13-00000. a tt ee ORR ape ee cee te "" Qe) Libero RICCIARDELLI, tourist. REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED _ vot a GO} conerpenrta io) nee : LIST OF AMERICAN "DEFECTORS" - 1.) Morris and Mollie BLOCK, living in the USSR, and possibly, Communist China, since the fall of 1959» '. 2e) David DuBOIS (aka UPEBOY), living in Peiping since May ~ 1960, but may have returned to the U.S. 3.) Sgt. Joseph DUTKANICZ, U.S. Army, defected to East German ‘Forces about the spring of 1960. . eg lk.) Sgt. Ernie F, FLETCHER, U.S. Army, defected to East German —— : an _., Forces in dune 1959 and stated that he wished to remain in East Germany at a confrontation held on August 5, 1999 (CINCUSAREUR telegram SX 5307 of 0617442 August). : §.) Sgt. (fnu) JONES, U.S. Air Force, defected in mid May 1960 to East German Forces (Air Intelligence Information Report a ; ~ number 1.30223 of August 9, 1960.) - be) William MARTIN, NSA employee. . : Te) Bernon MITCHELL, NSA employee. 8.) Lee Harvey OSWALD, tourist. | ; = _ 10.) Pvt. Viedimir SLOBODA, U.S, Army, defected to East German. Gm. oy Forces in the spring of 1960. ere 11.) Robert Edward WEBSTER, tourist, (see New York Times article | on of October 20, 1959). , oa 12.) Bruce Frederick DAVIS; U.S. Army, defected to East German - Forces, August 19, 1960 (Eubassy Moscow telegram 1032 of ; October 22, 198). . Fe
| Pane , - | HS C DLL . - et. Der _ . en : STO | ae | . : ea x SVORY “D “annka ai cttnctedDa baba 31 January 1964 Information Develoned b GEA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City 28 Sentembor ~« 3 Oecteber 19563 oe ee gone ed Ne ee EE aah oe 1, OSWALD Is Activi : On? October the CLA Station in Mexico City reecived following information from a reliable and proven source: eee An American naced Lee OSWALD had coatacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, 1 October 1963. He had spoken in halting Russian to the Soviet — , . a Lo ; | | Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to whom 7 oad _ he said he had visited the Embassy ¢wodays earlier, | ot ba Saturday, 28 September, He asked whether there had . * “4, been a reply to 2 telegram that tho Consul with whom he tad spoken, but whose meee he could not recall, had promised to send to Washington, OBYEDKOV had - attern ted toe establish the mwentity of the Conaut with, whom OSWALD had tanceds if ac ‘had. beona ‘dar: aerey- TsO, a then it had PF rabably beon i cOSTIEOVS OBYEDKOV, _ © mor i W ARMING NOVICE : & SENSITIVE SOURCES AND |! eo ‘ a So . Doo perry THAIS PRENSe Ne Vee t Document NUM DEP mcnwntentnomnd CRY ¢ OF. : 500 + “205, | | sePRAMUCTINE Review om. wy 75 7 [bor ~ £0 ; 7)
13-00000 _zeccived from the Depaz ztmoxt of State, the Federal Bureau of | REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED ATT ym ge ey Lote METH | vad S| after a check with Sovict Consular personnel, assured OSWALD the telegram had been sent to Washington but no answtr had been re ceived, - The information was forwarded by. cable to CIA Headquarters the same day it was received. 2. A file chock tn Washington which is routine in those matters: rovealed the possibility of an identity between the Lee ~ OSWALD’ who had spoken with OBYEDKOV, and presumably with KOSTIKOV, and the defector returnce, Loe Harvey OSWALD,* 3, On10 October 1963 CIA Headquarters disseminated by cable the report in substantially the form and in the detail indicated above, in paragraph 1, to the Federal agencies whose . jurisdictional interests had been established by a review of OSWALD's file; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Depart~ poe * The CIA file on Lee Harvey OSWALD was opened on 9 Decomber bee 1960 to accommodate biographic information developed by CLA in an _ response to an inquiry from the Department of State on a list of. koe _ American defectors in Soviet Bloc countries, OSWALD's was oe ‘arnong the names inthe list, The Department'of State inquiry “Hh ’ was dated 25 October 1980, An interim reply was given by CIA ee on 3 November 1960; a final reply, :on. 24 November 1950, Unti ein, early October 1963 the contenta<ef fis OSWALD file held by CIA | kee consicted entirely of press ma teaigth and disseminstions an Investigation, and the Navy Department. WEAN a ce rr ee ; SENSITIVE SOURCES AND ; EBA ST OO TD
