13-00000 our gvaraces stations, and maxy pieces ef information on OGMALD aol, hts wife had been received back. The Mexico City Station researched its telephone taps very thoroughly ané cane up with several more convereatians probably involving OSWALD, but not actually mentioning this names these counéetad him alga te the Cuban Consulate in Mexieo City. Several Mexicans were arrested and queationed about his activities, giving a gead pieture of what he was really up to. Many conferences were held with the FRI from the FRI investigation. Oucthe minus side, a host of fabrienters, most ef which we investigated. ALL of these ere seon discredited, bat they are still coming in. During this phase of our work, ve served prisarily in support of the FRI, which wae entrusted by the President with the major responsibility for the investigation. The FRI was too busy to supply us with much of its ") om information, but annvers were given te specific questions we posed to aseist our investizeation. ‘The Departwent of State did photegraph ite entire SEDREL | |
13-00000 $ SFA in Ud GX £416 on OSWALD and pase then to us, end the FET gave us a copy af the Soviet Consular file oa OSALD vhich led been publicly given by the Soviet Anbasentox to the Secretary of State. On Friday 6 Decesber 1963, Reputy Antarnay Geoneed. Exteschesh invited ws to review the FBI's cenproamnaive interesting anf ne threat to eu security, as long as it was read only by the authorized investigative bodies. After the first few Gaye, the CIA investigation of the case was 06.66 Headquarters: by a a0all- etett weak and enalyais cf the most important security ceases, and by a few officers end enalystse of our Western Houiephere Diviaion. As soon as cur Mexico City Station realized that Les OSWALD wes the prime suggect, it began re-sergening all the written telephane transcripte  « in its files covering the Soviet Exbsssy for the pertinent parted. The actual tapes vere also reviewed, but many of them had been erased after the
13-00000 : nowusl two weeks wait. Several calls believed to involve OSWALD were | discovered and their contents cabled to Washington, where they vere n disseutuyted to the White House, the State Department, the Federal | Euxrean of Investication. | OGHALD's name was not actually mentioned in these edditional calls, but similarity of speech and various plain points of content Link them to him. These calls are summarized below in chronological order. ! They cover the period from 27 September 1963 to 3 October 1963, the whole : span ef GSHALD's visit to Mexico City as later Learneé fran travel records. ber ~« Amen phones the: Sexiat. Military Attacks quad vec. cogies - eays hea neds a visa toe go te Odesee. Ban angworing saye ke sheuld call 15-60-55 and agk for the Consul. Caller aeke for the address, and it is 5 Fi « The Cuban Consulate phoned the Seviet Consulate. Silvie Duran, Meican national clerk ef the Cuban Censulate talked te @ foviet official, saying that a male American citizen was at the Cuban Consulate asking fer a transit vise to pass through Cuba on his way
13-00000 Pan to the Seviet Union. She wants to know to whom he talked in the Soviet Consulate and who told him he would have no problem about it. I? a Seviet visa is assured, the Cuban Consulate can giant kim a transit vica end simply uetify Cuban ionigration authorities. The Soviet first aska ker Soviet official, whe takes her telephone number ani promises to call ber ‘yack. Silvia DURAN concludes thie call by telling the Seviet she herself has moved an@ gives hex new address for the Soviet Eetasey bulletin. He asks her to phome (Serzey Sensnovich) KUKHARED Cultural Attache is. Silvia DURAN gives the Attache's nose ag Terese =. 26 PM - A Soviet official, calle Silvia DURAN back and tells ber that the “American” had been to see the Soviet's and shown them a letter from the Soviet Consulate in Wachingten indfeating that ' he had been waiting for vises for himself end his wife to go te the Soviet Union for a Long time, but that no enewer hed come from Vashingten, adding
13-00000 . that the wait wae sometimes four or five months. The “American” hed sham the Soviets a Letter showing he was a member ef an orgenizetion in without « Russian vies. Silvia DURAN rejoins that they have the sane prodlemg the “American” is still at the Consulates thoy cannot cive kia a transit vise unless he is assured of e Soviet vie, even theuzh he just wants to go to Cuba to Whit thexe for his Soviet visa te be granted. He | Gilvia DURAN eays thet she will note this on his “card,” and the Soviet Bowe oe yeemtanaee ty eying; Resktes kee nat: kegwas He simvetion: bimbel? ster thes: ineconventence he hat caused end Silvia DURAN says it le all right. 28 September - Silvia DURAN calle the Soviet Embassy from the Soviet answering asks her to wilt. When anethar Soviet takes up the phone, Silvia pute the American an. The Amariean tries to talk Rassian to the ® Seviet whe answers in English. The American ake him to epeak Russian, The American seye that he had been in the Sevlet Exbasey and spoken with the eerie Roba) Gee.
