v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : ’ CURRENT STATUS : ‘DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10173-10004 HQ 105-82555-2235 Document Information DOS AMEMBASSY MX SECRETARY OF STATE 11/28/1963 4 LIAISON WITH US EMBASSY IN Mx PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret -1B;1C Redact 02/01/1994 APPROVAL OF CIA AND DOS WW 53244 Docld:32171185 Page 1 Date: Peleased under the John Kennedy bSsassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:iNW 53244 Date: 6-12-2017 10/14/20
HW 535244 ON Salt Pr Vesssariin sie BY $915 Lane Veltee Wk THEY hy DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON February 8, 1964. MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. I am attaching copies of telegrams exchanged in the Department's Roger Channel with the Embassy in Mexico City « a whieh bear on the Oswald case and which the Department is —.. obligated to make available to the Warren Commission. Beeause of the sensitivity of some of the material in this. exchange (see, for example, paragraph 6 in Rubassy's tele-._ gram 1201 of November 28, 1963), we will seek an understanding: with the Commission that there be an opportunity to review-any: _ {report which might be based on such material and which the. DocId: 32171185 Commission may wish to make public. contain information that may have been developed by your: representatives in Mexico City, I would appreciate receiving your eoncurrence in our turning these messages over to the Warren Commission for study. . Page 2? Since these messages ct M . Gale r UNRE -. Casper. i Ar. Callahan___ { Mr. : Coe Mr. DeLcdth. Me EVER * Tele. Room... Me Py otter _ Miss Gav} CORDED COPY FILED IN +7
TO. SECSTATE- WASRDC—— STATE. GRNC- Py ‘SENT SECSTATE (1209 FLASH ROGER» CHANNEL, mo A FOR: SECRETARY RUSK. AND ALEXIS JOHNSON MANY THINKS FOR YOUR TELEGRAM 961.- PERHAPS I SHOULD ) DESCRIBE. ERIEFLY ‘THE BACKGROUND FOR MY- ‘RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE OSWALD | oo IN, READING: OSWALD °S RATHER’ COMPLETE. DOSSIER I GOT AN “PRESSION OF A TRUCULENT, AGGRESSIVE, DEMANDING PERSON, TOO Lazy ‘TO STICK LONG WITH EITHER SCHOOL. OR JOB,) WHO WAS IN REBELLION GAINST SOCIETY AND WHO HAD IN CONSEQUENCE. TURNED TO.MARX AND LENIN, HE HAD’ LITTLE MONEY, THE. OBLIGATION. TO SUPPORT -A WIFE AND CHILB AND. ‘MBITION. I.DID NOT GET AN. Ti PRESSTON.-OF: A MAN WHO WOULD KILL A’. ;PERSON HE HAD NEVER MET FOR A CAUSE,. WITHOUT OFFERS FROM THE APPARTUS: ‘TO. WHICH HE APPARENTLY BELONGED WHEN. THERE WAS NOTHING IN IT FOR. | ‘HIM. FROM THE BEGINNING I THREREFOR HAD A. FEELING-SUBJECTIVE AND \. UNPROVEN TO BE SURE-- THAT EITHER: IN MEXICO OR THE UNITED - STES 7 oe ‘SOMEONE HAD GIVEN HIM. AN ASSIGNMENT AND MONEY. 20°.THIS. FELLING WAS STRENGTHENED BY HIS. ATTEMPT TO GET. A TRANSIT - NISA.THROUGH CUBA AND, APPARENTLY, & RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT VISA SO THAT HE COULD SETTLE DOWN..IN-ODESSA.. ASIDE’ FROM THE - OBVIOUS. PRE PARAT ION’ FOR A "GET AWAY” THE DESTINATION: OF ODESSA STRUCK ME-AS ODD... - WHY WOULD A PENNILESS, ‘UNEDUCATED = “WORKER WITH A FAMILY WHOSE LAST. » RUSSIAN’ JOB. APPARENTLY. EARNED | HIM: ‘BARELY ENOUGH TO KEEP BODY AND HW 535244 SOUL: TOGETHER | WANT TO. GO. TO. ODESSA? ONE. POSSIBLE EX PLANAT. ION WOULD | \V 0 “ Docld:32171185 Page 3 .
