104-10052-10279 ee, UNCLASSIFIED © [] INTERNAL (Cl conripenriat. =<) SECRET peo ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET _. f SUBJECT: (Optional) FROM: i. EXTENSION | NO. Jom H, Vaitten ° c/ wa/3 , 5633 [pare ; _ hi b nd Te bsiaing) designation, 120m oumber, a DATE OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each commen? to show fram whom : INITIALS to whom, Draw a line across column after each comment.) § : : : . RECEIVED {| FORWARDED . ets . Attacsed Poe yous AnPormation, - comeent,.and correction is the - orieinal, teary the repext on GPYLOOR covering <«_ OSWALD's stay iu Mexico and in cluding sumarias ef the telspzene iatercepyts. Thia may be usefnl tc. % who are processing — people preparing, the Firal, resorts in writing c Shla(tas, 2 have made parts i Gemmente-aad indulzea 19 a it. Tsese thougats are ay own. XP you have aay corrections to ike please vrite them on this draft and return it tome. EF wilh reters the drast to yeu AF you want ite : This repert was writtes Pow intex _ use caly end was not meant te bo used sutelde the Agency om 6] Oise oO} “SECRET (] CONFIDENTIAL Use ONLY .O UNCLASSIFIED ee tae eee mee eet urate version of 7 your guaiyst -g the zest of the waterial and to the! - cartain emount ef aralysis, because 7 the naked facts seemed te esll far | Fool free to make your om azalysis), eo ae a eo Tne etal de ~— 5 cea, ene”
14-00000 OrAnret : ey Sad dg err wa Bee We Discover Lee OSWALD in Mexico City CIA did preaduce one very simificant plece of information on Lee GSHALD before he shot President Kennedy. On 1 October 1963, our Mexico City Station intercepted a telephone call Lee OSWALD made from somevlace in Mexice City to the Soviet Eabassy there, using his mm raze. Speaking broken Russian and using his true name, COVNALD was talking to the Enbassy gtard, OBYEDKOY, who often answers the phone. OSWALD sald he had visited - the Enbassy the previous Saturday (25 September 1963) and spoken to a consul wasse name he hed forgotten, and who had promised to send a tele- gram for him to Washington. He wanted to know 42 there vere "anything __ new." The guard said if the consul, waa dark it was (Yeleriy Visduirovich) KOSTIXOY. Tre guard checked with someone else and said that the message . haa gome out but no answer had been received. He then hung up. * this plece of information ¥as produced from a telephone tap center hich ve operate Jointly with the It
14-00000 Liklihessa that the Lee OSWALD mentioned was probably the former defector. A copy of this same cable was delivered by hand te the Inslsration and Naturalization Service, with which we have no cable Linke ‘The cane day a long cable vent out to Mexico City informing our Station of the back- ground of defector Lee OSWALD and asking for more infornation. Cur Station was instructed to pass its inforeation on the phone call to the Mexico by oftives of the FBI, the Embassy, the Naval Attache, ana the Ioxigra:: tion ana Fetupaltentien Service. ‘This was dome. In its original report of 9 October, Mexico City hed sald 2¢ had a photograpa of an apparent American male leaving the Sovlet Embassy on 1. Cetober 1963, the day OSWALD phone thera. A very sensitive operation in Merten City provides ns with secretly taken photographs of many but rot | ald visitors to the Soviet Eubassy there, taken with teleshota Lenses. ; Accordingly, we cablea the Bary Department on 2h October 1563 asking for @ photograph of lee OSUALD ‘from his Marine Corps days so we coata compare photoes. We waa not received this photogranh by 22 Fovenber 1963, but in any event, it turned out that the man photographed outside the Soviet &
14-00000 _ ocernsinns we have even been able to apprehend and return to the USA ; ‘elbizen to other government agencies. Derozatory information on Americans ; arn sane aa ® @. ws ¥.53 | % ent Wad Ud a eee Eubassy was not CSWALD anyway. Az chance would have it, sone of our oints in Mexico City bad ever taxen en identi- several. photo obsezation » fiable picture of Lee OSKALD. Our Hexteo City Station very often produces information like this _ | on US eltizens contacting Soviet bloc embassies in Mexico Clty. Frequently | the information ve get is extremely incriminating, and on one or two 7 American military personnel who sare attempting to defect. In all such cases, our Eengquarters desk requests emi obtains the special permission of: the Deputy Director for Plans to pases the derogatory information on a US is not treated routinely; in each case tha DD? or his Assistant sersorally scrutizize the information, maxe sure it is credible, and decide vhether and to whom it will be passed. Only in absolute emergencies is the Hexico City Station authorized to pasa such information directly to the FBI office in the 0,5. Embassy. At this writing (13 Decesber 1963) ve do not know whet action the FAI ft
14-00000 and other agencies cay have talen besed on cur report. We surmise that the POI may have made local checks throuch Mexicen authorities to see if Lee OSWALD was actually in Mexico City on 1 October. Indeed, later ine vestisation has coofirmad all the details of his trip, where he stayed, | end vhat he did. To avoid cressing lines with the FBI, om Mexies station undertook no local investigation of its cme AS ve now know, OsHALD Leth Meccico on 3 October and was no longer there wren our report was pnt out... ' Since thts) took _ Place. 22 Noverber 1963 When word of the sheeting of Preaident Kennedy resched the offices . of our operating @ivisions and staffs on the afterncon of Ffriéay 22 Noven- ver 1963, transistor radios were turned on everywhere to foliow the trezedy. When the name of Lee OSWALD was heard, the effect was electric. A phone message from the FAI came at about the Bane tine, naming OSWALD
