8/28/2014 National Archives and Records Administration JFK Full Results Released under the John Kennedy Wscgasgeination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:iNW 53025 Date: _Back.to Brief Results < saeco pnahee 5-25-2017 Hits 1-1 of 1 Hit 1 of 1 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : FBI a RECORD NUMBER : 124-10091-10003 RECORDS SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-109090-3RD NR 106 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES DOCUMENT TYPE SUBJECTS CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS ~ CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA Hits 1-1 of 1 FBI SULLIVAN, W. C. BELMONT, A. H. [No Title] 01/30/1964 12 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SEE FBI 105-82555-2087 . UNCLASSIFIED 4 RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 06/17/1996 INDEFINITE Audit history for this Record Identification Form National Archives and Records Administration webmaster@nara.gov HW Brody nasajaqygalsinistxfingeyO@7ifheney be
ol oromat 10%: “9 10 5010-106 . ° may ‘F402 . Gon GE, a0 NO 2? . ’ - UNITED STATES GO. URNMENT opie a Memorandum aa No - 3 |- ie Pb A mc ON en ro: Mr, A. H. Belmont pate: January 30, 1964 {0 pe 1 - Mr. Belmont as oe FROM =: Mr. We. Cy Sullivah@* ~ 1 - Mr. J. P. Mohr * : i 1 ~ Mr, Rosen a 1 - Mr, Callahan ue watt SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD 1 - Mr. W. C. Sullivan YV. IisB-R- eal 1 - Mr. Branigan Via a 1/30 /@e- 1 —- Mr, Baumgardner a er 1 - Mr. D. J. Brennan ae b SYNOPSIS nrfosglfy OF . pat Seb] enrol U u Purpose e? memorandum is to explore allegati Lee Harvey a, Oswald was FBI informant and related points covered by esident's Commission last week during appearance before Commission oL Henry Wade, t District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas, and to set forth pursuant to Director's request (1) procedures we use in development and control of FBI informants, (2) the system used in handling informants in Special Intelligence Service (SIS) program, and (3) details concerning Wade's SIS service while in the FBI. | Contrary to testimony, Oswald was never FBI informant, was never paid money for information and was “hever ‘assigned. any symbol. number, Procedures we use in informant program preclude the possibility of Oswald's connection with FBI as an informant without knowledge of — Seat of Government, We closely supervise all aspects of informant program, _Field {| offices. cannot develop security informants without. Bureau authorization, which is based on exhaustive background investigation to determine {ireliability, trustworthiness and Stability. Caran fi ; 7“ When we do authorize, we follow informant's development — through progress letters which field oifices submit at t_ four-month intervals, Rov hi \ rey of these dndioné may be used twice by the same ame field effice.\ We authorize payments on regular basis and maintain current We approve use of synbols renee names, maintaih an index i We at {records oz every y expenditure made showing to whom made and why. ‘ SAC has only limited authority to make payments without Bureau authority in ) certain instances and. we control this by limiting .. amount, and by end-of-month accounting procedure which lists all suca Ny paveente, to whom made, and for what, Pas 4 race 4 anne 1 “ eo a - eee _ oh : <8 - Seek Se .. Cro baegl Sey oer Aa y are 4 cao ne, panei | HW 53025 Docld:32150241 Page 2?
Memorandum Mr, W, C. Sullivan ‘to Mr. A. H, Belmont RE: LEE HARVEY OSWALD nn . | Absence of Payments to Oswald ; _ Boer re THAR a Had any of our offices even ‘made payments to hin , under the SAC*s authority, these would have been shown in ,y the receipts and vouchers submitted by each office, These | records have been checked and double checked and no such 1 payment was ever made... . Symbol Nonbers Identifiable. would be a matter of record not only by number but also by name, AS @ matter of fact, we. can identify every symbol number used, past or present. The number 179 supposedly “assigned Oswald is currently used by the Dallas Office for a criminal informant, Velma Yvonne Graham; a Negro madam who runs a house of. prostitution, In New Orleans, where Oswald .; Spent some time, the number 179 was used by the New Orleans ! Office back in 1941 to designate an informant, Joseph A. ' Partridge, who was reporting security information and who was discontinued in 1944,- As previously noted, once a number is ‘used in any capacity, whether to designate a security or a (G2 oxi informant, it cannot be used by ,\the field. office again, I | Had ‘Oswald been assigned a symbol number, this n Mexico, to which Oswald traveled just prior to the assassi- ation of President Kennedy, ‘our Legal Attache there currently has a security informant 179 who was so designated in 1960. He is Ignacio Olivo, who furnishes information on the Mexican~ Russian — of Cultural Exchange : in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. ) @ (i) (4) ? ( Do eed Steps Never’faken / ne | , Furthermore, Oswald could not. have been assigned such a symbol number without a prior background investigation by any _' L£ield office considering him for development, Had any field office considered developing him, it would have had to obtain approval by the SOG. There is no record of any such request by any field office and no record of any such approval. HW 53025 Docld:321502741 Page 3