(toa-tota7-t00%d] a ll eR ee HAE. tet | MW venom SECRET a 2 May 1975 a” ‘Chief, Operations Staff SUBJ, xs 7 of Agency Holdings regarding QW OF Photograph of Unidentified Individual in Mexico City published by the Warren Commission — “REPERENCE wove. Letter dated 15 April 1975 "by ~ - -- Mr. David W. Belin, Executive Director of the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States,. to Mr. E. Henry “Knoche (copy % attached to. accompanying report) | 1. This is further to, and in completion of, my interim memorandum of a few weeks ago. Ze The attac isa detailed review in eee chronological o y together with appropriate sect ary ~- of our wr ive holdings on the OSWALD 2 have a BN th itter of photographs Mexico CityCsts , (Aj and G5, October 4 Unidentif£f aindits - AS'a consequence mS tion o > aS Wigan rror, misjudgement os nae: < stres@ Ot ‘an ae <) desire to contri GONE Neve lop~ men tae h LUptisation of the as; Meta cropped v x of one of the photo IRA Unidentifi ndividual was introduced i Me chain of evidence in*the OSWALD case on 23 November\1963 by an FBI representative in Dallas. The successive vicissi- tudes which have now made this event a cause celebre right down to the present moment are detailed in the narrative. Cy * SECRET ELIE tt sy Rie? 0062146 eee ce ee ete A ete ne A A ee ge iene oe ee te oe ee me cite tot ~ nnn nt ne aes meson ge pe
14-00000 SECRET ; ; 3. The at answer to th ensterwald/O'Toole article which Mr. Belin attaches A SSShemorandum, (I have prepared a paragraph-~ by-parag SOF tion and comment on that article, which Ore appropriately handled by a sepa~ xr. Belin, and I will prepare this as (NIT os rate _ hat is desired.) «@ Spe bee gS eT me int of the referenced memorandum is Get m should be given now to “whether or. SS er can be fully disclosed at this ti ge Wa submissvon is designed to make it possible f Our Be pianaie t © decision. The narrative-interpretive su as, hesny put together in such a way that it discl pseudonyms or other CIA jargon. However, . no yeyonyns j ts Si Slts qo | well beyond what has been released to the publ hus far: in the Warren Commission documentation. This point must be borne in mind in making a decision on Mr. Belin's ‘question. To remove any question in anybody's mind about our good faith in this matter, the narrative is backed up by copies of actual documentation from our files. It seems to me necessary, in reply to Mr. Belin, that he or his representative review. the documentation that backs up the narrative. The documentation has not been keyed into the narrative presentation, but it follows the chronologi- cal order of presentation from 9 October into the latest - developments in the matter, and there is an overali index ., T+. to facilitate re Si to individual items. [NB: There (*" i lS his collection; this is it-]. per? —, one of the photographs taken &S' he 8) a 1963 was introduced into th@S raat a Bwvic record. However, it wa e2- fp eth mle i d in two cropped versions. Nee nd its staff were made ste L | r inquiry at Headquarters a Nara e origins of the photograph Qs gl TS ditional photographs of the at endive ~~ a ad taken at difYerent times in Mexico City a On nthe. oe of full knowledge of these facts reachea he OURS a N) clusions regarding the irrelevance of the Spode ‘OSWALD and the assassination. 6. In fact, we actually hold twelve different photo- graphs of the Unidentified Individual. Each of these arfe"— — reproduced in the collected documentation backing up the narrative report (see Items 25 ~ 27). Chief, LA Division, 2 SECRET = ; O0G2147
14-00000 SECRET a had indicated i riting to Chief, CIOPS, that he has no objection fort SSpelin to do whatever is desired with these or at this time. It should be noted that Mr. Fenste 1971 - 1972 was actually shown, by. Mr. Ho ate uri visit to the Agency, two of the twelvaQnistos other than the one S these es Wished Wax ssion report. (It is these ) ; in The New York Review of Bo ile ‘OS nh attaches to his memorandum. 1 NS seems to me that whoever mak@ = wn e : rose a) this wheth the entire matter can be ful _ time should bear in mind that a subs% SRy on must othe also be made, i.e., whether to cr he ene up the background of the photographs ee to publish the entire run of Se the first time without taking out the background bviously, none of these questions apply to the passage of this material ‘to Mr. Belin and the Rockefeller Commission itself. I think they should see the entire documentation as it stands. Perhaps after that, the question of what could be discussed and the question of “how?" and "how much?" could be taken up with Mr. Belin himself. My personal recommendation is that the more we can say about this matter ina a open and final manner, the better o we will be as ayency. But it is my understanding@® that there SS ill sensitive aspects deriving £ S fact oeaey SS ion which produced the ving Fee Woe s@iNyexican liaison and as a omnsdaten t Sat CUON ime would create additiox@iprobkt SS xico. Also, it should b ated - ut the photographs into SON he FBI terally from the Field. As “Rar nee there has‘’not been anything published about this aspect at any time in the past nor have we had any discussions with the State Department about that aspect of the matter. ‘Raymond G. Rocca Attachments: as stated SECRET COPY NOe ae
14-00000 SECRET A 2 May 1975 SUBJECT : The Photo of Guewe Individual in the Warren Conmissi rt: A Factual Chronological survey REFERENCE: NERS ve Belin to Mr. E. Harry Knoche, Aachment, A) e & XS &S Sw” 1. pie <p suggests it would be DNS Beate Lo. SN » reconsider ful Wiosure at this time of the serena data relative to the Subject. The purpose 0% Seg permit a ; realistic evaluation of the suggestion. we \ Background 2. This examination and summary of the record concerns a cropped photograph considered by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (hereinafter cited as the Warren Conmis se) and 7 SY introduced into evidence as Odum Exhibit No. 1. The photogra Sosy (together with others of the same individual) vain } ANY ——— xy 4 1 See Hearings Before the President's Commission an Ge of President nennecy hereinafter cited as Hearings), Yol. oe 691. { SECRET OOF et 4a PACE COPY Ku.
