AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : ~ OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 53060 DBocld: 32271334 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10142-10080 CIA SEGREGATED COLLECTION 23-05-02 Document Information HSCA CIA Peleased under the John Kennedy Assassination Records 00/00/0000 ollection &ct of 1992 5 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53080 Date: He—-O1-2017 MEXICO CITY STATION DURAN, SILVIA NOTES Unclassified 1A; 1B Redact 01/01/2003 Box 12 Page 1 2/8/2016
Fe ex nN Cc. Silvia Duran _ fl . ¢ io f \When President. John Fy ‘Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, the United States investigative. agencies--FBr, CIA, Secret Service, etc.--were asked to investigate the assasSination. When the Central Tntelli- gence Agencexico City Station Semumbsaed Lee Harvey . | Oswald had visited Mexico City during late September and early October, it reviewed the electronic surveil- lance files and found evidence of phone calls to the Soviet Embassy made September 27th, September 28th, and Obl October ist, that’ coulda have: been Made ‘by Oswald. * Review of the electro- , ee TELE Sd 1c surveillance” ‘f£tles also produced “phone calls on | hee | September 27, 1963 between the Russian Consul and Silvia | 1. | | ! Duran, a secretary at the Cuban Consulate, where Oswald . | t Ge discussed, * | _ In addition, the Mexico City Sta- ae ; | tion found a September 28, 1963 phone call from Silvia — Duran to the Soviet: Consulateg’ where Silvia Duran stated °° “that there’ was. an American citizen at the. Cuban. Consulate o bSy : : (637 Le ws we : «; Ss who. chad’ ‘previously’ visitea the Soviet. consulate: Ss “A final. Phe TES “eal wi was, made. en Octoner &, 1963 where the Nallegea"s Ets ae | ‘Oswald ‘identified’ himself was. ‘also found. PAW 53080) Bocld:32271334 Page 2?
ON Novemeare 23; jae . ERE the Mexico City Station determined that it would request the Mexican government--with whom it had a good “elationship--to arrest Silvia Duran (as Silvia ‘Duran. was a Mexican citizen, she did not have di- ; Plomatic immunity) because she might shed some light on the circumstances Surrounding the assassination. The Mexico City Station sent a. note to the gober- nacion head, Luis Echevarria, With Silvia Duran's ad- dress, her mother" S address, her brother's address, her license plate number, her home phone number, her place of work and a request that she be arrested immediately. (The Mexico City Station . also. suggested that Duran be held incommunicado until — t 6Fo - . ; ' she could be questionea On the matter. <a { The Mexico City Station did hot receive prior au- ‘horization from CIA Meadquarters to Tomest the. arrest ARREST ms. ovann’ a request Jeopardize: Of, Silvia Duran by Mexican authorities. | othe Clandestine x “relationship between certain “Mexican gow . en ; “vernment. officials nae the. cing if, it Come. disclosea oo that | americans were ‘behing | ‘Duran’ ts. arrest * ‘oa | HW 53080 Bocld:322713384 Page 3
oa Jonn Scealso Th teo | Bane _ prereers Chief of = ex 1 GESFTOne De rters, telephoned Winston Scott, the Mexico Venter of Station, requesting that Silvia Duran 8 ee O95 S$¢glso not be arrested, titlstedm ) = Scott told Whiten that he coula not rescind the requestyand that Headquarters should already have received a cable Stating that Silvia Duran had been arrested. (ite, ) = After Winston Scott" s con- » versation with WROD Pezso Scott called Luis Echevarria and stated that the Mexico City Station desired that all information received from Duran be forwarded immediately to the Mexico City Station, and that her arrest and state- cas a ments not be communicated — -). She said, ee wanting EEE session oo aznoLn* Ss NGLE oa SPACE | NW 53080 — _Docld: 32271384 Page 4 a
and her husband’ speculated that. President When she became aware that. the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, she ascertained that it was the same man who approximately two months prior had been. to the Cuban Con- Sulate to solicit an intransit visa to Russia. Having taken his name from the special documentation he | Presented she knew that he was married to a Russian woman and be- longed to the "Fair Play for Cuban Committee," _ She checked: the data in the Consulate archvies and became certain that it was the same individual who was blonde, short, dressed unelegantly and whose face turned red . when angry. The Consul had denied the visa because. to obtain an intransit visa from the Cuban government, it was imperative that he Previously obtain a visa from the Soviet Consulate. Since obtaining a visa from the So- viets took four months and Oswald's Mexican visa expir ed Soon, 0 Swald became excited and Duran. had to call the Con- sul who had ‘an. argument with hin, ‘The only aid She could ‘| sive | ‘Oswald was advising. that he’ see. “the Soviet consul, That “Sfternoon, | aces Oswald returned to. the Cuban Consulate, ana. Silvia Duran . confirmed that he ‘could get a Cuban. visa. only. after he | received a Russian visa. She. gave Oswald her name and business phone number but never gave him her ad- dress because She had no reason to give it to him. She knew that phoning the Soviet Consulate was not one of her duties. and that if she did so she dia it only to help Oswald. She gave Oswald her business phone water. number only because he would have to call Subsequently to check whether he had obtained a visa. He never called_ HW 53060 Docld:32271384 Page 5
OO — By retea 2sed’November 24, 1963, y earrested: “November 27, 1963, when the Mexican go- vernment alleged that she was attem LiF for travel to Havana. ( Gees pting to leave Mexico According to the Mexican officials who detained Duran a 673 second time, there was no addition to her story .# (Gere The Mexico City Station forwarded Duran! Ss ten-page - Joo- - Signed Statement to headquarters « on > N 1963. November 27,- “the” Mexico. city. StationSerking to. insure: that. neither © : By _theVings the Cubans-would have a basis for Be ees 2 20) that the Americans were behind her rearrest. The. cable Stated, "We want the Silvia Duran nor Mexican authorities to el wv take the responsibility for the ” whole affairg./emimixe nn | ‘work with the Warren Commission, Headquarters. cabled . an and ‘other’ official Gaia ‘about. Ogwala’ Ss visits” and | his. dealings: would be valuable and usable corroborative. HW 53080 © DocTd: 322713944 Page. 6