, was a very’, bad : sone. oo. -he. said the: volees rose and fell -_recin ¢ Gig FLETHAL _ turer GRE S dy ay le if : opinion | of. them and he told. us that after re-reading then ee many’ tines and ‘Ustening to ‘the tapes in the ‘original he was of the opinion that the President of Cuba ‘was not referring to the fact that money had been passed to Oswald at the Cuban Embassy. He emphasized, however, that the telephone connection extremely, as wil. sometimes happen on a radio connection on a a long distance overseas call -- and he suggested that we have the tapes re-translated by some Spanish- speaking. Cuban who is familiar with the dialect of Spanish current on that island, inoluding ‘slang and nuances, He said the tapes were currently with the CIA in Washington and that we could arrange for such a re-translation when we returned. He emphasized, however, that his own opinion was firmly as he just stated it. He suggested the re-translation only as a/means of eliminating eny — ‘doubts which might be in our minds and as a doublecheck on his own opinion which after all, under the circumstances would be in error, Willens asked Scott to ask Richard. Helms to begin - the process of re-translating these tapes when he, Scott, saw | Helms in Washington during the CIA meeting scheduled ror the week of April 13. Scott said he would do this. We then discussed what the Commission could eventually oa REGAADED coarivent* sre Authority. ak 0 ta, “alegpe Bi a . Kans, Date 3/2 2S Je
A thawlly, aya vo f ef a fos hi, ‘ning Bins, van is received in Mexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us ‘realized that. any decisions arrived.at this afternoon could —— Ge be tentative ‘only, since the final decision would have to be [~~ made at the higher echelons of both the CIA and the Commission. Slawson. put out: the suggestion that the Commission might publish a narrative containing all the detail obtainable from..— Silvia Duran's statements and from the "open" investigations carried on by FBI agents and Mexican police agents throughout Mexico, supplemented to some extent by. the information obtained through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's informants. This supplement, however, would not be in detail; rather, for example, it would use phrases like "in the after- noon" in place of "4:05 p.m." Also, no absolute quotes would ‘be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative. would, be Stated to be Silvia | Duran! 8 interrogation, the | "open" “Anvestigations and "other confidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and hoe ty the federal intelligence agencies involved." Mr. Scott's reply | to this suggestion was that he thought At would be acceptable br. to the CIA, He gaid that although 1t involved a certain amount ae of compromise of nis security arrangements, the compromise was = aceeptable when balanced against the importance of the occasion. We asked whether he felt it would disclose to Russian and Cuban col * REGHADED GUAFIDEATIAL Authority. fat. : af fs Wi tm mae HW 53294 “Docta: 32370750 Page 48
_Rigmaied Catan —T- 0-8 8-2 RE WDA Sm webs | | Antelligence. the existence of. this. particular wire-tapping by the GEA, | ‘Hla’ ‘reply wae ‘that’ ‘they probably ‘assumed its Feshoe “existence anyway. (It should be noted that the proposal i forward would disclose nothing as to the existence of any > ‘photographic observations. Nor, I believe, would 4t disclose -anything that. would permit, enemy. intelligence to discover who, the CIA's informants are in Mexico or where they are located. ) We then briefly discussed the atatement of Silvia Duran which we had read earlier in the day in the FBI offices. _ -/:fneCTA had not:yet seenthis statement... | a 5130 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson's office. Anderson gave Us & report on. his meeting with Ibanez, He told: us that’ ‘Thanez ‘and: he had! @1scussed our making arrange- ~ ments to see ‘Silvia. Duran. The outcome of the discussion was that: Ibanez. himself. was very agreeable but said that he would have to clear at wath his superior, Eohevarria, $200 Bam: to 6130 pam We returned to room 510 and on the way ‘there were’ handed. a copy of the formal request to the Mexican Government _ for its complete report on the | seination. A copy. is fesnunn CONFIDENTIAL <eataee * “withortty.. mea tarsal 2 aoe 9 — H salediong ARS, Date 2/2337 70 an ae “SW SIT0E Doe:
BEUSSEEATON A _ ton ee + tele we Bf 2 AG attached to this memorandum. . We were told by Mr. Montllor, political officer for the embassy, ‘that although an. ‘attempt had been made to. deliver the note that afternoon it had failed because all the responsible Mexican officials were out entertaining Queen Juliana. Another attempt would be made at approximately 63 30 p.m. this same day, and if that failed, continuing attempts would be made on Saturday. (We were later informed that the note had been delivered late Saturday .morning. ) | We took the copy of the note which had been handed to us to Mr. Harry Bergold, Second Secretary in the embassy, and ‘asked him to see that the Commission be informed through channels in Washington of the contents of this note, when it was delivered, what the response was, when the response was received, and in | general & full documentation and report on the entire series of ‘transactions. He agreed that he ‘would see that this was done. SATURDAY - APRIL 11 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. _ Coleman, Willens and Slawson met 1n room 510 and spent about an hour or slightly more in reviewing what we had accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get done 49 - PEGRALED CONFIDENTIAL Ruthority.: by. 2/24} VST HLt9. RARS, Date 23/7 £ | , HW 53294 Docld:32370750 Page 50 -
REGRALED Con 4 huthorlty,.: wef? ago 1 ah. aw mae Rate ey SL7t genes: before. veturning | to ashangtons ee We agreed. at this time that. there was sufficient work remaining 80 that Slawson and Willens should stay over at least until Monday afternoon but that unless Ibanez replied to the effect that an interview with Silvia Duran . could be ‘arranged shortly, he, Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 12100 Noon to 3100 p.m. After having decided among ourselves what further work had to be done while we were in Mexico, we went to Mr. Anderson's office where we met Mr. Anderson and Rolfe Larson. The following points were covered, with the conclus- . dons as Stated 7 : os i a ae | We ‘asked that the exact “time, “rather than the 7 scheduled time, upon which Oswald's bus from Nuevo Laredo arrived in Mexico City on Friday, September 27 be ascertained. We pointed out that this could be important in determining whether Oswald immediately began his telephone calls and/or his visits to the embassies or whether he first checked in at his hotel. The FBI agreed to do this. | We reminded Anderson and Larson that we had some items of physical evidence wht ch, although not of prime a fie” Je, REOANGED GUMFIGEMLMAL >=. rE t Authority. GG. QL. 42/24) 1S" WL L9.. WARS, Date "Jeg J 7¢ . ee ae a ite Sai © ay net 2 re lee Ty ans Sa Le, Seer tage Toe ee HW 53294 DocId:32370750— Page: 51
gee ct) CADET | 7 Lier eer Rulhues.. ee hfe importance, might. be helpful in their further investigations, and it was decided that Slawson and. Larson would meet early Monday morning to go through these. We asked that the FBI determine the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public during the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them, Also, 1f possible, the FBI should determine if it was common 7 practice to stay open. later than the normal hours or be open on days such as Saturday when they were not. officially open. Once again we asked Anderson to review the Qutierrez investigation, which he did. We asked if there were any reports | elther being prepared or that had already been sent to Washington on this matter which we had not yet received. We were told that there were not. The status of the Gutierrez investigation 4s therefore that the surveillance of the Cuban Embassy will continue indefinitely in an attempt to pick up the automobile which was identified by Gutierrez, all other lines of investigation which any of us could think of seemed to have been followed as far as they led, with so far only negative results. Por purposes of authenticating our Mexican evidence we told Anderson that we would want a list of the names of all the FBI agents who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we | Ce ee gg ee ee oe ~—-BEGRADED CONFIDEXTIAL 7 AuthorltyC ELC. be. f2feo [rs a. wld WARS, Date Hd 25 112 _ : : o 53294 DocId:32370750 Page 52 — ae mo, —
