13-00000 ‘Pr FOIA Review on NOV 976 . | PRONETED REPRODUCTION PROWIBIT an / ( CONFIDENTIAL EX- /093L OEE Gonniestion with the Agency ” 4 3) & Metorandum of Conversation, Dan cHather/Les Midgley and the DCI, oS Dated 6 September 1975 1. The referent memorandum contains two points which require comments. The first point concerns allegations that were made shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy and that since then. In one form or &id: that Lee Harvey OSWALD hadyQe an) connected with the Agency. The allegations are totadéy wereounded. 2. The facts re a. On Aoi ember Mr. R.G.Rocce make a Eno ieee to determine vwhe ee Harvey OSWALD had ever been used by the Agenc\or been connected with it in any conceivable way. e ordered me to make the checks . directly and personally to the degree possible and not to accept statements of intermediaries. He also ex~ plained that he was following instructions from-Mr. R. Helms, who was then the DDP and served as one (of “the. Agency's key contact officials with the Warren. ao Commission. oe b. Although I had already checke& the Main Index of IP (then RID) on the night of the assassination, I rechecked the Main Index and found no ‘record beyond that which I had already obtained. before (plus, those items which had been integrated inta. the- records system since the assassination). There was nothing in the DDO records which indicated any: Agency | connection with . OSWALD. . “REDON OOF _|  MORRDEITAL he 0002105 COPY NO.
13-8800 REPRODUCTION PROMI 0 C3ONFDENTIAL, c. the nex€. component I checked was DCD. There was no -xesord in their Headquarters files. Arrangements were then made for me to check telephonically with. ath DCD base in the US. The chiefs ofthe bases’ ‘then serached their records . and spoke\wi th ehesr officers. I was then advised by Sa OE thas Ceeeve hes ox their designees individ— Ny ae Sye had been no contact with OSWALD. e n checked with’ Division D, SE Division, and LA D <Q tien, s Cuban Operations Group (COG) for any informal desk records. The results were like- wise negative. e. Through the Secu (GRS) of the Office of Baer ty Research Section -£iles checked. Therecw. Scho record of OSWALD. A £. Although ¢ S gee no records on Americans, I checked their Savtet, Mex jan, and Cuban holdings ey may have recorded was no record in those on the remote something on : . files. ES \S | 5 g. In ‘wy e the chief of the CI Staff's Administrative Office called the Office of Personnel and received the word that there was no record on an employee or an applicant for employment named Lee Harvey OSWALD. h. I also checked the Office of Medical ~>.. Services and found no record on OSWALD. fp i. The Covert Action Staff also fouid no" record on him. ak oe : j.. Finally, I also checked the recordsof the CI Staff's Operational Approval Group® (CI/oa}. with negative results. Ea =. ee eS k. My checks were completed? on: 4, ‘December 1963 and I then sent a brief informal note: to Mr. Rocca e ie eee eee eee oe ere CONFIDENTIAL 7
13-00000 “PMT REPRODUCTION PROGMBLT watering Oe checks t had made and stating that the: ‘Fesu howed that Lee Harvey OSWALD had Bene fad \Ygonnection whatsoever with the Agenéy:. E ey a statement to this effect weg eeementen to the Warren Commission. « “ a3 > ‘sista cnocks regarding use or employment ="""\. of O ‘been requested by the foreign divisions - of their. priate stations, I was told, and ‘the oo results we negative. 4. I recall very clearly that we were extremely concerned at the time that OSWALD, as an American: returning ' £rom the USSR, might have been routinely debriefed by DCD, thus having established contact with the Agency. The same point has now, quite understandably, beén made by the two CBS newsmen. Having some knowledge of this subject I have personally concluded that there is valid . reason for DCD's lack of interest in OSWALD at that time. He would surely have been contacted and debriefed by DCD had he been to the USSR and returned to the US hefore 1957/1958. Travel to the Soviet Union by Westerners, particularly by Americans, before that time was quite uncommon.and we were hungry for eyewitness information in those days. The thaw began in about 1956 and by the end of that decade e@ were so many persons travelling to and from the Sovbe$>Union that DCD was incapable of talk- ing to all of fhe m. Therefore, a program of selectivity and epee ths spe pplicability was instituted. In seems to me that OSWALD-- if he nm at all~-would have easily been simply did not possess the type of 2 : D was seeking at that time. DCD would e Ss ts limited manpower on travellers who. oor: access in the USSR. ? Se ee hould be added that my above-described search in e Agency file holding produced no record or indication that any other US Government agency had -used him as a source or had considered him for recruitment. CONFIDENTIAL 2 COPY NO» ee ct et tn ee ne ne ae ett et et inf ee eee tee SE npn =o near reese  eraeaneneestema
‘6. The second point in the referent memorandum concerns the paper that were available at Headquarters on Oswald before eday of the assassination. Spe ve documents which had been s@s ically, there CNS eSto . the Agency before, the assassination. Two of the Tao had been Sent. to us; the FBI, two by the D ment_of State, a sone’ bythe’: S Navy. A 201 file had beef opened-on\QDecember 1960 on the receapt/ df the -fiyst of these five doc iG Contained Oe records that had b y ARE “camponent . The Mexico C Fi ing of Oswald's activi included in the 201 file. TK tinent cables from Mexico City were held at the Mexico branch at Head- quarters, while the data contained in them had been | Se oct NU atic eporting | clone had. not disseminated to the FBI upon receipt. The cables were incorporated into the file. following the assassination - and were, of course, made available to all concerned, ‘including the Warren Commission. 7. It should be noted that no particularly great urgency was attached to the handling of the records regarding Oswald hefore the assassination because Oswald's name had-no par aN ar meaning before that a the Facts regarding the records we ere » before oie EX computer Aged. cards.) ing eee : | Warren ons cae : soup Nerters ewing the hee ing ay ng this visit, the visitors were satisfied with our records system and the manner in which we kept our records. Paul iiartran | . ! GU02408 “PACE a of 16. COPY NO. ne
- REPRODUCTION PROVIBITER Telephone. Conversation between DCI and J. Edgar HOOVER ove 1963 11:20 a.m. REPRODUCTION * PRORIBITED SECRET REPRODUCTION seman oo «PROHIBITED =
13-00000 ree REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ( an TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DCI AND J. EDGAR HOOVER 26 November 1963 - 11:20 a.m. on DCI: DCI: DCI: DCI: SECRET I just want to be sure that you are satisfied that this Agency is giving you all the help that we possibly can in connection with your investigation of the situationin Dallas. 1 know the importance the President places on this investigation you are making. He asked me personally whether CIA was — giving you full support. I said that they were, but I just wanted to be sure from you that you felt so. We have had the very best support that we could possibly expect from you. — Good. Well you can call on us for anything we have. We will feel free to do that I think it is an exceedingly important investigation and report and I am delighted that the President has called on ‘you to make it. , We are trying to do it as fast as we can so we can dispel various wild rumors that have been circulating as to whether this man was the right man etc. that firedthe gun. But there is no question that he is the right man. There are a lot of aspects that we have dug up, for instance, with regards to the matter i: Mexico City. We have now found that the: photograph that was ta cen was not that of Oswald. We do find from our informant do. there that | Oswald did call at the Embassy that day and the informant has - given us the conversation that he had. He wanted to get a permit i to go back to Russia and the Cuban Embassy couldn't give him the permit. The Soviet Embassy stated that it wold take three weeks. He had, I think, a visitor's permit for about a week or ten days so that is why he came back to the United States. & Well, all of that ties in importantly into the story and we have those operational sources down there. We want to handle them very carefully. It involves some very high level people down there. Sam Papich and I have talked about that a couple of times. Me. fe fered ' Who is handling it for the Department - ; it is our intention when the Bureau finishes the report, he will of course go over it very carefully because it will be a report that will be released to the public, probably throu gh the White ‘REPRODUCTION
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITER o - eee el “ aes ree CE Zils House, but it is the intention after it is in final form to be checked with each of the Government agencies that are mentioned in it. State Department is involved in regard to the issuing of the passport to the man to come back to this country and that has got to be explained why it was done, the law requires it, etc. — all of which of course we are gathering. The aspects of the Mexico City thing. It will have to be mentioned. It is his intention to check with the agencies, Secret Service, etc. to be sure that whatever is said in the report is conférred in and it is agreed to by the various agencies mentioned. So you will have that opportunity to go over it and see exactly what is said and I know he will welcome any suggestion that you care to make. DCI: Well that will be fine. Thank you He Good bye. (tape) mcm a DD/P a REPRODUCTION = PROBED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION cd PROHIBITED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIIT ao, 1. DIR 74673, “10. October 1963 ~- dissemination to Department’ of State, Department of the Navy.,-and.;the..Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion. . [FOIA Nox.6- 3] fo 2.<Entetnal, Nete™ >from ROCCA to HELMS, dated eS. March. 1964. [XAAZ-22803 - FOIA "No. S579 «25QH.° S) QO 3. Internal Note from ANGLETON to ROCCA,. ‘dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809 - FOIA Now: 689-" 298] ; aw x 4. Memorandum for RANKIN, dated 1 Jisly- 19643 subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Tame: in Helsinki on 10 October 1959. {Duplicate of FOIA No. 758-325] me ee oN - 0082436 nea sete _PROBIBTTED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION | | i (eee mt i} , ° somausrak 70 rane re. de Lee Rankin, Generat Counsel, ae -, President's Comercharsd.on om the Ageoseinetion oun ae tee «lovey. Ooweld’s Arrival Time in 7 1959 rived in Helainkt af 2333 (12:33 P.4.). tis flights he could net vormlly have mont of officers in this Agency familiar vith the airperte . 2. Ye axe presently atbeapiing te determine if Could eould have taken a wee cireniteus flight fran London, with a stop at Steckhals,: Copenhagen, of sone other aby. a additiooal tnforiatiqn reestved will be forwarded toe SR/CI/Research: S.Duncan:el Reqritten: RHelms/ecd ~ 1 July no | ‘Distribution: Orig & @ - ad Bs . ~~ 2 = . 2. SECRET REPRODUCTION =
13-00000 “REPRODUCTION : me > . ; e” Pra ‘ 4 Cc — ~ ( Weese a aa a ale Te hl Beet By KAAZ- 223907 — 12 May 1964 =-1745 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Rocca O Totemnal | Mens Regarain Vos tron Non Dentin with. ewe « “GQommi ston : aa ae nee es: SB DDP called me this afternoon, 12 May; to: state aN that the Divestor has received a telephone call from-RANKIN - ~ es e Commission's desire to interview him at, 1030. ON Taakeeay Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appeat: ate9: 00 on a morning. < W@W 2 The DDP wishes to have from ws as Se comprehensive memorandum which highlights the bast issues or positions entered into by the Agency in its dealings with the .Commission. For example, RANKIN indicated that the Commission would wish to hear the Dire ctor's views as to how improvements might be made in protecting the President's life. Further, they will probably ask questions regarding the possibilities that a con- spiracy existed. Such general questioning certainly necessitates that the DCI be made aware of the positions taken during previous interviews. I raiged with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent information which you are processing which originated: with the sensitive WYbource. I informed him that in your jMiew: this would raise a nuniber’ ‘of new factors with the Commissien;: that dH should not go tacthe: Comrtine! m prior to the Dire ctor!(appearaiipe “unless we have fi2et hat Nagive preliminary reaction ae made & re that the Director-is are of its implications site it ell serve ac fie Basi tailed questioning. Sees hat he would Karis BER efally and made a Sine aR Se a t Sstion of F timing. SS x Given the schedule, you SS a e that the DDP will need a paper covering the above points as soon as possible. TAL Document Number ba-298, for FOIA Review on » MUN S76 esemy 0 eh REGLYE eS c0PY | pol Faget om comme ci erent Ree oc eeetenteereceetenmettere rhea =e tte tee ry tetenanteepeee ett eenueunnteéttee erento (0093438 SNOUT _ PROG BITED 5. COPY NO. ee
oS -—* REPHODUETIOR 7 ° % s ¢ ° \.. ( ‘ : . 6 XAAZ~22 To3 5 March 1964 Voor) i oe Meno In ¥e “gx @_, ty JA does not destre to respond directly te” ; a that letter which made a levy foxour: materiad” 23 Nowember. We found that, except for thiostelegrams, all that the Seeret Service had was material wechad sent to” _ MeGeerge Bundy at the White House, simply passed it to the Secret Service as _{nformafion, — Unless you feel otherwise, Jim would prefer to wait out the Commission on the matter covered by paragraph 2, [If © they come back on the point he feels that you, or someone from here, should be prepared to go over to show the Commission the materials rather than pase them to them in, copy. Incidentally, none of these items are of new substantive interest. We have either passed the material in substance to the Commission in response to earlier levies, or theiterms refer tc&aborted: hi 8, for example, the famous-aix photo- gr. aph® which werg not of Oswald, and the passenger cenisitfget on ag s atrling watch also did not pertain to eal, che 4 oe Ke or Que scour Number 5°79-2550 for FOIA Review on SUH 1875 | - | Rock | | Te TAT ‘Bann soma wn _ 234245 808 acury mats, ~ eel
REPRODUCTION ad ORIG : “e.. on. -BUS?0s pm Ags) UNITES > WH/3/ xicd oi INDEX’ nae o2 aa Es 89407 8” SEPNO INDEX S —e “DATE: 410 Oct 1963° GL FILEIN. CS:FILE NO: | _ Se el a El a ee : (pie 7B / MEXICO ‘CITY INQUIRING WHETHER "RE EMBASSY. HAD RECEIVED ANY NEWS CONCERNING a TELEGRAM WHICH HAD ‘BEEN SENT TO | MBIAIH NOLLVOLISSWT9 " ay In “MOSCOW 1 70 ‘RETURN TO B thet NITED ran gps WITH 7 —— WIFE, MARINA 1 NIKOLAEVNA PUS AND THEIR - erg Document Numb@@ : . a fe ae feriiis isa OLA Review on hee AB AML OFFICERS _ ’ wy, re OFFICER ao £63 GROUP 1 . Exetuded Grom sutematic downgrading and dectassification = AUTHENTICATING ae oFFt ‘ : see COPY NC.
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13-00000 PROIBITER fo CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX an 1. DER 90466, 20° December 1963 [FOIA No. 420-757] < DIR 97829, 29 January 1964 [FOIA No. 498-204]
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Ee . CLASSIFIED MESSAGE : 1282 ORIG ¢. ee AL 7 ROUTING cuss ofa 3 << oN | BY secREt ih ne Dem: 5613 NO INbex : Fs DATE 3 rvAy [] FILE IN CS FILE NO, Ea rs || perGekko, Ey | ROUTINE CITE OIR mas oz “A ~ on re (nos sumer A cama Armin asorerom Yoo wr mE “EIME FOR US TO Cable sent at request of Mr. Rocea of CI Staff. RECORDS OFFICER STAMP Whe following action is ° a authorized: “DE S. s oe Ze a ot" if con aa coed  Pacameant- a 20 201-28 2248 JOHN M. WHITTEN wee Ime _S0ORDINATING OFFrcers GROUP 1 c/w 3 _ GELEASING OFFICER | [| lSearsdingeg | AUTHENTICATING a SECRET - dectansification FFICER 4 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, — Copy No, \ Aero eae
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13-00000.- -.- = - REPRODUCTION PROMIBITEL Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 February 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, September 28 to October 3, 1963. [XAAZ - 36365 - FOIA No. 553-808A] TPE SEGRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum fo Subject: Visi Warren moms
13-0000 oe mo ne ( «REPRODUCTION von Il April 1)54 MIMCitAWwUoM SOU THE RE SORD 2 ROM SN WS SUBJECT 1 ey Three Stafii Aspresentatives of Warren Commission —_— 1954 Messrs. Coleman, Slawson and Wille S z ves of the Warren Gommission, came to “ee , Ze Arnbassador Freeman, Mr. Clarence Boon » ESRD ¥3 8 Anderson and I met there at 0545 hours on 9 Avril. asked that Mr. Clark Anderson and I cooperate full . three would have Top Secret clearances and that he felt we 3 uid not a try to be too secretive in talking to them. . Do, ae 3. When the three visitors came in, The Ambassador told them that he wished thern to call on us for any and all help they needed. He ©. i said, however, that he wished personally to approve in advance any and | ° all contacts with Mexican authorities and/or Mexican citizens, 4 Tha Ambas sador told them thai a great deal of our information a came from soma vary secret and sensitive sources, such as telephone taps, and he reminded therm that any puolished item from these sources ' would have to hav x clearance with(KUBARI) aad{ODENV)). He told thern that r _— of thease operations could have very serious consegsene = Ne BS great harm to Mexican/U,S. relations. The visitors said ems: from (KUBARK) and{ODENVY) included ; in the cone aa would have prior approval o% the origina . a a. os. a a outlined the "rules" under whic me He told them he had made a protoc ° previote @ g@ on hie Luis Echeverria, Acting Minj ‘During that call, The Ambassador told Echeverria aS Wl
13-00009 anid said they, a> puolicliy. Vihon Lhe visizors auke ad if they cowd ge Scheve & Fhe Ambassador gaid tint l would arrange chat if unsy c idea So oe 394+ for rogort ou the visit of 1) Asril 1964 \ n 9 April and again on 10 April i964, DOCS Ss eo yor Y GES in our offices. We spent three hours wi oril and about two and ona-half hours on 10 April in our on, I met with them twicein The Ambassador's "x Y, S m to _wisit Echaverria. In our offices, they: ae a. Reviewed the "take" from a x ON days . 27, 28 September and 1 October 1963 when Les OSW contacted and ° - visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They mada a "schedule" of _ - OSWALD'‘sa activities as far as possible for these days from this aqurce, Note: They were given English translations of these Vrakes!*, be Englisk translations of ths two conversations of 26 Novem- _ ber 1953 between Presidant Dorticos of Cuba and the Cubam Ambagsador © to Mexico J oaquin Hernandez Armas were also reviewed. Co Had ¢ me review the Sylvia Duran case. They were shown - - ". photographs of Sylvia and her husband. - = _ ne oo, da Had me review the casa of Alvarado, the Nicaraguan. 8. Th ors asked what actions the Mexico Gity Station took beginniag 2 mbex 1963. i said we: . . ane all Station assets and sources int¢ - . iri nae all possible details of OSWALD's trave a £ exico, oe the place He had stayed, the contacts he had madaand have visited. ~2~ . AMON Site) "oe wok rie pi . > 2 OS Br D} Ce me ee "ects. a tenes ee Ra “
13-00000. Yontinuous contact with our Headquarters on leads thu aN with loc ab {ODENVE £0 <9ordinace the work of our two a << re ee aporoyval, ,ot in #. esican Aye their nelp in many cages x anding / on py¥ivia Duran and Alvarado ca eeeeN e. Put all possible coverazes on ce Va any v persons we knew of who had had contact eo WALD, t { | | 9. Note: They knew t&ll about! WES GD evaitions OSWALD had, but sald two points had previousNnot been noted by. . - them, These were thats 7 Be OSWALD stated hs wanted to go to ODESSA; and be OswW ALD also wanted a visa for hie wife "who waa a Russian", 10, They said that Assistant Sacretary Mann still has the “feeling stro hired CSWALD to kill Kennedy; they said, ~ ramission has not been able to get any f of this, in his guts" that Ge however, that oS cet or photographs were given 21s oe (of transcripts) which they ates are attached, — Wy NS) 32) Leved that all three of thes We s9n's work on the OSWALD as Distribution: -¢ . | _ “tee acta
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 1. Menorandun v dated! ae Bue TON ae ect: Mex CIA mination on Lee ne oat °1064. - ASOONCT PROG ie pack 1“ of Se
13-00000 Rese WTIC:mfd XARZ- 36Y 73 MEMORANDUM | March 26, 1964 SUBJECT: Mexi IA Dissemination of Informati y Oswald on March 24, 1964. =r cted a memorandum “ees adn gn Gor RN RO cr a of the information ongee ve ald. I our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 ana 1 hope that the complete answers will give "oe 108 ae 3 hme we requested. | . . | aN . , _ We would like to know just when ithe Mexican 3h ° station| got the information with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald and what was the information and how was it obtained. How did the information get from Mexico to the CIA in ene SS aes and in what es it come? “petut was the informatio rr the Lee HarveyQQapel Get ad arried to a Nero agencies < contained such information. other words, I _ would like to know whether this was information available in jy (EF COPY Hn tt. BDEPADR anny
13-00000 * nr) and ° wm ef *e . ry a, @ Mexico or did t Oswald son of the memorandum of March 2h, CIA is not the answer which the CTA _ this inguiry. . the “cra with copies t, t b ditional 4rfcrmation get in the message - _ rmatton was ing to get an explana- shoved Merguentt oo SS) ZX hope thats i f H Q id ter the assassin intend’ to efeois as to - Re Ey 3S We should also determine’ why the Nau never furnished or the most recent photographs of ‘Oswald. @ { i. ‘ : teat . . *, ‘ oy ; a ‘ e a . 2 e a ry . ‘ Saree area see copremeee nese . “om . . . cert a rere rman santa aaieneaeemeemmenesnememinamale eeg tw Se OOM SE ABU MO 6 BAO EE GenaHORD- eR ONE: e $ ® . 89 298 PUY SREP TTS SEES! OO PPE SLE Ey sof le SMe 0622222.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION SET PRORIBITED TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Report No. EE-390 - Memorandum from Carlos BLANCO, dated 28 June 1963; Subject: Back- ‘ground information on current personnel of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. 2. HMMW-11935, dated 1 September 1963; Subject: Luisa CALDERON ‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED
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13-00000_ : SUBIZETs Background information on curzey Embassy in Haxico. ee sounens P=26.- Information received < ; VIDAL gues, former imately 30 years o¢ servi< ” Heies of the Assoolatie c ofsicer with apprese 8 - wet » now dalegate in | . te ist Foreign Gexvice leas J & minted [d 2 , Anbangat Y tited to the Brasilia’ Gov't | ~ — Ce a by Decree Noe 3031, eo ea his credentials on 23-aug * | Ta ea 68s: ‘Raturned to ‘Bavana in late 1967 or early 1963. Appointed ap : Co ey e ‘Delegate of tt of the Foreign Commerce Minister, acting as Bisecken” of 7 Poa z3 : Znternational¢ Oxganiona of the: Vice Ministry of Commereial Bolicy, - ~. F ooo “ = Rasolution Noe 40. dated 13 Mar 63, of the Minister of foreign : ee x @. Bis. yepresentation to the Brasilian Government was a me mS Es : inded by Decree No.-3296, dated 10-Apr 63. Resplution Ho. .63,~ se a a : gated” 22. Ape 63, of the Hipister of Foreign Couberce, roscingeg. °° Fs “Roselution No, 40 dated 13 Nav 63 which had appointed him aa Dalegats i : 02 the Foreign Commaree BMinioter acting as. Director og international " * . x : Oxgaaians of the Ministry of Foreign Comezco. Was appointed as TO | E Azbassador to Mexico by Decree No. 3321, dated 22 May 63% ‘Refiver ~~’ , a os Neseieo on 33 Tun 63. Haen't prasanted hia-credentiala yote. L to, = “Bas: the gollowing university dagreess. Law, Dhadloseghy, dnd Agetoaltural _ a en in Pinay dal nfo, Cuba. Averenizatety 50 yoare 24> (riret Secretary. yer ce ry _ ee Charge @’agtaives at progent. Quiet man, in the sdaolute congt- 2 ony of thofitintatey. G2 member. Da - Ee oe e . « ;= . = car a. = aa ” : ere a ae > PanelaTEn Bee HS
13-00000_ a REPRODUCTION _ PRORIBITED_ ee, " gee - ° a Re @/s2 390, Carles BLANCO< att (qont.) . i ae oy }: Moka hob wee Ons Jongay ES oe a due diee— will act as secrats Les re mek head of the olf ae _ absolute copifider BS a : \aeieae of the nidietry. wae.” ms | latday, working on eet »Zhed late \ “appointed as Comercial Counsellor and assigned to Mexico by ° ution Neo 153). 20 aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce Winister. a desrotie individual. sot ® tpuseworthy- inted as Commercial attaché ond apaigned to > the Enbasey dn sens Haxdco-by Resolution No. 79, 23 Ape 62, of the Foreign Commerce a . ‘a Minister! , Government b Algo pexforme other functions4 G22. 7 - Banker. Communigt: Very dangerous. Man in the confidence'of the . e _ £pB Government, fiquzes. Had a brother who Lives in Hew York who 2" ide not a Communist, and a sieter who belongs to a religious order. Banior af (Commercial Attach$.T7E?. oar? t appoibe as Commercial Attaché and assigned to the Esbasey in _ Hesdes by Resolution No. 150, 14 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce | , . _ 1 Mindeters Dedicated to x purchases, Recording te reperta, he , Te  mabzt-C Oem GONCERCTON Mende 2 canna Astach6.)/7F%. + 7? mm — According to reporte, he hax eG te replace CASTSLLAR ; ae . “Sanches. ‘Has ‘ngt arrived in Qe oi aw onaar ‘Feorangowsay uve sate s eRDB 6 FEL ash y was on Enbassy Goornan. Was a Spanish citisen but has just peel cae aang ats fn annem a ; " - %@. ogo “ a "4 3 e SBC6GCaR82 . ° . ef . “ **e a ° a e o- a . _ : a ont pace 163 oe 319 sees a a =e
qulate. BY z FANS Bought dn ‘the qheftiae tendene. i‘ 3 2 = fs « nae g. snnneee ren, ¥ “thy oe! ladcouaal g ‘. Sud, FE ff . f ” ‘5 me : REPRODUCTION “ ) : " : vs : en.
