[yy DIRECTOR PROM § MEXICO CITY, ACTION: Eis ; INFO + DCI, D/ocI, DDP, ADDP, C/CI, c/FI 2, C/SR 5, C/SAS 5, D/OS 2, we V. } RECORDS OFFICER STAMP SECRET 24/1837% | The fotnoriaggeytter is _ ; i: 7 author 9d: 40, gar atet. LUMEDIATE DIR CITE JMEXI 7854 swale Nec het IMMEDIATE Signed: ie REF mEXL 7946 CIN G2 D* CV] z.0. $1 ut CS a | IR 34 an “Note: If destruction, cite a iY ~! reasons and coordinate . vf TE. A l. <P OR AMENDMENTS RER As if appropriate. Ar a buRAN ARRESTED AT HOME WITH. HUSBAND AND MEMBERS ok FAWIEY “HAVING PARTY. ALL. TAKEN TO JAIL. B. SINCE SHE HAD. TOLD: NOT ONLY HUSBAND BUT OTHER MEMBERS OF FAMILY ABOUT OSWALD VISITS AFTER SHE READ NAME AND SAW TV PICTURE, SHE ATTRIBUTED Recaro - ARREST TO DENUNC LATION BY COUSIN WHOM DOES NOT LIXE. THUS at GOi4 KNOWLEDGE NOT REVEALED TO HER. | _ “Pocument't 54. Gh-ses 2 APR 976 C. DOES NOT KNOW WHERE OSWALD STAYEZD IN, MERD. Sor FOIA Review on De PASSPORT OSWALD SHOWED HER AS. sqVatro FOR USSRe HE TOLD HER “WISHED RETURN THERE Peaggiginnne vit WIFE, ole az VeFTAY a &. DURAN HAD IMPRESSION OSWALD HAD OR BELIEVED HE HAD MADE. ARRANGE-@ 4 WENTS IN WASHINGTON WHEREBY INSTRUCTIONS WOULD BE SENT SOV ENB MEXI To ¢ 3 ISSUE SOV ENTRY VISA IN MANNER BY WHICH WOULD NOT HIMSELF HAVE TO visit & z SOVENB. FAILURE HIS REAL OR IMAGINED INSTRUCTIONS WORK SMOOTHLY CAUSED : E HI BECOWE RUDE TO SOVIETS. ¢ COMMENT: PARA 16 OF MEKI 7933 PARTIALLY Be BEARS THIS OUT: BUT STATION DETECTS NO SIGNS RUDENESS IN OSWALDS TALKS a] . Bo go ol- ~ 874 ieee BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE 1S PROHIBITED Copy No. Perea aa Capac este PIAS LT NEAL ert state = - REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED
13-00000 et ge Shag tere A sere ancients Tee ATER | ano oes, oF. ; eee eS itty ee oar ra ed 4 ae: ann mes ae tien antiel Sicie Sd nh ee STE RAR Fy, Sy CLASSIFIED MESSAGE — ROUTING | 43 a anne {5 en enn { zt TO: DIRECTOR FROM | | | | ACTION: Ss | es a a " iNFO + $ WITH SOVS. FURTHER DETAILS DURAN INTERROGATION MAY REVEAL OSWALD BECAME. ABUSIVE. IN CUBAN EMS AS RESULT HIS FRUSTRATION BY SOVS.) Fe HER IMPRESSION HE SIMPLY "COMRADE" WHO COULD NOT LIVE CONF ORT- 7 ABLY UNDER RIGORS OF CAPITALISM AND WISHED RETURN..T: USSR. | | wey ey t a4 ‘ahigitda HOME IN 'G. OURAN KNOWS NOT WHETHER: chs oe Visa OR CUBAN TRANSIT VISA BUT IF HE DID SHE HAD. 10 Bag WEE | H. IF. OSWALD TALKED ANYONE ELSE IN CUBAN ENBASSY SHE-UNAWARE. 2. REF DIR 84916. ECHEVERRIA AWARE ODYOKE CONCERN RE LEAK AND HASa WARNED HER ABOUT TALKING, BUT FEELS AT LEAST FACT OF ARREST MAY WELL BE LEAKED BY OTHER RELATIVES PICKED UP SAME.TIME. COS WILL CONTINUE PUSH NEED FOR SECRECY WITH ECHEVERRIA. DURAN AND HUSBAND WILL BE RELEASED BUT KEPT UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE | 3. RE REF B, WITH MEXI 7933 H@ HAS FULL TRANSCRIPTS ALL PERTINENT — CALLS. REGRET COMPLETE RECKECK SHOWS TAPES FOR THIS PERIOD ALREADY —.. a nome soe > ce emeere eee rer C ETRE BATE, “sm a ie i a ty ERASED. STATION FEELING THAT ABOVE IS BEST. ANSWER OBTAINABLE Tor. 7 eed REF 8 BUT WILL REQUEST REINTERROGATION. DURAN IF Ha STILL DesiRes. | ce SECRET | | | ‘c/s COMMENT: “#Echeverria told COS Duran completely cooperati ivé oi written statement attesting to two visits by Oswald, a = -_ “#*Did Oswald want *o tr avei to Cuba right away, ATOLE, Et 9 his miles join him there and then leave tor ©. dea or did 3 e pi ec VO reich ote rot. esd then leave later? —. vee co , a 000232 ei ean Se Ore) Bi OTHER THAH THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PRUMIOITEO =) Cuny tu. bes
13-00000 cE TIOR PRORIBITED [J UNCLASSIFIED O C" " -(] CONF NTIAL C1 secret ., ec LT TT eS [ — . ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET | SUBJECT: (Optional) FROM: Fal if N a> EXTENSION | NOL-4 ca 3G: (Officer designation, room number, ond | pare ; building) OFFICER'S | rcavs0 |romwanoen| 5 ae, COMMENTS (Number each comment to show fram whom to wi @ line across column after each commen.) _ ae “GIO omes* (J. SECRET --((] CONFIDENTIAL ([] USE aMIY ©] UNCLASSIFIED: ; ANU SPROTED
13-00000 PRORIMNTED Cy CLASSIFIED McssAGE 4 ee ee ed ” iTO ss DIRECTOR acess a1 7 | | | j FROM 8 MEXICO CITY . | ATION: c/w 5 (WH COPY ISSUED 1300 25 Nov/oy) linro_ pel, D/oct, DOP, ADOP, ¢/sco 4, c/ca 2, c/cd/o2, c/ci, c/riz, c/sR53, 9.” : c/sks 5, D/os 2, VR” / » C/ca/ » fet, o/ > Uf ' 7 SECRET 25/17 rn — | SECRET ——— 25 v3 2687620 ¢-- } IMMEDIATE DIR GITE MEXI 7055 | | ot ar ; {. MEXI DAILY "EXCELSIOR" OF 25 NOV IMPLYING OWN INVESTIGATIONS Raw } - 4g 3 coe ne eee enn oy ee oor | STORY DESCRIBING OSWALD TRIP TO MEXICO 26 SEPT THRU 3 OCT. CROSSED "| BRORDER AT LAREDO. VISITED CUBAN EMBASSY 27 SEPT AND NEXT DAY WENT TO |. SOVIET EMBASSY. PURPOSE ALLEGEDLY WAS TO OBTAIN VISA GO SOVIET UNION. an S FYI: PRESUME ivr is atom ae bv HAVA 7 SEPT PERV ETFS SASSY FIDEL CASTRO Is QUOTED: " WE 3: ‘+ "1963. AT RECEPTION % “ARE PREPARED TO FIG ' SHOLLD THINK (REFLECT?) THAT IF THEY ARE AIDING TERRORIST PLANS rae) . | es AND ANSWER -IN KIND. UNITED STATES LEADERS .. - ELIMINATE THE CUBAN LEADERS, THEY THEMSELVES WILL NOT BE SAFE.” 3. PARA ONE STORY WENT oO oARERMar | 7 ee a SEC ET! CLASSIFICATION REVIEW R 7 The following actig a APR ta7q TT eee authorized: De ENS! 7? 25 [PONOUCTED ond 6 APR 1976 LIMPDET CL BY_O/RAoF enema : ‘f Sisned oo RO. #1 on ti [ea der 294945 i QO -  ~ WV [30% se: If @essruesion, cite cite BS . reascns-ani coordinate , az appropriate. eee ene eee te cen | meen oe nga ame pigs ees sO ' Document Number =i i for FOIA Review on. APR 1976 nee ee : SECRET |. REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE 1S PROHIBITED i j i | AePReoUCTION / PRO ONTED
13-0000 oo a) Cy uncassiFiep =F] ( OMY | . 0 cone “NTIAL o SECRET | ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET . — SUBJECT: (Optional) = RCTION COPY ) © WE FHP-CF IE | . -: NOV Z5 1963 — TO: (Officer designation, room number, ond - i bwifding) OFFICER'S COMMENTS the umber each comment te show from whem |. ° INITIA *: me Piha. be whol . Thus Cal DAS pe & rebel wud oy ath oP PEAKA PL wetTA - Ma easr lon ine aT STAFF A CATINC. — Ti o Wo Now (sECULE © ! Tea Tlatahl ae rota Siow C) secret oO CONFIDENTIAL Oo USE OnLy () uNctassiFiga serOUTTO | FRENTE
13-00000 | PROWIBITED TO : DIRECTOR FROM oo: JMWAVE ACTION: SAS 8 | a INFO: DOP, Cl, ci /oPs, Fi, FI/iINT, WH 7, VR \ . tye yh, "REPRODUCTION SECR ET 2522012 DIR INFO MEXI CITE WAVE 2149 acama 79a oe ae Cr PUTS Mt TYPIC | (}. ODFOAN ADVISED WAVE THaT PRONE CALL FROM SNE JOSE SAN ANTONIO. CABACA IN MEXIC QO CITY (PHONE 126334) TO DR. SIEILTO RUNEZ PONTUONDO» MIAMI, WAS MONITORED 24 NOVENSER 63. CONVERSATION WAS AND GIST. OF IT IS: PLAN OF CASTRO CARR IED FoR wars: MA IS NEXT. ge SOON THE ATOMIC BO” 8S Wit RA ort 4 ie JP ANOW PRO“ WHERE. 2. WAVE TRACES NUN EJECT 221-312364. NO RECORD CASaca. NovaMBR, AvoT-2 ADVISED Cagaca IS FROBABLY JOSE ANTONIO CABARGA SAINZ, DPOB CIRCA 1918 FR OV INCE LAS VILL Sy cusa. CURRENTLY RESIDES MEXICO: CITY, PO BOX 3299 SND HAS SANE PHONE NO. PARA. 1 ABOVE. . 7 [Ss NOw OCCUPIED WITH OSTAINING MEXICAN VISAS FOR PERSONS DESIRING LEAVE CuSS. KE IS PR AND RIGHTIST WITH TIES TO S8ATISTA GROUPS IN CLASSIFICATION REVIEW Conouctep of 6 APR 1976 E/ASIMPDET CL By, L220 5 Lol> S73 LAN ALIANZA PARA EL PROGRESS DE A™“ERICA. “Document Number ¢ FOIA Review on. or i APR 1976 «all 25 7 Ve er ee mya e ae . ZAiSe wy f . REPRODUCTION BY OTSE2 THAN THE ISSN OSCE EG : AROUETIL “PROWIBITED . sae . . * ' D a . ‘ . ~ es ern ieee nn ALD, Er He de porated, eure sip cartons ean ~ — : ’ . °
