104-10087-10165 wy SECRET ae . 2 May 1975, Chief, Operations Staff Photograph of Unidentified Individual YY é in Mexico City published by the SS Kx . 7 * : : “a S view of Agency Holdings regarding Warren Commission REFERENCE “Letter. dated 15 April 1975 by Mr. David W. Belin, Executive Director of the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States,. to Mr. E. Henry “Knoche (copy § attached to. accompanying report) 1. This is further to, and in completion of, my interim memorandum of a few weeks ago. 2. The attac is a detailed review in nary ayes chronological o together with he’ OSHALD gO ary - of our wor ive holdings on the OSWALD have a beari@Qoh't itter of photographs | Mexico Citg @SeStic , (4jand @5; October Unidenti ELOAY Idi . Asia consequenc@ tion of 23 SaEVerror, misjudgement 2 £ stre ENS desire to contribs” Gkestigation of the as@ase men "WSS > cropp VESRROE of one of the he as@engsn - Unidentified “individual was introduced i Ae Or. ‘of evidence in’the OSWALD casé on 23 November 1563 by an. - FBI representative in Dallas. . The successive vicissi- . tudes which have now made this event a cause celebre right down to the present moment are detailed in the _ narrative. ° SECRET. | } EW MPBET 8f sy. aa. sind i 0002146
14-00000, “put together in such a way that it discld’ 'cal order of presentation from 9 October into the latest ‘OSWALD and the assassinations SECRET. ee ‘ . 3. The attewhed report is not intended to be an | . answer to nS EIS erwald/O'Toole article which Mr. Belin Ra ptervale/¢ (I have prepared a paragraph- tion and comment on that article, ” ore appropriately handled by a sepa- Ni A ghar * r. Belin, and I will prepare this as ls SS at is desired. ) Oe yet pn should be given now to “whether or SPs can be fully disclosed at this = nO eee decision. The narrative-interpretive s pseudonyms or other CIA jargon. However, © well beyond what has been released to the publ in the Warren Commission documentation. This point must be borne in mind in making a decision on Mr. Belin's ‘question. To remove any question in anybody's mind about our good faith in this matter, the narrative is backed up by copies of actual documentation from our files. It seems to me necessary, in reply to Mr. Belin, that he or. his representative review the documentation that! backs up the narrative. The documentation has not been keyed into the narrative presentation, but it follows the chronologi- developments in the matter, and there is an overall index 4 to facilitate re ce to individual items. .[NB: There UL this is itl TT oo, peor a one of the photographs taken BW 37 bate 2 | ~: opens 1963 was introduced into t SS ye Loe Ye c¢ record. However, it weer - ne ae his collection; d in two cropped versions. nd its staff were made folly aes r inquiry at Headquarters a e origins of the photograph taken at diférent times in Mexico City a of full knowledge of these facts reached clusions regarding the irrelevance of the ots 6. In fact, we actually hold twelve different -photo-. graphs of the Unidentified Individual. Each of these arter— reproduced in the collected documentation backing up the narrative report (see Items 25 ~ 27). Chief, LA Division, -2 SECRET 00024147, PAGE _-
14-00000 _time should bear in mind that a subs%@) also be made, i.e., whether to nae fe) SECRET ae had indicated i riting to Chief, CIOPS, that he has no objection. fo elin to do whatever is desired with these phot at this time. It should be noted that: Mr. ima 1971 - 1972 was actually shown, by Mr. Ho .visit to the Agency, two of the twelv K other than the one already p ished RC ission report. (It is these at Nee in The New York Review of Bo icle WS 5 1S seems to me that whoever mak GQ) 203 e TDSELO wheth the entire matter can be ful the background of the photographs publish the entire run of the photograp yr the first time without taking out the background. bviously, none of these questions apply to the passage of this material to Mr. Belin and the Rockefeller Commission itself. I think they should see the entire documentation as it stands. Perhaps after that, the question of what could be discussed and the question of "how?" and “how much?” could be taken up with Mr. Belin himself. My personal — recommendation is that the more we can say about this matter in a fu open and final manner, the better EN we will be as ency. But it is my understandin SS ‘that there eX ill sensitivé aspects deriving f e fact that was jointa ee ion which produced the photog@anns Sin whth)Mexican liaison and as a ue at ime would create additiox@ pro publica SEF , . at thaiCRrs NY xico. Also, it should b 3d Ran the Afis CSSecording to Win Scott's ndut J. of Bo November 1963 (see Item me’. p d¢ SNS allegedly played a dir . d eut the photographs into the he FBI in Dalla aterally. from the Field. As far a know, . there has “not been anything published about this aspect at any time in the past nor have we had any discussions with the State Department about that aspect of the matter... Raymond G. Rocca Attachments: as stated SECRET pack ___. of jo © COPY NO 6 en
14-00000. SECRET 2 May 1975 SUBJECT -: . The Photo of identified Individual in the Warren. . oN yt: A Factual Chronological Survey REFERENCE: Memor D W. Belin to Mr. E. Harry Knoche,» OS 19 achment A) . QW \\S s SS ex 3 er andum suggests it would be AS reconsider ru) Closure at this time of the LS . \ Cc ctual data relative to the Subject. The purpose KN Surveys Po permit a realistic evaluation of the suggestion. Background . 2. This examination and summary of the record concerns a cropped photograph considered by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (hereinafter cited as the Warren Commissi . nd | introduced into evidence as Odum Exhibit No. 1.. The phot SS (together with others of the same individual) originat A oe WS | . SECRET pack 9 * of 75. COPY No. _
14-00000. SECRET sensitive inte we operation being conducted in October 1963 by the CIA and \ Sag “\ authorities against the Soviet and Cuban SS gs ve extraordinary press of effort to d & ation S$ Se re SIN and the assassination, ‘copies of we made available by CIA's Mexico Station.Chief oa hesdft eer _ 22 November to the local FBI representativ WS GR day, asserted ly on the decision of the Ambass ador , copiegwere conveyed by an FBI representative by a special flight carried out by the U.S. Naval Attache to the Dallas office of the FBI for possible use in the ongoing investigation. One cm cropped by the FBI, was shown to Mrs. Marguerite OSWALD arvey OSWALD's mother) in Dallas on the evening of 23 Novem 3 FBI Agent Bardwell D. ODUM. st pp. 364-4 Mrs. Mar & OSHARS ab’S allegation that she had been shown a ‘cropped photo of Jack RUBYNthe day before he murdered her son. “(A WN, comp i cati on compounding this erroneous conclusion was SS when she had been shown a copy of the same photograph before the Commi ss ion, it had been cropped < S a slightly different manner.) 5. No detail in the Warren sentstor repor Fr more vividly than this one the difficulties. that beset simple truth in the SECRET ~OCC2159 COPY NO enn
14-0000Q ne an SECRET. i politicized, ri NWweerministic interpretive climate that has been nurtured AS ia RS the past decade about the Kennedy Assassina- , a tion. 1 “aR knowledged now.not to be RUBY, has contiqued to ») . r | Wg ~ preo spears" and has become the centerpiece No h iQ HOU OSWALD to have been "Framed". by acRos DO mo double SB ereeivity in Mexico City.? WW - SS Oo yo 6. Although in no way related to Lee Harvey OSWALD or his stay in OSWALD - Reporting on Mexico Cit Mexico City from the morning of 27 September 1963 to the morning of 2 October 1963, at least one set. of photographs of the unidentified man on, originated during OSWALD's stay there. It is important, therefore, to AON acquisition and handling of the photographs by an understanding @f°% & _the Mexico SteGato Si what the Station ascertained and did with the inform Wit ered about OSWALD in Mexico City, together with . eaenva IAD} that information. AN | mS , ~ QS TORN credible evidence known to this time (nee ‘Nyy, ! added since te exhaustively unique work of the Warre EGE Si . . Lo SS Lee Harvey OSWALD spent four (4) full days and twe é@ This is the thrust of the article "The CIA and the Man Who Was Not: | Oswald" by Bernard Fensterwald and George O'Toole in the New York Review of Books, a copy of which is attached to reference (Attachment A). 3 . SECRET 7: 715 PAGE Of ____ COPY NO. _____~