13-00000 rs vite lay Consul, and that they had taken his address. ‘tha Soviet raplies that he kuewe that. ‘The America thou says, somewhat enigantically: “I did uot know it than. I went to the Cuban Bebasay to ask thee for my addredg because thay have it." fhe Soviet invites him to stop by again and give them the address, and the American agrees to do so. (Ta this conversation Eebessies again until Tuesday 1 October 1963. The intervening days were e Sunday and « Monday. ‘the contents of kis lmter calle seen to show he 1 October, 10:31 AM - A nan calls the Soviet Military Attache tn wroken Russian and says he had been at phetr place the previous Saturfay a telegran to Washington, and he vanted to know if thers vere anything new. the Soviets ask Bim to call another phone number ana gives win 15-60-55, sey~ ing to ask for a Consul. 1 10:45 AM = (‘Inde is the phone call in which OSWALD
13-00000 Gwn tee, saying he had visited them the previous Saturday and spoken with a Consul. They had sald they would cené a telegram to Washington, eceee sammie es ence nem net een enemies Santacte ents ne awd be wesbed to know if thare were anything new. He did sot remember hafin't received anything yet. OSWALD asked if they hedn't done anything ere ee ged ie Voy aeplied thay: bed: Sena. ae reeeived as yet.” OSWALD eterted to say: “And what...", bat the Seviet: BRET Wipe ob ~ A wan speaking broken Spanish at firet and then Euglicsh phoned the Saviet Hilitery Attache and asked shout a vies. ‘The Atteche's office referred him to the consulate, civing the mumber 15-60-55. Tee ealler wrote it down. The attache official abruggeed off another
13-00000. . 1 t i i i i SECRET question about whether the caller could wet a visa, end the conversation ended. (There is no special reason to tie this in with GSWALD, whe fe now imam to have re-entered the US at Laredo the same day.) in Mexico City the information on Lee OSWALD elso came to the attention of President LOPE’, Meteos after 22 November. The next day, 23 Nevenber, he called it to the attention of cur Chief af Station, who was already wonting feverishly on the case. _Siatotizy te Hexieans myticed the arrested on 23 Hovenber 1963, in the midst of & party at theirs howe. All the suects were soon released but Silvie end her kusbend were a8 and released on 25 November 1963. Siiviats husbami, Horacio DURAN Nevarre, en industrial designer, said under police interro.ation thet when OSWALD wae named as the asdasein fake ss Si Bee fama ce are invelverent of Cuban Consular eaployee ‘Blivia DORAN, ‘a Mexican nak
13-00000 | . | of Preaident Kennedy, hie wife had recognized the name ené recalled she hed vetted on OSHALD when be came to apply for a Cuban transit visas Bilvin DURAN tol€ the eame atory. She was a leftist sympathizer with Yuba and nad worked fer the Nextean-cuben Tastitute of Calton) Relations. visa, ond resesiered hie tiff with the Consul. She admitted she bad phoned The sus total of the statements of Silvia DURAN end her busband was to confizm that OSWALD wae in Mexice to cet @ Cuban visa so he could wait in Cuba for his Soviet visa. The Soviet Cousular file passed to the State — Department in Washington by the Soviet Eabasay confires a leng exchenge . vetween first, Mre. Marina OSWALD, and later her hushand, ana@ the Seviet
13-00000 Consulate in Wasbingten about their regussts for persiesion to retura to the Soviet Union. OSWALD was still writing te the Seviete in Washington about this eo late es 9 Hovenber 1963. Silvia DURAN was arrested again on 27 November and held until 29 Well-placed sources within the Cuhan Eabassy in Mexico City stated that when Eilvie DURAN wes released from polies arrest the firet time on @5 Hovesber, she was quite pleased with herself. She told her colleagues OSUALD. ‘Taw reaction within the Cuban Embassy te the news of Freaident Kemnedy's death was contre. fo date, there is no credibis information dn The ynole question of vhether Lae OSWALD had any secret comectiou vith the Soviets or Cubans in Mexieo cannot yet be answered, but certain parte of the evidence indicate to the contrary. Silvia DURAN and the a a a
13-00000 _ oligay Seviet Conmular officials spoke of him ac « men with “no friends in Cuba* on the aus hand, and as @ man not “keown" fn the Soviet Esbasey, on the secret role. His trip to Mexiee was net itself = secret acts he traveled under hie real name or a close variant of it, Lived aogenly in Mexican hetele, and corresponiied with the Soviets through the open mall about it when be got back to the US. Hic trip to Mexico was apparently made be could apply for a visa. foviets in Mextoo City io kis assertion in his call of 26 Septouber that he 414 not know kis address when he wes at the Sevies Consulate and cane to the Cuban Consulate because they kad. ts It 16 hand to explain just vat he meant, but it sheulé be remebered thet be was talking in Rasaian, language he could not menage, and that when ke came to Nexico he was in the “ precese of moving from Hew Orleans to Teme. He may oot have memorized his new edéreas in Temas, whatever it was, and wey not kave been able to
