104-10268-10013 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19, 20.- sii REPRODUCTION eo PROLIBITED Memorandum for Winston m. SCOTT, dated 13 October 1966; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. Note, undated, regarding contacts of ALFEREV. Memorandum f Director, Plans, dated 23 No ontact of Lee OSWALD with a Assassination Department. - Memorandum cou Heirep. November 1964; Subject: June a : FOIA No. 928-927] Memorandum for Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Department of State, dated 16 September 1969; Subject: Charles William THOMAS. [FOIA No. 1133-992] CSCI 3/779,814, dated 30 January 1964; Subject: Jack L. RUBY - Lee Harvey OSWALD. PARI-1731 (IN 73050), 4 December 1963 [FOIA No. 298-697] Note to Richard HELMS, dated 23 March 1964, regarding briefing at Allen DULLES" home on 4 March 1964. [FOIA 618-793] Memorandum of Conversation, dated 16 January 1964; Subject: CIA Work in Support of the Warren Commis- sion. [SX-11057 - FOIA No. 482-193] CSCI-3/779,135 to FBI, dated 16 December 1963; Subject: Peter DERYABIN's Comments on the Kennedy Assassination. [FOIA No. 413-76A] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 5 June 1964; Subject: Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk, USSR. [FOIA No. 726-314 XAAZ-17620] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 March 1964; Subject: Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD. [FOIA No. 627-821] DIR-92725, 6 January 1964 [FOIA No. 456-771] Memorandum ut J. Lee RANKIN » dated 6 March 1964; Subejct: - at session Regarding Lee Harvey |& r 22, 1963. [FOIA 590-25 Note from page 6 March 1964 Memorandum fo ated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File. [FOIA No. 563- 810] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 23 July 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. — [DDP 4-3769] — CSCI-3/778,881 to FBI, dated 27 November 1963; Subject: Lee. H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in Mexico (City, 13 - 24 November 1963. _ [FOIA No. 187-622] DIR 85246, 26 November 1963 .[FOIA No. 113-48] MEXI- 7045 aw 67281), 24 November 1963 (FOIA No. 78 - 589). nl ae
13-00000 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. She REPRODUCTION Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 veal ROGIB [BITED Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] Memorandum for DCA OES » dated 23 May 1975; Subject: d Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD Review of 5 File Regard Dera ASTRO Cuban Involvement A\\ As Assassination. Memorandum £9 dated 15 May 1964; Subject: Rolq-de//pheliighe ght Service in Processing Visa pp un UE tion of that Service to the Assassination of Presidént Kennedy. [XAAZ- 36307 - FOIA No. 697-294] Note dated 10 April 1964 listing material from P- 8593 shown to Warren Commission. {FOIA No. 653-828] Brief for Presentation to President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 14 May 1964. [XAAZ-27212 - FOIA No. 695-302A] Memorandum for ROCCA, dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809 FOIA No. 689-298] Letter to E. Henry KNOCHE, dated 15 April 1975. Memorandum to Chief, CI/R&A, dated 19 June 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD [XAAZ-27166 - FOIA No. 739-319] Memorandum for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 1l May 1964; Subject: AMMUG/1 Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD. [XAAZ-27213 - FOIA Np. 687-295] Blind Memorandum, dated 5 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing of AMMUG/1 - OSWALD Case. Chronology of RGR Meetings with Members of the Warren Commission [XAAZ-27161] Memorandum for the Record, dated 1 April 1975; Subject: PROMIETTED
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13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD © REPRODUCTION PROWEITED ( 1 April 1975 SUBJECT:. Conversation with David W. BELIN, 1 Apri] 1975 What was the line of reporting in 6t\during the period I served as working level point-of-contact\with the Warren Commission Staff? It was a multiple leveledathtios © (a)}-from the Commission and AWD personally via McCone=t0\ Dick “Helmss.. 'b) from Helms to the two or three components SE, then SB, Dave Murphy; LA, then WH; a Tn practice, the substantive SB input worked up by one of it Soma f headed by Lee Wigren--Minsk photo for example, nt <pepsed via CI. Cl fad own defector pnt In addition, on PON matiexs er é Ns ’ Dick Helms and , i Did you hear: 2 2 rtwo crypts, one sounded 4 by "Jackenet" rae fr ? I had not. Belin recalled that Castro had made a speech in which ma he had charged assassination intent by emigres and had promised ae retribution in kind if there was official support. bret Had any thought been given to the assumption that an anti-Castro assassination plot might have been underway, and fact it was known to Helms and-to Castro? [Mr. Belin said he now knew that Helms was, in fact, aware of something underway\regarding Castro. He had no evidence to show that I {rani ibeen informed about it. ] Would that change any of the tnineng, ‘ye Oswald's Mexican trip and contacts? é eS SS Yes, I said, though 1 I intended to : we: Id a: been pursued: — ey ees a. Fact that his_two =< consular contacts... - traced=erga orratry=to- tre 13th Hepartnent assassinations). E2 IMPDET . CL BY 055431 © SECRET EYES ONLY COELETS |
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED - SUBJECT: Conversation with David W’ BELT 1 April 1975 b. Our defector inforation strongly insists that all Western milita defectors: hike Oswald--were screened by the 13th Department Eres » y) c. Thinness of ite turned over by Soviets in view of b. I acknowledged.in retrospect .that.Cubanhyp AICCCR sidering, rough us would appear th = eqan later (i.e. after 1967-68, Venceremos, etc.). Se Q: Why did Oswald's lies include a denial fo Dallas police that he had made the Mexican _trip unless there was omething important to hide cover story. Why also did Marina deny "she knew anything about the Mexican trip in her first story <a the” FBI=-which she later rectified before the Warren Commi ssion?,~Mirs Bel in: noted that he had left the hypothesis of Castro/Cuban involvement™ -oper“in his book. He added that it would have been ingortant to have known the facts about the anti-Castro plot at the <imecor the Warren Commission investigation. He felt the least he wade have does) sould have been to have insisted on the polygraphing o na.Qswald regarding her knowledge of Oswald's Mexican trip. SNS nalacid 2 Rocca Counter Intelligence Operations SECRET EYES ONLY RPRODUCTIO PRORIBITE oe COPY NO.
