14-00000 - DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT - (A) (B) ~ RECIPIENT(S) - 1963 received a letter Claiming that the assassination of President Kenned Was part of a plot to kill all the presidents of the free world. This un- dated letter, portmarked 28 November 1963, Heredia, Costa Rica, was ad- dressed to Ambassador Raymond TELLES. This document was disseminated to the White House, the Department of State, and: the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation. It was not sent to the Secret Service. | | oe So | | "3. This letter was adjudged to:be the work of a crank. Details of the document were passed to the Government of Costa: Rica. No further informa- tion on the writer of this document, who signed himself RODRIGO C.,. has ever heen received." ; re ee 29 June 1964 Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General. Counsel etc. | | BBI Warren Commission Subgect: Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco. FBI a ae [DDP 4-3347] : - “1. The reference memorandum (FBI Memorandum ,i! dated 10 June 1964] con- ‘tained a request that this Agency conduct inquiries..in Tangier, Morocco, to resolve certain allegations concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD. Our inquiries have been completed and the results show that ‘the entire story concerning OSWALD's presence in Tangier has no basis in fact. an *0 June 1964 CSCI-3/782,058 Subject: Investigation of Allegation that . FBI? FBI, Warren Com- OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco. — career : mission — "Reference is made to your memorandum, dated 10: June 1964, requesting this Agency to conduct the necessary inquiries to resolve allegations: that Lee Harvey OSWALD was: in Tangier, Morocco. The inguiries were completed on. 19 June 1964 and the results show that the allegations have no basis in’ |. fact. Ydur representatives, Mr. S. J, PAPICH ;): was verbally notified of: - the results and, at his suggestion, the results were. forwarded, by meno- randum, to the President's Commission on the ASsassination of President Kennedy. A copy of that memorandum is attached: for-your files and. for any additional action you may wish to take."..00 hy. ho eo 1 July 1964 © Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, Genéral ‘Counsel etc. * Warren Commission Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Time in. Helsinki on 10 October 1959, PE [DDP 4-38891 3 s . Pe
14-00000 - DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT - | (A) (B) - RECIPIENT(S) - "1. In response to your memorandum of 25 May 1964, we have established °° that the only direct flight from London to Helsinki on 10 October 1959 was Finn Air flight 852 which arrived in Helsinkiiat 2333 (11:33 p.m.). If OSWALD had taken this flight, he could not normally have cleared ctistoms and landing formalities and reached the Terni Hotel downtown by 2400. (mid- night) on the same day. This is based on the’ judgement of officers in this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport;. Po "2. We are presently attempting to determine! if. OSWALD could have taken a \ more circuitous flight from London, with a stop at Stockholm, Copenhagen, or some other city. Any additional information received will be forwarded to you promptly." , oO 2 July 1964 Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc. | * Warren Commission Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. o [DDP 4-3401] FBI ‘ "1. The following remarks have been recently attributed to Soviet Consil Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV in Mexico City regarding the subject. ‘I met OSWALD here. He stormed into my office and . wanted mé to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans. | He_told me that he had lived in the USSR. I told him that I would have to check before I could recommend him. He. was nervous and his hands trembled, ‘and he stormed out of my office. I don't believe that :a person as nervous as OSWALD, whose hands trembled could have accurately , fired a rifle.' a Be peered "2. Our Mexican Station has checked its records for the period OSWALD) =| was in Hgxice City and has advised it is quite possible that OSWALD. _ “ though he had talked with Valeriy KOSTIKOV when he actually ‘had“spoken.:. | to YATSKOV; or that he first spoke to KOSTIKOV who turned him over to his superior YATSKOV. Bo 4. A copy of this memorandum has been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," oo, _ + ,& July 1964 Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc. * Warren Commission
