104-10434-10069 _ a ee re | 23 November 1963 | LK TSO -MoRANDOM FoR: ‘Assistant Deputy Director, Plans! ves - + FROM: ae “Acting chief, SR Division S oe /SUBSBCR: a Contact of: Lee OSWALD with a menber of Soviet KB . . "Assassination Department ne According + to an y intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD Do was” at the Soviet Embassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the - ; . Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV. . This was learned when OSWALD called the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and speaking | broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who. answered the phone whether there was “anything new concerning the telegram to Washington." - oigie The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but i. ; °. nothing had as yet been received. (MEXI 6453, 9 October 1963) ‘The FBI liaison ch officer, Mr. .Pappich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau. has reason to “ji. believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. pessport or Jb . visa matter perhaps, the new Passport mentioned in the ‘press erticles/. . 2, KOSTIKOV is an identified KGB officer. He was a case officer in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department (responsible we . for sabotage and assassination). This operation, which is controlled by the ean FBI under the cryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of “4 .  .(Oklahoma/who was recruited in Europe, and met this year with KOSTIKOV in Mexico poe Gity and shortly thereafter with a known.13th Department officer, Oleg BRYKIN, in New York. The instructions given TUMBLEWEED by the two officers, (pinpointing | objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances of their involvement in the case, / left no doubt that both of them were working for the seme KGB component, the - L3th. 3. OF course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to . have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret ‘Soviet. intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, which show that very important agents can be met in official installations using as cover for their presence there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral Sag -539 Document Number ‘for FOIA Review on Ay ate ee aoe 7, | ai! —
13-00000 . . . roan Le ‘BEKRENEV » in a top secret lecture to a Soviet mnatery TotelLigence: course e , en 3 Military-Diplomatic Academy, 1960, : said, et a “Case officers who use as ‘cover, ‘let us say, the soviet ‘rade - Representation,. TASS or Sovinformburo, can use their cover. Cd - assignments as backstopping for non-clandestine meetings | with. “|... >> eertain agents whose particular activities officially associate | rn _ them with the previously mentioned Soviet institutions. _Howevery ~ such non-clandestine meetings within-a legal residency should be - restricted to a minimum both as to place and time. Meetings of | oO this type should be carried out only in exceptional. cases with tested and reliable agents in order to avoid provocation by the local counterintelligence service against the Soviet installation _ being used as cover. Such meetings are held as a rule in the wrk - offices of the case officer or of the agent during working Hourse oo It is necessary that such meetings be conducted naturally, that - they do not attract the attention of outsiders, and that the receipt. .and transmittal of intelligence matters, properly camouflaged, be . Garried cut discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures against tapping must be taken. One must bear in mind that a meeting with | persons outside official premises and during non-working hours usually wT . signifies a relationship between the two > parties that is above and. oP ' . ‘beyond officiel matters." Also, such contact in official: installations may be caused by the agent's own carelessness. Again Admiral BEKRENEV speaks: "Some agents, because of inexperience or because of deliberate violation of the rules of security through peculiar personal . rashness,e.0.. approached our case.officers at places not stipulated — as operational meeting sites, others telephoned the case officer at his Soviet installation and discussed personal contact arrangements, while others still showed up personally at the Soviet installation in order to contact the ease officer." nf called ‘the sbove connections to the attention of Mr. Zeppich. by phone to his FBI office at 030. hours on 23 November. ,
13-00000 ep © pte ela aad a 5. I em. | attaching Dy a. summary. of our information « on KOSTIKOV;, and, Le Bo 2). all valid packgrouna information now available on “the work. of. the 13th Department, of ‘the Foreign Antelligence of the ‘Kes: ——- oS vn Extracts from Re ort on the Soviet. State ‘Securit oe Service . (KGB), dated ‘May 1963," based on information from ARLADLE. be ‘goviet Use of Kidna ving and Assassination ~= "Action, dated August 19 a4 Executive . ‘Soviet t strategie Executive Action, dated october 196. - Chief, SR/CI
13-00000 auctor Yaneriy Vaeainirovicn KOSTIKOV. : “assigned to. the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. as. Nice Gonsu2. 2 On. 19. September 1961. 9 a SE Da a ‘three times before this permanent assignment; -moreover,: in. 1959. e “KOSTIKOV, who” was ‘porn on 17 March 1933. ‘in: ‘Moscow, was. JA fluent: ‘Spanish speaker, he haa travelled abroad at “least KOSTIKOV applied for.a visa to accompany Premier Nikita Sergeye~ .vich KHRUSHCHEV' s. party to the United States as an official ‘of. 'the Soviet Ministry. of Foreign Affairs, but we have no record | of his having come to this country at that time. KOSTIKOV _ served as an interpreter at international conferences at Madria - "and Barcelona in 1958 and 1959. In late 1959. and early 1960. he attended Soviet exhibitions in Mexico City and Havana; he : vis known to have been in Cube from 6. January to" T March 1960. ‘The physical. deseviption of KOSTIKOV quite accurately - fits” _.that of a Soviet case officer who nearly a year ago. met in - Mexico an FBI-controlled double agent. This double agent's Soviet case officer in the United States has been Oleg Danile- vich BRYKIN of the Thirteenth Department, KGB First Chief Directorate, occupying the overt position of translator-trainee, U.N. Secretariat, New York City. BRYKIN was stationed in New York City | from December 1960 to July of this year. “Since arriving. in Mexico, KOSTIKOV is known. to have travelled three times outside the capital: In March 1963 and again for the first two weeks of September he went to Tijuana, Ensenada, and - Mexicali, ostensibly for the purpose of: purchasing cotton. The. U.S. Department of State, however, has reported that during these trips KOSTIKOV met local representatives of Movimento Liberation National and Central Compesina Independienta, both large Communist front organizations. In addition, according to - FBI sources, KOSTIKOV was accompanied on the September trip by .~ Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERYEV, and he contacted in Ensenada several - persons including Communist sympathizers who previously had been » associated with Soviet officials stationed in Mexico City. ALFERYEV, a PRAVDA correspondent in Mexico, was in elose. 7 contact with Cuban diplomats and local Communist leaders during — a February 1962 visit to Quito.
13-00000 Daughter: Svetlana Valerievne born: 1959, Moscow. (Wife and: daughter. accompaniea Subject to Mexico. G nyeere (to: ce fe ae OF Meet n en e .. Wife: | Rosa. ‘Mekéandrovna,, born. 2 March 1932) “Arkhangel oviest. Graduate of Foreign Language Institute and/or Institute . of, a Foreign Atgairs, Meseove, Fron -30- June to 10. duly 1959. was at ‘the Blectrotechnical Congress in Madrid; attended a. conference ‘in Maaria and Barcelona. in 1958. ‘November "1959. to. & January 1960 ~ “Soviet Exposition | in. “Mexico ‘City. | er Vins Cos, a ~ Contacts in Ensenada, Baja, California, September 1963: le Daily with Isaak Karlos ‘CHAPLUK: (201- 22918). | and with CHAPLUK' s Son. ne - Co . 2. T September, stayed As minutes at Nune STMANOVKA's Curio Shop. ao | . . - 3B. as September, dinner with Miguel POPOFF (201- 286055). Note that ALFEREV claimed that he was a guest of the party of Eve Samano de Lopez ‘MATEOS, wife of the President of. Mexico, Adolfo Lopez MATEOS. ‘On the trip to Baja, California; Mrs. Lopez was attending a Congress: of the National Institute for the Protection of Children. 0p ~ BGLIE