13-00000 —. REPRODUCTION n get in the message: & foie cr hte Oo | rt) j- pe re iy : {v cr Jnle ‘@] Mexico or did t Washirgtcr end the information was we are sc tll trying to get an explana- raph which the FBI showed Mea arsueedt ter the assassinztic on. I hope thads Sragraph * oh of the memorandum mal Maren 2h, 1954 sent Mr eee ° es Ss 2 this inquiry. : cy a | ! We should also determine “why the Wa “wy ne ver furnished ote j the cra with copies of the most recent photographs of ‘Oswata. mel sere + wo nt ee CERES? He a ee: paws coy BE. Phig oof te BBE oy ekprne © seeps 688 O91 FS | wa 0652222. pi . sede AY, a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 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. HMMW-11935, dated 1 September 1963; Subject: Luisa CALDERON REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED RErnooNETIOR! sie PROD
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13-00000 e- ENO PROM CARZOS BLANCO. ° GUSusCTs Backgzsound information on curzapQ S; WQS5 - ‘Erbasay in Naxies. x . " SOURCR: P26. Information raceived, a -°  .  WEDAR Bomfngues, former Po 63- from bes Ricardo’. cen a cae potsicar vith appreg= Po, we imately 30 years of serv foweox City, now dalegata in .: - an _ Restico of the Assoalati Commnist Yoseign Sezvice - - by becree Noe 3031, ted his eredentials on 235- Aug 62. ‘Raturned to Havana in late 196% or early 1963. Appointed an oo ot 3 as Delegate of ti of the Foreign Commerce Miniater, acting ag Disector™ of.” international Organions of the: Vice Ministry of Commercial Folsey, -. 4 _ “St Resolution Noo 405 dated 13 May 63, of the Minister of Foreign foe ! @. His representation to the Brasilian Government was, ma - indda by Decree No.-3296, dated 10 Apr 63. Resolution Yo. oi. a - gated 22 Ape .63, of the Minister of Forsiga Comberce, roscinded. °° = Resolution No. 40 dated 13 Maz 63 which had appointed hin aa Delegate i of the Foreign Coumaxce Hinister acting as Dizector of intesnational "” . Ozganions of the uinistry of Yoreign Commerce. Was appointed as I. sO . E i: anbassador to Mexico by Decree No. 3332, dated 22 May 63%. “Bee veg ve. , 3 . ea Mexico on 23 Jun 63. Hasn't presented his-credentiala yot.. |. t. : - “Bag:the following univeraley Gagreeas. Baw, Philosopay, and ngetoaleural - , . 2a in Pinay dal nfo, Crba. Apgreminatoly 50 yeare old. (wizet gacratary. ete cory a ~ i chazga @'aggaives at pregent. Quiet MARe da the absolute const 2 (Taira Se MELC one as fee = e ° as) . S. a e. = Bl * - Soehen Rll haifa adver ee oN op eer a See Te mae Sem Tt .
13-00000_ e TR 0/EB~330, Carlos BLANC< re (qont.} Hale int 4 lacie len Fa ON: bd : Jonge : eG ac as secreta =< - | Forme head of the olg@ piven m” ute coyifidenc LS _dacday. working on det appointed as Commercial Counseller ané assigned to “mexico by Solution Noe 153%. 20 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce Minis are Male Despotis individual. Kot trustworthy. : : nes (Commercial Attach$.) FY .csrr 9” inted aa commercial attaché and aggigned te the Exbassy in 7 Haxieo-by Resolution No. 79, 23 Apr 62, of the Foreign Commerce a od ‘ Miniater! Government buyer. Aldo performs other Slnationsy on o-_7: + bitte Rion Seay dangexo exous. Man in the confidence 'of tha == . et ERR Government figures. Has a brother who lives in Kew York who - a a is not a Com mpae t, and a sister who belongs to a religious oxdey. é, anion CASTELIAR Sanches, (Commercial attach$./7és. oer? , Appoihted as Commercial Attaché and assigned to the Embassy in; | Beeehoe by Resolution No. 150, 16 Aug 62, of the Foreign Comerce | . * Mindeter: ‘Dedicated to purchases, according to Reporta, be . has recent) Z<apen transferred. RS ~ Os wr” CONCEPCION Mandozas (Cox Attach. )7F7. 607? a According to reports, he page 04 to replace CASTSLIAR . je les 8. e i gare of paraona \= Giy ingivideal. ar : Was an Bubassy coorman. Was a Spaniah citizen but bas jest on B Fp ; a 014 Spanish Communist. ‘Dangerous. : . ee Pot eG , __ PROMISITED TEP mOOUCT On reer eater nate wee a cree ceccae avers ae cen ebane Gunes OE ee tee nn EE Te tt cee emma Sn ERtiene Leit# len O4:S penenenenNe nen 5 a ERNE So
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13-00000 = 76 9. 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. 15. SORT RE" RODUCTION raBLe oF cowtewts PRORBITED Report No. EE~390, dat ee 1963; Subject: Background informatie urrent Personnel of the Cuban Embassy HMMW-11935, « CALDERON .. ) Subject: Luisa Note, d aan to JC from Win. [FOIA No MEXI-7105 con 8 WS 27 Novenber 1963 [FOIA No. 173-615 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 | Cuba. DDP 4-3195, 19 June 1964: A No. 740-319A] XAAZ-27167, 22 June 1 MS and ROCCA chrono- logies of contacts Commission in 1964.) DDP 4-3401, 2 J a Lee Harvey OSWALD. KK Informatiom® ae xO \) Agents, dated ugus YP. DDP 4-4882, 18 ww 1964; Subject:  Techni- cal Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa. as CO92U59 ‘Cort NO.
MEMORANDUM SOR: & t's Gormmnission on the | Assassination of President Kennedy . Be . ° - SUBJECT:  . . Technical Examination of Photographs — 7 of Les Harvey OSWALD's Application pe - °° fora Cuban Vien | eT 1. I vafex to your vequest of 2 ‘September 1964, ‘that the . os - , , Central Inteligence Agoncy undertake a technicalanalysia of = Le -. -photegraphed copies of Lea Harvey OSWALD's applleation for 2. ee EE a Gubaa visa, prepared by him In the Cuban Consulate In Moxles . City, and the reply from Havana conditionally rejecting OSWALD! applicatlon, of, & | Be Qualified analyats of this Agency have examined and tasted — these documents, and have made tho following determinations: 7 oF a, The signatura "Lea H. Oswald” wilcod to the visa, application is the signature of Lae A SWALD. — | xof the visa appll- Biatement on this Nir het eth and tha sasnple of Ma RAIN vaveritleg avallable for comparisaz is inadequate ie atate with confidence that the\notation was not weitton by I ie Harvey OSWALD. — ; - _ Seeney - _en ‘ ® ? . . . . . e. . r : . c 2 0-9 0pe: qu qERIREND WD O8 Ove ge Us waste eRERE Te PEMTANETRATUMITTN PAREN Le INGO ep a + . ' . . e ’ - . : . ry . . . . . . . . wert e © FIBER ETIRCIEA. Re omit se men apes re mann TY en eT mt an Hae etn tts RR @ a ee aA py eh yan,
ate | . ee sore . e . . . _ GE EGRET. oo | e. ‘The visa application By & the Cuban Government ioe : in fact, a reduced meee fa photograph. . 32 m it bas been determined pe grad Ae the entry "Pasaporte No. - <a : So sNo addin hve lyais were daemad neceasary. -_ . 3. I return herewith the p ctographs OF the yin application and” : Cuban rejection of the sama, which wera furnished to this Agency by - 6 the Cormisaion. “s | e- : . ot . 4. oo we 8, 2 8? 4, cont ° ; oo SE ok col RO oS . 0, Rickaxd Hels 9 2° 1-7 | Doputy Director for Plana “ae sere - Ww : : Cd oe . i : Se - ; | A | Ve PAGE core u uO. a ANB ot 2319.
13-00000 -° INFO FROM AISUGL on AGENTS NS ‘ eterno at fhe difference between ; a Cuban and a 6 (of the DGL) is as follows. Recruitment of foreigners cops staR ty of agreements with the | organizations to which they. NS SNES can also be re eeruited 7 the schools in Cuba where they 2 verrilla trainings Once recruited as possible aS 5% NS separated from the others and placed ' an DGI houses, where they receive ifSfRetion as agents. Their life is normal; they use tha. cover of being scholarship students supported by the Cuban governyente The DGI supplied them clothes, food, and every sort of cara, such as medical and. any other kind. The DGL takes care of their general expanfsese . | Ordinarily keg an attempt is made to kesp then from contact with net ‘anyone in . goverment circles soas to avoid indiscretions. 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 other. Once his. training is completed, his departure from Cuba is not. made known to anyons attached to hime . | In recruitment of Cubans, an effort is made to find those knowing the fewesk possible persons. “If the Cuban who is recruited is employed in an office or factory or works soie other place, an effort is made to have him continues his work so as to use his situation to provide true cover; instruction is given at hours when he is not working. If the agents has any trouble after he has been _ recruited, the DGI tries to help him as mech as possible without breaking down compartrentation or his covere . When he has completed his training and is sent abroad, the UGE covers the ex penses of his family. If a Cuban who is recruited is unamployed, it looks for a cover adapted to his situation, and the UGI takes care of all the expenses © the agent has, including those of his fanily if he is married. He receives his | training in the hours adapted to his cover position. His life, like that of the agent who is working, mst contimue normal, just as it was before recruitment. .. Cubans trained as agents, if their depar leave with foreign’ passportse | m the country is not iMegady epnneTlOn SECRET
1300000 nn on oO rr or oo WAR ANG Elk ry “my * 2 - ’ . oes * on nant ae i SENSITIVE saURe cs W aes Se “2 JUL 64. . - ; . MEMORANDUM FOR: Me.JoLeoNenda es Gensral Gounsel - — eo President's Gommisaion on the , SO So Assassination af Prealdent Kennedy rr SUBIEGT: | Loe Hazvay Oswald . _ I. The following remarks have been racently atts sauted to Soviet Gonsul Pavel Antousyi, ch Yatskhov in Mexica City vegan ag the subject. oo ls e "7 races Oswald here. He stormed inte my offica and wanted ms to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans. He told me that he had Uved inthe USSR. I teld him that I would have td check before I conld recommend him. He was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stermed ous of my office. I don't believe that a person as nervous &3, Oswald, whosa hands trembled could huye accuratoly - - fireda rifle.” 2. Our Moxican Station has cheat’ records for tea period Oswald was in Maxico Cityam editis quite | possible that Oswald thoughs 5 ned S NY: aleviy Kostikey when he actually had spoke CO Ny to Koatikoy who tome or Yatskov. . The source of oS Mriationis a confidential contact of thts Agency in Mexico City Rxous belleved to ba reliable. In . view of this relationship, an appropriate penaltivity & indicator has « bean affixed to this TASTHOTARGITD « a . . WARNING NOTICE werner baa? .. Exclsd24 troy i, sath SENSITIVE SOURCES AND & matting aa METHODS INVOLVED - A sO (Ss ES he first spoke . Se : - { | t i UAT ATI te le ete
ee - | SER RET WARNING NOTICE “T . 7" a _ Met, SENSIT"  SOURCTS AND f - 7 \ ‘METHLOS INVOLVED 4, A copy of this memo \S Q =O forwarded to the Federal Bureau of ravectig@ SS \ . 8 . . So Richard Relma . ; Deputy Director for Plans . Distribution: oo ; ~ Oviginal&l+ Addresses —s_s a - 2 DDP ee Zo C/Cl/R&A | ag . = 1. C/WH/3 Te “Le CLIRGA/ZO1 a - 1 = G/Cl a re ee lw CIJREAJAEDoolay - 7 ae PS 1 » FBI (via GSCI) a eM ted ose Originated by: CI/R&A/AEDooleyinks i July 1964) __. cet tet a bf “Ty te - SS 8 QW . WN . ": a a mony 7? WARNING Nor 7. ated - SOTICE A CY SENSITIVE SOy> Rae ate . ~ Ources AND | f[-. v METHODS INVOLVen aa Copy NO.
13-00000 \ t if . . . ni Ps] * fee Cad Bearsng z we entre eels aud Hoe are os ieee ew ee Aaatyt natn pane nS et totem ans Te a ° r 3 < * Sr ren 4 eh re) sy ESM 248 ree! » “e Fane 2988 . eee cen s seas oa at 5 . St Wivied aie Seer a ss shes RN an ve oe Lo eM 6 ; . : Mr. Rocca: , &é hen “7 . This List the score of telephone calls I had with ‘Tir. Rai d the Conmission staff: | oT 2s Januaxy 196 ~ Messrs. Allen Ve Dulles, Parkin, Willems, 1,:00- Angleton, end Rocca. De Le 25 Jamary * Mr, Ravcin's office.  - ; a 2 as - _ 235 . ro. 12 March > Mr. Rankin's office with Hessrs< Murphy ~ ; ; * 22:00 _ and Rocca " . 27 Harch Fessrs. Slawson, Witlens, » and Stern ae ' 2330 . with Mr. Recca 2) June Chief Justice Warren te, oo aa . oo pRewtanes 7 3 . , oo. : _° PAGE Ps ~~ . CGPL HO. : ~
13-00000 SECRET REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Letter to JC RED aR 27 November 1963 [FOIA No. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1380-1073A] MEXI-7105 (IN 692 EP ROOUGTION... [FOIA No. 173-615] PROMI Memorandum for ATED. December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542-11 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. NE 5
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION ee ——— PrRATED ST eae nem cme a aor se a mt 4 9 EAE 2 | : . Ste ‘MEMORANDUM FOR: vias wi és I oo ; we GenePal Gey Se. a OR we ee _ De '. President'a\Commission on \ the : . ee, Assassination of President Kennedy he -\ < SUBJECT: 2. : Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulate ss “f ‘ (ro. 1. I :  Preceduses and Regulations for Issuance of . Woo te es 8 Gaban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens! Ce Travel to and from Guba * 1 t refer to your memorandum dated 24 April, in which you | enw. request information on hours of work at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic. Sets installations in Mexico City, details of regulations governing the Dap ates -* {asuanee of Cuban travel documents and Mexican control of U. Se tel A -- ¢itisens travelling to and from | Cuba through Mexico. og 2 The Soviet Embassy 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 compound in which these Soviet installations ave located. Visitora _ wing the bell at this entrance at all hours. Bi | . are permitted te enter at any time, b . away by the guard after normal hou . _ during Septernber 1963, when RAN ey | 2 visited the “or \ ENO900 to 1400 houra. - ‘3. The Cuban Embassy a Qs asulate are located in thelr oo eae ows compound, but these installations have separate entrances, 2° | Viniters may enter the Cuban Consulate from 1000 to 1400 hours, . . . . . cr , So cena, ne al . “a °. se wae e. . hae, : *, Pt | esetstas ‘von gutrmatie
' Moaday through Friday. Embassy worki on the same days. Visitors te the © . appear before 1400 hours. Those w during September 1963. . ~ 6 oo Jo * . 7 e, > aS Ss also inctiect - - REPRODUCTION —-PRORIBITED are 0930 fo 1708 owsver, usually of the Exterlor in, a Kean vi be lasued. On occasion, - Bee | - vequeats for permission teyasu @ths resulting decislong.  - or _.. at handled by cabla. The ae out a visa spplication form . -.... | a the Caban consulate, Cuban vi¥aa are normally valid for three - - . 4° months from date of issuance. Visas may be Issued on separate ., oheete of paper te conceal the fact that travel to Cuba was periormeds ‘ ‘ 2S ‘The Soviets are y nok RnOT?R te issue travel permits to Cubase 7 _ voy Fad PRB he Government of 2oxica. recognises the passport asan ”: “. ..  \deatification document only. Mexican immigration officials do not a (i+ ¢ . wecogaiae passport entries prenibiting the bearer’s travel to Cuba, *, yl. ifthe bearer helda a visa valid for travel to that country. Amendment _ ef Mexican laws to permit recogaitioa of travel restrictions affixed by _ tpt - “. geveraments lasulng passporta has been uadar. conelieration, but aa one x: € ae . actioa thereon haa presently baea taken. my . ot Pe "be Non-Gubaas, ‘including JeSe citizens, entering Mexico 8 be . _ from Cuba roast have Mexican visas or tourist carda. Depending _ @a thal sutgolng flight times, son-Cubana transiting Mexice do not a ghlwaya need a transit viea. The passports of all persons travelling . ~ oo between Mexico and Cuba are stamped In Spanish with the phrasea.. - - =-. > "Departed for Cuba” ar "Entered from Cuba’, as appropriate. All . _ passengers, including noa-Cubans, ente axico fsom Cuba are — * Being examineds SH o. saat your poad ae Richard SHelme bly " Dapaty Dizsecter for Plana ; et . - Distribution: : Soe, Orig. & 2» Addressee Se 2«DDP — Le C/CY/RRA - 1» C/CI/SIG Originated By: CI/R&A/Hall:gwh “IB May 196400 Based On: MEXI 9332, 6 6 May 1364, IN 77522 a m ; SER PROHIBITED ee COPY NO.
