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14-00000 We Discover Lee OSWALD in Mexico City CIA did preaduce ore very significant piece of information on Lee OSWALD before he shot President Kennedy. On 1 Octoder 1963, our Mexico City Station intercepted a telephome call Lea OSWALD made from somevlace in Mexico City to the Soviet Embassy there, using his own raze. Speaking broken Rusadan and using hia true nome, CSWALD was talkin, to the Enbassy guard, OBYEDKOY, wae often answers the phone. OSWALD said he had visited the Embassy tbe previous Saturday (25 Ceptembar 1959) and spoken to 2 ‘consul whose name he hea forgotten, and who had promised to send a tele- ma > graa for him to Washington. He wanted to lmow if there vere "anything new.” The guard sald If the consul was dark it was (Valeriy Vladsirovich) KOSTIXOY. Tee suard checked with someone else anil said that the hessaze had gone out but no answer bad been received. Re then hunz upe « This piece of information was produced fron a telephone tap center |
14-00000 nter produtes great the Soviet Enbassy in Mexico City was probably the Lee C&WALD wae hea nasees of telephone intercepts which are transeribed and reviewed by our small staff in Mexico City. By 9 October, the OSWALD selephone conversa- tion ef 1 Cetober had been transcribed and a exumary of it cabled to Vasainzton. The — Lee ceva meant nothing special to our Hexice - City Station, but in their report they dia judge him to be an American male. The cabled report was received in Washington on 9 October and checked a in our files, where it vas immediately noted that the Lee OSWALD phoning | defected to tha Soviet Union in 1959 and returned to the USA in 1962. On 10 October 19635 the day after the report from Mexico City, CIA Hesdquarters sent out e cabled report about Lee OSWALD's phone call to the Soviet’ . Enbassy3 the report vent to the FBI, the Departuent of State (becouse OSWALD was a US citizen), ana to the Lavy Departent (vecause he was a former Karine.) The cabled report to these agencies hishlighted the aera a . a i { Wi rid a Bra Fae HY nes fed i tae
14-00000 LikLihpod that the Lee OSWALD mentioned was probably the former defector. A copy of this same cable was delivered by hand to the Imaiiration ana Naturalization Service, with vntoh we heve no cable link. The sane aay a long cable vent out to Kexice City informing our Station of the back- ground of defector Lee OSWALD and asking for nore information. Our Station was instructed to sass its inforzetion on the phere call to the Mexice City offices of the FAI, the Enbasay, the Naval Attache, ana the Imicra- tion ana Fetuyationtton Service. This was done. in ite orizinal report of 9 October, Mexico City head said it had a paotosraphs of an epparent American wale leaving the Soviet Embassy on 1 Cctober 1963, the day OSWALD vhone there. A very sensitive operation in Kexieo City provides ns with secretly taken photograyha of many but not | ant visitors to the Soviet Babasey there, taken with telephoto Lenses. | Accordingly, ve cubled the Bavy Departuent on 24 October 1963 esking for a photosraph of tee OuUALD trom his Marine Corps days 20 we coula compare - photos. We hed not received this photograph by 22 Roveuber 1963, but in any event, it turned out that the man pkotegraphed outside the Soviet — . ® 3
14-00000 Rubassy was not CSWALD anyway. As chunce would have it, none of our several photo obsesation points in Mexico City had ever taken an identi- fiable picture of lee OSHALD. =~ Our Kexice Clty Station very often produces information like this on US eltizens contacting Soviet bloc embassies in Mexico City. Frequently - > the information ve get is extremely incriminating, and on one or two ocensions we have even been able to epyrebend and return to the USA American nllitary persennel who are attempting to defect. In all such CaSeS, Out Rewlquarters desk requests anid obtains the special permission of: the Deputy Director for Plans to pass the derogatory information on a U5 ‘edtizen to other goverment agencies. Derezatory information on Americars ie is not treated routinely; in each case the DDP or his Assistant persorally serutinize the information, make sure it is credible, and decide whether and to whom it will be passed. Only in absolute emergencies ts the Hexico City Station authorized to pasa such information directly to the FSI office in the U,8. Embassy. ce | a | . oo) At this writing (13 Becenber 1963) ve do not know what actioa the FBI aye 10 se | ro