13-00000 f om) Pr hand we Law at bee 8 3 % - 2 : Chronolo rs_of the ; i. 14 January 1964 RANKIN, WILLINS 12 March 1964 RANKIN ae 27 March 1964 wittins 1 C Liegiee} 26 May 1964 "NLIEBLAND'’re DeMohrenschild 28 August 1964 # "Commission" CGStalwew ; 12 October 1964 "Commission"! (SQeedmmen ore ie 7 eee *Believe Mr. Rocca was at the Commission at least one other day robably Saturday, the 29t Reviews rN oofs. P y y rng. S RePROoUCTION == Paces 5 oe 212 COPY No. _—_—
13-00000 CT al 5 HAY 16h lL, _USzasent feery Subject General: +4 Z 4 _L64 \ fe Ce 7 — : Specifics TRE SCURCE DOES NOT HAVE aris i nee 1808 1 LSB HARVEY OSWALD Gh YTS ACT IVIT Tes BUT viAS ABLE TO FROVIDE ITHMS‘OF ENESREST BASED ON COMMENTS CF CUBAN TNTSLLIGsuce i CFFIGRS ASSICNED 70 THE DIRECOTON RENE. AL DZ INTELIGENCIA, OF WHICH TH! SOURGE | HiMS BL AS 2 A STAFF OFFICER. ‘THS DISGRMATION APPEARING BELOW JAS FURNISHED ar THE SOURCE @ 1S KEYED-TO QUESTIONS SUBMIT?ZD BY KUDESK.. | 1, PrionteOstaber 1963, QSWALD visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico j City oc & Lhree.occasior Jerors, and after these visits, OSWALD |i) ; wag in contact with the Dis ON GENERAL DEGURELICENCIA (LSI), spectiic cally 4 | with Inisa CALDERCN, Manuel VEGA Perea anc Hogs! © RODRIGUEZ Lopas. ’ ‘Cuoan I5 chie? in Mexico. He recent Bag had a-teur of duty in Habana, price to which he held the same post aa Gow. as Cuban’ {S-chief in Mexico. SS y . RODRIGUEZ is a Cuk 2S\st bare oftizer in Mexico, He bas three Cuban intelligence pseudonyms , a : oR S “snd Jose Antonios | The precise selationshd\ Oe CALDERON to the DQI is not clsar, Sha spent about six months in Mexicd from which she returned to Cuba early in (19h. mS YEGA vhose Cuban intelligence: pacudonym is MARCOS is the current = Ib } COMES WH/SA/CE has the following references concerning Tuisa CaLSinon Carraleres she was assigned to the commercial office ef the Cuban Babessy in Mexico City, and she had arrived in Mexico on 16 Jamary 1963 and on 21 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlines NEXT 7371, 13 Lecember 19653 IN-80351, Hii-0153." She left Mexico Cliy for Havana on 15 December 1963 using passport £/6 3/7 "EXT 7423, 17 December 1963, L!-G2692, Another referencs MDHAW20971, 25 Harch 1963," said that her data.of arrival in Mexico was 19 Jannaxy 1963 and that. shes nad replaced Rosaris VAZQUEZ, a Hextcan secrstary in tha commercial offices Other | references apparently con carning the subject ars it-6923 and EXE 3205 TH-56591 dated 25 Jamarzy 1953 en de not appear to add anything oF. interest to. that. given aboves 2, The source dees not know whether ox net. the ‘Cuban Services used OSWALD in ary agers capaclty or other RANNAE ey wo ye bse — 36 Ae hen news of the assa sginabion of President Kemudy reached the — nar, 1% caused mich comment concerning ™thar f fact OSWALD had been in the Cuban stern 9 vw omen tia é aye yp Exctedad crc niaeste: ays a i aa ssrsting amd Gztessticatio: GC erg
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIGIT tmvassy in hHaxico. In addition, onda rat Ward, Ussu ued For all heacquarters and - CLaid officers of tha DGI to sort and’ ‘package | alt ‘documents according to whether — | Shey were my secrate" (vory sesrét),. “Secreta? ‘Geerst), and “irportante | ! | | | (irssort want)» The material once packaged TAD @ hald pending further ingtruce. tions, In addition, all are. bp Dal.egtioots and all ist pouches WsLs SUS— pendad temorarily. vO SO ASE So 8B When the news that was the assaspin reached the vor, Taare was nO inmadiate comment tut, when Fidel CASTRO spoxa on television to dam Cuban involvement, there was considerable comment concerning USWALD!’s visit to yhy Bae Cuban Embassy in Mexico, Ab this tine VAGA, who hag been mentioned previously, Ww) was in Cuba and commented te a group of DCL staf? ofticers that OSWALD had come ° to tea Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused. VAGA did not give any details and the subject was nob pursued. oo 4, It is not known whether information on OSWALD's visit te the Cuban Consulate in Mexico in September 1963 was relayed to any Cuban service, Se It is net known 1f the Cuban int eliigence services had contact with ‘the New Oxlzans* Falr Play for Cuba Commis 6 The oniy Molina who is recalled is "The Hook", ‘the Cuban who was cone victed in New York Gity for the murder ef a young girl during a clash between two Cuban groups. Tha Dor * officer who nad been in ths United Nations in Mew York, SANTIESTARAN traveled. to Cuba: with "fhe Sock" and with another Cuban named CRIGUELA and upon arrival in Cuba tried to obtain employment for both | individuals, The names Pedra Charles. aad Peter have no mown significance. 7. ‘the reaction of Soviet of ffielals in contact with the Cuban intellin gence services ia not know. . 8 Nothing is lmown about Soviet provesals following te news of Presidgenh Kemmadcy's assassination. (—b>» 3. The only fabrication mom is the special natter by Fidel CASTRO pra~ ° ‘Viously mentioned, 10, Nothing is known abou’ Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUM. ii. The name Gilberte LOPSZ is not familiar bus, i* he visited DGX head= Quarters, a photograph of hin possibly eould ba. identizieds (22, OSWALD! photo was seen in the newspapers but nothics: is known about hin other than what appeared in the presse. VERE : Ny Pte Cel (1Fe6 REPRODUCTION = - PROSIBITED — 1 ro Po “pace 7 of COPY No. |