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[pxssING: ‘OF THE 65500 -DOLLARS. IN MY OPINION IT HAS PROBATIVE’ VAL HAVANA’S CONCERN IS UNDERSCORED BY. IT gURJTTEN PROTEST TO MEXICO. colofiutoar siniltatcoust pein y Tie LRM) ) . We Tn E To ffALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY[WITH THE INTERCEPTS GOT “ALVARADO’S ‘STORY... SOMOZA COULD OF COURSE HAVE PUT HIM UP TO: THE STORY OR HE MAY-EXPECT MONEY FROM US OR WANT PUBLICITY. NEVERTHELESS: THE ooc~” WEALTH OF DETAIL HE GIVES IS STRIKING AND WITH ONE EXCEPTION WE HAVE ~ THRU FAR BEEN UNABLE TO FIND EVIDENCE WHICH CONTRADICTS A SINGLE. | DETAIL. THIS EXCEPTION IS THAT WE CAN FIND NO EMBASSY EMPLOYEE ~ WHO ADMITS TO “HAVING TALKED TO ALVARADO CUSING THE NAME JUAN ~ KNECHT (PHONETIC) BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. | _ HE _HAS IMPRESSED EMBASSY OFFICERS WHO HAVE TALKED WITH HIM. HE o HAS OFFERED TO TESTIFY EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HIS LIFE IS IN DANGER. . HE IS A DOUBLE AGENT ( I UNDERSTAND. HE IS A COMMUNIST RECRUT#D -FOR TRAINING IN CUBA AND. ALSO BEING PAID THE THE NICARAGUAN SERVICE) _ BUT I DO NOT SEE HOW THE RUSSIANS OR THE CUBANS COULD WANT HIS ~~ _ STORY TOLD. HIS.STORY CONTRADICTS EVERYTHING WE HAVE SEEN HERE ABOUT ., COMMUNIST EFFORTS TO GET_ACROSS THE IDEA THAT RIGHTISTS NOT 2: “COMMUNISTS WERE INVOLVE Te ns “KNOWN COVER. FOR CASTRO INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONSASFOR THE ADDRESS. OF THE OBSCURE HOTEL HE WAS STAYING AT.. THIS } ROBATIVE VALUE TOG. ‘95 I DO NOT PRETEND THAT. ALL OF THIS.IS BY ANY MEANS PROOF. THAT OSWALD WAS CASTRO’S AGENT. I UNDERSTAND HOW FATEFUL MIGHT BE THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WAS AND HOW ‘DIFFICULT AND RISKY IT WOULD: SE TO TRY TO DISENGAGE AND SEPARATE THE SOVIET UNION FROM CASTRO ~ © cI. IT WERE TO. BECOME ESTABLISHED FACT THAT CASTRO WAS INVOLVEDs: | BUT..I CANNOT AGREE WITH THE SUGGESTION IN DEPTEL 969 THAT IT DOES _ NOT APPEAR THAT THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY ARRESTS SAND INTERROGATIONS OF THOSE ALVARADO SAYS ARE INVOLVED. I MUST =| ..,. #LSO RESPECTIFULLY RECORD MY DISAGREEMENT WITH MY LATEST INSTRUCTION THAT WE TAKE NO FURTHER INITIATIVE TO ENCOURAGE THE MEXICANS . TO ARREST AND INTERROGATE. = =~. a? o' 8» WE KNOW THAT OSWALD HAD TO GO TO CUBAN Stan’ Tie soon es 0 *" 10,488 THIS 4S IT MAY, DEPARTMENT SHOULD CLEA as 3 . D CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT - Ex cg ag conn ANB on ort FROM CUBA FOR PAST ARRESTS AND FROM. a mM THE RARDENAS= COMM ‘ION OF THE PRI, ALREADY WISH TO RELEASE ©; ~ DURAN AND MEXICANS ARE: PRESSING US FOR CONCURRENCE. MEXICANS OBIOUSL’ _ WELL’ BE GREATLY RELIE ESSURE . FOR. INVESTIGATION. |: 'WILLNOT. BE. EASY: T.0).GET. MEX TCANS .CRANKEDUP.AGA IN: ONCE WEDS.) 0% VED “IF. WE TAKE. OFF. PR ¥:TO°GET.. MEX | CRANKE HW 53244 Docld:32171185 Page 5 .
aa PAGE. FOUR’ RUESMO 30S ECRET C4). MEXICANS MUST BE TOLD. IMMEDIATELY WHETHER: WE WANT THEN TO CONTINUE, WITH INVESTIGATION, IF WE DO WE- MUST NOT ONLY TAKE. EH TO “> POSITION BUT GIVE THEM. A BASIS FOR DOING SO, INCLUDING MAKING ALVARADO :AVATLABLE: TO MEXICANS. OTHERWISE MEXICAN WILL DROP CASE’ ON’ THEIR. OWN - AND. THIS QUESTION WILL. HAVE BEEN DECIDED BY DEFAULT. — OUR SAYING NOTHING WILL BE INTERPRETED AS LACK OF US INTEREST. (B).]MEXICANS ARE PRESSING US FOR IMMEDIATE nobel ve “SHOULD” E TURNED LOOSE BUT KEPT UNDER SURVEILLANCE. WH HW 535244 “REQUEST. IMMEDIATE ANSWER. TO. THIS SPECIFIC QUEST.ION ofg Pas WITH HIN? SHALL WE SEND -THIS:TO NTERROBATION 7. SHALL. "EMBASSY. ae MIMP ates: “Advance Docld:32171185 Page 6