104-10433-10008 ce 133- 537. tS “23 November 1908 7 ; \ i wy Ba 2 oe "Disposition ~ This document « was , denied. The document j is-a memo. -...which | recites the speculative thinking of an Agency officer onthe assassinati ote! of President Kennedy. The paper deals.with a possible explanation of the assassination. He treats the problem experimentally with a thesis which i is - not born out by facts available then or later developed. The thinking . “+. expressed was imaginative but not definitive.. No decision was based on: -. _. this paper: It appears clearly to be the type of documents contemplated for oo . exemption under subsection (b) (5). The document also relates information: received from | ervice. It contains information from and ; ‘about a sensitive source.’ The document also identifies Agency officers and - components aml coatzins internal Agency fling instructions. This denial - was made under the authority of exemptions (b)(1), (b) (2), 3 (b) (3) and b) (5). .
_ = Assistant Deputy Director, Plans R/Or ) To: From: . Subject: 1. The following is the(text of a cable from Chief, SR Division, sent . via closed con) from sabe at 23162) on 23 November, for the attention » Angleton e "1, I desire that you consider these reactions to the Kennedy assassination: , a. Within minutes of the. first NEWS, | Moscow radio statements & heard in London\pttributed the assassination to "right~ ng elements." as the true identity of the believed assassin became known did Moscow begin to complain that U.S. reactionaries were using Oswald as a pawn. esidency in the United Nations in New York be considered in a new light? | b. (snowa not the assignment of 13th Dept. officers to the KOB si e. (F atecoverea from Ascites Resale (Re 5 during our long a exceptionally valuable discussions, that one of Harold —~ Wilson's principal selentific advisors is Captain Ian Maxwell, ’ wno has a long Soviet intelligence background. This may shed new light on AELADIE's report. /T.e., that Harold Wilson © be & Soviet. agent). . . 2. Putting it paldly, wes Oswald, unwittingly or r wittingly, part of ‘ @ plot to murder President Kennedy in Dallas as an attempt to : further exacerbate sectional strife and render tue U.S. Government less ca eue of dealing with Soviet initiatives over the next art) f ASLADLE's views on Wilson and the information noted in'\ paragraph le above have any substance (and they cannot be ignored) this suggests that we can expect major Soviet pressures over the | . next seyeral months, for which the Soviets have made careful, . onge-range preparations > a. (tne above reference to 13th Dept. officers in New + York refers tothe presence, reported by an FBI penetration.of the KGB locally, in New York or wf Washington of one or two known officers’of the 13th Department of the lst Chier | Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the KGB. This department is S charged with - “liquid affeirs,” sabotage and assassination. One of the 13th
13-00000 Se ame gt - * a . “uo : . wae, . . ve y the way, met clandestinely with a Soviet "exchange student" from & Pennsylvania university during the school year 1962-63, which suggests that : the Soviet student is also a 13th Dept. officer or agent. Perhaps significantly, his course of studies was in food chemistry: 3. \ you will note that Mr. Murphy’ 8 Comments come without benefit of e traces. we passed to you earlier today, sho ‘that Oswald had contact th a 13th Dept., representative in Mexico City. 4, (another recently-arrived cable, being sent to the Director tonight, suggests that Oswald's business with the Soviet Consul was connected with hia own visa to the USSR and Cuba (in transit) and may » therefore, have been really rather than ostensibly innocent. | | a 7 (2. x. nour)