13-00000 i. Was Lee Harvey OswALD kn ‘tocthe Gudan AntelLigence servic ces before 23 November z 19658. Tee 80 _wiiheh service? . ; . ™, NON al , Ze Were the Cubsn servicds US ey in any agent capacity, ox - any other manner, before 232\wovewoer 195 32 3. What wes the reaction of the Cuban intelligence services to news - - tee of President Kennedy's assassinetion? To the news thet OSWALD . was the assassin? . L. Was information on CSWALD''s visit to the Cuben Consulete in Mexico City in September 1963, relayed to any Cuban service? -s "60s what action was taken? 5. Was there eny contact between the Cuban intelligence « services end the New Orleans' Fair Pley For Cuba Committee 2: known also as "Peter"? - - ts 7. How did the Soviets offictals in ‘contest with” ‘the Cuben intelligence - . services react to news of the. essessinetion? ; oe, . » ' | } i | é | 3 . * . oo : 6. Has: ‘subject ever heard of Mario dek ROSARITO Moline, o1 or Pedro Charles . —_ . | 8. Did the Soviets propose eny typae ‘of > action or investigation to the a an wl Cuban intelligence services Following the news of President Kennedy's ce | . assassination? eo 9. Was ey provocative material deliberately fabricated by the Gabon * i services or others and sent to the United States to confuse the . | investigation of the OSWALD case? . i 10. Was Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY know: to the Cuben intelligence services? If so, in what way? ‘ 11. Does subject imow a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November’ ; ; ; 23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texes end four days later proceded to ee | Havena by special plene.. He was 23 years old and carried a ; : =, i U.S. passport. He also had a Mexican tourist permit. Develop * ae ; yi all information you can on this individuel. . TE 12. Attached is a photograph of OSWALD, end a letter from Havena . a wiich is self-explenatory for guidence of the case officer. Under no circumstances should the contents of the letter be ma@e known to the suoject. Taois information came-from the Secret Service end eee ee ame: © Gee He a - SL0e teem snge es {20m r) owe geen ae a Sar wd UF
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED ma D NS NO, OO oS” | OX AAZ— 27213 oN ols 94 OATE . . BWP AE op 1l May 1964 ee COMMENTS (Number ecch comment to shew from whom ; iN to whom. Draw 6 line ecress column after each commen?.} : TO: (OMlcer designation, soam number, and building) Document Nunbr OS 1-AY 5 for FOIA Review on . JUN i975 Ne \ fom 610 “tmee* [] SECRET SQA VCONEI DENTAL “0 tony «(Js UNCLASSIFIED" oe cocures P ROW ih ii COPY No.
13-00000 Pow we Be, Co - . a S OALY BXAAZ-27T213 | ll May 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans SUBJECT: © AMMUG/1 Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD 4 lL. This memorandum \\ ee and for action, The proposed lines of acticma are ‘indicated in paragraph 4, 2. AMMUG/ Ga Sben ti intedjizence Service defector, has produced inf iaitton of ofinterest to the President's Commission on the\&s JsagSination of President Kennedy, CI Staff learned of AMMUG KX 58°30 April, A questionnaire was submitted by the Staff on 1 y {Attachment A), Mr. Swenson, who is handling the AMMUG/1 debriefing, provided a reply on 5 May (Attachment B). It was clear from Mr, Swenson!s summary that AMMUG/]1 had information bearing on the OSWALD relationship with the Cuban Embassy and Cuban intelligence personnel in Mexico City, albiet his knowledge was not that of a direct participant in matters affecting OSWALD. A follow-up questionnaire was submitted to AMMUG/1 on 6 May (Attachment C). Mr. Swenson!s reply was dated 8 May (Attachment D), Attention is directed particularly to the content of paragraph two. of Attachment D. 3. We have the problem of reconciling the operational exploitation of AMMUG/1 and satisfying the responsibilities we have undertaken with Mr.. Rankin, AMMUG/1 is such an operational gold mine that Mr,.Swenson wants, at a maximum, two months to work fully. - tei is palpable, however, that we must furnish to the Commission the : substance of AMMUG/1'ts eg a 7 . Document Number _ (21-296 SEPRET | fOr FOIA Review dy SUN 176 CCCLFES - REPROUCTI “pce 10 op 212 COPY NO.
13-00000 information on OSWALD before: Thaty On’ ‘the, previous record of REPRODUCTION - PROMIBITES our association with the Commis ston, particularly with Mr. Rankin, it seems possible for the _ Agency to workout an arrangement with | Mr, Rankin personally, “would: take. care of their needs and ours | i after a frank discussions: the equities. 4 It is zecomm uted se a the DDP in person or via a designee, preferably the former, discuss the AMMUG/1 situation on a very restricted basis with Mr, Rankin at his earliest convenience either at the Agency or at the Commission headquarters, Until this takes place, it is not desirable to put anything in writing. Attachments ce: G/CI C/WH/6 (without attf Raymond G, Rocca Chief, CI Research and Analysis C/WH/SA/CI (without we a soo on fee ReAm ye eile gure avy eecy ONLY nis ae As t-2FI2AF CclLre4 passed — op 212 COPY NO.
