104-10050-10235 FO me ene ete saan nae conn oa $.A.Stern/aw/3-27-64 és "3 "ok . —— Ce LT ap eee f (ot bebe Goo J Apde’ Ot fe Files Me TED AL HD ia nen Se L ne Ni Mr. Steyn . Morch 27, 1064 PROM :; §. A. Stem Today, Friday, March 27, 1964, I mot at CIA headquarters with tie, Rocca to roview the CIA file on Lec Harvey Oswold. The file ‘contains those materials furnished to us previously *y ¢ CIA. In . eddition, 1t. contains the following materlais: ae Cable reports from the CIA station in Mexico of Noveuber 22 and 23, 1953 relating to photogranhs of a person who had visited the Cuban and Soviet Exbassics in Mexico City during Octobcr and Noverber. 1953; and reports on these cables fumished on Eoverber 23 by CIA to the Secret Service. These messaces ere accuraccly ‘pavcphrased in the attachments to the CIA memorandum of March ok, 1S (Com ssion Docuzont JO74). v. Cable of October 10 fron CIA Noztico City stetion to CIA headquarters reporting on Oswald contact at Soviet Embassy, and October 10, 1963 message from CIA headguarters to Mexico City station or background infomation on Osvald. These messages are accurately xeported in the CIA momorandum of January 31, 1964. I did not review ony mterials Later thon November 23, 1963. ltr. Rocea also showed me the “printout” of the referonces to Oswald documents In the CIA electronic data storage system. There was no item Mloted which we have not been Given cither in ful. text or paraphrased. When I evidence’ an interest in the CIA clectronic data processing system, ifr. Rocca said that he would arrange a detailed explanotion at a future visit. - ° oe i TEAL PeOgRAH we nse eer ete pst memes mee ———a RECORD COPY am “Lanner we a PAGE COPY NO. | py 2 oe nemmenetnarena: seat ERAN SERRE SEAGATE UGS «ELAN + Sp SENN EPONA ERESSEETROIY eee Te eaerineeitammentensineentanmes seine nememeneereennedeteomer teemenemenmeesnetemnmeeeemesnenneeranenteiticcaiermne mieten ¢
13-00000  REPROLNG THORN SUBIECT: infer mation Developed by ca on the og Activity of Lee Harvey COWALD in sO Moxten City, _centember 23 te | ; Hetober a, 1963 Haeiko year letter of Sobrusry 10, 1964 po-imrreation forwarded by this Agency regarding itn at dae Harvey CSWALE in Mexico City during - 7 Dy See ber 23 to October 3, 1963, ae iy &e The second paragraph of your letter raises « question with regard tp reparts on current aspecta of investigation in Meaieo, oe conctruing Mexhoen leads in the OSWALD Cases information provided the White House by Jose 1, LASAGA - which originated with Salvader DIAZ VERSON. CIA has wothing to add to the detalled investigation of this matter conducted by the Federal Burean of Lavestigation, We aseume that the Gommissios is already in possession, ar wii be im the near foture,, of the details of the outcome of tient investigations 3. GIA te cooperating very closely with the Pat iathe — development of ancther Meuicen lead, as ls probebly abready kaown to the Commission, Ble the course:of thie cecperation, CIA develope original, substantive sintemial, ES La. onge reintsntiom manne cod : i | a 0003573 - ee ca 6. CO oo : | / COPY NO. NO. 3 6f
13-00000 _ 5 ee ae as sate beeen ob nnn on ae ae nat sth to eepart the details to the Eomsniseion concunsexsly wish, what. ever ip made available to the Coma . a. The following replies ave heyed te the numeration of yous letter of Pebeuary 20: te Se aro net tn a positinn to eupyly coptes of a Be Translations of the two police inerregation — a reports.of SQvia DURAN ore being forwarded tothe — a Comaulesion under seperate COVER. . . CSVALD visited the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City oa on 28 September 1953, Theres is np evidence that he vicited 4 & more often tina cae eu the days mentioned, eG ore \Fhese 2 possibilities, The wording on ihe Statementa of Silvia DURAN end AU iatay wae of the Consulate sf least ance ci and that this later visit was on Proletorioed ofS day on which the Cubes Consul talee Phoned the Soviet Gonsulste