English.259/
All of the conversations in the Spanish
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transcripts are in Spanish. 260/
tions in Spanish were transcribed in Spanish.261/ It
is doubtful that the listering post transcribers, who
were Mexican nationals, would have translated an
English conversation into Spanish and then transcribed
it. In light of this, Tarasoff's recollection
Arehart's recollection, it is probable that all the
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Tarasoffs for transcription.
(d) Handling by Tarasoffs.
Along with the reels of tape that contained
Russian language conversations (and probably English
language conversations), Mr. Tarasoff received a
copy of the Spanish transcripts.262/ When the
Tarasoffs received the tapes, they transcribed only
those conversations that were denoted on the Spanish
transcript as being in Russian. 263/
Mr. Tarasoff routinely received the tapes the
day after they were made.264/ Mr. Tarasoff testified
that he would then immediately transcribe the tapes
and turn over the completed tapes and transcripts
to his contact the next morning.265/
Mr. Tarasöff said that the volume o work he
had to do at any given tim: fluctuated but the
transcripts were always finished in one day. 266/
"Sometimes there was so little work in transcribing
the Russian portion of the tape that I was just
hanging around doing nothing."267/
Ann Goodpasture,
at one time, put the time lag for completion of the
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Russian transcription at approximately one week.268/
In her testimony before this Committee, Ms. Goodpasture
stated that it generally took Mr. Tarasoff one or two
days to complete the translations and transcriptions.269/
(e) Expedited Procedure for :
English Language Conversations
or other Conversations of
· Special Interest
a
There was a procedure whereby Mr. Tarasoff's
transcription could be expedited if there was
special interest in a particular conversation.270/
When the monitor in the listening post encountered
something he considered important enough to require
expedited transcription, it was possible for him to
bring this quickly to the Station's attention: 271/
Although Arnold Arehart was not the Tarasoffs'
contact in September or October of 1963, he did serve
as such at one time.272/ When he was interviewed by
the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Mr.
Arehart was asked whether there was a process whereby
transcription of important conversations in English
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or Russian could be expedited.273/
He explained
that there would not have been such a process for
a Russian conversation, sirce the importance of the
conversation could not be judged due to the fact
that no one in the listening post could understand
that language.274/ Arehart. did say that there was
such a procedure for English language conversations.275/
When one of the Mexican monitors encountered a
conversation in English, he would ask Arehart to
listen to that conversation.276/ After listening
to the conversation, Arehart would decide whether or
not it warranted special attention.277/ If he deemed.
that it was important enough, he would mark the tape
"Urgent," put it in a box, and deliver it to Ms.
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Mr. Arehart's recollection was confirmed by an
examination of the project files for this operation.
One of the monthly project reports explains this
procedure and its purpose:
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Headquarters (is) not well informed on the
way the Mexico Station exploits operational
leads from (this operation). The outside
staff agent, Arnold Arehart has instructions
to alert the Station immediately if à U.S.
citizen or English speaking person tries
to contact any of the target installations.
This is done by a telephone call from outside
the tap center at a pay phone to (Ann Good-
pasture) inside the Station. Emergency
meetings are arranged in double talk...(Good-
pasture) meets Arehart within fifteen minutes
at a pre-arranged downtown location and
receives the reel with an extract of the
pertinent conversation. The reel is then
taken to the Station and given to the case
officer responsible for the target the person
was trying to contact. Headquarters is
notified by cable of the action taken.
Only in rare cases s information on a U.S.
citizen passed without prior Headquarters
approval.279/
If the tape was from a Sov et installation, the tape
would have been delivered the same day to the Tarasoffs
by Mr. Zambernardi.280/ A ong with the tape, the
Tarasoffs would receive a lote indicating which
conversation was to be transcribed on a priority
basis. The Tarasoffs would then immediately transcribe
that conversation and return it to their regular
contact that same day. 281/ It should be noted that
the monthly report says that the Soviet transcripts
would be delivered to the case officer responsible
for the target installation. 282/. In the case of the
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Soviet target, that case officer would have been
Mr. Herbert Manell.283/ Mr. Manell testified that
he had nothing to do with transporting the transcripts
to or from the Tarasoffs except in rare instances
when no one else was available to do the job.284/ Mrs.
Tarasoff testified that the "urgent" tapes were
delivered and picked up by their regular contact.285/
(f) Handling in the Station
All of the transcripts were brought into the
Station to Ms. Goodpasture.286/ Ms. Goodpasture
routed the copies of the transcripts and retained
one copy for her own file.287/ One copy of all of
I given to the
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transcripts to either Robert Shaw or David Phillips.289/
One copy of all the transcripts eventually went into
a chronological. file.290/
One copy of the Soviet
transcripts was cut and pasted onto separate sheets
of paper and filed in appropriate subject or
personality files.291/ The resuma were also maintained
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in a chronological file.292/ One copy of the Cuban
transcripts was routinely sent to Headquarters on
a weekly basis.293/
(g) Format of Transcripts
The format of the transcripts that Mr. Tarasoff
produced was much the same as those of the Spanish
language transcripts described above.294/
Mr.
Tarasoff's transcripts were from Russian into English. 295/
Many of Mr. Tarasoff's transcriptions bear the notation
"(previously transcribed)" after the meter number
referring to the reel footage location of a
conversation.297/
Mr. Tarasoff indicated that this
notation meant that the conversation had already been
transcribed from a tap on another embassy phone:
"Previously transcriped" means, for instance,
I went to the embassy first and the embassy
number was 605055. Now this number 501264
belonged to the film's office. So consequently
if that particular call went out of the main
building to the films office and it had been
transcribed before, that is exactly what I
would do, put down "previously transcribed".
So there was no question of doing it twice.298/
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Voice Comparisons
In 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/
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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 Information
A. Information that was Available
In 1963 the Central Intelligence Agency's
Mexico City Station surveilled both the Cuban and
Soviet diplomatic compounds electronically and.
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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
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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 directions
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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.
conversation was also transcribed in Spanish. 306/
This
(3) At 1:25 an unidentified man called
The
the Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul.
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 name
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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 Silvia 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 to 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 a
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long time. The Soviet official had not received an
The
Silvia
answer from Washington to the American's problem.
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.
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 28, 1963, Saturday
At 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
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telephone, Silvia put the American on the line.
At
first the American spoke in 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:
American:
Russian:
American:
Russian:
American:
What else do you want?
I was just now at your Embassy and
they took my address.
I know that.
/speaks terrible, hardly recognizable
Russian/I did not know it then. I
went to the Cuban Embassy to ask
them for my address, because they
have it.
Why don't you come again and leave
your address with us; it is not
far from the Cuban Embassy.
Well, I'll be there right away. 310/
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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.311/
(2) At 10:45 a.m.312/ 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 Saturday. 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 they
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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, Thursday
An 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/
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2.
Information Available to the Mexico City
CIA Station from CIA Headquarters
On 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/
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Information Available to the Mexico City
Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed
at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound
An 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 Compounds
An 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.
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5.
Possibility that Additional Information from
the Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet
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Station
Ms. 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.
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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
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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 borken Russian as opposed to English;
the transcript is shorter than the one she remembers;
the transcript is in her husband's style as opposed
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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 over 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.
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(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.
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we can pick up the name of this person
because sometimes we had a so-called
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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 possible
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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 ()swald 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/
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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
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
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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 Crimea 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/
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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
Spoke to
Silvia Duran provided to the CIA by the Mexican
government, Silvia says that the Cuban Consul salted
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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.
is known that two of the phones at the Soviet
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Consulate were subject to surveillance.359/
Committee has not determined how many telephones were
in the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City.
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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.
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.
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6. Possibility that the CIA Photosurveillance
Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald
This 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 a
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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 Materials
The 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 Oswald
CIA 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 of
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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 Cswald visited%3B (4) the
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 Cuban
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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 Allegation
On 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 the
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Soviet Union and other Socialist countries, excluding
Cuba.372/ At the time that he assumed this job, a
woman named Elsie Scalėti was in charge of the operational
support projects for Mexico 373/ Agee stated:
[S]he
She was the officer in 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 or so long. "375/
Mr.
After his transfer to the Mexico Branch, Mr.
Agee heard a story about photographs of Oswald.
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 Mexico
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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 photo-
graph 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 Oswaldx
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 remember
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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 always
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fact was Oswald's photograph I had been
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/
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(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation
On June 4, 1978, the House Select Committee on
Assassinations interviewed Mr. Daniel Stanley Watson
in Mexico. Mr. Watson served as a CIA officer in
Mr.
Mexico City from approximately 1965 to 1969.
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
and that when
personality file, 285/ 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
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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/
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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/
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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
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him and stored them in a safe in his home. When colen
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 the
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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 told me something."397/
(3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation
Mr. Joseph Smith, a retired CIA officer, was
interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassina-
tions 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/
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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 interview. 401/ 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.402/
person went back through the files and found the
picture.403/ Mr. Smith said 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.' 404/
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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.405/ He said that the
earliest that he could have possibly heard the story
was in 1964 while he was stationed in Argentina.406/.
He said that not long after the assassination he may
have heard the story from someone "coming through"
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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 investi-
gation.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
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another one of Win Scott's case
She was in Mexico City for about
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
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at all sure of this recollection.412/ When asked if
he had any recollection of Ms. Scaleti finding the
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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. Allegation
Mr. 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 the
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Mr. Peccole als at the
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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
Piccole 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,'
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that would
have traveled through the Agency "grapevine."422/
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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/
ate recalled that
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 Oswald
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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" Ware defined as very sensitive materials
that did not find their way into the routine files
and indexes.432/
(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir
Mr. 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 an
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"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
panding
brought against the Agency concerning the Agency's
He recalled that these.
These files had to be processed
files on Oswald.435/
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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
He stated that the
time.437/ 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 sering 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/
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d. HSCA Investigation of the possibility that
the Mexico City Photosurveillance Operation
Produced a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald
(1) Introduction
This Committee has conducted a general investigation
into the CIA's photographic surveillance operations in
in addition to the
Mexico City in 1963 as well as a 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 City
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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 Allegations
Ms. 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. John
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Scelso, Chief of the Mexico Branch in 1963, remembers that:
(Elsie Scaleti)...1
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was the, sort of the
Major Domo of the Branch. She managed
all the records, handled 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 alegations is dependent upon
whether or not the CIA Mexico Station sent the photo-
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Headquartres. HSCA review of CIA files
production to Headquart
has revealed no evidence tha: 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
The
were availble. 458/ This 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 mani est, 459/ with the excep-
tion of HMMA-22433, 11/7/63 which sent samples of the
photographic production from the camera. 460/ These
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461/
Ms. Scaletti was asked about the allegations," how-
ever, her memory of 22 November 1963 is not good:.
Q: When was the next time after you sent a
cable to Mexico City Station and you teletyped
thoese other agencies, when was the next time
you heard of Lee Harvey Oswald?
A:
I don't remember. The only thing I can say
is that based on what is in the file that I
must have heard about it when the Station
~ came in and asked--well, if there was nothing
else in the file the name popped up again, I
just don't remember about the assassination
or whenever.
Q: Would the testimony be that to the best of your
recollection the next time you heard the name
was when you heard about the assassination?
A: Probably.
Q: At that time did the name Oswald ring a bell?
Did you remember the earlier cable traffic
about him?
A: I just don't krow. When he was assassinated,
I don't even remember how long it was before.
they got the name of Oswald.
Q: Oswald was picked up within two hours after the
assassination and the name was made public.
A: Immediately?
Q: Yes.
A: If I were in the office unless I had the radio
on--we didn't have a radi
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sarily--I would not have heard the name
Oswald until the next day probably.
I
would assume this was a little bit unusual,
I might have tied at in. I am sure the
first thing they would have done is make
a name trace when they came up with that
name and they would come up with a 201
file all over again.
Do you recall where you were on Friday, Novem-
ber 22, 1963?
The only thing I remember about it is going
home and finding my husband sitting in front
of the TV and talking about it. I probably
was at the office but I don't remember any-
thing. I blanked out. I must have been at
the office.
Do you remember bringing John Scelso the Oswald
file on that day?
I wouldn't remember
it I probably did.
that. If he had asked for
It would have been natural
for me to if I dii. I just don't know.
Did you ever find a photograph of Lee Harvey
Oswald at CIA Headquarters?
I don't remember ever finding an Oswald photo-
graph.
Right around the time of the assassination?
I don't remember it.
Did you find a photograph of someone whom you
thought to be Lee Harvey Oswald?
I don't remember that either.
Q: Do you know Philip Agee?
A:
Yes.*t
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Did you ever tell Joe Smith or Phillip'
Agee that you had found a photograph of
Oswald or someone you thought to be Oswald?
only fin
I did not know Joseph Smith in Mexico City.
I had never seen Joe except at the station in
Mexico City and Phil I only saw when I was in
Mexico and wor Ood
with him at queadquarters.
I would have no reason to say that.
So your answer to the question is no?
I don't recall it and I don't see that I
would have any reason.
I guess for the purpose of clarification I
would like to ask the question one more time.
Did you ever tell Phillip Agee or Joseph Smith
that you found a picture of Oswald or someone
whom you theout to be Oswald?
thougt
Not that I can recall. 462/
At the time of the assassination the CIA's 201
personality file on Lee Harvey Oswald was in the possession
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of the Mexico City Desk. 463/ That desk had had posses-
sion of the file from 10 October 1963 when it had received
a report that a man claiming to be Lee Oswald had been in
contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. 464/
Fortunately, Ms. Scaleti's supervisor had a better
memory of the events that transpired at CIA Headquarters
on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated.
said:
He
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known, perhaps an hour, hour and a half.
Within minutes after that, they were out
with the cables in their hands.
Within minutes of the name Oswald being on
the radio, an officer came in with Oswald
cables?
Yes.
A:
Q:
Who was that officer?
A:
Q:
I believe it was Mrs. (Elsie Scaleti) who was
the, sort of the Major Domo of the Branch. She
managed all the records, handled all of the
cables from Mexico that dealt with security
suspects, or asked for traces on security
suspects.
Did you ask her how she was able to obtain
the Oswald cables so quickly?
A:
No, I know where she would have gotten them.
We have copies of them right in our Branch.
Q:
A:
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At that time, did she also have a photograph
of Oswald?
No, I do not think so.
ever
Do you know whether (Elsie Scaleti)
discovered a photograph of Oswald at CIA
Headquarters?
I do not think so.. . I do not remember any
photograph of Osvald at that time, the day
of the assassination, or even later. I do
remember our asking we had to ask ONI for
a photo, and so on.
As far as I recall, they
never sent us one. It could be the 15 later on
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she found one, but I don't recall.
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responsible for the initial CIA investigation into the
466/
assassination of John Kennedy.
· Mr. Scelso also testified that, at the time of the
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assassination, the name of Lee Harvey Oswald did not ring a
bell with him because "thousands of names were crossing my
desk every month. '467/
He was asked why Ms. Scaleti, who came
across as many
Whereas
names as he did, would have remembered Oswald
when he had not. He rep
He replied:
She was concerned only with Mexico and I had
five or six other countries to work with as
well. She has a fantastic memory (Elsie
Scaleti) in her job as the manager of records,
traces and files, in this Mexico desk, was an
outstanding officer to whom I gave, in one of
her fitness reports, the highest evaluation,
outstanding, number 6 and so on, that can be
given, that was very rarely given at that time.
New
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was an outstanding trainer of new employees..
Material removed from Win Scott's safe now in possession
of the CIA provides critically important circumstantial evidence.
that the CIA photo-surveillance operations obtained photographs
of Oswald:
"(Oswald's) visits and conversations are not
hearsay; for persons watching these embassies
photographed Oswald as he entered and left each
one; and clocked the time he spent on each visit." 469/
This Committee believes that a photograph of Lee Harvey.
Oswald was probably obtained by CIA photosurveillance in
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There are allegations that such a photo was found;
there is testimony that such a photo should have been obtainedį,
These and other factors
the CIA's withholding of materialsy, Ms. Scaleti's strange
obtained.
lapse of memory regarding the events of 11/22/63; and Mr.
Scott's manuscripts these things, in the Committee's view,
--would tend to indicate that a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald was
On the other hand, the consistent testimony that a
photo was not obtained in Mexico, the absence of any record
of transmittal of the photo to Headquarters (The weight of this
consideration is mitigated by the fact that there were methods
of communication available that were not incorporated into
t
the CIA's record keeping systems. ), and the testimony of Ms.
Scaleti and Mr. Scelso that 1 photo was not discovered would
tend to indicate that, in fact, the allegations that Ms. Scaleti
found a photo of LHO are false.
B.
Information Connected to Lee Harvey Oswald by the Mexico
City Station Prior to the Assassination.
1.
Introduction
This study has demonstrated that the information from
the Soviet Embassy taps and from Headquarters was available
to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. In addition to the Agency
acknowledged information; there is a distinct possibility that
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the Station had available to it one additional telephonic
intercept transcript, and one or more surveillance photographs.
This Committee has made in attempt to determine when the
available information was linked to Lee Harvey Oswald. The
Committee has also made an attempt to determine whether all
the intercepted telephone calls were in fact connected with
Oswald or involved Oswald. It should be pointed out, however,
that this analysis can only be directed at that information
now known to have been available to the México City Station.
This information will be discussed briefly in the following
section. In addition, the question of whether Oswald or an
Oswald imposter visited the Embassies and made the phone calls,
along with the possibility that Oswald was not alone in Mexico
City, will be dealt with in greater detail in the final section
of this report.
2.
Information Available from the Soviet Wiretaps
that was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey
Oswald.
The Mexico City Station possessed nine intercepted telephone
conversations that may have dealt with Oswald. The conversations
are summarized below for eas, reference. 470/ In the following
discussion the conversations will be referred to by date and
Occurrence.
time of occurance.
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10:30 AM
9/27/63
10:37 AM
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Man calls Soviet Military Attache
regarding a visa for Odessa.
(Spanish.)
Man calls Soviet Consulate regarding
a visa for Odessa. (Spanish)
Man calls the Soviet Consulate and
asks for the Consul. (Spanish)
9/27/63
4:05PM
Silvia Duran calls the Soviet
Consulate. (Spanish)
9/27/63
4:26PM
9/28/63
11:51AM
10/1/63
10:31AM
10/1/63
10:45 AM
10/3/63
Soviet Consulate calls Duran
(Spanish)
Duran calls Soviet Consulate and
puts a man on the phone. (Spanish
Russian and English.)
Man calls Soviet Military Attache.
(Russian)
Man calls Soviet Consulate identify-
ing himself as Lee Oswald. (Russian
and English)
Man calls the Soviet Military
· Attache. (Spanish and English.)
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After the assassination the CIA's Mexico City Station
passed copies of seven of the above listed conversations to
the U. S. Embassy Legal Attache. 471/ The 9/27/ 10:30 and the
9/27 1:25 calls listed above are not included in this
dissemination.472/ The cover memorandum states:
Attached are photostatic copies of transcripts
of all 
conversations from technical operations
of this off
offing which are possibly pertinent in
this case
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The HSCA has not been able to determine why the 9/27
10:30 and 9/27 1:25 calls were not included in this memorandum:
While the 1:25 call could be considered unrelated, it is
unlikely that the same would apply to the 10:30 call since
the 9/27 10:37 call is included in the memorandum.
At the bottom of each attachment page to the Scott
memorandum, a summary of the conversation is provided. 474/
The Station questioned the relevancy of only one of the seven
calls presented in the mrmorandum. The summary of the 10/3
call says:
By the context of other conversations by Oswald
and the fact that 
this called (sic) spoke in
broken Spanish 
and English rather than Russian.
is probable that
which he used previously, 1451s
this caller is not Osvald..
(Ibid., p.9.)
A judgement that this call did not pertain to Lee Harvey
Oswald could be based on the following facts:
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1) the caller spoke broken Spanish; 2) the caller did not
have the number of the Consulate; (3) the caller did not know
that visas were issued at the Consulate; and 4) the caller
states that he is seeking a visa, not that he is. checking on
an application already made. The majority of the evidence
indicates that Lee Harvey (swald could not speak Spanish.476/
In light of Delgado's assertions, it is possible that
Oswald had at least a limited knowledge of Spanish. It should
be noted that the 10/3 transcript listed above indicates that
the caller spoke in broken Spanish. 477/ The fact that this
the
initially
conversation was in Spanish, should not by itself rule out the
possibility that Oswald made the phone call. This is especially
true in light of Delgado's allegations and the 9/27 10:30,
9/27 10:37 and 9/27 1:25 calls which were also in Spanish. 473/
The record reflects that Oswald had the phone numbers
of both the Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache in
his notebook.479/ It can not be determined when Oswald
entered the numbers in the notebook. Since Oswald had previously
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called the Consulate it is likely that he had the number prior
to 3 October. It is also clear that Oswald knew that the
Consulate was responsible for issuing visas due to his prior
dealings with the Soviet and Cuban Consulates. Thus, it is
probable that the 10/3 conversation did not pertain to Oswald.
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The 10/1 10:45 call is clearly relevant because the
caller identifies himself as "Lee Oswald"
The 10/1 10:31
conversation is probably relevant due to the similarity with
the 10/1 10:45 call and the marginal notations about
the quality of the Russian spoken by the caller, The 9/28 11:51
call is clearly relevant, açain due to the marginal notations
and the involvement of Silvia Duran. Duran's calls on 9/27
clearly related to Oswald due to the substantive information
discussed in those calls.
In summary, the above listed calls contain the substance
of the information available to the CIA MCS prior to the
assassination from the Soviet electronic intercept operation.
The first three calls on 9/17/63 and the one on 10/3/63,
if they were indeed Oswald, add little of substance to the
information that was available from the other calls.
3. When were the Intercepted Conversations
Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald.
HSCA staff researcher's reviewed the transcripts from
the liaison wiretaps on the Soviet Embassy. The chronological
production from this operat on is on microfilm at CIA
Headquarters. 4 480/ In addition to the choronological file,
numerous copies of the transcripts that pertain to Oswald were
found throughout the CIA's Files on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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10/1 10:45 call to Lee Harvey Oswald because Oswald identified
himself in the call and the Mexico City Station reported
481/
Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy to Headquarters on 10/8/63
On this transcript the translator added the notation:
the the same person who phoned a day or so ago
and spoke in broken Russian.482%
The transcript from the 9/28 11:51 call also bears
marginal notations from the translator.
takes the phone and says in broken Russian
"MO (man outside)
...
speaks terrible,
hardly recognizable Russian."484/ The first copy of this
transcript in Oswald's Mexico City "P" file 485/ also bears
routing indications that show that the transcript was sent to
Win Scott, Ann Goodpasture and Robert Shaw. 486/
indications were made by Barbara Manell.487/
These routing
Mrs. Manell
"testified that these routing indications would have been made.
when she first saw the transcript.488/
Mrs. Manell also wrote
an instruction on this transcript to file it in the "Soviet
Contacts" file at the same time. 489/ The 9/27 4:05 transcript
also bears Mx.. Manell's routing and file instructions 490/
The 9/27 4:26 transcript also bears Ms. Manell's
routing and filing instructions.491/ In addition, this
transcript also bears a notation, from Win Scot which says
"Is it possible to identify?"492/ Herbert Manell wrote an
instruction on this transcript to file it in Oswald's "P" file.493/
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The above four conversations which occurred on 9/27
494/
and 9/28 contain almost all of the substantive information
that was available to the Mexico City station on Oswald
from the Soviet electronic intercept operation., These
conversations were not linked to Oswald prior to 8 October
1963 when MEXI 6453 was sent to Headquarters reporting
Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, 1963.
The conversations discussed above were linked to Lee
Harvey Oswald by 16 October 1963, the date that the Mexico
City tation opened it's "P" file on Oswald.495/ The process
by which, and the events leading up to, the linkage of Oswald
to the intercepted calls will be discussed in the following
section on the Mexico City Station's actions regarding the
Oswald case prior to the assassination.
4. The Photograph of the Mexico Mystery Man.
A photograph of an ur identified individual who visited
the Soviet Embassy was incorrectly linked to Oswald prior
to the assassination. 496/ The manner in which this mistake
was made and the consequences of that mistake will be discussed
in the following sections on the Mexico City Station's actions
prior and subsequent to the assassination of President John.
F. Kennedy..
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Actions Prior to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
A.
Introduction--CIA Interest in and Liaison with FBI
Regarding American Citizens in Contact with Soviet
Bloc Embassies in Mexico City.
The Central Intelligence Agency has claimed that no
investigation of Oswald was made in Mexico prior to the
assassination of President Kennedy. For this reason, the
Agency claimed, the fact that Oswald was seeking a
visa and that he had also been to the Cuban Embassy was
not discovered until after the assassination:
It was not until 22 November 1963, when the
Station initiated a review of all transcripts
of telephone calls to the Soviet Embassy that'
the Station learned that Oswald's call to the
Soviet Embassy on 1 (ctober 1963 was in con-
nection with his request for a visa to the USSR.
Because he wanted to travel to the USSR by way.
of Cuba, Oswald had also visited the Cuban Em-
bassy in an attempt to obtain a visa allowing
him to transit Cuba.
Inasmuch as Oswald was not an investigative
responsibility of the CIA and because the
Agency had not received an official request from
those agencies having investigative responsibili-
ty requesting the Agency to obtain further in-
formation, the Station did nothing other than
· ask Headquarters on 5 October for a photograph
of Oswald. 497/
Neither of the above assertions is accurate. An
analysis of the information available will show that the
first assertion of the above quote, that the Station did
not learn of Oswald's contact with the Cuban Consulate and
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the fact that he was seeking a visa until after the as-
sassination is incorrect. 498/
CIA's IG Report inaccurately implies that no ac-
tion would have been taken by the Mexican City Station
with respect to an American in contact with the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico other than merely reporting the contact
unless the Station had received a specific request from
an interested U.S. governmen: agency. The IGR's implica-
tion is inaccurate because, as will become apparent in
the following discussion, the CIA had an understanding
with the FBI regarding this class of cases and often did
more that just report without any specific interest
being expressed by any other agency of the United States
government. 499/ In fact, the station often monitored
and mounted operations against Americans in contact with
Bloc Embassies. 500/ At a minimum they attempted to col-
lect as much information as possible on Americans in con-
tact with the Embassies. This was routine, it was also
the case with Lee Harvey Oswald.
B. Narrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior
to The Assassination
On 27 September 1963 Silvia Duran contacted the
Soviet Consulate on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald: 501/
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Later that same day, the Soviet Consulate returned'
Ms. Duran's call. 502/ Unde normal procedures, these
transcripts would have been in the CIA Station by the
first of October and Ms. Goodpasture brought these trans-
cripts into the Station on that morning and put them
on Ms. Manell's desk. 503/ Ms. Manell recognized the
transcripts as containing information of a possible coun-
terespionage or counter-intelligence interest and routed
them to Mr. Shaw, Ms. Goodpasture and Win Scott (in
reverse order.) 504/ Mr. Scɔtt wrote, at the top of
the 9/27/4:26 call, "Is it possible to identify?" 505/.
This was the first interest in Oswald recorded by the
Mexico Station even though the caller was as yet uniden-
tified. It indicates a routine interest in an American
who is in contact with the Soviet Embassy. After the
transcripts were routed they were filed in a general
subject file. 506/
The 9/28/ call was probably received at the CIA
Station on Monday, 30 September 1963. The routing and
filing instructions indicate that it was handled in much
the same way as the 9/27 conversations.
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On 1 October 1963 a conversation in which an En-
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attention of a moni-
tor in the electronic surveillance base-house. 507/ The
monitor immediately notified the American technician
who then listened to the tape. 508/ The technician
had instructions "to alert the Station immediately if a
U.S. citizen or English speaking person tries to con-
tact any of the target installations" 509/ The techni-
cian called Ann Goodpasture and a meeting was arranged. 510/
The technician marked the tape "Urgent," specifying
where the conversation occured on the reel, put it in
a box, and delivered it to Ms. Goodpasture within fif-
teen minutes of the telephone call to Ms. Goodpasture. 511/
The tape was delivered to Boris Tarasoff who transcribed
it and returned it to the Station on that same day. 512/
As soon as the Station learned that an American
had contacted the Soviet Embassy (Ms. Goodpasture began
to screen the photographs from the Soviet Surveillance
operations. 513/ The photographs from the coverage of
the Soviet Embassy, however, were not delivered as
prompty as the transcripts. The photographs from Octo-
ber 1, 1963, were not removed from the camera until 3 or
4 October. 514/ Hence, they would not have been received
until 4 (Friday) or 7 (Monday) October by the Station. 515/
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A cable reporting Lee Oswald's contact with the
Soviet Embassy was written and sent to Headquarters by
Ms. Manell on 10/8/63. Various reasons have been ad-
vanced to explain the seven day delay in sending this
cable. David Phillips explained the delay by saying
that Mr. Manell was too busy to be bothered by something
of such a routine nature. 5161 Phillips stated:
Mr. Manell was a busy man, sometimes pro-
crastinating. His wife was working for
him, and on one or two occasions I spoke
to Mr. Manell kiddingly saying, hey, where
is the cable about this fellow, or something
like that, or maybe to his wife. I am not
sure. In any event, what happened a few
days passed and Mrs. Manel prepared a
message--she was working for her husband,.
and as I recall it, she typed it herself,
but I am not positive on that point, but
in any event, she prepared the cable
and took it to Mr. Manell at which time he
signed off on it. During that process, it
did come to me, also to sign off because
it spoke about Cuban matters, and then went 517
to the Chief of Station and was released. 577/
on
A blind CIA memorandum entitled "Delay in sending
the first cable about Oswald" was located in a soft file
on the Unidentified Man photograph. This memorandum as-
serts that Dave Phillips "didn't know what he was talking
about." The memorandum's assertion is correct. Mr. Manel
did not sign off on the cable reporting Oswald's contact
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with the Soviet Embassy. 518/ Mr. Phillips did not sign
off on that cable. 519/
The cable did not mention any-
thing about the Cuban Consulate or Oswald's contact with.
it. 520/ Mr. Phillips never discussed the cable with
testimony.
according to the
the Manells 521/ In fact, Mr. Phillips was on a tem-
porary duty assignment in Washington, D.C., and Miami,
Florida, from at least late September
to October 9,
1963. 522/
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The blind memorandum referred to above regarding
the delay offers another explanation for the seven
day lapse before sending the cable. After explaining
that the photoproduction would not have arrived at the
Station until Monday, 7 October, the memorandum says:
A name trace could have been requested on
the basis of the name alone but that wasn't
the way Win Scott ran that Station. He
wanted the photographic coverage tied in
with the telephone coverage... sometimes
there was a U.S. automobile license num-
ber. It was also part of the "numbers
game" of justifying a project by the num-
ber of dispatches, cables or reports pro-
duced. 523/
In all likelihood the delay in sending this ini-
tial cable was due to a combination of factors. Mr. Manell
testified that, in fact, he was not too concerned with the
task and left it to his wife. He stated.
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The only action I took was the action my
wife took, was to send the cable to Wash-
ington summarizing the information we had
on Oswald and his contact with the Embassy...
We also asked our headquarters for a trace
of an American. That was routine. 524/
The delay could also have been partially due to the wait
for the photo-production. Ms. Goodpasture did check the
photographs and did add a paragraph to the cable concern-
ing a photogrph. 525/
Another reason that the cable was delayed was
that there was some question within the Station about who
had the responsibility to report Oswald's contact with
the Soviet Embassy.
[Fleck introduction. He gustats.:]
Q: What action did you take after seeing
this transcript (from the 10/1 conversa-
tion)?
(de the memores during
I think there
was
A: I think I was the third or beyond person
who saw it. It was brought to my atten-
tion by the chief, the Head of the Soviet a bit of discussion
Section, and by Ann Goodpasture who was
discussing this and who was going to noti-
fy headquarters and whose responsibility
it was. As I recall, I was told to write
it up.
Q: Why was there discussion about whose re-
sponsibility it was?
A: I think because when it was an American it
sort of fell between whether we should
have to do it, whether it was our responsi-
bility to send this up because it had to
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be accompanied by a memo and it took
time, or whether it was Ann's responsi-
bility. It was just a little, not
argument, but a discussion about, well,
"you do it, I don't want to do it, you
handle it, " and I had to do it. 526/
The reason that the responsibility would have
lain with the Soviet Section is obviously because the
American was in contact with the Soviet Embassy. Ms..
Goodpasture also had a potential basis for responsibility
because she was responsible for liaison functions with
the Legal Attache, Army, Navy and Air Force on routine
couter-espionage cases. 527/ She also assisted the
Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station on these
cases as they occurred. 528,
The primary reason for the delay was most likely
a combination of the responsibility dispute and the
routine nature of the case as perceived by the CIA of-
ficers at that time.
Barbara Manell stated:
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(Ann Goodpasture) probably came in--it
was really a matter of here is another one
of those things again and we were having
a little gabble abou: who would send it
up because it was pain to do these.
bably, I think I handled it as soon as I
got it but I think there was a discussion,
as I say maybe a half a day, about who
was going to do it. It was done because
it was required but it was considered un-
important. 529/
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Important or significant information was usually
sent to Headquarters by cable as opposed to the slower dis-
patch which was sent to Headquarters by diplomatic courier.
John Salen
حمایت
Cables were sent if the information was
of such a nature that it had to be acted.
on within a day or a day and half or two
days. Dispatches took so long that you
really could not take any kind of opera-
tional action predicated on dispatch. 530/
Mr. Manell, the Chief of the Soviet Section in
Mexico City recalled that the criterion for a cable as
opposed to a dispatch was the perishability of the informa-
tion being transmittedy :
The normal criterion would be the urgency
attached to that information, the perish-
ability of the information, not its im-
portance necessarily. The perishability
was the criterion... If it was something
that concerned an event that was going to
happen in the two or three days you did
not want to use a medium which was going
to take a week to get to Washington, 531/
Hence, it is possible that Oswald's contact was
reported by cable because it was considered significant
by the Mexico Station%3B but this interpretation is not
supported by the weight of the testimony.
Two other criteria for reporting by cable were
pointed out: information corcerning Soviets, Cubans and
[e]
Americans. Generally, "everything Soviet was of high
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priority.
Cuban Operations,
And, in the case of Oswald:
[I]n
lot of cables were sent." 532/
In this specific case, a cable was used to
send this information to Headquarters only
because it concerned an American, not be-
cause it concerned a matter was considered
to be of importance.
533/
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The tesimony of forme CIA Mexico City officers
consistently supports the position that Oswald's ini-
tial contact with the Soviet Embassy was considered
fairly routine. 534/ The teЯimony indicates that the
routine procedure of the Station was to report such a
contact by cable whether it was considered routine or
not. 535/ The Station had instructions to report Ameri-
cans in contact with the Bloc Embassies to Headquarters.
because it was of interest to the FBI. 536/ The follow-
ing quotes illustrate these points. Allan White said:
Q: Was Oswald's contact at the Embassies in
Mexico, considered to be important?
City
A: At the time it first occurred?
Q: Yes.
A: I would have to conclude that it wasn't recog-
nized as anything extraordinary at the time
it first occured.
Q: Why do you conclude that?
outward
because
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A: Because had it beer, it would have been
pulled out and sent to Washington either
with a complete transcription, a com-
plete excerpt out of the transcription,
or the entire tape and transcript would
have been sent to Washington by the first
available pouch, probably by special cour-
ier.
Q: Does the fact that Mexico City Station
sent to Headquarters a cable reporting
Oswald's contact suggest that the sta-
tion considered the contact to be im-
portant?***
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A: You are asking what is the significance
of the cable?
Q: Yes.
A: Well, operational, that is all. Here is
an American citizen, at least a man who
appeared to be an American citizen, speak-
ing broken Russian and in contact with
the Embassy. This is of operational
interest. This is the kind of informa-
tion that we were directed among others,
to get back to Washington because they
passed that kind of thing to the Bureau
Q: Were contacts by Americans with the Soviet
Embassy considered to be unusual?
A: Well, we were 1963 then. They were consi-
dered worhty of note, let me put it that
way. Of course, from an operational point
of view we were looking for any way we
could exploit a contact with the Soviet
Embassy.
Q: Were such contacts by Americans frequent?'
A: Not terribly frequent. Not terribly fre-
quent: There were members of the exile
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colony in Mexico City who were in kind
of routine contact with the Soviets, usu-
ally on cultural matters. No, I would
say they were relatively infrequent.
That is why--
Q: The cable was sent"
A: Yes. 537/
The Chief of the Soviet Section testified on
this point also:
Q: Was this particular contact considered to
be unusual or routine?
A: Routine.
Q: Why is that?
A: During the summer period, particularly,
or toward the end of the summer period, .
a relatively large number of Americans,
for various reasors, made contact with
the Soviet Embassy. This appeared to
me, when I had the information reported,
to be just another case of an American
contacting the Embassy, for no signifi-
cant reasons.
Q: In each case that an American contacted
the Embassy, would a cable be sent to
Washington?
A: Yes, indeed. 538/
Mrs. Manell, the person who actually handled the
reporting, also considered the case to be routine:
Q: Was the Oswald contact with the Soviet Embassy
considered to be unusual?
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A: Well, there were cases of other Americans
who contacted the Embassy for various rea-
sons. We were only obliged to report the
contact of any American with the Soviet
Embassy.
Q: So in Oswald's case it was just a routine
contact by an American as far as you were
concerned?
A: Yes.
Q: If that is the case, then why was the cable
sent concerning Oswald?
A: That is why I asked you earlier, because
in the case of Americans we were required
to send it by cable and not by dispatch.
Q: Was that a written regulation?
A: I don't know if it was written but it was
understood at our Station that any Americans
who were in touch with the Soviet Embassy
that that fact had to be known to Headquar-
ters by cable. It was always sent that way,.
whether we considered it very unimportant
or routine or not. So there must have
been a regulation but I am not aware of.
it. 539/
It should be noted.
The reader should be reminded here that the only
conversation that had been linked to Oswald at that point
in time was the one that occurred on 1 October. 540/ The
other transcripts had passed over the Manells' and Good-
pasture's desk 541/ but had not been linked to Oswald
because his name was not mentioned in them. Mrs. Manell
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did not recheck the earlier transcripts, but did check
the Station's index system to see if it had any record
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of a Lee Oswald, which it did not. 542/
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Q: A (H)ere it says in rackets, comment
by the translator, "the same who phoned
a day or so ago and spoke in broken
Russian."