14-00000 SECRET sensitive rm operation bei ng conducted in October 1963 by the CIA and \ SxS authori ties\ against the Soviet and Cuban a ry im extraordinary press of effort to & os on The GN? he in and the assassination, ‘copies of @& Sto made available by CIA's Mexico Station Chief SHES 22 November to the local FBI rpresenttiveGy la GY day, assertedly on. the decision of the Ambassador , copi ww conveyed by an FBI representative by a speci al flight carried out by the U.S. Naval Attache to the Dallas office of the FBI for possible use in the ongoing investigation. One photograph, cropped by the FBI, was shown to- Mrs. Marguerite asia, ane OSWALD's mother) ‘in Dallas on the IW evening of 23 op Nis Agent Bardwell D. ODUM. The W een report describes the sequence of events - at pp. 364- aS 6s RK Stachment B) which ultimately resulted in Mrs. Mar ee allegation that she had been shown a cropped photo of Jack RUB Re day before he murdered her son. {A <s comp 1icati on compounding this erroneous § conc lust on was « BS when she had been shown a copy of the same a cance before the Commission, it had been cropped Ky ae ~ a slightly different manner.) ee 5. No detail in the Warren semua’ report a more vividly than this one the difficulties that beset simple truth in the SECRET pace 6 “ of \ . COPY NO. 15
14-00000 . SECRET Sy, politicized, rigssteerministic interpretive climate that has been nurtured by vee tion. on ae now not to be RUBY, has rom to Sch s" and has — become the centerpiece An SS the past decade about the Kennedy Assassina- preosén hyARe double Od activity in Mexico City.2 SS 3S ge “S Lee Harvey OSWALD - Reporting on Mexico City S&S & Ew” 6. Although in no way related to Lee Harvey OSWALD or his stay in SS is dhe lds OSWALD to have been "framed": * a y) Mexico City from the morning of 27 September 1963 to the morning of 2 October 1963, at least one set of photographs of the unidentified man | om. originated during OSWALD's stay there. It is important, therefore, to ~an understanding asa acquisition ‘and handling of the photographs by ‘the Mexico staiGony 9) ew what the Station ascertained and did with OES) the informer) it. EX ped about OSWALD in Mexico City, together with oe a that informati on. afk SS Sys’ XS EQ" | NY r N’credible evidence known to this time (n Gas. ‘Z > aS RS ARS y added since t exhaustively unique work of the ws soinih S1.Qn Lee Harvey OSWALD spent four (4) full days anid Xe or t Te: 0g) September “— about 116 hours in all--in Mexico City from abou ener EE ET Ct epee einen 2 This is the thrust of the article "The CIA and the Man Who Was Not Oswald" by Bernard Fensterwald and George O'Toole in the New York Review ( of Books, a copy of which is attached to reference (Attachment A). 30 SECRET oo ou bande, ot 75 PACE OF Lf COPY NO.
14-00000 om SECRET 1963 to about 8:30 a. Me 2 October 1963. His place of residence SS small commercial rae’s at otel, not frequented by "gringos’ SS Hotel ronment ENG re” < registered under alias. S aie detailed AS Bem x rrogation by the weve END the » ee Ae ination, established Sete A Neti on of re he left early, and returned e ages SN) of his stay. - 8. Assuming, and allowing for the fact of late arrival and early departure, that he slept one-third of the time of his stay (38 or 39 hours), ‘there remain some 78 hours of activity to be accounted for. Overall, CIA's information can account solely for very brief periods during 27, 28 September and 1 October. All coverage by CIA during the entire period was technical. The Station had no live source (living agent) coverage ‘either unilateral or from Mexican liaison. 9. It should be “ that OSWALD was in no sense. "under investi - . gation." None of t SS of his defection and stay in the Uae return to the U L962, were known to Mexico sau before 10 a. ae bare bones of his nag 2 O Sin response to a Station ee re forwarde 8 Octo was indicated and deduced from technically acquired information on q October, which was the first and only occasion in which OSWALD identified himself (partially) by true name. ™~ SECRET : 8 PAGE i ad-forwarded, on a routine wor Yo be , a contact by anSAmerican for a visa to Cuba ‘int efi USSR. This 15 COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET 10. At no po AGE dr in his stay in Mexico City did the CIA acquire a photo of 0 qemu review of all coverage, voice icon, Rh, as well a& Vo ey both the Soviet and Cuban SS rot on 22 and 23 November 1963 S23 eS ina- SN), ree materials from August 1963. ee A“ RSS we that inks no CIA photo coverage of OSWAL ms Env tite SS Sing his r; SON) Mexico trip or stay in Mexico City. Noreover thse “y had made a cabled request on 15 October, the Mexico Station had no as of OSWALD in its records, nor did it’ receive one from Headquarters--whi ch did not have one either--before 22 November 1963. } Ti. Luvite Fhis intensive review of voice intercept transcripts by the monitor and other personnel on the basis of the 1 October inter- cept--which. had.- aw pled: te Headguarters and disseminated to the an interested meg intelligence community (as an ex-Mar ine OSWALD was a Navy RS as the Delimitations Agreement. and SC ally of interes ke Site, “ ent of State)--turned up matches Re ree ES to Headquarters on 23 November based on voice ane (except for what ogo monitor--and this was not an insignificant . . the QS recs the tapes, in accordance with the norma | practice, had been erased and re-used. =_ Rn Percept on 27 and 28 me Si natch ee QO memorably poor Russian spoke by OSWALD) could SECRET PAGE a of U3. Xs COPY NO. ~
14-00000 aoa SECRET &: 12 It must eo that the voice intercept and photographic coverage was “ee is not) processed in "real time." The means & Gy SS A ey volume of the information precludes anyenns but t CSad \ of items judged by the monitor to be of TAS ead m Ore SS therefore, noted in summary logs. we on selected a require consultation of the tape and either es ee scription or full translation or both. Photo coverage . sto 8G Ry) | aS a rapid and accelerated basis in four or five day "peaks." a fT the available in quantity lots which requires scanning "triggers" that normally operates to focus and accelerate more speedy review and reporting of this kind of raw intelligence is the mention of a name. This was precisely what occurred in the second of two conversa- tions on 1 October with the Soviet Embassy, during which the speaker. said he was "Lee OSWALD." It was this information reported by the Station to Headquarters in its first indication on OSWALD on.8 October 1963. a 13. The rego did one more thing in its 8 October report on Lee: OSWALD wee RO mow voice intercepts: it “ge ation it had acquired froma Seer data roe collat ur Near of a male individual, a 3 x SSS aoe SS evved entering the Soviet Enbas¢ eal 0. The Station reported this detail on the 8th as a Fs Gig Sent fact. The Station did not assert. or suggest tha duced fron the photo was in fact OSWALD, or indeed, was in any way we to OSWALD. SECRET nored: 005818 pace 10 COPY NO. of 15