ell 7 Cheuntassiviep = OC RM can’ JentiaL =) Secret “| SUBJECT: (Optionel) _ FROM: “ACTION COPY i 51 e ' TOs _ (Officer designati £ ing). wee COMMENTS (Number ecch comment ta show from whom bo nis . | FORWARDED | i Draw- a lime-ceross columm after each comment.) corr fore 610 “ie” Ci secret  [[] CONFIDENTIAL tseoaty LC] UNCLASSIFIED REPRODUCTION PROEIETED
TO ss, DIRECTOR cae FROM 8 MEXICO CITY ACTION: C/WH 5 (WH NOTIFIED ANDO COPY SLOTTED 1430 26 NOV/LMG) INFO + DCI, 0/DCl, DOP, ADOP, C/Cl, C/FI 2, C/sAS 5, VR, D/OS 2, C/SR 5 a . . . e we, SECRET 2618322 IMMEDIATE MANA INFO IMMEDIATE Df 7G Hoy 63 68281 1. AT THIS MOMENT STATION: OFFICER AND LOCAL SECURITY-OFFICER “ARE INTERVIEWING NICARAGUAN WHO CLAIMS THAT ON {8 SEPTEMBER HE-SAW LEE OSWALD RECEIVE SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN MEETING | INSIDE. CUBAN EMBASSY MEXI. - 2. REQUEST MANA AND DIR ADVISE MEXI OPLMw# ie ALVARADO, BORN 51 JAN 1949 cena : HE AWAITING FALSE MEXI MuveNr TRAINING CUBA. SAYS WRN eritto, ROLAN ALVARADO AND CARLOS FONSECA AMADOR ARE MEMBERS HIS CCOMMUNIST?) OR GANIZAT ION NICARAGUA. _ AGUA ‘ RECORDS OFFICER STAMP s ECRET the following action is . 4 authorized: “DF SENS/J7/ZE Document Number (2 —. | : for FOIA Review on APR 1976 Signed: _ iC Wanh—— po. a - unit C//£tA t a a ' Bote: If destruction. ainst oy Ae a - - ons and coordina ) ‘ LE 9 5 | , , i? appropriate, Res - C7 > ty <__ cee oe, ee EE eae FORRES FY = CE A TA OE I REET CREE, OEE ERP a oy . . . ‘ . . 4 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW TM TES oo : J conpucren on 24 MAY 1975 oe BF 2 6 Neve a oe “SECRET tie . declewbontion a REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFACE iS ‘pRoHieTED a Copy No. ANU
tr Ls {2 GHC. JOU M. WHETTEN Say , { Ext oo: 5413 [1] NO INOS f 4 f] FILE IN CS FILE NO, 1 TO : MEXICO CITy FROM: DIRECTOR cone: C/WH 4 Infos Mey, HDT, ODP. C/C1, C/CI/S1, VR TO MEXI INFO fy . . . : REP: MEXE 72h) (IN 73638) * | | * 7 | ae SS PLiS BO NOT ERASE! ANY SOVIET OR CUBAN TAPES UNTII. FURTHER NOTICE. ADVISE HOW MUCH MORE TAPE YOU NEED. | PBGETMIEROTSERT] 2 | DEC 4 1974 =] dj | MICROFILMED 4.0! - { a C/S Comment:*Station-to erase routine tapes Soviet Embassy, keep- i i ing normal two-week lag. Signet: hy, RO. Pe if des weg ot. otre anid coordinate ve eercormenase core nann * Yote: reasons if apercpriate. 201-289248 ey Some Omer CE celine — p-200-5-43 | soconeit NRT 7 i LY , FOIA Review on MAY 1976 f By Direction of for CLASSIFICATION REVIEW conpucteo on. 24 MAY 1976 meg RICHARD H2IUS, DDP COORDINATING OFFICERS cRoUP I . . RELEASING OFFICER : - Exctuded from automatic . . : I : downgrading and t : . SECRET declassification an) . REFRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
rs 2 eet wae s etene TTT toms seat at tg, OORT teat en nh | ~~ eB DATE : 9 DECEMBER 1.96 {J FILE IN CS FILE NO, ’ | C CLASSIFIED, MESSAGE G™ Cl JOHN Me WILTTRO suuy UNIT: afwiHt/3 CQ INDI | ; SECRET | TXi os 613 {J NO INDI TO > MEXICO CITY FROM: DIRECTOR cone: C/WH 4 Info P|, D/oet, OOP, C/cl, C/cI/S1, ve TO MEXI INFO : } ) CITE DIR. | 3 7 7 7 0 "REF: MEXE 7241. (9 73638) * . | Ey “4S FLS DO NOT nase! any SOVIET OR CUBAN TAPES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. = ADVISE HOW MUCH MORE TAPE YOU NEED. DOG. nN MICRO. SER. DEC 4 1974 MICROFILMED END OF MESSAGE C/S Comment:*Station to erase routine tapes Soviet Embassy, keep- ing normal two-week lag. ett CLO/” 5 afta no 8 “te ee sent whe reasons and colrdinte it appropriate. Vote: 201-289248 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW Conpucten on.24 MAY 1976 Sener eteeetera tater ‘[E—IMPoer ci ey? gags GROUP 1 - | xctuded from autamatice downgrading and seciasetfication D-200-5 “4 . | Doeiniant cae BS42 | 9 MAY 1976 for FOIA Review on — By Direction of — . S, DDP "> GOORDINATING OFFICERS RELEASING OFFICER AUTHENTICATING a OFFICER . fae a SECRET | REFRODUCTION 8Y OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. . .. Copy’ eo) late a=) CaS
13-00000 ————-REPROUETION %e ne ( CLASSIFIED MESSAGE a __.. wee orc: J, Me WHITTEN: ca — By ROUTING ha EXT: 5613 | O NO INDEX DATE: 4 NAY 1964 0 FILE IN CS FILE NO, ___ [3 BT Ca "FROM: DIRECTOR» a | SIG CEH pied oe a Ree " Fisto « Der, o/ocl, 00P, » fel c/cui l fe A, VR + WARREN” COMBIISSION REQUESTS. 1B ‘FURNISH ‘FOLLOWING INFO: : = A. “HOURS re: 5 WHER. CUBAN AND SOVIET EMBASSIES AND oy oa , CONSULATES: nN ‘HEXICO CITY ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC; THERE - , ‘NORMAL WORKING HOURS. THEIR, PROCEDUR e AND REGULATIONS, PERUITS ‘FOR | 9.) pggugst 1 uExr CAELE STMARY oF ALL THAT CAN BE ‘ASCERTAINED - RECORDS OFF1CER STAMP fe hg Gene: Lope 520 oe AEOvE is’ authorized: Be SENS) TP ze : _ oo END oF MESSAGE | ; Be Sten ea: "Document nome GTA [- “389 _ Pon. 20268 R.9. Fl - Unit Clee . for FOIA Review on JUN 1976 Jota: tre “TP gag ‘ruetien, elte cite . reasons and coordinate - . ery rz) cl [RA i A he iz appropriate, M. WHIT mt fe ahead Le [bs *. mo w—RAFORD W.- RBERT OO AC/ RE cs copy Leafs COORDINATING QFFICERS GROUP 2 Excluded fram autematic | . towrgrading and Gectrsshsation RELEASING OFFICER AUTHENTICATING OFFICER 8 ECR E T. . D- 200- 0 gEPNETON» BY OTHER THAN_THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, . Copy No. oon ome we cramer PERIOITED 1 eee mee eters eet emt emer EES Sy ne Aabyasngrecnathe
13-00000 ¢ a RP ROE TIOR TED, Oo a . CLASSIFIED MESSAGE o - 12.62 oG: J, Me WHITTEN : cay , _ Bye ROUTING UNIT: (C/WH/3 CL iNiex IM ECRET eee: ExT : 5613 ( NO INDEX BT —— |. DATE ; 4 HAY 1964 (0 FILE IN CS FILE NO. raiy_U May by aie — ; TO : MEXICO CITY ae yw wy, Cos \er Se “ FROM: DIRECTOR ee ots aan «CONF: C/WH yee Soleo fe Ff “fies ocr, s/o, DP, fe, yeu, “ef A, VR SIG CEH DEFERRED le ROUTINE - MEST * WAREE CoMaISSION REQUESTS WE FURNISH FOLLOWING ‘INFO: ee, Pa A. “BOURS: WHER. CUBAN AND SOVIET EMBASSIES AND ~~ oa | ora CONSULATES: IN ‘MEXICO crry ARE OPEN TO PUBLICS ‘THER: - | ‘NORMAL WORKING ‘HOURS, Tm PROCEDL RE: AND REGULATIONS, . = PERMITS FOR : pi Gp eabckomes 1 AND REGULATIONS OF 1 ° 2. REQUEST 1 MExI CAELE STIMARY oF ALL THAT CAN BE ASCERTAINED , RECORDS OFFICER STAMP eae s oa ; Genoa te : 7 ; 20, gallos? nz agtios: is Sars te authorized: PE SEALE oe _END or MESSAGE - Decument Number GT 671-289 us Zé 2288 for FOIA Review on SUF 1876 Pa . ; an a i 1 ee] Q Rs fan ft fot 'y ; de at & sote: “T? @ag: éastructicn, cite cite - reasons and ccordinata Cypy ZO cl /R+A ' [ee 12 appropriate, i od (: ahad Le dhs XS “ad ae -——t —RAFORD ‘HERBERT | =] , “hora * cscopy 5 WarrTal COORDINATING CFFICERS RELEASING OFFICER , SECRET D.-200- getgpoucr (ON BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. Copy No. GROUP 1 Excluded fr3m autematic dawrzrading and gecirssifization AUTHENTICATING - OFFICER ee ee nee SRN
1 ~ } ‘PROGENTED tha DIADIS Oho FV heeded AGT hee ROUTING TS s DIRECTOR FROM & MEXICO CITY ACTION: = C/WH 4 INFO + DCI, D/DCI, DDP, c/ch, § SECRET 6781642 Signed? DIR CITE MEAI $332 y, -. BO, #1- ut Cy [fh 4 cRESeT® GPFLOGR _ aod Note: If destruction, cite REF DIR 18327 os tr apps and coordinate pean le ‘SOVIET EMB AND CONSULATE E ARE NOT OPEN.FG PUBLIC. OFFICES ARE IN COMPOUND ACCESSIBLE. TO PUBLIC SY APPOINTNENT. SOVIET GUARDS ARE ON OUTSIDE GATE AROUND CLOCK. NOREAL WORK HOURS SEP 1963 WERE 6992 TO 1848 BUT RECENTLY CHANGED 690% TO 1460 MONDAY AND. FRIDAYS. SIXTEEN SOVIET FANILIZS LIVE IN CO? BP ag PWISITORS RING PCRS baPtN ANYTINE. s BELL AT GATE. AT ALL HOURS. RUSSIAN SPEAKERS MHANOURS. SOVIETS ARE NOT OTHERS USUALLY TURNED AWAY BY Suet KNOWN TO ISSUE PERMITS FORGN, aur 2. CUBAN EMB ary TE IN SANE COMPOUND BUT HAVE SEPARATE ENTRANCES. CONSULATE RECEIVES VISITORS FROM 1224 TO 1499 HOURS. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. EMBASSY WORKING HOURS ARE FROM G96G To 1702 HOURS SASE DAYS BUT MOST EMBASSY VISITORS USUALLY ATTENDED BEFORE i463 HOURS, THESE HOURS ALSO APPLIED DURING SEPT 63. 907. 990779 3. CUBAN EMB PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS FOR ISSUING PERMITS FOR TRAVEL TO AND THROUGH CUBA: VISAS NORWALLY VALID FOR THREE Documen? Number ot for FOIA Review dh | SUN s78 a os oT _ SECRET tec { be KL, 3.45.8] eclerah erie . a we UU REPRODUCTION: BY OTHER -THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED = Copy No. - | neat ee ame men --REPROOUETIOR — | PROSITE