PEGAALED GONFICER Ml Vb Authertty... CAA YE. rz] 2 Joe TOP =S-OR ET | h.. fm. WATS, Nets 3/28/28 discussed briefly what, would be the most convenient place to have these: agents. meet with @ ‘pepresentative of ‘the Commission for the taking of their depositions. Andergon replied that | either Washington or New orleans would be fine from his point of view. We reviewed with Anderson the procedures which we . hoped to follow in authenticating this evidence through the agents, as we had explained it to Larson on Friday, and Anderson agreed that: At would be a workable arrangement. In this connection it came out that Oswald's tourist card appli- cation, which was made from New Orleans, was not handled by the FBI Mexican office and therefore authenticating 1t would be a problem to be handled elsewhere, We agreed that we would pursue this when we returned to Washington. We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services ‘that Oswald probably purchased while in ‘Mexico and while traveling to and from Mexico. It was agreed that Slawson and Larson would meet Monday to go through this in detail, | | We then discussed the desirability of our obtaining a more complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban | Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice in granting visas and the different kinds. of travel permits which would be REGRADED CONFIDENTIAL © Pa CAL (On, pee 7s— ~A23.9., NARS, Dete a Ss shu HW 53294 DBocld: 32370750 Page 53
“ - a ee 7 PEGRAGED GUHFICER hl Ruthertty....G cs. TLQRaeeRET oh. arcs). ws ase ce discussed briefly | what would be the most convenient place to me have these: agents. meet with ry ‘yepresentative of the ‘Commission for the taking of their depositions. Andergon replied that | either Washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We reviewed with Anderson the procedures which we hoped to follow in authenticating this evidence through the agents, as we had explained it to Larson on Friday, and Anderson agreed that it would be a workable arrangement. In this connection it came out that Oswald's tourist card appli- cation, which was made from New Orleans, was not handled by _ the FBI Mexican office and therefore authenticating it would : be a problem to be handled elsewhere, We agreed that we would | pursue this when we returned to Washington. | We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services ‘that Oswald probably purchased while in ‘Mexico and while traveling to and from Mexico. It was agreed Le that Slawson and Larson would meet Monday to go through this aa in detail. | | * We then discussed the desirability of our obtaining amore complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice in granting visas and the different kinds of travel permits which would be REGRADED CONFIDENTIAL Buthority, ce Ay on. ya? 7 cam AS. NARS, Date ,,, 2ST DVL A tk nae tia FH me nen aco HW 53294 DocId:32370750 ‘Page 54
Be Autnceity. awn da jap Tf 237 H.. sees ae WARS Tate us) available to someone in Oswald's circumstances. “Likewise, we were interested in Learning what ‘obstacles to travel between Mexico and Cuba there might be that derived from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, authorities. Anderson agreed to give us as full = report on this as he could, but the difficulties are obvious. In general, he told us that, largely at the instigation. of the United States government, the Mexican author- ities are very strict about Americans traveling between Cuba and Mexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed for Cuba on , 1964" before the traveler gets on an airplane bound for Cuba. Likewise, the Mexican Immigration officials will not permit anyone, whether Mexican a American, to depart for Cuba unless he has the proper Cuban travel permits. No special Mexican travel permit is required for Americans at least, but ‘the Mexican officials indirectly enforce Cuban law by insisting upon complete Cuban documentation. (It should be pointed out that this is unusual. Normally, border officials are concerned only with persons entering their country or with their own nationals who might be leaving.) We pointed out to. Anderson that the reason for our concern that we get this information was that we needed it to test the plausibility, and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we had on what Oswald was doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet Hmbaseies, 11ers we wanted. to see “whether his ahah bate made ° —— | a ee be (2/2 2s wl it MARS, Dato, sfberhn HW. 53294 Docld:32370750 Paye 55