13-00000. ' phrases, the DGi officers, instead af granting the visa immediately, ' tell the applicant to return ina few days. The officer then notifies Distribution: | Ss _ Orig &1 - Addressee 2—| REPRODUCTION —— PRORIBITED 6 rn ny 03 May 1964 SUBJECT General : Debriefing REY 65 of AMMUG-1 Specific : in the Fiela with MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/PO/4 \N SS NX of agents of tha DGL Sve! PONS appearing at the Consulate (Source does not know the particular phrase used in every case. He does inow that agents from &1 Salvador in requesting visas a 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 Habana and requests authority for the visa. 7 . Swenson WH/sA/CI KO CK 1- WH/3/ El Sal Q l- WH/SA/ESEC | 2 - Chrono . . a L- Mary - ae SECRET PAGE EEA TN ao re ree nee ne ene oe oe a one steer rR pa NRP EON Het te geeEEERE GE *
_ Senorande dated 3) Jameary 1964 and 21 Fenruary 1564, | beth of which report information on Aflyia DUAR, = Consulate om 25 Bovember 1953, following her fixe Meaceent | 7 - . Document owt nae = 3-273 REPRODUCTION PRORISITED Se NSE | Wy AAR” Js NOTICE \ . , UEENEI SENSIT!.  sQu2cEs. AND ae || [DPR tat | £: EL. METHODS INS ary a | | yas B12 qe EPR 34 . WY) MEORARON POR: wee. INS askin SUDICE + Seen of sese at atten bee bm aternte is wadia to the sthachmasta 10'ny Oo Soot Chae aon Kb che Gabi Gomealabe in Mexico Cisy. Iifomation om tae actions of Slivia DURA om her retura to vosk at the Goban interromiios by the Mexisen eubhoritien, is attached to thls semersndae. This ites may ba usefel to tie Comlesion tm the evaluation of re. DURAN’s story. O_ | ES for FOIA Review c on JUN 1876 4 ne er 301 289948 WARMING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METRODS INV VED coo2377 ARES
ane «PRODI BT JNvor dLVED % had haniled hip cage as the Cuban Consulate, ” Bs She only new ites ta the secount thet silvia DEMS gave SOL. Lense hee claim that te Seciloemm solice 8 ° Sad threstesed to extradite hes to the initea States for a Vien to visit ov te fransit the country. . WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND - METHODS INVOLVED +SEE
13-Q0000 Original & <3 » Addressee - 2eDDP 1 -G/WH/3 1 - G/SIG/CI 1 - C/CI/R&eA Based on DIR 85670Gaad ' "  PROKIBTTED OS by C/WH/3) CI/R&A/TRHall:nk/ 666440 Xe — ggg2z37¢ REPRODUCTION — REPRODUCTION ~— PROBIBITED & & 9 November. 1963
REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Qe tse Mouo & December 1963 sé rs On 17 December Mr. e. mow anticipating a request from the XQ ~\ ssion, 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 appear 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 materiale to be passed to the Commission, he was quite sure that it was not the desire of the Agency to make available to the Commission at least in this manner - via the FBI - sensitive information which could relate to telephone taps. SS was agreed with Mr. FPapich that when the Bureau is fa oy problems of this ‘ Ds on the Bureau should WOU: refer the Commission to the Agens 2 Lonel information. It was mentioned to Mr. Paaits oa : ef 4 “to meet the needs of the Commission in angéite Be as ee complete report or reports. ; Document Number —=— == 1542-110 (OY BIRCH D. O'NEAL for FOIA Review on RSAONOUET 8 PRORIGITED FEB 1978 Chief, CI/sIG Attachment m™ ow a oa) PAGE 196 319 COPY NO. as = a Agency, but should —
‘APANOUETIN : a 2 __QLASSIFIED MESSAG? | ; TO. + DIRECTOR DEC 4 1974 i — 11 FROM wexico city MICROFILMED 7 "ACTION chat 4 (wH/3 NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT py NOV DM) “INFO: DCI, DDP, C/cl 2, VR* . ‘cnn we pect : wees Qaauo EA: Spe is f SECRET 2721492. Qos x ; Src Sie IMMEDIATE DIR CITE MEXL-7195 Qs < Mota eee nese - - | WS Sf unit CLM : ATTN GALSOND Note: If destruction, Fa if 7 : q - reasons and coo Hoy 63 in 6392] 3 . |. UREF_O1ak 852452 - «+ 4 appropriate. | i le SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF FEN PAGE STATEMENT BESPILVIA | . f Ee ; | DURAN OBTAINED FROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROGER T. KINGMAN IN : ner 2 ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND TnUE MAWe. , 2. KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT aT 3829 HOURS 28 NOVENSER. ' HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WILL TELL HIN WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE. 7 , a y: \ ! 3. “SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. ; yISA Cg SAN (CUBAN CONSULAR AWS S . ae: ALSO INCLUDING 22 NOVEMBEY ‘ bo EMPLOYEE) TALK TO UNKNOWN AN FRON AN SECRET c/s COMMENT: -*DISSEMINATION APPL ICAE Beoorestisd Sz vacton cable a tranelsies version Syivia Pruran's stacdacs "Se Document Number 173-615 | _ C De Boe + aa ye i. for FOIA Review on APR 976 70 ber 2C12N8 Endhuted oon ovtematie dowsgreding end ding « _ REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE 1S PROHIBITED -- Copy Ne.
1 p-00000 nace a mp ROMER Reema come vee re me ne aN Dear JC, some items I mentioned to you in a items are attached hereto. I translate the longer one of t been very rushed. WY SK ) I've had no time to give to rors almost no time with hin. day3e . Perhaps when we are little lesa rushed, another visit. We appreciate your quick responses and good instructions in the case which is taking most of our time these days. Distribution: Orig : : ang I: livia DURAN P, ud [6 l: Louise CALDERO < _ Document Number P80-1073-A for FOIA Review on NOV 1977 | - REPRODUCTION — — PROMIBITED a during his visit and Algn has had 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 % officers who have been able to spend some time with him during these two REPRODUCTION PROMIRITED November 27, 1963 nu ty-to send you es of these twa >. had the time to ~~ past few days we have he can return to Hexico for Sincerely,
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED Memorandum 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. SEORET 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. Pane re ‘REPRODUCTION PRONIBITE «Senet
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION oo PROWIBITED 31 Jul 78 NOTE FOR FILE: TOP SECRET DOCUMENT DID 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 | PROROTTED
13-90000 . SO rr a af © ' . ® Bp ome 4 a3 et > + cha ‘oe a ae de ae * Anrpil aay at SYBJE02: Gein to Hextac ttty ‘ On ‘ucinesdny, a SUED iounrPdad P, Villens, - Be, VRlisam @. Culeman, Jr., and Me. W. Pavid Slavsen, all ed § tha stu’f of the Caamissicon, flew Peau Yashinstea, DB. C. te ifwaico City. Me. Cclenan ceturned on Sunday, April 12 and ir. Slavson eng He. Viliens returned cn an Riecplane leaving -Healeo ity 2t about 3:29, Monday afterncen, April 13. This) _Meviorandum vill briefly swemarice this trip plus some cf the Gectina neld in preparation fer 46. QUSSDAY - SERIE 7 i 20:29 awm. fe 11:99 a.m. r eee aes ] Wilkens, Colecan and Slavson met with Agaistent Seavetury of otate for Latin Ameriean Affairs Yhonas SERIE» ie. Themag Fharlich ef the Office of the Lezal Adviser for ‘the State Dopirtrent, asd tuo aides to fr, Hann in Nr. Parn's | effrice at akout 19329 a.m. 4usistant Seerctary Hann was sereeeape meet erm ore Aubassador te exice at the tine of the assrssinaticn and personally directed “Pepe bapa effort and our relatiois PRGA the new of the} Feesid: “ATED mexloo ‘city. oak CODY BOE SECRET amos “with the Meetean lay ia Po] 7) 2. pedo i cP { =. 74 pe , ce sy |
Oo —— REPHODWETION e . 4 of the file created by his efforts, consisting of telesrams between Mexico City and the State Department in Vashinston, had previously been. forwarded to the Commission. The purpose of our mecting with Anbassador Hann vas first, to inform hin . actions there and al B MD ; estions with him about his thoughts an C Ay — Mewediately after the of our intent to go to Mexico and discuss with him our proposed ; The file turned over to the Commission by fubassadar: _ Hann contains statements of opinion by hin that Oswald waa probably involved in a sinister fashion, especially by way of Lacing “a vrhvue, wien use Cunan Emoassy in mexico ULty Or WLTi some other Castro ABENCY » These susyicions 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 Embassy in Mexico City because he claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald take $6500 in _ _ Amertean bills from an individual in the Cuban Embassy. We asked Ambassador Mann what particular evidence aside from the Alvarado assertions he had for these suspicions. He replied ' that he had none Tan or general feeling "in his guts" that Castro was the ‘kind or lk ae 1D) ROBE TION carried out this al (on [o>
13-00000 : | - taking photographs of both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies whenever anyone left or entered their main entrances, at least PROHIBITED kind of ruthless action, cither throurh some hope of gaining from it or simply as revenge. The Amoassador added that not even the allevations of Alvarado or other rumors which may have ‘been current in Mexi i FORE veto money had been given to Osyald were suspicions, since the Alvarado ariecetion RG HEC a day or so later, 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 seeurity officers at the Embassy, plus what he believed about Castro's character, seemed sufficient to -him to raise the gravest suspicions. Later, he pointed out, when he had a cnance %o listen to the Dorticos-Armas intercepts, his sus spicions 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, Ambessador Mann said that our intelligence took and was still during the normal. RED ea on Monday. through Friday, BPG ue) eee without during the daytime wn - 93st
REED TOP SEGRES Tne Anbaasador said that he had been kept informed of the Silvia Duran interrogation threugh his aides, Clarke Anéerson and Winston Seott. “He learned of it informally, thot is, Anderson and Seott reported crally to him as soon as they received fron Sint id any news about how the PROT woe KK rity df) at “Gobernacton"” W s ogress ing. . in response P our ROG BITED . the Ambassador recon ‘mended that when we got to Mexico City we should work through. the representatives of the FSI and the CIA at the American .Enbassy and, through them, with the Mexican officials they recommended, but that we should do all of this as quietly as “possible, without any newspaper ‘publicity. We also asked - , “s Ambassador Mann to what extent it was known in Mexico City ee ee « ene te memes me as = ee aetna tere rt EE teeg  e rrrerPSTSLAah-sn henge thee ERE SE thsi STS oes that the Hotel del Comercio was a headquarters for pro~-Castroa activities. The Ambassador replied that it was not known ‘Anteliigence circl circles. * PROWIE IBIT Ambassador Mann said that (TED. the file from his” Embassy po generally at_all aw current only in | which had previously been forvarded to the C the Commission cons ti tuted the entire file which was in existence on this particular subject, with the one exception that it may not have included = aT yuo3ts 58 a uO | oe =
13-00000 ~ . benefit of veneer CUOET! Commission staff felt - that his recemmendat | Ne after the ‘tigation of the npecifie allegations of Alvarado had shown that they were in all prosability a fabrication, he found nothing in what the Ambassador had done to have been unjustified, in | — REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED eese Gee em Gey ent the report from the FEI referred to therein. We confimred Sen eaies een eee Snat it had not included that report. He sai@ that he uas sure that this report could be obtained from Clarke Anderson in Mexico City, 1f we thousht it was necessary. In response to a similar question about the "Alvarado" file, he replicd that nl in authorities ne probably be any additional papers ¢ that might be in existence “obtained through the CIA PRCHRT HER speak to Mr. Scott about this. He said that he had never Om any papers or formal statements by Silvia Duran; all his information about “what she is supposed to have told the Hexican police vas racetved ba ynnd af ranth thranckh hia sida Sankh an) Anderasn Ambassador Mann was then called out to another con- ference, for which he was already a half-hour late. As the. recting was breaking up he asked Hr, Slawsen whether, with the assassinatién had been fl Teo we thought: they ; IB : were unduly rash, Kr, Slauson rep thet although the inves-~- PAGE __——=
13-90000- ’ Suggestion made by Me. Richard Helms of the CIA about tro good idea 1° a representative of his agency met with those REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Zo Ins ¢> rE: Q be ie ae Ghee amass Gant aut | amma view of the facts known to him and his assistants at the time and in view of the “Te cusness of the occurrence, AG 3330 in the PROG cn ED. Kitten of the CIA came to the Commission offices and conferred there with Slavwson, Willens and Coleman. This conference grew out of a etn et ert RN weeks previous, in which he had mentioned that it would be a persons from the Commiosion who planr.cd to go to Mexico just mn Mime Iyamer 4m Meds Bim mam ed omope Hn fnnae thet dnote FIER memeg? 2 ee ee ep eR eee Wem. eT FH ese eve om wEED oe APP hts S etnd WEG Weer whe wens we properly advise us of any last-ninut | 2 arrangements and properly — alert its people in RECN of cur arrival. - ° - We discussed PO OOUGTION.... to Mexico | : officially and openly #f P ROR Eppes. and Me, 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 to. avoid any kind of newspaper publicity or. public. ‘announcements. We intended to introduce oursclives at the 6 ROP SECRET 2 oa ome ome _— om ame sem Gt oem PAGE 24 = 7
"RP RODIETIOR BROT iP e om Suc im 2 & a Tr {va Embassy and to Mexican officials as wiat ve in fact were, representitives of the Ccnaiscion. . “itten sald se wel vane 1004. Winston Scott, the CIA Chief for uexteo, | ED with one of the top foreign opcratives in le NOt ie i He said that the Cra would give us complete cooperation. We outlined to Me. Witten cur entire proposed plan oe tn once we arrived in Mex cneral terms, and asked for hiu “gomments on how best to achieve our_gogls. His reply in every mments_on how: instance was that we shouid deal on the spot with He. Scatt. PALLEL Chula Wiel VUs phupvacd JUuTVy nae a vory youd buat» He repeated wnat Er. GIA had said a while BGO: ; that there is no = Robber CHON HON fficer" being "on te ent, PRORIBITED WEDNESDAY - APRIL B - . 8:15 a.m. to 7:00 oom. | | . Gur plane was scheduled to leave Yashington from | Dulles Airport at 9:20 in the morning and accordingly ali three | of us. mot at the ¥ ‘ashinston Air Terminal in the Albert Pick Hotel at about “S: 15 and later arrived at the Alrport at about _ 7 "mop SECRE 5 T oom tp aD 2st22hs
13-9000" . a PIRATED wv = * | aed [oO fr2 we ome Its pa 9:99. Hhovever, weather and technical difficulties neld up the plane in raat tied et off the sreound in Uachinston until inet PRODUET OR the afternoon. I After a nol POLITE... we arrived in Nexico City at about 6:00 p.m., Mexico City time. We vere met as we came off the airplane by a representative of Eastern | Aidvlines, hr, Jorse Villagomez, who addressed each of us by name, gave us his business card and cased our way throuch Mexican customs. An unidentified man approached Mr. Willens -and asked i: we were from the Fabassy Willens replied that we were not. The individual asked if it was true that people vere conins to investigate the assassination. Willens refused to confirm this report. Mr. Colexan had some minor difficul- [Seem 0 emai ow tree ono Arcee y= ses ee ner SRE ue ee —hyrpeene ties with the Mexican Inmipration officials over whether or not he had been vaccinated rovently, and in the course of ‘discussions on tais the Eastern Airlines representative men- ' thoned to the E aad mothins to the effect that. He. Colesan vas a Ea Ne ren Commission. . , () bai . ‘i yee the person who had lame had talked back towards Mr, Soleman. if all this occurred as we sugpect it may have, it could explain why there was an announcement in two cw. ro ae b
of the Mexica City 2 i the following morning neming : sit business for the Just inside the airport terminal we were met by us and statins that Mr. Clarke Anderson and Nr. Rolfe Larsen from the American Embassy. These men were later identified, respectively, as ' Chief of the FBI in Mexico City and an FEI agent temporarily “assigned for duty in Mexico City. Anderson and Laraon took the . three of us to our hotel, the Continental Hilton. At 9:00 “E ouierep met in the FBI offices at the Enbassy with Mr, Larson and discussed gencrally with him the progress of the assassination investigation while we were waiting to meet Asbassador Freeman, Clarke Anderson and Winston Seott, the CIA Chief in Mexico City, were conferring» with the Ambassador and briefing him on the hexican aspects of . the. assassination investigation. Ambass ader Freeman had been at this post only two days, having just presented his cre- dentials to the President of Mexico on Honday, April 6, a TOP SECRET ep) Cad Sea eo we
a Osuald, knew. ° Finally, we hoped to make arrangements. for 3 and " RePRODUCTION PROMISED mn gems oe ame eeAP Gane “. ef 9:70 a.rt. to 9:55 a.m. Ve met. with the haba ussador at about 330 in the morning. Fresent ~-REPHOEBOTICE: the Ambassador were Minister Boonstra, PRODISITED and Clarke Anderson. ir, Coleman explained in ED. terms the purpose of our trip. He said that we wanted to learn as much as ‘possible about what investigations were currently being carried out, with special emphasis on the Hot-21 del Comercio and on - Oswald's northbound journey out of Mexico City, and that ue wanted to gecide unon and initiate wh: atever new lines of invese Eons awe gem Ppt wewm antiad Paw T- nanan nk’ es = 28 defo tee, cee — - ow ah oo be os ow ee ee ee ee WP UE oaks at EP GF GP epee Ta abals | “aD OS Ap | Ge Ont nae tatty & into these investigations, we wished to satisfy curselves that everything reasonably possible was being done and, in additica, we wantcd to become as current as possible on evidence beinz ~ ‘© produced. Also, ue hoped to make contact with one or more Mexican officials so as to learn directly from them that part they had played an oP int had learned that ment jp of iC In particular, we wanted to find out 25 Pe barre RRat Hrs. Slivia a Duran, the clerk at the Cuban Exbassy rho dealt frequently with rs and what they PARE Sp
13-00000 " REPRODUCTION — PROKIBITEED TOP SECRET and perhaps ace lish rer of our evidence obtained in Mexico,. ve, al a GM ons or by invit- ing witnesses to appe or PRL iB zi Mr. Coleman added that we hoped in all this to be rasion to testify. guided by the counsel of the Ambassador and his staff, because we did not want to do anything that would disturb the good . Pelations of the American and Mexican governments. Ambassador Freeman replied that he and his staff “would ecoperate completely. He said that he saw no objection . whatever to our talking directly to Mexicans whe had some information to contribute, but he felt that this shovwld be done ‘only in the Embassy and only on the clearly stated basis thet all appearances and teatimony 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 appointments, ete. The Ambassador pointed cut that the taking of formal depositions i in a foreign country could ‘be avery difficult and ‘technical - matter. He refcrred in ; D ssy_ _ for information on how % ; ‘The savavanaod | 11 LOR SECRET REPROT | Cug3165
13-80000 - REPRODUCTION 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 from our seeing other Mexican witnesses, i.e., the Ambassador | approved so long as R REP ROOUCTION.. Embassy, and made clear to her tha’ tirely voluntary. There then oP ROMIBITED. of views on how best: to approach Mexican officials, what Mexican officials would be . most valuable for our purposes, and the general substance of ‘our work. At about five minutes to ten the Ambassador had to excuse himaclf for his first starf meeting, which he had calicd oo for 10:00 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Willens, Coleman and Slawson retired to the office ‘that had been assigned to them at the Embassy, room 510, to the Ambassador and generally to _ iD : pu ron the FBI, the | CIA and Mr. Eoonstra. PRED ee ‘Dy: 00 a.m. to 2: 45 mm. discuss. the conference draw up outlines for out Me, Anderson and Mr. Scott came to room 510 after. Rea ¢003186° | 7 oe = sys
-seeaocie < wat . would Simply involve Hi already vovered PROWIBITED Albert Alexander Osborne, also known as John Howard Eowen. Mr. Trent had been the agent primarily engaged in tracking down involved. Briefly, the agents deseribed Bowen as an elderly of violation of the nD his fund raising, because it was not clear that ne actuai ff “REPRODUCTION  ROHIBETER Celerant need ceetcato  n ) the staff mesting had adjourned. We agreed that we vould confer with ir. Anderson immediately and nect Mr. Scott later in the day, at about 3:30. Mr. Anderson was welcome to come with us at our meeting with Mr. Scott, if he desired to do 80, and he said that he would make up his mind on this after he ha conferred with us, because he of course had: other work to do and would not want to attend the meeting with Scott if ib ‘ground he had Accordingly, we met immediately with Clarke Anderson in his offices. He invited Rolfe Larson and a Mr. Trent 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 ° A er i Seat and talking with Bowen, although Larson too had been somevhat white haired gentleman who was probably engaged in some kind Dog ete es ee rn oe ta eR ete ee wie a for religious OCI) iz oP Ss ECRET. _ PAGE 3h 8 rremecnsenenngnee SS A te eet See = no ; .