about CSA LD*s visa So tecblem, This may welt have beea 23 September, bat we canact be certain af thie concinsion, co 4, We Go net keaw whether Cuban Consulate sechives contaised information on OSWALD ante~« dating hin Septembor~Ccteber 1963 visit, From the Matemests of Slivia DURAN, ene could conchale thet be hed never heard of CSWALD until he visited the . Gonmulate hs lege September 1963, The file om CSWALD - which Silvia DURAN mentions is the one she apensd ga ive af thet time and which she lsoked up again when SSVALD's name wee published 29 the probeble ansaseta of President Kennedy< aa 8) kay gS te ner ne 2 Oh aay rg036Th
13-00000 a 5 We de aot think & would be unusual for Silvia DURAN te tell OSWALD he could not have a Cuban transit visa uslese be first sot w Soviet vies, Such fronk otatements are quite common in consular Practice, as fay an we now. 6. We belleve that Silvia DURAN's statement that — OSWALD knew ao ong in Cuba meant Uterally that, and this would mean that no ome there could sposger him, . vouch for him, of insure that ke would not become & no previous record of OSWALD. ce least in Meaizas if % _ tulead the Soviet official ons telling the trath, a > We believe that OSWALD both telephoned te the Soviet Embasoy or Consulate, and was interviewod by . officials there, — «4 ofS aT 1 otineiona.te talhip address. He weet to Mexico while he a ee wi “asin heey rm now Ornes ty Tenaya Y & pew Texas forwarding address | (ide | 4a the peacbos'Ghich be gave first to the Cuban Consulate, thes mislaid or forget, and finally recovered from Cuban Consulate files se he could pass i toe the Saviet Consuiate. % could alse be that he was talking about hie Mexico City hotel addrese which he might heve momentarily forgctten while at the Soviet Consulate, 9 The Cuban Consulate and Cubana Exbasay ta Mexico Gity are segarate offices located in separate balldings that stand on adjacent inte separated by a. Cuban official parking ict. The Cuban Consulates ic on & coraer at Marques and Zamora Streets and the Umbaasy is at 160 Marques Street. The Soviet Embassy and | Consciate are beth located in s levge mansion with connected outbullgings, 20. We surmise thet the references in OSWALDIg 9 Newember letter to a ran whe had since been replaced _ PAGE COPY Wo. _
13-00000 a) I ‘ ! . 2o j must refer to Cuban Consul Euseble AZCUE, who leit Mentco for Cuba om permanent transfer on 14 Noverber | 1963, four days before the agsaseination, AZGUE had. been in Mexico for eighteen years and it was Known to us ag eatly ae September 1963 that AZC UE was to be replaced, His replacement did arrive in Septersber, sit _ AZGUE wae scheduled to leave in October but did not So leawe until 19 November. We o nct know who might have told OSWALD that _ AZCUE or any other Cuban hail been or was to be replaced, — but we speculate that Silvia DURAN ov some Soviet official — _ . might have mesttoned i¢ if CEWALD complained shout a qire We Salve no additional information on OSWALD's ce Hvities in hMegie: Gity. This part of the isvestigation — Pe aa handled by: the Federal Bureas of Iovestigeatien # - \ re ae rangi ita win facilities, All of our sources have been [ Pa 4 24 he A, pes — a i f aneiod Cow further information but none has been | pee deve! loped “Hetther pro nor entl-GASTRO parsons or Wo oO groupe have produced what we regard 29 hard tnfermation, it - Bo ee “a2. Wa can valy guese why Silvia DURAN deseribed Vas OSWALD as abiomie, Parbape his complexion ssemed s 7 . High to her, compared with that of most Latin Americans. a When she was arrested, she had not seen OSWALD for - AL about two months, but apparently she had noted him ao - _s a blonde in her Consular records. ot 3 Be Director for Plane - - Distribution: oe a nD RCE i i iy : Original & 2+ Addressee Sy = C/CY/REA Co Ga yi 1- C/WH/3. ; xel W/R&A/RGRoccasde/15. February 1964 (Para 4 based c on draft prepared by C/WH/3. »
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