13-00000 ya 9. 10. li. 12. 13. 14, 15. . SEORET REP" 90UETIO rzoromers — PROMIBITED Report No. EE~390, dat June 1963; Subject: Background infomnatiaN urrent Personnel of the Cuban Embassy 4 co. HMMW-11935, 1- CALDERON . as Note, da EY * to JC from Win. [FOIA Nos oe MEXI-7105 cin S ws 27 November 1963 [FOIA No. 173-615] ) Subject: Luisa Memorandum for the File, dated 20 December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542-1108] XAE-813, 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643-273] OTTA-1602 (IN 68894), 24 April 1964. XAAZ-22764, 24 April 1964 [FOIA No. 667-282A] WH/SA 64-368, 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Offi- cers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. DDP 4-2533, 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulates; Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican control of U.S. Citizens' Travel to and from uba. DDP 4-3195, 19 June 1964: -QNSA No. 740-3194] MS and ROCCA chrono- Werr Commission in 1964. ) ( WY) : Lee Harvey MINA" on Agents, dated XAAZ-27167, 22 June logies of contacts DDP 4-3401, 2 Jyls OSWALD. DDP 4-4882, 18 * 1964; Subject: Techni- cal Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa. tt, Biotin CooZe55 od Sa ae Gee ete Mog Beep ePe een seep oe 4 “COPY NO. __
MEMORANDUM FOR: . & SUBJECT)» @ ‘ ony a S bck oy Oo 3 Gormznission on tho . Assassination of Prasident Kennedy _ Technical Examination of Phatographs of Lea Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa ee 1. I rolex to your request of 1 September 1964, “that the . , Central Intelligence Agoncy undertake a technical analysis of | -photegraphed coples of Lea Harvey OSWALD's apalleation for a Cubana visa, prepared by him In the Cuban Consulate In Maxico | City, and the reply from Havana conditionally rejecting OSWALD !a | . Bpplication, — Lo “a - 2, Quallfted analysts of this Agency have examined and tanted | these documents, and have made tho following dstexminatlans: & The signatura "Lee H. Oswald" aflxad to the visa . application ls the slynature of Lee H ROSWALD. - . Pa a 51", was probably writt << ¢ of the Guban Conaulate SS) Ne statement on this No and the sasnple of Mr : comparison Is inadequate £ state with confidence that the\notation was nob written by Lee - 7 Harvey OSWALD, ~ I ee It is posatble ta eer ot es = e wace 7: '°S ef PLR. 8 on . e . rr) / 4 . > "oe : * . .. e . : " ’ . ® . * . : . ' . ve . . en ee ee ee, teens a . . : : 8 4 : :
oe. o & : oe oe > e —oomount Cuban rejection of the same, which were furnished to thia Atiency oF te the Commission. ; u i “parry | SECRET. | c. The visa application « re the Cuban Government lo, in fact, a reduced nates 5 fa photograph. . | d. Under stercogr on it ban been doterminad _. that the blurred passp ae ak Sa entry "Pasaporte No. on the application fz ~ SS lyals wera deemed necessary. a 3. I return herewith the p ev of the visa. application and - ® . ; : .- : e , ese e . . pte SOT ET yt >, Richard Helms 9 0 t-7 Deputy Directer for Plana -... ' Distributions . De oe ok mE Original & 1 ~ ~ Addressee ne . te "Ze DDP > : | 2 G/CI/REA ; (CI/R&A/TRHaltiak (18 Septe by Y be ote . CO “copy HO.
13-00000 "0 ae INFO FROM AMMUG-L on AGENTS a Pay oe fhe difference between a Cuban and a £ \S (of the DGL) is as fo x t, of agreements with the Recruitment of foreigners consists, organizations to which they. belor sents can also be recruited in verrilla trainings the schools in Cuba where they in DGI houses, where they receive i ion as agentse Their life is normals they use tha. cover of being scholarship students supported by the Cuban government. . The DGI supplied them clothes, fuod, and every sort of cara, such as medical and any other kind. The DGL takes care of their general. expanéses¢ . Once recruited as possible ag A Po separated fron the others and placed Ordinarily Hexg an attempt is mde to keep them from contact with rege ‘auyone : in _ governnent circles soas to avoid indiscretionse Any agent recruited in a foreign country is brought to Cuba and arrangements are made so that he has no contacts with persons in Cuba from his own country or any others Once his. training is. completed, his departure from Cuba is not made known to anyone attached to bitte In reervitwent of Cubans, an effort is made to find those imowing the fewest possible parsons. “If the Cuban who is recruited is employed in an office or factory or works soite other place, an effort is made to have him continue his work so as to use his situation to provide true cover; instruction is given at ‘hours when he is not working. If the agent has any trouble after he has been. recruited, the DGI tries to help him as meh as possible without breaking down _ conpartmentation or his covere = = — When he has completed his training and is sent abroad, the DGI covers the ex- penses of his family. If a Cuban who is recruited is unemployed, it looks for a cover adapted to his situation, and the DGI tates care of all the expenses the agent has, including those of his family if he is marriede He receives his training in the hours adapted to his cover position. His life, Like that of the agent who is working, mst contime normal, just as it was before recruitment. Cubans trained as agents, if their depar fm the counbhy is not illegal, leave with foreign’ passports.. Se 7 pepRonucTiO woe 174 OS cory HO.
~~ nota rw + Bet ed oe amrpamnreen ecm = SENSITIVE SOUR sstHODL_WOLVED_ MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘Mz. ad. Lee Rankin . General Counsel . President's Gommission oa the - ¥ SUBSIEGT: ise Harvey Oswald — Se & oa the subjact. ; . "T mot Oswald here. He stormed into my offices and wanted me to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans. Ze told me that he had iMved in the USSR. I told hirn that Zt would have td check before I could recommend him. He was nervous and his hands trombled, and he stormed ous of my office. I don't believe that a person as nervous ha Oswald, whosa hands trembled could have accurately fired a rifle.” 2) records for the ised itis quite | aleriy Kostikey he first spoke or Yatskov. . when he actually had spoke to Koatikey who mre 3. The source of hation is a ce of this Agency In Mexico SN. Weds belleved to be reliable. In view of thin relationship, an appropiate sensitivity indicates baz been affixed to this rasmorandium « . WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ‘pepper PROMIBIVED - : . SIRE Se re er tee ante mete ne MN | TOE I ie Seca, iNET Assassination af President Kennedy ~ . wo 2. The following remarks have been rocently atixThuiad te Soviet Gonsul, Pavel Antonovich Yatskov ia Mexica Gity regarding identical contact i Exchsd24 fran aomalts “cory -o WL BSS. CRIuP eemsiradiay 353 ¢2cts 2 shety f: °¢ nO.
SEERE] | WARN ered SENSIT’  SOURCTS AND METHUOS INVOLVED » forwarded to the 4. A copy of this mernox ha Fadezal Bureau of Inve =e W\ 8 Q Richard Heluns oe Deputy Dixector fox Plans . a . Distributien:s a a | | Original & L« Addresses ss 2 DDP a 7A: | —  ™ be C/WHI/S ae be CHRGA/2Z0R0 © ey wo = Rw CI/RREAJAEDoolsy  . . . rs Le | 1 - FBI (via GSCI) - re Originated by: CI/R&A/AEDooleyinls 1 July 1964} ||. ot ; e ® — . ; e Ae “ef. os ® ° 28 OPS oer tne HH 4 2, *® Nae ° . . : . ry : . e % WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE Sources AND METHODS INVOL Ven
13-00000 Appr | 2 , owe a ee ” ‘ a? A. ae wea “TF 7 ca were } OxSL25 aud Bacca a \ isi ge Tis . Le) “RAZORS ¢ oP “Fear t se fs \W 22 une 1966 SEIS BV EM RRO SSFA MIST oA ; Mr. Rocca: , se yo This List % oe the score of telephone . 7 calls I had with ‘Tre Rai ths Commission staff: 2 + 2 January 19S) - Messrs. Allen We Dulles, Rankin yates, _ 4:00. _ Angleton, and Rocca. 28 Jamary * Bre Rawlcin's office. : ” hrI5 , ro. 12 Harch Hr. Rankin's office with essrse wang : " 223600 . and Rocca ce : 27 March f2SSTS 6 Slax WSON, Willems, » and Stern 2330 with Mrs Reesa 2), June Chief Justice Warren a 21:30: : NN . n By sé . , CEPA hn teen en aed Soule . . COPY HO. are nacstin tet ores aa BEE REL
13-00000 - AePRMOUETION - PROMBITED SECRET REPRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS PROMIBITED ed 27 November 1963 [FOIA | No i380. 107541 EPRCOUCTION MEXI-7105 ‘R 692 | 963 [FOIA No. 173-615] PROLIB Memorandum for®t BITED. December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542- 1108] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643-273] Memorandum for Chief, WH/PO/A, dated 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Officers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consu- lates; Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens' Travel to and from Cuba. ou iv er a i .
13-00000 ae ep ; "MEMORANDUM FOR: ree ae ° ols : Lo - : Assassination of President Kennedy oa uh * 3 : 7 Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulatess i Paes : : ” Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of |». ney poo Ste, es 7 Gaban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens! - oe ie re Travel to and from Cuba ee ey | _— 1. ft water te your memorandum dated 24 April, in which you “ as ees -. request information on hours of work at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic. °- 50° | 7 installations in Mexico City, details of regulations governing the =. 2: 7°; °- -’ fasuanees of Cuban travel documents and Mexican control of U. Se fea a2  eitisens travelling to and from Cuba through Mexico. aor 2 The Soviet Exbassy and Consulate are not open to the ; . public; offices in the Soviet compound may be visited by appointment : only. A twenty-four-hour guard is mounted at the entrance to the ix compound in which these Soviet installations e located, Visitors ~~ ring the bell at this entrance at all hours. are permitted to enter at any time, bu$-¢6 . away by the guard after normal houz “. ° during Septernber 1963, when Leese “*- + installation, were 0900 ta 18 x Ray “et. Mondaya and Fridays hava.& 3. The Guban mmtaosy ay Snsulate are located in. thelr 7 OS ne ; owa compound, but these installations have separate entrances, 22°" _, Vislters may enter the Guban Consulate from 1000 to 1400 hours, Sisteen Soviat families 1a ~ GROUP 4 a Exeladed (rest automatic
13-00000, REPRODUCTION PROWMEITED ' Monday through Friday. Kenbassy workix are 0900 to 1703 - @n the same days. Visitors to the © < owsver, usually : appear befere 1400 heurs. These a oS alae in oliect : during Septeraber 1983. | ; . 4 Prior authoriazatl © ‘the Exterlor in Me en . . Bavanea ia vequired belo nm SS belssued. On occasion, —-.- ot . > gequests for permission to‘ Bok, dthe resulting decisiong. are +. |, at@ handled by cabla. The moan Ns ost a visa application form. |: ~.... | a= the Cabag consulate, Guban vidas are sormally valid for three ..- 2 Pea oa >} 4°. months from date of issuance. Visas may be Issued on separate a a ‘+1: oheets of paper te conceal the fact that travel to Cuba was pexformeds | te Bite he ‘The Soviets are r not known te isaue travel permits to Cabs... Jat fe a 5S. The Government of Mexico recognizes the passport 2 asan ” ae * -«Adeatifieation decument only. Mexican immigration officials do not | an vce _ Secegnize passport entries prohibiting the bearer's travel to Cuba, * tf i af the bearer helda a visa valid for travel to that country. Amendment a 2.0275 — of Mexican laws to pernsit recogaitioa of travel restrictions affixed by | id 2 _. Qoveramenta Issuing passports has been nadez. consideration, buk ao a vee ed 7 -” Betion thereca bas presently been taken. - . 4 Bae ; 6. Non-Cubaas, ‘including UeSe citizens, entoring Moxleo oy reo | *$ ® aye Gen ag. 2 vo 2 SER en, Skee  fsom Cuba muat have Mexican visas or tourist cards. Depending - 0°. 05° V7 - ana their outgoing {Nght times, non-Cubans transiting Mexice do net = = «s+ always need a transit visa. The passports of all persons travelling = 0 - between Mexico and Cuba ara stamped In Spanish with the phrasea oe ree | ! | H | | - “Daparted for Cuba” or "Entered fora Cubal, as appropriate. All. : | passeagers, includlug non-Cubans, ente exico from Cuba are © 2 | being exnmmineds a es |e es Nes meets your need at oe, | | oe : " Richard elma. en |e — a Bepaty Dizector for Plans wee Dee! | * Distributians : an . ca | . _Orige & Zw Addressee ; | 2 DDP 1 » C/CI/R&A Originated By:. CI/R&A/Hall: growls a "13 May 1964 TG "Based On: MEXI 9332, 6 May 1964, IN 77522 oy ~ 8 : -{ are) 1 | SET |
Re RCTIOR ——— PROKIBITED eeaavel| WH/SA 64-368 63 May 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WAPOA, a #65 of AMMUG-1 ON. in the Field with of agents of the DGL AS ag HNN) appearing at the Congulate (Source does not know the parti¢ular phrase used in every case, He does imow that agents from El Salvador in requesting visas & always made mention of the name "Mauricio’) The DGI officers at a Consulate interview visa applicants to find out if they are agents. If the visa applicant does not use one of the indicated ’ phrases, the DGI officers, instead of granting the visa immediateiy, . ' tell the applicant to return in a few days. The officer then notifies ' Habana and requests authority for the visa. ‘ . Swenson ~ WH/SA/CI | WW &Y ee Distribution: _ _ Orig &1 - Addressee x Salvad 1 - WH/3/ El 1 = WH/SA/ESEC . @-~ Chrono -Ll- Mary SECRET | REPRODUCTION 7 - 2 . 7 ; - vsce 188 188 313
Be ‘EPROUUETION- SO _____ PRORITED re 7 t SENSI sources re ae | [pene jose ¢: 12Z.| METHODS Unnens ret % _ 7 for FOIA Review on JUN 1878 7 ey ol apt doi 28%au$ WARMING ° NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND ~ emer ol
PROGIBITED _WAK’ NG NOTICE SENSIT.- sour RCES A " obtain viesn in mbes to viel these coumtries, ami che tad bemtlea his case a% the Ciben Conaulate. ° she caly new stan tm the second thes silvia DIA '. __ declaseilicatian came | sAVARNING NOTICE ~] [roaate Som| SEP? | SENSITIVE SOURCES AND . ding sad EET _ METHODS INVOLVED PRO T=
REPRODUCTION oO ” PRORIBITED Original & <3 - Addressee @ P terse & - C/CIYUR&A S&S _ 20k~ CI/REA/TREeMsnie/ 6664 es : ed by C/WH/3) 9 November. 1963
rome ~ an : REPRODUCTION - PROGIBITED x GV A LSe& a Decemb ~\) Cc a 3 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD \ On 17 December Mr. Le C CO anticipating. a request from the Comiiission, named by President Johnson to look into this case, for copies of Bureau materials supporting or complementing the report already submitted. He pro- vided me with the attached copy of portions of a report passed by the Legal Attache in Mexico City dealing with the Sylvia DORAN aspect in which it would eppear rather clear that some United States Government agency was tapping telephones in Mexico. Mr. Papich inguired as to whether information in this report might be given _to the Commission or whether this Agency desired to establish some other policy with regard to meeting the needs of the Commission. ‘The matter was discussed with Mr. Whitten and he subsequently ad- vised that as a result of a conference with Mr. Helms and others in which he was directed to prepare certain materials to be passed to the Commission, he was quite sure that it was not the desire of a ‘ ; the Agency to make available to the Commission at least in this manner - via the FBI - sensitive information which could relate to telephone taps. Mr. Papich again raised the question on 19 ember and after consultation with Mr. Angleton’ and Mr. was agreed with Mr. Papich that when the Bureau is fs ae problems of this oy the Bureau should not pass to the Commission infors Yi Btis Agency, but should refer the Commission to the Age oY ank<akiGional information. It was mentioned to Mr. Papi Syd to meet the needs of the Commission in anpt meworses | QW | ; ; smn, AANOZ FEB 978 : Chief, CI/SIG for FOIA Review on Attachment 7 PROGBITED - | - 7 7 a on :
13-00000: ‘REPRODUCTION a . ( lL CLASSIFIED MESSAG*| oo . > LHF SECRET [——fomig pF ARESTOR DEC 4 1974 a —Hh — ‘ FROM ¢ yexteo CITY MICROFILMED a | ‘ | ACTION: cf 4 (WH/3 NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT 17 NOV DM) INFO: DCI, DOP, c/ct 2, vR® Se SE creer sae a, | ; . | Wee SL y . a i S$ EC RET 2721492 RG ~ oS 2 IMMEDIATE DIR crs] 1109 QE — —— - \\ RO | “yy . #1 - Unit LIA | | ATTN GALSOND : Tote: If destruction] APa#In, 631 NEG213 ' ' Peasons and co Yer Dla $5245e% if appropriate. | | ; / le SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT BEYPILVIA. an | DURA OETAINED FROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROGER T. KINGMAN IN 3 a | ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND TnUz NAWe. 2, KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT 3839 HOURS 25 NOVEN3ER. | HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WILL TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE. : a “ 3 SORRY NO TI ME TO TRANSLATE STATENS 1 EMPLOYEE) TALK TO UNKNOWN ai FRO : SECRET c/s ¢ COMMENT: spIssENIMATION; APPL ies wre crested Stadion cable a &@ craaclaies version Sytvia Diwants etecck= se "Document Number 173-615 26 /-2 21 mae Diao» -S- a ( ‘for FOIA Review on APR 1976 “Panu a
1 f-00000 86 0 GA SS EE REA EDS aD OE Nes ee ne AE i i i i REPRODUCTION — _ Dear JC, John Horton's return tonight give November 27, 1963 nityto send you, some items I mentioned to you in a@ Nyy es of ‘these twa}. items are attached hereto. I Re) Gow had the time to “~  ™ translate the longer one of ¢ been very rushed. SES I've had no time to give to John his visit and Align has had ealoost no time with him. We do hope, however, that he has been able to get some idea of our Station and its work by his talks with the various a officers who have been able to spend some time with him during these two days. , . Perhaps when we are little less rushed, he can retum to Mexico for another visit. We appreciate your quick responses and good instructions in the case which ia taking most of our time these days. Sincerely, Distribution: Orig : King | — Livia DURAN Pw, BON Ws 1: Louise CALDERC < i _ Document Number P80- 1073-4 for FOIA Review on MOV 197
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIRTED Nemorandum to Howard P. WILLENS from W. David SLAWSON, dated 4 February 1964; Subject: Letter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Posing Certain Questions on their Letter to Us dated 31 January 1964. _ SeGRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for the Record, dated 27 March 1964; Subject: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey OSWALD's Stay in Mexico city: Visits to Soviet and Cuban Embassies. Memorandum: from COLEMAN -SLAWSON , dated 2 April 1964; Subject: Mexico: Questions Raised by the Ambassador MANN File. Memorandum for Record, undated; Subject: Intercepts from the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City. "ARE eNO PROGIBITED | “Sey
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 31 Jul 78 NOTE FOR FILE: TOP SECRET DOCUMENT DTD 22 April 1964 by the authority of the National Archives, Marion M. Johnson has been regarded to CONFIDENTIAL Date of authority 3/25/76 REPRODUCTION ‘PROHIBITED
13-00000 a ” : ~ oe REPRODUCTION Ex. wot woh, j-y- lo [ro | = [va [>i fri t+ SYAIEC?: Tein to neat ut DAG . So io, Viliiem &. Culoman, Jy., and rm, W. David Slavson, all en : the sta’f of the Camsission, Plev ecu Yashincten, D. ©. te iicaico City. Ue. Celenan eceturned on Sunday, April 12 and ir. Slaveun and he. ¥iliens returned cn an airplane leaving “Mexloo Gity 2b about 3:20, Honday afterncon, April 13. This memorandum vill briefly summarise this trip plus some of the Meetinws neld in preparation for 1t. . 20:29 awm. to 11:99 a.m. Willens, Colesan and Slavsen met with Agsistant sre: ay (of State for Latin American Affairs Themas tana, iit, Thnemsa Fharlich ef tne Orfics of the Legal advisce fer the State Lenirtment, and tio aides to tr, Hann in Nr. Harn's | office at akcut 10:20 a.m. Ausigstant Seerctary Nana was 7 Auabascader te hexice : at the time cf the assussination and personally divect PED nvestinatory effort and our relatiois o 4 t ERO UE TID irediately after the new of the on PROT pencned” fexleo City. a CCpy with tne fisetean La: 3155 ar Resear ae Co reece ere = peecmcawenmanp eee nH 8 ‘ Li Pe 2 ee