13-00000 CALDEACH, hinnsei VIGA Peres tad Regele ACOSIGUS 1 ‘This weed appes? te mean thal one oy mere coniagis were aa” BBS OHIy COPY No.
spenpeteuinn sas Se Bet ete oe See ft oo cle en a4 es ania, ° @up mentioned, ae “Ayla cainetty oi nine ee ll ert iy on) ) on fos oa 2) pacr 13 COPY NO. ce] no: ar ro | eee
ee REPRODUCTION 07 May 1964 7 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, ‘Counter’ ‘Intelligence Staif Loe “aptentions Mr. Roca AON SUBJECT Genera’ Deliricting of AMMUG-1 3 _ Specific : The Oswald Case REFERENCE : Blind Memorandum dated 05 May yj968 S/ l. Reference is made to a telephone conversation yesterday a yt with Chief, CI Staff concerning this. matter. ae 2. Because I am not aware of the information already available to the Commission investigating the Cswald Case or furnished by the Agency, my debriefing of the Source has been based on the questions prepated ‘by the CI Staff and on what the Source answers have suggested’ I. shall be glad to pursue any ~ other topics sugpestee eV Staff, °. i information’ in 1 addition to that in the intexest?’ 3. The Foligwia reference might be. 7 i a, Luisa CALI RON, since she returned to Cuba, \ has been paid a regular salary by the DGI even though she has not performed any services. Her home is in the Vedado section where the rents are high. b. Source has known CALDERON for several years, - Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the department which was known as the #Empresa Transimport". Her title was Secretary General of the Communist _ a Youth in the department named in the previous sentence. a c. Luisa CALDERON ee vansterred directly from her position in the Ministry of Extériay Commerce to a post in Mexico, a matter of surprize to the, Sense. Q . «a Rogelio RODRIGUEZ. ‘Lopée (DGI pseudo MORCOS), shortly before he leftCuba’ for r Mexico on or about 16 April 1964, Sn ‘saw CALDERON. © Soe QOS? eke asursiseg irs TT 48 ‘o yee fi y *- a - ; es — — GotaReT |
13-00000 4. As explained to Ci Staff any se gublicity which would reveal the identity of the Souree,, his . ction to KUBARK, or the extent of his Inowledye: of DGK activities might prejudice the operationaluse of the. Squtce himself and of be appropriate to point: out ‘to-the: ‘Gémmission “(as agreed by DC/WH/SA) tha KUBARZ. ho pes, by using the Source, to obtain access to DGI aoe including those mentioned in paragraph 3 above. . Harold F. Swenson Chief, WH/SA/CI 20-2 av~g CC CiRgg pace 15 of 212 COPY NO. as]
13-00000 REPRODUCTION Ben \ . Corian ated d I i i i 6 May 1964 Proposed Questisins On Oawata Case REFERENCE: Debriefing ot 4 UG=1,, dated May 1964 1, ~The source says that Pasty October 1963, Oswald visited the Guban Embassy In Maxies cuke Swo or three occasions. It is public knowledge hay bx Miexleo during the period 9-26-63 to 10-3-$3. A) When did source learn of these visits ~ before or after the assassination? Please describe in detall the circumstances under which soures learned this Info tion and Iidentitlea of the persons involved, SN as 8 B) Did thase visits take place: during the aforementioned period or ig the source referring to pre’ gious visits. if the latter, try to get more speci ; and the origin of the 2ce 2 The source state LEB, gating, and after these visits Oswald was In contact : tae DSL, specifically Luisa. CALDERON, Manuel VE rea and Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopes. — This would appear to mean that one or more contacts were made after Oswald returned to the United States I.c , between 10-363 and 1022-63, A) What does source mean by contact? | B) Can he break down these contacts by the specific ine dividual named, place and » SYR of ‘contact, and date of occurence? ¢) Did Oswald know 0 or have 3 reason ‘to suspect the Intelli- gence connections of these persons? | D) What was the purposa of these contacts? ga6 AECL OS4 hii? 4 cy C.) os eS GA CH ; pace L6 i of C12 COPY NO.
REPRODUCTION E) Wf Oswald did not jen | tie ‘inte igence affiliations of these individuals, what pretext, ies were employed in | contacting him? a LON F) Did soured évex see any documentary material on any of these contacts, or any corzespondence initiated by or addressed to Oswald? G) Did the DGI ever employ physical surveiliances, technical devices or camera equipment to cover these contacts. %) The source says he does nat know gvhether the Guban een services used Oswald in any agent capacity or otherwise, This obviously makes it more important to check out what the source meant in question one. 3. Did the DG! ever initiate an nvestigation of Oswald? 4, What was the reason for packaging. files at DGI headquarters ! and fleld offices after news of the assassination was received? | 5, Source was asked whether any provocative material was deliberately fabricated by the Cubana (Question 9) to confuse the investigation of Oswald, The raply attributed to him was, “the only fabrication known Is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned," Please clarify. — CCCURES IAT y Ula ‘Ed COPY NO. ett
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMGITED OS N MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Countér Tatelligence Staff Attention" Mr Rocka ‘Sy SUBJECT General : Debriefing of. AMMUG-1 Specific a ee Oswald. Case” Ly } ULUR re fh | EVES GNLY 08 May 1964 REFERENCE  pilind Wemorandum dated 05 May 1964 ! 5 Su Memorandum dated 07 May 1964 | onversations between CI Staff and | C/WH/SA/CI l. When the Oswald Case first was discussed with the Source the | specific questions prepared by CI Staff were posed. The answers given by the Source were reported in Reference A. That memorandum which I dictated to a Cl Staff stenographer- appears accurate except for sentence #9 which should have said that the only possible “fabrication” known by Source was the specific denial by Fidel CASTRO, ona television program, ‘of any Cuban knowledge of Oswald. 2. On 07 and 03 May 1964 L further discussed the Oswald Case - with the Source in order to clarify exactly what he knew and what he had heard. In the light of the explanation given by him, I believe that a clearer understanding of what he knows can be reached if I record his knowledge without using the question and answer format. Accordingly, in the following paragraphs I shall report all the information given by the Source paraphrasing his explanations and comments. L " J have no personal imowled@os Lee Harvey OSWALD or his activities and I do not know that-OSWALD was an agent of the Direccion General de In Ligencia- (BGI) or any other directorate or department of the Gaba: Government. nG agW ALD after th ‘the assassination of President ‘mredia.carried the name of OSWALD. I first heard of Kennedy when Personnel in first.cemmented about the case, so far as ' I can recall, on rafter lunch when a group of officers, of whom I was one, we hatting.. The officers present were about. ten including Roberto *SANTIESTEEAN, Norberto HERNANDEZ 7 de Curbelo, Andres ey. Pedro FARINAS Diaz and — a | a 7 - ee | - REPROOUE TON Se pace 18 of 242. COPY NO epee
