Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Use 2i0T Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/14/20] Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10314-10010 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: = 100-12632-NR Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: Mx TITLE: DATE: 04/30/1964 “PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : CHARLES SMALL DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 02/18/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : CABLEGRAM 1 5 ee—aQGr — ————_—_— rr v9.1 8 DoclId: 32311407 Page 1
Released mider the “Tahini FT ~ Renniedy Assassination DATE: 11-14-2017 7 . BS | _ Oo | ae 7 4-30-64 | y | CODE. | | js \ > - —_ a : sh - Classift AS 73 10 LEG: L ATTACHE MEX ICO (TG5-32702) neclassify on OADR ae: ; NS \z 5 FROM DIRECTUR JB (2105-82555) 7 tos. e ees) . S Bia __LEE HARVEY OSWALD, IS - R ~ CUBA, REUR METTERHEAD APRIL | Gq 0 coe het Ni TyENTY THR THREE LAST DEAL LAST DEALING { PART WIT REVELATIONS. orfiex cu) ve Al EYCHTEEN AND MEX NINETEERRSS CHARLES ‘SMALL WHICH WAS REWRITTEN AT BUREAU TO FURTHER PROTE SCT SOURCES AND COPY OF WHICH HAS BEEN FURNISHED To YOU, . | | DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS VOICED IN YOUR APRIL NINE AIRTEL YO INTERVIEW OF SMALL BY MEXICAN OR AMERICAN OFFICIALS, IT Is “POSSIBLE THAT COMMISSION MAY DESIRE SMALL BE INTERVIEWED. “CAREFULLY CONSIDER THIS AND SUBMIT YOUR OPINION AS TO BEST — MANNER” IN WHICH SUCH INTERVIEW COULD BE HANDLED CONSISTENT WITH PROTE ECTING YOUR SOURCES, IN VIEW GF COMMENTS OF YOUR SOURCES -. a8 Ser ROXTH IN RE LETTERHEAD, IT Is DESIRED THAT, YOU REVIEW YOUR | ~~ BILE ox SMALL AND CHECK RECURDS MEXICAN patter ION, Sr SERVICE TO DETERMINE SMALL'S ALIEN STATUS ii MEXICO AND TO DEVE i _onicinan rue ww “2 S* POS SPECIFIC INPORMATION AS TO DATE HE I DEPARTED NEW YOR von Mas | SEPTEMBER, SIXTY THREE, AND DAT. E. Ke RETURNED To HEX Se We Ais CITY, . r \ IN Al DDITICN, rmnduonfEX EIGHTERN, MEX NINETEH ND OTHER (10 AVAIL Lasse iq TO DEVELOP FURTHER SPECIFICS RE, SRL ESET * BEV 635 oan ang | 7 7 SIGUG! i. Vrs RECORDED os OG “aaa | Ro ate’ thru “¢ “ear r review), NOTE PAGE 2 | DocId: 32311407 Page 2?
| DATE: 11-14-2017 may have visited his jewelry store when in Mexico. No “Small claimed’ to sources that he was out of Mexico during - regard it as. tikely they will ask that Small be interviewed. = Legat's 4-9 airtel recommended against this as interviewing his. about Oswald and a possible visit to Small's store would poine an CABLEGRAM TO MEXICO Ez LEE HARVEY OSWALD, 105-8255 / | a THE NATURE OF THE ASSISTANCE SMALL GIVES TO THE AMERICAN COMMUNISTS WHO, WHEN VISITING MEXICO, APPEAR AT HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR SURVEY OF KEY. INFORMANTS CONCERNING OSWALD REFERRED TO IN YOUR CABLE NUMBER FIVE EIGHT ONE ? . SET FORTH IN LETTERHEAD-RE SMALL THE NUMBER OF SOURCES WHO COULD FURNISH NO INFORMATION TO INDICATE THAT OSWALD EVER APPEARED AT SMALL'S 5 STORE. HANDLE IMMEDIATELY. LF | ie FNC C. len __ NOTE: 1) hd aw cna oe meee eK, . alee , | SpROVED B BY fiiex, 18 and Mex 1 Mexi@o City active in“tommunist circles and’ in-affairs of FPCC. One of these individuals is Charles Smaii- who, in-December—and | January, told the informants that he was worried abcut possible harassment by Mexicen police as he considered it possib Le Oswald info has been developed to establish that such-was the case and Small has net indicated to sources that he, in fact, knew or met Oswald. | | | part of a EronD. of 4 “individuals. ja Oswald's . trip to Mexico City; however, the sources report that Small returned to Mexico, exact date. not states, toicr co the time Gswald reportedly left Mexico. In. view of Conmission' s intense interest in identifying ali places visited by Oswald in Mexico City, we the informants as sources. Furthermore, Small has heart conc t & Believed advisable to alert Legat to possibility of request for interview of Small and to have him thinking as to best means vo . accomplish this. Requested inquiry if negative and if ‘we can show Smali was in US during S-day period Oswald was in Mexico. may forestall request for interview of Sxall. Informants believe that Small's fear..of Mexican police harassment was part of the general concern. eG members of the American communist group in. Mexico after ; Feading that Oswald had been in 1 Mexico, | en, BS a, a Cote a S oe - DoeId: 32311407 Page 3