13-00000 SECRET 23 December 1964 CSCI-316/02545-64 Subject: Allegation of Unidentified Scientist of Cuban Involvement in Assassination. Recipient: FBI. 2 March 1965 CSCI-316/00925-65 Subject: Marvin KANTOR, Possible Connection with Investigation of Lee Harvey and Marina OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. 30 June 1965 CSCI-316/02654-65 Subject: Silvia DURAN. Recipient: FBI. 2 September 1966 CSCI-316/04482-66 Subject: Rima ZMITROOK, Lee Harvey OSWALD's In- tourist Guide in Moscow. Recipient: FBI. 14 June 1967 CSC I-316/03243-67 Subject: Allegation of Oscar COUNTRERAS, Mexican Newsman, That OSWALD Visited UNAM Campus Shortly After the Cuban Embassy Refused Him a Visa to Visit Cuba. CONTRERAS’ Statement of Dubious Credibility; Information Passed to Mexican au- thorities. MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED BY CIA TO THE WARREN aan COMMISSION ON RUMORS AND ALLEGATIONS RE- lin LATING TO THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION ps 31 January 1964 Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963. 45 SECRET.
13-00000 SECRET 5 March 1964 " Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB Relative to Marina OSWALD. 18 March 1964 Subject: Article Alleging that OSWALD was interviewed by CIA in Moscow. _ 31 March 1964 DDP 4-1655 Subject: Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD. Enclosures include the following: Teletype Message No. 87515, 29 November 1963 - paragraph g - Marina SNETHLAGE. Teletype Message No. 85182, 22 November 1963 - Remarks made by Richard Thomas GIBSON. Teletype Message No. 85665, 28 November 1963 - Remarks Made by Maria SNETHLAGE and Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Em- bassy in The Hague. = 3 April 1964 DDP 4-1699 Subject: Richard Thomas GIBSON. 7 April 1964 DDP 4-1784 Subject: Mohammed REGGAB. 4 May 1964 DDP 4-2256 Subject: Additional Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD. "A survey of Agency files indicates that all... information known to the Agency on OSWALD's association (with communists or criminals, either in United States or abroad) has been made available to the Commission." 8 May 1964 DDP 4-2351 Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebook. (Compilation of traces on what appear to be Soviet names, addresses, and telephone numbers from an ad- dress book identified by Marina OSWALD as belonging to her.) 46 ‘SECRET;
13-00000 ‘SECRET 15 May 1964 Subject: Role of the Cuban Intelligence Service in. Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy. 19 May 1964 DDP 4-2534 Subject: Allegations of PFC Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to Assassination Plot Against Presi- dent Kennedy. 22 May 1964 DDP 4-2624 Subject: Anonymous Telephone Calls to United States Embassy in Canberra, Australia; Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy. - 27 May 1964 DDP 4-2688 Subject: Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassination of President Kennedy. (Comment: Letter received at U.S. Embassy, Stockholm. ) T June 1964 DDP 4-274] Subject: Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. — Enclosures: Out Teletype No. 85089, 26 November 1963. Qut Teletype No. 85199, 27 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 85662, 28 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 85666, 28 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 86063, 30 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 87667, 7 December 1963. Memorandum, 12 December 1963, Interroga- tion of Gilberto ALVARADO. 3 June 1964 DDP 4-2769 Subject: Documents on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by the Soviet Government. 4 June 1964 DDP Subject: Information Developed on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. 47 SECRET,
13-00000 (SECRET 10 June 1964 Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His Associates. 12 June 1964 Subject: Letter Relative to Assassination of President Kennedy sent to United States Embassy in Costa Rica. 29 June 1964 DDP 4-3347 Subject: Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco. 2 July 1964 DDP 4-3401 . - Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. 28 August 1964 DDP 4-4479 Subject: Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY. 15 September 1964 DDP 4-4808 Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His Associates. 17 September 1964 DDP 4-4839 Subject: Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV. 17 September 1964 DDP 4-4922 Subject: Eusebio AZQUE - Former Cuban Consul, Mexico City. 18 September 1964 DDP 4-4953 Subject: Identification of Persons Appearing in FBI Photograph No. D 33-46 (Commission Exhibit No. 2625).
13-00000 SEGRET  SENSITe™ Intelligence Sources on Oswald's Visit to Mexico City in 1963 1: [unsiderei] coverage: oF From the time the Mexico Station was opened /in April 1947 \until the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station(in°7 1955] the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. This umbrella type project (LIPSTICK) consisted of multi-line phone taps, three photographic sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail inter- cept operation. - Telephone taps (LIFEAT) were placed by fan emp Toye of the local telephone company who was] handled by a Station case officer. The number of lines tapped was limited only by the avail-- ability of a listening post nearby and the availability of language (English, Spanish, Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc.) transcribers. Generally, these were Mexican or Mexican-American recruited agents. Three photographic sites were handled bya Station case officer assisted by technicians on TDY from Headquarters who advised the Station on the best types of cameras, films, and con- cealment devices. These operations had sub-crypts under project LIPSTICK (namely: LIMITED, LILYRIC and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site directly opposite the Soviet Embassy (across the street) which had both a vehicle and a pedestrian entrance. The E2 IMPDET CL BY 004645
13-00000 gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the northwest corner of tke Soviet compound and the LIMITED site. was diagonally across a double laned street on the southeast corner of that block (See attached diagram). LIMITED was the first photo base and opera- ted strictly on an experimental basis in the early stages. This base, however, was closed when the Station received word that the photograph of the "unidentified man” was being released by the Warren Commission. LILYRIC was an alternate photographic base. It was located in an upper story of an apartment building on the same side of the street as the LIMITED site but in the middle of the block south. It had a planted view of the front gate of the Soviet Embassy. LICALLA, the third photographic site, was located in one of a row of four houses on the south side of the Soviet Embassy compound. This site overlooked the back garden of the Soviet Embassy compound. The purpose of this operation was to get good identification photographs of Soviet personnel. The three photographic sites were managed by a recruited agent who was a } Mexican citizen, the son of an American mother and Mexican father (deceased). This agent collected the film from the LIMITED and LILYRIC sites three times a week. The film was then devleoped and printed into 8 x 10 contact print strips. LICALLA film was ori- ginally processed in the Station but in early [1989] due to the resignation of a technician, this film like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was processed on the outside by a recruited agent. a f PLE Ld de
13-00000 SECRET Seip Mobile surveillance was conducted by two American staff officers. These two officers organized a surveillance team of six recruited agents which used late model cars and a panel truck for surveillance. The team could be activated by radio from the LIMITED site whenever someone of interest left the gate of the Soviet Embassy. These agents were aware of the LIMITED site since they had been issued LIMITED photographs for identification purposes. . 24 wae The Station also conducted a [unilateral mail intercept om operation, LIBIGHT, which was handled by an American case officer. [a recruited Mexican agent Who had a semi-official statush obtained selected letters from a sub-agent employed by the’Mexican postal system. | . 24 2. Liaison \Coverage: ee ged (Liaison]coverage was unreliable and insecure as charac- lesen eens terized by the nature of the (Mexican*€ervices| at that time. The Mexican Direction of Federal Security (DFS), fwith whick We con- ducted liaison,] was a hip-pocket group run out of the Mexican Ministry. .€ Government. This Ministry was principally occupied with political investigations and control of foreigners: Their agents were cruel and corrupt. ({ A Station officer trained a number of them in name tracing and travel control. | (in 1958, at the instigatio& of a Mexican official, a joint telephone tap operation came into existence. The operation,] SECRET , SENSITWE re]
13-00000 ny [unten became known as rewvoy Zits run by a Mexican officers The listening post had 30 lines connected at one time. The transcription room was staffed by[Mexican Arniy officers In 1961,/ because of mismanagen&4 by the Mexican principals, ( the Station Chief, himself, became the project case officer. A Station officer assisted him in the daily supervision of the listening post and in picking up the transcripts and the tapes. There was also an American technician inside the listening post. 3. Oswald Coverage: . . In mid-1962, [the Mexican officer id charge of LIENVOY {the joint tap operation) asked the American officer at the LIENVOY listening, post for the telephone numbers of the Soviet, — Cuban and Satellite Embassies in fanticipation of pdssible cover- age. | The Station immediately [disconnected all of the Ghilateral ; we telephone taps on these Embassies so that they would not be dis- me covered when the Mexicans hooked up their taps. The Mexicans | soon thereafter connected five Cuban lines, five Soviet lines, three Czech lines, two Polish lines, and one Yugoslav line. At the listening post, a live monitor made short summaries of con- versations of interest which were then included in a daily re- sume for the Chief of Station. Later, when a reel was completely recorded, full transcripts were typed and passed to the Station; however, there was usually a time lag of a day or two. Reels which contained Russian or a language other than Spanish or
13-00000 SECRET/ SENSITIVE English were taken to another location for translation and typing. Mr. Boris Tarasoff did the Russian translations but because of the volume of Russian conversations, the trans- lations usually ran about a week behind the date of the con- versation. AN transcripts were made in either Spanish or English since the Chief of Station could read only these two languages and because he personally screened the transcripts for operational leads. As soon as the Station learned that an American iden- tifying himself as Lee Oswald phoned the Soviet Embassy, Miss Ann Goodpasture of the Station started screening all photographs. However, here again, there was a backlog because the photographs were picked up three times a week, but those picked up were usually for dates a few days before since the technician who was proces- Sing the film did so on a night-time basis. Further, photographs were not made initially until a complete roll of film was used. Later this was changed and the operator cleared the camera at the end of each day regardless of amount of unused film remaining. The instructions were to cover the entire work day (office hours) and to photograph all Soviets, their families, all foreigners, and cars with foreign license plates. Human error did occur but generally the agents were conscientious. The Cuban Embassy cover- age had more sophisticated equipment using a pulse camera which frequently developed mechanical difficulties. SECRET / SENSITIVE Bbw
13-00000 — SECRET SENSITIVE Oswald came to the attention of the listening post operators from a tap of the Soviet line. It was picked up and taken to Mr. Boris Tarasoff for translation because the caller was trying to speak in Russian. There was some delay because Station personnel waited to review the photographs coincidentally with the typed transcript. 4. Airport Coverage: This is discussed at Tab B. _
13-00000 a In the course of the research effort leading to this general report, there were newspaper stories relating to the assassination of President Kennedy and to CIA. Some of these appear to have been based on specially designed stories emanating from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. At the time of their appearance they were the subject of comments prepared in CIA. These newspaper stories and the comments are attached. The following newspaper stories and comments are listed below: Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab G.1 G.2 G.6 G.7 om Jack Anderson column on 6 May 1977 alleging CIA activity in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Jack Anderson column on 20 January 1977 alleging that CIA is tied to a false Oswald story. Norman Kempster story on 1 January 1977 alleging that CIA withheld data on Oswald. Clare Booth Luce involvement with Cuban exiles. Ronald Kessler story on 26 November 1976 alleging CIA withheld details of Oswald tele- phone calls, with report on handling of documents. John Goshko story on 13 November 1976 alleging that Oswald told the Cubans of his plan to kill Kennedy. Tabloid Midnight story on 2 August 1976 regarding CIA and Castro. G.8 Washington Post story on 1 October 1976 concerning CIA consideration of possibly interviewing Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960.
13-00000 “@ ? e 40 Hay 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM : Jorn H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : dack Anderson 6-May 1977 Column Entitled ~ "Odd CIA Activity in Dallas in 1963" REFERENCE :  OLC Mamorandum for Director of Central Intelligence - OLC 77-1816 (attached) 1. Action Requested: None, for information only. 2. Background: The attached Jack Anderson column is a mixture of some fact and error. At least portions of it seem to have been leaked by someone connected with the Hause Select Committee on Assassinations. 3. Factual information on matters covered in the article follows: a. Alpha 66 was an anti-Castro Cuban Exile Organization. Antonio Veciana was one of its founders. Veciana contacted the Agency on three occasions for assistance in an assassination plot against Castro (December 1960; July 1962 and April 1966). On each occasion he was turned down. The Agency had no rasponsibility for or sponsorship of Alpha 66. b.. Veciana was registered in the Inter-Service Registry by the U.S. Army for the period Movember 1962 to July 1966 at which time he was terminated without prejudice. c. Veciana repoctedly collaborated witn a Cuban Government Intelligence Officer, Guillermo Ruiz, in comnection with Alpha 66 activities. Ruiz is marriec to a cousin of Vectana.. F2, HAPDET CLOBY abho0%
13-00000 ¥ d. Anderson attempts to connect ane Morris Bishop with CIA in Dallas; newspavers in Dallas have tried to identify Bishop with our DCD repre- sentative in Dallas, Mr. Jd. Walton Moore. Ac- cording to our records, no Agency officers ever used the name of Morris Bishop as an alias. No one named Morris Bishop was ever employed by the Agency. e. The FBI identified the three men who visited: Mrs. Odio. Lee Harvey Oswald was not one of them. The Warren Commission was satis- fied that Oswald could not have been in Dallas at the time of the visit. Attachment - 1 Distribution: Original - Director of Central Intelligence w/att. ~ Deputy Director of Central Intelligence w/att. - Assistant to the Director (Public Affairs) w/att. - Office of Legislative Counsel w/att. _ Office of General Counsel w/att. ~ Executive Registry w/att ~ IG Subject watt. | ~ IG Chrono w/att.’ _ - J.L. Leader Chrono. w/att.,-~ { OIG/J.L.Leader:aal]
13-00000 et cmorgrt tt e on oom 2 Thy ‘ ro , ‘The secret files of the House Assas- - sinations Coramittee contain reports of trange CIA activities in Dallas on the eve of the John. F. Kenned iy assassina- tion. - : Credible witnesses” have confirmed. . Our past reports that the accused assass* ° sin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was fn touch’: “oe : example, tald of a . - with antlCastro Cubans in Dallas. One ‘confidential report states that “in 1943. : Oswaid was seen leaving the Dallas of fice of Alpha 66." This was a Cuban © commando group trained by the CLA. © - A Cuban CIA operative, Antonio Ve -- ' Clana, also told investigators that he < had been summoned to Dallas in Au-, gust. 1583, by his CLA contact—a myste- rious man who went by the name of Morris Bishop. States a confidential’. _, Summary: “When (Vecians) arrived," <) Bishop was accompanied: hy another -. “ty-raan, Lee Harvey Gawakd.!” . Another witness who. impressed the. : investigators, Sylvia Odio, told them that two anti-Castro Cubans had intro- duced her to an American by the name © of Leon Oswald. She was told that Os- wald was trying “to convince antk Castro Cuban groups. . .t0 kill Presi- . dent Kennedy.” After the assassina- tion, she recognized this American as Lee Harvey Oswald. The House investigators don’ t really believe that the CLA bad any part in the murder of President Kennedy. More likely, they suspect the CIA may ave iried to cover up some einbar- © _rassing contacts with Oswald in Dallas. In any.casz, the CLA took paias to give the impression that Oswald was in, Mexico City at the tine that witnesses claimed he was ‘Gealing, with the CLA-- guided Cubans in Dallas. Veciana, for a Strange call he re- ete Jack Anderson and md Les 3 2a Whiter delat C CHA A eli vit y iad ceived. from his CLA contact 2 ' nedy was killed. The CIA man, Morris Bishop, asked -Veciana to contact his coujin, Buil- lame Ruiez, who worked for the Cuban . embassy in Mexico City. Relates a con- .ifdential report: “Veciana was to relay Bishop’ 3. offer to’ pay Ruiez and his‘ wife to say that they. had met with Cs ‘wald in Mexico City.” | wald out of Dallas. but would have thrown suspicion on the Castra gov-_ ernment. The ruse was later called off. Instead, the CLA cited secret‘tapes and photographs as evidence that Oswald had been in touch with both the Cuban 7 “and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. ‘The CLA kept tapes of all phone calls “going in and out of tha two embassies. | ‘. Photographs were also taxen of evary- one entering and leaving these embas- sies. On Oct. 1, 1983, the CIA notified - other U.S. embassies that “an Ameri-- can Inale, who identified himseif as Lee Oswald, contacted the Soviet Em- dDassy in Mexico City.” - Oswald was described in the cable: as “approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build, about six feet ‘tall, with a receding hairline.” The committee files note that this “in no way physi cally’ resembles ¢ the Lee Harvey Os- wald accused of. assussinating Presi dent Kennedy.” . The CIA sougnt photographs irom the “navy to compare with iis pho: tographs of Oswald at the Soviet em- assy. Declares a commi “These photograpas, though obviously “not of the correct Lea Hrvey Oswald, ‘became tae Warren Commiasion’s 2x- hibit 237. The Cid admitted that taere ‘This not only would have placed Os mittee report his rea pean a TAL up bub never eles fh ne inatter up.” A Cid vitness has tld committer ! la- vestigators, yneanwnhile, that the Tis’ monilering camera happened to break _down on the cay that Oswald allegediy yisited the Soviet Embassy. Bulb the CLA isp on the Soviet Smbassy’s phone produced an alleved telephone c3il . frora someone whe identified bimselt as “Lee Heary Oswald’: The CLA witness claimed that the ac- tual voice recording of the telephone ‘ coavarsation “was destroyed in rou :: the destruction procedures approxi mately one week after it was xo ceived.” Yet more than seven wees Jater, the FBI claimed to have heard : i the telenhone conversation that the CIA ssid bad been destroyed. The ‘FBI's judgment was that the voice did yot bang to Oswaid. Wrote the late FBI direetor J. 2 Edgar Heover on Nov. 23, 1963: “The Centr Intelligence Agency advised that on Oct. 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive | source had reported that an individual ‘Jadentified Simself as Lea Cswald, : who contacted the Sovies Embassy 32 ja : Mexico City snquiring as to any mess Bes. “Spactal agents of this ? bureau, who | have conversed with Oswald in Dallas, ‘Tex., have ohservedk photograpas of the individual referred to above and |: have listened to a recording of his. yoice. These special agents are of ins opinion ihat the aboverelerredto in- | dividual was not Lee Harvey Oawaild” The House investigators are devine |: Mexico City in an : activities in Dallas. ; _rdng to wonder whether the CLA con- a coctad tha whole Oswald adventure in a attempt fo canceai *-
13-00000. . . . SE CR QE ian ba? LA/COG/021-77 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations FROM , : Raymond A, Warren Chief, Latin America Division i g | SUBJECTS >: A. Jack Anderson 20 January 1977 Column Titled "CIA Tied to False Oswald Story" B. Identification of the Mr. X in the Anderson Column a 1. The attached column, citing the testimony of a Mr. X, alleges that a CIA agent tried to link Oswald to Cuban intelli- gence officers in Mexico. There is, of course, no substance to the column's allegations. The column identifies the source as Mr. X because of attempts on his life, but subsequently gives enough information on Mr. X to establish his identity. 2. According to the Anderson column, Mr. X was first met by his CIA contact in Havana before relations with U.S./Cuba were severed. Mr. X had helped to organize bank accountants to em- bezzle Cuban government funds: to finance anti-Castro causes. Mr. X was reportedly recruited by a Morris Bishop (CIA contact), to “plan an attempt on Castro's life. The plan was to fire a bazooka from a nearby apartment building while Castro was deliver- ing one of his marathon speeches. According to the Anderson column, the plot was discovered by Castro's police and Mr. X escaped to Miami. Mr. X also reportedly tried to assassinate _Castro in Chile in 1971 in league with the Venezuclan Luis Posada. Carriles, who is now being detained in Caracas for the 6 October Cubana airline bombing. The Anderson column ends with the report that Mr. X worked for CIA until 1973 for expenses, but ‘was paid $253,000 in cash by Morris Bishop when he was terminated. . cy ap" WARNING NOTICE ae INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS “ENVOLVED “SECRET . E2 IMPDET CL BY 0252351 oF ~ so mey en f f Mots oy teen cor = at ee yee ene
13-00000 3. From the above description of Mr. X, it is reasonably clear that Mr. X is Antonio Carlos VECIANA Blanch (€201-312966) VECIANA, an assistant bank manager and past president of a public accountants association in Havana, First contacted CIA 3 in December 1960 when he asked the COS, at that time to help in an assassination plot against Castro. Vi ‘for visas for ten relatives of the four men assigned to kill Ca astro, and also requested four MI rifles with adapters for. grenades plus eight grenades. The COS did not encourage VECIANA and subsequently checked with an Embassy officer who reported that VECIANA had made Similar "wild-eyed" proposals to him. On 23 November 1961 the Miami News published a report of an unsuccessful attempt by Antonio VECIANA to kill Castro. .VECIANA reportedly had arranged to assassinate Castro and.Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos on 5 October in Havana, but the bazooka. he was using failed to fire. 4. There has been no Agency relationship with VECIANA. A POA, which was granted for his use in para-military affairs in © ‘January 1962, expired in November 1962. VECIANA was born on 4 October 1935 in Havana. He was a member of the People's Revo- lutionary Movement, an anti-Castro group in Cuba during 1960-61, and was one of the founders of Alpha-66. A certified public accountant by trade, VECIANA was with A.1.D: in La Paz in 1968-72. VECTIANA was registered in ISR to the U.S. Army in November 1962 and he was terminated without prejudice. in July 1966. On 23 July 1962 VECIANA was interviewed, at his request, by Mr. Harry Real from the DCD New York office. VECIANA asked Real to arrange a meeting with a senior CIA officer to discuss Alpha-66's plans to assassinate Castro and to request CIA's assistance (U.S.$100,000; 10,000 Cuban pesos; 48 hand grenades). There is no indication that this request was ever acted upon by CIA. "S. In April 1966 a LA Division officer, ( | using the alias John Livingston, met VECIANA in New TR-GITYy~ he meeting was arranged by a retired naval officer, James Cogswell, who ‘had informed Chief, WH Division that he had information of valuc concerning Cuba. When arrived in New York City for the meeting, he was introduced by Cogswell to-VECIANA. He imnediately launched a discussion of the Cuban political situation and noted his strong ing-that the only solution was the assassination of. Castro. advised VECIANA that he was in no position to provide him with assistance or encourage him in an assassination attempt and was only interested in gathering information which he thought was the purpose of the meeting. VECIANA subsequent Ly said that his roommate Felix ZABALA, a_Cuban refugee, had excellent contacts in Havana. It was clear to[._Jhowever, VECIANA was attempting to use ZABALA poten- tially to get Agency financial support for his organization. . a)
13-00000 e + te eee VECTANA sugeested that $50,000, would be necded to get his | activities eff the ground, indicated to VECTANA that he would look into the ZABALA matter and would probably arrange for ZABALA to be “contacted in Puerto Rico. 6. There:is no indication in the fale that any Agency officer “in contact with VECIANA ever used an alias Morris Bishop. There is ‘ no Morris Bishop listed in true name in the DDO rolls. There was never any contractual relationship with VECTANA and he was not paid CIA funds. | 7. On Jd January 1977 a sanitized copy of VECIANA's 201 file was made available to staffers from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. | , Raymond A. Warres Raymond A. Warren Attachment - . 0D. DNO/C/LA/COG/OPS {wsDevine} js (9229) (21 January 1977) - Distribution: Orig & 1 - Addressée . 1 - ADDO. 1 - LA/COG/Chrono 2 - C/LAD G) - 201-312966 1 - hold - +—LASOPS | - ASST. TEODCE ee