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED i . ' .. | BP had 8 Ste B EBB GIRY aN Ie + ¢ Manuel VEGA Perez. Manuel ‘VEGA Perez previously had been assigned to Mexi¢o-in.the Cuban\Consulate where he was the principal ixtelligence « offiter- of the DGI, VEGA mentioned that OSWAED had\gone to the Cuban Consulate two or three {finés'in connection with a visa application during the time % ‘Aw as in Mexico. I gathered, although I do not know that VEGA made any specific statement to this effect, that VEGA personally had seen OSWALD. I well could. have reached this conclusion because normally VEGA and his assistant in Mexico for the DGI, Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez, would see persons applying for a visa to go to Cuba. This is because DGI officers are charged with expediting the granting of visas of agents of the DGI. Such agents\on appearing at the Consulate use a special phrase‘to indicate their relationship with the DGI, (i do not know the particular phrase used in every case. I do knowthat’ agents from El Salvador in requesting visas al mad mention of the name "Mauricio" ) The DGl officers ata@ Consulate interview visa applicants to find out if inden co te Brts, . TE f the visa applicant does not use a few days. The <\flien notifies Habana and requests authority for the visa. “I cannot recall if VEGA even made the ‘statement that he had requested permission to issue a visa to OSWALD, but I feel sure that he would have done so because VEGA had said that OSWALD had returned several times and this would be the usual procedure. I believe that Rogelio RODRIGG@SZ Lopez also would have seen OSWALD because he wor lee with VEGA and also would have screened visa applicants ap I thought that Luisa CAEDERON t have had contact with OSWALD because I leayned: about.) arch 1964, shortly before I made a trip to Mexicas: hat sheh d been involved with gn American in Mexica©) Phe i ation to which I refer was told officer: named Norberto HERNANDEZ de Ue, Sgaversation with HERNANDEZ - EVES many fob a nts , roy Geers ihe Clliess COPY NO.
13-00000 eat? -“Enio", a courler nam _.€annot recall. _-- -the- reception rooti< _ f the group said it was. lvia DURAN REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED r SECRET ( " pEsery 8 because he gave me $40. Gta; uy Some shoes and other items during my try rtd Mexico.) I had commented to HERNANDEZ thatit seemed strange that Luisa CALDERON:was. receiving a salary from the DGI although sie. appa did not do any work for the Service} HERNANDEZ told me that hers was a peculiar cage and that:heshimself believed that she had been r d in: Mexico by the Central Intelligence Agency althd gh Manugi PINEIRO, the Head of the DGI, did not agree. As Krecall, HERNANDEZ had investigated Luisa CALDERON. This was because, during the time she was in Mexico, the DGI had intercepted a letter to her by an American who signed his name as OWER (phonetic) or something similar. As you know, the pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon names is difficult im\Spanish so I am not sure of how the name mentioned by HERNANDEZ should be spelled. It could have been Howard" or something different. As I understood the matter, “the letter. from the American was a love letter butthdicated that there was a clandestine- professional relatior onship between the’ writer and Luisa CALDERON. Een qunderstoed from HERNANDEZ that after the interception oftlie\Jetter she had been followed | and seen in the com an American. I do not know if this could have been ALD, I, myself, considered the case of Luisa CALDERON unusual because I had known her before she went to Mexico when she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the Empresa Transimport Department where she was Secretary General of Communist Youth. She was transferred directly from that position to a post in Mexico which seemed strange. | ere Sf ee The only other person about whox you asked me in connection with this, whom I recall, is Sy and I know very little about her. What happened that 1 was in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico on 23 Marek 064 ut 1230 in the afternoon preparing to return to Habana the same y. I was talking to some other Cubans including. -Rogéli¢. RODRIGUEZ Lopez and fnu BUENAVENTURA. of the Cuban Binbassy; a courier named samt a" Tato"; and one other Cuban whom I a pretty “girl standing at the end of neone asked who she was, and one
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION. PROHIBITED I recall that, after the wows. Tr: thy ‘agsassination of President Kennedy reached the DGK\ orders were issued for all offi¢s of thaDCl,-at Headquarters and in the field, to sort and package's all’doguiments*according to whether they were "muy guatetor (very Secret), “gecreto" (secret), © or "importante" (imp < The material, once packaged, was to be held pending her instructions. All travel by DGI officers and all DGI pouches were suspended temporarily, In addition, I recall that DGI Headquarters personnel were instructed either to remain in the DGI Headquarters offices or to keep the DGI aware of their whereabouts so that they could be reached immediately. I do not know the reason for these nreasures but I believe it logical that they were issued because of the possibility that the United State might take some type of action against Cuba and the DGI offices. As nearly as J can recall. we were able to unpackage DGI files and use them normally about iw 6f December 1963." eS 3. In brief, the Source does net’ ‘claim to have any significant . information concerning the assaaSination.of President Kennedy or about the activities of OSWALDC If the paraphrased comments of the Source are considered to_f r- Clarification, I suggest that Mr. Rocca, who is most fam lias with: the details of the OSWALD Case, talk to the Source.2°This can beearranged at any time. Mean- A askedtuh a forthcoming LCFLUTTER to determine whether or no wes seems to have concealed any information on this matter. ‘Harold F. Swenson Chief, WH/SA/CI . PACE 21 of 42 COPY NO.
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION i PROMIBITEW (3) -uNcassiFieD = ) ye onty (C1 contBENTIAL SECRET ae | ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET : « SUBJECT: (Optional) Chief, CI/R&A TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) I think you will be particularly interested ih para-. graph 3 of Mr. Dooley's memo of record, attached, Art went over to wind upfioose end we had with regard to the AMMUG information we had previously furnished, Rock for FOIA Review on _ JUN 1976 SME AS, scents "93-953 24 28 ae 610 Mase A a SECRET CONFIDENTIAL INTERNAL = []_s UNCLASSIFIED ABSS PAGE CO 22 . ee 212 COPY NO.