13-00000 . PROGBI * . .% . : of the file created by his efforts, consisting of telesrams between Mexiso City and the State Deportment in Washington, had previously been forwarded to the Commission. The purpose of our meeting with Anbassador Kann ras first, to inferm hin of our intent to go to Mexico and discuss with him our propose actions there and REPRE BG fA Ni estions with him C on wy ies jnwediately after the about his thoughts an censantice.— PROBIBITED The file turned over to the Commission by Ambassador _Mann contains statements of opinion by him that Oswald was probably involved in a sinister fashion, especially by way of LAKIN & Urive, wien une Gupan Empassy in mexico ULUY OF Witi. some other Castro agency. These susvicions were reinforced by the allegations of a certain "Alvarado" who at the time was’ being interrogated intensively by the Mexican authorities and by representatives of the American Fmbassy in Hexico City because he claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald take $6500 in American bills from an individual in the Cuban Embassy. We | asked Ambassador Mann what particular evidence aside from the _ Alvarade assertions he had for these suspicions. He replied that he had none ml general feeling "in his guts" that | Gastro was the ‘yeina or [Rt ae PROD e carried out. this ROTTED cug3156 esa ( pace 20 0. REPRODUCTION : ~
13-06000' . ’ been current in Mexic ‘him to raise the gravest suspicions. - whenever | anyone left or entered their main entrances, at least artificial light. “HePHODUCTION PROMMBIT ED TOP ed kind of ruthless action, either throuzh some hope of gaining from it or simply as revenge. The Amoassador added that net even the allezations of Alvarado or other rumors which may have REPR MCT. money had been given to Oswald were S$ suspicions, since the Alvarado allegati con ROLE ED a day or so later 7 but that the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban and Russicn. - Embassies in Mexico City shortly before the assassination, which ‘he had learned from his security officers at the Embassy, plus what he believed about Castro's character, seemed sufficient to Later, he pointed out, when he had a chance to listen to the Dorticos-Armas intercepts, his suspicions were strengthened. Ambassador Mann knew of no contacts by Oswald with anyone in Mexico city other than his visits to the Cuban and Soviet Embassies and his staying at the Hotel del Comercio. Ambassador Mann said that our intelligence took and was still taking photographs of ‘both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies during the normal. i on Monday. through Friday 3 mall Buoy HOO BCTION without — FRGRIGITED | during the daytime wh uO315T - errr TO _ PROG ImTeD 2 A metenenn + rat Aa ean one PAGE | COPY NO. Lg’ "
oo REPRODUCTION = TOP SECRES Tne Anbasasador said that he had been kept informed of the Silvia Duran int serrogation through his aides, Clarke Anderson and } “Inston { Seott. He learned of it informally, that is, Anderson and Scott reported crally to him as soon as they received from Hip ED an TNGIN 2° *"Gobernacion" any news about how Barer WW) : ogressing. 27 in response to our NOTIBI ED. the Ambassador recon= “mended that when we got to Mexico City we should work through _ the representatives of the FBI and the CIA at the American .Enbassy and, through them, with the Mexican officials they recormended, but that we should do all of this as quietly as possible, without eny ner: spaper publicity. We also asked ' ‘2 Ambassador Mann to what extent it was knovn in Mexico o City that the Eotel del Comercio was a headquarters for pro-Castroa ee ESE FSS SSS IST SSIS te Eh es Se eS SES Sheet teen nn ARRERSESS ome activities. The Ambass a a that it was not known generally at _ Ambassador Mann said U3) the fille from his Eubassy eee a current only in i which had. previously been forwarded to the Commission consti- 7 . fo tuted the entire file which was in existence on this particular i. . Lo oe subject, with the one exception that it may not have included | TOP SECRET | | Jareeerebeemmtoniepinrensinet Su eke Apcemmeeetnn RA ==": Nn manana mer * 7 | su uannstteee rareerttresteteeseepettpeteles tert a tS SEA eben eee ere RSET
13-00000  € the report from the FEI referred to therein, REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET Ve confined : Snat it sure that this in Mexico City, 1f we thouzht it was necessary. had not included that report. report could be obtai He said that he was ned from Clarke Anderson | in response to Q similar question about the "Alvarado" file, he replicd that any additional pa nat might be in existence “ntatnes through the about this. formal statements by wnat she is supposed pepantyved hw yard at manbh thranck hia sida ference, for which he was already a half-hour late. wecting was breaking up he asked Hr. Slawson whether, with the that his recemmendat benefit of hindsight assassination had been AA (oT ED. we thought. they Mir. POH rep at although the inves~ tigation of the specific allegations of Alvarade had show that were unduly rash. they. were in all propability a in what tne Ambassador had done to have been unjustified, in Perse ROTTED He said Ambassador Mann was then called out to another con~ erican authcrities Poe probably be CIA PACHA FER speak to Mr. Scott that he had never seen any papers or Silvia Duran; ail his information about to have told the Hexican police was Seath and Anderson As the - Commission staff felt | oan Ne after the fabrication, he found nothing | CUN3159 a . 23 oe 155 we i. ite Ss
13200000" PROB Z2 io 63 ic 3 De] view of the facts known to him and his assistants at the tise end in view of the “Ee sericusnesn of the oceurrene EO ROTCTION AG 3:30 in the "PROUG: IeD,. itten of the CIA came to the Commission offices. and conferred there with Slavson, Willens and Coleman. This conference grew out of a ’ Suggestion made by Mr. Richard Helma of the CIA about tro weeks previous, in which he had mentioned that 16 would be a "good idea if a representative of his agency met with those persons from the Commiasion who planr.cd to go to Mexico just be a mame I Yygume | a fiddle Bow wandoyy oem F yove eoare tens dete FUP R mee? 2 a tee RD eA aD woaweg atowom we am kee em aD we ea attinan adie Basta cb cheery Ce ‘properly advise us of any last-minut : arrangenents and properly alert its people "1p Bp 0 our arrival. | : - We steosaall EPRO! QOUGTION.... to Mexico officially and openly . PROT Epp. and Mr, Witten offered to make arrangements to get us into Mexico completely unnoticed 1f we desired to do so. We told him that we did not - want to try to keep the trip entirely secret. We would do our best ‘te avoid any kind of newspaper publicity or public announcements. We intended to introduce ourselves at the 6 BOP SECRET o Gm axa quate cx GE Gud giNED Gem eH PAGE 24 S COPY NO. REPRODUCTION
PROHIBITED rOP SRORE® comb cmemp duane Geum oor ean ba Febaasy and So Mexican effiecials as wiat xe in fact were, represcnticives of Sune Conalsclon. A On 1tten said RE . 1004. Winston Seott, the CIA Chief for iexico, PREG ing with one of the Hu bill top foreign spcratives in AO janLzation. He said = that the CZA would give us complete cooperation. We outlined to Me. Witten cur entire proposed plan REE ne once we arrived in fi eneral terms, and asked for his ~ gomments on how bes }_to_achieve_our_gogls. His reply in every mments on how > instance yas that we should deal on the spot with Ee. Scott. eS ate) Chuigiae sic le VuL phupvecld JuUUTicy rae a vouy BvuU ducts He repeated wnat Er. Gin had said a while ago, oe | : that there is no = BE Robiies id GIN GIN fficer" being "on | | | the spot." PROGIBITED - | WEDNESDAY - APRIL B So 6:15 a.m. to 7:00 DT. 7 Our plane was schec duled to leave Washington from Dulles Airport at 9:20 in the morning and accordingly ali three of us mot at the ¥ashington Air Terminal in the Albert Pick : Motel. at about (8:15 and later arrived at the Airport at about 7 “Pop § E Cc RE 7 REPRODUCTION a Ta
13-00000. - " Airlines, hire, Jorse Villagomez, who addressed each of us by “name, gave us his business card and cased our way through - Mexican customs. An unidentified man approached Mir, Willens and asked 1: we were from the Embassy. Willens replied that '$ieo with the Mexican Inn gration officials over whether or - not he had been vaccinated recently, and in the course of REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED 9:99. Nhovever, weatner and technical difficulties held up the plane in asicadi PROD iN orf the creund in Vashington until NEP co re) tne afternssn. After a " ROMBITED.... we arrived in Nexico City at about 6:00 p.m., Mexieo City tine te vere met as we came uff the airplane by a representative of Eastern we were not. The individual asked if it was true that people were coming to investigate the agsassinatiou. Willens refused to confirm this report. Mr. Colewan had some minor difficul- « a ee 4 coe cesar Tare teeter discussions on this the Eastern Airlines representative nen< tioned to the Tandy eee ething to the effect that - He. Coleman was a-represer Hons. Nl wen Comission. | py” the person who had time had walked bacic tovards tit. coleman. If. all ‘this occurred as we suspect it may have, it could explain why there was an announcement in to “eyy312 PACE =e gk os
8 oon gen tee amen mt cae ey the following sornims naming en business for the Commission, PRowie | , oe SI TED Just inside the airport terminal we were met by -Of the Mexica City ple us and statins that Me. Clarke Anderson and Mr. Rolfe Larsen from the American Enhassy. These men were later identified, respectively, as ' Chief of the FBI in Mexico City and an FBI agent temporarily “assigned for duty in Mexico City. Anderson and Larson took the . three of us to our hotel, the Continental Hilton. . At 9:00 a.mi th Pisgianeea. met in the FBI offices at the Embass y with lie, Larson and discussed generally with him the progress of the assassination investigation while we were waiting to meet Ambassador Freeman, Clarke Anderson and Winston Scott, the CIA Chief in Mexico City, were conferring sent an tens en Overt mena with the Ambassador and briefing him on the Mexican aspects of the assassination investigation. Ambassadcr Freeman had been at this post only two days, having just presented his cre- dentials to the President of Mexico on Monday, April 6, 9 BoP SECEE?
we wanted to become as current as possible on evidence being — . “they had played in +h sa " REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED om: gaat omy GER GHD GD 2:70 a.rt. to 6:55 a.m. We met with the hiabas dor abt about 9330 in the morning. Fresent -RePROBHCTION ad the Ambassador were Minister Boonstra, PRODIBITED and Clarke Anderson. . ir, Coleman explained in EL D. terns the purpose of our trip. He said that we ranted +o learn as much as . possible about what investigations were currently being carricd out, with special emphasis on the Hotel del, Comereio and on - Qswald's northbound journey out of Mexico City, and that we wanted to cecide upon and initiate whatever new lines of invese ES eA ae pom Fy S aeaette AADY EA Paw tT enerncht oe ey = =O Soh ® mater. eas na ee Se ee ee owe Pe ET EA AH EO ee Ae Oe aio 0, + anto these investigations, we wished to satisfy curselves | that everything reasonably possible was being done and, in edditica, produced. Also, ue hoped to make contact with one or more Mexican officials so as to learn Girectly from them what part , Ii Noni and what they had learned that might BR of MC zn particular, we Pillars. what Mes. Silvia . a Duran, the clerk at the Cuban Eubassy vho dealt frequently with wanted to find out 28 : Osuald, knew. Finally, we hoped to make arrangements fors and “10 | ‘zr OP SECRE . qin Gen em dbus gam emmy etter gee PAGE _ o— Se
13-Q0000_ a " REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET and perh:ps an? SPRINT of our evidence obtained in Mexico,. voll Whons or by invit- ing witnesses to appear en to testify. Mr. Coleman added that we hoped in all this to be guided by the counsel of the Ambassador and his staff, because we did not want to do anything that would disturb the good . yelations of the American and Mexican governments. Ambassador Freeman replied that he and his staff “would ccoperate completely. He said that he saw no objection © whatever to our talking directly to Mexicans who had some informaticn to contribute, but he felt that this should be done only in the Embassy and only on the clearly stated basis that all appearances and testimony were totally voluntary on the - | part of the Mexicans. As to speaking to Mexican officials. the. Ambassador again said that this would be fine and he asked only that we work through his staff in setting up appointuents, etc. The Ambassador pointed cut that the taking of formal depositions 7 in a foreign country could be a very difficult and technical. . | ® ep) g aia section of the Embassy , coe HON. . , . for information on how Be ‘ The anvancaaon matter. He referred + he a2 REPRODUCTION : | a 7 a . - . . so “5 PROHIBITED co , oe we
REPRODUCTION PROLIBIT that our seeing Silvia Duran would be a highly sensitive matter and that it should be discussed fully with the Mexican officials, but they agreed that it did not differ in principle oy ray a EE - wt from our seeing other Mexican witnesses, i.e., the Ambassador approved so long as R REPROOUCTIO mn Embessy, and made clear to her tha tirely voluntary. There then eo OIRITED. of views on how bes: to approach Mexican officials, what Mexican officials would be 0 epee SORES PSR AD sents teh tet . host valuable for our purposes, and the general substance of our work. A&G about five minutes to ten the Ambassador had to excuse himaclf for his first staff meeting, which he had callicd for 10:00 a.m. fo 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Willens, Coleman and Slawson retired to the office “that had been assigned to then at the Embassy, room 510, to discuss the conferenca,» the Ambassador and generally to Neos the FBI, the caenc ess ene: PROHIBITED - 11:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. draw up outlines for ome Mr. Anderson and Mr. Scott came to room 510 after 12 p 2 Pp. 5s EC R E ro mem sete femme ee cee mms oe cee ng et en Sen Se settee
TOP SECRET an has me the staff mecting had adjourned. We agreed that we tsculd confer with ir. Anderson immediately and mect Mr. Scott later in the day, at about 33:30. Mr, Anderson was welcome to come with us at our meeting with Mr. Scott, if he desired to do 805 - end he said that he vould make up his mind on this after he had conferred with us, because he of course had: other work to do and would not want to attend the meeting with Scott if it : would simply involve Dis Jini ‘ground he had cree emt: PROWIITED Accordingly, we met immediately with Clarke Anderson in his offices. He invited Rolfe Larson and a Mr. frent to take part in the conference. Mr. Trent was also an * agent of the FBI temporarily on duty in Mexico. . __One of the topics of conversation was Reverend _ ° Albert Adexander Osborne, . _a130 known as_ John Howard Bowen. _ Mr. Trent had been the agent primarily engaged in . tracking down and talking with Bowen, although Larson too had been somevhat 4nvolved. Bricfly, the agents deseribed Bowen as an elderly white haired gentleman who was probably engaged in some kind . of violation of the ee n his. fund raising, because it was not rr for religious 7 ff Q 2B SE C RE z . ae emreae “a oes ee ee ee + 7 clear that he actual ceenentecettapantaenen ar er veuneertteng mmnnneere nn oo an . . . |
13-9000 . “unstable mencally. ‘rent describe. the Commission or a staff 1 member, ‘Trent and Lars son 1 were : ~" epRODUETIOR >ROMIBITEL use the money for,. ane Hut when he first approached Bowen he SERED. Osborne, " and the reply was that he, Trent, must be mistaken, because he, Osborne, wa: Bowen, Osborne then went on to say that he was . often mistaken for Osborne but that he had not seen that other gentleman in some time, and believed he was in some other section of Mexico, ete. Trent said that Osborne carried this ‘off very well. It was not until later that Osborne admitted that he was really Osborne but that he often used the name Bowen. When asked directly how they though: Osborne would cee A A A romani react to being asked or compelled to appear to testify before | inconclusive. They thought that there might be trouble but they were not sure. Trent and the other PBI representatives then described the procedures the Mexican Immigration Author-— ities were using in dealing with Osborne. In sum, the author~ ities had not acted as yet to deport Osborne but they believe | + that they had sufficient grounds to do so at any time. In the pet PRODUCT GN: were questioning meantime they were him occasionally. " PROGIBTTED felt that if we - ROP SECRET co 1 ne C2 GC) ° pmod .. oy & 32 55 pack 7S noo”
13-09000- agreed to include al the Hotel del Comercio investircation. Here, 4t appears that the . ee - | : ES * SeoBAnUICTION -  PRORIBITED TOP SECRE wanted to push it, t REPRO WET xe ceport Osborne quickly, PROHIBITED The discussion then continued on to other investiga~ tions. Larson gave @ detailed summary of recent results of the investigation of Oswald's northbound travel on the Transportes del Norte bus. TI will not go into.what he said " here because it is now reflected in an FBI report in the pos- ‘session of tie Commission. We advised him to include as much _ detail as possible in the reports which he sent through “channels in Yashineton to our Commission because the detail which he had told us orally seemed ts fit what we knew about “Oswald's bact:¢round and was therefore valuable as confirmatory material in the overall picture, even though it perhaps seemed | important to Larson. We then supplicé various detalis about | Oswald's backsround and character which might assist Larson in | interrogating witnesses in Mexico. Larson, Trent and Anderson i or future reports from Mexico. Larson and PRO! OnIIBITED ante a | discusaton of conclusion of the Nexican investigators that-no—one-at—the hotel toe nm eet cote | tein «ERENT, OE scone Poo Aa trere + wae Bee ae : 6 7 paz 29 og 25S. -
} ee hotel did remember nae give soise bits of _ A : information about him. For one thing, Zhe, as did other wit—- nesses confirmed that he vas. always alone when she saw him. ————E—E—EE_ ETE ee Ben _+ Further, she said that he invariably had left the hotel before. ‘ she cleaned his room at about 9:00 in the morning, Larson had . @lso found out that the proprietress of the little restaurant "next _door to the hotel was able to inentify Oswald, although Larson was not complictely certain on how-much she really remembered and how much she may have picked up by suggestion | from newspaper reporters. Anyway 3 sF.2 has stated that Oswald _ frequently ate lunches and dinners at her restaurant » that he invariably ordered very cheap meals, that he alvays ate alone, and that he was not able to converse sufficiently in Spanish mie) that. he really knew what he was ordering when he ordered a2 — 2 . meal, For exnmple, he often refused soup and dessert, | : apparently believing POE PROD ping money, although both items were =e ee PP cost o full meal. cu ITED. : Various other POs : Oswald and of places _ where Oswald may have been in Mexico City were also tcuched upon, 1 Zoe SECRET. PAGE — 5 105
BR RTED TOP SECRET fe ote gaa a mm Gm ae cee eet such as she bull fight arena, the jal alai games, and the places where he may have purthased tourist items. For example, Larson and : ther one of their agents had eee A EPRONMCTION.. Silver shops in an attempt to locate ‘mR Hi E haf Pe ald may have purchased a silver bracelet inscribed “Marina."~ The response had been - negative at each shop and subseauent investigation has shown that such bracelets are probably not sold in Mexico at all _ because they are made in Japan and the duty on importing them : into Mexico would make their price non-competitive with local preducts. ' ; We then asked what was the status of the Gutierres AeA ESE PREG ENN ar investigation. Trend and Lars on and Anderson all agreed that Seana, i Gutierrez was sincere and was doing all. he could toa cooperate + LO tremens titers +a aT ENC MOORES 1, ! with the investigation of what he claims to. nave. seen, in fact, ‘Gutierrez has spend az eonsiderable amount of time trying to get more. valuable information and he has never tried to receive any conpenoet {tt A ET IGT yweakness in Gutierrez’ story, recor : * ii FBI representatives, is the identification of Oswald. bl Gia HOdHe|putierces has failed to identity 03%: aid as ‘the man he Baw at the Cuban Embassy ae ee ) receiving money ‘hen shown a picture of Oswald passing out 17 POPSEGRET Ce PAGE | 35° oe 159 copy No. oe .
