13-00000 petro te cenperbelntr toh ett ; REPRODUCTION | —— PRORIBETED 5, ATier the assassination of President Kenney and the arrest of Lec Marvey OSWALD, an, intensive review of all 5 vailable sources was vadestaken in Mexico City to dcterraine nc purpose of CSW AEDs vi cit It was learned that OSWALD had aiso vielted! the Cuben Consulate ia Mexico City and bad talked thote: swith 2 a L clext, a BMoenxzican national, named Suvia DUR Ne. “Affe vr the assassination and the publicity about Lee ‘SSIVALD, Stivia DURAN had told a number of relatives and ivlonde’ that she had talked to OSWALD about a Cuban visa. Silvia DURAN and har husband, Hozrasio DURAN Navarxo, wera detained and questioned by the Moxican police frora 23 to 25 November 1963. 6 After glving some of the details. of her own personal a . backgzound - she is an adraitted Lertist sympathizer and had formerly worked for the Mexican~Cuban Institute of Cultural Relations ~ Silvia DURAN said that when she first heard of the. death of President Kennedy she had been depressed: ana thought the assassin must bave been amaniac. Whee the leduned that | _ he was associated with the "Falr Play. soz Cuba Commaltico" she did net belleve it. t She talked about the Gageto hor husband and when cae heard the name , of Lee OSWALD mentioned, che recognized it as 4 WARNING NOTE | Li | SENSITIVE: SC" !7FS AND Le METAR 7 AVET 6 ae ome embanataninte eumee 2 a panera wee ee Bee ee Tne ae eres emmcnatrepenne ots samme
13-00000, ee Ae een REPAODUETIOR TE the man who had come to the Consulate about two months before Pres ph to gcta visa to transit Cuba on, date, way tothe USSR. She he had bolonged.to'the: "Fair Play for Cuba" group. Sha checked hey file onchim in the Consular archives and from the descxgtive tS, , she was sure its was the same man, He was short, blond, pacrly dressed and his face got red when he talked. He was denied a Cuban transit visa because he did not yet have a Soviat visa, and he was told to get tha Soviet visa first, but it was noted that this would take about fourmonths. She had asked the Cuban mae Consul himseli, ‘Euseblio AZCUE, to tale to OSWALD and they . — had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Mexico instead of watting there. The Consul had phoned the Soviet Con- | a sulate and talked to the person handling OSWALD's case, who see had said it would take about four months to hear from Moscow i a ~ about the Sovict yisa. The same af ftexnoon, OSWALD. had dome” . i back again and she had told him the same thing. ‘She’ agave ren OSWALD a slip of paper with hes name and telephone number on i in caso he ever got his soviet sa. fe “ald not call back, she sald. 8. Silvia DURAN's hustes essentially the same story, as he had previously heard it from . FF his wife aiter the assassination. He had never had any personal — OF ee contact with OSWALD. meets cee ee ee Rs Ra SGUREES. 5 ND, © we METHODS INVOL YD ' . f * = , there ef dB ei 58 3i ‘ 5p ol BOBcinnwatee 30 aah 2 if ann . fenerooen tn areatnagedy af. Le
13-00000 , REPRODUCTION PROWMGHTED . “eae t,. ~ = : rors power] 9. Silvia DURAN was reinterrogated by tho Mexican police from 27 to 29 Noveraber but she did not change or add materially to her story about CSWALD, 10, It igs known that the. Chan Ambassador in Meszico, Joaquin HERNANDEZ:Armaé, reported on the detainment and : inter rogation of Silvia DU RAN by the Mexican authoritics, The ; Ree Res, Sor gt Cuba Gove: ernment sent the Mexican Government a stiff note of which the Mexicans rejected. Qo ver ban ll. .We are 2 reliably informed that on 25 Gestemuex, the day after DURAN's release, Cubaa President DORTICCS queried HERNANDEZ about his report, HERNANDEZ confixmed that there had been an altercation between OSWALD and Consul AZGUE, DORTICOS made a pereiotent but unsuccessful effort: to determine from HERNANDEZ whethor tne Mexican authorities - el - had questioned Mrs. DURAN about money, or thought that the ~ Cubans had paid OSWALD money. 12, The CIA follow-up investigation pr oduced tho following confirmed resulta which have a 2 bearing. on 8, DURAN's accounts a. 27 September, . informed the Soviet Simbass}'t! that a ‘male American citizen had requested @ visa ta transit Cuba on his way to the wy eqn cape cpae ten ne fe an pena Paterna ATES! k AQUI - NO TCS . ate se iy METHCSS re rOIVES ibook PR Ain TNMs Bae $28 AO