14-00000 SECRET Lee Harvey OSWALD - CIA Coverage of His Mexico City Stay 14. One “ee element of background must be be stipules as SY the final S to understanding the relevance (or <a i ance) of the prota BRS ys eS oy individual placed in the < SD 2 on 23 ate ROS by FBI Agent Bardwell er Ye Wa rote’ AR Ueto s coverage of OSWALD' < Ny RY after- ad eo when all available coverage S Sica? The totality of Mexico Station coverage on, or reasonably inferable to be OSWALD, consisted of five (5) voice intercepts as follows: a. 2/7 September 1963 (Friday), 1605 hours Mexico City time. Silvia DURAN, a Mexican national, a local employee of the Cuban Embassy, Consular section, a receptionist, speaks with an unknown male at the Soviet Embassy. Silvia DURAN tells the man that the American citizen was there, the one who wants a visa for Cuba on his way to the Se Rion, and he wants to know with whom WS as talking moe she (Silvia DURAN) had sent him to © SS, Embassy OUO ey accepted him and gave him ww is}, &S the Cu NS uld also give him a visa re aN S) WS . <S pa Gury 3 RS vising Immigration in Cuba ner ic ES aon with whom he had talked oma EP says he was told there would be no problem. The man in theSoviet Embassy says to wait a moment. A different Soviet speaks, and SECRET OBE td 4 aay PAGE - = Li of 1S COPY NOe ee
14-00000 without having permission fron the Soviet Union they sng SECRET Silvia DURAN ew ee same thing to him. This man says to leave a Aw SY. \ number and says he will call mar ne oie elephone. 11-28-47 (Cuban Consulate )x<s EQ wr, tage of the conversation and. state hve ee \S advise the Soviet Embassy of ee x addres that she can receive the Soviet oe Wang “ The man says to cal] KOUKHARENKO to give h Ve Bien he asks the name of the Consul or Cultural Attache. a DURAN says ' the name is Teresa PROENZA and the telephone ~< is 14-13-26. The man says thanks. —b. 27 September 1963 (Friday), 1626 hours Mexico City time. An unidentified male, a Soviet, calls the Cuban Consulate, asks Silvia DURAN if the @DRcar had been there. Silvia DURAN says he is there now. ore Says the Anerican showed papers from the *, ingtomyethat he wants to go to the Soviet Union and be W mR ime with his wife, who is Russian, but the ore A fron Washington in respect to this problem, SS and SY Qthis procedure it takes four or five months, but » better said, they cannot issue a visa there without ag fig: hi ng- ton. However, according to this man, he showed Ae ‘age ay he C\ Noy Cubans said that they cannot issue a visa mao a visa he was a member of an organization in favor. Ee SECRET PAGE 12 oe 1D. COPY NOe nn emnmenm
14-00000 SECRET for the Soviet Union, and now he (the Soviet) does not know what to oy do with him (the Ae ea) because they have to wait for an answer NN sd from Washington KO We RAS) Song me the same problem exists rows that BGOeO™ (the American) is that "& Ne avy Cubasain) therefore if that is true it eS we for him QS visa for Cuba, because he ees Rage pce sing his visa (for the Soviet Union), because oN require waiting a long time for his visa to the Soviet Union while in Cuba, and fron there go to the Soviet Union. The Soviet said the thing is that if his wife right now were in Washington she would receive her visa right now, or permission, from the Soviet Union, to return to ker country, she is going to receive her visa in Washington but ha 2 is visa, she could communicate to any place this permissi COEN ON) here or any place she could receive it (visa or iS 7G right now they do not have them. N Silvia S Sa NY ainly and they.cannot give a ete Rr know if the visa will be approve aS says he can ive a letter or recommendation ei he ey becat ‘does not know him (the American) and asks to SS ised GO SS bothering her. Silvia DURAN says that is gh gon thanks. c. 28 September 1963 (Saturda \, 1151 hours Mexico City time. Silvia DURAN calls the USSR Embassy and talks to an unidentified SECRET
14-00000 SECRET Soviet. She says that in the Cuban Embassy there is a North American who was at the Soviet Embassy. The Soviet spat a minute. Si lvi Na speaks English with someone- CesPinngtty Spanish th 92 e APARICIO telephone ny a te rahe” the it going number SS tear AN then says the Ane SN : ASS th INSve., the Soviet. The esicanchiyst speaks they oviet speaks English. They co LO 2] to t CY) < Pree talks broken Russian and says I was in your Embassy and 3 a YY 3 ¢ nvbnue in English. 2o aL , spoke to your Consul. Just a minute. A Soviet takes the phone and asks the Anerican in English what does he want? The American says please speak Russian. The Soviet says what else do you want? The ( American says I was just now at your Embassy and they took my address. The Soviet says I know that. The American, in hardly recognizable Russian, says I did not know it then. I went to the ““Ehem for my address, because they haves . SY an An unknown male (Anerican) calls the Soviet Embassy,’ the Military Attache's number, 15-69-87, and says to an unidentified Soviet respondent:. I was at your place last Saturday and talked to your Consul. They said that they would send a telegram to Washington, 10 SECRET OCC 2152 pace 14 of 12
14-00000 SECRET and I wanted to ask you if there is anything new? The Soviet says I would like to ask Gato call another phone number? Please write SS it down: = 15-~ oe ask for a consul. Thank you. e S \ or XG as nee rw phoned a day or so. ago and spoke em Rus e WS OBYEDKOV (a Soviet Embassy ouae © sag QW” | This is o T was at ra OO ger and i spoke to a consul, and they said that they Nand eon to: Washington, so I wanted to find out if you have anything new? But I don't remember the name of that consul. OBYEDKOV says: KOSTIKOV. He is dark (hair or skin - ?). OSWALD says yes. My name is OSWALD. OBYEDKOV says, just a minute, I'll find out. They say that they have not received ry thing yet. OSWALD says: Have they done anything? ouetRiON says: Yes, they say that a request has been sent outs< ; Hothse Ag NS been received as yet. OSWALD says, and what ony ROY hangs up. Sy) NS) Oy’ WS” NY US eS ese items, including the texts of the raw AS ts, . were read by, Sissed with, and examined by Warren coum sf ‘S rN in Headquarters and at the Mexico Station during a sx’ ey >> 1964.3 All were made available promptly to the F Sy SS SS | VE 3 The Warren Commission group that visited the Mexico Station consisted of Mr. Coleman, Mr. Slawson, and Mr. Willens. They examined not only the VW SECRET 15 15 PAGE ~~. OF emer COPY NOs.