14-00000 the EHO all “SECRET 1963 to about 8:30 a.m..2 October 1963. His place of resi cence sma 1] commer cial tr Svein not frequented by arinoos¥WS SS} ‘he-was registered under alias. £ i ete SS 9 < 5 . ~ WS rrogation by the eS i tHE ination, established ¢ EPA TS 5 cS e he left early and returned Hotel Commerci detailed AN 8. Assuming, and al lowing for the. fact of late arrival and. early departure, that he slept one-third of the time of his stay (38 or 39 hours), there remain some 78 hours of activity to be accounted for. Overall, CIA's information can account solely for very brief periods during 27, 28 September and 1. October. All coverage by CIA during the entire period was technical. The Station ‘had no live source (living agent) coverage either unilateral or from Mexican liaison. 9. It should "SS d that OSWALD was in no sense: “under investi - gation." None of t ‘SS of his defection and stay in the US return to the oe \JPS9 2, were known to Mexico. nan before 10 Qc <2 bare bones of his BEA ce fe USSR. | ‘This ] October, which was the first and only « occasion in which OSWALD identified himself (partially) by true name. SECRET , 0CLe152 8 ‘PAGE 15 - 2 COPY NO. mas
14-00000, SECRET 10. At no soo his stay in Mexico City did the CIA we a photo of REE Sr review of all coverage, voic ept, as well SOS of both the Soviet and Cuban th << on 22 and 23, November 1963 Se Ye “eter materials from August 1963. eS neg that the Sy Ss no CIA photo coverage of osunye Qs see ing his © Mexico trip or stay in Mexico City. Moreover; th ~ had made a . cabled request on 15 October, the Mexico Station had no photo of OSWALD. monitor-~and this was not an insignificant e -in ‘its records, nor did it receive one fron Headquarters--which did not - have one either--before 22 November . 1963. 11. anita Eis intensive review of voice intercept transcripts by the monitor and other personne} on the basis of the 1 October inter- cept--which had bee ted to Headquarters and disseminated to the interested memb SS kaw community (as an ex- “Marine OSWALD was a Navy ~ cas sO the Delimitations Agreement , and otentially of senate ae ent of State)--turned up matches ss content ‘ natch SS ere My memorably poor Russian spoke by OSWALD) could not be < ecause the _. tapes, in accordance with the normal practice, had been erased and re-used. SECRET 0002 nA5S PAGE of) Ee — COPY NO.
14-00000: yo | a SECRET 12 It must A that the voice intercept and photographic coverage was /is not) processed in “real time." The means of a@@wsyt i onan bhe volume of the informati on precludes anything but -repe <a SS SWie SG ordinar inteQES and, therefore, noted in summary logs. Full RES of selected items require consultation of the tape and either < © scription or full trans lation or both. Photo coverage WX available in 1 quantity lots which requires scanning. eo rapid and accelerated basis in four or five day “peaks.” RN the "triggers" that norma ly operates to focus and accelerate more speedy review and reporting of this kind of raw intelligence is the mention OF C a a name. This was precisely what occurred in the second of two conver'sa- 7 : tions on 1 October with the Soviet Embassy, during. which the speaker. said - he was "Lee OSWALD." It was this information reported by the Station to Headquarters in its first indication on OSWALD on 8 October 1963. 13. The Mexj G jon.did one more thing in its 8. ‘October report on Lee OSWALD Ke ee) me voice intercepts: it eo SZ data with d ie NP riys SY ation it had acquired from a-se BSA xa orate our rae otograph of a male individual, apfar " eee QS S Served entering the Soviet Embas.s§ SS The Station report ZO ed this detail on the 8th as ag ay ee ident ‘d duced from .. the photo was in fact OSWALD, or indeed, was in any way related to OSWALD. fact. The Station did not assert or. suggest that SECRET rc r PAGE 10 ¢ _5 COPY NO.
14-00000 of the Phos KS" individual placed in the g 2 | ‘on 23 Qe j by FBI Agent Bardwell 0 Gy, OX oe ; ro SECRET Lee Harvey OSWALD - CIA Covera e of His Mexico Cit Sta | 14. One Sa of background must be Ss as the final precy to understanding the relevance (or A NS nce) tot EXERT co's coverage of OSWALD! CS ty when all available coverage had Ded 15. The totality of Mexico Station coverage on, or reasonably inferable to be OSWALD, consisted of five (5) voice intercepts as follows: : a. 27 Se tember. 1963 (Friday), 1605 hours Mexico City time. Silvia DURAN, a Mexican national, a local employee of the Cuban 7 a : ; Embassy, Consular section, a recepti onist, speaks with an unknown a male at the Soviet Embassy. Silvia DURAN tells the man that the : : American citizen was there, the one who wants a visa for Cuba on. his way to the S nion, and he wants to know with whom SS talking GO she (Silvia DURAN) had sent him 0 6 . oS , Embassy sO a &) CS t 3 ‘they accepted him and gave him 5 K&S a | the Cu ies also give him a visa wit Wig OS | | . pen Bon, YS si Immigration in Cuba. | ig SS Sa know with whom he had talked re S says he was told there would be no problem. The man vn tiorriet , Embassy says to wait a moment. A different Soviet. speaks, and. SECRET a : 0052155 PACE 11 of 5. | COPY NO.
14-00000 QO en to advise the Soviet Embassy of ree Qanie XS t , SS mas asks the name of the Consul or Cultural Attache. is there now. _ without having permission fron the Soviet Union they ness or SECRET Silvia DURAN re same thing to him. This man Says to ephone number and says he will call back. leave an Ric N oe Silvia Qs Sg ‘lephone 11-28-47. (Cuban: Consulate ) NS S e AN tage of the conversation and state \8as addres hat she can receive ‘the Soviet Em ul. The man says to call KOUKHARENKO to give add SS Ww DURAN ‘says : ; ' the name is Teresa PROENZA and the telephone number is 14-13-26. The man says thanks. b. 27 September 1963 (Friday), 1626 hours Mexico City time. An unidentified male, a Soviet, calls the Cuban Consulate, asks Silvia DURAN if the Anas ne eebcan had been there. Silvia DURAN says he SyYfet Says the American showed papers From the — Consulate in, gt t he wants to go to the Soviet Union Cn with his wife, who is Russian, but _ the errs e fron Washington in respect to this problem, and Ss Ee procedure it takes four or five months, but | better said, they cannot, issue a visa there without KER hing- ton. However, according to this man, he showed CPAs | he he was a member of an.organization in favor ® RO) Cubans said that they cannot issue a visu ng a visa 8 SECRET 6 OG62155, "PAGE 12 ge 1. COPY NOe
14-00000 SECRET , | Soviet. She says that in the Cuban Embassy there is a , American who was at. So. Soviet Embassy. The. Soviet aw | minute. ive Rav speaks English with someone; Ho Spanish =o a APARICIO telephone 14- AN On. ~ number AN then says the : AS Ca going r; S NS “° ‘> the Soviet. HE Yica WN i speaks & ang SS oviet speaks English. They rey ne The Y Si broken Russian and says I was in your  Enbassy and spoke to your Consul. Just a minute. A Soviet takes the phone and- asks the American in English what does he want? The American says | please speak Russian. The Soviet says what else do you want?. The . , C. American says I was Just now at your Embassy and they took my = = | | address. The Soviet says I know ‘that. The Anerican, in hardly oT recognizable Russia , says I did ‘not know it then. I went to the SS fo ddress, beca se the ha WN Avice em for my addres ecau e y MS oe | deft you come again and leave you Se eY om the Cuban Embassy. eens Y , , An unknown male (Aner ican) calls the Soviet EmbassyY the Military Attache's number , 15-69-87 , and says to an unidentified Soviet respondent:. I was at your place last. Saturday and talked to your .’. rn ae Consul. They said that they would. send a telegram to Washington, | 10 »>SECRET 15 PAGE - 14 © of —