13-00000 | H i [ | ley Bends on it wren he was in the Seviet Conaulate that day. Ferkape he kel eaxlkier given the addresa to Silvia DURAE and wanted te leek it wp on ker card. A particularly sinister aspect ef CSWALD's dealings with the Boviets in Mexico City arises frou the liklihood thet he met with Soviet Consul Yelarty Yiadintrovich KOStNDY. In his 1 October phone call to the talked ta was KOSTIKOY if he was dark. OGWALD seems to agree with this, but the identification is very casual. In his 9 November letter te the 1s paige: a wie a MS Sontatate in Waskingten, OSMALD elves the name of ‘the an be dealt with as “KISHIN,” but there is no person af that exact name in the Soviet Eebesay in Kexies City. EOSTIKOY is accredited as a Consular Attache end does ectumlly do @ let of consular work, but he is believed te be a Soviet KUB officer, and it is believed that he works for Department 13 of the KGB, the Department charged with sebotage and assaasinations. The mispicion that KOSTIKOY is a KOR officer arese from his work habits, end hie association with ether Kab efficers. It was hardened when (t+ wae
13-00000 ! Lf i ! foul that he kantied a Soviet agent vio isa trained to-éo sebotass work end thet he turned thie agent over to another KGB officer who is definitely known to verk for the 13th Department. It is generally true in KGB werk that sabotage agents are hendled only by 13 Department officers. | Embassy guard Ivan Ivanovich OBYRDKOY ia himself believed to be a KGB msn fron previous aesigmente as a bodyguard and surefllant. But unless some direct evidence of Soviet complicity is discovered, it is meat Likely thet OSWALD's dealing with KGS men OBYEDEOV and EOSTIMOY was man dR 4 a Boviet habit af placing intelligence sen in the Enbasates tn posttions where they xeceive a large portion of the visitars and phone calle. All of the five consular officers in the Soviet Embassy are known or suspected intelligence officers. Certainly if OSWALD had been a Soviet agent in training for an eesasaination assigneent or even for sabotage work, the ry Beviets would have stopped kim from making open visits ané phone calls te the Soviet Embassy in Maxico after he tried it a couple ef times. Our a
13-00000 experience in Kexico, studying the Soviet intelligence service at clase range, Indicates that they do make some mistakes and are sometimes insecure Some insight on the Cuban attitude toward the arrest of Silvia DURAN and the involvemeat ef the Cuban Consulate in the OSWALD case can be gained from twe intercepted phone calle made between Cuban President Oavalde DOREICOS and Cuban Anbassader to Nexico Joaquin HERUMORE Armas ox 26 Hovenber 1963, the day efter Silvia DURAN was released from ker first arrest. At O9:hO AM thet morning, Fresidest DORTICOS phoned the Anbassnder Anhessader bed cent in on the arrest of Silvia DURAN and the Lee OSWALD. COBB. te vhole conversation te cousistent with the theory that OSHALD Merely wanted a visa. the Ashasesdor did mention the altercation which OSWALD hed with Consul AZCUR, and he says that Mexican police bruised Silvia DURAH's arms a Little shaking her to iupress her with the importance / ef thelr questions. They hed asked hex 4f she bad been intinate with OSWALD and she had denied it. President DORTICOS twice asked Aubassadar
MERHANDRZ whether the Mexiean police kad asked Silvia DURAN questions Mexicans thought the Cubans bad paté OSWALD money. HERNANDEZ insisted HERUANDEZ, to keep on questioning Silvis DURAK end ta phone him bask. At 7:39 PH that evening Asbassedéor HERE DORTICOS back, saying he hed questicned “that pereom™ again and eke has nothing new te add. President DORTICOS returns to the iseus of whether ad her 66 Chet -ohe geld maine me eprbanent. tht 4 Consulate bed given money to the man*t"that American.” fut Aubessader — HERNANDEZ peraiste in miounderstandins DORTICOS, enswan in the negative, and sayst absolutely nothing was given te hex." DORTIOOS seems te give wp, and the conversation dies out efter a few more general remarks. | ¥e do not knaw for sure what made President DORTICOS press for informa | tien ebout Cuban meney passed to OSWALD, but risers were current in Mexice and even, we understand, in the USA, that OSWALD had returned from Mexico aus i
13-00000 event, the Cuban Goverment sent the Hexicans a stiff note of protest over the arrest and detention of Silvia DURAN, but the Mextcans rejeeted the note.