13-00000 a # Jack Anderson nand fF ; lysis lery. ayy TA mystery witness o sworn nto ¢ cone . ‘gressional investizators that 2 Central telligence. Agency agent introduced ’ =: Bim to Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas _ three months before Oswald gunned. ‘down President Joan F. Keanedy. -. . ‘The group held ‘Secret meetings ‘at . * -.. $126 Hoilandale in Dallas before the as- “gassination. ‘Not long after Keanedy *,. was shot, a Dallas deputy sheriff was aay told by an informant that Oswaid had * new light.on the story Sylvia Cdio, ss daughter of a wealtny: opponent of Cu- ; ban Premier Fidel Castro, told to the: :* been associating with some Cubans ‘at. 3128 Harlendale.” 2%. Mie X’s dramatic. testimony: ‘casts FBL Two months before the Keanedy *- "' . Killing, she related, she was visited in -:" ' } hee Dallas apariment by three men... who identified themselves. as friends + Ofherfather, oc /.. : _- 7. -Qne was introduced to her’ 25 “Leon ; "" Qswald.” When she saw the picture ia the newspapers of. the man who had ) shot Kennedy, she fainted from snock. 7: Jt was the same Oswald, she was cer- -. a ‘tain, who had visited her apartment. . Congressional ‘investigators - have \. now learned that the late J. Edgar “»Hoover deliberately misled the War- aa : ren Commission about Odio's mysteri- * ous visitors. She was such a persuasive * “witness that the commission staff was ? preparing to investigate her. story a thoroughly. ; Staff members even speculated, “ate cording to one internal meio, that the aaa V/ gs vy ihn, : ° anti Castro” forces ° -cruited Oswaid, a known; pro-Castro . “activist to sill Kennedy. ; - oa “The motive on this,” states the me... mo, “would of course be the expecta-. tion that after the The witness, whom we have a greed :. killed, Oswald would be caught or at: “to identify only as Mr. X because of at- ~ tempts of his life, is . + Cuban terrorist group tat. “worked “1 ~.closely with the CIA. -: the founder of a- ne The conversation ¥ was tiped on Nov: -. 9, 1983, in Miami by an FBI informant. i Ramed Willie Somersett, whe turned . the tape over to the FBI the next day. ., Milteer is heard on the tape describing THE WASHINGTON POST s Wh itten AG i Bk Gg POD Aad might have re- William Seymiour, all antiCastroites. “denied ‘visiting the. Odio apartment = and that the FBI had obtained their... . denials before Hoover wrote his letter : to the Warren Commission. -— re “The investigators have also obtained te ‘the tape of a fascinating conversation, © *- - killed Kennedy,” the investigators re- “ported in a confidential memo, “he predicting two weeks in advance that | Kennedy would be shot “from an off--- v2 Ace _puilding With a high-powered ri-- . fle.” The. prediction was made by the « ‘late Joseph’ Milteer, a right-wing rab- ;..-. ble rouser, who also happened to have: ti “man was Oswald. Bir.-Z replied, ac->: -cosding to the memo,. that he had‘: " Jearnea “how to retain the character->: . ics of a person; he had trained himself‘: "to do that. And if it wasn't Oswald, it». 8 “: Was someone who was exactly like Os- wald, his exact double. « -tlose - connections: with, antiCastro * leaders. ° Hoover even suggested that Odio could” ‘have confused the names “Loran Halt” 2 and “Leon Cswald.”. | «:-: . Now the congressional investigators - have uncovered evidence that all three : :-* town Dallas building, where Mr. X had. "Wednesday, January 19, 1977 Presideht was .  Jeast his identity ascertained; the law... . énforcement authorities and the pub--. .- He would then blame the assassination «.! Y on the Castro goverzument; and the call ' . - for a forceful overthrow would hei irre- ‘gistible.” .: <7: as oe But Hoover: ‘abruptly * ocked: ‘this . “Hine of inquiry by notifying the. War-.: _ rea Commission on Sept. 21, 1964, that -.) the. FBI had Jecated and identified ~ Odio's callers. He named them as- Loran Hall, Lawrence Howard and... - cluded that “his credibility is strength-~ : ened by the details he provides consist-..: f ent with what he told us before. Signit.~ = awe “The agent was accompanied by a man ° whom Mr. X later Fecognized-as Ken." Inquiry ~ how Kennedy..would die. Thea tt the rab. - nedy “imows he is a marsed man.” is Mr. X’s statement. that he. met. Os... “ Congressional investigators questioned : *: =. the mystery witness closely on three . - Oswald signting.” ble rouser added knowingly that Ken-:- § rf -Milteer later admitted to the FBI-3 / that he had been in Dallas in June, :. Bo 1963, but denied having any knowl. 4--: ge of the Kennedy. assasssination. 4 Fenaver. the informant told the FBI.” that he asked Milteer after the sacot-:: ing whether he had known about it in: ~ advance or had merely been guessing.” 4 a | don't do any guessing,’ " Feplied 1 Mut ‘4 But ‘the ‘most ‘explosive ‘devel opment: wald in the company of a CIA agent.- separate occasions.“They finally cone: icantly, he remains very strong on the. ‘The encounter occurred in a ‘down an appointment with his CLA contact. - nedy’s killer. vy: “When he saw it was Oswald ‘that nearly fr eaked out, but hex never said Mr. X. on how he could be sure that @
13-00000 10 January 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counterintelligence Staff FROM : Russell B. Holmes CI Operations Group SUBJECT : Article by Norman Kempster Appearing in the Los Angeles Times of 1 January 1977 and Entitled "CIA Withheld Data on Oswald" (copy attached) = In light of the inaccurate and misleading statements attributed by Kempster to Sprague, the following comments are offered in rebuttal. a. "The CIA withheld from the FBI for almost two months in 1963 information that Lee Harvey Uswald had talked with Cuban and Soviet officials about his desire to visit those countries... Comment: Oswald's name did not surface in Mexico City until 1 October 1963 when a hitherto unknown male telephoned the Soviet Embassy. During this telephone call, the caller identi- fied himself as "Lee Oswald.'' On 8 October 1963, the Mexico — City Station cabled to Headquarters the highlights of the transcript of the conversation. (1) On 1 October 1963, an American male who spoke broken Russian and said his name was Lee Oswald (phonetic), stated he was at the Soviet Embassy on 28 September when he spoke with a consul whom he believed to be Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. Oswald asked the Soviet guard Ivan Obyedkov, who answered, if there was anything new regarding a telegram to Washington. Obyedkov upon checking said nothing had been received yet, but the request had been sent. (2) Mexico Station said it had photographs of a male who appeared to be an American entering the Soviet Embassy at 1216 hours, leaving at 1222 on 1 October. His apparent age was 35, athletic build, about six feet, receding hairline, balding top. Wore khakis and sport shirt.
13-00000 (3) No local dissemination was being made by the Station. [MEXI 6453 (IN 36017), 8 October. |. (Note: Cablese has been rendered here into readable English, without substantive changes or omissions. Cryptonyms and pseudonyms have been omitted or put into clear text.) The above information was received in Headquarters on 9 October; the following day Headquarters incorporated this information in an electrical dissemination to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. (1) On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico reported that an American male who identified himself as Lee Oswald, contacted the - Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring whether the Embassy had received any news concerning a telegram ‘which had been sent to Washington. The American was described as approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build, about six feet tall, with a "receding" hairline. (2) It is believed that Oswald may be identical to Lee Henry [sic] Oswald, born on 18 October 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana, a former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959 and later made arrangements through the United States Embassy in Moscow to return to the United States with his Russian-born wife, Marina Nikolaevna Pusakova [sic] and their child. (3) The information in paragraph (1) is being disseminated to your representatives in Mexico City. Any further information received on this subject will be furnished you. This information is being made available to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. [DIRECTOR 74673, 10 October 1963. ] (Note: It should be pointed out that for some unknown reason the Headquarters desk responsible for making the dissemination neglected to include the information that Oswald had visited the Soviet Embassy on 28 September 1963.) It was not until 22 November 1963, when the Station initiated a review of all transcripts of telephone calls to the Soviet Embassy wre
13-00000 that the Station learned that Oswald's call to the Soviet Embassy on 1 October 1963 was in connection with his request for a visa to the USSR. Because he wanted to travel to the USSR by way of Cuba, Oswald had also visited the Cuban Embassy in an attempt to obtain a visa allowing him to transit Cuba. Inasmuch as Oswald was not-an investigative responsibility of the CIA and because the Agency had not received an official request from those agencies having investigative responsibility requesting the Agency to obtain further information, the Station did nothing other than ask Headquarters on 15 October 1963 for a photograph of Oswald. [MEXI 6534 (IN 40357), 15 October 1963. ] On 25 October 1963, Headquarters sent a request to the Department of the Navy for a photograph of Oswald. [DIRECTOR 77978, 24 October 1963.] It was not until 26 November 1963, however, that the Navy Department apparently responded to this request. by sending directly to the Mexico City Station a photograph of Oswald. In response to a question from the Warren Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on 6 April 1963 stated that: "The investigation of Oswald in 1963 prior to receipt of the Central Intelligence Agency commmication dated 10 October 1963 was directed toward the primary objective of ascertaining the nature of Oswald's sympathies for, and connection with, the FPCC (Fair Play for Cuba Committee) or subversive elements. The Central Intelligence Agency commmication which reported that a man, tentatively identified as Oswald, had inquired at the Soviet Embassy concerning a telegram which had been sent to Washington did not specify the nature of the telegram. This contact with the Soviet Embassy interjected a new aspect into the investigation and raised the obvious questions of why he was in Mexico and exactly what were his relations with the Soviets. However, the information available was not such that any additional conclusions could be drawn as to Oswald's sympathies, intentions or activities at that time. Thus, one of the objectives of the continuing investigation was to ascertain the nature of his relations with the Soviets considering the possibility that he could have been recruited by the Soviet Intelligence Services. The Central Intelligence Agency commmication, dated 10 October 1963, stated that any further information received concerning Oswald would be furnished and that our liaison repre- sentatives in Mexico City were being advised. On
13-00000 -- 4 -- 18 October 1963, one of our FBI liaison repre- sentatives in Mexico City was furnished this infor- mation by Central Intelligence Agency and he arranged follow-up with Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City for further information and started a check to. establish Oswald's entry into Mexico. Subsequent to the assassination, Central Intelligence Agency also advised us of Oswald's contact with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City at the time of his visit there." (Commission Exhibit No. 833 (FBI Letter to J. Lee Rankin, dated 6 April 1964).] b. "Chief Counsel Richard A. Sprague said that the committee staff had learned that a CIA message des- cribing Oswald's activities in Mexico to federal agencies such as the FBI had been rewritten to elimi- - nate any mention of his request for Cuban and Soviet visas. The message was sent in October, more than a month before the November 22,1963 assassination." Comment: It is not CIA practice to disseminate raw information in the form it is received from the field. Field reports are received in Headquarters where they are first reviewed by the action desk. The information is then written in a form suitable for dissemination to the intelligence commmity, including additional information, if available, from the Agency's central counterintelligence files to make the report more meaningful to the recipient(s). Upon learning that on 1 October 1963 an American identifying himself as Lee Oswald had telephoned the Soviet Embassy, the Mexico City Station cabled to Headquarters on 8 October 1963 the highlights of Oswald's conversation with the Embassy. Because the Station at that . time did not know that Oswald was Lee Harvey Oswald and that he had come to Mexico to apply for visas to the Soviet Union and Cuba, the Station reported only that information obtained through telephone tap operation against the Soviet Embassy. On 10. October 1963, the day after it received the information relating to Lee Oswald and his contact with the Soviet Embassy, Headquarters incorporated this information in an electrical dissemi- nation to the commmity and included a brief summary of biographic information obtained from central counterintelligence files on the possible identity of Lee Oswald. Since Headquarters had no indi- cation before 22 November that Oswald had gone. to Mexico to apply for Cuban and Soviet visas, there was no question of eliminating any
13-00000 mention of Oswald's request for such visas. Within its limitations and capabilities, Mexico Station had complied with the Agency regulations pertaining to reporting on Americans abroad. The Station. had informed Headquarters which in turn had alerted those agencies with an investigative or policy interest in Oswald as an American in the United States. Headquarters also instructed the field station to inform the local representatives of those agencies. As mentioned above, the action desk in Headquarters neglected, for unknown reasons, to include the fact that Oswald had visited the Soviet Embassy on 28 September 1963. Had this information been included it would have indicated to recipients of the report that Oswald had more than a fleeting reason to be in contact with the Embassy; however, as already stated, the reason for the 28 September contact and the subject of the telegram to Washington were, at that time, unknown. c. "The CIA's decision to withhold information was reversed shortly after Kennedy was killed.” Comment: This statement is patently false and misleading. It is. totally incompatible with Sprague's remarks to Agency representatives’ in Headquarters on 24 November 1976, i.e., "he will not prejudge the Agency for any sins of ‘omission or commission'." d. "Sprague told a press conference that it was impossible without more information to know why the CIA had censored its own message.’ Comment: If Sprague needed more information, why did he not ask the Agency for an explanation, instead of making it appear to the public that the Agency has been dishonest in its dealings with the intelligence commmity? e. "But he said the incident raised two interesting uestions: what might the other agencies have done differently if they had been more fully informed, and why did the CIA decide to remove ‘information that was considered pertinent enough to be put in an initial draft of the message?' "' Comment: As already mentioned, the Agency did not know initially why Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in October 1963.
13-00000 Fs | It was only after the news of the assassination had reached the Station that the Station initiated a review of its holdings. As a result of this review, the Station learned that Oswald had also visited the Cuban Embassy and that Oswald's contacts with the two embassies were in connection with his desire to travel to the Soviet Union by way of Cuba. As to what "other agencies'' might have done had they had more information, attention is drawn to the FBI's comment in response to the Warren Commission's question. According to the FBI's response, some investigation had been initiated on or about 18 October in Mexico. By the 25th of October, FBI headquarters had informed its field office in New Orleans "that another Agency had determined that Lee Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in the early part of October 1963." The New Orleans field office in turn informed the Dallas office which had juris- diction over Oswald's place of residence. (For further detail, see IV H_ 447 and 459.) There was, however, no request, official or otherwise, from any of the responsible departments and agencies in Washington for further details as to Oswald's presence in Mexico and his reasons for contacting the Soviet Embassy. f£. "The committee said its staff investigators had recently questioned a former CIA agent who had "personal knowledge’ of Oswald's visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico. As a result of that interview, the report said, staff members were sent to Mexico, where they found and questioned additional witnesses." Comment: Sprague's characterization ''a former CIA agent"' is probably in reference to David Phillips. The latter's "revelations" to staff investigators (and also to Ronald Kessler) were unfortunate to say the least, in that they were inaccurate, so far as we know. There is no indication in the Oswald files that Oswald wanted to make a deal with the Soviets in return for a free trip to the USSR. The “additional witnesses'' in Mexico, it is believed, are Boris Tarasov and his wife, both of whom had been under contract with the Agency in 1963. We have not been informed, officially or otherwise, by Sprague what Phillips and the Tarasovs told the staff investigators. g. ' 'These witnesses had never been sought out before by any investigative body, notwithstanding the fact that they had important information concerning statements by Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico within 60 days of the assassination of President Kennedy ,' the report said." AT ANE
13-00000 Comment: If "these witnesses" include people other than the Tarasovs it would be impossible, at this time, to make an appropriate comment. The fact remains, however, that if Sprague had obtained additional details, he should hold such information and not make it public until the Agency has had a chance to review it and comment. There are many examples in the Oswald files of statements made by people Claiming to have knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald which have been proven to be fabrications. One such person was Gilberto Nolasco Alvarado Ugarte who, on 26 November 1963, came to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. He claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City on 18 September 1963 when a man he later recognized to be Lee Harvey Oswald received $6,500 in cash to kill an important person in the United States. After thorough investi- gation by Mexican authorities, the Mexico City Station, and the FBI, it was concluded that Alvarado had completely fabricated his story about Oswald. Russell B. Holmes Attachment
13-00000 THE LOS ANGELES TIMES 1 January 1977 ~ ‘ . . ke ee ee © District of Columbia's congressional dele- and to the Warren Commission, which con="* Bate and the chairman of the King subcom- cluded that Oswald was the assassin and mittee’ said thai no decision had been made ‘ad acted alone. tse ety .: On accepting Ray's olfer.-. eo ee - Sprague told a press conference that it ° Hoyvever, Sprague indicated that il pros-. "was impossible without more information | ably would be accepted. 20 ye eee is ay CA Withheld a ad BLY o Gale 1 “| * 6 know why the CLA had cénsored its own | “any and all people who have relevent : ai 7 on q \J q z) message, a "information will be interrogated,” Sprague New Adee Mae 7 SH) > But he said the incident raised two inter- ‘said, ee Td hone fala, GE. crt cos-s-Ey]  asting, questions:, what might the other.- -In a personal statement issued.in can- : igencies have done differently if they had junction with the report, Rep. Henry’B.. seen more fully informed and why did the Gonzalez (D-Tex.), who is to become. com- AYA decide to remove-“information that mittee chairman in the new year; said « - ssassinations.Panel—- Issues Report to House ei ephoe Ft fn ne. eee was considered pertinent enough to be put thorough investigation was needed -to an- >i BY NORMAN KEMPSTER - ‘in an initial draft of the message?” > 24. i swer hundreds af pressing questions; 2"... SSR Se} Tinesph aes: | t- There were no firm conclusions in the“. Gonzalez said that the committee Sioped "3; WASHINGTON—The’ CIA, with-"} “report, which the 12-member committee -to discover whether former FBI Director J., prepared after the first three months of its : “Edgar Hoover's now, well-known animasi- : investigation into the murders of Kennedy, UY toward King had affected the FBI's in- ° ix eade ;- Martin Luther ® “vestigation of the assassinations 25)... .'% "Kings" aN S SGP GLb HTS However, Gonzalez said, the comrnittes’s _ = Pechnically; thé contmittee-goes ‘out of work could go well heyond.the killings of ‘committee reported Friday?“ 722" <i: |. business Tuesday. with the end of the ses- . Kennedy and King. yg tia co3 Fo i:7 The Select Committee on Assassin--| sion of Congress in which it was.formed. ° “ ‘The committee can shed light on the ations indicated in a report to the full 2] ~The purpose of the year-end report was to , larger issue of political. murder and vi- House that its investigation .of the-} urge the-new Congress to reestablish the 2 olence, ‘Gonzalez said. “We should not “zaurder of President John F. Kennedy, } «committee and to give it $6.5. million to pay --forget that President, Ford had: his. own “would focus early in 1977 on.a trip | -for the first year of what. could be a two-': narrow escapes; no member of the House “Oswald had made‘to"Mexico City in: : ‘year investigation. i Fr -* atk 3a ‘Mhatishould Pega ge aie Tare - 3Octcher; 1993: Sescttipe eal) Pad eek ety! eg ee HR ee gee ta the . Capitol 7 Building 2". Chief Counsel. Richard A..Srague | °/'*qn the three months since Sb ectablich sibombed. «6 or ea ae a” Bab ae! . 5 or ' : Tee ts aoe incite: He-said the committee's ultimate tas ment, the committee has initiated prelim ‘-was“'to find out no “held: irom: the FBI for almost two. "ynonths‘in 1933 information that Lee "Parvey Oswald-had talked with Cu- . ban-and Soviet.officials about his de- :sire to visit those countries, a House “J ate es *caid that the‘committee staff had < ae ee ee ena enn i ant ota mg ote tm RaegertteNtt PE EIT - Gearned'that a CIA ‘message describ- "| jnary investigations into ‘new and pre-"; ot just what happens Bee OGiald’s sotivities in Meco to | ylowly unpussued leeds in both assassinas (PUCWAY” sve N gushing ry sfederal agencies such.as,the FBI had’: “Been rewritten to eliminate eny men- “tion of his request for Cuban arid So- avieb:visas. The message was. sent-in £October, more.than a month before: } 4the-Nov. 22, 1963, assassination. “7=°~ 2.'The CLA discovered Oswald's. pre. ~sence iat. the ‘embassies: through ‘its ° Eyoitine survelllance.of those facilities. . } Because: Oswald had once ‘defected to sth Soviet Union, the CIA and FBI ahe2 bean interested in_his activities: before the Kennedy :assassina~ tions,’ the report said, -# = Oke ty >” The committee said its staff investigators ° “had recently “questioned a. former CIA’: -agent-who had.“personal knowledge”. of . Oswald's visita:to, the Soviet. and Cuban’] - - embagsies in Mexico: As a result of that in- terview,: the? report? said, staff. members: “were sent to Blexico, where they found and “questioned additional witnesses. :? SE Y “These witnesses had never been sought : out before by: any investigative body, not~-) - syithstanding the fact that trey nad impor-/: ‘dant information concerning statements by"; gion. see eat BOLE A ATS | ‘Lee Harvey: Oswald in Mexico within-60- Pore CLA s- decision to:withhold n="; ' days of the assassination of President. Ken- _ , formation, was reversed shortly. after. | _ nedy,” the reportsaid.:, Sep4f 30k) = ported Oswald's efforts to-visit, Cuba | Staff had interviewed a person who assert | . ‘Yand:the Soviet Union bothto the FBI | <ed that he had discussed the King murder | ‘with James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty | “to the crime. The unidentified witness said” that Ray had told him about contacting an “associate in Europe to receive. further in- agtructions. The story, which was told tore-— -porters by a committee membez: several’ weeks ago, has not been verified, 25*.; Pek 'FRennedy.was killed The egencty:te-. | 2 The report said also that the commiltee !y Yn a letter to New York Times columnist C “Anthony Lewis, Ray offered this week to | ° “testify under oath at a committee hearing. J _ : But Sprague and Walter F,.Fauntroy, the.! —
13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM :. John H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : President Kennedy Assassination - Mrs. Luce Story 1. Action Required: None; for information only. 2. Background: In 1975, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce telephonically informed Director William Colby of support she had rendered to certain Cubans who were conducting their own independent operations against the Castro Government in 1961 and 1962. Mrs. Luce stated that she and Mr. William Pawley, an American financier long associated with the Dominican Republic, helped finance a motorboat for three Cubans. The three Cubans, concurrently, were members of a CIA supported Cuban exile organization. After the 1962 missile crisis, all resistance groups against Castro were ordered to cease operations. At this time, Mrs. Luce and Mr. Pawley also ceased their financial support. In 1963, very shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Cuban captain of the motorboat, which Mrs. Luce helped to subsidize, phoned Mrs. Luce to inform her that "Oswald was a hired gun". She, in turn, informed him to tell all to the FBI. At the behest of Director Colby, Mrs. Luce passed the story on to Senator Richard Schweiker, chairman of the subcommittee investigating the Warren Commission Report. A version of the information was given to columnist Betty Beale and was published in the Washington Star on 16 November 1975 (attached). A staff member of the Senate Select Committee, on 10 December 1975, inquired as to what the Agency thought of the story. The Agency oral response was that it had nothing to add to the news- paper story and that since this query involved U.S. resident Cuban refugees, the FBI would be the proper agency to contact.