7 REOOUCTION PeOeseTeD | eit ben * a 4 ITE SCOMIRET “AND = ‘ aie sensil i ‘. on "ET 1ODS WNC “D Fs | (3 wacut of State, the Navy Department, and the Immigration and we Naturalization Servicc, A comment was included in the report aN | e noting the likelihood that the subject, ee OSWALD, was oes , »robably identical with the former Marine who had defecied to - the Soviet Union in. 1959., (The report disseminated by CIA in | ak Washingtoa- -On. » 10: Oétober also includcd a phygical description ye af gay individ! who was beleved to have been the OSWALD who ned'eSatactea the Soviets in Mexico City, It was subscquentiy esta ablished by investigation that the description did not pertaia | to OSWALD, ) 4, Onthe same day, 10 Cctober 1963, CIA Headquarters sent a lengthy cable summez xy to the Mexico City Station of ths oy background inforraation held in the Headquarters! file on OSWALD, An instruction was included for the Mexico City” Station to pasa the substance of ite 9. Cetober report. to tho local” representatives of the same Federal department and ageacies . pose at that had been given the information in Washington This instruction was immediately carried ¢ outs: to this manner the se infor mation on OSWALD !Ia contact ¢ with the Soviets onl October my was passed in Mexico City to the Embassy, the FBI representative, Naval Attache, and to the office of the Immigration and Naturaliza ation Service. There were no requests from recicsnia of the report for further information or for follow-up investigation, pitateimemter + ge epee eer ee ~ mG WARING Reve; 2. wil SENSITIVE SOURCES AND _AMETHODS INVOLVED ° 8 tet gee 6000931 em ee elt at Baas eee cent | Re ee oa ee ae en ee ee
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 7 —— PRIBETED oe te ow 4 oh vem” wee AIA, re aoe eae BoDy EVN ED Pata tnlelSbetcltneeee '§ After the assassination cf President Kennedy and the arrest of Les Harvey OSWALD, os intensive review of all able sources was vadertiken in Mexico Clty to deterraine . wy id 4c purpose of CSWAED's visit. it was learned that CSWALD hed alse vicited' the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City and bad talxed thete:with a . cleric, a Moxican national, mamad Silvia puexan. - “Atte v the assassination and the publicity about Lea QSirALD, Silvia DURAN had told a nuraber of relatives and fvlonde that she had talked to OSWALD about a Cuban visa. . Silvia DURAN and hes husband, Hozazio DURAN Navarzo, were | tier detained and questioned by the Mexican police frora 23 to 25 ; — November 1963. | 6 After giving some of mae details. of her own personal | Tred background ~ she is an adraitted Leftist sympathizer and had Be formerly worked for the Me: cican-Guban Institute of of Cultural Relations - Silvia DURAN said.that when she first heard of, the . wo death of Prosident Kennedy she had been depros sed.and thought the assassin must have been a maniac. When ihe ledmed that ny he was associated with the “Fale Play. ier - Cuba Coramaltieo" ‘she did net believe it. 74. “She talked about the fadeto hor husband and when she heard the name of Lee OSWALD mentioned, she recognized it cs | WARNING NOTICE | - erm { _ SENSITIVE Ou mks AND wai aeTIOe ET ee ee ence ese ee ER ene ad a eT oT tt oe ne a aoe ee me en te mere ee wee om) pO Q) a = “9 Go ew
13-00000 A AR tacoma tel. tc Ph Lead anf &, Sree aetna tenth 7, epee nn een em ae tae mene mms esheets tea ese Bg pment gE REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED the man who had core to the Consulate about two months before to geta visa to transit Cuba on uit way tothe USSR. She yvealized that he had saigais vas married to a Russian ane that ers er he had belonged. to" ‘the: “Bai air Play for Cuba" ; group. Sho checked hex fil ile One fim in the Consular archives and from the descigtiva aos "she. was sure it was the same man. He was short, blond, ae dressed and his face got red when he talked. He was denied a Cuban transit visa because he did not yet have a Soviet visa, and he was told to get tho Soviet