14-00000 SECRET 17. Summing up dwe can state, or by free interpretation reasonably infer from the or evidence, that OSWALD made or could have made the Fol tong 4 tee Dy the Cuban and Soviet official establishments aw << iday). After ae ae SS =in to €l, OSWALD went first to the Cuban ae re EAN we <— visit | is unknown. The time cf his second aA aN \S} was about with Mrs. Silvia DURAN. The time of hi 1600 hours (i.e., just before closing). Sometime between the two ‘Cuban Embassy visits, at Mrs. DURAN’ S indication, he must have visited the Soviet Embassy. We have no indication who he talked with at the Soviet Embassy. intercepts a - e above, but others for the 27th and one for that seemed to have re mance. These have not been includ summary because they 3 BE Bar, on review, to be excludable matter -on logical ee substantive grounds, or both, bea the Soviet me Seeived any calls pertaining esr RA the Soviet Embass On the ed <a> fron an unknown Afi ng Spanish who sai nite or to go to Odessa. onsul was not in and Rat 1130. OSWALD j a arrived at the Flecha Roj bud inal on bus #516 hours on the 27th. It was, theref ore} possible for him to aes But granting this, it is unreasonable to. believe the c were OSWALD's for the following reasons: - a. The caller wanted visas, and specifically for Odessa. OSWALD was seeking a visa and never in any context did he specify the Black Sea port of Odessa as a destination. 12 SECRET OB OTs) PAGE | 16 oe 2, COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET There WS photographic coverage of OSWALD's entries into either +S - or Soviet Embassies on the 27th. The lack of coverage RYynstal lation is explainable: 2 he comera, i he ne Sekt ion of officers still ine in Head - fs Ns & yon non the 27th because: eG retin Ss ich Sie of correction. eos cog ed in his wae entry to the Soviet inst th is not yet explained, but no technical operation of As is infallible. b. 28 September 1963 (Saturday). [Note: Both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies were closed to the public on Saturdays. Photo- graphic coverage was normally suspended Saturdays and Sundays. ] b. The cal l.qwas directed to the correct Soviet consular number: . 15-60- oa oh 1] October, OSWALD first called the wrong _ number, 15- 69 EXE &: “le MA's ghumber) » and had to redirect his call to the correct ber ss) It seems unlikely he would have made 5 e@ what woul]. initial call, on Friday the 27th, to the corre RSS d the incorrect number .on 1 October... se SS Pane € cepts yé ' NS ery reason to believe from the context of the | ais, a-e above, that OSWALD's first destination... As Cen at d. The use of the Spanish language will oxclude- OSWALD’ ‘unless he made use of an intermediary, which seems unttkely. from what is known of his modus operandi. Posse “On 3 October at 1539 hours an individual speaking broken Spanish, then English, called the Soviet Embassy and asked for a visa. The Soviet respondent says: Call on the other phone. The requestor says: I'm . 13 SECRET OOLeIsS. PAGE a COPY NO. ar d check-in to his hotel, was a visit: to, the Cuban = of 9
14-00000 SECRET . AS oe OSWALD , notwitictendi g the holiday schedule, went on Saturday y rN eS Ue , _ morning ee ‘Soviet < bassy (his- second visit) where he spoke to SN Nou! oO MN CAN? a cee) e@ apiaeurty could not recall his new Texas address. Ge EH s he went to the Cuban Embassy--his third entry--~ SOV where Re hge registered it in his visa application thecday previously. He secured the address from Mrs. DUR Gnishe called . SN the Soviet Consulate presumably to permit him give them the address over the phone. Instead, the Sov Bue who .. “OOS GNGSHALD spoke over Mrs. DURAN's telephone invited 0 Dy Eo CNS k in person, and he said he would immediately. PR eb] REupOn OSWALD went back to the Soviet installation (his shiva SO). looking for a visa t Sm go to Russia. The Soviet says: Please call on the. telephone. of the » 15-60-55. The requestor says: . One moment SS ¢ RNS ») please, I'l] hay@sko\get a pencil to write the number down. They sat the visa ther Soviet: That depends on your conversation. f know about i The requestor asks for the number ag < . S in Q ans i | SN « r and tells him to ask for the lS i: QL S | OMRON eleyQRoF this intercept to OSWALD is excludSQiSGn EHEEANO S) * WS LY w he use of broken Spanish. OSWALD throughout SS hen Russi or English. He had no competance in Spanish to handle a conversation of this kind. _  _b. The substance of the request indicates a visa request in the first stages of initiation. OSWALD had developed his matter with the Cubans and the Soviets the previous Saturday to a point well beyond the stage indicated by the substance of this call. 14 SECRET STEAD Rae) pace 18° o¢ I COPY NOs anenammnnnt
SECRET | , | c. 29 September 1963 (Sunday). No activity registered. Sy IN S SAA) 0 sa 1963 (Monda No activity raise \S (It is rs) BN reserved space this date on Ge 0 ee 2 October 1963 at 0830 « RIS” SS or SS \ Ss iS Ry AS ©. CW 1963 Tuesda: OSWALD ow at SM calls, at 103 1045 hours, to the Soviet Embassy .: He identified himself twice during the second call when he talked with OBYEDKOV--a guard-~ and referred to his talk on Saturday, probably with KOSTIKOV. There was no photographic coverage of OSWALD on 1 October; if the follow- ing reasoning is correct, that was as it should be. From the context i of the two calls, there would have been no reason for him to go to the Embassy. His .. had clearly been placed at the sufferance of the USSR mea RWashington. His two calls on 1 October eX concerned wa Nether any reply had been received fron Nd kon, Under eee Xs, it is unreasonable to Cw ORD ~ e Soviet Embassy on that aWN NX eC SS > <S s Ka at about mid-day wot oe ar the . ne Soviet Emba of a white- shirted individual who, in opinion of the c. OSWALD had left Mexico City, based on all the credible evidence, the early morning of the previous day, 2 October, and could not have made this local call. 15 SECRET pee “4 (Petey were: PAGE 4 3, ¢ 0 COPY NO. ne enn
14-00000 SECRET WN with a cons © believed to be Valeriy rage Subject asked the Soviet La g WE Senn who answered, if there was & in RAC Se ewin a telegram to Washington. wr on checking said nothing had been received yet, but the request had been sent. WwW AX. (2) Mexico Station said it had photos of Ke who appeared to be an American enteri Pose Embassy at 1216 hours, leaving 1222 on 1 dctobsX | Apparent age 35, athletic build, circa 6 feet, | | receding hairline, balding top. Wore khakis and sport shirt. (3) No local aN inet on was being made by the -Station. — & 21. On BC 12Z time the WH Division responsible for action dj ay ais eport to the Department of State, the FBI, and the SS routine electrical transmissi on, adding Some. NS collateral its Won from a preliminary file review: aS (1) On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive Oo & ss source in Mexi co reported that an American ee af A) who identified himself as Lee OSWALD, conkantéd nC Ss the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring SECRET PAGE 21 of BO COPY NO.w