14-00000 SECRET and I wanted to ask you if there is anything new? The Soviet says I would like to ask it: down: 15-649 ~ ‘ dhoned a day or SO ago and spoke i Qe Y a »» OB YEDKOV (a Soviet Embassy oe WP , me spoke to a consul, and they said that they WY eviews | Washington, so I wanted to find out if you have anyShing new? ‘But | This is L I don't remember the name of that consul. OBYEDKOV says: KOSTIKOV. | | He is dark (hair or skin - ?). OSWALD says yes. My name is OSWALD. cee nL OBYEDKOV says, just a minute, rn find. out. They say that they | have not received ay thing yet. OSWALD says: Have they done anything? 0 V says: Yes, they say that a request has been S| sent OEY: been received ‘as yet. OSWALD says, and - cae hangs up. 7 | se items, including the texts of the raw i ussed with, and examined by Warren Commi s€OR's : in Headquarters and at the Mexico Station during a sta ow ENN 1. 1964.3 Al} were made available promptly to the BOO” SS ee | - : ne a er . 3 The Warren Commission group that visited the Mexico Station consisted i of Mr. Coleman, Mr. Slawson, and Mr. Willens. They examined not only the 1 SECRET oe oO OCCe2159 75 pace LO of
14-00000 SECRET and I wanted to ask you if there is anything new? The Soviet says IT would like to ask -forto call another phone number? Please write it down: 15- -6 9-85. ord ask for a consul. Thank you. - AS | | \ SS AY oned a day or so ago and spoke oa NY ! xX 4 ‘ES as OBYEDKOV (a Soviet Embassy AN sa EY ee SWALD speaking. I was at youre Se y and nw This is L spoke to a consul, and they said that they \ < Nora to Washington, so I wanted to Find out if you have an NY ing new? But I don't remember the name of that consul. OBYEDKOV says: KOSTIKOV. He is dark (hair or skin - - 2), OSWALD says yes. My name is OSWALD... | C OBYEDKOV says, just a minute, I'l] find out. They say that they have not receivegXeey thing yet. OSWALD says: Have they done anything? 0 GY cays: Yes, they say that a request has been . sent out, VootneG s been received as yet. OSWALD says, and S uNY what ry RS hangs up. | Jj ord on items, including the texts of the raw a ts, aX ~~) 7 were XS by, ussed with, and examined by Warren conn eENSE | in Headquarters and at the Mexico Station during a sta rope ey) 7 1964.3 All were made available promptly to mS : LO | - a re 3 The Warren Commission group that visited the Mexico Station consisted of Mr. Coleman, Mr. Slawson, and Mr. WilTens. They examined not only the V7 SECRET. : , OCE odd 15 coPY NO. ___—
14-00000 SECRET 7. nea & S can state, or by free interpretation reasonably infer from the ¢ eQoii evidence, that OSWALD made or could have made the saa h the Cuban and Soviet official establishments in a Oy. WS an & SS eptember 1963 Frida After wren to his Xe el, OSWALD went first to the Cuban cmogal re c hed with Mrs. Silvia DURAN. The time of “é . ub o y visit is unknown. The time of his second Cuba er was about 1600 hours (i.e., just before closing). Sometime between the two ‘Cuban Embassy visits, at Mrs. DURAN's indication, he must have visited the Soviet Embassy. We have no indication who he talked ( with at the Soviet Embassy. N intercepts a-e above, ut other's for the 27th and one for ws er - that seemed to have re lew These have not been includ ihe 8s summary because they . eRpED. : on review, to be excludab lec a) D e matter on logical ar ese antive grounds, or both, bears the Soviet Erba arer veg gary calls pertaining to epatts On the Q an unknown Odessa. OSWALD j #516 him to believe eva rs on the 27th. It was, therefore ‘possible for is call. But granting this, it is unreasonable to. he cakis¥were OSWALD's for the following reasons: 7 a. The. caller wanted visas, and specifically for Odessa. OSWALD was seeking a visa and never in any context did he specify the Black Sea port of Odessa as a destination. 12 a Ce OS a FAO the Soviet Embass aS) From Lad ydua Sp ng Spanish who sai te NA to go to CWas?t.o Jd CHANConsul was not in and iD 1130. mr to arrived at the Flecha Roj® bus ynal on bus pace 16 _ of 19. COPY NO. _
14-00000 SFTE tS, artes, * a SECRET There wasxno photographic coverage of OSWALD's entries into either an or Soviet Embassies on the. 27th. The lack of coverag re <y nstallation is explainable: eanera, KS tion of officers still or in Head- es Gx non the 27th because of eenpien preter, ich ey. course of correction. Wh: casa RSS ed in his ass entry to the Soviet inst th is not yet “as explained, but no technical operation “s ind is infallible. b. 28 September 1963 Saturda [Note: Both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies were closed to the public on Saturdays. Photo- graphic coverage was normally suspended Saturdays and Sundays. J . The call as directed to the correct Soviet. consular number: 15-60- SX n 1 October, OSWALD first called the wrong number, 15- 69-<BV XS Re. MA's number), and had to redirect his call to the correct. im sr 60-55. It seems unlikely he would have made what wou ia call, on Friday the 27th, to the, correct ee ew ed the incorrect number on 1 October, ON BWyy 9, a-e above, that OSWALD's first destination. EON T ery reason to believe from the context® of. ‘the | ze check-in to his hotel, was a eyes Span SASS . * oS d. The use of the Spanish language wold We tude: QsHatd ‘unless he made use of an intermediary, which seems upTike 1 from what is known of his modus operandi. NX Se On 3 October at 1539 hours an individual speaking broken Spanish, then English, called the Soviet Embassy and asked for a visa. The Soviet respondent says: Call on the other phone. The requestor says: I'm 13 PAGE 1? : of COPY NO. 15 Denno)
14-00000 a, SECRET OSWALD, notwi we. the holiday schedule, went on Saturday morning \\ ~ bassy (his second visit) where he spoke to Ss Ay could’not recall his new Texas address. | | he went to the Cuban Embassy--his third entry-- | St where P registered it in his visa application theeday . previously. He secured the address from Mrs. DUR “ee e called a Coxst the Soviet Consulate presumab ly to permit net oe x the address over the phone. _ Instead, the sag ‘ “ MLD “spoke | over Mrs. DURAN's telephone invited 0 SN in person, ! and he said ‘he wou Id immediately. PR eotoe OSWALD went back to the Soviet installation ( (his third S e SS “. Jooking for a visa _ telephone of the Gans please, I'll hayé , 15-60-55. The requestor says: One moment — to Russia... The Soviet says. Please call on-th t a pencil to write the number down. They is a ' the visa theres ie Soviet: That depends on your conversation. know about i&8& $i The requestor asks for the number BAN Soviet gi ; r and tells him to ask for the ron Soviet me j ow this intercept to OSWALD is sexe ip Si &s he use of broken Spanish. OSWALD throughout or Russian or English. He had no competance in Spanish to dle a conversation of this kind. b. The substance of the request indicates. a visa request in. the first stages of initiation. OSWALQ had developed his matter with the Cubans and the Soviets the previous Saturday to a point well beyond the stage indicated by the substance of this call. 14 SECRET PAGE 18° » 15 COPY NO. __ eee