13-00000 | BOP SEGREE Fair Play fer Cuba _ Aree during the suacor Lif - of 1963. Gutlerrez says that he never saw his man in prefile, only from the rear and from a direct forward view. His best picce of identification is to the automobile he saw “osyald" and the Cuban enter just outside of the Embassy. Even here, hovever, assumi:x: that his deseript ion of the automobile is completely accurate, there are probably - @ozens of such automobiles in and around Hexico city. Renault is a popular make of car in Mexico, znd the color deseribed by | Qutierrez is a popular color. One automobile answering this | description and frequently seen around the Cuban Embassy has been located, but it is still registered under the name of the jan who owned and sold it several yeirs ago. This situation is apparently ¢ontnen in Mexico. Mexicaius often register a car _ under the name of its former owner 11 order to avoid paying a mete ceetee mares one eevee emqune: Sales tax on the transfer. However, investigation 1s continu- _ ing to see if the present owner of this particular autowebile can be located. In addition, a constant syrveillance of the Cuban Embassy eR : beinz kept, to spot this or — os simllar car, and if. HGR investigation will be carried out. PROMIBITED , "  $Jawson then mentioned that we had brought with us | from Washington all the items of physical evidence shich might — 18 ap 7 REPRODUCTIONS 7 cuysi72. an nes 28 gst
13-0000. Bo " REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET é o é . sca irs [ou relate to Mexico. It was agreed that Slaysen and Larson would go throuch these iteus later. We then inquired as to our seeing the reports RECO GE HON of the FBI in Mexico. Anderson =p ives a these were open to our cxami- RUG ol al {ia} 2 agents would show us ' whatever we would like to BCG. We agreed that we would look at nation at any time am particular reports later, as the occasion warranted. | Silvia Duran was then discissed. It appeared that uae eae een ne nnn etree SASehetay . her signed statement had finally been obtained from the . Mexican Police. Previously, the existence of such a statement eed Se _had not been known. We agreed that we would see that later in the day or tomorrow and that it would aiso be rorwarded through gemma ee neg ofS EERE channels to the Commission in Washington, ve emphasized that ve wanted not only a translation of she statement but, if a, nee nA CAT « possible, a copy of the statement itself. Tne FBI representa se eerie iematattoatemmaiiene arama doen eenemammemmmmntial Fes eee ca eee sett @ arctan ont ‘tives deseribed Duran as best they could, basically, as a "Mexican peppe@ pot," a devout communist, and "sexy." (The CIA later showed us & ch substantially con- 3 firmed this deseri REPRODUCTION... would be the best - approaches to our pol ROR Bae Anderson felt that : this would be a touchy point but agreed that we should try to do it if we could. ‘He thought that the Mexican official that “we should see about this as well as all other aspects of our 19 ” | - FOP SECRE 2 T
13-80000 - | agree ten, ar a rere eee nen mn someon TT nee eres ennai oa Tr A 08 osmemanreneommererreers = me om me _ Anderson would then ask Beat the que nm in Spanish. REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET investigation was Luis Echevarria, Acting Secretary of the anterior. ne eR Gi he was well accuninted with Echevarria and eal COU CHIOR with him, as did Winston Scott. | P ROMMBITED Willens, Slavson and Coleman each got the impression _ gre enna ER TLL TEESE ESE eae he from this conference that the FBI in Mexico City had been ’ @ompletely frank and open with us. So -far as we can determine _ evaSion, and much information volunteered which 1 we had not asked, Bot}: Larson and Anderson give a very good impression of competence and Anderson's knowledge of the details of the assassination investigation was especially sampressive since his duties are primarily supervisory. fhe Alvarado investigation was also reviewed. Clarke Anderson said that he was_present at the Alvarado interrogation which was taken under a polygraph machine. The polygraph ‘cette Et ite ES . operator, who did not speak Spanish, stood behind Alvarado when he was fastened to the michine and pointed to various questions written in Anderson to ask. — ee eS * 4 In response to PROMANTED... Anderson replied | that now that the investigations were more or less complete ; 20 fT 0 P s. ECRE Zz
13-0G000. ; Oo : . ( ( 7 REPRODUCTION PROBIBITED his expert opinicn was that no foreign conspiracy arising out or or connectca with the territcry of Mexice existed in ccen- nection with the ass ie said that he felt that if such had existe ad REP RA ipan GIN ee not have solved 4t by this time, they PRG € some firm indication that it was in existence, wh STEN: were in fact . jacking. We asked Anderson how many different allegations of Soe eae en peace ‘conspiracy had been received by his office and nd he Pepliea, Sis. cme ey een cea men 2 seen Meets cet an tt Te 7 heer These were: the Gutierrez Allegation, the Alvarado allegaticn, —_—_— the Diaz Verson 1 allegation, the Martino-Roja allegation, the Letter from Victor Cohen, and the allegation concerning the preteen Seema ae Stas fa nd Wed) gua on® dawe 22 done ad won 40 Roan CS age awn o mmm age Gen ph daly de Bam % ft go a Gate ee a ee oe Sam GH aM ERaTLTAT ATTA WRPROMEEUMES UW THA Weer we wash aa hae see a wees mee = imei heron anna nun © abt eP eR mand SEN oeemengem eqpeco enemies a OCD va aneetinteiscine: opinion only the first three allegations mentioned even seente 1 serious and that, after analysis, the only one that still seened serious 1 was Gutierrez’ ° _ Anderson readily agreed. 3:20 p.m. to 6:00 MM. | ot After lunch Dis three of us went to Mr. Scott's office, ‘ene were there introdtel OD USTION: Alan white; The : conference was begun “vB gus @ complete | . narrative of the CIA's PROCIBMT (si ae with Lee Harvey H Oswald, beginning in § September 1953 when they first picked up “4nformation that Oswald had appeared at the Russian and Cuban ean teem Bou ene ce ae gem oem ame _ereawoece canes were ee boom eee er es co ee cy eee eee we none see a a ~ er ATT tm sore TIPLAAI Ne SU AEETNNMAt 5
13-00000 ° _ PROGR ee ed ine ludiny ths sources of his” ‘information, « and- that he unde Lum stcod thit all three of us had been cleared for Top Secret . . meer espn err ae cen neenoue ene ccm, samantha SDH and that we vould not disclose beyond the confines of the - Commission and its immediate staff the information we obtained ugh him without EAiciaauiie na Afbis: superiors in 7 Washington. -We agreed to this, Win Mr. Scott's nar OENTED, took a rather long ‘time to comlete, and we interrupted him at many points with thro specific questions. During the course of the narrative we were ‘Petcare eee, shovn the actual transe eripts, plus the _translations, or all the telephone intercepts involved, and ve were also shown ‘the reels of photographs for all the days in question that had been taken secretly outside the Cuban and Soviet Eubassy entrances. Me. Scott's narrative disclosed that the CIA's action immedi- ately after the assassination consisted basically of alerting all its confidential sources of information throughout Mexico to imaediately channel all information into their headquarters 2. and of compilins as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and everyone else throughout Mexico who at that time the CIA knew had had some contact REP RORUETICN especially Slivia Duran, who because sh been having an od - 6 "REPRODUCTION a bu C - REPRODUCTION PROMIBITES pace . 40° ye 155. | cOPY NO. ___g mene "7 2 mantener ty tet OES SIDA ERE (
13-00000° , i. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED POP SECRET omg ee ed affair with Lachuza, the former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and presentiy the Cuban repre sentative at the United Nations, had previously been of substantial interest to the OTA, Eusiblo Agque, Duran's superior at the Cuban Embassy, Koutinev, a KGS representative at the Soviet Embassy, and others, end conveying this information to Washington. In addition, the CIA worke@ closely with the FBI and with the Mexican authorities, especially on the Silvia Duran inter rrogpations. Finally, ’ Me. Scott, along with Me. Anderson, was in constant contact with “ Ambassador Mann, to xedn AB) RYE GHT FE Rsstb2< on all ' 4nformation coming in PROB Teo | Sc OGG poinictea out tia nis hneauuuarters nad prckea up the name of Lee Harvey Oswald from commercial radio broadcasts and had begun compiling information on him from its Mexican: files even before being requested to do so by CIA in washincton. = All his men were taken off any other assignnent they may have been on and told to concentrate solely on the assaszination. All the persons previously mentioned who might have been in contact with Oswale, plus other people who in Scott's opinion might possibly be involved, were put under surveillance. This | included, for example, the Cuban Ambassador and ail known ioeal ie ANCE iiaison “es i OM. by Echevarria Cuban and Russian intell TOP eal] Grom: cents ane ee set up with Mexican offi _ARGNOE TIE cous
1300000 « REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED to the American Eubassy at this time disclosed that Echevarria and President Lopez ‘Mateo had ordered the Mexican border . closed for travel both ways, without having been requested to — do so by the American En S in a4 that the border closure was 80 thorough REPRE ON children wer trepped on both sides. PROHIBITED Scott's narrative plus the materials we were_shown Gdisclosed immediately how _incorrect-our-previous information had been on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Hexlean - Babassies. Apparently the « distortions and omissions ‘to “which our information had been subjected had entered some piace in Washington, becaus® tne ULA inrormation tnat_we were snown by Scott was unambi ene anne had previously planned to show Scott, Slawson's reconstruction of Oswald's probable activities at the embassies to get aa Scott's opinion, mation was we realized that this would be useless. Therefore, guous on almost all the crucial points. We eens ceenne  _ EEE but once we saw how badly distorted our infor~ instead, ‘we' decided to/[Rar aE lial au possible from ; the original source materia 8 Tip ‘S HW time during ow our - | visit. In view of what we had learned about the photographic ‘coverage of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, we inquired whether - photographs of Oswald coming or going from one or both ‘REPRODUCTION __PROATBITED CU93178 49. 1 55 PAGE 4 2 of COPY No. 2
aR BED a) w A €2 4) | 3 a ar embassies might be available. Scott said they were not. He explained that photographic coverare was limited by and large to the daylight yeekday hours, because of lack of funds and because no adequate technical means for taking photcsraphs at night from a lonz distance w celal light, which was of course out of tf ERGOT causcanee » had been developed. PROBED We brousht up the question of Gutierrez and received " from Scott and White basically the same information we had. . previously learned from the FSI, though somewhat attenuated because, as Seott and White pointed out, the FBI was carryins the primary responsibility with Gutierrez. We suggested that Gutierrez’ story might be confirmed or refuted by photographs taken by the CIA, that in particular the automobile he claimed to have seen might show up on the fringes of some of these photographs y and we inquired whether an eppropriate examina-~ tion of the picture reels had been made, White replied that i such an examination had not yet been made and that he suspected that it would’ disclose nothing new, because the photographs covered little more than the entrance itself, However, he promised to. Pep aa an aan (About 2 . day later Scott report AEP ROMIGR “ile had been made ana proved neg “et LBITED _ | 25 ae ee cetacean a : ." e ‘
13-9000 ~. (ne TOP SECRE® ee In answer to cur question, thite and Scott gave : their profersional opinions that there probably was not a forelgyn conspiracy connected with Mexico involving the assassination of the President Tney, like Anderson, felt that had there been suc cance Le at least by this time have had some “PROFIT E ons of its existence, ‘We asked Mr. Scots to set 1p NED with Secretary ' Echevarria for 211 three cf us at the earltest possible time. f@ wanted both him and Mr. Anderson there, if possible, both as . interpreters and because their previous personal acquaintance with the Secretary would facilitate cur dealings. scott tele- phoned Anderson and confirmed this request. | _ We then reentered our discission of the assassination dn general, as 1t related to Mexico. It appeared that the CIA | ‘ ; 5 forwarded certain material developed elsewhere to Scott, even though these materials might have ‘yweasonably related to the Mexican investigations. For example, ££ ——————— the contents of the letter which Oswald wrote to the Russian Embassy after he returned ta the United States, deseribing certain aspects of his fadg Ant never Tart disclosed to Seott - | or his staff. . We shows | if this letter at | thas meeting. PATE ace 44 op 155_ 155 _ COPY i 2 wt OO REPRODUCTION wate ee ce ene oneness onemaeiaengeey nee aan Bia es 5 . “nee a ee ey \
fos. : - REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED @mem> Gam ene eam Gate SonD amt gm gum Dearing ‘this general digeuation Me, Willens Has : called out to meet with Winister Econstra in regard. to the publileity wrich had appeared. in the local newspopers about our visit. This involved the draftins of a telesramn to the | State Departnent in vad HOR COMIC TEGAN t= publicity and an estimate as to the reasam, = anes Willens learned at this time from Eoonstra PRUE d not have a copy : ” ofthe Pile forwarded to the Comission by Ambassador Hann. - | | | Apparently, Ambassador Mann's person3il file is the only one “Resi n existence aside from the CorasLasion copies — it, all eee eae - mentee, . other copies having } been destroyed vhen the Ambassador left hia post in Mexico. Boonstra told Witlens that he {Eoonstra) is the —_ae eae eee only person other than Scott-and-Anéorson-who_was_involved with ! Ambassador Mann in the assassination investigations. Hr. . | liens asked £ Boonstra to begin thinking about how best we - could forward a reguest to the Mexican officials for a complcte report on their role in the assassination investigations. At ‘this time Boonstra's only comment was that such a report should, af possible, be obtained prior to its being reviewed by the Mexican Foreign Office, because such a review micht censor out substantial portions for political reasons and in ariy event would involve substant fit es that review by ‘the Foreign Office be a con ion at a later zt te) PSE B RET Sen Sey ST eS Gen Som cugsigt tt a 45 of 155. COPY NO. 2
13:80000 . offices at 9:00 a.m., a3 we had agreed to do the previous | " REPRODUCTION ‘shat at nod Nu h time, but that it nol VE enens/ ti aul. the information at this stage. : PROGIBITED QU LLY ut Ue Back in the CIA offices, during Willens!_abscnee, Slawson and Coleman discussed the cable traffic from the Soviet SO SEGRE SEO Ne Seas eeetene from wes and Cuban Emoassies both during the time of Oswald's visits Sere eee Pee tm hte the enber-October 1963 and immediately after the assassination. Scott and Wnite said that no increases or : unusual varlations had been noted at either time. We then dis- cussed briefly the possibilities that the Rational Security _Agency might be able to "break" the codes for the times when Oswald was in Mexico City, using as a key the fact that Oswald's attempt to obtain a visa was probably communicated to Washington on Friday or Saturday, Sentember 7 or 28. Scott pointed out that all his office did with coded materials was to send. them back to the National Security Azency in Washington | in the form in which it obtained them. They felt that the code- | breaking might be te however, and should be tried. | | _WNeP| eeu 9:00 ee Mee Coleman, Willens and Slawson appeared at ‘the Fat - evening, and there met Rolfe Larson. The plan had been that we > 28 : TOP SECRET  — | a Ue amen — Grenas Oe nace 48. otgh 55. COPY NO. —_—_
13-00000 -- on for us and that Coleman would spend the first few minutes in conveying the gratitude and appreciation of the American other matters of evade REP ROME which we had been : told were essential when a manner with REPRODUCTION PROWIBIT were 4snedintely to depart on a tour of the spots which Osuald had visited during his trin to Mexico, but Larson told us that ‘ he had just been reg Mail PTT 41 9:45, because by that time ve soo ED ROCUE TION the hour when we could neet with secret RH TE| ie therefore sat in Anderson's cffice and discussed with Larson the relative doeaticns and other physical aspects of the places we were to see later in the morning. Soon Anderson eame in and told us that the appointment with Echevarria was firm for 11:30. The Ambassador had been told about the meeting and again approved . 4t, repeating his conditions that when we ask Echevarria for permissicn to speak directly with Mexican citizens that we make clear that we wantcd al11 interviews to be within the American Embassy and to be completety voluntary. We then hed | a brief discussion on how we would handle the mecting with - Echevarrie. Willens and Slawson said that we had agreed the previous evening that Bill Coleman would carry the discussion Government to the Mexican Government for its assistance to date, : | ite satisfaction with the quality of such assistance, etc., and Peay TOP SEC ~ 47 e155, mete: a sa ee ee en oat ccc —-- a ai
om ne " REPRODUCTION ae PRONIBITED Mexicans. Anderson and the others present at this conference agreed that this REPR OF NTI 5 iat ttt The three of us were driven by Rolfe Larson in an unmariced automobile around the various points that had been touched upon by Oswald. We saw the Transportes del Norte bus . terminal, the Transportes Frontera bus terminal, the Flecha dél Comercio, the-.restaurant next door to the hotel where Oswald repotedly ate many meals, otner hotels in the neighbor- hood of the Hotel del Comercio and ‘ne vartena hia ataticnn: and this netghborhood generally, the Cuban Embassy and Roja bus terminal, the Chihuahutiences travel agency, the Hotel Consulate, and the Russian Embassy and Consulate. | i | Several observations yere immediately obvious. The two embassies are close enough together so that Oswald almost | | certainly walked back and forth between them vhen the oceasion | ecgealled for it. The embassies, although theoretically reachable from the Hotel del. Comercio or the inter-eity bus stations by bus would be much too AE eee was not familiar with the bus line 8 in as ally for someone @oP SECRET © — ! local bus, Cen toe BBD so liccated that reaching them by 7 | i { { pace 4° 48 % 155. COPY NO. __ —$—— = eon \
1308000 - " REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED who did not spcak Spanish fluently ci:sush to set precise directions. The Hotel del Comercio, although certainly a cheap hotel and one in which Americar tourists would ordinarily never stay, has a neat, clean appearance and, according to Larson, is in fact PEO side, and stands cut from its ar RO DUCTION: than the other hotels in the mete PROMIBITED Although one-way streets make it difficult to drive surroundinss as being d from the Flecha Roja. bus terminal to the Hotel del Comercio | ‘ except by devious routes, for scmeone walking, as Oswald was, / | it would be an easy distance and a natural direction to walk. ! The hotels near this particular tus terminal are almost all ; grouped around the same arca as the Hotel del Comercio, and | it would seem very pessible that Oswald could have been | : directed towards this nelghborhood if he inquired of the whera~ abouts of an inexpensive hotel. Moreover, coming from the direction of the bus terminal, the Hotel del Comercio would very ‘Likely be the first reasonably clean and attractive hotel that 1 one would notice. Some.of the other hotels in this neighborhood | . closer to the terminal than the del Comercio are also attractive, although perhaps not quite so as’ the Hotel del Comercio, but Rolie Larson pointed a. earlier and therefor 2 Gan Gm aD Te wenn PROUBITED = ae 49 15 COPY NO.
dorn the street if be incuirv<cd at one of thom for a rtom and was tuencd doun. “Larson we sol ‘ 2 for Cuban revolutionaries of even for Cubans, Crete Tab Saree said that he of course had inves~ | tigated this possibility and that his examination of-the hotel register for the periods around Oswald's visit there had dis- ‘elosed only one Cuban name. Further investigation showed that this belonzed to a Cuban family man who. had his family with him and that they were tourists traveling through Mexico, The Cuban and Soviet Embassies have no remarkable characteristics except that both are surrounded by high adobe walls which make observation of their interiors extremely difficult. The Cuban Consulate, where Oswald did most of his cealings, is a@ small separate puilding on the corner of the Cuban complex of buildings, with its exterior walls coterminous with the adobe walls which surround the area. Its front door - Po _ therefore opens onto the street. Exit and entry into the Consulate, therefrore, be observed by persons REPRODUCTION cuustss ‘PROHIBITED COPY NO. __ 50. 0. of | PAGE ; 155
"REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED TOP SECREP After driving around with frirson we retuened and panied the ear in frent of the ¢merican Labassy and waited Just outsicge the car fer Scott and Anderson to come out, as we had ayreed beLforchanid. They came out shortly after 11:00 a.n. bien Wiha Ministry of the Interior to meet Senor Eohevarrt naeae aa! MOMBITED We arrived at Senor Echevarria's cffice somewhat aad we all sot into tre early bub were nevertheless 4mmediately brought in ta meet hir:. “We were soor joined by his head assistant for this kind of york, Senor T[banecz, Chief of Inspections. Clarke Anderson acted as interpreter, under our instructions that he should feel free to elaborate as to courtesies and details at any tine, and Winston Scott also interpreted at a few points. As a ly asreed, Mr. Coleman did the talking for ON’ the American | sien in particular, for the his agency. and fron the three of us. government, and of =f cooperation our natic the Hexiecan. government generally, and in ceneral exchanged pleasantries and courtesies, Coleman Bi 0 told Echevarria that cane pparemes me ceramic donee mermmae n t nt aes Chie? Justice Varren had sent his personal thanks to Echevarria. pace 0+ COPY NO. __ °
cA 7 «REPRODUCTION Coleman asked that the Mexican povernenent sive the Commission a complete and as detailed as possible report on 211 the srvestsco PROC UE TION in connection with 1S g the assassination and on any other ac such as closing the border, it had carricd Pa B= readily acreed to do this, saying that all the basic reports which would go inte such an overall report had already been prepared and that he could deliver the overall report on 48 ‘hours notice. He . asked, however, that we deliver a formal request for this . peport to the Mexican foreign office, addressed to his atten- -¢4on, in order that it not be mistahi-nly sent to sone other police or investigatory agency in Mexico. (We had learned . from other sources that there are 25 different police forces operating in the Mexico Federal District alone.) He said that he would telephone the foreicn office inmmedietely after our eonference to alert them that he ras the person responsible for the note and would appreciate its being forwarded to him for his appropriate action. We agreed that ve would deliver such | a note that afternoon REPRODUCTION his attention as he had requested. p iD . _ fi, Coleman PROT BITED eceness that we were treating all communications from Mexico on this subject as (a eens tae oe minenermetmes gemee sanemte «ee ds ’ ~ eonfidential and that we would do the same for the report he was” | . 3h | ; 5 ote 6 aes TST weenie + ee OER EERE
13-0000 PROGMBLT eeeeeiee tts meee nee goin. to éeliver to us, We would publish only after receiyin.: elearance from the Mexican government, which clenrance we Planned to seck at sone later point in our investigation. Echevarria egreed that this had been his understanding all alons and that it » EERO tanding upon which _ he would convey the f foi ; Echevarria ine ROGUE EDL the overall ‘psituation and gave his strong opinion that there was no foreign . con spiracy involved in the assa ssination, at least. no conspira- “ey connected with Mexico. Coleman then brought up fhe matter of our intervieu- Ro - ing witnesses for documentation purposes and to find out additional information, if possible, in texto. To give a specifie illustration of what we had in mind, Mr. Coleman used the maneger of the. Hotel del Conercio as an example. Echevarria replied basically in the affirmative, but he made two, important qualifications. First, he felt that the inter- - views should not be in on because te hold | then there would give the Dg Leia investiza- tion being carried on by vy) : nea a IE ment on Mexican : soil, and this he felts would “i iy a Hadvantageous . politically for the present Mexican governnent. He pointed out “at om foes 53. o¢ 155 PAGE © O35. of COPY NO. —_ s eect emgnneeettt =~ tte eS + eee
13-08000 - ae REPRODUCTION tast an election for president w2s scheduled to be held in July, that such cleaticns were held only every six years in Mexico, und that the present tine uns therefore extremely sensitive politically. One of the most effective propaganda apens the communists have in Eeaico is the alleged American G€omination and interfercnce with the Mexican government and any unduly public investizatory. activities on our part would ” lend themaslves to this kind of propasand2. Second, Echevarria requested that the interviews with Mexican nationals not be formal but that insteft cht to. arrange to have lunch or coffee, é€ REPRODUCTION with whom ve winhan ta rpeab. PROMBITED Our reply to this, made through te. Colenan, waa that we did not want any appointments for lunch or otherwise made at this time because we wanted to leave the entire problem open. ke had not in our oun minds decided whether and to what extent we wanted to proceed on this basis. . Echevarria agreed that he would take no action until we requested it. There was an interruption here while Echevarria | i spoke in Spanish to Ibanez. The three of us tool the oppor- tunity to consult “AEP i ene another, a | " Coleman felt that in view O2t eluctance to permit oo | an TOP SEGRE BS | OTR poster ; -
13-09000: = Lo mma nS ati: 455 even hotel clerk, that the REPRODUCTION  PROMIBTTED P Ir3 £O® [ta ie PSRER with unimportant witnesses such as the pecpooal we had for cculing with Silvia REPRO LU o the overall report, cols 2 do. this by i=1P) tS astrassin. that in the ee we felt that Duran's interrosation was of the highest importance, and then hopefully shiftins the conversation unto the subject of how we ’ gould deal directly with Duran. this appreach. Coleman then again spoke tc Echevarria, referring back to the overall report and describing our feeling of paragraph. Durean's testimony was of the greatast. importance and promising to go into as much detail and docwmer.tation  ¢@onnecticn with her evidence in his final report. that it was upon the that he had relied most heavily in concluding that no con~ spiracy had been hatched during Oswald's visits to Mexico. about this point, Echevarria abruptly took steps to end the meeting. He said tha Guecn Juliana, ¥nO Ww ‘REPRODUCTION __PROGIBITED _ importance as to Silvia Duran, etec., as outlined in the previous | Echevarria rcplied by emphatically agreeing that fllens and Slawson agreed with as possible in . He commented information his men had obtained from her At to have lunch with REEROCHION sein visit : em TOP > au Ge GEE cane tim is 0093 an | PAGE = 6 155. COPY NO enema
a REPRODUCTION n> Gu GRE gm ERD ate to Mexico, end that he of course nad to be on time. Colemzn used the opportunity to say Jokinzly that wa would like to have luneh with Silvia Duran while Echevarria was with the Queen. Echevarria replied in the same vein that we would not have as much fun as i jak nn Was not 2 fo0c- y looking Guban but on N veoult on Duran, the PRGHBITED As we were leaving and welding down the stairs to S&S rather inconclusive the entrance of the building Senor Thbanez came up, behind and asked Clarke Anderson to stay a minute and speak wlth him, vhich Anderson did. ‘he rest of us proceeded to our car in the parking lot outside to await Anderson. Anderson later told us thes Ibanez had held him back to say that he Zibanez/ was completely at our disposal for making any arrangements for lunch or otherwise with Mexican nationals. Clarke Anderson told Ibanez thet we appreciated this "but that in some instances we might find it rather too informal . at a luncheon to transact the kind of business we hoped to do ‘with some of the witnesses. Ibanez replied that in that case he would be happy to set up appointments at his office in the Ministry of the Interior building. Anderson questioned whether this was in line eal es atmosphere that . Echevarria hoped to  PROE non that perhaps it TOP 8 E c RET. att hee semen an an nae 1 en : ae tee ae ee we ager caer geen oe om nt
13-00000 eRe aan . Hinister Boonstra's office as soon as. we arrived at the American ' Eybassy. We reviewed with Boonstra rhnat hed occurred with "Echevarria. We decided that we woulc submit the note to the ~ Mexiean government that afternoon, iv possible, although ever ;~ ‘ane that it then be given to him for shaping into final form. nesses other than “BEB Si et Cig formal testimony for thing we could learn f Tam pie them. that Me. Larson and o ther FBI agents had no EDs. This was not com gems cae oem mee atheD was not. However, the possibility of usin: Ibpanes! of Price was not forccloscd. We then REP RR there about noon. 7 the Eabassy, arrivinsy The three of us plus Scott and Anderson went to one recognized the difficulty of Gelivering the note to the proper Mexican officials which was created by the visit of Queen Juliana. Eoonstra pointed out that not only was there an official luneh, ‘at which Echevarria was now in attendance, but that a state dinner was planned for that evening. BEoonstra requested that we draft the substance of the note immediately ‘We then discussed with EBoonstra the problem of Silvia Duran, We pointed out that our only interest in wite authentication nurpodll Td ON) AKON: hat there was eny~- TOP SECRE? ou031: j— Lwe) oe) cote manne * te emcee ten PSLRA ee mRNA os: tem " REPRODUCTION — RgEBETED . a : . ° e a ne en ee : e
best approach to try to speak to Duran. constra frankly stated truc of Durnn, hovever, because she hid been interviewad only by the Mexican police and we ecnsiccsed that interview inadequate, (I should point out that we do not consider it re totally seaccasnees REPRODUCTION Getalls such as Csvald's physical anng uments or remacks he may have made, ctec., that PRG SLED interropate Eres. Duran further, On the essential point of whether or not his . contacts with the Embassy consisted of anythin other than "an attempt to travel to Cuba, Silvia Duran's knovledge has . probably been exhausted.) We d@iseusned with Boonstra the that at this point it was his cpinion that we would not be shle to get through to her. He felt that the Mexicans were too politically sensitive to risk having her picked up a third time under arrest and that she, being a comuunist and especi- ally because her husband was a very militant communist and 2 very bitter person in general, would not azree to any kind of voluntary appearance. Kevertheless, he /Eocnstra/ would raise no objection to cur attempt to orranze a meeting with her. ‘te therefore agreed that 5eott or Anderson would recontact ibanez and if necessary Echevarria @s well to try to arrange a me out that even : thowsh the meeting we : 221" as stated by - Tt OP ina wa Gate SEGHRET meeting with Silvia #
13-00000 - (on ; ( | Echevarria, possibly for Lune oh, we could arranze that the luncheon would be in a private place and that its location “would not be disclosed to Mrs. Duran prior to her arrival there. She could be picked up in an Embassy car and riven. to some other part of the city. Also, if necessary, the room and/or our persons could be fitted with recording mparatus so that no notes would “REP RODHC HGR procf of what was discussed could be obtained and kept fer an indefinite period yaneatten,. PROMIBITED Boonstra suggested that we consider the use of a "“eutout"” for Duran. By this he meant that she could be taken to the Unived States on some unorriciad journey, for example, to give her story to an American magazine, and while in the a United States she could then appear before the Commission. We discussed the pros and cons of a cutout and decided that it was worth considering, and that we would bring it up at the highest levels of the Commission after we returned to the United ‘States. The conferengs half hour. All of us ¢ the office which had beeDe - Coleman at the Embassy, and a tired to room 510, wson, Willens and the note to be sent coPY ee REPRODUCTION * «ee eens ecpeaetenternintiteninsa-nsrstep perp ernernenneeneeematats + ee team ween recep te mtr oo SERS ttn + Ee gpntenttne © steht TEER RES” “SORO dei car ARON sags.