A: Right.
عليكم
Q: Despite this indication here I believe
your tesimony is that you did not go
back to check the transcript because
by virtue of your memory you knew that
Oswald's name had not come up in any ear-
lier conversation, is that correct?
A: Yes. 543/
So, Ms. Manell drafted the first paragraph of the 10/8
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cable on the basis of the 10/1/10:45 conversation alone
even though the other information was available. 544/
That paragraph of the cable provided an accurate summary
of the intercepted conversation.
It said:
Acc (Soviet wiretap) 1 Oct 63, American
male who spoke broker Russian said his
name Lee Oswald (Phoretic), stated he
at Sovem on 28 Sept when spoke with Consul
whom he believed to be Valeriy Vladmiro-
vich Kostikov. Sujb asked Sov Guard Ivan
Obyedkov who answered, if there is anything
new re telegram to Washington. Obyedkov
upon checking said nothing received yet,
but request had been sent. 545/
Ann Goodpasture added a second paragraph to the
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cable. 546/
This paragraph concerned a photograph that she
had found in the production from one of the photosuveil-
lance bases that covered the Soviet Embassy. 547/
paragraph said:
Have photos male appears be American
entering Sovem 1216 hours, leaving
1222 on 1 Oct. Apparent age 35, athele-
tic build, circa 6 feet, receding hair-
line, badling top. Wore Khakis and sport
shirt. Source: LIMITED 548/
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The explanation for mistakenly linking this photo-
graph to Oswald advanced by the CIA officers in Mexico
who had knowledge of the circumstances is that this was
the only photograph taken or October 1, the day that the
conversation occurred, that appeared to be of a non-
Latin, and, hence, possibly an American. 549/ [need intro
To quote
Q: Do you know how that photograph was
linked to the person mentioned?
A: By date. It was maken entering the
Soviet Embassy and leaving on the
same date this conversation took
place. I remember that proceding
because we were combing through the
takes for that day to determine any
person who looked like an American
male. I believe this was the only
one. 550/
The testimony also corroborates that the photographs would
have been checked for several days prior to the date of
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Q: You checked the photosurveillance
materials for approximately a four
or five day period, is that correct?
A: Yes, I think it is.
Q: During that four or five day period...
this man was the only non-Latin ap-
pearing man whose photograph you
found, is that correct?
A: I think it was the only non-Latin ap-
pearing person's photograph that we
found that we could not identify as
somebody else. A lot of the people
who went to the Soviet Embassy all
the time, we came to know who they
were. After they had been identi-
fied, they made frequent visits there. 551/
The review of the photoproduction from LIMITED
the one base that has been made available to this Commit-
tee, makes the explanation of the mistake about the iden-
tity of the individual due to his being the only non-
Latin implausible. The record reflects that unidentified
American males were listed on the log sheet as "U AM"
after the time was given. The photograph that was linked
to Oswald was the only "U A M" that appeared on 2 October
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1963. But on September 27, 1963 another "U A M" had ap-
peared. The Committee has concluded from a review of a
note that Ann Goodpasture wrote on the log sheet that
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the 10/8 cable was written.
The note says: "This is
a Mexican named Gutierrez-license plate changed in
Feb 64 to Mexican. II 552/
This Committee cannot be certain that other "U A M"s
did not turn up on the production from the LILYRIC base
because that production has not been made available
for review..
Ms. Goodpasture was asked about this and explained
that the man, Gutierrez, was known in the station and
that the base house agent was mistaken in identifying
him as an American. 553/
This Committee finds the above quoted explanation
hard to accept for other reasons. The October 1 transcript
does not indicate that Oswald visited the Embassy on
that day, however, it does indicate a visit on the pre-
vious Saturday. 554/ Even if he did visit the Embassy
on the first of October, the photograph referred to in
the cable was not taken until the second of October,
1963. 555/
The photographs from the one surveillance base
for 1, 2 and 3 October were on one roll of film and
one log sheet was prepared by the base.
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the log sheet is in black type.
The separate days cover-
age is set off by a row of red typed percentage (%)
marks. 556/
.Ms. Goodpasture attempted to explain this mistake.
Q: Looking at the log, can you now ex-
plain to the Committee why the cable
referred to a photograph taken on
October 1st when actually it was taken
on another day?
A: If you look at the log here you see at
the top--it was just an oversight on
the part of the person who was writing
that cable. It looks as though the date
is 1 October, but if you read it very.
closely you see there are only two frames
that were shot on 1 October and 2 Octo-
ber, it starts up with fram number 3,
et cetera, et cetera, and there the shots
occur.. That is the only explanation
I can give.
Q: Is your explanation that whomever refer-
red to the log simply looked at the date
at the top of the page, the date being
October 1st, and did not see any reference
to the date October 2nd?
A: Right. 557/
This Committee finds it implausible that Ann Good-
pasture, who had the specific duty of "processing for
operational leads all. Station photosurveillance info per-
taining to the Soviet targe:" since 1960 and had received
a rating of outstanding on her annual fitness reports,
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would make such an oversight mistake and not discover
it until 1976. 558/ This Committee thinks that the fact
that the mistaken date of the photograph was not dis-
covered for so long is especially suspect in light of
the fact that on the day after the assassination CIA
Headquarters sent a cable to Mexico which said:
"(FBI) says that photos of man entering
Soviet Embassy which MEXI sent to Dallas
were not of Oswald. Presume MEXI has
double-checked dates of these photos and
is also checking all pertinent other
photos for possible shots of Oswald. 559/
Headquarter's preseumption was evidently mistaken. No
record exists that would indicate a reply to this cable
by the Mexico City Station.
The likelihood that a photograph of Oswald was
indeed obtained makes the "explanation," proferred by
Goodpasture, et al., even more implausible. 560/ At
this time the Committee can not conclude why the original
mistake was made even though it does find the explanation
offered by Goodpasture, et al., to be highly implausable.
Regardless of why the mistake was made, Oswald's
contact with the Soviet Embassy and the mistaken photo-
graphic identification of him were reported to Headquarters.
The 10/8 cable was received at Headquarters on 9 October
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1963. 561/ The cable, as was routine, went to the
Mexico Desk for action. 562/ The person who handled
the case for the Mexico Desk was Elsie Scaleti. 563/'
Ms. Scaleti initially considered the information
routine. 564/ She took the routine steps of request-
ing a name trace. 565/ From the name trace she learned
that there was a 201 file on a Lee Henry Oswald but
that it was restricted to a branch of the Agency known
as "CI/SIG." 566/ The custodian of Oswald's file,
in October 1963, was Ann Elizabeth Goldsborough Egerter
of the Counter-Intelligence/Special Investigations
Group.
This group's purpose and interest in Oswald
is detailed in another section of ths final report deal-
ing with whether or not Lee )swald was an agent or asset
of the Central Intelligecne Agency. 567/
Ms. Scaleti went to Ms. Egerter and asked to
see Lee Oswald's file which was provided to her by Ms.
Egerter. 568/ Once the information from the Oswald 201
and the information in the cable from Mexico City was
combined, the Oswald contact took on more significance:
Q: Now, once the information...had been
obtained by you, did that in any way
increase the significance of Oswald's
contact with the Soviet Embassy?
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A: As I recall that is what I thought made
it very significant.
Q: Can you explain why?
A: Any American who had tried to renounce
his U.S. citizenship in the Soviet Union,
now having again a relationship with
the Soviet Embassy would lead one to
wonder why he had tried to renounce his citi-
zenship in the first place, and why he was
still in contact with the Soviets, whether
there was a possiblity he really was
working for the Soviets or what. 569/
Ms. Egerter remembers that the cable from Mexico
City caused a lot of excitement.
cable.
She was shown the 10/9
Q: Is this the cable that cause the excitement?
A: Yes, one of them.
Q: Why was excitement caused by this cable?
A: "Contact with Kostikov."
Q: What is the significance of the contact with
Kostikov?
A: I think we considered him a KGB man.
Q: Any other reason for the excitement?
A: He had to be up to something bad to be so an-
xious to go to the Soviet Union. At least
that is the way I felt. 570/
After reviewing Oswald's 201, which CI/SIG loaned
to the Mexican Desk where it reamined until the time of
the assassination, Ms. Scaleti drafted a response to
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the Mexico City 10/9 cable and also disseminated in-
formation about Oswald to other branches of the Ameri-
can intelligence community. 571/
These two documents
were drafted at the same time and were sent within several
hours of each other. 572/ Several aspects of these
two documents are interesting and illustrate various
points, as well as raise serious questions..
The cable which Ms. Scaleti sent to Mexico says,
in full:
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1. Lee Harvey Oswald who called Sovemb 1
Oct probably identical Lee. Henry Oswald
(201-289248) born 18 October 1939, New
Orleans, Louisiana, former radar opera-
tor in United States Marines who de-
fected to USSR in Oct 1959. Oswald is
five feet ten inches, one hundred sixty
five pounds, light brown wavy hair, blue
eyes.'
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2. On 31 Oct 1959 he attempted to renounce
his United States citizenship to the
United States Embassy in Moscow, indicat-
ing he had applied for Soviet citizen-
ship. On 13 Feb the US emb Moscow re-
ceived an undated letter from Oswald
postmarked Minsk on Feb 1961 in which
subj indicated he desired return of
his US ppt as wished to return to USA if
"we could come to some agreement concern-
ing the dropping of any legal proceedings
against me. On July on his own ini-
tiative he appeared at the Emb with his
wife to see about his return to the States.
Sub stated that he actually had never ap-
plied for Soviet citizenship and that his
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application at that time had been to
remain in USSR and for temporary exten-
sion of his Tourist visa pending out-
come of his request. This application,
according to Oswald, contained no ref
to Soviet citizenship. Oswald stated
that he had been employed since 13
Jan 1960 in Belorussian Radio and TV
Factory in Minsk where worked as metal
worker in research shop. Oswald was mar-
ried on 30 April 1961 to Marina Nikolaevna
Pusakova, a dental technician born July.
1941 USSR. No HDQS traces. He attemped
arrange for wife to join him in Moscow
so she could appear at Emb for visa
interview. His American ppt was returned
to him. US Emb Moscow stated twenty
months of realities of life in Soviet
Union had clearly had maturing effect on
Oswald.
3. Latest HDQS info was (State Department) report
dated May 1962 saving (State) had determined
Oswald is still US citizen and both he and
his Soviet wife have exit permits and Dept
State had given approval for their travel
with their infant child to USA.
4. Station should pass info ref and para one to
(U.S. Embassy, Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, Navy, and Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion) locally. Info paras two and three ori-.
ginates with (State).
5. Ref and possible identification being dissemi-
nated to HDQS of (FBI, State, Navy and I&NS).
Pls keep HDQS advised on any further contacts
or positive identification of Oswald. 573/
Ms. Scaleti wrote this cable. 574/ Ms. Egerter
was one of the people who reviewed the cable for accuracy. 575/
The cable was released by the Assistant Deputy Director
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of Plans, Thomas Karamessines. 576/
The teltype which Ms.Scaleti wrote was sent to
the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation and the Department of the Navy. 577/ This tele-
type says:
1. On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive
source in Mexico reported that an American
male, who identified himself as Lee Oswald,
contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico
City inquiring whether the Embassy had re-
ceived any news concerning a telegram
which had been sent to Washington. The
American was described as approximately 35
years old, with an atheletic build, about
six feet tall, with a receding hairline.
2. It is believed that Oswald may be identical
to Lee Henry Oswald, born on 18 October
1939 in New Orlears, Lousiana, a former U.S.
Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in
October 1959 and ater made arrangements
through the United States Embassy in Moscow
to return to the United States with his Rus-
sian wife, Marina Nikolaevna Pusakova, and
their child.
3. The information in Paragraph One is being
disseminated to your representative in Mexico
City. Any furthe information received is
being made available to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. 578/
The
The first substantive conflict between these two
documents are the dissimilar descriptions of Oswald.
response sent to Mexico gave a fairly accurate descrip-
tion of Oswald while the dissemination to other government
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agencies gave the description that had mistakenly been
connected to Oswald by the 0/9 cable from Mexico City. 579/
Ms. Egerter testified that she could not explain why the
description discrepancies occurred. 580/
When Ms. Scaleti
tant
was asked why this occurred she first responded
there was a rule that prevented the Agency from dissem-
inating any information obtained from a third agency
of the government. 581/ Hence, the accurate desciption
of Oswald which was from information furnished to the
Agency by the State Department could not be included in
the dissemination. 582/ . It was pointed out to Ms.
Scaleti that the information in the second paragraph of
the teletype was from the State Department sources and
that the Mexico City Station had been instructed to dis-
seminate the description locally which she claimed could
not be disseminated due to a third agency rule.
was asked the question again and the following exchange
occurred:
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A. Let us start over again. The actual
physical description on Lee Henry Oswald
from (the 10/10 cable) was sent to the
Station to assist them in further investi-
gation to see if they knew of anybody or
had anybody down there that really fitted
what we thought was an accurate physical
description of the Oswald that we had a
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file on... When we came to... the teletype
to State, FBI and Navy, we did not, and I
would not normally even today, provide
those investigative agencies with the
physical description of Lee Henry Oswald
as we thought it to be then.
We provided them only with our intelli-
gence, not with State Department intelli-
gence which gave the stuff out about the
audio and the possible physical descrip-.
tion. The wording here in paragraph 1 on
our teletype... is worded that the American
was described. As I told your man from
your Committee earlier, it possibly would
have been better, although it did not occur
to me at the time and this is the way those
things were written in those times, to say
that an American described as this could
possibly be identifiable and qualified
but the normal procedure in 1963 was to
provide to the other government agencies
information and intelligence from our
sources. XX
Q: Were you aware when you sent out the cable
and the teletype that you were giving differ-
ent descriptions?
A: Yes. I assume I was. I don't remember now.
This is some time Axs ago.
Q: Was there any intention of your part to de-
ceive any other agencies by giving a descrip-
tion contained in that paragraph in the tele-
type?
A: None at all. 583/.
Ms. Scaleti was interviewed by Committee staff mem-
bers on 3/30/78. She was questioned, as she indicates
in the above quote at that time about the description
the above
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discrepancy.
When Ms. Scaleti was shown the 10/9
cable on that occasion she stated that she would not have
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taken the description of the Individual in paragraph two
to be a description of Oswald. 584/ The description
discrepancy was specifically pointed out to Ms. Bustos
and she was specifically questioned on that point. The
report of that interview says:
We next pointed out to Ms. Scaletti the
fact that the response to Mexico had a
correct description of Oswald and the dis-
semination had an incorrect one. She said
that the info in the first paragraph of the
dissemination came from MEXI 6453 and that
explained the incorrect description. We
pointed out to her the fact that she had the
correct description and that had already
told us that she did not associate the de-
scription in 6453 with Oswald, and that she
had said that the cable and teletype had been
prepared simultaneously by three knowledgable
people. She said, first, that the correct
description would not have been put in the
dissemination because it came from the file
review. I pointed out that all of the infor-
mation in the second paragraph of the dissemina-
tion was from the file review. She responded
that they had not been sure that the "Lee Os-
wald" referred to in 6453 was the same as "Lee
Henry Oswald" on whom they had a file, hence
they would not have had included a description
from 6453 that she did not think was connected
to Oswald. She said that it had obviously
been a mistake that coesn't matter now, but
if she had it to do over again, she would not
put any description in the dissemination be-
cause she was not sure that either applied to
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the man who identified himself as Lee Oswald at
the Embassy in Mexico. 585/.
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The second point of interest that is illustrated
by the 10/10 cable and teletype is the inference that can
be made from reviewing paragraph 3 of the teletype, para-
graph 5 of the cable, and Thomas Karamessines signing
off on the cable, that the CIA was asking for, and pro-
mising, a further investigation of Oswald without a speci-
which
fic request from any other covernment agency who might
write out words.]
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have had, as the '77 IGR says, "investigative responsibility."
Herbert Manell,
The Chief of the Soviet Section in Mexico City
recognized such a routine irvestigative responsibility as
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part of the normal course of his duties.
He stated:
One of our responsib·lities was to assist
the FBI in identifying people who might be-
come Soviet agents, particularly in America. 586/
As a matter of fact, the Chief of the Branch of
the CIA responsible for the Mexican operations at Head-
quarters thought this was one of the Mexico City Station's
strongest and most successful areas of endeavor.
They (Americans) were detected enough so
that J. Edgar Hoover used to glow every
time that he thought of the Mexico City
Station. This was one of our outstanding
areas of cooperation with the FBI. 587/
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The request for further investigation and dis-
semination contained in paragraph 5 of the 10/10 cable to
Mexico was the reason that the cable was sent to the
Assistant Deputy Director of Plans for release. 588/
The Chief of the Mexico Branch was questioned extensively
on this point:
A: Well, it went up to Mr. Karamessines be-
cause it involved disseminating information
on an American citizen to the U.S. government
agencies, you see. At that time--probably
still the CIA dic not investigate or pass
around information on American citizens un-
less it were requested to by another govern-
ment agency, either in that particular case
or by some standard operating procedure.
In other words, the CIA,, seeing an American
abroad, observing an American abroad, observ-
ing an American abroad engaging in some
skullduggery, would inform the responsible
U.S. agency here and sit and wait for instruc-
tions before doing anything further. In
this case, we were passing on information.
to other U.S. government agencies in Mexico
City and this probably went to other places
in Washington as well.
Q: This particular information was disseminated
to other agencies without a request of any
such agency. Is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: This fit into the other category of cases
where disseminations were made?
A: Disseminations would be made to other interested
agencies, and any information we came across
had action taken to follow up to take investi-
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gative steps. Dissemination would only be taken
if another agency requested it, either specifically
in that case, or unless it were a part of standard
operating procedure, which would have been agreed
upon with another agency.
This
Q: Was any follow-up action contemplated by (the
10/10) cable?
A: Yes. "Please keep Headquarters advised of any
further contacts or for positive identification
of Oswald."
Q: That would be considered follow-up?
A: Yes. They were instructed to stay alert and report
any further evidence of this man's presence. There-
fore, Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it.
Q: Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it because
follow-up action was contemplated?
A: With regard to a U.S. citizen abroad.
Q: For purposes of clarification, I think you said
that there were two situations where Mr. Karamessines
would have to sign off. One would be where another
agency requested the dissemination?
A: Yes. No--not the question of the dissemination.
It is a question of operational action being taken.
Q: A request for operational action. What is the second
. example?
A: Well--
Q: Would the Agency itself decide to take operational
action?
A: Ordinarily, operational action in an ordinary case
would not require Mr. Karamessines approval at all.
It was only because an American citizen was involved.
That interest in an American citizen might come about
because of a specific statement of interest about.
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this individual from another U.S. government
agency or it might come about because of a standard
operating procedure.
For example, we had an agreement with the
FBI that we would follow up leads on any American
citizen in Mexico City who appeared around the
Soviet Embassies, and so on, or anybody who was
down there appearing to defect, which we might
learn through our telephone intercepts.
We could just as well have sent this cable
out without Mr. Karmessines releasing it. I do
not know why we did it.
Q: In fact, you pointed to something which I was
going to ask you about. I was wondering why
somebody as high up in the Agency as Mr. Kara-
messines was the releasing officer.
A: I would have been because of the U.S. citizen
aspect, because so many other U.S. Government
agencies were involved, State Department, FBI
and the Navy. I suppose one of these things
is the Navy. One of them could be the Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Service.
Q: Let me attempt to summarize again. 'Karamessines
would be responsible for signing off on this
because operat onal action pertaining to an
American was taken?
A: Yes.
Q: Either pursuan to the request of another go-
vernment agency or pursuant to some standard
operating procedure of the Agency itself.
A: Yes.
Q: Any other reason that you can think of?
A: No..
Q: I believe you
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or an agreement, with the FBI that any activities
by Americans around the Soviet or Cuban Embassy
would be reported and followed up on by the Agency.
Was that agreement in writing?
A: I do not know. It probably was in writing some-
where. It antedated my tenure, and the agreement
was not in the files. It would have been in the
files of the DDP or of the CI Staff. 589/
The Chief of the Mexico Branch hence believes that
further investigation of Oswald was requested by CIA
Headquarters without the prior expression of interest
from another government agercy with "investigative respon-
sibility." This request for "operational activity" concern-
ing an American abroad is advanced as the reason for the
Assistant Deputy Director of Plans signing off on the
cable. Even though the cable was brought to Karamessines'
attention and he did sign off on it, Mr. Scelso told this
Committee that that was not necessary due to a standing
agreement with the FBI under which the CIA had agreed to
investigate Americans in Mexico in contact with the Soviet
Embassy without any specific request from another agency. 590/
This recollection is corroborated by other testimony and
documents. 591/ Elsie Scaleti also recalled that it would
not have been necessary, in 1963, to bring such a request
for operational action to the ADDP's attention. 592/
suggested that the reason for bringing it to the ADDP's
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attention did not have to do with the request for operational
' action, but because Oswald's contact was considered impor-
tant enough to merit his attention:
Q: Why would someone as high up in the organiza-
tion as Karamessines ask to be the releasing
officer of this particular cable?
A: I can only surmise now that I might have thought
or what several of us might have thought at
the time, that since it involved somebody of
this nature who had tried to renounce his citi-
zenship, who was in the Soviet Union, married
to a Soviet, got out with a Soviet wife pre-
sumably, which is very strange, and now the con-
tact with the Soviets, we could have a security,
a major security problem. This was one way of
informing him and getting attention at the
higher level. 593/
Even though the CIA denies such an agreement (if it
was in writing) that covered the CIA's investigation of
American citizens in Mexico, this Committee is certain,
on the basis of the above detailed evidence, that such
an agreement existed, either formally or informally. 594/
Hence, the assertion in the 1977 IG report that "Oswald
was not an investigative responsibility of the CIA" 595/
is seemingly inaccurate and misleading.
This Committee has attempted to determine what
actions, if any, were taken by the CIA's Mexico City Sta-
tion after Headquarters responded to the initial report
of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet Embassy.
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respect, two assertions of the '77 IGR are important:
1) that it was not discovered that Oswald was seeking a
visa to Russia and that he had also been in contact with
the Cuban Embassy until November 22, 1963; and 2) that
the Station did "nothing other than ask Headquarters
on 15 October for a photograph of Oswald" because no
other government agency had mide an official request for
further information. 596/ It has already been shown
that the "official request" that the Agency claims was
not forthcoming was, in fact, not necessary and that,
as a matter of fairly routine operating procedure, the
CIA Headquarters requested a follow-up on the information
already reported about Oswali. It has also been shown
that the Oswald matter, after the name trace was done
at Headquarters, was considered to be fairly significant
by the Headquarters officials involved. In this regard,
it should be pointed out that Headquarters communicated
its concern to Mexico by requesting in paragraph 5 of
DIR 74830 more information on Oswald. It should also
be noted that the CIA Headquarters also, by notifying
the interested government agencies that "Any further in-
formation received on this subject will be furnished to
you" 597/ belied the necessity of one of the agencies
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making an official request for further action.
Hence,
the excuse offered for the claimed lack of action by the
Mexico Station is invalid and the question becomes 1) whe-
ther or not that Station did any follow-up; 2) whether
they did discover additional information about Oswald
prior to the assassination%; 3) whether that information,
if any, was reported in an accurate and expeditious man-
ner; and 4) if it was not reported, what was the reason
for the failure to report.
The Mexico City Station received DIR 74830 on
11 October 1963. The Mexico City copy of this cable is
in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City "P" file along with
the Station routing slip. There are several interesting
aspects to this copy of the cable and there is evidence
that provides indications of the Stations' actions and
the timing of those actions.
ment.
There are several marginal notations on this docu-
Perhaps the most interesting is the notation "Sic"
with an arrow drawn to the 'Henry" in the name "Lee Harvey
Oswald." That notation was made by Win Scott when he
read the cable on the day it was received in Mexico. 598/
This notation struck Commitzee investigators as very
strange because it was a possible indication that Win
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Scott knew, at the time the cable was received, that Lee
Oswald's middle name was not "Henry." David Phillips
was questioned about that possibility:
Q: Do you have any reason to believe that when
this cable was received in October of 1963 Mr.
Scott knew that cable's reference to Lee
Harvey Oswald was incorrect?
A: No, I don't recall that, but reading this ob-
viously at whatever time he wrote that "sic".
on there he felt it was incorrect or he would
not have spotlighted it that way. But I don't
have any recollection. I don't have any re-
collection that we know before this cable came
back down that it was Lee Harvey Oswald. 599/
The explanation most often advanced was that Mr.
Scott often used the symbols "Sic" and "aka" interchang-
eably and that all he was indicating here was that the
"Lee Oswald" from the taps was also to be indexed and
filed under the additional name "Lee Henry Oswald."
600/ Mr. Phillips was also asked about this explanation:
[Win Scott ]
Q: Was henthe kind of individual that would have
interchanged or used interchangeably the words,
the letters "aka" and "sic" interchangeably
as having the same meaning?
that?
Do you appreciate
A: Yes. I don't think sɔ. He was an intellectual.
His great secret was that he wrote poetry. He
didn't want anyone else to know that. He was
very well educated, extremely well read, and no,
he is not the kind of man--
Q: He would appreciate the distinction?
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A: He would appreciate the distinction between the
two. 601/
If Mr. Scott did in fact make this notation prior to
the assassination of John Kennedy, this Committee has not
been able to determine why "sic" was used. 602/
The description of Oswald is marked on this cable with
a double black line, a check mark and the notation "24
years old" in Ann Goodpasture's hand-writing. 603/ · At
it what point -gus do te
this point at least Ms. Goodpasture and Allan White, the
DCOS, realized that the photograph they had described
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in MEXI 6453 was not of Oswald. 604/ But this realization
was evidently not shared by all the officers in the sta-
tion. Ms. Goodpasture remembers that there was some con-
troversy in the station about whether the man described
in the 10/11 cable was the same man who had been picked
up by the Station's photographic surveillance.
pasture remembers that she believed, based on the cable,
that the photograph reported in MEXI 6453 was not of Os-
wald. She said that she argued over the identification
with Win Scott and that " he said, "Oh, that may be incor-
rect and so forth. But there was some quibbling over
it." 605/
The routing slip on the 10/11 cable indicates some of
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occurred. Ms. Goodpasture noted that "We should ask
HQ for photo. No?" Barbara Manell noted that the dis-
semination requested by Paragraph 4 of the cable was
done on 15. October 1963. Win Scott wrote, "Please set
up "P" file on Lee Henry OSWALD and put all data we
have into it.
Photos?" 606/ The document was sent to
the files on 15 October 1963. 607/ Hence, we know that
Oswald's Mexico "P". file was opened on or about 15 Octo-
ber 1963 and that Win Scott asked that "all" informa-
tion be included in the file. There is substantial rea-
son to believe that most, it not all, of the information
available to the Station was incorporated into the file
at that time. 608/
The 10/11 cable greatly increased the significance
of Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy in the eyes
of the Mexico City Station just as the name trace results
reported by that cable had made the matter more signifi-
cant to the officers involved at Headquarters. 609/
This cable aroused the Station's operational interest
in Oswald.
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Q: To your knowledge did that (the 10/11 cable)
in any way enhance the importance of Oswald's
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contact with the Soviet Embassy?
A: Oh, yes, sure, it did. The fact that he had that
kind of background. Sure, he became someone of
considerable operational interest. Again, there
was nothing other than operational interest.
Q: In all likelihood tha cable would have prompted
the people at the station to go back and look at
the earlier transcripts?
A: Yes, I would think so. 610/
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This Committee believes that Station personnel did,
between October 11 and October 15, go back and recheck
the transcripts and connect the important substantive
calls to Oswald. Under normal operating procedures a
Stape of Oswald's calls to the Soviet Embassy should not
have been erased until 16 October, 4 to 5 days after
the case took on added significance. 611/ The one trans-
cript of the call on 10/1/63 that had definitely been
linked to Oswald prior to receipt of the 10/11 cable bore
a reference to an earlier conversation by a man who
spoke broken Russian, the text of the 10/1 call allowed
that the prior call had probably occurred on September 28,
1963. 612/ It should have been possible at that point
to compare the tapes to see if they were in fact the same
caller. Indeed, a notation made by Ann Goodpasture on a
newspaper article in 1964 suggests that this was the case.
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The notes says:
The caller from the Cuban Embassy was uniden-
tified until HQ sent traces on Oswald and voices
compared by (Tarasoff.) 613/
The cable traffic after the assassination confuses
this point rather than clarifies it. This will be dealt
with in more detail in a subsequent section. An examina-
tion of documents in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Sta-
tion P file and the cable traffic from Mexico City to
Headquarters after the assassination, raised a possibility
that at least one tape of Cswald's voice existed as late
as 16 October 1963. 614/
Assuming that the 10/1/63 call in which an individual
identifies himself as "Lee Oswald" was handled in an ex-
pedited manner, the tape and the transcript would have
been in the Station by the following day at the latest. 615/
If the tape had been held for the normal two-week reten-
tion period, it would have been erased on or about 16
October. The tape from the 9/28/63 conversation would
have probably been in the station by the first or second.
Moreover, it
of October at the latest. 616/ It would not have normally
been erased until on or about 16 October also. It seems
clear that the tapes, unde normal procedures would have
been retained until at leasts.
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October. An examination of the documents does not clarify
this question but rather add: confusion to the issue.
Several documents and cables deal with the tapes and
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a voice comparison of the recorded conversations.
Oswald's "p" file there is a newspaper clipping of an
article from the 21 October 1964 Washington Post. The
article, by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, is entitled
"CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission."
One paragraph from that article says:
The investigators also are trying to determine
why the CIA in its preassassination report to
the State Department on Oswald's trip to Mexico
City gave details only of the defector's visit
to the Russian Embassy and not the Cuban Embassy.
The CIA did not report the latter visit until after
Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
Next to that paragraph Ann Goodpasture wrote:
The caller from the Cuban Embassy was unidenti-
fied until HQ sent traces on Oswald and voices
compared by (Tarasoff). 617/
That statement is very clear in saying that a voice
comparison was made. The cable traffic that went from
Mexico to CIA Headquarters after the assassination is
not so clear.
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On 23 November, the CIA leadquarters asked the
Mexico City Station to send the full transcripts of Os-
wald's conversations and "original tapes if available"
to Headquarters as soon as possible by a special courier. 618/
On that same day, Ann Goodpasture sent a cable to Head-
quarters reporting the 9/28/63 conversation. That cable
said, in part, "Station unable compare voice as first
tape erased prior receipt second call." 619/ Later
that same day Ms. Goodpasture wrote another cable which
said:
(Tarasoff) who did transcriptions says Os-
wald identical with person para one speak-
ing broken Russian who called from Cuban
Embassy 28 September to Soviet Embassy. 620/
The next day the Mexico City Station informed Headquarters
that it had been unable to locate any tape of Oswald's.
voice.
"Regret complete recheck shows tapes for this
period already erased." 621/
The statement in MEXI 7023 that a voice comparison
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was not possible because of the first tape being erased
prior to the second tape being received is inconsistent
with the statements made in testimony and in other cables 622/
and with the procedure then in effect at the station at
that time. 623/ It is, therefore, considered highly
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unlikely that a tape would be held only one or two days,.
the situation that is implied by the statement in MEXI 7023.
The other statements by Ms. Goodpasture in the cables
and on the newspaper article; clearly indicate that a
voice comparison was made. Ms. Goodpasture was questioned
about this:
Q: To your knowledge, was a voice comparison
ever made between the tapes to deterimne
whether the same person was speaking in
each one?
A: I do not know. I did not make one. I do
not know whether someone else made one or
not. There is a transcript, a cable here,
in which the transcriber of the Soviet tape
says that it is the same voice, which would
lead one to believe that he made a voice
comparison, but it just may have been that
he, from his memory, came to that conclu-
sion. 624/
Q: On the lower righthard corner of the newspaper
article that is contained there, marked off
with a dark line is a paragraph. Kindly
read that paragraph, starting with the words
"The investigators..'
(Pause.)
A: This would suggest--
Q: One moment.
A: --Tarasoff compared the voices on a tape of October.
Q: Whose handwriting appears?
A: That is mine.
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Q: That indicates that the caller--could you please
read that to us. Read what you wrote that day.
A: "The caller from the Cuban Embassy was unidenti-
fied until Headquarters sent traces on Oswald."
Now, that would have been in answer to the cable.
that was dated 8th October. I believe their cable
was 18 October, "and voices compared by Feinglass."
Feinglass was the pesudonym used by Tarasoff.
Q: In fact, that indicates--
A: He compared the Cuban Embassy voices with the
others, with Oswald's call, in which he used his
name.
Q: When would that have happened?
A: I said 18 October because I thought that was the
date of the cable. 10 October. 625/
Boris Tarasoff testified that he had not been queried
at all about Oswald in 1963 and that he had not done a voice
comparison. 626/ Herbert Manell testified that Tarasoff
did not do a voice comparison but connected the two con-
versations in his marginal comments in the transcripts on
the basis of memory. 627/
Whether or not Mr. Tarasoff or someone else did a
voice comparison of the tapes, it is likely that the tapes.
did exist until at least the 16th of October and would
have been available for such a comparison. It is possi-
ble that the connection between the 10/1/63 call and
the 9/28/63 call was made on the basis of Mr. Tarasoff's'
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memory. In any event the record clearly indicates that
the tapes should have been available, and probably were
available, as late as 16 October 1963. 628/ This is
significant because it was after receipt of the 10/10 ca-
ble from Headquarters that the Oswald case took on a
more than routine coloring.
The increased significance that the Oswald
visit took on during the period from October 11 to Octo-
ber 16, 1963, could have provided the station with reason
to retain the Oswald tapes. 629/
Ms. Goodpasture was asked what became of the Oswald
tapes:
Q: What happened to that tape containing Oswald's
voice?
A: What happened?
? Yes.
Q: What happened to that tape yes?
A: I do not know.
Q: Do those tapes exist today?
A: What?
Q: Do those tapes exist today?
A: If they do, I do not know where they are.
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Q: Are you aware of the fact that, after the as-
sassination, it has been alleged that some
tapes were given to the FBI to listen to and
that it was said that these tapes contained
Oswald's voice on them?
A: Someone asked me about that, but I do not think
that I had those tapes. I do not remember if
I did, and I was not aware that we gave any to
the FBI. I do not know whether Mr. Manell got
tapes from Mr. Tarasof and passed them to the
FBI, or if the Chief of Station or Deputy passed
anything to the FBI. I just do not know. 630/
On the whole most CIA officers who testified stated
that, if a tape of Oswald's voice existed at the time of
the assassination, they did not know anything at all about
it. 631/ One CIA officer, the Chief of the Branch respon-
sible for Mexico, testified that he believed the tapes
did exist at the time of the assassination:
Q: Were they able to locate the original tapes?
A: I think so.
Q: Do you recall what was done with those tapes?
A: No..
Q: Did you ever--
A: I never heard them.
A: You never heard them?
A: No.
Q: On what basis do you say the original tapes
were found?
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A: I had the impression that after the assassination
they did a lot of transcribing. I may be wrong. It
Q: Let us look at (MEXI 1025.) Paragarph four
there, which indicate that the person who did
the transcript and says, "Oswald is identical
with the person in an earlier paragraph who
spoke broken Russian and called on 28 September."
That indicates that some sort of a voice compari-
son was made.
A: Yes. Tapes were probably still in existence. 632/
The Tarasoffs do not remember ever doing, or being
asked to do, a voice comparison of the Oswald tapes. 633/
other
1.
But the evidence, albeit circumstantial, seems to indi-
cate that the tapes were in existence and that the voices
were compared by someone. 634/ Herbert Manell suggested
that Tarasoff may have confirmed the fact that the two
calls were made by the same person by memory after re-
ceipt of the 10/11 cable. 63/
However, the Station made the connections, whether by
voice comparison and/or by comparison of the substantive
information in the 10/11 cable to the substantive informa-
tion in the transcripts, the conversations were linked to
Oswald prior to the assassination and probably by the
time that the "P" file was opened on or about 16 October
1963. 636/ Ms. Goodpasture was also asked about this:
Q: On October 1st, you found out that Oswald
had been at the Russian Embassy the preceding
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Saturday. Was any effort made to check
your materials from the surveillance opera-
tion, the photographic surveillance opera-
tion, or from the telephonic surveillance
operation to get additional information
on this?
A: I do not know whether I checked it immediately
or not at this stage. I do know that they were
checked thoroughly after the assassination. In
fact, I think they were checked thoroughly after
the information came back from Washington iden-
tifying a Lee Oswald. 637/
On October 15, 1963, a 'p" file was opened on
Oswald. 638/ That same day the CIA Mexico City Station
requested that Headquarters send them a photograph of
Oswald. 639/ On that date also Ms. Manell drafted a
local dissemination memo regarding Oswald's contact with
the Soviet Embassy. 640/ By this date at least the 10/1/
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10:45 call, the 9/28/11:51 call, the 9/27/4:05 call,
and the 9/27/4:26 call had been linked to Oswald. 641/
On 16 October 1963 the nemorandum drafted by Ms.
Manell was circualted at the U. S. Embassy. It said:
1. The following information was received from
a usually reliable and extremely sensitive
source: On 1 October 1963, an American male
contacted the Soviet Embassy and identified
himself as Lee OSWALD. This officer (sic)
determined that OSWALD had been at the Soviet
Embassy on 28 September 1963 and had talked
with Valeriy Valdimirivoch KOSTIKOV, a mem-
ber of the Consular Section, in order to learn
if the Soviet Embassy had received a reply
from Washington concerning his request. We
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have no clarifying information with regard to
this request.
2. Our Headquarters has informed us that the
OSWALD above is probably identical with Lee
Henry OSWALD, born on 18 October 1939, in
New Orleans, Louisiani, a former radar opera-
tor in the U. S. Marine Corps who defected
to the Soviet Union in October 1959.
