Released under the vonn F . Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 ata race pene INE NTIFI aliaican Ik AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: _ FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10090-10198 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109090-1ST NR 262 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BRANIGAN, W. A. TO: SULLIVAN, W.C. TITLE: DATE: 10/02/1964 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-5145 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 07/26/1996 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: DoclIda: 32150173 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: 01/22/2001
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 "~~ Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 - og a amy . AN an OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 ~ $010-106 ~ wee rer" GULGeN wos NO. 27 SO) ws SY vow, “9 © UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Belmont Mobr Casper Callahan ' 1 = Belmont - J + Mohr M emorandum conelyriad = DeLoach Conrad DeLoach ! Gale \ Regen ix { ‘ TO a We. C. sursivarr€ 2 DATE: 10-~2-64 we 1 - Cailehan eee * FROM: W. A. aS 1 - Sullivan mere Room if siaf@n 1 - Rosen Gon —. NY 1 - Malley 1 - Branigan ; . SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD 1 ex Stokes N pie INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA ~ CUBA Lae A f . eE i Ld) nner Comanuoaeer— (By ye Sy "Legal Attache Mexico City's 5- 18. "Secret" simmery memorandum is not . likely to cause harmful reperclssions between Mexico and U. S. and j it has no objection to declassification, This recommends that we 1p a_ sanitized unclassified d version of the summary tor delivery “5 ‘\:to the Commission, a “procedure which the. Commission now states will ot = “meet its needs. i) i“ The Commission on 9~22 asked us to declassify the "Secret" r+ : 1si-page 5-18-64 summary prepared by Legal Attache Nezico City. . at principal reason for classification of the summary vss to avoid Ay ~ disclosure of active investigation in Mex: co by Bureau personel, a m -factor the Mexicans strongly oppos and ta protect highiy Sensitive a. “Oa security infornantsfGiex 18 and 1 )fno provides some of the data a iS in the document. Betause of possibie internati:nal repercussions at SS Say between Mexico and U. S. if the summary was made public, we on 9-23 ~ Sp sought the views of the State Department. State's 9.29. written reply ‘f exoresses view that declassification is not likely to cause harmful © repercussions between Mexico and U. S. and, accordingly,-vit interpose no objection to declassification, “oy Legal Attache, Mexico City, is opposed to declassification Jof the document in its present form and suggests that, if possible, a sanitized.version be prepared by deleting three nonsubstantivs items which are not referred to in the Commission's report and by deleting references to sources of information .through which reader may (ge ORSSINAL FILED INS Uf} between Mexican sources and Bureau Agents. wae " . count} pag eect THRE es, On 10-1 Miss Hennigan, secretary to W, David2Siawson, ‘ert member of the Commission, advised that afi public disclosure of the summary in its present form is in any/® jectionable..to the Bureau, a redraft of same deleting or changing the mate:ial which may be harmful to Bureau's operations waned aT: the Conmission! Ss Pra Sa as APA NINE": nA TR | STAT MAO cea nee ennuuiet viquastcusmenansscitn Nana 7 ; T" ji “108- 82555 Oda. yer QAR a Mth Ss AOS (09990 iy “ ie Gig, Esinrise NO T RECORDED ‘on DR 10RA DoclId:32150173 Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 > °""~ Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ww. i ( : : eos . : red ‘ - soos | fe. * ” . «- cad - ‘es 4 oo 4s weet : : . ; ‘ Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan. ; | Re: LEE HARVEY OSWALD - CON NTIAL 1105-82555 | : CONDE NTIAL ‘ aot, ‘ i The summary can readily be ayended to suit the Commission's | needs and at the Same time tS protectpisx 12 sad Tofand to avoid | a i | ‘disclosure of the extent of our inves zgation in Mexico. This can be accomplished by deleting reference to thre: items which are not touched upon in the Commission's report and by resv:iting an introduction’ paragraph on page one deleting a specific reference to a confidential ;source abroad (Legat)., The Commission's report on page 304 records that'™. . . the Government of Mexico initiated a thorough investigation to uncover as much information as possible on Oswald's trip, Representatives of U. 8. agencies worked in close liaison with Mexican law enforcement authorities." A siight revision of introductory paragraph on page one will accurately fit the above (RY) statement of. the Commission, . u RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that to properly protect our operations in Mexico, the 5-18 summary be written in unclassified form as aforesaid. To do this will not require complete retyping. We propose to amend principally by deleting five to six pages and to a reproduce the document by Xerox and to renumber the pages. A) DoclId: 32150173 Page 3