13-00000 SEGRET 12 December 1963 DIR 88643 Subject: Letter Relative to Assassination of President Kennedy Sent to United States Embassy in Costa Rica. Recipients: FBI, State, White House. [Warren Commission] — ae 12 December 1963 DIR 88682 Cuban Ambassador to France received instructions not to comment upon the assassination. Recipients: FBI, State, White House. 12 December 1963 DIR 88747 | Subject: Second Interrogation of Silvia DURAN. Recipients: FBI, State, White House. 13 December 1963 CSCI-3/779 ,136 Subject: Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO. Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] 16 December 1963 CSCI=3/779,135 Subject: Peter DERYABIN's Comments on Kennedy Assassination. Recipient: FBI. 18 December 1963 DIR 89970. Further Information on Richard Thomas GIBSON. Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service received copy. [Warren Commission] . “18 December 1963. DIR 89980 Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first - interrogation. we Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret Service : - received copy. tWarren Commission] December 1963 | —-—«CSCI-3/779,297 Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy .(arranged ' by the Cuban Government and the Communist Chinese). Recipient: FBI. 2 |
13-00000 SECRET 3 January 1964 Unnumbered Memorandum Telephone contact with S. PAPICH on 3 January 1964 regarding newspaper article appearing in E1 Caribe - .on 27 November 1963 and possible connection with , ALVARADO's interview in the U.S. Embassy on 1 26 No- vember. Recipient: FBI. 10 January 1964 CSCI-3/779 ,482 . Subject: second Mexican Interrogation of Silvia DURAN. . Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission ] 27 January 1964 CSCI-3/779,729 | Subject: Possible Relatives of Marina Nikolayevna OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. 30 January 1964 " CSCI-3/778,814 . Subject: Jack L. RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. 4. February 1964 —  CSCI-3/779,817 - Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Information on names, addresses, and telephone numbers relating to the Soviet Union. ) Recipient: FBI. “ 18 February 1964 '- DDP 4-0860 Memorandum for the. Director, Federal Bureau of ‘Investigation. Subject: Assassination of John F. Kennedy. ("In connection with our efforts to assist the President's Commission on the Assassination of ' President Kennedy by providing information which might be helpful.in interpreting available ma-. terials relating to OSWALD's activities abroad, 4] € nD BT
13-00000 SECRET; we have considered the entry with regard to attempted suicide. We consider this entry as being of consider- able importance and one which might be subject to verification.") . Recipient: FBI. [Copy to Warren Commission] 18 February 1964 DDP 4-0861 Memorandum for the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (". . . 47 photographs which were among the effects of. Lee Harvey OSWALD, . .. . It appears that most of the photographs were taken in the USSR and depict — Soviet contacts of OSWALD or scenes in the Soviet Union.") Recipient: FBI. [Copy “to Warren Commission] 18 February 1964 DOP 4-0862 Memorandum for the Chief, United States Secret Service. Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (Verification of entry in "Historic Diary" relating to OSWALD's attempted suicide.) Recipient: Secret Service.. [Copy to Warren Commission] 18 February 1964 DDP 4-0864 . Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. Hughes, The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State. Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of Entry in "Historic Diary”. Recipient: State. [Copy to Warren Commission] 20 February 1964 CSCI-3/779 ,988 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. - (Information regarding Annette SETYAEVNA. and Lillie May RAHM.) - _ Recipient: FBI. 22 February 1964 DIR 03101 Subject: Further Information Provided by Moroccan Student Mohamed REGGAB. Recipient: White House (attention Secret Service. ) 42 en o 34 co al one
13-00000 SECRET, 11 March 1964 CSCI-3/780 ,344 Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohamed REGGAB Relative to Marina OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. 20 March 1964 CSCI-3/780,612 Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (Photograph of an individual closely resembling OSWALD. ) Recipient: FBI. 16 April 1964 = SCT-3/780,881 Subject: Assassination -of President John F, Kennedy. (Information regarding Lydia DYMITRUK. ) Recipient: FBI. 8 May 1964 DOP 4-2351 Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee RANKIN. Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebook. Recipient: Copy of attachment forwarded to FBI. [Warren Commission] TI May 1964 CSCI-3/781,172 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Traces on Soviet names, addresses, and telephone numbers from an address book belonging to Marina OSWALD.) Recipient: FBI. . 13 May 1964 "| CSCI-3/781,282 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Identification of photographs sent to CIA by FBI.) ° Recipient: FBI. 15 May 1964 - Memorandum. from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee RANKIN. Subject: Role of Cuban Intelligence Service in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of the Service to the Assassi- nation of President Kennedy. Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] 43 (SECRET
13-00000 SEGRET. 5 June 1964 CSCI-3/781 ,543 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Use of Machine Colla- tion Program to Check Out Cubans Mentioned in Letter of 27 November 1963 from Mario del ROSARIA Milina. ) Recipient: FBI. 10 June 1964 CSCI-3/781 ,841 Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY. Recipient: FBI. | sg 29 June 1964 CSCI-3/782 ,085 Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee RANKIN. | Subject: Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco. / , Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] ~ 2 July 1964 DDP 4-3401 ‘Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee RANKIN. (Remarks made by Soviet Consul Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV. ) Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] 27 August 1964 CSCI-316/00856-64 Subject: No Indication of Subject's Defection Having Been Used for Propaganda by the Cuban Government. Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] 3 September 1964 DOP 4-4600 Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee RANKIN. Subject: OSWALD Documents Supplied by the Cuban Government. Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission] 6 October 1964 CSCI-316/01446-64 Subject: VIADUCT Interview on 9 September 1964; His Comments on Seven Photographs Forwarded by the FBI. Recipient: FBI. 44 SECRET.
13-00000 23 December 1964 CSCI-316/02545-64 Subject: Allegation of Unidentified Scientist of Cuban Involvement in Assassination. Recipient: FBI. 2 March 1965 ~  CSC1-316/00925-65 | Subject: Marvin KANTOR, Possible Connection with - Investigation of Lee Harvey and Marina OSWALD. Recipient: FBI. 30 June 1965 esci-316/00684-65 Subject: Silvia DURAN. Recipient: FBI. 2 September 1966 | CSCI-316/04482-66 Subject: Rima ZMITROOK, Lee“Harvey OSWALD's In- tourist Guide in Moscow. Recipient: FBI. 24 TA | —H4—dune 1967. CSCI-316/03243-67 Subject: Allegation of Oscar COUNTRERAS, Mexican Newsman, That OSWALD Visited UNAM Campus Shortly After the Cuban Embassy Refused Him a Visa to Visit Cuba. -CONTRERAS' Statement of Dubious Credibility; Information Passed to Mexican au~ thorities. ‘MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED BY CIA TO THE WARREN COMMISSION ON RUMORS. AND ALLEGATIONS RE- LATING TO THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION 31 January 1964 Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September ~ 3 October 1963. 45
SECRET 5 March 1964 Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB Relative to Marina OSWALD. 18 March 1964 Subject: Article Alleging that “OSWALD was interviewed by CIA in Moscow. , 31 March 1964 . DDP.4-1655 Subject: Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna- OSWALD. Enclosures include the following: Teletype Message No, 87515, 29 November 1963, - “paragraph g -. Marina SNETHLAGE . Teletype Message No. 85182, 22 November 1963 - Remarks made by Richard Thomas GIBSON. Teletype Message No. 85665, 28 November 1963 - Remarks Made by Maria SNETHLAGE and Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Em- bassy in The Hague. 3 April 1964 DDP 4-1699 Subject: Richard Thomas GIBSON. 7 April 1964 7 pop 4-178h Subject: Mohammed REGGAB. 4 May 1964 | DDP 4-2256 _ Subject: Additional Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD. “A survey of Agency files indicates that all... "information known to the Agency on OSWALD's association ~ (with communists or criminals, either in United States or abroad) has been made available to the Commission." 8 May 1964 . - PDP 4-2351 ’ Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebook. (Compilation of traces on what appear to be Soviet names, addresses, and telephone numbers from an ad- , dress ers) identified by Marina OSWALD as belonging -# to her 46 shat te wed)
13-00000 SECRET 15 May 1964 Subject: Role of the Cuban Intelligence Service in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy. 19 May 1964 DDP 4-2534 Subject: Allegations of PFC Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to Assassination Plot Against Presi- dent Kennedy. 22 May 1964 DDP 4-2624 Subject: Anonymous Telephone Calls to United States _ Embassy in Canberra, Australia; Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy. 27 May 1964 DDP 4-2688 Subject: Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassination of President Kennedy. (Comment: Letter received at U.S. Embassy, Stockholm. ) 1 June 1964 _ DDP 4-274) Subject: Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. ~ Enclosures: Qut Teletype No. 85089, 26 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 85199, 27 November 1963. Qut Teletype No. 85662, 28 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 85666, 28 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 86063, 30 November 1963. Out Teletype No. 87667, 7 December 1963. Memorandum, 12 December 1963, Interroga- tion of Gilberto ALVARADO. 3 June 1964 DP 4-2769 Subject: Documents on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by the Soviet Government. 4 June 1964 DDP Subject: Information Developed c on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. 47 SECRET
13-00000 (SECRET 10 June 1964 Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His Associates. 12 June 1964 Subject: Letter Relative to Assassination of President Kennedy sent to United States Embassy in Costa Rica. 29 June 1964 DDP 4-3347 Subject: Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco. 2 July 1964 DOP 4-3401 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. 28 August 1964 DDP 4-4479° Subject: Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY. 15 September 1964 DDP 4-4808 Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His Associates. 17 September 1964 DDP 4-4839 Subject: Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV. “17 September 1964 DDP 4-4922 Subject: Eusebio AZQUE - Former Cuban Consul, Mexico City. 18 September 1964 DOP 4-4953 Subject: Identification of Persons Appearing in FBI Photograph No. D 33-46 (Commission Exhibit No. 2625). 48 CZAR je f a .
13-00000 ~ SCORE] SENSIT!™ a Intelligence Sources on Oswald's Visit to Mexico City in 1963 1. Unilateral Coverage: From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 until the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station in 1955, the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit — leads from the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. This umbrella type project (LIPSTICK) consisted of multi-line phone taps, three photographic sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail inter- cept operation. Telephone taps (LIFEAT) were placed by an employee of the local telephone company who was handled by a Station case officer. The number of lines tapped was limited only by the avail- ability of a listening post nearby and the availability of language (English, Spanish, Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc.) transcribers. Generally, these were Mexican or Mexican-American recruited agents. Three photographic sites were handled by a Station case officer assisted by technicians on TDY from Headquarters who advised the Station on the best types of cameras, films, and con- cealment devices. -These operations had sub-crypts under project LIPSTICK (namely: LIMITED, LILYRIC and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site directly opposite the Soviet Embassy (across the street) which had both a vehicle and a pedestrian entrance. The E2 IMPDET CL BY 004645
13-00000 gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the northwest corner of the Soviet compound and the LIMITED site. was diagonaHy across a ‘double laned street on the southeast corner of that block. (See attached diagram). LIMITED was the first photo base and opera~ ted strictly on an experimental basis in the early stages. This base, however, was closed when the Station received word that the photograph of the “unidentified man" was being released by the Warren Commission. “ LILYRIC was an alternate photographic base. It was located in an upper story of an apartment building on the same side of the street as the LIMITED site but in the middle of the block south. It had a planted view of the front gate of the Soviet Embassy. LICALLA; the third photographic site, was located | in one of a row of four houses on the-south side of the Soviet ‘Embassy compound. This site overlooked the batk garden of the Soviet Embassy compound. The purpose of this operation was to get good identification photographs of Soviet personnel. The three photographic sites were managed by ‘a recruited agent who was a ‘Mexican citizen, the son of an American mother and Mexican father (deceased). This agent collected the film from the LIMITED and - LILYRIC sites three times a week. The film was then devleoped and: printed into 8 x 10 contact print strips. LICALLA film was ori- ginally processed in the Station but in early 1959, due to the resignation of a technician, this film like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was processed on the outside by a recruited agent.
13-00000 SECRET gry Mobile surveillance was conducted by two American staff officers. These two officers organized a surveillance team of six recruited agents which used late model cars and a panel truck for surveillance. The team could be activated by radio from the LIMITED site whenever someone of interest left the gate of the Soviet Embassy. These agents were aware of _ the LIMITED site since they had been issued LIMITED photographs for identification purposes. . The Station also conducted a unilateral mail intercept operation, LIBIGHT, which was handled’ by an American case officer. A recruited Mexican agent, who had a semi-official status, obtained selected letters from a sub-agent employed by the Mexican postal system. 2. Liaison Coverage: Liaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as charac- terized by the nature of the Mexican services at that time. The Mexican Direction of Federal Security ~DFS) , with which we con- ducted liaison, was a hip- pocket group run out of the Mexican Ministry of Government. This Ministry was principally occupied with political investigations and contro] of foreigners. Their | agents were cruel and corrupt. A Station officer trained a number of them in name tracing and travel control. In 1958, at the instigation of a Mexican \ official, a joint telephone tap operation came into existence. The operation, © SECESE SERS
13-00000 which became known as LIENVOY, was run by a Mexican officer. The listening post had 30 lines connected at one time. The transcription room was staffed by Mexican Army officers. In_ 1961, because of mismanagement by the Mexican principals, the Station Chief, himself, became the project case officer. | A Station officer assisted him in the daily supervision of the listening post and in picking up the transcripts and the tapes. There was also an American technician inside the listening post. 3. Oswald ‘Coverage: In mid-1962, the Mexican officer in charge of LIENVOY | _ (the joint tap operation) asked the American officer at the LIENVOY listening post for the telephone numbers of the Soviet, Cuban and Satellite Embassies in anticipation of possible cover- age. The Station immediately disconnected all of the unilateral telephone taps on these Embassies so that they would not be dis- covered when the Mexicans hooked up their taps. The Mexicans soon thereafter connected five Cuban lines, five Soviet lines, three Czech lines, two Polish lines, and one Yugoslav line. At the listening post, a live monitor made short summaries of con-. versations of interest which were then included in a daily re-- sume for the Chief of Station. Later, when a reel was: completely recorded, full transcripts were typed and passed to the Station; however, there was usually a time lag of a day or two. Reels which contained Russian or a language other than Spanish or
13-00000 SECRET/ SENSITIVE ee :. English were taken to another location for translation and typing. did the Russian translations but. because of the volume of Russian conversations, the trans- lations usually ran about a week behind the date of the con- _ versation. All transcripts were made in either Spanish or English since the Chief of Station could read only these two- languages and because he personally screened the transcripts | for operational leads. As soon as the Station learned that an American iden- tifying himself as Lee Oswald phoned the Soviet Embassy —_ | pF the Station started screening all photographs. However, here again, there was a backlog because the photographs were picked up three times a week, but those picked up were usually for dates a few days before since the technician who was proces- sing the film did so on a night-time basis. Further, photographs were not made initially until a complete rol of film was used. Later this was changed and the operator cleared the camera at the end of each day regardless of amount of unused film remaining. The instructions were to cover the entire work day (office hours) and. to photograph al] Soviets, their families, all foreigners, and cars with foreign license plates. Human error did occur but generally the agents. were conscientious. The Cuban Embassy cover- ~ age had more sophisticated equipment using a pulse camera which frequently developed mechanical difficulties. enonrt {SEN TIVe Rf [cl es foND Sehe § i “oe “aeilig
13-00000 cegnes SENSITIVE Oswald came to the attention of the listening post operators from a tap of the Soviet line. It was picked up and taken to | for translation because the caller was trying to speak in Russian. . There was some delay because Station personnel waited to review the photographs coincidentally with the typed transcript. 4. Airport Coverage: This is discussed at Tab B.
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13-00000 i t. s. i. SELECTED NEWSPAPER STORIES WITH COMMENTS .