viea first, but it was noted that this would take about four saonths. She had asked the Cuban Consul himself, Eusebio AZCUE, to talk to OSWALD and they. had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Moxico instead of waiting there. The Consul had phoned the Soviet Con- sulate and talked to the person handling OSWALD's case, who had said it would take about four months to hear from Moscow 7 _about the Soviet visa. The came afternoon, OSWALD: bad come pack again and she had told him the same thing. ‘She’ egave OSWALD a allp of paper with her name. and | telephone number on it in case he ever got his Soviekvisa. He “ald not call bacis, she sald. 8. Silvia DURAN's hus 3 > Horacto DURAN Navarro, gave Ex . ' essentially the same storys ‘as he had ‘Previously heard it from . his wife aiter the assassination, He had never ‘had any personal contact with OSWALD. a rs are Rhine MO 125 eh for ther? Btitees ay " ; SENSITIVE i. SBGAALEHS + AND ona i pte e, oa, rousen te yo j? be Bel SE Tt “rT | ~s on eae aie Star a eA ™~ i, « nee ‘6, ¥ ee 4% 4 of F cy < ae
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION PROWMEITED ‘ - On ra ° WARKENG BOPCCE SEMOITE OE Se ? ° 9, Silvia DURAN was reinterrogated by the Mexican police from 27 to 29 Noveraber but she did not change or add materially | Bete to her story about CSWALD, . 10. It is known that the: Seban Ambassador in Mestico, . Joaquin HERNANDEZ: Aemas, reported on the detainment aud é inter rogation of suvia DURAN by the Mexican authoritios, Tho . on : eed Cubap Government sent the Mexican Government a stiff note of : em, 2. wit UD 5, ° which the Mexicans rejected, Qoverrbear tl, . We are reliably informed that on 26 Sontenmow, the day after DURAN!s release, Cubaa President DORTICOCS queried — HERNANDEZ about his report, HERNANDEZ confirmed that there had been an aliercation between OSWALD and Consul AZCUE, DORTICOS made a persistent but unsuccessiul cffort Se to determine from HERNANDEZ whether the Mexican authorities os ig -had questioned Mrs. DURAN abcut money, or thought that the Cubans had paid OSWALD TORS Ys l2, The CIA follow-up investigation pr cduced the following confirmed results which have a a bearing on Mrs, DURAN's account; - ce . informed the Soviet Exbass st. that a male American citizen - i tall ‘had requested a viaa te transit Cuba on his way to the ~ oe NE ee  RREDT TEETER eA REING | NOTICE we ! ty : ‘ Pod * * if a ay 5 q RL MeTHCoS” ve FONMED scl 6000934 “ity Pee ee eet meee ee eee cn | ae cme ne ceed Sane neon vier mene a nee Oe om
13-00000 “REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED 10 ec th tee Sw ODEs > + AP cadatnttann Rte 2 Oe ce Rb EERE ao SEAT AS O D am » iy } { aR : . yee pee qe A Sd a oe ee % bal Soviot Union, She e desire to know who the Amorican had ars talked with at the Sovict Consulates Also, she indicated . that the Cuban Consulate. coulda grant him the visa and 2 arrange immigration details if the couceasion of a Soviet , visa were. assured, - 27 September, Pursuant to her inguiry, Silvia Be *, gies, Apran received @ contirm=tion from the Sovict Embassy that the American had been to the USSR installation, He - eos . . “eo had shown thers @ ictter frorm the Seviet Consulate in oO Washington indicating that he had been long awaiting a — visa for himself and his wife to goto the USSR, No oS answer had come from Washington; however, the waiting period was sometimes four or five months, The American also had a letter attesting that he was 2 member of _ EROS . Cuban orga aniza ation but he had claimed that the. Cubase would not give him 2 visa unlesa ho had. 1 airendy received a Russian visa, Although the America i was still at tho Cuban. : ; . | Consulate, Silvia DURAN wepedted that she douid net give ier" chim a transit visa unlecb a Soviet vida was s forthcoming, notwithstanding the American's wish to go to Cuba to wait web SRST Sour: “amare | ReTHOSs INVOL SERNA he + BM OT 9 GOU0935 : PRON fe at : a 1 fa nail oer mem mere ‘e — mean ae ee ae ee ee ane ee ne cereal | REPROOUCTIOR