14-00000 SECRET c. 29 September’ 1963 (Sunday). No activity registered. \ . 30 + 1963 (Monday). No activity regist WW as reserved space. this date BASF D OR s 2 October 1963 at 0830 h aX & on < iS xO Ser 1963 Tuesday). OSWALD made at o.calls,. at os 1045 hours, ‘to the Soviet Embassy. He identified himself twice during the second call when he talked with OBYEDKOV--a guard=- and referred to his talk on Saturday, probably with KOSTIKOV. There ‘was no photographic coverage of OSWALD on 1 October; if the follow- ing reasoning is correct, that was as it Should be. From the context | a of the two calls, there would have been no reason for: him to go to: the Embassy. His case had clearly been, placed at the sufferance of the USSR once eit His two calls on 1 October eo concerned “ee her any reply had been received from or 8S So it is unreasonable. to be \ c ee Can at about mid-day y register ON ARV Soviet Embasswof a white-shirted individual who, in i of the c. OSWALD had left Mexico: City, based on all the credible evidence, the early morning of the previous day, 2. October, and. could not have made this local call. SECRET ecnetca. PAGE COPY NO. 15 copes
14-00000. SECRET Station, am = “YS persons photographed that day, appeared to be the oo and possibly an American--who entered the Soviet chance there cou ld be an association’ between t e 19. The. Station's action.was not unusual a ge an - analytic “quantum leap," justified by the primitive and of the OSWALD identification. Many éxamp les of a similar kind of thing can ‘be Found in the fay” to-day record of Station-Headquarters correspon- dence and reporti ng. ‘oS 22 November ] 963 20. Mex) d@Nts j ei to Headquarters on 8 October _ (received in render QR e Se ng initial information on OSWALD. 4 21) October 1963, an American male who spoke broken Russian and said his name. Lee OSWALD we stated he was at SovEmb on. 28 September when < S) S 4 Cablese has been. rendered here, and throughout <. vid English, without substantive changes or omissions. Cypto‘yne Nee donyms have been omitted or put into clear text. - 16 pace C0 or 75. COPY NO. atory status
14-00000 had no photograph of OSWALD in Headquarters or in SECRET a. OSWALD's ame was misgiven: "Henry" for Harvey. The reason fo istake is ‘simplicity itself. The sheet opening — the \ acember 1960 had been erroneously inscribed - - "OSWA We hat sheet--unchanged except for the notation of | eer the first sheet in the OSWALD file. b. SS wife’ S ‘maiden name was misspet ed mg Ss Ss Neither of these errors are significant (though they nest <>. Headquarters communications throughout the month) & on Cc. Paragraph (2) of the Mexico Stati QS ‘eS ich dealt with | - a concurrent, but separate, phenomenon, the descrip bon of an “individual | observed going into and out of the Soviet Embassy, had been locked on to Lee OSWALD as an alleged descriptive fact. The Station! S qualificati on, "appeared to be an American," was transformed in the flat designation of the unidentified o as "The American." There can be no v9 on eS fSpnis misread ing of the Mexico Station report : was an analys re escaped detection in the coordination before | ¢ ) Ss - release: fee NO} etails attributed to OSWALD were so. far off the BES mark QS EVE recognizable as such by the oo ves Song Se es both the Navy and FBI had photos of 0 SS (In partial explanation, if not exculpation, be it recalled that as ‘x wt 23. Confirmation of this judgment is pro xs oy i of the cable composed by the same analyst and sent as US time (two. < fer tel. a hours later) to Mexico Station, referencing its 8 October cable: 19 SECRET Ooce2t67 pace C3 of I COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET (1) Lee OSWALD who called SovEmb 1 October probably identical Lee Henry [sic] os & 18 October 1939, New Orleans, ro" radar operatorgin United States en QW n October. 1959 SHAR re 7 Embassy in Moscow, indicating he had applied for ‘Soviet citizenship. On 13 February the US Bnbassy | Mos cow received an undated letter fron OSWALD. postmarked Minsk on 5 February 1961 in which sub- . : ject indicated he desired return of his US passport Bo a as he wished to return to USA if "we could come | to some agreement concerning the dropping of any legal proceedings against me." On 8 July on his ~ own initiative needs red at the Embassy with — his wife to os his return to States. Ss SY Subject s a ually had never srl > ox that his applic GS vo en to remain in USSR REC 2 SS temps mooie of his. tourist visa * gS for we outcome of his request. This application, according to OSWALD, contained no reference to Soviet 20 “ SECRET PACE 24° of 1D COPY NO.
14-00000: SECRET ALD stated that he had been . | : Vv 13 ay 2 Sy Minsk where he worked WS) in research shop. OSWALD Was . NS : marr 30 April. 1961 to Marina Nikolaevna | < — : : | | PUSAKOVA [sic], a dental technician born V7 SS wer no oo 7 1941, USSR. No Headquarters traces. \Y y 1960 in Belorussian in attempted to arrange for his wife to iho ae a Moscow so she could appear at Emb aR r oe . ee te interview. His American passport was VS to him. US Embassy Moscow stated twenty months ( of realities of life in Soviet Uni on had clearly had a “maturi ng effect on OSWALD. (3) Latest Headquarters information was an FBI report dated Nav {962 Saying the FBI ‘had deter- mined OSWALD 4s til] a US citizen and both he and ris Soret whey ave exit permits and Denagtient FE had given approval for ENG il infant child to USA. GS WY Savio should pass the te igor, Y . reference [its 8 October cab] indo ar \) -above to the Embassy, the ~<\ d I&Ns Y : locally. The information given HY 2] SECRET | 902169. ‘pace £2 oe COPY NO.
14-00000 “SECRET paragraphs AC EN SS possible identific a Creer to Headquarters of CD Please keep Headquarters | any further contacts: or positive Q ification of OSWALD. and (3) originated with the as ro 24. Headquarters feedback to Mexico City of OSWALD's correct description should have been sufficient, in view. of the. incongrui ties | with the details deduced From the photo | of the unidentified male, to ae keep these two matters apart as investigative facts. . But things did not C work out that way. — . Bt I 25. Mexico Station on 16 October 1963 asked Headquarters to "lease pouch a photo of OSWALD. "Headquarters electrically setiverse\ ‘ to the Department of th ou have of subject. We will forward them to our representative in Mexico, who will attempt to determine if the Lee OSWALD in Mexico City and subject are the same individual." 22 “SECRET 0002170 pace 28. 26 of 15. COPY NO. —
14-00000 om SECRET No photo had been yee by CIA by 22 November | 1963. NSS a Wi , 3 ae and capabilities, Mexico Station had b. Mexico Station had no further contacts by »> to report because-<as it was ultimately ascertained--he had Teft Mexico ) City ‘on 2 October. c. OSWALD was not an Agency investigative responsibility, in any case. Even with a. photograph, - it would have taken very special efforts, triggered by ‘the other interested U.S. agencies, to have made a positive identification in view of OSWALD's hotel registra- - tion under Ke There the mati vested 3 antt] mid-day 22 ‘November 1963. , NS 27. one N November 1963 the Mexico came Sb 22297 time after learning of the arrest of Lee H. a 23 PAGE Z COPY. NO. of