‘REGRKLS Gs t2)24/9.5° fue eOA ber. y? YW AES, nate 3/28] 7 a EOP EOE Me sense in the p aene of the normal _Cuban and Mexican procedures. we ‘then briefly | discussed the "two suitcase problem." we related how we had evidence that when Oswald left New Orleans for Mexico he was carrying two suitcases but that all our evidence relating to his travels in Mexico pointed to the fact that he had with him only A single suitcase, a small blue zipper bag. Marina's testimony and the testimony of Mrs. Ruth Paine both tended to confirm the one-suitcase evidence, We said that we did not want the FBI to undertake any kind of search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity to re-interrogate our witnesses in New Orleans who had testi- fied to there being two suitcases, but assuming that such re-interrogation confirmed their testimony in this respect, we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas or Nuevo Laredo, Mexico for. such & missing suitcase might be - practical. Anderson and Larson both felt that the FBI was fully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a missing suitcase, neither town being so big as to make such a search unreasonably dirficult. _ We told Anderson that we had not yet come to a firm decision as to whether we would want to bring Albert Osborne to Washington or elsewhere in the United States to testify . before the Comslesion. or. a representative of the Commission, REGRADED eager + puthorty Zee P Lae pl 3.) ps oT i whl sm Ys, Date. eSBs HW 53294 DocId:32370750 Page 56
jo! _ even on a voluntary basis. Certainly if he were going to resist testarying and we had to subpeona him, we “wanted to FBI in Mexico could do as to keeping track of Osborne so that | | 1 think further about it. In the meantime we wondered what the we gould obtain him on reasonably short notice if we desired to do so in the future. After some discussion of the alternatives open in Mexico, where Osborne was at last report, for ‘keeping tabs" on an individual, Anderson replied that he would ask the | Mexican police to put Osborne on a "two week reporting basis." He felt sure the Mexicans would comply. This means that Osborne, being a person under suspicion and being an alien, is | told that he must come into a certain police station and report | on 4 regular basis, Two weeks is a common interval for this ! sort of thing, but is sometimes even done on a daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extremely burdensome, however, especially for someone who cannot afford to travel by auto- mobile, as we believe is the case with Osborne, and especially when that person is Living far from the police station to which he has to report, If necessary, said Anderson, the Mexican police at our request will order Osborne deported and give us advance warning of when and where he will be pushed across the border. We could then arrange to have someone waiting for him north of the Rio Grande, with a subpoena. Anderson of course : eon p —AEORADED COuFiOgMig, - pth LAD jf yog L i RARS, a 3 29 (We 4 HW 53294 DocId:32370750 ‘Page 57 ©
Aut a im eal by ie as ; understood that nothing like this should be requested of the ee “Mexicans without first Betting our approval, We then requested that the FBI prepare a large, which have some bearing on Lee Harvey Oswald's actions in the city, This map would then be authenticated and described by | clear map of Mexico City and mark on it each of the places _ one of the FBI agents, probably Larson, at the "authentication | meeting" we contemplated holding in New Orleans or Washington. In addition, in the meantime, we would like such a map prepared informally for our own use. Anderson agreed to do this and said that Larson would deliver the informal map to us | on Monday. 7 . We inquired whether the FBI in Mexico City had been asked to undertake any investigations of Jack Ruby or persons or incidents related to him, “. Anderson said that they had not been asked to do. 80 except that they were asked to report any- thing they knew or could find out on Ruby himself. All they had been able to dig up was one old friend of Ruby's in Guadalajara, who did not have much to say. They had made passenger and immigration checks on travel to and from Cuba for the past few years insofar as such information was still available, but did not find Ruby's name listed. ce i SB ee | ae DDR FEET Auitory, tte hA Vy 13/0. Vr = é | a tN ats, pn Bath, HW 53294 Docld:32370750 Page 53 ~