3. This office will advise you if additional
information on this mitter is received. 642/
When Ms. Manell was asked wh/ she had stated that it
had been "determined" that Oswald had been in contact
with the Soviet Embassy on 23 September she said that:
it must have been because she had rechecked the trans-
cripts by this time as otherwise she would not have
used such certain language. 543/ When asked why the 10/16
memo said that there was no clarifying information on
Oswald's "request" when it was known by this time that
he was seeking a visa, Ms. Manell said that "They had no
need to know all those other details" 644/
There are no indications that any other actions were
taken by the Mexico City Station prior to the assassina-
tion. 645/
Even though the Station's actions after the 10/11
cable were not highly extensive, it is inaccurate and
misleading to say that those actions were limited to re-
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questing a photograph of Oswald from Headquarters.
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Hence, the fact that Os-
ther actions included rechecking the transcripts and
discovering the substantive ones that concerned Oswald
and reporting the information in MEXI 6453 and DIR 74830
to various components in the U. S. Embassy in Mexico.
City in a misleading manner.
wald was seeking a visa and had been in contact with
the Cubans as well as the Russians was known prior to
the assassination, and the Station's actions prior to
the assassination were more comprehensive than merely
requesting a photograph; although if any action other
than a file check was taken, no record of that action
has been made available to this Committee.
It is unlikely, but possible, that this information
that was developed by the Mexico City Station after 10/11/63
was reported to Headquarters. Elsie Scaleti pointed
out that a report of this additional information on
Oswald's activities in Mexico "would have been expected.
.646/ Ms. Scaleti's belief that the information should
have been reported to Headquarters is shared for identi-
cal reasons by her superior at Headquarters. 647/
The testimony from the people involved, both at head-
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quarters and in Mexico, while often uncertain, is, gen-
erally, that they do not remember that such a cable was
sent. Ms. Scaleti said that she could not recall that
Mexico had sent any other information to Headquarters
prior to the assassination, but added, I "could not
swear to that." 648/ The head of the Mexico Branch
at Headquarters was certain that this information was
reported but he could not recall the form of the report
or whether it occurred before or after the assassination. 649/
Robert Shaw first testified that, to his knowledge, the
information was not reported prior to the assassination
and then added "but I would have no way of knowing."
650/ The Deputy Chief of Station in Mexico, Mr. Allan
White, was also unsure on this point:
[o]id
Q: Did they ever indicate to Headquarters that
'Oswald had been to the Cuban Embassy as well
as to the Soviet Embassy and that he wanted
a visa?
A: I would have to assume that they did. I
realize that "assume" is a bad word.
Q: You don't have personal knowledge one way or
another?
A: No, prior to the assassination I would not. 651/
Ann Goodpasture was also unsure of her recollection
in this area:
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Q: But Headquarters was never appraised of that
voice comparison?
A: I think they were in a cable.
A: Prior to the assassination?
A: No, I do not think they were prior to the assas-
sination.xx.x
Q: It is determined that the same person was talking
on each tape and there is no follow-up to head-
quarters, even though Headquarters clearly consi-
dered this to be significant?
A: The follow-up was made by disseminating this
information from the traces locally and trying
to identify Oswald, trying to locate the man.
That is the way the follow-up was made.
thought that he may still be in Mexico.
We
Q: The point is, however, that upon the making of
a voice comparion, if, in fact, that was done,
that information' was not communicated to anyone.
A: I do not know if it was or not. You would have
to check the file completely, the cable traffic,
to see if it was. To the best of my knowledge,
it was not until after the assassination.xx
Q: In fact, headquarters did not know that he had
also been to the Cuban Embassy?
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A: At that point, no.
Q: At least, according to your recollection, it was
not until after the assassination that Headquarters
was informed of that fact?
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A: That is probably right. 152/
Only one person who was interviewed by this Committee
was certain of her recollection.
Ms. Barbara Manell was
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certain that a second cable reporting Oswald's contacts
with the Cuban Embassy had been sent to Headquarters
prior to the assassination.
Q: It does not strike you as more significant
that the American contacts the Soviet Embassy
and he also contacts the Cuban Embassy? To
me that would make him seem more significant
and therefore, if you found out about this
after the time the (first.) cable was sent you
would have sent another cable.
A: I did not send another cable but I know another.
cable was sent. I didn't send it..
Q: Another cable concerning Oswald was sent?
A: I think so. Where is the whole file? Wasn't
there a cable saying he was in touch with the
Cuban Embassy?
Q: We have not seen one.
A: I am pretty such there was.
Q: Did you send that cable?
A: No, I did not send the cable. When I found out
about it I remember this, I said how come?
Q: Who did? Do you know"
A: I don't know who sent it. I think Ann (Goodpasture)
might have. She migh have sent a follow-up one
with this information 653/
The staff of this Commitee suggested that Mr. Phil-
lip's clear recollection of involvement in reporting
Oswald's visit to the Cuban Embassy and that he was seeking
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a visa along with the fact that Mr. Phillips was not in
Mexico at the time that the first cable was sent, 654/
could possibly be an indication that he is recalling a
second cable. When asked about this, Mr. Phillips
stated that he had no knowledge of a second cable sent
prior to the assassination. 655/
Some corroboration of Mr. Manell's assertions were
found in the materials from Win Scott's safe. Scott wrote:
* (0)n page 777 of (the Warren) report the
erroneous statement was made that it was not
known that Oswald had visited the Cuban Em-
bassy until after the assassination! Every
piece of information concering Lee Harvey Os-
wald was reported immediately after it was
received to: U. S. Ambassador Thomas C.
Mann, by memorandum; the FBI Chief in Mexico,
by Memorandum; and to my headquarters by cable;
and included in each and every one of these
reports was the conversation Oswald had, so
far as it was known. These reports were made
on all his contacts with both the Cuban Con-
sulate and with the Soviets. 656/
If the cable was sent it is not in the files made
available to the HSCA by the CIA.
The head of the Mexico Branch admitted that the
[paragraph]
information should have been reported and that, if it
had been, the Oswald case would have been handled dif-
ferently, at least as far as the dissemination of infor-
mation about him was concerned.
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Q: Had the information concerning Oswald's visit
to the Cuban Embassy in addition to the Soviet
one, that Oswald had been requesting a visa,
if it had been sent to CIA headquarters, would
his case prior to the assassination have been
handled in any different manner?
A: It would have been in the case of dissemina-
tion of information about him, but I do not
think that any operational action would have
taken to apprehend him or to contact him or
to try to force him back to the United States.
[tDow
Q:
How would the dissemination have been
treated differently?
A: Well, it simply means that we would have dis-
seminated any additional information that we
got. 657/
It cannot be determined with exactitude whether or
not this additional information about Oswald was reported
to Headquarters. In all likelihood it was not. The Chief
of the Mexico Desk was asked whether or not the Station
was ever criticized for this failure to report in the
face of a specific request to do so by CIA Headquarters.
replied:
He said:
No. That was not because we were trying to go.
easy on them, it is simply because it is in the
nature of the business. What you are trying to
do is engage, as I used to say, in important il-
legal manipulations of society, secretly.
We were running, at that time, a vast poli-
tical action program in Mexico City to try to
swing Mexico around from its Leftist direction
to a middle of the road direction and it succeeded.
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I do not know whether you informed yourself about
the magnitude of our political action program at
the time--absolutely enormous.
We were trying to follow the Soviets and
At the same
all the satellites ard the Cubans.
time, the main thrust of the Station's effort
was to attempt to recruit Russians, Cubans and
satellite people. 658/
Perhaps the nature of the CIA Mexico City Station's
handling of the Oswald case prior to the assassination
can best be summed up in Dave Phillips' response when
he was asked how he would characterize that handling:
"At the very best, it is not professional, at the best." 659/
V. Mexico City Station Reporting of Information Concerning
Oswald After the Assassination
A. Reporting of information concerning the photograph
of the Mexico Mystery Man
Even though some people in the Station clearly dis-
associated the photograph that was described in MEXI 6453
659A
from Oswald after receiving the 10/11 cable, 656/ it is
clear that some people still considered it possible for
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some reason that the photograph was of Oswald.
ber, Ann Goodpasture had argued this very point with Win-
6598
ston Scott. 657/ On the lay of the assassination, the
Mexico City Station cabled Headquarters,
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Sovemb 28 Oct who could be identical with Oswald." 658/
The date was later corrected to read 1 October. 659/
Mr. Scott was not the only person in the Mexico Station
who still thought that the photo could possibly be
Oswald.
Mr. Manell testified on this pointx:
Q: As of the day of the assassination, you
thought that there was still a possibility
that there was a photograph of Oswald?
A: Indeed. As I recall, we tried to get that
photograph to headquarters as fast as we
could. As it turned out it wasn't neces-
sary to send it. But at was our intention. 660/
that
The photograph was sent to Dallas where Special Agent.
Odum of the FBI showed it to Mrs. Marguerite Oswald on
23 November 1963. 661/ Mrs. Oswald would later claim
it was a photograph of Jack Ruby, 662/ beginning a period
of controversy and uncertainty about this photograph that
has continued to this day. The interaction of the Warren
Commission and the CIA on this question is detailed
in another section of this report. On 23 November Mexico
i
informed Headquarters that "✗t obvious photos sent to Dallas
were not iden with Lee Oswald.". 663/
Since the time of
the assassination, this man has been identified as Yuriy
Ivanovich Moskalev, a Soviet KGB officer.
The identifica-
tion is unconfirmed and comes from only one source.
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In any case, it is unlikely that this man had any con-
nection with Oswald, outside of the mistaken belief of
several CIA officers in Mexico. 665/
B. Reporting of information concerning Lee Harvey
Oswald from the electronic intercept operation
aimed at the Soviet Embassy
The first cable that Mexico sent to Headquarters
after the assassination referred Headquarters to the
cable traffic concerning Oswald that had occurred prior
to the assassination. 666/ Headquarters replied that
they had also noted the "cornection." 667/
The cable traffic on the day of the assassination,
and the early traffic from the following day, deal al-
most exclusively with the photograph of the person who
later became known as the Mexico Mystery Man. The
first cable 668/ obviously referred to the October 1
contact and brought it to Headquarters' attention by
referring Headquarters to MEXI 6453. The first cable
that specifically refers to the transcripts occurred
on the following day. Headquarters cabled Mexico that
it was important that the station review all transcripts
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"since 27 September to locate all material possibly per-
tinent." 669/ The cable went on to instruct the station
to send the full transcripts and original tapes to Head-
quarters by special courier. 670/ The cable also asks
if the original tapes are still available. 671/
This Committee has not been able to determine how the
CIA Headquarters knew, on 23 November 1963, that a review
of the tap material should begin with the production
from 27 September, the day Oswald first appeared at the
Soviet and Cuban Embassies. There is no recrd that
Headquarters had been informed of the 9/27 visits prior
to this cable having been sent. It is possible, as some
witnesses have suggested, that his information was provided
to CIA Headquarters by the FBI in Washington. 672/ If
that is the case then it merely shifts the question. This
may indicate that the CIA Headquarters was aware of the
9/27 visits prior to the assassination. An even stronger
inference is that they were aware of those visits at least
by the day after the assassination. The manner in which
they learned of these visits by that date has not been
determined.
It is possible that Headquarters was informed
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Even though witnesses generally denied
that there was telephone communication between Mexico
City and Headquarters at the time of the assassination,
there is strong evidence that there was such communica-
tion on at least two instances. 673/
As will become evident, the transcripts were cabled
to headquarters that same day. It is not clear why Head-
quarters asked that the transcripts and tapes, if they
existed, be sent to Headquarters by special courier as
opposed to cabling the transcripts which would have been
faster. 674/ There is no record that indicates that
these transcripts of Oswald'; calls were sent to Head-
quarters by special courier.
On the 23rd, the Mexico City Station reported all
of the substantive Oswald conversations to Headquarters
by cable. Logically, one would expect that since the
circumstantial evidence indicates that these conversa-
tions were linked to Oswald prior to the assassination,
that they would all have been reported in one cable, es-
pecially in light of the request from Headquarters in
DIR 84886. 675/ At this point, according to the files
and records made available to the HSCA staff by the CIA,
the Mexico City Station had informed Headquarters of
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only the 9/28 and the 10/1/10:45 conversations.
It
should be noted that the 10/1/10:45 conversation makes
reference to the fact that Oswald was also at the Em-
bassy on 9/28. The next cable that Mexico City sent to
Headquarters said, in part, 'Other than Info already
sent re Oswald's connection with Sov and Cuban Embs,
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no other info available." 675/ The next cable reports
a literal transcription of the 9/28 and 10/1/10:45 con-
versations. 677/. The next cable that refers to the
transcripts of Oswald's conversations reports the 9/27/
10:30 call, the 9.27/4:05 call, the 9.27/4:26 call, the
10/1/10:31 call, and the 10/3 call. 678/ With this
cable Mexico City informed Headquarters of all the sub-
stantive information available from the Soviet Embassy
electronic surveillance. 679/
Mexico City also informed Headquarters on 11/24/64
that the tapes from the period in which Oswald had vi-
sited the Soviet and Cuban Embassies had been erased. 680/
A cable on the previous day had informed Headquarters
that it was "probable" that the Oswald tapes had been
erased. 681/ An earlier cable that same day reported
that "Station unable compare voice as first tape erased
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prior receipt of second call 682/ This would imply
that the tape of the 28 September conversation, which
may not have been received at the station until the
30th or the 1st of October, was destroyed before the
tape of the conversation on the 1st of October was re-
ceived in the station on tha: same day. In light of
the standard operating procedures in effect in the sta-
tion at that time, that possibility is highly unlikely. 683/
In view of what is now known about the standard
operating procedures and about the Station's actions
prior to the assassination, the Station's confusing and.
somewhat contradictory reporting after the assassination
is strange. 684/ It is possible that these confusions
and contradictions arose out of the crisis atmosphere
at the station and the rush to report information. This
Committee has not found any solid evidence that there
sinister qualities in the reporting after the
were
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FOR LEE HARVEY OSWALD, MEXICO CITY
AND. THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
1/ See Warren Report, pp. 299-304, 733-736. In support of
its account of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and
Cuban diplomatic missions, the Warren Commission pub-
lished the following as exhibits:
1). A note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
to the Swiss Ambassado: in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-
bit 2445.)
2) Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba's letter
denying the visa. (Commission Exhibit 2564.)
3) Letterhead Memorandum to J. Lee Rankin from Richard
Helms re: "Technical Examination of Photographs of
Lee Harvey Oswald's. Application for a Cuban Visa."
(Commission exhibit 3127.)
4) The pages of Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook with the
telephone numbers of the Cuban Consulate, the Soviet
Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's office.
(Commission Exhibit 2121.)
5) A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee Harvey Oswald to the
Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.. (Commission Ex-
hibit 15.)
6) A letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission
listing the contents of the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to.
the assassination. (Commission Exhibit 834. This
document listed a Central Intelligence Agency."release".
dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)
7) A memorandum dated 5/14/64 to the United States Em-
bassy in Mexico City from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for Mexico. (Commission Exhibit 2120.)
8) A memorandum dated 6/9/64 from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Mexico to the United States Embassy in
Mexico City. (Commission Exhibit 2123.).
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Richard Helms re: "Hours of Work at the Cuban and
Soviet Consulates." ( Commission Exhibit 2568.)
2/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.
3/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, un-
dated, pp. 1-2; David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76,
. 123; HSCA Outside Contact Report, David A. Phillips,
5/11/78, JFK Document No. 008321; Thomas Keenan Inter-
view, 3/24/78, p. 2; Robert Zambernardi Interview,
6/3/78, p. 2.
1/7
ت کرینے کر رہے
4/ Robert Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 4.
5/ See JFK Exhibit F-438, reprinted at page.
6/ Ibid.
7/ Ibid.
8/ Ibid.
9/ Ibid.; see also Section II, A, 3, below.
A
10/ See JFK Exhibit F-438 and Section II, A, 3, below.
pulse camera is a camera equipped with a device that
automatically triggers the shutter of the camera thereby
exposing the film.
11/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 4.3
12/ Undated Draft of 1977 CIA Staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico
Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963),"
P. 5.
Hereinafter cited as Tab F Draft.
13/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 123; Ann Good-
pasture Testimony, 4/13/18, p. 44.
14/ Ibid.
15/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/16, p. 123; Phi
4/25/18, p. 43.
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Document No. 008321.
17/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 2.
18/ Ibid.
19/ Ibid.
20/ Ibid., p. 3.
21/ Ibid.
22/ Ibid.
23/ Ibid., p. 4. CF: Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 107-
108 and Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 45-46 in
which Zambernardi is said to have printed the contact
sheets.
24/ Classified
Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, un-
dated, pp. 1-2.
25 HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.
26/ Ibid., para. 5, c.
There were two common means of communi-
cation between the CIA Mexico City Station and CIA Head-
quarters: cables and dispatches. A dispatch from Mexico
City to Headquarters always has the letter prefix "HMMA."
A dispatch from Headquarters to Mexico City always has
the letter prefix "HMMW. A cable from Mexico City to
Headquarters always has the letter prefix "MEXI."
cable from Headquarters always has the letter prefix
"DIR. "
27/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
28/ Ibid.
29/ See JFK Exhibit F-438.
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30/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
31/ Ibid. There is general agreement that Robert Shaw was
the case officer for this operation.
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who takes exception to that characterization of Mr.
Shaw's role in the project is Mr. Shaw. (See: Phillips.
Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 107-108; Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, pp. 45-46; Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78,
p. 6.
p. 34.)
But see: Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,
32/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
33/ Ibid.
34/ Ibid.
35/ Ibid. The Committee declines to assume that there had been
no production by the time of this dispatch in October.
The handling of the production, i.e., when it was picked
up and taken to the Station, when it was developed, etc.,
is not known. But as the following analysis will show,
there is a strong likelihood that the pulse camera was
operating in late September and early October 1963.
36/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.
37/ Ibid.
38/ Ibid., para. 1.
39/ Ibid., para. 2:
40/ Ibid., para. 3.
41/ Ibid., attachment B.
42/ Ibid., para. 3.
43/ Ibid.
44/ Ibid., Attachment C.
45 HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para 5, c.
46 HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, para. 3.
47/ Ibid.
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49/ Ibid., para. 4.
50 MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.
51/ Ibid.
52/ Ibid.
53/ Ibid.
54/ HSCA Classified notes of discussion with CIA employee,
7/20/78.
55/ Ibid.
56/ HMMA 22726, 1/16/64, CIA #4098.
57/ Ibid., para. 5, g.
58/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65.
59/ Ibid., para. 1.
60/ Ibid., para. 3. .
61/ HSCA Classified Notes of discussion with CIA employee,
7/20/78. The cryptonym was changed on 8 July 1964.
(HMMW 12725, 7/8/64.)
62/ Letter from Blakey to Breckinridge, 7/21/78.
63/ See Sections III, A, 5 and 6 below.
64/ JFK Classified Document #142.
65/ Ibid.
66/ JFK Classified Document #116.
67/ Ibid.
68/ Ibid.
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70/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.
71/ Ibid., para. 3.
72/ Ibid.
73/ Ibid.
74/ Ibid., and para. 4.
75/ HMMA 22726, 1/16/64, para. 5, g.
76 HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
77/ HMMA 22433,' 11/7/63, para. 3.
78/ This assumption is considered reasonable in light of the
desire of the Mexico City Station to establish coverage
of the newly reopened Corsulate entrance. See HMMA
22307, 10/18/63.
79/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 3.
80/ See MEXI 9440, 6/19/64; HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 5.
81/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3,78, p. 4.
82/ 1966 LIONION Project Renewal Request, 1/1/66. "LIONION"
was the CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance
operations aimed at the Cuban diplomatic compound.
83/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 43-44.
84/ HSCA Outside Contact Report, David A. Phillips, 5/11/78,
JFK Document No. 008321.
85/ MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.
86/ See discussion of this memo in Section II, B, below.
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87 Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/18, p. 2.
88/ Ibid., p. 4.
89/ Ibid.
90/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 5.
91/ See pages
24-27,, above.
92/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
undated, pp. 1-2.
93/ Ibid..
94/ Ibid.
95/ Ibid.
96/ Ibid.
97/ Ibid.
98/ Ibid.
99/ Ibid.
100/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 47.
101/ Robert Shaw Testimony, 5/16/78, p. 35; HMMA 26006, 4/30/65,
para. 8.
102 Ibid.: HMMW 13645, 5/13/65; HMMA 26160, 5/21/65, para's. 1 and
Ibid.
103/ See MEXI 9440 and HMMA 26411.
104/ JFK Classified Document #3142.
105/ Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Staff,
re: "Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage
of Soviet and Cuban Embassies)", 2/10/77, p. 1. Here-
inafter cited as Goodpasture Notes. See also: Tab F
Draft, p. 1; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 15.
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106/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 15979,
11/18/60; Memorandum from Chief DDP/PG to Chief of
Operations/DDP, 2/3/61.
107/ HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para. 2. It is possible that the
Saturday coverage was more extensive in 1963 during
Oswald's visit. See following discussion of Review
of Project LIEMPTY, attachiment to HMMA-15979, 11/18/60;
108/
Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to
HMMA 17999, 10/31/61; Review of Project LIEMPTY,
attachment to HMMA-20052, 10/18/62; Reivew of Project
LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA-22387, 10/25/63; and
Section B. 4, following "IEMPTY" is the CIA cryptonyn
referring to the overall photo-surveillance operation
aimed at the Soviet diplomatic compound.
Sketch based on HMMA-4300, 3/12/56 with attachments;
Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/7', p. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;
HMMA-14793, 4/8/60, para. 3; Goodpasture Exhibit #1,
11/20/78.
109/ Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/77, p. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 15.
110/ Ibid.
lll/ Ibid.
112/ Ibid. See Map above. Even though LIMITED is referred to
as the "primary" base because it was the first to be
put into operation, the LILYRIC base produced the best.
photographs. (HMMA-14793, 4/8/60, para. 3)
113/ Tab F Draft, pp. 2 and 5; H:SCA Executive Session Testimony
of Ann Goodpasture, 4/13/18, p. 13; HSCA Staff Inter-
view of Thomas Keenan, 3/24/78, p. 3.
114/ Ibid. on all preceeding; HSCA Staff Interview of Herbert
and Barbara manell, 3/20/18, p. 5; HSCA Deposition of
Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 18-19; Memorandum from
Chief DDP/PG to Chief of Operations/DDP, 2/3/61.
115/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 13.
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116/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 5.
117/ Tab F Draft, p. 5; parenthetical in original.
118/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 9.
119/ MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.
120/ Ibid.
121/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 5.
122/ See also Section II, A, 3 above.
123/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 23. Ms. Goodpasture
stated that the case officer handling the project was
Thomas Keenan. (Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 34).
Thomas Keenan could not remember with certainty the scope
of the photographic coverage of the Soviet Embassy gate.
(Thomas Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, pp. 3-6.)
124/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 28-29.
125/ See below for more detail.
126/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78;
Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
10/31/78; CIA File entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J 110)
to 9 Dec. 1963 (J. 163) from Archives-Job %70.209 Box #1
LIMITED Production Material.""
127/ Ibid.
128/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2; HSCA Staff Interview of Thomas
Keenan, 3/24/78, p. 4; Classified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 5/12/78; HMMA-31303, 2/7/67 with attached
map; HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para. 2.
129/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2. See also map printed above at p. 32.
130/ Classified Staff Summary o: Review of CIA Documents; 5/12/78;
Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
10/31/78; CIA File entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63. (J 110)
to 9 Dec. 1963 (J 163) from Archives-Job #70.209 Box #1
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133/ Ibid.
134/ Ibid.
135/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 15979, 11/18/60.
Emphasis added. "LIMERICK". is a CIA cryptonym meaning
"Soviet."
136/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 17999, 10/31/61.
137/ See Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachments to HMMA 20052,
10/18/62 and HMMA 22387, 10/25/63.
138/ Memorandum from Chief of FI/OPS to Chief of Operations/DDP,
1/8/60.
139 HMMA 14793, 4/8/60, para. 3.
140/ HMMA 23343, 4/30/64, para. 2. Emphasis added.
141 Memorandum for the Record, 5/19/78 from Gabielson/Cornwell.
142/ Letter from Blakey to Breckinridge, 7/25/78
and 146.
See also JFK Classified Documents #'s 142
143 Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July
1978," 8/20/78; HSCA Classified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, p. 1. CF. Goodpasture Testi-
mony, 4/13/78, pp. 47-51, Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78,
pp.50-51, where Ms. Goodpasture testified that although
the logs and the contact prints from the LILYRIC base
are missing, thenegatives are on file at the CIA.
"
144/ Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July
1978, 8/20/78; HSCA Classified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, p. 1.
145/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 41. HMMA 23343, 4/30/64,
Win Scott was the Chief of
para. 2.
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City in 1963. He was a demanding and "hard" bose.
(Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 11.) He was also a
stickler for detail and for recording information in a
retrievable form. (Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, p. 6; Keenan
Interview, 3/24/78, p. 6; Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78,
p. 30.)
146 Log Film 144; Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, P. 2.
147/ Log Film 144; Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; Tab F Draft, p. 5;
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 41.
148/ Ibid.
149/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7.
150/ Tab F. Draft, p. 2; Goodpasture Notes, p. 2. In 1962 or
1963 a cut-out was instituted in Alvarez's dealings with
the LIMITED photographic base. The films were still de-
veloped and processed by Alvarez. (Project Renewal Re-
quest, attachment to HMMA-22387, attached to Memorandum
for DDP from J. C. King, 11/27/63, section I, B, 1.)
151/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2.
152/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7; Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 2.
153/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 33.
154/ Ibid.; Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 2..
155/ Ibid.
156/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 34.
157/ Ibid., p. 38.
158 Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 1.
159/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 33-38, 14-15.
160
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161/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 14-15.
162/ Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78, pp. 38-39.
163/ Ibid., p. 40.
164/ Ibid., p. 41.
165/ Alan White Deposition, 5/18/78, p. 7.
166/ Ibid.
167/ Ibid., p. 9.
168/ Ibid., p. 15.
169/ See H. Manell Deposition, 4/28/78,
p. 4 ; where he calls
Ms. Goodpasture "an assistant to the Chief of Station;"
B. Manell Deposition 4/28/78, p. 9 where she calls
Ms. Goodpasture "Win Scott's right-hand person"; Robert
Scelso Deposition, 5/16/78.p.22 where he calls Ms.
Goodpasture "sort of the special assistant to Win Scott";
Robert Shaw Deposition, 5/16/78, p. 11 where he says
that Win Scott "relied very heavily on Ann Goodpasture."
170/ Goodpasture Deposition,
171/ Ibid., pp. 8-9.
11/20/78, p. 34.
See Section II, C, below for detail on the
telephone tapping operation.
172/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 34-35.
173/ Ibid., p. 35.
174/ Ibid., pp. 42-43.
175/ Ibid.
176/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 11-12.
177/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 15. Herbert
Manell was in charge of the Soviet Branch of the CIA Sta-
tion in Mexico City. Barbara Manell was his assistant.
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1791 Ibid.; Herbert and Barbara Kanell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 3.
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.
180/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 15; HSCA
Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 11-12
.
1821
182/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 64-69; Arnold Arehart
Interview, 6/2/78, p. 4.
Goodpasture pp67-68
182/ Ibid.
183/ Blind Mememorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first
cable about Oswald"; Classified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 3/15/78, p. 4; Goodpasture TestimonY,
4/13/98, p. 65,
Goodpasture.
18 Ibid. 7P64-65
1851 Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 12.
F1 Blind Memorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first cable
f
about OSWALD"; Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review
of CIA files, 3/15/78, p 4.
187 Goodpasture Notes, p. 1; Goodpasture Testimony, pp. 12-13;
HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, p. 6; HSCA Deposition of
R. Shaw, pp. 21-24.
pp. 10-11.
A 188/ CIA Component report on wiretap operations prepared by Paul
Levister entitled "ZRSOL) and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap
Operations,
Hereinafter cited as Levister
Memo. Paul Levister pseudonym) was a Headquarters tech-
nician. He was in Mexico City from 22 September to 1
✓ October, 1963, preparing a report on this electronic
intercept operation. (HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 8.)
This report will be referred to in some cases in this dis-
cussion of the intercept operation. The report, however,
was simplified in order "not to risk losing the reader."
(Memorandum from Chief, WHD, to DOS, Mexico City, 12/30/63,
para. 2.)
This simplification was mainly in the area of
a distinction between reels of tape and transcripts and
in the procedures
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bution of the reels and transcripts. (Ibid.) In this
discussion of the operation other sources will be relied
upon in these areas.
In addition to the telephone surveillance main-
tained by the CIA Station in cooperation with the Mexi-
can Government, the Station also maintained some unilateral
surveillance on the Soviets without the knowledge or
cooperation of the Mexican oficials. The unilateral
surveillance was not directed at the Soviet diplomatic
compound but rather at the private apartments of Soviet
officials in Mexico City. (Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, p. 56; Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 7; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 7; HSCA Deposition
of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 16-17.) There was also uni-
lateral coverage of some Cuban targets. (Goodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 51-52.) Ann Goodpasture testi-
fied that she believed that some of these targets were
located in the Cuban diplomatic compound. (Ibid.) Ms.
Goodpasture's memory is not borne out by the project
file for the unilateral intercept. The only Cuban tar-
get of this project was the home of the Cuban Commer-
cial Attache. (HMMA-22536, 11/9/63, para. F.2.)
"
189/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment to HMMA-25141;
Goodpasture Notes, p. 5.
190/ HMMA 21845, 1/30/63, para. 8.
191/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 4; Arehar: Interview, 6/2/78, p. 1;
Levister Memo, p. 22.
192/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 5; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78,
p. 54.
193/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7.
194/ Tab F Draft, p. 4; Levister Memɔ, p. 21.
195/ Tab F Draft, p. 4; Memorandum to DDP from Chief WHD,
1/21/64, para..5.
196/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, pp. 1-2; HSCA Deposition of
H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 4.
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197/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 2; HSCA Deposition of B.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 7, 3.1.
198/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 2.
199/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 22-24.
200 Memorandum to the Ambassado: from Winston M. Scott, 10/16/63,
re: Lee Oswald/Contact with the Soviet Embassy; Manell
· Interview, 3/20/78, pp. 17-18; HSCA Deposition of H.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 21, 31, 36; HSCA Deposition of B.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52.
201/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/75, p. 19.
202/ Ibid., p. 20.
203/ HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 4. See also HMMA-22267, 10/8/63,
para. 4; HMMA-22135, 9/13/63, para. 4; HMMA-22452,
11/7/63, para. 4 which all list reports of intercepts
of American citizens, or English speaking people, in
contact with Communists in Mexico. HMMA-21845, 7/30/63,
para. 4, reports that the "traffic" is reviewed daily
for English speaking persons making contact with the
Soviet or Soviet satellite embassies.
:
10/8/6
204/ HMMA 22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.
205/ Ibid. In addition to the lines at the Soviet and Cuban com-
pounds, telephones of interest to the Mexicans, lines at
the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian Embassies were sub-
jects of taps. (HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.) The two
lines disconnected on 23 September at the Cuban Embassy
were put on lines at the Yugoslavian Embassy on the
same day. (Ibid.)
206/ HMMA 22452, 11/7/63, para. 2.
207 Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78,
p. 1.
208 See above; HMMA 22267, 10/18/63, para. 2.
209/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 7/26/78,
p. 1.
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211/ See Tab F Draft, p. 4, which states that five Cuban lines
were covered; Goodpasture Notes, p. 8, which also states
that 5 Cuban lines were covered; and Phillips Testimony,
11/27/76, p. 11, and Goolpasture Testimony, 4/13/78,
pp. 51-53, in which they state their belief that more
than three lines in the Cuban diplomatic compound were
covered by this liaison intercept operation.
212 Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment to HMMA
25141, section D, 1, (b), (1).
213 Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p.
A, 3, below.
11.
See also Section III,
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214/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
undated, entitled "Periodic File Summary Dave Phillips
3 Components," p. 1.
215/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5; Levister Memo, p. 22.
216 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 2.
217/ Ibid., Levister Memo, p. 11.
218 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 3.
219/ Ibid., p. 2; Levister Memo. p. 11; HSCA Deposition of R.
Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 20.
220/ Ibid. See also Tab F Draft
P.
4. Cf. Herbert and Barbara
Manell Interview, 3/20/73, p. 8, in whcih the Chief of
the Soviet Section in the Mexico City Station claims
never to have heard of such summaries.
221 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp. 2-3.
222 Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, 3. 8; Levister Memo, p. 11; Me-
morandum from Paul Levister to Chief/FI, 10/2/63, para. 2.
223/ Ibid.
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224/ Letter from Blakey to Breck .nridge, 7/6/78.
225 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, . 2; Levister Memo, p. 11.
226/ Ibid.
227 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 2.
228/ Ibid., p. 4; Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment
to HMMA-25141, Section D, (2).
229/ Ibid.
230/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.
231/ Ibid.,
232/ Ibid., p. 2. The resuma provided quick summaries with the
full detailed transcripts arriving at the Station one
or two days after the resuma.
233/ Ibid.
234/ Ibid.
235/ Ibid.
236/ Ibid., p. 3.
237/ Ibid., p. 5.
238/ Ibid.
239/ Ibid., p. 2.
240 HMMA 22267, 10/2/63, para. 8; HMMA 21845, 7/30/63, para. 8.
For handling of English language conversations see
Sections II, C, 4, b, (3), (c), (d) and (e) below.
241/ DIR 88680, 12/13/63; Goodpasture Testimoy, 4/13/78, p. 63;
Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76; p. 43.
242/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 3.
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244 B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 11.
245/After the assassination Headquarters asked Mexico City
not to destroy any of the Soviet tapes from this opera-
tion. (DIR 87770, 12/9/63) A note written by Ann Good-
pasture in 1963 seems to confirm Arehart's assumption
that the tapes were retained at the station.
(The Soviet tap operation) people just keep bring-
ing in the reels to me (the ones I give them are not
labeled so they don't necessarily know which ones
return.) The storage problem is one for us and as
the reels come in with transcriptions, I store them.
When we can erase them, I'll take off the labels
and send them back out.
(Note by Ann Goodpasture, 12/10/63, attached to DIR 87770,
12/9/63. Second parenthetical in original.)
246/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 5.
247/ Emphasis added. Mr. Arehart was absolutely positive that
Cuban tapes were retained for thirty days because he
maintained them in the special rack. (Arehart Interview,
6/2/78, p. 3.) Hence, the two week "usual practice" is
probably not correct insofar as the Cuban tapes are con-
cerned.
248/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 40-47.
249 Ibid.
250/ Ibid., p. 47.
251/ p. 5.
252/ p. 8.
253/ p. 61.
254/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, ). 8; Tab F Draft, p. 5; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 3/28/78, pp. 28-29; Boris Tara-
soff Testimony, 4/21/78, p. 7; HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, paras.
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3 and 8; HMMA-21845, 7/30/63, paras. 3 and 8; Zambernardi
Interview, 6/3/78, p. 4; Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 4.
255/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 19.
256/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 2-3.
257/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.
258/ Ibid.
259/ Ibid. See also Section (e) below.
260/ Classified Staff Summary o: Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 2-4.
261/ Levister Memo, p. 32.
262/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 8; Boris and Anna Tara-
soff Interview, 4/11/78; Boris and Anna Tarasoff Interview,
11/30/76, p. 17. The Spanish transcriptions had the name
of the Embassy which was taped at the top of the first
page of each transcript. (ranscript here means one day's
coverage on one telephone ine.) Following the name of
the Embassy, the number of the phone covered is given.
The date and times of coverage follow immediately after
the phone number. The reel number is also given at the
top of the page. Along the left-hand column of the page
is the cite to the meter number on the tape recorder
where the transcribed conversation is located. Generally,
the time that the conversation occured, and a notation as
to whether it is an incoming or outgoing call, appears
at the beginning of the transcribed conversations. (Clas-
sified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Document, 3/9/78,
p. 1; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 69-70.) The
format of the transcripts from the Cuban Embassy was essen-
tially the same as the format of the Spanish language
transcripts from the Soviet Embassy. (Classified Staff
Summary of Review of CIA documents, 5/12/78, pp. 1-2;
Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 1-2.) Conversations that were in Russian were noted
on the Spanish transcript were a number referring to the
place on the reel where the conversation occurred (Classi-
fied Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78, p. 1;
CIA Transcript, CIA No. 32.),
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263/
Devetmenys-py 988; Tarasoff Interview,
4/11/78; Tarasoff Interview, 11/30/76, pp. 17-18.
264/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78,
p. 9.
✓
265/ Ibid. Mr. Tarasoff prepared an original and two carbon
copies of all of his transcriptions. All three copies
were delivered to the Station: (B. Tarasoff Testimony;
4/12/78, p. 15.) One carbon was cut and pasted onto
a separate sheet of paper, with the conversations grouped
by identity of the calle: or by subject matter. This
was done by Mrs. Tarasoff. (Ibid., and p. 19.) The
original, one intact car on and the one cut up carbon
were all delivered to the station. (Ibid.)
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267/ Ibid., p. 12.
A 268/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; Tal/F Draft, p. 5.
26/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 61
2691
270/ Goodpasture Tes
A
271/
423 1969 p. 4; Phillips Testimony,
11/27/76, p. 36:"A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp.
8-11; B. Manell Deposition, 4/28/78, p. 28.
Tab F Draft, pp. 5-6; Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp.. 36-37.
F
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para. 8. F
2731 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, ɔ. 5.
A
27/ Ibid. The daily resuma for Spanish language conversations
2281
(See Section II, C, 4, b, (1), above) largely negated
the need for a smiliar procedure for Spanish language
conversations in that the important and/or interesting
ones were summarized in the resuma.
Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.
276/ Ibid.
222
2731 
Ibid.
278 Ibid.
22/1
279/ HMMA 22005, 8/23/63,
Levister
4.
para.
See also Levister Memo, p. 19.
280/A. Tarasoff/Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 8–12.
2
Ibid.
282/ HMMA 22005, 8/23/63, para. 4.
383/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p.
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284/ Ibid., p. 6.'
285/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 8-12.
286/ Ibid., p. 12; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 62-63.
287/ Ibid.
288/ Ibid.; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 8.
289/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 63; Phillips Testimony,
11/27/76, p. 14.
290/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 3; Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76,
pp. 14-16; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 54, 63.
291/ Ibid.