13-00000 Distribution: The transcripts were received by CIA's Inspector General on 22 December 1976 from Mr. Colby's secretary. At the suggestion of the Inspector General, the Office of Security sent copies of the ' transcripts and a background note to: the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation in January 1977. We do. not know whether the FBI passed this information to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This story is summarized here for your background in the event that it should be replayed. by the press as a result of releases which may be made by the House Assassination Subcommittee. While it is not a new story, the actual CIA transcript of Mrs. Luce's conversation with Mr. Colby could be considered newsworthy and could be presented in a manner detrimental to CTA. ~ WCE ~ John’ ft ‘Watier a eal Attachment: a/s fo | De ee: Asst. for Public Affairs w/att Mr. H. Hetu Original. ~ Addressee w/att. T- peel w/att.. - Asst. for PA/Mr. Hetu w/att. = ER w/att. ’ - IG Subject (Task Force) w/att - IG Chrono w/o att. ) w/ -~ J.L. Leader Chrono w/o att. en ne ne en ‘ soot med amin mal col “O1G/9. L. Leader:aal
13-00000 7. . : ste ‘o roof e UO ry One day'in the latter part of October, Clare Luce re- ceived a call from Sen. Richard Schweiker, R.-Pa., thairman of the subcommittee investigating the War- -en Commission Report. He wanted her to persuade some Cubans she had known — Cubans who had krown Lee Harvey Oswald —to testify before his committee. Mrs. Luce’s efforts to locate the Cubans led to a some: ! what blcodcurdling warning. But let her tell the story ' irom the beginning. ; | “The year is 1961, a year of great American i trauma,’ she began her narration to recent dinner | guests in her aqua-colored Watergate apartment. “I nad a friend named Bill Pawley who was brought up in Cuba and who was Truman’s ambassador to Peru and Brazil. I got te Know Bill very well in India and China ! where he had built up a voluntary outfit called The ! Flying Tigers. Bill was also called in by the CIA to re- | cruit Cubans for the Bay of Pigs operation. Afterwards | he was a very unhapoy man. - oe sot ' “One day he called me up and said, ‘How would you like to get in on the Cuban Flying Tiger operation?’ He had in mind a fleet of moterboats subsidized by Ameri- ! cans and manned by Cubans who had been in the Bay | - of Pigs operation — all these young kids who had bzen j stranded after the Hay of Pigs. . - | __ “I said, ‘Fine.’ So I helped to finance a motorboat. ! The three lads who manned mine came up to see me! several times. They would leave the coast of Florida | and land in Cuba and come out with information. The information they came out with was remarkably accu- } rate — that the Russians ware building missile sites in ! Cuba. I was told that thé information was eventually | fed to Sen. Ken Keating and was passed on to the! White House. You remember what an impression it made and how accurate it was. ce “THEN CAME THE MISSILE showdown. Soon after the showdown I got a telephone call from Allen Dulles | saying the Neutrality Act had been invoked and all, Americans must cease and desist in any further efforts | iowards the liberation of Cuba. OF course, we desist-: ed,” tate, ; ° To years later she and her husband Harry (Henry) : inee were Sitting in their New York apartment listen- . ing to the televised reports of President Kennedy’s | assassination when around midnight she received a: a anne ‘@ cascimatr ms. i Ai s . phone call from New Orleans. “It was the captain of |... my motorboat,” said Clare, “A young man not more! - than 25, a young student lawyer. He said, ‘Mrs. Luce: T t ekg : r io . R fq * ine yt want to tell you about Oswald.” _ an “He said that immediately after the 1961 missile ! showdown, FBI men had come to Miami and told the | Cubans to break up all resistance groups and disperse. ‘He and the other two members of his crew had moved to New Orleans where they started another “Free Cuba” group. They had been there a year end a half -, When who made contact with them but Oswald! “The Cubans all thought he was a kcok. Oswald ' bragged about having been in Russia and Said he was an ex-Marine. He said he could shoot anybody and he would be happy. to shoot Castro. He had no money, he - was living with his wife in New Orleans and it looked like he was presenting himself as a hired gun. They - they followed him and found he was in a Fair Play for Cuba Communist cell te whose members he was giv- didn’t like the cut of his jib so they turned him off. But | “ng the same line. . made several trips. They continued their penetration |. - of the Cuban Communist cell. He said they mace tape | “And I remember this from the telephone conversa- ; tion — Oswald was telling the cell that he could shoot 7 anyone, including the secretary of the Navy. The Free Cubans continued to tall him and found that suddenly | he had money, and he started gcing to Mexico City. He 3 recordings of some of Oswald’s meetings and they had . taken photographs of hirn distributing handbills for the . Fair Play unit. The next thing they knew President ’ Kennedy was shot. . so ce _Yemember, and that Oswald was their hired gun. Os-.! . . wald, he said, had tried to report the Communist plans | ~ 1 stem cae Me oe ce Ae ce rT eR ere ar, ran + Prtraran asa EUG REE RA a ob EE “THE YOUNG CUBAN WHO called me,” continued | former Ambassador. Luce, ‘said that there was a | Cuban Communist assassination team working some- | - where — in Dallas, New.Orleans or wherever — I don't | to the FBI some time before the assassination. But be- ! cause he was out for the dough they didn’t believe him. ; 8 -
13-00000 “ Ps sose that the FBI must hear from a thousand 3 ‘cracknals’ a week. Se, - any event, on the telephone my young friend told me that they had these tape recordings of Oswald and photogranns and what should they do? I said, ‘Ga to - the FB and tell them everything you know.’ That hav- "§ng been said I put the whole thing out of my mind. Comes the Warren Commission and says Oswald alone was responsible and I forgot the whole matter. - ' “Then, in 1967, a fellow named Jim Garrison, dis- trict attorney in New Orleans, hit the headlines charg- ing that the assassination was a conspiracy. At that moment 1 was reminded of the information I had re- ceived and 1 began to wonder whether or not the Warren Commission had got all the facts. I coulda’t remember the names of the Cubans but I finally locat- ed one crewman who was living in Miami again andI . asked him what happened aiter he went to the FBL “He said, ‘We turned over copies of everything. We - were then told.to keep our traps shut and that we would be deported if we said anything publicly.” He said one of the crew was hte! up be deported to Guatemala, and - one was murdered — stabbed in front of a store. : ‘ °THETR INFORMATION, HE SAID, nevar appeat- ; ed in the Warren Commission report. He said, ‘Iam - married now, I live in Miami an I don’t want-to get Gnvolved in it.ever again’ ” . ves _. When Sen. Schweiker made his request of Clare ~ Luce less than three weeks ago, she telephoned anoth- ex Cuban friend to see if he could locate and persuade the young man to testify behind closed doors. Realied the older Cuban, if the testimony was behind 13 doors it would still become public. . ot “Americans thick they. are playing games,” he told her. ‘They don't know they are involved in a life or ceath business. No, I won't tell you where he can be found. The people working for a free Cuba would lose ‘their lives. A lot of them have already. They are not interested in making political headlines for politicians. You think the Bay of Pigs, the nuclear missiles, the -" assassination of the president was the end af the story? _Z tell you it is just the beginning. What you Americans don’t understand is, there are trained Communist ter- . -Forists, assassination, kidnapping, bombing and sabo- . stage teams all over the country and the world.” . closed ~~. eens west dance seneeenngs Seebeane beanies EPEAT SOAAEAAC OATES SNRs NED SS ETO . —- Wide Werld Pholos .. Clare Boothe Luce ‘A year of great American trauma.” %, % oa ‘6 oece The very day after that conversation, observed). . Clare gravely, bombs went off at the State Depart-:.. rent here, at the U.S.-U.N. mission and four banks im: | New York and at three places in Chicago. And close to} the same hour she was recounting the whole fascinati _ing story to her guests, a Cuban, 2nti-Communist: © ‘ Jeader was exploded into bits inhiscarin Miami. 9 -j -
13-00000 Lats ri | | UACLASSIFIED LJ use ONLY [| CUArIUCNTEAL i | > - ‘| JTING AND RECORD Sh -T | SUBJECT: (Optional) j FROM: EXTENSION | NO. Inspector General 6565 “ 2 E 24 Hqs. DATE 6 January 1977 | ae OFFICER'S , INITIALS TO: (Officer designetion, room number, ond building) COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a fine across column after each comment.) | SUBJECT: Attached Transcripts The OLC and the IG concur that the attached transcripts should be provided to the FBI. A blind memo is also attached. It is requested that the 0/S -pass the package to the FBI. | John H. Waller ans fore 61 Q Eee’ [] SECRET [[] CONFIDENTIAL [[] JMTFRNAL = [7] UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 6 January 1977 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Transcripts of October 1975 Telephone Conversations Between Director Colby, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and Mr. Justin McCarthy - 1. Attached herewith are transcripts of two telephone conversations between Director William Colby and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, and one between Director William Colby and Mr. Justin McCarthy. The conversations took “place in October 1975 and discuss Mrs. Luce's concern that certain infor- mation, from a former boat captain, a Cuban refugee, regarding the Presi- dent Kennedy assassination, reached the proper authorities. While the information in these transcripts have been provided to investigating authorities, they may be of some assistance to the House Select Committee on Assassinations as it investigates various allegations. 2. The transcripts were received by the “Agency Inspector General on 22 December 1976. The transcript of the 25 October 1975 conversation was typed by Ms. Barbara Pindar on the same day. The other two transcripts were typed by Ms. Pindar on 2] December 1976 from her stenographic records while clearing out the remainder of Director Colby's files. Ms. Pindar was Mr. Colby's secretary during his Directorship. 3. A-version of the telephone conversation transcript was published in the Washington Star on-16 November 1975 (attached). A staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on 10 December 1975, inquired as to what the Agency thought of the story. The Agency oral response was that it had nothing to add to the newspaper story and that since this query involved U.S. resident Cuban refugees, the FBI would be the proper agency to contact. ;
13-00000 4. The attached transcripts indicate that the matter was brought to the attention of Senator Schweiker and The Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Telephone conversation between Director Colby and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce on 25 October 1975, pages 2 and 3). Attachments: a/s
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13-00000 . Telephone Conversation Bu: ween Mr. Colby and Mrs. ‘Cla Boothe Luce at_12:40 on Saturday, 25 October'1975 (from steno notes of Barbara Pindar transcribed the : same day) Mrs. Luce: I have a big problern, a case in conscience. I got rather deeply involved during and after the Bay of Pigs, and up to the time of the missile crisis, with a group called the (Directorate Revolutionario Estudiante; Note: the spelling of that is just a guess), the DRE. Whether you know this or not, it was me who fed the missile stuff to Keating. I knew a number of these leaders well; they were going in and out of Cuba, and I paid for one of the motor boats. Bill Pawley did too. We thought we were doing another Flying Tiger. The missile crisis came, and I got a telephone call from Allen telling me that the Secrets Act had gone into effect and that henceforth there would be no voluntary American efforts. That ended that, and I don't know what I was doing -- maybe I went back _ to Arizona, or whatever. Then came the assassination. The night of the . assassination, right after Oswald was caught, one of my boys telephoned _ me > from New Orleans. — Didn't I ever tell you this? Mr. Colby: oe No. Po Mrs. Luce: _It was the captain of my boat. It seems that after the missile crisis -- a period of about a year had gone by -- he said that all the young ‘Cubans involved profoundly in all of this had been told to scatter and — scram, that he and two of my other lads “- Mr. Colby: | ' ‘When, after the crisis? Mrs. Luce: | (ves.) (were told) to leave Miami. My. Colby: 10.1962? | Mrs. Luce: - Yes. They were to stop theiz efforts to free Cuba; and if they did not, they would be deported. It has a very interesting end involving you. - _In any event, this one had been told to leave Miami after the missile crisis -. ‘was over, and he had opened a cell in New Orleans. He telephoned me to - ' tell me that Oswald was -~ lam telling you what his view was -- was a | hired gun; Oswald had tried to penetrate their little cell; that they turned around and did a counterpenetration job on Oswald; all of this was done several months before the assassination. _He said,--telling me on the phone, he was terribly excited -- he said you see he had no money, all of a sudden he began to get money, so we checked him and he had a little "Communists be Free" or 'Be Fair to Cuba" group going in New Orleans." He said ''We ,
13-00000 ’ had tape recordings of what he was telling his group." It was a o unter- penetration they went on. He said, ''We have photographs of Oswald, passing out handbills on the street, 'Be Fair to Cuba.'" He said, "We are absolutely certain that Oswald was simply one of three as sassination teams, that they were working out of Mexico City (or funded in Mexico City) by Castro.'' He said there were three assassination teams, Then he said, 'We have these recordings, these tapes, and we have these photos, what should we do?" These fellows always trusted me. I said, ‘"The first thing you do, the minute you hang up this phone, you telephone to the FBI, give them everything you have got." Working in New York with these:Cubans is an extraordinary fellow, one of the most puzzling’ characters I have every met; he is.a devout Catholic -- Justin McCarthy. Justin is the American patron -- although he has no money, never had money -~ of all these free Cubans in America. He never worked at CIA, although CIA tried to pick his brains. He tried to help the FBI. I knew _ Justin McCarthy, and he used to send me bulletins; he said he had been . sending them to me for the past six months, and I had never received one of them. Out comes the Warren Report. I have many other things todo, and I assumelny lads had reported what they knew, and maybe it had been discounted, but I had taken the Warren Report at face value without poring over it -- and 1 forgot the whole darnthing. Then, this must be nine years ago, up turns a guy named Lloyd Garrison*-- what was he, a | sheriff or something? (* She yetans Sim Gore: SoA Mr. Colby: District Attorney. 2 Mrs. Luce: . And he hit the headlines that the assassination had been : a con- .Spiracy. Then it all flooded back into my mind that I had never been quite . satisfied with what the Warren Report had brought out. - Basically, I was troubled by the whole thing, so I said I thought I would call Garrison, «| In order to call him, I had to have the names of the Cubans, which had gone out of my bean. Sol called Justin McCarthy. He, said one of them was now, my lad, was in Miami. I got him on the phone, my fellow, and I said, "You remember your midnight call to me about the assassination _ of the President, I want to know what happened after that.'' He said, "We went at once to the FBI, they took all the tapes and photos and all our ' information and told us to keep our movtths shut, and shortly after that they informed us that if any of us talked to the press or anyone, dire things would happen.'' He said one of the fellows on the boat was dep@rted to Guatemala or Chile, and one of them was murdered. He said, "I ama lawyer, have two children, Iam making my way in Miami, and I never want to hear a damn word about the assassination of Kennedy because you _ Americans really do not want to know the truth." He said, "We waited, expecting the Warren Committee would want to have us, and wenever heard a word." He said, "I want no part of it.'' Then the Garrison thing died
13-00000 | . down, and.I am a busy woman, and I forgot about it. Three days ago, a reporter was in here ~-- a gal’-- asking about my life style and _ said, in passing, 'What do you think of the investigation of the assassination of the President?"' Iam afraid I hit the roof? I said, "I think everyone must be absolutely off their rockers. ‘What possible - motive would the CIA have for murdering their own President?" I said, "Even to assume such a thing is beyond belief because where there is a murder or assassination, there is a motive, and there could be no motive." I said, 'Who had the motive was Castro; but perhaps not even Castro, possibly just a bunch of Communist Cubans or plain Communists.'' I said, ''They always had a motive for that sort of — thing," Schwejiker called me up yesterday -- when the reporter said © to me, ''What is the name of the young Cuban?", I said, ''Well, let's . call him Julio Fernandez.'' The Senator said to me "that isa fascinating — story." HS eitach AM! GCyuckd ARO AR Sir NEG er was | NaN Knight Nemgegers) oa of, o Mr. Colby: You told the story to Schweiker? — Mrs. Luce: ‘He read it in the Knight paper. | — ne Mr. Colby: You told the story to the Knight people? _ Mrs. Luce: Not in the detail I told you. Schweiker asked if t could locate ‘any of these men involved for him, and I said I would try. That was yesterday. I used that opportunity to say, "I do not know what you are - doing on the Hill." I said, "You are in the (process?) for headlines and | _. destroying this country's security."" He said, "If you have this informa- tion and you can get your hands on it, it would be a good thing to lay _. this story to rest." He said, "If you can find me these people, I assure _ you they will be listened to in closed session.'' Now comes the big. thing. Justin McCarthy runs an animal farm in Nyack: telephone © number is 914; 647-8596. I have known him to be a man of complete integrity. He is a devout Catholic. He may or may not be a fanatic. — What makes one think he is is what he tells you is just so terribly — alarming; as he was the one, along with Bill Pawley, who involved me -~ _ with these Cubans, I tracked him down and had a two-hour conversation | on the phone with him this morning that was really staggering. WhenlI . said to him, ''Would you tell these things in the closed session in the — Senate?", he said, "I would find it more expedient and to shorten the . . process to hire loud speakers and put them on top of the Empire State Building.'"' He said, 'You don't know, Clare, the Cubans have not lost their desire to free their country, and there are plenty of them working
13-00000 — ae per Fx at it, and they trust me, and I trust them, and they all trust me," -. He said, ‘All these fellows on the Hill give a damn about is a big headline and political attention, and if this should involve niy testi- fying and some of my fellows got bumped off, or their apparat shut down, I could not live with myself, no I will not testify."' 1 said, "You know, Justin, if they send for you, you might have to." He said, ''They are not likely to send for me unless you tell them." He said, ''They do not know who to ask for anyway." (It doesn't appear in my notes, but my memory is that he added that the reason the Hill doesn't get to the truth is that they never know who tb ask for.) He. told me a story about working once with CIA. He said, 'We did this -- . _DRE did one operation with CIA, as a result of which all the Cubans. . involved were caught and killed, and I do not want any part with the _CIA." He said, "It too can be a sieve." I said, “You have me really . overa barrel." I said, "Justin, Ihave to tell someone, is there .. - . -  amyone you trust?"' He said, 'There is only one man inthis whole _ : country whose word at this point I would take." I said, ''Who is that?" -and he said, "Bill Colby. '; He said, "He isa daily communicant"' we Mr. Colby: No, no. Mrs.. Luce: I did not disillusion him. In any event, if only to put my own _ mind at rest since -- he always says, which is fascinating if true, '. that my lads in New Orleans, yes, they did turn over the tapes to the . FBI but they kept copies, a . Mr. Colby: Really? Mrs. Luce: Sohe says. If 50, ‘you are , possibly, if - --I think y you | should a get hold of Justin and give him a couple of hours because he has plenty © to say. If what he says is true -- he also told me, which I had forgotten -- ' — during the time of the missile crisis, and 1 was the one he came to, nd naturally the one I went to was Harry (note: this is first mention of ar ee maybe I misunderstood; could she have said '‘Allen" wy because “ z I could trust him. Ina way, Justin McCarthy supplied a lot of background _ matezial on the Cubans to (note: could not hear what she said). He said . J yeh a few days ago -- Time is planning to do a (take-out) issue on the assassination of Kennedy. He said that, going back through their files, ' they came across my name as an informant, and he said "they tracked me _down.too."" He said, then he told me -- I mentioned in passing that there YA Goa Net Sant ts vr lee ein yg” VA Yue. wutenh « (Bote Les . low mR net \weo dy ay We Nn” OR SYR. Ge BIN — ra 3 ‘ete, Comey < 2 Qe
13-00000 was a wonderful girl on Time that knows more about the Cubans _ almost than anyone in CIA, Priscilla Badger. He said the Time people are now trying to get information. He said, "I will talk to . no one because there are lives at stake" -- except you. Fofmy . own sake,.if you have a go at t him, I would be very happy to know how Serious it is. Mr. Colby: I will report back to you by all means. Let me doa little home- | - work on just where this (looks). You do not remember the name of the Cubans in Miami? Ce ae Mrs. Luce: There are so many names; he talked to me so fast. He kept saying 'Chilo." I asked who NChilo” is, and he § said that was his code , _ name. ae . pte oe J ose Antonio La Nuza (Note: “That last name may be all one word; =. she said it’ means "the nut. "ye “Luis Fernandez Rocha SS ae os aes =. Se One of those fellows was the Director of the DRE. “Then he also veminded “me of a guy who used to come to see me -- Cardona. (He had been told by the American Government to get out of Miami) and he died, having - - become the President of a university in Puerto Rico. These fellows _were scattered all over the place. . As I mentioned thatto Justin, he said, "I know where they all are." The thing that alarmed meis that -~ he _ does not talk in an excited voice, but the statements are -- he said . "People think of the Bay of Pigs and the nuclear showdown and the assassination of Kennedy as the end of the story, it is only the beginning. " He said, "If you knew what is being laid on for the U. S.," and he talks . . like that. I asked him, "What do you think happened?" He said, "Oswald - . went to the FBI." He said, "I know that, he was selling them information, _and they did not believe him." I said, ''That is incredible." He said, "I ~ do not know how much you know about the FBI, but no day goes by without desks being loaded with letters saying something will be blown up." —— (Note:. I missed a little bit here due to something else happening in the . Office..) I said, ''What happened?" and he said, "The FBI got the word | from on top ‘Destroy the letters. ae So Be Mr. Colby: From, on n top? Mrs. Luce: From ‘the President, who was Johnson. I contended that if at that point the FBI had proven that Castro had in mind assassinating the President, we would have been in war with Cuba. It might have been
13-00000 an act of State to shut up about it. If I had been the Presidént, I would have had (Note: missed more due to outside interference). What is hideous about this is that the CIA is being accused or — Kennedy is being accused -- anyone except the people who probably were involved. If putting it at rest in a secret session will work, if such evidence does exist, you are the man to present it. ‘Mr. ‘Colby: Schweker does r not know about MeGarthy? 7 Mrs. Luce: He only knows this -- I said there is one man I know ‘who - a _ might be able to tell you where the se Cubans are, and that isa fellow | - "named Justin McCarthy. He said, 'Where is he?", and I said,’ "I do - not know, I have lost track of him." He said, "If you find him, let me . know." After talking with Justin McCarthy, I do not want him to talk _to Schweiker. I do not know what.to say if he calls again.~ Knowing t the | oe | Senator, I may never hear from him. I leave it with you.” PO : “RS COME X REAOBITRRACATR DENIES IS ECOEK MBEIRISAG O6NICRGNONULEH BWANA IK XX XAGKRGE MA MIX PREY WAS MAG UMPHM KK OGVE ROSH MORK MROMEMEMREKOEK oo NOTE: Mrs. Luce closed the conversation by referring | to a . CIA; paper . entitled "Restless Youth" and asked if it had been declassified. Mr. Colby. _. said he would check on it, and Mrs. Luce said she would like to have a COPY - if it has been declassified. eg ws a
13-00000 Telephone Conversation Between Mr. Colby and Justin McCarthy at 3:45 on Tuesday, 28 October 1975 (this transcript was Eyped on 2] December 1976 ; from steno notes of Barba ra Pindar) ; “Mr. McCarthy: Iam glad to ‘know you, evenif it is over the phone. Mr. Colby: Mrs. Luce talked to me yesterday (sic). " She | gave mea "capsule version of some of her chat with you. It puts me ina bit of a jam, obviously, because there are some things that really hold some potential for being very important in these days (of) post-mortems © of everything. I wondered if maybe we should chat about it some- _ ' time, or, quite frankly, one of the main things I would suggestis  - . that you might want to go to this Senate Committee looking into this... _ Mr. McCarthy: No. There are several reasons why not. [am sure wedo - not need to discuss them, but there are many reasons. Over the . period of time there have been so many things. We were theonly ~ |. ones who had the information about the missiles in Cuba for many - . months, and we. beat our brains out trying to get someone to do something (or believe?) and regrettably (in) Washington there are . - too many political (opportunists?), but there are too many lives at | - stake. We risked our neck for all these years. We are interested in doing the right thing. - Sr _Mr. Colby: I ‘wondered if you could (slice?) off that New Oxleans 5 thing fend me not go any further than that?) ! me “Mr. “McCarthy: As I said to her = (can't read the next few » words). “For me — ., to be seenin Wa shington, it is (can't read the next few words). ‘We . “do not trust anyone.’ We did so many operations for so long, and -_ we were entirely successful and never lost a man, and then one day -we did an operation for the Government and lost 22 men. Lives ..' - depend onit. Someone sent a Top Secret memo, and the one he | sent it to left it on his desk and someone came in and read (it) and . the men were arrested. She asked, "Would you talkto Bill?" I said I would. We think it would be a good idea -- for me to go down -- _ Ido not want to blow my cover, but I would like ve ry much to chat with ' you and tell you. ae mag nos Mr. Colby: My problem is s then I get information, and then what are my obligations. a ne Mr. McCarthy: From the point of view of (seeing?) how to do it ‘through persons other than me -- to ‘get the end result. wok oe
13-00000 yw. 2 Mr. Colby: It might be that one of your fellows aware of some of the things | (would not mind telling Schweiker?) under some protection and assurances of anonymity. That would be enough of a (can't read the next word) to get started. oe t- Mr. McCarthy: There is plenty to get started on. | Mr. Colby: Then (he?) could cut your people uut as a source, Mr. McCarthy: -She said it vo uld be aclosed-door hearing. I said there (would?) still be someone come out of the meeting and (can't read next word) _ their names in the press. You see Jack Anderson's column on Monday. It is vitally important, and it is true evidence. It is not conjecture, Iam concerned about what it ties into -= it is all the same ball of wax. "We sat on the information about the missiles. This has been going on '...for a good twenty years, and we have accumulated an awful lot of _ information. We are more concerned today than when we had the ~ missile information, It is appalling, and it is frightening, and people . donot want to believe it. Last night I enlightened people About some of the things that are going to happen. We feel the time has come that some of this should come to light. It is necessary and essential to go - back and bring out some of these things that need to be brought out, but - .; mot at the expense of (next word missing). We have done this on our —~ ' own and at our own expense. One of the reasons my people trust me is -- Iam thinking of a book -- we did not want to do a book before, The ' American public wants to know. It is all part of what went on then. I think it should be clarified and straightened out what went on then, But Tam so terribly wary. I went to everyone,- including the Preside nt, about the missiles. We had evidence -- what ships they were on, where they (docked?), anda few days later they: came back and said 7 there i is no credibility of what you says oS : Me Mx. Colby: The 2 only thing that bothers me is . the stoxy a about the « existence of _. some records (you?) still hold. The important part of that is that ' indicates some (part?) of a failure, or possibly even worse ~~ that is the kind of thing that does need investigation or (correction?) -- ° protecting your people that are in on it. The other possibility would — be to ask Schwaker or one of his men to go and talk to you or one of your people who would have factual Knowledge of it, Mr. McCa rthy: ‘When (Dorothy) told me about you overa , period of time -- _ (Dorothy) said we have been through this so many times -- I took . this t to editors (of Life. : That was the time when the Buy sent t the - Note: 1 am not positive about the "Doroth '' above ‘but d ra k 0 vt wh could be. I had written in long-hand, sokhy" at " My PTE what ts i _ Dorothy Farmer, Mrs. Luce's secretary, —.
