104-10400-10296 O _ h November 1963. | 1. Our first information on OSWALD cane from\a technical oo. Operation An] Mexico City[and vas cabled in oi| 9 October 1963. It a revealed that on.1 October 1963 Lee OSWALD had been in touch there | with Soviet Consul Valery KOSTIKOV about a telegram which the | - Sovlet Embassy was supposed to send on him to the Soviet Enbassy in | Washington. The date shoved that OSWALD hed also been at the Soviet Exbassy on 28 September. Traces showed OSWALD was a former U. S.. defector to the USSR and on 10 October CIA Headquarters notified the ‘FBI, State and the Navy (OSWALD had been a Marine). Our\Mexico Station\ | was told to pasa its information on OSWALD to the Mexico City offices of the Fal, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Embassy. © Oktags “So 2— APR 1976 Since our Agency is not supposed to investigate U. S. citizens abroad without. special request » we Gid nothing further on the case. 2. After the assassination of President Kennedy on 22 November, } \ [Mexico Station} which immediately recalled its: earlier report on ‘OSWALD | [end cabled us about it) began researching all its files and records for - reports which might relate to him. It turned up pictures of a man - (¥6 ~ for FOIA Review on - believed to be OSWALD entering the Soviet and Cuban Embassies on various days|in October, (including 1 October;| but when some of these 2. pictures were sent to the FBI in Dallas they proved to be someone other CLASSIFICATION REVIEW. Ba HAY 197 CONDUCTED ON. E__WIMPDET CL BYLIZALOS 26 Noy 63. DAOV-ASTAHG | This document [0130-0592] the same as document [0429-0149]. Doc. 0130 was DENIED; the other ; an document 0429 was released with deletions!
13-00000 , FEN yy co - a a -2Q= than OSWALD. ‘Meact eo Station| has, to date, found no pictures of OSWALD entering. the Soviet or Cuban Embassy. 3. The search a1 reveal more data\from technical operations, however. This information, | which cones in in great masses;| haa not been previously associated with OSWALD because his name is not actually mentioned in it, but the subject matter shows it is about nim, | end. our expert monitor says the voice is identical with the . -wotes of 1 October known to be OSWALD's s.| | ok. This further \technical| information covers(e round-robin of] \telephone calls and] visits which OSWALD made to the Soviet and Cuban Eubassies in Mexico City between 27 September and 3 October 1963. This has been supplemented by reports on his travel in and out of Mexico obtained by the U. 8. Consulate in the border town of Nuevo Laredo from | ' Mexican Immigration Service records. | 5. ih brief, all this information shows that Lee Harvey .OSWALD entered Mexico (apparently by car) at Nuevo Laredo on 26 September | 1963 , claiming he was. a photographer, living in New Orleans end bound for Mexico City. On 27 Septenber he was in Mexico City| phoning the| [soviet Eubassy]to ask for a vise, 80 he could go to Odessa, USSR. On 28 September, he was at the Cuban Esbassy [and Silvia DURAN, a Mexican — -Enployee of. the Cuban Embassy, telephoned the Soviet Embassy about his | | problem,] It seems that OSWALD | (whose neme is not mentiénea)]| wanted a Cuban transit visa so he could go to Cuba and wait there for a Soviet -3 fh 7 Sobral
13-00000 / mene oth entanenaaes GEREN Ge 8 ems Re tee exact ANGI OE Oat NNLRe «4° SNE meee etsise enerarccrincetehtataaa we Sie ey ues dani ee nn he vise vhich would permtt him and his wife to go on to the Soviet | on. |si.via DURAN asked assurance that the Russians would grant him the vice. ‘A while later a Soviet official calls Silvia DURAN back and explains that the visa applicant had been dealing with the Soviet Consulate in Washington about the same matter and that they coulda not be sure that he would ever get the Soviet vise. The Soviet official added that the epplicant had a letter showing he belongea to an organization in favor of Cuba. Silvia DURAN and . the Soviet official agree to table the natter.| 6. On 28 September 1963, OSWALD again visits the Cuban Embassy {ena talks to Silvia DURAN] about the same matter, {ana she phones the Soviet Embassy. OSWALD also talks to a Soviet official on her phone and says he will, come to the Soviet Eubassy end give him what is apparently a forwarding address where he can be reached. There is | Ww some hint this address may be in Cuba | \ 7 \on 1 October, OSWALD has his phone conversation vith Soviet | VAP oa Consul KOSTIKOV about his visa, and on the same day, OSWALD phones cen ee “es usb the "soviet Military Attache about the same matter. The Military Attache | | - gives him the number of the Consul. Finally, on 3 October, OSWALD . we Phoned the Military Attache again and tried to talk about a visa, but “ter oa the Military Attache again referred him to the Consul and give him” - . 7] the right phone number. ‘| . 8. "That same day, 3 October 1963 > OSWALD drove rove back into the % | United States.at the Nuevo Laredo-Laredo, Texas crossing point. He A Porras : ° . i
13-00000 ey w)i ee had travelled on a Mexican Tourist Card in Liew of paesport. 9. [On 23 Novenber 1963, Mexican authoritics,| who” who” get “thé game) “technical information which wen dojjand who had poticed the name of Lee OSWALD in it, arrested Silvia DURAN and her husband and interrogated then. She confirmed the information given abotc » 88ylng that Lee + OSWALD hid professed, to be a Commmist and an edunirer of Castro. She and her husband are being held incommmicade end, their arrest will not be made known, for the tine being.| 10. Observation of the Soviet and Cuban Enbessies in Mexico and of their principal intelligence officers, including KOS'TIKov ; since the assassination of President Kennedy, [by both technical and physical, surveillance,| shows nothing unusual. . li. \Mexican President Lopez Mateos is awere of this case nt) e (Of the technical information — involved | 3 | He will doubtless support any further police action which ig necessary |
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