1.3-00000 REPRODUCTION — PROGIBITED peceayem pty tt Hk Bacto ummm “Pabteenahenteann ranean erie so ry e af 7! Bain there for his Soviet visa, According to DURAN, tho oe: American knew no one in Cuba and sho intended to appropriately annotate the American's card, The Soviet official echoed-her statement that the Amorican was not known. — a - ee cr, Silvia DURAN was again visited at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City by the American bape secking a Cuban transit visa, Mrs. DURAN contacted at least two members of the Soviet Embassy and facilitated = a direct conversation between one of the Soviets and the pena _ American, Conversing in poor Russian, the-American. stated that he alrcady had beon to the Soviet Consulate and had loft anaddress, The Sovict official replied that os he was aware of that, The Amorican suggested that he Fcc bad not known his address then, and he had gone to the’ oo as Cuban Embasay to ask for tha address, becausert ey had t <2 it, The Arnerican then acceded to the Sowlet official's 7 oo, aioe Pe . Pew invitatioa to come by and give them-theaddreaa, je d. 1 October, In mid-worning an unidentified geet individual, speaking br oken Russian, contacted the Soviet Military Attache in Mexico City, He sald he had been to
13-00000 ae a - REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED 7 8 . é ——., , ra . | the Embassy tho previous Caiurday (26 September) and nod talked with a Consul who had said they would send a Ecce, . telegram to Washington:,.Hed there beena raply? He &. ' LS was referred to thé’ Consulate for the information, These additiongithatérials were proraptly diseeminated in “4. Washingifin: by the CIA to the White House, tha Department of of eud the Federal Durcau of investigation, e, 1 October, Sce paragraph ] above for Lee OSWALD 's contact with the Soviet Consulate, ——— | | ee Il, Veloriy Viedissirovich LOSTICOV  — i sneeesmeneimonnt snnmmn suet mmabehonen seamen simmenummotmatmns ummm imitans eueeeemmi deta chmod 7 . 13. Ib ia believed that the Sevict official with whom OSWALD dealt in Mexico City was Consular Attache Valeriy Viadimirovich KOSTIKOV, born in Moscow, 17 March 1933, & puotograph of KOSTIKOV is attached. In his letter of : 9 November to the Soviet Consulate in Washington, OSWALD wth ee ; wrote about his "meetings with Comrade KOSTIN (sic) of 2he” woe Soviet Union in Mexico City, Mexico," There is neréfficial HOSTIN", other than Consul KCSTIXOV. 14, KOSTIXOV is the senfor' officer of five Soviet r Ce ae ra oe ie } METHODS INVOINS. ean eT Ee mA res so pete meat el ee oe a ee ee gmt oe Re ee . . ws Be a
1300000. i ye ts REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED : & Ne, “ i Saar Sith, nh ae Sony 5 ME it 105 Pes och lp roatters, There isa firm evidence for the conclusion that HROSTIXKOV is 2 Soviet State Security (KGB) cificer, and the other four Consular — aed area officers are also known or ots ongiyemopected to be Soviet Stats Security per sonnel serving under: official cover, The State Security Service is the major cf 8S Sovist intelligence services ard it is are required to perform the routine aad legitimate business = WF [; demanded by the cover job in an embassy or consulato, 16, | KOST IKOV was first spotted as a KGB man because of his travels. around Mexico, his habitual association with known | H ag | KGB officers, end because consuls, in Soviet practice, are usually KGB men, . : | oe ge pad: 17, KOSTIXOV is belicved to work for Depar tment Thirteen | 2 Y a Pee of the First Chief Directorate of the GB, It is the Department r - . responsible £ for executive action, including sabotage and: assassin ae Bag nation, Thece functions of the KGB are known wit hin the Service stay ; Ex acy Affeg iT] ire rod ep ANd bua . 7 ie itself as “Wet Affairs (mokryy. @ gel). The Thirteenth Department ot headquaztex 8, according to very.aieliabié information, conducts ee interviews or » 29 appropriate, filo reviews on every foreign Peter ey te we oe ' “ od ore saan heetreeteeen SO TD . + EAD R Pe neendes AS SE: ‘it ihe sce ie 4. rating ghis 2 8 Beau \ 7, gO &. Fema METH ee nee eee ha aa cee A seme ae mere nee em nema manent pee meee recat wee u Sn File tra toenien wetting «attest Bote Pettnn Keo tli =