2 . ; . Sea andl betes C46 Oh. steferae- te RIK Pi 3 Sf 76 we asked Anderson if he had a copy of the "dossier" “on Oswald mentioned an: ‘the Ambassador Mann file. He replied that he did not have one but assumed that it could be found someplace, since it of course existed at the time, and said that he would forward a copy to us. We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed out that we had never received a final report on him. Anderson replied that his agency had not taken the primary responsibility here but that the CIA had handled this investi- gation. We agreed that we would bring this up with Winston Scott. | . Winston Scott had previously mentioned to us that he | thought that Anderson had heard some vague rumors from expatriate American communists. in. Mexico ‘that might bear on the assassination and suggested we ask ‘Anderson about them, Scott had said that Anderson had spoken with him about this information many weeks before, to inquire whether the CIA could shed any light on it. Accordingly, we brought the subject up with Anderson. Anderson replied that an American expatriate communist named. Elizabeth Mora, known in left wing circles in Mexico as “Betty Mora," had made some rather vague assertions about Oswald which, through informants, Anderson' s office was AESRAGED éourcemue IEE ay DocId:32370750 ‘Page 59
on Auilrauy, ren ide. Oh. a © a . ae . ee FT AAS. Bk pate BacIte trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, Betty Mora had been extremély sick and 80 this whole line of. investigation was temporarily stymied. For several years Betty Mora has not been in good health, and in Anderson's opinion she is not a reliable person anywi’, so he did not feel ‘that her assertions would ever amount to amdch. He promised us a report on them, however, notwithstanding his feeling that they were not to be accorded a great deal of weight. Finally, we posed the question to Anderson whether he knew of anything further, important or unimportant, which we es ‘representatives of the President's Commission ought to be told, After some thinking and after asking Larson whether he haa anything along these lines and receiving a negative response, Anderson replied | that he believed he had given us everything he ‘knew. ‘We then briefly dropped into the GIA's office again and. saw , Soott and White. — Wwe were told by White that the examination of the reels of photographs pertaining to the time periods. covering Gutierrez’ visits to the Cuban Embassy had . been examined and that the results were negative. No auto-~- . mobiles appeared in the photographs and no persons were shown who answered the descriptions given by Gutierrez or who might have been Gutierrez himself... AE: wind note here that we did | Poco ae swe Dek Wess 2] 2/725 OP. hho d, | RAB, a wf #47
{ a ; — — REDIRUED GOAF LEAL | : oO Autor Sa QE, Cea! yf L2/24/ 9 Be a. LI). RARS, wilh S eee not ask the CIA to have these photographs atsplayed directly = to. ‘Gutderren.:: This - would: ‘of: ‘eourse:have | been the easiest : WAY ~ of detérmining whether the person he identified as the Cuban who passed the money to Oswald was shown in one of the photo- a - graphs, but this would also have involved such a serious breach of OIA ‘Security. srrangenents. that: we. aid not heiteve. that. it. was ) juetiried. ) We then asked Scott and White the same question we - had asked ‘Anderson about there being | any further information We. should be given... ‘His: answer's. concurred An by White, Was to. the same effect as. Anderson's, __ ABORADED CONFIDENTIAL o wee od 6 Eig wh? he sfig—~
HW 535294 7 "tenes (videh fnetison tee City) were examined ant we agreed that “ade ft tm ane to bes ete. Yor a description of these 7 oa 1964 from Wi David Slaweon, wubjects “Items of Physical dence bracelet ineert bed “Marina. " " Mr. larson and Mr. Clarke Anderson had —— “12f2 7/29 oF —k CRE T so 1A Aes. an ae 4 ( ; , canea BABS, Dato eran . t) Ge At about 9215 a.m. Mr. Glawson met vith Mr. Rolfe Lereon and one other 7BI agent. - ‘Various mnps.of the Federal District of one of the large, Clear ones would best serve es the officiel exhibit far showing the location of, . various places which Lee Harvey Oswald. probably visited while be wus in Mexico City. Mr. largon said that, he vould have tte pap appropriately marked snd formed to the Comission ia the neer future. Yor ny perdonal use in the time vhile the large formal mp wes being prepared, Mr. Larson delivered to me a maller mep vate had these nome locations marked on it. itenm, reference is here wade to the “Mencranhu fur Record” dated Wich May Relate to Onvmia's Mexican Sty," & copy of which hae been attached to this menorandim. _ he three of us agreed that nothing of significance could be discovered by further work in comaction with silver identifieation Clty hed been questioned es 5 te this: 8 testes Cs the beats of es foe ite a2 bi las RESRICED seurem potagreph OF Ht any dere the fect thet exon xlsar mskine a Begs” thuritye gE. pnd YER 15, wong) oe | Docld: 32370750 Page 62