292/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attached to HMMA 25141.
293 HMMA-22135, 9/13/63, para. 3; HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 3.
294/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
P. 1.
295/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 7.
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296/ Ibid., pp. 16-19; Classified Staff Summary of Review of
CIA Documents, 3/9/78, pp. 3-4.
297/ Ibid., pp. 2-3.
298/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 30.
299/ Ibid., p. 13.
300/ Ibid.
301/ Ibid.,p. 14; Manell Interview, 3/20/78, pp. 4 and 11.
302/ See Section II above.
303/ See Section II, C, 4 above.
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304/ See Sections II, A and B above.
305/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
p. 5; MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.
306/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63. ·
307/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
P. 6.
308 Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 6-7; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.
309/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 7-10; MEXI 7025,, 11/23/63; CIA Transcript from Rus-
sian Embassy, 9/27/63.
310/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
3/9/78, PP.
9/28/63.
10-12, CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy,
311/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
p. 12; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.
312/ CIA Mexico City Investigation Chronology, Bulky #WX-7241,
Vol. I, p. 3. The transcript of this call does not
give the time the call occured. (CIA Transcript from
Russian Embassy, 10/1/63 )
313/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 12-14; CIA Transcrip: from the Russian Embassy,
10/1/63.
314/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
3/9/78, p. 14; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy,
10/3/63.
315/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63. See also MEXI 6453, 10/8/63 and
Section IV, B, below.
316/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63. (Mexico City copy.)
317/ Ibid.
318/ Ibid.
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5/12/78, p. 1. On September 27, 1963, at 10:54 a.m.,
the following call occured. A woman named Silvia
named Guillermo Ruiz. Ruiz tells her that he has not
yet been able to reach the consul and because of that:
he has not called her. Silvia tells him that "we"
have no time for that and asks him for the Consul's
phone number. Ruiz respords by asking her not to get
annoyed and he wants to know if Silvia wishes to speak
to the Consul personally. Silvia responds that she
does. Ruiz says that the number is 11-28-47. Silvia
says that is fine and the conversation ends. (CIA
transcript from Cuban Embassy, 9/27/63.) It cannot be
determined whether this caller was indeed Silvia Duran or
if she subsequently called the Consul since Duran's of-
fice phone was not tapped. The tap was on the telephone
used by Ruiz.
320 Classifed Staff Summaries of Review of CIA Documents,
undated and 5/12/78.
321/ See Sections II, A and B above.
322/ See Sections II, C, 4, b, (2), (c) and (d) above.
323/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78.
324 See Section III, A, 1 above.
325/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12,'78, p. 4.
326/ Ibid.
327/ Ibid., p. 6.
328/ Ibid.
329/ Ibid.
330/ Ibid.
331/ Ibid. See also Sections II, C, 4, b, (3), (c) and (e),
above.
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333/ Ibid.
334 See Section II, C, 4 b, (3), (e) above.
335/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 7-8.
336/ Ibid., p. 9...
337/ Ibid., p. 10.
338 B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 25.
339/ Ibid.,
P. 26.
340/ Ibid.
341/ Ibid., p. 27.
342/ Ibid., p. 33.
343/ Ibid.
344/ See Section II, C, 4, b, (3), (e), above.
345 See Section III, B below.
346 Blind Memo re: Lee Harvey Oswald/Silvia Tirado de Duran,
Source: LI/4, 11/26/63, p. 5.
347/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 10. It is also in-
teresting to note that Ms. Duran's statement that Oswald'
had blond hair, is also left out of subsequent CIA
and Mexican official reports. (See Section V, C and VI, A
below.)
348/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 52-53.
p.
349/ Daniel Stanley Watson Interview, 6/4/78, 1.
350/ Ibid., p. 2.<
351/ Ibid. James Angleton testified that he had in fact cleaned
out Win Scott's safe but that he had not found any
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photographs or intercept transcripts pertaining to Lee
Harvey Oswald.
(HSCA Deposition of James Angleton,
10/5/78, p. 116.)
352/ Classified Letter from Blakey to Breckinridge, 7/6/78.
353/ Draft of letter from Scott co John Barron, 11/25/70,
P. 3.
Emphasis added.
354/ Foul Foe manuscript, p. 267.
355/ See discussion above.
356 Blind Memo re: Lee Harvey Oswald/Silvia Tirado de Duran;
Source: LI/4, 11/26/63, F. 5.
357/ See Sections V, C and VI, A, below.
358/ Eusebio Azcue Public Testimony, 9/18/78, pp. 33-35.
359/ See Section II, C, 3 above.
360/ See Sections II, A and B, above.
361/ See below.
362/ See below.
363/ It should be noted that the two sets of photographs which
are missing are the most relevant of all the photographs
produced by the Mexico City surveillance operations.
Had a photograph of Oswald been obtained, it would
have most likely have been done by one or both of the
bases from which production is missing. Oswald visited
the Cuban Consulate which was covered by a pulse camera.
The photographs of people entering the Cuban Embassy
have been made available to this Committee for review
but the material from the pulse camera which covered
the entrance to the Consulate which Oswald visited has
not been forthcoming. (See Section II, A, 3, above, for
details.) The documented standard operating proce-
dure of the Soviet target bases indicates that LILYRIC,
the base from which production was not forthcoming,
would have been the one in operation at the time of
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Oswald's visit. (See Section II, B, 4 above and
Section (b) below for details.)
In addition, HMMA-
14793, 4/8/60, indicated that the base from which pro-
duction is missing "performs the best photography of
persons visiting the fron: gate."
364/ Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 95; HSCA Deposi-
tion of Elsie I. Scaletti, 5/19/78, p. 65; HSCA Depo-
sition of Allen White, 5/18/78, p. 42; HSCA Deposi-
tion of H. Manell, 4/28/73, p. 51; Ann Goodpasture,
4/13/78, p. 98..
365/ See preceding Section III, A, 1.
In fact, Oswald may
See
have visited the Soviet Embassy 3 times also.
analysis in Classified Letter from Turner to Stokes
10/25/78, JFK Classified Document #146.
366 Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p.
6.
1
367/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
368/ See Sections II, A and B, above.
.
369/ See Sections II, A, 3 and JI, B, 3 above.
370/ HSCA Outside Contact Report, Phillip Agee, 1/6/78, JFK
Document No. 004578.
371 Phillip Agee Interview, 1/1.1/78, p. 1, JFK Document No. 004633.
372/ Ibid., p. 3.
373/
"Elsie Scaleti" is the CIA assigned pseudonym of this
individual.
374/ Agee Interview, 1/11/78, pp. 3-4.
375/ Ibid.
376/ Ibid.
377/ Ibid.
378/ Ibid.
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381/ Ibid., p. 11.
382/ Ibid., pp. 18-19.
383/ Ibid., p. 12.
384/ Daniel Stanley Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 1.
385/ Ibid.
386/ Ibid.
387/ Ibid.
388/ Ibid.
389/ Ibid.
390/ Ibid.
391/ Ibid.
U
392/ Ibid.
393/ Ibid. and p. 2.
394/ Ibid., p. 2.
395/ See HSCA Deposition of James Angleton, 10/5/7
396/ Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 2.
397/ Ibid.
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p. 116.
398/ Joseph B. Smith Interview, 10/19/77, p. 2, JFK Document
No. 003012.
399/ Ibid.
400/ Ibid.
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401 Joseph B. Smith Interview, 4/20/78, p. 1, JFK Document
No. 008279.
402/ Ibid., p. 6.
403/ Ibid.
404/ Ibid.
405/ Ibid.
406/ Ibid.
407/ Ibid.
408/ Ibid., and p. 7. Des Fitzgerald was the Chief of the CIA'S
Cuban Task Force in 1964. Droller was a CIA Officer.
409/ Ibid., p. 7. Mr. Smith explained the "Counter-Intelligence
mentality" by saying that people who had it were "rabid
anti-Communists" (Smith Interview, 11/2/77, p. 3, JFK
Document No. 003012) and "confirmed believers in the
world Communist conspiracy theory... These guys actually
believed that the split between the Russians and Chinese
was a great deceptive operation. Colby (former Director
of Central Intelligence) even says something more amaz-
ing. He claims that Angleton absolutely believed that
all CIA operations were run by the KGB, (Soviet Intelli-
gence.) He says Angleton (former Chief of Counter-In-
telligence for the CIA) believed that every top Soviet
defector we took in was a plant. I think that's incredi-
ble but I know there were some guys on his staff were
his true believers." (Smith Interview, 4/20/78, p. 3,
JFK Document No. 008279.)
410/ Ibid., p. 7.
411/ Ibid.
412/ Ibid.
413/ Ibid.
414/ Joseph Piccolo Interview, 8/11/78, p. 1.
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417/ Ibid.
418/ Ibid.
419/ Ibid.
420/ Ibid., p. 4.
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P.
422/ Ibid. p.
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427/ Ibid.
1/428/ Ibid.
✓ 429/ Ibid.
تے
430/ Ibid.
431/ Ibid.
• 
KPP 4-5.
✓ 432/ Ibid., p. 6.
✓ 433/ Dan Neiscuir Interview, 8/19/78, p. 1, JFK Classified
را
Document no. 156.
434/ Ibid.
435/ Ibid.
436/ Ibid.
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438/ Ibid.
439/ Ibid.
440/ Ibid.
441/ Ibid.
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443/ Ibid.
444/ In considering the above detailed allegations, it is im-
portant to distinguish between the allegation 
that a
photograph was found at headquarters as opposed to the
assertion that a photograph was found in Mexico City.
It is also important to remember that these allegations
" 
There was
are what can be termed "grapevine stores.
a photograph found in Mexico City of a man that was
This photograph and
thought possibly to be Oswald.
the circumstances surrounding it will be dealt with in
a subsequent section. Ms. Arne Goodpasture of the
Mexico City Station found this photograph.
(See below.)
In the absence of any evidence otherwise--Note: The
Watson allegation says there was a photo in Mexico City in the
` mid-60's; not that it was found there--it is most
likely that the grapevine stories about a photo being
found in Mexico arise from M:. Goodpasture's report-
ing the photo of the man who has since become known as
the Mexico mystery man in the same cable that reported
Oswald's visit to the Soviet Embassy. (See below.)
The findings of this Committee regarding the general
Mexico City surveillance operations are presented in
Section II, A and B above. In summary, this Committee.
found that there were three photographic surveillance
bases (four cameras) that may have photographed Lee
Harvey Oswald in September and October of 1963.
was determined from analysis of project files for these
operations and the testimony of CIA officials.
preceding sections.)
This
(See
445/ Letter from Blakey to Carpentier, 3/2/78, JFK Document No. 005879.
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446/ See JFK Classified Document No. 146; HSCA Classified
Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, undated; HSCA
Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
5/12/78; JFK Classified Document No. 142; and Sections
II, A, 4 and II, B, 3 above.
447/ See JFK Classified Document No. 142; JFK Classified Docu-
ment No. 146.
448/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 37, 96; HSCA
Deposition of Ann Elizabeth Goldsborough Egerter,
449
5/17/78, p. 73; HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,
p. 56; HSCA Deposition of Allen White, 5/18/78, p. 25;
HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 20, 47;
David Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 67; David Phillips
Testimony, 4/25/78, p. 44; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, pp. 77, 97.
HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78,
450/ Elsie Scaleti Interview, 3/30/78, pp. 3-4.
451/ Ibid.
452/ Ibid.
453/ Ibid.
pp. 6-7.
454/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 31.
455/ Ibid.
456 In addressing this questior, the HSCA staff reviewed all
the cable and dispatch traffic between Mexico City and
Headquarters for the period from October 1, 1963 to
26 November 1963 in an attempt to determine whether Os-
wald's photo may have been sent to Headquarters. This
'examination also revealed no evidence that a photograph
of Oswald was sent to CIA. Headquarters. This Committee
did find that there were several types of communications
between Headquarters and field stations that were treated
as non-record material. Because of the non-record nature
of these communications, it was not possible to review
that material.
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458/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
459/ See Section II, A, 3 above.
460/ Ibid.
461/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, attachments B and C.
462/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaletti, 5/19/78, pp. 44-47.
463 HSCA Deposition of Ann E. C. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 70; HSCA
Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p. 31.
464/ Ibid.
465/ Ibid., and p. 32.
466/ Ibid., p. 7.
467/ Ibid., p. 47. .
468/ Ibid.
Emphasis added.
469/ Foul Foe manuscript, p. 27:.
470/ See Section III, A, 1 above for a more detailed exposition
of the conversations.
471 Memorandum to Clark Anderson from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,
with seven attachments.
472/ Ibid.
473/ Ibid., p. 1.
474/ Ibid.
475/ Ibid.,
P. 9.
476/ Warren Commission Testimony of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,
Vol. II, p. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo
Rodriguez, 7/21/64, Vol. II, p. 341; Commission Exhibit
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Warren
2120, p. 7; Commission Exhibit 2121, p. 54. CF,
Commission Testimony of Nelson Delgado, Vol. VIII,
p. 236 and 237 in which it is claimed that Oswald spoke
Castillian Spanish.
:
477/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/3/63.
478/ If one assumes that Oswald could not speak any Spanish
then only two conclusions about the first three calls
of 9/27/63 are possible: 1) either these calls do not
pertain to Oswald, or 2) they do pertain to Oswald
but were made by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald.
This second possible conclusion will be addressed in
a more detailed fashion in subsequent sections due to
its ramifications vis a vis Oswald's activities and pos-
sible associates as opposed to the substance of the in-.
formation available to the CIA Station prior to the
assassination.
479/ Warren Commission Exhibit 2121, p. 112.
480 Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78..
481/ CIA Transcript from Russiar Embassy, 10/1/63; MEXI 6453,
10/8/63. This cable was sent from Mexico on 8 October
and was received by Headquarters on 9 October. Hence.
it is alternately referred to as either the 10/8 or
10/9 cable. :
--482/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63; B. Tarasoff
Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 26-28.
483/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/78.
484/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/28/63.
:.
485/ A "P" file is simply a personality file. It was the Mexico.
· City Station equivalent of a 201 file.
486/ Ibid.
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487/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 38; HSCA
Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 72.
488/ Ibid.
489/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.
490/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.
491/ Ibid.
492/ Ibid.; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 76.
493/ Ibid., HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.
494/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 69; HSCA Depo-
sition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39,
495/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA
Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46; HSCA
Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-89.
496 Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 107; MEXI
6453, 10/8/63, para. 2.
497/ 1977 CIA Inspector General's Report, Tab G-2, pp. 2-3.
Hereinafter 
cited as '77 IGR.
498/ See Sections III, B, 2, above,
499/ D. Phillips Interview, 8/21/78;
and IV, B, below;
Report on Oswald from
John Scelson to J. Angleton, 12/24/63, p. 4.
500/ Ibid.
501/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/78.
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502/ Ibid.
503/ See Section II, C, 4, b, (33), above.
504/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 72; HSCA Deposi-
tion of H. 
Manell, 4/28/18, p. 38.
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505/ CIA Transcript from Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63; HSCA Deposi-
tion of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 76.
506/ CIA transcripts from Russiar. Embassy, 9/27/63.
507/ Tab F Draft, p. 5.
508/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp. 4-5.
509/ HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. `.; see also Section II, C, 4.
above.
510/ Ibid.
511 Ibid.; Arehart Interview, 6,'2/78, p. 5; Testimony of B.
Tarasoff, 4/12/78; p. 10.
512/ Testimony of Boris Tarasoff. 4/12/78, p. 11; Testimony
of A. Tarasoff, 4/12/78, þ›. 14.
513/ Tab F Draft, p. 5.
514/ Ibid.
515/ Tab F Draft, p. 5; Preceding Section II, B, 5; Log Film
144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63.
516/ See Nightwatch, pp. 140-141.
517/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 64.
518 MEXI 6453, 10/8/63.
519/ Ibid.
520/ Ibid.
521/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 58; HSCA Depo-
sition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 35.
522 Classified HSCA Staff Summary of CIA documents, undated,
entitled "Periodic File Summary Dave Phillips - 3
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523/ Blind Memorandum entitled "Delay in Sending the first
Cable about Oswald."
524/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 30.
525 Tab F Draft, p. 5; MEXI 6453, 10/8/63; HSCA Deposition
of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 62-63; HSCA Deposition of
Herbert Manell, 4/28/63, p. 21.
526/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 56-57.
527/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
6/26/78, p. 4.
528/ Ibid.
529/ Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 65. CF. "Foul Foe"
manuscript, p. 268, where Win Scott writes: "In fact,
Lee Harvey Oswald became a person of great interest
to us during this 27 September to 2 October 1963 period";
and on page 269, where he writes: "Because we thought at
first that Lee Harvey Oswald might be a dangerous po-
tential defector from the U.S.A. to the Soviet Union,
he was of great interest to us, so we kept a special
watch on him and his activities."
530/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 25.
531/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 25-26.
532/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 26.
533/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 36.
534/ See above. Cf. "Foul Foe' manuscript, pp. 268-269.
535/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 52.
536 HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, p. 26-28.
537/ Ibid.
538/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manel, 4/28/78, p. 30.
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539/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52. The
HSCA has requested a copy of any internal regulations
or any liaison agreement with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation that may have been in existence in 1963.
(Letter to Breckinridge, 1/20/78.) The CIA responded
"that there are not now, nor were there any, agreements
between the CIA and FBI or other U.S. government agen-
cies concerning CIA responsibility to report on contacts
of U.S. cutizens with Communist Embassies or officials...
The CIA under operative legislation has a counterintelli-.
gence responsibility for counterintelligence cases
but it is notamatter of agreement with other agencies nor
does it concern simple contacts of Americans abroad with
Communist Embassies or officials. (Memorandum to
Breckinridge from Shepanes, 7/31/78.)
"
540 HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 69; HSCA Deposi-.
tion of H. Manell, 4/28/73, pp. 38-39,
541/ See Section III, B, 2, above.
542/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 59-60.
543/ Ibid., p. 62.
544/ Ibid., p. 59.
545/ MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 1. .
546/ Tab F Draft, p. 5; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78,
pp. 62-63, 66; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78,
p. 21; MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 1.
547/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 62-63.
548 MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 2. The connection of this photo-
graph to Oswald by including the description in the
cable that reported Oswald's contact with the Soviet Em-
bassy has created more confusion and controversy than
perhaps any other CIA related issue stemming from as-
sassination. Consequently, this Committee has made an
attempt to determine the circumstances surrounding the
mistaken linkage of this photograph to Oswald as well
as the consequences of that mistake. The consequences
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of the mistake will be dealt with in more detail in
subsequent sections.
549/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 33; HSCA Deposi-
tion of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 35; Ann Goodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 81, 86-87.
550 HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 28.
551/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 107.
See also Ann
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 84; and HSCA Deposi-
tion of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 32.
552/ Log Film 143, 9/25/63 through 9/27/63.
553/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Goodpasture, 11/16/70, pp. 57-58.
554/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.
555/ This mistake was evidently not discovered until 1976. See
WX7241, a chronology of the Mexico City investigation
prepared by Raymond Rocca in 1967 which lists the date
as 1 October; A note on EMMW-15488, 5/18/67 which indi-
cates that Ann Goodpasture checked the photographs and
that "negatives are in LIMITED photo chrono for 1 Oct
1963. "
556/ Log film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63.
557/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 102.
.558/ See Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Docu-
ments, 6/26/78, pp. 3-5.
559/ DIR 84888, 11/23/63.
560/ See Section III, A, 5 above.
561/ MEXI 6453, 10/9/63.
562/ Ibid.
563/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 34; HSCA Depo-
sition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, p. 26.
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564/ Ibid.
565/ Ibid.
566/ Ibid. A restricted file is a method of keeping abreast of
any information that develops on the subject of the file.
The file is marked to indicate that it cannot be reviewed
without the permission of the person who made the re-
striction. The effect is that if anyone wants to see
the file, the custodian of the file learns of that de-
sire and the information leading to it. (HSCA Deposi-
tion of Ann E. G. Egerter 5/19/78, p. 51.)
567/ See Section
568 HSCA Deposition of A. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 77.
569/ Deposition of Elsie Scaleti 5/19/78, p. 29.
570/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Egerter, 5/17/78, pp. 78-79.
571/ Ibid., pp. 70-71; HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti,
5/19/78, p. 33.
572/ Ibid. The Zed (Greenwich) times stamped on the cable and
the teletype indicates that the teletype was sent before
the cable.
573/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63..
574/ Ibid.
575/ Ibid.
576/ Ibid.
577/ Teletype from CIA to State, FBI and Navy, DIR 74678, 10/10/63.
578/ Ibid.
579/ The mistaken identification of Oswald as "Lee Henry" is
dealt with in another section of this final report.
580/ HSCA Deposition of A. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 77.
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581/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, pp. 34-35.
582/ Ibid.
583/ Ibid., pp. 35-37/
584/ Elsie Scaleti Interview, 3/30/78, p. 8.
585/ Ibid., pp. 11-13.
586/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 37.
587/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 51.
588/ Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James Angleton,
C/CI, 12/24/63, p. 4.
589/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 40-43.
sis added.
Empha-
590/ Ibid.
591/ See preceding text.
592/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, p. 31.
593/ Ibid., p. 30; See also HSC7. Deposition of John Scelso,
5/16/78, pp. 27, 28.
594/ See HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 40-43,
51; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 37; HMMA-
22005, 8/23/63, para. 4.
595/ '77 IGR, Tab G. 3, p. 3.
596/ 'Ibid.
597/ Teletypes from CIA to State, FBI and Navy, 10/10/63, DIR
74678.
598/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 43 HSCA Deposi-
tion of B. Manell, 4/28/18, pp. 89-90.
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599/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, p. 30.
600/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 90-91; Ann Good-
pasture Testiony, 4/13/73, p. 
142.
601/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 92-93.
"
602/ Scott's manuscript may provide a clue when he writes that
during his first contact with the Soviet 
Embassy, Oswald
(Foul
. Foe
"gave his name very slowly and distinctly."
If Oswald used his middle name at
Manuscript, p. 267.)
that time it would explain why Scott wrote "sic." by
"Henry. But it should be noted that Oswald's name
does not come up in any of the transcripts made available
by the CIA until 10/1/63, and Oswald's middle 
name is
not given in that transcript. It is possible that
there is one additional transcript, possibly of the con-
versation that Scott, or page 267 of his manuscript,
refers to as Oswald's "first contact," which, if in exis-
tence, has not been made available to this Committee.
(See Section III, A, 5, above.)
603/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63.
604/ HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 35; Ann Good-
pasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 104.
605/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony. 4/13/78, p. 105.
606/ Emphasis in original.
607/ Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63..
608/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46; HSCA Deposi-
tion of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-89.
609/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 43-44; David
A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 89.
610 HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 37.
611/ See Section III, A, 7, above.
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613/ Note on Article by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "CIA
Withheld Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission,"
10/21/64.
614 The Chief of the Mexico Branch at Headquarters has told
this Committee that it is his belief that the tapes were
probably still in existence at the time of the assas-
sination. (HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78,
p. 76-77.) But the tesitmony of the persons at the
Mexico City Station is consistent in saying that the
tapes did not exist at the time of the assassination.
(See HSCA Deposition of Fobert Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 29;
HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 20; David
A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 63; David A. Phil-
lips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 17, 23; Ann Goodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 94.)
615/ See Section II, C, 4, b, (3), (e); Tab F Draft, pp. 5-6.
616/ If the 9/28/63 conversation received expedited handling
also it is possible that it would have been in the
Station prior to the first or second of October.
617/ A. Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 95.
618/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2.
619/ MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, para. 2.
620/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63, para. 4.
621/ MEXI 7054, 11/24/63, para. 3.
622/ See discussion in text above and below.
623/ See Section II, C, 4, above.
624 Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 94.
625/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 95-96; See also
pp. 77, 93, 110.
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626/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 12, 13.
✓ 627/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 28.
628/ See discussion above.
629/ See footnote 614 above.
✓ 630/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 96.
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631/ HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 29; HSCA De-
position of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 20; David A.
Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 63; David A. Phillips
Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 17-23; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, p. 94.-
632/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, pp. 76-77.
633/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 12y 13.
← 634/ See Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 94-95, 77.
✓ 635/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 28.
✓
636/ H. Manell and B. Manell Interview, 3/28/78; pp.14-15; "HSCA
Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA
Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 88-89, 84-86;
✓ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39, 46.
637/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 75. Emphasis
added.
✓ 638/ Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63.
✓ 639/ MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.
anted Oct 16, not 15;
640 HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 96.
641/ H. Manell and B. Manell Interview, 3/18/78, p. 14-45; VASCA
Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 33-34; HSCA De-
position of B. Manell, 4/28/78, PP. 84-86, 88-89; ✓HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39, 46; Ann
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 75. See also Sec-
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64.2 Memorandum for the Ambassador from Winston M. Scott, re:
Lee OSWALD/Contact with the 
Soviet Embassy, 10/16/63.
Emphasis added.
643/ Manell Interview, 3/28/78, p.
17
644/ Ibid., p. 18.
645/ There are some cryptic references to the CIA Station trying
to determine Oswald's 
whereabouts after receiving the
10/11 cable. (See Testimony of Ann 
Goodpasture, 4/13/78
,
p. 113.) The procedures used in this 
attempt and the
actions that may have been taken 
have not been deter-
mined. If any records exist of these 
efforts they 
have
'not been made available to this 
Committee.
646/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie I. Scaleti,
5/19/78, p. 43.
647/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 61-62.
648/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie I. Scaleti,
5/19/78, pp. 29-30.
649/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 44-47.
650/ HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78, pp. 62, 69.
651/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, p. 36.
652/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 111-114.
653/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 75-76; See also
Ibid., p. 81.
654/ See discussion above.
655/ Phillips Interview, 8/30/78, p
656/ Foul Foe manuscript, pp. 268-2;9.
5.
Emphasis added.
657/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 63-64.
658/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 64-65.
659/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 96.
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659-A/See preceding section.
659-B/ Ibid..
659-C/ MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, pari. 3.
659-D/ MEXI 7203, 11/23/63, para. 3.
660/ HSCA Depositin of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 53.
661/ JFK Classified Document, #131.
662/ Ibid.
663/ MEXI 7029, 11/23/63, para. 1.
664/ Clasified HSCA Staff Summary, 3/15/78, p. 11.
665/ See Section III, B, 2, above. :
666/ MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, para. 2.
667/ DIR 84802, 11/22/63; para. 1. The sequence of the cables
can be determined in that they were numbered sequen-
tially as they were sent. In this regard it should be
noted that this system can indicate the order in which
he cables were sent but not the order in which they
were written because, at least in Mexico, several of
the Station officers were drafting and sending cables.
Hence, the order of writing them may not be the same
as the order in which they were sent.
668/ MEXI 7014; see preceding paragraph.
669/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 1.
670/ Ibid., para. 2
671/ Ibid., para. 3.
672/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 37.
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673 David A. Phillips interview, 8/24/78, p. 16; Routing and
Record Sheet for MEXI 7033, 11/23/63; HSCA Deposition
of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 45, 87.
674/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2.
675/ MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.
676/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 6.
677/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.
678/ MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.
679/ HSCA staff have wondered whether or not the Mexico City
Station was entirely forthcoming of their own will
with Headquarters. This speculation was based on three
pieces of information. The first is the report in
MEXI 7024 that Headquarters had all the available in-
formation. The second is a note from Win Scott on the
Routing and Record Sheet for MEXI 7033 which says:
I had a call from Washington ( John Scelso) at
1620 hours on 23/XI. I told John Scelso at
1630 hours (our time) on 23/XI that this would
be on route to him.
The third is a cable reporting that on the 23rd Win
Scott had an urgent call to see the President of
Mexico. The cable reports that Scott expected the
President to express his condolences over the assas-
sination but "developed hat (Mexican agent) had
located call to Soviet Embassy of Lee Oswald
made on 28 September. Believe fact that (President
of Mexico) aware of this contact (from our joint
operation) and passed data to COS is important.
(MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, pa:as. 2 and 3)
"
The Committee declines to speculate that the Mexico City
Station was possibly considering not reporting all
the information available to them. It was considered
that this may have been contemplated in order to pro-
tect themselves from a charge about their failure to
report the information prior to the assassination.
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The discovery that the Mexicans were also aware of
the conversations would have made holding back the
transcripts perilous in that the Mexicans could have
revealed their existence to the detriment of the
Station. Hence, the full report followed very shortly
after the meeting between the Mexican President and
Win Scott, and immediately after Scott discussed the
situation with his nominal superior in Washington
by telephone. Scott's superior was asked about this.
He said that he did not remember the substance of
his telephone call to Win Scott on the 23rd. (HSCA
Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p. 88) "I do
not have any idea why (I called). I may have been
ordered to call him on any number of things." (Ibid.,
p. 87.)
He was also asked about Scott's meeting
with the Mexican President.
You get a psychological question. The Chief
of Station is called in to speak to the Presi-
dent of Mexico. There had been a big fight
when the new Ambassador got there--no, it wasn't
that. It was a very peculiar situation in Mexi-
co whereby the Mexicar. President's primary con-
tact with the U.S. government was through our
Chief of Station rather than through the Ambas-
sadors. This caused 10 great problem with the
then-Ambassador whose name I have forgotten.
Q: Thomas Mann?
A: Yes. He was a very fine guy and recognized
the usefulness of this arrangement. The next
Ambassador, Mr. Freeman, tried to cut Win
Scott out of contact with the President of
Mexico, whereupon the President of Mexico
called in Win Scott and said, "I want you to
send a cable to the White House telling them
I am not going to deal with this jackass, I
want to deal only with you."
So, the result was eventually, Winston
Scott and Ambassador Freeman went to the
White House and talked to President Johnson
and straightened the whole thing out in favor
of Winston Scott.'
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So, Scott is just remarking that it is
interesting that the President of Mexico is
aware of our telephone operation.
Q: He should have been since it was a liaison
operation.
A: Yes. But you do not always know whether he
was informed. I think we always knew he was
informed. I think we always knew he was in-
formed. It is jus significant that the per-
son calls you in and says, here is some intel-
ligence about the Kennedy thing.
(HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 83-84.)
Win Scott indicated that he was going to write a memoran-
dum concerning his meeting with the President of Mexi-
co. (Routing and Record Shhet for MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.)
If Mr. Scott wrote such a memo, it has not been made
available to the HSCA. David Phillips, who after serv-
ing in Mexico, went on to accumulate quite an impres-
sive record as a Chief of Station in several countries
himself, told Committee investigators that a memoran-
dum of this sort, along with other "sensitive" informa-
tion would be the type of thing that Win Scott probably
kept in his private safe. (David A. Phillips Interview,
8/24/78, p. 10.) Mr. Phillips added that he did not
know what happened to Mr. Scott's safe after he died
but he had heard vague stories about someone finding
a lot of documents that Scott had kept. (Ibid.)
680/ MEXI 7054- 11/24/63, para. 3.
681/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.
682/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.
683/ MEXI 7023, 11/26/63, para. 2.
684/ See Section II, C, 4, above.
685/ For example, MEXI 7023 reports that a voice comparison
was not done while MEXI 7025 implies that one was done
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and a year later Ann Goodpasture noted on a newspaper
article that such a comparison was done. Note also
that MEXI 7024 reported that HQ had all the available
information when in fact all conversations were reported
in a later cable, MEXI 7033.
685/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
686/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
687/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
688/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
689/ Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;
Cable re Oswald-Duran, MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA
No. 441; Raymond Rocca Chronology. WX 7241, Entry 36,
November 23, 1963, CIA NC. 635..
690/ Ibid.
691/ See below, p.
692/ Note written by Winston Scott re phone call with John
Scelso, November 23, 1963; Chronology prepared by Ray-
mond Rocca, WX7241, entry 37, November 23, 1963, CIA
No. 635.
693/ Ibid.
694/ Ibid.
695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23,
1963, CIA No. 440; Flash Cable from Karamessines to
Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA
No. 4033 Chronology of Raymond Rocca, entry 46, Novem-
ber 23, 1963, CIA No. 63.
696/ Blind Memo re Lee Harvey Oswald and Silvia Duran, Novem-
ber 26, 1963, CIA #473.
697/ Ibid.
698/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November
27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA #493.
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When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
on November 22, 1963, the United States investigative
agencies--FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.--were asked to.
investigate the assassination. When the Central Intelli-
gence Agency's Mexico City Station remembered that Lee
Harvey Oswald had visited Mexico City during late Septem-
ber and early October, it reviewed the electronic surveil-
lance files and found eviderce of phone calls to the So-
viet Embassy made September 27th, September 28th, and
October 1st, that could have been made by Oswald. 685/
Review of the electroic surveillance files also produced
telephone calls on September 27, 1963 between the Russian
Consul and Silvia Duran, a secretary at the Cuban Consu-
late, where Oswald was discussed. 686/ In addition,
the Mexico City Station found a September 28, 1963 phone
call from Silvia Duran to the Soviet Consulate where Silvia
Duran stated that there was an American citizen at the
Cuban Consulate who had previously visited the Soviet Con-
sulate. 587/ A final phone call was made on October 1, 1963
where the "alleged" Oswald identified himself was also
found. 688/
On November 23, 1983 the Mexico City Station deter-
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mined that it would request the Mexican government--
with whom it had a good relationship--to arrest Silvia
Duran (as Silvia Duran was a Mexican citizen, she did not
have diplomatic immunity) because she might shed some light
on the circumstances surrounding the assassination. 688a/
The Mexico City Station sent a note to the Gober-
nacion head, Luis Echevarria, with Silvia Duran's address,
her mother's address, her brother's address, her license
plate number, her home phone number, her place of work and
a request that she be arrested immediately. 689/ The Mexi-
co City Station also suggested that Duran he held incommuni-
cado until she could be questioned on the matter. 690/
The Mexico City Station did not receive prior au-
thorization from CIA Headquarters to request the arrest of
Silvia Duran by Mexican authorities. 691/ Headquarters
feared that a request to arrest Ms. Duran would jeopardize
the clandestine relationship between certain Mexican govern-
ment officials and the CIA if it were disclosed that Americans
were behind Duran's arrest. 672/ John Scelso, Chief of Western
Hemisphere/3, stationed at Langley Headquarters, telephoned
Winston Scott, the Mexico City Chief of Station, and requested
that Silvia Duran not be arrested. 693/ Scott told Scelso that
he could not rescind the request, and that. Headquarters should
already have paceived a cane stating that Silvia Curan had
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been arrested. 694/ After Winston Scott's conversation
י
with John Scelso, Scott called Luis Echevarria and stated
that the Mexico City Station desired that all information
received from Duran be forwarded immediately to the Mexico
City Station, and that her arrest and statements not be
communicated to any leftist groups. 695/
On November 27, 1963, the Mexican government for- .
warded to the Mexico City Station a copy of Silvia Duran's
It
ten-page signed statement. 596/
2000903
said,
"Upon learning about the assassination
she and her husband speculated that Presi-
dent Kennedy might have been assassinated
for racial reasons. When she became aware
that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, she
ascertained that it was the same man who ap-
proximately two months prior had been to the
Cuban Consulate to solicit an intransit visa
to Russia. Having taken his name from the
special documentation he presented she knew
that he was married to a Russian woman and
belonged to the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee."
She checked the data in the Consulate archives.
and became certain that it was the same indi-
vidual who was blonde, short, dressed unelegant-
ly and whose face turned red when angry. The
Consul had denied the visa because to obtain
an intransit visa from the Cuban government,
it was imperative that he previously obtain a
visa from the Soviet Consulate. Since obtain-
ing a visa from the Soviets took four months
and Oswald's Mexican visa expired soon Oswald
was advised that he see the Soviet Consul, and
calling the person in charge of that office.
The Soviet official told her that they would
have to consult Moscow which would take four
Morths. That afternoon, Oswald returned to the
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Cuban Consulate and Silvia Duran confirmed
that he could get a Cuban visa only after he
received a Russian visa. She gave Oswald her name
and business phone number but never gave him her »
address because she had no reason to give it to
him. The only aid she could give Oswald was advising
that he see the Soviet Consul and calling the person
in charge of that office. She knew that phoning the
Soviet Consulate was not one of her duties and that
if she did so she did it only to help Oswald. She
gave Oswald her business phone number only because he
would have to call subsequently to check whether he
had obtained a visa. He never called back."
Silvia Duran, released on November 24, 1963, was rearrested
November 27, 1963, when the Mexican government alleged that she
was attempting to leave Mexico for travel to Havana. 698/
According to the Mexican officials who detained Duran a second
time, there was no addition to her story. 699/
The Mexico City Station forwarded Duran's ten-page signed
statement to Headquarters or November 27, 1963. 700/ The
following day, Headquarters sent a clarification cable to the
Mexico City Station seeking to insure that neither Silvia
Duran nor the Cubans would have any basis for believing that
the Americans were behind her rearrest. The cable stated,
"We want the Mexican authorities to take the responsibility
for the whole affair.” 701/
When the Central Intelligence Agency began to work
with the Warren Commission, Headquarters cabled the Mexico
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City Station that its plan in passing information to the
Warren Commission was to eliminate mention of telephone
taps in order to protect their continuing operations. 702/
Headquarters cabled that it would rely on Silvia Duran's
statements and on the Consular files which the Soviets
gave the State' Department. 703/ Headquarters stressed
that exact, detailed information from LITAMIL-7 and
LITAMIL-9--penetration agents in the Cuban Embassy--on
what Silvia Duran and other officials had said about Os-
wald's visit and his dealings would be valuable and usable
corroborative evidence. 704/
When the Central Intelligence Agency forwarded to
the Warren Commission a copy of Duran's signed statement.