18-86000- : re ( a REPRODUCTION Qe. tod bu e Ive ina to the Mexicin REP ROBUCTION Peel on : seen 2: the note tus Usesen up it was the acsassinatica. . 43 Gellvyesed Gack to soo ROT eR re continued Gus senferunes. This conference ecnaisted of a much fuller dlis- cussion of the alternatives of setting Duran te testify either to the Comaission or to representatives cof the Commission. . The details, #ifficultics and pozsible virlations ef a "eutout* . were gone into by Seott. Se also invormed Scott and Andersen | in detail of the kind of paycents uhicn Turan could lesitinst sly ' expect Lf she vere to journey to wasnilnaston, that i3, the us4ial | ee ay Sm ® na. Ye % ge on or re Se ee ia oe See Gt ke ate hgh aD Bae @ 6 Ota 29 wt Chee WO che Wao hte WE eh Sab to BOGE Whaat Sw WP Fata Ee = OO i UPS wed Bal Ost wlincte Pees, her hoVel and uesnl expenses, the hotel and meal r fees, and of course the travel exserscs for beth of thicm. This conference ended when we desided 16 vas time te beeak for lunch. It vas agreed that Anderson would contact Isanez to ce; | to work cut an innedlate follow-up ca Duran in Mexteo City. while we were there, ther anprcaches to Duran, fer exemple, a request to he DCO: Washineten or elscssere in the ose ROTTED bafore the Commission, the “cutout” approach, ef€d., would be deferred | i | . pending receipt of the outcome of Anderson's conversstion with f f Thence. by 19 }3 [is {o- ies {3
T3DOOOO! «Me I ee a) 2:0 a.m. to 3:30 om. After rund) aD ROBE UE TION of Clarice Andéersoi. a hire. Andersor was not t sce he w ck seeing Ibanez, but we were vocmmenad Ri Ae ien fc. Larson had two Gocuments for us to read. The nde was Slivia Duran's signed statement, accompanied by a transiation, and the second was 2 - group of reports on the exit of Oswald ‘from Mexico by nsportes del Norte bus. We also used the occasion to discuss with Larscn the a best procedures for authenticating the evidence gathered in Mexico. Since the conditions set up by Echevarria were not amenable to our getting direct authentication from the Mexican witnesses involved, we proposed that the FBI agents who had heard the testimony or received the pertinent items of docu- Se © tee seem ne eee + rear “NR nentary or physical evidence from the Mexicans would theme selves be asked to give testimony before a representative of | the Commission and, by reference to the source of their materials, me arp explained in sone detail how this ‘would work and as TORE. to conduct his procedures so as ‘to Fea Ora RI EBpoatton as firm and as. easy 23 possible, and to convey this message to ali other FRI a a a re a ‘ : agents in the area, sho were working on the assassination. ‘Coleman, especiclly; | emphasized to Larson the desirability of MRE caper _ : 155, a Ce
13-00000 - C REPRODUCTION accurately Adentifying gocumentary nia i2zi, by mumber cor ’ rs number of hands through which a doc dehy Le pt to a mininum and that each document was DHRU HaHa al a of a reliable person at all times. Larson gave the impression of readily other code, and REE understanding all this and he of course agreed to our sugges- tions. 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 - By pre-arranzgement we met at 3:30 with Winston Seott. With him agein was his assistant, Alzn White. The eceasion for this meeting was to give us the opportunity to go through all the intercepts carefully and to use them as a basis for reconstructing Oswald's activities insofar as they touched upon the. Cuban and Soviet Embassies. This we did, and we then shoxed White and Scatt the result of our work, for their 7 ! comment. They agreed in every respect with ovr conclusions. | ZI wiil not go into great detail here because these conclusions will of course be inc 3 | ive report on i Oswald's activities in Hextcoy bu e the conclusions r — were as follows: RORIBTTED -  .. @n Friday, September 27: | Time 10:00 a.m. es Flecha Roja bus arrives in SF Hexico city mi 0p. SE J R ET : Tm) ee atts SREP RARER RE ee — came meee eteer ean mn a ~ seman Son cement ee -
13-0000: REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED TOP SECRET Tine 10: 37 Oswald te2ephoned the Russicn . Embassy, get “visas te jepagoue Chin, Somat isits Cuban Consulate. | Seme <P ROLE BIKE: visits Russian still Hsdiste. Some time later still, which includes the period 4:05 to 4:26 in the afternoon Saturday, September 28: Tine Morning — Some time includ- ing 11:51 a.m. Some time later Tuesday» Time 11:30 a.m. Ve then discussed the Dorticos-Armas intercepts and examined them in sorie detail. We “4S Osvald visits the Cuban Consulate and durin= this visit Silvia Duran. calls the Russian Consulate and soon thereafter the Russian Consulate telephones her .back. Osvald visits the Russian Geusulate Oswald visits the Cuban ' Consulate and durinz this visit Silvia Duran phoned the Russian Consulate. Osvald probably again visited the Russian Consulate , tO - Be Russian Consulate instead. Oswald calls the Soviet — Co Consulate. He is hung up on. asked Hr. Scott for his | 2 0 P SECR E 7. REPRODUCTION PWITED Cu03199 ae aS COPY NO. ToT terres ew aren ppm ESTED EERE rea
13-00000: pgp eaoueTiO’ RETR opinion of them and he told us that after re-reading them many tinica and rictod He PROD GOT original he was of the opinion that the-Rre of Cuba was not referring to the fact that money ye : Hii I suald af the Cuban Enbassy. ‘He emphasized, however, that the telephone connection was a very bad one -- he said the voices rose and fell extremely, as will sometimes happen on @ radic connection on a . long distance overseas call «= and he suggested that we have the tapes re-transilated by some Spanish-speaking Cuban who is . familiar with the dialect of Spanish current on that island, including Siang and nuances. He said the tapes were currently with the CIA 4n washtneton and thab we eantd arrance far sych. “a pe-transiation «hen we returned. He emphasized, however, mee ee gs mere ora 2s oon nw pen nnhapnuneetpmenttttipeaterer Ee that his own opinion was firmly as he just stated it. He Suggested the re-translation only as a means of eliminating any doubts which might be in our minds and as a doublecheck on his 7 own opinion which after all, under the circumstances would be. : in error. Willens asiipmSopth to 2st tr Helms to begin — | the process of re-trans hen he, eott, saw Helms in Washington o PR GREEN 4g scheduled for the | | week of April 13. Scott said aD i o this. . [ | We then discussed what the Commission could eventually publish to the American public out ef all the material ve had POP SECRET ERAN vm ag
Ce | | Cl oo «REPRODUCTION . Oo PROHIBITED TOP SECRET received in Mexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us - Pealizced that any ey yall afternoon could 4 final decisio be tentative ‘only » Sine Py would have to be pan Or HY ED -xe and the Commission. Slawson put out the suggestion that the Cormission mnignt made at the higher echelo publish a narrative containing all the detail obtainable from Silvia Duran's statements and from the "open" investigations _ carried on by FBI agents and Mexican police agents throughout Mexico, supplemented to some extent by the 4nformation obtained through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's " Anformants. This supplement, however, would not be in detail; rather, for example, it would use phrases like “in the after. noon" in place of "4:05 p.m." Also, no absulute quotes vould be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative would be. stated to be Siivia Duran's interrogation, the "open" investigations and "other confidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and | the federal intelligen yed." Mr. Scott's reply - | to this suggestion vee OTTO be aeceptable , to the CIA. He said ene PRIDE lved a certain amount i of | compromise of his security i) » the compromise was acceptable when balanced against the tsportance of the occasion. We asked whether he felt it would disclose to Russian and Cuban | 47 | TOP SECRET PAGE 5 65 ofl 55 0. 2. Ae natn enemas a SS ae te So emma et ea em A .
intellizendée the oxistence of this particular wire-tapping by - the CIA. Ui ov Broan pably assuged its existen anyway Cont. IN tae proposal put forward would eee ra existence of any e pnotozvanhic observations. Nor, Ves would it disclose anythin; that rould permit enemy intelligence to discover who the CIA's informants are in Hexico or where they are located. } ; We then briefly discussed the statement of Silvia Duran which we had read earlier in the dey in the FBI offices. Tne CIA had not yet seen this statement. 53:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Te three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson's office. Anderson yave us a report on his meeting with Ibanez, He told us that Ibanez and he had discussed our making arranze- ments to see Silvia Duran. The outcome of the discussion wes : | that Ibanez himself was very agreeable but 6aid that he would have to clear it Ea Ton 6:00 p.m. : We returned to PROMIEITED,. « the way there were handed a copy of the formal request to the Mextean Government ert ee seve yo ceed seve eens tnt 8s ‘for its complete report on the assassination. A copy is . GEPOOOUETI oe
13-O0BGO were. a nn ‘emo PROMIBIVED mms arm cme Ce attached to this memorandum. We were told by Mr. Nontllor, political officer BEES yor cvhoush an attempt had been made to eh be Gon. Lt had falied because all. the respon ART ED Aptetaa= were out entertaining Queen Juliana. Another a would be made at approximately 6:30 p.m. this sane ay, and if that failed, continuing attempts would he made on Saturday. (We were later ". anformed that the note had been delivered late Saturday corning.) Loe. We took the copy of the note which had been handed to "ous to Me. Harry Bergold, Second Seerctary in the embassy, and asked him to see that the Commission be informed throush charnels in Washington of the contents of this ncte, when it was delivered, what the response was, when the response was received, and in ‘general a full documentation and report on the entire series of transactions. He agreed that he would see that this was done. \J Coleman, share met in room 510 and spent about an hour or slightly. moré In reviewing what we had _ accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get done “49 “TOP SECRET
13-Q8000 . oe "REPRODUCTION | — PROMIBITED TOP SECRET before returning to REP RODYe — ‘ UCT! ON was sufficient We agreed at this time th work remaining so that PROF ED: should stay over at least until Monday afternoon but that unless Ibanez | replied to the effect that an interview with Silvia Duran could be arranged shortly, Mr, Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 12:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m. After having decided among ourselves what further work had to be done while we were in Mexico, we went to | Mr. Anderson's office where we met Me. Anderson and Rolfe | Larson. The following points were covered, with the conclus- , ions as stated: We asked that the exact time, rather than the scheduled time, upon REPRO bus rth Nuevo Laredo . _ arrived in Mexico Ci CGM 27 be ascertained. : We pointed out that md RGIS Hie All) ROTTEN in determining | | - whether Oswald immediately. alte ephone calls and/or oy . his visits to the embassies or whether he first checked in at his hotel. The FBI agreed to do this. Ye reminded Anders on and Larson that we had some itens of r physteal evidence which, although : not of prime
TOP SECRET importance, might be helpful in thei» further investigations, ePROOUt ON meet early Monday morning to EO rough... these We asked nate ROMIBITED, the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public and it was decided t R auring the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them. Also, if possible, the FBI should desermine if 1t was common _ practice to stay open later than the normal hours or be open on days such as Saturday when they were not officially open. Once again we asked Anderson to review the Gutierrez investigation, which he did. We asked if there were any reports | either being prepared or that had already been sent to . | Washington on this matter which we had not yet received. We were told that there were not. The status of the Gutierrez _ investigation is therefore that the surveillance of the Cuban Embassy will continue indefinitely in an attempt to pick up the . automobile which was identified by Gutierrez, ail other lines of ° - investigation which EP sigh Oi followed as far as a) aed, W Ly negative results. _ For purposes Piiiaep our Mexican evidence we told Anderson that we would want a list of the names of all f seemed to have been | Tov remenwee cme ‘ the FBI agents who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we TOP SECRET ~— rer oe en eee et ~ eae ens  emmel ae
PROMIRITED _G@iscussed briefly what vould be the inost convenient place to have these agents meet with a represontative of the Commissics,; for the taking of their depositions. Anéerson replied that either Washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We reviey : FAR hoped to follow in REPRO oC WIE agents, as we had oP ROS FED on Friday, and Anderson agreed that it would be a workable arrangement, In dence through the this connection 1t came out that Osxald's tourist card appli- . eation, which was made from New Orleans, was not handled by . the FBI Mex*.can office and therefore authenticating it would be a probles to be handled elsevhere. We agreed that we nould pursue this when we returned to Washington. We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services that Oswald probably purchased while in f : Dy and from Hexico. It was agreed in devete ; a SunTey. | We then discussed the desirability of our obtaini~ Hexico and while tra that Siawson and Lara @ more complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice tn grant . visas and the different kinds of travel permits \ which woul! * 52 TOP SECRET
13-00000 - “stem . Mexico and Cuba — PRORIBITED avallable to someone in Oswald's circumstances. Likewise, we ere interested in learning what obstacles to travel betrneen i@ . Ht 3 a CaP from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, PROB TED... agreed to give Tite 7 us as full 2 report on U ] but the difficulties are obvious. In general, he told us that, largely at the instigation. of the United States government, the Mexican author-  &ties are very strict about. Americans traveling between Cuba and Mexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed > for Cuba on_ ,1904" before the traveler gets on an airplane ‘pound for Cuba. Likewise, the Mexicen Immigration officials “will not permit anvone, whether Mexican or American, to depart for Cuba unless he has the proper Cuban travel permits. No special Mexican travel permit is required for Americans at least, but the Mexican officials indirectly enforce Cuban law | by insisting upon complete Cuban documentation. (It should be pointed out that this is unusual. Normally, border officials are concerned only 1 TE PROD heir country or with - their own nationals who m We pointed out to. Anderson that the reas RR Hh ROBIE reo that we get this eg information was that we needed it to test the plausibility, and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we had on what O342ld was doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet | Embassies, Jie, we wanted to see whether his activities made TOP SECRET. © €yu3207 PAGE . =. TL gp 155. cor? NO. __ eT “- " REPRODUCTION . = ee ae 8 oe te nee ne er i reRT oe mr rah 6 my ee cape ate os atl EF SS OE SSSI a0 9 2 OE RE eat L
13-00000 - " REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET sense in the light of the normal Cuban and Mexican precedures. Ye then bz “Lefly discussed the "two suitease problex We related how we ait weld left New Orleans for Mexico he was but that all our evidense relating 1 Ello pointed to the fact that he had with nim only a single suitcase, a small blue | zipper bag. Marina's testimony and the testimony of Mes. Ruth - Paine both tended to confirm the one-suitcase evidence. We “gaid that we did not want the FBI to undertake any kind of ~ search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity to ve-interrogate our witnesses in Mew Orleans who had testi- BO ga oB Be yy bo ly gag Teo Be Bee oef & ame mage om Ge wwe Bes am hata fe mee ate Bb aittn Mae Tasty oP tp woswa eS a See ote we over ee ena NO Oa eemne SP tae sus moe md ena uD 2 oS Wwe Eee ee "UP At ere eb a re-interrogution confirmed their testimony in this respect, we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas . or Nuevo Laredo, Mexico for such a nissing suitcase might be i i ' t i H ‘ practical. Anderson and Larson both felt that the FBI was fully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a A - bissing suitcase, nit i teal POCTmO as to make such 2 ‘ search unreasonably diffic \ PROGUGITED od — We told Ander not yet come to a firs 7 decision as to whether we would want to bring Albert Osborne _ to yas shington or else shere in the United States to testify _ before the Comaission or a representative of the Commission, — 5h TOP SECRET ae -- wee 72, of, 155
TOP SECRET even con a voluntacy b2sis, Certainly if he were soins to resist testifying and we hed to subocona mn, We wanted to DN owecres whet the think further about it REPRODUCE FBI in Mexico could do ROTEL of Osborne se that we could obtain him on ressorms TO tice if we desired to. do so in the future. After some discussion of the alternatives open in Mexico, where Osborne was at last report, for ‘:eepin: 7 tabs" on an individual, . Anderson replied that he would ask the Mexican police to put Osborne on a “two week reporting basis." tHe felt sure the Mexicans would comply. This means that Osborne, beng a person under suspicion and being an alien, is told that he must come into a certain police station and report on @ regular basis. Tyo weeks is a common interval for this 2 toe peas acura eee emanpan sort of thing, but is sometimes even done on a daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extremely burdensome, however, especially Lor someone who cannot afford to travel by auto- mobile, as we believe REM AB F py REM AB SGCTHR iui and especially when that person is liv the police station to which he has to report, ce RUT [erriep. [aieraon, the Mexican — police at our request will order Csborne deported and give us advance warning of when and wnere he will be pushed across the border, . We could then arrange to have someone waiting. for him . north of the Rio Grande with a subpoena. Anderson of course _ — 3D | TOP SECRET -
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION : Se - PRERIBITED TOP SECRET We asked Anderson if he had a ecpy of the "dessier" on Csuald mentioned. in the Ambassador Mann file. He replied 126 he did not have one but assumed that it could ke found ti sontolace, since 1% REPRO SUGT ION: time, and said that he would forward PROAIBITED . We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed ' out that we had never reecived a final .regort on him. . Anderson replied that his agency had not taken the primary _.responsiblilty here but that the CIA had handled this investi- . ' gation. We agreed that we would bring this up with Winston Secoct. Winston Seott had previously mentioned to us that he thought that Anderson had heard some vague rumors from expatriate American communists in Mexico that might bear on the assassination and sussested we ask Anderson about them. | Scott had said that Anderson had spoken with him about this information many weeks before, to inquire whether the CIA could sn diet meme nee emt cane ee we ght the subject up at an American expatriate left wine circles in Mexico 2s "Betty Mora, ™ had made some rather vague assertions ‘ about Oswald which, throush informants, Anderson's office was TOP SECRET - REPRODUCTION PROG FED C3 Cc Cc - Cad PO j~+ ts &
13-00000 ( REPLODUCT! = TOP SECRET trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, Ton whole line of } r several years and in Anderson's petty Hore nas not >of ROBE TED opinion she is not a reliable person anywzy, so he did not feel that her assertions would ever amount to much. He promised us Betty Mora had been,.« investication was tips a report on them, however, notwithstanding his feeling that - they were not to be accorded a great deal of weight. | Finally, we posed the question to Anderson whether “he knew of anything further, important or unimportant, which we &=° representatives of the President's Commission ought to be told. After so:ie thinking and after asking Larson whether he haa anything along these lines and receiving a negative response, Anderson replied that he believed he had given us everything he knew. We then briefly dropped into the CIA's office again and saw Scott and White. We were told by White that the | examination of the reels of photographs pertaining to the time periods covering ER ODUC HON Cuban Embassy had | aH HRPATeE i_ywere negative. No auto- MOLE TT no persons were shown ho answered the descriptions given by Gutierrez or who might been examined and tha mobiles appeared in t have been Gutierrez himself. (I will note here that we did 58 . TOP SECRET COPY NO. .