13-00000 Top Secret memo and it got left on a desk in Miami and we losta lot of people on that. Inadvertently so many things happen. We work so carefully. We have information now that no one else has. ' because it has come to the point where so many of the people. I work . with find they cannot trust people because of the opportunists, I have never met such overbearing and obnoxious (can't read next word). We sat on this year inand year out -- we never know when . - we might get calls. I was up all night long the night before last, ‘Time is doing a big cover story on the thing -- the next issue -- _ the Today Show is bugging me. Washington is a funny place. If I -- by and large, when your life is on the line -- one of (our?) guys hung himself after one of the escapades we went through. He committed '. suicide because he felt guilty about it. Up here it is terrific because Iam ananimal nut. A lot of the guys divulging some of this ‘stuff | a foe . that they would not F normally d do. : “Mr. “Colby: Let me ‘talk with Clare again as 5 to. how we ha ndle ‘this. “The ma in “'.. thing is not so much the overall stuff about Cuba -- the main thing is the story about records, about Oswald. That comes at a time when that is a serious subject of study here by the Congress, If we. could in some way shake that information loose without putting the . finger on any of your friends, I think we are sort of obliged to do this i jn terms of clarifying the record against the (facts?) -- this is a very - key aspect of it and a very serious s problem that if it was suppressed . at the time. . a we a _ Mr. MeCaxthy: “That is not all that was | suppressed. Mr. Colby: That is the thing. They a are looking into it. "Let me talk to Clare - again and see if I can figure out some way in which we could talk to | ~ you (maybe ?) and if you could in the meantime think of a way of (can't read the next word) out or (can't read the next word) out this’ ' (feature?) of it so that you give the (final result?) but not the sourcing, _ and let the investigators (find their own source later on?), we would , ‘have done our duty.. My problem is that I really cannot sit on it with my obligations. I can be*reasonable about protecting other people, and I have to be, but I also have to have the responsiblity for responding foe : to proper investigations of things that really should be looked into. Mr. “McCarthy: Let me (ca att read next word) this in. Some of our “guys (can't ; read next several words). oo et : Mr. Colby: . ‘That is what she said.
13-00000 Mr. McCarthy: They and lare scared to death. I was Executive Producer . of TV programs for years -- I cannot make:-~ Thave earned the respect and confidence of these people éver the years. The other night I talked all night long. If I try to push my guys -- Clare said it needs to be laid to rest, and it does, I would'like to‘see it get ae laid to rest, but my people --~ - Se Mr. Colby:. I can assure you L: am as interested (as) you in protecting ‘that - part of it if there were some way of having part of the cake and _~ - eating part of it, so that you do not lose the one or the other but to ¢. work out some vehicle -- a way in getting the substantive information. ‘loose but protecting people involved. There may be ways to do that if we put our minds to it. Let me talk to Clare and see what really ~~. ~ I will not do anything except with her without your permission, ee _NOTE: Mr. Colby: tried to call Mrs. Luce on 29 Octobex, but could not reach a _ her. He contacted her on 31 October (see separate notes) Ls
13-00000 a! Telephone Conversation Between Mr. Colby and Clare Boothe Luce at As 07 on Friday, 31 October 1975 (this transcript was typed on 22 December 1978 ; from steno notes of Barbara Pindar) Mr. Colby: I got the Restless Youth for you. And I called Justin McCarthy. We hada long chat. He does not want me ‘to do anything about it, but I said you put me in an awful position. (Note: The "you' there refers, I believe, to McCarthy.) I understand what you mean about -- his strong manner of talking. I think both of us are (hung?) witha rather tantalizing story. ee Mrs. ‘Luce: If I had not known the guy for 25 years, 4 would take him, much less seriously. - ae ne Mr. colby: “The only real point is the thing 2 about the tapes and the photos ; and - . the allegation about the FBI, I tried to {argue ?} him into figuring out some way i in getting rid of those but keeping himself out Of the act. . Mrs. ‘Luce: ‘He called me . back and said he talked with you and that you ‘left . him ina box, and I think he feels now that there is some kind of a _, question of conscience involved. He said, "Iam going to let youand © Bill Colby ¢ decide what i is best to do. " aa a , Mr. Colby: I said I would be. in touch with 5 you and try § to 0 figure « out _ something 7 Loa sensible, Mrs. Luce:” why don't we “suggest that he bring you. or me -- perhaps he feels . Safer with me -- ~ the tapes and Photos | if he ba 8 copies of them. CB tay Mr. Colby: And then, you Pa ss ‘them over to Schweiker. Bo - Mrs. Luce: “And let them decide, and I will ‘maintain his ¢ cover -- “he keeps ':) saying it is not worth it to him after all these years to blowthat -- .: the paradox, he tells me he is going to have to write a book (and '... whether he is indeed going to?) so that he is not altogether a crackpot, ' On the other hand, what he is doing.is sufficiently crackpot. He is” '. taking care of broken- down animals from his entire area. However, — '_° Mr. ‘Colby: I think that isa good idea, You, say that you and I have talked, and _we are all ina kind of box at this point, and we really in conscience "‘cannot sit on this stuff -- all these charges that there is remaining _ evidence that (can't read next word) was held backand disappeared
13-00000 a Mrs. Luce: (Iam (going: to ignore it if Schweiker comes | to me. a z into the FBI, and maybe the way to doit is for him to provide it to | you, and you to Schweiker, and then I would just as soon drop out ~~ it does not really have much to do with me -- and in that way you would protect him from Schweiker, and you would say you got it from a friend -- and the source is whatever he and you agree on, ; Mrs. Luce: I will do that. Mr. Colby: I think that is ‘the best thing to do. If he does not ‘buy that, I do not . know what we do about Schweiker. re oe, sy NOTE: The conversation continued, but | it did not F pertai in to this s subject.
13-00000 VY Lee . SECRET MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy. Director for Operations © SUBJECT . > Senate Select-Committee on_Intelligence — Request. :to’ the Deputy. Director for Operations D704 fe o) Either: Sis CYR An Aiea teres Me het “ i SAS. 4 Ate Coors, Attached, in response to the Senate Select Committee request of 27 October 1975, are separate. memoranda on the > DRE and several Cuban exiles. ye Té Latin America Division Attachments SECRET £2 (MPDET \ Ch BY O25231 vee
13-00000 SUBJECT: Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE, Students' Revolutionary Directorate) The DRE was founded by a group of students at Habana University in 1954 as an instrument of opposition to the regime of President Fulgencio- BATISTA. The original members of this group were also members of the Habana University Student Federa- tion (FEU). Several leading members of the DRE were killed by Cuban authorities during and following the attack on the Presidential Palace, Habana, in March 1957. The remaining DRE leaders, as of 1958, were in exile. The DRE worked as a secret underground organization in Cuba, generally in Habana, laying plans and making preparations. The theory of the DRE was that success of the revolution depended on quick and efficient elimination of BATISTA which Fidel CASTRO's forces at that time could not achieve alone. The DRE finally turned against CASTRO on the issue of communism. As of March 1962 the DRE was receiving $9,000 a month from the Agency for salaries of 55 assets in Miami, Florida, and $2,000 a month for overhead costs. The DRE's overseas program. (AMBARB's) at that time received $12,400 a month from the Agency. Agency support to the DRE was terminated by mid-1967.
Julio FERNANDEZ Molino (No crypt) DPOB: 23 March 1934, Havana 201-752511 Subject was of interest to AMWORLD program as a radio operator in 1964. A PRQ Part I was submitted to Headquarters ‘by JMWAVE, but there was no follow-up, and Subject was not hired. He had previously been associated clandestinely with RESCATE (anti~CASTRO). group in Cuba. He came to U.S. as exile in May 1964. In 1966, he lived at 430 SW llth Ave., Miami. Julio FERNANDEZ Bencomo . (No crypt) an -— DPOB: 10 April 1917, Havana : 201-742497 Received POA 14 January 1964, which cancelled 24 February 1964, because he was not interested in employment with CIA Since salary was insufficient. He signed secrecy agreement and was terminated without prejudice. He took SGSWIRL 10 January 1964. No derog, but he had told his wife and one Cartos MARQUEZ that he would be working for CIA. He was originally recruited for AMWORLD by one Pedro BLANCO, and was to be used as PM asset on a CIA vessel. Julio FERNANDEZ Gonzalez (AMOT-99) DPOB: 10 May 1935, Havana 201-299222 He was employed by the Intelligence and Security Commission of the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (AMIRON/AMBRUSH) for about two months in 1961. He was brought into it by Julio PASCUAL Abril. He stated in a letter to Hernan HENRIQUEZ Lorca, anti-CASTRO Cuban in Madrid who informed the FBI (who told us in memo dated 2 November 1961) that he “was about to take a trip to Cuba to take material to anti-CASTRO elements, trip being financed by CIA." He received POA 10 May 1961 for use as member of AMOT Admin Staff. File does not say who dropped from it, but when last contacted was working for Dixie Lily Products Company (a wholesale grocery outfit) as an accountant at $50 weekly in December 1961. POA cancelled 24 July 1962.
1380000 Luis FERNANDEZ-ROCHA Rodriguez (Formerly AMTOPIC-2, AMHINT-53) DPOB: 3 May 1939, Havana 201-316766 POA granted 18 April 1962. According to file, he quit -his job as Secretary General of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantel (DRE) in July 1964 to pursue his medical studies. He was paid his final salary payment of $425 on 1 September 1964 under the DRE project. He was to do some unwitting work for JMHOPE, Swan Island propaganda broadcasting, and WIBALDA. There is no further indication in file that he was terminated, no quit claim, no OA or POA cancellation. However, there is no information on his use since 1964. Per document dated” 7 June 1965, he was studying at University of Miami and working as switchboard operator for Cuban Catholic Children's program in Miami. According to Cuban Families Yearbook of 1974, Dr. Luis FERNANDEZ Rocha living at 6021 W. 14th Lane, Hialeah, Florida, 33012 with wife and four children. He became naturalized U.S. citizen on 15 September 1967. Julio FERNANDEZ Travejo (No crypt) DPOB: 10 August 1934; Havana 201-297828 POA requested for use as PM trainee 21 March 1961. POA cancelled 4 April 1962. FBI memo dated 14 December 1961 notes that he told FBI of CIA financial support to Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) and to Antonio VARONA, one of its leaders, to the tune of "Six million dollars." Subject told FBI he himself belonged to group led by Rolando MASFERRER which NOT getting CIA support. Subject visited FBI 21 November 1960 after incident in which some paramilitary trainees of MASFERRER's group on No Name Key in Florida had come to FBI's attention. That group was called "Ejercito Nacional Cubano."
13-00000 Jose Antonio LANUZA One Jose LANUSA was a leader of the DRE, residing in * Miami, Florida, in November 1963. At that time, he was providing information (does not say to whom) on the "Commandos L,"' an anti-CASTRO organization. Not clear whether he is identified with the following LANUZA. Jose Antonio LANUZA (on microfiche) 201-339258 Only information in file is that Subject is a Cuban citizen who in 1962 was living at 1705 SW 3rd Ave., Miami. He is the Subject of Inter-Source Registry No. 9518. | According to a document dated 1 November 1968, "SD 16658 is terminated without prejudice by the Department of the Army, and any additional information should be referred to the Army Source Registry.'' A note in the file also said that there was no present contact with Subject, dated 29 October 1962. No traces Justin MacCarthy
13-00000 ea 30 November 1976 .. MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Comments on Ronald KESSLER's Article: "CIA Withheld Details of OSWALD Cal1," which Appeared in the Washington Post of 26 November 1976 The following. comments are keyed to the attached Washington Post article, i.e., the paragraph numbers below correspond to the paragraphs as numbered in the margin of the xerox of the article: 1.. COMMENT: While CIA knew that a man identifying him- self as Lee OSWALD had been in touch with the Soviet Embassy by telephone on 1 October 1963, this information had no unusual Significance until 22 November 1963 when President Kennedy's assassination occurred. At that time an intensive review was made by the Mexico City Station of conversation transcripts pre- pared on the basis of the 1 October telephone intercept. These transcripts had been reported to Headquarters and disseminated to the interested members of the intelligence community (as a former Marine, OSWALD was a Navy and FBI case, and potentially of inter- est to the Department of State). This review turned up “matches", t.e., Similar materials intercepted on 27 and 28 September 1963. These were reported by cable to Headquarters on 23 November 1963. There is no indication in the transcripts that Lee Harvey OSWALD tried to make any "deal" with the Soviet Embassy as claimed jin - - the Washington Post article. Analysis based upon actual voice comparison could not be made because the tapes, in accordance with the normal practice,. had been erased for re-use. The monitor was able to recall some- thing of the voice characteristics from memory, however. He could recall the very poor Russian spoken by OSWALD, for example. 2. COMMENT: This statement is not substantiated by our files. 3. COMMENT: The information regarding the 1 October 1963 - contact with the Soviet Embassy -- received in Headquarters on 9 October -~ was disseminated on 10 October 1963 to the Department .
13-00000 of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.a A copy of the 10 October 1963 dissemination was made available to the Warren Commission on 24 March 1964. (See Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 24 March 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: CIA Dissemination of In- formation on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 10 October 1963.) On 16 October 1963, our Chief of Station sent a memorandum to the American ambassador on the subject of Lee OSWALD's contact with the Soviet Embassy. The original of this memorandum was routed to the ambassador, the minister, the counselor for political affairs, the regional security officer. A copy was sent to the legal attache, naval attache, and the I8Ns. , In April 1964, Messrs. COLEMAN, SLAWSON and WILLENS, staff representatives of the Warren Commission, visited the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Our Station then indicated that the three men already knew "all about" the telephone conversations OSWALD had. According to the Memorandum for the Record of 11 April 1964, the three men reviewed the product from the tele- phone tap operation for the days 27, 28 September and 1 October 1963 when Lee OSWALD contacted and visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They made a "schedule" of OSWALD's activities as far as possible for these days from this source. Note: They were shown English translations of the product, or "take", as it was called. (HMMA 23249, 14 April 1964: This document, in a sani- tized and declassified version was made available to the public under provisions ‘of the FOIA in March 1964 as Document Number | 274 and in September 1976 as Document Number 658) See follow- ing: a. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 3] January 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963. b. Letter to Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans, dated 10 February 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. ot oo c. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 February 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, September 28 to October 3, 1963.