It read as follows:
2000005
...she remembered... (that Lee Harvey Oswald)
was the name of an American who had come to
the Cuban Consulate to obtain a visa to travel
to Cuba in transit to Russia, the latter part
of September or the early part of October of
this year, and in support of his application
had shown his passport, in which it was noted
that he had lived in that country for a period
of three years; his labor card from the same
country written in the Russian language; and
letters in that same language. He had presented
evidence that he was married to a Russian woman,
and also that he was apparently the leader of
an organization in the city of New Orleans claim-
ing that he should be accepted as a "friend" of
the Cuban Revolutior. Accordingly, the declarant,
complying with her cuties, took down all of the
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information and completed the appropriate
application form; and the declarant, ad-
mittedly exceeding her responsibilities,
informally telephoned the Russian Consulate,
with the intention of doing what she could
to facilitate issuarce of the Russian visa
to Lee Harvey Oswalc. However, they told
her that there would be a delay of about
four months in processing the case, which
annoyed the applicart since, according to
his statement, he was in a great hurry to
obtain visas that would enable him to travel
to Russia, insisting on his right to do so
in view of his background and his loyalty
and his activities in behalf of the Cuban
movement. The declarant was unable to re-
call accurately whether or not the applicant
told her he was a member of the Communist
Party, but he did say that his wife***was
then in New York City, and would follow
him,*** (Senora Duran stated) that when Os-
wald understood that it was not possible to
give him a Cuban visa without his first hav-
ing obtained the Russian visa,*** he became
very excited or angry, and accordingly, the
affiant called Consul Ascue (sic),*** (who)
came out and began a heated disucssion in En-
glish with Oswald, that concluded by Ascue
telling him that "if it were up to him, he
would not give him the visa," and "a person
of his type was harming the Cuban Revolution
rather than helping it," it being understood
that in their conversation they were talking
about the Russian Sccialist Revolution and
not the Cuban. Oswald maintained that he had
two reasons for requesting that his visa be
issued promptly, and they were: one, that his
tourist permit in Mexico was about to expire;
and the other, that he had to get to Russia
as quickly as possible. Depsite her annoyance,
the decalarant gave Oswald a paper*** in which
she put down her name, "Silvia Duran," and
the number of the telephone at the Consulate,
which is "11-28-47" and the visa application
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was processed anyway It was sent to the
Ministry of (Foreign Relations of Cuba; from
which a routine reply was received some fifteen
to thirty days later, approving the visa, but on
the condition that the Russian visa be obtained
first, although she does not recall whether or
not Oswald later telephoned her at the Consulate
number that she gave him. 705/.
The Central Intelligence Agency had relied on Duran's
statements but had deleted Duran's description of Oswald as
blonde and short. 706/ It had also excised Duran's statement--
"The only aid she could give Oswald was advising that he see
the Soviet Consul, and calling the person in charge of that
office" which alluded to Oswald asking for some type of aid at
the Cuban Consulate. 707/ In addition, Ms. Duran's strong state-
ment "He never called her back" 707a/ was changed to "she does
not recall whether or not Oswald later telephoned her at the
t.
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Consulate number that she have him.707b/ Had the statements
been included, the Warren Commission's conclusions would not have
seemed as strong.
The Warren Commission staff was not completely satis-
fied with Ms. Duran's ten page signed statement obtained by
the Mexican authorities. h. David Slawson wrote:
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We then discussed...the problem of (inter-
viewing) Silvia Duran. We pointed out that
our only interest in witnesses (in Mexico)
other than Duran was to get their formal testi-
mony for authentication purposes...This was
not true of Duran, however, because she had
been interviewed only by the Mexican police
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and we considered that interview inadequate..
(I should point out that we do not consider
it totally inadequate, however. It is only
on details such as Oswald's physical
appearance, side comments or remarks he
may have made, etc., that we would like to
interrogate Mrs. Duran further. On the
essential point of whether or not his con-
tacts with the Embassy consisted of anything
other than an attempt to travel to Cuba,
Silvia Duran's knowledge has probably been
exhausted.) 708/
The Warren Commission staff's attempts to inter-
view Ms. Duran never succeeded. 709/ Ms. Duran was not
interviewed by Americans until 1976, when two reporters
from the Washington Post interviewed her. 710/ On
June 6, 1978, representatives of the House Select Committee
(on Assassinations interviewed Ms. Duran in Mexico City.
.
VI. Information not available at the time of the Warren
Commission investigation
A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran)
1. House Select Committee on Assassinations 6/6/78
Interview of Silvia Tirado
Ms. Tirado (Silvia divorced Horatio Duran in 1968)
was never questioned by American officials in 1963. Thus,
the Committee established contact with the Mexican govern-
ment and requested that the Mexican government make
Silvia Tirado available for an interview. 711/ The Mexican
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government complied on 6/6/78. Ms. Tirado told the House
Select Committee on Assassinations the following:
Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate three
times on September 27, 1963, not twice as the Warren Com-
mission previously reported. 712/ Oswald first visited
the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m., requesting
an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destina-
tion. 713/ He showed her some documents, then left to
obtain photographs needed for his application. 714/
Oswald returned at approximately 1:00 p.m. with
four photographs. 715/ Ms. Tirado typed the application
in duplicate, stapled a picture on top of each and had Os-"
wald sign each in her presence. 716/ As identification,
Oswald showed her documents he had brought: his Russian
labor card, marriage certificate with the name of his
Russian wife, his American Communist Party membership card
and his "Fair Play for Cuba' membership card. 717/
Ms. Tirado found Lee Harvey Oswald's behavior suspi-
cious because normally a Communist traveled only with his
passport as belonging to the Communist Party was illegal
in Mexico in 1963. 718/
There was a procedure whereby the American Communist
Party would arrange visa matters for their members with the
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Cuban Communist Party. 719/ The American would then
come to Mexico, visit the Cuban Consulate, and receive
his visa immediately. 710/ When Tirado asked Oswald why
he did not have the American Communist Party arrange his
trip to Cuba, he stated that he had not had the time. 721/
After explaining to (swald that he had to acquire
a Russian visa before he could receive a Cuban visa, Tirado
jotted her name and business phone number on a piece of
paper and gave it to Oswald who then left to get his Rus-
sian visa. 722/
Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate between
5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.; which was after normal working
hours, 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. 123/ The guard called Tirado,
stating that someone who did not speak Spanish was at the
gate inquiring about a visa. 724/ As routine procedure,
she asked the guard to escort the individual to her office. 725/
Oswald told her that he had acquired a Russian visa. 726/
Since he did not produce it when asked, she called the
Russian Consulate. 7271 The Consul told Duran that Oswald
had been to the Consulate requesting a visa and had been
told that the reply would take approximately four months. 728/
When she relayed the message to Oswald, he got very excited,
insisting that as a person who had been in jail because
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of the Cuban Revolution he should receive a visa. 729/
Oswald stated that he could not wait that long because.
his Mexican visa expired in three days. 730/ At this
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situation. 731/ Azcue had been in his private office
which he shared with his upcoming replacement, Alfredo
Mirabal. 732/ Azcue politely explained the requisites
for an intransit visa to Oswald. 733/ When he noticed
that Oswald was a stubborn man he told Oswald that he
was obviously not a friend of the Cuban revolution be-
cause he would otherwise understand that Cuba had to be
extremely careful with the people it allowed in the coun-
try. 734/ Azcue and Oswald yelled at each other. 735/
Then Azcue went to the door opened it and asked Oswald
to leave. 736/ Oswald did not revisit or telephone the
Consulate. 7371 Ms. Tirado described Lee Harvey Oswald
as approximately five feet six, with sparse blonde hair,
weighing about 125
pounds. 738/
2. CIA information not available at the time of
the Warren Commission investigation
a. LIRING/3 allegation
In 1967 a report thai Silvia Duran had had intimate
relations with Lee Harvey Oswald came to the attention
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of the Central Intelligecne Agency's Mexico City Station. 739/
The source, LIRING/3, stated that he had recently re-
ceived a call from Silvia Duran. 740/ A telephone tap
on LIRING/3's telephone confirmed that Silvia Duran had
called LIRING. 741/ LIRING 3 reported that he had visited
Silvia to renew acquiaintancees. 742/ During the visit,
Duran told LIRING/3 that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald
at the Cuban Consulate when he applied for a visa and
had dated him on several occasions. 743/ Duran admitted
that she had had intimate relations with Oswald, but in-
sisted that she had no idea of his plans. 744/ In addi-
tion, Duran told LIRING/3 that when the news of the as-
sassination became public knowledge, the Mexican govern-
ment arrested her and during the interrogation beat her
until she admitted that she had had an affair with Lee
Harvey Oswald. 745/ Rowton 746/ counseled LIRING/3
against any further contact with Duran because the Cubans
or the Mexican police might become suspicious of him. 747/
There is no indication in Rowton's report as to why con-
tact with Silvia would make the Cubans suspicious.
The CIA Mexico City Station reported this informa-
tion to headquarters:
First, that Silvia Duran had sexual intercourse
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with Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions
when the latter was in Mexico is probably
new, but adds little to the Oswald case.
Second, the Mexican police did not report
the extent of the Duran-Oswald relationship
to this Station. 749/
In the chronology of the Mexico City investigation
of Oswald, Raymond
Rocca notes: "Why didn't .Mexico
police give us all info?" 750/
This was not the first
report of such a relationship between Oswald and Duran.
Elena Garro had reported the same information to Charles
Thomas in 1965. 751/
That the Mexican government did not disclose all
the information in its possession to American authorities
raises one of three possibilities:
1) the Mexican government did not want to disclose
that one of its citizens had had intimate rela-
tions with the assassin of John Kennedy; or
2) Silvia Duran was a Mexican penetration agent
in the Cuban Consulate and the Mexican govern-
ment, was protecting its informant by minimizing
her relationship with Oswald; or
3) they forgot, i.e., a pure and simple mistake.
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b. The possibility that Silvia Duran was an
agent for either American, Mexican or Cuban
Intelligence
Since the publication of the Warren Commission
Report in September 1964, critics have written about the
possibility that Silvia Duran was an intelligence agent
for either the Americans, Mexicans or Cubans.
1) Was Silvia Duran an agent, asset or source
for Mexican or American intelligence?
In an effort to resolve this question, the House
Select Committee on Assassinations reviewed the United
States investigative agencies' files on Silvia Duran. 752/
The Committee found no evidence in this file review that
Silvia Duran was either an American or Mexican intelli-
gence agent.
In addition, the Committee has interviewed most
of the Mexico City Station employees about the possibility.
Only David Phillips, Chief of Covert Action and the Cuban
Section in the Mexico City Station in 1963, a position
which made him very knowledgeable, considered that Duran
was possibly an agent or source. Mr. Phillips stated that
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"at one time the agency pitched 753/ almost everyone
at the Cuban Embassy." 754/ Mr. Phillips stated that
he had first heard Duran's name from the telephone
intercept transcripts. 755/ But Mr. Phillips asserted
that the CIA had no interest in Ms. Duran because "she
wasn't friendly with anyone." 756/ Mr. Phillips had
previously mentioned the CIA Mexico City Station's in-
terest in recruiting a former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
named Lechuga. 757/ Mr. Phillips was shown a memorandum
written by W. David Slawson of the Warren Commission staff
regarding a trip to Mexico by Warren Commission staff
members which said:
Mr. Scott's (Chief of the CIA Station in Mexi-
co City) narrative disclosed that the CIA's
action immediately after the assassination con-
sisted basically of alerting all its confiden-
tial sources of information throughout Mexico
to immediately channel all information into
their headquarters, and of compiling as.com-
plete dossiers as possible on Oswald and every-
one else throughout Mexico who at that time
the CIA knew had had some contact with Oswald...
This meant especially Silvia Duran, who because
she had previously been having an affair with
Lechuga, the former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
and presently the Cuban representative at the
United Nations, had previously been of substan-
tial interest to the CIA...7587
Mr. Phillips was surprised by this and stated
that. "No one let me in on this operation." 759/ But
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Mr. Phillips added that he doubted that Duran would
have been pitched because the Station could not identify
any of her weaknesses. The Committee staff members then
told Mr. Phillips about the reporting on file concerning
Ms. Duran from one of the Station's penetration agents,
LITAMIL/9, at the Cuban Embassy. At one point LITAMIL/9
had reported to his case officer that all that would
have to be done to recruit Ms. Duran was to get a blonde,
blue-eyed American in bed with her. 761/ With this, Mr.
Phillips said that it did indeed sound as if the Station
had targeted Ms. Duran for recruitment, that the Station's
interest had been substantial, and that the weaknesses
and means had been identified. 762/ Mr. Phillips
pointed out, however, that because Duran had been targeted
did not necessarily mean that she had been pitched. 763/
In addition, he stated that he had never heard that Duran
had been pitched. 764/
Mr. Phillips did state that he would expect that
Ms. Duran's file at the CIA would be "very thick" because
of all the telephone intercepts that concerned her and
the substantial interest that the Station had in her. 765/
He stated that much of the material in her file should
predate the assassination. 765/ Mr. Phillips stated that
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he would be very surprised if Ms. Duran's 201 file was
small and contained only a few pre-assassination docu-
ments. 767/ This is in fact the case of the Headquarters
201 file. 768/ This Committee has asked the CIA to make
Ms. Duran's Mexican "P" 769/ (personality) file available
for review. The CIA informed the Committee that there
was no "P" file available on Ms. Duran. 770/
Another CIA employee, Dan Neiscuir, who worked on
an "Oswald Task Force" in late September or early October
of 1975 dealing with Freedom of Information Act law suits
brought against the Agency concerning the files on Lee ·
Harvey Oswald, stated that he believed that Ms. Duran may.
have been a source of information for either the CIA or
the Mexicans. 771/ Mr. Neiscuir could not recall why he
specifically had this recollection, but thought that it
was due to something he had seen in Oswald's file. 772/
He said that it may have been the Agency's attempts to
protect Ms. Duran after the assassination and the heavy
cable traffic that those attempts generated that led him
to his inference that she was a source of information
for either the Agency or the Mexicans. 773/
Despite LIRING/3's case officer's asking LIRING/3
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Mr. Neiscuir's hazy recollections, the Committee cannot
definitely resolve whether Silvia Duran was a Mexican or
American intelligence agent or source.
(2) was Silvia Duran a Cuban intelligence agent?
In an effort to resolve this question, the HSCA
reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files
on Silvia Duran. 774/ The Committee found no evidence in
the files that would indicate that Ms. Duran was associated
with Cuban intelligence.
In addition, the HSCA interviewed most of the Mexi-
co City Station employees about the possibility that Duran
worked for Cuban intelligence. Only Barney Hidalgo, a
CIA officer who travelled to Mexico City in 1963, considered
the possibility to be likely. 775/ Mr. Hidalgo, professing
not to remember all the details, stated that he thought
that Duran was a Cuban intelligence agent. 776/ Hidalgo
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that there was some connection there but
it was of no interest whatsoever to me,
I do remember that when I next saw this
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Mr. Hidalgo further stated that he never resolved
the issue. 778/
With no corroborating evidence for Mr. Hidalgo's
memory, the Committee must conclude that Silvia Duran
was probably never employed by Cuban Intelligence.
B. The Cubans
1. Eusebio Azcue opez
When Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban
Consulate, Eusebio Azcue Loɔez, a Cuban citizen, was the
Cuban Consul. 779/ Because he had diplomatic immunity,
the Cuban government had never been asked to make him
available for questioning. 7807 The Committee, in an ef-·
fort to investigate Oswald's contact with representatives
of the Cuban government, asked the Cuban government to
make Eusebio Azcue available for Committee and staff inter-
views. 781/ The Cuban government complied with the Commit-
tee's request on April 1, 1978. 782/
During that interview, Mr. Azcue alleged that the
man Jack Ruby shot in the Dallas Police Station was not
the same individual who had visited the Cuban Consulate
in 1963. 783/ In addition, Mr. Azcue stated that Alfredo
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Mirabal, who in September 1963, had recently arrived
from Cuba to assume the Consul's duties, had also been
present during Oswald's visit. 784/ During a second
trip to Cuba, the Committee interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. 785/
Subsequent to this second trip to Havana, the Committee
asked the Cuban government to make Eusebio Azcue and
Alfredo Mirabal available for the public hearings on Sep-
tember 18, 1978. 786/ The Cuban government complied with
the Committee's request.
Eusebio Azcue Lopez cold the House Select Committee
on Assassinations at a public hearing on 9/18/78 the
following:
An individual who gave the name Lee Harvey Oswald
visited the Cuban Consulate on three occasions in late
September 787/ and early October 1963. 788/ The indivi-
dual first visited the Cuban Consulate during working
hours, requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia
as the final destination. 789/ The man showed the secre-
tary, Silvia Duran, some documents 789a/ which he believed
would be sufficient to obtain a visa. 7895/ When the
secretary would not grant him a visa, the man asked Azcue
to see whether upon examination of the documents he could
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The individual then left to obtain photographs needed
for his application. 789e/
The man probably returned on September 27, 1963 789f/
with the photographs and completed the applications
in Ms. Duran's presence. 789g/ As the amount of time re-
quired to process this document could have taken as long.
as twenty days or the response could have been negative,
Azcue told the man that he could grant him an intransit
visa to Cuba, without consulting his government, if he
had a Russian visa. 789h/ The individual then left to
attempt to obtain his Russian visa. 7891/
After the man left the Cuban Consulate, Azcue re-
ceived a telephone call 7891/ from the Soviet Consulte. 790/
The Soviet Consul explained that the man's documents
were legitimate, but that the Soviet Consulate could not
issue a visa until it received authorization from Moscow. 791/
Emphasizing that the Cuban Consulate never re-
ceived visitors after working hours 792/ Mr. Azcue opined
that the individual probably returned to the Consulate
on September 28, 1963. 793/ When Azcue explained to
Oswald that he could not grant him a visa, the man made
statements directed against Cuba and called Cuba a
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bureaucracy. 794/ At that point, Azcue became upset and
asked the individual to leave the Consulate. 795/ Oswald
did not revisit the Consulate. 796/
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Mr. Azcue described the man who visited the Consu-
late as follows: a white male, between 5'6" and 5'7"
over 30 years of age, very thin long face, with straight
eyebrows and a cold look in his eyes. 797/ Azcue alleged
that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as
the man who visited the Cuban Consulate in 1963.
2. Alfredo Mirabal Diaz
Alfredo Mirabal Diaz told the House Select Committee
on Assassinations, at a public hearing on 9/18/78, 797A/
the following: '
Lee Harvey Oswald, seeking a visa, visited the
Cuban Consulate twice 798/ in September 1963. 799/ Since
. Mirabal could not speak English though he was the new Con-
sul, ex-Consul Azcue handled the matter. 800/ On both
occasions there were such loud arguments between Oswald
and Azcue that Mirabal thought that the man's visit to.
the Consulate was a case of provocation. 801/
Though Mirabal caught only glimpses of the man
he opined that the person whose picture appears on Lee
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Harvey Oswald's visa application was the same Lee. Harvey
Oswald who visited the Consulate. 802/ Mirabel was about
4 meters away from Oswald each time he caught glimpses of
him. 802a/ Oswald was at the Consulate between 15 and 20
minutes on each visit. 802b/
C. Elena Garro de Paz
On October 5, 1964, Є leven days after the publication
of the Warren Commission Report, Elena Garro de Paz' story
alleging Lee Harvey Oswald's presence at a party in Mexico
City attended by Cuban government personnel came to the attention
of the Central Intelligence Agency. 803/
1. Elena's story as reported October 5, 1964
Elena Garro de Paz 8014/ and Deba Garro de Guerrero
Galvan, first cousins of Horatio, Ruben and Lydia Duran,
were invited to a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran
in the middle of the week in the fall of 1963. 805/ Lee
Harvey Oswald was alleged to have been at this party in
the company of "two other beatnik-looking boys." 806/
The Americans remained together the entire evening and
did not dance. 807/ When Elena tried to speak with the
Americans, she was "shifted" to another room by one of
her cousins. 808/ The memo does not state whether Elena
had mentioned which cousin had not allowed her to speak
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One of Elena's cousins told her at
the time that (he or she) did not know who the Americans
were except that Silvia Duran (an employee of the Cuban
Embassy and the wife of Horatio Duran), had brought
them to the party. 809/
The day after the party, Elena and Deba saw the
three Americans on the Insurgentes, a main avenue in
Mexico City. 810/ The Garros claimed that they had recog-
nized Oswald's photograph when it was published after
the assassination. 811/ Silvia Duran's arrest "under-
lined the Garros' certainty' that the man had been Lee
Harvey Oswald. 812/
The source of the memo was a witting 813/ Central
Intelligence Agency asset krown by the cryptonym LICOOKIE/1
whom the Committee identified as June Cobb Sharp while
reviewing the LICOOKIE file. According to Elena, Ms.
Cobb was sent to her house shortly after the assassination
for a few days, by a mutual friend, a Costa Rican writer
named Eunice Odio. 814/ Ms. Garro asserted that while
at her house, Ms. Cobb expressed interest in the Kennedy
assassination. 315/ One night, Elena's sister Deba, who
was visiting, got drunk and told the whole story. 216/
Claiming to be a CIA agent, Cobb suggested that Elena and
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Deba go to Texas to tell their story. 817/ Elena stated
that when Cobb's suggestion was rejected, Cobb stated
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that she would arrange a meeting with the CIA Station
Chief. 818/ The meeting dic not occur because Ms. Cobb
was asked to leave the Garro house evidently because
she kicked Elena's cat. 819/ A notation on the memo says
that LICOOKIE/1 never regained contact with Elena Garro
de Paz. 820/
The LICOOKIE memo was not inserted in either the
Elena Garro or Lee Harvey Oswald "P" 821/ (personality)
file but in a local leftist and Cuban project file. The
Committee learned about the memo from Wx-7241, a chrono-
logical history of the Oswald case prepared by Raymond
Rocca for the CIA in 1967. The memo was found in Decem-
ber, 1965 by Stanley Watson. A marginal notation on
Wx7241 says, "Why was this not sent to Headquarters?" 823/
The Committee has been able to determine that the memo
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2. October 12, 1964 CIA Memo for the Record.
On October 12, 1964 the CIA Mexico City Station's
Chief of Covert Action, Jim Flannery, wrote a memo for
the record reporting that Elena Garro de Paz had told
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The Committee has no been able to determine if
Elena Garro told Ms. Odio the story personally or if
.Ms. Cobb related the story to Ms. Odio who relayed it to
"Tichborn." 825/
The story is not as detailed as the 10/5/64 ver-
sion. There is no mention of Deba Garro Guerrero Galvan.
The story, perhaps because it is third hand, differs
from the previous story in two areas: It states that
the party was at the Cuban Embassy, as opposed to Ruben
Duran's; and that Elena talked to a Cuban Embassy offi-
cial instead of her cousins about the three Americans.
Attached to the memo was a note from Flannery to
the Chief of Station, Winston Scott, which read, "Do you
want me to send the gist of this to Headquarters?" Scott
then noted that the memo should be filed. 826/ The file
indications show that the memo went into the Oswald "P"
file and the Elena Garro "P' file. 827/
3. November 24, 1964 CIA Informant Report
On November 24, 1954 a Central Intelligence Agency
reported information 829/ derived from an asset,
agent 823/
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an "American Communist" who rented a room from Elena
Garro. 831/ In addition, the informant claimed that
Elena had also told her story to an American official
at the Embassy, who claimed to represent the Warren Com-
mission. 832/ The Chief of Station noted that he had
asked LICHANT/1 to pursue the story 833/ but there is
no indication that the Chief of Station followed through
with the request. 834/
4. November 24, 1964 Elena Garro meeting with
Mexico City Legal Attache officers
Elena and her daughter reported their story to the
Mexico City Legal Attache on November 24, 1964. 835/
(The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.) They
recounted the same story previously given to June Cobb
Sharp in October 1964. 836/ Elena gave the date of the
party as September 30, October 1 or October 2, 1963. 837/
The agent who wrote the report 838/ noted that Lee Harvey
Oswald could not have been identical with the American 839/
allegedly observed by Mrs. Paz at the party if this party
were held on the evening of October 1 or October 2, 1963. 840/
Elena was questioned regarding the identity of
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who might have been in a position to observe the three
Americans. 841/ Elena stated that in the course of
the party her daughter met a young man named "Alejandro"
at the party and danced with him. 842/ He was apparently
quite smitten with the daughter and tried to call her
on several occasions after the party. 843/ The daughter
did not take the calls and as a result "Alejandro" wrote
several letters to the daughter. 844/ Ms. Garro
exhibited
two of the letters, as well as a business card which
identified the young man as Ario Alejandro Lavagnini
Stenius. 845/
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The letter which Ms. Garro said was the first
written by the young man to her daughter bore the date
September 1, 1963 and the Mexico City Post Office post-
mark dated September 2, 1963. 846/ When this was pointed
out to Ms. Garro she commented that the Communists pro-
bably had facilities for falsifying postmarks. 847/
To investigate Ms. Garro's story further, repre-
sentatives from the Legal Attache's office interviewed
Ario Alejandro Lavagnini Stenius on November 27, 1964. 848/
Lavagnini recalled that there were approximately thirty
people at Ruben Duran's party, few of whom he knew. 849/
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returned from living in France. 850/ He was unable to
fix the date of the party bit felt it was probably early
in September because of a heavy rain which occurred as they
were leaving the party about 2:00 a.m. 851/:
Lavagnini said that no Americans were present at
this party. 852/ He was familiar with the physical de-
scription of Lee Harvey Oswild because of publicity fol-
lowing the assassination of President Kennedy, but other-
wise had no knowledge of him and had never seen him except
for news photographs following the assassination. 853/
Lavagnini was the only person interviewed by
the Legal Attache representatives who attended parties at
the Duran house in the September-October time frame.
There is no indication in the FBI document that
this information was given to the Central Intelligence
Agency's Mexico City Station. 854/
5. Charles Thomas' frst meeting with Elena Garro
where Lee Harvey ()swald is discussed
On 12/10/65, Charles Thomas, a political officer
at the American Embassy, write a memorandum about a con-
versation with Elena Garro de Paz. 855/ The meeting
with Elena had been about other matters 856
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tioned knowing Oswald. 857/ Thomas noted that she was
reluctant to talk but did. 358/
Elena's story reported here is the same as that
given in the LICOOKIE memo dated 10/5/64, but with more
details. She said that General Jose Jesus Clark Flores
(a friend of Ruben Duran's), Silvia Duran, Eusebio Azcue,
Emilio Carballido (a pro-Communist writer-friend of the
Durans), and a Latin American Negro man with red hair
(unidentified) were at the party. 859/ A marginal com-
ment by this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena know
about a red-haired Negro?" 860/ Elena also told Thomas
that she had later learned that "Silvia Duran had been
Oswald's mistress while he was there." 861/ A note by
this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena Garro know
about Silvia being the mistress of Oswald? This is 1965."
862/ The Mexico City Station did not hear about the
Oswald-Duran "affair" until July 1967 when a CIA asset,
LIRING/3, reported it. 863/
Elena told Thomas that she and her daughter had
gone to the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963 and shouted
"Assassins" and other insults at the Embassy employees. 864/
According to Elena, that same day, a friend, Manuel Cal-
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Gobernacion, took her and her daughter to a small hotel
in the center of Mexico City. 865/ Calvillo kept Elena
Garro and her daughter there for eight days under the pre-
text that they were in danger of being harmed physically
by Communists. 866/ Elena claimed she told Calvillo
her story and that she wanted to tell it to the American
. authorities at the U.S. Embassy 867/ but that Calvillo
dissuaded her by telling her that the American Embassy
was full of Communist spies. 868/ Elena said that some
of the other people who had been at the party were taken
to Veracruz where they were "protected" by Governor
Lopez Arias. 869/ She said that Ruben Duran, reportedly
"protected" by General Clark Flores, was very prosperous
and was driving a big car. 370/ Elena also claimed
that Ruben Duran told her months after the assassination
that he was not really a Communist and that killing Ken-
nedy had been a mistake. 871/ Ruben Duran claimed he
had no reason to tell Elena that killing Kennedy had been
a mistake since he had no involvement. 872/
Charles Thomas circulated a copy of his memorandum
concerning Elena's allegations in the American Embassy
including the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City
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the memo: "What an imagination she has!?! Should we
send to Headquarters?" 874/ The Officer replied, on
the memo, "Suggest sending. There have been stories
around town about all this, and Thomas is not the only
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person she has talked to.. If memory serves me, didn't
LICOOKIE refer to Oswald and the local leftists and Cu-
bans in one of her squibs?" 875/
The Mexico City Station cabled the information in
Thomas' 12/10/65 memorandum of conversation to CIA Head-
quarters. 876/ The cable reported that Elena's story
would be checked with LICHANT/1, against the production
from the Cuban surveillance operation "and other
sources." 877/ Winston Scott wrote, next to the routing
indications on the cable, "Please ask Charles Thomas if
he'll follow up.' Get questions from Ann G. 878/
Please let's discuss. Tharks." 879/
After the December 10 memorandum of conversation,
Winston Scott 880/ and Nathan Ferris 881/ called Charles
Thomas for a meeting. 882; They asked him to get a more
detailed account of Ms. Garro's story. 883; At this
meeting, Winston Scott made it clear that the FBI had
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December 25, 1965
Thomas met with Elena again on December 25, 1965.
On that date, he wrote a memorandum of conversation which
provided a much more detailed restatement of Ms. Garro's
alleged encounter with Lee Harvey Oswald. 885/
Elena admitted that she had spoken to two men at
the Embassy, "presumably from the Legal Attache's Of
fice." 886/ Elena said that she did not tell them
the complete story because "the Embassy officers did not
give much credence to anything she and Elenita said." 887/
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She stated that the party had been at Ruben Duran's
home. 888/ She was unclear about the date of the
party. 889/ She thought it had been a few days before
the Soviet Astronaut, Gagarin, visited Mexico; she thought
that this would put the party around September 2 or 3,
1963. 890 She believed that the party was on a Monday
or Tuesday because it was an odd night for a party. 391/
Elena could not check her calendar to refresh her memory
at the time of this interview because the calendar was
in a desk that had been stored away. 892/
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During the conversation, Elena described Oswald
and his companions. 893/ The man who she thought was Os-
wald wore a black sweater. 394/ She said he was quiet
"and stared a lot at the floor." 895/ One of his com-
panions "was very tall and slender and had long blond
hair and a rather long protruding chin." 896/ The other
companion was also tall, with short, light brown hair
and no distinguishing characteristics. 897/ The three
Americans did not dance or nix with the other guests. 898/
Elena, saw the same three men on the street the next
day. 899/
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Elena was certain that Eusebio Azcue, Horacio
Duran, Silvia Duran, Lydia Duran, Deba. Guerrero, General
Clark Flores and his mistress, a doctor from Dalinde Hos-
pital, a young American couple who were honeymooning in
Mexico, and several other people were at the party. 900/
She said that Ricardo Guerra, whom she claimed converted
Horatio Duran to Communism, and his wife, Rosario Castel-
lanos, were supposed to be at the party but did not at-
tend. 901/
Elena alleged that the red-haired man and Emilio
Carballido were not at the party that Oswald attended
but at another party where Carballido and Azcue got into
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a heated argument about President Kennedy. 902/ "They
came to the conclusion that the only solution was to
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was before or after the party where she met Oswald. 905/
Eusebio. Azcue stated that this conversation never
occurred. 906/1
Elena reitereated that the incident at the Cuban
Embassy, where she and her daughter shouted "assassins,"
etc., at the Embassy employees, occurred on November 23
at or about 3:00 p.m. 907/ Elena and Elenita were driven
to the Cuban Embassy by Elena's brother who was embar-
rassed by their behavior. 908/ This occurred before
they had seen photographs of Oswald. 909/
Ms. Garro claimed that later in the day she and
Elenita were visited by Manuel Calvillo who told them
that they were in serious danger from the Communists and
that he would take them to a small hotel, where they
would be safe for a few days. 910/ Elena said she
trusted and believed Calvillo because he was a known'
undercover agent for the Mexico Government. 911/ He
was also a friend of Noe Pelomares 912/and of President
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. 913/ Calvillo also told Elena and
her daughter that Silvia Ouran had been arrested. 914/
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Duran's arrest was not public information at that time. 915/
Elena could not remember the name of the hotel
so that same day (12/25/65) she took Thomas to the sec-
tion of Mexico City where she thought it was. 916/ They
found the hotel, the Hotel Vermont. 917/ Elena said
that she assumed that Calvillo had registered them as rela-
tives or friends from San Luis Potosi. 918/ They stayed
at the hotel until the following Friday, November 30, 1963,
hardly leaving their rooms. 919/
Elena claimed that while she and Elenita were at
the hotel they saw the photos of Oswald and realized
that he had been the man at Ruben Duran's party. 920/
When Calvillo visited them at the hotel, Elena told him
that she wanted to report her story, which she related
to Calvillo, to the American Embassy. Calvillo, however,
dissuaded her by saying that the American Embassy was
full of Communists. 921/ Elena stated that when she
returned home, guards were posted outside her house. 922/
Elena alleged that after she returned home she
saw her sister, Deba Guerrero, who had independetly
come to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had been
at Ruben Duran's party. 92: Deba was "terrified" be-
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two "Communists" personally warned her never to reveal
that she had been to a part, with Oswald. 924/ Deba,
consequently, would not accompany Elena to the American
Embassy to tell her story on November 24, 1964. 925/
Elena stated that it was "common knowledge" that
Silvia had been Oswald's mistress. 926/ When asked who
could verify the allegation, she could only remember one
person who had told her this. 927/ Elena claimed that
person was Victor Rico Galan, 928/. a "pro-Castro journa-
list." 929/ (See Section VI, A, 2, a, above.)
Subsequent to December 25, 1965, Elena found her
calendar and reconstructed the date of the party as
late September and not early September. 930/ When Tho-
mas went to Ferris' office and informed him, Ferris re-
plied that Elena had given the late September date when
she had originally reported her story at the American
Embassy. 931/ However, Mr. Ferris explained to Thomas.
that someone who had been at the twist party had stated
that there were no Americans there. 932/ Mr. Ferris
did not tell Mr. Thomas that Aria Alejandro Lavagnini
Stenius had provided this information in 1964. 933/
Mr. Ferris suggested that it was not necessary for Thomas
to pursue Elena's allegations since he considered the
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Oswald case closed and had heard all the rumors before. 934/
Thomas forwarded (the same day) a copy of his
memorandum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico
City Station to aid in its investigation of the John F.
Kennedy assassination. 935/ On the first page of the
memorandum of conversation, Winston Scott wrote,
"Shouldn't we send to Headquarters?"
"Of course." 936/
Someone responded,
The Mexico City Station sent a cable to Head-
quarters on December 12, 1955, reporting that it was
"following up" and would cable the results. 937/
7. December 27, 1965 Legal Attache Memo to the
United States Ambassador re Elena Garro
On December 27, 1965 Nathan Ferris wrote a memo
to the Ambassador reporting that Elena and her daughter
were interviewed on 17 and 24 November 1964 by the Legal
Attache's office in Mexico City, 938/ The memo recorded.
that Elena and her daughter had furnished information si-
milar to the information reported in Thomas' 12/10/65
memo. 939; The memo further stated,
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allegations made by Mrs. Garro de Paz
and her daughter. In view of the fact.
that Mrs. Garro de Paz' allegations
have been previously checked out without
substantiation, no further action is
being taken concerning her recent repeti-
tion of those allegations. 940/
The Legal Attache forwarded a copy of the memoran-
dum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City
Station
941/ prior to 12/29/65. 942/
A cable written by Anne Goodpasture on December
29, 1965 reporting the Legat interview with Elena and
the Legat Office's failure to substantiate Elena's story
was sent to Headquarters. 943/ The cable promised to
keep Headquarters advised if any further information
was to developed. 944/
LICOOKIE's 10/5/64 memo is attached to the 12/29/65
cable. Wx-7241 explained this in a marginal comment, "This
document by LICCOKIE' was not in (Oswald's file), but
was copied from (a project file) and attached to MEXI
5741, 29 Dec. 65.” 946/
A note stapled to this cable by Allen White stated,
"I don't know what FBI did in November 1964, but the
Garros have been talking about this for a long time
and she is said to be extremely bright." 947/ Anne Good-
pasture wrote that the FBI had found Elena's allegations
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unsubstantiated but that "we will try to confirm or
refute Ms. Garro de Paz' information and follow up." 948/
Win Scott wrote, "She is also 'nuts.'" 949/
8. CIA Investigation of Elena's allegation that
she created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy
on November 23, 1963
On February 3, 1966, Anne Goodpasture forwarded
Thomas' December 25, 1965 memo to the Cuban section at
the Mexico City Station with an attached note asking
the Section to check whether Elena was "seen creating
such a disturbance as they claimed in front of the Cuban
Embassy." 950/
One Cuban section officer responded, "No bells
ring with me." Another one wrote, "Me neither.
10. The
third officer wrote, "No pictures either." 951/ There is no indica
tion, after reviewing CIA files, that the penetration agents in
the Cuban Embassy were queried about Elena's allegation: 952/ That
there are no pictures is reasonable since Elena claimed
that the event happened: 1) on a Saturday at 3:00 p.m.
when the Cuban Embassy was not normally photographically
surveilled; 953/ and 2) the disturbance" occurred in-
side the Cuban compouno. MSCA examination of the CIA
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Cuban Embassy photographic surveillance showed no sur-
veillance on 11/23/63. 954/ The Committee found that
Central Intelligence Agency made no other effort to
corroborate Ms. Garro's allegations.
9. Legal Attache 2/23/66 Memo to the United States
Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegations
On 2/23/66 the Legal Attache wrote a memo to the
Ambassador reporting that "extensive investigation"
failed to disclose that Oswald had traveled to Mexico
prior to September 26, 1963 and that no information had
developed that would show that he had not been in New
Orleans in the early part of that month. 955/
The memo
reiterated
that no further action was being taken by
the FBI because Elena's allegations had not been substan-
tiated by it. 956/ The Legal Attache forwarded a copy
Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico
of this memo to the
City Station. 957/ A marginal comment made by Raymond
Rocca next to this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How can it
be ascertained that Cswald did not travel to Mexico
prior to early September 1953? There must be some basis
for Elena's reporting." 9581
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10. Legal Attache Merio to Winston Scott re Elena's
Allegation that She Had Stayed at the Hotel
Vermont from the Day After the Assassination
Until November 30, 1963
. On 10/13/66, the Legal Attache wrote a memo to
Win Scott reporting that a reliable confidential infor-
mant had reported that the records of the Hotel Vermont
disclosed that one "Elena Paz, housewife from San Luis
Potosi," had registered at the Hotel Vermont on November
23, 1963. 959/ She left on November 30, 1963. 960/
The memo said, "The above individual may or may not be
identical with Elena Garro de Paz." 961/ The House Se-
lect Committee on Assassinations has been unable to deter-
mine why the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal
Bureau of Investigations waited until 1966 to investigate
this aspect of Elena's story.