13-00000 In the course of the research effort leading to this general report, there were newspaper stories relating to the assassination of President Kennedy and to CIA. Some of these appear to have been based on specially designed stories emanating from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. At the time of their appearance they were the subject of comments prepared in CIA.. These newspaper stories and the comments are attached. The following newspaper stories and comments are listed below: Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab - Tab Tab Tab G.1 G.2 G.4 G.5 G.6 G.7 G.8 Washington Post story on 1 October 1976 concerning Jack Anderson column on 6 May 1977 alleging CIA activity in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Jack Anderson column on 20 January 1977 . alleging that CIA is tied to a false Oswald .. Story. _ Norman Kempster story on 1 sanuary 1977 alleging that CIA withheld data on Oswald. Clare Booth Luce involvement with Cuban exiles. Ronald Kessler story on 26 November 1976 alleging CIA withheld details of Oswald tele- phone calls, with report on handling of documents. John Goshko story on 13 November 1976 alleging | that Oswald told the Cubans of his plan to kill Kennedy. Tabloid Midnight story on 2 August 1976 regarding CIA and Castro. CIA consideration of possibly interviewing Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960.
13-00000 wr te ek Bee ced Da EE JO Hay 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM : dJonn H. Waller _ Inspector General SUBJECT > Jack Anderson 6 May 1977 Column Entitled ' "Odd CIA Activity in Dallas in 1963" REFERENCE : OLC Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence - OLC 77-1816 (attached) 1. Action Requested: None, for information only. 2. Background: The attached Jack Anderson column is a mixture of some Tact and error. At least portions of it seem to have been leaked by someone connected with the House Select Committee on Assassinations. . 3. Factual information on matters covered in the article follows: , . a. Alpha 66 was an anti-Castro Cuban Exile Organization. - Antonio Veciana was one of its founders. Veciana contacted the Agency on three occasions for assistance in an assassination plot against Castro (December 1960; July 1962 and April 1966). On each occasion he was turnad down. The Agency had no responsibility for or sponsorship of Alpha 66. ', b. Veciana was registered in tna Inter-Service Ragistry by the U.S. Army for the period November 1962 to July 1966 at which time he was terminated without prejudice. : . c. Veciana reportedly collaborated with a Cuban Government Intelligence Officer, Guillermo Ruiz, in connection with Alpha 66 activities. Ruiz is married to a cousin of Veciana. £2, [AaPpDEY CL BY Mage
13-00000, : a o PVM STE TINT A Wa i chy | 4 3 vee a pani ( aych , ith _ dd. Anderson attempts to connect one Morris Bishop with CIA in Dallas; newspapers in Dallas have tried to identify Bishon with our DCD repra- sentative Eco- cording to our records, no Agency officers ever used the name of Morris Bishop as an alias. No one named Morris Bishop was ever employed by the Agency. e. The FBI identified the three men who” visited Mrs. Odio. Lee Harvey Oswald was not one. of them. The Warren Commission was satis- — fied that Oswald could not have been in Dallas at the time of the.visit.. ~ ae “te _ Me. ofa Bit John kK. lial ler Attachment - 1 Original. Director of Central Intelligence wiatt. 1 - Deputy Director of Central Intelligence w/att. ' J] - Assistant to the Director (Public Affairs) w/att. ] - Office of Legislative Counsel w/att. _} - Office of General Counsel w/att. 1 - Executive Registry watt q 7 | - 1G Subject s/att. a _~ IG Chrono w/att.’. 9 Le _7\J.L.Léader ‘Chrono. w/att. 7 O1G/J.L.Leader:aal
13-00000 es NO OF woe . sia, Lee Harvey Cswald, w Bhs ‘Oda | CIA. wr , The secret files ot the House Assax | sinations Committee contain reports of strange CLA activities in Dallas on the eve of the Joan BP. Kenned ly assassina-. tion, 3 - 2.4 Credible witnesses have confirmed our past reports that the accused assas-.” ‘was in touch’. : with antl-Castro Cubans ‘ta Dailas. Ona “eonfidential report states that “in 1963;. : Oswald was seen leaving the Dallas of-:)/-- fice of Alpha 66.” This was a Cuban - commaaodo Zroup trained by tae CLA. te Bishop was accorenanied hy another. “fx Eman, Lee Harvey Gswahil” A Cuban CIA operative, Antonio Ve . ciana, also told investigators that he . had been summoned to Dallas ia Aw, gust.1S63, by nis CLA contact—a myste | ious man who went by tha name of Morris Bishop. States a confidential: summary:. “When (Vecianyd artived, Another witness who impressed the. . investigators, Syivia Odio, told them that two anti-Castro Cubans had intro- duced her to an American by the name | of Leon Oswald. She was told that Os- wald was trying “ito convince ante Castro Cuban groups. . .to kill Presi- - dent Kennedy.” After the assgssina- tion, she recognized this American as Les Harvey Oswald. The House investigators don’ t really believe that the CLA had aby part la the raurder of Presiderit Kennedy. Hore likely, they suspect the CIA may hava iried to cover up some einbsr- rassing contacts with Oswaid in Dallas. Ta any. case, the CIA tnok pains to give tae impression that Oswald was in. Maxico City at the time Lhat witnesses claimed he was dealing.with the CLA-- guided Cubtuns In Dallas. Veviana, for ' exarmola, told of a stranue call ha re om “THE WASHINGTON POST | clivity a ceived from his CLA contact after Ken- ' nedy was killed. Tue CIA man, Morris Bishop, askad - Veciana to contact his couyin, Buil- Jamo Ruiez, who worked for the Cuban . embassy in Mexico City. Relates a con- tidentlal revort: “Veciana was to relay Bishop's. offer ‘to pay Rulez and bis * wite to say that they ! hail mat with <7 wald In Mexico City.” P20 but would have thrown suspicion on the Castro go ernment. The ruse was later called off. Instead, the CLA cited secret‘tapes and photographs a3 evidence that Cswald bad been in touch with both tae Cuban “and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. . The CLA kept tapes of all phone cails “going in and out of tha two embassies. - “; Photographs were algo taxea of every- one entering and leaving these embas- sie. On Cct.. 2, 1863, the CLA notified : other U.S. ‘embassies that “an-Ameri- can mala, who identified himseif as Lee Cswald, contacted the Soviet En - bassy in Mexico City.” . a Oswald was described in the cable as “anproximately 35 years old, with an Athletic build, about six foet tall, with a receding hairlina” The committes iles note “that this “in no wa: yy phvsk cally resemoles the Lee Harvey Os- wald accused of. assassinatine Presi- dent Kennedy.” . Ce Tne CIA sougat photog rapas irom the “navy ta compare with 3 pho- tographs of Oswald at the Soviet em- hassy. Declares a cometttee recork “Thes2 phetograp pas, though obviously “not of tha correct Lea arvey Cswaird, ‘became the Warren Commission’s ax- hiolt 207. Tha CiA admitted that there ut > Ce “y fe head _ down on the cay that Cswail ailegediy ‘2rom someone who identified nimsell “=. This not only would ‘have placed Cs . _wald out: of Dallas. } ~ eoavarsation “was “destroyed ia rou ‘Indentified Dimself as Lee Cswaid, _ Bets c A : nis reah activiiies in Dallas, ~ Felden, Mop Se297P oe gta “og ‘ if a - 5) been 2 mae up but never cleared the iaatter up.” A CLA witness has told Committe. } la yestivators, meanwhile, that the CIA's monitering camera happened to break i. woah te necatwe aca te visited the Soviel Embassy. But tha CIA top on the Soviet Smbassy' spnone produced am alleved telephoue call gs “Lee Heary Oswaidl. 6. The CLA ~wiiness claimed that tha ae- tual yoice recording of the teleohoune tare Caer apron) tine cestruction procedures approx’ qaately one week after iL was ze ceived.” Yet more than seven weeks later, the FBI claimed to have heard ne telechone conversation that the cu said bad been destroyed. Toe FSl's judgment was that the voice did not bewng to Oswalil, e weote the late PRE director J. 3 wdaar Hesver on Nov. 23, 1963: “The Cenical Ivteligence Agency advisadl that on Cct. 1, 19638, an extcemely sensitive source had reported that an individual who contacted the Sovies Emhbassy.ia =} Bexico City nquiring as to any Giessa- 4 eS pactal agents of this hureau, who bave conversa with Oswald in Dajlas if Tex. have chserved phclogeanns ch fos individual referred to above and 1 have Hstened to a recording of his |: yoice. ‘These spacial agents are of hs 4 opinion that the abovevefarradto in- {) dividual was rot Lea iarvey Oswald” cP The Mouse investicators ars Sevin- ning to wonder whetzer the OL4 con- conted the whole Oswald advaniurs in + Mexico City in aa atkemot te concaai ¢ . . . le wot .
13-00000 ao 1 | 7 Qk ia tay? LA/COG/021-77 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations Oo | FROM ss: Raymond ‘A. Warren’. - - Chief, Latin America Division . r . ; LC. SUBJECTS _ 3 A. Jack Anderson 20 January 1977 Column _ Titled "CIA Tied to False Oswald story" B. Identification: of the Mr. X in the - 7 EL Anderson Column 1. The attached column, citing the testimony of a Mr. X, alleges that a CIA agent tried to link. Oswald to Cuban intelli- gence officers in Mexico. There is, of course, rio substance to — -the column's allegations. The column identifies the source as __. ‘Mr. X-because of attempts on his Tife, but subsequently gives . enough information. on Mr. X to establish his identity. 2. According to the Anderson column, Mr. X was first met by his CIA contact in Havana before relations with U.S./Cuba were ' severed. Mr. X had helped to organize bank accountants to emn- bezzle Cuban government funds to finance anti-Castro causes. Mr.:'X was reportedly recruited by a Morris Bishop (CIA contact), to“plan an attempt on Castro's life. The plan was to fire a bazooka from a nearby apartment building while Castro was deliver-- ing one of his marathon speeches. According to the Anderson column, the plot was discovered by Castro's police and Mr. X _ escaped to Miami. Mr. X also reportedly tried to assassinate . Castro in Chile in 1971 in league with the Venezuelan Luis Posada Carriles, who is now being detained in Caracas for the 6 October Cubana airline bombing. The Anderson column ends with the report that Mr. X worked for CIA until 1973 for expenses, but ‘was paid $253, 000 in cash by Morris Bishop when he was terminated. ph _ WARNING NOTICE Lae 5 SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED —_ —_ a . Pie cary |. "SECRET , E2 IMPDET oy =| 2 a | : CL BY 025251 ee so ee ste em se cae ee ae | ens Foyt ety oo : x . é . °F Gennes oan emote Oo | wee seman NED He . i eft tr, : r is Sn re ot i r] oe ? “se ge i. eemnaraen a new nse) mes diene omnae cry § cumasne damn eae a ai fof" md A od oar gat
13-00000. a oD ) “3. From the above description of Mr. X, it is reasonably efLear that Mr. X is Antonio Carlos VECIANA Blanch (201- 312966) . “VECIANA, an assistant bank yanager and past president of a public in December 1960 when he askec he COS t that time James A. Noel accountants association in Havgna,, Firs spe iat CIA (in. Havana a to help in an assassination plot against Castro. VECIANA asked ‘for visas for ten relatives of the four men assigned to kill Castro, and also requested four_MI rifles with adapters for. grenades plus eight grenades \fthe cog] did not encourage VECIANA and subsequently checked. with an Embassy officer who reported that VECIANA had made Similar "wild-eyed" proposals to him. On 23 November 1961 the Miami News published a report of an unsuccessful attempt by Antonio VECTANA to kill Castro. VECIANA reportedly had arranged to assassinate Castro and.Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos on 5 October in. Havana, but the. bazooka. he was using: failed to fire. 4. There has been no Agency relationship with VECIANA. A — POA, which was granted for his use in para-military affairs in “January 1962, expired in November 1962. VECIANA was born on 4 October 1935 in Havana. He was a member of the People's Revo- lutionary Movement, an anti-Castro group. in Cuba during 1960-61, and was one of.the founders of Alpha-66. A certified public accountant by trade, VECIANA was with A.I.D: in La Paz in 1968-72. VECIANA was registered in ISR to the U.S. Army in November 1962 and he was terminated without prejudice in July 1966. On 23 July 1962 VECIANA was interviewed, at his request, by Mr. Harry Real from the- DCD New York office. VECIANA asked Real to arrange a meeting with a senior CIA officer to discuss Alpha-66's plans to assassinate Castro and to request CIA's assistance (U.S. $100, 000; 10,000 Cuban . pesos; 48 hand grenades). There is no indication that this request was ever acted upon by CIA. : "S. In April 1966 a LA Division officer, John R. Lucy, using. the alias John Livingston, met VECIANA in New York City. The meeting was arranged by a retired naval officer, James Cogswell, who ‘had informed Chief, Wil Division that he had information of value concerning Cuba. When Lucy arrived in New York City for the meeting, , he was introduced by Cogswell to-VECIANA. He imaediately launched _ a disctission of the Cuban political situation and noted his strong_ feeling thatthe only solution “was the assassination of. Castro. Lucy advised VECIANA that he was in no position to provide him with’ assistance or cncourage him in an assassination attempt: and was only ‘interested in gathering information which he thought was the purpose of the meeting. VECIANA subsequently said that his roommate Felix ZABALA, a Cuban refugee, had excellent contacts’ in Havana. It was clear to Lucy, however, VECIANA was attempting to use ZABALA poten- tially to get Agency financial support for his organization. om * oom a SECRET 2
13-00000 %. VECTANA suggested that $50,000 would be necded to get his ‘activities off the ground. Lucy indicated to VECIANA that he would look into the ZABALA matter and would probably arrange for ZABALA to be contacted in Puerto Rico. 6. There:is no indication in the file that any Agency officer “in contact witly VECIANA ever used an alias Morris Bishop. . There is no Morris Bishop listed in true name in the DDO rolls. There was never any’ contractual relationship with VECIANA and he was not _ .paid CIA funds. 7. On 12 January 1977 a sanitized copy of VECIANA's 201 file was made available to staffers from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. | Raymond A. Warrep Raymond A. Warren Attachment DDO/C/LA/COG/OPS:WJDevine:js (9229) (21 January 1977) - Distribution: Orig §& 1 - Addressee . 1 - ADDO. 1 - LA/CGOG/Chrono 2 - C/LAD G) - 201-312966 1 - hold j- ASS Fo DCL ns »
13-00000 a Jack Anderson and Les Whitten os Whitten MG iysiery Witness m J 4 A mystery witness a sworn n toe con. - gressional jnvestizators that 2 Central telligence. Agency agent introduced — “him to Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas ~~ three months before Oswald gunned. « “down President Jonn F. Kennedy. - ne ty i The witness, whom we have’ agreed - “to identify oniy az Mr. X because “of ate "tempts of his life, is the founder of a- ~ Cuban terrorist group that. ‘worked ~clesely with the Cla. "The group held secret meetings ‘at on = . $126 Hoilandale in Daltas before the as- “gassination. Not long after Kennedy * was shot, 2 Dallas deputy sheriff was . been associating with some Cubans at ‘new Heht.on the story Sylvia Cdio, . iin of a wealthy: opponent of Cue’+ “oS ~ban Premier Fidel Castro, told te the: “FBL Two months before the Keanedy °- - Killing, she related, she was visited in - > her’ Dallas apartment ‘by three men. - who identified themselves. as friends - vot her father, 7 0 = i wae g One was i introduced to Sher 23 “Leon © * Oswald” When she saw the picture in | the newspapers of the man who had : shot Kennedy, she fainted from shock. - ': Jt was the same Oswald, she was cer- - - thin, who nad visited her apartment. . Congressional investigators have. now jearned that the late J. Edgar * “Hoover deiiderately misied the War-~ - - yen Commission about Odio’s mystari- .. witness that the commission staff was ‘> preparing to investigate her story ’ thoroughly... — Staff members even speculated, ate told: by an informant that Oswaid had _ a * Mr. Z's araeatié testimony. “caste : * ": ous visitors. She was such a persuasive - 7 cording to one internai memo, that the . THE WASHINGTON POST. : Reni iy 18.197 Ege  anti-Castro. forces : vmight have. re -  eruited Oswald, a known; pro-Castro: activist to sill Kennedy. :, ton: that after the illed, Oswald would be caught or at ‘Jeast bis identity ascertained; the law.. . enforcement authorities and the pub--: “Ye would then blame the assassinaticn - * on the Castro government; and the call - : ‘fora forceful overthrow would hei irre-.- -gistible.” : “But Hoover ‘abruptly | ‘blocked: ‘this - ‘line of inquiry by notifying the War-... rea Commission on Sept. 21, 1964, that - ‘the. FBI had lécated and identified ~ _Qdio’s callers, He named them as. “Loran ‘Hall, Lawrence Howard and. » William Seymour, all anti-Castroites. . “ Hoover even suggested that Odio could ” - have confused the names “Loran Hall” a and “Leon Cawald.”. 2 S - Now the congres sional investigators | have uncovered evidence that all thre * denied visiting the. Odio apartment ~ . and that the SBI had obtained their.» ‘denials before Hoover wrote his letter -to the Warren Commission. ' The investigators have alse obtained - ‘ the tape of a fascinating conversation, -.’ . predicting two weeks in advance that ‘Kennedy would be shot “from an off- : . dee building With a high-powered ri- . fle” The prediction was made by the « - late Joseph’ Miteer, a right-wing rab- . ble rouser, who also Rapvered to have . close ' connections With antiCastro leaders. x: 7° The conversation % was ‘tained ‘on Nov.* 9, 1983, in Miami by an FBI informant, "named Willie Somersett, who turned . the tape over to the FBI the next day. | Milteer is heard on the tape describing «. , iFK Fs e -- <> nedy “knows heisamarked man.” -- a . “The motive on this: * states the me-°.. Milteer later admitted to the FBI"- “m0, macula of cowrse be the expecta: . Presideht was . ost -eording to the memo,:that he had* - how Kennedy would die. Then the rab _ dle rouser added knowingiy. that Xen-- me ‘that he had been in-Dallas in June,-'2°-\: 1963, but denied having any knowl.” : ia . edge of the Kennedy. assasssination. - 4.°° - However, the informant told the FBI. 4-7: that he asked Milteer after the snoot--! "ing whether ke had known about it ins > advance ot had merely been guessing.” “ AT don't do any guessing,” replied ! Mik. = But ‘the ‘most explosive ‘deve! opment. “is Mr. X's statement that he met Os-!. 3- .wald in the company of a CIA agent.-: § . Congressional investigaters quésticned -- - the mystery witness clesely on three | ‘separate occasions. They finally” con. . cluded that “his credibility is strength-"« ened by the details ‘he provides consist: ent with what he told us before. Signif--. -' jeantly, he reme ins very strong on the . _ Oswald sighting. eo *. The encounter occurred in a ‘do: Wie “ town Dallas building, where Mr. X had.’ & ‘an appointment with his CLA contact. § . The agent was accompanied by a man" § "whom Mr. X later Fecognized-as Rene -nedy’sEiller. = - “When he saw it was Cswaid that’ whe ‘Killed Kennedy,” the investigators re--' g ' ported in a confidential memo, “he’. & nearly peneed out, but he never said a ote . The investigators tried to pin down a Mr. X on how he could be sure that i man was Oswald. hir..X replied, ac-=' § “ Jearned “how to retain the character-=: § _ ics of a person; he had trained himself’: @::: . ‘to do that. And if it wasa’t Oswald, itv. 8°). |. was someone who was exactly like * Os.» : iwald, his exact double. «. a a esate ney cheat!