13-00000 © me? SOURCE EVALUATION: ‘in Mexico. - EPRODUCTIC TED SECRET. = tk The Source is believed ta “pe: yery reliable. We have established through independent: vidence and cross- checking that the e major.pa irt-o€ she intelligence information fuxfished: by. hito\iadique stionably true. For exsinple, we kiém independent of this. Source tha EGA: ‘Perez and Rogelio RODRIGUE? Neots Cuban inte elligence officers ‘SY WARNING NOTICE - SENSITIVE SOURCES AMD Mi PHEDS INVOLN: ‘D  BEGRET eg om COCL ESE. sree
13-00000° REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED ocbiln i ° | KXAAZ-~ 27166 19 Juae 196% Oe. ene ve ANUS 10: Chit, Cr/tta Qo ~ Be &S RA Mr. Raymond Go Rode : as , PROT + CI/ReA/te Wes a > oath teluted doconeuts, Lo Sy ‘ — . SUBS Lee Hurvey OSWALD E (261. -289 ,2h8) 1. On 15 May 1964, we provided the President's Coimmissio with a summacy of cur debriefing of Cuban defector AIM™UG 1 who had no personal Inowledge of Oswald and no information linking him to the Cuban intelligence services in any manner... As a follow-up, iv. Howard P, ‘illoens of the Commission asked’ if he could see the : questions us2d in the interrogation. : 2. On 18 June, I took the questions | ‘anit source's response to the Comaission and shoved them to Mr. Wiltens. He studied thon and returned the questions: to. me with thg-observation thut they were * vovy thorough and fully satisried his. e¢quirements. He said that he saw no need tu pursue this anghs, any ‘further. The questions and enswers exhibited to Mc. Willensvare attached. At no tla: during our contacts with th: Commission did we disclose the source's Identity or sryptonym. . 3. ib. willens indicated that the Commission wes winding up its investigation. He was highly complimentary of CIA, veferring to the agoncy personnel he encountered here and in Mexico as “real nrofessionals." Mr. Willens asked that convey his test regards to you. Document v1 Nompor BO BE = 5 ae . ra ie Bove Keele, for FOIA Review ob -auN 1976. S ne a oF “putachasats _afs AE ME Ae Fi 43. 354 Z : - se a! \ “Orig & 1 - cor /res SPOR L- Cr/Rta /auDooley. dows: stetloy “a . feclassiticadios RePROOUeTIO =
13-00000 ie ~ REPRODUCTION PROWBHTED _ = ~ WARNIWY NOTICE Bote ~ sent | SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METH EUS INVOLVED teen rte wn cnt i 6 May 1964 Proposed Guestiong:‘on: Oswald Lase REPERGNC: Debriefing of xan. Source | dats eed Vay 1954 L. ‘the source says that’ wet i geldoon 1953, Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Sogo two or three occasions. It is pape knowledge he vas in Mexico ducing the period 9-25-63 to A) ‘hen did source learn of these visits - before ov after the assassination? Please deseribe detail the circumstanzes under which source lcarned this Netion and identities of the persons involved. LO B) Did these visits y place. dicing the aforementionsd period or is th: soureae re eferring ta-prgvious visits. If the latter, try to get mg@y Specific ‘datas! 8 regarding | these trips and the origin AC: 3 gourco*s infprma tion . 2. ‘th: sures stat Qantiiat wefove, “during, end after these visits Sswald vas in contact thvthe DGI, specifically Luisa : CALDERON, Manuel VEGA Sz and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez. This would appear to mean that one or more contacts wees made. after Oswald returned to the United States i.e., between 10-3-G3 and 11-22-63. a A) hat does scuccc mean by contact? B) Can he birvek duim these contacts by th: specific individual ugmed, place and type of contact, and date of occurrence? , ms C) Did Oswald Imow or have reason td’ suspect the int:lligence connections of these persons? | - aT. D)- What vas the pucpose of thse contacts?” : “g) If Oswald did not know ‘the. ‘inte ‘Lligence affiliations of thes2 individuals, what t pretexts, if any, were employed in contacting him? - i) bid source eves see any ‘Gocumsntary material on any or “these conta.:ts, or any corres pondenies laitiated by or addressed to Osuvald? | : Bs! eds WARNING: NO GCE SENSITIVE SOUCY. AND» ; ALLO as y atD 8 cu sen COCLASS
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMGTED Wheto NOTICE seg SENSITIVE se DUES ES AND METHODS MOOS In INVOLVED Lo SEGIE | G) Did the DGI ever employ pliysical 8 rveillances, 2 technical devices or camsra<equipment: toy. gover these contacts’ iH) The source says vines not Knuit whether the Cuban Services used Oswald jarany agent; capaci ty or otherwise. this obviously makes it RC paportan't: -$6 check out vhat the source meant in question con® SY SS QS I 3. bid the DGI :vur initiate a Yo vestigation or Oswald? | | ' k, net was the reason for packaging files at DGI headquarters and field offices after news of the assassination was received? 5. Source was asked whether any provocative material was deliberately - fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse the investigation of Oswald. The reply attributed to him was, "the only febrication _ Imam is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned.” Please clarify. | : Addtndun 18 June with cetggnae ‘to 55 ‘the only possible Pabricdtion® imown by source was the sp:cific denial by Fidel CASTRO on a TV program of any Cuban knowledge of Oswald, ~ ney? ery 3 em eteomen os Scary want Nei ice | ee — GaCLASS
13-00000 icweu cn " Ha t Yate t- y SEGIEL = “ REPRODUCTION | | PROMIBITED WASHINGS GLE i | SENSIIP/E SCHED Aad AETHOLS INVOLVE) 5 May 1964. Subject - General: Debriefing of Cuban. ‘Source Specific: WEED Case se om The source does not have Scgb bnowledge of Lee Harvey OSWALD or his activities but was abl@to provide items of interest based on Cuban intelligence officers assigned to the Direccion General De Inteligencia. The information appearing below was furnished by the source and is keyed to questions submitted. | I | ee | 1. Prior to October 1963, OSWALD Visited the Cuban Embassy | in Mexico City on two or three, eecasions. Before, during and after | these visits, OSWALD was inSsoatact wit the Direccion General De | Inteligencia (DGI), specifi€ally with. Laisa) ALDERON, Manuel | VEGA Perez and Rogge) RODRIGUEZ’ Néken. Ny? VEGA no Crban Giteitizence pseudonym is MARCOS is the current Cuban“IS AGG Mexico. He recently has had a tour of duty in Habana, priigr’to which he held the same post as now as Cuban IS chief in Mexico. RODRIGUEZ is a Cuban JS staff officer in Mexico. He has three Cuban intelligence pseudonyms, Eduardo, Casimiro and Jose Antonio. The precise relationship of Luisa CALDERON to the DGI is not clear. She spent about six months in Mexico from which she returned to Cuba early in 1964. : Ze The source does not know whether or not the Cuban Services used OSWALD in any agent capacity: or other manner. 3. A. When news of the ‘assassination. of President Kennedy reached the DGI, it caused: much comment concerning the fact _ OSWALD had been in the: Cuban Embassy in Mexico. In addition, orders were issued for all headquarters and field officers of the -DGI to sort and package all documents according to whether ee VARI Nini HG ct ce dectics!te ato “| G2CLSCS PACE 2! of 12 pyanenee