13-00000 _ 4. COMMENT: See comments in Paragraph 3, above. « 5. COMMENT: The Agency disseminated the information concerning OSWALD's contact with the Soviet Embassy on 1 Octo- ber to the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service on 10 October 1963. On 23 November 1963 the Agency disseminated to the FBI the transcripts of the tele- phone calls made on 27, 28 September, 1 October, and 3 October 1963. (The latter call, it was determined, did not pertain to OSWALD.) (See CSCI-3/778,829, dated 26 November 1963.) On 23 November 1963, the Agency disseminated ta the FBI information relating to OSWALD s contacts with the Cuban and Soviet Embas- Sies in Mexico City. 6. COMMENT: OSWALD's alleged offer of information and suggestion that the Russians pay his way to the Soviet Unian does not appear in Agency transcripts of OSWALD's telephone conversations with the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. 7. COMMENT: OSWALD was in no sense "under investiga- tion” (before 22 November 1963). None of the facts of his trip to and stay in the USSR and return to the United States, 1959- 1962, were known to the Mexico Station before 10 October 1963, when the bare bones of his biography were forwarded by Headquar- ters to it in response to a Station cabled report of 8 October 1963 which forwarded, on a routine basis, what appeared to be. a contact by an American for a visa to Cuba in transit to the USSR. It should be pointed out that the voice intercept cover- age was not processed in "real time". The means of acquisi- tion and the volume of the information precluded anything but the spot reporting of items judged by the monitor to be of more than ordinary interest. Full texts of selected items required a full transcription and: full translation. One of the "trig- gers" that normally operated to focus and accelerate more speedy review and reporting of this kind of raw intelligence was the mention of a name. This was what occurred in the second of two conversations on 1 October.with the Soviet Embassy, during which the speaker said he was "Lee OSWALD". This was the first time that the name OSWALD appeared in the intercepts and was report- ed by the Station to Headquarters (8 October 1963). Had, at any time, a person telephoned the Soviet - Embassy, identified himself, and offered information in ex- _change for a trip to the Soviet Union, it would have triggered
13-00000 an immediate reaction by the monitor and the Station -- first, to identify the speaker; second, to report the infor- mation to Headquarters; and third, to step up technical and photographic surveillance. 8. COMMENT: No comment. 9. COMMENT: Tapes were not “routinely destroyed". Tapes were erased after transcription had been made and re- used. Full transcripts of calls made on 28 September 1963 and 1 October 1963 were forwarded to Headquarters on 23 Novem- ber. The person who processed the transcripts was identified in the cable. There is no indication in the transcripts that OSWALD offered information or that any omissions were made which might have contained that information. ~ 10. COMMENT: No comment. Yi. COMMENT: Files do not support this statement. 12. COMMENT: Files do not support this statement. °73. COMMENT: The information "given byt DURAN" is Sup- ported by her int interrogations. 14. COMMENT: "OSWALD later referred in.a letter to ‘meetings’ he had in the Soviet Embassy." Although KESSLER chooses not to give details, this statement is in reference _ to a letter OSWALD wrote on 9 November 1963 to the Consular Division of the Soviet Embassy in Washington. (Commission Exhibit No. 15, Vol. XVI of the Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.) 15. COMMENT: No additional comment. 16. COMMENT: With regard to the press statement that "CIA claimed it did not know of most of OSWALD's activities in Mexico City until after the assassination": this is true, CIA did not know of his activities, other than those revealed in the intercepts. It should be noted that after the dissemination on 10 October 1963 of the 1 October 1963 contact, no requests were received from the dissemination customers for further in- . formation or follow-up. Without some customer interest being expressed, particularly from the Navy, the FBI or the Department
13-00000 é of State, who had the greatest interest in OSWALD at the time, there would have been little motivation for the Station to in- dependently pursue such a tenuous CE lead. 17. COMMENT: The discussion in this paragraph of the article rests on assumptions and allegations developed earlier in the article, followed by comments by Messrs. BELIN and SCHWEIKER, apparently based in turn on information provided them by reporters. No further comment seems relevant, beyond -those comments made earlier. 18. COMMENT: Is BELIN here referring to Gilberto ALVARADO Urgate? If so, information regarding OSWALD provided by ALVARADO was passed to the Warren Commission as attachments to a memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964, from , Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans... (See also Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 4 June 1964, from Richard HELMS; Subject: Information Developed on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. This memorandum became Commission Exhibit No. 3152 contained in Vol. XXVI of | Warren Commission report. ) . 19. COMMENT: We do not know what BELIN actually said to the reporters, when, or in response to what. We believe, how- ever, this may be referring to BELIN's letter of 15 April 1975. to E. Henry. KNOCHE of CIA. BELIN at that time was Executive Director of the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission). In his letter, BELIN refers to the photograph of an American male and the question whether or not this male was Lee Harvey OSWALD. He continues: , "The CIA and the Warren Commission both determined that the picture was not of Lee -Harvey OSWALD and that the picture was taken. after OSWALD left Mexico. City. - - “Although portions of this record have _ ‘been released to the public, other portions have remained classified because of concerns by the CIA at the time that a release of the full picture might disclose sources and methods which the CIA felt were not in the national interest to disclose at that time. In light of the false allegations about the assassination of President Kennedy and the WF
13-00000 false allegations of CIA involvement, I « fee] that it would be appropriate to re- consider whether or not the entire matter can be fully disclosed at this time." An interim reply was forwarded on 23 April 1975 by E. Henry KNOCHE, Assistant to the Director, CIA. On 2 May: 1975 a review was completed of Agency holdings regarding the photograph of the unidentified individual in Mexico City pub- lished by the Warren Commission. This review also included knowledge of OSWALD's contacts with the Cuban and Soviet Embas- sies obtained from telephone tap information and interrogations of Silvia DURAN, a Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy. On 13 May 1975 two summaries of the above review, one classified and one unclassified, were forwarded to BELIN by the Agency. Attachment: Article 6
13-00000 fe Ab. : 5 : Wa : We tanseript to either the FBI. or ‘the Lf} Warren Commission, © enemas: [ Instead, the- Cty gave the: FBI ‘tn is > . Ry Ronald Kessler Singtos Posy Stall Writer September, Har vey Qs: anes Commission a transeript of the taped “eonversation’ bub for Wnesplained rea sons falled ta include in the transcript vig SuEgestion that me Russians would conversation was Satere eD vecorded by the Central hh Agency at the time, But it was if turned over to the FRE: msidl ity for investi. : and it was not Warren Com- tigation of thet: Union, the Warren Commission that it > learned of most of Oswald's activities 7 in Mexico City only after the assas- sination, The fact is, newever, that the CIA. monitored and tape. recorded "3 fs bis conversation with both the Rus- quest! on es Why {sian and Cuban embassies in Mexico .| City in the fall of 1953, before Ken e CIA telephon Jmedvis deoth, conversation in 7 Tt was the 1¢ CIA's belief that the two contents of {he have been verk, 9 the Spy business and that, specifi gten Post, The ~ ,caily, they were operational bases for Hag aiso verified that the CIA ,- intelligence activities directed af, tho to turn over the complete | United States, ’ -embassies were heavily iny -olved in sination ‘of October, 1963, only ‘a brief report say- . 55 ing Oswald’ had? made contact with the Russians. J It gave she Warr en -§ Oswald's offer of information and his. tito. pay als way, to, tne Soviet The Post has al so “aclermined that’. . the CIA, for unexplained reasons, told - "So, ‘with ‘the fall cooperation of the’ Mexican government, CIA wiretaps -f{ were Installed en teleph one lines go-. _ing into beth embassies... - The ClA was especially interested -in U.S, citizens. who rade contact . with the emba asics. . Thus, when Oswald showed. ‘ip in Moxieo. Clty in ite September and teiephoned {ho Russian embassy, hi conversation. was speked. ap from he ; wiretap, A transeript-was made and-’ citgula ited in'the CIA. offices in the Ame rican embassy in Mexico City. “Tne‘station chief at that time was - the late Winston M. Scolt; who per- sonaily reviewed all transcripts ema- nating from wiretaps on Soviet bloo installations. “ “The Oswald transcript, according to a CIA“ fransiator who worked with Seott, aroused a lot of interent: “rey usually pieked up the trans- eripts the next day,” he said, This they wanted right away.” nat that transcript contained ‘ts Sie 2 mati of some dispute, and the CIA — says it reulinely-destroyed the tape — | i Pe beatae! be fore the assassination, But some LES Ita RVEY OSA See OSWALD, AT, Col. 1 : - tes telephoned Soviet em. 210 See ee err ETE i» entree TE SE REPS, AON 9 M ah. NIHSWM I
13-00000 OSWALD, From AL. / or movie wi saw the tray nser ript hienrd ise tape nefere the assassin. | Gion reecil that Oswald was trying to’ a deal, ok : : of thom is David A. Phillips, a ner CIA officer, who now none ssoclation of Retired Intellig & leading dotender ; an [2 pated fo be Is City at the time. | transcript revealed, Paillips re. ° i j that Oswald told the Soviet’ ‘ v4 Sas cssyi “IT have jaformation you ‘ would be interested in, and I knows i you can pay my way? to Russia, nn! H ine stenographer who typed up the | transcript and the transiator wo pre vared it nad similar recollections, | “Ao gald he had some information - ; » to tell them,” the tynist said in an 12 interview in Arexico, “tis main con- corn wes getting to one of the two : L. wties [Russia or Cuba] and he 16 ‘ poy for it, He said ae to. them, . ’ ¥ - The Warren Commission later -con Seu A UR © uo | i cluced the Russians and Cubans were ; ves vocals tatk with Cewald | - not much impressed by Oswald, This {7° 7+. | Te, view is supported by Sylvie Duran, | would take three to four months to », °> & Mextean eltisen whe worked in the | process, Informed of-this, Duran seid, Cuhan embassy at the time of 'Os- Oswald “got really angry and red. +7 wald's visit, She talked to Oswald on | re ya s gesti¢ulating. Turan said she ~° Sept, 27, 1863, and recalls the mech Tf hog to call for help from the Cuban © SB a sore otal, oo consul who got into a shoutin ag mateh : na joint interview in ntexico city with Oswald and teld him to get out “4 with this reporter. and Post special. | Duran said she nover saw him a gain, , ' 8 ca “ 5, Duran “TFiowever, Duran's story covered on Diy, 7 i a the firat day ef Oswald's five-day” ; : HG ay stay in Mexioe City. Oswald later re- | ( Rene ee mens tO stow ne | ferred in a letter ‘o ‘maatings’ he | ' a ‘friend’ of the Cutan ovaluttion, had tite Soviet Embassy. i Among other things, he claimed to be = ad in the e_Sovieh 2m wnt he ' a member of the American Commu How -interested the CIA was in informed Oswald avel to Russia he Fi Din an said oh wa lynne PROCS ey Te 4 . Phillips was sta. - Oswald's dealings ‘vyitn the two ¢m- bassies is uncertain. | 0s | The translator and typ ist avno hans: i dled the transeript of ins intercepted - conversation . recalled that. the level’ ef interest was high, Sut tho CIA's - own actions lead to a differant con: clusion, Ce The ageney walled until Oct, 10, des 1663, to netify the PEI of Os Wwald’s aa_—_—A_—ervs Pog the matter, and similar to th ‘ ” te activities, And its teletyped report © Nears stationed ab (he time in lis made no mention of Oswald's offer City enid the CIA yomave ‘ht relationsnin wilh oo uwald “thet trip to Russia or of his atte tompts +O souzht to conceal. The CIA bes: travel to Cuba and Russia, “On Oe aioe tuys ® aheue heads tober 1, 1963,” the tel etype message en ae sald, ig reliable and scnsitive source benvlG WwW. in Mexico reported thatan American _ sistant counsel male, who identified himseif as Lee Fa swald, contacted the Soviet Embassy ° in Mexi co City inquiring whether the embassy had received any news | concerning a telegram whien nad been ° UT} rea conversations : ‘sent to Washing ton.” mantion, if would & ..That was strictly 2 routine hendlin ng faat Qo standard reports made to the ‘PBI at Sen, that time on other contacts with the whe communists by American eifizens in mitte ilexico. said Evon after Kennedy’s ass essination, taxon the CIA failed to turn over to the = fecus Warren Commission the full trange mM cript of the telephone intercept ithad «conv made in-Mexico City, Oswald's offer In of information to the Russians in Ox. wh change for passage was omitted the transorint, and tae CIA t did not know of raost of Os: activ ities in Mexico City until the assassination. Tae significance ‘of the CIA a is difficult to assess. The FEI F fail of 1863 was already showins tormittent interest in Oswaid jomight or might not have intensifies z rat interest if it had been told of inte Cswald’s conversations, ~ . Ral ‘Whether the new info imation would ’ ave aifected the Wan ion’s delibera 3. on rad 3 20 a ‘Ah i ein * P] £4" “Bye * 1 3 a 3° > ree b tlens is om quostion, The gated the possi ab Ke) I . spiracy and concluded there was no ‘avience to shaw Oswaid (acted bs oonals of a forcign power, ; Nevertheless, there is vet no ¢x- planation forthe ClA’s handiing of Os val *s conversations, Tne CIA to. Gay 3 renuses to comment, saying if vowld not 2 e appropriate in the light “of an impending investigation by the ‘House Select. Committee on nations. a When asked if ¢ the nev’s setlon hey could exph some CIA of reg. Piney
13-00000 THE Los ANGELES TIMES ; . I January: 1977 . os - , ne ES Districk of Columbia's congtéssiona} dels wits} and to the Warren Commission, which cone" gale and the chairman of the King subcom cluded that Oswald Was the assassin and miltee Said that ne decision had been mad had acted alone. Ded eee on accepting Ray's offer, -.. Me a, _ Sprazue.told a Press conference that it - However, Sprague indicated that 1 prob: _¥as impossible without more information _ ably would be accepted, Sse ate © know why the CLA had censored its own’ - _ Any and all people Who haye releven -Hessage,° ee vt Fy Information will bs interrogated,” Spragu: -_ But he said the incident Taised twointer- ‘said, | - Dg ts a sting. questions: what might the other. : ina personal statement sled jn cos. Wencies have done differently if they had junction with the report, Ren, Henry}, - - €€N more fully informed and why did the Gonzalez (D-Tex.), who is to become cor: =: Assassinations Panel: Fi Issues Report to House wIA decide to remove-“infarmation ‘that * mittee chairman jn the new Yeer; said z : Sede pe a2" "1 was considered pertinent enough to be ut thorough investigation was needed tg en. >i BY NORMAN KEMPSTER °°, inan initial draft of the message?”*.7 > > i. f Ser hwidreds of Pressing questions; *, oe eo aH ye . as ca aan . *. «* »! wen a sgul : nat ey . . gg! oe .- oe wk 2 rime Stat parE tes “3,)- ¢- There were ‘no firm conclusion; in the * Gonzalez said that the Commilteé Fiore] # * WASHINGTON Tipe’ CTA, With.” ‘Teport, which the 12-member committee -40 discover whether former FBI Directoy J. iheld from: the ‘FBI for almost’ two. : amonths’in 1933 information’ that Lee “Haryay Oswald had talked wi aaa . ban-and Soviet: officials about his de- | :Sire to visit those Countries,"a House ;Cominittee reported Friday32 PERE CH | so dhe Select Committes on Assassin...’ tations'indicated in.a report ta the full = “Howse that its investigation of the. smurder of zésident John F. Kennedy ; .. Would focus early in 1977 ona trip | re after the first three months of its. Ecgar Hoover's how well-known animasi_- “Investig inta the murders of Kennedy ty toward King had affected the FBI's i. sand Civil rights. eader Dry-Martin Luther” ‘vestigation of the &Ssassinations 2p) | Le 'sh| "King, 7". CDE gos SF iD LE NES However, Gonzalez Said, the CoMmrnilles's a Technically, thé: cortfalttes “soos ‘out of :..wark could 80 well heyond . business Tuesday with the cad of the ses. . “Kennedy and King, .,.. ciated eo sion of Congress in which it Was.formed, * = - the committee’ can shed Hight on the ‘The purpose of the year-end Teport was to larger Jssue of Political murder and yj: ‘urge the.new Congress to reestablish the 2 olence,” ‘Gonzalez said. “We Should rst "Committee and to give it.$6.5 million to pay forget that President Ford had his. a: “for the first year of What. could be 4 two-'s narrow escapes; no member of the Hous: PieKAS vty cee "get ithat’ the . Capito} # Building the killings of a ~ Oswald had made‘to*Mexico City ‘in- op yet ft = MOE peared icy. Chie? Counse ichar A..Spresue ‘ 89 the three months sincs itsestablish: 2 C Gee ow ee tN GE Bedi, 2 _ = Said’, that the’ committee’ staff had 4 iment, the cose mont has initiated prelias °° He. said the ‘committee's ultimele tes learned ‘that a CIA message describ- ; ions 3 eq 7) inary investigations into ‘new and pre~ i but why find out n t Just what ‘Vicusly unpursued leads ia both. Ssassina~ | AUC WAY. 7.3! ei tions,” the Teportsaid, ior sy Lag WE ie ey * The committee said its staff investizator ‘had recently “questioned a. former CIA: "agent-who had.“personal knowledge". of | Oswald's visits:to: the Soviet and Cuban’ embassies in Mexico: As 4 result of that in. ~terview,'. the reort’ said, staff members: . Were sent to Mexico: whare they found and questioned additional witnesses: CRED ENIS J These witnesses had never haan Sought] / Out before-hy: any investion'iva body, not) Pros 28 r, The CLA discovered Oswald's. pre-.. eSeicelatithe -embassies~ through-its* * routine Surveillance of those facilities : Because: Oswald had once ‘defected to gtke Soviet Union, the CIA and FBI o784 deen interested in his activities: | * withstanding the fact that they had impor~i! Sered-before the Kennedy:assassi Uant laformation ‘concerning statem ents hy"! ae eee Bee Pea al est. Lee Harvey: Oswald in Mevieg “Within-60- Gere CLA's? €cision.to.withhold in-*; days of the assassination of President Ken: » ommation, Was reversed shortly after . nedy,” the report said ~~. SERS coe et Sgt, see? SEO Cap. vy, 4he report said‘also that the cosmids Slaffhad intétviewed'a person Who assert- ed that he had discussed tha King murder j ‘With Jameg Fart Ray, who pleaded guilty . to the crime. The unidentified witness said ; “that Ray had told. him about contacting an v° - BSs0Ciate in @ to receive further in- »Structions. The Story, which was told tore. ‘porters by a committea member: , Weeks ago, hag not been Verified. - ” Ine letter to New York Times Columnist PRennedy.was Killed. The ageney:re-,” Pported Oswald's -efforts to Visit. Cuba | sand the Soviet Union, both to the FBI. : “Anthony Lewis, Ray Offered this week to j “testlly under oath at a Committee hearing, 3 ‘ But Sprague and Walter P. Fauatroy, thes ~
13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM - : John H. Waller . Inspector General Washington Post Story of 13 November 1976 "Oswald’Reportedly Told Cubatis . ‘of Plan to Kill JFK" | SUBJECT l. The Post story on Saturday states that a J. Edgar Hoover __memorandum reported that Lee Harvey Oswald told Cubans in advance of his plan to kill President Kemmedy. The attached package was prepared by Russ Holmes of CI Staff. It is for- warded for your information. 2. A copy of the Washington Post story has been added» to the package. John H. Waller Attachments: a/s SDBreckinridge:js (16 Nov '76) Distribution: Original - Addressee w/atts 1- IG Chrono ; 1 - IG Subject (Task Force File) A. w/f/attsin above file AL - SDB Chrono 1 - Seymour Bolten w/atts 1 - John Waller w/atts 1 - Andrew Falkiewicz w/atts
13-00000 - ‘ _ , ‘ POLL ats . : & - 13 November 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Cl Staff FROM a Russell B. Holmes SUBJECT ‘*: "Oswald Reportedly Told Cubans of Plan . a -.to Kill JFK" by John M. Goshko, Washington Post, 13 November 1976. oo 1. The memorandum"...by the late FBI Director — J. Edgar Hoover saying that.Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly ‘told Cuban officials in advance of President Kennedy's . assassination that he intended to kill the President". - is cited in Commission Exhibit No. 3152, Volume XXVI, of the Hearings Before the President's Commission on the | Assassination of President Kennedy pp. 154-157 (See Tab A). CE No. 3152 is cited in support of statements made by the Warren Commission in it's Report on pages 307-308 (see ‘Tab B). This memorandum is based upon information which _ the Agency had passed to FBI Headquarters and it’ Ss —repre- sentative in Mexico City.. — 2. On 26 November 1963, the Mexico City Station reported to Headquarters that a Nicaraguan named Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte (referred to as "D" in the Warren Report) came to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. He claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in. Mexico City on 18 September 1963 when a man he later recognized to be Lee Harvey Oswald received $6,500 in cash to kill an important person in the United States. (See Tab A for complete memorandum. ) . 3. The information obtained from ALVARADO was passed: in Mexico City to the Legal Attache, Mr. Clark D. Anderson, by our. Chief of Station on 29 November 1963 (See Tab C). S: Par
13-00000 A short dissemination (DIR 85744) alerting customs agencies to ALVARADO's allegation, was made on 29 November 1963 to the White House, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of State (see Tab D). A second dis- semination (DIR 87667) was made on 7 December 1963 (see Tab E). (NB: In the latter dissemination, mention was . made that a representative of the FBI participated in (the. interrogation of ALVARADO. ) 4. On.13 December 1963, the Agency forwarded under CSCI 3/779, 136 a translation of the Mexican police Y interrogation ‘report on Gilbarto ALVARADO Ugarte (see Tab F). 5. tm sunmary, 1 the Agency and the FBI knew of _ ALVARADO's allegations concerning Oswald, which were sub- . sequently retracted by ALVARADO himself as being false. In addition, the FBI was able to prove that Oswald was Still in New Orleans at the time ALVARADO claimed he saw Oswald in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. The information was forwarded. to the Warren Commission by the Agency and the FBI as evidenced by its inclusion in the Warren Commission Report. and accompany ing exhibits. Russell B. Hoimes
13-00000 “Sm”. = hentai henaerivarateieneietel os =, toerets vw aa " Cuba ans 0 By John M. “Goshko' : " Wrebinston Post Stale Welier “7 The _Justice ~ has discovered a 1994 memo- "-xandum bp the late FBI Di-. fe, Edgar Hoover Saye: , - ing that Lee Harvey Oswald... pecter ‘reportedly. told Cuban offic, *. . lals in advance of President . - Kennedy’s assassination that’ “he intended to, kill the Presi” ‘dent, : oR! Seen! Informed : sources said yes “terday that Hoover, in the — memo, attributed this infor- : ‘smation to-a highly reliable - - Informant who claimed to - “have been told it personally’ _ by, Cuban ‘Prime Minister - Fidel Castro. - " Castro,- according to the “'memo,: reportedly ‘said: he ; Thad been advised by officials | oo a ae of ‘the Cuban embassy in ° * Mexico City. that ‘they had - > met with Oswald before the : Noy.. 22, 1963, assassination “of - “Kennedy in Dallas and” ' that Oswald informed them oft his, intentions. : Bret. woe ge _ Oswald Rep orted i Plant to Kil iy F Ke Cobar’ eribassy in “Mexlco a Department ; oe, a7 7 ae uy Ete rcenyawonn ime ape . LEE HARVEY OSWALD errs - Hoover memo o found - The assertions reported in ~ the Hoover memo go further :than any information cur- ‘rently on the. record. con- cerning alleged statements made by Oswald in. a prey- oe ously ¢ disclosed Nisit to: ‘the ter stroke .against. CIA ef. ~* tion may have been the work s . Warren -Commission, ap- WAS thiNGinw 1S Nov ‘Ye s swey City prior to the murder of | Kennedy. . : ' There has iéen persistent surmise about a possible in- volvement of the Castro gov- - eament in. the’ murder of - Kennedy, possibly as a ‘coun-. forts to: assassinate the’ Cuban leader... .. . There has also been’ spec: ulation that the assassina- ““of Cubari-exlle terrorists. ! have been fourth-or fitth- _with informants of doubtful reliability: ..° *- vote " ‘The. Hoover memo ‘was described by the sources’ as { having been addressed.to the”: ‘pointed by former President Johnson to investigate the ; assassination. But _ former commission staffers said yes: .terday that. they. had no; recollection: of ever having | : _See OSWALD, AS; Gol. ie semmanespemeoe eden i - However, all of these reports | a . whand accounts originating. — oa Ces