13-00000. - ... REPROBUCTICN See Sanitigzed File Cc ‘ 4 a/ NAZAR pace COSSIFIED MESSAGE ReaiiLneD , BEFORE. ISSUANCE ANY VISA. APPLICANT COMPLETES VISA APPLICATION FORM AT CONSULATZ, PiRWISSION OFTEN OBTAINED | IN EXCHANGE OF CABLES BETWEEN EM@ASSY AND MINREX HABANA. IN MANY CASES VISAS ISSUED ON SEPARATE SHEET PAPER IN EFFORT CONCEAL FACT ‘OF TRAVEL. . | 4, MEXICAN GOVT PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS RE TRAVEL PBPRINE CITIZENS To AND THROUGH CUBA UNCHANGED SINCE HNWA 20887 DATED 3-MAY (phy a Pf. oP iis At re - 1963. PEPRINE cI TIZENS WITH. PASSPORTS AND CUBAN VISAS. ARE FREE TO TRAVEL TO CUBA. PBPRINE CITIZENS CAN “OBTAIN TOURIST CARDS FROM HEALCAN CONSUL HAVANA FOR RETURN VIA MEXICO. SECR E. T c/s Cor: Lent: *Warrten Commission requested KUBARK farzrish hours when Cuban and Soviet Embassies and Consulates in Mexico City a ave open. §O sete working acuss; issuing permits ié; theiv normal — inyoiyed in REPOUETION PROBED \ ee go seem ees mn ne ae RITE mone cote iene Sei ee me nem eee Mt me ee
13-00000 By ROBERT &. ALLEN" And PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. w<The Central Intelli- gence Agency withheld vital intelligence infor- ‘mation from the Warren Commission during its In- vestigation of the assas- sination. of President Kennedy. © , Despite the commis sion’s written request. for ‘all documents that might shed light on the assae- sination, CIA authorities failed. to turn over a nae tional intelligence  esti- mate warning that it is Kremlin policy te remove from public office by as- sassination Western offi- . ‘ Inside Washington Woah CIA Withheld Vital intelligo nce From War. t: clals who actively oppose Soviet policies. Titled “Soviet Strategic Executive Action,” the suppressed CIA docu- ‘ment went into the shock. ing details of how agents . of KGB, the Soviet secret police, are trained te do away with Western lead- ers, including officials in the U.S. and to make their deaths appear due _t@ natural causes. One of the KGR’s new- ly devised assassination wapons: is -“a: pnumati- ; cally: operated polson ice. ‘atomizer,’ - which leaves ne wound: ee other eve dence. of the cause Ob: ‘erm governments,.s om e- While. this deadly weap, ve am officials to- 5 aS) have this pocket-size, gun, REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED on has yet to be used against any high West- ern official, hundreds of _ KGB agents covertly op- “outside of Russia een supplied with eratin awaiting only orders from Moscow to use it. The Murder Weapons HIGHLIGHTS of the suppressed int elligence estimate, which Is locked in a security area within the tightly-guarded CIA, are as follows: “Ie has been reported . that the KGB endeavors to remove~the--~threat to Soviet. interests -posed by certain: members of West- times. arranging fori the . shown byeadmin qeataare ee : =O) Ook Cg mason, : WW Fler BST" “Cificials. a ned Speaker Meee . Macs, a dedicated anti. - ommimist, that he is on — “oe sane © Agree ae on cee 8 aro. Oe me wg. dismissal of such persons. from public office, at oth. er times even having _ them" ‘eliminated’ physi- eally. “Such activities are “known to be undertaken against other types of persons in the West, not-.. : aly. defectors from the: US.S.R. and from other countries of the Soviet: bloc. “One recently reported assassination technique is to electrocute an Individ- ual by Jjuring him to use a telephone, connect- ed to a high-voltage wire, during a thunderstorm. -“Another involves the use of a pistol which projects: a t Polson gas in - e : | Liquid or form, The ‘within © seco ‘autopsy wou its use. No ‘poisons have ed which do fect until 5 after being : “thus allowin; - to be far fro ..when_his vic “i "A know source has pneumatically poison ice ‘: which leaves or other evic cause ox deal Congressio: gators, who that the nar ‘ committes b tae ‘the list of Western wffi- - e Sup- cials feared by.the Krem- - | Im, no CIA- authority = ‘/. has shown the No. 2 man - : . arriy .. in the: US. in 1943, -ac:~ Russian 2 $oruin zw ~ government a the en ee an Bot . cs - id not rt the -' es . i repo: e gators also: have ‘been Receg tis uae after “wist agent Who | official's name ‘alsa 2 “peared in the. address .-0 Boos of a suspected Sd: ocked to discover that. | SenacosTR PROG TED ai "They: point” 6 7 in. government the“ CIA a the State pout, tit suppressed evidence link.” Teport Hsting these. se.’ ; method Be Oswald. “with. a one of... “instead, McCormack .- “cording to sez BG -* ‘earned about the ; a oreo te ety files, . only recently from com - ‘Sovlet views on “every . ie trying aw - dn the Department. Been sree ocument “has , been suppressed, USSR. country ‘cOnrmi- —. mera walle he Was a are’ peeeleators also . voy ‘the. CIA . This. State Department assassination © repect Pt. the State Department on swald's trip to Mexico _ City gave details only of 4 ed the Gefector’s. visit to yt . Kennedy's a in D y assazsination + ede Syme, cret Soviet -“Sssassination 2 en ee ; o
13-00000 A tos a y Ci By ROBERT S. ALLEN And PAUL SCOTT . WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. w-CThe Central Intelli- gence Agency withheld vital intelligence infor- “mation from the Warren Commission during its in- vestigation of the assas- sination. of President Kennedy. — 7 Despite the commis- sion’s written request. for * - all documents that might shed light on the assae- sination, CIA authorities failed. to turn over a na- tional intelligence  esti- mate warning that it is Kremlin policy to rernove from public office by as- sassination Western offi- * “se, A Withheld Vital -. abRe coe, “They point. ont. that: per nner ee ART SD ANE ED a Inside Washington oe cials who actively oppose “Soviet policies, Titled “Soviet Strategic Executive Action,” the suppressed CIA docu- ‘ment went into the shock- ing details of how agents - of KGB, the Soviet secret police, ara trained to do away with Western lead- ers, including officials in the U.S., and to make their deaths appear due to natural causes. One of the RGB’s new- ly devised assassination wapons:-is -“a. prumati- cally operated poison ice... ‘atomizer,’. which leaves -no wound or other evi- dence of the cause af-. r - “i. o J° erm governments,. s om e- death” = he While this deadly weap- | Other" Srppresie the State Department _ | Suppressed evidence link.: ing Oswald with one of .