13-0000 REPRODUCTION SENSI pee son wer AND , military defector to the UGOR te study ond to deterraine th possibility of ubiliniag the defector in his country of F origin, ‘18 An intensive review of the files of our Mexico City ~ Station was undertaken immedia lately er the assesocination to com> out ony previously um oporicc infowsa jatioa abow ZOSTIKOV's s oe activity. No usefil 5 new. information 1 bear zing on the assassination es, a 2 re sulted fier ery this efioext 19. Aclose observation was maintained on the Sovict . m4 persoanel, KOSTIKOV in particular, for days after 22 Novernbex, Nothing unusual or out-of-pattern waa noted in the activit y or moverents of the Soviet personnel, y 20, It is of parenthetic interest,- however, that the Soviet Ambassador, when he raade his eat of sympathy on the American zi oe Ambassador, 23 November, was | accompanted by two Tanking ° Rew % . intelligence officers who are in the Soviet installation under wy whe diplomatic cover, One is known to be from the State Security — . Cte Service and the other is an identified Soviet Gornal Staff. oo ‘iy. . a a Intelligence (GRU) officer. a em . wee * a yee Hl, Monetary Payment to OSWALD a investigation of AHegation ‘young 1 Nicaraguan named 3 21. On 26 November. 1963" F Gibesrte ALVARADO Ugarte walked inte the U.S. Embassy i in Soman neeaaetie WARIE ie ae alle i SeustTive <3 Ou a ANS
13-0000 . a . V ee ay nwee "| ser REPRODUCTION — wf MOODS Mexico City and claimed ho had been in the Cuban Ext Sapa IBITED gs Mexico City on 18 September 1963 when,a man he Inter recognized e ee hay to be Lee OSWALD had been piven $6, 500 in cash to kill scomeoac, ALVARADO was known to CIA as a former informant of a Central American security service and to have been used to penetrate cormmunist guerrilla gr cups. He said thatrhe was in Mexica City still working for his service, trying to get himsell accented by the Cubans as a communist 50 > thoy would take him to Cuba for guerrilla training. “RIVARADO clearly was a trained intelligence agentydigi) ha" was 5 able to describs people and locations well, Ee tp cM had apparently visited the Cuban Embassy and its Consular offices ‘ on a nuinber of occasions and he correctly identified some twenty Cuban Embassy and Consular employees, 22, While intensive invest tigation in. the ‘United Stat showed that OSWALD could not possibly have been ia venteut aa bors City on 18 September (he was known to have been in New Crleans —_ on both 17 and 19 September »» intensive interr ogation failed to a Me, shake ALVARADO!'s story. ‘However, the. Central. Americana service for which he claimed to be acting, “denied that he was Oo a still working £ or them, c EROS. ‘Gyan
13-00900.., artnet att ono 23, On 28 November 1953, the Mexican police ¢ lP ats il ALVARADO over for further interrogation, At first, aug persisted in his story, but oa 30 November he finally admitted in a signed ‘statement that he had fabricated the whole incident of secing OSWALD in the Cuban Cousuiate being paid to kill somconc, 24, Once releasedpligvievo?, ALVARADO promptly retracted his confésaion, ‘Claiming ¢ that it had been extorted under threat of extreme duress, . anset *, . 25,.-Uader ordinary circumstances CIA would have dise poe . prommatase avded this retraction, But because of the importance of - ot esolving the problem CIA personnel continued the interrogation cl or ee ee in close coordination with the FBI, ALVARADO voiuntarily agreed to a-lie detector examination, A CLA polygraph cxpert, assisted by an FBI special agent, requestioned ALVARADO and secured admissions that he must have been mistaken, The ow polygraph expert conciuded from the zesulta of ‘his tests that ALVARADO had fabricated his story about OSWALD ia toto. 26, It should be noted that when he fizst- ‘told his story on 26 N November, ALVARADO could Rave Ienown from the we Mezican prese that. oswathis Bad» visited the Cuban Consulate: mae -el3e- | | WAR TNS | ‘. ‘ 24 - emis Sule Rok