14-00000 SECRET XS . : possibly in rn with the assassination, and referenced its earlier neatte —- 15 October and Headquarters’ reply of | Lo 10 Oc fal a n requested by: a a QOS | KS se ty pouch a photo of OSWALD so that sargd Co 8 n check all recent coverage for OSWALD. xy a 4 ing soonest copies of only. visitor. to Soy4 SO & ae 28. It is clear that Mexico Station had a.. according | to its own communication the unidentified male in the photo was of "apparent age 35" and that the accurate description of. OSWALD Forwarded - ( . by Headquarters on 10 October precluded the identity with. OSWALD of the oo person whom they WS as the “only visitor to. the Soviet. Embassy. on ] October who coupe es stent cal. " t 2. 9g Sire had begun an exhaustive and accelerated ~~ | | review OS s eS al and photographic intelligence. A dispatch was w 7 22 NSRQer photo coverage of the unidentified individual had. AC Or Se dance with the indication given in the Q of | | al in. paragraph 25 above. The dispatch 2X IANs: 15 October at the Soviet and Cuban Embassies, S) ‘of the 22 November 1963 pouched dispatch oy "1. Attached are copies of the only ry Sone obtained . . . on 1. October 1963 which appeared 24 SECRET onc2t72 PAGE 28 15. COPY NO. ee
14-00000 SECRET to be an Aner ane is same man visited the Soviet ees erty YY’ GY photographs were shown to the eS 22 November 1963 and a copy RC Ss : each OF the two photographs was given to ae \s — Mexico, on that date... . : & "PLS. "Photographs dated- 15 October or inserted after typing. of dispatch. These were taken as [the] person entered the Cuban Enbassy. aa Attached were eight photographs: four (of which two were marked 1 October on reverse) showing the individual ina white shirt, and four (unmarked on reverse) showing the individual in a black shirt. Tt would seem to be CRE 1] that the word "sets" was probab ly omitted from paragraph two x8 dispatch between the words "two" and “photographs. " 30 Se od on was working under forced draft > < Ge app t of the dispatch, which tacked on as sts \a fact was reported simu taneoug By ay EN Headquarter¥ at 00532 time, 23 November: ev | "1, Mexico Station has photos 10 Sin — American type who is possibly OSWALD entering Cuban Embassy on 15 October. Searching for 25 SECRET PAGE 29° “COPY NO. of 15
14-00000 SECRET possibility C K“ocumented entry Cuban Embassy other dive SC ) ise establish OSWALD entry and SS wg at 0136Z time, 23 November. 2a Mexi. co Station to send a staff member with all photographs(@o ae . .the next available Flight. : LS s) PO rters on 32, Concurrently with or before Gre soi W “2 to Headquarters, the Chief of Station, Mexico City, had sp cen @ gy by double-talk ~~ telephone with the Western Hemisphere Chief of wer Mr. J. C. KING, and secured permission to give copies of the photographs of the uniden- tified individual to the Legal Attache and to make them known to the Ambassador. 33. What happened next is best reflected in a peraeee sie by the Chief of Station to the WH Division Chief, mailed < ee from Dallas, together with copies of the protograpns. RN Booos representative who ) delivered ‘them to the FBI & eer bes tes cy 1963 Q | "Dear J.C. [KING]: "Reference is made to our conversation of 22 November. 26 SECRET ocue1 ls PAGE 30°., 75 ' GOPY NO. ee
14-00000 SECRET oo in which I requ permission to give the Legal Attache AQ otographs of a certain person N to N)) . GY NY | - Ww Ee pies of each of the photographs QQ th | the back. who the dates of the visits stamped on "At 6 p.m. Mexico time on 22 November, The Ambas- sador decided that this was important enough to have a member of the Legal Attache's office take copies of these pictures to Dallas, Texas. . The Naval Attache is making a special flight From: Mexico City for this purpose. The Legal Attache's officer who is going to Dallas has promised to mail this material to you for me. "Copies of these photographs are also a O% by pouch which will leave Mexico Cit night of 22 November 1963. | Q "Best wishes. According to a sidelined comment on this letter, the Legal Attache's officer was Eldon RUDD. 27 SECRET CCC21L75 PAGE 31 ce ie COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET 34. The decision to remit the photographs to the FBI ig Dallas had been made by the Sor on according to the Chief Ton, who simultaneously wi Sse agent's departure. “A ay 3“ by cable < ee oe here 2000 ocak oe Qe Ay photos. of a person WS > Ss a special flight for ec He is carrying envelope with one copy each photo for airmail special from Dallas to J. C. KING at° home as per telephone conversation with SCOTT. One copy of each of these photos plus a copy of each of the photos showing the same person exiting the Cuban Embassy forwarded by. memorandum leaving by regular pouch tonight. In view of above does Has still. want a staffer with additional photo(s)?"- 35. Headquarters responded two hours later, 0422Z time, SS 23 November 1963, ence ARS euest: - 8 Ng i ws ith photos. We have a asked QS co in, but.Mexico can see OSWAN ~ > nest on the press wire. "2. "ave We re-emphas ized to FBI Headquarters the sensitivity. of photos you are sending and also 28 SECRET | . O0c247 - COPY NO. _
14-00000 SECRET relaying names of travelers with similar names. Note — OSWALD lived under alias of Po Oe time, “Headquarters. advised Mexico City: oe \ Si that the photos of the man ree the Soviet. Embassy which Mexico . Station sent to Dallas were not of RR HALD. Presume Mexico Station has. doukRexthecked oe dates of these photos and 3S ch all pertinent photos rer a Of SWALD. 37. And at this point RR ti November, Mexico Station — . “Finally agreed: | QY . "Saw photos of Lee OSWALD on television night of 22 November and it obvious photos sent to Dallas were not identical with Lee OSWALD held in Dallas. Dates are as given on photos. a(Qn0°y S zR "Mexico Station is reviewing alt avai lab Notes O of persons entering Soviet and Cub Sau se 38. Two hours later (22502 time, 2 Nie the Station had reported the results of its effort to review all a Liable coverage: 29 SECRET | : 0002 "7 PAGE 33. of i
14-00000 - 1] October 1 “> ‘clear Pron SE conspired in what happened, unless we have now descended. to that. point SECRET sought by CIA, before 22 November. A photograph of OSWALD would have obviated--in a way the mere possession of a correct physical aa evidently could not-- gan in whole successive deterioration ES sionistic selection of the BESTA Va er celebre today. | OS \S \W from this Factu Qe a ver had elebre with Tess intrinsic meri is equa lly acts themselves that there was nothing contrived or Mexico City as RN in human values. achieved under STALIN in the USSR and. under HITLER in. Germany, where just a plain mistake is per se evidence of conspiracy. | ; The Genesis and Development of ‘Odum Exhibit No.-1 and. | Commission Exhibit 237. oe - . N 41. Special NS f the FBI, Bardwell D. ODUM, on 23 N aN 1963 showed one er photos flown up fron Mexico oe day to OSWALD's Qe the mira me eo image j ae a) ge 42.. The photograph shows the unidentified individual ina black - XX, p. 268. shirt. It was one of the five photos taken of him in front ‘of the Soviet a 3] SECRET 0022179 ence 35 -Z of 158 COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET Embassy in Mexico City on 4 October 1963, two days after OSWALD had left the city. - AS 43. At this rie the record, the total availa : <) “coverage of the RS fed individual numbers twelv | aS - a «) uve 1 October 1963, “nw S seen ae is garbed in a white shirt and lig t-colored AON | b. Five (5) taken on 4 October 1963 in front of the Soviet 7 Embassy. He is garbed in a dark, open, button-down shirt with a. ~high-neckline undershirt showing and dark trousers. \, c. ‘Two (2) taken on 15 October 1963 ‘in front of the Cuban Embassy. He is wearing a dark, collarless T-shirt or light sweater. The negatives of all of these are extent and are now held in ESS as integral parts of reo and related file holdings. \Y 44. The reget aoe of the rss iO . cropped versi e ww e noted under paragraph BEES Mrs. Marg SS Mes on that she had be ~. | n b RY a QS “RUBY, a day before he perpetuated HR iv the Warren Comm7Ssion Report (pp. 364-365, 367) exhaustively disposes - her. son le _ of this erroneous charge and requires no repetition here... A comp li ca- ting. fact developed along the way was Mrs. OSWALD 's (correct) observation, 32 SECRET ' 0002189 ? PAGE Again. 36 gp COPY NO.
