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Continued on Page 20, Column 31
Oswald Calls to Embassies
Reported Taped by C.I.A.
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK
Special to The New York Times
.conversations
with
the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20- his pro-Castro activities. ever
The call to the Cuban Embas-
The Central Intelligence Agen- followed up on the information.
cy secretly tape-recorded twol
be-sy, the sources said, was not.
telephone
tween Lee Harvey Oswald and associated with Oswaid until
the Cuban and Soviet Embas- after the death of Mr. Kennedy.:
sies in Mexico City some eight A Federal commission headed;
that Oswald, acting.
weeks before President Kenne- by Chief Justice Earl Warren'
dy was shot to death on Nov. found
To Avoid Publicity
22, 1963, in Dallas, Government alone, had slain the President.
familiar
The calls were reportedly
trip
events said today.
placed. by Oswald on
The call to the Soviet Embas-
to Mexico City in late Septem-
sy, according to the sources,
ber and early October, 1963.
alerted the C.I.A. to the pres-
The events of this trip have
ence of Oswald in Mexico City,
Oct. 10 the agency;
and on
warned the Federal Bureau of never been fully made public.
Investigation. There is no indi- and have been the subject of
decade.
cation that the F.B.I., which speculation for more than
was investigating Oswald for
sources
Today's Sections
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Section 2
Section 3
Section
Section 5
Evidence that
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a
Associated Press
Secretary of State Kissinger with Shimon Peres, Israeli
Defense Minister, after their meeting in Washington.
for the
has been close to
the years, although
ly there has been
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Mr. Khaddam is p
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the civil strife in
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Chilean Junta Resisting
By JONATHAN KANDELL
Special to the work Times
ports of to
lations of human rights.
Unemployment is at its high-in recent
production has fidence tha
version ha
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 16- est in at least four decades and because of
The reports of the cails are
But the junta has vowed to hand, such
the latest developments in the Two years after the bloody coup industrial
about that toppled the Marxist coali-dropped sharply this year.
increasing speculation
News the Warren Commission's contion government of President
the Salvador Allende Gossens; the continue an austerity program tually be
governs aimed almost exclusively, at and the s
1 (2 Parts)
Arts and Leisure 
clusions
.
Business and Finance!
The Week in Review C.I.A. and the F.B.I. may have military junta that
4
Sports been less than candid with the Chile has developed a siege dampening the perennial rise in remains
Magazine commission has added to the mentality against critics of its inflation and diminishing the still abou
questions surrounding the as- 
harsh economic recovery pro-state's role in the economy.
*Real Estate Continued on Page 49, Column 1 gram and of its continuing vio- Arbitrary arrests
*Employment Advertising
Travel and Resorts
Included in all copies distributed in
.No York City und the suburban area.
Section 6
(Part 2)
7
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Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Report on Men's Weari
Book Review
Index to Subjects
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June Graduates Find More Jobs Than Expected than 1.6
Section
Amusement News
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By SETH S. KING
Art
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31-32
Bridge
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42
Special to the New York Times
EVANSTON, Ili., Sept. 20-
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2
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Editorial/Op-Ed
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them," said Victor R. Lindquist, pect th
tention
they had not even considered sought jobs have now found Lawyer
living in before.
But many have been delighted director of placement at this sing p
that inflation has large private university's Evan-
The graduating seniors in the to find
16-17 class of '75, who in June were pushed starting salaries, espe- ston campus
ters,
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15 chances for employment since larly for
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Letters to the Editors
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Music/Recordings
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News Summary & Index
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Obituaries
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55
Photography
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Puzzles
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Society
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job offers to the class of 1975 co
ields they had trained for, or versities, found that by August bil
to settle for something/were now employed in the Survey of 156 colleges and uni-Re
had dropped 27 per cent below vi
less than they had hoped for.
came later in something related to them.
"We've found that more than
63 in the summer than usual. And
many of 1975's graduates are 90 per cent of Northwestern's
ted by Review page 41 now working in places that June graduates
63 and harder to find a job and seniors who made the effort
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the Great Depression, are far-above last year's.
16 ing better than the forecasters!
17-18 had expected.
Few of them were courted versities and colleges in many were this spring, it's not as has
42 by the employers this time. parts of the country said this bad as you'd expect.".
90% Find Jobs
The
had for the past three years," has
he said. "But when you con- Chile
Placement directors at uni-sider how poor the prospects larly
"Of course, that's below the
engineers, 95 per cent or higher rate we've
G
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sassination and has led to more
calls for a reopening of the in-
quiry.
The Mexico City trip was
given scant treatment in the
Warren Commission report be-
cause publication of informa-
tion about it might have ex-
posed “sources and methods"
of the C.I.A. and impaired na-
tional security, intelligence of-
ficers
staff
and commission
sources have said.
been no "conspiratorial" tone was no promischus
a
to the conversations and one of trash then. That happens a
source called them "benign." lot now, though."
Moreover, the sources said.
the C.I.A. had information that
Personnel Cuts
Sanitation personnel
there.
the Cubans were suspicious of have been cut from 1.450 to
and unsympathetic to Oswald. 935. They collect about 2.800
One source said the Cubans tons a day, compared with the.
regarded Oswald's behavior in 24.000 tons generated 
daily in
returning to the United States New 
York City.
Mayor Beame's 
ultimatum to:
from the Soviet Union and then clean up the streets within 10
asking to go back as "strange." days expires tomorrow at mid-
Asked if anything said might night. Some progress has been
have "triggered" Oswald, a reported.