- cording to security. filés, presented strong:- pro- Soviet views on every fogion that came. “in the Depart urent’s USSR. country ‘commit. tee” while he was -a member, ; This State Department _Oifical’s name ‘also ap- peared im the addresg book of a suspected So. viet agent who arrived in the U.S. in 1943, ae. cording to~ government files, | : oe gators also have. been Shocked to discover that ‘REPRODUCTION sareetetete se “” + 7 - ‘the list ET cesied _-REPRODUCTI . ee nae a aad | on has yet to be used against any high West- ern official, hundreds of _ KGB agents covertly op- . erating outside of Russia have been supplied with this pocket-size, gun, awaiting only. orders from Moscow to use it. The Murder Weapons HIGHLIGHTS of the suppressed int elligence estimate, which is locked in a security area within the tightly-guarded CIA, are as follows: “It has been reported that the KGB endeavors te remove~the-threat to Soviet. interests posed by certain members of West- times. arranging forsthe - oF : we . : ” dentSohinsons aie" lim, no CIA: ' Zovermment the- 2 me methods, learned about the r 7 pte ee ntelligence From War n> While BA officials armed Speaker MeCor.. ..& dedicated anti-- tmist, that he ison |; b of 1 em offi ~ tials feared ‘by. the Krem. - . authority as shown the No. 2 man - listing these. sa’ ‘- ‘ret Soviet assassination .- nstéad, McCormack - ee : ae no aa dismissal of such persons from public office, at oth- er times even having them‘ ‘eliminated’ physi- eally. ; “Such activities are ‘known to be undertaken against other types of persons in the West, not- ably defectors from the U.S.S.R. and from other countries of the Soviet bloc. = “One recently reported assassination technique is to electrocute an individ- ual by luring him to use a telephone, connect- ed to a high-voltage wire, during a thunderstorm. _-"Another involves the use of a pistol which projects a poison gas in only recently from con... gressional probers who .: are trying to-determine why the document - has been suppressed. ; ; te evestigators atso . ° ermin why the CIA in its pre assassination report to the State Department on ‘Oswald's trip to Mexico City gave details only of | ' the defector’s visit to the ; Russian embassy and not the Cuban embassy. The CIA did- not report the -"' latter visit until after Kennedy's assassination in Dalla, - mentee aan cee em cee WE | liquid or form. The ‘within ~ seco ‘autopsy wou its. use. No ‘poisons have ed which do fect until s .-after being < “thus allowin: - to be far fro -.. When his vic “!*A know source has pneumaticall; poison ice ‘: which leaves or other evic cause o. deat Congressio: gators, who that the nar “committee b aoe we Se
13-00000 “Inside W de Wash ington By ROBERT s. ALLEN And PAUL scotr. - WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, : ‘-e<The Centra I Intelli- gence Agency ‘withheld. “yital intelligence. infor- mation from. the Warren | | Conmnission during its in- vestigation ' of the assas-. ** gination- of, President ’ Kennedy..- Despite th e- commis- | sion's written request for all documents that might . shed light, on the: assas- '. gination, CIA authorities - “failed to turn ‘over .a na-— ‘tional ‘mate warning. thal it is- Antelligence esti- - Kremlin policy to remove ~ from public office. by as- . sassination Western “off ' ~Soaviet - gence experts, ¥ ‘sion’s findings oe cials who. actively oppose olicies. . Titled “Sovict Strategic Executive Action,” — the _suppressed’ CIA | docu- ment went Into the shock- .ing details of how agents -of KGB, the Soviet secret. police, are trained to do away with Western lead- ers, including officials in- ‘the. U.S. and to make - their deaths appear duc to. natural causes. One of the KGB's new-. ly devised assassination wapons ~ ia ,“‘a. pnumati- cally. operated polsom: ices. ‘atomizer,’.. which ; “leaves: .no wound or: other “evi-: Sdviet: interests: posed: b dence of the cause of. fy “Whe this onal ‘weap ‘ OTHER | US. -dnteM « ious of Russia's CO-0X- - ' dstence Une, stress ‘that. the Warren ‘Commig. | i “have been might this CIA estimate and < sup. ‘other documents . . pressed by the State ‘De. partment h able for study, . _ They point out “ guppresged evidonce dink.: ’ dng -Oswald. with ong -of: dts employes, «who. Dee, cording to sceurlty. files, : ‘presented stron pro. coM re Panera “aces at re sti ba ‘estimate, which Ig, in a security ared wi poem vas ay" very du: ad ‘been avail. . ; hat < ‘the Stats: Hout, at a on has yet to be used against anys ed Weat- era officlMgadieds of. KGB agenly togertly o eyaling outSid@ gg) Russia have been sup: pilpd with this packers gun, awaiting Fiyderiers from Moscow of it, - "The Murder HIGHLIGHTS.0f © suppresstd in tie the: tightly-guard ‘So are as follows: : “It has been refipite ethat the KGB endeavors to reiiéyerthe,. threats certain -‘membets of ih ae “ern governhients, $0: times stranging for: a dent Johnson. While FBI olficials | ee: CIA Withheld Vital Intelligoncs From Warr ren n Commission “Hauld or compressed dismissal of such persons from publie office; at oth- er times even having’ - . them * ‘eliminated’ physt- - cally. ue uch activities are “known to be undertaken against other types of persons in the West, not-. ably defectors from the US.S.R. and from other countries of the Soviet bloc. “One recently reported ' assassination technique is ‘te electrocute an Individ- ‘ual by luring him to use a telephone, connect- ed to a high-voltage wire, ~guring a thunderstorm. Me ot a involves the wise of a pistol éhawa by Pi eons: ae. ? ‘officials to Speaker soa 4. McCormack (Masa), nextit in line to -succeed Presi- § , a ° warned Speaker Moone. : s lin, no CIA ay . mack, a dedicate ifferent af.;, Comminist, ‘that he anon the. list of Western offi- tlals feared ‘by. the Krem. 3! authority .« ‘has Shown the No, 2 man - ‘3 da government the CLA“ 9 anethods, . freesional nenahare -Zeport listing these «e.‘ ‘cret ‘Sovict: assassination: +) Instead,“ “Meteo emake fearned xbout the repout. . "ony recently from cone 0.” wha” which Bien + a poison gas ‘in _committee be form. The gas is fatal within seconds ‘dnd an ‘autopsy would not revegl Its use. Non-fraceable * poisons have been repor{- -ed which do not take ef- ‘fect until several hours after being administered, ‘thus allowing an assassin te be far from the scene when his victim dies. “A knowledgeable source has described a pneumatically operated’ poison ice ‘atomizer’ which leaves no wound or other evidence of the .cause of death.” Congressional investi- gators, who have asked that the name of their withheld for security reasons re- ort that CIA Director ohn McCone made no mention of this explosive ‘document in his secret testimony before the. Warren Commission. . While McCone furnishe ed the commission with the CIA’s secret surveil- lance .reports on Lee Harvey Oswald's eight days in Mexico City be fore the assassination. in- cluding details of Os- wald's contact with the head KGB agent in the Soviet embassy there, the CIA chief gave ne hint of the Krenilin's as- sassination policy. (CONTINUED ON 8-3} @uawoug puLanOONea