14-00000 aS the possible assassin and asking for tracea. The nessace woe passed on at once by the Chief Ok, & er. Angleton, to Mr. Birch O'Neal of his Special Investigations Unit. Mes. Betty Exeter of this Unit imedintely recognised the name of Lee OSWALD and went for his file. At the sane tine, Krs. Bustos of the Mexico Desk, who had written our Pirat feport on CEVALD on 10 October recomnized the nase froa Fadio reports and vent | after the same file. Dr. Reichhardt, Mexico Desk Chief, who was home on : leave, heard the news and phoned in a reminder that we had something on a OSWARD. While ve vere preparing a cable to Mexico City asking then for | | | nove information on CSWALD, Mexico City itself heara OSWALD s nein on the | vohce of Averica broadcast and cablea to us a reminder of the intoraatiion he Station had sent fn cabin, | ss | — 7 : “Por the next week, a dozen people tn the Agency were continuously | envased in handling incoming DESBASE on the case, writing reports to be cabled out, tracing the nases mentioned, and researching files. Within a week, 27 cabled reports hea gone out to the White Houses the State Depart- ee A : pent, and the FBI. Vey cables of guidance and | Aogutcy| bed been sent to
14-00000 most of which we investigated. All of these are soon discredited, dut they assist our investigation. The Department of State ata photogragh its entire our overseas stations, and many pieces of Information on OSWALD and bis wife haa been reeeived back. The Mexico City Station researched its telephone tape very thoroughly and came up with several more conversations Pre’ ty involving OSWALD, bat not actually mentioning this nese; these - connected him also to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico Clty. Several Hezieans were atrested and questioned about his activities, giving a good ploture oF what he was really up to. Many conferences were held with the Fal jiaison wetteer who asked us for certain actions and passed us information from the FBI tnvestication, On-the ninas side, a host of favteaters, ; Boue anonymous, bombarded overseas cnbassies with spurious tips on the case, ere still coning in. During this phase of our work, ve served primarily in support of the FET, which yan entrusted by the President with the ejor responsibility for the investigation. The FAI was too busy te supply us with much af tts cam ~inforeation, but amiwers were given to specific questions we posed to >
14-00000 ° god analysis of the vost important security casea, and by a Tew. officers and analysts of our Western Bemisphere Division. file on OSWALD end pass them to us, end the PRT save us a copy of the Soviet Consular Pile on OSWALD which had been publicly given by tke Soviet Ambassador to the Secretary of State. On Friday 6 Deceuber 1963, Dapaty Attorney General Katzenbach invited us to review the FAI’s comprehensive report on the case to nae sure ow sources vere not jeopardized ana that = our information was correctly quoted. We found the resort hishly interesting end no threat to sur security, as long as it vee resa only by the authérized investigative voites. Atter the first Zev days, the CIA Investigation of the case was | : handle@ nt Headquarters by a small stuff usually charsea with invesbisation Reports From Herico _ As soon as our Mexico Clty Station realized that Lee OSHALD was the prime suspect, it besan re-serecening ell the written telephone transcripts _ in its files covering the Soviet Esbassy for the pertinent period. ‘the -_ actual tapes were also reviewed, but many of them had been erased after the
14-00000 normal two weeks wait. Seversl calls believed to involve OSWALD were aiscovered and their contents cabled to Washington, where they were dleseninated te the Waite House, the State Deperteent, the Federal Surean of Inveatigation. | | OSHALD's name wes not actnally mentioned ia these additional calls, but piutlarity of spect ona various plain points of content link then to him, ‘These calls are sumarized below in chronological order. ghey cover the period frou 27 ceptenter 1963 to 3 October 1963, the vhole | span of OSWALD's visit to Mexico city as later Learmea from travel records. 27 Seotenber - A man phones the Soviet Military Attache sa ‘says he needa a visa to go to Odessa. Man susvering says he should call 15-60-55 and ask for the Consul. Caller asks for the addrens,, en& it is given to him. (There 1s no special reason for Linking this call to OSWALD.) 21 Beptenber, 4:05 PM ~ The Cuban Consulate phoned the Soviet ’ Consnlate. Ellvia Duran, Mexican national clerk of the Cuban Consulate talkea to a Soviet officlal, saying that a mle American citizen wes at the |. Cuban Consulate asking for 4 transit viea to pass through Cuba on hie vay & . Pd at 2 ‘ . 7’ : yore! . ! NF ra t . , . Hi i