13-00000 10 January 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counterintelligence Staff FROM ar Russell B. Holmes) ~"" ®: : CI Operations Group SUBJECT ~° : Article by Norman Kempster’ Appearing in , the Los Angeles Times of 1 January 1977 — — and Entitled "CIA Withheld Data on Oswald" (copy attached) - In light of the inaccurate and misleading statements ‘attributed by Kempster to Sprague, the following comments are offered in rebuttal. a. "The CIA withheld: from the FB. for almost. two months in 1963 intormation that Lée Harvey Uswald had talked with Cuban and Soviet officials about his _ desire to visit those countries Comment Oswald's name did not’ surface in “Mexico City until T October 1963 when a hitherto unknown male telephoned the Soviet Embassy. During this telephone call, the caller identi- fied himself as "Lee Oswald.'"' On 8 October 1963, the Mexico City Station.cabled -to. Headquarters - -the. © highlights -of the fc transcript of the conversation. “(1) On 1 October 1963, an American male who spoke broken Russian and said his name was Lee Oswald (phonetic), stated he was at the Soviet _ Embassy on 28 Septembér when he spoke with a consul '. whom he believed to be Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. Oswald asked the Soviet guard Ivan ' Obyedkov, who answered, if there was anything new | regarding a telegram to Washington.  Obyedkov upon _., Checking said nothing had been received yet, but the request. had been sent. (2). Mexico Station said it had photographs of ‘a male who appeared to be an American entering the © ' Soviet Embassy at 1216 hours, leaving at 1222 on ne 1 October. His apparent age was 35, athletic - \. ‘build, about six feet, receding hairline, balding tas 7 top. "Wore Khakis and Sport shirt. A Ts é ~ t i et malin eee
13-00000. _ (3) No local dissemination was being made by the Station. [MEXI 6453 (IN 36017), 8 October. ] (Note: Cablese has been rendered here into readable English, without substantive changes or omissions. Cryptonyms and pseudonyms have been omitted or put into clear text.) _ The above information was received in Headquarters on 9 October; the following day Headquarters incorporated this information in an electrical dissemination to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. (1) On 1 October, 1963 a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico reported that an American male who identified himself as Lee Oswald, contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring whether the Embassy had received any news concerning a telegram which had been sent to Washington. The American was described as approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build, about six feet tall, with a "receding" hairline. (2) It is believed that Oswald may be identical to Lee Henry [sic] Oswald, born on 18 October 1939 ~ 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 his Russian-born wife, Marina Nikolaevna:Pusakova [sic] and their child. ~ (3) The information in paragraph (1) is being disseminated to your representatives in Mexico City. “Any further information received on this subject will be furnished you. This information is being made available to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. [DIRECTOR | 74673, 10 October 1963. ] (Note: It should be pointed out that for some “unknown, reason the Headquarters desk responsible for making the dissemination neglected to include the information that Oswald had visited the Soviet Embassy on 28 September 1963.) It was not until 22 November 1963, when the Station initiated a review of all transcripts of telephone calls to the Soviet Embassy
13-00000 that the Station learned that Oswald's call to the Soviet Embassy | on 1 October 1963 was in connection with his request for a visa to the USSR. Because he wanted to travel to the USSR by way of | Cuba, Oswald had also visited the Cuban Embassy in an attempt ‘to obtain a visa allowing him to transit Cuba. Inasmuch as Oswald was not an investigative responsibility of the CIA and because the Agency had not received an official request from those agencies having investigative responsibility requesting the Agency to obtain further information, the Station did nothing other than ask Headquarters on 15 October 1963 for a photograph of Oswald. [MEXI 6534 (IN 40357), 15 October 1963.] On 25 October 1963, Headquarters sent a request to the Department of the Navy for a photograph of Oswald. [DIRECTOR 77978, 24 October 1963.] It was not until 26 November 1963, however, that the Navy Department apparently responded to this request. by: bee sending directly to the Mexico City Station a photograph of Oswald. In response to a question from the Warren Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on 6 April 1963 stated that: "The investigation of Oswald in 1963 prior to receipt of the Central Intelligence Agency commmication dated 10 October 1963 was directed toward the primary objective of ascertaining the nature of Oswald's sympathies for, and connection with, the FPCC (Fair Play for Cuba Committee) or subversive elements. The Central Intelligence Agency commmication which reported that a man, tentatively identified as Oswald, had inquired at the Soviet Embassy concerning a telegram which had been sent to Washington.did not _ specify the nature of the telegram. This contact | with the Soviet Embassy interjected a new aspect into the investigation and raised the obvious questions of why he was-in Mexico and exactly what were his . --- > -) se Y relations with the Soviets. However, the information available was not such that any additional conclusions could be drawn as to Oswald's sympathies, intentions. or activities at that time. Thus, one of the objectives of the continuing investigation was to ascertain the nature of his relations with the Soviets considering the possibility that he could have been recruited by _the Soviet Intelligence Services. The Central _ Intelligence Agency communication, dated 10 October 1963, stated that any further information received concerning : Oswald would be furnished and that our liaison repre-_ sentatives in Mexico City were being advised. On Fe ee ite Dalat ol 17 . ‘
13-00000 18 October 1963, one of our FBI liaison repre- sentatives in Mexico City was furnished this infor- mation by Central Intelligence Agency and he arranged follow-up with Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City for further information and started a check to “establish Oswald's entry into Mexico. Subsequent to the assassination, Central Intelligence Agency also advised us of Oswald's contact with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City at the time of his visit there." [Commission Exhibit No. 833 (FBI Letter to J. Lee Rankin, dated 6 April 1964).] 'b. "Chief Counsel Richard A. Sprague said that the committee staff had learned that a CIA message des- cribing Oswald's activities in Mexico to federal ‘agencies such as the FBI had been rewritten to elimi- nate any mention of his request for Cuban and Soviet Visas. The message was sent in October, more than a month ‘before the November. 22,1963 assassination." Comment: It is not CIA practice to disseminate raw information in . the form it is received from the field. Field reports are received in Headquarters where they are first reviewed by the action desk. The information is then written in.a form suitable for dissemination ‘to the intelligence commmity, including additional information, if available, from the Agency's central counterintelligence files to make the report more meaningful to the recipient(s). Upon learning that on 1 October 1963 an American identifying himself as Lee Oswald had telephoned the Soviet Embassy, the Mexico . City Station cabled to Headquarters on 8 October 1963 the highlights of Oswald's conversation with the Embassy. Because the. Station at that- time did not know that Oswald was Lee Harvey Oswald and that he had’ come to Mexico to apply for visas to the Soviet Union and Cuba, the Station reported only that information obtained. through telephone , tap operation against the Soviet Embassy. On 10 October 1963, the day after it received the information relating to Lee Oswald and his contact with the Soviet Embassy, . Headquarters incorporated this information in an electrical dissemi- - nation to the commmity and included a brief summary of biographic information obtained from central counterintelligence files on the _possible identity of Lee Oswald. Since Headquarters had no indi- cation before 22 November that Oswald had gone to Mexico to apply for Cuban and Soviet visas, there was no question of eliminating any
13-00000 exprey wk ery we mm 5 == mention of Oswald's request for such visas. es Within its limitations and capabilities, Mexico Station had re complied with the Agency regulations pertaining to reporting on ee Americans abroad. The Station had informed Headquarters which in~ turn had alerted those agencies with an investigative or policy. interest in Oswald as an American in the United States. Headquarters also. instructed the field station to inform the local representatives of those agencies. . As mentioned above, the action desk in. Headquarters neglected, for unknown reasons, to include the fact that Oswald had visited the Soviet Embassy on 28 September 1963. Had this information been included it would have indicated to recipients of the report that Oswald had more than a fleeting reason to be in contact with the Embassy; however, as already stated, the reason for the 28 September contact and the subject of the telegram to Washington were, at that ' time, unknown. c. "The CIA's decision to withhold information was reversed shortly after Kennedy was killed." Comment: This statement is patently false and misleading. It is totally incompatible with Sprague's remarks to Agency representatives in Headquarters on 24 November 1976, i.e.; "he will not prejudge the Agency for any sins of 'omission or ’ commission’. " d. "Sprague told a press conference that it was ossible without more information to_ know why the CIA ae censored its own message.' oe Comment: If Sprague needed more information, why did-he not ask | the Agency for an explanation, instead of making it appear to the public that the Agency has been dishonest in its Gealings with the intelligence. commmity? . 7 e. "But he said the incident raised two interesting . questions: what mgt the other agencies have done erently 1 ey had been more ly intormed, and ’ why did the CIA decide to remove ‘information that was considered pertinent enough to be put in an initial raft of the message?" ' Comment: As already mentioned, the Agency did not know initially why Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in October 1963. _ SO ay oy ON Oe EE Naot ac we bm ee
13-00000° eT Ey coke dat at -- § -- It was only after the news of the assassination had reached the Station that the Station initiated a review of its holdings. As a result of this review, the Station learned that Oswald had also _ visited the Cuban Embassy and that Oswald's contacts with the ‘two _ - embassies were in connection with his desire to travel to the Soviet Union by way of Cuba. As to what "other agencies'' might have done had they had more ‘information, attention is drawn to the FBI's comment in response to the Warren Commission's question. According to the FBI's response, some investigation had been initiated on or about 18 October in Mexico. By the 25th of October, FBI headquarters had informed its field office in New Orleans "that another Agency had-: - determined that Lee Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in the early part of October 1963.'' The New Orleans field office in turn informed the Dallas office which had juris- diction over Oswald's place of residence. (For further detail, see IV H 447 and 459.) There was; however, no request, official or otherwise, from any of the responsible departments and agencies in Washington for further details as to Oswald's presence in Mexico and his reasons for contacting the Soviet Embassy. f£. "The committee said its staff investigators had recently questioned a former CIA agent who had "personal orled e' of Oswald's visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico. As a result of that a interview, the report said, staff members were sent to Lo ~ Mexico, where they found and questioned additional ne witnesses." Comment: Sprague's characterization Na former CIA agent'' is probably in reference to David Phillips. The latter's "revelations" to staff.. investigators. (and also to Ronald Kessler) were unfortunate to say the least, in that they were inaccurate, so far as we know. There is no indication in the Oswald files that Oswald wanted to make a deal with. the Soviets in return for a free trip to the USSR. The "additional witnesses" in Mexico, it is believed, are Boris Tarasov - and his wife, both of whom had been under contract with the. Agency in 1963. We “have not been informed, officially or otherwise, by - . Sprague what Phillips and the Tarasovs told the staff investigators. g. '' 'These witnesses had never been sought out before by any investigative body, notwithstanding the fact that they had ortant information concernin statements by Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico within 60 days of the assassination of President Kennedy, ' the report said."