13-00000 ] Ud: a € wa Cues if ug Lol Ne Penn ag | iu Lf "Inside Washington” CIA Withheld Vital Intell ‘By ROBERT S. ALLEN cials who actively oppose And PAUL SCOTT. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, ‘e-The Central Intelli- gence Agency withheld vital intelligence infor- mation from -the Warren Commission during its in- vestigation of the assas- ‘gsination of President Kennedy. Despite sion’s written request for all documents that might shed light on the assas- sination, CIA authorities failed te turn over a na- tional intelligence  esti- _mate warning that it is Kremlin policy to remove from public office by as- sassination Western offi- the commis. . dence of “Soviet policies. Oe Titled “Sovict Strategie Executive Action,” the suppressed CIA  docu- ment went into the shock- ing delails of how agents of KGB, the Soviet secret police, are trained to do away with Western lead- -—— ers, including officials In. the U.S., and te make - their deaths appear duc - to natural causes. One of the KGB's new-. ly devised assassination wapons “ig ,“a’ pnumati- cally. operated polsom ices,.that the KGB endeavors ‘atomizer,'.. which ‘leaves: to reifidye~the,. threat. F .no wound or: other ‘evi-:: death ile this deadly weap: - Wh Documents ....; OTHER | U.S, - inten. pence experts, very due Russia's co-ox. islence line, stress ‘that.’ . _ the Warren Commis.‘ . : ston's findings might |, have been this CIA estimate and’ documents . gup. - . Pressed by the State ‘De. had ‘been avail. ious of “other Partment had able for study, .,., Whey point out that - » the State Deparment: . Quppressed evidonce link. "dng Oswald. “with ono OF Sh dig employes, cording to security. filés,- - “prescnied strom pro. Soviet: interests’ posed: b the cause of,,.certain:members of W8; , times arranging for: the: eg, ‘ Otay a Ollibe Sappresmaee ny, Shown "by ae auiniptration; 3g ¢ “officials to Speaker Soba Ls ; ‘a ase,), nexts: 5.04 in Jine to -succeed Presi-'S a ifferent df. Comminist, that he ig on! i enh ye Who. ae: . ; on has yet fo be used against any ero of ficlilLew KGB agenly €yy eratin outhidg ave been gil this pock eg awaiting gnly@orders from Moscow oie it, - suppressed in tellig estimate, which 38. in a security area wittiin the: tightly-guardcq"< are as follows: Cad “It has been rebg eri governments, $0: “ye FA [ . McCormack ( _Went Jolson. - . While FBI official : mack, a dedicated: an methods, 6 os :Anstéad,” Meta cm fresdianal neroherg er ake & ‘warned Speaker McOor. , earned wbout the report ony recently from con. ::? wha” ce From W dismissal of such persong | from public office, at oth- er times even having’ them: ‘eliminated’ physi- cally. © ; : “Such activities are “ known to be undertaken against other types of persons In the West, not-. ably defectors from the U.S.S.R. and from other countries of the Soviet bloc. ° “One recently reported assassination technique is te electrocute an individ- ‘ual by luring him te use a telephone, connect- ed to a high-voltage wire, “puring a thunderstorm, -“Another involves the of a pistol which: a wot ra of the list of Western ‘offi. #::}, cluls feared by. the Krem. 3°25 lin," no CIA authority .. 4 thas shown the No. 2 man - 3 ° nh government the CIA 5 -spojects a poison gas in - . ue e! ad hae form. The gas js fatal within’ seconds and an ‘autopsy would not reveal its use. Non-traceable ’ polsons have been report- -ed which do not take ef- ‘fect until seyeral hours after belng administered, ‘thus allowing an assassin to be far from the scene when his victim dies. “A knowledge abie source has described a pneumatically operate d* poison ice ‘atomizer’ which leaves no wound or other evidence of the .cause of death.” Congressional investi- gators, who have asked that the name of their committee be withheld ar ren Commission | ‘Ilquid or compressed for security reasons re port that CIA Director ohn McCone made no mention of this explosive document in his secret testimony before the Warren Commission, While McCone furnish- ed the commission with the CIA’s secret surveil- lance reports on Lee Harvey Oswald's cight days in Mexico City be fore the assassination. in- cluding details of Ose wald’s contact with the head KGB agent in the Soviet embassy the CIA chief gave ne hint of the Kremiin’s as sassination policy. (CONTINUED ON 8-38) there, § to es Glew LOD
13- 90009... acer ak "omni sate Wik PA ry srenes | BEDE date ie | Chief of Station, Wexico City Chief, WH Division Suasect Glee Harvey OSWALD | ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES In view of recent reopening of the publicity regarding Lee Harvey CSWALD and WOFACT evidence, Headquarters would like to determine whether the Station still has on hand the negatives from which the prints available at Headquarters were made of the unidentified "mystery man" coming out of both the Soviet and Cuban Embassies... If they are still on file, it is requested that they remain so, and that they be forwarded Headquarters for retention rather than Gestroyed if the latter action is ever contemplated (Oe t . ‘ : me Ye AT Ee ee ee ee ee TT emunamammenaniionbaeemer temas aaniaematmiah i - i. sec hk | ss Bisde I, SCALETTI { ~O _Hend vanes vest foe a egatives of He varcdenthfred “myskey wan \ Groin, ‘pode Qa Ssovet an ad Coban a Emb assed ne - SAME a | Distribution: | | lot - . GF 2- COS, Mexico city | @ we Cuts Gig aces nek meneame seam i entemncnmam ante RINE gr CR * é ot . : "5 ss, : BAP . c aly e K ~ NS , . . . , . ° ry : ' , . . : : 1 . get 8 . on ‘ Sa yp ace eee ~ . = " b oar " * ve Ce ae Oh Pee ewe fed n}- 289247 a BBM 1967 i Gress OSS PEF ERENCE ir) C3: TEES EG DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER J DATE ee | w15488 18 May 1967 CLASSIFICATION Crow? 1 1 | gS FILE NUMBER Excluded trem astomatly . SECRET) caus |  201-289248 fo, _ ORIGINATING ‘ ; | CFRICE _-  OFFIGEY, Ba - EXT RI WH/1 C. Bustds-Videla sas 6954 Chrono - COORDINATING “Oswald (soft file) aeaaa [me] Some i" 7 vere “are ee Te Gee ‘ ote ot aagenens weree mene ow € RELEASING / / 04 Ne SYMSOL OFFICER'S SIGNATURE - ; / C/WH/1 UW § J. Kayfaas ave : “STS _ [isPai coe + romeo,
13-00000 - PRORIERTED MARKED FOR INDEXING ——___—___-_{ - CLASSIFICATION ~ PROCESSING ACTION | DISPATCH SECRET | Chief of Station, Mexico City NO INDEXING REQUIRED ONLY QUALIFIED DESH CAN JUDGE INDEXING — Chief, WH Division L- , MICROFILM Lee Harvey- OSWALD. | ne . ° * ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Action Required: Please advise re negatives In view of recent reopening of the publicity regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD and WOFACT evidence, Headquarters would like to determine whether the Station still has on hand the negatives from which the prints available at Headquarters were made of the unidentified "mystery man" coming out of both the Soviet and Cuban Embassies. If they are still on file, it is requested that they remain so, and that they be forwarded Headquarters for retention rather than destroyed if the latter action is ever contemplated. ae Smear ka ee an ce alt + Syceaten Veb SRR ALOR EEE. Te pee Ln himire D- pheo trey ;Meh 1G6S, RAR, Distribution: 2-~- COS, Mexico City GATE” , 18 May 1967 _ 4 GROSS REFERENCE TO DISPATCH SYM@0L AND NUMBER HMMW- 15488 CLASSIFICATION : SECRET HQS FILE NUMSER -G 201-289248 p§ (3 fz ae 0177
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED NUMBER Cuban Chronos p= wae, ~, — Sa, — Glee Eeevey” Oswald __DEFERRED ~ [ir PRIORITY OPERATIONAL ROUTINE ) | OFER DTG. INITIALS INITIALS IMMEDIATE fo Lo. 44% 5, * Me t ad ae 02 oe DIR INFO. Ea \ CITE MEXE 2S REF: DIR 18827 | A 1. SOVIET EMS AND CONSULATE ARE NOX OPEN TO PUBLIC, OFFICES ARS IW Coit~ POUID ACCESSIBLE 10 FUELIC BY APPOINTMENT, SOVIET GUARDS ARE ON OUTSIDE CATE AROUND CLOCK, NORMAL WORK HOURS SEP 1963 WERE 0900 TO 1600 BUT RECENTLY CHANCED 0900 0 1A0O MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, SOV CONSULATE FREQUENTLY CHANGE. NOW OPEN 1200 TO 1300 MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS. SIXTEEN SOVIET FAMILIES LIVE IN COMPOUND, VISTICRS RING BELL AT GALS AT ALL XTKES HOURS, BUSSIAN SPEAKERS CAN GED In AUNTIE, OTHERS USUALLY TURNED AWAY BY GUARD AFTER HOURS, SOVIETS ARE HOT KROWN [0 ISSUE PESMITS FOR TRAVEL CUBA, oe AD 2. CUBAN TA AND CONSULATE [If SAKE COMPOUND BOR, RAVE’ SEEARARE EERANCES, ate hase CORSULATE RECEIVES VISITORS FROM 1000 TO TOT HOURS')GMBAY TROUGH FRIDAY, me aan AS me noe VESTTORS USUALLY ATTENEED eyGRE: 3 260 ROMS, THESE HOURS ALSO APPLIED DURING SEPT 63. | a ; 3. CUBAN IMS PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS FOR ISSUING PERMITS FOR TRAVEL TO AND THROUGH CUBA: VISAS HORMALLY VALID FOR THREE MORTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE. PRIOR AUEHORIZATION FROM HABANA INVARIABLY REQUIRED BEFORE ISSUANCE ANY VISA. APPLICANT COMPLETES VISA APPLICATION FORM Aq’ CONSULATE, PERMISSION OFTEN OBTATNED , COORDINATING OFFICERS SECRET AUTHENTICATING OFFICER: | . CLASSIFICATION 7 RELEASING OFFICER OUTGOING o00u250 keer PRORGITED