14-00000 er oe ie) rea | aftr se “as the possible assassin and asking for traces. The nessasce was passed on at once by the Chief CI, Mr. Angleton, to Mr. Birch O'Zeal of his Special Investigations Unit. Mrs. Betty Egeter of this Unit imediately recognized the naze of Lee CSVALD and went for his file. At the sane time, Mrs. Bustos of the Mexico Desk, who had written our first feport on after the sane file. bir. Reichhardt, Hexteo Dest Chie?, who was hose on leave, heard the news and phoned in a reminder that we had something on OSNALD. While ve vere preparing @ cable to Mexico Clty asking thea for | > more information on OSWALD, Mexico City itself heard OSWALD's name on the | Yolce of America broadcast and cabled to us a reminder of the information the Station had sent in on hin. Por the next week, @ dozen people in the Agency vere continuously etvased in handling Incoming messaces on the case, writing reports to be cabled out, tracing the names mentioned, and researching flies. Within a week, 27 cabled reports had gone.out. to the White House, the State Depart~ ment, and the FEI. Many cables of auidance end inquiry hed been sent to Rest) :
14-00000 our overseas stations, and many pleces of information on OSHALD and bis wife had been received back. The Hexico City Station researched its telephone tape very thoroughly and came up wlth several more conversations probably involving OSWALD, but not actually mentioning this mame; these connected him also to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City. Several Mexicans vere arrested and questioned about his activities, giving 8 zooa pinture of what he was really up to. Many conferences were held with the Fal Liaison officer who asked us for certain actions and passed us information fros the Fur amvestiaation. Om the minus side, & hoat of fabricators, Bons anonymous, bombarded overseas cnbassiea vith spurious tips on the case, _ Bost of which we investigated. All of these are soon discredited, but they are atill caning in. During this phase of our work, we served primarily in support ef the FSI, which was entrusted by the President with the major responsibility for the investigation. fhe BBE was too busy to supply us with much of its own invforcation, but answers were given to specific questions we posed to essist our investigation. The Department of State did photograph its entire OR €, es : e|
14-00000 fille on OSNALD and pass thes to us, end the FRE gave us a copy of the Soviet Consular Pile on OSWALD which had been publicly given by the Soviet Awhassador to the Secretary of State. On Friday 6 Decesber 1963, Depaty tiorney General Katzerbach invited us to review the FBI's cooprekensive report on the case to me sure our sources vere not jeovardized ana that our intovmation was correctly quoted. We found the report naghty interesting and ne threat to our security, as long as it was read only by the puthértzed investigative bodies. After the first few days, the CIA investigation of the case was handle@ at Eesdquarters by a small staf? usually charged with investigation - ghd analysis of the vost inmpoxtant security cases, and by a Tew officers and analysts of our Western Eewisphere Division. | RE: a From Mescico _ As soon as our Hexico City Station realized that Lee OSUALD vas the prime suspect, it besan re-gereening ell the uritten telephone transcripte — in its files covering the Soviet Eubassy for the pertinent period. ‘The ectual tapes vere also reviewed, bub many of then haa been erased after the
14-00000 normal two weeks walt. Several calla believed to involve OSWALD were aiscovered and their contents cabled to Washington, where they were aissenivatead to the White House, the State Departeent, the Federal | Eurean of Inveatisation. 7 cousin's reise was not actually mentioned in these addition calls, but binllority of speech ona various plain pointa af content Link thes to nim. These calls are swatarized below in chronological order. They cover the pertoa from 27 Septenber 1963 to 3 October 1963, the hole | span of OSWALD's visit to Mexico city as later learned fron travel vecords. 27 September ~ A man phones the Soviet Military Attache and ‘says he needa 9 visa to ge to Odessa. Man guswering says he should call 15-60-55 and asic for the Consul. Caller asxs for the address, ana it is given to tim, (There is no special reasos for Linking this call te CSYALD,) 27 fe tember, 4:05 PU ~ The Cuban Consulate phoned the Soviet © Constlate. Silvia Duran, Mexican national clerk of the Cuban Consulate talked to a Soviet official, saying that a male American citizen wes at the ~ Cuban Consulate asking for 4 transit vies to pass through Cuba on his vay & eres Tee vrs