14-00000 SECRET -- whether Ch had received any news con- all had been sent to Yon We can was described as BAY35 years old, with an athletic. CO SS se . LS LW buon 6 feet tall, with a "receding" & hairline. | CO EN “ts cere iW LW yeg fr (2) It is believed that OSWALD ma: ea. to Lee Henry [sic] OSWALD, born on T8 Oct AS in New Orleans, Louisiana, a former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959 and later made arrangements through the United | States Embassy in Moscow to return to the United States with has Russian-born wife, Marina Nikolaevn ue [sic] and their child. (3) Sire in paragraph (1) is being ores our representatives. in Mexico City. < rage infomation received on this subject QW urnished you. This informati on is ree made available to the Imi grat on and Natu Or Service. & 22. Although the reaction of the KS Gm \ "by the book" and in good time, there were a numb ff this advisory to the departments which, on the record, were concérned with the OSWALD case: 18 SECRET ‘PAGE c of __. fT. COPY NO. on en
14-00000 SECRET a. Sa Re was misgiven: “Henry” for Harvey. Sy YY So a) ss the file aN \vors 1960 had been erroneously inscribed The reason Fortis wistate is simplicity itself. The sheet opening \ "OSWALS OOP Henr NS) hat sheet--unchanged except for. the notation of NS . the Y Qs the first sheet in the OSWALD file. : , on : LOSSY b. His wife's maiden name was misspelled: Pusnagel 3 PRUSAKOVA. Neither of these errors are significant (though they p SbyIn HE? . . . Qe, FEIN Headquarters communications throughout the month). SUIMPORTR was: SHNGPQ SSA c. Paragraph (2) of the Mexico Statit fep gah ch dealt with | OS a concurrent, but separate, phenomenon, the descriptton of an individual observed going into and out of the Soviet Embassy, had been locked on -to Lee OSWALD as an alleged descriptive fact. The Station's qualification, "appeared to be an American," was transformed in the flat designation of the unidentified CEvievet as "The American." There can be no qu Stdon Cale misreading of the Mexico Station report . od G was an analys SS, § . Qe “OL SS - release: th sctriptivedetails attributed to OSWALD were so far off the escaped detection in the coordination before mark as inn@EDEy recognizable as such by the rec pteneg Ya Head quarters, yong Shes both the Navy and FBI had photos of OSWA DS (In partial ONY explanation, if not exculpation, be it recalled that Ke Bt een) CIA Soe CYR OLE had no photograph of OSWALD in Headquarters or in Toy City tay fer to.) QV’ WY 23. Confirmation of this judgment is prow by Chesontents of , S the cable composed by the same analyst and sent as of Y 9Z time (two hours later) to Mexico Station, referencing its 8 October cable: 19 pace 23. of 12, een res RRO IS COPY NO. oa et eterte Lae solr mencomntatine 6 ETF
14-00000 - own initiative neve at at the Embassy with WS ‘for So SECRET (1) Lee OSWALD who called SovEmb 1 October probably identical Lee Henry [sic] sings” Ny & " My 18 October 1939, New Orleans,,. ne Ss Ss ~ 2 radar operator,in United States woe defected t n- October 1959 SHAR SS five fe ingles, one hundred Se pou ht wy? “wavy hair, blue eyes. Vv SS SS On Ractober 1959 he attempted to renounce WY & Hy States citizenship to the United States Embassy in Moscow, indi cating he had applied for Soviet citizenship. On 13 February the US Embassy Mos cow received an undated letter fron OSWALD postmarked Minsk on 5 February 1961 in which sub- | ject indicated he desired return of his US passport as he wished to return to USA if "we could come to some agreement concerning the dropping of any legal proceedings against-me." On 8 July on his NS his wife to s Sy iN return to States. &5 ED ually had never one & bp and that his sprig” SS ». oN SN . at ree to remain in USSR SWS r ES SS Xs QE sion of his tourist visa pending outcome of his request. This application, according Subject st. to OSWALD, contained no reference to Soviet 20 SECRET - ORL 2183 PAGE COPY NO. 24 ye 1S emma
14-00000 SECRET ( oA BM , citizenship, ones stated. that he had been RAN ar an w enploysg@hnge 13 ul 1960 in Belorussian ce Rw ¢ ty, SS Sy} in Minsk where he worked eS Luge . in research shop. OSWALD was & SS marriQow a°30 April 1961 to Marina Nikolaevna G | PUSAKOVA [sic], a dental technician born 17 co &Y 1941, USSR. No Headquarters traces. He WS RS . : . ° S 2 awh > attempted to arrange for his wife to S m Use Moscow so she could appear at ie yess” interview. His American passport was QS to him. US Embas sy Moscow stated twenty months ( of realities of life in Soviet Union had clearly had a maturing effect on OSWALD. (3) Latest Headquarters information was an FBI report dated May. 1962 saying the FBI had deter- mined OSWALD is. stin a US citizen and both he and ris avis wire: shave exit permits and Sy Depaxtiient of Stat ad given approval for taetr LS : a OS & ~ SS gee Pinch angie infant child to USA. AX <S Sey? SOY ONE) « » Ney he Station should pass the saeStniten Gy WY AW, WF endyp eee Phe N Nd 18NS locally. The information given AQ S reference [its 8 October cab above to the Embassy, the 21 25-2, 75 PAGE OF enwoeent COPY Noe nn mmemmaraecon? mm
14-00000 SECRET f oor “N ( aes paragraphs a (3) originated with the Lae BON Qe v2 S N WN? << & 5) ee ae and possible identificatj @ “Ls < dissent Rv NY to Headquarters WY EN Qe aN.» <r Please keep Headquarters VS ©. ad or any further contacts or positive ification of OSWALD. 24. Headquarters feedback to Mexico City of OSWALD's correct description should have been sufficient, in view of the incongruities . with the details deduced from the photo of the unidentified male, to keep these two matters apart as investigative facts. But things did not work out that way. 25. Mexico Station on 15 October 1963 asked Headquarters to "please pouch a photo of OSWALD. "Headquarters electrically deli verec to the Department of ene following message on 24 October’ 1963. & eo 6 Co. oo SS | ‘ . Sa al u. at you forward to thisxotFipe WS : ou have of subject. We will forward them to our representative in Mexico, who will attempt to determine if the Lee OSWALD in Mexico _ City and subject are the same individual." 22 SECRET OOCLL TS PAGE 26 of _icle COPY NO on ninnemnnemny
14-00000 SECRET r se by CIA by 22 November 1963. a" Wi C2; Littitadi ons and capabilities, Mexico Station had done al ag Md << Ss ‘4 with Headquarters instructions: es & with kos ane or policy interest in OSWALD Ay Gong No photo had been ee had been alerted, and in turn those a ee . CZ No in the United States had been alerted, both in n AO the field. W aw | gr | | b. Mexico Station had no further contacts by OSWALD to report . because--as it was ultimately ascertained--he had left Mexico City on 2 October. c. QSWALD was not an Agency investigative responsibility, in any.case. Even with a photograph, it would have taken very special ‘efforts, triggered by the other interested U.S. agencies, to have made a positive identification in view of OSWALD's hotel registra- tion under aT ES oe There the matter rested. anti mid- -day 22 November 1963. S 89) a ASS Sy The Insérbin of he ‘Photo of the Unidentified Individual a af aan Chain: Be bviasndss oo SY A Ay SS NS" . FANN a ~ GS 27. On 22 November 1963 the Mexico Station ze ae at 2229Z time after learning of the arrest of Lee H. Na rn, ( 23 SECRET OL OR Ta. PAGE ef of mas copy NO.