Charles Thomas' 12/25/65 memo stating "She and
her daughter did not personally register at the hotel.
She thinks Calvillo registered them as relatives or
friends of his from San Luis Potosi," corroborates
Elena Garro's presence at the Hotel Vermont. 962/ The
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entry for the 10/13/66 Legat memo in Wx-7241 bore the
notation, "This is what Elena claimed and no one would
believe her." 963/
11. Charles Thomas' September 30, 1969 Letter to
State Department and Legal Attache's Response
No further report on Elena's story was generated.
until 1969 when Charles Thomas was "selected out" of the
United States Foreign Service. 964/ At that time, he
wrote a memorandum to the Secretary of State which in-
cluded a cover letter stating, "Since I was the Embassy
Officer in Mexico who acquired this intelligence informa-
tion, I feel a responsibility for seeing it through to
its final evaluation." 965/
Charles Thomas' memorandum stated that "he got
no reaction from Nathan Ferris and Winston Scott" regard-
ing his memorandum of December 25, 1965. 966/ In addi-
tion, Thomas wrote that the only person to speak to him
about the December 25, 1965 memorandum, Clarence Boon-
stra 967/ told him that Oswald had not been in Mexico
on the date given for the party. 968/ Thomas noted that
even when he reiterated that Elena had not changed her
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account, Boonstra stated that the date was wrong and dis-
missed the entire affair. 963/
One of the Mexico City Legat Officers, Nathan
Ferris, in reply to Thomas' letter and memorandum, asserted
that Thomas' office had been advised by memoranda dated
December 27, 1965 and February 23, 1966 that since Elena
Garro's allegations had previously been investigated
without substantiation, no further action was being taken
concerning her recent repetition of those allegations. 970/
In its report, the Legat's Office concluded that either
the Counselor for Political Affairs did not route the
memoranda to Charles Thomas or that Thomas did not re-
call receiving them. 971/
Thomas wrote that when he went to Nathan Ferris'
office to inform him that Elena had found her calendar 972a/
and had reconstructed the date of the party as late
September, Ferris replied that Elena had given the late
September date when she had originally reported her story
at the American Embassy. 972/ Thomas noted that Ferris
explained that someone who had been at the party had
stated that there had not been any Americans in attendance. 973/
Thomas wrote that he had assumed that Elena could have
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can she saw there, but neve doubted that she had seen
some Americans. 974/ Thomas wrote that Ferris had sug-
gested that it was not necessary for Thomas to pursue
the matter since he considered the Oswald case closed
and had heard all the rumors before. 975/
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that Mr. Ferris had not told Thomas that someone who was
at the party had stated tha: there had not been any Ameri-
cans present. 976/ The Legal Attache's memo asserted
that Thomas had been told that it would not be necessary
for him to pursue the matte any further since Elena's
story had been investigated previously without being
substantiated. 977/ In addition, the memo stated that
Thomas had been told that Elena's story was considered
a closed issue, not that the Oswald case was closed. 978/
12. House Select Cominittee on Assassination's
Investigation of Elena Garro's Allegations
The House Select Committee on Assassinations in-
vestigated Elena Garro's story both through file reviews
and personal interviews. The Committee requested and
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reviewed the CIA's, FBI's and State Department's files
on Elena Garro de Paz, Elen ta Garro de Paz, Manuel Calvillo,
Noe W. Palomares, June Cobb Sharp, Victor Rico Galan,
Eunice Odio, Sylvia Duran, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran, Betty
Serratos, Horatio Duran, Eusebio Azcue, and Emilio Car-
ballido. Only the Elena Garro de Paz file contained in-
formation on her allegations. Though all the names listed
above played a role in Elena Garro de Paz' story, not one
of their files included a reference to Elena Garro de Paz.
Furthermore, the House Select Committee on Assassina-
tions requested and reviewed the Central Intelligence
Agency's LICOOKIE/1, LICHAN¨/1, LIRING/3, and TICHBORN
files. Once again, not one of the files included a men-
tion of Elena Garro's allegations. The House Select Com-
mittee on Assassinations learned that LICOOKIE/1, who first
reported to the CIA Elena's allegation, was June Cobb
Sharp. 979/
LICHANT/1 was
Manuel Calvillo who had hidden Elena Garro and her daughter
in a hotel the day following the assassination. 980/
He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been arrested
before this fact had become public knowledge. 981/
Since a file review was inconclusive, the Committee
arranged interviews in Mexico with Ruben Duran, Horatio
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Emilio Carbillido and Betty Serratos. 982/ The Mexican
Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassina-
tions that Elena and Elenita Garro disappeared in 1968
during the student uprisings and have never returned to
Mexico. 983/ The officials stated that Elena and her
daughter might be in Spain. 984/ The Mexican government
reported that Emilio Carballido could not be found. 985/
The others were interviewed between June 1 and June 6,
1978. 986/
Betty Serratos, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran and
Horatio Duran all stated that Elena was not the dancing
type and therefore did not attend any of the twist parties
at the Duran homes. 987/ When Silvia Duran was asked if
Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties at the
Duran homes, she recalled Elena attending one twist party
at Ruben's home in 1963 after the Garros returned to Mexico
from France. 988/ All the Durans denied that Lee Harvey
Oswald had attended any party at one of their homes. 989/
The Committee next asked the Central Intelligence
Agency to arrange interview with LICHANT/1 (Manuel Calvillo),
LICOCKIE/1 (June Cobb), who may have had information related
to Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City. 990/ The
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in this aspect of the investigation. 991/
The Committee returned to Mexico City on August 7,
1978 and attempted to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel
Calvillo on its own. 992/
The Mexican governmert told the Committee that
June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781,
on June 27, 1947 when she entered Mexico through Nuevo
Lardeo. She asked, but was denied, permission to repre-
sent the magazine, Modern Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she
received a coutesy permiet, number 25556. Furthermore,
the Mexican government explained that she disappeared in
1954 and never returned to Mexico. 993/
incorrect.
The Committee believes that this information is
According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file, she worked
for the agency as an asset in Mexico from 1961 through
1966. 994/ Elena also stated that Ms. Cobb resided at
her home in 1964. 995/
The Mexican government told the Committee that
Manuel Calvillo did not live at Cuchtemoc 877-6 as the
Committee had informed it. The Mexican Government's
agent-in-charge had spoken to the superintendent at the
apartments at which Manuel Calvillo was believed to reside,
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and was informed by the superintendent who had worked
at the apartments for twenty-five years, said that no
Manuel Calvillo had ever resided there. When Committee
staffers gave the Mexican government Calvillo's pen
name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 996/
The Committee believes that there is a possibility
that Mr. Calvillo lived at this address since it acquired
the address from a recent CA document. 997/
The Committee believes that there is a possibility
that a U.S. Government agency requested the Mexican govern-
ment to refrain from aiding the Committee with this aspect
of its work. 998/ (See Procedural Write-up Trip 2 Mexico
City and Section VII, C, below.)
The Committee made every attempt possible to locate
Elena. On July 7, 1978 the Committee telephoned her pub-
lisher, Mortiz, in Mexico City and inquired about Elena's
whereabouts. 999/ The publisher stated that Ms. Garro
was living in the Hotel S.A. C.E. in Madrid, Spain. 1000/
The Committee telephoned the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Spain and
spoke to the manager who told him that Ms. Garro had
moved. 1001/ On July 14, 1978 the Committee called her
publisher again and was told to contact the Mexican Embassy.
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in Madrid, Spain. 1002/ The publisher stated that all
Elena's payments were sent there because she did not
even trust her publisher with her address., 1003/
The Committee called the Mexican Embassy in
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ployee of the Embassy who stated that when Elena had
visited the Embassy a couple of weeks before to pick up
a check she seemed financially destitute. 1004/
stated that when he asked Eena her new address she
declined to give one, stating that she would return every
few weeks to pick up checks and mail. 1005/ The Commit-
tee gave Padilla a telephone number and a message asking
Elena to telephone the Committee collect. 1006/
On September 5, 1978 Elena Garro called the Commit-
tee. 1007/ When it was explained that the Committee wished
to talk to her in person and would pay both her daughter's
and her travel from Spain to the United States, Ms. Garro
asked why she should believe the Committee was what it
claimed to be. 1008/ The Committee asked Ms. Garro to
call back collect in the next few days when it could ex-
plain to her when and where she could receive a Committee
letter celineating why the Committee wished to interview
her. 1009/ The Committee wrote the letter and made arrange-
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delivered to Elena at the American Embassy in Spain. 1010/
On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Com-
mittee and asked when the letter would arrive. 1011/
The Committee explained that she could pick up the letter
on Monday, September 11, 1978 from George Phelan, the
Counsellor for Consular Affairs at the American Embas-
sy. 1012/ Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter
on September 11, 1978 and follow our suggestions. 1013/
Ms. Garro never went to the American Embassy in
Spain to pick up the Committee's letter. 1014/ The
Committee, hoping she would pick up the letter before
her flight date, proceeded to purchase air tickets for
both Elena and her daughter. 1015/ Elena did not pick
up the tickets at the airport. 1016/ The Committee has
not been able to regain contact with Ms. de Paz again.
The Committee also investigated whether Charles
Thomas' "selection out" was related to the Oswald case.
After interviewing his widow, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the
Committee has concluded tha: his dismissal was unre-
lated. 1017/
In sum,
the House Select Committee on Assassinations
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in Mexico, attended a "twis: party" at the home of Ruben
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· Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran.
addition, the House Select Committee on Assassinations
has been unable to confirm the allegation that Lee Harvey
Oswald travelled while in Mexico City with "two beatnik-
looking boys.". A large part of the Committee's attempts
to investigate these issues has met with frustration.
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On March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul
in Tampico, reported to the American Embassy that he had
spoken to a reporter who allegedly had met Lee Harvey Oswald
at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City 1018/
in 1963. 1019/ The reporter, stressing that he had only
a fleeting contact with Oswild, had claimed to have known
only about Lee Harvey Oswalt's desire to travel to Cuba
and the Embassy's unwillingness to grant him a visa. 1020/
When B. J. Ruyle asked the reporter for permission to
cabie the story to the American Embassy, the reporter
declined, stating that he feired losing his job. 1021/
Subsequent to the assassination, the reporter had told
his editor about his contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, who
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had advised him not to report it. 1022/ The reporter
granted B. J. Ruyle permiss on to cable the story to
the American Embassy when Ruyle promised that it would
be handled with the strictest confidence. 1023/ Ruyle
wrote that he thought the reporter was genuinely con-
cerned about his job. 1024/
A letter from B. J. Ruyle to the State Department
dated May 11, 1967 provided additional details of the
reporter's story. 1025/ The reporter alleged that he
and some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald as
they exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia
(School of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous Univer-
sity of Mexico. 1026/ Oswald told the group that he had
gone to the National Autonomous University of Mexico
looking for pro-Castro students who might help him per-
suade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. 1027/
Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a mem-
ber of a pro-Castro group fi New Orleans. 1028/
remained with the students the rest of that day and even-
ing, as well as the following day. 1029/ The reporter
described Oswald as a strange and introverted individual
who spoke very little Spanish. 1030/
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The State Department forwarded a copy of Ruyle's
letter to the Central Intelligence Agency. 1031/ On
June 14, 1967, CIA Headquarters sent the Mexico City Sta-
tion a copy of Ruyle's letter to Bowles. 1032/ CIA
Headquarters considered Ruyle's report. "the first piece
of substantive info about Oswald's sojourn in Mexico"
since the assassination. 1033/ Consequently, Headquarters
cabled that though it understood the source's reluctance
to become involved "the fac: remains that this info
cannot continue to be withheld or concealed. 1034/
Headquarters instructed the Mexico City Station to eli-
cit the identity of the source from Ruyle. 1035/ In
addition, Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to
bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle's source, that
Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. 1036/ The final
sentence of the dispatch, "It is our hope that the facts
obtained through these interviews will help to confirm
that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement
of anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, etc. are false," 1037/
explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for
pursuing the story.
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Headquarters that a station officer had gone to Tampico
where he had interviewed Rule's source, Oscar Contreras. ´1038/
The cable reported that Contreras was a reporter for
El Sol 1039/
Min Tampico; was circa
thirty years old; married, with three children; studied
law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; belonged to a pro-Castro group
at UNAM; was persecuted by the Mexican police for this
affiliation and moved to Tampico to escape the persecu-
tion 1040/.
Contreras told the Mexico City Station official
that he and four other individuals 1041/ had met Oswald
as they exited a roundtable discussion held at the School
of Philosophy at UNAM. 1042/ Contreras stated that Oswald
had made inquiries on the UNAM campus about pro-Cuban
groups and had been directed to his group. 1043/ Con-
treras reported that though the group initially mistrusted
Oswald fearing he was a "CIA provocation," they allowed
Oswald to remain with them that day and night and part
of the following day. 1044/ Contreras noted that Oswald
never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that
he had to get to Cuba. 1045/ In addition, Oswald had
exhibited no homosexual tendencies while he was with the
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group. 1046/
On July 4, 1967, Headquarters cabled the Mexico
City Station that Contreras
story should be explored
to the fullest even though he might have fabricated it. 1047/
☐ Headquarters suggested that the FBI handle the story. 1048/
The following day, July 5, 967, the Mexico City Station
cabled that it preferred turning Contreras' case over to
the Mexican authorities and to the F.B.I. 1049/ The
same day, the Chief of Stat on informed the Legat of Con-
treras' story, but asked him not to take any action with-
out first consulting the Mexico City Station. 1050/
On July 10, 1967, Jeremy K. Benedum ("JKB") wrote
a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government
review of Oscar Contreras' file. 1051/ According to a
memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM law
school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, born 2/14/39
in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. 1052/ The memo also re-
ported that a newspaper article appearing in "Excelsior"
listed an Oscar Contreras as a signer of a protest for
the Bloque Estudiantil Revolucionario 1053/ which had
been formed mid-1961. 1054/ The memo speculated that.
Contreras probably signed the protest as a front man to
protect the real leaders of the group. 1056/ The Mexico
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following day, June 11, 1969. 1056/
The Committee has determined that the Central In-
telligence Agency's main interest in Oscar Contreras
was "to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations
about involvement of anti-Cistro Cubans, the CIA, etc.
are false." 1057/ After the CIA Mexico City Station
official's interview with Contreras 1058/ revealed
nothing that could be useful to the agency, it decided
to allow the FBI to follow the story through. 1059/
Nonetheless, the Agency's Mexico City Station inter-
viewed the key witness, reviewed pertinent files and
records about the witness in the Mexican government's
possession, and reported all the information to Head-
quarters expéditiously.
VII. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in
Mexico City
A. introduction
After the Warren Commission published its report
two very important allegations related to Lee Harvey Os-
wald's activities in Mexico City came to the attention of
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Garro de Paz reported that she had seen Lee Harvey Oswald,
accompanied by two other mer, at a party at the home of
Ruben Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. 1060/
In 1967, Oscar Contreras Lartigue reported that he met
Lee Harvey Oswald on the campus of the National Autono-
mous University of Mexico. 1061/
In addition, the testimony of the Warren Commission's
primary witness related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado
Duran, has been called into question by the critics
throughout the years. 1062/ Some of the information
that is inconsistent with Ms. Duran's original story--
that Oswald visited the Consulate on two occasions which
were the only times she saw him--was available at the
time of the Warren Commission's inquiry although it was
ignored. 1063/ Some of the information has developed
after the publication of the Warren Report. 1064/
The Garro and Contreras allegations, in conjunction
with the inconsistencies of Ms. Duran's story raise three ma-
jor questions: (1) did Lee Harvey Oswaid or an imposter
visit the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City?; (2) other
than his visits to the Cuba: Consulate, what were Lee Har-
vey Oswald's activities in Nexico City?; and, (3) was
Lee Harvey Oswald travelling alone in Mexico?' These
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wald was not traveling alone, did one of his companions
impersonate him at the Cuban Consulate?
Nonetheless,
each of the three questions will be dealt with in separate
sections below.
In an attempt to answer these questions the House
Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) interviewed
Mexican 1065/ and Cuban citizens 1066/ who could have
knowledge of Oswald's visit to the Cuban Consulate;
(2) interviewed Mexican citizens 1067/ who could have know-
ledge of Oswald's activities and associations in Mexico.
City; 3) conducted an extensive review of the files of
the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation that pertain to Oswald's sojourn in
Mexico City. 1068/
B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact
the Cuban and Soviet Consulates in Mexico City?
Lee Harvey Oswald himself probably visited the Cuban
Consulate at least once since his application for a Cuban
instransit visa bears his signature. 1069/ Though the
Cuban Consulate allowed visa applicants to take blank
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applications out of the Consulate to be returned when
completed, 1070/ Silvia Duran stated she was certain that
Oswald signed the application in her presence. 1071/ Os-
wald's signature on the Cuban visa application, however,
does not by itself rule out the possibility that someone
impersonated Oswald in contacts with the Cuban and Soviet
Embassies.
An analysis of the telephone.conversations which
the CIA's Mexico City Station intercepted by tapping the
Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's tele-
phone reveals that someone, later identified by the CIA as Oswald,
visited the Cuban Consulate at least two times and the
Soviet Consulate at least three times. 10721 On Septem-
ber 27, 1963, at 4:05 p.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet
Consulate. In this conversation she referred to an Ameri-
can seeking an intransit visa to Cuba. 1073/ The substan-
tive information given indicates that she was discussing
Oswald. 1074/ At this time the individual using Oswald's
name already had been at the Soviet Embassy at least once,
since Silvia requested the name of the Soviet Embassy offi-
cial who dealt with the American. 1075/ Silvia also .
stated that the American was, at that time, in the Cuban
Consulate. 1076/ At 4:26 p m. a Soviet Consular official
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returned Silvia Duran's call. 1077/. This official sta-
ted specifically that Oswald had visited the Soviet Con-
sulate. 1078/
On September 28, 1963, at 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran
called the Soviet Consulate. 1079/ She put the American,
later identified as Oswald, on the telephone. 1080/ The
American, who was at the Cuban Consulate at the time,
said that he had just been at the Soviet Consulate. 1081/
The conversation ended with the American stating that he
was returning to the Soviet Consulate. 1082/
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Analysis of Silvia Duran's and Eusebio Azcue's
testimony would tend to indicate that Oswald, or someone
impersonating him, visited the Cuban Consulate at least
one and possibly two additional times on September 27,
1963. Silvia Duran says that Oswald first visited the
Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m. requesting.
an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final de-
stination. 1083/ Ms. Duran sent Oswald to obtain photo-
graphs that he needed for the visa application. 1084/
Eusebio Azcue recalls that this visit probably occurred
on the date on the visa application, 9/27/63. 1085/
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proximately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs. 1086/
Eusebio
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Azcue also stated that the individual later identified
as Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate about 1:00 p.m.
with the photographs probably on "the date that appears
on the application, that is to say on the 27th.
" 1087/
The Committee believes that there is a possibility that
the argument between Azcue and the individual occurred
during this visit. 1088/
Ms. Duran stated that Oswald's third and last
visit occurred in the late afternoon after working hours
on the 27th. 1089/ This visit is confirmed by the CIA'S
tap on the Soviet Consulate. 1090/
In addition to the alleged Oswald visits to the
Consulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may
have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the Consu-
lates. 1091/ Several details about Oswald's visits to
the Cuban Consulate, and telephonic contacts with both
Consulates suggest that the individual involved may not
have been Oswald..
Silvia Duran's description of Oswald did not re-
semble Oswald's true physical appearance. 1092/ This
description, which appeared early in the reporting of in-
formation obtained from Ms. Duran was deleted from subse-
quent reports and was not at all mentioned in the Warren
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Report. 1093/ (See Section V, C, for details.)
Eusebio
Azcue's description of Oswald was similar to Silvia
Duran's, but more detailed. 1094/ Perhaps the most re-
markable thing about these descriptions is their simi-
larity to Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Os-
wald's alleged companions. 1095/
Another possible incication that an imposter may
also have visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 intercepted
conversation. 1096/ Silvia Duran adamantly denies that Oswald
or any other American visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday,
September 28, 1963. 1097/ In light of the CIA intercept
of that date, Ms. Duran has either lied to the Committee
or the individual who visited the Consulate on September
28 was not Oswald. 1098/ Ms. Duran, in light of the in-
consistencies detailed in Sections V, C and VI, A above,
may not be the most credible witness, but there are indi-
cations that she was truthful when she stated that Oswald'
did not visit the Consulate on September 28. The Septem-
ber 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald because
of the marginal notations made by the CIA translator on
the transcript. 1099/ The translator noted on the trans-
cript that the caller spoke "terrible, hardly recognizable
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Russian." 1100/ On October 1, 1963, a man called the
Soviet Consulate and identified himself as "Lee Os-
wald.", 1101/ This man also stated that he had been at
the Consulate on Saturday, the 28th. 1102/ The transla-
tor noted that this was the same man who had called the
Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken in broken
Russian. 1103/ From this information, and possibly a
voice comparison 1104/, the 9/28 caller was identified
as Oswald. 1105/ The problem with assuming that the
caller on 9/28 and 10/1 was Oswald is that Oswald spoke
fluent Russian. 1106/ Granted, Ms. Duran's denial of
the Saturday visit and the proficiency of the caller's
Russian is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the
person who visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday and
who called the Soviet Consulate on Saturday and on Octo-
ber 1st was an imposter. Yet the information is suffi-
cient to question the assumption that it was Oswald,
especially in light of Azcue's and Duran's descriptions
and Elena Garro de Paz' allegation.
The Committee notes the possibility, but does not
conclude, that the missing production from the pulse.
camera and the LILYRIC base has something to do with the
possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico.
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Three calls that also occurred early on September
27, 1963 may have been by an imposter. At approximately
10:30 a.m. a man called the Soviet Military Attache
looking for a visa to Odessa and was referred to the So-
viet Consulate. 1108/ At 10:37 a.m. a man called the
Soviet Consulate and asked for a visa to Odessa. 1109/
He was told to call back at 11:00. 1110/ At 1:25 p.m.
a man called the Soviet Embassy and was told the Consul
would return between 4:00 p m. and 5:00 p.m. that day.
While only the callers' requests for a visa to
Russia 1112/ (Odessa) connect these calls to Oswald,
the HSCA believes that they do fit logically into a time
sequence created by what is known from testimony and the
electronic intercepts about his actions on that day.
For example, the following is a reasonable possible
chronology of Oswald's actions on 9/27/63 based on analy-
sis of the available evidence. Oswald probably arrived
in Mexico around 10:00 a.m. on September 27. 1113/ By
10:30 Oswald had time to arrive at the Hotel del Comercio
and to place a call to the Soviet Military Attache who
referred him to the Consul. 1314/. The military attache
also gave the caller directions to the Consulate. 1115/
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learned that he could contact the Soviet Consul at 11:00
a.m. 1116/ This done, Oswald then visited the Cuban
Consulate where he arrived around 11:00 a.m., on his way
to the Soviet Consulate. This meeting lasted only approxi-
mately fifteen minutes. 1113/ Oswald was then sent to
obtain photographs and to the Russian Embassy to get the
necessary Russian visa. 1119/ Oswald returned to the
Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. 1120/ At this point he
had his encounter with Azcue and completed his application.
Oswald realized at this point that he would have problems
obtained the visas. 1122/ After this visit to the Cuban
Consulate, which lasted approximately fifteen minutes 1123/
Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald
claimed had assured him that he would have no problems
obtaining a visa. 1124/ Hence, the 1:25.call. 1125/
During this conversation Osvald learned that the Consul
would be in that evening between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. 1126/
Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate at 4:00 and Silvia
Duran called the Soviet Consul on his behalf. 11271
Hence, the 4:05 and 4:26 pm. calis involving Duran. 1123/
But there is a problem with attributing the first
three calls on September 27, 1963 to Oswald. The conversa-
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wald did not speak Spanish. Hence, either the above
detailed calls were not made by Oswald or Oswald could
speak Spanish.
There is not enough evidence firmly to conclude
that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the
other hand, the evidence is of such a nature that the
possibility cannot be dismissed.
C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in
Mexico City?
When the Warren Commission wrote about Lee Harvey
Oswald's activities in Mexico City, it concluded:
The Commission undertook an intensive investi-
gation to determine Oswald's purpose and acti-
vities on this journey, with specific reference
to reports that Oswald was an agent of the Cuban
or Soviet Governments. As a result of its investi-
gation, the Commission believes that it has been
able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's
actions during this time.
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Oswald had failed to obtain visas at both
the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. From Sunday,
September 29, through Wednesday morning, Octo-
ber 2, when he left Mexico City on a bus bound
for the United States, Oswald spent considerable
time making his travel arrangements, sightseeing
and checking again with the Soviet Embassy to
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visa application. 1131/
Subsequent to the Warren Commission's Report,
the allegations of Elena Garro 1132/ and Oscar Contreras
Lartigue 1133/ came to the attention of the United
States investigative agencies. The main allegation of
both these people, that they met Lee Harvey Oswald
in Mexico City, remains to this day without direct corro-
boration. Yet the Committee feels that it cannot dis-
miss these allegations without giving them any considera-
tion.
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late Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's last
contact with the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, Septem-
ber 27, 1963. 1134/ The transcripts from the CIA's wire-
taps on the Soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visits
to the Soviet and Cuban Consulates on Saturday morning,
September 28, 1963. 1135/ Oswald's last telephonic
contact with the Soviet Consulate came on Tuesday, Octo-
ber 1, 1963. 1136/ Cswald's activities on the days be-
tween September 22 and October 1 are not clearly recorded..
The Warren Commission speculated that he spent most
of this time sightseeing and making travel arrangements. 1137/
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It is entirely possible that Oswald did spend some of
his time during this weekend sightseeing and making
It is also entirely possible
his travel arrangements.
that, after his failure to obtain his visas on Saturday,
September 28, that Oswald did not give up completely
and did attend a party where he would have come into
contact with the Cuban Consular officials and, later,
sought help from pro-Castro students.
It is entirely possible that Ruben Duran had a
"twist party" on September 30, or October 1 1138/ as
Elena Garro has claimed. Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia
Duran all admitted that they frequently had twist par-
ties in 1963. 1139/ Only Silvia Duran recalled Elena
Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at the Durans'
home. 1140/ She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter,
» Elenita, attending one twist party at Ruben's home in
1963. 1141/ The other Durans adamantly denied that Lee
Harvey Oswald had attended a twist party at one of their
homes. 1142/
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have not been, or cannot be, corroborated. For example,
Elena's allegation that some of the people who had been
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of Governor Lopez Arias 1143/ has not been verified.
Duran denied that he had ever discussed the assassination
with Elena Garro. 1144/ Eusebio Azcue denied that he
had discussed President Kennedy with Emilio Carballido
at a party at the Durans' home as alleged by Elena
Garro. 1145/ The Committee has not been able to verify
whether or not guards were posted outside of Elena's
home in 1963 as she claims.
But other details of Elena's story are very credi-
ble. Perhaps the most striking is the suggestion that
Oswald's relationship with Silvia Duran was more exten-
sive than just the business contacts in the Cuban Consu-
late. 1146/ Another detail is the manner in which Elena's
allegations were handled, and the manner in which this
Committee's attempts to investigate those allegations
have been frustatred. 1147/
In 1965 Elena Garro reported that Silvia Duran
had been Oswald's mistress while he was in Mexico City. 1148/
In 1967 this report was confirmed by a CIA agent who
talked to Silvia Duran. 1149/ The CIA Station did not
consider the information significant and told the agent
to end his contact with Ms. Duran. 1150/
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tion is accurate, then that Silvia invited Oswald to
a party would not have been surprising. Silvia Duran
admitted that the Mexican police had questioned her on
this point but denied that she had had an affair with
Oswald. 1151/ Ms. Duran denied having any extra-marital
affairs while she was married to Horacio Duran. 1152/
This denial is not consistent with evidence of her reputa-
tion at the Cuban Consulate. A CIA penetration agent
there reported to his case officer that all that would
have to be done to recruit Silvia Duran, whom he referred
to by using the Spanish word for whore, would be to get
a blond blue-eyed American into bed with her.. 1153/
There is also CIA information that indicates that Silvia
Duran had an affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
in the early 1960's. 1154/
The HSCA attempted to interview the CIA penetra-
tion agent about Ms. Duran. 1155/ An interview with the
agent was also desired so as to attempt to verify whether
Elena Garro had created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy.
on November 23, 1963. 1156/ The Committee's attempts
to interview this agent were frustrated. 1157/
Ms. Garro's claim that she stayed at the Hotel
Vermont was verified by the Mexico City Legal Attache on
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been held there by Manuel Calvillo whom she believed
worked for the Mexican Ministry of Government. 1159/
In 1963, Mr. Calvillo was an unwitting asset of the Central
Intelligence Agency. 1160/ Ms. Garro claimed that she
told Mr. Calvillo her story on November 23, 1963. 1161/
Yet the CIA Mexico City Station did not receive a report
from Calvillo on this matter until November 24, 1964, the
same day that Elena first told her story to American of-
ficials. 1162/ For these reasons it was felt that
Manuel Calvillo could well be a key to determining the
veracity of Ms. Garro's story. The Committee's attempt
to interview Mr. Calvillo were also frustrated.
There is also circumstantial corroboration of Ms.
Garro's allegations regarding June Cobb Sharp. For exam-
ple, Ms. Cobb was indeed a CIA agent and she did file
the first report of Ms. Garro's story. 1164/ It should
be noted that this first report was accurate in its detail
in that Ms. Garro's story remained essentially the same
in subsequent repetitions. Ms. Garro claimed that she
kicked Ms. Cobb out of her house. 1165/ There is a nota-
tion on Ms. Cobb's report that she was not able to regain
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access to Ms. Garro. 1166/ The Committee attempted to
obtain an interview with Ms. Cobb, but was once again
frustated. 1167/
Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City
Station and the Legal Attache's office in Mexico City
handled Ms. Garro's allegations reveals that, at best,
her allegations were handled in an irresponsible manner
because they were dismissed after a superficial investi-
gation. The first report that came to the CIA was mis-
filed and forgotten. 1168/ The Legat, after talking to
Elena, dismissed her story after interviewing one person
whom she said may have been at the party. 1169/ The
manner in which the official American community handled
Charles Thomas' reporting is detailed in Section VI, C,
11, above. Mr. Thomas speculated in 1969 about why Ms.
Garro's story had been largely ignored by the American
officials in Mexico:
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discounted the Elena Garro allegations,
the CIA is still considerable disturbed
by them. The CIA may not have pressed for
further investigation, however, for a num-
ber of reasons: 1) considering the sensi-
tive overlap and subtle competition between.
two intelligence collecting agencies, it
had to yield to the FBI's clear jurisdic-
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in conducting such an investigation in a
foreigh country; 3) there is a close
and delicate relationship between the CIA
Station Chief and the former Minister of
Interior--President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz;
and 4) some of the people appearing in
the Elena Garro scenario may well be agents
of the CIA. Under the circumstances it
is unlikely that any further investiga-
tion of this matter will ever take place
unless it is ordered by a high official
in Washington. 1170/
The Committee attempted to locate Elena Garro.
Although the Committee established telephonic contact
with Ms. Garro, the Committee was totally frustrated
in this aspect of its investigation, but yet believes
that there is a possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald did
attend a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran.
The Committee also considers it possible that
Lee Harvey Oswald contacted pro-Castro students at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, hereinafter UNAM) as claimed
by Oscar Contreras Lartigue. 1172/ Silvia Duran admitted
that she had told Oswald of two ways in which he could
get a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intransit visa by
first obtaining a visa to another Communist country such
as Russia; 2) he could obtain a regular Cuban visa by
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It is possible that after Oswald's attempts to obtain
a visa by the first method were frustrated on Saturday,
September 28, that he made one final effort to locate
someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to vouch for
him.
There is no direct evidence about how Oswald
could have learned of the pro-Castro group at UNAM.
There is a possibility that Ernesto Leffeld Miller,
a friend of the Durans who borrowed Horacio's car often
took Lee Harvey Oswald to the campus of the National
Autonomous University. On the days when Lee Harvey Os-
wald allegedly visited the Consulate, Mr. Miller did also.
It is possible that Silvia Duran asked him to escort
Oswald to the campus. Mr. Miller denied having ever
met Oswald. 1174A/ Oscar Contreras says that Oswald
first contacted him as he was leaving a round-table dis-
cussion at the school of philosphy. 1174/ It is`known
that, in 1963, the Durans were close friends with the
Chairman of the Philosophy Department at UNAM, Ricardo
Guerra, who held seminars on Kant, Hegel and Marx in the
Durans' home. 1175/ It is possible, if Silvia Duran had-
more than just a purely business relationship with Oswald,
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that she referred Oswald to one of Guerra's Marxist
seminars in his search for help. Unfortunately,
Contreras does not name who headed the round table dis-
cussion at which he met Oswald. 1176/ Silvia Duran
denied that she referred (Iswald to anyone for help. 1177/
Ricardo Guerra is presently the Mexican Ambassador to
East Germany and was not available to the Committee
for an interview. On both of the Committee's trips to
Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee that
Mr. Contreras would be made available for an interview.
The interview never occurred. 1178/ Although the Com-
mittee's attempt to investigate Mr. Contreras' allegat-
tion met largely with frustration, the allegation can
not be dismissed.
D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald alone while he travelled
to Mexico?
The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Os-
wald travelled alone while he was in Mexico. 1179/
All of the witnesses, with the exception of Elena Garro
de Paz who stated that Oswald was accompanied by two
“beatnik looking boys" 1130; at Ruben Duran's party,
have stated that when they saw Oswald in Mexico he was
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the Elena Garro allegation properly, the Committee does
not believe that it can readily dismiss Ms. Garro's
. allegation that Oswald had a companion in Mexico in light
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of: 1) the corroboration of details of Ms. Garro's story; 1181/
2) the possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in
Mexico 1182 and 3) the similiarity in the description of
Oswald by Ms. Duran and Mr. Azcue and the description of
Oswald's companion by Ms. Carro. 1183/
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Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up
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Select Committee members Chairman Louis Stokes
and Congressman Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G...
Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell and Ed Lopez of the Select
Committee staff arrived in Cuba at 3:30 p.m., March 30,
1978. They were met and escorted through Cuban Customs
by the Mayor of Havana, Honorable Oscar Fernandez Mell,
the Minister of Justice, Dr. Armando Torres Santrayll,
Señor Buergo, Ricardo Escartin and the Cuban government
translator, Juanita Vera. At approximately 7:30 p.m.
Señor Mell escorted the Select Committee staff to a
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restaurant in Old Havana. The following day Congressman
Richardson Preyer arrived in Cuba at 7:00 a.m.
At 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 1978 the Select Committee
representatives met with Ficardo Escartin, Senen Buergo
and Captain Felipe Villa of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Cuban Government gave the members and Committee its
official reply to the Committee's' questionnaire, given
to the Cuban government prior to the Committee's trip
to Cuba.
At 3:00 p.m., the Select Committee met again with
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Ricardo Escartin, Senen Buergo, Felipe Villa and Juanita
Vera. During this session, the two major areas of dis-
cussion were Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and
the dates of Jack Ruby's visits to Cuba in 1959. 1184/
At 7:30 p.m. the House Select Committee on Assassinations
staff dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando Torres
Santrayll.
At 9:00 a.m. on April 1, 1978, the Select Committee
staff again met with the same Cuban officials for a
third session. Santo Trafficante was the major area of
discussion. 1185/ At noor, Committee members and
staff representatives met with Cuba's Minister of Educa-
tion, Honorable Jose Ramor: Fernandez, who gave a pre-
sentation on the improvement in quality of Cuban educa-
tion since the Cuban Revolution.
Following Señor Fernandez's discussion, at 3:15 p.m.,
Eusebio Azcue was interviewed by the Committee staff re-
presentative. Azcue was questioned extensively about
Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City, Oswald's alleged
visits to the Cuban Consu ate, and Señor Azcue's alleged
argument with Lee Harvey Oswald. 1186/
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At 7:30 p.m., April 1, 1978, Messers. Escartin.
and Hernandez accompanied the House Select Committee
staff for dinner and show to the Tropicana Club which,
prior to the Revolution, was operated by organized
crime. The Tropicana Club is presently run by the
Cuban government.
At 11:00 a.m. on April 2, 1978, the Committee
staff again met with Senen Buergo, Ricardo Escartin,
Felipe Villa, Aramis Guet errez and Juanita Vera. Santo
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Trafficante, Jack Ruby and Mexico City were the major
areas of discussion. 1187, This session terminated at
1:00 p.m. At 4:50 p.m.,
the morning's meeting resumed.
During the afternoon sess on, the major areas of dis-
cussion was the alleged pro-Castro involvement in the
assassination. 1188/
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At 9:15 a.m., April 3, 1978, the Committee staff
met with the Cuban officials for a final work session.
During this session, the Intelligence agencies and
general questions derived from the questionnaire which.
the Committee had provided to the Cuban government
were the major areas of discussion. 1189/ During the
session, the Committee staff and Cuban officials also
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exchanged listings of pending material which might be
covered during a subsequent trip to Cuba by HSCA repre-
sentatives and Congressmen. 1190/
At 6:00 p.m. the Committee staff met with Presi-
dent Fidel Castro Ruz who assured the Committee that
neither he nor his government had any involvement in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations staff
departed Havana, Cuba at 10:00 a.m., April 4, 1978,
arriving in Washington, D.C. at 4:30 p.m.
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Appendix 2: HSCA Procedural Write-up Mexico Trip
House Select Committee on Assassinations staffers
Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap
arrived at the Mexico City airport at 8:30 p.m., May
30, 1978. (All times are Mexico City times, unless
otherwise specified.) They were met and escorted through
Customs by David Patton, an employee of the United
States Embassy..
The following morning, May 31, 1978 the HSCA
representatives met with U.S. Embassy Political Officer
Richard Howard concerning procedure. Mr. Howard sche-
duled a meeting at 11:15 a m. with the Chief of the CIA
Station in Mexico City. This meeting was preliminary
in nature and concerned procedures regarding arrangement
of the interviews of ex-CIA employees in Mexico.
