104-10268-0007 eee ane etna neat ce neat DY te eatin te oe ue ean ncaa ect te tine oes antne Mie emai eae NER ED cele tates goat ce emeRm Re Tutet sleds aLadeeetfe fa? wonneefut teat Macatee Get ote antennae ger samit jet ines canons es | GG /F Or Ag Fe —_ presen. rb pe lowe Es _ . C/E | ee oe cA.ste 3-27-64 | ) | | ; snl . Le odie 7 | Mrs 4), Lo IE ORANDUL . — FROY 3: §&. A. Stern . | «Te Sneak "PTE an Today, Priday, March 27, 1964, ‘I met ot CIA headquarters with ' Me. Rocca to roview the CIA fille on Lec Harvey Oswald. The file -conteins those materials funisked to us previously by CIA. in - 7 eddition, it. contains the following matcrials: Pe a. Cable reports from the CIA station in Mecxcico of Noverber fo, . 22 and 23, 1953 relating to photographs of a person who had visited fo —_ the Cuban and Soviet Erbassics in Mexico Clty during October and “ a - Novenber. 1953; and reports on these cables fiumished on Eoverber . - po . 23 by CIA to the Sccret Service. These messages are accurately : So parcpraced in the attachments to the CIA memorandum of Mach 2h, be ee Soc (Conmlasion Document WOT). . b. Cable of October 10 from CIA Mowico City station to CIA _ headquarters rcporting on Oswald contact at Soviet Enbassy, and October 10, 1963 message from CIA headquarters to Mexico City station or background information on Oswald. ‘These messages are accurately reported in the CIA memorandum of January 31, 19h. | I did not review ony materials later than Noverber 23, 1963. - .°- My. Rocea also showed me the “printout” of the references to Oswald documents in the CIA electronic data storage system. There was no item listed which we have not been Given either in full text or paraphrased. explanation at a future visit. . ‘h- Pscfeaticr w \ | t i . ‘processing system, Mr. Rocca said that he would arrange. a detatled { . | | om Ae Ae ay ' | | “nat } | - --. When I evidenced an interest 4n the CIA stoctyonte . data ss i wen e
. . MEMORANDUM FOR: By, 3. hee Raskin SUSSECT: Talanmation Developed by CIA oa the ee ee The second paragraph of your latter rales 0 question. 7 with regard te reports on current aspects of investigation tn Mexico, ov concerning Mexican leade in the OSWALD cage. Specifically, that pmragragh seems to refer to apeculative teforzoation provides the White House by Jove I, LASAGA - with Salvador DIAZ VERSON, CIA has | ; vothing te add to the devaSied tarestigation of tale seater somlucted by the Federal Bureun of Exvestigation, We assure that the Conremiesion te already in possession, or will be tn the near fatarcs, af the details of the outcome of - gas DRO o/rseo o bo cate has : . 003573 7 ; : oor we. = 7
13-80000 . 4. The following repliae are heyed to the numeration your letter of February 10: he We are not ta @ position to oupply copes of telegrams Sent between the Soviet Zmbassien fs - Waohingtes and Mexico Coy. . Be Translations of the twe police intervegstion - veporta.of Silvia DURAN ave being forwarded ia the Coumntaalan wees sapurate Corer. a | Be From all the evidence oa hand, we dedneo that. CSWALD visited the Cuban Consulate in Mexice City on parang 27 September 1963 and again some time Hihter Theres is ne evidence that ke after bis initial visle, and that thie later visit was on ths efternona of a day on which the Cuban Comaui tale. Phoned the Soviet Gonaulate about OSWALD 's visa pecblem, This may well have been 29 September, but we canact be certain of thle couckusion, & ¥e de met boager whether Cubes Soeseweng haber dating his Seggember October 1963 vistt. From the  +#tatermeecte of Slivia DURAN, one could conchae that . she hed never heard of CSWALD until be visited the Goneulate in late September 1963, The file on OSWALD - . hiaapryrabetiventananrenmreaen: voaniuminpieiaes CSOWALD's mame wae published a9 Phd stig lAy a ipmsaesin of President Kennedy. ! | ae Bee - COPY NO.
DURAN te tell OSWALD he could not have se ie tvranalt viee unless he fest got a Soviet vies ut fvack statements axe quite common in consular - a practice, av for as we know. a a 6. ‘We believe that Silvia DURAN's statement that | ; OSWALD know no one be Cuba meant Mterally thet, ari vonch for hin, or insure thet he would not become @ Soviet official would seem te imply that the Soviets bad np previous record of OSWALD, at least in Menino, if OB , indeod the Soviet official wes tolling the truth. re te We believe that OSWALD both telephoned to the - in the process which he pave 4° rat t to the Ceban Consulate, thea misiaid or forget, and finally recovered from Cuban — Consulste files eo he could pass it to the Soviet Consulate. % could aise be that he was talking about hie Mexico City hotel address which ha might have momentarily forgotten while at the Soviet Consulate. 7 % The Cuban Consulate and Cuban Embesay in : Mexico City are separate offices located ore cial oO bulldiege that sland on adjacent | Dia tpanrnte : a corner at Marques and Zamora Str: I Consulate are beth located in a PNG ete | connected outbuildings, wi 10, We eurmise that the references in OSWALD 's 9} Noevernber letter to 9 man who had since been replaced  — a PAGE Se wo a -
13-00000 evar wcosscopareen ct MUGITED Mexico for Cuba on permanent transfer on 15 Nowember | 1963, four days before the agesasaination. AZCUE had — . been in Mexico fer cighteen years anid it was known to us > o> 4g -onttlly ae September 2963 that AZCUE wastehbe — /- .  eoplvced, His replacement did arrive in September. leave until 19 November. “We do not know who might have told OSWALD thas Rae oe ay ve that etbvle DURAN os onne Soviet tint. oe but we speculate that Silvia DURAN os some Sovist clficial BS Porta meationed & tf CSWALD complained about — queried for further information but none has been developed. Neither pro- nor exti-CASTRO persons or - . groupe have produced what we regard as hard information, ee 42, We can caly guess why Silvia DURAN described — OSWALD asablomic, Perheps his complexion seemed heh? to her, conxpared with that of mos? Latin Americans. Whee she wae arrested, che ha PAPAS aR EWALD D for _ shout two mosths, but apparently Gi legicil CHe Ielencm . Distribution: | Original & 2 - Addressee beGC/Ck An CG/CYUREA 1 = C/WH/3. CEIR&A/RGRoccaxic/18 Feb: Prepared by C/WH/3.).
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