13-0000 - " REPRODUCTION PRONIBITED dame qaut cmdnh amr om omath purposes, at least of the kind he represented that he would use the money for, REPRODUCTION” as somewhat unstable mencally. Trent describe how when he first approached Boren he ror OEE BH de Osborne,” and the reply was that he, Trent, must be mistaken, because he, Osborne, was Bowen, . 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, etc. ‘off very well. Trent said that Osborne carried this It was not until later that Osborne admitted Osborne then went on to say that he was : that he was really Osborne but that he often used the name Bowen. react to being asked or compelled to appear to testity before the Commission or a staff 1 member, ‘Trent and Larson” were inconclusive, a cre “—— they were not sure. then described the proccdures the Mexican inmigration Author— ities were using in dealing with Osborne. When asked directly how they They thought that there misht be trouble but thoughs Osvorne would Trent and the other FRI representatives In sum, the author~ ities had not acted as yet to. deport Osborne but they believe 7 . that they had suffictent grounds to do so at any time. In the meantime they were REPRO RECT nd were questioning » him occasionally. “PROT ED felt that if we - REPRNOWETIO _ PROM TED PAGE YS. 32. oe 5
1300000 tas Oren PROweNTED renenbered CswaldG and that the only cvidence of his stay nl ne ae . ee ee me there was his name o BiisDiis Lis rect. Larson, ene iy ny -after several interrop ANU, A the maid at the ee hotel did remembor Os: PROM BIFERP give sone bits of Se eee information about him. For one thins, Bhe, as did other wit-— nesses,confirmed that he was always alone when she saw him. tte _: Further, she said that he invariably had left the hotel before. she cleaned his room at about 9:00 in the morning. Larson had ‘also found out that the proprietress of the little restaurant - next dcor to the hotel vas able to itentify Osu vald, although =e Larson was not compictely certain on haow-much she really remembered and how much she may have picked up by susrestion from newspaper reporters. Anyway, st.e 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 ‘go that he really iknew what he was ordering when he ordered 2 meal, for example, he often refused soup and dessert, apparently believing TE PRODHOR Ont: money, although. : both items were vem Raa cost o full meal, : . _ TED. Osuald and of places a Various other investiga - where Oswald may have been in Mexico city: were also touched upon, | 16 | POP SECRET ou= Gum amt o—p cmon que qam> ome eum PAGE —_——— op 455
" REPRODUCTION PRO TRTED such as the bull fight arena, the jai alai games, and the places where he may have purthased tourist items. For example, Larson and another one of their agents sc TT sliver shops in an attempt to locate BED may have purchased a silver bracelet ve eit Herta The response had been - negative at each shcp 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 then “Snto Mexico would make their price non-competitive with local products. We then asked what was the status of the Gutierrez sn riety ease EO = REY i RE an investigation. Trend and ‘Larson and Anderson all agreed that sete ene a ett EEA EE aati Gutlerrez was sincere and was doing all he could toe cooperate with the investigation of what he claims to have seen. In eastetaieraniaemmteeeenm ema eve eecetacctramneee ween fact, Gutierrez has spend a considerable amount of time tryins to get more. valuable information and he has never tried to reveive any won EPRODUET! ON yveakness in , oa Gutierrez! story, neon x to ii FBI representatives, 48 the identification of oswside AK utlerrez has failed to identify Oswald as the man he sau at the Cuban Embassy “ recetving money when shown a picture of Oswald passing out aT POPS E CRET ne on ce om cen ene ee | t \ , ;
13-00900- " REPRODUCTION PRORIBITIED HOR SEERFT Fair Play fer Cuba _ Sean upings the sum ‘ of 1963. Gutierrez says th: at itt neve? saw his mon in proefilc, only from the rear and : apa from a direct ferunrd view. His best picce of 4dentification is to the automobiles he saw "Osyald" and the Cuban enter just outside of the Embassy. Even here, however, assumi::; that his deseription of the automobile is completely accurats, there are probably ' @ozens of such automobiles in and around Mexico City. Renault is a popuier make of car in Mexico, znd the color described by ; Gutierrez is a popular color. One automobile answerin this description and frequently seen around the Cuban Embassy has been located, but it 1s still registered under the nanie of the man who owned and sold it several yenrs aro. This situation is apparently common in Mexico, Mexicaus often resister a car under the name of its former owner 11 order to avold paying 2 sales tax on the transfer. However, investigation is continu- _ing to see if the present owner of this particular autoreblie can be located. In addition, a constant syrveillance of the Cuban Enbassy and R ae being kept, to spot this or _ similar car, and if HGR investigation will nn PROAIBITED ‘Slawson then mentioned taat we had brought with us _ from Washington all the items of physical evidence thich might | 38
ee ” REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED {rH é relate to Mexico. It was agreca that Slaysen and Larson would go throuvh these items later. We then inquired as to our seeing the reports REPROD UO THOR of the FBI in i Mexico. Anderson Pe (iin at these were open to cur cxami- Raa oa 1/129) asents would show wus . ‘whatever we would like to see. We agreed that we would look at nation at any time an particular reports later, aS the occasion warranted. — Siivia Duran was then disc issed, It appeared that em A A eee he: signed statement had finally been obtained from the _ Mexican Police, Previously, the existence of such a statement gems TAS eee Oe eee eee had not been known. We agreed that we would see that later in the day or tomorrow and that it would also be. forwarded througn 2 ce en channels to the Coz goton in Washington, ve emphasized that _ we wanted not only a translation of “he statement but, if ee possible, a copy copy of the Statement itself. The FBI representa- tives gescribed Duran as best they could, basically, as a "Mexican pepper pot »" a devout communist, and "sexy." (The CIA | later showed us s ich substantially con- . . firmed this = sagen Tou. would be the best . approaches to our of RG RT BB Anderson felt that : this would be a touchy point but agreed that we should try to ' do it it we could. He thought that the Mexican official that we should see about this as well as all other aspects of our % a etter aan ea ea nee a ene lee
13-00000 - | REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED investigation was Luls Echevarria, Acting Secretary of the Intericr. se ESR RD at he was well accuainted with Echevarria and thai MEP sf) COUCH HOM with hin, as did Winston Seotte | PRO RORIBITED Willens, Slavson and Coleman each got the impression: from this conference that the FBI in Mexico City had been ' gompletely frank and open with us. So -far as we can determine every question we asked was answered without an attempt at A WaS Show a eon an ees Be _ evasion, and much information volunteered which we had not - asked, Both: Larson and Anderson give a very good impression ef competence and Anderson's knowledce of the details of the assassination investigation was especially ampressive since his duties are primarily supervisory. The Alvarado investisation was also reviewed. Clarke A Anderson said that he was present at the Alvarado interrogation which was taken under a polygraph machine. The polygraph ar ee ell ; operator, who did net speak Spanish, stood behind Alvarado when he was fastened to the machine and pointed to various questions written in Ek ayia SUCTION Anderson to ask. - Anderson would then ask Pog the que m dn Spanish. In response to our PROGIENTED,.. Anderson replied | that now that the investigations were more or less complete i wot em ee ener tna 5 tp ae edie mee * 29 . OP SECRE z
13-00000. FOr ind f4 A 2 oad tJ +3 ee ed his expert opinicn was that no foreign conspiracy arising out or or conneeteda with the territery of Hexice existed in eccon- nection with the RE ig said tuat he felt that if such had existed, al RED Yawle tian AONxa not have solved it by this time, they PRR e some firm indication that it was in existence, One en were in fact ; . dacking. We asked Anderson how many different allegations of ‘conspiracy had been received by his office and he he replied, six. nar Ey areal Tore eens These were: the Gutierrez @liezation, the Alvarado allegation, AA ‘the Diaz Verson allegation, the Bartino-RoJja allegation, the Letter from Victor Cohen, and the allegation concer rning the er mmremn sence mmnce seuce «= samurai wenn tty © 1 Seem emery remem fens ot sce Ate tt ete ES eennepreen te | Secemaaaa 0 EE RED Poo SSSA GOOCH PERC EE Se or Hn et View ¥ awrmen A dewe oe feae ad on de Blag C08 owcow wom oo eemmmn wae den pP  bolaan de ff a ve~ ie ag OF TP UMD oe C27 GF MAMOT TET Mee WheReMEEDS A te Weer ate eh a, opinion only the ‘first three ‘allegations mentioned even seenic i 0 ee a —ereererec. serious and that, after analysis, the only ene that still seened —!" serious 1 was Gutlerrez' . Anderson 1 readily arreed. 3:20 p.m. to 6:00 w After lunch Dict three of us went to Mr. Scott's office, | ‘ana were there aaron Alan shite: The conference was begun ve gus &@ complete narrative of the CIA's PROGID i a with Lee Harvey Oswald, beginning in September 1953 when they first picked up ‘anformation that Oswald had appeared at the Russian arid Cuban ao wrenemeenee = we eee ee cee ee eee te cee eee te ee ee na os eae a edmcine 38 “3 | aw
13-00000 ~ Sem Bist Gant Gem ees | Gan Teibass that he intended to make a complete disclosure of all facts, a “oes naan tc nn eee ee includiny tha sources of his’ _inforzation, and- that he un eee meh le eee eee OR as a stood that all three of us had been cleared for Top Secret ; Wwe would not disclose > bey yond the confines of the - and tha Commission and its immediate staff the information we obtained _ through i HRA == “Superiors 3 in Washington. We nereet = Ea Sern Fed took a rather Long time to commlete, and we interrupted him at many points with specific questions. During the course of the narrative ve were spencers ae, 2 eetnenteee ns Shown the actual transcripts, pilus % the _translations, or all ‘the telephone intercepts involved, and ve were also shown ‘the reeis of photographs for all the days in question that had been taken secretly outside the Cuban and Soviet Embassy entrances. Me. Scott's narrative disclosed that the CIA's action immedi— ately after the assassination consisted basically of alertinis all its confidential sources of information throughout Mexico to immediately channel all information into their headquarters, and of compiling as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and everyone else throughout Mexico who at that time the CIA knew had had some contact oe (NON especially a Slivia Duran, wno because 6 - been having an TOP . SECRET “ OS REPROOUCTIC PRORATED 40 155.
13-00000° REPRODUCTION | —. PRORIBITED affair with Lachuga, the former Cuban Anbassador to Mexico and peesentiy the Cuban representative at the United Nations, had previously been of substantial interest to the CIA, Eusiblo Agque, Duran'ts superior at the Cuban Embagsy, Kostikev, a KG3 representative at the Soviet Embassy, and others, and conveying this information to Washington, In addition, the cr worked closely with the FBI and with the Mexican authorities, 7 especially on the Silvia Duran interrogations. Finally, . ' Me. Scott, along with Hr. Anderson, vas in constant contact with ” Ambassador Mann, to koa AB) RRR RET Ha) Reet 22 on all -° 4nformation coming in Pao ofber igre Scott porntea out tnav ale TED cove naa pices up the name of Lee Harvey Oswald from commerelal radio broadzasts and had begun compiling information on him from its Mexican: files even before being requested to do so by CIA in vashineton,. All his men were taken off any other assignment 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 Oswald, plus other people who in Scott's oninion micht possibly be involved, were put under surveillance. This | included, for example, the Cuban Ambassador and all known lesal Cuban and Russian a te IE TOM... liaison ves ' set up With Mexican offi JOM. by Echevarria» an PROIBITED | TOP SECRET RePROoUCTION OT
13-00000 -. of. Oo "REPRODUCTION POP ED TOP SECRES to the Anmcrican Eaas oy at this time disclosed that Echovarria and President Lopez Mateo had orderec the Mexican border closed for travel both ways, without having been requested to © do so by the American “REP fi ny id that the border closure was so tnoroush R 4h CON children were trapped on both sides. PROHIBITED Scott's narrative plus the materials we were shown disclosed immediatcly how incorrect-our-previous infcrmation had been on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Mexican - Embassies. Apparently the distortions and omissions to \hich our “information had been ‘subjected had entered some place in Wasnington, becaus? tne UiA anrormataon tnat we were snown by scott was unambiguous on almost all the crucial points. We A TI ET Tr SA erenceaerTReRRROED had previously planned to show Scott, Slawson's reconsatructior a L of Oswald's probable activities at the embassies to get ec Scott's opinion, but once we saw how badly distorted our infor- SSS anergy anetnnteterereernncarcemntenn tn LL et . mation was we realized that this Would be useless. Therefore, Ne possible from ; time during our instead, we decided tof ae 3 ff head HoH the original source materia ‘8, z 7 vaste. PROWIBITED: In view of what we had. learned about the photographic *“eoverage of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, we inguired whether photographs of Oswald coming or going from one or both wee wees Tone tee er ree 2 sen anee nereneen cenansnaee  ana SER EREO OSCE REN Emp .