At 12:00 noon, the HSCA representatives and Richard
Howard met representatives of the Government of Mexico.
The Mexican representatives were: 1) Dr. Jesus Yanes,
Advisor to the Attorney General's Executive Officer;
2) Fernando Baeza, Chief Administrative Officer for the
Attorney General; and 3) Commandate Florentino Ventura,
Chief of the Mexican Federal Police. The Mexicans
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located Silvia Duran, Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran and
Pedro Gutierrez Valencia 192/ and that each person
was willing to be interviewed by the HSCA representatives.
Procedure for conduct of the interviews was also dis-
cussed at this meeting.
The Mexican government decided that the initial
interview would be an informal contact with the witnesses
in which the Committee's objectives would be described.
The witnesses' statements would be formalized at a later,
taped interview. The Mexican officials informed the
HSCA staff members that they had been unable to locate
Oscar Contreras, 1193/ Elena Garro de Paz, and Elenita
Garro de Paz. 1194/ The Mexican Government had not had
contact with the Garros since 1968. The Mexicans said
that they were trying to locate the Garros through
the Foreign Ministry since Elena's ex-husband, Octavio
Paz, had once been an important person in that ministry.
The Mexicans asked that we determine the name of the
Mexican Government contact during 1964 with the Warren
Commission so that they could locate their records in
the Archives.
The Mexican official; left to set up the preliminary
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interviews with witnesses. The preliminary interviews
were conducted by Gary Cornwell. HSCA staff members
Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap were present
during Cornwell's questioning. The Mexican Government
was represented by Dr. Jesus Yanes, Commandante Floren-
tino -Ventura, and Jesus Meixueiro Kanty, second in com-
mand to Ventura. Pedro Gutierrez Valencia was inter-
viewed at 2:30 p.m. Ruben Duran was interviewed at
5:00 p.m.
Horacio Duran was interviewed at 5:30 p.m.
Silvia Duran was interviewed at 6:15 p.m.
At 9:30 a.m. on June 1, 1978, the HSCA staff re-
presentatives met with the Mexican police representatives.
The HSCA staff requested 1) the records of the company
that employed Gutierrez Valencia in 1963; press clippings
of the Mexican newspaper coverage of Oswald and Silvia
Duran (attached); 3) once again, an interview with Oscar
Contreras; 4) individual files on Elena Garro de Paz
' and Silvia Duran; 5) evidence related to Silvia Duran's
assertion that Oswald was at the Cuban Embassy on one
day only; 6) an interview with Deba Garro de Guerrero
Galvan; 1195/ 7) an interview with Eunice Odio; 1195/
9) an interview with Emilio Carballido; 11971 and
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HSCA also asked to be shown the Cuban Consulate.
The Mexican representatives informed the HSCA
staff that Victor Rico Galan had, at one time, been
arrested on political charges but that he was subse-
quently pardoned by either Diaz Ordaz or Luis Eche-
varria. 1199/ The Mexicans said that they were search-
ing for all files and newspaper articles requested
by the HSCA.
The Mexican officials also offered their obser-
vations orally on the preliminary interviews conducted
the previous day. They pointed out that they found it
strange that Silvia had told Oswald he could not travel
while in Cuba. They wondered what Duran was trying to
tell Oswald and whether she thought that Oswald had
some objective in going to Cuba other than that ascribed
by the popular version. They also considered the manner
in which Silvia obtained employment at the Cuban Consu-
late unusual. Generally they noted that Silvia and
her brothers seemed to have almost programmed responses
and a defensive demeanor. They pointed out, however,
that all the Durans had been very interested in talking
to us.. In their opinion, Puben Duran was the most
credible of those interviewed by the HSCA the previous
day.
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At this point, a Mexican official who had been
checking the computer records informed us that Victor
Rico Galan had died.
HSCA staff members provided the Mexican authori-
ties with the names of the Mexican officials who had
been involved in the investigation in 1963.
HSCA staff members met again with the Mexican po-
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lice authorities at 10:00 1.m. on June 2, 1978.
At
this time, the Mexican police provided the copies of the newspaper
clippings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the
Excelsior. HSCA staff members asked if the Mexicans
could persuade the newspapers to reveal the sources
of their stories about Oswild and Silvia Duran. The
Mexican officials' response was negative. The Mexican
officials informed the HSCA staff members that most of
the data we wanted from the files was in their Security
Service files. The Mexican officials working with
the HSCA explained that they were the Mexican equivalent
of the FBI and that the Security Service was the Mexican
equivalent of the CIA; hence there was the usual bureau-
cratic problem involved in obtaining access to the Se-
curity Service's files. The Mexicans informed the HSCA
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that Deba Garro could not be located; and that there
was no record of anyone named Eunice Odio. HSCA repre-
sentatives told the Mexicar officials that Odio, who
was either Costa Rican or Guatemalan, had been the
mistress of Emilio Carballido. The assassination
and the reaction of the Mexican people to it was
discussed.
At 1:00 p.m., HSCA staff members conducted an
interview at the United States Embassy in connection
with the CIA aspects of the Mexico City investigation.
At 2:30, Gary Cornwell discussed problems with
the Chief of the Mexico City CIA Station. He requested
that the COS cable Headquarters regarding restrictions
placed on the HSCA staff in Mexico.
At 6:00 p.m., the HSCA staff members, accompanied
by Jesus Meixuerio Kanty and his assistant, Honorio
Escondon, met with the ass stant chief of the Mexican
Security Service Nazar. Mr. Nazar gave an oral resume
of the interviews which Mexican officials conducted in
1963 of Silvia, Horatio and Ruben Duran and Betty Serratos.
Mr. Nazar said that the files had to be formally re-
quested before me could consider releasing them. He
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States courts from the witnesses whom we wished to
interview. Mr. Nazar suggested that our best investi-
gatory avenue would be to concentrate on Oswald's inter-
rogation after his arrest on November 22nd. Mr. Nazar
had a very low opinion of Elena Garro de Paz' credibil-
ity. He felt that she confused fact and fiction.
June 3 and 4, 1978, were spent on CIA-related
aspects of the Mexico City investigation. Two inter-
views were conducted. All interviews, with the excep-
tion of interviews with CIA personnel, were taped and
later transcribed.
At 11:00 a.m. on June 5, 1978, the HSCA staff
interviewed Horacio Duran for the record. 1200/ At
1:00 p.m., HSCA staff member Edwin Lopez and Mexican
officials Honorio Escondon and Dr. Alfonso Orozco
Gutierrez interviewed Pedro Gutierrez Valencia for
the record. 1201/ At 5:00 p.m., HSCA staff members in-
terviewed Lynn Duran, aka Lydia Duran, for the record. 1202/
On June 6, 1978 at 11:00 a.m., the HSCA staff in-
terviewed Ruben Duran for the record.1200/ At 1:00 p.m.,
the staff representatives net with Commandate Ventura.
The staff representatives agreed to supply the Mexicans
with questions for two witnesses, Oscar Contreras and
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Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, who could not then be inter-
viewed. 1204/ Commandate Ventura authorized Honorio
Escondon to interview Oscar Contreras Lartigue and
Ernesto Lehfeld Miller. At 5:00 p.m., the wife of
Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, 1205/ was interviewed for
the record. At 5:45 p.m., Silvia Duran was interviewed
for the record. 1206/
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at 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 1978, arriving in Washington,
D.C. at 5:30 p.m., Washington time.
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House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez
and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7,
1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton,
a State Department official, at the Mexican airport
at 10:15 p.m. Mr. Patton then checked the staffers into
Room 1754 at the Maria Isatel Hotel.
Mr.
Patton informed the staff members that Larry Sternfield
CIA Chief of Station in Mexico City, wished to see us
at 8:30 a.m. the following morning.
On Tuesday, August 8, 1978, Committee staffers
met with Larry Sternfield.
He informed the staffers
that the two individuals the Committee wished to inter-
view, Daniel Flores, 1207/ aka Luis Aparicio, and Ramon
Alvarez Duran, 1208/were now available.
At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem-
bers interviewed Danny Flores. 1209/ The interview
ended at approximately 10: 5 a.m.
Committee staff members returned to Mr. Sternfield
office. Mr. Sternfield stated that it appeared that the
Government of Mexico had only been able to locate two
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witnesses for the Committee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue 1210/
and Noe W. Palomares. 1211/ Sternfield asked the
staff members to whom they wished to speak. The Commit-
tee staff members explained that they would like to
interview LICHANT 1, 1212/ LICOOKIE I, 1213/ LITAMIL 7, 1214/
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LITAMIL 9, 1215/ and LIRING 3, 1216/ Mr. Sternfield
then stated that it appeared that the House Select
Committee on Assassinations had already asked the Mexi-
cans to locate the individuals listed above.
Mr. Sternfield stated that the HSCA's interview
with Ramon Alvarez Duran was considered "highly sensi-
tive." He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotel
would be used. In one room, Ramon Alvarez Duran, would
sit, Committee staff members would sit in a second room
and two CIA personnel officers would insure that the
equipment worked properly on a third room. Mr. Stern-
field then phoned Mr. Niles Gooding, who had been sent
to the Mexico City Station from Headquarters to arrange
the procedures for the interviews. Mr. Gooding ex-
plained that in 1977 Stansfield Turner had created a
new position at Headquarters to insure that important
sensitive meetings were within the guidelines previously
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arranged. Mr. Gooding stated that the Central Intelli-
gence Agency had been unde greater Congressional scrutiny
the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in
order to demonstrate the Agency's good faith, had en-
gaged a retired Army officer to act as liaison at
sensitive interviews by Congressional representatives.
Mr. Gooding then explained that the HSCA staff would be
escorted by two CIA personnel to the interview with
Ramon Alvarez Durant.
At 10:55 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff
members interviewed Ramon Alvarez Durant. 1217/
At 12:30 p.m., Committee staff members telephoned
Captain Fernandez Ventura Gutierrez. His secretary
explained that Mr. Ventura was not in the office, but
that she would have him call us when he returned. At
16:30 p.m., since Mr. Ventura had not yet returned the
staffer's call, they again called his office. His se-
cretary apologized for Mr. Ventura and explained that
he had not yet returned to the office and she assured us that
Mr.Ventura would telephone upon his return.
At 9:15 p.m.,
Dr. Jesus Yañez, the Assistant to the official mayor,
telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura
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to visit the Police Station known as the Procuraduria
General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning.
At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff
members met with State Department Official Richard
Howard to alert him that the Committee would request
the Mexican officials to make Silvia Duran available
in Washington for an HSCA hearing. Mr. Howard explained
that once we had permission from the Mexican government,
the State Department would insure that she was in
Washington when necessary.
At 11:00 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff
members met with Dr. Jesus Yanes and Ciprianio Martinez
Novoa. Mr. Yanes told Committee staff members that
Ciprianio Martinez Nova, the Mexican agent in charge,
would try to aid us in all our interviews. Mr. Martinez
then briefed the Committee staff members on their up-to-
date progress:
Oscar Contreras Lartigue had been located and pre-
interviewed by Mr. Martinez in Tampico, Mexico. The
Committee would fly to Tampico on Friday, August 11,
1978 at 7;35 a.m. to interview him.
Noe W. Palomares had been located and could be
interviewed during the afternoon of Thursday, August 10,
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1978 at his office, Cerrada de la Presa 4. His phone number,
595-0891, was made available to the Committee.
June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number
72781, on June 27, 1947. She entered Mexico through
Nuevo Lardo, Texas. She requested but was denied permission
by the Mexican government to represent the magazine, Modern
Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she received a courtesy permit,
number 25556. She disappeared in 1954 and never returned
to Mexico.
The Committee staffers did not tell the Mexicans that
the House Select Committee on Assassinations had evidence
from review of June Cobb's 201 file that she was in Mexico.
in the Sixties.
Eunice Odio Infante, a Costa Rican, received a
three-month tourist permit from the Mexican government
on February 9, 1964. She remained in Mexico, illegally
residing at Nacas-45-a, until 1972. She applied to write
for the Excelsior magazine on many different occasions,
but was rejected every time. In 1972, Ms. Odio married.
a Comminist painter, Rudolfo Sanabria Gonzalez and moved
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to Rio Neba-16 Apartment 40. On May 24, 1972, Ms. Odio
was found dead in her bathtub.
The official presiding
at her autopsy concluded that Ms. Odio had poisoned
herself.
Emilio Carballido Fontanes was in Carcas, Venezuela,
on vacation and scheduled to return to Mexico in early
September. His address is Constituyentes 207. His phone
number is 515-8345.
Consuelo Esperon's (_ITAMIL 7) personnel record in
Mexico could not be located. When the Mexican officials
inquired about her at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City
prior to the Committee's trip, no one at the office
remembered that she had worked there. Committee staff
members were told that Esperon was probably dead. No basis
was given for the Mexican government's conclusion.
Carlos Jurado J. Delmar (LIRING 3) was born in Cuba
on November 3, 1927. He entered Mexico July 1, 1965 and
taught Graphics and Art at U.N.A.M. until January 1, 1968
when he disappeared. The Mexican officials assumed that he
returned to Cuba.
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early 1970's.
Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, 1219/ Academic Coordinator
at the School of Interior Design, had not yet been located.
Luis Alberue Suoto (LITAMIL 9) lives at Michelet #7,
Apartment #301, Colonia Aneura, Mexico City. His phone
number is 545-9947. The landlady at his apartment explained
to the Mexican officials that Mr. Alberue had left town
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hurriedly on Monday, August 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing
to know when he returned, had placed a piece of scotch tape
on the bottom right edge of his door. Mr. Martinez explained
that he checked it every four hours and would notify us if
Alberue returned before we left.
Manuel Calvillo (LICHANT 1) did not live at Cauhtemoc
877-5 as the Committee had stated. The landlady for the
past twenty-five years at the apartments told Mr. Martinez
that Manuel Calvillo had never resided there.
Committee
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which would be forwarded to the Mexican officials the
following morning.
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When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms.
Silvia Tirado Bazan could testify at an HSCA hearing,
the Mexican officials stated that they would have an
answer for the staffers by Friday morning. The Mexican
officials explained that they would have to speak to her
to insure that she was willing to travel to Washington.
On Thursday, August 10, 1978, at 11:00 a.m. the
Committee staff members me with Dr. Jesus Yanez, Agent
Ciprianio Martinez Novoa, Captain Florentino Ventura
Gutierrez and Attorney General Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo's
"pen name" was given to the Mexicans who stated that they
would check it with the landlady at his alleged apartment
building.
Committee staffers returned to their hotel room with
Agent Ciprianio Martinez Novoa after the meeting. Agent
Martinez attempted without success to telephone Oscar
Contreras Lartigue to inform him of our visit.
At 3:30 p.m.,
Agent Martinez finally reached Mr. Contreras' child who
informed him that Mr. Contreras was not in Tampico. He
had traveled to Mexico City for a Partido Republicano
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When Agent Martinez asked the child
if he knew where his fathe was staying in Mexico City,
he responded that he did not. Agent Martinez explained
to the child that he would call at a later time to speak
to his mother.
Agent Martinez telepioned Noe W. Palomares at 4:00
p.m. and arrange an interview for 6:30 p.m. that evening.
Mr. Martinez asked Committee staff members to meet him at
his office at the Procuraduria General at 6:00 p.m.
At 6:00 p.m., August 10, 1978, Committee staff members
met Agent Ciprianio Martinez at the Procuraduria General.
Martinez then drove the HSCA representatives to Mr. Palomares'
office. At 6:30 p.m., Committee staff members interviewed
Noe W. Palomares. 1270/
Following the interview, Agent Martinez returned to
the Maria Isabel Hotel with Committee staff members. He
attempted to reach Mrs. Contreras telephonically at Tampico
twice without success. At 9:45 p.m., he finally contacted
her. Mrs. Contreras told Agent Martinez that Mr. Oscar
Contreras had told her that he would try to get a room
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at either the Hotel Regis or Hotel San Francisco. Mrs.
Contreras explained that since there were a few conven-
tions scheduled in Mexico City that weekend she could
not assure that he would be at either hotel. Mrs. Contreras
told Agent Martinez that she would notify him if her
husband should call.
Mr. Martinez called both hotels and inquired whether
Oscar Contreras Lartigue was registered. He was not
registered at either; they were completely booked up.
Mr. Martinez attempted to reach by telephone Silvia
Tirado Byazan at ther home to ask her whether she would be
willing to travel to Washington to testify at a HSCA hearing
and to ask if she knew where Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller
could be located. She was not at home, however. ·
Agent Martinez explained that he would attempt to
locate Oscar Contreras Lartigue at the hotel where the
Partido Republicano Institucional (Institutional Republican
Party) was holding its convention early the following morning;
after which he would meet the staff members at 9:30 a.m. at
their hotel room.
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At 9:45 a.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez met
Committee staffers at thei hotel room and explained that
he was unable to locate Mr. Contreras Lartigue at the
convention. Mr. Martinez then left to check the where-
abouts of Mr. Alberue Suot) and Silvia Tirado Bazan.
at 12:30 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez
returned to the Committee staff members' hotel room. He
telephoned Mrs. Contreras in Tampico who stated that her
husband had not telephoned her since she had last spoken.
to Agent Martinez. At 1:50 p.m., another agent, Honorio
Escondon, telephoned Agent Martinez at the Committee staffers'
hotel room to inform him that Luis Alberue Suoto must be
back in town because the scotch tape placed at the base of
his entranceway door was no longer in place.
AT 1:55 p.m.,
Agent Martinez telephoned uis Alberue Suvoto.
During the
phone conversation, Alberue denied that he had worked at
the Cuban Embassy in the Sixties, stated that he knew nothing
about the assassination, and declined the Committee staff
members' request to interview him.
At 2:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez telephoned
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Silvia Duran. Agent Martinez then gave the telephone to
Committee staffer Lopez. Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado
whether she would be willing to testify sometime in September
at a Committee hearing in Washington; she answered affirma-
She stated that September 13th, 14th and 15th
tively.
would not be "good days" because the Mexican Revolution
celebration would be taking place and she was a planner and
participant. When Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado if she knew
Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's phone number, she stated that
she did not, but she stated that if we telephoned her
husband Horatio at either. 516-0398 or 515-8621, he would
be able to help us.
At 2:15 p.m., Commitee staffer Lopez telephoned
Horatio Duran, who have him Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's office
phone number, 548-4839. A: 2:20 p.m., Lopez telephoned
Mr. Miller and arranged a meeting for 9:00 p.m. that
evening.
At 2:30 p.m., Agent Martinez telephoned Captain Ventura
to report on his progress, pertaining to his work with the
HSCA. When Martinez told Ventura that he had located Alberue,
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Ventura asked Martinez if he was alone. When Agent Martinez
lied and stated that he was alone, Ventura told him that
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Alberue. When Agent Martinez completed his phone call,
he said, "I don't understand why nobody wants you to talk
to him."
At 9:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Committee staffers
interviewed Ernesto Lehfeli Miller. 1221/
At 11:15 a.m., August 12, 1978, Committee staffer
Lopez called Luis Alberue Suoto at his home. When Mr. Lopez
identified himself, Mr. Alberue immediately stated that
he knew nothing. He further stated that he never worked
for the Cuban Embassy. When Lopez explained to him that
Semployees at the Cuban Embassy had stated that he had been
employed there, Mr. Suoto hung up. Mr. Alberue's voice
quivered throughout the short talk.
At 11:45 a.m., Silvia Tirado called Lopez and stated
that she had thought all night about travelling to Washington.
She said she had seen a report in the newspapers in which
Azcue had stated that the man who visited the Cuban Consulate
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in 1963 was not Lee Harvey Oswald. She stated that Azcue
had only seen Oswald once while she had seen Oswald at
least three times.
Ms. Duran further stated
that if she testified in Washington and the Committee
concluded that she was lying she would be crucified when
she returned to Mexico. Mr. Lopez reassured her and explained
that when he returned to Washington he would send her a long
letter explaining procedures.
At 12:05 p.m., Agent Martinez met the Committee staff.
members at the airport. he stated that Contreras and Calvillo
had not been located. The Committee staffers gave Martinez
a list of questions to ask Oscar Contreras Lartigue. Agent
Martinez stated that he would mail the results of the interview
to Lopez at the Committee offices in Washington, The
Committee never received any interview reports from the
Mexican government.
The Committee staff members left Mexico City at 1:55 p.m.
and arrived at Washington's Dulles Airport at 10:35 p.m.
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Cuba Trip 2
On August 25, 1978, Congressman Richardson Preyer
and HSCA staff members. G. Robert Blakey and Edwin Juan
Lopez Soto traveled to Cuba from Miami at 8:25 a.m. on an
Air-Taxi Service charter plane. The Committee representa-
tives arrived in Cuba at 10:15 a.m. They were met by the
Minister of Justice, Armando Torres Santrayll; Washington
Consul Ricardo Escartin%B3 American Department official,
Senen Buergo; and translator, Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. The
Committee representatives were escorted to their suite,
room number 2003, at the Hotel Riviera at 11:00 a.m.
a
Also
Senen Buergo, the
At 12:15 p.m., the Committee representatives met
with Ricardo Escartin, Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and
translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade.
present were two Cuban stenographers.
spokesperson, welcomed the Committee representatives to
Cuba and thanked the Committee for its correspondence.
Mr. Buergo apologized on behalf of the Cuban government
for the postponement of a previously scheduled trip of
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his opinion there was a conspiracy to link Cuba to the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. At that point, he
handed four files to Congressman Richardson Preyer.
files consisted of: a) material concerning Santo Trafficante;
b) a letter dated 25 November 1963 from Hernandez Arma's
(Mexican Ambassador in 1962 to Raul Roa (Minister of Foreign
Relations in 1963); c) the results of the Cuban government's
research into mis-information linking the Cuban Government
to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and d)
the report of the Investigative Committee of the International
Tribunal of the Eleventh Festival reporting on the defamation
campaign to link Cuba to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Buergo stated that both Eusebio Azcue Lopez and
Alfredo Mirabal Diaz would that day be made available for
interviews. Mr. Buergo stated that Nilo Otero 1222/ would
be made available for interview the following day, 26 August
1978. Mr. Buergo stated that Rogelio Rodriguez 1223/ was
'presently stationed in West Germany. Buergo stated that
Ricardo Escartin previously interviewed Mr. Rodriguez ang
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was told by Rodriguez that he had had no contact with Lee
Harvey Oswald. Mr. Buergo stated that if the Committee
still desired to interview Rodriguez, he would be made.
available to the Committee. Mr. Buergo stated that an
interview with Rolando Cubela Secades 1224/ would be
arranged.
Mr.
Mr. Buergo asked if the Committee was still interested
in interviewing Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez. 1225/
Buergo stated that the Cuban government had no record of
a citizen named Griselle Rubio. 1226/ Mr. Buergo inquired
whether the Committee representatives were interested in
watching the videotaped statements of James Wilcott 1227/
and Phillip Agee 1228/ at the Tribunal. 1229/ Congressman
Preyer responded that the Committee's representatives would
want to view the Wilcott and Agee videotaped statements.
Mr. Buergo stated that our schedule included dinner
with the Minister of Justice at 8:00 p.m. on 25 August 1978,
fishing on 27 August 1978 (Sunday), and a farewell dinner
on 28 August 1978.
Congressman Preyer thanked the Cuban officials for
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making both the documents and witnesses available to the
Select Committee.
Professor Blakey stated that the Committee was no
longer interested in interviewing Rolando Cubela. Mr.
Blakey stated that Griselle Rubio had been found in Miami
and interviewed by a Committee investigator. Mr. Blakey
stated that the Committee wanted to interview Oreste Guillermo
Ruiz Perez for two reasons: He worked at the Cuban Embassy
in September 1963 when Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban
compound in Mexico City; and, he is married to the cousin
of a counter-revolutionary, Antonio Veciana Blanch. Mr.
Blakey stated that Rogelic Rodriguez need not be interviewed.
Captain Felipe Villa stated that the Cuban government,
relying on the seriousness and honesty of the Committee's
work, thought that the Committee should have knowledge of
Cuebela's statements. Mr. Villa stated that the Committee
still needed to provide the Cuban government with the
following: a) a workable formula on counter-revolutionaries
that could be used by the Cuban government to aid the
Committee in its investigation of such organizations;
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b) copies of Lee Harvey Oswald's signatures that the
Cuban government could use to perform its own hand-
writing comparison test; and c) E. Howard Hunt's aliases;
Mr. Blakey stated that examples of Lee Harvey Oswald's
handwriting would be forthcoming. Mr. Blakey stated that
the Committee had not yet developed a formula for identifying
counter-revolutionary groups active against the Cuban
government in 1963 or a method for providing E. Howard Hunt's
aliases. Mr. Blakey stressed that both these areas would
be discussed in the Committee's final report.
At 1:00 p.m. the first work session ended..
At 3:15 p.m. House Select Committee on Assassinations
representatives interviewed Juan Nilo Otero in Room 2003 of
the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson
Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen
Buergo, Ricardo Escartin, Captain Felipe Villa, translator
Juanita Vera and two stenographers. 1230/ The interview
ended at 5:15 p.m.
At 8:00 p.m. the Committee's representatives met
Senen Buergo and translator Nellie Ruiz de Zarade at the
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Hotel Riviera's lobby. The group was chauffered to the
Bodeguita del Medio--one of Cuba's most famous restaurants--
where they dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando
Torres Santrayll.
At 10:15 a.m., 26 August 1978, Select Committee
representatives interviewed Alfredo Mirabal Diaz 1231/ in
Room 2003 at the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman
Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto,
Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin,
translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and
two stenographers.
The interview ended at 12:45 p.m.
After the Mirabal interview Mr. Buergo asked whether
the HSCA representatives wished to interview Jose Verdacia
Verdacia, 1232/ the Warden of Trescornia while Santos Traffi-
cante was a detainee. When Congressman Richardson Preyer
stated that the Committee would indeed be interested in
interviewing Jose Verdacia Verdacia, Mr. Buergo stated that
he would be available for in interview at 3:00 p.m.
At 3:30 p.m., HSCA representatives interviewed
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Jose Verdacia Verdacia in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.
Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert
Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen Buergo, Captain
Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin, Arais Gutierrez, trans-
lators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade, and two
stenographers. 1233/ The interview ended at 4:20 p.m.
On Sunday morning, 27 August 1978, the Cuban Government's
representatives took the Select Committee representatives
to Veradero Beach.
At 8:35 p.m. Select Committee representatives interviewed
Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Hotel Internacional at
Veradero Beach. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,
G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juana Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin,
Captain Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and translator Juanita
Vera. 1234/ Because there were no stenographers present
the Cuban representatives tape-recorded the interview.
interview ended at 9:20 p.m.
The
On 28 August 1978, at 10:25 a.m., HSCA representatives
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Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,
G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Ricardo Escartin,
Captain Felipe Villa, Senel Buergo, translator Juanita
Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade, and two stenographers.
Also present was Antonio Hernandez who escorted Mr. Cuebla
from prison to the Hotel. 1235/ The interview ended at
11:45 p.m.
At 3:25 p.m., HSCA representatives interviewed Maria
Teresa Proenza y Proenza in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.
Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey,
Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin, Captain Felipe
Villa, Senen Buergo, Antonio Hernandez, translator Nellie
Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers. 1236/ The interview
ended at 4:15 p.m.
On 29 August 1978, at 9:30 a.m., the HSCA representatives
met the Cuban delegation for a final work session in Room 2003
of the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson
Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez, Ricardo Escartin,
Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, translators Juanita Vera
and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers. 1237/
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The Cuban delegation spokesperson, Senen Buergo,
explained that Mr. Manuel Piniero 1238/ was out of the
country and therefore an interview could not be arranged.
Mr. Buergo explained that the Cuban delegation had located
Luisa Calderon Carralero 1239/ but because she was ill an
interview could not be arranged. Mr. Buergo suggested
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that the HSCA forward questions to the Cuban Government.
Ms. Calderon's answers would then be forwarded to the
Committee.
Mr. Buergo explained that Raul Roa 1240% had a very
busy schedule. Mr. Roa felt that he could not add any more.
information to what Nilo Otero had already provided and declined
the interview.
Material handed to the HSCA representatives at this
time included:
a) a list of persons whom the Cuban delegation
believed to have had close relations with Santo
Trafficante;
b) photographs depicting what the Cuban government
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photographic surveillance base targeted ·
against the Cuban Consulate and Embassy in
Mexico City during 1963;
c) an essay entitled "Imperialism's Political,
Economic, and Military Organizations and
Agencies of Crime, such as the CIA" and
(d) an article entitled "Finally We Have Eliminated
That Pinto in the White House, said Bob, When
He Heard About JFK's Assassination"
The final work session ended at 11:00 a.m.
At 1:00 p.m., the Cuban delegation escorted the Com-
mittee's representatives to the airport. At the airport
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Torres Santrayll, Senen Buergo, Juanita Vera and Nellie
Ruiz de Zarade.
At 3:30 p.m., the HSCA representatives and Washington
Consul, Ricardo Escartin, departed Cuba.
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Appendix 5: Biography: Elena Garro De Paz
Elena Garro de Paz was born of Spanish parents in
Puebla, Mexico on December 11, 1917. (All information in
this section culled from Biography Data form prepared by
Charles Thomas.) Ms. Garro attended the National Autonomous
University of Mexico and later did graduate work at Berkley
in California and at the University of Paris. In 1963,
Elena had long been married to Octavio Paz, a career
diplomat who is also one of Mexico's finest poets and leading
When Octavio was named Mexican Ambassador
intellectuals.
to India, the couple separated by mutual consent. Elena's
daughter, also named Elena, has always resided with her
mother.
Since Elena spent seventeen years of her early life
in Europe she had a ratner un-Mexican objectivity about her
native land and had a reputation for being one of its more
articulate detractors. At the same time, Elena was considered
emotionally committed to many aspects of Mexican life and
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In the 1960's Elena became a significant writer.
Hogar Solido, El Rey Mago, La Senora en su Balcon, Ventura
Allende, Andaise por las Rumas, Parada Empresa, and El Viaje
are plays that have had appreciative audiences in Europe,
where they were translated into German, as well as in Mexico.
Ms. Garro's short stories are collected in a volume called
La Semana de Colores. The Literacy Supplement of the London
Times has called her novel, Los Recuerdos de Porenir, "a
splendid success." Critic have said of her: "For Elena
Garro, there is no frontier between reality and fantasy;
in any case, the latter is a second reality--perhaps more
intense--to which one may penetrate without passport or
forewarning, thanks to the effectiveness of a literature
fired with passion, flavor and life." Many people who
knew Elena have asserted that the frontier between reality
and fantasy is also difficult for her to distinguish in
real life. (Biography Data Form on Elena Garra de Paza
prepared by Charles Thomas j
Ms. Garro, for many years, was an active worker in
the Confederacion Nactional Campesina (CNC), the agrarian
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was a tireless propagandis and agitator on behalf of
the poorer Mexican peasants, she was on close personal
terms with and enjoyed the respect of peasant leaders.
from all over the country. (Ibid.)
Elena was considered a witty, urbane and opinionated
woman with an unflagging sense of humor. Her forthright
opinions and sharp wit tenied on occasion to ruffle feathers
in Mexico, but her important social, literacy, and political
connections rendered her fairly immune from serious cunter-
attack until 1968. Then, Ms. Garro was forced to flee the
country with her daughter, Elenita and her sister, Deba
Guerrero de Galvan, in the midst of the student strikes.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations has been unable
to determine the exact reason Ms. Garro had for fleeing
Mexico.
Before her disappearance from Mexico, Elena was well
disposed toward the United States and had been friendly
with Embassy officers. Her broad range of significant
personal friends, the views of many important to the
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APPENDIX SIX: GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN REPORT.
Agent: A person who know..ngly works for the CIA on a
contract or job basis.
Asset: A general term fo: persons, not officers, used
by the CIA. Fo: example, both agents and sources
are assets. An asset is anyone used in an
operation or project, whether or not (that is
aware that he is being used.
Case officer: See Operations officer.
Coverage: Surveillance.
Cryptonym: A series of letters used by the CIA to iden-
tify someone or something while protecting that
person or things true identity. All the letters
in a cryptonym are capitalized. The first two
letters are assigned by the subject matter or
local to which the person or thing belongs. The
rest of the cryptonym is randomly assigned. See
LIMITED for example. The "LI" designates that
the project was located in Mexico. 2) The planet
on which Superman was born.
Chronological file: A folder in which material is stored
in chronological order. Usually used for produc-
tion or communications type material.
Electronic intercept base: House, apartment, or building
that contains equipment used in intercepting and
tapping telephone conversations subject to
electronic surveillance.
FOIA:
Freedom of Information Act.
LIEMPTY: CIA cryptonym for photographic project aimed at
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
LIERODE: CIA cryptonym, pre-1964, for surveillance operation
aimed at the Cubans in Mexico City.
LILYRIC: CIA cryptonym assigned to one of the three bases
which provided photographic surveillance of the
Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
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LIMERICK: CIA cryptonym ineaning "Soviet".
LIMITED: CIA cryptonym of one of three bases which provided
photographic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy
in Mexico City.
LIONION: CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance.
operations aimed at the Cuban diplomatic com-
pound in Mexico City after July, 1964.
Listening post: See electronic intercept base.
Logs: A list of photographs taken and the times they
were taken prepared by agents in the photographic
base houses.
Monitors: Mexican Army officers who worked in the elec-
tronic intercept base listening to conversations
on telephone lines subject to wiretaps and
summarizing those conversations they deemed
to be important.
Officer: CIA career employee.
Operation: A subpart of a project. Often used interchangably
"with "project".
Operations officer: CIA career employee; term usually
used in connection with an employee with respon-
sibility for a particular operation or project.
Penetration agent: An agent who works inside a target
institution. For example, LITAMEL/9 worked for
the CIA in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
Designation assigned to a personality file in the
CIA's Mexico City Station. A file for the
retention of information in written form arranged
according to individual's names.
P file:
Photographic base: House, apartment, or building used for
housing of photographic surveillance equipment and
the agents who operate it. Always located near
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Pitched: Made an effort to recruit as an agent, asset
or source..
Production: Materials or information generated by an
operation or project.
Project: A group or set of operations by the CIA aimed
at a specific person, institution or thing,
with the aim of collecting information, influ-
encing behavior, etc.
Project files: A folder for the retention of information
generated by, or relating to a project. Gene-
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opment and plans, production; support; and
operations.
Psuedonym: False name assigned to CIA officers for use
in communication channels.
Pulse camera: A camera with a shutter that is automat-
ically tripped by a triggering device activated
by changes in light density.
Resuma: Daily summary of important conversations on
surveilled telephone lines prepared by monitors
in the listening post.
Selected Out: Phrase used when a Foreign Service officer
is retired after having been in one grade for the
maximum period of time and is not considered
qualified for promotion to a higher grade.
Source: A person who either wittingly or unwittingly
provides information to the CIA.
Station: A CIA over-seas installation. It is the
Headquarters for operations in a particular
country and is ussually located in the United
States Embassy in the capital of the country
in which it is situated.
Subject file: Folder for the retention of information in
written form arranged by the subject matter of
the information contained
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Target: A person, institution or thing at which a
project, operation or pitch is aimed.
VLS-2 trigger device: A machine which automatically
triggers the shutter of a camera when it
senses a change in light density. Used along
with a camera ard a spotting scope in a "pulsé
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Annual Fitness Report on Ann Goodpasture, 1/14/64.
Article, with note in margin, in Oswald P file, by
Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "CIA Withheld
Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission,"
10/21/64.
Blind Memorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first
cable about Oswald."
Blind memorandum re: Lee Harvey Oswald/Silvia Tirado
de Duran, Source: LI/4. 11/26/63.
CIA Component Report on w retap operations, "ZRSOLO
and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap Operations," Paul
Levister.
DIR 74830, 10/10/63. (A "DIR" is a cable from Head-
quarters to a field station. In this report the
field station is alway: Mexico City.)
DIR 84886, 11/23/63.
DIR 84888, 11/23/63.
DIR 84916, 11/23/63.
DIR 85371, 11/28/63.
DIR 87770, 12/9/63, with attached note.
DIR 88680, 12/13/63.
DIR 90466, 12/21/63.
DIR 16823, 7/4/67.
Draft of letter from Win Scott to John Barron, 11/25/70.
Foul Foe, The, by Winston Scott writing as Ian Maxwell.
HMMA 4300, 3/12/56. (An 'HMMA" is a dispatch from
Mexico City to Headquarters.)
HMMA 14793, 4/8/60.
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HMMA 21845, 7/30/63.
HMMA 22005, 8/23/63.
HMMA 22135, 9/13/63.
HMMA 22267, 10/8/63.
HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.
HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.
HMMA 22452, 11/7/63.
HMMA 22536, 11/9/63.
HMMA 22726, 1/16/64.
HMMA 23343, 4/30/64.
HMMA 26006, 4/30/65.
HMMA 26160, 5/21/65.
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HMMA 31303, 2/7/67.
HMMA 32243, 5/27/67.
HMMA 32497, 7/11/67.
HMMW 12725, 7/8/64. (An "H1MW" is a dispatch from CIA
Headquarters to Mexico City.)
HMMW 13645, 5/13/65.
HMMW 15557, 6/14/67.
HMMW 15422, 5/18/67. (Mexico City Copy.)
Inspector General Report, 1977, Tab -2.
Log Film 143, 9/25/63 through
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(J163) from Archives-Job # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED
Production material.
Log Film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63, in CIA file
entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963
(J163) from Archives-Job # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED
Rroduction material.
∙LIONION Project Renewal Request, 1/1/66.
Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July,
1978," 8/20/78.
Memorandum for the Record from W. David Slawson re: Trip
to Mexico City, 4/22/64.
Memorandum from Chief DDP, PG to Chief of Operations/DDP,
2/3/61.
Memorandum from Chief of FI/OPS to Chief of Operations/
DDP, 1/8/60.
Memorandum from Chief/WHD to COS/Mexico City, 12/30/63.
Memorandum from "JKB" re: Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67.
