104-10004-10256 mre om, , | | 1 ' | i 2h prev qe SUMMARY of Relevant Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD at 0700 on oh Hevermber 1963. 1. Cur first infermeation on OSWALD ceme from a technical “operation in Mexico City and vas cabled in on 9 October 1963. It revealed that on 1 October 1963 Lee OSWALD had been in touch there | vith Soviet Consul Valery KOSTIKOV about a telegram which the | Soviet Eubassy was supposed to send on him to the Soviet Ezhassy in | Washington. The data showed thet OSWALD had also been et the Seviet _ Ewbassy ca 28 Septeuber. Traces showed OSWALD was e former U. 8. “defector to the USSR and on 10 October CIA Headquarters notified the Of the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Embassy. Since our Agency ig not supposed to investigate U. S. eltigens abrosd | without special request, we did nothing further on the case. | @. After the assassination of President Kemmedy an 22 November, Mexico Station, which immediately recalled its eaxlier report on OSWALD ‘and cabled us cbout it, began researching all. ite files enf reconis for reports. vhich might relate to him. It turned up pictures of a man believed to be OSWALD entering the Soviet end Cuban Exbassies on various days in October, including 1 October, but when sane of these ?T® cobs or * TPT! godran ft 4 pa +g pictures were sent to the FBI in Dallas they proved to be someone other 266 QIU eT ES SY BOL erer: q BY "Decitent- Number = q-l4 mppe: MA Review od "et ‘are
13-00000 eofd aw then OSWALD. Mexico Station has, to date, foun no pictures of OGHAID entering the Seyiet or Cubaa Exbasay. «gs he search 418 reveal more data from techaiesl operations, hovever. This information, which comes im in great masses, had not veem previously associated with OSWALD because his name is not actually mentioned in it, but the subject matter shows it is about him, and our expert monitor says the voice is identical with the votee of 1 Oatober known to be OSWALD'a. | 4, hie further technical information covers a round-robin of telephone calle and visits which OSWALD made to the Soviet and Cuban Eubassies in Mexico City between 27 September and 3 October 1963.  Tais has been supplemented by reports on hig travel in and out of Mexico Beemer he Us By Comialate aa the bes a COs OL Be : v ees Mextean Imaigvation Service records. 5. In brief, all this information shows that Lee Harvey OSWALD entered Mexico (apparently by car) at Nuevo Laredo on 26 Septexber 1963, claiming he was a photographer, living in Rey Orleans and bound for Mexico City. On 27 September he was in Mexieo City phoming the Soviet Embassy to ask for a visa so he could go to Gdeusa, USSR. On 23 Septenber, he was at the Cuban Embassy, and Silvie DURAN, a Mexican Employee of the Cuban Eubassy, telephoned the Soviet Embassy about his problem. It seems that OSWALD (whose name in not mentioned) wanted a Cuban transit viea so he could go to Cuba end wait there for a Soviet
13-00000 - ~ vo Ss va * 7 oF ae + em 7 “ . { . pe 1 : «Zo vise which would permit him and his wife te go on to the Soviet Unien. Silvie DURAN asked assurance that the Russians would grant | him the visa. A while later « Soviet official calls Silvia DURAN back and explains that the visa applicant had been dealing with the Soviet Consulate in Washington about the same matter and thet they could not be sure that he would ever get the Soviet visa. | The Soviet official added that the applicant had a letter showing he belonged to an organization in favor of Cuba. Silvia DURAN and the Soviet official agree to table the matter. | 6. On 28 September 1963, OSWALD again visite the Cuban Embassy | end talks to Silvia DURAN about the same matter, and she phones the | Soviet Evbassy. OSWALD also talks te a Soviet offieial on hex phone apparently a forwarding address where he ean be reached. There is some hint this address may be in Cuba. | 7. On 1 October, OSWALD has his phone conversation with Soviet Consul KOSTIKOV about his visa, and on the same day, OSWALD phones the Soviet Military Attache about the same matter. The Military Attache gives him the mumber of the Consul. Finally, on 3 October, OSWALD phoned the Military Attache again and tried to talk about a visa, but the Military Attache again referred him to the Consul and give him ® the right phone number. 8. That same day, 3 October 1963, OSWALD drove back into the 4 United States at the Nuevo Laredo-Laredo, Texas erossing point. He
13-00000 wlpio hed travelled on a Mexican Tourlat Cerd im lieu of passport. 9. On 23 November 1963, Mexican authorities, whe get the same technical information which we do and who had noticed the name of Lee OSWALD in it, arrested Silvia DURAN and her husband and interrogated them. She confirmed the information given above, saying that Lee OSWALD had professed to be a Comamist and an admirer of Castro. She not be made known, for the time being. 10. Opservation of the Goviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico and of their principsal intelligence officers, including KOSTIKOV, since the assassination of President Kemedy, by both technical and physical surveillance, shows nothing wousual. HALE @oubtless “wupport a further police action which is necessary.