PRONIBITED 1h) 9 [ro 7) as | 2 bed) | J embassies might be available. Scott said they were not. He explained that photopra aphic coverage was limited by and large to the daylight weekday hours, because of lack of funds and because no adequate technical means for taking photosraphs at night from a lonz distance wv celal light, which was of course out of 1c 0 ae had been developed. PROBED We brought up the question of Gutierrez and received 7 from Seott and White basically the same information we had . previously learned from the FSI, though somewhat attenuated because, as Scott and White pointed out, the FSI was carryine 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, and we inquired whether an appropriate examina- tion of the picture reels had been made, White replied that _ such an examination had not yet been made and that he suspected that it would’ disclose nothing new, because the However, he promised to. Pep Sar an ana iene (About a . day later Scott report Ae ROMIGE |)\ aad had been made and proved MED . { | photographs covered little more than the entrance itself. | } | | t }—4 steed {6. esa comets
1300000 - In answe2 to cur question, white and Scott pave their profercsional opinions that there probably was not a foreign conspiracy connected with Mexico involving the assassination of the President. They, like Anderson, felt that had there been suc cpeeneatt at lcast by this time have had some “PROG 4 if D its extetence, We asked Mr. Seott to i up | E DD ene with Secretary Bee ' Echevarria for all three cf us at ths earliest possible tine. Ve 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 reenterec our discassion of the assassination in general, as it related to iiexlco. It appeared that the CIA in rs forwarded certain material developed elsewhere to Scott, even though these materials might have “yeasonably related to the Mexican investigations. For example, ee the contents of the letter which Oswald wrote to the Russian Embassy after he returned ta the United states, deseribing ~ OP seonar a once 44: op 155. . copy NO. Fo : a = » wo ot REPRODUCTION PROMIBTED
stam own . A POP SECR te z = te) fea Daring this general dlgeuasion Lr, Willens vag called out ro meet with viinister Escnatra in regard to the publleity wrich had areared in the local newspapers about our visit. This involved the draftinzs of a telesran to the State Department in vA AEOR ODM CTOs publicity and an estimate as to the PROUT Villens learned at this time frem Eoonstra thasgu | d not have a copy . of th Apparently, Ambassador Nann's personil file is the only one eé forwarded to the Commisslon by Ambassador Hann. “new n existence aside from the ComnLssion copies 6 it, all cee et a Aan + aemeaeeternayy other copies having | been destroyed when the Ambassador left his ‘post ‘io Mexico. Boonstra told Willers that he ‘(Boonstral is the nn ee ee iaiemmetel ° NS tg only person other than Scott-and-Andcrson-who-was_involved with Ambassador Mann in the assassination investigations. Hr. Willens asked Boonstra to begin thinking about how best we could forward a request to the Mexican officials for a complete report on their role in the assassination investigations. At “this time Boonstra's only comment was that such a report should, ar possible, be obtained prior to its being reviewed by the Hexican Foreizn Office, because such a review misht censor out substantial portions for political reasons and in any event would involve. substant fi es that xveview by . ‘the Foreign Office be a con ion at a later T OP Ss ul f RET. Seen mets ote ep meme et Fe PCC ETON fi PEE FS eeprom ac | —45. of 155. REPRODUCTION PROWISYTED
Po "REPRODUCTION —  PROIBETIED ‘ TOP SECRET time, but that it AS ROOUCT 100. the information at this stage. «PROF IBED Back in the CIA offices, during Willens'_absence, WAS Mee OFAN ts Slawson. and Coleman discussed the cable traffic from the Soviet . nena eet NO Ee nentensinESte ERE TNL a, and Cuban Embassies both during the time of Oswald's visits Sesriem trtenernhereennnennttttrerarsetecaaracsnheveecettieaesa the tember-October 1963 and imme immediately after. the assassination. Seott and White said that no increases or : unusual variations had been noted at either time. We then dis- cussed briefly the possibilities that the National Security Agency might be able to "break" the nodes 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 27 or 28. Scott pointed out that all his office did with coded materials was to send them back to the National Security Agency in Washington in the form in which it obtained them. They felt that the code- | breaking might be ee REP however, and should be tried. | ae | Coleman, Willens and Slawson appeared at the FSI offices at 9:00 a.m., as we had agreed to do the previous evening, and there met Rolfe Larson. The plan had been that we ference camera mee apace ee ce etee teeee ae ee tee ae : :
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION PROBED TOP SECREY were 4:nediately to depart on a tour of the spots which Osvald- had visited during his trip to Mexico, but Larson told us that he had just been ee ROT 2 that tine we expected some donrt LT: the hour when we eculd neet with secret He HTDH IE li}e therefore sat in Anderson's cffice and discussed with Larson the relative 41 9:45, because by locations and other physical aspects of the places we were to gee later in the morning. Soon Anderson came 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 . it, repeating his conditions that when we ask Echevarria for permissicn to speak Girectly with Mexican citizens that we make clear that we wanted all interviews to be within the American Embassy and to be completely voluntary. We then had 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 for us and that Coleman would spend the first few minutes in conveying the gratitude and appreciation of the American Government to the Mexican Government for its assistance to date, dts satisfaction with the oon of such assistance, etc., and | other matters of eta die amt which we had been 7 . told were essential . dea 1 Wanner , with 7 . L OP §& B C _ PROGBITED. a —_— 7 os wt gt
ae i Oo “REPRODUCTION a PRORIONTED Bexicans. anderson and the others present at this conference fne three of us were driven by Rolfe Larson in an unmarked 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 FPlecha — Roja bus terminal, the Chihuahuiences travel agency, the Hotel dél Comercio, the restaurant next door to the hotel where ' Oswald repo.'tedly ate many meals, otuer hotels in the neighbor- hood of the Hotel Gel Comercio and “ne vartaensa hia ataticor: and this netzhborhood generally, the Cuban Embassy and Consulate, and the Russian Embassy and Consulate. Several observations yere immediately obvious. The . two embassies are close enough together so that Oswald almost certainly walked back and forth between them when the oceasion ecgoelled for it. The embassies, althouga theoretically reachable from the Hotel del’ Comercio or the inter-city bus stations by local bus, are in practice so located that reaching them by bus would be much too =o ne. was not familiar with the bus lines in Mexico ally for someone PROWIITED BOP SECRET | REPRODUCTION 4 oy eo
13-00000 - " REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED directions. The Hotel del Comercio, although certainly a cneap hotel and one in which Americar tourists would ordinarily never stay, has a an appearance and, according to Larson, is in fact et ide, and stands out from its PE AO DUCTION: than the othe hotels in the ame PROMI ITED Although one-way streets make it difficult to drive surroundinss as being d " FOP SECRET who did not spcak Spanish fluently cisush to sect precise | | | I from the Flecha Roja bus terminal to the Hotel del Comercio - . except by devious routes, for semeone walking, as Oswald was, ! it would be an easy distance and a natural direction to walk. | ; The hotels near this particular bus terminal are almost all grouped around the same area as the Hotel del Comercio, and | it would seem very possible that Oswald could have been , directed towards this neighborhood if he inquired of the whersa-~ abcuts 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 : one vould 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 Rolfe Larson reine REP ET hotels tend to get filled earlier and therefore’ Ost CHG A. referred further :
13-GG0Q0 ~~ - REPRODUETION “glosed only one Cuban name. eraet if lie incuircd at one of dorn the st "REPRODUCTION PROIRITED tigated this possibility and that his examination of the hotel . register for the periods around Oswald's visit there had dis- Further investigation showed that this belonzed to a Cuban family man who had his family withhim and that they were tourists travelin The Guban and Soviet Imbassies charactcristics except that both are walls which make observation of tneir interiors extremely aifficult. Gealings, is a small separate pullding on the corner of the Cuban complex of buildings, with its exterior walls cotermincus - with the adobe walls which surround the area. therefore opens onto the street. Consulate, therefore, S< her be observed by vp Kuy31ss surrounded by high adobe The Cuban Consulate, where Oswald dia most of his Exit and entry into the i % through Mexico, have no remarkable Its front door - | in thet it can easily ' 50 0 | PAGE gis COPY NO. __
13-0000. cee atmo mee ete Se " REPRODUCTION PROMIRITED TOP SEGRE hkfcer deriving around with Lursen we retuened and puthed the car in ferent of the American Labasay and waited InG outside the car fer Seott and Anderson to eane out, as we fy ve had asreed beferchand. Th cane out snortly after 11:00 a.n. and ie all cot into | , SHC TION Ministry Qe , of the Interior to meat Es ete} 11:15 :..m. NCMIBITED ke arrived at Senor Echevarria's office somewhat early but were nevertheless immediately brought in to meet hir. We viere soos joined by his head assistant for this kind of york, Senox Ibanez, Chief of Inspections. Clarke Anderson acter as interpreter, under our instructions that he should feel free to elaborate as to courtesies and details at any tine, and Winston Seott also _interpreted at a few points. As previously acreed, Mr. Coleman did the talking fer the three of us. He ON the American governncnt, and of ther--ke omission in particular, for the cooperation our netic mn his agency. and fron . the Mexican government generally, and in general exchanged pleasantries and courtesies. Colenan Bcc told Echevarria that Chie? Justice Warren had sent his personal thanks to Echevarria. sages + enemas ements oA Fe te te cS = pace = Od
ee REPRODUCTION _ PR HIBETED Coleman asked that the Mexican yoverenement sive the Commission a complete and as detailed as possible report on 211 the inves stig DID A EN ai if On in connection with the assassination and on_any other ac No as closing the border, it had carried PROT) (ERB. readily azreed to do this, saying that all the basic reports which would go inte such an overall report had already been prepared and that he - gould deliver the overall report on 48 ‘hours notice. He | asked, however, that we deliver a formal request for this 7 report to the Mexican foreign office, addressed to his atten- ‘tion, in order that it not be mistakinly sent to sone other police or investigatory ageney in Mexico. (We had learned . from other sources that there are 26 aifferent police forces operating 1n the Mexico Federal District alone.) He said that he would telephone the forcign office immediately after our conference to alert them that he was the person responsible for the note and would appreciate its belng forwarded to him for his appropriate action. We agreed that re would deliver such | a note that afternoon ROUTH his attention as he had requested, Mr. Coleman PR ORT ences that we were treating all communications from Mexico on this subject as A cane ot oe emetene enti ere me «bone gare a kate ene npc we ear 7 confidential and that we would do the same for the report he was , 3 |
‘situation and gave his strong opinion that there was no foreign _ conspiracy involved in the assassination, at least no conspira— ey connected with Mexico. viers should net be in REPRO fy. because te hold then there would give the appears TONE soa investiza~ " REPRODUCTION PRGRIBITER Pe ed going to deliver to us. We would publish only after receivin.: elearance frem the Nexican government, which clenrance ve Planned to seck at some later point in our investigation. Echevarria egreed that this had been his understanding 211 alongs and that it » CE ROCET standing upon which he would convey the f HIN Ecaevarria nel R ROUT TEEDy wi the overall Coleman then brought up the matter of our interviewe ing witnesses for documentation purposes and to find out additional information, if possivle, in tloxieo. To give a specific illus? tration of what we had in mind,. Me, Coleman used the manager of the Hotel del Cconercio as an examole,. Echevarria replied basically in the affirmative, but he made two important qualifications. First, he felt that the inter- tion being carried on by eg ‘a hi Fen ee" on Mexican a . soil, and this, he felt, would be very sadvantageous. politically for the present Mexican governgent. He pointed out . enn oom oom gue gue Ge au Gu ame 53. - 455 : eee a ee A tera |
13-0@000 - - ; Ce | < Ss PROHIBITED ene yey em eee em tant an election fer preuident sas scheduled to be held in duiy, that such clecticns were held only every six years in Mexico, and that the present tine uns therefore eatremely sensitive polit: Leally. One of the most effective propaganda weapons the ceauunists have in Eeaico is the alleged American comination and inter rference with the Mexican government and any unduly public investiz satory. activities cn our part would . lend themselves to this icind of propayanda. Second, Echevarria requested that the interviews with Mexican nationals not be _ formal but that insteffR sht to arrange to have lunch er coffee, ed with whom we Our reply to this, made through Me. Coleman, was thet we did not want any appointments fcr lunch or otherwise made at this time because we wanted to leave the entire problem open. ke had not in our on mings decided whether and to what extent we wanted to proceed on this besis.. Echevarria agreed that he vould take no ection until we requested it. There was an interruption here while Echevarria spoke in Spanish to Ibanez. The three of us took the cppor- tunity to ‘consult et eT ene another,’ ‘Coleman felt that in view % 7 eluctanée to permit 2 BOP WOLD) _ - L
13-00000 - that it was upon the information his men had obtained from her Gueen Juliana, ENO wa REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED formal meetizcs oven with unimportant witnesses such as the hotel elark, that the pecpooal we had for dealing with Silvia Duran oijht to be ha: REDE D FA REPROPUCTIO ye He proposed to do- this by shifting the converda o the overall report, essing thas in th + PROLEBET or we felt that Duran! 8S interrocseation was of the highest importance, and then hopefully shiftins: the conversation unto the subject of how we ~ could deal directly with Duran. Willens and Slawuson agreed with this approach. Coleman then again spoke tec Echevarria, referring back to the overall report and describing our feeling of importance as to Silivia Duran, ctc., as outlined in the previous | paragraph. Echevarria rcplied by emphatically agreeing that Duran's testimony was of the greatest importance and promising to go into as much detail and documer.tation as possible in connecticn with her evidence in his final report. He commented that he had relied most heavily in concluding that no con- spiracy had been hatched during Oswald's visits to Mexico. At about tnis point, Echevarria abruptly took steps to end the i meeting. He said REL ntment to have lunch with ; GN. official visit . PAGE ~~ > pd 5s
13-00000 ° “but that in some instances we might find it rather too informal . . Ministry of the Interior bullding. Anderson questioned whether this vas in line ao EPRABEE ones atmosphere that Echevarria hoped to “Fit Ibanez Cc, REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED to Eoxico, #nd that he of cowrse nad to be on tine. Coleman used the opportunity to say jokinzly that we would like ta have Junch with Silvia Duran while Echevarria was with the Gueen. Echevarria replicd in the saze vein that we would not Nn was not 2 go0c- have as much fun as i looking Cuban but only a iM ame emis rather inconclusive result on Duran, the PROMBITED As we were leaving and welcing down the stairs to the entrance of the building Senor Ibanez came up, behind and asked Clarke Anderson to stay a minute and speak wlth him, vhich Anderson did. ‘The rest of us proceeded to our car in the parking lot outside to await Anderson. Anderson Later told us thas Ibanez had held him back to say that he Lfhanez7 vas completely at our disposal for making any arrangements for lunch or otherwise with Mexican nationals. Clarke Anderson told Ibanez that we appreciated this 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 Se woman ane a see mate ten Ee 9 ES © SELAH naan gen ere eomgmte en ny ENA ares 7 7 . . that | Perhaps it raTED 2 9 P SEC R E Lae COPY NO. __
13-00000 |. - PROMISKTED was not. However, the possibility o2? usin: Ibpanes' offic yas not foreclosed. We then REP nt CTO rh One the Bubassy, arriving there about noon. ROMBTED, 12:09 ncn oi F 42 aor The three of us plus Scott and Anderson went to . Minister Boonstra's office as soon as. we arrived at the American Embassy. We reviewed with Boonstra vnat hed occurred with ‘“Eshevarria. We decided that we woulc submit the note to the ~ Mexiean governnent that afternoon, iv possible, although ever y- one recognized the difficulty of Gelivering the note to the proper Mexican officials vhich was created by the visit of Queen Juliana, Boonstra pointed out that not only was there an official Yunch, at which Echevarria was now in attendance, but that a state dinner was planned for that evening. Boonstra requested that ye draft the substance of the note immediately ‘and that it then be given to him for sha sping into final form. We then discussed with Boonstra the problem of Silvia Duran. We pointed out that our only interest in wit~ nesses other than — gig formal testimony for authentication puro ae AG INat there was any- ~ tiem that Me. Larson | é rned. This was not RAUL ang PAGE EPA SERRE ao = ore ee | nmr neat am at 2 re ne ne Ee ewan ae a 1s eR REEEANRER, 200 Att DDCES 7% * cet tn erty
13-Q0000 - REPRODUCTION _ probably been exhausted.) truc of Dursn, hovever, besnuse she had by the Mexican police and we con: bidewed inadequate. L I should point out that w C. REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED a mi EE oe | mS ah been interviewed only that interview e do net consider it tot2 lly inadegua = RRO ETHGO cetalls such as Csuald's physical apne RRCeD ern On the essential point of whe have made, ctec., tnatlkaly ents or remacks he may D) snterrevate Fes. Duran ther or not his . contacts with the Embassy consisted of anythin: other than an attempt to travel to Cuba, Silvia Duran's kno We discussed best @pproach to try to speak to Duran. 7.99% FR Wea bd that at this point i to get throuzh to her. politically sensitive to risk having her picked up a third time under arrest and that she, being a ally because. her husband was a very mil very bitter person in general, vould no voluntary appearance. Nevertheless, he “no objestlon to cur attempt to orranze a meeting with her. therefore agreed that Scott or Anderson his opinion tnat we would not be shle He felt that the Mexicans were too wledsze has with Boonstra the Boonstra frankly stated communist and especi- itant communist and 2 % azree to any kind of feocnstra/ would raise ke | would recontact ibanez and if necessary Fehevarria 2s well to try to arrange a meetings with eR thouwsh the meeting ai ce -TOP ed out thet even ‘ mak" as stated by | Cu03194 PAGE 98 og, 499. COPY NOw Gn