cr nee ot Abi de han mee AO a onal comedienne FRO ver cae steep dati atte uel ewe fav tom eds taf in Mexico City, Also, he could bave heard the uno DAMIR ED) | HN 4 tor there that CSWALD had $5, 000 with him when he returned from f SSR scammer ~ wd careers Mexico to the United States. ALVARADO has since been deported . by the Mexican authorities to his native Nicaragua, Ms emery * eS wa en, f “1 mets ney owe Looe are coglen * aa) Pee a rae os eae tod a ay cherey G0UUE42- eo v ees Lee : a 7. . ~ ~ . ~ 7 cane we ee oe — . ~ eee we ce ren en name et nae mm ce ee
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13-00000 b ~ , i i a” sy ms a ". ro POB: New Orleans, Louisiana , . Defected to Russia 1959 - , 17 August 19600 received undesirable dischargé from U. S. Marine: Morps. Reserve _ ! Reportedly expresses. @desire for return to the US under | | certain conditions , | aoe eb \ / . EO  Osw, Le jen mers ; CSvALD, tee Harvey ere nue cr-Project/‘it . coer ~——s«CREPRODUUTION ~— PRORIBITED oder er 1959 __ bors rl ae te ener ee so . : : 3 i r de gE . & ores te ne nr _ . > .@ Cr 5 G, E ‘OSWALD, Lee Harvey WATCH. (as gerter Minsk, USSR - 7. Angast, ‘1961 i na FF : a. . 243 DOB: 18 October 1939 Te eer Te Te Le oo Tecra: Gere t OSWALD, Marina 26. Nov 63 ae 4 Box 2915 — CI/Project/RE . Dallas, Texas f{z-~uisy wo 4 cane ae apa me “Wife of late Lee Harvey OSWALD. | on 4 es Aatsu/- G3 £220 | Oo ee . i See, Parten Move Z Ld 7 Hl : ? a ; ee ee ee . - (0943 PROMIBITED a | Bo ee
13-00000 po REPRODUCTION ee wo, senget . cn a of . . ee Gy . i 1 . . ho oot a . o rare aM: 4j be FS . . . . 2 = pet ; - - e = ‘eh? ° ° t. 4 § a eto e 4 > ° + ry a . . wR a “ff. i t Bens N lose ABS 7 WS cee OY AL; ; 4 PORTER, Marina Prusxova“Osuald — 29Junel965.- | oS . Box 2915 v _ CI/Proj/PH  : ie Dallas, Texas i all t - on .- , -,t a in 2 renee coontner wp Boe. ce emer hs A. Subje@t is the wife of the late Lee Harvey OS:iALD; recently married to Kenneth Jess PORTER, 27 year old Texan; electronics technician. They were married in carly June 1965 in Fate, Texas. a , te pome sy yee Boel mH A 3 La re ae é 7 ‘a A) Ss aan k i > : _ . : - . i ey 2 } - = t *
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIOITED da SECRET TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Blind Memorandum, dated 27 November 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. 2. Transcript of telephone conversation between O'NEAL and PAPICH at 0915 on 27 November 1963. REPROD u PROGIBITED REPROOUCTION sm
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED — ( -_ 21 Novenber 1963 | } ] SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD At O915 hours on 27 November, Mr. Papich, FSI Liaison Officer, called A ts furnish in part such inforaetion wg(¥s hss been abe to acquire concern- Ve \ Nie ing the requests contained WK Sop ‘ta -Letype DIR 84951 on 25 November. AA With reference ne: Qe a: a x Cx relate to the extent of . we SE information which int geduired from OSWALD prior to his death, ~ Mr. Papich advised that a is informed by the police (see notes) . With reference to paragraph E, which deals with the question of when the Subject left New Orleans and the identifying background information concern- ine Mrs. PAINE and the station wagon driven by Mrs. Paine when she drove the wife and child from New Orleans to Texas, he stated that the Bureau is working on that matter and he may have some information today. Mr. Papich was advised that the Bureau is working on a matter of any information concerning the wife's ore with the Soviet Embessy in “Washington about visas to return te Fierse iiet Union. He also stated that oh can the wife is being interrossgedh \ These apegttons were put in para F of the rs eci@iwu receive subsequently a oN) 4 \\os ws me know at this stage what he had. mentioned telet ree poties a teletype response but h a Mr. Papich emphasized that there are all kinds of reports coming in from all kinds of sources - “everybody except the North Pole." He felt that all of us have to keep our feet on the ground. He mantioned that a report is being prepared by the Bureau and it was hoped that it could be sotten out today and delivered to Mr. Katzenbach after which there would be a decision made as to whether it would be publicized and this decision would be made by the President. Birch D. O'veal _ Cf/Cl/sic 001724 : | Ce a _| of He ccmnamuicta SEORET ie PROMBITED