14-00000 - t Qs oN XIE, we SECRET when she finally ed before the Commission that the ODUM photograph was not RUBY{@a at_the photo had been cropped differently from the one e@@s © Dallas. Inspector MALLEY's cropped version of 45. The net effect of the developments in the heaek \S Commission was to require the admission of the cr evidence in a chain of depositions beginning wifROna aN g the ' FBI Inspector, James R. MALLEY (who had trimmed the on Seg aph used by” the Commission in Washington), and Richard HELMS, who deposed for the originator. These documents speak for themselves and wi 11 be found ino.) the Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 468-470. 46. Mexico Stati other senior Agency officers strongly advised against the @R att of the photograph in any form on the neve SO of a useful Cor intelligence operation, and the. opera- tion would QS RES ain. There were repeated cables exch AS rer and Mexico Station duri ng \\ e of 1964, in particular fron 23 September to 15 rN A Station had plans underway to abandon the mre 47. In acceding to the Commission's request for QW sition, grounds that t e immediately alerted to the existence i this poin Mr. HELMS, then the Deputy Director for Plans, replied af fi rmatively to | 33 SECRET af bBecame Commission Exhibit 237 (see Hearings, NN a EN 00.248, PAGE 3st of 1 COPY NO. —_—_——
14-00000 - “it had becom SECRET Mr. RANKIN by 1 memorandum of 23 June 1964 which included th lowing additional observation: A "The Central Intelligence Agency recomne & graph not be reproduced in t because it would je i io & om productive operation. Re assassination of President KENNEDY. woo “48. In this instance the needs of the Commission prevailed over the DeI's Ss. statutory obligation to. protect sources and methods. The - "Unidentified Individual" remains to this day unidentified and there is no credible evidence up to this time to rebut the assertion ma “Mr. HELMS in the concluding sentence of his memorandum to IN on 23 June 1964. And operation did, as predicted, go e WY Within a week o Satie appearance of the on RS RS Commission 2 mbers of the Soviet & be Prati c efforts ¥ ay See SYerounding buildings, RON rental BOSS ee . elr inquiries were directed to spotting possible fe operation was continued in any case. Within a year | almost totally unproductive in coverage on Americans in contact with the Embassy--a clear sign that this category of visitor was being warned away by the Soviets themselves. SECRET 00.2482 ’ PAGE 38 COPY NO. 15 of
14-00000 ” + fromthe inception of the matter: to prote SECRET Phase III: The “Uni tified Man" Photographs, 1964 - 1975 ssion Report to exploit Odum Exhibit No. 1 49. As & foreseen, there has been persistent pressure by . critics <e SS and Se nS No. 237 for partisan interpretive p Zc. A. co b] pondence has accumulated: Since the which the XS has attempted to be responsive to simultaneously, has tried to satisfy what has b rest a _ of the photograph and the foreign Maison’ on verter hich made ‘the | | _ current phase. acquisition possible. 50. Following are highlights from the correspondence during ‘the OUSTON, CIA voluntarily. submitted a of the rrenge AS eK statement thespaopograph to Judge BAGERT of the Criminal 72 Parish of Orleans, State. of Louisi affirmatively with: ‘the contents of “ poena that had been delivered .to the United States Mars a of Columbia, despite the fact that the aw BRP Pet \S assur- executed because of the lack of Jurisdicty Mr. HOUSTON proferred. on Agency ances to the court regarding the inaccuracy of stxtements and | 35 SECRET |. OOH24ES | PAGE 39° “of -1s COPY NO. __ Cane on” a. On 16 Gor, SS the signature of the General Counsel
14-00000 inferences made by Mr. GARRISON in New Orleans about ON of the unidentified ee yal. The ‘following is Mr. HOUSTON’ S mepe oa result of this search, Te can state categorix that the files of this Agency do: not conta ore " never have contained, any such pictur WED Lee Harvey OSWALD taken in Mexico Wit <A ON no information whats oever that gy Sich oh QY SECRET rhe Noity which has suPRe fe ins recently Se SrTed out an “exhaustive search of ‘the files of the Central Intelligence Agency for any - picture of Lee Harvey OSWALD: taken in Mexico. -As 6, ever existed. To the best 8) information, therefore, there is no Furthermore, the photograph which is printed in the Warren Conn sstoneRng ort, Exhibit No. 237 in Volume XVI, never ms more than one figure, and the figure in eet Deepicts an individual who, & 9 om been identified. The on pages 46% and 469 of Volume XI, Hearings Before the President! s Commission on the Assassination of - 36 aes Co EOS Sg” ch photograph. ayice S e filing of this photograph with rn are set forth in affidavits — 3 se SECRET | : 0062184
14-00000. ‘ SECRET onsequently, we have no record \\ pniot Mat answers in any way the. Ke the one we understand was resvested SY & ES "y hope you will: accept this oe S.: Ss me SS ~ ES We form in the spirit of cooperation i © proferred. " &. © b. The ‘Agency has repeatedly serviced yequests about the identify of the unknown sindividual from Mr. “Emory: L. BROWN, Ir >: 4 ~ 17 April 1970. Route #4, Box 82, Squankum Road, Farmingdale, New Jersey. _ The last ‘exchange of correspondence in our record covered the period received on 1] and 24 November 1971, to which the c. Detailed inquiries on the unidentified indivd &S ws . on 15 November and 14 December, respectively Mr. Paul L. HOCH, v Highland Place #2, ey \4 «yb Seneive effort to pursue the unidentified individua ye =: ing made by Bernard FENSTERWALD, Jr., who . is 2S tor of a Committee to Investigate Assassina- - x S yo reet, N.W. , Washington, D.C., beginning on ee after the Agency declassified Commission. - Document Ne. 674, and extending through 11 October 1972, after the 37 SECRET. 0082185 1 pacs 41 ot COPY NO- a
14-00000 p ow the uni ied individual, in addition to FN representative SECRET FBI's ee of Commission Document No. 556. On 8 Apri] 1971, iS on to the Agency for a discussion wit @ fs a Oy ‘l, Mr. HOUSTON, of his question ab “s - Revunknown individual. Two other phot NY depicted in the two Commission exhibits, EAS time. It isa matter of more than srdina OE, WY on this occasion Mr. FENSTERWALD , who was accomp partner, Mr. te told Mr. HOUSTON and another gency in attendance that he knew who the unidentifie cS an ollowing is extracted from Mr. HOUSTON's- SH eco’ We 1971: | | ; “Sue SS ERWALD came to my of fi ce this SSS, his partner, WiTTiam. G. OHLHAUSEN , looked at the other photographs, and told us he did know who the man was. He said he is presently WS. serving a prison term Somewhere in the United. G5 \S States and admitted that he had known OSWA AY 7S Mr. FENSTERWALD said there was wee ew at any connection between the man in ‘and the assassination of Pres ident KENNIEDI Mr. FENSTERWALD did‘not give us the man's name at this time, as he said enough people had suffered unnecessarily from allegations that they were 38 0092188 SECRET pags 42 COPY NO. _. of 15 ‘seapppartaetetatneaeER
14-00000 SECRET associated with the assassination, a | Say he was sure we had a ‘oS OLN asked if he could have the GR : Ee asked how he could use aS << not know and finally agreed that. ¥ the time being he would not press his request. .. . / — - — 7 The whole meeting was extremely friendly and | they thanked us for our response." The Fol lowing is extracted from the Memorandum of Record by 3 the other CIA man 1 present, Mr. Arthur E. DOOLEY. (. "Mr. FENSTERWALD said he knew who the person oo was and had spoken to him; that the man was too nervous to come forth on his own. . FENSTERWALD would not give the man's name but said he is an American, servingeaprison term in this country <@\ G on a crimin Qe. , and that he had met OSHALD.. CNN . in raeeS skeet iNepner the prisonet dary “ Oe a ae with OSWALD. RWALD. venec he did not know the answer QS Dw) Agrot interviewed the man as yet. We reiterated that we did not know who the man was, and said that we would like to know his identity. FENSTERWALD replied that CIA-has a 39 SECRET | 0002287 PAE __ fet s see
14-00000 SECRET thick file on ae man, and that we will be furnis ame in due course... ." C2O- no reference in his subsequent Ne aS SS . e ue Individual,” though the claim, if true, would. be of X with finality what we believe has been the fact from the beginning: evidential. interest and possibly permit us to assert . the "Unidentified Man" has nothing to do with the OSWALD case at \ SY : OY Attachment A: Memorandum by David W. Belin to Mr. E. ( dated 15 April 1975, with attachmep CLAN a the Man Who Was Not Oswald" frome eC NE oR sREV of Books, by Bernard Fensterwald ‘ Geor CG" a OV Attachment B: Pages 364, 365, and 667 from the Warren Cot{gi¥sion:'s report. , , i f - 40 SECRET . — 00924183 | respondence to this allegation about the identity | of 1S COPY NO.