14-00000 to the Soviet Unien. She wants to know to whom he talced in the Soviet Consulate and wre tola him he would kave no probles about it. If a Soviet visa is assured, tne Cuban Consulate can grant him a transit visa and simply notify Cuben immigration authorities, ‘The Soviet first asks her to wait, end then she has te explain the whole thing over again to another Soviet official, who takes her telephone number and promises to call her back. Silvia DURAN coneludea this call by telling the Soviet she herself has moved ana gives her new address for the Soviet Exbassy bulletin. Te asks her to prone (Sercey Eemenovich) KUKEARRNKO (Second Eecretary who puts outs the Bulletin) to give bin the new address and he askn who the Caban | Cultural Attache is. Silvia DURAN gives the Attache's name as Teresa PROEWA and adda her telephone nunber. 2{ Zeptenbver, 4:26 PM .~ A Soylet official calls Silvia DUBAY tack end tells her that the “American” had been to see the Soviet's and ~ ehown them a Letter from the Seviet Consulate in Fashinston indicating that he bad been welting for visas for himself and his wie to go to the Soviet Union for a Long time, but that no answer had come froa Vasaington, adding "i
14-00000 that the walt was sometimes four oe five months. The “Anerioan” haa showa the Soviets a letter showin; he was a menber of en organization an favor of Cuba and had claimed that the Cubans could not give his a visa without @ Russian vise. Silvia DURAN rejeins that they have the same problems the “American” is still at the Consulate; they cannot give him a trensit visa unless he is assured of o Soviet visa, even though he just wants ‘to ge te Cuba toWait there for his Soviet visa to he granted. He’ doen not knw anyone in Cuba. They end the conversation on this nete. Silvis DURAN says that she will note this on his “cara,” and the Soviet goreludges by saying, “Besides be is not known." Ee excuses himself for the inconvenience he has caused and Silvia DURAN says it ts all right. 28 Septenber ~ Silvia DURAN calls the Soviet Unbsssy from the Caben Consulate. She says that she kas the American with her again. The Soviet answering aske her to valt. When another Soviet takes up the phone, Silvia puts the American one The Awerican tries to talk Russian to the Soviet vho enswers in English. (The Avexican sks kim to speak Tussian. The American says that he hed been in the Soviet Embassy and spoken with the ~ . whet gah By on
14-00000 Consul, and that they bad taken nis address. The Soviet replies that he knows that. Tbe American then says, somewhat enlmatically: "I did not know 4t then. I went to the Cuban Eubessy to ask then Poo ny adress because they have it." The Soviet invites him to stoe hy asain and give them the address, and the American agrees to do so. (Im this conversation, — the dmarteen yvao speaking hardly reegnizable Russians ) “As far as our records show, OSWALD dia not shone the Soviet or Cuban | Bubasaies again until Tuesday 1 Ceteder 1963. ‘The intervening days wore & Sunday and a Montay. ‘The contents of bis Later calls seem to show. be aia not contact the Soviets on those days. L Cotober, 10:32 AM - A man calls the Soviet Military Attache in broken Russian an@ says he had been at their place the previous faturday _ (23 Septeaber) and talked to their Consul, They had said they woulda send a telegras to Washington, and he wanted to know if there were anything new. The Soviets ask him to call another phone mpsber and gives him 15-60-55, say= dng to ask for a Consul. 1 Cotober 10:45 AM ~ (This is the phone call in which OSWALD Sees Sa ek CAGED 1s ne nn ct ce te RR AR MR RRR ERENCE ur e EBTREPPUMEEDAS! pe
14-00000 used his true name and which was therefooe cabled toe Washington on 9 October 1963.) Lee OSWALD callea the Soviet Embassy and announced his own name, saying he had visited them the previous Saturday ana spoken with  Consnl. ‘They haa sala they would send a telesras to Washington, and he wanted to know if there were anything new. He did not remember og the neue of the Consul, ‘the Soviet, who was Enbasay guard OBYSDEO7 _ replied: "KOSTINDY; he 4s dark.” OSWALD replied: "Yea, ny nase is | heantt received anything yote OSHALD asked LY they hadn't done anything and the a replied they had sent a request but that nothing bad been " rocaived ea yet.” OSWALD started to cay: "Ana whate..", but the Soviet 3 October 1963 — speaking broken Spenish at first end then 4 English phone’ the Loviet Militery Attache ana asked about a visa. ‘The | Attache’s office referred hin to the consulate, ctving the rover 15-60-55. | The caller wrote 1t dom. ‘The attache official shruzgea off another moo md
14-00000 question about vhether the caller could set a visa, and the conversation enéged. (There is no special reason to tie this in wlth OSWALD, whe is now known to have re-entered the US at Laredo the same day.) Bince the [ _|ene information on Lee COYALD alse came to the attention of President LOPSZ Mateos after 22 November. The next day, 23 Noveshber, he. called it to the attention of our Chief of Station, who waa olresdy working feverishly on the case. Sinilarly, the Mexicans noticed the invelvesent of Cuben Consular ewployee Silvia DURAN, a Mexican nationel. Gor Station suggested that she be arrested aod interrogated about OSWALD. The Mexican authorities hea the same idea ani she and her huban’ wore arrested on 23 Hovember 1963, tn the midst of a party at their home. AlL the guests were soon released but Silvis and her husband were questioned and released on 25 November 1963, Silvia's husband, Eoracilo DURAN Navarre, an industrial desimmer, eaid under police interrogation that wren COWALD was razed as the assassin i i ref