: REPRODUCTION ‘PROHIBITED 7 | TOP SECRET <= not ask the CIA to have these photozraphs displayed directly to Gutierrez. This PED ROQUC THOM. the easicst way of determining whether ntificd as the Cuban who passed the money ROTEL in one of the photo- graphs, but this would also have involved such a serious breact of CIA security arrangements that we did not believe that it was justified.) | - We then asked Scott and Vhite the same question we had asked Anderson about there being any further information -- we should be given. His answer, concurred in by White, was to ‘the same effect as Anderson's. REPRODUCTION PROBIBTTED 59 . ® fo tee SL ETE NIT st St Pe eA hr tengo eh ae « TOP SECRET ae Ee REPRODUCTION = a S as CU03213 _
13-00000 -] Bunch LOG) feces ~ lig cumon, subfeets “Xtens of Fhysicsl. REPRODUCTION  PROMBHTED Nees 2 ak ae et oo ye ae) 2 oy fh te 13 5 1D ease mS Se ie . VolPe Paxssn Bi eri cue othe: FOE ccetke NO bays OL Faduval Disteiet of Haztco (ilch iuelwies sxieo City) were exunined and wo ogreed that one of the lnrze, clear ones would best sevve aS the official exhibit fox showing tue location of various places which Lee Eervey Gavald probably vi cited while he wes in Mexico Citys Me. Tevson said that he woold hove this reo emerepriately marized and formarded to the Commission in tke near future. For my personal wos in the tine vbile tue Ldarce formal rap wos being proemred, Ii. Larson delivered to ne @ roller sia vite! eh had thece same location: marked on it.. We then vent throuch asch of the tens of physical evidence pirich f bei teen along to imaico City. For a 1 essorigtion ef these Stars; reforonee is here mde toe the "acorendum for Keeerd” dated whe rims memes ee re has toan abteched ta. tht ake three of ME ROLE be dic eovarea by flioether work in connection wita 2 sliver Siontiticontion i beeselet ingertbod 1 “Vordina. " Ee. Lergon ond Hy. Clorze Anderson had provicusiy pointed oul toot ire the n es,9) silver enons in fieecieo City had been quastione ej 25 to tt ip bracelet on the basis of a 3 ghotsosnph of it and, desnite the feet that Same Tilney moskincs ==
13-00000 t Cc REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED wiskt emptor oa the Lenewles decabe .oiuleh (id mos shou up on She enare ‘ie abe There cvtity Mowe of the ghivs had strte3 th they even sala becesiets ef this hind end the PROBE ite would okiosé ecrseiniy ascin ba negative. We gico fcolt treat evea if ahe chop cheal] te diseevwel PRG POMIETTE te Ino Earvey Czvald, mrocculy all fie oie: could tcll ws vould be thet Tos, he pro: vauly B01 the brecalet to pemoone. Me Torson noted dom all the words.on the tack flylear of the Seanisch wrglish dictionary and he alco noted the mark-in-s on seres 5, 119 end 210 mt to verious Sranish woris. Tone of us esuld sco any parkicular help at this tine uhich would cowe fron these writings and martcinca, rut we felt thet io. Lerson at lenst oust to have thea with hin. The Movican relivious xegel ws yelt to be so comrion os ‘to be Geobebly wriraceable end, in eddittor, from ites ave ve gucssed thet it may not have beon pirechesad in Coptonter 1953 in ioxico City but eld perhaps bay — the Teitad Stetes ond ACs in Dallas or ebtsinead by Orweld some Dine ive lerson noted dova Ip euing on page 47 o2 Oswald's nddsoss boots Ne caid that he would cheek each of the telephoue muukers and addresses to sce if they xeforved to the axbassics end eirlines tow Lien thoy Bom to refer and, if they did not, he wou Sis os whose telerhune nicbters or cé¢vesses they vere. Ti iu acaition, . he prucised to do all he could to find ous whetner Lee sarvey Covald 4 bed cver sate up et the Cubs 6 Mrlines es the address bod: indieates, iad G1 ~ —€003215 PAGE _ es COPY “NO. 79 of +e 155 70. 2 —
13-00000 ~ REPRODUCTION PROWBITED 209, PB 4 > an sate fe OP Pees 2 2 gasF Fe ® g v0 = .% guseee com te F. bus uUls of merece will pescne Roca Cirdlvubtics och by aeb be ty t % + hoe Pe gt i? tad 4 <” te aol o € in 2 H i‘ ik Teor © ove. oa %G Lox tiie Ratylars quis ft ye ened, wa could see 20 Tun Serra erLetis im the told her, after he retuned fron Eccieo, tuat while there he head visited the Cuvan and Rucsien Babs oie cs to do-all he could to ¢2t to Cuba end had cleo seen a bell ficht, virdited come mineurs nnd done cone sishteseeing. RMre Lorcen caid thet tha bull ficht arone had alrenly been checkeal ows insofer es poscitle with the result bang thet no. one there ronembers Onvm mal@ yisitinc the arena on the Eusday in cucstion bub also that no one there in rt all cartoin that he did not visit the arena. Furtherors, there 4 2f 8 section in the arena eet acide for persons WRO are not f madly éresecd and therefore = Covnld could nove got a seat. even theucth: he 4414 net esrey a cant end nochtie with him. 26 tas ments ened jin this conection that the gai otal genes in liccico City 2 ere strictly roserveld Lor porcons tho are p roncrhy attired a ERG Uler con enter withons a necktie. Tais nls the fact tha DUCT IGN ta, tho is a | (Osi in It shee City, cays ] Teg ond us to ccacliie sweocticed profcest onal i emiintt ally that Oc auele aid his frant gif rican efetion: ory inaiesting. that he intenécd to ds bO. fhe fret’ that he failed to somsion anything abewt the jai elei sores - to Marina efter he returned nolnts towenl this sac conch ote PAGE COPY NO e ences
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13-00000 a «REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED >, fo & @ 2 So ada Pky = oe, bee 3. Verh oe and h lsexrico Cabhed carly ¥est se Mieke dei ei & SALLE I YS, enon PEt Sloe Hed 2 2 ° ae va a ones, by Pay te Ly with csmoricace ta iiuics bet boun ccsigthed to the icbe Le. Yillons 4 en eee can Rod acied tay this Lag i of EP nin vee . Ih. ftorsen c ‘p Roel egrac} thab the delay — was ws fortunntc. ia PRD Anis i of tuose in the Fuessy vie vere reapomeible waa thet the best. tee. noceassination results vould be gcaievad ty we sili prinsrtly t throangh tae eactcan euthoritics, veo at the tine were certainly hichly nott vated by tls ecsire to eleny their country of any involvements by discovering euy Cuban ar otuer comemizvecy or iustisaticn which wicht have existe! ond uho emnerre! sinsorably competent. Anvers soa pointed smyede Faget mm gydede ce mode dow fim mms Boo cee mm yyy meee oe Bm Ben eel cade wwe sew” a mewn bE 4e mm omen e e a Oey MOOD eH ED 6 GF OR ENe Eman Reb oH UTEP wowace oat, ginte eee encarta pe annette tee re PEE have hed adyorse politie:.L effects and therefore keve hiniared the gyemall etfort. But, he admitted, subsequent results, such 2s the ineic amiuste Hotel, cel Crureto iurestigation end the foilure ef the Morten police to losk bavrond the fact that the nome "Covel appeared on the Thunnportes Trentera par soner manifest, shoved 7 std rot good exouyh. then that . PRODUCTION. were eesizued to ” the job. So PROMIBITED - ; - | _ J2 steleets noon wrt 12:73 ars tnnt the Meccdecn's ‘beceisa aysurcat, said Leber ta the resting, at none time abeus “nom, Hone Vill SEM anil tis. ULevcun, ¢scompantiad. oy thre Clozts <@ fnderson, yisited Ze Eo: snotre, Iinister fer Political Affairs ct. the frericon Lubacsye Mio points wore 2 trevesat whi i tye de MitiS Erte " RePaooUCOR i a | 7 copy NO. PROMIBITE i
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: ——- REPRODUCTION zr Oo > oon & 2 7 8 Sitrange eels Ceberebvenitete Sees g 0's 2, a te at, Pee. “he gegend pecblen dissyesel with ile. Duonstea was the 2. Pan ® ga. 4° F FS. ge AF. © dere * oe Bas Sh oy aa isiveciliiliy of the Vilted fontas Gymrmunh ronvesting Cheeuch co Fo a? om * . Nae gg 4 Sarecea'at Siw mat Ga its DOeva? Osvall tz eo, Bante afe 4% as Wo Pointe ous that the 2 gto Hom seme. . oP an. d 8, oe of testisumy of filvis Tire Jope inienenicnt evidence avnileble to us indicate strongly’ thot Ice Unrvey Cruald acheally mule cub a formak amsliention fo: a Cuban ¥ion, wlich prommably is in cis banheiting op at Leest cigned hy hin, ond the Goscn goverment vont 90 fur cs to act on tits ammlicntian si amtherize the Issumee of a vie eanttitionnl culy upon his firs obtaining a Russian visa, about 15 anys eftor t bis wisht to tha Cixomn Aue Dye Bhovld these 2 wot were seamen Sie Ate ne er Ss es 23 _ 72 2 reer aa be > ° ile =e a ihn Ap weows Sie erm Pin” twlrindvdh MES frukkeoncentl, authentionted throne th Gswald's hendyriting. Iie. Doonstra vas inclined to feel thet such a reavest mtetit not only serve the seus ef the Commdenion bub eculd alse be of politienl tenefit govermicas$ tht ehsoce to comply icenuse it tas presintly secking “leorsning of tension re 4 Stoker, end beenuse it Bich te glsd or 45 with dead ; interrosntic 2 nok YWODG dmaseant e | cold think of cy rites sel i adyerne polltiend Soules: vhien would arise frat such a remes, siuce Loth felt thet at ves the ms . mabucad tusay an the tio Li Zor & coverrnuont to want to imyesticnte the enssaninatd ation of 4 rr ts presidont and cush 2 request vod be’ mly COPY NO. 093221 “ve 85 5s
TOR 13-00000 ( ‘REPRODUCTION — oe PROITED roO mor 8 NOs epmylpnemt See LETT a TET HTT FL SPD TTC LOTS Bin BP ag ef ee ce ot ° | fh > > ret Dee hope ¢ ott oe Raa a . % aft. 2 28% ° — « - ah 22st Pav ridaten of wilios* ead Slo: son's tive wore wenctgy ay Py et tag ote poStES obbR weite TT Tete &s es taken tp cayhis goad>re to the indivicucls fn tho imceasy with vie we ind worked omd tlentsing than for thede © MCYACALI Oite Re o1c5 inde Vrewetns @fue2 lst rime crramncescnis to keve our retes end documemtery waierisl, moot of which uns classificd "Contidembinl® o > "Seerct,” om, De Ce by Giricmatiec pouch. This vas rs oliveved to us in Werhing 7% LTO yon 0 ae orate a! carr to ke hendied by ta. Clave Andoraon's offlece Cure the peewee eG & om dclivery SITONCTERES Were GHAI DAU WO Ai Gains acme gy Sanuk OAD, g webnat mee duneh cud yore Latcoe wet at the Cansisusital S[ltex Hotel by Cleris ate’ Antoxcon and Rolfe Lergon, who drove us to the nixport. We deported | - i cu ivsatevn Airlines fist for Vankints: eh vin sou Oxlormns at 3220 pebie REPRODUCTION PROEIBITED =~ 63 = 92 0 mer eet estemmtrey hen sy anspnnlne angrier et 7 Taare cereale ee Me eye ttrenenpinnmaeebaatsnsspg—
13-00000 (=) REPRODUCT MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Dated 21 April 1964 (see memo- 22 April 1964) FROM: W. David Slay REPRODIN aii HN SUBJECT: Intercepts fro d_ Cuban Embassies in . Mexico City | P OF ts TED The following are my notes ial reading the inter- cepts in question in the American Embassy in Mexico City, translated from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April 13, - 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I ‘eould make them without actually quoting the entire trans- ': eripts. In a few instances, either where it was very dmportant September 27 ~ 10:37 a.m. ae - or where the meaning was obscure and therefore difficult to paraphrase, I have quoted exactly. I have noted these. portions by placing them in quotation marks. o ‘A person who. > > telephones the Spanish, later identified as : OSWALD: May I speak: to BI Consul ?. INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. OSWALD: I need some visas in einige to Odessa. INSIDE VOICE: "Please ceil at 11:30. "OSWALD: Until when? — oe | INSIDE VOICE: ‘(Hangs up) | ; _ a PACE Y ! cory NO. cromgee nme wee ao memes femme pert nee foe empeenee se ‘
13+-00000 ee | | PROWMBITED September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman's voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, REPRODUCTION: Consulate, assy ealls into the Soviet SILVIA DURAN: He faaptcan here who has requested an in-transit visa_because he is going to Russia. _X would like to know whom he spoke to at the Russian Embassy, because I sent him to you thinking if he got a Russian visa that I.could then issue him a Cuban visa without any more processing. Who did he speak to? He claims he was told there were no more problems. INSIDE VOICE: Wait a minute. (The inside voice ', then - explains to someone else on his side o* the line that _. number and ‘she then engages in some personal ‘conversation in Silvia Duran is calling,. that she is calling in reference to Sic aenmeenit ‘Embassy, etc.) ORE leave the name and. number and we wilt call you back. } os SILVIA DURAN: | (She. leaves her name and her telephone regards to the fact that she has recently changed apartments and therefore ‘would like the "Duiietin" sent to, her new | address. | The voice in. the ‘Soviet Fmbassy agrees. * RPReoUETIB ROMIB ETA) POP. SECRET 2 Cuvs2e a BB, PAGE . 5155, } ; re 2 ee
13-00000 KL / ‘REPRODUCTION September 27 - 4:25 p.m. . someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban moe. REPRODUCTION VOICE FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of the cuban Consul? P ROWS TED. VOICE AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY: Its 11-28-47. . - September 27 - 4:26 p. m. Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones inte the “ _-Cuban Consulate. The person answering the phone at the Cuban - _ Consulate is Silvia Duran. | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Has the American been there? SILVIA DURAN: Yes, he is here now. % - RUSSIAN EMBASSY: According to the letter that he showed from the Consulate in Washington, he wants to go to. an Russia to stay for a long time with his wife who is Russian. _ But we have received REPRODUCTION”: and it will . | probably | take four to onths. t give a visa here : without. asking nines ROBT EB one to a ‘pro~Cuban organization and the Cubans cannot give him a Visa without his eo eran first getting a Russian visa. I do not know what, to do with him. — I have to wait for an answer .from Washington. oo | CUUI225 a , of I ce 89 oo
13-00000 a Cn < —_ ss REPRODUCTION . SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows no one in Cuba and therefore its difficult to give him a visa. He says he knew it ““REPRORUCTION the Soviet visa but hoped to await that in Cuba RUSSIAN reas AGE LAUT ED enee if his wife is now in Washington . she will receive the visa for return to Russia. . She will receive it and then ean send it any place but right now ‘she does not have it." . - SILVIA DURAN: “Naturally, and we can't give him a “visa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be approved." - , RUSSLAN BUDASSY: “we can 1ssue a visa only accoraings to instructions." Oo SILVIA DURAN: "That 1s what I will put in my plans." "We can't oe him a letter of recom- . RUSSIAN E mendation either, REPRO Please pardon the bother." ot PRO | , SILVIA DURAN: TEL. you very much.” September 28 - ii: 51 a.m. Someone at the Cuban Consulate later identified as 6 a . : Silvia Duran telephones into the Russian Consulate. — ; ® , . cyo3226 Se | oo pace _ JU. a0 lB
13-00000 (_ a : (. 7 REP ROLIETIOR a7 SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he has been to vhe Russian Consylate. = STEAL 7 Silvia Dura én héa ak in English to someone apparently PROOFS “this conversation goes as follows: . ey ‘"“He said, wait. Do you speak Russian?” "Yes." | "Why don't you speak to him then?" | “"Y don't know ... " | fhe person who was at the side of Silvia Duran and . . Fr ear MOE EAE ECAR mek te tetentn th NPSPEERS EFT SSAC RO AEran ane ’ who admitted to speaking some Russian then gets on the line and speaks what is described as "terrible, hardly recognizable Russian." This person was later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, 7 OSWALD: " REPRODUC TG spoke to your | Consul." __ oe OUR , a : " RUSSIAN EMB BITE. you want?" - OSWALD: "I was 5 Just now at your Embassy and they took my address." | ee a an a _ RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "I know that.” os . ZOP SECRET
13-00000 | | weiss i= 11:30 on PROHISy BITED | ae REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED OSWALD: "ZI did not know it then. I went to the Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it.” RUSSIAN sa ED AR then, we're not far. OSWALD: we RONIOFEDo* = away." October 1 - “10: 30 a.m. Ne by and leave it. | ‘A person later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, “speaking in "broken Russian," telephones into the Soviet Embassy. OSWALD: “Hello. I was at your place last Saturday and talked to your Consul. They said they'd send a telegram to Washington, and I wanted to ask you, is there anything new?" _ RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Call another telephone number, if you will. . OSWALD: . Please. | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: 15-60-55, and ask for  GeneBhe vuserm EMBASSY: HEP RODUC TION - RUSSIAN The same votce, stiil speaking in broken” Russian, telephones the Russian Consulate. He speaks to aman identified  @ ® . 4 Tgp setter tener te ce SPM Re TEESE EHTS FESSESESESEUC ED e 6 . . + 0m: vor eapeemmenmnh 0 CORONERS ee aREgE Drea wsensniaetesitlteetee shee ACERT SPERREES EE RSG SASS ° e
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIRITED. POP SECRET as "Obyedkov." OSWALD: Hello, this is Lee Oswald. I was at your place last Saturday.and talked to you Consul. They said Tene to ask you whether there was anything new, remember the name weocema. PROGIITED OBYEDKOV: . "Kostikov. He is dark?" they'd send a telegr _ OSWALD: “Yes. My name is Oswald." . OBYEDKOV: "Just a minute. I'Il find out. They say - “they have not received anything yet." * * OSWALD: "Have they done anything?" re _ OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet. ne - OSWALD: “And what ..." | * OBYEDKOV: a 299 emp ee HO nT HA I ES a n+ Be en ‘@ COPY RO.