13-00000 | PROMIBITED SV sieiit ares vice SENSITIVE ScLURCES AND ~ METHOLS Ie VOLVED al. bit ak were ''Muy secreto!'' (very secret), "secreto™ Cy "importante" (important). The: material once packaged was to be held pending further instrwétions. In. ‘addition, all travel by DGI officers and all DGI poudtae rere seepondes temporarily. A re ® = @ Bp ff: ry me RO) B. When the news that Sip was the assassin reached the DGI, there was no immediate cormment but, when Fidel CASTRO | spoke on television to deny Cuban involvement, there was considerable | comment concerning OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. At this time VEGA, who has been mentioned previously, was in Cuba | and commented to a group of DGI staff officers that OSWALD had come | to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused. VEGA did not give any details and the subject was not pursued. | 4. It is not known whether information on OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico in | September 1963 was relayed to any Cuban service. | 5. It is not known if the Cuban intélligence services had contact ; with the New Orleans' Fair Play for Cuba Committee. 6. The only Molina who-is recalled ig 'The Hook", the Cuban who | was convicted in New York City for the murder of a young girl during a clash between two Cuban groups. The DGI staff officer who had been | * *° in the United Nations in New York, SANTIESTABAN traveled to Cuba with 'The Hook" and with another Cuban named ORIHUELA and upon arrival in Cuba tried to obtain employment for both individuals. The : names Pedro Charles and Peter have no known significance. _ %. The reaction of Soviet officials in contact with the Cuban intelli- gence services is not known. 8. Nothing is known about Soviet proposals following the news of President Kennedy's assassination. - 9. The ‘only fabrication known is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned. 10. Nothing is known about Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY. ll. The name Gilberto LOPEZ is not familiar but, if he visited. DGI headquarters, a photograph of him. possibly could be identified. a 12. OSWALD's ‘photo was seen in the newspapers but nothing | is _ known about him other than what appeared in the press. : , on ey om we See Op Scristits oO NBD WARTIINE.. oh ee - rane a oo “at 28 THe
13-00000 a oo 10. li. HW BENAM CEI at pee Ammo - eae a . REPRODUCTION PROGMBITED : Weurrs fo i btia 2 RLOTICE 7 | 1 PRETORIUS FCO VED 1 MAY 1964 before 23 3 Noversfier por axe SS Were the Cubs pte OSWALD in any agent capacity, or in any other manner, b 23 November. 1963? , What was the reaction of the Cuban intelligence services to news of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSWALD was the assassin? Was information on OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Consulate-in Mexico City in September 1963, relayed to any Cuban service? If so, what . action was taken? Was there any contact between the Cuban intelligence se rvices. , and the New Orleans! Fair Play for Cuba Committee? “ Has subject ever heard of Mario del ROSARIO Molina, or Pedro ' Charles known also as "Peter"? a a How did the Soviet sidials in contact with the Cuban | intelligence services react to fews, of the assassination? ~~ oe: Did the Soviek& pesoee Ay type of action or investigation to the ‘Cuban intelligence “servdegi following the news of President Kennedy's assass inatiGh? - “ > material deliberately fabricated by the Cuban . Wasa QeSeoedti | servi SOS ote reand sent to the United States to ‘confuse the investi jokey the OSWALD case? Was Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuban. ‘intelligence services? If so, in what way? “ Does subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November 23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas and four days later proceded to .- Havana by special plane. He was 23 years old and carrieda U.S. passport. He also had a Mexican tourist pe rmit. Develop all — information you can on this individual. | - rn tc euch bee’ ora | | ots ave ds has 7 o . - . iC . peomee ome or Same oe US fh Ope eee “WAR wan 3  HOUCE
13-00000 — REPRODUCTION PROWBHTED negra var, “WAR 1 NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURLES AND MET HOS patcuevrny iz. Attached is a photograph of aswaLp, andy letter from Havana which is self-explanatory for: (guidance: “of thé case officer. Under no circumstances should thre’ ‘contents: ofthe letter be made known. to the subject. FBI. REPRODUCTION -PROSIBITED rom the Secret Service and Wet ay a “WARNING NOTICE. SENSITIVE SOURCES AND | PALY: ROE PV rte SO eo. esewtee ots wes C°C19C3 pace 30_ of CLC COPY yo. el
13-00000 et ‘mera or - | : - : . - fe ( - RePHODUCTION PROHIBITED COMMISSION ON CLA ACTEVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC 20500 Neison A. Rockefeller, — . : David W. Belin, Chairman : Executive Director John T. Connor 2 C. Douglas Dillon April 15, 1975 Erwin N. Griswold ; Lane Kirkland Lyman L. Lemnitzer Ronaid Reagan Edgar F. Shannon, dee Sor Mr. E. Henay : ‘Knoche’~.% aaaraersccen the ee eerie ‘Agency n Washi. sQasy’ ia Dear Mr. Knoeche: As you know, there have been allegations that the CIA was involved in a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro. For the purposes of this letter, we will assume that these allegations are correct, and based upon this assumption Ir would like to know the answers to the following questions: ; i. Did anyone with the CIA tell any member of the Warren Commission or any lawyer serving on the Warren: Commission staff that such plans had been underway? If the answer is yes, we would like to know what person or persons with the Agency delivered said information, to whom it was delivered, when it was delivered, what specifically was told or’said, | what documents there are to support the answers to the fore- going questions, and what response, ‘if any,-was received from the Warren Conn esion.