13-00000 NCTE po —__ PRORISTTED ced peer ene an nes ce es eee a, ons mentee Soviot Union, Sac e desired ¢ to know who the Amorican had ac talked with at the Sovict Consulates Also, she indicated ° that the Cuban Consulate. could grant him the visa and arrange immigration details if the couceagsion of a Soviet visa were assured, ‘eBPRAN received @ confirmation from the Sovict Embassy that the American had been to the USSR installation, He | had shown them a ictter from the Soviet Consulate in oo rine t t { ' i Washington indicating that he had been long awaiting a visa for himself and his wife to go to the USSR, No 7 ger ", anSWwer had come from Washington; however, the waiting perfod was sometimes four or five months, The American also had a letter attesting that he was 2 member of a‘fro= Cuban organization but he had claimed that the-Cubans- a ‘would not give him a visa. unless hoe had 1 albeady received oT. a Russian * visa, ares Although the American was. still at the Cuban — Gonsulate, Silvia DURAN wépeated that she douid not give 3" him a transit visa unles’ a Soviet viaa was forthcoming, notwithstanding the. American's wish to go to Cuba to wait Sern | §0u ICES A RET HODS iNVO! c
RePRODUETION. D. D . if SMe big TOS | ee ’ SEs TiVE FON SD) there for his Soviet visa, According to DURAN, tho ee. Amorican knew no cre in Cuba. and sho > intended to , appropriately annotate thé: American's card, The Soviet official echoed her statement that the Amorican was not known, - - . * 28 September, Silvia DURAN was a2 again visited at the Cuben Embascy in Mexico City by the American secking & Cuan tre nsit visa, Mra, DURAN contacted at ~~ é least two members of the Soviet Embassy and facilitated ; ao a direct conversation between one of the Soviets and the - pao Gees . . American, Conversing in poor Russian, the-Amervican stated that he alrcady had been to the Soviet Consulate and had loft an address, The Sovict official veplied that : on, he was aware of that, The American suggested that he bad not known his address then, ‘and he had gone to the - ve _° it, The American then acceded ta , the Sox og "eflalatte invitatioa to come by and give them-the address, ay or d, 1 October, In midwiorning an unidentified individual, speaking broken Ruécian, contacted the Sovict ‘Military Attache in Mexico City, ‘He said he had been to ee 1 HESS. INVOLVES FI tg en eae me em oo eon. oe eo. mes a - _. wa ee to - se ee see |
13-00000 a ea TION PROHIBITED $ METHOGS [eV (LV Ep . | ec merece ed metre i cneracasince eens the Embassy tho previous Caturday (28 Septembcr) and had talked with a Consul who had said they would send a : telegram to Washington:, Ha thers beenaroply? He was referred to the Consulate for the information, _ | i These additiongimaterials were proraptly diseeminated iu WwW ashingtin by she CIA tot e White ilouse, tha Department of 7 aud the Federal Bureau of Investigation, e, 1 October, See paracxvaph ] above for Lea OSWALD 's contact with the Soviet Consulate, lL, Vealsriy Virdirsiyovich NOSTIZT 13. It is believed that the Seviet official with whom OSWALD dealt in Mexico City was Consular Atta che Valeriy Viedimirovich KOSTIXOV, born in Moscow, 17 March 1933, A photograph of KOSTIKOV is attached, in his letter of & NKOSTIN", other than Consul KCSTIROV.. 14, KOSTIKOV is the senics officer of five Soviet + wefeo * Ps ‘eo Pe ee HL nenobs A a, a fee bg cs lm Sa cqeh wom etoeary wP - Se ete aan nme ee Se eee = wo, Fe _ a apt 8, rere ee . ee . seoevenennate Speen at mee wee mosey
13-00000 a lee ee AD OAT, Gow tetat ne, « REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ae SEN ta tn Se : MET. e ye a Bes sp nblB Baggett Marnie online apne matters, There is firm evidence for the conclusion that HOSTIKOV is 2 Soviet State Security (KGB) ccficer, and the other four Consular oe rN - . . officers arc also known or Seon Eerie to be Sovict Stata & must be clearly stated that Soviet intelligence and scouily of ificere placed abroad under official cover normally are required to perform the routine and legitimate business demanded by the cover job in an embassy or consulate, 16, KOSTIKOV was first spotted as a RGB man because _of his travels around Mexico, his habitual association with known, KGB officers, and because consuls, in Soviet practice, are — usually KGB men, o KOSTILOV is believed to work for Depar tment Thistéen ° "of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, It is the Depaitment - pesponsible for executive action, including sabotage ‘and. assassin pation, These functions of the KGB are known within the Service itself as “Wet Affairs" (mekryye cela)s” headquarters, according to vory,xjigple information, conducts ae interviews or, a3 appropriate, filo reviews on every foreign ° Bree nee . o. ™s . ‘ ° Pe eee ee oamnmsysy “ae, 8 gee Cer Ta : wo . & aaa + me ws . . ind eM, ee . je Hy 7 . } ; cote ‘ Sat cD _ | | 7 - / apo0ea8 ee ee nee cies Be et ee ee The: Thirtee nth D epartment . a, ee fe yet im he at