13-00000 INITIALS NUMSEA PRIORITY OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE DEFERRED’ ROUTINE | INITIALS Rey INFO, ~a- CITE meee sae IW EXCHANGE OF CABLES BETWEEN EMBASSY AND KINMEX HABANA, IW MANY CASES VISAS ISSUED Uf SEPARATE SHEET PAPER IN EPFORT CONCEAL PACT OF TRAVEL, 4, MEXICAN GOVE PROGEWURES AMD RERUANIOMS HE TRAVEL PEADME CRUDE 10 Au THROUGH GEA UNCHANGED SINCE MOA 2OBET DAUD 5 MAY 1963, PEEEDE CONTZEIS WOT PASSPORTS ‘AND CORAM VISAS ARE FREE TO TRAVEL TO CUBA, POPEIME CITIZENS  “WOCHOADEN COORDINATING OFFICERS BRIGGS 7 SECRET WOCURTIS ENTICATING OFFICER ' 7 CLASSIFICATION ' RELEASING OFFICER __GUTSOING - Gouves1 REPRODUCTION
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Cuban_Chroros pw-w-a~, —, __ oe paLee Harvey  Oswoid _DEFERRED . [PRIORITY INITIALS OPERATIONAL | inimiats = ROUTINE [ore IMMEDIATE | DIB INFO, a Pe \ CITE Mexr OS Ch oe ; . fees OO XS NUMBER RERAT GPFLOOR ia ae f we” <, 4 Wa REF: DIR 18827 Loge 2 oe 1. -SOVIET ENB AND COUSULATE ARE FOP OPEN TO PUBLIC, OFFICES ARS IN Coit POUND ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLI£ BY APPOINTMENT, SOVIET GUARDS ARE ON OUTSIDE GATE AROUND CLOCK, HORMAL WORK HOURS SEP 1963 WERE 0900 'T0 1800 BUT RECENTLY CHANCED 0700 TO 1400 MONDAY THROUGH FRTDAY, SOV CONSULATE FREQUENTLY CHANGE. NOW OPEN 12.00 0 1300 MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS, SIXTEEN SOVIET FAMILIES LIVE IW COMPOUND, TASKS HOMO A GANS A AE OS RUSSIAN SPEAKERS CAN GET IN» AUTTDKE, OTHERS USUALLY TUBKED AWAY EY GUARD APTER HOURS, SOVIEIS ARE NOT ROW NO ISSUE PEEMINS FOR HAVEL, CUBA. CORSAGE OCETES YESH Fo 0000 aka SMA eA, 3. CUBAN IMS PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS FOR ISSUING PERMITS FOR TRAVEL TO AND THROUGH CUBA: VISAS NORMALLY VALID FOR THREE MOTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE, . PRIOR AVERORIZANTOM FAOM HABANA TAVARIABLY REQUIRED BEFORE ISSUANCE ANY VISA, APPLICANT COMPLENES VISA APFLYCATTON POR! AT CONSULATE, PERMISSION OFTEN OBEAINED COORDINATING OFFICERS .SECRET AUTHENTICATING OFFICER CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER | OUTGOING _ G200250 ‘oun ‘PRosterey
13-00000 ey — PRORIBITED NUMBER INITIALS DEFERRED’ | PRIORITY ~T OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE (NITIALS _ROUTINE | | 2 ’ rey INFO, "ae CITE Og NUMEER TW EXCHANGE OF CABLES BETWEEN EMDASSY ARD HIENREX HABANA, If MANY CASES VISAS | ISSUED GH SEPARATE SHEET PAPER IN EFFORT COMCEAL PACT OF TRAVEL, ! h, MEXICAN GOVE PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS RE TRAVEL PEPRIME CITIZENS 10 AND THROUGH CUBA UNCHANGED SINCE HAMA 20887 DATED 5 MAY 1965. PEPEIME CITTZES WITH PASSPORTS AND CUBAY VISAS ARE FREE TO TRAVEL TO CUBA, PEPRIME CITIZENS wa Me oe MOCHOADEN COORDINATING OFFICERS REEIGGS 7 SECRET WCCURTIS {ENTICATING OFFICER : ' CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER , : QUTGOING sis : — goud254 mn REPRODUCTION  — PROMIGTTED
13- ‘00000 a 7 PROMOTED a oe : “AS Oly 20 February 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/R&A»™ SUBJECT: 1, A machine ig” *of documents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201. file wes “requested and is attached. The actual machine work of th .3;type was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous | dates were, alsé, tetorded, ‘a Ss 2p comparison of the documents physically available in the 201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37 documents which should be in the 201 file are not available init. This — | total is made up of: 2 dispatches | 7 memoranda from the FBI | 1 CSCI ; tty | 2 State Department documents oF t 25 cables. 7 | s .* x. 3. Machine inquiries for the location of these: documents have not been made.- ; eeument + Number OES SHO f for FOIA Review on SUN 1976 SECRET “EVES GLY — G0GUTe4.
13-00000 REPHODUCTION PROWISITED 1. ee anality | (201) File Request, dated 9 December 1960 [FOIA N 1B] 2. Three index ca ords System on ree ante OSW dy's assassina- FOIA No. 2- 524] Loe RD 4. Memorandum for Chief, CI/R&A, dated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File [FOIA No. 563-810] TABLE OF CONTENTS REPRODUCTION PROMBITED
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION ORIG ; C.. sustiod , pa ‘ UNIT : WH/3/Mexico a nob XT : 5940 [NO INDEX DATE: 120 Oct 1963 CI FILEIN CS. FILE NO, To : SEE BELOW . 2 op py ee ) | 0aeré3 tds FROM: SORSEECLS CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY | co Do, — cone: WH 8 wa Bo || petkadae N rR ROUTINE INFO: Ci, CI/OPS, cst FI, SR 7, RF, VR TO INFO oe CITE (DIR og. _ DEPARTMENT OF STATE’ Oo fA 873 FEDERAL GHRHAL OF INVESTIGATION. | FEET SEO) OEE B88 6 00 rl: Ge . . , DEPARTMENT: oF “THE NAVY oo ~yS supsecr. “LEE HENRY OSWALD | - 1. ON1 OCTOBER 1963 A RELIABLE AND. SENSITIVE SOURCE IN MEXICO REPORTED THAT AN AMERICAN MALE, WHO IDENTIFIED B Oo HIMSELF as|ten OSWALD, CONTACTED THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN = 2 a era a = MEXICO CITY INQUIRING WHETHER. THE EMBASSY HAD RECEIVED 3 8 a > ANY NEWS CONCERNING. & TELEGRAM WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO g 2 a le o F “ ge FASHINGTON, THE AMERICAN was DESCRIBED AS APPROXIMATELY N = ra : A e Ce A ~pacebawa HAIRLINE. 6 _ a a J 2, ris ‘BRETEVED THAT OSWALD MAY BE IDENTICAL TO LEE ard , at * a HENRY OSWALD, BORN ON 18 OCTOBER 1939 IN NEW ORLEANS, BOUTSTANA, { of] A FORMER U.S. MARINE WHO DEFECTED TO THE SOVIET ‘UNION IN ag OCTOBER 1959 AND LATER MADE ARRANGEMENTS THROUGH. THE UNITED ef STATES EMBASSY IN MOSCOW TO RETURN TO nye UNITED STATES WITH . HIS RUSSIAN=BORN WIFE, MARINA, NIKOLAEVNA : PUSAKOVA, aw THEIR _ _ re Document oe *. aa) sn LS 7X LS o A , i FOIA Review on APR 1976 soothe OFFICERS: ° GROUP 1 1© eT EG 3 ~ A RELEASING OFFICER =— ee iomnerading and AUTHENTICATING “s ; lin ; : 8s EB C$ R E R: : dectassification OFFIC ER . oe i a REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN: THE, TsgUING OFFIBEE J iS PROHIBITED. o Copy No. COOUTES PROGIBITED. Sect ct ene eet : : .
HEADQUARTERS male “Re By BRGADWAY, NeW YORK i* CITY. SEE 00 ISTRIBUTION OF _ CUBAN “PROPAGANDA. e 2 a 2 ong , QO 3 i! / > 2 | - oe | 2 2 by : a 5 OSWALD, LEE HARVEY = hs “07-500 g | SEX M 003 18 OCT 39 - . pBF -49478 [Spi Cit v REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED OInsi, CArds Jou nd ve the. VE \ a si OY Rae eae Doc SR ON dag yu - Ke HARE Ay's Tinsasatbechine. Me “OSWALD, LEE HENRY ; roan) \¥ ANZ ASL SEX M DOB 18 OCT 39 an \ ti NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA i} C1 1 BUSSR ron, UsSe.. aRINE CORPS, AS OF 60. i | (DEFECTED TO USSR NO 199° CLASSIFICATION REVIEW es ot . ° ? . . a8 nae ‘ . + Tye" . q “act LEE H. . -T00-300-011 | | Se M DOB 18 OCT 39 : “DBA 99.8 SA, NEW ORLEANS : USK, | R | | & OCT 63 OCC ? : i USA, NEW ORLEANS, 4709 sited ine MBR_O F THE NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER OF THE | -FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMEITEE WIT 4 MOSCOW, USSR EX-U.S. MARINE, WHO. UPON™ “HIS DESCHARGE FROM MARINE CORPS., SEPT.59°TRAVELED TO USSR TO NEw ORLEANS, LOUISIANA oF MAY 60 RENOUNCE HIS U U8 § cH AZENSHIP.