Memorandum from Shepanek to Scott Breckinridge, 7/31/78.
Memorandum from Winston Scott to the files re: June
Cobb, 11/25/64.
Memorandum to Clark Anderson from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,
with seven attachments
Memorandum to DDP from Chef/WHD, 1/21/64.
Memorandum to the Legal Attache from the COS/Mexico City,
7/5/57.
Memorandum to the Ambassador from Winston Scott, 10/16/63,
re "Lee Oswald Contact with the Soviet Embassy.'
Mexico City Investigation Chronology, Bulky # WX-7241,
Volume I.
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MEXI 6453, 10/8/63.
from Mexico City.)
308
(Mex co copy. A "MEXI" is a cable
MEXI 6453, 10/9/63. (Heacquarters copy.)
MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.
MEXI 7014, 11/22/63.
MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7024, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7029, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7054, 11/24/63.
MEXI 7101, 11/27/63.
MEXI 7105, 11/27/63.
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MEXI 7364, 12/12/63.
MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.
MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.
MEXI 5621, 12/16/55.
MEXI 5741, 12/29/65.
MEXI 1950, 6/29/67.
MEXI 1991, 7/5/67.
Note from Ann Goodpasture to Mexico City Station Cuban
Section, 2/3/66.
Note to Luis Echevarria, 11/23/63.
Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Staff,
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re: "Background on Mex co Station Support Assets
(Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies),"
2/10/77.
Project Renewal Request, ./11/65, attachment to HMMA 25141.
Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James
Angleton, C/CI, 12/24/13.
Review of Project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 15979
11/18/60.
Review of Project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 17999,
10/31/61.
Review of Project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 20054,
10/18/62.
Review of Project LIEMPTY
. 10/25/63.
attachment to HMMA 22387,
Routing and Record Sheet For DIR 74830, 10/11/63.
Routing and Record Sheet or MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.
Routing and Record Sheet For MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.
Teletype from the CIA to the State Department, FBI and
Navy, DIR 74678, 10/10,63.
Transcript from Cuban Embassy, 9/27/63.
Transcripts from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63, 9/28/63,
10/1/63 and 10/3/63.
Undated Draft of 1977 CIA Staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico
Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies
(1953)."
Write-up: Wallace B. Rowton meeting with LIRING/3, 5/26/67.
Note: in addition to the above listed documents many Sum-
maries of file reviews, depositions of employees,
interviews of employees, etc, are cited in the report.
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Note also
article that such a comparison was done.
the MEXI 7024 reported that HQ had all the available
information when in fact all conversations were
reported in a later cable, MEXI 7033.
685/ See Section III, A,. 1, above.
686/ See Section III; A, 1, above.
687/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
688/ See Section III, A, 1, above.
688a/ Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;
Cable re Oswald-Duran, MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA
No. 441; Raymond Rocca Chronology WX 7241, Entry 36,
November 23, 1963, CIA No. 635.
689/ Ibid.
690/ Ibid.
691/ See below.
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692/ Note written by Winston Scott re phone call with John Scelso,
November 23, 1963; Chronology prepared by Raymond Rocca,
WX 7241, entry 37, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 635.
693/ Ibid.
694/ Ibid.
695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23,
1963, CIA No. 440; Flash Cable from Karamessines to
Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA No.
403; Chronology of Raymond Rocca, entry 46, November 23,
1963, CIA No. 636.
696/ Blind Memo re Lee Harvey Oswald and Silvia Duran, November
26, 1963, CIA #473.
697/ Ibid.
698/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November
27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA
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699/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Director, December 12,
1963, MEXI 7364, CIA No. 557-558.
700/ Cable Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November 27,
1963, MEXI 7105, CIA No. 479; Chronology of Raymond
Rocca, November 27, 1963, entry no. 127, CIA No. 562.
701/ Cable from Headquarters to the Mexico City Station, November 28,
1963, DIR 85371, CIÀ No. 464; Chronology of Raymond Rocca,
Nov. 28, 1963, WX 7241, entry No. 141, CIA No. 658.
702/ CIA Cable from Headquarters to Mexico City Station, December
21, 1963, DIR 90466, CIA No. 549; Chronology of Raymond
Rocca, December 21, 1963, Entry No. 268, CIA No. 682.
703/ Ibid.
704/ Ibid. also see Section VI, B, 1.
705/ CE 2120, pp. 37-40.
706/ Supra, p. 186.
707/ Supra, p. 187.
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707b/ Supra, p. 190
708/ Memorandum for the Record re Trip to Mexico City, from
W. David Slawson, 4/22/64, pp. 39-40. Last Parenthetical
in the original.
709/ Ibid.
710/ HSCA Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document #011775, p. 17.
711/ Letter HSCA to Mexican government,
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713/ Ibid., p. 19-23.
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714/ Ibid., p. 19-23.
715/ Ibid., p. 23.
716/ Ibid., p. 24-25.
717/ Ibid., p. 28.
718,
Ibid., p. 30.
719/ Ibid., p. 29-30.
720/ Ibid., p. 30..
721/ Ibid., p. 29.
722/ Ibid., p. 45, 31.
723/ Ibid., p. 40.
724/ Ibid., p. 40-41.
725/ Ibid., p. 41.
726/ Ibid.
727/ Ibid., p. 42.
728/ Ibid., p. 43.
729/ Ibid.
730/ Ibid.
731/ Ibid., p. 42.
732/ Ibid., p.
43.
733/ Ibid., p. 43, 51,
734/ Ibid.
735/ Ibid., p. 48.
736/ Ibid., p. 51.
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737/ Ibid.
738/ Ibid., p. 96.
739/ Write-up: Wallace B. Rowton meeting with LIRING/3, May 26,
1967.
740/ Ibid.
741 LIRING/3 was a source the CIA rated reliable.
742/ Ibid.
743/ Ibid.
744/ Ibid.
745/ Ibid.
746/ LIRING 3's case officer's pseudonym.
747/ Ibid.
748/ Ibid.
749/ HMMA-32243, 5/27/67.
750/ See Section, VI, C, below.
751/ W -7241, entry no. 613.
752/ FBI, CIA, State Department
753/ "Pitched" is a term used by the CIA to designate an attempt
to recruit an individual
754/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 8. See also
HSCA Testimony of Ann Goodpasture, 11/20/78, p. 63.
755/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 8.
756/ Ibid.
757/ Ibid.
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758/ Memorandum for the Record on Trip to Mexico City, from
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759/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 8.
760/ Extremely reliable source.
761/ HSCA Review of LITAMIL 9 file.
762/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 9.
763/ Ibid.
764/ Ibid.
765/ Ibid.
766/ Ibid.
767/ Ibid.
768/ Summary of CIA file review of Silvia Duran.
769/ Personality.
770/ The HSCA requested of the CIA on August 20, 1978 an explanation
of why there was no "p" file on Silvia Duran, Luisa
Calderon Carralero, Teresa Proenza Proenza, Eusebio Azcue
Lopez, Guillermo Oresta, Ruiz Perez, Gilberto Policarpo
Lopez, Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso and June Viola Cobb Sharp
The agency responded the following on September 11, 1978:
Station index cards show the following information re
201 numbers and "P" numbers:
1) Silvia Duran (No info re "P" number)
2) Luisa Calderon Carralero
P-8292 Destroyed
3) Teresa Proenza Proenza (No info re "P" number)
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4) Eusebio Azcue Lopez
P-6613 Destroyed
5) Guillermo Orestes Ruiz Perez (No info re "p" number)
6) No index card on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, there
is an index card on one Gilberto Policarpo Lopez
which does not list any 201 or "P" number.
7) Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso (No info re "P" number)
8) June Viola Cobb Sharp P-7381
Destroyed.
771/ HSCA Interview of Dan Neiscuir, 8/29/78, p. 1.
772/ Ibid.
773/ Ibid., p. 1...
774/ CIA, FBI, State Department.
775/ HSCA Testimony of Barney Hidalgo, 8/10/78, p. 16.
776/ Ibid.
777/ Ibid.
778/ Ibid.
779/ Warren Commission, p. 302.
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U.S. relations with Cuba in 1963-1964 were not
very good.
See U.S.-Cuban Relations Section.
Also, Azcue traveled fron Mexico to Cuba on November 18,
1963.
781/ Letter from HSCA to Cuban government,
782/ See Transcript Cuba Trip 1, April 1, 1978.
JFK Doc.
783/ HSCA Interview of Eusebio Azcue, April 1, 1978, pp. 12-
21, JFK Doc. # 007005. See p. 205
784/ Ibid.
785/ See Cuba procedural write-up trip 2.
786/ Letter HSCA to Cuban government,
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787/ Mr. Azcue could not pinpoint the exact dates of the visit.
788/ HSCA public hearing testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,
9/18/78, pp. 30-31.
789/ Ibid..
789-A/ Communist party membership card, Fair Play For Cuba
membership card, Soviet Union residence card, marriage
certificate with the name of his Russian wife.
789-B/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,
9/18/78, p. 5-30.
789-C/ Ibid., p. 29-30.
789-D/ Ibid., p. 30.
789-E/ Ibid., p. 20.
729-F/ Azcue could not pinpoint the exact date.
789-G/ HSCA Public Testimoy of Husebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 32.
789-H/ Ibid., p. 33.
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789-J/ Azcue could not pinpoint the time of the phone call.
790/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimony of Eusebio Azcue. Lopez,
9/18/78, p. 34.
791/ Ibid. P. 35.
792/ 10:00 - 2:00
793/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,
p. 36.
794/ Ibid., p. 38.
795/ Ibid.
796/ Ibid.
797/ Ibid., pp. 50-51. 797a/ AMMUG, a CIA Defector, alleged that
Mi:abel Diaz was a DGI agent.
798/ Mr. Mirabal could not pinpoint the exact dates of Oswald's
visit but opined that the second visit occurred on
September 27, 1963.
799/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p. 117.
800/ Ibid.
801/ Ibid., p. 113.
802/ Ibid., P. 120.
802a/ Ibid. p. 199 802b/ Ibid.
803/ WX 7241, p. 94, entry no. 430; Blind Memo dated 10/5/64.
804 See appendix 5 for biography..
805/ WX 7241, p. 94, entry no. 430; Blind memo dated 10/5/64.
806/ Ibid.
807/ Ibid.
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811/ Ibid.
812/ Ibid.
813/ A "witting" asset is the title given to a CIA source
whose information is being used by the
CIA.
814/ CIA No. 580-583, WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.
815/ Ibid.: circa October 1964.
816/ Ibid.
817/ Ibid.
818/ Ibid.: Also, Winston Scott was the Mexico City Chief in
1964.
819/ CIA No.'s 580-583; WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 42, CIA #719.
820/ WX 7241, p. 94, Entry #430, CIA #721; Blind memo dated.
10/5/64, CIA #576.
821/ Personality.
822/ See WX 7241, p. 94, CIA #721.
823/ WX 7241 p. 87, CIA #714.
824/ CIA 10/12/64 memo, CIA #595; WX 7241, p. 87, CIA #714.
825/ Tichborn was Henry P. Lope:' cryptonym. Mr. Lopez was a
witting asset who wrote propaganda pieces for the CIA.
After careful review of Lopez' CIA file, the HSCA has
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826/ The Committee has not been able to determine why the memo
was not sent to Headquarters.
827/ CIA 10/12/64 Memo, CIA #595; WX 7241, p. 87, CIA #714.
828/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine
the agent's identity since his name does not appear in
any CIA files.
829/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb, 11/25/64,
CIA No. 592-593; WX 7241, p. 88, Entry # 404, CIA #715.
830/ While reviewing LICHANT/1'; file the Committee determineḍ
that the CIA asset's true name was Manuel Calvillo
who Elena claimed escorted her and her daughter to the
Vermont Hotel for protection the day following JFK's
assassination.
831/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb Sharp,
11/25/64, CIA Nos. 592-53, WX 7241, p. 88, Entry #404,
CIA No. 715.
832/ Ibid.
833/ Ibid.
834/ HSCA Review of Classified CIA Documents.
835/ The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.
836/ FBI 105-825555 Report, December 11, 1964 entitled Lee
Harvey Oswald, p. 1.
837/ Ibid.
838/ To be checked at FBI.
639/ FBI investigation of President Kennedy's assassination had
established that Lee Harvey Oswald had departed Mexico
City by bus at 8:30 a.m. on October 2, 1963. Elena Insurgente.
840 FBI 105-825555 Report, December 11, 1964 entitled Lee Harvey
Oswald, p. 1.
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842/ Ibid.
843/ Ibid.
844/ Ibid.
845/ Ibid.
846/ Ibid.
847/ Ibid.
848/ Ibid., p. 4.
849/ Ibid.
850/ Ibid.
851/ Ibid.
852/ Ibid.
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853/ Ibid.
854/ A review of CIA files corroborrated that the FBI never
forwarded the information to the CIA.
855/ CIA # 586-587, WX-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
856/ The Committee has been unable to determine who initiated
the discussion re Lee Harvey Oswald.
857/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
858/ Ibid.
859/ Ibid.
260/ Ibid.
861/ Ibid.
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863/ See Section VI, A, 2a.
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864/ CIA #586-587, Wx-724, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
865/ Ibid.
866/ Ibid.
867/ Ibid.
868/ Ibid.
869/ Ibid.; also see HSCA investigation of Elena Garro de Paz/alle-
gations.
870/ CIA No. 586-587, Wx-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
871/ Ibid.
872/ HSCA pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78
873/ The House Select Committee has determined that the Central'
Intelligence Agency received the copy of the Thomas me-
morandum prior to December 25, 1965, his next meeting
with Elena Garro; Also, see below.
874/ CIA No. 588, note from Stanley Watson to Chief of Station.
875/ Ibid.
876/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621,
Dec. 16, 1965, CIA No. 584-585.
877/ Ibid.
878 Ann Goodpasture.
879/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621, .
Dec. 16, 1965 CIA Nos. 584-585.
880/ Chief of Station in Mexico
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881/ Sucessor to Clark Anderson as Legal Attache in Mecico City.
882/ State Department: Letter from Charles Thomas to William
P. Rogers, July 25, 1969, JFK Document No. 011684.
883/ Ibid.
884/ Ibid.
885/ CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.
886/ Ibid.; The meeting with the Legal Attache officer occurred
on November 24, 1964. Also, see supra, p.
887 CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.
888/ Ibid.
21654
889/ Ibid.
890/ Ibid.
891/ Ibid.
892/ Ibid.
893/ Ibid.
894/ Ibid.
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896/ Ibid.
897/ Ibid.
898/ Ibid.
899/ Ibid.
900/ Ibid.
901/ Ibid.
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902/ Ibid.
903 Him: John F. Kennedy.
904/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92.
CIA #719.
905/ Ibid.
906/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 84-85
907/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.
908/ Ibid.
909/ Ibid.
910/ Ibid.
911/ Ibid.
912/ Noe Palomares was the Mexican Minister of Immigration in
1963.
913/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA #719.
914/ Ibid.
915/ Ibid.
916/ Ibid.
917/ Ibid.
918/ Ibid.
919/ Ibid.; Also, for confirmation see Memo from Legat to
Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564; Wx-7241, Entry
#466, p. 98, CIA #725.
920/ CIA Nos. 530-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA p. 719.
921/ Ibid.
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923/ Ibid.
924/ Ibid.
925/ Ibid.
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926/ Ibid.
927/ Ibid.
928/ Victor Rico Galan is dead.
Ms. Garro's allegation.
The Committee could not verify
929/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA p. 719;
also, Silvia Duran denied the allegation, (see HSCA Inter-
view at Silvia Duran, 6,6/78, JFK Document No. 011775,
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930/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA, p. 719.
931/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK Doc. No. 011684.
932/ Ibid.
933/ Supra, p.
934/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK Doc. # 011684.
935/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241 Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #710.
936/ Ibid.
937/ MEXI 5621, Dec. 16, 1965; Wx-7241, Entry #426,
CIA #710.
p. 92,
938/ Memo to the Ambassador from the Legal Attache, 12/27/65,
CIA #578; Wx-7241, Entry 429, p. 94, CIA #721.
939/ Ibid.
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940/ Ibid.
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941/ Ibid.
942/ Winston Scott superimposed a note to Ann. Goodpasture on
this memo which read, "Can we send in a report to Head-
quarters 'dismissing' ou: cable? Goodpasture responded,
Done."
The cable Winston Scott wanted dismissed was
MEXI 5621 which reported that station was "following up"
and cabling results. The new cable was written and
sent on December 29, 1965; see text. .
943/ 'Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 12/29/65, MEXI
5741, CIA #575; Wx-7241. Entry #430, p. 94, CIA #721.
944/ Ibid.
945/ Ibid.
946/ Ibid.
947/ Ibid.
948/ Ibid.
949/ Ibid.
950/ Note from Ann Goodpasture to Mexico City Station, Cuban Sec-
tion, 2/3/66, CIA No. 57); Wx-7241, Entry 428, p. 94,
CIA #721.
951/ Ibid.
952/ Ibid. HSCA Staff Summary of CIA Files on LITAMIL-7 and LATIMIL-9.
953/ See Section II,,A, 3 above.
954/ Classified Summary of Staff Review of CIA Documents, un-
dated, p. 3, CIA #763.
955 Memc from Legat to Ambassador, 2/23/66, CIA #571; Wx-7241,
Entry #455, p. 95, CIA #722.
956 Ibid.
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when the copy was forwarded to the CIA.
958/ Ibid.; see also 12/25/65 Thomas memo for corroboration.
959/ Memo from Legat to Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564;
Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 98, CIA #725%; Thomas' 7/13/66
memo.
960/ Ibid.
961/ Ibid.
962/ Memo of Conversation by Charles Thomas, 12/25/65, p. 3,
CIA #582. JFK Doc. #011684.
963/ Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 98, CIA #725.
964/ "Selected out" is a phrase used when an officer is retired
after having been in one grade for the maximum period
of time and is not considered qualified for promotion
to a higher grade..
965/ State Department: Letter from Charles Thomas to William
Rogers, Secretary/State, July 25, 1969.JFK Doc. #011684.
966/ Ibid.
967/ Deputy Chief of Mission, State Department, Chief of Affairs
at the time of President Kennedy's assassination and sub-
sequent Oswald investigation.
968/ Letter from Charles Thomas to William Rogers, Secretary
of State, July 25, 1969. JFK Doc. #011684.
969/ Ibid.
970/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK Doc. #011684.
971 Ibid.
972/ Letter from Charles Thomas to William Rogers, Secretary
of State, July, 25, 1969. JFK Dcc. #011684.
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972a/ The Committee was unable to determine when Elena found her
calendar. ---
973/ Ibid.
: = :
974/ Ibid.
975/ Ibid.
976/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, p. 4. JFK Doc. # 011684.
977/ Ibid.
978/ Ibid.
979/ Supra, p.
980/ Supra, p.
981/ Supra, p.
982/ Letter HSCA to Mexican Goverment,
No.
983/ See Mexico City Procedural Wirte-up. Trip I.
984/ Ibid.
-
985/ Ibid.
986/ Ibid.
JFK Document,
987/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Betty Serratos, 6/6/78, p. 6,
JFK Document No. 013392; HSCA Staff Interview of Lydia
Duran, 6/5/78, p. 6, JFK Document No. 011681; HSCA
Staff Interview of Horatio Duran Navarro, 6/5/78, p. 25,
JFK Document No. 011683; HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben
Duran, 6/5/78, p. 16, JFK Document No. 011680
988/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Tirado Duran 6/6/78, p. 90,
JFK Document No. 011775.
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989/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Doc.
#011775, p. 54 ; HSCA Staff pre-interview of Lydia Duran
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; HSCA Staff pre-
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; HSC Staff Interview of Horatio
Duran Navarro, 6/5/68, CFK Document # 011683, p. 9
Staff pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78
; HSCA
990/ Letter from HSCA to CIA,
991/ Letter from CIA to HSCA.
992/ See Procedural Write-up Trip 2, Mexico City.
993/ Ibid.
994/ HSCA Staff Review of June Cobb Sharp file at CIA Head-
quarters.
995/ Supra, p.
996/ See Procedural Write-up Mexico City Trip 2.
997/ HSCA Staff Review of Manuel Calvillo file
998/ See procedural write-up Trip 2, Mexico City and Section
VII, C, below.
999/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document No. 10016
1000/ Ibid.
1001/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document. No. 013486.
1002/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/14/78, JFK Document No. 9950.
1003 Ibid.
18/31/7
1004/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 8/31/78, JFK Doc. # 013487.
1005/ Ibid.
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1007/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78, JFK Document No. 011268.
1008/ Ibid.
1009/ Ibid.
1010/ Letter to Elena Garro from Committee, 9/6/78, JFK Document.
No. 011383; see also, HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78,
JFK Document No. 0.11268.
1011/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/7/78, JFK Document No. 011345.
1012/ Ibid.
1013/ Ibid.
1014/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.
1015/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/12/78, JFK Document # 011344.
1016/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.
1017/ HSCA Staff Contact Report,'
JFK Document #
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
1018/ UNAM
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1019/ American Embassy Incoming Welegram # A-43-570, p. 110,
CIA #737.
1020/ Ibid.
1021/ Ibid.
1022/ Ibid.
1023/ Ibid.
1024/ Ibid.
1025/ Letter to Wesley D. Bowles, Chief of Mexican Political
Affairs, Office of Mexican Affairs, Department of State
from B. J. Ruyle, American Consul, Tampico, 5/11/67;
Wx-7241 Entry #597, p. 114, CIA #741.
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1027/ Ibid.
1028/ Ibid.
1029/ Ibid.
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1030/ Ibid.
1031/ The Committee could not determine when the State Depart-
ment forwarded the letter to the CIA.
1032/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMMW
15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, p. 117, CIA #744.
1033/ Ibid.
1034/ Ibid.
1035/ Ibid.
1036/ Ibid.
1037/ Ibid.
1038/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67,.
Wx 7241, Entry #622, p. 118, CIA #745.
1039/ El Sol is a newspaper, The Sun.
1040/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;
Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118, #745.
1041/ When Contreras was asked to identify the other four indi-
viduals who had met Lee Harvey Oswald, he refused to
reveal their names because he feared that informing on
them might endanger his family.
1042/ Cable from Mexico City to Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;
Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118, CIA #745.
1043/ Ibid.
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1046/ Ibid.
1047/ Cable from the Director to Mexico City, 7/4/67, DIR 16823,·
Wx-7241, Entry 626, p. 119, CIA #746.
1048/ Ibid.
;
1049/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI 1991;
Wx-7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.
1050/ Memo to Legat, 7/5/67 from Chief of Station; Wx-7241,
entry 628, p. 119, CIA #746.
1051/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67, Wx-7241, Entry
#634, p. 120, CIA #747.
1052/ Ibid.
1053/ The leaders of the group were Victor Manuel Barcelo, Carlos
Andaluz, Hugo Castro Aranda, Antonio Tenario Adamg, Jose
Guerrero Guerrero, Carlos Ortiz Fejeda, Daniel Molina,
Brion Balvez, Humberto Hiriarte, Oscar Gonzales, Hibam
Garcia, Pedro Sainz Zepeda, Alberto Cerecer, Jose Eduardo
Pascual, Juan Saldana, Martin Reyes Baissadel, Vicente
Lvillamar, Rubelio Fernandez Durado and Jesus Ochoa.
1054/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67; Wx-7241,- Entry
#634, p. 120, CIA #747.
1055/ Ibid.
1056/ Dispatch from Mexico City to Director, HMMA 32497, 7/11/67;
Wx-7241, Entry #635, p. 121, CIA #748.
1057/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMMW
15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, p. 117, CIA #744.
1058/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;
Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118.
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1059/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI
1991; Wx7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.
1060/ See Section VI, C.
1061/ See Section VI, D, above.
1062/ See Warren Commission Report, pp. 299-304, 733-736; also,
Section I, B, VC and VI A above. Some of the more prominent
are Paul Hoch and Peter Dale Scott in the Assassination in
Dallas and Beyond and A. T. Weberman in Coup d etat in America.
1063/ See Sections V C, VIA and B respectively.
1064/ Ibid.
1065/ Silvia Duran.
1066/ Eusebio Azcue Lopez, Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, Orestes Guillermo
Ruiz Perez, Nilo Otero, Maria Teresa Proenza y Proenza.
1067/ Noe W. Palomares, Pedro Gutierrez Valencia, Silvia Duran,
Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran, Lydia Duran, Betty Serratos,
Ernesto Lehfeld Miller.
1068/ See Glossary.
1069/ The Handwriting Panel concluded that the signature on the
visa application was identical to other samples of Lee
Harvey Oswald's handwriting.
1070/ HSCA Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document 011775.
Consul Azcue stated that standard operating procedure at the
Cuban Consulate did not allow applications to be removed
from the office. (HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue,
9/18/78, p. 41)
1071/ Ibid., pp. 31-33.
1072/ See Sections II C, III A 1 and III B 2 above.
1073/ See Section III B 2 above.
1074/ Ibid.
1075/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,
9/27/63.
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1077/ Ibid.
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1079/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,
9/28/63.
1080/ Ibid.
1081/ Ibid.
1082/ Ibid.
1083/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p. 19.
1084/ Ibid., pp. 20-23.
1085/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 36.
1086/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
#011775, p. 23.
1087/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,
p. 32-33.
1088/ See Sections VC, and VIB above.
1089/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment # 011775, p. 37.
1090/ See Supra, p.
1091/ See Sections III, Al and II B above.
1092/ HSCA Staff interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
# 011775, p. 92-100; also, see Section VC for details.
1093/ See Sections VC for detail:;.
1094/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez 9/18/78, p. 51.
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1095/ See Section VI C above and VII B below.
1096/ See Section III A 1 above. Telephone taps.
1097/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p. 744
1098/ The CIA's classification of the transcript of this conver-
sation prevented the HSCA from directly confronting
Ms. Duran with the information.
1099/ See Sections II, C, 3, 4 and III Al above.
1100/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript of Soviet Embassy,
9/28/63.
1101/ Ibid., October 1, 1963.
1102/ Ibid.
1103/ Ibid.
1104/ See Section IV, B above.
1105/ Ibid.
1106/ HSCA Public Testimony of Marina Oswald,
mission Testimony of George DeMorenschildt.
mission Testimony of George Boule.
Warren Com-
Warren Com-
1107/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.
1108/ Ibid.
1109/ Ibid.
1110/ Ibid..
1111/ Ibid.
1112/ The caller said Odessa.
1113/ Warren Commission Report, I. 301.
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1114/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, September
27, 1963.
1115/ Ibid.
1116/ Ibid.
1117/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p. 31.
1118/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p. 119.
1119/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
011775, p. 23.
1120/ Ibid., p. 31.
1121 Ibid.
1122/ Ibid.
1123/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p. 119.
1124/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.
1125/ Ibid.
1126/ Ibid.
1127/ Ibid.; also HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,
JFK Document No. 011775. p. 41.
1128/ Ibid.
1129/ Warren Commission Testimony of Nelson Delgado, Vol. III,
P. 236-237.
1130/ Warren Commission Testimony of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,
Vol. II, p. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo
Rodriguez, 7/21/64, vil. II. p. 34, CE 2120, p. 7;
CE 212, p. 54.
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1131/ Warren Commission, Report, p. 301.
1132/ See Section VIC, above.
1133/ See Section VI D, above.
1134/ See Section VII D, above.
1135/ See Sections III.A 1 and III B 2.
1136/ Ibid.
1137/ Warren Commission Report, p. 301.
1138/ A night when Oswald's activities are not known.
1139/ HSCA Staff pre-interview of Ruban Duran, 3/31/78, No. 011680,
p. 54; HSCA Staff Pre-interview of Lydia Duran, 6/5/78,
HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Document.
No. 011683 p. 9; HSCA Staff Pre-Interview of Betty Serratos,
6/1/78, HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,
JFK Document No. 011775, p. 54.
1140/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p.91.
1141/ Ibid.
1142/ HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No.011680
, p.
HSCA Staff Interview of
Lydia Duran, 6/5/78, JK Document No. 011681, p.
i
HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Do-
cument No. 011683, P.
HSCA Staff Interview of
Betty Serratos, 6/6./78 JFK Document No. 013392.
.
1143/ See Section VI, C,
above.
1144/ HSCA Staff Pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78.
"
1145/ HSCA Public Testimony of Husebio Azcue Lopez, p. 84-85.
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1146/ See Section VI, C
above.
1147/ See Mexico City Procedure: Write-up Trip 2 Appendix 3.
1148/ See Section VI, C,
1149/ See Section VI, C, .
above.
above.
1150/ See Section VI, A 2 above
1151/ HSCA Staff Interview of Salvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775 , P. 81.
1152/ Ibid., p.87-88.
1153/ HSCA Staff Review of LITAMIL 9 file.
1154/ HSCA Staff Review of CIA Silvia Duran file,
1155/ See Appendix 3.
1156/ Ibid.
1157/ Ibid.
1158/ See Section VI, C 10 above.
1159/ See Section VI, C,
above.
1160/ See Section VI, C,
above.
1161/ See Section VI, C
above.
1162/ See Section VI, C
above.
1163/ See Appendix 3.
1164/ See Section VI, C, 1 above.
1165/ Ibid.
1166/ Ibid.
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1167/ See Appendix 3.
1168/ See Section VI, C 1 above.
1169/ See Section VI, C,
at ove.
1170/ Letter from Charles Thomas to William P. Rogers, July 25,
1969, JFK Document No. (11684.
1171/ See Section VI,C,
above.
1172/ See Section VI, D above for details.
1173/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
No. 011775, p. 95.
1174/ See Section VI, D above.
1175/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK No.
011755, p. 101-102.
1176/ See Section VI, D above.
1177/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p.95
1178/ See Appendices II and III.
1179/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.
1180/ See Section VI C above.
1181/ See Section VII, C above.
1182/ See Section VII, B above.
1183/ See Sections VI ABC above.
1184 See Verbatim transcript of meetings prepared by Cuban go-
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Hereinafter, called transcript. JFK Doc. #012212.
1195/ Ibid.
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1187/
See transcript.
1188/ Ibid.
1189/ Ibid.
1190/ Ibid.
1191/ See HSCA Interview of Fidel Castro Ruz, April 3, 1978.
JFK Document # 007004
1192/ Pedro Gutierrez Valencia claimed that he bumped into
Lee Harvey Oswald at the Consulate on September 27,
1963. Valencia was at the Consulate doing a credit
check on one of the Cuban employees.
1193/ See Section VI, D above for details on Oscar Contreras'
allegations.
1194/ See Section VI C for details on Elena and Elenita
Garro's allegations.
1195/
Elena Garro's sister who came to the conclusion that
Lee Harvey Oswald was at one of Ruben Duran's twist
parties in the fall of '63.
1196/ Eunice Odio reported on Elena Garro's allegations in
1965. See Section VI, C,
above.
1197/
1198/
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Emilio Carballido and Eusebio Azcue had come to the
conclusion that Kennedy had to be assassinated. (See
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Elena Garro alleged that Victor Rico Galan had claimed
that Lee Harvey Oswald had been Silvia Duran's lover.
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1199/
Diaz-Ordaz and Echevarria were the two presidents of
Mexico respectively from 1964 to 1970 and 1970 to 1976.
1200/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK
Document No. 011680.
1201/
See HSCA Staff Interview of Pedro Gutierriz Valencia,
6/5/78, JFK Document No. 011682.
1202/ Lynn Duran is the sister of Horatio and Ruben Duran.
The Committee wished to ask her whether Lee Harvey
Oswald had attended any twist parties at the Durna
homes.
1203/
1204/
1205/
1206/
See HSCA Staff Interview of Lynn Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Doc.
# 011681
See HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK
Doc. # 011680.
The Committee never sent the Mexican government the
questions because a 2nd trip to Mexico was arranged.
The Committee wished to ask Ms. Serratos whether Lee
Harvey Oswald had attended any twist parties at the
Duran homes. See HS CA Staff Interview of Betty
Serratos, JFK Doc. #
.
011392.
See HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK
Document No. 011775.
1207/Danny Flores was one of AMMUG's (a Cuban DG1 Defector in
1964) Security Officers. The Committee wished to
ask Mr. Flores about AMMUG's statements about Lee
Harvey Oswald's Trip to the Cuban Consulate.
1208/ Ramon Alvarez Dupont was a CIA agent in charge of
picking up the photographic surveillance film from
personnel stationed at the three bases and delivering
it to his brother-in-law. (unknown) and later delivering
it to his case officer Ann Goodpasture.
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1209/
See HSCA Staff Write-Ups of Danny Flores Interview
8/8/78.
1210/ Oscar Contreras Lartique claimed that he met Oswald
in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. See Section
VI, D above.
1211/ Elena claimed that when she told Noe W. Palomares about
meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, he advised her to send an
anonymous letter to Texas, explaining her account.
The Committee wished to question Mr. Palomares about
Elena's credibility.
1212/
LICHANT I is Manuel Calvillo. See Section VI, C
for details and significance.
1213/ LICOOKIE I is June Colib Sharp.
for details.
1214/
See Section IV, C
LITAMIL 7 is Consuelo Esperon, a CIA penetrator agent
working as a secretary at the Cuban Embassy. The
Committee wished to ask Ms. Esperon about commentary
after the assassination at the Cuban Embassy about
both Lee Harvey and John F. Kennedy's assassination.
1215/ Litamil 9 was Luis Alberue Suoto, a CIA penetration
agent at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished to
question Mr. Alberue about the Cuban Embassy employees
reactions to the assassination. The Committee also
wished to question Mr. Alberue about Silvia Duran
and his knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1216/
LIRING 3 was a Cuban citizen, Carlos Jurado Delmar who
was a source for the CIA. He had reported that Silvia
Duran had told him that she had had an affair with
Lee Harvey Oswald. The Committee wished to question
´him about Silvia Duran.
1217/ See HSCA Staff write-up of Interview with Ramon Alvarez
Durant.
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General Jesus Jose Cairk Flores escorted Ruben Duran
to Russia in 1962 and was considered by many to be
Duran's protector. Also, Elena claimed that Flores
was at the party that: she stated Lee Harvey Oswald
was in attendance. The Committee wished to ask
Mr. Clark Flores about all the above.
1219/ Ernesto Lehfeld Miller is a Mexican citizen that
resembled Eusebio Azcue's description of the man
that allegedly visited the Cuban Consulate.
All the Durans recognized Miller.
1220/
1221/
1222/
1223/
Horatio and
Silvia said that Miller was a close friend and
borrowed Horatio's car often.
See House Select Committee on Assassinations. Staff
Write-Up of Noe W. Palomares, 8/10/78.
See HSCA Staff write-up of interview with Ernesto
Lehfeld Miller, 8/11,'78.
In 1963 Nilo Otero as an official in the Cuban
governments Ministry of Foreign Relations, interviewed
Eusebio Azcue about lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the
Cuban Consulate.
In 1963 the Cuban government employed Rogelio Rodriguez
at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished to interview
Mr. Rodriguez about lee Harvey Oswald's visits to
the Cuban Embassy employees' reactions to the Kennedy
assassination.
1224/ Rolando Cubela, known as AMLASH, was prominent in the
Senate Select Committee's Book V which reported the
possibility that the Central Intelligence Agency's
attempts to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro
provoked the Cuban government to orchestrate the
assassination of President Kennedy in retaliation.
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1225/
In 1963 the Cuban government employed Orestes
Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Cuban Embassy. The
Committee wished to interview Mr. Rodriguez about
Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate
and about the Cuban Embassy employees' reactions
to the Kennedy assassination. In addition, Mr. Ruiz
is the cousin-in-law of one of the most active
anti-Castroites, Antonio Veciana Blanch.
1226/ Griselle Rubio claimed in a letter Dec. 1963 to DRI
that Ruby had been in Cuba in 1962 or 1963 visiting
Solomon Pratkins. The Committee located and
´interviewed Ms. Rubio in Miami.
1127/
James Wilcott is an ex-CIA employee who appeared
voluntarily in August 1978 at the Cuban Government's
Tribunal which accused the CIA of complicity in the
John F. Kennedy assassination.
1228/ Philip Agee is an ex-CIA employee who appeared voluntarily
in August 1978 at the Cuban government's Tribunal
which accused the CIA of complicity in the John F.
Kennedy assassination.
1229/ The Tribunal, held in August 1978 was an effort by the
Cuban government to accuse the CIA of complicity in
the John F. Kennedy assassination. Ex CIA agents,
James Wilcott and Phillip Agee testified at the
Tribunal along with ex-Cuban Consul in Mexico,
Eusebio Azcue.
1230/ See HSCA Interview of Juan Nilo Otero, 9/25/78, JFK
Document No.
1231/
Alfredo Mirabal Diaz assumed the Consul position,
in the Cuban government's Mexico City Consulate
on September 2, 1963. He was present during all
of Oswald's visits to the Consulate. Also, see
HSCA Interview of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 8/26/78, JFK
Document No.
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1232/ The Committee wished to question Mr. Verdacia about
the identities of the organized crime figures
detained in Trescornia at the inception of the
Cuban revolutionary government.
1233/
1234/
1235/
1236/
1237/
HSCA Interview of Jose Verdacia Verdacia, 8/26/78,
JFK Doc. # 012224.
See HSCA Interview of Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez,
8/27/78, JFK Doc. #
See HSCA Interview of Rolando Cubela Secades, 8/28/78,
JFK Document #
In 1963 the Cuban government employed Maria Teresa
Proenza y Proenza at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee
wished to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's
visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban
Embassy employees' reactions to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. Also, See HSCA Interview of Maria
Teresa Proenza y Proenza, 8/28/78, JFK Doc. #
See Verbatim transcript of 8/28/78 session.
JFK Doc. # 012208
1238/ In 1963, Manuel Piñiero, Chief of the Ministry of
Foreign Relations, interviewed Eusebio Azcue about
Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate.
In a-dition, Mr. Piliero was the Cuban revolutionary
government official who met with Santo Trafficante
and gave him 24 hours to leave the country.
1239/
In 1963 the Cuban government employed Luisa Calderon
Carralero at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished
to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's
visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban
Embassy employees' reactions to the assassination
of John F. Kennedy.
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SURVEILLANCE of the LIMERICK target,
WORKING Alternately but without ANY
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