14-00000 asks her to phone (Sersey Eesenovich) KUKEARENKO (Reeond Eecretary vho puts | Union for a longs time, ‘but that no answer had come trea Washington, aiding to the Soviet Union. She wants to know to whem he talxed fn the Seviat Consulate and wae told him he would have no problem about it. TY a Soviet visa is assured, the Cuban Consulate can grant him a teanatt vise, and oimply notify Cuben imsigcration authorities. ime Soviet eivst ABEB her to wait, and then she hes to explain the whole thing over ngain to another Soviet official, who takes her telephoue number end promises to call her backs ' Silvia DUBAN concluges this call by telling the Coviet che hervel? has moved and gives her new ad@resa for the foviet Gubassy bulletin. He out the Bulletin) to give bim the new address and he asks whe the Cuban» Cultural Attache is. Silvia DURAN gives the Attache's nee as Teresa PRCEWZA and adds her telephone musber. _ . _ 27 Septesber, 4:25 PM ~ A Eoviet official calla Silvia DURAN back emi tells her that the “American” hed been to see the Eoviet?s and ‘ shown them a letter fron the Seviet Consulate in Washington indicating that he bad been waiting for visas for hinsel? and his wife to go to the Soviet | SEGRET ce - 7 : . 7 - ye vies
14-00000 that the vali was semetives four or five months. The “American” haa shown the Sovlets a letter showing ke was a member of an organization in favor of Cuba and haa claimed that the Cubans could not give hia a visa without o Russian vise. Silvia DURAH rejoins that they have the saze problems the “American” is still at the Consulate; they cannot give him a translit visa unless he is aovaved of a Soviet visa, even thongk he just | wants ‘to go te Cabs to lass there for his Soviet via to be prauted. fe toes not knew anyone in Cubes “they ona the conversation on this note, Slivin DURAN says that she will note this on his “cara,” and the Soviet coneludes by saying, “Besides be is not mnowae" Ee excuses himself for the Anconvenience be has caused and Silvia DURAN says it is all rizht. 28 Septeaber - Silvia DURAN calls the Soviet Bubsessy from the cxban Consulate, She says that she has the Anertcan with her bento, me Soviet answering aska her to velt. When another Soviet tekes up the phons, eiivia puts the Aoertean one ‘the juerican tries to talk Russian to the Soviet. vho ensvers in English. ‘he American aks him to speak Russian, ‘he _ Anerican says that he hed been in the Sevist Embassy and spoken with the —
14-00000 . H (ER A . : APOE, i eee a El i ! i Bue sy oo RLM Consul, and that they had taken his eddvess. ‘the Soviet replies that he knows that. The American then says, somewhat enisuatically: ey did not imow it then. i went to the Cuban Bobasay toe ask thes for ny address because they have it.” the Soviet invites him to stoe by again ana give thea the eddress, and the American agrees to do 50. (Im this conversation, the Anericsn wae speaking hardly recognizable Russian. ) | "As far as our recomis show, OSWALD @44 not phone the Soviet or Cuban sabasates again until Tuesday 1 October 1963. The intervening days eon & Sunday and a Hontsy. The contents of his later calls seem to show he aia not contact the Seviets on those days. | 2. Cctoder, 10:32 AM - A man calls the Soviet Milatary Attache in broken Russian ood eays he had been at their place the previous faturday _ (28 pepteater) end talked to their Consul, They had sata they would send ‘@ telegran to Washington, and he vanted to know if there were anything new. “The Soviets ask him to call, another phone number end gives him 15-60-55, say- ing te ask for a Consul. 1, Cetober 10:45 AM ~ (this is the phove call in which OSWALD * “ernne 7 ae OLGHEL - yes
14-00000 PAT ey ras Giese Whe 4 used his true name and which waa therefore cabled to Vashinston on 9 October 1963.) Lee OSWALD callea the Soviet Embassy and ameunced bis — “own name, saying he had visited then the previous Saturday ana spoken with o Consul. ‘They had sald they would send a telegras to Washington, end he wanted to know if there were anything nev. “He aid not renenber the nese of the Consul, ‘The Soviet, who was Embassy guard OBYEDKOY replied: “KOSTIROY; he is dark.” OSWALD replied: "Yea, my nents ig OSWALD.” The Soviet encoded himself for a minute and then sala they hadn't reeelved anything yet. OSWALD asked if they hadn't done anything « end the guard replied they had sext a request but that notiving bad been "| peeedvea as yet.” OSWALD started to say: "Ana what...”, but the Soviet 3 October 1963 ~ A man spealing broken Spanish at first and then “English phone@ the Soviet Militmry Attache and asked about o visa. ‘the ' Attache's office referred him to the consulate, wiving the nember 15-60-55. The caller wrote it down. ‘the attache official shrugged off another