13-00000 * Memo Citts ‘if ormanl sates On Osi wald. Cuban Link | 7 a _ OSWALD, From AL received ‘such a memo or having been oo ia told by Hoover or other FBI officials _ oy of. the information init. . Officials of the Justice. Department’ - ; : aiid the FBI refused any comment on .- the memo’s existence or its contents, ‘and other sources familiar with the _ : assassination investigation said they . had no knowledge cof whether it act-* Te “pally was sent to the Warren Commis: * ‘eee “- * Duran. She reportedly has stid that -1- wit? she dealt with Oswald only about his _ “ unsuccessful attempts to obtain avisa:' . sion, . . _ “Those sources ‘who tald’ ‘The Wash ington Post about the document said: “its existence apparently had been un- known until ‘recently... It was discov- ered, the sources said, as the result of- A us _information that came to the atten- “tiom of.-the Justice Department and _ 7 that prompted. -Attorney. General Ed- 3 ward H. Levi to order 2 a | Search of FBI. * files. © +e — After. the memo was found, ‘the © sources added, Levi put a-tight clamp ~ 1 * of secrecy on the matter, and only a. . small number’ of persons In the Jus< *. the document's existence. =..4-...--+-- "are: unable te auswer such questions — “as why the memo apparently never. * _ whether the information was accurate - -.and, if so, whether Castto?was: in formed about Oswald’s intentions he’ © __ fore or after Kennedy was killed? . ” -;Documents released recently :-by” ‘the: °° GTA imder the Freedom of Informa-{ "tion Act establish that Oswald visited, | - “Mexico City less than two months be": gore the assassination and met. faere One of these CLA documésits, dated‘ _ May 5, 1964, states that prior to Octo , ber,, 1963, Oswald visited the Cuban: embassy © ‘én “two or three occasions “and was in €ontact with three alleged: “ as- Luisa Calderon. * with an embassy officlal named Siliva _to visit Cuba. yaemo as having obtained the informa- ton from Castro, Some of the SOUTCES . - memo was “unknown to me.” * tice Department and FBI know about" - se wre -As a result, the“sources- ‘said, ‘they’. : -. reached. the Warren Commission, :- - mission.” . hr officials of the Cuban ermbiassy. i- 5+ witiz offic t y. 2 hile the~burean was ‘Investigating “Cuban intelligence’ agents. identified ~ Faission “oF the CIA's : *Manuet- Vegas -“* astro : Perez and Rogelio - Tosrigvuez Lopez. = | He also is. known to have talked”! +: The sources were unable’ to identify . "the informant described in the Hoover » gald though that they believed Has an a educated guess” that it was Rolando -Cubela, a high Cuban official and Cas- - tro intimate whom -the CIA recruited ‘|i : in- 1961 and who later figuredsin Cla, i “plans to kill Castro. «|. | In the Senate intelligence commit: : "tee investigation ‘last year -it was dis- | . closed that the CTA emploved a ‘highly | ‘placed Castro government . official | with the cryptonynt AMLASH -in ef- | “farts to assassinate the Cuban leader.. ~ Cubela and ‘AMLASH were: publicly " Feported to have been the same man. “The sources also wer@ unable to say _ how Hoover came. into possession of information from an informant inside -|; Cuba, since foreign intelligence is a } CIA. rather than an FBI function. | Some said they thought the Informa: | tion had first been given to ‘the CIA,. _Wwhich then turned it over to Hoover. “jj However, John McCone, who was |! CIA director at the time, said in a tel-" ‘ éphone interview” yesterday that the {i * information reportedly in the Hoover ~ - “Itsy the first ’ve ever heard of it” ” cCone said. “It’s hard for me to. bee. Jieve that sucha memorandum ex- | “jsted without it being known to me { “and to the staff of the Warren’ Com: -j seve i -, The same point. was, made by. David’ | : Ww. Belin, | who served as onelof the-. “Warren Commission’s legal counsels..: . He said,:in a telephone. interview, ad have absolutely no ‘recollection “of sucha iemo, If such a document did ., ost T’m sure that we never saw jt.” . ‘Other documents that, have -been + * made public recently indicate that. - Hoover and top FBI officials. knew--". the Kennedy-assassination — that the” ‘CIA was exploring the possibility of. “having: Castre killed. However, Hoover ‘never. informed :the Warren Corm- S plotting against ° Pept 3 a rat os we aw "ag + oe
13-00000 Bm oop man » Ot oat PUBS BAG Wiserg ses OF WY REP MAA Feces a 2271. Se Xv, ISMAEL NONVITE wan tetephoatcatly contacted ta ha | ditort to anke an sppointaent for an interview, Us vas contacted : at telephone auabeor ES 407250, Mr, HORWITZ ecknovledged shed about oc ' throe wogks ago bo moved tix businavas grow 1108 Yeat bewrene ? Cateago, ILiinols, to 0344 North Broadway, Chicago, Fiidnois.t He atated that bis current busiacgs operatesindsy the sane Show Tine. Mr. UONELTZ acknowledged thst he hae baen known in the | tusis bueiness in Chicago under the sane ef Jack UOWARD farsany yorTae . Ur, HORWITZ stated that he would aot discucs the matter favelying JACKE QVDENSTEIM ag he wanted ne part vhatesaver 62 thig Andividual, Ur. HORYITS refusod to sako hiuself available for an iaterytow and stated he wished be had never acknowledged having knows RUDENSTELN aang yeare syo when AUBEZNSTEIN lived in Chicago. Er, DORYITS stated RUDENSTELY wag onty 9 passing soquadotance of Bis aod ho kaup notaing concerning his, . PO 30720 RCT IOC EC TST ee CC by oo AFILLIAM R, Dropenter/eby SY Dote diereted ant LLT/E4 hws devensat aonta ian aatihas cog pmasedations not deaghelsat of eo FSlo ae the erapariy ef tee 7S) Gad te aamed to Poet @yemryy OT Gad Be Gathgnis Org Bet Tp bE Gta lecied GRtalds Taer pang iy COMMISSION Exaunrr No, 3151—Continued rate AEST Aten eS Pee cate : ‘ ’ - eT CT PLONE SM NR et crmeem cnc de nesterrerecemnat Ho, 4 CENTRAL INTELL Cte, ACY . Wapmerginoes, B.0, toed fF) @ dene 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr, 2, Leg Rankda Geneval Counsel . President's Commiestan on the . ‘Aeeagalnation of President Kennedy SUBJECT: cs information Developed on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD tn Mexlee Clip . i, On 26 November 1963 a young Latin American, refersed to herein as "D", came to the U.S, Embasry in Mexles Clty. He claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in Mexice Clty on 18 September 1963 when a man he later recognised tc be Lee Harvey OSWALD received $5,500 in cash to kill an important person in the United States. =. j “ 2. "D" deacribed the elrcumatances as followst While standing dy a bathroom door about neon he gaw a group of thres persons cone vereing on # patlo a few fect sway, One was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hale, obylouely dyed, who spoke papldly in both Spanieh and Englishe He had prominent cheek bones and a noticeable sear on tha lower right elde ef Ale chine The second was a white person whom the subject had seen previously in s walting room carrying a Canadias “pacaspork., The whites person had gracn eyes, blondish halr, with o pompadour hatyda, and dark eyeglasson, The third pereon allegedly + 968 Leo Harvey OSWALD. "0" was cofnpletely convinced of thin Yrom published photay of OSWALD follewlng the escassinaticn, OSWALD was wearing & black sport coat, buttonedoup white shire ‘with ghort callay tebg, no tle, dark gray pants, and cleay eyeglsesegs ; Commission Exurorr No, 3162 ' Te ' a deat te ic areas hel wie Pehiiva nichts teat Rite atl OEE as te term eee ea gad OO a UE a le ee oe , mea " Sete ret
13-00000 on F oeibeatmnanmnalterammmn amma dpanmemnanmeiateneameammenaene sentation eptareentan oe tone dnt He hada grees passport in his pocket, wore a wrist wate’ with 6 yellow band, and eppeared te have & platod ln a ghoulder hotletere A tall Cuban Joined the group momsstarily and passed American eurrency ta the Negro. The Negre then allegediy #ald to OSWALD in English, “L want (o kill the man." OSWALD replied, “You're rol man eneugh, Lean do it. The Negro then sald in Spanteb, "S can't go with you, Lhave a lottods.” OSWALD replied, “The people are waiting for me back there.” The Negrothen gave OSWALD $6,500 in large denomination U.S, bills, saying, Thies lang much. After hearing this conversation, "D" ald that he telephoned the U.S. Embasey in Mexice City several mes on 20 September.before the arsassinatlon in an attempt te report hla beef that someone Important in the United Staten wae te be killed, bub was {inally told by poreone at the Embassy te stop wasting hls imes : : 3. "D" was haowa to this Agency as a former informant of a Latin American security service. Hie gellabitity wee considersd questionable by U.S, authorities although he had not beeg whelly giseredited, "Dt elaimed he wag {a Mexica City working agains? the Cuban Communists for hie service, She service, however” eo denied that he was acting on its behalf. While investigation Ya the United States showed tha} OSWALD could act porelbly have been in Mexice Gily on 18 Septernber (be was knows te have bees in New Orleans on both 17 and $9 September}, intensive interrogation i ished to ehake "D's"? storys & Oa 28 November 1963 the Mezteas polles interviswed Nira - : At Grat "D" peralated in hls story but on 30 November he admitted in a signed statement that his whole secount about OSWALD was ; felon, He admitted be had not saea Lae OSWALD af all ond thag + an - he bad sot eeen anybody patd money inthe Cutan Embaszy, He alse admitted he had not-teled vepeatedly to phone @ warning to” tha U.S. Embaery in Mexico Clly on 20 September os he had ‘ praviously elalmed. Instead ho had firlt comacted the U.S. Eme |. batey afer the aasassination, "D" gald thet his motive in telling this tales story wae to belp get himself admisted into the United States og that be could participate in action against Pidal Castres - He aald that he hated Castre sad thought that his atery about OSWALD, , Af balleved, would help cause the United States to bake action agalast Cealege 7 : . . oo. ba COMMISSION Mx No. 3152—Centinucd eA SR SE MoE t. 3. Following the above interrogation, "D" vetracted the cantiseelon he had made to the Moxioae wah orittea aseortiag that Ub had been extarted from Alm andere prageures He wag thes queatloned by U.S. authorities valng 2 polyzrags + Mikchines “OD woluntarily consented to the nee of this equine ment, During the quostianing it was pointed out to him that ae wae Gol being truthful, accordiag te the polygraph, tn idantifyiag « photegraphs of OSWALD as the perzom he saw in the C . Consulates He repiled that he had full {lth in the polygratie shat he would sot attempt te refute the results, and thal he ‘must have beag mletekens" La addition ho changed ble story fegerding the dzy he visited the Guban Consulate, fingUy dee clding tb tock place on Tuesday, 17 September, [way concluded Scorn the reaults of the polygraph toot that "D" bad fabricated hie story about OSWALD Ia tote, “D" hos elnes bron deported by the Meuicas sulhorities to his native countrys Aithtarl Alibre Richard Helms _ ste a vs " Commission Exurorr No, 3162—Continued Deputy Director for Plazes \ oaauendenaemmned
13-00000 TZ, ALLEGATION BT 7032 On Kovenber 25, 1063, Ta32 nade éentect with tae Valted States Inbasey at Mexico, D, Pa, and advleed the : Zolioviage : . Su4% entered Vorice Uiocalty fro Custexals on August 29, 1093, travoled to Woxico, Do Fe, and avbes manele nade contact with & Nicaraguan communist residing in Yoxico Citye. - Trowm thie contact # the vag dovelogad gay Ta39 te travel te Cubs to study guorriils wargase tactics, Me had ocengioa to vielt the Gubaa Consulate im Moxico, Dy Fe, sovoral dizsoreat tincs for the purpose of obtaiaing travel documentation gor Cuba by fursishing faise idestigicatsos pepera as & Unzican ¢ ths Ha stated that on Soptonbsr 28, 10693, he want to the Gubsa Consulate, and while sitting in the waiting. room, 2v a group of approximately oicht persons enter the Consulate ang the office of Cubsn Concul EUSEBIO AICUR. A parcon usknova to hin was aittter at AZCUS’s desk. 4 short ine kates, white eource vig atanding sear the door to the uon'e room et the Cubsa Congulate, he noticed throe mon cenvoraing & Tow foot avay from him, Qne of thom @ag a tell, thin Negro with veddigh hairy the gecond wis 3 wan gbom T32 had geos previously hoidiag w Canadian parspert in the waiting room of the Cubes Cansulstes acd the third perses was LEZ BAAYZY OSYALD. fouree atated thst a t2l% Cubes Joined the above : group nonentariiy and passed séwe Usited States currensy te the Nogro.s } oo ne following ecaversation between the Yorre and OSTALD vas overboard by gources . Kegro (im Bugiieh}i % want to uill the pane OSWALD: You're not man encughs 3 02a do Ste” —_ Comission Exmprr No, 8189—Continued \ \ ' . 4 y EEE eI meen ve! sonia iY me oy ‘| Yegre (im Spanteh}; Yean’t ce with you, YF have 7 : - B& Fee te dea, OSVALD? «The people are walking for me haek theres noe THI? stated that the Moree then gave OSTALA $8,806 fo United dtates currency ef large canontancions, gaying? “Trig font much.” Cf thin ave, $1,600 wan for extra ezpenso#e The Yogre alae Fave CS¥AlD ahowk 200 Woxican ponog, fn @ later intorvlew, source atated that the * Unkted States bank notes vere im a noall pack sbout one fourth of aa inch thick, bound with a papor bend, which the Negro broke beforg counting aug $3,600 extr Pee eer peyeontes $3, extre for expanses and $5,000 TelZ gtated that Oswald had carried 2 grees . Paasport in biw pocket, and he beliaved he sav OEMALD vearheg @ platel in @ chouldor holater, but ha esa not sure of this polnt, Me atated thet OSYALD bad long xhoos and # wrigt vateh with @ yelloveaetal band, decording to noures, OS¥YALD + _ appeared to be complotoly at homo at the Congulate and to know aad te be knows by Cubana Consulate peraonnol, ToS2 wee arrested and daterrogated by Yext eutheritleg Ga Nevenbor 20, 1063, and a copy of the interros gation reporg by the Mexican author£ttes revealed the folloviag? 4t the outest sovreo's tory generally recenbled thet vecorded above, He ropeatow to tho. dor tcan authorities the dotetig of the scons $n which he asy the Kegro, the Canadien and the Ausrican convoraing together, the delivery of the woney te the dmericas by the Kagre, and the conversatioas be everhosrds ; , fo93 advined the interviewing Xoxlean offiolal that upon geoing the photograph ef OSYALD ia the nevopapere foliewing the augagglnation of Preaident Joim 7. SEMHEDY, 3e Eopogalzes GSVALD a@ the dserican ae had geen af the Cubaa ¢ 4a excerpt frog gouree's statenant to Nexic autterithes, as tragelated from Spanish, i ay Soliows? - ° 383 oo . _. Gomnassion Exuter No, $152—Continued
13-00000 ® seoeSpontancously and after reennaidering he . . desires te atate that ihe dAmneinan te ehos he . St fvoferred in the body of Ain atatrannt and whoa wet . ° ha mow the ith of Santerbar o£ thia gear bn tha of . : Cuban Conguinte Rad a corinin renemalance, about oo Sinty per cent, $o LAG HANVXY OURALY Cangaania of the President of tha Undled Blalea}, That ° after tho anaasainntion of Peanldant S8XE0T the : witness took advantane af thin freb in hig favor ” to exploit it, Surninhing veraions auch aa those initially set forth, far the murpnan of pravouing an onergethe rosclion from (ha pulitical pedut of view on the pare of the United Btatea of dnorics agadnst the government of vine. CAUTOO AUZ and e that ha had no active other lhan the. profound . hatred he feels for conmuniium. Thak alk his Life the witners had dedicated biasnif ih combating fommunian and fe segreta At thin anaent not haviag ’ ‘accomplished Gis objective in the eenae of causing a reaction on the part of thm Anorican Goversacat ageiasi FIDE CASTOO.” 7, feesuse of the fact that subsequent to making the abovasseationsd statement te Realean authorities, source elaines that be bau changed his statencnt bocause of fear, he wag iotervicwed at considerable length a Doceaber & and G, 2863, dm Noxbeo, De Fe . After reiterating Als siorg, P92 was afforded &@ polygraph ezanination ga Mccrauer 6, 2003, Oveing the couras of the cxagination ho wags acked, “Za thie the Amorless yuu sav is she, cubase Coagulate?™ At the tiae he was shown photographs r-) HALO» . . . Esch ting Se wan aghed this gucstion, he definitsly 7 responded, "Yea," but 4¢ was noted that the polygraph indicated & "deception response” an thesd ahowors, Thesa responses and hose with seapact to others quegtiona ded to the conclusions 4bat T+J2 was & fabricator, I¢ va specifically poiated out 40 Dim tbat the polygraps sadieated that 35 wae net being 7 Commussion Excusrr No. 3162—Continued truthful in identifyisg photographs of OSYALD ae boise o2 % porsoa he sav in the Gubas for big explanation thoroaf, Sonsuikte, and be vis sated ee: Ho replged that he hed full faith fn tx ‘ ‘ A . polygraph and would not attenst to rofuta tte renattas fle _— : a wont on to say that the only auptuny “on Bo could offer vas . A that ha hed noon an Amordcaa in tha Cuban Cosculate on tee September 18, 1663, who reaomblod OSWALD, and that upon vos Soaisg the photograpa ef OSWALD in the Rowspapor, be bullt i up withia Binsol£, eithor consclourly or subcunscicusly, & complote balied that tke por fe ws carats, Serson he bid ocean in the Guba U7 Comataston Exutnrr No. 1152—Continuce 5 tert nubian seta ret Cae KARAS, TS. wane Dean sloials nee
13-00000 -? Mexico City in early September to receive money and orders for the “2. gssassination,®* that he had been flown toa secret airfield somewhere in vy ’ ornear the Yucatan Peninsula," that he might have mada contacts in - Mexico Gity with a Communist from the United States shortly = before the assassination,** and that Oswald assassinated the Presi- :>. dent at the direction of a particular Cuban agent who met with him in the United States and paid him $7,000.27 A letter was received from ‘~ someone in Cuba alleging the writer had attended a-meeting where . the assassination had been discussed as part of a plan which would soon include the death of other non-Communist leaders in the AmerL- co: cas.®" The charge was made in a Cuban expatriate publication that in -". eg speech ha delivered 5 days after the assassination, while he was under -., the influence of liquor, Fidel Castro made a slip of the tongue and said, ~ The first time Oswald was in Cuba,” thereby giving away the — fact that Ossvald had. made one or more surreptitious trips fo that veountry oT . ne Some stories linked the assassination to anti-Castro groups who +; allegedly were engaged in obtaining illicit firearms in the United : = States, one such claim being that these groups killed the President as 7’, part of a bargain with some illicit organizations who would then rn * supply them with firearms as payment.” Other rumors placed nop. * Oswald in Miami, Fls., at various times, allegedly in pro-Cuban ac- “ gh.--tivities there. ‘The assassination was claimed to have been carried ~ out by Chinese Communists operating jointly with the Cubans.” . Oswald was also alleged to have met with the Cuban Ambassador in. ’ ear for a private talk". Castro himself, it was alleged, 2 days after -- the assassination called for the files relating to Oswald’s dealings with - two members of the Cuban diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union; “the inference drawn was that the “dealings” had occurred and had "| #428 conspiratorial contact were shown to be withou i some cases the product of mistaken identification, ycis the case of “D,” a young Latin American secret agent who ap- - proached U.S. authorities in Mexico shortly after the assassination = and declared that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald receiving $6,500 to kill i the President. Among other details, “D” said that at about noon on “September 18, waiting to conduct some business at.the Cuban con- “ax, Sulate, he saw a group of three persons conversing im a patio a few “g feet away. One was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hair, obviously '. “dyed, who spoke rapidly in both Spanish and English, and another “: Was a mon he said was Lee Harvey Oswald. A tall Cuban joined the . Group momentarily and passed some currency to the Negro. The | : Negro then allegedly said to Oswald in English, “XJ want to kill the: man.” Oswald replied, “You’re not man enough, I can do it.” The Negro then said in Spanish, “I can’t go with you, I have a Jot to do.” ' Oswald replied, “The people are waiting for me back there.” The 307 -,& Mexico City restaurant and to have driven off in the Ambassador's — “;established a secret subversive relationship which continued through _ ? Oswald’s life" ‘Without exception, the rumors and allegations of t any factual basis, =). Illustrative of the attention given to the most serious allegations. | ., Ay . ' . P01, GPE ERE AORTA MED TRE ETE OO eh OOH REE On . lo ‘ . e ‘ Sean © ARDS | SOE ORE EY OG = GG FORO + ee
13-00000 CE SOREN REESE TRU EENNNN eh * stn etter Gari > 9 SABRSNONENM Oo GED GRE woe ia’, as Negro then gave Oswald $5,500 in large-denomination American bills, saying, “Chis isn’t much.” After hearing this conversation, “D” said that he telephoned the American Embassy in Mexico City severa] times prior to the assassination in an attempt to report his belief thar someone important in the United States was te be killed, but was finally told by sorneona at the Embassy to stop wasting his time. “DPD” ond his allegations were immediately subjected to intensive investigation. His former employment as an agent for 2 Latin Amen- can country was confirmed, although his superiors had no knowledge of his presence in Mexico or the assignment described by “D.” Four days after “D” first. appeared the U. S$. Government-was informed by tha Mexican authorities that “D” had admitted in writing that hi ' whole narrative about Oswald was false. He said that he had never ' seen Oswald anyplace, and that he had not seen anybody-~paid money - in the Cuban Embassy. He also admitted that he never tried to tele. phone the American Embassy in September and that his first call to '” the Embassy was after the assassination. “D” said that his motive in ~ fabricating the story was to help get himself admitted into the United States so that he could there participate in action against Fidel Castro. | . . He said that he hated Castro and hoped that the story he made up “- sould be believed and would cause the United States to “take action” against him. “Still later, when questioned by American authorities, «*)” claimed that he had been pressured into retracting his statement by the Mex- ~.. Gean police and that the retraction, rather than his first statement, "_. was false, A portion of the American questioning was carried on with the use of a polygraph machine, with the consent of “D.” When told that the machine indicated that he was probably lying, “D” said words to the effect that he “must be mistaken.” Investigation in the * meantime had disclosed that the Embassy extension number “D” said he had called would not have given him the person he said he spoke co | to, and that no ons at the Embassy—clerks, secretaries, or officers— oe had any recollection of his calls. In addition, Oswald spoke little, if any, spanish, That he could have carried on the alleged conversation _. with the red-headed Negro in the Cuban Embassy, part of which was - supposed to have been in Spanish, was therefore doubtful, “D” now ' said that he was uncertain as to the date when he saw cnomeone who looked like Oswald” at the Cuban Embassy, and upon reconsideration, ‘he now thought it was on a Tuesday, September 17, rather than Sep- tember 18,. On September 17, however, Oswald visited the Louisiana State Unemployment Commission i in New Orleans and also cashed 3 - check from the Texas Employment Commission at the Winn-Dixie . Store No. 1425 in New Orleans. On the basis of the retractions made’ by “D” when he heard the results of the polygraph examination, and on tho basis of discrepancies which appeared in his story, it was concluded that “D” was lying”? ‘Lhe investigation of the Commission has thus produced no evidence | . that Oswald’s trip to Mexico was in any way connected with the assas- '  gination of President Kennedy, nor has it uncovered evidence that the "808 a eeeeeeennteennaana we een ste oe one rae , vote : Jf Loe loa co tote . nthe, eo. et ‘ nee woe tae . . “ : : a Cre . 4 . . . Ps cs to - . . . 2 ee rer t ” ane. ftom . " .