13-00000 Comment: If "these witnesses" include people other than the Tarasovs | it would be impossible, at this time, to make an appropriate comment. The fact remains, however, that if Sprague had obtained additional details, he should hold such information and not make it public” until the Agency has had a chance to review it and comment. There are many examples in the Oswald files of statements made by people claiming to have knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald which have- been proven to be fabrications. One such person was Gilberto Nolasco Alvarado Ugarte who, on 26 November 1963, came to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. He claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City on 18 September 1963 when a man he later recognized to be Lee Harvey Oswald received $6,500 in.cash to kill an.important person in the United States. After thorough investi- gation by Mexican authorities, the Mexico City Station, and the FBI, it was concluded that Alvarado had completely fabricated his Story about Oswald. Russell B. Holmes Paar . ‘Attachment
wee me 13-00000 | ; THE LOS ANGELES .TIMES te, ‘ 1 January 1977°- °° ri? ; Cw trees __,. Spistrict of Columbia’s congréssional defe- and to the Warren Commission, which con="* gate and the chairman of the King subcom- cluded that Oswald was the assassin and, . raittee’ said that no decision had been made ad acted alone. : a on accepting Ray 's offer.--. = ras ”. Sprague told a press conference that it ° Hoyvever, Sprague indicated that it pros-. ‘was impossible without more information . 2bly would be accepted. 2 Slee 2. aa" * tear Le . : me yt ‘months in 1933 information that Lee - *Yarvey Oswald-had talked with Cu-*.: , ban’ and Soviet-officials about his de- > sire to visit those countries, a House eran : investigation inta the murders of Kennedy "ty toward King had affected the FBI's ia- ‘Sand civil rights. Jeddér. Dr.-Martia Luther: ‘vestigation of the assassinations #3)... 6's "King... - Sree AT SOLS GE Bed RD However, Gonzalez said, the comrnittee’s .* Pechnically; thé: conimittee-goes out oF :warks could go well heyond.the killings st _pusiness Tuesday with the end of the ses~ . “Kennedy and King. yg entpantede tat 4: sion of Congress in which it was.formed. . * “The committee can sh d light on the - ‘The purpose of the year-end report was to. larger issue of political, murder and vi- urge the new Congress to reestablish the; olence,” Gonzalez said. “.We should net - committee and to give it.$6.5 million to pay forget that Pr esident, Ford had: his. own -for the first year of what could be a tiyo-'s narrow escapes; NO member of the Heuse | " year investigation. + "rap ayes Oak Hd téshoutd Pia a aa "3 naive fore 7 “©. *n the three months since its’ stablish-<)" ee RTE oe” Baby ae aE | Bo ee committee has initiated preline ee ae ee St 1 ultimate tase inary investigations into new and pre-) put why,” Out NOL Juss W. a Happen — 2k PT’ 2 Ce “| * 9 know why the CLA had censored itsown — “any and all people who have relevent 7 ai q of SW q \ z| message, ta information will ba interrogated,” Sprague. SE al shcird tee? 7 2) °" But he said the incident raised two inter- es oe Seas eg ea ee bee asting. questions: , what might the other.: ,.-In a personal statement issued.in con- : reAssassinations Panel—=--| igencies have done differently # they. had Junction with the report, Rep. Henry’ B.. ee ee a 2°} seen more fully informed and why did the Gonzalez (D-Tex.), who is to become com- ilssues Report to House | “cia decide to remove-“information “that * mittee chairman in.the new year; said a Pees! et ES we ~is'e'sts"| was considered pertinent enough to be put’ thorough investigation was needed to an- v'ze: BY NORMAN REMPSTER 7): ‘jan initial draft of the message?" 2. 34, f. | S¥ hundreds of pressing questions, 2-5». SWASHINGTON—The’ CIA, with-"} “report, which the 12-member committee -to-discover whether former FBI Director J. fheldvirom: the ‘FBI for almost two | prepared after the first three months of its ;2¢gar Hoover's now well-known animes -commmittes reported Friday.2S 72a" th | sz The Select Committee on Assassin=-." "Cations indicated in.a report to the full = "House that its investigation .of the- _, waurder of President John F. Kennedy, ° o * “wwauld focus early in 1977 on.a trip . ° “Oswald had made-to‘Mexico City in : “TOctober; 1993. westirnDte ead skeet 2 mAs trget:ithal the . . z, tae we foe Foe eo Fe eee - 0.28 a . io» 4g, Chief. Counsel Richard A..Sprague | “oo said’ that the'committee staff hed < *"“Sjearnad that a CIA message deserib- . * {ng Oswald's activities in Mexico to = sfederal agencies such.as, the. FBI had; “heen rewritten to eliminate any men~ . “tion of his request for Cuban arid So- °: aviet-visas. The message was. sent-in _ £October, more than a month before: J £the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination. “= ; The CLA discovered Oswald’s.pre-~ “. Sgénce atthe ‘embassies: through its ~ routine surveillance.of these facilities. - ¥Beesuse- Oswald had once defected to gthe Soviet Union, the CIA and Fal ares been interested in his activities: evea-helore the Kehnedy-assassina- a Pe eat ear * -vicusly unpursued leads in both assassina- La tions,” the reportsaid. += * 2 2g oR eT -" "The committee said its staff investigators © “had recently “questioned a: former CIA: -agent-who had.“personal knowledge’. of. Oswald's. visits‘to, the Soviet and Cuban” - -embagsies in Mexico: As 2 result of that in- “terview, the’ report” said,’ staff. member : were sent to Mexia, were they found and “questioned, additional witnesses. 22,7" = epee witnesses had never beén sought fon SF oe - out before-hy any investiga‘ive body, not) - syithstanding the. fact that they hadimpor-}! ‘tant information concerning statements nye = gin tears ee Ee “Tee Harvey: Oswald in Mexico within-60- | 6Scce CLs decision.to ‘withhold in-"; ° days of the assassination of President Ken- _  Eiomnation, was reversed shortly after:| medy,” the report said." 2°y3f STE - | *PRennedy.was kiked..The egency-re-:| © The report said also that the commiltee _-Eported Oswald's efforts to ‘visit,Cuba | Staff had interviewed a person who assert- vend the Soviet Union,both tothe FBL | ‘ed that he had discussed the King murder | . “with James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty | 40 tha crime. The unidentlfied witness said ‘ that Ray had told him about contacting an ‘associate in Europe to receive. further in- sgtructions. The story, which was told tore- porters by a committee membez: severel i weeks ago, has not been verified. te, ON !: Ina letter to New York Times columnist a “Anthony Lewis, Ray offered this week to “testify under oath at a committee hearing... ; But Sprague and Walter F, Fauatroy, thes —
13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence FROM £ John H. Waller Inspector General ~~ SUBJECT © : President Kennedy Assassination - Mrs. Luce Story ope 1. Action Required: None; for information only. 2. Background: In 1975, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce telephonically informed Director William Colby of support she had rendered to certain Cubans who were conducting their own independent operations against bole the Castro Government in 1961 and 1962. Mrs. Luce stated that she and a a Mr. William Pawley, an American financier long associated with the oO eka : Dominican Republic, helped finance a motorboat for three Cubans. The three Cubans, concurrently, were members of a CIA supported Cuban’ exile organization. After the 1962 missile crisis, all resistance groups against Castro were ordered to cease operations. At this time, Mrs. Luce and Mr. Pawley also ceased their financial support. In 1963, very shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Cuban captain of the motorboat, which Mrs. Luce helped to subsidize, phoned Mrs. Luce to inform her that "Oswald was a hired gun". She, in ‘turn, informed him to tel] all to the FBI. At the behest of Director Colby, Mrs. Luce passed the story on to Senator Richard Schweiker, chairman of the subcommittee investigating the Warren Commission Report. A version of the information was given to columnist Betty Beale and was published in the Washington Star on 16 November 1975 (attached). A staff member of the Senate Select Committee, on 10 December 1975, inquired as to what the Agency thought of the story. The Agency oral response was that it had nothing to add to the news- paper story and that since this query involved U.S. resident Cuban refugees, the FBI would be the proper agency to contact.
13-00000, The transcripts were received by CIA's Inspector General on 22 December 1976 from Mr. Colby's secretary. At the suggestion | of the Inspector General, the Office of Security sent copies of the ' transcripts and a background note to the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation in January 1977.: We do. not know whether the FBI passed this information to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This story is summarized here for your background in the event that it should be replayed by the press as a result of releases which may be made by the House Assassination Subcommittee. While it is not a new story, the actual CIA transcript of Mrs. Luce's conversation. with Mr. Colby could be considered newsworthy and could be presented ina manner detrimental to CIA. Attachnent: a/s - f- cc: Asst. for Public Affairs watt Mr. H. Hetu . Distribution: dl} Aect w/att.. . ~ Asst. for PA/Mr.: Hetu w/att. - eR w/att. / Subject (Task Force w/att. IG Chrono w/o ) ‘s V.L. Leader: Chre no ‘w/o att. -o1e/a. L. Leader: saa) (Original - Addressee w/att, | | - | . sonal coed sf ened onont
13-00000 i oe One da yi in the latter part of October, Clare Luce re- ' wed a call from Sen. Richard Schweiker, R.-Pa., _ airman of the subcommittee investigating the War- ! 'a Commission Report. He wanted her to persuade ‘me Cuoans she had known — Cubans who had known } 2 Harvey Cs wald — to testify before his committee. _ rs. Luce’s efforts to locate the Cubans led to a some- ‘iat blcodcurdling warning. But let her tell the story : om the beginning. | _. «The year is 1951, a year of great American H :.auma,” she began her narration to recent dinner : . tests in her aqua-colored Watergate apartment. “Ti da friend named Bill Pawley who was brought up in iba and who was Truman’s ambassador to Pern and cazil. I got to Know Bill very well in India and China ! here he had built up a voluntary outiit called The ! oi! lying Tigers. Bill was also called in by the CIA to re- . tit Cubans for the Bay of Pigs operation. Afterwards ‘2 Was a very unhappy man. , a . “One Gay he called me up and said, ‘How would you _ $e to get in on the Cuban Flying Tiger operation?’ He ad in mind a fleet of motorboats subsidized by Ameri- ans and manned by Cubans who had been in the Bay : Pigs operation — Salt these young kids who had been randed after the Bay of Pigs. “{ said, ‘Fine.’ So I helped to finance a motorboat. he three lads who manned mine came up to see me | sveral timas. They would leave the coast of Florida | - nd land in Cuba and come out with information. The Yormation they came out with was remarkably accu- | ate — that the Russians were building missile sites in! tuba. I was told that thé information was eventually } 2d to Sen. Ken Keating and was passed on to the i Yhite House. You remember what an impression it _. tade and how accurate it was. 7 i j 4 t i | j i H “THEN CAME THE. MISSILE showdown. Soon after _: }- he showdown I got a telephone call from Allen Dulles ! "= aying the Neutrality Act had been invoked and all. \mericans must cease and desist in any further efforts | owards the liberation of Cuba. Of course, we desist | a7" ae ese. To years later she and her husband d Harry ‘Gtenry) wee were Sitting in their New York apartment listen- ; ng to the televised reports of President Kennedy’s ay2ssination when around midnight she received a: a it Ka sema’ ating . - they followed him and found he was in a Fair Play for ee te at ET ae HEED TREN #8 sities Mt nt ot ements SO a eee ee ge, oa 2 & ale. the Luce We eavi an Beale ° 2 ere ee - phone’ call irom New Orlean S. “tp was the captain of oe my motorboat,” said Clare, “A young man not more}- - than 25, a young student lawyer, He said, ‘Mrs. Luce; Ti; want to tell you about Oswald” -| : i “He said that immediately after the 196] missile | i showdown, FBI men had come to Miami and told the Cubans to break up all resistance groups and disperse. | ‘He and the other two members of his crew had moved to New Orleans where they started another “Free Cuba” group. They had been there a year end a half . When who made contact with them but Oswald ” “The Cubans all thought he'was a keok. Oswald ' bragged about having been in Russia and said he was an ex-Marine. He said he could shoct anybody and he would be happy. to shaot Castro. He had no money, he - was living with his wife in New Orleans and it looke like he was presenting himself as a hired gun. ‘They didn’t like the cut of his jib so they turned him off. But j Cuba Communist cell te whose members hei Was giv- ‘jng the same line. J “and I remember this from the telephone conversa ; tion — Oswald was telling the cell that he could Shoct | : anyone, Including the secretary of the Navy. The Free! Cubans continued to tail him and found that suddeniy | he had money, and he started going to Mexico City. He | made several trips. They continued their penetration ' - Of the Cuban Communist cell. He said they mace tape recordings of some of Oswald’s meetings and they had . taken photographs of him distributing handbills for the Fair. Play unit. The next thing they knew ‘Pr esident ’ Kennedy was shot. - “THE YOUNG CUBAN WHO called me,” continued former Ambassador: Luce, “said that there was a Cuban Communist assassination team working some _remember, and that Oswald was their hired gun. Os-. } t | where - in Dallas, New.Orleans or wherever — I don't ‘ i. . wald, he said, had iried to report | the Communist plans to the FBI some time before t the assassination. But be- 3 cause he was out for the dough they didn’t t beliave him. ; : 7 continued!”
13-00000 "+ | “Ete said, ‘We tured over copies of everything. We _ ‘|. Stage teams all over the country and the world.” . . the FB! and tell them everything you know.’ That hav- « 3 * “Y e“7g05e that the FBI must hear from a thousand < cracknots’ a week. CO soe -._ Inany event, on the telephone my young friend told cme that they had these tape recordings of Oswald and ‘photographs and what should they do? Isaid, "Goto - -ing been said I put the whole thing out of my mind. Comes the Warren Commission and says Oswaid alone. .* :as responsible and I forgot the whole matter. - 7 ' “Then, in 1967, a fellow named Jim Garrison, dis- -. trict attorney in New Orleans, hit the headlines charg- jng that the assassination was 3 conspiracy. At that moment I was reminded of the information I had re~ ‘ceived and I began to wonder whether or not the Warren Commission had got all the facts. I coulda't remember the names of the Cubans hut L finally locat- ‘ed one cr2vman who was living in Miami again and I . asked him what happened after he went to the FBI. were then told.to keep our traps shut and that we would be deported if we said anything publicly.” He - - ett were ; - -gaid one of the crew was deported to Guatemala, and 3 ad Be Ac istes aoe os one was murdered —stabbed infrontofasiore. = * -": Bha cue See ‘ *TUIETR INFORMATION, HE SAID, never appeat~- : ed in the Warren Commission report. He said, ‘I am married now, I live in Miami an I don’t want-to gét - involved initeveragain’ "” - Lott |. When'Sen. Schweiker made his request of Clare | “Luce less than three weeks ago, she telephoned anoth- er Cuban friend to see if he could locate and persuade the young man to testify behind closed doors. Replied the olde Cuban, if the testimony was behind Welosed ~-.. —~ Wide Werld Photos dogs it would sul become public. 20. [oo he told _. . mo “Americans think they are playing games,” he to . foe —_ her. “They don’t know they are involved in a life or : a Clare Boothe Luce t * am th Geath business. No, I won't tell you where he can be ..- “A year of great American rauma."” .found. The people working for a free Cuba would lose” Tt tp ‘their lives. A lot of them have already: They are not wit ° roe interested in making political headlines for politicians. - The very day after that conversation, observed You thin the Bay of Pigs, the nuclear missiles, the .” Clare gravely, bombs went off at the State Depart- ‘leader was exploded into pits in his car in Miami. | | | i p. -* assassination of the president was the end of the story? ment here, at the U.S.-U.N. mission and four banks in: . . Ltell you it is just the beginning. What you Americans New York and at three places in Chicago. And close toi” - don’t understand is, there are trained Communist ter- the same hour she was recounting the whole fascinats - "yorists, assassination, kidnapping, bombing and sabo- _. ing story to her guests, 4 Cuban, 2ati-Communist, ~
Oo UNCLASSIEIED ae [] CONFIDENTIAL [J SECRET _-) [TING AND RECORD Sk UT SUBJECT: (Optional) Inspector General 6565 2 E 24 Has. 6 January 1977 DATE _ OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom INITIALS to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) . TY a . AT: [Lyle Miller | Tie YZ | seceren | rorwanneo | The oc and the IG concur that | the attached transcripts should be provided to the FBI. A blind memo is.also attached. a ’ [It is requested that the 0/S pass the package to the FBI. 4. . >O, @ - Director of Security Can os John H. Waller Form 61.0 Eorneve's Os secret] CONFIDENTIAL oO ABE CO] UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 . dent Kennedy assassination, reached the proper authorities. While the - that it had nothing to add to the newspaper story. and that since this - - Oo: “query involved U.S. resident Cuban refugees, the FBI would be the proper | 6 January 1977 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: . Transcripts of October 1975 Telephone Conversations 7 Between Director Colby, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and Mr. dustin McCarthy 1. Attached herewith are transcripts of two telephone conversations between Director William Colby and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, and one between Director William Colby and Mr. Justin McCarthy. The conversations took “place in October 1975 and discuss Mrs. Luce's concern that certain infor-_ mation, from a former boat captain, a Cuban refugee, regarding the Presi- information in these transcripts have been provided to investigating authorities, they may be of some assistance to the House Select Committee on Assassinations as it investigates various allegations. 2. The transcripts were received by the “Agency Inspector General’ on 22 December 1976. The transcript of the 25 October 1975 conversation was typed by Ms. Barbara Pindar on the same day. The other two transcripts were typed by Ms. Pindar on 2] December 1976 from her stenographic records while clearing out the remainder of Director Colby's files. Ms. Pindar was Mr. Colby’ S secretary during his Directorship. 3. A version of the telephone conversation transcript was published in the Washington: Star on.16 November 1975 (attached). A staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on 10 December 1975, inquired as to what-the Agency thought of the story. The Agency oral response was - sperm: sere + agency to contact. CONE Gls F Bs ¥ Soye 7 poe q ait ahs . aS Gh e ITI AGy EN ALT iAL! . — .
