13-00000 Consul, and that they had taken hie address. ‘The Soviet replies that he know 4% then. I wont to the Cohen Bubasay to ask thon for my address pecenes they have it." The Soviet invites him to stop by again and give then the a@dresn, anf the Ameriean agrees to do so. (In this onaversation, Bubassies again until Tuesday 1 October 1963. he intervening days were a Sunday and a Monday. the eontants of kis later calls seem to show be 1 Oxteber, 10:32 AM - A mn calls the Soviet Military Attache in toreken Rusefen and says he had been at pheir place the previous Saturday a telegren to Washington, avd be wanted to kuow if these vere anything now. the Soviets ask bim to call another phone mmber end cives hin 15-60-55, say- iug to ask for a Consul. L October 10:45 AM ~ (Enis io the phone call in which OSWALD
13-00000 esd kis ‘tran sane ant vhish woe therefure cabled to Yaskingten 9 9 with q Consul. ‘They had sald they would send a telegram to Washington, and be worbed to knew Lf thave were anything wow. He @1@ not remesber ane ee i a en the agee of the Consul. ‘the Geviet, vho was Embassy suard OBYEDEDY weplied: “NOSTINOY; be is Gexvk." OSWALD replied: “Yes, my nome is | OSHALD." The Soviet excused himself fer a minute amd then said they -| sali t received anything yet. OSWALD asked if they hadn't done anything reeoives es yet." CSWiLD sterted te say: “And what...", but the Sevies. bang Wipe English phoned the Soviet Military Attache and asked sbout @ vies. ‘The Atteche's office referred him to the consulate, giving the number 15-60-55. ‘The caller wrote it down. ‘The attache officiel shrugged off another
13-00000 . invelvenent of Cuben Consular ; emlopes siivts, ae) ea | ry Bey leis | questien about vhether the caller could yet a visa, end the conversstior ended. (Thave ie no special reason to tie this in with OSWALD, whe tc now mown to have re-entered the US at Laredo the same day.) Since the operation through which we tap the Soviet Bubasay phones in Mexico city is| |_| the tnformation on Les OSWALD also cane to the attention of Pregigent. LOPE! Mateos after 22 Rovember. The next day, 23 Hovenber, be cahled it to the attentice of our Chief af Station, who vas already wortting feverishly on the cues. Sid leoly, the Mexleans noticed the oe a oar wa eon, & fations)]. ip BE Our Station suzzeeted that she be arrested and interrogated about OSWALE The Meaiean authorities hed the came iden ani she end her haxtand vere arrested on 23 Hovenber 1963, in the midst of @ party at their home. All the guests were soou released but Silvia end her husband were questioned and released on 25 November 1963. s Silviats husband, Horacio DURAN Navarre, en industrial designer, oniad unier police interrosation that when OFWALD was named es the astescin
13-00000 had valted on OSWALD when ke cams to epply for a Cuban transit vies; he remembered he had said she dealt with the Soviet Cessulate as well to find out vaether be kad @ Soviet vise. Somacto DURAN recslieg hia wife Silvia DURAN told the sane story. She was a leftist aympathicer with te confirm that OSWALD was in Mexiog to cut © Cuben vise 20 be could wait in Cuba for hie Seviet visa. The Soviet Consular file passed te the State — Departsent in Washington by the Soviet Eubessy confines = long exchange — tetwaen first, Mrs. Marina OGWALD, and latex hex hughend, and the Seviet
13-00000 | anout this as late as 9 Hoventer 1963, Silvia DURAN was arrested again on 27 Hovenber and held util 29 ! a | Well«pleeced sources within the Cuban Eabassy in Mexice City stated 25 Hovewher, she was quite pleased with herself, She told her colleagues Kennedy's death ves eonhre. fo date, there is uo credible infomation in : the whole question of vhether Lee OSWALD had any secret connection | vith the Soviets er Cubans in Mexico ommat yet be axsvered, but certain perte ef the evidence indicate to the contrary. Siivia DURAN and the
1383-00000. kee ee te | .| { Soviet Consular officials spoke of hin es a men vith “no friends in Cube” en the one ban, end es @ won not "known" in the Soviet Extasy, on the ether. ‘the very opemecs of bis visite end the phone calls peak ageinet any searet rele. His trip to Mexice was net iteelf = secret acty he traveled. tnder bie veal naze or a clese wariant of it, Lived apenly in Mexican with the Seviets through the open mai16 about it ween he got back to the 1H. Ele trip to Mewleco was apparently made the Cuban Consulate becense they had 1t. It te hard te explain just what he meant, but it ehowkhd be remembered that ke was talking in Roseien, & Language he could net sanage, end that when he came to Mexico ke was in the ° precese of moving fren New Criesns to Gomme. Ne may not have momerined hés new ed@rees in Temac, whatever it was, and apy not bave been able te
i | i west Likely that OSWALD's dealing with KGB man OBERDEOV and K0d feund that he handled e Seviet agent wee ves trained te de sabotage werk and thet he turned this agent ever te enether EUB officer who is definitely knewn te vert fer the 15th Department. It is generally true officers. Eebacsy quard Ivan Ivanovich GBYSUEOT is himself believed te be a KGB man from previous essiguente as a bodyguard and sureillant. Bat unless some direct evidence ef Boviet complicity is discovered, it is eae ind theca Be ho: se, a eetne ass ‘Sau ia bart ease” Boviet habit of placing inteLLigesce wen in the Embassies in positions — Gf the five consular officers in the Seviet Embassy are knows or suspected inteLitcence officers. Certainly if OSWALD had been a Seviet agent in training for an assassination assignment er even for eabetage work, the Soviets would have stopped kim fron making oyen visits and phone calls te the Goviet Exbasey in Mexico after he tried it a couple of times. Our ‘ oo
13-00000 : experience in Mexico, studying the Soviet intelligence service at clese J im their methods, but that they do not persist in such gleriag errars. : Gems insight on the Cuban attitude toward the errest of Silvie DURAN ana the involvement of the Cuban Consulate in the OSWALD case ean be , gained frem two intercepted phone calle made between Cuban President 26 .Sovember 1963, the day after Silvia DURAN was released frum her first Anbasse@der had cent in on the arrest of Silvia DURBAN end the Lee OSWALD : terely wanted a view. ‘The Aubasender €id mention the altercation which OSWALD hed with Conaul AZCUB, end he says that Hexieen police bruised Silvia DURAN's axus a Little staking bor to impress her vith the importame , ef their questions. They bad asked her if she had been intinate with OSWALD and ahe hed denied it. President DORTICOS twice asked Aubassadar
ve HERBANORZ whether the Mexiomn police bed asked Silvie DURAN questions about “money,” and the Preeident apparently wented te know whether the the Mexicans kad not offered Gllvie DURAN money, and DORTICOS gave : a nothing wee te e@8. President DORTICOS returas to the iaeum of whether Consulate bad given meney te the man44"that American.” But Aubesender ana sayet “Anoolutely nothing was given to her." DORTICUS seems te give Up, aud the conversation dies cut efter a few mere general remarks. We de not know for sure vint made President DORTIGOS prose for informa tien shout Cuban mony paased t6 OOWALG, bub merere were cumpest in Vexleo and even, we understand, in the USA, that CSWALD had returned frem Mexico
13-00000. . City with about $5,000. Perkape event, the Caten devermmont sent the Mexicans @ stiff nete ef pretest over the arrest awl detention ef Silvie DURAR, bat the Mexicans Nn