14-00000 SECRET io SS possibly in cope with the assassination, and referenced its earlier neatibes S “Of BX avand 15 October and Headquarters’ reply of OS . 10 Oc RON ITh én requested by: . QS Re WS Qe pian ty pouch a photo of OSWALD so that Statio AS . Qe check all recent coverage for OSWALD. ce” & QS eS WY on 1 October who could be identical CHES Sa ep 28.. It is clear that Mexico Station had forgotten that according ing soonest copies of only visitor to So ON: Bas to its own communication the unidentified male in the photo was of “apparent age 35" and that the accurate description of OSWALD forwarded ( by Headquarters on 10 October precluded the identity with OSWALD of the person whom they ras as the “only visitor to the Soviet Embassy on 1 October who couldbe Fdentical " SS Th 2nd ESvire had begun an exhaustive and accelerated review & es al and photographic intelligence. A dispatch AS rdance with the indication given in the ee was < 22 NORD an eee ON paragraph 25 above. The dispatch AN ~) t photo coverage “ the unidentified individual had t nN on dy WS 15 October at the Soviet and Cuban Embassies, GO ext of the 22 November 1963 pouched dispatch r \ "]. Attached are copies of the only ~@& obtained . . . on 1] October 1963 which appeared 24 SECRET. OY epg mye PAGE _ 28. of hee COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET oS \ to be an mere This same man visited the Soviet basa October 1963. OS’ ye PNG & op PAN <ore e Wy otographs were shown to the ww a on 22 November 1963 and a copy ES RN each Ye the two photographs was given to Chi cor ? YS Mexico, on that date... . LOY XX SY "PS, "Photographs dated 5 October SS ew” inserted after typing of dispatch. These were taken as [the] person entered the Cuban Embassy." Attached were eight photographs: four (of which two were marked ( 1 October on reverse) showing the individual in a white shirt, and four (unmarked ‘on reverse) showing the individual in a black shirt. It would seem to be Gad 1 that the word "sets" was probably omitted from WS) paragraph tweets a wee between the words "two" and wee SKX WS REE C QE t Ss on was working under forced draft 3-day app “ase CA xt of the dispatch, which tacked on ees SN That fact was reported simultaneou 2 NN Headquarter’ at 0053Z time, 23 November: ie & Ss American type who is possibly OSWALD entering "1. Mexico Station has photos sane SS Cuban Embassy on 15 October. Searching for 25 SECRET OOLSES PAGE 23" of COPY NO. _.
14-00000 SECRET possibi lity pheke documented entry Cuban Embassy other dayse\ SS SS OO? Oo x. WS)’ "2 ss establish OSWALD entry and LW at 0136Z time, 23 November 2540 Mexico \ QW) Station to send a staff member with al] photograph ny uarters on AS gt the next available flight. WO" &S GY: . 32. Concurrently with or before t Co goi oO to Headquarters, the Chief of Station, Mexico City, had’ sp a y by double-talk telephone with the Western Hemisphere Chief "s Division, Mr. J. C. KING, and secured permission to give copies of the photographs of the uniden- “tified individual to the Legal Attache and to make them known to the Ambassador. | | 33. What happened next is best reflected in a "< note by the Chief of Station to the WH Division Chief, mai led BAG Her from Dallas, together with copies of the photographs, Ors Qe representative who delivered them to the FBI Go” RSE YQ” "Dear J.C. [KING]: "Reference is made to our conversation of 22 November 26 COPY BQ e on enmnememment
14-00000 SECRET in which I "LES permission to give the Legal Attache geeRP itor of a certain person “who @ GMs “> Ey SS S . oo \ of each of the photographs Ww i h the dates of the visits stamped on ““ back. "At 6 p.m. Mexico time on 22 November, The Anbas-~ —Sador decided that this was important enough to have a member of the Legal Attache's office take copies of these pictures to Dallas, Texas. The _ Naval Attache is making a special flight from Mexico City for this purpose. The Lega) Attache's officer who is going to Dallas has promised to mail this material to you for me. "Copies of these photographs « are also oe by pouch which will leave Mexico cig e night of 22 November 1963. AS <S LO "Best wishes. LY KS NS According to a sidelined comment on this letter, the Legal Attache's officer was Eldon RUDD. 27 SECRET PAGE 3l of COPY NO. . ‘partner ney ERE TTEU TD . OOF 245 15
14-00000 SECRET 34. The decision to remit the photographs to the FBI & Dallas had been made by the @bassador, according to the Chief emer who simultaneous ly al agent's departure er: ‘Hea eS" by cable (a2ga@Qade & Oo ni 2000 ones Ss SS 23-Wovember ) : na eacho x photos of a person suSpec VES 3 » ona special flight for Dallas. He is carrying envelope with one copy each photo for aimail special from Dallas to J. C. KING at home as per telephone conversation with SCOTT. One copy of each of these photos plus a copy of ( each of the photos showing the same person exiting the Cuban Embassy forwarded by memorandum leaving by regular pouch tonight. In view of above does Hqs still want a staffer with additional photo(s)?" 35. Headquarters ie Ne hours later, 04222 time, 23 November 1963, aa aa -"7. No ee ith photos. We have | | ain, but Mexico can see ae on the press wire. "2. as re-emphasized to FBI Headquarters the sensitivity of photos you are sending and also 28 SECRET On 24.05 32. =~. «75 PAGE oe (> COPY NOe