14-00000 . \ . . ; oe = . COMMISC.ON ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN TH. JNITED STATES ( ; Washington, DC 20500 . - ATTACHMENT A Nelson A. Rockefeller, , : David W. Belin, Chairman , : Executive Director John T, Connor : , C. Dougtas Dilton Erwin N. Griswold ; Lane Kirkland ' April 15, 1975 Lyman lL. Lemnitzer ; ‘ Ronalc Reagan , _ Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. Mr. E. Knoche . r tothe Director | In igence Agency ERK > oche: Beptember and early October, 1963. Shortly afte SN ' eft Mexico City a photograph was taken of an Ame®ica male and a question was raised whether or not thig Lee Harvey Oswald. ‘The CIA and the Warren Comm determined that the picture was not of Lee Hargey tye and that the picture was taken after RO Mexk city. a . . - _ Although portio QS this record have been veleasy oO the public, other ns have remained classified betause of concerns CIA at the time that a release of the close sources and mathods which the e national interest to disclose at tYof the false allegations about the resident Kennedy and the false. allegations Rt, I feel that it would be appropriate to — Wier or not the entire matter can be fully is time. i co a us 9002189 . ree pace 45. ‘oe COPY No. gd now, Lee Harvey Oswald was in Mexico City in 15
14-00000 gS : “he es Pye ene ety Amal nan aes Pe) t an Americza male, acitiied ‘himself as Lee WALD, .contacted' the Soviet 424% u et ether the Embassy had reezived Yy news conteming a telegram’ tich had been sent to Washing- n, The American was deseribed st tall, with a receding hairline. ‘It is belleved that OSWALD 'y- b2 Identical to_Lee Henry WALD, bom on 18 October 39 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A wage U.S. Marine who defected the Soviet Unign in October 39-and later made arrangement . ougn the United States Em- sy in Moscow to retum to the ited Scates with his Russian- a owit2, Moacina Nixolaevna wakova, and their child, ° eos : : < \ ‘erroneously siven a weeks before the ss WS Y given itive source’ DY Mexico | Dassy in Mexico City ingulring - wavlon, Helms explained SPANS middle name sas ( Wino % emard Fenaterwaid and . ; s ‘Henry’ in the subject line and in paragraph two of the dissemination... The maiden sur- - Bat “Lem Harvey Oswald was not “approximately 35 years old, with an athiztic build’; he was: twenty-three ears old and slender, Apparently the CIA. was concemed about the’ dis- 'erepancy, for on October 23 it sent the following. messaye to the Depart- ment-of the Navy: 0 . Subject: Lee Henry OSWALD ‘Reference is madz.to CIA Out . Teletype No. 74673 ‘[the earlier message), dated 10 October 1963, regarding possibis presence of sub- ject in Mexico Gity. Ir is requested ‘that you forward to this office as . $00n as possible two copies of the . most recent photograph you have. _ of subject. We will forward them “to our representative in Mexico, who’ will attempt to determine if the Lee OSWALD in Mexico City and subject ars the same individ- ual.* o Sinct Oswald had served in the Marine Corps, which comes under the administration of the Navy, his person-- nel records would hava included his photograoh. . What the Agency did not say in thts cable is that it had in its possession a- reatly “ideatiied Rhimssli'" as Os- . Treiman in the CLA photo was t Lea Harvey Oswald; ke was, just as the Agency’s “retiable and sensitive souccs”’ had cescribed him, approxi- mately thirty-five -years.old, with an athletic bulld and -a receding hatline. According to a memorandum by Helms, the CiA never received the Navy" 23 Of Oswaid-and only fier the assassination that i ; $ event peosie were involved. , tio ditt Meanwhile, the photograph was deliv- ered to the FSI oon November 22, AgZs Not Oswald ~ 2 OF Mes, OSWALD was mistakenly - sSted as *PUSAKOVA,’ 2 % -.fecognize the man? The f AINE Can on] 3 the contusion caused by mg handcuffed, = of the Dallas: xs. The next day: dee D.-Odum was: tth the -photogsaoh to the’ ; re Oswaid's wife and mother’ were hidden. He showed the picture ta. Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of the accused assassin. Mrs. Oswald looked at: the -photo .and told Odum she dida't. ollowing: day, however, shortly after her son was. | murdered in the basement of Daltas ) City Hall, Mrs. Oswald erronzously - identified the mystery man. She told | the press the FRI had shown her.a. picture of Jack Ruby the nieht before, Mis. Oswald's mistake Was. under. stendabie—the mystery man bore a . ‘superficial resemblancs to Jacke Ruby, | and in her recollection of a. brief” glance at the photograph, two faces became onze. But the imiside 2s antification © ‘made it necessary for the Warren - Commission to refer, however oblique. - ly, to the affair of the mystery man, : In the twenty-six volames of published - testimony and evidera@s pplamentary to the Warren ihe Commission printed the p ee t was shown te Mrs. Oswad® en Report | t of the Swart, the Cha. " With a- photo.
14-00900. HS OWN evidence, the tiled either : ‘ ee50f Oswaid or that aa unlikely chan. : Vid accidentally Unleed both aman in ths photoxrach and the who “co meee a” the Sovie rey Oswald. - > ve te fteoth vas further og Report’s ref. lavit, which des ‘Olumes + atidavit from Heims on July 22, in which he Was much more fie The Original photogragn,” stifled, “was taken in Mexico on October 4, 1953? (This ac Hates affidavit was Tels zased in ? througit'the efforts of Paul Roch, wate researcher.) 27, oO. hers is no availabla record that ard Helms ever told the Warren mission exactly where in Mexico ; the mystery man was photo- hed, but the ih the photograph was given to the mission offer. a very plausible estion, The CIA required the FBI ‘yop out tne background. in- the ‘0 before handing Hover to the mission,’* The obvious conclusion at the photograph was taken by a en survellancs camera, and the wished to avoid disclosing its ‘lon. According to knowledgsable ar employees of the CIA, the st and Cuban embassies, among rs in Mexico City, were under tant photographic surveillance at . 1f seems likely then that the who, according to the CIA, fied hims 2lf as Lee Oswald” was c shed leaving the Mexico City toy of the Saviet Union or! of “others communist couniry. first public hint that man may have: been imo the nz law- @ word fram the Agency abut ths photegrach. | an was thouzhe to hs 2 photograph was in its” “Se Sup olementae - ad obtained .an- circumstances in — QS ‘lessaze to the Protective Re- eed firmed th if “the gr 2ohs tne /.geacy mistake someone so dis similar in appearance for Lee Harvey Oswald? The CLA said they wor! check futther and call bint back, 4 lawyer, tld Enstsin that they called } iiim back, and the Warren Report nover contaias no explanation of the Agen- _ cy *s raistaxs,' : Another piece of the puszte felh int "place early in 1971, when the National Archives released a previoualy classified, memorandum about the mystery mad from’ Richard Helms to ths Commis sion ganeral counsal, J. Lee Ran’- *, Dated March 24,; 1964, the ; memo informed Rankint. 2 oe On 22 and 23 November, im- mediately following the assassi- nation of President Kennedy, three cabled reports were received’ fram [deleted] in Mexico. City relative man ing October’ and Nove 3963... 79 On the basis of these cables, Helms - went on to say, the CfA bad sent séveral reports to the Secret Services. Attached to the Helms memorandum “were paraphrasas of these reports.