13-00000 SAT ce pees nm iia ili aie aL 4, The attached transcripts indicate that the matter was brought to the attention of Senator Schweiker and The Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Telephone conversation between Director Colby and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce on 25 October 1975, pages 2 and 3). no, ’ Attachments: a/s CART Corners : 3 oan it : we 4 t KS an adel
_ Review Staff: 78/3637 _ _ oe Date 10 December ‘1975 TO CIA Task Force FROM  : The Review Staff, Walter Elder SUBJECT : SSC/HSC Request | |. RECEIVED: Date ‘Time a Paul Wallach, SSC staff, asks what we think of. the ~— -. attached...” He is not writing a formal request and will oc | be‘satisfied with an oral reply. . CT a . Comments: ©
13-00000 » o Ca oo Telephone Conversation Bu yeen Mr. Colby and Mrs. Cla “Boothe Luce at 12:40 on Saturday, 25 October 1975. -from steno notes of Barbara Pindar transcribed the : same day) : .Mrs. Luce: . LT have a big problem, a. a case in conscience. I got rather deeply involved during and after the Bay of Pigs, and up to the time of the missile crisis, with a group called the (Directorate Revolutionario Estudiante; Note: the spelling of that is just a guess), the DRE. Whether you know this or not, it was me who fed the missile stuff to Keating. I knew a number of these leaders well; they were going in and out_of Cuba, . and I paid for one of the motor boats. . Bill Pawley did too. We thought we © were doing another Flying Tiger. The missile crisis came, andI gota . telephone call from Allen telling me that the Secrets Act had gone into ~ effect and that henceforth there would be no voluntary American efforts. . That ended that, and I don't know what I was doing -- maybe I went back | to Arizona, or whatever. Then came the assassination, . The night of the . -assassination, right after Oswald was caught, one of my boys telephoned. 7 _ me > from New Orleans. » Didn! t I ever tell you this? on . Mr, Colby: : No. Mrs. Luce: It was the captain of my boat. It seems that after the missile ; crisis -- a period of about a year had gone by -- he said that all the young: ‘Cubans involved profoundly in all of this had been told to scatter and _ scram, that he and two of my other lads “= mo ‘Mr. Colby: oo “When, after the crisis? Mrs. Luce: -(Yes.) (were told) to leave Miami. “Mr, Colby: = In. 1962? Mrs. Luce: _ Yes. They were to stop their efforts to free Cuba; and if they did not, they would be deported. It has a very interesting end involving you. «. : .In any event, this one had been told to leave Miami after the missile crisis ~_ ef was over, and he had opened a cell in New Orleans. He telephoned meto- tell me that Oswald was --I am telling you what his view was -- wasa hired gun; Oswald had tried to penetrate their little cell; that they turned around and did a counterpenetration job on Oswald; all of this was done several months before the assassination. He said,—telling me on the phone, he was terribly excited -- he said you see he had no money, all of a sudden he began to get money, so we checked him and he had a little "Communists be Free" or "Be Fair to Cuba" group going in New Orleans." He said ''We
13-00000 ce’ toma ul vane had tape recordings of what he was telling his group." It was a ow unter- penetration they went on. He said, 'We have photographs of Oswald, © passing out handbills on the street, 'Be Fair to Cuba.'™" He said, 'We are absolutely certain that Oswald was simply one of three assassination. teams, that they were working out of Mexico City (or funded in Mexico ~ City) by Castro." He said there were three assassination teams. Then he said, 'We have these recordings, these tapes, and we have these photos, what should we do?" These fellows always trusted me. I said, "The first thing you do, the minute you hang up this phone, you telephone to the FBI, give them everything you have got." Working in New York with these.Cubans is an extraordinary fellow, one of the most puzzling’ characters I have every met; he is.a devout Catholic -- Justin McCarthy. — Justin is. the American patron -- although he has no money, never had money -- of all these free Cubans in America. He never worked at CIA, although CIA tried to pick his brains. He tried to help the FBI. I knew __ Justin McCarthy, and he used to send me bulletins; he said he had been discounted, but I had taken the Warren Report at face value without poring . over it -- and I forgot the whole darn thing. Then, this must be-nine ae years ago, up turns a guy named Lloyd Garrison*-~ what was he, a sheriff! S or something? C She WHtons Zin Gove: son) Dt os ‘Mr. Colby: : District Attorney. spiracy. Then it all flooded back into my mind that I had never been quite _. sending them to me for the past six months, and I had never received one | oer of them... Out comes the Warren Report. Ihave many other things todo, -_..*. and I assumemy lads had reported what they knew, and maybe it had been | - Mrs. Luce: . And he hit the headlines that the assassination had been a con-~ a oo _ satisfied with what the Warren Report had brought out. Basically, Iwas |.’ * troubled by the whole thing, so I said I thought I would call Garrison. » In order to call him, I had to have the names of the Cubans, which had gone out of my bean. Sol called Justin McCarthy. He, said one of them was now, my lad, was in Miami. I got him on the phone, my fellow, and . I said, "You remember your midnight call to me about the assassination _of the President, I want to know what happened after that." He said, "We a went at once to the FBI, they took all the tapes and photos and all our _information.and told us to keep our motths: shut, and shortly after that they - informed us that if any of us talked to the press or anyone, ‘dire things would happen." He said one of the fellows on the boat was deperted to Guatemala or Chile, and one of them was murdered. He said, "Iama..- lawyer, have two children, Iam making my way in Miami, and I never want to hear a damn word about the assassination of Kennedy because you Americans really do not want to know the truth."" He said, "We waited, . expecting the Warren Committee would want to have us, and wemever heard < a word." He said, "I want no part of it.'' Then the Garrison thing died —
13-00000 cy OMEINTNTD rid bd ia" abe . down, and J ama busy woman, and I forgot about it. Three days ago, a reporter was in here -- a gal”-~ asking about my life style and said, in passing, 'What do you think of the investigation of the assassination of the President?" I am afraid I hit the roof,. I said, "Y think everyone must be absolutely off their rockers. What possible | motive would the CLA have for murdering their own President?" I , said, "Even to assume such a thing is beyond belief because where . there is a murder or assassination, there is.a motive, and there could’ be no motive." I said, 'Who had the motive was Castro; but perhaps not even Castro, possibly just a bunch of Communist Cubans or plain Communists.''. I said, ''They always had a motive for that sort of — . thing." Schwejiker called me up yesterday -~ when the reporter said  - - tome, "What is the name of the young Cuban?", I said, "Well, let's ' call him Julio Fernandez.'' The Senator said to me "that is a fascinating . story. if vd x wrt sack ae Eek xe ye ae eee Was Mr. Colby: You told the story to Schweiker? — Mrs. Luce: ‘He read it in the Knight paper. ae 7 - ae —_ = - ee a [ : 7 Mr. Colby: You told the story to the Knight people? "Mrs. Luce: Not in the detail I told you. Schweiker asked if 7 could locate - any of these men involved for him, andI said I would try. Thatwas “yesterday. I used that. opportunity to say, "Ido not know -what you are doing on the Hill." I said, "You are in the (process?) for headlines and _ . destroying this country's security.'' He said, "If you have this informa- — tion and you can get your hands on it, it would be a good thing to lay . . this story to rest.'' He said, "If you can find me these people, I assure ' you they will be listened to in closed session."' Now comes the big thing. Justin McCarthy runs an animal farm in Nyack: telephone © number is 914; 647-8596. I have known him to be a man of complete integrity. He is a devout Catholic. He may or may not be a fanatic, : What makes one think he is is what he tells you is just so terribly ~ alarming; as he was the one, along with Bill Pawley, who involved me with these Cubans, I tracked him down and had a two-hour conversation - on the phone with him this morning that was really staggering. When I said to him, 'Would you tell these things in the closed session in the _Senate?", he said, "I would find it more expedient and to shorten the. process to hire loud speakers and put therm on top of the Empire State Building.'' He said, "You don't know, Clare, the Cubans have not lost their desire to free their country, and there are plenty of them working Te eee ene FREE E cmmnmnnn scene see meee ne nee cm ae eee tear et em tse ee Ee centre ANE fas aban ay Stnieeneaceny ETL ee a ardeteetnels wine we mt om
13-00000- eo at it, and they trust me, and I trust them and ‘they ‘all trust me, !" _He said, "All these fellows on the Hill give a damn about is a big . - headline and political attention, and if this should involve my testi- - fying and some of my fellows got bumped off, or their apparat shut down, I could not live with myself, no I will not testify."' I said, "You know, Justin, if they send for you, you might have to." He .. said, ‘They are not likely to send for me unless you tell them." He said, ''They do not know who to ask for anyway." (It doesn't appear ‘in my notes, but my memory is that he added that the reason the Hill _ doesn't get to the truth is that they never know who tb ask for.) He oo, _ told me a story about working once with CIA. He said, "We did this -- . _DRE did one operation with CLA, as a result of which all the Cubans - . involved were caught and killed, and I do not want any part withthe — | CIA." He said, "It too can be a sieve." I said, 'You have me really '_. overa barrel." I said, "Justin, I have to tell someone, is there _ anyone you trust?'"' He said; 'There is only one man in this whole . country whose word at this point I would take." I said, 'Whois that?" ~= ‘and he said, "Bill Colby. " He said, “He is a daily communicant" -- Mr. Colby: No, no. Mrs.. Luce: I did not disillusion him. In any event, if only to put my own | mind at rest since -- he always says, which is fascinating if true, ., '. that my lads in New Orleans, yes, they did turn over the tapes to the ‘FBI but they kept copies. De re Mr. Colby: Really? Mrs. Luce: Sohe says. If so, ‘you are possibly, if --1 think you | should get hold of Justin and give him a couple of hours because he has plenty © to say. If what he says is true -- he also told me, which I had forgotten -- - that during the time of the missile crisis, and 1 was the one he came to, - , Pp —~ a nd naturally the one I went to was Harry (note: this is first mention of i“ ea . L "Harry''' maybe I misunderstood; could she have said d "Allent'F) because Pp I could trust him. In a way, Justin McCarthy supplied a lot of background # ; ye _ mateial on the Cubans to (note: could not hear what she said). He said - ly yt ® few days ago -- Time is planning to do a (take-out) issue on the De WAN eH SG wet (re ein 5 \“ assassination of Kennedy. He said that, going back through their files, _ they came across my name as an informant, and he said "they tracked me down too."'. He said, then he told me -- I mentioned in passing that there “2? we ca WN Go? Qheen ae met Wes way wee Ve ~~" ernva Ge B&W mo oe ee eae nee nee ne Ee Eee ne corer eet tc amen eee RENAN OF tn tpn le Ge ETRE ste Une te etn thir A EE, Se EF aa aR ee
13-00000 was a wonderful girl on Time that knows more about the Cubans almost than anyone in CIA, P Priscilla Badger. He said the Time people are now trying to get information. He said, 'I will talk to. mo one because there are lives at stake" -- except you. For my | own sake, if you have a go at him, I would be very Pappy to know how . serious itis. . : a oy Mr. Colby: I will report b back to you by all means. Let me do a little home- | - work on just where this (looks). You do not remember the name ofthe ~-._ Cubans in Miami? — oS me a _ Mrs. Luce: There are so many names; he talked to me so fast. He kept - a . saying "Chilo. I asked who "Chilo! is, and he | said that was 3 his code a “Jose Antonio La Nuza (Note: That last - name may be all. one ‘words so -'..% she said it means "the nut. ") ns Luis Fernandez Rocha One of those fellows was the Director of the DRE. Then he also reminded” me of a guy who used to come to see me -- Cardona. (He had beentold ~ by the American Government to get out of Miami) and he died, having . - become the President of a university in Puerto Rico. These fellows . were scattered all over the place. As I mentioned thatto Justin, he said, .. “"I know where they all-are." The thing that alarmed me is that---he _ does not talk in an excited voice, but the statements are -~- he said . , "People think of the Bay of Pigs and the nuclear showdown and the ‘assassination of Kennedy as the end of the story, it is only the beginning.” | - He said, "If you knew what is being laid on for the U. S.,""and he talks... like that. I asked him, "What do you think happened?" He said, "Oswald went to the FBI." He said, "I know that, he was selling them information, and they did not believe him." I said, ''That is incredible."" He said, "I. do not know how much you know about the FBI, but no day goes by without _ desks being loaded with letters saying something will be blown up." ° (Note: I missed a little bit here due to something else happening in the . office.) I said, ''What happened? '' and he said, ("The FBI got the word from on top ‘Destroy the letters. m Bo Mr. Colby: From on n top? . Mrs. Luce: From the President, who was Johnson. I contended that if at that point the FBI had proven that Castro had in mind assassinating the President, we would have been in war with Cuba. It might have been CU
13-00000 . an act of State to shut up about it. If I had been the President, I would have had (Note: missed more due to outside interference). What is hideous about this is that the CLA is being accused or © Kennedy is being accused -- anyone except the people who probably were involved. If putting it at rest ina secret session will work, — if such evidence does exist, you are the man to present it. alt ) Mr. Colby: Schwéker does not know about MeCasthy? 7 Mrs, Luce: He only mows this -- Isaid there is one man I know ‘who ere _ might be able to tell you where the se Cubans are, and that isa fellow .. _ ‘named Justin McCarthy. He said, ‘Where is he?", and I said, "I do ~ not know, I have lost track of him.'' He said, "If you find him, let me oo know." After talking with Justin McCarthy, I do not want him totalk |. . to Schweiker. I do not know what to say if he calis again. Knowing the Senator, I may never hear from him. I leave it with you. oe So te “MAES COEORUTEKANRENDES SOK MROGRNAS OOUAROAAITERSKPUGES AEE : HK KAGKROE naan PURER RGRVE POSH BEK KORE MMOMENHAEREIEK - i NOTE: Mrs. Luce closed the conversation by referring to a CIA paper > entitled "Restless Youth" and asked if it had been declassified. Mr. Colby. | said he would check on it, and Mrs. Luce said she would like to have a Copy if it has been declassified. . many ar iby Baw dhe Aa OME ee
13-00000 | Telephone Conversation Between Mr. Colby and Justin McCarthy at 3:45 on Tuesday, 28 October 1975 (this transcript was ‘Fyped on a1 December 1976 - from steno notes of Barbara Pindar) Mr. McCarthy: Iam glad. to know - you, even if it is over the phone. Mr. Colby: Mrs. Luce talked to | me » yesterday (sic). "She ; gave mea capsule version of some of her chat with you, It puts me ina bit of a jam,. _ obviously, because there are some things that really hold some potential for being very important in these days (of) post-mortems of everything. I wondered if maybe we should chat about it some- ' time, or, quite frankly, one of the main things I would suggest is . = that you might want to go to this Senate Committee looking into this, re Mr. McCarthy: No. There are several reasons why not. Lam sure we do not need to discuss them, but there are many reasons. Over the period of time.there have been so many things. We were theonly | ones who had the information about the missiles in Cuba for many - months, and we beat our brains out trying.to get someone todo ' something (or believe?) and regrettably (in) Washington there are too many political (opportunists?), but there are too many lives at™ | ‘stake. We risked our neck for all these years. _Weare interested - _ in doing the right thing. / Oa Ta Mr. Colby: I wondered if you could (slice?) off that New Oneans s thing (and 7 L i not go any further than that ?) ‘Mr. McCarthy: Asil said to her -- (can't read the t next few » words). For ‘me oe . to be seen in Washington, it is (can't read the next few words), We > de ~ do not trust anyone. We did so many operations for so long, and we were entirely. successful and. never lost a man, and then one day “we did an operation for the Government and lost 22 men, Lives. --depend onit. Someone sent a Top Secret memo, and the one he sent it to left it on his desk and someone came in and read (it) and the men were arrested. She asked, "Would you talk to Bill?" I said I would. We think it would be a good idea - - for me to go down oe I do not want to blow my cover, but [I would like | ve ry much to chat with | on “ you and tell you. Mr. Colby: My problem is then I get information, and then what | are my obligations. ; Mr... McCarthy: From the point of view of (seeing?) how to do it through persons other than me -- to ‘get the end result,