14-00000 question abont whether the caller could cet a visa, and the conversation ended. (There is no szeclal reason to tie this in with OSWALD, whe is now known to have re-entered the US at Laredo the saze day.) oo” the information om Lee G8WALD alse came to the attentiog of President LOPEZ Mateos after 22 Hoveaber. ‘The next day, 23 Hovenber, he: called 1t to the attention of our Chief of Station, vho vas alresdy yoring feverishly on the case> Similarly, the Mexicans noticed the invelvesent of Cuban Consular ewployee Silvia DURAN, a Mexican netioral. Our Station sugsested that she be arrested and interrogated about OSWALD. The Mexfean authorities hea the same idea and she and her husband vers axvested on 23 Novesber 1963, in the midst of a party at their home. AlL the guests vere soon released but Silvia and her husband were questioned ard released on 25 November 1663, Silvia's hustand, Horacio DURAN Havarroe, an industrial desimer, sala under police interrogation that when OSWALD was reved as the assasain heme ctr nego me mreme scenes lal Sie ib Stas 2 tin pS atleast = he Sew «5
14-00000 of President Kennedy, his wife had recognized the name and recalled she bad waited on OSHALD when he case to apply for a Cuban transit visa; he xemembered she had nala she dealt with the Soviet Consulate as well to Lind cut whether he had a Soviet visa. rioraeio DURAY xeeahad his vite had sata OSWALD becexe angry aad she hed to call out the Cuban Consul, Eusebio AZCUR, to quiet hin. Silvia DURAN told the same story. She was a leftist sympathizer with Yuba and had worked for the Nexlcan-Cuban Institute of Cultural Relations. She recalled OfNALD well, deseribed him acenrately, related how ke had wantea a Cuban visa but could not get one witheut the assurance of a Soviet - visa, end remembered his tiff with the Consul. She admitted she haa phoned the Soviet Enbassy about hin. s > ‘Tre sus total of tne statements of Silvia DURAN ané her husband vas. te confizm that OSWALD was in Heaico to get a Cuban visa so he could watt in Cuba for his Soviet visa. ‘The Soviet Consular fille passed to the State Department in Washington hy the Soviet Eubassy confiras a long exchange _ between first, Mra. Marina OSWALD, avd Jater ber husband, snd the Soviet
14-00000 Consulate in Washington about their requests for permission to return to_ the Soviet Union. OSWALD wes still writing to the Soviets in Vashington ‘gbout this as late as 9 November 1963. | Silvia DURAN was arrested azain on 27 Hovenber and hela until 29 Boveraber. She cond essentially the same story over asaine Well-placed cources within the Cuban Eubassy in Hexleo City stated that wher satis DURAN was released from police arrest the. Steet tines on 25 sioveniber; che vas quite pleased with hersel?. She told Lor collensues the same story set out above, adding only that the Hextean police had threatened to extradite har te the United States to confront Lee Harvey - OSWALD. The resection within the Cuban Eebassy to the news of President Kermmedy's death vas senbre. To date, ‘there is noy credible inforaation in CIA files which would appear to Link Lee OSWALD with the Coban zoverment _— or the Cuban intellisence service. The whole question of whether Lee OSWALD had any secret counection with the Soviets or Cubans in Maxteo cannot yet be answered, but certain parts of the evidences indicate to the contrary.. Silvia DURA and the Fn etn ee a ee mae cent sina RT ROMER AN Rayan nend ie me + nhc «
14-00000 Soviet Consular officials spoke of him as a man with “no friends in Cuba” on the one hand, and as 8 man not "known" in the Soviet Eabassy, oa the | other. ‘The very openness of his visita and the phove calis epeak agwinst any secret role. ite te3p to Mexico was not itself a secret act; he traveled unaer his real nase or a clase variant of it, Lived openly in Medcan hotels, and corresponded with the Bovleta through the open mail§ about _ St whea he got back te the US. His trip to Mexico was apsarvently wade necessary beeanse 1¢ was the vcearest Cuban diplomatic Installation where he could apply for a visa A perplexing aspect of OGWALD’s trafficking with the Cubans and . . Soviets in Mextes City is hia assertion in his call of 29 September that he aid not know his address when he was at the Soviet Consulate and case to the Cuban Consulate because they bad it. It ie hard to explain just what he meant, but it should be remeubered that he was talking in Russian, a © language he could not ranase, and that when he came to Mexico he was in the process of moving from Hey Grleans to Temas. He may not have nenarized : _ his new eadress an Texas, whatever it was, and way not have been able to SeoRet oe : : ald Pr . : - ‘oe , bad . . Ne «