- —— PROGIBITED | | > & te - ° & welt Peer , . 4 military defector to the UGIA te stuly and ¢ to deterraine the ossibility of utilizing the defector in hia country of origin, Pp > re) ‘18 An intensive review of the filea of owr Momico City - Station was undertaken immediate elyrafter tac assacgination to com> out any previous sly une oported information abow ROSTIMOV'!s activity. No usoful new information bearing on the assasziration resulted: 7 this effort, 19, A close observation was maintained on the Sovict mo personnel, KOST IKOV in particular, for days 2 after 22 Novernboy, Nothing unusual or out-of=pa ttesn waa noted in the activit Y or movements of the Soviet personnel, = 20, It is of parenthetic interest,: however, that the Soviet. Ambassador, when he raade his coil of sympathy on the aunerican oO See. Ambassador, 23 November, was 9 accompanied by two ranking a ate intelligence officers who are in the Soviet installation under a diplomatic cover, One is known to be from the State Security Service and the other is an identified Soviet Gernal Staff telligence (GRU) officer, - Monetary Paym ent to oswe ALD « “ Tavestination of Allera ation 21. On 26 November 11963" yeuing Nicaraguan named  Gibbsrte ALVARADO Ugarte walsed into the U.S. Embassy i in mprmmercepmoe  n 7 See | sisi Ned ES AND i aol 1O05: SYR: aE NDEs. : vatabed feos ’ Z Exe ea as - PROGISITED _ 7 7 a / ounnes
13-00000. _ Poo. ee er od i yi’ peewee rs oe sete oom me Me:zico City and claimed ho hed i been inthe Cuben —— Mexti ico City on 18 September 1963 when a man he Inter rocognized 2 a * a ; . to be Lee OSWALD had been piven $6, 500 in cach to kill aomeoac, ALVAS RADO was known to CIA as a former informant of a Central American security service and to have been used to penetrate ah Oy communist guerrilla gr cups. He , Said thet he was in Mexico City still working for his par'vice, trying to get himself accepted | by the Cubans as a communist 60 the ey v would take him to Cuba for guerrilla training, ALVARADO clearly was a trained intelligence agentdigthe’ was able to describe people and locations well, Ee ~ 5° had apper rently visited the Cuban Embassy and ita Consular offices ' on 2 number of occasions and he correctly idextified some twenty Cuban Erbassy and Consular employees, a | ies 22, While intensive investigation in the United States | - a ee showcd that OSWALD could not possibly have been in Mentos” bee City on 18 September (he was known to have been in Néw Orleans oo Baa on both 17 and 19 September), intensive interr ogation failedto - ~ shake ALVARADO!s story, However, the. Central Americana gpervice for which he claimed to be acting, “denied that he was stillworking for them, - ie . . ; SENSIT TIVE “ee sions. fe.
13-00900- . ee annnmaione nner 23, On28 November 1953, the Mexican police ¢ PROM PIT ED a A oad ALVARADO over for further interroyation, At fir ay per y sisted in his story, but on 30 November he finally admitiod Pas of secing OSWALD in the Cuban Goas somcone, 24, retracted his conségai (D5. under threat of extreme duresa, évded this retraction, rosolving the Pr oblem GIA personnel continued the intery ovation NP nate hee Po in close coordination with the FBL ALVARADO voliunt agrced to a lie detector examination, A CIA polygraph cxpert, assis secured ad polygraph expert conciuded from the zesulta of ‘his tests that" ALVARADO had fabricated his story about OSWALD ia toto, .on 26 N November ’ ivieszican press that CSWwAT REPRODUCTION in a signed ‘statement that he had Once released til laimine that it had been extorted 250% “Under ordinary circumstances CIA would have aise pore & But because of the importance of ted by an FBI special agent, req missions that he must have been mistaken, The tas i should be noted that when he firat-told his story ALVARADO could Bave known from the fabricated the whole incident wiate id to kill e be ing pa untapily 205 tioned ALVARADO and mes “SENSITIVE Elie np | METHGRS RWSL va “ee we ee . gouueat - Me a. yo om ara iat ee te gee as oniee a ETE eames nap et 7 ae