AGENCY RECORD NUMBER * RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John CIA : Kennedy 104-10307-10046 Lssassination Records JFK ’ ollection Act of 1992 LA DIV WORK FILE (44 USC 2107 Note). motets sees ee -----Paseb#: NU 53217 Date: ‘DOCUMENT INFORMATION . ne-22-2017 CIA MEMORANDUM: OSWALD CONTACTS WITH CUBAN AND SOVIET ‘ EMBASSIES, MEXICO CITY, DURING THE PERIOD 27 SEPTEMBER 1963 TO 1 OCTOBER 1963. 01/01/1900 ~ A . OSWALD, L H PAPER UNCLASSIFIED 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 11/19/98 , JFK-WFO1 : F6 : 1998.11.19.09:36:42:170120 : DUPLICATE OF 104-10413-10049 (JFK-RH08, F148). é {R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10307-10046 HW 53217 Docld:32373478 Page 1
Pe Ba <7 ON SUBJECT: OSWALD. contacts with Cuban and Soviet Embassies, Mexico ' City, Mexico, during the period 27 September 1963 to 1.October 1963 oo 1. ODESSA Calls. 2. OSWALD Calls. 3. Original Transcripts. FINDINGS: 1. Calls concerning travel. to ODESSA. Three calls were made in the Spanish language on 27 September 1963 concerning travel to Odessa. The first call was made about 1040 hours to the Soviet Military Attache Office. An unidentified man outside asks the Soviet Military. Attache | what is needed to get a visa to go to Odessa. The Soviet tells him to call 15-60-55 and ask for the consul. The man outside asks for the address which the Soviet provides. 1/ The second call was made about 1037 hours to the Consulate of the Soviet Embassy (15-60-55). An unidentified man asks for the consul and is told that he is not there. The unidentified man asks what is needed to get a visa to-go to Odessa and is told to call ' back at 1130 hours. 2/ The third call. occurred at 1235 hours. A man HW 53217 named ALATRISTE (not a Soviet) inside the. Soviet Consulate (15-60-55) called out to number 45-37-72 (Colonial America, probably a pension or hotel but. __ not listed in the telephone directory) and speaks with a man named SAN _ -- ROMAN. ALATRISTE says that he is in the Russian Embassy and they need to know what day the boat "KALONIA" will arrive in Odessa, that the Soviets will also need copies of the passenger manifest. (The conversation suggests that ALATRISTE and SAN ROMAN were shipping representatives of the boat "KALONIA'"). 2/ There is nothing in either of the calls to suggest any connection with OSWALD. There is evidence that the calls were not related to OSWALD: a) .in OSWALDS's contacts with Cuban and Soviet officials-he made no effort to commmicate in Spanish though he appeared to have difficulty: with both English and Russian, thus one concludes that he could not speak Spanish. All three calls about Odessa were in fluent Spanish. b) Marina ~ OSWALD in her letter to the Soviet Embassy, Washington, D.C. (reproduced in the Warren’ Commission Report)asked specifically to go to Lenningrad and made no mention of Odessa. Docld:32373478 Page 2
as 2. There were five telephone calls to or from the Soviet - Embassy in Mexico City which (after 22 November 1963) were linked to OSWALD for the period 27 September 1963 to 1 October 1963: = a) ‘Shortly after 1600 hours on 27 September 1963 the Soviet . ‘Embassy, Mexico City, received a.call.from Sylvia DURAN, a Mexican. - | =a ae employee’ in the Cuban.Consulate, Mexico City. DURAN had a North- — me 7 american in her office and wanted to know who he talked with at the Soviet Embassy. She had sent him there for a Soviet visa after which the Cubans would issue one to ‘him. DURAN was told to leave a number for someone to return the call. She gave the Soviets the number of the Cuban Consulate. .3/- One concludes from this conversation that this Northamerican, © later identified by DURAN as OSWALD, went first to the Cuban Embassy on 27 September, then to the Soviet Embassy, and returned to the Cuban Embassy when DURAN made the first call. ) b) At 1626 hours on 27 September a Soviet male in the Soviet’ Embassy, Mexico City, returned the call to DURAN at the Cuban Embassy and asked if the Northamerican had been there and was told that he was still there (at the Cuban Embassy). The Soviet told DURAN that the Northamerican had shown them letters with their _ Consulate in Washington requesting a visa for himself and his -wife but the process takes 4 to 5 months and they (the Soviet \ Embassy in Mexico) have no authorization to issue a visa to him “e _ and furthermore they (the Soviet Embassy in Mexico) do not know anything about. him and cannot give him a letter of recommendation to go to Cuba (enroute to the USSR). - DURAN says that in that case... he cannot be issued-a visa to Cuba either: (until /he ‘réceives permission to go on to the USSR). 4/ — Br as ©) ‘Shortly before 1200 hours on 28 September 1963 the Soviet Embassy Consulate, Mexico City, received a call from Sylvia DURAN who said she had there in ''their'' Consulate, the Northamerican who had been to the Soviet Embassy. The Northamerican talks with - mm the Soviet in English and Russian saying he was '‘just now" af€_your Embassy and they ''took his address" but he didn't know it then and went back to the Cuban Embassy to get it. “The Soviet tells him to come back to the Soviet Embassy. The Northamerican agrees to do so. right away. S/ (One concludes from this conversation that OSWALD went to the Soviet Embassy before 1200 hours on 28 September, then to the Cuban Embassy where the call was made, then returned to the Soviet Embassy some time after 1200 hours ‘the same > day. ) i \ HW 53217 Docld: 32373476 Page 3