14-00000 SECRET relaying names of travelers with similar names. Note ae OSWALD lived under alias of Wy ein 729Z time, Headquarters advised Mexico City: i Says that the photos of the man Ce the Soviet Embassy which Mexico Station sent to Dallas were not FER SMA. Presume Mexico Station has BraNS Scie ( 37. And’ cat. this memrs :o November , Mexico Stati on fi nally agreed: "Saw photos of Lee OSWALD on television night of 22 November and it obvious photos sent to Dallas were not identical with Lee OSWALD held in Dallas. oN Dates are as given on photos. . GSN ee NS” "Mexico Station is reviewing all avai lable. ator YD AN Noa “ANN of persons entering Soviet and Cuber Enbissies,” ue NN Wy 38. Two hours later (22542 time, 23 ogy) be Station had reported the results of its effort to review all a stable coverage: 29 PAGE 33. of ‘i COPY NOe nn mnsmment
14-00000 SECRET "Complete recheck of photos of all visitors -to ’ Cuban Embass AY ugust through first half of rover n\p S press photos shows no 0S ee sit. Similar. blank against & a sy photos fron 1 September. . PES On sit we know he made to Cuban Eade ae Saturday, on which Embassy S ge . a WN aN So RS QQ EA and we had not had coverage eee 39. With this communication the matt PRG SHhe > QS ified individual" reaches the end of Phase I, Ss 1 Bee which is the convi ction, at first latent, then expressed, that\the photographed individual might be identical with OSWALD. This applies especially to the Station, though at a certain point even Headquarters moved no rebuttal despite th&ard fact that the description of OSWALD and the unidentified eo re quite disparate. OO ~ 40, in PES re ‘ Gthdt have a bearing on what happened. yerational wei We yene’ss, and the high committment of al A) a © because of the 20/20 advantage of hindsight m evi er attempted to deal even-handedly with all items especially in Mexico City, speaks for itself. non-performance. It was a critical failu er that no photo of OSWALD was made avai lable--though it was SX requested both at Headquarters and by the field--or that it was not more aggressively 30 SECRET 7 PAGE 34 of 3 COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET sought by CIA, before 22 November. A photograph of OSWALD would have obviated--in a way the mere possession of a correct physical deseription XS SS evidently could not-- ke whole successive deterioration of get pbvan in” GXS> Mexico City as an re selection of the Pro eor KY SX KX : EAN ] d We 1 October '~ celebre today. &’. RS Y ho ee from this factu Cue & ac apver had gO WS core with less snerinsioS meri Ex is: equally ‘clear sn acts themselves that there was nothing contrived or conspired in what happened, unless we have now descended to that point in human values achieved under STALIN in the USSR.and under HITLER in. Germany, where just a plain mistake is per se evidence of conspiracy.. The Genesis and Development of Odum Exhibit No. 1 and. “Commission Exhibit 237. 41. Special kOe FBI, ‘Bardwell D. ODUM, on 23 N o 1963 showed one of Ss photos flown up fron Mexico eo i SS es ers OSWALD. ODUM hims Oe ub ea day to OSWALD's the “ser stra Spiits Mrs. OSWALD had WS OV the Aw image i eS ODUM s own detailed accoun maf ound in Heari aN) XX, p. 268. . 42. The ee s hows - the unidentified individual in a black shirt. It was one of the five photos taken of him in front of the Soviet 3] SECRET DAIE4 4 35 ' PAGE of Lin COPY NO ner
SECRET Embassy in Mexico City on 4 October 1963, two days after OSWALD had N a SS left the city. 4 WS 43. At this pane the record, the total availa er" AY coverage of the \ Ns \ae numbers twelv iS \ ge on 1 October 1963, on WY S Ws colored sae eC DQ», garbed in a white shirt and ligfit-colored (REA b. Five (5) taken on 4 October 1963 in front of the Soviet Embassy. He is garbed in a dark, open, button-down shirt with a high-neckline undershirt showing. and dark trousers. c. Two (2) taken on 15 October 1963 in front of the Cuban Embassy. He is wearing a dark, collarless T-shirt or light sweater. We as integral parts of au and related file holdings. es The negatives of all of these are extent and are now held in ie 44, The res Gu rome of ‘the pocorn &S © SN cropped versio@ QO? noted under paragraph 43 Ww Mrs. Margy ea on that she had “ey ro of her. son le RUBY, a day before he perpetuat mH’: Again the Warren Comm78sion Report (pp. 364-365, 367) exhaustively disposes _of this erroneous charge and requires no repetition here. A complica- ting fact developed along the way was Mrs. OSWALD's (correct) observation, 32
14-00000 “~_—, n Station had plans underway to abandon the Oe RS SECRET &. when she final ly ii ited before the Commission that the ODUM photograph was not EAS nat the photo had been cropped differently from the one she ~\ ébn R S Dallas. Inspector MALLEY's cropped version of eG He) ecame Commission Exhibit 237 (see Hearings, NN RY 6 AWS), AS 45. The net effect of the developments in the he € Commission was to require the admission of the cro ANS evidence in a chain of depositions beginning wi ; we the FBI Inspector, James R. MALLEY (who had trimmed the pnodeg sph used by the Commission in Washington), and Richard HELMS, who deposed for the originator. These documents speak for themselves and will be found in the Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 468-470. 46. Mexico WS other senior Agency officers strongly a advised against the Gs Wy" the photograph in any form on the grounds that th wwe ts XS of a useful tiny -S. intelligence operation, and the opera- e immedi ately alerted to the existence : | \ tion wou 6 Qo Gain. There were repeated cables exchaya QV . this point Sind VSNiaarter and Mexico Station during om A » aww D . : ad of 1964, in particular fran 23 September to 15 Octob <n e QS 47. In acceding to the Commission's request for eposition, Mr. HELMS, then the Deputy Director for Plans, replied affirmatively to 33 SECRET CO ota: we Te \ KY | PAGE 3t of iS COPY NO.