7 “REPRODUCTION ‘Echevarria, possibly for lunch, we could arranze that the luncheon would be in @ 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 driven to some other part of the city. Also, if necessary, the room and/or our persons could be fitted with recording pparatus so that no notes would REP RODE HON proof of what was  @iscussed could be obtained and kept for AN indefinite period ' thereafter. P ROL i ITED Boonstra suggested that we consider the use of a “cutout” for Duran. By this he meant that she could be taken to the Uni.wed Staves on some unofrricial journey, for example, to give her story to an American magazine, and while in the e ot creme ae mens tees co reer ta arrears tat tN = REE RAEG A Oe ehne neeRR ~ rena anpameLtniastnnttrttetrtnere, en er tera es tes nen ee ones 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. WQhMerine to room 510, a WSO, Willens_ and half hour. All of us the office which had bee the note to be sent
REPHODUCTION —— PRORIBETED TOs Giexzat to the Mexican ; om oS CRUCTION etal regert on Chae dooaussL . ak Soo 2 Che nove was Uesen up 4b was Gelivered Baek to = PROUD ¥e continued sur he ope bd o. of 2 such Pulbles dice i sonfcrznec. rt erence condiste cussion of the alternatives of getting Du upan te teselfy eithec to the Comaicsion or to representatives of the Commission. . The details, éifficultica and pozsible variations ef a "eutout* . were vone into by feett. We also inYoreed Scott and Andersen in detail of the kind of paycents thicn Turan could lesitinst sly ' exgest Lf she were to journey to waanilngetan, that ia, the usual | witnese Pees, Nor hosel and weal expenses, the hetel and mend wm wee gg Mey 8 wo B.S re ga Se * le + oe Sra i <r Bt PMR te O ad Ae BP ee te ae & & te te 28 Whter anne ohat B UA am WAT VAL ge & 8 te we te hore Ue te we PE My UE Oh ta Bef One feces, and of course the travel expe:ses for both of them. This conference ended when ve desiced 1t vas tame te beeak for Zunch. It was agreed that Anderson would contact Izanez to tise ° to work cut un dmacdiate follow-up on Duran in Mextea city. while we were th Da rcaches to Duran, ‘for example, a request te Tn aoe bashinsten op elsewnere in the = PRORBTTED ppearanee before the : Commis sion, the “cutcut” approach, efal, weuls be deferred sete mes co ae categories { pending receipt of the outcome of ‘Anderson's conversstion with | I {9 ing lea me ist) Io i= [os [3 C3 §—4 . €) w é —. eu
REPRODUCTION -PRORIB BITED After lu 2 Jive een f Clarice Anderson. ack . Me. Anderson was oe E sirce Te D seeing Ibanez, _ but ve vere vcananadl BEN 2. Larson head tyro Gocuments for us to read. The betel) was Slivia Duran's signed statement, eccompanied by a translation, and the second was 2 - group of reports on the exit of Oswald from Mexico by ansportes del Norte bus. We also used the occasion to discuss with Larscn the best procedares 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, Wwe proposed that the FSI agents who had - heard the testimony or -peceived the pertinent Ltens of docu- mentary or physical evidence from the Mexicans would them- selves be asked to give testimony before a representative of ' the Commission and, ‘by reference to the source of their materials, seer REPRODUE explained in some detail how this woulda work and aske TOK. to conduct his procedures so us to Pou iH CEH aI sBpeation as firm and as easy as possible, and to convey this message to all other For reer cates | pentane eaten Ae em meng a © agents in the area who were working on the assassination. Coleman, especially, emphasized to Larson the desirability of PAGE —
" REPRODUCTION PROWISITED other code, and "RE 3 g eC Uke ul pt to @ mininum and that cach document -DREGAT FBiBOes of a reliable person at all times. Larson gave the impression of readily understanding all this and he of course apreed to our suzses=- tions. 33:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - By pre-arrangenent we met at 3:30 with Winston Scott. “ith him agcin was his assistant, Alin 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 Khite and Scott the result of our worl, for their corment. They agreed in every respect with ou.f conclusions. I wil not go into great detail here because these conclusions -will of course be inc ive report on Oswald's activities in Mexico; bsth e the eonclusions . 7 were as follows: HONBTED 7 | | _ On Friday, September 27: Se ; Tine | 10: 00 2M. Flecha Roja bus arrives in. Mexico. city PAGE” 62 4p 155,
T33Q0000 ra " REPWOOUETIOR PRORIEITED Oswald tee piney the Fussicn et "visas to isits Cuban Consulate. TOP SECRET Paime 10:3 ee S ay 4 REPRODUCE Semetiin n Seme sxe) ROTI ieee visits Russien still late, Some time later still, which includes the period 4:05 to 4:26 in the afternoon Saturday, September 23: Tine Morning Some time includ- ing 11:51 a.m. Some time later Tuesday, Time 31230 2 a.m. We then discussed the Dorticos-Armas intercepts and examined them in sone detail. ‘REPRODUCTION — REPRODUCTION Osvald visits the Cuban Consulate and durins 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 duriny this visit Silvia Duran phoned the Russian. Consulate. Oswald probably again visited the Russian Consulate the Russian Consulate instead. Oswald calls tne Soviet “Consulate. He is hung up on. We asked Hr. Scott for his - 03199 ‘PAGE 63 3 88 cory NO. _ at ae mma ene ee age
13-00000 " REPRODUCTION a PROHIBITED opinion of them and he told us that after re-reading then many tinics and liste et @ original he was of the opinion that the £ Cuba was not referring to the fact that money p ROT ate. swald at the Cuban Enbassy.. He emphasized, however, that the telephone connection was a very bad one -~-- he said tne voices rose and fell extremely, as will sometimes happen on a radio connection ona ; long distance overseas call <= and he suggested that we have the tapes re-translated 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 CTA in Washineton and that we canta arrance far such a re-translation when we returned. He emphasized, however, 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 own opinion which after all, under the circumstances would be in error. Willens a @ Helms to begin | | the process of PRP. he, Scott, saw 7 Helms in Washington a GAS ia g scheduled for the week of April 13. . Scott said he wou o this. We. then discussed what the > comission could eventually publisn to the American public out cf all the material we had | | 46 | | TOP SECRET
1300000 - ee " REPRODUCTION ~ — RERIBETED TOP SECRET received in Nexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us - realized that any “oP RODECT TON afternoon could ne final decisio be tentative only, De would have to be PG Heo Pepe and the Commission. Slawson put out the suggestion that the Commission might made at the nigher eche 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 information obtained through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's . 4Informants. 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 abswlute quotes would be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative would be stated to be Silvia | Duran's interrogation, the “open” investigations and "other -eonfidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and 7 the federal intellizen ved." Mr. Scott's reply - | to this suggestion se? ROE oN. be acceptable : to the CIA. He said ene RHEE ibis aia a certain amount er of compromise of his security arrang the compromise was acceptable when balanced against the importance of the occasion. We asked whether he felt it would disclose to Russian and Cuban TOP SECRET PRE ere peereg at ee eee STD 7 Ta a eens ee 8 ae ee —_— . .
REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED intellicenée the oxistenze of this particular wire-tapping by - the CIA. Hi conably assused its existence a ANYUAY « °- Reet INI: tne propesal put forward would arverose FEAR existence of any shi pnotogvaphic observations. Nor, ve, would it disclose anything that rould permit enemy intelligence to discover whe the CIA's informants are in Mexico or where they are located. } We then briefly discussed the statement of Silvia Duran which we had read earlier in the @ay in the FBI offices. . The SIA had not yet seen this statement. 53:20 p.m. to 6:09 p.m. fe three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson's office. Anderson gave us a report on his meeting with Ibanez, He told us that Ibanez ana he had discus sed our making arrance- ments to see Silvia Duran. ‘The outcome of the discussion wes that Ibanez himself was very agreeable but said that he would have to ‘clear it aan Echevarria. 6:00 pb. Je ‘returned to ae hanged a copy of the formal request to the Mexican Government ne ad et ee ~ for its complete report on the acsaesination. AD copy is PAGE -: 66 of 455
PROMIBITED ones aren RD Ce ee attached to this memorandum. We were told by ir. Nontllor, political officer f. = ea chougsh an attempt had been maue to NEP To it had failed because all. the res coon ORB Ep were out entertaining Queen Juliana. Another attempt would be made at approximately 6:30 p.m. this saue day, and 1f that failed, continuing attempts would be made on Saturday. (We were later \ dnformed that the note had been delivered late Saturday .morning.) eee. We took the copy of the note which had been handed to _ us: to Mr. Harry Bergold, Second Secretary in the embassy, and asked him to see that the Commission be informed throush channels in Washington of the contents of this note, 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. “| a : olay ron | | Coleman, ie ae in room 510 and - ce spent about an hour or slightly mo ) reviewing what we had accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get done . 49 ee TOP SECRET
. “ REPRODUCTION | | —-PRORIBITED TOP SECRET before returning to Ee We agreed at this time DUCTION there was sufficient work remaining so that POE en 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 arveanged shortly, Mr. Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 22:00 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-~ fons as stated: ~ o _ We asked that the exact time, rather than the . ‘scheduled time, upon 's bus from Nuevo Laredo arrived in Mexico aisle RODE Kiane Hg} ON 7 27 be ascertained. 7 We pointed out that en Gi Gini ‘] REIS TED in determining ~ : whether Oswald immediately. UD ephone calls and/or ar his visits to the embassies or whether he first checked in at his hotel. The Fer agreed to do this. We reminded Anderson and Larson that . we had some items of physical evidence which, although not of prime ROU | 7 .
TOP SECRET -imnortance, might be helpful in their further investigations, and it was decided t Fafeianl ORC CN meet early Monday morning to gO through.. PU We asked snatll CGI EITED, the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public during the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them. Also, if possible, the FBI should desermine if it 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, all other lines of | “investigation which aff eB Ay m (gN followed as far as aa) aed, W ly negative results. : _ For purposes CNOMIGITED our Mexican evidence we told Anderson that we would want a list of the names of all of seemed to have been ao a ew eee cb meee Hane ee ee ee om te cna x “the FBI agents who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we _ TOP SECRET CU93205
13-00000°, REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET .Giscussed briefly what would be the inost convenient place to have these agents meet with a reprosontative of the Commissis,,; for the taking of tneir depositions. Anderson replied that either Washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We review FAG | hoped to follow in REPROD RW agents, as we had exp pee OR SEB on Friday, and : Anderson asreed that it would be a workable arrangement, In ocedures which we this connection it came out that Oswald's tourist card appli- cation, 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. Ve agreed that we would ! 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 Hexico and while BES etn and from Mexico. It was agzer 4 Rule 1S) PRO in detail. . PR sieen | We then discussed the desirability of our obtaini™ that Slawson and Lars @ more complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice in grant - visas and the different kinds of travel permits which woul) | sa TOP SECRET Le PAE) —_ eo cory yo. ©
- " REPRODUCTION ——RIBETED available to someone in Oswald's circumstances. Likewise, we were intcrested in learning what obstacles to travel between APU — : rfl ff RC from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, BRIS TED. agreed to give uy uu « , 7 us as full 2 report on U l but the difficulties are obvious. In general, he told us that, largely at the . Mexico and Guba & instigation. of the United States government, the Mexican author- ‘4ties are very strict about Americans traveling between Cuba and Hexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed for Cuba on ,1954" before the traveler gets on an airplane “bound for Cuba. Likewise, the Mexiczn Immigration officials will not permit anvone, whether Mexi.van or American, to depart bo 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 heir country or with — their own ‘nationals RE PRODCCT IN We pointed out to ! Anderson that the eas RG TBE that we get this > ! information was that we needed 5) to rem. the plausibility, and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we had on what 031014 was doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet Eabassies, 1.@.,5 we vanted to see whether his activities made 53 OP SECRET
* REPHOBUCTION Peaer TOP SECRET sense in the light of the normal Cuban and Mexican preecedures. We then briefly discussed the "two suitease problem." We related how we =f a sald left New Orleans for Mexico he was but that all our evicenee relating wico pointed to the fact — that he had with nim only a single suitcase, a small blue zipper bag. Marina's teatimony and the testimony of lirs. Ruth - Paine both tended to confirm the one-suitease evidence. We said that we did not want the FEI to undertake any kind of ~ search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity to re-interrogate cur witnesses in Mew Orleans who had testi- PR wo A fe wy dota geo e Yao Bae. Boose marl be a elt otel 7 wo me nme Pee am dintn on din owoe athe re-interrog.tion confirmed their testimony in this respect, we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas . f or Nuevo Laredo, Mexico for such a missing suitease might be t i ij i : 5 i ; practical. Anderson and Larson both felt that the FBI was fully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a \ missing suitcase, REPRODUCTION ~ as to make such a : search unrea sonably d Pan PROGIBITED .. Ye told Ander not yet come to a firs decision as to whether we would want to bring Albert Osborne 4 ewer se = we nmmer ater nee ee aie to Kashington or elsexhere in the United States to testify | before the Comaission or a representative of the Comission, "5h ee TOP SECRET. cy c on : €ad- BO C3 Lo aoe e- eer!
: " REPRODUCTION a PROWIBITED ri fOP SECRE even on a voluntary basis, Certainly if he vere goins to resist testifyins and we had to subocena him, we wanted to | think further about it PRDID NONoneores what the FBI in Mexico could do “=p pay of Osborne se that we could ottain him cn ERO ore ice 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 ‘keepin 7 tabs" on an individual, Anderson repliéd that he would ask th2 Mexican police to put Osborne on a “two week reporting basis." He felt sure tne Mexicans would comply. This means that “Osborne, befng a person under suspicion and being an alien, is told that be must come into a certain police station and report on a regular basis. Txo weeks is a common interval for this sort of thing, but is sometimes even done on a daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extremely burdensome, however, especially for someone who cannot afford to travel by auto- | p mobile, as we believe Pits RY) Gi bite iii and especially when that person is PRG the police station to which | he has to report. If neteSt [BUT eDorsce the Mexican : police at our request will order Csborne deported and give us advance warning of when ang where he will be pushed across the _- border, We could then arrange to have someone waiting for hin . north of the Rio Grande with a subpoena. Anderson of course TOP SECRET ay €a) ‘COPY HO. Ge
13-00000 . \. REPRODUCTION — PRORIBITED TOP SECRET We asked Anderson if he hsd a ecpy of the "dessicr"™ on Cswald mentioned in the Ambassador Hann Pile. He replied thet he did not have one but assumed that it could he found ontcplace, since it REPRO QUST OM: time, and said that he would forw: ard PRORTED We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed - ont that we had never received a final report on him. . Anderson replied that his agency had not taken the primary _. responsibility here but that the CIA had handled this investi-~ ' gation. We agreed that we would bring this up with Winston Scott. | Winston Seott had previously mentioned to us that he thought that Anderscn had heard some vague rumors from expatriate American communists in Mexico that might bear on the assassination and suszested we ask Anderson about thom. Scott had said that Anderson had spoken with him about this information many weeks Rong to inquire whether the CIA could ‘with Anderson. — : at an American expatriate : conmmmist named Elizab PER BET left wing circles in : Hexico as "Botty Mora,” had made some rather vague asserticas mee on dete wnt mts ee ee ee - about Oswald which, throuzsh informants, Anderson's office was ST. TOP SECRET. COPY NOe
REPRODUCTION — PROGIBITED 13-00000 ( TOP SECRET trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, TON whole line of ; r several years and in Anderson's Betty Mora had been investigation was t Betty Mora has not be opinion she is not a reliable person anywz:, so he did not feel that her assertions would ever amount to much. He promised us a report on them, however, notwithstanding his feeling that - they were not to be accorded a great deal of weight. Finally, ye posed the question to Anderson whether he knew of anything further, important or unimportant, which we &£2 representatives of the President's Commission ought to | be told, After so:zre thinking and after asking Larson whether . | he haa anything along these lines and receiving 2a 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 tine periods covering ute OOUE FON Cuban Embassy had | i. : }. been examined and tha PRM p fi ere negative. No auto- DH bkhibhee inn f no persons were shown ' who answered the deseriptions given by Gutierrez or who might ' mobiles appeared in t have been Gutierrez himself, (I will note here that we did TOP SECRET. COPY NO.