MEMOF DUM an 2, ant SUBJECT: Mexico: Questions Raised by the AD File . JS i 1. What actual evidence is there that Oswald departed Mexico on October 3 by automobile? Can we see the documents se REP RC ff CTO to be introduced to the proper Mexi ‘ e purpose of making our investigation. - PROMIBITED 2. What is the "rather complete dossier" of Oswald's referred to in the telegram of November 28?. We ‘would of course like to see it. 3. What is the source of information referred to in the November 28 telegram, that Oswald intended to settle’ down in Odessa? 4, we RIB ni COC TION: on Silvia Duran, for example, the evidence romiscuous. type.” 5. We we ROLE [BITED optes of the transcripts of the "intercepts", translated if possible, in all cases where the intercepts refer to the assassination or related subjects. In particular, we would like to see the intercepts SECRET uysses PROMIBITED PAGE oe : COPY HO. __ | 320/02 ave ti: tad ub uv
13-00000 . (. ( C inw hth allegation that money pa: :d at  e Cuban pabanny man discussed. AEP ROOTCTION. i ETO PROMBE ED Nel NG i mercio from the Cuban Oswald got the na consuiater —  PROMBITED ; 7. What exactly is the evidence that the Hotel 6. Wh Cuba is a cover for Castro intelligence operations? Is this fact known so widely that virtually anyone who stays at this hotel is suspect, for example, those persons who were guests at the same time as Oswald, or is this fact known only in law-enforcement and diplomatic circles? Is it likely that the clerk at this hotel is a Cuban agent and is holding back (. information on Oswald, since he has stated that he has no recollection of Oswald ever having stayed at the hotel? 8. Has any further information come to light on the persons who were guests of the Hotel del Comercio on the same floor as Oswald? Would it be possible to have the Mexican police Reo sWiecleny. sources scan the entire hotel on the POU [Mot other significant | | "PARTE 9. We should see the entire Embassy file on the whole Kennedy assassination, including copies of all 2 SECRET UUUS245 REPRODUCTION ae wih “se
13-00000 corre’ cnden ~ to other government ager ( | 20. We aan also like to cot ME REPROD! - told by Mivarado- Se “IN EOD CeT IN PRORIBITED 11. Have; any attempts "een made to locate the 4 Cy dui i jet red-headed Negro man who was suppose Lay in the conference with Oswald observed by Alvardo? | REPRODUCTION = PROMIBITED Qolr O28IAYS
\ eT y pv “Ay Pe ogah ow peo ay yt! SEGRED C j 7 . 4" ; Z wis Revised Draft Py . XL pik “DEPRONI CTION March 27, 1964 HEMORANDUM FOR RECORD PROMWETED FROM: ' W. David Slawson SUBJECT: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay — in Mexico City: Visits to Soviet and Cuban . Embassies . My best guess from the available data is that Lee Harvey Oswald followed the itinerary shown below: TIME PLACE . Friday morning So Guban Consulate Friday morning or | a early Friday afternoon ; Russian Consulate q Friday afternoon Cuban Consulate - (Silvia Duran telephoned the | Russian Consulate while Oswald was at Cuban Consulate.) (Saturday morning) (Azque telephoned the | Russian Embassy) Early saturday ban Consulate muer IQ Oswald put "in direct contact" with . Russian Consulate by ~ PROIBITED '- phone from Cuban Consulate: "address" disc.) Add-CEA-—inter-- pretation-of—this .-} Late Saturday afternoon —s_—. Russian Consulate. SECRET ouug24t eee SPO EAT > MIAN OSS SRSA TENSEI ee cee
13-00000 a “REPRODUCTION - a - - PRORIBITED Priday and that he REPRODUCTION PROWMEHTED SECRET Time Place muesday norte PRODUCTION: = Military Attache Late Tuesday mo POL OL Tuesday afternoHiyt} OnBITED Russian Consulate 1. One of Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate other ~~ than his first was in the afternoon. See paragraph 11 of the first police interrogation. 2. My conclusion is that Oswald visited the Cuban ‘Consulate at least twice and probably three times. ‘This seems so because: a. There is no evidence whatever that he was at the Cuban Consulate at any time on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. | b. We know for sure that Oswald was at the Cuban - Consulate at least once on Friday and at least once on Saturday, see CIA memorandum, pages 6 through 8. Ce We . REb at Br panies the Cuban Consulate on COC HG NEone to the Russian | Consuiate that fame come is ry page T. - d. Oswald was supposed to be in the Cuban Embassy ‘at least once during the morning, see the second police inter- rogation of Silvia Duran, paragraph ll, and this was only a a se GD Ga aE Gunttn — uuus24e ecw aee mes rms ee wconeft ete oat ESAT Pa GASP FETT IEDPODRIDIg ST TOGATNP + eet eee PEERED GO EERE SO GOAN EE oo GE A GS ETON TEINS LUNAS SEO GaN ome nat: > pace L12- cel 55 COPY WO. [a is
13-00000 od : oe 113 eee PROHIBIT " and was visit "to request information about getting to Cuba, apparently so brief that Duran was not able to remember Oswald's physical ‘PeODODOK from this visit, see second CHAR could easily have police interrogatiok|& been overlooked in “PROTEMTED police interrogation, | ' paragraph ll. | e.: Oswald's argument with Azque was in the after- noon, and it was on some visit.to the Cuban Consulate which . . occurred after the first visit, see the second police inter- rogation, paragraph 11. ‘This afternoon visit during which . the argument with Azque took Place was itself different from ‘and earlier than the visit to the Cuban Consulate during which Silvia Duran "confirmed" to Oswald that he would have to get a Russian visa first and during which she gave Oswald a slip of paper with her name and telephone number; because Azque | telephoned the Russian Consulate after arguing with Oswald, see paragraph 4 of this memorandum, and Oswald was given Duran's slip of. paper subsequent: to this phone call, when he "returned" to the RES ROPUC TION”: police interroga— tion, paragra ph ii ° s.makes a total of three times. £. The fact PINs a to the first police interrogation of Silvia Duran states that Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate twice is of course some evidence | contrary to my conclusion. However, I think from the context - GYU3242. REPRODUCTION ad re en tk Mt ee ne we ogee eer ann ow :
OG seca? *aQgRTa Aaa ary PROSITE ITED puthorityssaste A LS..gf (2f24/75° Ener 3 ree: “. _ fps “Kene Agescy Guta . pt pes pan cep fre cinaeth ae ; c E C 3 Bese, nom, VOCETSiLY on: _. 7 * ’ | : a es “HENGRANDUN oS - oo &k February 1964 TO: ir. ia FROM: W. David Sle ROM H. Chace - SUBJECT: . Letter to the Cen gence Agency (CIA) | te oti nS , Posing Certain. Questions’ on their Letter to Us. " 1  @ated 31 January 1964 Ir would include in our letter to the CIA the ‘following 7 questions: . 1. Were you able to uncover anything about the alleged ' greeting between Oswald and the Cuban Ambassador which was “+ supposed toe have taken piace, in an automobile outside the * 9° " Cuban Enbassy in Mexico City? -.- 2. De you have access to the wire gent by the Soviet Mexican Embassy to the Soviet Washington Embassy? If you | do, can we find out its contents? . 3. Reference is made to paragraphs 5 and 6 of your letter. Would it be possible for us to see the full report - of the Mexican 1, Police. interrogations. of Hrs. ‘Duran and her “ > husband?. . . ase oat, 7 ” ws mt , ; s 4. Paragraph 7 of your letter states that Oswald; » “that same afternoon,” came back "again" to the Cuban Embassy. Does this mean that he was there twice the same day, or does it mean that he was there once on the previous day and once on the same afternoon that Azque telephoned the Soviet Embassy? Only the latter interpretation of this sentence seems consistent with the CiA-confirmed information found in the subsequent paragraphs. In general, we would appreciate as much tion aa you can give us on the | De arden jaragraph 7. of course, if you are Ave lite the full text of time sequence of th the Mexican police interrogation e can try to piece =~% out the time sequence (UTE 5. Reference is. ma a ED 7, in which ae Mrs. Duran. refers to "descriptive data" on Oswald which she — _ ~".” £9und in the Consulate "archives." “The use of these terms seens to leava open the, posaibility, that the Cuban Embassy vena EOUE SERENTIAL et oe enema ef £.0. $1522, 52 re) Sth aorty SAAS hl Seren ‘hee fw Bem CAO. 12/29/75" 3. Po nats, sate, 3/257 26 Arne? 8 F* sereouTIR | GUU3284 Gs. es 22s Se Deb aE Wt |
00000 - ( | aan ee REPRODUCTION a _ ; ( 8) { ee PROMIBITTE pe o® . ¢ ; ( cACTEAl ser et ne: AE si ene ue . ° e . - «20 0%. 2 /25/>» ae |e ea a al Aathnoruy.. ‘Ib 2317 t 4 woth: nn HE ncaa SEEEST £0, 2 Me $y Sa SN RO or A ated ee, win * REPRONIE cee ae ae had material on Os ‘ n eT back, perhaps previous to Septembe er BIT this the meaning she intended? PRG ET BT, TED 6. Reference is made to ¢ sentence in the 2nd subparagraph of paragraph l2b. Is there any significance a to the word, "Although"? We wonder whether the informant > -°, meant to say that there was something unusual in Mrs. Duran on reporting her instructions to Oswald when he had continued to remain at the Cuban Consulate. a) . 7. Refermce is again made to the 2nd subparagraph of . Baragraph 12b. Your letter states that Mrs. Duran told the Soviet Embassy" that Oswald"“knew no one in Cuba; and that the Soviet offielal “echoed her statement that the American - _ was not known.” It is unclear to us whether this discussion ¥  . 4nvelved Oswald's not being known by the Cuban and/or Soviet - officials, or whether it involved Oswald's not knowing anyone in the Soviet and/or Cuban Embassies. | 8. Reference is made to paragraph l2c. Was the “direct conversation" between one of the members of the Soviet Embassy and Oswaid a telephone call from Oswald while he was at the Cuban Embassy, or did the informant mean to say that Mes. Duran sent Oswald personally over to the Soviet » Babassy - $a. ‘contact. one, of tha officials Shere? en 8. ° ae se romana: ny eprint antago dh Meant 9. Reference is again made to paragraph 12c. Could you clarify the many references to the "address" referred to Bo > frequently in this paragraph? ~ 20. fhroughout your entire letter the term "Soviet Consulate” seens to be used interchangeably with the term - "Soviet Embassy," Likewise with "Guban Consulate” and  “Guban Embassy." We assume from this that the Soviet . Consulate and the ‘Soviet Sra must be the same in Mexico  Gity, or at least i ae eral d that the same igf gust hold true for hk A [Cuban Consulate. — W221 you confirm to uaéspite iigns are correct or, af they are nots a tuation? ... . : ll. In Oswald' NB ih Let ‘Embassy in . a .-, Washington written after he returned to the United States ' « | from his trip to Mexicd, he refers to the Cuban Consul | css (presumably, Azque) as Raving been. "replaced." Do _you mow . “ews BIEMTT a seta aer sam ETE : oper Ten Poe f Cr, .. 72, ny por | : a PR m1 Co | peg fe a ae Oe - a - Authority. “1, SR ET akon SS ans, smn SL 2 ee Eo. ites. ae? aH) aca weal ety ee rr yyusen? Pace ox LSet 158 COPY, NO whe ence cee tee eae tere mee ee em enemeeee meeer e
13-00000 | __ Rant os .: a Gre TMT} { a us ene - Oils . ate ye aydiant pias anfisiee” £24 * alanis sn 1 CAGLS va fas/75" EC ee . ee 5 pea pens, E92. tS ce ea ene CR Ea net hte ion fancier’ “whether ue. ‘neque was ftreds transferred, or otherwise mo moved in such a mai y : » have been misled into thinking he i Hor SHIHeS 5 was any other Cuban Consular official wh Swa Lo believed had been the Consul, tranaferm : i it a 12. If Azque oF se Me il Consular official was in fact replaced, do ‘you have any information on how ee Oswald: would. pave’ Learned. ents s Rei? learned. Toad 50 quickly? - = arenes voc REPROBUOTION ; ° x, “hee mm tote | ne PROWIBITED | os ° Re . . | @ - * . . hr eee “als Yr, on te 4 a were Soe 4 ae qe ue ae at veole ore ° ot a ae | os “| . . | ‘ eseaitt tres cutedsatie dectonsecta ; : a el ot, ad mas ee ns ad es ” SERZ) ~ . ae MTN aa Yor EO! ae ath. 24)4s7 eunAueD sour bare c | pte wipe CLA. his. —12]2 2: | ~ putrariy ER Aa o 1s 2 Qe. Sb, 4 Bee Fe ee 5. Me 9 pons, fate ee ‘SEee27 nn Deccnty oot | ~ ws) REPRODUCTION PROIGITED  Uus283 PAGE. 148 of 155 | COPY NO. er om a
13-00000 .. O. 9 fa) =o) S 5 ss eS ae) ——y CLASSIFIED MESSAGE DATE: 27 NOVEMBER 1963 — ania COMMO : -  secrer | sue, CP-8593) CHRONO (DUMMY) CLASSIFICATION Silvia DURAN P — . Luisa CALDERON P EFER RED OPERATION: IMMEDIATE ROUTIN E IMMEDIATE DIR. _ INFO. Pa 7 Bh We _ CWE MEXEI Wipo . fae BE ATTN SALBOND : if — REF; DIR 85245 et i, SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT BY | _ SILVIA DURAN OBTAINED EF ROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROGER T Le JONGMAN IN ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND TRUE NAME. 2. KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT 0800 HOURS © * . 28 NOVEMBER, HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WILL ? TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE, _ as 3. | SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. a 4, ALSO | TERI: LUISA CALDERON (CUBAN AUTHENTICATING OFFICER ‘ CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER eae ns Lamwor, - Pears mupon ns < . CONSULAR exerores) | COORDINATING OFFICERS - CUTSOING SOAPS treet ngewe ences eae bigs eta ORT FAI OA Sa En RN ee Rental 190) i i “
13-00000 tee, i i ‘ROMNEY Out BMBAJADA DE CUBA: 235-C9-14.~ mets M2h. L 2h .-. os 1556 -~ 1925.- oo an TTT NS . TEUIES: ail VosUROUANDO y NILDA informa -- 002, Entrada.— en utdse que lo Llame y NICO dice | Al que estd abajo, in x Publ Cempiezan a hablar en -- que si. Lue el miimero 017). NILDA:: que Le diga a ICO “ave parece que ROLANDO salidéd vn momento a la. calle, pero gue regresa en se guida. | -NELA des:ués de dar el recado a NICO, dice yue~ era para indicarle que tenia los paquetes de.... y que su-— pieraxmque se los iba a llevar GUILLERMO.  ~ NILDA: que le-— presunte sii ya estdn envueltos ; NELS. asi lo hace y con~ _ testa gue sf. - NILDAs yue estd& bueno.—. 029.-- — 029. Salida al 45-91-21.-1632.-— NICO solicita hablar con —-~ | el Sr.CARNONA. : HY le informa que ya le tiene su. juego— de juntas, pero no tienen los anillos. - Luego Dn.PELIX con NICO (empiezan a hablar en el niin. 073) para indicarle _ _- que ya taene preparadus las juntas, que anillos no tiene y- el nimero de arriba de la nota no encuentra qne pieza es - porque no viene en el catdlogo. NICO: gue nandara&é pregun tar alld para que le digan que cosa eS eso; que pasara a re- coger las juntas; pregunta si hay posibilidad de conseguir- juego de on PN dice que si, que los puede con- ohne se om parte, 7 09 “G89. . Yntrada mi Wil HERNAN DIZ. pregunta 2 GUILLERMO ~- seguir en pe. eas toma nota y ac "T RUZ qué hay de nuevo y @ste dice que nada, pero hoy sale - para La Mebana y wuelve dentro de 5 dias, por lo que yao ae vat noticias para él. HERNANDEZ acepti Y pide salude— Pan oye mo ysusee™ ee 449 e 155. 7 - PREE | a . CAYOY To. a Ria? Eve TS RT Agi Th neice se wate amen ged enact memes nets nine net ete oe, co : a I
13-00000 . 8 eso estd muy ae High Taare que habia sido — ER LEAL: uno. de los oxc ty onesies! gue estaban en contra~ -rec€seces Que el que lo haya hecho, estaba loco, indepen-—-— las fuerzas de Dice a ja Vasey 6 queria ir, algo asi, ~- sy LUISA dice que PRCT eso, que hace rato se en Entrada 1730.- HE pregunta e LU! ra moticia y LUISA en teré casi antes que KENNEDY". Hr sonrte y conenta que - 7 t 4 e— de la eres Tl EH ALI del trato Limpiio con Cuba. yee que Aaprehendicron a un tipo que es nada idente de uno de los comités LUISA: qne, de eso también ya se enter6d. HPsyue todavia no confirman nada, pero pa— dientemente ‘de que muy ‘bien podia desvidrsele eso a KENNEDY "digamos en las condiciones Internacionales Yy las condiciones oe . imternas de Estados Unidos, pueS.e..” IVISA: y externa mas, principalmente. | HF: por eso te digo en lo Inter- Macional .... se podia ver bastante afectada y no »wueden -- sufrir un gran cambio, con un cambio de Presidente 6 con una cosa de ese tipo; sobre todo que.... pe y pregunta si era gringo el que lo maté y TLE indica que-—- si, pero dijo que habia estado en Rusia, que queria naciona lisarse ruso, pero que Rusia no le habia querido dar la na- cionalizacism...- LUISA se sorprende y dice "oye, -- cémo alld saben cosas, carajo ! cofio ! ™. HF: que si; que sabe ruso muy bien y que adends éste tipo habia ido con LUISA: que = quien sabe mE ROBY PH ANb=s. . grave. HE: ST WOO | que mas ha sabido por ahi- — teraron y ya estdn.. +. HF:que estd muy mal eso# que ~ estaba comiendo ‘con unos amigos y comentando la Revista Po- litic, y la cual ya salis, cuando uno Ltegéd y les diéd la --— noticia; que él se sorprendié y creyé que los estaba vaci-- > lando,. LUISA: quie ya estuvo mirando la revista, pues - precisament: la llevé el compafiero.s.e.. HEF sue sau --— LUISA lo interrum ~ an ammananameneesrentenanneey sete peta eR eesSEWREEP DH SIE another AST oO CPE PUSS =. ‘ ; em a tt SS CEA Est ttt ef strane eUTEAEASNEY re NUN HY eo $tUNInERTe eLEEIETE TW ‘ower vey erramegmes 2 mane:
13-00000 a Cy - uy “é ite ay Sate Perd Lota ce ara gue de repe UBT , ae > tado Texas y por venganza mato al Vresidente; aie todo fud— . .- amigo comentd que lo habia mate ado wun meR se habia dado cuenta que los Estados und broma, pero no le creian hasta gue les digo gue prendieran- £ e ) of . , ¢ Sot o el radio; que asi lo hicieron y ahi se enteraron; que lo -— + Po ian oe : ultimo que sof hE OT cae Ie Wace zn momentito, ¢S gue ese-— : VICK [ ROH LD) ii} fe UY Fi phe ke 2 tipo es un tal Oss > que SseicreéGque este sea, pero no ha confesado nace. DDT RF Te Dero que ya. saben gue habl,, mul ruso y que pertenece a 4 oi ly Cubas que ya saben que ~ él tipo queria nacionalizarse, pero el tipo no ha confesads, HF le dé la razén, agreg ndo que podria ser. que trataran de ‘encontrar digamos una solucién.de ese tipo, porguessesee - . a LUISA“ después de pedirle que se espere un momentico, pide - que le* diga. HF: nostros pensamos que Si acaso hubiera sido 6 si, acaso pareeta e+ee piblica 6 que habia sido vno ~.. de los sesregacionistas 6 en contra de la integracién Jos _ que habian asesinado a KEN WEDY, entonces habia digamos, po-~ abkii dad. de que surgiera una especie de Lucha civil 6 gue— 4] rra civil en Estados Unidos; digamos que se agudisaran mas— las contradicciones, lo sitaacién critica por ta que pasa — el pais, entonces estabamos conentande aqui, que encontraran una resolucién de ese tipo no?, ya mas intexnacional; 6. - lo van a encontrar 6 fud cierto, quien sabe ; pues vamos a — ver que pasa. - ZXISA sonrie y pregunta | qué pasard. ~- HF: guien sabe. LUISA: figirate, uno, dos, tres CY, ya, aa = ~ on ya son tres REPRE Bi TaN HF: yo creo que lS va a ser el tem ON. fiesta esa de SILVIA. LUISA: que la susp "eh (i Bl it Des no. podfan ir,  -— HE pregunta por gq ik DAY a Lava ‘que desvués digan a queestamos celebrando la muerte de KEN aDY, entonces hablames con SILVIA y ésta acepté suspenderla y “dejerie sana ta sone na que viene, pero gue no coincida con cl. entierro (se rie)”, HF: que hay que tener en cuenta CSO. _ LUISAsgque serd _ desiués del duelo, del luto y codas esas | porquerias. oe DEPP ii nta‘dénde se va a quedar ahora y LUISA coment:
13-00000 - ten Sa atten eR RE AE TNE NTE AOE LIES Re orien a eh at eg ARAB ME SD ATER MOR gray Rai ae nie RI) LET Ab aleeae, beyee a 7 he TE INO Dae cee Pe Fe ret Ms Fate (173. 184. 488,°. mat oom Ip a ea as ple > ii ai 2 Fey |. ( . ~ ke gqite ahoxi piensa mudarse ésta noché tora. HP pregunta si ahf ya indica - 9 la e que si, pero no sabe como esté la cosa 6 si se tendran que- id quedar en la embajada, sin embargo cree que hoy no serf -- posible, ve oll TSMC tiene coche ew har dead At f NA 4 NM para el aeroruerto y no = HI Lenny ar rgo posiblemente mafiana pid Ye en la mafiana ~B sy ine Orie ein meulo de. estudios, sc c mudard. it een LUISA: que la procure HF: que entonces en la embajada 6 en la casa, ya que si no, se quedan en la-—— emba jade, se ira para su casa, en donde es stard como a las - 10. HF acepta.- 173.- Entrada 1810.- DURAN pregunta por URBIETA y ‘LUISA des— pués de decirle que no estd, indica que le pas6 su recado y URBIETA, le dijo que no recordaba cual era su asunto y m0 —~ sabia su teléfono. DURAN: que no tiene su tel¢fono,pues ¥ unicamente tiene su direccién. | LUISA pregunta cudl es-— “su asunto y DURAN. dice que es sobre el Mineral de RUTILO -—— de parte del Ing -MONROY. INITSAs«ue lLilame mafiana,. a DURAN acepta.- 184.~- entrada.- HF pregunta por CONCEPCION y LUISA informa - gue anda "ere CTION le hablaré nds — tarde. HISA:que esta bueno. ai HH SUED Entradas sin contestaci ~ 202.- a ~ pt td mare) RETRerte, ates. ope
13-00000 ore ~ aS ee _ Saw a ~ NBRE "Yes, of course, t lmew almosi)y __ — 28 vary be 5 that at first toes th ° beer one of the renebloney extrentsts who were » ngetnst Lnbegsrath on and that » bub it seams tat thoy upprshended a type vho ; ts nothing more then the president of ons of the comitters ef the Faiz Pay for : Cubs. TULSA That she Icey this also. HP: Taat nothing has been confirmed yt, - a at 1b sees. sthat the ene who ata iby vas crazy, independently of the fact that | this coula have been sald sboxk REMEDY "given the international ¢ ondttions ona * the intemal conditions of the Untted States, well...” LUISA: And extern ; | principally. HV: ‘That's why I say, internationsliy...tt seemed quite affected : and they can't go through a great chanse, with a chanse of President ox conething Of ‘thet sors ; above ail, the oe eLUISA3 Interrupts and asks 1f it was a gringo that ‘ilied hin and HF says yee, but seid thet he had been in Russie, end that he wanted | | ‘to becon pn ‘Russian eltizen, but Russig, bad not wanted to nationalize bias. - IWISA is surprised and says “Listen ~ they really know things there!" UP: Yes: | that he knows Russian very well and beslaes this type had gone with “Prael's forces ' to the Sierra, or vanbed bo RECRITUCI ig o kvovws how ib vas. EUTSA: - 7 an Pretty serices, His “enteall UCU in she has Learned, and LUISA _ _ |. says just about thet, that aa Ori YER Mitte ville ego and they 9 2G ee 7 ; - Hes het 1t's ell very pail, that WL ONT cio) th sone friends and commenting on. | the Revista Politica waich had just come ont, when someone came end gave then the news; that he. was surprised and thought he wags joking. LUISA: | That she had | v been looking at the wagazine, that the comrade had brought ‘$% to her. .E?: That
13-00000 : heard, & moment ago, vas that that type is DU si, that it is belleved that 7 ; there was, let's BBY > the possibility that a sort of civil war would arise in the ae - ze . his frlend commented that a Mexican hed killed him, that puléanly he hod re: alized. now that he speaks Russian and belongs to the Pro-Cuba Comittee; thet they ' gay solution from him, beceuse.. LUISA after asicing him to walt e minute, asks hin y : * gecount. LUISA: That it wALL pe after the mourning end all of thet nonsense. thet the United States had teiny>rey | i pail gut of revenge killed the President; ee |] IN thet it was alla Joke, ‘put {Mc ri a be ve REAL & he > told then to turn on the radio; that's what they at i Bout it; that the > Last he had OH aa nic ii this is the ome, ‘hut he yas not confessed pnything es LUISA: Pub they starendy | = ulresily Imoyw that he ? wanted toe nationalize hinsel?, bat he hes not confessed. BF says she is right, adding thet 1b cold be that they tried to find s ome. xettn oo to goon. HEF: We think that if it had been or « bad seemed...publite or had been” one of the segregationists or egainst integration who hed killed Kenedy, then United States; thet contradict ons would be sharpened, the critical. altuation the ouatry is goings theosh, then we were commenting here, that they found. a resolu tion In this type, no? More international ; they wi. find it ox ié was  true,vhe Imows; let's see what aia (ici PROUDCT iN t wilh Jappen. HPs ‘Who knows. LUISA: Tmagine, ons, be I % rakes three (she laughs ). HP: Z think that 1t will be th Gull OLED that party of STLVEA's. ; LUISA: They suspended Lt beceuse they could not go. HE asks uby, snd TULSA says "50 that after © they can say that We are observing the death of KENNEDY, then we . spoke wlth SYLVIA axsd she agreed to suspend at ona leave it unbtll next week, bet it WiLL not coincide with the burdel (che Joughs)", | FR: thot“has to be taken into YACS 1546 of, rer ue af WO = ae
13-00000 — ice LUISA comments that nov EP: Olmy; he asks vhere sh REPROD mete Bes Cra ea Ls Hi Pe phe plans to move tonight to Ine mie wh (female). HF asks if the} Life lmoyv everything now, and LUISA PRGe bi HAIN EL ij know how the thing is, or if they vill have to stay In the embassy, hovever belleves tint today ab wil not be possible, because everyona bas gone to the airport and the enbassy bas no car, | 7 however’, possibly Tontrraw mormngs instead. ofr going to the study clrele, she whl . move. HP: When he will cell her tomorroy, LUISA: To > try the exbassy or at,the house, since 42 they W1IL nos sbay ot the embassy, phe LL go howe where ghe Will. . % é be ot about 10. HP accepts. ei, REPRODUCTION potion e a . . soribin Ay en os 3 Torte fe” c& rrr : z ote. oe re a : ~ pak twee ot Biers eter namte arm ote « o§
13-00000 REPRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 24 March 1964; Subject: CIA Dissemination of Informa- tion on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 10 October 1963. [FOIA No. 622-258] Copy of document as released under FOIA. OR POTATED cribed above. IA No. 622- REPRODUCTION sep =,
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TIRE BO _ PaO. nEPANOUTO — PRowiarrE:-” * Re oy T te “Herren & omit seen tute eo“w Lew H. ” OSWALD abtech CIA clissemtua ect bekere astarninablen (ie Oot <2) | > OS tete. FB) Navy anol (NS | MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lae Rankin | a AAZ~ A25G SUBJECT: Cc 3 wi S ion le. Reference la made ta paragraph three of your letter, ° dated 16 Mareh 1964, You requested that the Commnission be furnished a cogy of the dissemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD made to several Government agencias by CLA om 16 Cctober 1963. 2. An suact copy of this diasemination (Out Message No. 74673) by teletype, is attached. It was transraltted te the De- parbment of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Depa rte ment of the Navy. A copy was concurrently mada avallabie by hand to the Immigration and Naturallazation Service. 3. Piease note that OSWALD's middle same was errone- ously given as ‘Heary”" ia A thie subject line aad ia. paragraph two t the Navy . kadslin » 4 telatyaed messages " J {Gat No. T1978 was sant to the Ainth of the Navy referring to Out No 74673, and requesting that the Navy farnish CLA aa s0on as pousible two coples of the meat recent photograph of | OSWALD thet was avaliable, for use in checking the identity of the Lee CSWALD In Mexico City. These photographs had not been supplied te this Agency by 22 Nevwember 1963. Our come clusion that the photograph did net refer to OSWALD was based om press photos generally available on 23 November 1983. Document Number © Seek 622. pkey =, APY GObA OF ¢pT2 BTR gosrsae: 2 . ATTS iar FOI. Review on JUN snes ea fTseg KITS eae ETB ET Samy. . . ~ 3 a. whee: oa : amy Hs i Fa aie - wha PROMBNED | : a | a a oS i
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION loka Orel ind we wT They ” thoretone beay am appreariate sansitivity ‘edteston. REPRODUCTI OMe: oa PRORIB! BITED & = Copy of Out Message 74673 Be Cony of Out Message 179 Distribution: — . Orig & 3 Addressee .. + C/CI/R&A - G/C1/SIG . _ C/WH/3 a 201-289248 CLU/R&A/ TRHall om 23 March 1964 2- ooP — REPRODUCTION - PROLIGITED i a 5, he eee Fanaa | _ os ag Ag 32
13-00000 ATT. l . Statea with hia Rusajafich te: Rated to your representativas ia Mealeo City, (eformation received on thia asbject will be furnished you. oo, 4 ‘6 t ¥] Attachment 3 Out Massage No. 74573, datad.19 Cctebar 1963 and filed at 0600 hours, te Department of State, Fedeval Bureau of Investigation, eee ERO ON. a ar ; October PRORBITED...... source in Mexice reperted that an American male, who identified himaeif aa Lee OSWALD, contacted the Sovlet Embassy in Mexico City =, inguiting whether the Embassy had received any news can- corning a telegram which had been sent te Washington, The Amastecan wan deseribed as apprentenately 33 yaars old, wlth an athletic bulld, about elx feat 11, witha receding hairline. 2. 3¢ ls belived that OSWALD may be Identical toe Les | Henry OSWALD, born on 18 Ceteber 1939 in Now Ovleans, Logislana. A former U.5. Marine wh» defected to the Soviet Galon in Ceteber 1929 and later mada arrangement through the | Ualted States Embassy in Moscow to return te the United = * ang thely ehlid, 3% The information in .jpardy Aay farther CUG3Z97 - 7
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a - ‘RePRODUICTHON os coe ej ( XAAZ-225%C | A@cchmment B ut Teletype Messages No. 77972, dated 23 Ceiober 1963 and {ied nt 1410 hours, to the Department of the Navy. ca sereee o nel ARTE 10 Seteber 1963, regarding possible presente af subject in Mexico City. It la requested that you forward te this offices . a8 so0m as peasible twe copies af the moet recent photograph ' pou hove of subject. We wlll forward tham te ogr represente- tive in Mazieo, who will attempt to determine if the Lee CSWALS ta Mexice Cily and subject are the same Individual. REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TE) ee : i — psn Tot te
eae a re / PROMIBITE: . * Repgert te Warren Qoww! ween, cletal}in tube ow ae He a GSWALD , which IA olissuminatecdl latere, eszerei whine Cie Cet G. ‘= Ste, FRI Navy anel INS MEMORANDUM FOR: a x. Lee Raskla > wee 25 ] ~~ @ *° ~ 9 sation D3 tae Te ira eat tt af te Lene rCichtiaia Son eenene de deference is made to pasagraph three of your letter, me dated 16 SZarek 1564,. You reqmesied thal the Commmisaion be <>. | {ursished a coay of the dissemination om Las Hazwey OSWALD... .. Taga, 10 Several Governmant ageneies by CIA on 10 < Cetsines 1963. | . | - 2. an exatt aopy of thin diaseeataation (Out Message te. - 74873) by telatype, Is attached, It was tranamitiad tothe De- |  «~ parbment of State, Tederal Bureas of lavestigation sad Desarte + _ meng of tha Navy. A SSPT ae pee remy macs svallobie by band to the Immigration and Natursilaation Sezvice. - a ce ‘Se Please note that GSWALD's middle aame was errone=’ . ously glvea as “Henry” in the subject line and In paragrashiwe. - of the opemination- (Tas Sams error occurs ln tha message —__ a wwagzank four, below,} The maiden pe listed aa “eUSAKOV: A™, 4. On 23 Octekar {ths seam: dats), a telatyped message JS {Cut No. 77973} was Re nsec of the Navy referziagto ” - Ous No. 74673, and4 Ai the Navy faznish CIA aa - soon 22 possible two copies ¢ ad 7 meat recent photegrask of OSWALD taas was avaliable, for nse in checking the idanthy of the Lee OSWALD in Mexico City. These photographs had not . Deen supplied to tis Agezcy by 22 November 1953. Cus cone | eiusian that ihe photograph did not refer to OSVALD was based (om press photos generally avallabls on 23 November 2253. | Document Number ———S $2.25 ads. COPY NOe
§ This memorandum and ths atiachments tanyvey bisre snzsica eriginatins with vary senzliive scartes and meiinds, They i> thevelore bearaa appropelate sumsiiivity indbeatar. Meroe wanna - Rane i re cs _ Distribatton: 7 - sO , Orig &3 Addressee . | i Le ae . i ne 23 3 March 1964 Te 7 “ie oe Z = bees
Attechment A ous Massage Bb, 78573, datad 15 Ceiskar 2563 and fflad ab 3330 hours, to Department af i tate, ET Bussan of Inpestigation, _ Maxleo reparted shat an Z Amaya male, whe identified, bimnselé = az aad CSWALD, conbated the Soviet Eohasay tn Bestze 2 oisy | torpaizing ohuihior ue — bad received ax anys ‘pews Come - _sovning a telegsans whith bad beas pant te Washing bs the oa lee oy American waa deseribed as nopsmiimetaly 33 years , ats, ele oe - ; an athlotle bulla, about ols feat tall, eika receding baltion 2.22 le believed tha OSWALD may be tdaniicaltoles * Beary OSWALD, bors oa 18 Gctsber 1939 In New Oplaansy | Auatinlare A formez U.S. Marine who defatted te he Sovies at - Gales la October 2989 and latay anes arrongesiest Raeogh whe in Moscow to return fo the Unined i ; United States © Esabass lle oe States wih his 3 Zz The taformetion im ue Se is betag diss rexai a ee | natod to your representatives i im Mezies Clty. Aay fusthar - "Information received on thie ¢ subj: sek wild he farnished you. “ReseMETR 7 | os ; pact 10 oe 12 COPY NO.