13-00000 Mr. Colby: It might be that one of your fellows aware of some of the things © (would not mind telling Schweiker?) under some protection and assurances of anonymity. That would be enough of a (can't read the © next word) to get started. 7 a .Mr. McCarthy: There is plenty to > get started on. Mr. Colby: Then (ne?) could cut your people aut as a source, | Mr. McCarthy: She said it vo uld be aclosed- door hea ring. I said: there (would?) , . _ still be someone come out of the meeting and (can't read next word) _ their names in the press. You see Jack Anderson's column on Monday, ~ It is vitally important, and it is true evidence, It is not conjecture, -- _ Tam concerned about what it ties into -~ it is all the same ball of wax. - We sat on the information about.the missiles. This has. been going on | ...for a good twenty years, and we have accumulated an awful lot of _. information. Weare more concerned today than when we had the - missile information. It is appalling, and it is frightening, and people . do not want to believe it. Last night I enlightened people about some of the things that are going to happen. We feel the time has come that 7 some of this should come to light. It is necessary and essential to go back and bring out some of these things that need to be brought out, but - - pot at the expense of (next word missing). We have done this on our” "- own and at our own expense. One of the reasons my people trust me is -- _ Tam thinking of a book -- we did not want to do a book before, The ’ American public wants to know. It is all part. of what went on then. I think it should be clarified and straightened out what went on then, But lam so terribly wary. I went to everyone, including the President, . about the missiles. . We had evidence -- what ships they were on, a - where they (docked?), anda few days later ‘they came back and said a there is no credibility of what you say. .. 2 = | a Mr. Colby: The only thing that bothers me is the story about the « existence of . some records (you?) still hold. The important part of that is that . Po. indicates some (part?) ofa failure, or possibly even worse ~~ that ~~ ' is the kind of thing that does need investigation or (correction?} -- protecting your people that are’in on it, The other possibility would be to ask Schwdker or one of his men to go and talk to you or one of your people who would have factual knowledge of ‘ite Mr. McCarthy: : When (Dorothy) told me about you over a period of time -- _ (Dorothy) said we have been through this so many times -- I took this to editors of Life. That was the time when the Buy § sent the Note: Iam not positive about the "Dorothy"! above, but don't know vhat else it _ could be. [ had written in long-hand, 'Doroth.'"' My only guess at this = point is Dorothy Farmer, Mrs. Luce's secretary. ere pTiPymas i; ~ Wadd dy tf ena Ld ahon
13-00000 ee Mr. Colby: That is what she said. © Top Secret memo and it got left ona desk in Miami and we losta lot of people on that. Inadvertently so many things happen. We _ work so carefully. We have information now that no one else has. because it has come to the point where so many of the people I work . with find they cannot trust people because of the opportunists, I have never met such overbearing and obnoxious (can't read next | word). We sat on this year inand year out -- we never know when . -.we might get calls. I was up all night long the night before last. Time is doing a big cover story on the thing -- the next issue -- - ' the Today Show is bugging me. Washington is a funny place. IfI -- by and large, when your life is on the line -- one of (our?) guys hung © . himself after one of the escapades we went through. He committed - suicide because he felt guilty about it. Up here it is terrifié because’ Iam ananimal nut. A lot of the guys divaiging some of this. stuff : that they would not normaly ¢ do. Mr. Colby: Let me ‘talk with Clare. again as 5 to. how we handle this. “The main thing is not so much the overall stuff about Cuba -- the main thing is the story about records, about Oswald. That comes ata time when that is a serious subject of study here by the Congress. Ifwe | oe could in some way shake that information loose without putting the finger on any of your friends, I think we are sort of obliged to do this ' in terms of clarifying the record against the (facts?) -- this is a very ’ key aspect of it anda very serious problem that if it was suppressed . at the time. . aa . Mr. McCarthy: - “That. is not all that was suppressed, . Mr. Colby: That is the thing. They are looking into it, “Let me tall to Clare . again and see if I can figure out some way in which we couldtalkto ~ _ you (maybe?) and if you could in the meantime think of a wa y of (can't read the next word) out or (can't read the next word) out this ” (feature?) of it so that you give the (final result?) but not the sourcing, _ and let the investigators (find their own source later on?), we would © ‘have done our duty. My problem is that I really cannot sit on it with my obligations. I can be'reasonable about protecting other people, | and I have to be, but I also have to have the responsiblity for responding _ to proper investigations of things that really should be looked into, Mr. McCarthy: Let me (can't read next word) this in. Some of our guys (can't | . read next several words). a XAMOUAEM TEA | MUI Ed Tie 5h
13-00000 - = — . , QQNFISE: _ oo : Mr. McCarthy: They andlare scared to death. I was Executive Producer of T'V programs for years -- I cannot make -- Thave earned the respect and confidence of these people éver the years. The other night I talked all night long. IfItry to push my guys -- Cla re said it needs to be laid to rest, and it does. I would like to‘see it get - laid to rest, but my Y people == St me , | Mr. Colby:. I can assure you r amas interested las) you in protecting that. part of it if there were some way of having part of the cake and - eating part of it, so that you do not lose the one or the other butto . work out some vehicle -- a way in getting the substantive information - ane loose but protecting people involved, There may be ways to do that if "| _ we put our minds to it. Let me talk to Clare and see what really -- ~ | _ I will not do anything except with her without your permission, a NOTE; Mr. Colby tried to call Mrs. Luce on 29 October, but ‘could not reach her. He contacted her on 31 October r (see separate notes) 7
13-00000 ba Ni we wv oi ; ee Telephone Conversation Between Mr. Colby and ey! Ny hss Li at 4: 07 v7 On Friday, 31 October 1975 (this transcript was typed on | 22 December 1978 from steno notes of Barbara Pindar) Mr. Colby: I got the Restless ‘Youth for you. And I called Justin McCarthy, _ We had a long chat. He does not want me to do anything about it, but I said you put me in an awful position. (Note: The '"you'' there - yefers, I believe, to McCarthy.) I understand what you mean about © '-.- bis strong manner of talking. I think both of us are (Bung?) with a rather tantalizing story. Pa Mrs. Luce: ‘If I had not known the guy for 25 years, r would take him much : . less seriously. . ; - ; — wg ns ‘Mr. colby: The only real point is the thing about the tapes and the ‘photos : and - -the allegation about the FBI. LItried to {argue ? } him into figuring out '  gome way in getting rid of those but keeping himself out of the act. Mrs. Luce: He called me , back and said he talked with you and that: you ‘left. _him ina box, and I think he feels now that there is some kind of a question of conscience involved, He said, "Iam going to let youand Bill Colby decide what } is best to do." oe re Mr. Colby: qT said w aild be: in touch with you and try to figure out something z . a sensible. oo. en =. ae Mrs. Luce: | why don't we suggest that he bring you. or me -- sechae he feels | ' safer with me -- - the tapes and Photos if he has copies of them. oo Se Mr, colby: And then you pa ss them over to > Schweiker. . Mrs. ‘Luce: “And let them decide, and I will maintain his « cover -- he keeps. . Saying it is not worth it to him after all these years to blowthat -- | the paradox, he tells me he is going to have to write a book (and _- whether he is indeed going to?) so that he is not altogether a crackpot, On the other hand, what he is doing is sufficiently crackpot. He is” . taking care of broken-down animals from his entire area, However, -- “Mr. Colby: I think that is a good idea. You say that you and I have talked, and we are all ina kind of box at this point, and we really in conscience ; cannot sit on this stuff -- all these charges that there is remaining evidence that (can't read next word) was held backand disappeared —
13-00000 -: « fom rua bad det z df, tho '. into the FBI, and 1 maybe the way to do it is for him to provide it to you, and you to Schweiker, and then I would just as soon drop out --. it does not really have much to do with me -~- and in that way you would protect him from Schweiker, and you would say you got it from _ a friend -- and the source is whatever he and you agree on, . Mxs. Luce: I will do that, Mr. Colby: I think that is ‘the best thing todo. If he does. not buy that, I do not os know what we do about Schweiker. . ee me mee Mrs. Luce: (lam going | to > ignore it. if Schweiker comes | to me. )" NOTE: The conversation ‘continued, but it did not : pertai in to this s subject. |
13-00000 Se | | SECRET =~—— MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy. Director for Operations — SUBJECT. . >: Senate Select Committee on _Tatelligence — _ Request_cto” ‘the Denese Divector for Operations g2 oo title Pies aay ee ey lee bs heer. es LAY. . Chr <3. ptf fa Attached, in response to the Senate Select Committee “< request ‘of 27 October 1975, are separate. memoranda on the | DRE and several Cuban exiles. Chief Latin America Division Attachments ~ Rims ° Dey A) 2 CONFIDENT 74 i Ad a, 19h [To SECRET | £2 {MPDET
13-00000 SUBJECT: Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE, ‘Students ' Revolutionary Directorate) The DRE was founded by a group of students at Habana University in 1954 as an instrument of opposition to the regime of President Fulgencio BATISTA. The original members of this group were also members of the Habana University Student Federa- tion (FEU). Several leading members of the DRE were killed by Cuban authorities during and following the attack on the Presidential Palace, Habana, in March 1957. The remaining DRE leaders, as of 1958, were in exile. The DRE worked as a secret underground organization in Cuba, generally in Habana, laying plans and making preparations. The theory of the DRE was that” ~~” success of the revolution depended on quick and efficient elimination of BATISTA. which Fidel CASTRO's forces at that time could not achieve alone. The DRE finally turned against CASTRO on the issue of communism. 5 Oil ws A BGS a(t bmes
13-00000 . Julio FERNANDEZ Molino (No crypt) DPOB: 23 March 1934, Havana (201-752511 Subject was. of interest to AMWORLD program as a radio _ operator in 1964. A PRQ Part I was submitted to Headquarters ‘by JMWAVE, but there was no follow-up, and Subject was not ' hired. He had previously been associated clandestinely with ~ RESCATE (anti-CASTRO) group in Cuba. He came to U.S. as: exile in May 1964. In 1966, he lived at 430 SW lith hve. Miami. Julio FERNANDEZ Bencomo _ SO . ~~ (No' crypt) . ” a SO DPOB: 10 April 1917, Havana me —201- 742497 : . : . Received POA 14 January 1964, which cancelled 24 February 1964, because he was not interested in employment with CIA since Salary was insufficient. He signed secrecy agreement and was terminated without prejudice. He took SGSWIRL 10 .January 1964. No derog, but he had told his wife and one .Cartdos..MARQUEZ that he. “would be working for CIA. He was Originally recruited for AMWORLD by one Pedro BLANCO, and was. to be used as PM asset on a CIA vessel. Julio FERNANDEZ Gonzalez. (AMOT-99) |. . Se DPOB: 10 May 1935, ‘Havana’ oe : mo . ee 201- 299222 a 2 os een tO He’ was employed by. the Intelligence ‘and ‘Security Coninission ~ of the-Frente Revolucionario Democratico .(AMIRON/AMBRUSH) for.. about two months in 1961. He was brought into it by Julio PASCUAL Abril. .He stated in a letter to Hernan HENRIQUEZ  .. Lorca, anti-CASTRO Cuban in Madrid who informed the FBI (who . told us in memo dated 2 November 1961) that he "was about to take a trip to Cuba. to take material to anti~CASTRO elements, trip being financed by CIA." He received POA 10 May 1961 for use as member of AMOT Admin Staff. File does not say.who dropped . from it, but when last contacted was working for Dixie Lily “Products Company (a wholesale grocery outfit) as an accountant: at $50 weekly in December 1961. POA cancelled 24 July. 1962.
13-00000 GER, a0 Se win G Luis FERNANDEZ-ROCHA Rodriguez. (Formerly AMTOPIC-2, AMHINT-53). . ES - DPOB: 3 May 1939, Havana 201- 316766 | POA granted 18 April 1962. According to file, he quit his job as Secretary General of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantel (DRE) in July 1964 to pursue his medical studies. He was. paid his final salary payment of $425 on 1 September oo: 1964 under the DRE project. He was to do some unwitting work‘ for JMHOPE, Swan Island propaganda broadcasting, and WIBALDA. There is no further indication in file that he was terminated, no quit claim, no OA or POA cancellation. However, there‘is no™ information on his use since 1964. Per document dated 7. June 1965, he was studying at University of Miami and working as switchboard operator for Cuban Catholic Children's program in. - Miami. According to Cuban Families Yearbook of 1974, Dr. Luis FERNANDEZ Rocha living at 6021 W. 14th Lane,- Hialeah, Florida, 33012 with wife and four children. He became naturalized U.S. citizen on 15 September 1967, Julio FERNANDEZ Travejo ‘(No crypt) DPOB: 10 August 1934, Havana | 201-297828 POA requested tor ase ‘ag'PM trainee 21 March 1961. POA. - cancelled 4 April 1962. [FBI memo dated 14 December 1961:notes De that he told FBI of CIA financial support to Frente Revolucionaric | .Democratico (FRD) and to Antonio VARONA, one of its leaders,.to. 0 9 ‘the tune of "Six million dollars." ] Subject told FBI he himself belonged to. group led by Rolando MASFERRER which NOT getting CIA support. Subject visited FBI 21 November 1960 after. incident in which some paramilitary trainees of MASFERRER's group on No Name Key in Florida had come to FBI's attention. That group was called "Ejercito Nacional. Cubano." . Cc ro fo.
13-00000 Jose Antonio LANUZA One Jose LANUSA was a leader of the DRE, residing in Miami, Florida, in November 1963. At that time, he was providing information (does not say to whom) on “the "Commandos L,'' an anti-CASTRO organization. Not clear whether he is identified with the following LANUZA. Jose Antonio LANUZA (on microfiche) 201-339258 _ Only information in file is that Subject is a Cuban tizen who in 1962 was living at 1705 SW 3rd Ave., Miami. [ie is the Subject of Inter-Source Registry No. 9518. ccording to a document dated 1 November 1968, "SD 10658 is . terminated without prejudice by the Department of the Army, and any additional information should be referred to the Army Source Registry.’l/ A note in the file also said that. there. was . td . no present contact with Subject, dated 29 October 1962. ? No traces Justin. MacCarthy .
13-00000_- 30 November 1976 MEMORANDUM ee - SUBJECT: Comments on Ronald KESSLER's Article: "CIA oan ee Withheld Details of OSWALD Call," which Appeared : 7 ' in the Washington Post of 26 November 1976 The following. comments are keyed to the attached Washington ' Post article, i.e., the paragraph numbers below correspond to the Paragraphs as numbered in the margin: of the xerox of the article: a 1. COMMENT: While CIA knew that a man identifying him- self as Lee OSWALD had been in touch with the Soviet Embassy by telephone on 1 October 1963, this information had no unusual Significance until 22 November 1963 when President Kennedy's | assassination occurred. At that time an intensive review was made by the Mexico City Station of conversation transcripts pre- pared on the basis of the 1 October telephone intercept. These | transcripts had been reported to Headquarters and disseminated to the interested members of the intelligence community (as a former Marine, OSWALD was a Navy and FBI case, and potentially of inter- est to the Department of State). This review turned up "matches", _i.e., similar materials intercepted on 27 and 28 September 1963. These were reported by cable to Headquarters on 23 November 1963. There is no indication in the transcripts that Lee Harvey OSWALD tried to make any "deal" with the Soviet Embassy as claimed in - the Washington Post article. Analysis based upon actual voice comparison could not be made because the tapes, in accordance with the normal practice,. ' had been erased for re-use. The monitor was able to recall some- thing of the voice charactéristics from memory, however. He could recall the very poor Russian spoken by OSWALD, for example. 2. COMMENT: This statement is -not substantiated by our files. 3. COMMENT: The information regarding the 1 October 1963 contact with the Soviet Embassy -- received in Headquarters on 9 October -- was disseminated on 10 October 1963 to the Department .
13-00000 of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. A copy of the 10 October 1963 dissemination was made available to the Warren Commission’ on 24 March 1964. (See Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 24 March 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: CIA Dissemination of In- formation on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 10 October 1963.) On 16 October 1963, our Chief of Station sent a memorandum to the | American ambassador on the subject of Lee OSWALD's contact with . the Soviet Embassy. The original of this memorandum was routed - to the ambassador, the minister, the counselor for political . ~ affairs, the regional security officer. A copy \ was sent to the legal attache, naval attache, and the [aNsS. In April 1964, Messrs. COLEMAN, SLAWSON and WILLENS, staff representatives of the Warren Commission, visited the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Our Station then indicated that the three men already knew "all about" the telephone conversations OSWALD had. According to the Memorandum for the Record of 11 ~ ‘April 1964, the three men reviewed the product from the tele= phone tap operation for the days 27, 28 September and 1 October 1963 when Lee OSWALD contacted and visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They made a "schedule" of OSWALD's activities as far as possible for these days from this source. Note: They were shown English translations of the product, or "take", as it was called. (HMMA 23249, 14 April 1964: This document, in a sani- tized and declassified version was made available to the public under provisions ‘of the FOIA in March.1964 as Document Number | 274 and in September 1976 as Document Number 658) See follow- ing: a. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963. ot b. Letter to Richard | ‘HELMS , Deputy Director for Plans, dated 10 February. 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. c. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, ‘dated 19 February 1964, from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, September 28 to October 3, 1963.