, RHETT per 7 | TOP SECRET => not ask the CIA to have those photo: raphs displayed directly to Gutierrez. This PED ODUCT O Men the easicst way of determining whether ntificd as the Cuban who passed the money RTT ED in one of the photo- graphs, but this would also have involved such a serious breach of CIA security arrangements that we did not believe that At was justifi:d.) . We then asked Scott and White 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 PRORIETTED nest et Fe te rte terete Oe er NR + fe ap oy eee enna 59 TOP SECRET a ; oie
13-00000 - °, = dae Pe tt, ao Ge Pa ee z beneezet inferstbad “Darina. “photccenpa of it and, decy emi che other Fit scent. Verious runes of the Psagoval Disteict of Nexteo (suich fuelwies Masico City) vere exemined and 1m agreed that one of the Lamte, clear ones would beat serve as the official exhibit fos showing the Location of various places which Les Hervey Gavald prousbly vicited while ke was in Mexico Cite Me. Levson said that e ae he wovld hove this roo emeroenriately morked and forwarded to the Cormiscion in tha neor futuree For ny parsonal vss in the tine while sue dsrce formal top wes boing vrepered, Me. Larson delivered to me @ sreller rep vitien had thace smat loaation: markcd on it. Woe then vent throuck esch of the itexs cf rycienl evidence yirich I kei taken aleng to lovieco City. For a ésserigtion of these tua, refcrenes is herve made to the “Manorundum for Record” eatcd ep 2, avers of Physical gy Al fs cos G. rad ee : OF Cres Ve hus bean abtteehed to thiz 2. of sismivicence could She three of us be diceovrorea by further work in comoction with sliver identification " Br. Lorgson and My. Clorze Ardorson had provicusly pointed oub thot mre than 500 sliver chons in ilecieco City had been maistioned es to this bracelet on the basis of a $ee of ,@ fo rae 94 Oe od eagt of an te the Scet that some riazioy meskiy fey be tice mes ates vate pees j be PRONE er
13-00000 REP RODUETIC oO PROMIBITED oe re eo et Te ee a8, .. wre ey Deets of fe oe ne 9 28 gst oe Fe ayyade gs? - fe sila emater of uhe Lenenlal becabp .o.geb Cid nog choy ip an 6! ' wo. Bs ge soon? ts “. ft. poke ny, i «et te fog SAT. LS 3 = 7) eee : See ity M2 OF Ch G Had tries Oh b they even eclé Lvceclets - - Bb £8. Sm Be = “se ‘ a e? tits bind end thes LEO wih clsocs $ . “ry seonindy azein bo neg a folé teat even Lf the che Ble on . J procculy all fhe omies could toll ws vould be thet Yes, he pass auly 4 Fee sold the brecoles to semen Mee Torson noted down all the woz a the tee flyleat of the Sonn shelaglisi dictionary and he alco noted the marlcboss on soges 5, 110 end 210 mxt to verious Ssanish wormis. Hone of us esuld sco any particular help at this tine whieh would cowe from Serre SEED anata e OE ERSCEECSESESSERECEESEE Tt tg at eegee tree epee eee these writings and markincs, rut ve fclt that Me. Lersen at lensut ownt to havea thea with hin. fhe Mexican relivziowus negel ums felt to be 63 cormcon as § be probably iitrateable end, in ndditlor on, from its ave we guessed fe thet Lt may not have been perciesad in Cxptorctor 1618 4 in iexieo City - Gut cowld perhons bay at! Crip to fan : ates ond Bila = in Dellus or Tew 3 wlosne. ee =“ a ing on page Mt ox Onmli's Mee Lers on noted dova vil obtainad by Ocwald sone eddress boate Hie caid that he would ebsek each of the toledho: mumkers and adcrezesg to se e if they x2 ol to 2 the exbassics and airlizes to viien they Bien to refor and, if they did not, he would fisei ox whose telephone mebers or céfvesses they vere. In scuition, be Pru aiicad to do ott ke could to fi ous vhotiter Lee Harvey Covald | hed ever chs, up et the Guveno fitz rlines as the address tod: in eates, . eo GL iw
13-00000 bus iiis a a es hte: ee et soot Seoxdin Covel had testifiel to the Comeicc: told her, visited to Cuba re cone sight eet ec Coun ad as and noeht gal elst comes in Mexico C1; ere are Pp Talis wlus procticed tent Counld never icent to REPRODUCTION Lesher cetuystiz ene there rocembers Oomld visitine th oncehy attire wl oon PROWMEHT ED sayeth gers pois ao mente ‘ 2 ot gre, BIS pet ts @ on a rat 0 wae Oe be Eo cst © Lor t ivG ht eek uw a esLetis in the ecesk thas n D ig e %, b 3 & Enrvey Crmlid after he retuencd fron Mexico, that while thore he hed the Cuban aud Russian Esbossics to « 2d all ne cowla to ot end had clso a wold fight, virited come misours nnd dene ~seoing. ire Lorson said thet tia bull fistht arone had y been choca out insofar es possible with tie sesult baing vera on the funday no ons there te ct oll cortoin that ke did Furthertiore, there ae m ooction in the arena @ for perso NS Who are not wd pave got @ sent over theuch he dia net esrey a cant is W. hin oned in this cenncetion that the : pirdebhy rocerve;’ Lox persons the con exter withost a nestle. site ore) is a a incieo City, cnys ty Pd Splat Lab pro re rote ann] 4 lesd us to ececelyte er. i omnes cesnite the hotcticn in | tae Be tnbented to ds oa. Pulled tox cngion at VENANG avons the fat ole i pares e returned points Sovemd this Sun conclusion. “ oo one gugg218 80, PAGE ~~ . 15 5 COFY NO. _
13-00000 7 * oo o— , wey 8. ~ “ 9 n eee cee oe ete cms Te3ko Larceny oteb Mu ethov apont wise guits antire sist rar) WAU rrohaaly Bava windic: ‘an bt se Uke 5 ho tehes *. Ria 4: oF a » 3 e, 7 oD oof. = a Pe te, A able to idencify Cnyala df Osweld isd visited thoree ik. Leorson and the other coon’ agrasd thas they would foLloy this lead ct the eoviiast onportinkty. . din #. . As, Be oR — = we o Be ox, teen told Liorsen that thea Coreziusies was interceted in ~ - estebLliching «s nearly as pcosiltle tie munnt ef moncy arent by oo cod of a PA, 2 °F. . eS wae ELavvoy Couald traveling to ond Drea Heci/es Clty and ehilhe he was a ~ 2.8. 8 be Pon Std -, od 2a. ms. a 2 =e, “san the ¢lty. 2n this ersnceticon 1t was acres thet tue femles oiflea of the FAC would onward to the Cordsosicos, througe channcls, an itemiced actirate ef Covald'’s a etpeuses tikes: wold ineluie at e Ins fare both sontubsind aul nerceteund in iinies3 2, Sie fea for the travel scroney, Lf Sy 2 @ by Ocwald foes his ne srinpound treval EMSINVUT LOL 3e Fhe coat hh i iy £3 bet ‘Pe 3 ae SSTPONE cr eres tp! - w. 8 ar i at. - uiile erase Lip Boge Jott. F- 2 ea? Pi ae vere of Ve 2% Q 35 . G The eost, if ony, of Hie rmescims viieh he vialted . . af A pan? . ecomte ter bus andyow taxiexb win tris wa ince he teslauly a ee s frwgy wwengele C pow a Ae Beater! ganda dts ie Veewe ee ao og LY af ent: tats C53 Or ate bape of a ae he, , 2. -? z age Ae % OO, : » wg 3 the city we qmeal wns Coun d probably BOLE %. Yovioens tort o 2 _ Aenea cu wt: wor & : * uX ry aed ee ep nn rere cere eR ne ttt AEROS CTP ANN EECA RETA SONI, Om om * MRR NESTE SN
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13-00000 PEPRODUCTION = REPRODUCTION — PROEIBETED an c a" or bo. ad ay ~h re & @e ‘@ a ae e we ence 8 ghee entre psEEpheaRRS ENED <A ee TERS 4 - Veslpepmees qieay BP avoute te chat vie 2 weeten eat te ok Toke wibo ee 3 2 de rn a fe wig irncc to the 36 Tons ... tint the delay Deer tis. ostassination of those in the Essuassy vho vere reaponedb?ie vaa baad the bos st os .* @ ® beoy was wfortumts. Tae snd’ & aah resnLts vould bo senieved by working princrily throngn the Mexican euthoritics, veo nt the tine vere certainly hichly uotivated by the éesize to elese their combsy of any involvement by discovering any Cuban ar otues comentracy om instigation which wis exintel ond who cepeors! consonably competent. Anderson peinted Ce ee Boe BP ews Bee ween me yy eee fs Me Se Pm el? -c ta te ee wow ween meee BENS mm emmy a ee Om Oe TU OO SR Th TN Wee Gia yeah we have hed edyorce polltic:.L effects and therefore have hiniored the over-all cfforte Dut, he cdritted, subsequent resulis, such es wf oe a y tho insctcminte Hotel deal Camrede investigation end the failure ef the Moricam police to Loct: boyvond the fnet thet the mame “Covel gppeerel on the Thaneportes Trentera parsencer manifest, showed pool exouch. then that I? otelests noon wt) 14:79 ame that the dicot Pe yD $257, 2% Py Gepemmy beomse ¢ oe! ARa Nste bbws ot tor in the woeming, et nome time abcub noon, Henmix 2 Willons anil live Ulewson, enconpanich cy 1a. Clozke fndersa: ony visited - Mo moinia wore dir cussed with Me Par KeAserte S- C093219-
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION OS PROMISITED a =o . <“ oO D nom & No PR Soon eens Sateen rene re. Dwr entet gpa sTt eoserae ¢ Ot, FF Sy, mmow oe Be 29 woes GOGO Teobhess diswwesad with ils Neonuten wee the ee yee ae tg Eom 2 Bink @ een; be cterte ee. & Be a er ae wih ee qe a vor oe « 7 a ow, iiy of the Viulted foetos Gyvetmunh momveetin: cheeuch Onn a? age Fah euee 2 ee 4 oh i = 2 fe 2% fih2G icin that ep) a8 NE its couplete file ad _ «OF Be “mn wpe oP er | &% on Los Narva Oswell t: wp Deintcxi oth that the Go pagm tong ys oetee PSF a0! sw de 3S ay ” tostinosy of Dilyin Ones niente eviderce avallnble to us indlieate strongly thet Lee Unrvey Csusld acheally mada out e formal ayslieation fox a Cuban vicny which promaably is an his homketting or at lees signed by lin, and the Gober governront vant so far cg to act on this ammlicentian cni anmthorice the issrance we ef a vica eantitional caly uon his firss obtaining a Fursian visa, about 15 dénye efter bis vicit to the Caden rolmesy. Ehovld these P*, aoe mer, Sn | 2 Boi. da%e Pte wai wad 2. ao = 9 _ eae Parerenta ha deenst ocee 25 tho Suse ssti, Ue gereeuay wean be intemercentl, guthenticnted threuch Gmwdd's handwriting. li. Doons vas inclined to feel thet such a request micht not cnly serve the 2 ee vn . ee o i. eo) be *, *. fo tives Uni Yorrecate Ee ecrtomicd thes the Cuban ~, - ae J Re ge 2 ot. . > apn Ble _ Govermsens ris so to cotsly beenuse it was presomtly seadking Se ant Lesrening £6 might with the Merican police. : Be. Anderson ‘ Fak gato a genet, be 2 Po oF we Z : Bees gots gs? . a could think of ang rtiorind adverse polliics: recults winien would oes yale . re Co. oA oe ro : 4.2 ah. erice from such a recucsct, siuco both folt thas 1S was the moss “« a a ° mon fs m we. ‘2 o © pecs. ts oy reabuol tiuiag in the vorkd for ge goverrtuent to went ta inyesticnte 2%. ge P ada hate ed qbeg ee i with Oavwald ssnantiation of 1ts president’ and cuth e request world be fully —CU0322N | copy ao.
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13-00000 '. erdipts. In a few instances, either where it was very important | Tag 155 cepts in question in the American Embassy in Mexico City, - 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I  eould make them without actually quoting the entire trans—- or where the meaning was obscure and therefore difficult to September 27 ~ 10:37 a.m. MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Dated 21 April 1964 (see memo- 22 April 1964) FROM: W. David Slay PEPRODIET! WIN SUBJECT: Intercepts fro d_ Cuban Embassies in . Mexico City | p OL; (BITED The following are my notes fal) reading the inter- translated from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April 13, paraphrase, I have quoted exactly. I have noted these. portions by placing them in quotation marks. -- ‘A person who. Sat E BD Dire ena speaking poor _ Mey | d, telephones the Spanish, later identified as Le Soviet Embassy . P wOGIONTED.. . OSWALD: May I. speak: to the Consul? INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. OSWALD: I need sone visas in order to go to Odessa. INSIDE VOICE: Please cail at 11:30. | OSWALD: Until when? oan INSIDE VOICE: (Hanes up) _— a PAGE” REPRODUCTION aengeetee ee ne
13-00000 ( Oo REPRODUCTION September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman's voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, EP RODUCTION: Consulate, i calls into the Soviet assy - SILVIA DURAN: PRCT BHA) pptean here who has requested an in-transit visa_ because he is going to Russia. _I 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 Silvia Duran is calling, that she is calling in reference toa an American who | ° REPRODUCTION to the Soviet Embassy, etc.) | ANG HTC Be iiay leave the name and ANOTHER INS ill number and we will call you back. 2.7 SILVIA DURAN: (She. leaves her name and her telephone _. Rumber and ‘she then engages in some personal ‘conversation in _ regards to the fact ‘that she has recently changed apartments “and therefore ‘would like the "bulletin" sent to her new ) address. "fhe voice in the Soviet Fmbassy agrees. ). jes jo [rg [tw  9 [ps {es [3 one - Be nae SE age ssh
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGMBITED September 27 - 4:25 p.m. someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban Embassy. REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED. the cuban Consul? VOICE AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY: Its 11-28-47. . ’ September 27 ~ 4:26 p.m. Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones into 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 . | But we have received a without asking Washingt first getting a Russian visa. I do not know what, to do with him. ° I have to wait for an answer from Washington. VOICE FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of cu02228 . ® Tete A serra aerate agp canteen nienietennemaenettetates St nett i ei A ee ee ater eo = Russia to stay for a long time with his wife who is Russian. probably take four to ERG ‘months, ii iN give a visa here Ligne... toa pro~Cuban . : organization and the Cubans cannot give hin a visa. without his on, and it will . 39° of 155 PAGE COPY NO. i. 2
TR , SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows one in Cuba and therefore its difficult to give him a visa. me says he knew it EERO RECTHONE  & the Soviet visa but hoped to await that in Cuba RUSSIAN rroassip AGE ALT EDenee 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." . - STLVIA DURAN: “Naturally, and we can't give him a “visa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be approved." . , RUSSLAN BrpASSY: “we can 1ssue a visa only accoraing to instructions." SILVIA DURAN: "That 1s what I will put in my plans." RUSSIAN REID “We can't give him a letter of recom OCOTOR. * Please pardon the bother." os PD mS | _ SILVIA DURAN: MOOTED you very much." September 28 ~- 11:51 a.m. mendation either, peclh Someone at the Cuban Consulate later identified as . Silvia Duran telephones into the Russian Consulaté., g003226 PROLIBE TED - 7 | oe - . net ro
13-00000 (0 ( REPRODUCTION | — PRORIBITED aw — ce ona a OD eae e SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he has been to the Russian Consplate. Silvia Duran is ( ow eak in English to someone apparently A “This conversation goes as follows: hetellcenn haceiceel — nee meme p EEE ‘"He said, wait. Do you speak Russian?” "ves." "why don't you speak to him then?" | ‘“Z don't know ... " The person who was at the side of Silvia Duran and 6 ‘ 2: 2 eee REE COE + heen NnN tata Re EEE EP IRON cuPROPU ww ’ 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, OSWALD: AREPR cr ODUCT GN spoke to your : ee RUSSIAN EMBASSY: BED. ox want?” : ' OSWALD: "I was just now at your Embassy and they took my address.' Ss re ; 7 RUSSIAN. EMBASSY: "I know thatey [+3 {o [rd lw wi to Ia ico es | copy NO. G —_—~ —
13-00000 . Ko . to OO REPRODUCTION PROEISITED a? OSWALD: "I did not know it then. I went tothe  ~° ' Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it." RUSSIAN =o EPR ft iil iP i Ni by and leave it. then, we're not far. OSWALD: " werd RG ROMER Do » away." October 1 - 10: 30 a.m, 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 ‘A person later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, . - you will. . OSWALD: . Please. RUSSIAN RD aay aie and ask for ‘a Consul." | october 1 1 - 11:30 a tc The same volce, stiil speaking. in broken’ Russian, _telephories the Russian Consulate. He speaks to a man identified ° - Q ee ° + . .