14-00000 “27 August ~ DESCRIPTION OF. DOCUMENT - Subject: Statements Reportedly Made by George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT Concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the Assassination of President Kennedy. — 2 ' (DDP 4-3479] "1. The information furnished below has been received from usually reli- able sources and consists of Statements reportédly made by the de MOHREN- SCHILDTs concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the assassination ‘of President Kennedy. we : "a. Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, beoree and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT were ; among the guests attending a- cocktail party in Haiti. . - + The de MOHRENSCHILDTs were asked if there was TT any substance to the view expressed in certain foreign: periodicals such as L'Ex ress, a left-wing Parisian - weekly newspaper, that the Kennedy assassinatéion was a plot organized by Dallas millionnires. George de MOHRENSCHILDT said that President Kennedy was hated | by the Dallas elite, and he felt that it was-very i likely that certain reactionary elements in Dallas had: organized a plot to get rid of Kennedy and used a dis- | . turbed person such as OSWALD to achieve their ends. ; Mrs. de MOHRENSCHILDT agreed fully with this thesis. ¢ "3. A copy of this memorandum is being forwarded to the. FBI." 1964 CSCE-316/00856-64 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Iriternal Secu- rity, Russia - Cuba. Reference: Your Memorandum dated 28 July 1964, "1. A review of the results of monitoring Soviet foreign broadcasts at the time when an interview with Lee Harvey OSWALD had apparéntly been - taped was conducted with negative results. Therefore, it isi assumed that such a tape, if broadcast: at all, was aired over a local USSR facili- ty for internal consumption. , : "2. With respect to the same question, Yuriy NOSENKO' was asked if any attempt had heen made hy the Soviets to exploit OSWALD for. propaganda purnoses, such as Radio Moscow broadcasts, telecasts, or lectures, NOSENKO replied that. this had not been done either in Moscow or in Minsk. -~ 90 (A) (B) FBI “FBI - RECIPIENT(S) -
14-00000 ae es 28 August 1 October - DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT - NOSENKO later reviewed this statement and confirmed it.” (NB: Reference document is FBI request to CIA requesting the latter to identify broadcast by OSWALD in USSR sometime bhofore early January 1960.) ‘ ‘ 1964 Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel éic. | Subject: Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY an --  [DDP 4-4479] "1. The files of this Agency contain no identifi able traces on Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY or on his sister. ; _ "2. We have no information which would either confirm or refute allega-_ tions that Lee Harvey OSWALD made one or more visits to the.city of Gorky in April and May 1960 or at any other time. "3. The term 'mokrym delam' which appears in the notes which SERGIEVSKY brought with him to the British Embassy may be translated ‘wet affairs' or ‘liquid affairs'. It is an expression or jargon us d by the KGB to refer to activities involving kidnapping or assassination. .. .: _" (NB: "RANKIN asked for Agency comments concerning allegations of a Soviet citizen, Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY, who walked into the British Embassy in Moscow on 29 July 1964.) an a fe j 1964 - Memorandum. for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel éte. ‘ Subject: Joachim JOESTEN So TS [DDP 4-5110] "1. Attached are reproduced copies of a set of German documents seized by} the U.S. authorities at the end of World War II. The documents concern Joachim JOESTEN, author of Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?, .Marzani-§. Mune sell Publishers, Inc., 19647 ne captured documents in this ‘set. range in. dates from July 1936 to November 1937 and contain the Statement that _ JOESTEN had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany;since 1932. . You will note that the attention of the German secunity organs was direc-- ted at JOESTEN as early as 1936. At thatitime the Communist Party had bee been outlawed in Germany and the: German authorities apparently had begun collecting information about JOESTEN-and his activities. Their investiga- tion seems to have culminated in the proposal for revocation of his Ger- (A) (B) ~ RECIPIENT(S) - . . . Warren Commission Warren Commission, FBI, State, I&NS
- DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT - , | , (AD (3) - = RECIPIENT(S) - man citizenship. . [Comment: The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of a book by Joachim JORSTEN entitled, "OSWALD - Assassin:or Fall Guy?" (1964) pub- — lished by Marzani and Munsell Publishers, Inc. of New York, in:-which oo JOESTEN states that there is no question in his.mind that OSWALD was a mi- nor CIA agent. Marzani, a known communist, was. coauthor of a pamphlet; ~ "Cuba Vs. CIA". published in 1961... JOESTEN is revealed in a German Securit Police memorandum, dated November 8,-1937, to have been an active member of' the German Communist Party (K®D) since May 12, 1932; he was issued .Commu- _ist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch) No. 532315. 7 e Mo, Cited in "The Soviet and Communist Bloc Défamation Campaign", Congressional Record - House, 28 September 1965, pp. 25391-25393.] :