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13-00000 sot -»- REPRODUCTION Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 19 February 1962; Subject: Authorization of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 6 March 1963; Subject: Extension of Authoriza- tion of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Note attached to above memorandum. Memorandum for Chief, Foreign Intelligence, dated 27 June 1963; Subject: QJWIN. OLLS-369, 30 September 1963; Subject: Adminis- trative/Finance - QJWIN. Nine pages of notes in draft regarding ZRRIFLE cua zoe, 24 MOUTON er soe PROLBITED REPRODUCTION = em PROMIBITED —SEGRET
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too re. 50) 27 JUN i863 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Foreign Intelligence SUBJECT: QJWIN 1. Confirming our conversation of 26 June 1963, I make the following recommendations concerning the further handling and possible disposition of QJWIN: a. I believe the original purpose for which QJWIN was continued and sent to his present under— cover assignmen Das g ient validity to justify the PRICE i yond the termination of his present contrac or this purpose QuWIN, ROE ED competent, usable agent who is capable of operating in certain circles | in Europe where we have very few assets. Whether this is of sufficient worth to continue his services depends on the determination of how he can be used either by * the German Station,or by the Austrian Station or by any other KUBARK Rp as a long term unofficial cover agent. He is not being used at the present time. He is being paid but he is on ice as far as any operational assignments are concerned. ce. It is recommended that the present Chief of Station luxembourg and RABNEY be consulted by Headquarters for their best recommendations as to the continued use of QJWIN. After these recommendations are received, I suggest that the German and Austrian stations be consulted for their possible interest in using him. If after these discussions a sensible framework for the operational use of QJWIN can be established, I would recommend we continue hin. If not, I would recommend that he be terminated at the time his present contract expires. , 2. As far as the ZRRIFLE aspects of this operation which have been covered under the QJWIN authorization for security reasons and with which Fletcher M. KNIGHT is fully familiar as I orally advised you on 26 June 1963, except for one precautionary "life line", aspects of this case have @ been terminated and nto accountings, be con \ GT | 3 Y h perhaps for minor is’ project. SECRET oo - sunaaa7 PAGE COPY NO 0 ececmemmensemcmin | 7 13. e 43
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION - PRONIGITED CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP [To] ss CNAME AND ADDREss | DATE UINITIALS | Me. William K. Harvey MCL es fp nomort | _jaction .- | [DIRECT REPLY | | PREPARE REPLY |__| APPROVAL | DISPATCH |_| RECOMMENDATION [comMenr | me ReuRN ities, you are hereby cipal agent QJWIN and S as may be required. force through at time. |_| |__ |__| CONCURRENCE —s|_L INFORMATION | [SIGNATURE Sy |_ nim, QJWIN's salary the expenses of tivity will be in them, and these covert operational this activity, ategory and by certi- blished for QJWIN, ,800 through ecessary, they will Mr. Harveys . Sam Hines gave me the attached approval for ZRRIFLE. Since we retain no files on the project, I am sending this to you with the suggestion that this be incorporated in your project folder. Helen Vigness iment of reference the previous eyes) red in lieu of project vel, per diem, opera~ FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER FROM: NAME. ADDRESS AND PHONE NO. | pate A NAS [oP IRCEASSTER OSs | CONFIDENTIAU 79S | SECRET FORM, ya. (237 Use previous editions (40) T= —AEPRODUCTION PROWIB— Deputy Director (Plans) y be handled strictly
PRORIBITED ee, Lo) re 3 a 3 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. William K. Harvey SUBJECT: Extension “ Authorization of ZRRIFLE eal =¥e REFERENCE: ean eD e ! UcTONy 1962, same Nae (TED... you are hereby “1. For the varpocelbin th . authorized to retain the services of principal agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be required. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1963 subject to renewal at that time. a2. As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be $7,200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by certi- fication. In addition to the salary established for QJWIN, you are authorized the expenditure of $13,800 through 31 December 1963. If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. ' 3. This memorandum approves an amendment of reference — | memorandum increasing funds authorized for the previous per from $14,700 to $16,200. 4. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of project and constitutes authorization for all travel, per diem, opera— .tional, and other expenses. on an EYES ONLY “DED CTION P ROG if etor or (Plana) 5. It is requested that this activity be handled strictly i Cc i Cc. oe) Cad f--4 Cae RPRoueTION = alalm | uct 15 of 43. 43 | COPY NO.
13-00000 | Re ADITE THOR ‘a Pe os mama — . | | » ( ‘a tite CUIAD ey Bee “ee 19 February 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: POHETION i (iemgig SUBJECT: or zation of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities 1. For the ae PROWL TED aes. you are here= by authorized to retain the services of Principal Agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be ‘required. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1962, subject to renewal at that time. 2. As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be $7,200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these . receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by your certification. In addition to the salary established for. QJWIN, you are authorized the expenditure of $7,500 through 31 December 1962, If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. 3. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of pro- ject and constitutes authorization for all travel, per dien, operational and other expenses . 4. It is requested that this activity be handled strictly on an EYES ONLY basis. Richard Helms 5 nN ector (Plans) " 9uu3920 . PAGE 16, oe 43 43 COPY NOe
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13-00000 SECRET REPRODUCTION 1. Memorandum for Chief, CI/R&A, dated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File. [FOIA No. 563-810] 2. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN , dated 6 March 1964; Lee Harvey OSWALD | Ptaor| (te We [XAAZ-22595 - “FO : Co ik SEGRE)
REPRODUCTION XAAZ~ 2259S" C Mar 64 REPRODUCTION | SUBJECT: s Possession Regarding Lee Barvey OSWALD a Prior to Novernber 22, 1963 es Jranyn' teol +t. LJ evren Commies ton, . 1, This refers to your letter of February 2b, 1964 addressed to the Directer of Central Intelligence which has been. passed to me for reply, 2. Paragraph three of your letter requested the Agency to supply the Commission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding Lee Harvey CSWALD prior to November 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footnote on page two of CIA!s report to the Cormmission dated . : in January 1964, entitled: ‘Information Develoned by CIA on he Activity of Lee Harvey COWALD in | Mexico Gity, 28 Sep- tember © 3 October 1963", — 3. There is attached an exact reproduction of the _ Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1960, The entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, On the basis of clearances from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the Department of Navy, and the bmmigration aod Naturalization Services who 18 A CE SPS SENN enn AIT IT a, ° " ' ° . * : . . . ' Document Number E oa vin | LETS cane. or ee, 3ei a for EOIA Fe Revieiy on . ts A 3 are ve — : | aoe 7 | | (GMa or “oudsa% A pace 3 of
REPRODUCTION 13-00000 a Seven documents received from the Federal . _ Bureay of Investigation, . b. Ten documents received from the Department ener 003 ce, Two documents aeey of Navye a. One document {a name wl ]TED Fequest) frora the immigration and Naturalization Service. e Fow newspaper clippings, £, Five internal CIA notes, g. CIA report dated 31 January 1964 to the Commission which covers all substantive developments aifecting CIA in the matter of Lee Harvey CSWALD from 9 October to 22 November 1963, The report indicated the disseminations of information developed by GIA that were made to other . Federal agencies during that period. This itern, as was pointed ont at the time, is particularly sensitive and bears appropriate sensitivity indicators. 4, You will note that almost all of the documents carry markings required for GIA's internal records processing, A few of the papers contained the names of our employees or - identifications of specific organizational components, We have taken the liberty of (ieee : se items as they do not bear on the substance of /ti vile eee So a Attachment Original & 2. Addressee 1 « G/CI/SIG | a : “ 1«DDP Subject 1 C/CI/R&A : : dL. , «~ DDP Chrono, > GORY le C/WH/3 . » C/CL Y « 201-289248 » a CuRGRoccasde/ 7468/4 March 1964 (Inventory of documents contained in file attached for all but 3d@regsee) * a 2Ol ~2II2ZEF Pegs oy el Ear % fi ‘ el } RARER ENTE Mo Mie omy © eateries APE TRALEE MPM set Anette a ae os as
ee Aone PRT Inventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded : to the Commission S . Jl, State Telegram spiny iN (Confidential) A 4 w/2, Newspaper Article from the Wash: no at, November as 1959 check request) and ne R reply ‘dated d 1959 (oral FBI name ovember 1959 (Confidential) x -/4, Foreign Service Despatch 234, November 2, 2959 (Confidential) J » + 4%, State Telegram 1358, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) y+ v6. State Telegram 1448, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) co «” /t, Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959 w 8. Newspaper. Clipping fom Evening Star, November 26, 1959 i+ w9,. DBF 49478, 25 25 May 1960 (Confidential) = fm ¥ 10s. Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated circa ‘May. 1960 (Confidential) a “il, Letter from the Department of State (Cumming) to DDP (Bineeky) , ated ren 25, ie (DD/P 0-5679 « Secret) ; v2, DDP Responses to State, dat al November 1960 (DD/P 06003 . o ‘Secret) var v13. Internal GIA REPRODICT InN file, 9 December 1960 . . . ; : (Secret). - ‘ 1D Di I il | Ry a | % /14. State Memorandl ay 0: TED oa 5: January 26, 6, 1961 (owe) 7 + AS. State Instruction A-273, April 13, 1961 (ou0) / 6. Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 (OUO) « AY, Foreign Service Despatch 29, July 11, 1961 (oU0) L ~ 8, DFB g2181, July 13, 1961 (Confidential) ATT. I tes KAAZ-2 sae ES: G0FY re ‘Tt 22089 owe Jol~2dI 243 PAGE 39. of 43, “COPY NOs _ REPRODUCTION
13-00000  ( | 7 : ‘pao */19, Internal CIA Memo for the Record, 28 September 1961 (Secret) - ¥ /20, Foreign Service Despatch 317, October 12, (1961 (OUO) Vv “ 21, 1&NS Name Check Request, December 5, 1961 + 22, Navy elt ; “> £23, DNA 1624, 26 Age » (Confidential) oo OTUBITED oo June % 19626. vy 625, DBA 20883, September 7, 1962 (Confidential) — “ £24, Newspaper Clipping vy» ~26, DBA 51407, 10 September 1963 ‘~ 727, DBA 52355, 24 September 1963 | _» #28, DBA 55715 (number unclear), November 7, 1963 yr S2% DBA 55777, ‘November 8, 1963 w Ao CIA Summary Report on Activities of OSWALD in Mexico City, dated ad January 1964 REPROOWETOg PROGIBITED. al Qol- 2dIDER. | - ; : pags 4M 40_ ot 43) . COPY. NOs 0,
OO ePaooueTiC re a ae ~ PROMIBITES - _ SC) soap a «BYES guy 20 February 1964 MEMORANDUM vv ro PRODUCT iON SUBJECT: m (ated in OSWALD's 201 File 1, A machine listing of documents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201 file was requested and is attached. The actual machine work of this type was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous . dates were also recorded. 2. A comparison of the documents physically available in the 201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37 documents which should be in the 201. file are not available init. This total is made up of: 2 dispatches 7 memoranda from the FBI 1 CSCI 2 State REDE documents 25 canes ID 3. Machine inquiriés. REPRO DICTION... se documents have not. been made.- -— PROEIB ITED ne 22-BI0 for FOIA Review on JUN 1976 rd Cd ‘SECRET “EYES ONLY “8
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Joe YQ / | PROBED . ‘ = - ”. : @ sop € SECRET , : 3 Chloe, 5R RYBAT | Chief, WE . ‘ ’ Chief of Station, Paris cnet REPRODUCTION = For the record we forward herewith a mesorandus by/Thomas B, CASASIN dn which he gives his recollections of SR Interest in Subject following CO se4273 Subject’s eS States from the USSR, “““442 J . S ROBERT G, LASPRELL Eacl. Distribution _ « ~ ; &-Z"~ SR wench — OG oe OS . 3 = HE | W35-M3A | Number NOMBITED , 4 who ; ; “12 bee 1965 DEC 1§ 1989 “ aS C a a a | GFPA~73512 LT | | SECRET RYBAT — 01-284 ONS a .t "REPRODUCTION — PAGE _ 2. of se | GOPY NOe ene
- PROUT pe. 13-00000 - —e 4 a : - Co 4 as =a cone nes 25 November 15963 ' SUBJECT: Mr. Lee a RERROSICT ON. . . 3 Walter P, HALTI¢g . 1, It makes little QE BTTEDDeoncc » had at one time an OI interest in Oswald. As soon as I had heard Oswalf's name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed -- sometime in Summer 1960 ~- with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the layéng on of interview(s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels. At the ; moment I don’t recall if this was discussed while Oswald and his family .../.. wp». were en route to our country of if it was after their arrival. a “ 2. 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 I told my subordinates something amounting to “Don't push too hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd." } We were -particularly interested in the OI Oswald might provide on th¢ Minsk _ factory in which he had been employed, on certain Sections of the city itself, and of course we sought the usual BI that might help develop target personality dossiers. 3. I was phasing into my LPOVER cover assignment, and out of KUDOVE, at the time, Thus, I would have left our country shortly after Oswald's artival, I’ do not know what action developed thereafter. | rea ven 4, As an afterthought, I PR 0 ull Bill at the time I was becoming * increasingly interested in watching develop a pattern that we had discovered in the course of our bio and research work in 6: the number of Soviet women marrying foreigners, being permitted to leave the USSR, then eventually ~~ divorcing their spouses and settling down abroad without returning “home”. “The AEOCEAN 3 case was among the first of these, and we eventually turned - up something like two dozen similar cases, We established links between some of these women and the KGB. KUDESK became interested in the developing trend we had come across. It was partly out of curiosity to learn if Oswald's wife would actually accompany him to our country, partly out of interest in Oswald's own exper d in the U SSR, that we showed operational intelligence interest in the/larvey story. eo oP Bee. é ap. , Pace 3 of =
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION 1. Agency Support to Intelligence Community and arren Commission - Tab E. 2. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 9 March 1964, regarding file received from Central Intelligence Agency on 6 March 1964 ARETE —- 003526
TOR > amigo PROSITE ” Nery, Cf.) ja-4- le 2qf7m47 nD BARS, oie S)28/ % . pet 6.0. 1222, 3c: . wv a faje a ° ates ah oe Wes A ” gg Elé. fees 8. sree) Bid me Tg : | ree , Reason meine. PAlasaity on; i oe i Havel 9, 195 -. | | LAY i con yremt = Howard Pe Willems. 4 Fe this te the file received frou Central Inteltigxase i Agency lete in the aftermon on Friday, Merch & 190s. | Fhe lettes of Februery 12 makes two requests. | (1) m the seeond peregriph of the lebber we asked CIA to send L. _ af veyerts or cosmaricetions regarding the ee tion which were diseeninsted by CIA mei are ia the possession of i A } i i | roperts vn scom as possilde. (2) Im the third parsgrarpk of the lettar wo asked CIA te eupslly the Camsisaton with ths seport on the informe: tion in the posvecaion ef CIA segermdiing Oswald pricr to ‘oveuber 22, . 1663- In pertionler, we oxpresoad interast in imowing vast - a _. Glaseeduation, if eny, ves nate to other egemeiece of items aided ee | te the File after Cotaber 9 and price to Rewerber 22, 1563~, _ As I mentioned to you on the telestuns I ealled Hr « Islas | Seday in your absewee. Sir, Balns stated that cur first request gives ee CLA certain warpecd fied proslew.. B otated task scue of the inform Cre tion referred te hes heen passed an to the Camisaion in a jz prefer no} ta ecmpiy with this regeest. When I eogeested that we f° hed certain peoblens with thia proposed Gicpostitica ve agsecd tans der, [ ta tne’, te CA sasponse-to-cur Fen 12 2 i _ is; gubstant{al respect. if tis fils timpliss I by CLA ie the official autar on Omraldts then 16 contains no reports | i received by headgunrters from the Hecican station or eny other foreign office ee acd % * supplies no no information | segemins * the dissemization of tatertel by “tog . . ow aoa pe EupT trem extematic declarsificetion na { ae Pes os E.0. 11852, See. SEK2Z} I on Five on SOG We jos Oh, Hib ORE 18- tapas” — od Authority .drcccssese2 . ; gent y . ee a ee mein Giese See. 2x0 08) Ds ee oBamd ; oo . ea Declessiiv ons . 003521 ee ot Oe, PAGE of COPY NO. ni , mee a nee rrne meene ne tee le ne meen ne mn le eee ec nce eran