13-00000 4. COMMENT: See comments in Paragraph 3, above. 5. COMMENT: The Agency disseminated the information concerning | OSWALD's contact with the Soviet Embassy on 1 Octo- ber to the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, the Department of the Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service on 10 October 1963. On 23 November 1963 the Agency disseminated to the FBI the transcripts of the tele- phone calls made on 27, 28 September, 1 October, and 3 October: 1963. (The latter call, it was determined, did not pertain’ to OSWALD.) (See CSCI-3/778,829, dated 26 November 1963.) On 23 November 1963, the Agency disseminated ta the FBI information relating to OSWALD! s contacts with the Cuban and Soviet Embas- sies in Mexico City. 6. COMMENT: OSWALD's alleged offer of information and suggestion that the Russians-pay his way to the Soviet Union does not appear in Agency transcripts of OSWALD's telephone | conversations with the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. 7. COMMENT: OSWALD was in no sense "under investiga- tion" (before 22 November 1963). None of the facts of his trip — to and stay in the USSR and return to the United States, 1959- 1962, were known to the Mexico Station before 10 October 1963, when the bare bones of his biography were forwarded by Headquar- ters to it in response to a Station cabled report of 8 October 1963 which forwarded, on a routine basis, what appeared to be a contact_by an American for a visa to Cuba in transit to the _ USSR USTt should be pointed: out that the voice intercept ccover- \ rage was not processed in "real time". The means of acquisi- tion and the volume of the information precluded anything but ; the spot reporting of items judged by the monitor to be of mor than ordinary interest. Full texts of selected items required _| La.full transcription and- full translation. J One of the "trig- gers" that normally operated to focus and accelerate more speedy _ review and reporting of this kind of raw intelligence was the mention of a name. This was what occurred in the second of two conversations on 1 October.with the Soviet Embassy, during which > - the speaker said he was "Lee. OSWALD". This was the first time. ' that the name OSWALD appeared in the intercepts and was report-_ ed-by the Station to Headquarters (8 October 1963). Had, at any time, a person telephoned the Soviet - Embassy, identified himself, and offered information in ex- change for a trip to the Soviet Union, it would have triggered
13-00000 an immediate reaction by the monitor and the Station -- first, to identify the“speaker; second, to report the infor- mation to Headquarters; and third, to step up technical and . photographic surveillance. 8. COMMENT: No comment. S. COMMENT: Tapes were not "routinely destroyed". Tapes were erased after transcription had been made and re-_ . used. Full transcripts of calls made on 28 September 1963 and 1] October 1963 were forwarded to Headquarters on 23 Novem- ber. The person who processed. the transcripts was identified in the cable. There is no indication in the transcripts that OSWALD offered information or that any omissions were made which might have contained that information. vend 0. COMMENT: No comment. . 1. COMMENT: Files do not support this statement. oad 12. COMMENT: Files do not support this statement. 13. COMMENT: The information "given by DURAN" is sup- ported by her ints interrogations. 14. COMMENT: "OSWALD later referred in a letter to ‘meetings’ he had in the Soviet Embassy." Although KESSLER chooses not to give details, this statement is in reference _ to a letter OSWALD wrote on 9 November 1963 to the Consular Division of the Soviet Embassy in Washington. (Commission -: Exhibit No. 15, Vol. XVI of the Hearings before the President's Commission on. the Assassination of President. Kennedy.) 15. COMMENT: ‘No additional comment. 16. COMMENT: With regard to the press statement that "CIA claimed it did not know of most of OSWALD's activities in Mexico City until after the assassination": this is true, CIA ‘did not know of his activities, other than those revealed in: the intercepts. It should be noted that after the dissemination ‘on 10 October 1963 of the 1 October 1963 contact, no requests were received from the dissemination customers for further in- ‘formation or follow-up. Without some customer interest being expressed, particularly from the Navy, the FBI or the Department
13-00000 of State, who had the greatest interest in OSWALD at the time,. there would have been little motivation for the Station to in- dependently pursue such a tenuous CE lead. 17. - COMMENT: The discussion in this paragraph of the article rests on assumptions and allegations developed earlier in the article, followed by comments by Messrs. BELIN- and SCHWEIKER, apparently based in turn on information provided... them by reporters. No further comment seems relevant, beyond - those comments made earlier. 18. COMMENT: Is BELIN here referring to Gilberto ALVARADO Urgate? If so, information regarding OSWALD provided by ALVARADO was passed to the Warren Commission as attachments to a memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN,. dated 1 June 1964, from , Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans. (See also Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 4 June 1964, from Richard HELMS; Subject: Information Developed on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSHALD in Mexico City. This memorandum — became Commission Exhibit No. 3152 contained in Vol. XXVI of Warren Commission report. yo 19. COMMENT: We do not know what BELIN | actually said to the reporters, when, or in response to what. We believe, how- ever, this may be referring ‘to BELIN's letter of 15 April 1975 to E. Henry KNOCHE of CIA. BELIN at that time was Executive Director of the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission). In his letter, BELIN refers to the photograph of an American male and the question whether or | not this male was Lee Harvey OSWALD. He. continues: "The CIA and the Warren Commission both determined that the picture was not of Lee -Harvey OSWALD and that the picture was taken -after OSWALD left Mexico City. "A] though portions of this record have been released to the public, other _portions have remained classified because of concerns by the CIA at the time that a release of the — full picture might disclose sources and methods which the CIA felt were not in the national interest to disclose at that time. In light of the false allegations about the assassination of President Kennedy and the Ce OR perenne enema:
Attachment: - ved gp 8 OL tebe aon, a Lhe oe cd false allegations of CIA involvement, I feel that it would be appropriate to re- consider whether or not the entire matter can be fully disclosed at this time.” An interim reply was’ forwarded on 23 April 1975 by E. Henry KNOCHE, Assistant to the Director, CIA. On 2 May 1975 a review was completed of Agency holdings regarding the photograph of the unidentified individual in Mexico City pub-~ lished by the Warren Commission. This review also included knowledge of OSWALD's contacts with the Cuban and Soviet Embas- Sies obtained from telephone tap information and interrogations~ of Silvia DURAN, a Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy. On 13 May 1975 two summaries of the above review, one classified - and one unclassified, were forwarded to BELIN by. the Agency. Article Le ieeg
13-00000 Ry Renald Kessler - Washington Post Sint Writer : n late September, 19638—~elgn$. vefore the assassination ‘of : : ort Nenntdyee-Lea Harvey Os- cca cee the Soviet embassy In exchange for unspecified ‘infer : tion, he wanted a free trip 89, Ft s3it, . . Trig conversation’ was er) 4 fy era reearded by the Central Intel. Urcenee Agency at the time. But it was if turned over to the FBI" esponsibility for investi: SP. 3, and it was not se Warren Com- e230 mot then Yao unanswered euuestion. ds why . aed ° c cf the CIA ielepho: Dost The that the crn ever rand tried bo imake a. ¥ ig atlon of the. it was the CIA's be! lef that ald's conversation Es -embassies were heavily invelved in oy the complete | (pes transcript ‘ta either ‘the FRY. or the Warren Commission, — Instead, the- Cs gave the: FBI ‘in ’ October, 1963, only ‘a “brief report say> . “fivg Oswald’ had? made’ con stact with the » Russtans.) It gave Ce: minission a transeript of the taped onversation’ but for unexplained Pde + Sons felled to include in the transcript ‘ -6 Oswald’s offer ef information and His. '., suggestion that the Russians would neal Ueler to PAY is way. to, the Soviet ;- the Warren Commission that it - _ learned of most of Gswald’s activities ‘in Mexico City only after the assas- sination, The fact is, however, that i the CIA. monitored and ta pe-recorded «his conversation with both the: Rus: ssinn and Cuban embassies in Mexico City in the fall of 1993, before Ken wredy's death, the two the spy’ business and fhat, specili ° _cally, they were operational bases for . " Intelligen ice activities directed at, the Dnited States, baa iS Boe: the Warren | ~The Post has: also. ‘aciermined that’ | . the CIA, for unexplained reasons, told - 2 OF " So, ‘with’ the full.cooperation af the‘ Mexlean government, CIA wirctaps _were Installed on telephone lines po, _ing into both embassies. The ClA was gspecially interested fn U.S. citizens. who sade contact . with the embassies... ; Thus, when Oswald showed ‘up. In Mexico City In lale September and telephoned the Russian embassy, .his conversation. was picked up-frem the | wiretap. A transeript;was made and: citéulated in‘the CIA. offlees in the ‘American embassy in Mexleo City. “Yhe‘station chief at that time was the late Winston M. Stolt; wha per- sonally reviewed all: ‘transcripts ema- nating from wiretaps oh Soviet blec instaljations. “The Oswald transcript, according to a CIA transiater who worked with Scott, aroused a Jol of interest: “Tney usually pieked up-the trans- etipts the next day,” he said..' This they wanted right away.” What that transcript contained ‘is @ matter of some dispute, and the CIA . says it reutincly destroyed the tape 4 before . the assassination. But some See OSVWALD, AT, Cel, 1 “ ; Oswald ee on NTC ee oe err eee NAY AFI OPT EN TIES ES 8 paren gout LEE NWARVEY OSWALD oe, telephoned Soviet em? at ds “O/61 aequeaox gz CLONIHS¥M SBI “180d SOs seeroemeren SAN © a ete emtctrccpte aevantgt du w sam ann py SR ream ate ra nen mee Ae eGR IG ee EE EE tO ANE Me EAE es nek: enn
13-00000 . OSWALD, From AL. / e who saw the transeript or se tape befere the assassinae enll that Oswald was trying t a deal. Lo ' of therm is David A. Phillips, a | former CA, officer, who now heads the Association of Retired Intelligence - and is a leading defender CIA activities. Philllps was sta- tioned in Mexico City at the time. wat noe ard n 4 tien F ot minke f Ore One eatled, that Oswald told the Sovict ebessy: “I have’ information you world be interested in, and I know you can pay my way” to Russia. The stenographer who typed up the trans¢eript wared it nad $ similar recollections, + to tell them,” the typist said in an intorview in Mexico, “His main con- antting to one of the two (Russia or Cuba] and he it, He said 25 countries vranted them to pay for he had to meet them.” Tie Warren Coramission late cluded the Russians and Cubans were not much impressed by Oswald. this - ow is supported by Sylvia Duran, wextoean citizen whe worked in the emonsay at the time of 'Os- wald’s visit. She talked to Oawald an tae 5318 whan 15 Scpt. 27, 1963, and recells the meet. ' ing in seme cetall, : Ina joint interview in Mexico City wiih this reporter. and Fost special- ‘ cosressond ent Maslise Simens, Duran snic Cave d teid her that he ‘wanted “9 travel to Ciba and Russia end dis- piayed documents to snow he wes = “riend” of tre Cuban revolution. Among other things, ne claimed fo be |: a memocr of the American Commie “Dayds nist @ sea oie aformed Os cwald el to Russia he ad nave, tos n permission f from eee em megs emt gene on Mt men ak Pn emer me eR EN ff ns oS at 2. ¥v rok o 35 2, Pa abet st 2 he aa dl abt ained - th e “yee: z-con:| The transeript revealed, Phillips re. ' and the transtator, WhO pre | “ta said ne had some information © 16 a4, Ene, ty SYLVIA DURAY ew wala eee «vocals tall wi th | * e- a would take three to four months to process, Informed of. this, Duran: said, - Oswald “got really angry. and red. He was gesticulating.” ran said she had te call for help from the Cuban - ‘const who got into a shouting match with Oswald and told him to get out. Duran said she never saw him again, T Howey er, Duran's story covered only] 7 Athe first day of Oswald's five day ne 2 Mexige City. Oswald latest to “meetings” stay i ferred ins lotter had day a2 the Sov Soviet } mrabassy, Doth ee Tow - Fnterested the CIA was in Oswald's dealings ‘vith the two ” om bassics is uneertaing 0, toe The translator and typist ay no han: dled the transerint of 124 intercepted conversation . recalled | that ine level’ of interest was high, Bus the CIA’s - own actions ead | to a different con i : Duran said she * clusion, 5, . 7 4 poate enticed fhe embassy and was The agency waited: + until Oct. 10, j . sold Cswdld’s application. for a visa, -{ 1863, to noti ify the FBI of Osw rald's : page ‘eee ne ae activiues. And tS weieiypeu repoLe made no mention of Oswald's affer of information in exchanse for a tree trip to Russia or of his “attempts to travel to Cuba and Russia. “Qn Oc- tober 1, 1963,” the teletype message said, Hg reliable and ecnsitive sour in Mexico reported that an American male, who identified himself ‘os Lee swald, contacted the Sovict Embassy 7 in Mexi co City inquiring whether -~ the enibassy had received any news ° concerning a telegram which had been * sent to Washington." ‘That was. strictly a 2 routine | handling of the matter, and similar,to the ; | standard reports made to the FBI at that thme on other contacts with the communists by American citizens in México, Even after Kennedy's asse assination, the CIA failed to turn over to the Warren Commission the full trans-” cript of the telephone intercept it had ade in-Blexico City. Oswald's offer of information to the Russians in ex- chang e for, passage was omitted crom ne transes: yf, and + ‘ne CIA claimed Fe did not know of most of Oswald's activities In Me xico City wntil after the assassinat: ion. The significance of the CIA actions - is diffiewlt to < fall of 1963 was already showing in- termittent interest in Oswald and might or might not have intensified hat interest if it had been told of Oawald’s conversations, a hether the new information would affected the Warren Commis- ion’s deliberntions is also an open question. The commission investi gated the possibility ef.a foreign con: , spiracy, and concluded “hore was evidence te. show Oswaid acte don vohelé of a foreign power. Nevertheless, there is yet no oN: planation for the CIA’s handiing of vaid's conversations, The CIA to eiuses to comment, saying it fate in the Hehe tigation oy tae avd. 4 Aav ai o. Osv dav +r _WOu id not be ‘appropri of an impending invest ‘House Select. Cenrmittce on Ass sinations. tet When asked it they ‘could explain the agency's actions, some ClA of- 5 four? + reser an City said the CIA. | relationship sought ta conceal. nied this. David W. DULG EAE Ree OF wEOm Coenen wee ane ‘ sistant counsel to the Warren mission end iater executive air ‘ef the Rockefeller commi igsion’s of the CIA, $ ‘mittee had been . conversa In interviews wit 4 . -_ who decumented hy »Castro in his conneh: ¥ “na assess, Tne FEI in the” a . Commission had vy have had with ‘ald .tirat i Tiaw CIA has ide Beilin, who wos an as Com. ecte aid fast if the Ware conversations taation, it would have oe Vaat the assassination w ‘of a forelen con .. Sen, Richard 5. Sei he Sens mitice’s probe of the said that inveatizetion an who led 1 taxen on aantt 1 rection ang fics ah izeator at sion, rev tell tho ake fw bod mec Oral intelligen ful discio Csweleé Cubans 3 Clin, § = Warren Com: Oswald xiled wo agents. ane such sn was debunk ase SEG 2 ealod Warrett report frem om cule ting in Mexico c yraid and Cuban int Wes At the time, Cuban agents nated their more wilh agents of th ce service, Belin galled on SMOKCE! t . af ie 3 known of and other ha repiracy, ata int velo aeet Nentizely avy are of OYSpe ("= Ox-aa cl n res ea at. HGS, tne wae ay eke id . ae ancy et tne sifie aie, ? at the ap eee eatoes important ae.