14-00000 SECRET Mr. RANKIN by memorandum of 23 June 1964 which included tO on & ~ "The Central Intelligence Agency noe Y &< mg not be reproduced in Sone KO <y report because it would je ire a Gr &e Q and productive srerats additional observation: ERIN fesnena who as far as the Agency is aware d no connection with Lee Harvey OSWALD or the CS it could be embarrassing to the indivi- assasSination of President KENNEDY." ; 48. In this instance the needs of the Commission prevailed over the DCI's statutory obligation to. protect sources and methods. The "Unidentified Individual" remains to this day unidentified and there is ) no credible evidence up to this time to rebut the assertion mad Sby Mr. HELMS in the concluding sentence of his memorandum to near on 23 June 1964. ra QG operation did, as predicted, go ee wd Within a week giononi appearance of the Odum GOS) SY Commissi mA > 2 mbers of the Soviet & efforts Ka EY rounding bui idings, SWS a rental space Sn inquiries were directed to spotting possible SIGS ~~ operation was continued - in any case. Within a year it had NX apt < be Orr ati c almost totally unproductive in coverage on Americans in contact with the Embassy--a clear Sign that this category of visitor ( was being warned away by the Soviets themselves. 34 SECRET O° 2482 15 PAGE 38 of COPY NO. as, apreore aRL
14-00000 SECRET Phase III: The we Man" Photographs, 3964 - 1975 . AS \y foreseen, there has been persistent pressure by critics Kw arr ef Cai Report to exploit Odum Exhibit No. 1 and es mS No. 237 for partisan interpretive 2 A ES Soontence has accumulated since the KS é\ SS i SS d; PERERA os ‘ch the Re QS has attempted to be responsive to Sy) SS SS - simultaneously, has tried to sati sfy what has AGS son iaperest from the inception of the matter: to prote bayP acquisition of the photograph and the foreign liaison reraionsR hich made the acquisition possible. 50. Following are , high Tights from the correspondence during the current phase. & a. On 16M &, Wi the signature of the General Counsel of the wigan {QUSTON , CIA voluntarily submitted a statement graph to dudge BAGERT of the Criminal istrict a e. Parish of Orleans, State of Louisi The Se af Ti rmatively with the contents of om that had -_, delivered to the United States eno net RES trict of Columbia, despite the fact that the none 3d neg oes & ~y executed because of the lack of jurisdi AS Se SS Mr. HOUSTON proferred on Agency b CO. assur- rot ances to the court regarding the inaccuracy of statements and 35 SECRET |. naked PAGE 33 of 15 COPY NO. henner cases:
14-00000 SECRET “> AN LL Sj inferences made by Mr. GARRISON in New Orleans about RE Spore raph WS of the unidentified ind sidual The following is ited NY sade se Pe Mr. HOUSTON's meno Shun, aT ee LSS RY "Because; OF ‘the. e pubqne by which has so Sad we We a ee sti grat Jury proceedings, we have “recently ¢ S ed out an exhaustive search of the files of the Central Intelligence Agency for any picture of Lee Harvey OSWALD taken in Mexico. As a result of this search, I can state rategone Wy that the files of this Agency do not conga and never have contained, any such pi cturees § Lee Harvey OSWALD taken in Mexico Ce, ra ? Y no information whatsoever tha CS nginten ever existed. To the best Wii SQ “and information, therefore, there is ew photograph. Furthermore, the photograph which is printed in the | Warren Commission Ragrt, Exhibit No. 237 in Volume - XVI, never cog more than one figure, and the figure in RVirts depicts an individual who, 5 ERROR not been identified. The Sr filing of this photograph with ssion are set forth in affidavits on pages 468 and 469 of Volume XI, Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of 36 SECRET 009948. 2 1d yoo. | COPY NO.
14-00000 of, SECRET Te Cranes s<\Consequently, we have no record — | CE ‘tilat answers in any way the S. “AY D ehe one we understand was requested in GEN Bpoena. "IT hope you will accept this information: eet is. oe which it i proferred." ke b. The Agency has repeatedly serviced: requests about the identity of the unknown individual from Mr. Emory L. BROWN, Jr., exchange of correspondence in our record covered the peri od 4 ~ 17 Apri? 1970. . . . SS Route #4, Box 82, Squankum Road, Farmingdale, New Jersey. The last | { | i ¢. Detailed inquiries on the unidentified ween SS received on 1 and 24 November 1971, to which the gyre & | OS | on 15 November and 14 December, respectively AY We Mr. Paul L. HOCH, 1735 Highland Place #2, ru GRUP a. d. The an effort to pursue the unidentified rte 59 ney ng made by Bernard FENSTERWALD, Jr., who is now & PERS tor of a Committee to Investigate Assassina- r ti RS S EC eet, N.W., Washington, D.C., beginning on | ; Ai, EQS shortly after the Agency declassified Commission . maner 674, and extending through 11 October 1972, after the 37 SECRET OOI8 165 PAGE 41 of 1o0 COPY Ne onan emma
14-00000 ' depicted in the two Commission exhibits, wen time. It is a matter of more than ordinary SECRET A We FBI's eet of Commission Document No. 556. On 8 April 1971, Mr e SRY << Syinvited to the Agency for a di seussi@ aoa =e Mr. HOUSTON, of his question oe ee Ys unknown individual. Two other pho eh of, aN the hak individual, in addition to OTK AY LX, to RS that 2 Ste that on this occasion Mr. FENSTERWALD, who was accompanied by his partner, Mr. aaa told Mr. HOUSTON and another representative Agency in attendance that he knew who the “GC @ following is extracted from Mr. HOUSTON's- pril 1971: wore sea & M \o LS norni Syn th his partner, William G. OHLHAUSEN, looked at the other photographs, and told us he did know who the man was. He said he is presently ASS servi ng a prison term Samewhere in the United States and admitted that he had known OSWALR © 7 oO) Mr. FENSTERWALD said there was nothin any connection between the man in to and the assassination of President Kennev 1 Mr. FENSTERWALD did not give us the man's name at this time, as he said enough people had suffered unnecessarily from allegations that they were /38 O91 SECRET PAGE 4 Cog 1 COPY No.
14-00000 SECRET associated with the assassination, but ¢ RE AW S\ “ “aN wr say he was sure we had a file AK ae ¢ He 'S as IN asked if he could have the G A Nis asked how he could use was 6 AN not know and finally agreed that for the time being he would not press his request. ... The whole meeting was extremely friendly and they thanked us for our response." The following is extracted from the Memorandum of Record by the other CIA man present, Mr. Arthur E. DOOLEY. "Mr. FENSTERWALD said he knew who the person was and had spoken to him; that the man was too nervous to come forth on his own. FENSTERWALD would not give the man's name but said he is an American, serving @erison term in this country | on a crimingy Outae. and that he had met. OSWALD in rege) Skt ar the prisoner had any conan Aoi a eqaeYonship with OSWALD. NS \ ; GenSreRaLs. oie ne did not know the answer NAG x x he “ad not interviewed the man as yet. We reiterated that we did not know who the man was, and said that we would like to know his identity. FENSTERWALD replied that CIA has a 39 SECRET 005249 ' PAGE COPY NO. “face 1 eeraemerte coment ha PAREN t SPE LSLIO INTE
14-00000 SECRET thick file on ee man, and that we will be furnis ame in due course... ." > 1) made no reference in his subsequent CUE co ons KR respondence to this allegation about the identity RAE R e * ign fied Individual," though the claim, if true, would Ny TREC be of evidential interest and possibly permit us to assert with finality what we believe has been the fact from the beginning: the "Unidentified Man" has nothing to do with the OSWALD case at all. , on SS ea NS ace mo a AS mS M8 x , Attachment A: Memorandum by David W. Belin to Mr. E. Harry Knoche; \N- . dated 15 April 1975, with attachment) "The CIA‘and\,* the Man Who Was Not Oswald" froncthecNew York Revita of Books, by Bernard Fensterwald ‘anidGeorge 0" Tole. Ca Canoe ieee Attachment B: Pages 364, 365, and 667 fram the Warren Commi¥sion’s report. , 40 SECRET 7 0050493 pace 44 j of aon COPY NO e tment