Castro supporter, to take "retal- Sanitation Commissioner Rob-
iation" against President Ken- ert T. Groh, who resigned to-
nedy,
source said
he day amid mounting public
thought not but said that he criticism of his department's
thought Oswald had been "frus-porformarice, attributed
the
trated" by the Cubans.
unsightly dirty streets and
overflowing rubbish barrels to
that there were any tape-re- wald. Their determinations, and
The F.B.I. acknowledged at manpower reductions. An aver-
corded conversations but said: the raw data upon which they the Warren Commission 
hear- age of 3,100 men is on duty
"On October 9, 1963 Central were hased, along with the ings that it had received 
infor daily now, compared with 4,000
☐ In response to inquiries about
the matter from The New York
Times, the C.L.A. issued an unu-
sual public statement on the.
United Press International
Lee Harvey Oswald
matter. It would not confirm photograph of Lee Harvey Os
one
Known by F.B.1.
in former years.
But others believe a real
Intelligence Agency headquar- reports of his visit to the Soviet mation from the C.I.A. about
If more men are not hired,
lers received information that Embassy. were made to the Oswald's Mexican contact with
a person named Lee Oswald Warren and Rockefeller Com- the Soviet Embassy on Oct. 
10, 
Mr. Groh said. "we'll just have
contacted the Soviet Embassy missions as were all
other 1963. Former 
F.B.1. agents into get accustomed to living
in Mexico City in late Septem- materials relevant to the inves- volved in the investigation said like this: our 
standards will
ber or early October, 1963. In tigation of President 
Kennedy's the bureau knew that Oswald have to be lowered."
transmitting the information on death."
had been trying to return to the 
Solutions suggested 
in other
cities included new laws and¡
10 October 1963 Central Intel- Three staff members of the Soviet Union.
ligence Agency headquarters Warren Commission were as-: Under bureau operating pro- taxes governing packaging, use
said Lee Oswald was probably signed 
to investigate the Mexi-dures at that time, the F.B.I. of an all-purpose returnable
the painting of
identical to Lee Henry (sic) co City trip and other matters followed up on any unexplained
: bottle and
Oswald, a former radar opera- involving the C.I.A.-William visit by an American citizen to workers
' 
names on sanitation
tor in the United States Marine T. Coleman, now Secretary of Communist 
embassies and con- trucks to enable citizens to
hold them responsible for
:
Corps, born 18 October 1939 Transportation; Howard P. Wil-sulater. It would have been par-
in New Orleans, who defected lens, a former Justice Depart-ticularly watchful in the case of sloppy work.
to the Soviet Union in 1959 ment official now in private Oswald, who had defected once.
and who, subsequently made law practice, and W. David: The bureau jargon for such solution rests only in changing
arrangements to return to the Slawson, a law professor in unexplained visits was "bogies" people's 
behavior. City streets
,
United States with a Russian California
.
and agents were sent to 
inter-said the Chicago columnist,
wife.
Mr. Coleman said in a tele-! view the person on why he or Mike Royko
. "are as clean as
phone 
interview that he was he had been in contact with people in that neighborhood
From F.B.I. Reports "disturbed" about the possibil- the Communists. The only rea- want them to be."
"This biographical data wasity that United State security son this was not done in Os- Mr. 
Powers of 
Keep America
based upon Federal Bureau of might be harmed by recent vald's case, these sources said: Beautiful professes optimism.
Investigation reports provided disclosures of F.B.J. and C.I.A.
to Central Intelligence Agency activities. But he acknowledged may have been because he was The fiscal crises of the nation's
already under an F.B.I. security cities, he said, are making more
!
following Oswld's 
defection to that he and other staff mcm-1
investigation in connection with 
people aware that they can not
!
the Soviet Union.
bers had received information
rely on government 
to solve all
"This information was also from the C.I.A. on Oswald's Pro-Castro activities.
provided to the Immigration activities in 
Mexico, and they The bureau's formal 
response their problems.
to these questions was to refer: "This is a 
very, very slow]
the
and Naturalization Service, the did not 
run counter to
Department of the Navy, the commission's conclusion that to the Warren Commission re-process," 
he 
said. "I'm 
not sug-
United States Ambassador and Oswald
, acting alone. killed port. In the report it was noted gesting there is a big move-
will have 
the situation
!
his staff in Mexico and to the President 
Kennedy and a Dallas that James P. Hosty Jr., specialment across the 
country and
agent of the Dallas field office, we
Representative of the F.B.I. in police officer
, J. J. Tippitt.
jattempted to interview Oswald cleaned up in five 
years. But
Mexico.
about his Cuban activities on there is a new attitude, 
and
I am encouraged."
M
Sure Others Learned
"Following the assassination; Mr. Coleman said he was Nov. 1.
of President Kennedy
, Centrali 
"sure that J. Lee Rankin, the
Intelligence Agency 
records re- 
Warren Commission's 
chief
:
vealed 
that a person believed counsel, had been informed of
to be. Oswald was in contact the C.I.A.. Mexico City data
I with the Cuban Embassy on and that "at least two or threel
27 September 1963 for the pur- commission members" knew.
puse of receiving a transit visa. He could not remember if the
for use enroute to the U.S.S.R. commission had ever discussed
In addition a
'number of the matter in executive session.
photographs of individuals be- Mr. Willens and Mr. Slawson
lieved to be in contact with declined to make public com-
ment.
the Cuban and. Soviet Embas-
in Mexico City were
siés
the
familiar with
ceived from the Central Intelli- contents of the tapes said that
gence Agency station in Mexico! Oswald had been seeking .a!
and were compared with pic-transit visa from 
Cuban offi-i
tures of Lee Harvey Oswald cials and that he had been
by C.L.A. officers in Mexico "rebuffed." One source said that:
City and C.I.A. headquarters the call to the Soviet Embassy
and by United States authori--had been an effort to get help
in furthering his application
ties in Dallas, Texas.
"It was determined that none at the Cuban Embassy.
of these photographs was the
Sources
These sources said there had
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