13-00000 as as "Obyedkov." OSWALD: place last Saturday.and talked to you Consul. they'd send a telegr yi whether there was anything new, of the Consul. ZOP Hello, this is Lee Oswald. REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED: SECRET .I was at your They said Tone to ask you ca remember the name PROWBITED OBYEDKOV: . "Kostikov. He is dark?" _OSWALD: "Yes. My name is Oswald." OBYEDKOV: "Just a minute. They say ' they have not received anything yet." I'd find out. OSWALD: “Have they done anything?" _ OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet. oo . ; ° OSWALD: “And what..." '” OBYEDKOV: . nePOOUC TON PTD ‘@  paGE_ V2 of - COPY NO. |
13-00000 ( ( Spec 7 an 4 MEMO" “DUM wil 2, 1964 fe ed2F — wrom: — cotenan-stavson — REPRODUCTION t SUBJECT: Mexico: Questions Raised by ene DATED File | JS J lL. What actual evidence is there that Oswald departed Mexico on October 3 by automobile? Can we see the ‘documents involve PDI sk to be introduced to the proper EP RODUC TION. purpose of making our investigation. PROMBITED 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. Lo 3. What is the source of information referred to in the November 28 telegram, that Oswald intended to settle’ down in Odessa? -RePReR th on Silvia Duran, for example, the evidence romiscuous, type.” . 5. We Ae ROFIBE [BUTED.ovtes 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 fs aR a a, sot COPY HO. ___ 20l ~ 02 90.2 4S
13-00000 ( ( ( inv th th “allegation that money pa: :d at e Cuban Embassy was atscussed. co RGNNIE TION NE TION PROSE ED Oswald got the na i it Ur ercio from the Cuban conuiate? PROMI 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 (. 4nformation 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 ‘ knowledgeable sources scan the entire hotel on the REP era BU CHO Myo other significant names? PROHIBITED — 9. We should see the entire Embassy file on the whole Kennedy assassination, .including copies of all 2 en SECRET a i s wus2!
13-00000 ee ESD BES ate an corre’ oden ~ to other government ager “es. 7 ( | 30. We wound also like to get |B REPROMUCIION : told by Alvarado. ai S aii ORC ET IOS i PROMISITED 11. Have: any attdnota) “heen made to locate the J wes ae i LJ red-headed Negro man who was SS ae in the conference with Oswald observed by Alvardo? | 4 6 t t { ‘REPRODUETION = PROHIBITED ea | ; a a PAGE ALO ot 158 Qol~ 0A8IAYE.
13-00000 mT \ seth ee x ts 4 ye - Revised Draft nmin mm PROSITE FROM: - We. 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 oe | PLACE Friday morning : Cuban Consulate Friday morning or ot early Friday afternoon . Russian Consulate 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 an Consulate PEPRODUET Olifeses put "in . direct contact" with Russian Consulate by ‘PROMIBITED - phone from Cuban Consulate: "address" . disc.) Add-CEA—inter-- pretation-of-this «} Late Saturday afternoon _ Z Russian Consulate Ss ECRET PROLIBITED 7 _ - ae ng DL gts
13-00000 a REROOUTTI PROGIBIMED 7 - | | RAGE a REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED Tuesday ~ = EPRODUCTION Military Attache ate Tuesd areca ITED 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. cp NANT visited the Cuban Consulate on . Friday and that he aise to the Russian Consulate that same comer page t d. Oswald was supposed to be in the Cuban Embassy at least once during the morning, see the second police’ 4inter- rogation of Silvia Duran, paragraph 11, and this was only a UUD3Z4R- pe ee misnmmanmnemenemepeeineametaatl o cnntens © UCN OD SOO GPCI + EEE ene manent Sty win GEE SB OG STL SEDER = 9 er Aree deR—eemeyer Son
13-00000 , PROMIBITED SECRET * and was visit "to request information about getting to Cuba, apparently so brief that Duran was not able to remember Oswald's physical characteristics from this visit, see second CaO could easily have police interrogatiog been overlooked in PROMITE police interrogation, | ' paragraph 11. l L . : 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 ll. ‘Tis afternoon visit during which . the argument with Azque took piace 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 REPRORGE HOKE police interroga— tion, paragraph il. s iis a total of three times. f. The fact that the 5 [ED 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 30 oo : | ae SE C RET. a . . Se  ammmam ee eno ene a See a te eee + 20 coment ae 2 pe Pe ee tt Teen *
ReaADNETIO ” a6 ef won * ‘ ae hemi & PE. vale t/ts* Fhe re Pew. R t2fe “e . . i Asoscy Gate  Deciaaay om: —_ es - ¢ 7 . ree ol) Te erat Beeps nt ee, : ~ <0 eo ad eer ar Oi: ey ae 3° "a," . oS . *. a _ ‘ ae aoe ° . . 7 "MEMORANDA. ne . Se 4 February 1964 TO: Mr. owarll ay FROM: = W. David a Tem : hee, SUBJECT: . Letter to the Centra Agence Agency (CIA) re Tagish US; Posing Certain. Questions’ on their Letter to Us . . mo dated 31 January 1964 degne eo sw Ir would include in our letter to the CIA the “following 7 guestions: 1. . Were you able to uncover anything about the alleged meeting between Oswald and the Cuban Ambassador which was Supposed to have taken place in an automobile outside the *  * " Cuban Embassy in Mexico City? --- 2. Bo you have access to the wire sent 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 pessible for us to see the full report - of the Mexican s Police. interrogations. of urs. Duran and her husbarid?. . Pye eo oe. Se ar Sy 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 - Gay 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 on aa you can give us on the time sequence of the aragraph 7. Of course, if you are ablla te aks the full text. of the Mexican police oc Bani tself, we ean try to piece out the time sequence Wee E 5. Reference is ma (U 3 il ne 7, in which > ..', Mrs. Duran. refers to ee etna data” on Oswald which she found in the Consulate "archives." “The use of these terms seems to Leave open tha, Poparparity that the ‘Cuban Embassy REERAUED none BEATIAL ~ - oo. — BISHPT fs trem estemstis Sanlozsificatinn wt £0. 11532, S22, SENS pay CAM bel Sema phe VP. 1 CEO Le [24/75 3. sd) a mans, ate. 3f 238 ede ~ a oo és. es 3 ie Ses ps rT meet, 39.09" eee ane nena! gene eet ne amen cee | PROHIBITED | uO - ; mathe
13-00000 had meterial on * REP R . paragraph 12b. Your letter states that Mrs. Duran told the . 4nvolved Oswald's not being known by the Cuban and/or Soviet - officials, or whether it involved Oswald's not knowing ' ta ‘contact.’one | of tha officials there? . --.. REPRODUCTION PROUIRITED 11.3 act TAI peonsirst acalatth Teen a ‘autherny.. ©. 203 Or. ft [2 af Bato > a | Bp >= ‘ 17, hsp mmm 23 SST SEs Bes-T LN. fe 2 he PEM Be por BoB flonan ortete TH, ube oot err oT) ft Merion back, perhaps previous te Septembe i are this the meaning she intended? p 6. Reference is made to len (EQ sentence in the end subparagraph of paragraph 12b. Is there any significance to the word, "Although"? We wonder whether the informant meant to say that there was something unusual in Mrs. Duran reporting her instructions to Oswald when he had continued to remain at the Cuban Consulate. 7. Refermce is again made to the 2nd subparagraph of Soviet Embassy” that Oswald“knew no one in Cubay and that the Soviet official "echoed her statement that the American was not kmown.” It is unclear to us whether this discussion 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 Oswald a telephone call from Oswald while he was at the Cuban Embassy, or did the informant mean to say that Mra. Duran sent Oswald personally over to the Soviet » Babassy 9. Reference is again made to paragraph 12¢. Gould you clarify the many references to the "address" referred to. 80 frequently in this paragraph? 10. Throughout your entire letter the term "Soviet Consulate" seens to be used interchangeably with the term "Soviet Embassy.“ Likewise with "Cuban Consulate" and "Cuban Embassy." We assume from this that the Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Embassy must be the same in Mexico City, or at least i ie) (Rage if d that the same must hold true for se iC Cuban Consulate. W111 you confirm to us=. ns are correct or, if they are not, cope sil li. “In Oswald' ill et Embassy in Washington written after he returned to the United States from his’ trip to Mexicd, he refers to the Cuban Consul © (presumably, Azqua) as Raving. been "replaced," Do you know - 2 RESAACED SONEDENTIAL ro mt a aS eae am ae . | At Waban, CAA. inf mid 7s 5 NS aa: wns, in L872 ws = 2 = a, Ne oo sve) bet a | aan wm R sae
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13-00000 t, . . { IG. COS | te | a SIR, | COMMO SECRET a CHRONO (DUMMY) CLASSIFICATION Silvia DURAN P | . Luisa CALDERON P rd PRIORITY hr OPERATIONAC. min IMMEDIATE ROUTINE +t) IMMEDIATE DIR. aor CITE MEXI 73 : * iy, we . NUMBER? : % Gah 2 de -KAPOK a ee aense a ATTN GALBOND _ if *. ao REF: DIR 65245 ~~ 1, SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT BY ¥ ‘yl SS ea as b j 4 3 eT Lae ee ee ne SILVIA DURAN OBTAINED FROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROGER T. ; —INGMAN 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, . oo : 3. SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. ° 4, ALSO INCLUD igen MBER LUISA CALDERON (conan En CONSULAR EMPLOYER) ly YUE TIO enc FROM LIENVOY, © 7k | _ Pritt iD Bn ED END OF MSG LS COORDINATING OFFICERS : \ , SECRET - W.C.C. Dae af CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER AUTH Arey Wn , @ SGT de oN OUTGOING Naw @ . DUuUuUBPRBR ra -~ -r Te Fd ] Ad t} 2 1507 or eta ee rye gee em Stet to ange hom eee, x ee nr we Crs sone woe Th See Ae Pye eee eae se a ts ob chee ae ee RO EE EE Ee Og IE ee B Vere
13-00000 are EMDAJADA DDE CUBA: 25--09-14.- 22 de nov.63.- MPa. L 2h .-- 1556 - 1925.- — 002, Entrada. —!Nreb (byebais yon oraspo y NILDA informa -— que estd abajo, a NTUIRTTnRAAPESTITE que lo Lilame y NICO dice que si. A Pa eu (empiezan a. hablar en -- el niimero 017). NILDA: que Je disaa KICO “we parece que ROLANDO salid von momento a la. calle, pero que regresa en se guida. »NELA des:ués de dar el recado a NICO, dice que- era para indicarle que tenia lds paquetes des... y que su-- piera»que se los iba a llevar GUILLERHO. ; NILDA: que le-— pregunte si ya estén envueltos._ NELA asi lo hace y con— testa que si. - NILDA:; yue estd bueno.-, 029.- 029. . Salida al h591-21.-1632.- NECO solicita hablar con —-~ el Sr.CARNONA. _ HF le informa que ya le tiene su juego- de juntas, pero no tienen los anillos. oO Luezo Dn. PS SLYX con ‘NICO (empiezan a hablar en el niim.073) para indicarle - jue ya tiene preparadas las juntas, que anillos no tiene y— el numero de arriba de la nota no encuentra qre nieza es - norgue no viene en el catdlogo. NICO: gue mandar&é pregun tar alld para que le digan que cosa es eso;que pasard a re- coger las oi pregunta si hay posibilidad de conseguir. el juego de 0) aD) YA dice que si, que los puede con— seguir en Dr. a AERO GCN de su parte. NICO toma nota y acep os i TED. a uy G89. Yntrada 1638.- VICTOR HERNANDEZ pregunta a GUILLERMO - RULZS qué hay de nuevo y éste dice que nada, pero hoy sale — para La HMebana y vuelve dentro de 5 dias, por lo que YR ewe habrd noticias para 61. | HERNANDEZ acepta y pide salude— ‘a todos alla. NULZ:okey.- 101.- SA TED BS ae oe — 149.1550 > Remar on EE nee cane reelection.
13-00000 “408. Entrada 1730.- HP pregunta a LYITSA 3. ma noticia y LUISA en son de burla, diced eZee teré cas si antes que NENNEDY". HF sonrie y cornenta que ~ am : Sue for ee =, es, , : eso esta may und ‘i MPAUUNS LE Lo pensarcen que habia sido - uno de los wmtliblsle, weglpedvewonsitel! que estaban en contra— Srey ’ ed} a ipe . re are yes pan de la Aintegraciéypyies a] HOT OC RS yee quc aprehendic eron a un teghf Ret == eG ali lI tipo que es nada Sud'e ad Het Udrde ‘del trato Limpio con Vuba. LUISA: que: de cso taubién ya se enteréd. ; HPs ue todavia no confirman nada, pero pa- veces esas que el que jo haya hecho, estaba loca, indepen-~— dientemente ¢ ‘de que my: ‘bien podta desvidrsele eso a KENNEDY "digamos en las condiciones Internacionales iy las condiciones sy internas de Estados Unidos, puos...." LUISA: y externa mas, principalmente. . HF: por eso te digo en lo Intexr- i L i i ‘ t i i : bgidente de uno de los comités =| macional .... se podia ver bastante afectada y no wucden --— sufrir un gran cambio, con un earibio de Presidente 6 con una cosa de ese tipo; sobre todo UNC eses LUISA Lo interrum pe y pregunta si era gringo el que lo maté y HF indica que- si, pero dijo que habia estado en Rusia, que querfa naciona Liszarse ruso, pero que Rusia no le habia querido dar la na-— cionalizacidm.... LUISA se sorprende y dice cémo alla saben cosas, carajo !  cofio } ™, que sabe ruso muy bien y que adenas éste ‘tipo habia ido con las fuerzas de Di DL a la sierra, 6 queria ir, algo asi, -- : | quien sabe como DIEDING RO Sue reese: ~  AWYSArque + grave. . HF: ae TAT pregunta WIN mas ha sabido por ahi- oy LUISA dice que PROTIB NFER) = so, que hace rato se en teraron y ya estdn...e. HF:que esta muy mal esok que = estaba comiendo ‘con unos amigos y comentando la Revista Po~ litic, y la cual ya salié, cuando uno Itegé y les dié la _— noticia; que &1 se sorprendié y ereyé gue. los estaba vaci--— lando. LUISAr que ya estuvo mirando la revista, pues ~- precisament: la llevdé el compafiero..... HP ssjue su ---— | 1 Gh eo yy Sy Bao EER te sort nina when! oie Soe Sm mc acne ror ipLanernin ere pe
13-00000 Nard : Vey ~ a ” - amigo comentdé que lo habia matac pente se habia dado cuenta que los Estados i oe a i . tado Texas y por venganza mato al PV: fud— broma, pero no le ecretian hasta gue les digo ygne orendieran- 2 ele . # . : el radio; que asi lo hicieron y aha se entcraron; que le —— ultimo que acti ae eaguchag: im momentito, eS que ese-. ® 2% » ertat sll UH ea EE tipo es un cal! “OStaLD, qué “selcreéGque éste sea, pero no ha confesado nada. PROM BITED” 2ELO que ya. saben gue habl ity , : ° ruso ¥y que pertenece i Olar fol Cuba; que ya saben que — el tino queria nacionalizarse, pero el Lipo no ha confesado. HF le da la razon, agres ndo que ‘podria ser gue trataran de encontrar digamos una solucién.de. ese tipo, porque...... - LUISA"™después de pedirle que se espere un momentico, pide — que le" diga. HE s nostxos pensamos que si. acaso hubiera sido 6 si acaso pareeta eeee publica 6 que habfa sido vno ~ . de los segregacionistas 6 en contra de la integracién los _ que habian asesinado a KENNEDY , entonces habia digamos, po- SiDEKLL dad de que surgiera una especie de" lucha civil 6 gue— rra civil en Estados Unidos; digamos que se agudisaran mas— las contradicciones,’ la sitaacién critica por la que pasa — el pais, entonces estabamos comentande aqui, qne encontraran ‘una resolucién de ese tipo no?, ya mas ‘internacional; 6 + lo van a encontrar 6 fué cierto, quien sabe; pues vamos ae- . ver que pasa. LUISA sonrie y pregunza qué pasard. _ HF: quien sabe. LUISA: figtrate, uno; dos, tres y Yesm 'ya son tres (oof li ‘HF: yo creo gue : va a ser el tem a a IND fiesta esa de SILVIA. LUISA: que la PR ee no podian ir. a HE pregunta por ell DB ie bara ‘que des-ués digan — queestamos celebrando la muerte de KENNEDY, entonces hablamo: con SILVIA y ésta aceptéd suspenderla y dejarla para la seme na que viene, pero que no coincida con 1, entierre (se rie)". HF: que hay que toner en cuenta eso. _ LUISA: gue sera o- 'desiués del duclo, del luto y codas esas porquerias. a a HP: okey; pregunta dénde se va a quedar ahora y LUISA coment: FL Ce ree eae x wevey neti eunee Zune a! bate eee