13-00000 a) SSCRET , 29 Novemverci}52 ce PIES SBFCAP Ceo ss tcn Fe . . ae an ry wie LOS RANDUM MOTO: Me. Glark D. Ancersoa ,faezal Straces pes [ne E ROM : Winyton M. Scott ‘ SUBSECT . Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO Ugacte . oO Nd 1, - On the morning of 26 November an officer of this Section, :' accompanied by Mr. Plambeck of the Security Office, interviewed | * Subject in a parked car on the south edge of tha city, The following So atatemenats, bnlesa otherwise noted, are thase of the 2 Subjects, et cee - Subject was boxn v BL January 1949 in Gindad Raina, lt ao me Departamento Zelaya, Nicaragua. He entered Mexico by ~~ ° pet 7 bes on 2) August 1943 on his way to Cuba to study guerrilla warfare tactics. He was to wait in Mexico until false documentation as a Mexican citizen could be arranged through the Cubaa Consulate in Mexico. The real ourpose behind his travel ~~ as iavolved a penetration mission far the Nicaraguan Secret Service, His superior in Mexico City is Major Roger JEREZ, Nicaraguan Military Attache, whose office is located at Pasaje Latino, . interior “13, telephone 46-33- 37, _ Mexico. City.» SS On 2 September Subject reported i in Mexico Cityto- 6 ae Professor Edelberto TORRES, who lives at Genaral Zuazua, © 00° 7 Number 37, Interior 7. TORRES isaNicaraguanandisin © 9° °°” charge of Nicaraguan Communist travellars to Cuba. Heisa- well~xnown Cornmunist and has a daughter in Moscow who avelled there on false Mexican papers. : On Z Septernbvee Subject discussed anti-Somoza guerrilla activities in Departamento Atlantics, Nicarazua, with TORRES and the brothers Gustavo and Humberto Jerez Talavera: : Humberto is a teacher ina Mexican female normal school. 3G TORRES told Subject that he would receive 500 Mexican pesos monthly subsistence allawance pending the arrangement # 69706 TX - “SGA BY Mar. oe AO ASI ASE PES].
13-00000 ee ty ey ois. rue fb ~ : “Ss I ee : Sa iB September Sudject went to the Luban Consulate to turn over pasaport photos to Gonsul AZOUS. Waile sisting in the waiting room, hs saw a group of approximately 3-0, . persong enter the Conavtate ; and go into AZCUE's office, but Lo he noticed that an uskaown person wag sitting ata \ZCUT's desk. A Cuban employee of the Consulate known to Subject in. a SF alias as Juan Jose, about 40 years old, mustache, normal 00°) 7 build, straight hair, emerged from the office and asked * os ne Subject to turn over his photographs, At this point, Sudject fe asked to be shown the location of the men's room and was ‘directed through a door to a passageway leading to a. patio. - ‘The door of the pat tio opens off this pagsaze gowaye am , White standing by the bathroom aocr, Subjact Baw a . group of 3 persons conversing on the patio a few feet away. "- °°. One waa a tall; thin Negro with reddish hair which appeared..." to be dyed. He had prominent cheekbones anda noticeable .-”- . sear om his lewex right sida of hia chin. He spoks repeatedly = - with a Cuban accent and also spoke some Euglish. Another ..° | . one waa a white man whom Subject had previously seen ©” . holding a Canadian passport in the waiting room, This person. 9 -. had green eyes and dark blond hair which was arranged in a. : ‘existantialist” hairda with a pompadour. He wore glasses of the type with a mirror-like outer surface. Ths third pergon ‘was Lee Harvey OSWALD (Subject waa comoletely convinced fzom published photos that this was OSW ARS). ‘He said there was nat a shadow of doubt 4 in hig mind, ee oo oe ae OSWALD was 5 wearing a blac sport coat, buttoned up white shirt with short collar tabs, notis, dark gray pants and» clear eyeglasses. (Subject stuck to this story that he was wearing eyeglasses desplie the fact that they were not present in published photos of OSWALD.) CS - Subject saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and 2as9 somes Americaa currency to the Negro. This unidenrified - Cuban man had apparently come out of AZCUE's office into the as SOREL —_ #6976
13-00000 aan gra rp tye SER? es pacto, d4c is ‘lescripendas tall, solidly bulls, 2 sruiarie wish, curly hails, wearing » browns guic and red-strisad fie, Sudject estimated his age as apgroximately 37. Subject. Negro: Ga English) I want to iL the man, os: WALD: “You're not man enough, ic can do it . Negro: ‘(in Spanish) i can't § go with 3 you, y havea tot t to dow) 5 OSWALD: ‘The » people a are waiting fox me back there. - Pe | e “The ‘Negro ihen ; gave ony JALD $,590 doilars in laxge oes | dewomnination.U,S, bills saying "this isn't much". Of this aum, 4,500 dollars was for extra expenses. The Nezro alse gave a7 OSWALD about 200 Mexican pesos. Later the Subject saw a pretty girl believed ta be a Cuban employee of the Consplate _ give OSWALD an "abrazo" and tell him that she was living at os Galle Juarez $407 in casa he wighed to findher, The girl | 2poreated to be about 20 years old and her manner reminded Subject ofa prostitute. ‘OSWALD, the Negro and the Canadian, Then went upstaizs. os ae as 7 ‘Subject left the Consulate ‘puilding momentarily to buy a - - popsicle at the corner and saw these threa persons leave by | . the Embassy gate near the corner of Tacubaya where they entered a parked black car, probably a Chevrolet. Subject _ - - reentered the Consulate waiting room and later was aporoachad py the tall unidentified Cuban who came out of AZCUE's office - and told Subject to return the next day at which time his finger- prints would be taken and he would complete a form fox obtaining travel documents. . OE 2 a Subject returned to the Consulate on 19 September at about 0345 and filled out the form. He was told at this time thet he would be approaches ed by an Embassy officer to make “Boa story for his false Mexican papers. Many peopl: were in the waiting room on the morning of 19 September and the door SECRET #O9TO Se oe Sey cd
13-00000 2 i" . . . yp eT Die - a \ Soe Peace ( ' abe wag fimatly closed to keep othars frorm entering. oo, a. Ad Subject was then told to contact TORALS, wheverpaa cto TORRES home but TORRES’ wife, a Guatemalus, Subject that he was at the Soviet Embassy. Gabject went " to the Soviet Embaasy about 1130 but was nor allowed to enter ~~ | although he had been there on earlier occasions with TORRE ES. fee AE this point, Dr. Noel JARQUIN Toledo, Nicaraguan _ a Communist, who haa been in Moscow, approached and saw io ‘Subject standing at the gate. He asked Subject why he was - on a there and Subject said ha waa looking for TORRES. JARQUIN | inforrnad him that TORRES was inside. TORRES soon came out and accompanied Subject to the Cuban Consulate. . - TORRES entered AZCUE's office alone and later emerged telling Subject "you have nothing further to do here until I aa _ . . contact you.” AE this point, an unidentified girl entered tha | an . Gonsulate and greeted TORRES. TORRES replic ed"notnow, 2. = come backs tomorrow. me ' On’ the night of 19 Saptember TORRES presided ¢ over a “De - meeting of about 18 Nicaraguan Communists held at his home ~ to Gacussa recent, guerrilla attacha the Segovia Region of |. Nicaragua, TORRES announcad that 6 guerrillas had been killed and said that the next year would be a tough one because » . | \ the U.S. policy might change and the Gommunist might find a -. themselves isolated. TORRES asked Subject it he knew the Laguna de Perlas arsa of Nicaragua where the U.S, is training Cubans. He referred toitas "zona gringa™. Subject replied ~ . - that he wags not 2 acquainted with the area, oe - On 26 September TORRES. sabt Enrique 2 CUADRA Collada, an emoloyse of Carton Snvages de Mexico, Lago de Capala 18, . to rell Subject that he should go to tha Cuban Entifulate. Subject . weat to the Consulate but waa told to wait because the Conant waa very busy. — on Se _ While waiting for the Consul, Subject saw the Canadian. - again. The Ganadian was smoking a cigarette aud wearing a |. Rolex wristwatch which a Conaulate employes was trying to buy from him for 1,000 peso3. The Canadian cefused to svll, saying SECRET. - £5976
13-00000 - .. he used the name Jorge KYNAUT (phonetic) to protect his 2-2; faded hele ee spk hah eye tyes Ff : ta ce - x - 7 - spe 7.4 that he had purchased 2 tha watch ia Mexico aud was tasking Sizrappet across his chestand also carriec a batcer of ob : : ~ a padtosrapas which ne was snowing to Consulate employass. The red haired Negro mentioned sarlier then came in and took the Canadian uvstairs. As he wae leaving the waitiag coom,: _ o ' the Cana dian flashed a large wad of U,5, dollars and said "Jin | going. The skiea are clouding up and they'rs waiting foo mee 8. » oan At tae end of Septernber Subject phoned the American’ ~ 00° Embassy: several timea to report his belief that sameona "+." a important in the U.S. was to ba killed. In making Miese calls, | - identity. He was asked if tha cali related to visa matters and. a he replied "no, it involved a political matter, he wished to = © - ‘speak with a person of confidence," His first call waa scrsened by two females and he finally apoke to a man who took Subject's ‘phone number (30-19-52) and said he would call back, The man eo never called. Subject triad repeatedly to contact the Embassy © 7° 5 “by £ pnone but was finally told “quit wasting our time; wearea - . working hers and not playing.' a cot “Whe n Subjects saw the photograph of OSWALD ina local ; newas paper, } he : contacted the Embaasy Security Clfice on 25 November, ~~ ; 2. The of fficers interviewsd Subj act on 126 November and agreed | that he was a young, guite serious pergon who spoke with conviction. He showed that he knew enough English to wr znderstand rudimentary . conversation in that language. oe Subject said that he had ta‘cen training in the Famnama Canal = - Zone when he was with the Nicaraguan Army and admitted that he waa still a member of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, having originally been a convinced Marxist, Later he-became disillusioned and for the past four years has worked as a pene- tration agent for the Nicaraguan Government. He said he expected to enter Cuba within 2 months. - . Subject explaivéd that he was outraged by the assassination £ President Xennedy which he was "30 percent sure" was a — Rs 8975
13-00000 Momsxianist pilot. le said ne did not ayigi- to becounre favolvagd ia nay Diz pwolicity splash and hoped rhat hia naine would de igapb uecret, but that he would be willing to do "whatever | necessyary." At this time, Subject waa living at Pino 173, vlephone 41-07-31. | 7 Vontact arraag ameuta were made 30 that he could be picked Gu 5 . _2 a : . interrogated forther. we ee 3. On the night of 26 November hea wag interxogated by two officers of this Section. His stery remains substantially the same as. set forth | : * above. He recognized photographs of the following Guban Embassy -. personnel: Silvia DURAN, Franciaso LLAGOSTEE restes RUIZ, - Samuel PEREZ, Rogelio RODRIGUEZ, Raul APARICIO, Rolanda => a BSTEVA, Heberto TORRIN, Oscar CONCEPCION, Antonio GARCIA, Jose Fernandez ROA, Andres ARMONA, Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armaa, 2 - "Raul", Pereguina ALONSO, Luisa CALDERON, and Alfredo MIRABAL He did not know any of thase persona by nama, but waa able to give - ‘partial descripions such ag duties, height, skin coloring, condition of teeth, disposition, accent, etc. He identified the photogravk of Oscar CONCEPCION as the tall Cuban mentionad above and a photosrapa of Leisa CALDERON. as the pretty girl mentioned above. He also identified Brancisco LLAGOSTSERA as the mustached Cuban whom he had known |. under aliss of Juan Jose. This was the sarns person incidentally who wag tr}ing to buy the watch from. the Canadian, Subject quickly identified the New Orleans mug shot of OSWALD which had baer sugolied by your : office. He said that he was positive of thass identifications. . ~ ak, At this interrogation, Subdjact said : _ OSWALD had carried a grean passport in his pocket | and Subject believes he saw OSWALD wearing «2 shoulder holster pistol. He did not aeem to ba too aure of this. UL poiat. He said OSWAED wore long. shoes and had 2 wrist: watch with a yellow metal band, He illustrated OSWALD's manner of slouching in a chair at the Conaulate while in the waiting room at about noon on 1$ Sestember. He said "eT. that CSWALD seemed ta ba completely at home and anpeared to know and be known by Sonsulate personnel, Ak one paint he heard OSWALD use the Moxican slang expresaion "Cabron", SECRET: 7 - . £6976
13-00000 badly pronsunc¢sd. x ne had Ost ALD use the word kill 3 t Megson Rescee | "VYoutscs mottha man. I can kil He said that the U.S, bank notea were ina small -' o |. Po - pack about 1/4 inch thick bound with a pager band which the Oe he a . Megro broke before countiag out 1,500 dollars for extra = 95 ae expenses and 5, 200 dollars as "advance payment. " oo Subject. said that he is still a sargeant in the Nicaraguan - “ arr ‘|. Givil Guard and that he entered Mexico illegally on 29 August - Se without travel documents, paying a bribe at the border and - het S hen having transited Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador en 207 Phe 7 route, He said that ha had been to Mexica in 1961 ona mission: ° ‘for the Nicaraguan Secret Service after a contrived escape | | from false arvest in Nicaragua, followed by aperiod of asyluxsn * ‘in the Mekican Embasay. He sail that his training received 5 _.ia the Canal Zone took place in Fort Glick in March 1956 {note a Subject would i have only been 16 years old at that time). “Subject 5 said a that he had? been to the Cuban Coasulate on : Zar 3 September, 15 or 16 September, 13 September; . ae 19 September, 26 September and 25 November, = - 2 admits to having visited the Soviet Embassy aporoxi~ “95 -  -- matsly 6 ox 7 times; about 4 times with TORRES. He was - ° 0. | - sormewhat fuzzy on reasons for thasa visits and was not co ae ax esaed for detail at this seagion, res 5. In order to keep. Subject available for further interrogation, he was instructed to find other living quarters where he shoulda register. inanalias. On the following morning, 27 November, he resorted that ne had registered as Alberto SANCHEZ, Room 2903, Hotel Mecaxa, Oa 238 Movember he was arrested by Mexican police at the hotel, This office has no further contact with Subject, . oe oreo DISSEMINATION OF THIS INF ORMATION OUTSIDE YOUR OF FICE | SHOULD BE CLEARED WITH CUR HEADQUARTERS IN W ASHINGTON,
13-00000 13 DEC 196% ee “Ao Fe Bae q. oT Fives ob mobos ~ s ead = sesh res, me te fee ose ay me eeees tee rit “~®» a yee pow IS iat aaa a cae ald LATA LY DLA 4 ae Ls ; om oe 7 AT GAC Rey wed GSEs Mexican anpterro ation one 2itnerra ELIALALS \ a. uaidaneiantd eon SL , ETD 8 . : ery Sees soeeetincs and sai: tke Lie te E3 to tae Btven eS ws gelian a: 2. he iss wernors whee ALYASA Sis story are tmdsubredhy ofPleers cd’ tnacy Unmet Pel credeacinls in, of sours ofiicers ube no » Crore winks in Mexico “3. Ag :. . gation whieh ; a) ‘En Tere ah at aed AL Ys Ese] By adh jae aCe tn erro Zaps & peta os aes Ns. Soa yas ey Rermemen ys oy erage er 3/773, ee) ‘2. 7 = Be poy ah ty GH/s Tra Disctribuiton ~- Addressee, fest RI, w/att ci/ida vfatt J ~ CL/2A w/ete CL/cis w/att Cyn /R wlact thax 32 Bo WH/3/EK wfart L = CKE/3 wfact BSR0S* : BRS ‘ed he E nm a Pa vtatieh Pie Cole Ree -8 we “ ALYARIEO retracted the eaufesston af en om ens) ASR ger oolies acd Sab to he : eric Bares, 00 = Pe, t bo Coban Shas =A vexizo Clty aa oe = met fed 2 this Arency. he So, Bode solately oat be — fe 4 spor 2 Cae ed BAeS ome ae tae 22 Decenber 15463 ‘Hone "BASIC: : HO peogscr VBR
13-00000 . HR Beary AS cashes Of thes apagcans Sahay in Mexize with wee fe | Bnd thresh fretessow Se lbest.o TOES, geilet nie Gliowraghen - Doe - veo (Soreneni sty Se vet an iadivideal ty che meas of Carlos dowdy 0° 0 0: wo, é \ Cp Te, Tal. Oef w. ‘2 og SURAT CF Lite “tees: ee te ; tote ee as eee ~biser.a eerie Peet Sat ha ae eet od; aragere Cen oh “ano ube wer G o. B Seems ot or ea . a Eo Le Tais person {ALFANIN) cei shan he wes 2a geass Sid, Fm ge F vormivicd, n Cacholic, a soatrour, v who cams Pron Ojuiad fara, staaviuen: pf Colacn, Bewiblie of Tdeers.un, en& vio Lives at fds Hino 3 Hoe LIS 4s. tada copital (4eries Cit tye Je ie inites cated thst on Ausoss 2Y ob 4 iis sect he entered - serie itisrally, tritin: an employes of the iyranios eerioe i3 Ulutad Cuunssesss, Chinpas, Kexico, for 22D pesea. He alded” . - toa Re VAS repriiating comegaien a sad for .bgc reason the shies: 00 of bis comins to Movies was 40 tey 30 2eYilcrate the aroupa aP 0 cn Le o- thas gffaitecion, for the west port Cuban EX CDS, | whith the phtde (UU. Bate purpose OF pasadms inforgation to Mayme Hoser JRERE Alonso, cee he ee pesos 8 sensh Sor & ih axpensat, pee te atormatlon what he. athens BT 3. ALYANADD ca24 thar by prewendin, to be a cose csrseohy | : oe ea jaroctant Suployes of the Qises Sehasay. Eee mrating coeurmed ol oe iasé Lap tember 3 or 3... ‘ihe eeatexs of the meetice was thas mo ALVARO vented to co be Cuba, end for that reason he tol’ a Carlos Jmw -2hay be pas 6 2ted ecauumniss. On the loth or lezmR OC. of ithe eseze bosth, sm explores Of thea Cuban Echeesy had bist Pink Ste ous ee hen tev ee wee his fox thoes Photacarhss adel be In the ese banker te infieated | that veins v ects Eretexta he contiowed to Pragueun che Cuban Boonsay trying . atain intorestios + to send $o. Hag: REG o or +O General MOMTEEL. . (4 ome oocastion Sthry tol bisa tn the Entassy that in omer to °° - neble his :o sensi ian the comtre (tuba), they were ; S088B eo to have & Leyyer cet for Bln = passpart, birth eertifieste, 2. | s ard certificate of sdlitery sexvrice as a Mexican and fn than Ss way Ge pou iret] to Cuba. re °
13-00000 | ; \ al Sa on eh ~ wd we Fd ae - ac}. Sayin? . ae as ove %e He ilad thay Oo: Lu -eptemter a. about Lita nes. be uc gs ate - To om Be “GE om Yo rye a Zt ws 7™ ~~ =? Zn che wedtin, rece of che lovhs of the Usps lorsnisto fsic} ans ¢ om beget nad ao . 2 > sugay bo £ he Gheswret & North fowrioas of 1 eter 75 cantimeters in ieisht, % a . i t 2 * In be oi. *, x Fd . ey rSidiuce dle, bus mether ikin, eesria, say isomers, Dlesk esors oe NOB, ty! aR t@ Shirt, @ Tema-siyle cot tle and brown shotu. Ee was vary fads chiremk, cad Isckio:, The man bocxed to win Lite a drag Svaiet. Ge also noticed thas tin wsan?s rats: ves, for the nest ‘Paet, Ea2re, Oah = Stoteked wlth blond. Ho estimated that <be van wea -abor$ 25 peara. sin. ALVARADO sais, Chath Poo the Lobby one eng see tlhe tirest ood be fay that opsssive che Vomeulate a tae pULLO up farcyins tym menelei ete & negro, teNL, oF abort lb water | Boa conyt tigers tal, e ite tatty tut sbron- cy wVEth waiving © RPIBs, Bish . enees tome, Crick Lisa, gehdish, wink bait, Bol wearing a roy , Suit. - The other sas shite m yomas Ran of abous 295 ratze bes Loosiug, eae aaenataarabing:< “exad peating daric trousers Bik & 23h Dius cit. Ee you ahonk 1 weber 72 centiosters in helipkts, ef © S rather seas tutiG, ALFARADO potest SE thas be paanetea to Bhs heal & rod Be ati, & Passport which Prem + color be Sue S28 FO Se - co Varmedien. “ian these tro Sodiviansis aeetwoa, the Nerch Jeerlogs ° (Ves is a sae Consulate Lozetnar. fe. Ager 15 issitan, ALYARADD crosned the emitting rees ee ths Conanlate t~ vo ckp the rest poo, and on dmesentiar the talrs, be nae = Ser soverteh Roonin; individrsl, dark ic calos, tall, Sens sin, vhite yinsed classes. the maa worked Int be Coma | Eubassy, berause % ALVARADO } Bead seen him there before. Ee sas his _ give the sek huited Hote & psctee Rhich appeared to cominin ©!  HORETe Upon epeius oat of tke rest rosa, be sey teat ine bei the iagsOy tee Caradian gaé ths Zorth Sserlean were Saving a}: _ > Beate exavperees’2 Be cotiesd thas th Bex hek: s very: hicieneed -  *° gcse on tbe ricbt side of Ris exis ar tink Ao eS Soest ies a oS mony axa gavt tne 3% te the Sorth Aserizun. — ARADO beac thee _) @ouatien: to the ss of 26500, . ALFARADO — Stowe toward the yest ": _ YOGs acd soetioeé tanh the Zorth Amarienn and tte Cammdien ter —- - 7 " shenides holeters Like satcstern use, and be iesaré the Tanz age to ‘tho forth Amsriemt, "E vam to vith you.” Ge Sopth Asertcan arsvered, “Som sre vob a pany” om adied, “KE eon do dt. EF can bih2 eae _ ENBSABS levé, end os satursins 3 eo the TSVeF > nokioed that notice eet C2 oe Comes tat, they reoenea Rai morernts £0 eats witty an oxplayee of the Consrlate who Lnoked Like & = eOat Lito an - yRpse ee vas Homda Ten. { . a 4e . abt aed Rye + hee en Ae sy é