13-00000 \ _ . Te s ( . SBP re On ae . Ve 1 . : > i ities ddd = i . Oo AINSSacTon PORTO we * Fantomas Lene Serer es t.. wi bs Vi rs: re hotel o ° ry) : , ° . go .8 Ls ; t at . . : - ‘ . . : . . t 5 ere PGE PG sages neheeeseeqegeeseeN SEPALS SY 8 / MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director-of Central Intelligence FROM | — ¢ John H. Waller. . _- Inspector. General Washington Post Stoxy of 13 November 1976 "Oswald:Reportedly Told Cubans .. - of Plan to Kill. JFK" wes Fk SUBJECT --\. The Post story on Saturday states that a I. ‘Edgar Hoover - memorandum reported that Lee Harvey Oswald told Cubans in . advance of his plan to kill President Kennedy, The attached " package was: “prepared by} a cl Staff. “Tt 3 is for- warded for your information, 2 A copy of the Washington Post story has been added | to ‘the package. John H. Waller’ ; ais at fl eee “Spbreckinridgelje (i6.Novt ttn : Distribution: :.: mein oe “Sa pegimrememrte Sem O41 “AG ‘Chrono - aeons Petes 2 Es we a -~ AG Subject Crask Force . File) f |. wfattsin above file <A - SDB ‘Chrono ~ : _+. Seymour Bolten w/atts. ; oe ‘- John Waller w/atts).  .. . Jo. | (2. ae ~fAndrew Falkiewi¢ wfatts ee , rn 1- Dave Grinyd ctw fates Joon Eo Mernsced a tae ee
13-00000 _ , Comnassjon Exuinrr No. 3152—Continued ; : oe Td, ALLEGATION DY T=32 On Hovewber 25, 1063, T-92 cads conteot with the = o Yalted States Pabasey at Koxica, OD, Fo, Bnd advised the od : folloviags : . - eat FaI% entored Woxiem {Liagalty from Custenale en te August 29, 1093, traveled toe Wexieo, De Foy and subsequently wade contact with & Micaroruan comeungst rosiding fm Hoxico Citye. - Frou thiv contact g plaa way doveloned foy T93 te trayeL te . Cubs to study guorridila wardore tactlus. Mw had occasion te - vielt the Gubss Consulate 40 Moxico, D. ¥,p, several disgorest tines for the purpose of obtaining travel docusentation for soo, Cubs by qursiabiog galge ddautl¢ieatsos papera es & Kexicas oO citizen, : . - fe stated thet on Sopteuber 18, 3053, he waat te. an the Gubae Conmulete, and chile sittizg du the waiting. roos y ah gay & group ef agproximatcly eight persons enter the Congulate . ang the office ef Cuban Conoul EUSERIO 42cVg. 4 porcoa usknova to him was elttiog at ASCUB’s desk. A short ¢ieo later, vhije gource wag standing scar the door te ¢ha won’s yaou af the Cubsa Coseulate, he noticed three won convoraing @ tow soot . avay froa hia, Ose of thom was & tell, thin Vegro with ’ reddtah baizy; the gocond wis 8 gin shom #32 had gees previously =. ‘ holding » Cansdian pagspert du the waiting room ofthe Cubsm . Cqasuletes asd the thir’ parsos we LES DARVEY OSVALD. . “gource stated thet e te32 Cubseu Joined the ebove group ronentarily and paxsod some Ualted States currency té the Kogroe “ne following conversation between the Vegre and GSYALD was overkoard by sources : . Negro (im Euglish)s 2 Gant to £113 the saa, OSYALD; You're set man enough, f oes do ite” e “United 3tetes bank sotes vores " Wegre (in Spantsh)y ¥ eantt xo with yous, Fhave . . a - & Jes te €a, . OFVARB The poopte are vatting for me hack theres . FoI9 stated that the Kegee then gave OSTAIN - $8,356 fg United Gtates currency af targe denowlantions, waying? “Shle g0u'6 much.” Of thin sum, $3,600 was for extra Gxpense@e The Yegre glao gave O&¥AID ehaus 309 Hoxkeas peacee in @ later gaterview, source atated that the te & apall pack about one fourth of Gs ines thick, bound with a pepor pend, which the Kegro broke beforg counting avg $4,500 wxtre for axgaove and $5,000 us “advanee paysout,@ . | $992 gtated.that Oswald had carried & grees . Passport? ip hie pocket, and he beldaved he aaw OSYALD wearing . & platel ta a shoulder helater, bat ho ene nob gure of this polnt, Me staged thet GS¥ALD bed lang shous ang a wrist vates with a yeblow-setal band, dscordiag fo wouree, OSYALD appeared $e be completely af iinag af the Consulate and te know abd to be Snowe by Cubes Conaulate pernonnel, T32 wee arragted and tatorrogated by Yextcan authoritisag oa Novoubor 20, 1063, and a copy ef the daterres gestion report by the Mexican authorities revealed the gollowings 4% the outget gouree’s etory generally reconbied that rocordsd shove, He repeatod to the Moxtcan authorities the doteiig of the scene $a which be aay the Megre, the Ganndian and the Auorican convoraing togethor, tha delivery of the woncy te the dusrican by the Xezye, and the conversatiog be overhuards, To¥3 advised the interviewing oxican effioleis that wpoa goging the photograph of OSYALD tn the newapapors following the avaasaination of Preaidens JOIN F,_ XEMHEDT, be Kecogatzed OSVALD ag the dasrican be had geen at the Cuban BOULaT Es 4a exterst from goures’s otatenent te Montene ‘ eutrori¢ieg, a9 traseiated fron Spanish, i¢ ay feliovss 2 18 a my ¢ . . ..:, Comnnssion Examarr No. $152-—-Continued
13-00000 to an ros esepontancously ani aftor reconsidering he . . : ote : rea to atate thas the Asariqen te whom he an : : . . . . ° he anew the bth Of Soptoebar nf (hia gear du tha «+ * to tae @ WEB cuban Conautata asd w nortan renewiit nets about wef te : Sor big explanation thoroof, ‘ . .Giaty per cent, te LRH HANYKY Uy. sagannia vs Jf toa pe, ef the Presidcat af tha Undted Aiatea), That “A . it SO lygeaph He woplied that he had full faeh in the ‘ after tho assassination of frankdant KEXKEOY tha , nh re m, ear eare and would Rot attonpt to refute its regultae He witnoss took advantate of thin fect in hig faver rn 1° abat he bed ae, teat She only cxptiny “on ho could offer yaa to exploit §t, furnishing veralong auch ag those ; . - Lo goptenba Mo. ince Asoricaa im tha Cuban Cocovlate on datisally vot forth, for the purpnan of provoking : oY serine tue ob. 3063, who vencablod OSWALD, and that upon an energetio roaction fram (ha political podag ef : ,o. be TEhL “2 atogTaph of OSWALD in the noropapor; he built ogainst the gavoeraneak o ft + Bn vs : e 3, e . _bhat ho had 60 motive other than tho. profaund ae mt Gonmulate was O37aD, : . hatred he fools for comauniue. Tank abi his 2ife the witness had dedicatad biasalg Lb combating : , :. ftoanunion and he regrets ab thin aneent not haviag . . i ° accomplished his objective in the souae ef cauoing | : . & reaction on the poet of the Anorican Goversuoat . , sgakasi FIDEL CASTGO." _ Because of the fact that subsequent to asking the aboveousationed statement to Uesican authorities, source . Gisined that he bed changed his giatanent because of foar, . : ' : . , . he was fatervicwad at conaiderable Length Ga Beceaber § and . : : wy G, 4863, dn Moxico, De Fo . " so? &fter reiterating Ato sinry, T-93 wan afforded & polyzraph sxamination ga Meeenber B, 1903. Oveing the course : . . a of the cxagination bo wag ankod, “Ja thia the Asorlean yuu saw ot . _ ‘ a ae Conguhate7™ At the tine he wag ahava photographs . . soot 6. a 1 : . . : pegs merge or . Geek thas te wae sehod thie question, Be definitalp . . . _ catty oo 7 “yt . . gasponded, "Yea," but 4% was noted that the polygraph Sndicsted . -. ote on on 2 t se . ° a "deception response” on thoso anewora, Those roeponses and The . ot . eo : . . those with Peapect to other quegtiona ded te the eonclugios . Soom, FT te ee ee ' ve ty et 4ba$ T-34 tas a fabricator, Ub 738 specifically posutad us er - gl. re Sen) > : ‘ out 20 din that the polygraph indicated that be wag aos beleg 2 8 a an ee er e. . , . . . . .e - @ 188 o , - oe, . vs Le ee | . Commission Exauarr No, 9182—Continued "  Gosauaston Feuer No; 3152—Continued oa . : " oe : : . : . re Cr a ae o . . ee . , '
13-O0000 2, pramsemyceer Si Mexico City in early September to receive money and orders for the it: Mexico City with a Communist from the United States shortly we before the assassination, and that Oswald assassinated the Presi- 2; Gent at the direction of a particular Cuban agent who met with him in the United States and paid him $7,000.77 A letter was received from #* someone in Cuba alleging the writer had attended a-meeting where - Rye £:. the assassination had been discussed as part of a plan which would - = soon include the death of other non-Communist leaders in the Ameri. ie: cas’? Ths charge was mada in a Cuban expatriate publication that in -". aspeech ha delivered 5 days after the assassination, while he was under ~., the influence of liquor, Fidel Castro made a slip of the tongue and said, sSreountry 7 " te, . = Some stories linked the assassination to anti-Castro groups who - 7, allegedly were erigaged in obtaining illicit firearms in the United : = States, one such claim being that these groups killed the President as #1, part of a bargain with some illicit organizations who would then - supply them with firearms as payment®? Other rumors placed “7. Oswald in Miami, Fla., at various times, allegedly in pro-Cuban ac- . gh-tivities there."** The assassination was claimed to have been carried .oub by Chinese Communists operating jointly with the Cubans5® ic) cay for a private talk" Castro himself, it was alleged, 2 days after eh «the assassination called for the files relating to Oswald’s dealings with “5. Gvo members of the Cuban diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union; ‘the inference drawn was that the “dealings” had occurred and had Oswald’s life.** Without exception, the rumors and allegations of .m some cases the product of mistaken identification. is). Ulustrativs of the attention giveri to the most serious allegations. . | “is the case of “D,” 2 young Latin American secret agent who ap- proached U.S. authorities in Mexico shortly after the assassination er and declared that he saw Lea Harvey Oswald receiving $6,500 to kill i, the President. Among other details, “D” said that at about noon on as Sulate, he saw a group of three persons conversing im a patio a-few “# feet away. One was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hair, obviously '. ““edyed, who spoke rapidly in both Spanish and English, and another’... "Was a mon he said was Lee Harvey Oswald. A tall Cuban joined the ‘group momentarily and passed some currency to the Negro. ‘The | _ Negro then nilegedly said to Oswald in English, “I want to Kill the. * man.” Oswald replied, “You’re not man enongh, I can do it.” The - Negro then said in Spanish, “I can’t go with you, I have a lot to do.” Oswald replied, “The people are waiting for me back there.” The _ 307 “3. assassination,** that he had been flown toa secret airfield somewhere in - vy orneay the Yucatan Peninsula,®* that he might have madacontactsin ~~ “" “The first time Oswald was in Cuba,”. thereby giving away the ._ fact that Oswald had. made one or more surreptitious trips to that Oswald was also alleged to hava met with the Cuban Ambassador in — -.2 Mexico City restaurant and to have driven off in the Ambassador's ~ jestablished a secret subversive relationship which continued through _ ‘4. conspiratorial contact were shown to be without any factual basis, _ # September 18, waiting to conduct some business at the Cuban con- | |
13-00000 Negro then gave Oswald $6,500 in large-denomination American bills saying, “This isn’t much.” "After hearing this conversation, “D” said that ho telephoned the American Embassy in Mexico City several times prior to the assassination in an attempt to report his belief that someone importent in the United States was to be killed, but was finally told by someone at the Embassy to stop wasting his time. “D” and his allegations were immediately subj ected to intensive investigation. His former employment'as an agent fora Latin Ameri- can country was confirmed, although his superiors had no knowledge of his presence in Mexico or the assignment described by “D.” Four days after “D” first. appeared the US. Government-was informed by tha Mexican authorities that “SD” had admitted in writing that hig ' whole narrative about Oswald was false. He said that he had never "seen Oswald anyplace, and that he had not seen anybody-~paid money - : in the Cuban Embassy. He also admitted that he never tried to tele. phone the American Embassy in September and that his first call to ’* the Embassy was after the assassination. “D” said that his motive in - fabricating the story was to help get himself admitted into the United '' | States so that he could there participate in action against Fidel Castro. ~ . . He said that he hated Castro and hoped that the story he made up :- sould be believed and would cause the. United States to “take action” against him, |. “Still later, when questioned by American authorities, &—)” claimed that he had been pressured into retracting his statement by the Mex- - -. ican police and that the retraction, rather than his first statement, ~ ..3was false. A portion of the American questioning was carried on - with the use of a polygraph machine, with the consent of “D.”. When told that the machine indicated that he was probably lying, “D” said words to the effect that he “musé be mistaken” Investigation in the : meantime had disclosed that the Embassy extension number “D” said he had called would not have given him the person he said he spoke to, and that no ons at the Embassy—clerks, secretaries, or officers— _ ., had any recollection of his calls. In addition, Oswald spoke little, if any, Spanish. That he could have carried on the alleged conversation . with the red-headed Negro in the Cuban Embassy, part of which was | supposed to have been in Spanish, was therefore doubtful. “D” now * said that he was uncertain as to the date when he saw “someone who looked like Oswald” at the Cuban Embassy, and upon reconsideration, he now thought it was on a Tuesday, September 17, rather than Sep- tember 18.. On September 17, however, Oswald visited the Louisiana State Unemployment Commission i in New Orleans and also cashed 2 ' check from the Texas Employment Commission .at the Winn-Disie . Store No, 1425 in New Orleans. On the basis of the retractions made’ by “D” when he heard the results of the polygraph examination, and - on the basis of discrepancies which appeared in his story, ib was concluded that “D” was lying2* -.-- The investigation of the Commission has thus produced no evidence . that Oswald’s trip to Mexico was in any way connected with the assas- ' _ sination of President Kennedy, nor has it uncovered evidence that the, “808
13-00000 - we . “! zg 2 ’ Re ttbsce 3. Acecevsing te CiA racerds, Maric G herno oon da Cuis ifvci in Havana. He is oa f ron and whe sen ef a Fermer cCnbnan Anbessad beet Ho nag attempted to g2in officiel U.s be Saw. = am ne de = «LS af ~” = mse - = ae os a? and the suppert of foreign frovermments, fo schemas to overthrow Fidel Castre. In pur cat ra hea! om WS 7 Tawny 3 ° 3s ee he has used numercus high-level goverament = » 2 =~ « . erfort to associate himseii with thea CIA. Garcia. was sehtenced to one year in prison ° 3 * he at = currency to introduce into Cuba te depress a. Sear : - we ea a > clained he did this with the knowledge of my ar ey et es rt . + + ees 2 4 ° See ee U.S. Government. CIA denied any knowbedge ; . eS : Agency has had no operational reiatiomship cc: DDCI . . CONCUR: -” ~ * . ~~ . Villines m . a an fmm, . Deputy Director for ‘Operatic ns Da on ° o Ooo 4 Wn bye + ee ors ee bee e 2D oO o oe O fete od fo ©) bee fe) @ fog In for forgins Cuban: the econony. h an iA eT ~ t eh. fy —s, oe = ot + NM rOH NMOS (2) aaa we Goittg tn i cs ¢ p4e9Q or ps he we ame b, {3 Ch bse 4o3u b= Uoed ere ey m wet HG o ) oa 9 Om Naw 7) 7) os mm M9 wd of Garcia. with Garcia. Raymond o7 “8 o ™ April 1964 e CIA and the po sory won @ fd beef pte bao ret O° J He This. = s/ Geares Vv. Lauder Oe “A. Warren —~ ~~ Ww > yn ct 7)