13-00000 ~e - Cc. M2 .~22 ThOV . 63). sere CBI TED o..- quedar en la emba jada, ‘sin "embargo ered. que hoy no serd - . a) e* 6. , . ¢ _— _¢ : ® : ” : ° gre ahord piensa mudarse ¢ésta noch . ‘ . ¢ . tora. HEF pregunta si ahd ya 8 que si, pero no sabe como esté la para el aecropuexrto y no - i vii NONE CAEN ese posiblemente mafiana, posible, pow si BAN ¥ EP af aN Eo be en la mafiana en (ae ae | Pa - i HF: que entonces {fl Nab de carey tiene coche oi’ yeiteeulo de estudios, se mudard. pill mek rd en la embajada 6 en la casa, ya que si no,se quedan en la-- LUTSA: que la procure emba jade, se ird para su casa, en donde estar& como a las — 10. HPF acepta.- 173.- 173. Entrada 1810.- DURAN pregunta por URBIPTA y “LUISA des— oy pués de decirle que no estd, indica que le ‘pa su recado y URBIETA le dijo que no recordaba cual era su asunto y no —-~ + sabia su teléfono. - DURAN: sue no tiene su teléfono, pues unicamente tiene su direccién. | . LUISA presunta ecudl es— su asunto y DURAN. dice que es sobre el Iineral de RUTILO | ne de yaxrte del Ing.} fONROY. LUTSA:que lLlame mafiana, — DURAN acepta,~ 18h, 184, _ Entradas. ur pregunta por CONCEPCION y LUISA informa —- . . WIM , que anda vor IER ent CBUCTION:s* *= le hablard nds sro - , tarde. LUI As que esta bueno.-— : a ; “ P ROMBITED 188, . : Entradas sin contestacion.«+ 202.- ~ Mo- 4 Wyo \ Lil - PROB ee se nnmmeasns su eset een pone Fmt oe one oan seen nam ED neeretne ceee Peeper ners th: ny oary ants : . a : wt
&) (9 Sie RePRM YP asks INISA if she has ned addy et OY & (HP snlles avd comments t that 1s very bad; thet at rirst they though Ue one of the rorcklonexy extrenists “Yes, of course, I nev — sho vere egainst Integsratitica and that, pub it seams thet thay vipprehended a type vho is 5 nothine More than the president of ons of the comalbbess of the air Play Lor — Cuba, LUISA: that she kney this also. Wr: ‘That nothing has peoa confirmed yet, : : ‘bat it seexs.. sthat the cne whe did st, WAS Crazy, Independant ly oe ths fact that ‘this could bave peen salad short REMEDY "given the inbernablonal ¢ ondltlons end Lhe Internal conditions of ‘the Tntbed States, welds ee” ‘LISA: And externally, : principally. HP: That’s woy £ BBY 5 intomationally.. tt seemed quite afferted — | end they can't go through e grest change, with 2 chanze of President or sonsthing of that sort; above all, thet. LUISA: dnterrupts and asks if it was a Erloge that yi2tea hin and HF cays ye 28, but said thet he had been in Russie, and that he wanted ‘to becone a ‘Russian citizen, but Russis bad not vented to nationalize hin... . LUISA : is surprised and says "Listen ~ ~ they really know things theret" EPs ‘Yes: ‘that. he Inows Russian very wel and nesides this type had: gone wit oh ‘prael's. forces 7 7 to the Slerra, | or wanted “4 NEE ANY iN who knows hor f at VASe TUESAt Pretty serLonse Hrs ouarrall (Ie EG aN has Learned and. LUISA ust t, the al Little while and thes ettees mo A . Bes heat it's ell very bad, thet ke vas ernting with sone friends ana commenting rove the Revista Politica waich had just come out, when someone Cane ena Save them the news; that he ves surprised and thovght he vas Josing. TUISA: ‘Tost she had | been looking at the pegazine, that the comfade had brought ‘it t6 her...H?s That | " moepy nO. 7 PAGE Js) OF , eo
13-00000 ‘ a eNO, aa a - Pel rr: hte frlend commented that a Mexican had ktLled him, thet ouddinly he had realized nea if cy ate of revenge ‘XLLlea the President; alll Wi Bean 7 he told thea to tim on the radio: that's what they Sie yl Pa iad aout 2b; | “that the » task he bad | Wii LOT] mh heard, a omer BE, was that ‘thet type is one feu that it ta belisved 4 thet this is the one, ‘hut he has not confessed emythingee > LESA Bub they already - | keow that he speaks Russian and belongs to the Pro-Cuba Comatitess thet they 8 ‘that the United Stetes had eepcor cate Kooy thet it wa as alla joke, but +o AGI Gh St lpe : alrerdy hnow That he 2 wanted to natlonalize binsel?, bat he hes not confossed. a says she is rig 2 adding ‘that it could be that they tried to fing Sone ‘let's Bay ‘solution from him, because... LISA alter aslding hin to valt. & minute, ASS : him . to goon. EF: We think that if 2t had been or © had seemed. ..muiblic or hed been’ one of the segregationists or against integration who had killed Kennedy, ‘shen | _ there was, let's Bay, the possibility that a sort of civil var would arise in the | United States; thet | contradictions would be sharpened, the critical atiuation the country is going through, then we were coanenting here, that they Found 2 resolu- tion in this type, no? More International; they wid. Pind Jt or 5b vas erus,vho | Imows; Let's see what =o PR ‘OONCTE ON with | ieppen. Hes “Who Inova, JUISA: Imagine, one, be UD) Jul Le makes three (she Laughs) « He: I think thet it will be o PABA that party of SIYIA's. | LUISA: They suspanded it becense they eould not Bor HS asks why, ard LUISA Saye "so that after they can say that We are chserving the death of KENNEDY, then ve spoke with SYLVIA enas che nereed to suspend Lt and Leave at wntil next week, but at | “""" wt not coinmeide with the burinl (she Jaughs)", " oe Tha ate “hes to de taken Into. | “ gecount. LUISA: That it WiLL ‘be after the mourning ani all of that nonsense. Bemeree ce mee SP ANG = uyoazal OM ESSERE “yas. be oe LoD iF ae) . a, are TE TO ———— [tre routinet Toe a LAINE METS 2 ea FUE US Eaten Pra Pin a he 5 Oa tee . . ae . : SEL andi ne nec comderrer _
13-00000 ani a EP: Olmy; he asks where ough EPRNIN if Tee and, LUISA comments that now if AY i . . \ ebnane). HP anke if tho} phe plans to move tonight to Ic Yt oe" ja lmow everything now, and LUISA [np NG iit BED know how the thing is, or if. they wilt have to stay in the eDARSY 5 hovaver bel Loves tat Loadsr it wil. not be possible, because everyona bas gone to the alrport and the exsbassy has no car, — however possibly tonorroy mornings instead. or going ‘Oo the study circle, she will a move. Hp: Then he will eal her tomorrey. LUISA: To try the enbassy or at, the . : ‘house, 2, since if ‘they WL not stay ot the exbass SY, Bhe WLLL go hone where ghe WIL. | ba at about 10. HP aceepts. A REPRODUCTION. PRORIBITED Ky ORT gepnutlt we wie ee Alea Nl Meet ater feed Sng I gk age
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION SECRET «= PRRONIIBITED TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 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. eAcribed above. FOLA No. 622- bUS2 Ro CO Cas REPRODUCTION sm tis;
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13-00000 | | cance _ PEED nEPRONUER ion) - XAAZ-AZSUG PROB! : “Re ort te Varren Qomietselon say: eu“ Lee H. " OSWALD wh: eh Cid oli ssemine el le fere. ogni es (ie Oe-F te3) MEMORANDUM FOR: Me. J. Lae Rankin SUBJECT: _ ° CIA Dissemination of Informati SW AL, tad i. Reference is mada to paragraph threes of your letter, “ dated 16 Marek 1964. You requested that the Commission be furnished a cegy ef the dlasemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD made to several Government agencies by CLA on 16 Cetober 1963. 2 An eusct copy of this dlasemination (Out Mesaaga No. 74873) by teletype, {s attached. It was tranersltted to the De- partment of Siate, Federal Bureay of luvestigation and Depart- ment of tha Navy. A copy was concurrently made avallabie by hand to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 3. Please note thas CSWALD‘a middle same waa errone- ously given as “Heary" ia the sabject line aad la paragraph twe of the dissemina CUE (@xFRA eaveenaseure in the message te the Nawy di: Opn i . Ne ») The maiden surname of Mrs. OSWALD in ms ‘4 akbiny Heted ag “PUSAKOVA". Ca 23 high » atelatyzed message | J Chat ane (Oat No. T7973} was sent to of the Navy reiorriag tc to Out No. 74673, and requesting that the Navy furnish CIA as secon as pousible two copies of the moal recent photegraph of | OSWALD that was avaliable, for use in checking the identity of the Les CSWALD In Mazico City. These photographs had not been supplied te this Agency by 22 Newember 1963. Our come clusion that the photograph did not refer te OSWALD was based om press photos generally available on 23 November 1983. Document - Number 622-a58 “eapy SOBA Og ¢ | pTa _FRT2 goss: acre . HmspC. a ATTS, for FOIA Review on JUN ‘org au Ths KITS ee asq2.47 ee : fe
13-00000— “REPRODUCTION  §& Thia memorandum and the Abin ehemanéa ts convey infor ‘mation eriginating with very seasilive scurtes and methods, They theraiore bea am appropriate genaitivity Indinaker. REPRODUCTIORscss: tes PROUBITED clin a Copy of Cut Message 74673 B - Gapy of Out Message 77973 Distribution: Orig & 3 Addressee 1 - C/CI/R&A 1 - G/CI/SIG 1 - C/WH/3 ,- 201-289248 CI/R &A/ TRH pra 23 March 1964 2- OdP ——-REPRODUETION ‘PROHIBITED
Attachment & Out Massage No. 74473, dated.19 Ccteber 1963 and filed at 9800 hours, te Department of State, Fsdeval Bureau of Investigation, eee RON. a. ont cetober PROWTED..... soares in Maxice reported that an American male, who identified himself a8 Lee OSWALD, contacted the Soviet Embaasy in Mexico Clty inquiving whether the Embassy had received any sews can- cerning a telegram whieh had bees sent te Washington, The Amsrican waa deserised as approximately 33 years old, with en athbatle bulld, about ala feet tall, witha reesdiag hairline. 2 it ls belipwed that OSWALD may be lientical te Las Henry OSWALD, born on 19 Ceteber 1939 in New Ovleans, Loutslama, A farmer U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Uaioa la Ceteber 1989 and later mida arrongement through tie United States Embassy in Moscow fo return ta the United 2 * Statas wlth his Rasagiee aad thelr ehlid, — 3. The informetion In -pe . nated to your representatives ia Mesles Clay. Aay farther taiorreation received on thia sabjeck wil? be farnished you, ATT 1 tes XAAZ~225q¢ SCP | Dol 237243, a J PA Rava ee
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:  BepRODWETION | ve nr (  XAAZ-22 5% | eo 4 | ss - (5 7 at Mer 64 Out Teletype Maasaga No. 77973, dated 23 Cetober 1993 and filed at 1310 hours, te the Department of the Navy. cafe RODEO 13 Ceteber 1963, regarding possible presente af subject ia Mexico City. It ls requested that you forward te this oifies _ *$ s00m as pdasibls twe copies af the most recent photograph. ' ped Bove of anbjeect, We wil] forward thom te our recresenta- tive in Mexico, whe wlll attempt to determine if the Lee CSWALDS tn Mexleo City and subject are the same Indivichsal. REPRODUCTION ‘PROKIGITED oa - qAe CA 2A Ly . nen oe rs Pe te wm ATT 2 XAAZ-225q¢ |S COPY (Ol 2BAQEV | AAR bP a . ea |
PRODUCTION TN ne 7 PROMIBITED j , > .* e. . ° _ Revert te Lavreu aww: ree, A stat ne tule gu ss He a 6S» fA LD? ahs eh CIA olissuminated lbatera. essarsinet Aa Cie eT G. (sh Ste, FBI Nevy ancl INS 7 MEMORANDUM FOR: . me Je Lee Rants oe ae ALD, eated “Fi 6) aA Ze Sar x aitised aie laren Weel i i ine eee 1. Redaresce ta ronda to paragraph three od your ieiter, re dated 16 Sdazels 1964,. You reqmealad thai tae Cosmmmizaion be « iuralished a copy of the disasmination on Las iarvey OSWALD. _ msia to several Geverament. # agencies by CEA on 16 Cetoiner 1963. . 2. “Am enset copy of thi dlaseentuation {Out Mesange Ne. Z 74373) by telatyse, Is attached, It was transmitted tothe Da nariment of State, Fedaral Bureas of Investigation and Desari-. meng of the Navy. A cosy was concurrently made avallokie by a hand to she Immigration and Natarclination Sezvice. a a "3. Please note that SSWALD's middls name was erone= ously given as “Henry” in the subject ine and Is paragrashiwe. of the atspeminadon {The Sama arrer occurs in tha message —__ to tha Navy di zagzaps four, below.) The maldan = Suan of sare ED aay listed a3 "PUSAKOVA An, 4, Gn 23 Octobe: zroet “ate > 2 telatyped t mesaags / {Ont No. T7973} wag seus | all nest of the Mavy refsrzlag to.” ° Out No. 74673, andUrdiiieat hee aya: avy furnish ClA as ad0n a3 posslbia wo copies of the ee recent shoiogrank ojo OSWALD thas was avaliable, for usa in checking the ldanthy of the Lee OSWALD in Mexice City. These photographs hac not been supplied to this Agexcy by 22 November 1953. Cus con- elnsian that the photogranh did not refer to OSWALD was based «oa press phates generally ayallabla on 23 November 2953. 622,958. oe : pomOOC 7 Cugssee | Document Number © Seek 2 ATTS
| _Aepanucmm  § This mnemmorandi=y and ths atiachrmenis cosvey bor miatica eriginaitins with vary censliive scartsas and methods. they theveioreS bearan appropriate seagitivity indbeatas. AP hnowena a PRET Binet far Fane LS _ — | BT Soyo cetera | ~ Copy of Gat Message TH778 oe . Distribution; _ *Orig & 3 Addressee - 1 t _f{ - ae “eh on 7
Attachments A Cut Massage Nb. 74573, dated 15 Cctobar 2563 and fed ab 3353 » to Desartment of Utaty, ET Hussan of ingvatigasies, _ stecxico reparted hak aa a male, we iiontified hisaselE | as Les oSwALD, contaated the Soviet Embassy tn Beasts so Chey | napa ohulaer tua E Embassy bod received ax anys ‘mas cone ° corning a telngsame whieh bad byen seat te Washington. ‘tbe, os ae —— . Amarin ' was described as spyemainctaly 33 FRars ata, ett . ; oe _ aR athiatle Balla, about atx fant ts, witha sending aalstion : ener ae | Bi La belived that OSWALD may ba Hatieal to ies of 7 Beasy OSALD, born os 1 1B Cotabar 1939 in New Orleans, — . | Seotetane & former U.S. BESSEOS Usiee deferted to the 3 Sevier ' = ‘alos ia October 39389 and latay mada arrengement Taeowgh | he in Moscow to retaes to the United” | United States Embs ca Statea wich his P24 The tator=etion iss us on — natod to yoor reprasentatives im Moules 0 Chay. Any favthes infoxsmation received on th ie sub}: set wit he farnished yee 7 ATR B al BES,
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Out T Latyoe Meaas 84 NS, T1378, doted 13 Ccisber 1953 snd ee $ ‘copanuenin Navy. — oo 7 . - Mexico City, “ie ba requested that yee forward to thia otftes, . ns coom aa posalbie swe coplas of the most recess photograph | ey you have of snbject. Wa with forward them to-oar reptvsonian | Bee to Meteo, whe will attemp? to determine if the Leo oan “PTD “ee = AT. mal pr
13-00000 cot «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 een 24 OUG TION ows Ter- ‘REPRODUCTION — PROGMBIMED SECRET =
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISITED SECRET 27 November 1963 | -CSCI~3/778 ,881 (WH/3/Mexico) Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD, Soviet Activities. in Mexico City, 18 - 24 November 1963. Recipient: FBI. *27 November 1963 _ DIR 85182 (WH/3/Mexico) Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. On 23 November, Richard Thomas GIBSON, an American living in Switzerland, who was acquainted with OSWALD, made statements regarding latter to a close friend in Bern. , Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. [Warren Commission] 27 November 1963 DIR 85195 (C/WH/3) United States Ambassador to Mexico requests passage of message to Secretary of State RUSK, Mr. McCONE, and Mr. HOOVER. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. 27 November 1963 © DIR 85196 (C/WH/3) According to information from Nicaraguan Security Service, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte was a Nicaraguan intelligence source from 1962 to August 1963. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. *27 November 1963 — DIR 85199 (WH/3/Mexico) Information solicited from Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. , Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. [Warren Commission] 27 November 1963 DIR 85222 (WH/3/Mexico) Subject: Silvia T. DURAN, Mexican Employee of the Cuban Embassy [sic - Consulate] in Mexico City, contact of Lee Harvey OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. [003527 COPY NO.
OL SGOUSTE SECRET the personnel of the Cuban _Embassy there was a great deal of discussion. Recipients: FBI, State, White House. [Warren Commission] © 29 November 1963 DIR 85691 Series of anonymous telephone calls to the office of the Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia, by a man claiming to have knowledge about a Soviet plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service re- ceived copy. 29 November 1963 DIR 85714 Release of Silvia DURAN for second time on 28 November. | Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. . | | | | 29 November 1963 | DIR 85744 Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. 29 November 1963 _ DIR 85758 Translation of interrogation of Silvia DURAN and Horacio DURAN Navarro. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. [Warren Commission] - 29 November 1963 DIR 85770 Series of incidents which have produced a report alleging advance information on assassination. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. ~ fWarren Commission] ~ 29 November 1963 Unnunbered memorandum Telephone contact with S. PAPICH concerning rumor ‘that OSWALD had made a bank deposit. Recipient: FBI. . COPY NO. ne