14-00000 isy hands on it when he was in the Soviet Consulate that day. Perhaps ke had earliors guiven the addresa to Silvia DURAN and wanted to lock it up on her cara. ' A&A particularly sinister aspect of CSWALD's dealings vith the Soviets . in Mextee Clty arises fro the Liklithoo’ that he net with Sovlet Consul Yoleriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOY. In his 1 October phone call to the Soviet Eubassy, the guara onvansoy suggests that the Consul COWALD haa talked to ves KOBTIMOV if he wae dark. OSWALD seems to agree with this, but the identification ia very casual. In his 9 Novembex Istter to the Soviet Consulate in Washington, OSWALD gives the nane of the man he’ dealt — with as "KOSTIN,” but there is no person of that exact nave tn the Soviet Embassy in Mexico Clty. KOSTIMOY is accredited as a Consular Attache and Goes actually do a lot of consular verk, but be is believed to be a Bovlet KGB officer, and it is believed thet he works for Department 13 of the KGB, the Departoent charged with sabotage and assassinations. The | suspicion that KOSTIXOY is a KGB officer arose from his work habits, and his association with other KGB officers. It was hardened when % was . STE mee me ce ne eer mie pain cepacia Ste yet irate tat th mt ss ome. = nico Tree og er i
14-00000 found that be handled a Seviet agent who was trained to do sabotaze work and that he turned this agent over te another KCB officer who is “@ePinitely know to werk for the 13th Department. It is generally true tn KGB vork that sabotage agents are handled only by 13"Department officers. + | | Fubassy guard Ivan Ivanovich OMYEDKO¥ is binself believed to be a Kee man from previous assigusents as a bodyguard and sureillant. Put unless sone direct evidence of Soviet couplicity 15 discovered, it is most Likely that OSWALD's dealing with KOB nen OBYSDKOY and KOSTINOY was | * nothing wore than a grim coincigence, a coincidence due in part to the BSovist habit of placing intelligence men in the Bubassies In positions where they receive a large portion of the visitors an& phone calls. All | of the five consular officers in the Soviet Embassy are known or suspected . , iatellizence officers. Certainly if OSWALD had been a Soviet ayent in | training for an assassination assigmsent or even for sabotage vork, the Soviets vould have stopped hia from making open visits and phone enlls to "the Soviet Eubassy in Mexico after he tried it a couple of times, Our
14-00000 experience in Mexico, studying the Soviet Intelligence service at close Laney: indicates trat they do make some nistakes and are sesetimes Insecure _ | in their nethoas, but that they do not persist in such glaring errors. | Some insight on the Cuban attitude toward the arrest of stivia Doan ~ and the invelvesent of the Cuban Conavlate in the OSWALD case can be | soined from two intercepted phone calls made between Cuban President | Osvalae DORFICOS ana coten Abassedor to Mexico Joaquin HERNANDSZ Armas on 26 iNovembex 1963, the day efter Silvia DURAN was released from her first | arrest. At 09:40 AU that morning, President DOHTICOS phonea the Anbassador \ | frou Havana and asked him several questions about a report which the Ambassador had eent in on the arrest of Silvia DURAN and the Lee OSWALD L case. The vhole conversation is consistent with the theory that OSWALD versely vanted a visa. ‘The Anbassador did mention the altercation which ; _ OSWALD ha@ with Consul. AZCUS, and he says that Mexican police bruisea cl Silvia DURAN'’s exns | Little shaking her to impress her vith tke Importance of their questions. They had asked her 1f she haa been Intimate with | OSWALD ena she had dented it. President DORTICOS twice asked Anbassador :
14-00000 HeRNALISZ whether the Mexican police had asked Silvia DURAN questions about “money,” and the President apparently wanted to know whether the Mexicans thought the Cubans had paia CSWALD money. ISRNAUDEZ insisted the Mexicans kad not offered Silvia DURAN money, and DORTICCS gave up trying to put acrese bis point. President DORTICOS inatructed EBRUANDER to kaep on questioning Silvia DURAN and to phese hina back. | at 7:39 PM that eveding Aubassador HSRNAMDSZ dia call President DORTICOS back, saying he haa questioned "that person” asain and she bas nothing new to aad. President DORTICOS returns te the issue of whether “they had threatened her so that sbe would make a statement that the Consulate had given money to the menti"that American.” But Ambassador RERNANDSZ persists in misunderstanding DOREICOS, answem in the necative, | and says: “Absolutely nothing vas clvea to her.” DORTICOS seems to give .— up, and the conversation dies out after a few more general renarks. We do not know for sure what made President DORTICOS press for informa~ tion about Cuban money passed to OSWALD, but rumors were current in Mexico and even, we understand, in the USA, that OSWALD had returned froa Mexico i pte ee ny
14-00000 , i § ’ | City with sbout $5,000. Perhaps DORTICOS vas trying to learn whether | the Hexican police believed that the Cubans had Pinanced OSWALD. In any event, the Cuban Goverment sent the Maxicans a stiff note of protest over the arrest and detention of Slivia DURAN, but the Mexicans rejected the nobe. t ; | | |