PUTEAL po - eda 6 Le pers -dgit eppenr on the bracelet {tself vaieh 414 not show up on the | photograyt, nove of the shops het stated that they even acld bracelets: of this kind end therefore a re-interview of then vould elnost neg te ‘certainly again be negative. We also felt that ‘even if the shop should ba discovered Whieh Bold this bracelet to Lee Harvey Oswald, . . probably oll the omer could tell wo would be that Yes, he probably wold the bracelet te someone. + Larson noted foun all the words on the back flyleaf of the Spanish-English atotionary and he also noted the markings | on pages 5, 18 end B10 mxt to various Spanish vords. Bone of us could see any particular help at this tine Vhioh vould cone from | these writings and markings; but we felt that Mr. larson at least ought to have them with him . . Tie Mexican religious model vas felt to be so comon as - to be probably. matraceable andy: in sdittion, from its age we guessed that 1t may not have been purchased in Septenber 1963 in Kerteo City ut gould perhaps lieve been! inyrted into the United Btates end ated ty tees ma airy rey Pano | Mee Lavon noted dom all the wanting on yest 47 of Ommid's “nddvens book. ‘He said that he would check wach of the telephone sumbers and adrazes to see if they referred to the exbassies and airlines to vaieh they seen to refer and, if they did not, he would 7 find out whose telephone manburs ot afizesne they wore. In addition, be prondsed to do ail he could to find out wewther Loe Harvey Onvalt | had ever shown up at the Cubano Airlines os the address book indicates, BPs a “EU T Db ~ 61 « | ae (Pf aos tte as . Saeed ca be ar ——- Se Sane Cote te ah NW 535294 Docld: 32370750 Page 63
aia a prance ae gpl , | : Authority Dieta Serena Aa 3 eee 2 aa ms ant ead eau ‘Reeopt for he matters fait menidoned,, | we tould see no further help frem the physical exhibits in the Mexican investigation at this point. | | * then motional to Mr» laren ent the other agent th that “atte ater te eum gerne | that while there he had | visited the Cuban and Rustian Erbesaies to do all he could to get | to Cuba and had also seen a bull fight, visited some mecms and done | « Bome sight-seeing. Mr. Larson gaia that the tull fight arena had . | alrendy bom checked out insofar es possible vith the result, betag that no one there renenbers Oswald visiting the erens on the Sunday in question tut also that no one there is at ell certain that he did not visit the arena. _Pethenoare, there 4¢ a section in the arena “cowl ould fave aot sect wren thongh he Ad mot ens © cnt and necktie with him. Tt ves mentioned in this connection that the 7 Jot etet gums in Maxteo Clty are strictly reserved for persous wi0 : | are properly attired end thet no man can enter without @ necktie. an This plus the fet that the ticket teker at the gate, vho 1s a practiced professional informer for the polica in Mexico City, snys enphatically that Omwald aid not appeer there, lead us to conclude “hat Osvel never went to the Jat alat ganon despite the notation in REL ate Syeiluh~Anoriean dictionary indleating thet he intentet te do so. He The fact that he fatled to mention snything about the jet alat games | -D CONFIDENTIAL a REGRA Es to Marina after he returned points toward this same conclusion. Authority LAC Peep 2/78. pe - 6 = gy UE ate ™ HW 53294 Bocld: 32370750 Page 64
Rebar baraaes sat : ee Wy nid. RARS, Date. Oe 2,Afr+ | . Rolfe arson and the other agent vare quite interested 10, ae OU ‘Marina's statement thet Orwala soit he bad visited sone mscume, “ They felt they Imew two mieuns which wider the circumstances Orunld would probnbly have visited. One of them hae a caretoker who takes an eppecial interest in Amertonns and it wos felt that he might be ‘Stile to identity Oovald 4¢ Oeweld hed vintted there. ie. larson and the other agent egrood that they would folloy this Lend at the earliest Opportunity. I then told lerson that the Commission was interested in establishing as nearly at possible. the emount of money spent by - _ Hae Harvey Onvald traveling to and fron Maclco City and vhile he wes _ ta the city. In this connection it was agreed that the Mexienn | office of the FRI would forverd to the Commission, through channels, “an itemized estimte of Oswald's expenses vhich would include at “he Bim fae Yoth muted sod norton Sn Reco oo: De the fee for the travel agency, if paid by Oswald for hie northbound trerel reserva tions 3. the boat of Osvald's room at the Hotel del Comercio; Ss 7 4. The The eupraacimte food cost, sneluding food ha ate Se Ss Cost of the alt ‘stat 4 dn the weetion in witch Oswald - 6 The cost, if mny, of the rawewns wiieh he visited; '-.. Various transportation costs by bus and/or taxiceb ts - Yartowe te thé various trips we know he yrobably made in Mexico City. cat Yorald promenay ton ee tht city ve agreed that.Oeweld probably tock ‘Teoma GUNFIDENTUAL | authoriy SLACK P pales 2 63 = ny fhe sy. ee Le HW 53294 DBocld: 32370750 Page 65