13-00000 é \ . ~ Co Sand Ww “a AY Sf 4 ieee 2 WOM aye, et e ¢ agree te % . ye “ % fe. ALPASIOO naid ater cme. be vers: awh lo Tar an ise baer se SFP ak *~ ot oh Se ame, + . CER aniiek, and weile dotus this he anv the Re wo, she sorth Pct =f ; a & Lead : ~~ eae Averiesn and the Canadian leave whe offlras ani et isto a binels, FBS, oy. 3a tereacedel eutesvelie, whieh nppearsa to he a Uhervrelst. ApiaAgsce said oe thawcht what sa eric ce wus Ec toe aelcic : ceocivated so him to InPowsa the Poites ctactes Embassy tet not cecur to him to «o t0 the Mexican mfisials. On 2 Sepioemser be telephoned the American Esbassy, bt berense he Ob: sol present biaselL? in person, they eaid ne aitention to his ia spite oF ths fest Rent ke aeta thit the pybrer met 0 confidential aud thet be vnnied to talk tea bth offtelab. cc LS: Sq @24 met oo to the feerisoa Stbnasy for teow of being foro) : by the -2 o¢ Cifom enties, sod uo for tha ox % be Zorro  « S2eldent. ALVASSDO pal& than bp reed in the Bovavanears abou the Seach of the Presiden: of tha United States or thakh om 0S sevins the piotog=asA ef tha aSsgstin he veeognized Sim as che . Borth & AueqEoan shoe ba sedi eee8 fu + cae Cube Consnlaice Bae tha De a etme aa Be Hotel Mowe Isahel. hie a “tee toSivideals espeeyek for the » epgotatceac. Yhey Sdencified theaselivesw and bad the credentials of FET a amend Ras toRe ee goons the above frets and they made another eppaln mens for 9:15 the meek woreing in the restamrant, dem, Thontek (on the “Ryeaiaa Be 7Slom ad the Pasep de la Refosma, Ser Se sere be met the duy petore, ervived Por toe sevorsd agpeinteedt ALOR, 22h omnthas seen those meee was Refolfo TATALDOS, with these Gaeo ana be = + co the cafeteria of the Hotel Frescis after vhicn they ésaove op ama dove o Dew streets im om auiszobiiea,. Ee asedin tohd thes vied be had ebsersea in the Cuban Coesulate ora. they geve hin a 303 case DILL nea told Wim they weld fall his a8 the rember £2.O7-3L, which 2s the rascber af the place. wWeere |. . —ASYSHADG Lives, ‘They callied bim that ease dey at 8:45 on. and . tela Bice to meet them 36 ndrates inter in front of the Noocexert | toa Juste. SRey pet }im thems at che appolsved al " a a 2 CAVALDSS pass, JEHATADD meas 2a p — eat to she corneas e@ tha Lotst “erin fsabel wherr enotha: Ansricen wos witing Fi ited, ank toyebhes they croveead the siren wad wert to ms CO eper sent in a bitléios Leceted om ths cormer of Cxford onl Reform. ones 2 ere, bd austin related the Iecifemts acd dn an dbo of phere ashe identified the sarsan who ave money te the heiro, te tha
13-00000 Rosle Rega ff - top me Moree oECAGAL, to hearin Laisa, sa uevocher eiphoyee OF Shea Cuban Ewbas oy as wale aS 2D Ole’ pertone 2.0 o@yre bees sean in nhe 10. Arter BSid, | Lhe KAN Javea ALYARARG 3IX) pesms, * cold nia. tS ‘ove 10 9 hotel, acl + a 3631 raza to wmdets t2e4. he wes movin, ‘24s ALVARADO aia the fol colas 2 ay, 27 tentesber. fe oove GSFALDOS a car? with the Joforsation Shay var bead Bn LO fp .e these meu here ROL reteetesiad hia. After gakin. the above nae TeeeTES p aes ERAN Sy8icased the Follcs ingt ~ te ve tab poet tamtously, ond after rorpenblenssian, Be Oo! Gesizes to stale that the North Acerlogu to whom Be imd of a oe referred in cha bobr of his stocwees$ asd when he eau oa 3 tegtember af this year tn the Cubans Consslaze lacked ay a - | #78 be vas 655 sure that he looked Lite, Lee Zarnyy 65 AED, - eke essanaia of the Prealien: of ths Unite Bhatese “ay, be ist otter che assssaization of Pres eaudSa ondbaly, ALYASADOD toon ndvarriage oF ticse occurrences, Stns, “yasiona “such £3 the above one, Zoo cecal purpose Of sxovekiny 2 Stross neserien aad zavor oe the United .tates o, BAcas & tha covered eo, : That be be fod my other nett shan the deep hawrsd Wis . "bp “Feels for comanian, ack bas arom, not bis Life Sedieates a sinee le to con matting couric. rr a ae so eat be resrets rot Eavin; achiersd hie obfective (o@ omsins @ reaction on the part of the United “tates govern PER seninat thas of CALTON a ah, “ ; — "She: é che talépkona conversation vbich ke referred to “gbewe Is 2 Mg statesent, wes coz zaia on 12 feyeder aa he .- . gaia, but rethes pPter voe daath of Prealdesnt Remedy, on — — 25 a This collwas made te thea mmber b nEG200,, vhich is the number of the fiserdenn Sabaxsye Svan tkLe wusipe be ine connected’ with extensing EM in erfer to relate the , avgifjents olresty rentioced. . c,
13-00000 PoaIG ; Seda EH. vaste | | . / 1 — ROUTING t “EDNIT : Cf aH /3 | cinpi, “4! — EXT Oo 5SL3 - "+ £) NO INDEX 7 a foe .B 29 Nox 10983 "7 Y FILEIN CS FILE NOS OST es raf. .7 at — WUTS HOUSE APIs: BR, NOGSGRGS BUNDZ OT, ve aloes 4g laz. j to : FEOS2AL BUREAU OF THVSSPIGATLCS, . Pea 20K i ae | ~DEPARTMEEP Oi STATS | ATES? BR Ue ALERTS Jorssag . | FROM: DIRECTOR - Cor ee a | LY na CLASSIFIED MESSAGES oP eee “BERET | CONF: CAJH be i ~ . a Ce oc, foes, ‘op, Bey vr} ad . . a ee - iNFO ee es cre EpIR pg wy Rg ‘Bis myn vane Suogoe man ou HacESSG O° wu GT CRPTCES a ire SILBERTO AINARADO, THICARAGUAT WHOM HAS S CIATHED HE SAH Les OSHA Sn ons ls SAMS STORE: “com DorERECE 1S Ar HR FAELED To“ (BECOGHIZE A Paorocaand / ACLYEA DORAN AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CORAM BHEASSY, Was a pepatremebecirses 7 mS ED So RECOKaEa I WER TIEEERROCATED PRETOUSLY BY CIA PERSONNEL. CAG MEXECAN OPRTOEAS, Donic aS - TEERROCMIECS oF ALTARADO SAYS HE "pouRIS” ALVARADO!S STORY AND seen t Paces ‘secon WORK TO paren” aoe THES “THFORYART On WAS RECEIVED IN yaxtco ony ag 11330 HOURS WASHISOTON TIS. 29 NOVEMBER 1963. ia fae RBA ae a ne EAS a ~ GuaSsirioamion REVIEW hnr ‘ ” , connucren 2 ont SHAY i " - " Document Number - ” 4976 : _ for FOIA Review on: _ ARR : “a : at yy =a natn nen CG ye , fea ps . 7 L site Wa. a Ves J- A. a Y “4 ae yauthorityor : os eel A 0. (A. Q . RICHARD HEtS , | : re COORDINATING OFFICERS : crouP : os RELEASING orricen woo 7 Facleded trom avtomatic |” AUTHENTICATI! -?* . - .0 : . < ei Gee fassification | . OFFICER so. | - REPRODUCTION BY OTHER ART at ISSUING C CFFICE [IS PROFUBITED.
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13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM : Raymond A. Warren _ Chief, Latin America Division VIA : Deputy Director for Operations _ SUBJECT. | : Citations from Robert Dietz Morrow's Book, "Betrayal" in "Midnight," a Weekly Tabloid, entitled, "How CIA Plot to Kill Castro Backfired" , REFERENCE © -: Memorandum for DCI from C/LA, Subject: - “Possible Accusations Against the cra, " Dated. 31 July 1976 ™ 1. Attached is a copy of Subject article from ‘the 2 August 1976 edition of the tabloid "Midnight ." 2. Also attached 1s a copy of a 24 March 1976 memorandum for the Deputy Director for Administration from the Director. '-of Security relative. to. Robert Dietz Morrow. This memo indicates that Mr. Morrow was granted. a Secret contract . clearance in September 1962 for use by the Office of Commu- -nications which ‘contracted with Morrow Products, Baltimore, Maryland, to produce an adapter which would greatly: reduce interference on radio receivers. The adapter was delivered in February 1963 and found te be worthless and: the. contract was terminated. Subsequentiy, Morrow became involved with Mario GARCIA Kohly and made. the plates from which Kohly — produced counterfeit Cuban pesos. Morrow and his wife, Cecily, were arrested along with Kohly by the Secret Service on 1 October 1963. At. that time Morrow told the Secret Service that he had become associated with a "certain agent" after building a device which he demonstrated to CIA. Ae. ati) FE? XK Wi ADE ive NOTICE ~~ IMPDET CL BY 9560 SENSITIVE HA TELLIZEN CE SCURCE SEEHSDS tay JLVED
13-00000 . 4 °3. To our knowledge the allegations in Subject article have no basis in fact nor did we hay Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw or Lee Harvey 2 Attachments, a/s cc: DDCI CONCUR: Chief, Counterintelligence Staff ' Thecdora c,. Shackley: . . for Deputy Director for Operations aa? ae “mf ee Ole SF any relationship with Oswald. Stayee BABY rpanr a¥ymond A. Mlarran Raymond A. Warren "OAL: i? 249579 Date CB we
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13-00000 Were FROM VIA was Cour “of R stalt rece rece Morr Time perh the Sund toc the accu RANPOM FOR? Director of Central Intelligence > Raymond A, Warren Chief, Latin America Division >: Deputy Director for Operations ECT : Possible Accusations Against the CIA 1. On 30 July 1976 at 1630 hours, Latin America Division advised by Mr. Tom White of the Office of Legislative nsel that he had just talked on the phone to a staf Representative Thomas Downing, Democrat of. Virginia. ~t aide told White that Representative Downing had just ived information from a Mr. Robert Morrow, author of a nt book (Betrayal) on the John F. Kennedy assassination. ow provided this alieged information to the Los Angeles s, New York Times, a Richmond newspaper (Times or Newsieader, haps), and others. According to this information, which staff aide said is to appear in the New York Times on ay, 1 August: aide Tie a. President Richard Nixon promised a Mr. Mario GARCIA Kohly that if an invasion of Cuba were successful; Nixon would arrange that all Cuban leftists outside Cuba would be killed.” The implication was that these killings would be carried out by the CIA. b. British overflights froin the Bahamas. Showed that there were Soviet missiles in Cuba as early as 1960, and.they were not removed until 1964. President Kennedy Knew of this information, but withheld it from the public. . 2. The staff aide said that Representative Downing plans ail a press conference on Monday, 2 August, to disclose above information, but not necessarily to attest to its racy. aa bak 2 JMpyEr ' cyt baat ey i
13-00000 3 A . CF is in hag d te support af roreis a to overthrow Fide he has used nmunercus Righ erfort to associate himse Garcia was sentenced to o currency to introduce int claimed he did this with U.S. Government. CIA d e ‘ra mC rie oO “4 font EN) ‘fh r = cae ay ben fo) fe) S QO by ch he oa. cc: ppci CONCUR: Nu x ° Deputy Director tor Operations , “aric GARCIA Ss .. 0 i® 2S a former siness- Cuban Ambassador te Since i OfFiciel U.S. Gov support, m governments, for var ndiose i castre. In pursuit goal, ~level goverament cent an if with the CIA. In Ap 4 me year in prison for forging Cuban o Cuba to depress the economy. He the knowledge of the CIA and the ied any knewledge of Garcia. This. onal relationship with Garcia. /s/ George V. Lauder fe Raymond A. Warren’ o —~
13-00000 By HARRY ALTSHULER MIDNIGHT Staff Writer The CIA and Fidel Castro were both betting on the same agent ~ and Castro won, The CIA plotted to murder Cas- tro by using a Cuban agent code-named Am/Lash, who agreed to lead a coup to overturn the Castro government. But Aad Lash was a double agent. A longtime faithtul pal of Castro, named Rolsnde Cubelo. he took the CIA's money — and spilled its plans: - f into Castro's ear. In angry retaliation, Custvo setup the assassination of Presideat John F. Kennedy, That is the story — already long: Known in seine Washington circles o behind the reopening of the fle on PR's murder. But the truth may be even more complex, Now a former CLA opera . tive. Robert 1). Morrow, has spilled a dozen years of secrets into a confessional book. Be- trayal,”” published by the Henry Regnery Co.. Chicago. Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin, Morrow as- serts. : Oswald was just the chump set up to take the blame, while the real killers escaped. According to Morrow, Oswald was a small-time CLA em- ROBERT MORROW, former CIA man, holds Mannilicher rifle he was ordered to buy before the -: assassination. Three men fired at JFK he claims. ‘Kennedy | ‘Was Trying To Get Casiro, But Castro — ni Got To sed to —L BJ spill any details. Ployce, working under orders. He had ao idea what it was all about ar where his own actions fined injo the picture. A group inside the CLA itself, working closely with dis. grunticd Cuban exiles. plotted the assasS$ination, says Mor- raw. Oswald's boss wax another CLA employee. Jack Ruby, Ruby knew the scope of the plot and wanted no part of it. But Ruby had a racket of his own on the side, drng-running from Cuba. Wo made him vulnerable to blackmail. Ruby was the Dallas nightclub operator who walked up to Oswald and, as the nation watched on TV, shot him at close « fange. Ruby too is now dead, but his claim was he performed the act out of love for the dead President. Morrow says this is the truth about Ruby: He was ordered to liquidate Oswald, to keep his mouth shut, and threatened with a jail sentence ona drug charge if he hesitated. : What did the CIA cabal have against JFK? Morrow ex: plains the CLA group and its Cuban exile friends blamed Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs invasion failure. And they charged him with playing politics in the Cuban missile crisis. “Ifour President and his brother sit on the missile i mation, he won't live through his first term,"* Morrow heard from an insider. . . The CLA-Cuban exile plotters regarded JFK as a traitor. They felt he wasn't ready enough to battle Castro, whom they suw us a deadly menace to the U.S. Their first plan was to ruin Castro by counterfciting Cuban currency to smash the economy. They were running their counterfeiting operation with U.S. government funds and salaries, but naturally they had to keep it dark from the White House. Their secrecy succeeded too well — for the Secret Serv. ice broke in and arrested them as ordinary counterfeiters. , Morow himself was handed a two-year sentence, sus- pended, in connection with the scheme. The insiders felt the White House had interfered with their last hope — short of violence — of breaking Castro. “If we can't get Castro because of the President, we'll ger, the President first, so we can get at Castro,”’ one of them warned Marrow. ee ee . The kingpin of the group, his book says, was Clay Shaw, ORNS BS aes vas wagenit. asire Backtir fa was the CLA plotting uy d the American President. as) - Warren Canmission and even faited to follaw up leads for & fear af what they might loam, , ° Rey ae Tf. seer Ss a Prats thes ROLANDO CUBELO, almost a Castro lookalike with the beard and cigar, wore his arm ina sling as a result of wounds he received in the Presi- dential Palace takeover in Havana on Castro's behalf. now dead. a New Orleans businessman who was a power in the CIA. Morrow quotes him as declaring: ‘The assassina- Hon of a President may seem a monstrous act, but not if the alternative is an America under communist rule...” Long afterward, Shaw was indicted on a conspiracy . charge, and acquitted as innocent. But meanwhile. as Morrow tells it, the plot went ahead. Oswald was picked as the fall guy, to be fed to the police .while the men who uctually fired the shots in Dallas that Nov. 22 got away. ~ This part of the story fits in with recent Senate Intelli- gence Committee revelations of two Cuba-connected fugi- tives following the assassination, One fled Texas for Mexico the same day, and a Cuba-bound airliner was held back till he scrambled aboard. _ The other reached Mexico the following day, and was immediately flown out to Cuba on an airliner with no other passengers, : _ According to Morrow, these were the men with Mann- licher rifles similar to the one Oswald owned, who fired at the President from hidden vantage paints. The explanation thal there was more than one man firing accounts for the puzzling profusion of wounds. on : If the truth was known or suspected in Washington, why hus it been so long coming into the open? Current talk in the nation’s capital is that the first ones to. realize Castro's involvement had a terrible fear that if he™ were openly accused, it would lead to a confrontation with Chis backer, Russia — possibly the nuclear holocaust the whole world dreaded. So they kept quiet — even the man in the White House, Lyndon B.Johnson, ~ News commentator Howard K. Smith his now revealeda confidential conversation with Johnson, long ago. “PE tell you something about Kennedy's murder that will rock you,’ Johnson confided. ‘*Reanedy was trying to get Castro, but Casiro got to him fist.” Smith admits, “lL was rocked all right. U begged for details, but-he refused, saying it will all come out some day.” Prue enough, there have been rumors for years, in MID- NIGHT and elsewhere, despite the massive efforts to bury Jnvestigation under the Warrea Report. The CIA und the FBI were naturally reluctant to let the wartd find out they had been booby-trapped by a double LHOINGIN, — 9461 ‘Zz IsnBny They didn't even want to think about the truth — thie it last Castro that led fo the death of That was why the CLA and the FBI Kept secrets from the
13-00000 © . fl r te the “‘anidentified- officer’ “naded: that he. ‘material “was: ‘released “t “to... “while .se fwasa Cla agent. Die EEA dane yolyerment with Oswald seemed most appronria te, PERE unidentilied officer. ARTICLE ALE we ON PAGE amattes, oe "Associates Posas ; Contrary to. swom testimony, the ‘CIA once considered using presiden-" tial assassin Lee Harvey Oswald 2 asa source: of ‘intelligence . information.: about the Soviet Union, according to 4 anewly released CLA document. :... -.< In sworn testimony . before - the ‘ Warren - Commission, : former. €IAs. Director Richard, Helms, said the-, ugency never had.“or even ‘contem-.. plated’”’ 2 uy contacts with Oswald, i ‘The newly released document,: vrittea by an unidentified CIA officer __ three days efter President John F. Kennedy was killed i in Dallas on Nov. -27, 1863, says that:‘‘we showed intel-" : “Vizeace interest. in Oswald” and ‘dis cussed vee ~ “them Ja ying” “on of “Inter. yiewse2". Ct oF ido not Know. what action developed - “THE MEMOLWAS. AMONG hun-3 deeds of pages:.of. cocuments. from the CIA's file on Lee Harvey Oswald.- The ‘| &. Second :docament: reveals ‘that: former Cif: Director Allen Dulles, rying as.a member-of the-. Warren Commission, privately. coun- seled CIA officials on the best way. to | lanswee questions -from.- the coramis-: sion about allegations. that, Oswald: ’ Dulles: “thought “Janguage* “which: smade it clear. taut-Lee Harvey Gs- wald wes never an employe or agent. of CIA would suffice,” an unidenti-. fied CIA ofiicer-wrote Helms i in: April 3954, . : weet or ee oes oe “T agree with.him that a carefully _ phrased denial of .the-charges of in-’ « ary § Contratlicts Testimony « BS cemstba tats oat po re b eeewenninene snememmnt ol ween tf “When he appeared before the com:| ‘mission in May-1964,- Helms,“ then “head of. the.. agency’ 5. clandestine “Services, testified under~ oath -that i “there’s no imaterial in-the-Central «Intelligence “Agency, * either .in ‘the “records oc.in the mind of any of the’ _individuals; that there. was any ‘con tuct had or. even ; comtemplated with’? Oswald. : *: . ~ Te NOVI 5, 1969, memo explains’ 1 ‘that the agency's interest in Oswald: a3 a.potential intelligence source was _clue: to. his. “unusual behavior in the | - —s50." ”. to. which. he ha 2d defected in* 4 “We: were pariiculacly interested ha the ‘(eleted) Oswald might pro-- “yide on the Minsk factory in which he thad been employed, on certain sec-- ‘tions. of the city: itself, and of course: .We thought.the usual (deleted) that “might help develop (deleted) person- F ‘ality dossiers,” the memo states_: . i eThe memo-indicates.that Os: wald - ;-Was also of.-interest to. ther CIA, be-!: Cause. OF concern that! HS - “Russian? ME wee “bora wife; “Marin 12, might have been part of a trend for Soviet women to ‘mazry foreigners, leave the- country “and settle overseas Ayhere > they could ,perve eas Spies. .' wo Ble wt ; wane MEMO “ABOUT the agency's S ‘interest in- Oswald said the-discus- sions about Oswald occurred “some- time in ‘summer. 1960." The author! continued: 'I-don't recallif this was! discussed while Oswald and his fa mi-| ly were en route te our country. ori it was after their arrival.” bi gstery 3,
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13-00000 nee Eten MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM : John H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : Washington Star Story, 1 October 1976 1, This is for your information only. 2. Onl October 1976 the Washington Star published a.news story with an Associated Press credit line, headlined CIA. Viewed Oswald As Information Source (copy attached). The lead stated: Contrary to sworn testimony, the. CIA once con- sidered using presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as a source of intelligence information about the Soviet Union, according to a newly released CIA document. In sworn testimony before the Warren Commission, former CIA Director Richard Helms said the Agency never had "or even contemplated"! any contacts with Oswald. , The news story, in another section, made the following statement: The November 25, 1963, memo explained that. the Agency's interest in Oswald as a potential intelligence source was due to his "unusual behavior in the USSR, '! to which he had defected in 1959. | i a Se nen Nene ep
13-00000 c & wae bow Late: 3, There was such a memorandum, written by a case officer then stationed in Paris, recently released under FOIA. Writing three days after President Kennedy's assassination, this case officer recalled that there had been interest in Oswald, As soon as I had heard Oswald's name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed --- sometime in the summer of 1960 -- with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the laying on of interview (s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels... I remember that Oswald's unusual behavior in the USSR had struck me from the moment I had read the first ODACID dispatch on him, and J told my subordinates something amounting to ''Don't push too hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd." : ~ _e« e e « 1do not know what action developed there- after . 6 « + 4, The Helms testimony before the Warren Commission - on this subject was.as follows: — Mr. Helms. On Mr. McCone's behalf, I had all our records searched to see if there had been any contacts at any time prior to President Kennedy's assassination by anyone in the Central Intelligence Agency with Lee Harvey Oswald. We checked our card files and our personal files and all our records, Now this check turned out to be negative. In addition I got in touch with those officers who were in positions | of responsibility at the times in question to see if anybody had any recollection of any contact having even been suggested with this man. This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence.Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.