po REPRODUCTION ae PROG TIED : ; + chen Filled Ip) : i’ Ly | eee FIE, ‘PERSONALITY (201) FILE REQUEST. REALQUARTERS, RI ! “a fo i g re L G FROM Ci og ; ‘ Ec _ : La neTion ” . ‘It Si G — Au GER TIER dS Zz PAS CLOSE | (HSTRUCTIONS: Form must be typed or printed in ‘block feeters. SECTION {2 <All known sliases and variante, “Gineluding maiden name, if applicable) muat be listed. If the iden- tifying data varies with the alias used, & = separate form must be used. Write UNKNOWN for items you are unable to complete. SECTION Ll: Cryptonym or pacudgiym wi ft. be entered in Headquarters. SECTION Lil: To be completed in’ all: cases. aS oe SECTION 1 SENSITIVE . SOURCE DOCUMENT , NONe SENSITIVE (0 7 Last) - ; (First) - (Middle) (Title) “ ALA Li pee OK HE Ry viel Te ae (Last) (Firat) NN A ia ete dt PHOTO BIRTH DATE " } ae Pp i pee ee iebadl Nos Onlonan Lee PA SPE PE] OCCUPATION/POS! TION , neers cope 9. - i __. ae SECTION Ti = pe tag Mid , fe 2» CRYPTONYM : oe | P SEUDONYM : U 7 | SECTION !11 . 7 2nND COUNTRY LNTEREST 12. 4 3RO COUNTRY INTEREST i 2a. . == i- COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE SSR = OF | COMMENTS: taf} ’ > Vefeted? 4 bes ssh ws icc bole 4 | . - fe Document Numbe "for FOIA Review en Fi Schuain Guanee ay a SIGNATURE — rom 831a SECRET 22S RECORD SOPY (39) - oe
13-00000 ad & ~ > PROMIBITED Commission Document 692 (portion dated 31 January 1964) [Copy of FOIA No. 509-803] Letter from [RYg Df ated 25 October 1960, to Ri hare i) (fe uu Department of elegram (UNCLASSIFIED), dated 31 October 19 hi ATED RAN —‘@ated 6 March 1964; Memorandum for J. Lee Subject: Information in CIA's Possession Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD Prior to November 22, 1963. Note from Richard HELMS to J. Lee RANKIN, dated 6 March 1964, Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 6 March 1964; Subject: Information in CIA's Possession Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD Prior to November 22, 1963. [FOIA No. 590-252]
13-00000 e % REPRODUCTION PROMIRITED y-/232y XAAZ~2ISITST Qq® Mar a+ SUBJECT: - 4 * _ Inforrnation in CIA's Possession Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD Prior to November 22, 1963 as  Jransni tect -t. bdewren Crew wa. RE OW, reenter ae agg This refers to your letter of February 12, 1964 “ay 7 addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which has been passed to me for reply, 4, Paragraph three of your letter requested the Asency to susply the Commission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding Lee Harvey CSWALD prior to November 22, 19635, The request was predicated upon the footnote on nage two of CIA's report to the Commission dated | 31 January 1964, entitled: ‘Information Developed by CIA on the <ictivity of Lee Harvey COWALD in Mexico City, <3 Sepe tember - 3 Cctober 1963", 2. There is attached an exact veproduct tion of the ; Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1963, The entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret amd consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, On the basis of clearances from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the Department of Navy, and the Immigration and Maturalization Service, who were queried by us after the receipt of your letter, we are able to make available exact copies of all materials in the file up to early Qctober 1963, These include: . Document Number 290 - ~255L i. O* ogres os for FOIA Review on uN 876 =: Pn ae 7 lee we woe woe va CTs 7 i ys bh tore room nets0M “oe Mar er ‘go0u7e9 --nein2942 DFP a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED a, Seven documents received fram the Sederal Bureau of Investigation, | Be Ten documents received from the Department Ce Two documents received from the Department se e One document (a name check request) irom the “ TEproigration and Naturailzation Service, ®&, Four newspaper clippings, £, Five internal CIA notes, ge CIA report dated 31 January 1964 to the Commission which covers all substantive developments affecting CIA in the matter of Lee Harvey CSWALD from 9 Octover to 22 November 1963, The report indicated the disseminations of information developed by CiA that were made to other Federal agencies during that period. This itern, as was pointed out at the time, is particularly sensitive and bears aporopriate sensitivity indicators. | 4, You will note that almost all of the documents carry markings required for CIA's internal records processiag. A few of the papers contained the names of our employees or identifications of specific organizational. components. — We have taken the liberty of blocking out these“items as they do not bear on the substance of the Gommissionts vequest. 2 Richard Helms “.=s" - Deputy Direetor for Plans Attachment  Original& 2- Addressee © 1+C/CI/SIG “1DDP Subject  _-1> C/CI/R&A 1. DDP Chrono, cor le C/WH/3 eee ere en pe ei es core gunn ap ene gee en at eer tl ETE EE A antennae age AAA PR Ete EEA NS POA i ECE pen! ters sntnga 1 C/CL IX » 201289248 CURGRocca:de/7468/4 March 1964 (Inventory of documents contained in file attached for all but 2@ttres sae e) 20 | “AST 2GS | as 00078 REPRODUCTION me
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PRONIGITED H | Inventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded to the Gemmission . /\, State Telegram No, 1304, Cetober 31, 1959 (Confidential) va “oo 26 Newspaper Article fron the ¥ Washington Post, November ad, 1959 *ww3, CI/LSN Internal } Note dated 2 November 1959 (oral FBI name check Fequest) and NR reply dated 4 November 1959 (Cc onfidentia) ‘Ha, F Foreign Service Despatch 234, November Be 1959 (Confidential) J - Ww, State ‘Telegram 1358, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) 1 wb. ‘State Telegram 1448, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) oe «= Mt Newspaper Clipping from W ashington Post, Novernber 16, 1959 - w8, Newspaper Clipping from Evening Star, November 26, 1959 + v9, DBF 49478, 25 May 1960 (Confidential) ~ {. « 10. Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated circa ‘May 1960 (Confidential ~ il, Letter from the Department of State (Cumming) to DDP (Bisset) dated October 25, | 1960 (DD/P 00-5679 ~ Secret) r M126 DDP Response to Sit Seika 21 November 1960 DIP 0 0-6003 ~ - ‘Secret) ne we v13. | Internal CIA Request for Opening of 201 fhe, a December 1960 | Secret). | a «x /14, State Memorandum of Conversation. dated January 26, 1961 fouoy / « 15, State Instruction A-273, April 135 $961 (ouo) / . »«wA6, Foreign Service Deapatch 806,°May:26, 1961 (OUO) ov“ Ave Foreign Service Despatch 299~ July ll, 1961 (ou) - 15, DFS $2181, uly 13, 196r L(Confidentiat) - - . . : eee en nn ec eetnmnnmnsenainensanemenenmnaaaaenanmanmesdamensananmaemeanneananaemmenieememmesamntesnmamaammen eae aeammeaneal : . . ATT. | te: XxAaZ- 2.2.59 Pa 's cory ; Jol 257248 Se ee cause toe ee age te Be cee ee
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMBITED | — | 4 XAABZ- 22595 @ Mar. Oo ~/19, Internal CIA Memo f for ‘the Record, 28 September 1961 (Secret) r “20, Foreign Service. Despatch 317, Cectober 12, 1961 (ou) A - vel, I&NS Name cheek Request, December 5, 1961 | | ¥ 1236 DNA. 4624, 26 April 1962 7 “ Ih, - _Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, June 9, (1962, Y 5 Lab, DBA 20883, September 7, 1962 (Confidential) - 26, DBA 51407, 10 Septernber 1963 » “27, DBA 52355, 24 September 1963 + -28, DBA 55715 (number unclear), November 7, 1963 vw La2% DBA 55777, November 8, 1963 ve Do. CTA Summary Report on Activities of OSWALD. in Mexico City, J ZZ» Navy Mesaage 20197/RB/3, 3 March 1962 (Confidential) dated 31 January 1964 | oo | nt =ey mat oe QOl-~ 2ITLE?P cooure2
13-00000 i i ! 1 * wy MEMORAN DUM - ‘Woule you ‘please ‘ba. good enough to tele~ ma-on Monday » by which time I Se2 cstint agi JO], REPLACES Form 15. WHICH MAY BE USED Se erign . - ; Paw : : . . aa a alias oe. ee mn 0h Sattenpe. Te By “ P » * ee Te 2. & oe Tes . ; \- _ a , ’ oo " Wot ag ~ ads ° . ~ ” . - Pigs : any! ‘yw, “ ~ . ~p # ‘ va al St Ee ee ~ aoe Ree Ape seting «om ie ~ os ; ~, rae i . : 2 3 eae oe : me tm were aoe : oe . e me 198 tron, an hey e 1 ne TR tee oe
REPRODUCTION em, = =“ Commission No. 2 eas CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ee WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 ee 6 - MAR 1964 me AS MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Lee Rankin 7 SUBJECT: -stafegnation 1 in CIA's Possession eae Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD faa ~Prior to November 22, 1963 a Pees . This: tefers to your letter of February 12, 1964 addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which has been Bassed to me for reply. a, € " 2, Paragraph three of your letter requested the Agency a “te “supply the Commission with a report on information in the “Bgency!s possession regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD prior to November 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footnote on. page two of CIA's report to the Commission dated 31 January 1964, entitled: "Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 Sep- tember » 3 October 1963'', | 3, There is attached an exact reproduction of the © Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1960. The entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, On the basis of clearances from the Federal: Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the. ‘Department of Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, who were queried by us after the receipt. of.’ your ‘letter, we are able to make available exact copies, ‘of, all materials in the file up to early C October 1963, These. include: By 5 ge wae at « pty CLASSIFICATION: CANCELED By authoriy oF CRA Lie.. PP fr. = = Jes rea musing the chanson