: | | - geanaceo CuAFIGEHU™L aye So = = oo | wales Js, a “3/28 Le. | Oe Purcinse of six pteture posteards. Me. Slawson them vent to Mr. Winston Scott's office where he met Hr. Beott's secretary, “Dottie,” 88 arranged by Mr. Beott “ cae the previous Satumlay, Bottke soeried the. telephone. intereegts oe inte the nearby conference oom, handed them over te ir. Slewson i: | and remiined in the room throughout the entire time Hr. Glaveon oe worked on them. Mr. Slawnon spent util about 11:30 taking notes fram. the ne intercepts, after v vine he rutumed them to Dottie, | These ; Hated ome tit the ebtnched menortindion dated Ape 1 aty 190, a Sav thn retumed to the Far section of the Enbassy, _ - Ba the two of ws wedt a very brief discussion | Oo ety Me. ” Otte hte dn his éfftee. Me, Witiens: told Anderson “What he, Viilons, and slavion and Glesan ap well bed Deon very favorably sopwensed vith the. high quulity of the FEE officers we hat met in Hexteo City and sith the miner tn whieh thay were earrying out thay work in connection with the abnassinatton, Tt was apparent, ‘Do NW 53294
CIAHASNO OBJECTION BECLASSIFICA now T9 CATION RELEASEOP THIS DOClneNT a are ay HW 53294 was ‘anfortunates He seid that the thought after the essatsination . “ee a SpE Rn TT rs nF ee RS Sh TT tee BPSE: SEs so aR he i a a Rails ren {2 ALG Authortty.& wear BO. G Me Eaper ey BY oe nee =, WARS, Bate Ls with experience in Mexteo had been assigned to the job. Mr. Willens naked why this hed not been done at on earlier date. | Mr. Anderson answered that he now agreed that the delay of those in the Tniesay who ware responsible was that the bent remults would be achteved hy working primarily through the Mexfean | authorities, vho at the tine vere certainly highly motimted by the deaire to clear their country of any involvemmt ty discovering ony Cuban or cther conepirecy or instigntion vhieh might have existed and who sppenred ransohably competent. Aiderson pointed out that an attempt te throw in our own men at the time might have had adverse political effects ani therefore have hindered the (Overall, effort. But, be aiacltted, mibcaquont, remults, swh 2s . the  Aanderponte Hotel del Comereto investigetion and the taddure of sevaret mtn toners renters postenger menifest, showed that the Metioan's investigation wus not good enough When that deomse apparent, anid Anderson, the FBI's own man were assigned to the Job. | | : o' 4 Ie » deter din the mooning, at ad ‘ame about noon, Howerd whens ex’ Mrs Sleweon, etcompanied by Mr. Clarke Anderson, visited - Mr. Boonstra, Minister for Political, Affairs at the Avericen Enbassy. Two points wore discussed with Mr,y-Boonstra. hd GONFIBEA AL | | , | } CAA Dy 12/28/28 |. ae) ~ By vn itd HENS, ate, a aes] 26 ae Docld: 32370750 Page 67
ee, . ae i a honey Bis, tA eMe* | ; a We. Wt NARS, Date. 3)2glze | rite echo a ae nant frequently with Oswald. The Mexicon Goverment, through Mr. Jats 1 Beoheverria, Avting BSocretury of the Interior, had declined our suggestion that we ask Hrs. Duran to appear at the Anerican Exbasay so en ve tnkad mpeettionity snout arranging a8 informe. meeting with ; Duran, Echeverria reacted coolly, althowh he stopped short of fintly rejecting the suggestion, so we atecussed the possibilities of contacting her to ask for her voluntary appearance in Washington, Dy Gey ov aloha in the United tates to give testinny to the , pe Mr. Boonstra personally felt that such en eppronch to Mra. Duran might be acceptable politienlly but he declined to mke & firm comltrent on the palit, Saying that the protien vas compler " eit Lnportant enough to be restived at the higher levels af the ; ‘State Deyartemt in Veshington, We did deatde, however, that the ‘bast aypronch vould probably be to peutl & eultably worded letter to es Mrs. Dusen, signed ty J. Lee Renkin, to the Anertown Bubosay in ao crise Clty for sedelivery to bis. Dawa ty registered mat. The that the letter ws in fact Gelivered to her directiy. We all I agreed that it would probably not be a good idea to inclule a list __,, @f Svembdons in the Levber, to be snovered in lieu of her personel — “aqipeertenoes “TE wan fel that the questions would eomtitute too great a rink of being wiod for proyagméa purposes by the the Comanists or REGRADED CONFIDENTIAL | yro-Cewtre Guben grovys in Mexico City. . Authority SACO 72 2s i « 6 « py 27237 ane, tate A22/ 2B . te — TA watt 3 ‘* re ee ee’ wet Mare Tet — xa“ a en ty ye Ng CP tae tg. cE eal eA a Wee = pen a cae as ~~’ we, — call we "at OS te gen LS: ee I ila n ne a Soa ana eae Tus ae, ~ A — a “= ere Rea ee lin Nica cass te tied Ra ee phase oe er ee a mS Tn i tng aN As TR, A Mo ‘at MW 53294. DocId:32370750 Page 68