*® Two dealt with the mystery man: , Message to ‘the Protective’ Re- search Staff, The Secret Service, dslivered by hand on 23 Novem- ber: 1963, at 1030 hours. Through souress availabla. to. it, ‘the CIA [deleted} had coma into possession of a photogragh of an unidentified person thought: to have visited the Cuban Embassy in mid-October. This individual, it was belisved at the time, might be identical with Lee “Harvey O5- WALD?) — oe > d, - ~~ The Sscret Service, livered by hand on 23 Novem- 1983, at 1030 hours. tt ow ; A CIA Headquarters was informed {delered] on 23 November that several photoarepus of a person known to frequent the Soviet- Embassy ia Mexico City, and who might be identical with Lee Har- vey OSWALD, had been forwarded to Washington by the hand of a ‘United States official returning to this couctry.7? Helins’s cover ing memorandum 2: subject of the photo mentioned in these reports is Ret v ert ; Prolo wauhs, £ ts mysteries stranger whe . rainy | contiscl vein Les Harvey Oswald, aad : who had vi Isited pork the Soviet and ‘Cuban eroauies, Was it the same mystery man whose priurs had bee snown to Mrs, Oswald’. Or was it yet another Oswald Doposlzinger? Firm evidence of the existance of | additional photesraphe of the unidenti-! ' Smith, a Private: ressuarcher, fied man imertionsd in the Warren Report was-turned ud. by Rober In 1972 arco’ director for the) Smith, the m rege . Commission to lavestigate: Assassina-| tions, was poring ever some , mystery, A tcoas Lo. eh AOR to photograpns of an unidentified) We ‘who visited the Cuban ies > Soviet Embassies in that ao ; from the first picture, _ picture, recently : AG } declassified Warr rea Gommission docu~ ments when- aference to the Wave oiner views of: fi BERS oN \Berton?*--Smith called his RCO: oyetyito the“abtention of one of at Reyauth ors, eid ens sterwald, who. instituted: aN suit t under. the Freedora of “Infoniaslom wet for release of thé two: PigtRS ‘the government yielded a nd, edtover the photographs to Fen- “Sgterwald and Smith. They are pubs lished here for the first tune. ; The two- new views, of the mystery. man were. taken -at a. differ ant time In the first: the ong ‘published in the Wanen Commission. volumes, . he’. is wearing a long-steeved’ dark shirt and “appears empty-handed; in the two new photos he is wearing a short-sleeved white shirt and is casrying some kind of bag or pouch, The, mew photos alsa show him holding: a: small, passport: sized booklet and what appeurs to be 2 wallet. As in the first photograph, the backgrounds of the two new photo: have been cropped out. Whoever he was, he managed to be photographed, apparently by the CIA's hidden Sur: “weillance cameras, on at Ieast tw. , '. Separate occasions, And neither of th ey photographs reveals ANY» reser ' blance between the mystery. man an: Lee Harvey Oswald. The Warren Commission conctuds: that Oswald had bas LIA Mexico i in lat September and. early) October. 198: Recor rds of 3 Miexicda ‘Customs and Ix ton. “bus. lines, dada. Mexico Cit 2 ‘that Osy yald entere. ak Nuevo Laredo’ on the U ‘on September. 26, traveled bv Mexico city, arriving there th nox _ Mor nina, "end returned to th United: St dts" on October 3.75 Passer on, bus to Mextco cir ‘yemer dered ‘Oswald, but there is x Mosi RO cyewiiness testiniony ta sur port the Commission's recanstreecio of Oseaiu’s mo in that city.* axe avid: “the * 2 ° ovemeais after he arrive ; assrante Fiar
that Oswaid mada repeated visits to m Ens Saviet and Cuban embassias 13 heavily upon the affidavit of one. ness, 2 Mexican woman - who: *ked at the Cuban Embassy.?7 mmediarely, She - a “semioftficial’ wwation. She identified the Lee newsdager régorter tied to interview hee in Apri! 1964. Her husband would. _ Hot permit the man to.speak with her, " Saying “she had suffered 3 nervous . breakdown following her interrogation by: thé Mexican authoritivs and had been prohibited by her physician... from discussing: the Oswald _ matter further.?° If this report is cosrect, the interrogation of Silvia Duran may have been a more emotional interview then one would conclude ‘from. the report forwarded by the Mexican po- - lice. The report gives the impression that the police: wers routinely collect- ing. information about Oswald's Mexi- can trip for the American authorities. One question that arises is whether Duran’s statement was given volun- tariiy, end, if mot, whether her identi- fication of Oswald as the visitor to the embassy is valid. The Warrea Commission may have omitted 2 fH exploration of this question because it had- collateral evi- ce of Oswald's visit to the Cuban Embassy. There wars for example, Oswald's apoticatigg for a Cuban Visa, boring his "aad ture,?! and = letter rtadly w Y Oswald to the Soviet Embast Weshingioa, refeering to hi . 37 Cuban Embassy, 3? x Sees fo Cranes The emo Owwald’s ‘statement of Sina morzover, contested Dura: telephone number. Bug ible eyewitness testi in fact ‘visited thy When viey the the : in fact sugoly an explanation of the- i “photographs that was enough to satisfy the Commission at the time. If so, that: explanation remains a part of the ; classified Warren Commission docu. - ments not available to the public - Raymond Roacea (whe, until Ris ‘receat resignation, was the gency’s . action .officer for all post-Warren Ree port inquiries agut the matter) told”! ong of the aUEE nat the CLA could rot identity thy ery man. [f this is so, Wem wea er how the Agency S2tisizctary ex- went to the Com- SONTEONS was nayere-* impersontie Riot re- chal ona, . “PAGE 48 of 58 COPY NO. 1
14-00000 , Pp . fresh connection bet; “ . : ; A? sumeo.- posing as Oswald visited the Sovie. 2d Cain embassies in the aily autuma of 1963, what implica- tions might be drawn fro this dis covery? One obvious intg tion ts That someone sought Feit a maa who cused . with the case should be reopened. “mocent explanation’ of how the CIA ame io musidentif{y.the mystery man actnally ,have visited. the Cuban and rembaassies, If this were the case, “then somewhere in the CIA’s files ran i re Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. If those photographs exist, thete publication would help to settle the question, If they don’t, the CiA should now explain why not, In dither case, it should also disclose what mee wes t knows about the man it wrongly dentified as Oswaid on two separate “occasions, Ic should. explain why it believes that this man was not imper- sonating Oswald. Alt thease matters ‘shou:d be ciacified both by. the CIA issih, and by the congressional com- mittees that are about to investigate its activities. . O BERNARD FENSTERWALD-is Director o mittee Counsel for Senator Edward Long’s nevernment wihetzoning, GEOR focmer chief of the Problem Cia. tis books include a nd Other Side, and, most recenth theory of a lone.’ any ‘com.. ‘spirscy, is sem@udy undermined: and ‘could be, of course, an -. Harvey Oswald: Oswaid may | ’ *Warrsa Commission Document 631,- Tire National Archives,- Washington, 7Yoid. Her correct raaiden name was Prusakava, *Report of the Presiaent’s Commission on the Assosrinction of President Ken- redy (US Government Prating Office, ° 1964), p. 144. (Heieafter, Revorr.) * Commission Document 631,.0p cit. “Stpid, 6 . oo , 3 ‘ . Heerings Before the President's Com- mission on the Assassination of Presi- dent Kennedy (US Government Print ing Office, 1954), Vol. 12, p.° 469 (hereafter, Hearings), 7Ibid.; p. 463. *Ibid., Odum Exhibit 1. * Report, Dp. 364. _ SIbid., pp. 354-365. 1) Learings, Vol. 11, p. 469. Commission Document 1287, The National Archives, Washington, DC, pid, 19 Hearings, Vol. 11, p. 469. i e : ; *Edward Jay Epstein, Inquest: The Werren Commission end the Establish: ment of Truth (Viking, 1966). 16air Rocca, deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Staff, was one of the four senior Agency officials who resigned, fast December in the wake of Tre New York Times’s-revela- tions of illegal domestic onerations by the CIA’s Clandestine Services, 17 Epstein, Inquest, p. 94, 43 Commission Document 674, The ' National Archives, Washington, DC. 29 roid, *0Tpid. . 7? Ibid. Cot 2 Ibid. Assassinations at < SH) YOSrk NAN dat to Investigate ) 0 National Acchives: Washi “Ibid, 2"Commission Document 564. Tr fa iS gtun, DC, ps 3-4, - 25 Report, ‘p. 299. 26 Ibid, pp. 733-736. 27 ibid, ‘p. 734. Iwo othec Witnesses told the FSI they saw Oswal ue ea tne embassy identified Oswald toxrapns as some- quing the embassy if company of = tpecwas’ shown othe: detective who on. October ; from ney _ one & r 4 . ow ; AY’ failed ‘to iden: QV hira wPBi.seems to have : onclyde fe was mistaxen (Com ment 365). The Warrer:. tive’: ‘data eis Another witness who claimed to hay: seen Oswald at the Cuban Entbasss retracted his testimony after failing tc pass a. polygraph examination (Resort p. 3038). . 28Commission Document 77$a, Th National. Archives, Washington, DC. ?Ibid., p. 5. >°Commission Document 963, “Tr National Archives, Washington, DC, | Bter “et, tare pe - fearings, Cammission Exhibit 2546. *7Ibid., Commission Exhibit 15. ee Tones: Ant Elzetranic Probe inte the ME FL Sennedy and the Qatles Covericg. 9gn249s - PAGE 43° of he COPY NOe