LD bth == REPRODUCTION mo b, Ten documents received from the Department ee of State, . c. Two documents received from the Department ™ ? of Navys V4! d, One document (a name check request) from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ey e. Four newspaper clippings. ‘ip £, Five internal CIA notes, Le GIA report dated 31 January 1964 to the Commission ee which covers all substantive developments affecting CIA aie in the matter of Lee Harvey OSWALD from 9 October to Oe 22 November 1963, The report indicated the disseminations omeed we Ms of .inforrnation developed by CIA that were made to other Federal agencies during that period, This item, as was — pointed out at the time, is particularly sensitive and bears “~. ‘appropriate sensitivity indicators. 4, You will note that almost all of the documents carry markings required for CIA's internal records processing, A few of the papers contained the names of our employees or identifications of specific organizational components, We have taken the liberty of blocking out these items as they do not bear on the substance of the Commission's request, Richard Helms Deputy Director for Plans Attachment ICATION CANCELED _ CLASSIF Gh le, PP re By authorily of:
Pa el beat Be wis we coe 35 Action PPT Info L H INR P ce. SUMO STA scS SY DCL IRC CTA OSD NAVY 7A teen «ne LRT GE ANG Witte apelin Moe REPRODUCTION = REPRODUCTION PROMISITED 7 wenng x mnan ; a st . pe -% ne . a el WS THER = Departinenz af State 1S Cs Control: 20261 Rec’d: OCTOBER 31, 1959 FROM: MOSCOW 7:59 AM. TO: Secretary of State NO: '!304, OCTOBER 31, | P.M. FOR PG CLEC HARVEY OSWALD, UNMARRIED AGE 20 PP 1733242 ISSUED “SEPT 10, 1959 APPEARED. AT EMB TODAY TO RENOUNCE AMERICAN | CITIZENSHIP, STATED APPLIED IN MOSCOW FOR SOVIET CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING ENTRY USSR FROM HELSINK! OCT 15. MOTHER'S ADDRESS AND H1!S LAST ADDRESS US 4936 COLLINWOOD ST., FORT WORTH TEXAS. SAYS ACTION CONTEMPLATED LAST TwO YEARS. MAIN REASON "I AM MARXIST". ATTITUDE ARROGANT AGGRESS !Va.6. RECENTLY DISCHARGED MARINE CORPS. SAYS HAS | OF FERED SOVISTS_WANS. INFORMATLON HE HAS ACQUIRED AS... ENITSTED RADAR OPERATOR. _ IN VIEW PETRULL| CASE WE PROPOSE DELAY EXECUTING RENUNCIATION UNTIL SOVIET ACTION KNOWN OR DEPT ADVISES. DESPATCH : FOLLCGWS. PRESS INFORMED. FREERS JR . UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED” Cone REPRODUCTION FROM THIS ___ COAL. COPY IS PROHIBITED. a a | GECLTCg
. wes . Fa 4%. ard cn : - ~ é ; Doe a” - . (2 . — Tn DEPARTMENT OF STATE pose An26-6 a “8 THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE ANDO RESEARCH = 4 a} yo to |, WASHINGTON . eet 2 6. SECRET , OCT 25 1960. | 1 : - . . : va uy coon «© from May 1959 ~ October 1960. ne a, a Bry . me Ree me Bem were me eae ey me te ee “C-JP Mp. Richard Me Bissell, Jr. a “i .°. Deputy Director, Plans, . . rr _Dear Dick: . | oo eg ‘Our efforts to answer recent informal inquiries, including some - : : from the White House Staff, have revealed that, though CIA and the _ | FREE have detailed records concerning Americans who have been recruited .". a8 intelligence agents by Bloc countries, there does not appear to be 7 ' a complete listing of those Americans now living in Bloc countries so te +. who might be called "defectors". Using the definitions of DCID hfe, a ' + these persons might be described as those who have either been, an . “4 ¢, Gapable of providing useful intelligence to the Bloc or those whose os : , @esire to resettle in Bloc countries has been significantly exploited .-  -/’ . ° for communist propaganda purposes. This would mean that no attention - : :., meed be paid to Americans whose resettlement within the Bloc had no... : >: ; ° counter-intelligence implications or had attracted no particular tg fe j.... attention; for instance, this definition would not cover individual : Th, ‘|. US eitizens of East European or Chinese origin who retumed to the -, 7 -+ .. "homeland" because they had never been completely assimilated into ‘ 7 v8, the American Society. a ae ' ' There is attached a list of such persons, covering the last 18 .. months, and it would be appreciated if the Agency could verify and ' possibly expand this list for the use of interested Bureaus of, the . Departments ee sy “Sincerely yours, | Se ee me , Hugh S. Cumming, dre:2 00) 0th attachment: Ne a Te Ea one v ‘list of American "Defectors" oT ae, OTs estey Central Intelligence Agency. . a Jil.
13-00000 “ woe! - O ‘CONFIDENTIAL REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED LIST OF AMERICAN "DEFECTORS" - 1.2). Morris and Mollie BLOCK, living in the USSR, and possibly,” Communist China, since the fall of 1959. "_, 24) David DuBOIS (aka DUPEBOY), living in Peiping since May ' 1960, but may have returned to the U.S. 3.) Sgt. Joseph DUTKANICZ, U.S. Army, defected to East German Se oat ‘Forces about the spring of 1960. tg ke) Sgt. Ernie F, FLETCHER, U.S. Army, defected to East German an i .. Forces in June 1959 and stated that he wished to remainin -.. . East Germany at a confrontation held on August 5, 1959 a | (CINCUSAREUR telegram SX 5307 of 061 74h2 August). ee Stoo | §.). Sgt. (fnu) JONES, U.S. Air Force, defected in mid May 1960. ; to East German Forces (Air Intelligence Information Report a . “number 130223 of August 9, 1960.) or - 60) William MARTIN, NSA employee. '. Je) Bernon MITCHELL, NSA employee. . 8.) Lee Harvey OSWALD, tourist. . a _ 96) Idbero RICCIARDELLI, tourist. : _ 10.) Pvt. Vladimir SLOBODA, U.S. Army, defected to East German. cel. Forces in the spring of 1960. . 11.) Robert Edward WEBSTER, tourist, (see New York Times article an + of October 20, 1959). ; | os 2.) Bruce Frederick DAVIS; U.S. Amy, defected. to East German. ' Forces, August 19, 1960 (Eubassy Moscow telegram 1032 of: October 22, 1960). CONFIDENTIAL _
| Pace f e - —_ ~ _—, SERSTIVE 8GO LY ASO ath, Bette allot de Sen Oat ade tin | rae Pens In MOLY aD) a ent REE, 31 January 1954 . e nN e G Information Develoned by GEA"on the Activity of Lee Harvey CSWALD in Merico City 22 September « 3 Octcbexr 1953 separa sian hing CETTE T TT ITNT ST NTT TE ETAT TTS I, GSWALD Is e bevivey in Mesico C ity Aun American nimed ice OSWALD haa contacted the Seviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, 1 Octobes 3963, ‘He bad spoken in hating Russiantothe Soviet a rare Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to whom 8 ea he said he had visited the Embassy two days earlier, _ oo ie = Saturday, 28 September, Ho asked whether there had an been a reply to & telegram that the Conaul with whom he . had spoken, but whose name he could not racall, had - a promised to send to Washington, OBYEDIXOV had - attempted te establish the entity of the Consul with whom OSWALD had tatsed: it ue ‘had been. a ‘dar! i YSP SOR, a ‘then it had probably beon LOSRTEV. OBYEDKOV, ~@cnned® j WARNING NOTICE | a t SENSITIVE SOURCES AND . ¥ : ae . : PPRVTIANING pRensene veers Document Number tb Suet “CORY oF OF 509 - 205 | cri Review on JUN m8 | Vat 5 7 | att a anne cee eee ae eee een mgs ee i et weet mete ee eee Fe tne ce fe |
13-00000 2 en ee, —— PROBIBITED OLORET PUL OSebo toe ames te a toe MeTHOSS Boy cg after a check with Sovict Consular personnel, assured OSWALD the telegram had been sent to Washington but no answer had been re ceived: The information was forwarded by. cable to GIA Headquarters tho same day it was. received, Zo A file check’ in Washington which is routine in these ee matters: vovealed the possibility of an identity between the Lee — OSWALD’ who had spoken with OBYEDKOV, and presumably with KOSTIKOV, and the defector returnce, Lee Harvey OSWALD,* 3, On10 October 1963 CIA Headquarters disseminated by cable the report in substantially the form and in the detail - indicated above, in paragraph 1, to the Federal agencies whose juvisdictional Interests had been established by a review of OSWALD 'g file; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Depart~ Pssem * The CIA file on Lee Harvey OSWALD was opened on 9 Decomber ae 1960 to accommodate biographic information developed by CIA in ‘can response to an inquiry from the Department. of State on a list of ‘coe American defectors in Soviet Bloc countries, OSWALD's was “a _ among the names in the list, The Department of State inquiry . lon ” was dated 25 October 1960, An interim reply was given by CIA wees on 3 November 1960; a final ren hy, 20m. vas November 1950, Usi eaxly October 1963 the contents:of Hie “OSWALD file held by CIA. consicted entirely of press matcx? 3% and dissaeminations _rececived from tho Departmoxt of State, the Federal Bureau of Taveatigation, and the Navy Department, Lo { WAH MU beer eaead , cement, | SENSITIVE SOURCES AND i reread { | _NETHODS INVOLVED __
Co) ea sha s whe vaent of State, the Navy Departs acat, and the Immigration and 7 Me Naturalization Service, A comment was included in the report noting the likelihood that the subject, Lee OSWALD, was » probably identical with the former Marine who had defected to tha Sovict Union in. 1959... (The report disseminated by CIA in Washington: on | 10,.Cctobex also luchuicd 2 physical descriptisn . oe of an individtal who was believed to have been the OSWALD who ne a eShtacted the Soviets in Mexico City, It was subsequently est2blished by investigation that the description did not pertain wot at to OSWALD.) 4, Onthe same day, 10 Catober 1963, CIA Headquartars sent a lengthy cable summary to the Mexico City Station of the m4 background information held in the Headquarters! file on: OSWALD, An instruction was included for the Mexico City Station to pass the substance of tts 9 Cctober report. to ‘the local representatives 3 of the same Federal depertmente 2 and agencies | that had been given the information in Washington, This instruction was immediately carried’ outs. to this manner the oe sO inforrnation on OSWALD !a contact, with the Soviets on 1 Octaber . waa passed in Mexico City to the Embas sys the FBI sepr esentative, © the Na aval Attache, and to the office of the Immigration and Naturaliza ation Service, There were no requests from recizsnia of the report for furthey information or for follow-up investization, carl] SENSITIVE sCURCES AND } METHODS INVOLVED —G000931 -
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