he. tan De ve wal s . t,fo ; . ‘ “patos LEA otraene apne a oe | Oo | PELE 8, 1h sd de 72 ” ict at the ttted 1 Stated Goverment requesting through Swiss channels that the Cuban government forverd its. complete file on Lee Harvey Oevald to the Comminsion. It wis pointed out thet the testimony of Silvia Duran plus certain other independent evidence avaiable $0 up inkteate strongly that Leo Barvey Oovald eetimlly midia out a formil application for # Cuban visa, which presumably is in his hendvriting or at least signed hy hin, and the Cuben government went so far an to act an thie epplication and authorize the issuance (of a vise eunditioual ouly upon hin first obtaining « Russian viso, about 15 days after his visit to the Cuban Exiassy. Bhould these documents be turned over to>:the Commission, they probably could be independently authenticated through Onvald's handwriting. ir. Boonstra : var inclined to feu that mech a request night not only eerve the sk,“ INpaaD of the Pamdakton but eculd alsa be of yolitteal benefit / to the United States Government. He ecmented that the Cuban government might choose to comply because it was presently seeking lessening of tension with the United States, @nd became it might de glad of the appartunity to show that {te involvements with Oswald were innocent and fully disclosed by Silvie Duran in her interrogation with the Haxtean police. Maither Mr. Boonstre nor Mr. Anderson could think of any material sdverse politieal results vhich would arise from such & request, Since both felt thet 1¢ was the most fatal thulag dia the eyed tor al govertment to vent to investigate ‘the btsancination of ite président and such a request would be fully REGRADED CUNFIDERTIAL | ~ 6T putt it GRA sie y 114 Moe | 77178 ses, pate. “fe 4/9 a ~, 7 3 y see, ae cas os a wage A! oat Ts Oe a pee OE ne UE a, o PO gt PE a HW 53294 DocId:32370750 Page 69
are : . So oes Authority £95. prnnge: Fle We tele rail ; Se, "per E.Q, 11652, Sec. eCi2i , ; Boe MWR. L CAG. tt: (2) 29/76 pote “6.6, 83, a Be. swe Dan new . ae dane with est Jurmstigation of this SyPes dire Pocnstaw-bere 00, ‘Desioesity on: Cee Lo “however, Pas ‘that ea wabtenrve actetem spat sy ‘made aa famingtons 12:3 pore to 1400 poms a tae last fe minates of Willens' ant Elaveon's tine were "taken wp Saying goodiye to the tattvidukle 4 the Babnssy with von we hed worked and thanking them for their cooperation. We also mde pore last ndnute arrangements ta have our notes and documentary miteriel, most of which was clomsified "Confidential" or ) “Secret, " . dnbtvered to ux in Washington, Dy Ge by diplonatse youth ‘This ves to be hantled by Hr. Clarke Anderson's attics, Gnee the goodbyes and delivery errangemonts vere completed we left the Enbessy, had lunch and were Inter met at the Continental Hilton Hotel by Clarke | Aoderece end Bale laxven, vio drove ws to the atryort. We departed — “oa an Rawteen Aly Lines flight foe Waibingtad vis Bev Orleans wt 3180 pen REGRACED “puny REE 29 De. 14957 By. ce NARS, note, te 2G 1¢ 5 Sapg fro : m Automatic dec] , . se _ ™ nn ‘AW 53294 Doclda: 32370750 Page. 70
The Brbasay of the Unitea States of America precents ite compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Relations and has the honor to refer to the official iuvestigation being contucted by the dovernnent of the United States of Auerice into all possible ‘especte of the assacsination of President John F. Kennedy on Hovenber 22, 1963, end espectally into the activities of the alleged assasain, Lee Harvey Oswald. The Eubessy deeply appreciates the cooperation which Mexican agencies have heretofore extenied to the Goverment of _ the United States in developing information which could prove pertinent to that official investigation, eni it would be additionally helpful if the Goverment of Mexico could meke wvadledle to the Inbasny as detailed « report as ie fensible on the investigation contucted in Mexico by national agencies into the activities of lee Harvey Osveld during the time thst he 48 kaon to have been in Mexico. The Rnbacay would elso be most appreciative 1f the report chould inelute a deceription of thove measures which the Goverment of Mexico my have teken ienediately upon hearing cf the assessine- tion of President Kennedy, such as special vigilance at points of 2 not 1 fe A HW 53294 Docld:32370750 Page 71