479-40001-10277 eo s AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES 22: PP 3 - AGENCY FILE NUMBER ORIGINATOR : FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS Date:08/12/93 Page:1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION WC 179-40001-10277 DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA HELMS, RICHARD RANKIN, J. LEE 05/22/64 2 ASSASSINATION, KENNEDY, JOHN, TELEPHONE CALLS TO US EMBASSY PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT u et REFERRED i P / / DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS FOLDER 1A. BOX C02 HW 50955 Docld: 32209918 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Page 1
HY 0955 Tat | Cre Page 2? CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ~ WASHINGTON 25, D.C. Be MEMCRANDUM FOR: Mr.<¢. uec Kankin. SUBJECT: | Anonym ous T elephone Calls to United States Embz.asy in Canberra, Australia, Relative to Plem.ed Assassination of President Kennedy 1. 1 refer again to paragraph two of your memorandum, dated 12 February 1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by CIA. 2. On 24 November 1963, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Canbarra, Australia (IN 67327, Top Secret, later dovnyraded to Secret), reporting a telephone conversation the pre vious day with an anonyraous individual who had describec himself as a Polish chauffeur for the Soviet Embassy in that city. This individual, while discussing several matters of intelligonce interest, touched on the possibility that the Sovict Governmoni had financed the assassination of President Kermedy. Reference was made in this cable to the receipt of a similar anonymous telephone ¢ cali on 15 October 1962. 3. Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the. following action: a. Cabled to Canberra asking full details of the telephone conversation of 23 November and the call made on 15 October 1962. It should be noted that CIA had not previously known of the 1962 telephone call. spPROVED FOR RELEASE 1999 CA HISTORICAL-REVIEW PROGRAM AS SANITIZED (er > GROUP 4 Heogrege eg. nn ran ‘WARNING NOTICE Ese ran rawr SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
we Mk - : a . re : 5 . ~ . . oP ree Bes WARNES 3m . ahr) Hine ES AR weds | SENSITIVE SOURCES AND en OL METHODS INYOL bo ; b. The ClA Station in Canberra, on 27 November, furnished. “all available information on the 1962 telephone call. It appears “that source on that occasion stated that "Iron Curtain Countries" arc _Bianoeé to pay a hundred thousand dollars for the assassination ad of President Kennedy. pe ' — 7 : ¢. On 27 November, the CIA Canberra Station also furnished : “complete detail on the anonymous. telephone call of 23 November 1963, on dy On 29 November, CLA disseminated this information, as . supplied by its Canberra Station, to the White House, Department | “of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a copy to the . Secret Service. A copy of this dissemination in its exact text ‘ is. attached to this memorandum. wedge 4, The CIA Station in Canberra arranged for discussion of the calls with the Australian security service. Inthe opinion ofthe Australian authorities, the caller was a crank. In any event, they ae were not able to identify any Polish employee of the Soviet Embassy, ee _ ‘the automobile described by the caller as the one he drove, or the a license plate number given by him. No further information on this Oy call has been received. Available evidence would tend to show that . the caller was some type of crank. This conclusion, however, § cannot Eke be confirmed. ee > wehbe te aL a : : 5. Please note that the. nature of the inf formation in this meniorandum and its attachment requires: the: use 2 of a sensitivity indicator. : : yee yb! wired) ‘ett folas s Richard Helms WARNING: oR "SENSITIVE. SOURE me a Te ee _ |B from autematic ’ . pewnoredine and . HW 50955 DocId:32209918 Page 3