\ tt the Commission..was not told about this, why was it ne d and who made the.decision not to deliver such information to the Warren Commission? , 2. There is evidence : oS Castro, prior to November 22, 1963, knew about the: existencavof such plans and the possible in- volvement. ofthe U.S..Gdvernment. Did the CIA at any time prior ‘to the completion of # e Warren Commission investigation have any docurérits* or other information indicating that Castro may have kngva\about: sich plans? If the answer is yes, would. you please f fhish) ug’ with copies of all such. documents and details of any such information. 3. Several months prior to the assassination of President | Kennedy there i Ayidence of a public eech by Castro that: . “was Gienbeted: ‘pg ce Associated Press whereby Castro alluded - . aa re 7 ae ‘PAGE 31 or212 seme tee eae aa a Samy mae cement mim emer ete Te woe - - oo { peg renee cd
13-00000 gt “REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED. to possible assassivimtion attempts on his life and possible retaliation. Would you please advise us if there is any evidence that thts: ‘“ASsociated Press report may have appeared in any newSpspEEs.: ‘in the- Uited States, including specifically . any newspapers. $n Dallas or New Orleans. Would you also advise us &iyou have: any other information of public state- ments of Gy Cuban. ‘header prior to November 22, 1963 indicating any awareness OE. ‘possible assassination plots on the lives of Cuban feaders oe 4. Would you please advise us if there is any information in CIA records to indicate that at any time prior to November 22, 1963 any foreign government or any foreign group was consider- ing a possible assassination .of any American leader. If so, would you please advise us of all details and also advise us who. in the United States Government outside the CTA. was ad- vised of these plans. or possibilities. oo, ; 5 Prior to his. death Lyndon Johnson supposedly stated that : he believed that although there was no doubt: that Oswald killed Kennedy and Tippitt, nevertheless Oswald might have been a part of a conspiracy in retaliation to possible United States assassination. attempts in Cuba. Would yow please advise us of any information in Agency files showing whether or not there was any communication to President Johnson of any possible plans involving the attempted assassinations of any Cuban leader and if the answer is yes, also give us all details i involving this matter. | Sincerely yours, _ 4 veg ms, 7 ee David W. Belin © Executive Director ceciac5. ee ee nena cage eee ne ee mmm nee a pee kn EE A metatee  n t oe me aimee = FS RAE ST ee mete trtnanpeennanneanattn Ae =
oe REPRODUCTION -—— PRORIBETED | KAAZ-A290F “ wo ... 12 May 1964 1745 MEMORAN BUMFOR? a Many ‘Rocca | 2 Interwal:  Mewe Rey Ay A nucy!s Pes Wen : Dun iw — se ane with Gres Gime lon oe 7 Bee DBP called me this afternoon, 12 May, to state that the ow has received a telephone call from RANKIN regarding the Commission's desire to interview him at 1030 AM, Thursday. Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appear at 9:00 on that morning. “ 2. The DDP wishes to have from you a short but comprehensive memorandum which highlights the basic issues or positions entered into by the Agency in its dealings with the Commission. For example, RANKIN indicated that the Commission would wish to hear the Dire ctor's views as to iow improvements might be made in protecting the President's life.” Further, they will probably ask questions regarding the possibilities. that a con- spiracy existed. Such general questioning certainly necessitates that the DCI be made aware of the positions taken during previous ON interviews. I raised with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent _ information which you are processing which originated with the a ——=7 sensitive WH source. I informed him that in your view this would | raise a number of new factors with the Commission, that it should not go to the Commission prior to the Director's appearance unless we have first had some preliminary reaction or made sure that the Director is fully aware of its implications since it could well serve as the basis for detailed questioning. The DDP stated that he would _Feview this carefully and made a decision as to the question of timing. 3. Given the schedule, you will appreciate that the DDP will need a paper covering the above points as soon as possible. Document Number OS iS |. @ ' for FO: 7” Review on SUN, 1876 el. ox é pa4e ES COPY 5 amnngneeeettet wt e
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13-00000, ce REPRODUCTION a - PRERIBITED oN he re Summary Outline anticipated, will nsisgaG he course. of the Director! s appear ance before the P Srdoxts &a vite a. Formal Qualities negation by the DCL sion, These are: of any contact or association, direct or indirect, between the Central Intelligence Agency and Lee Harvey Oswald. This should be accompanied by . ™ - the tabling of an affidavit signed by the Director | and notarized. (TAB A) a b. A formal ASME, by the Dixsistos thatall information in the. posession of the A enc regarding | ® Ogwald's activitié sand ay aac | United States has been jmade available to the ‘somerset Pregl SRSESERRAN Rp _ Commission through its staff, with which there has been close and frequent contacts since the inception c. An interim pronouncement by the DCI on the TT TE SSAA aOR problem-of-conepiretorie}-reeponsihility for Oswald's | | | of the Commission's activities. (TAB B) — | | | semana eae ae = . : we ee ee en ein meee ened
13-00000« * REPRODUCTION ROWBITED \ | “SS activity. It is, suggested’ in she DCI take the position that.at this time te re i is no, séasta Sive evidence of 19 spirat ars ens onshi “of Oswald; that all Agency . information beating ‘oxthis problem has been furnished to the Commission for evaluation and consideration in the framework of its total knowledge of the facts. The Agency, at the present time, is lacking any knowledge of recent information or documentation furnished by the Soviet Government to the Commission with respect to Oswald's activity in the Soviet Union.. (TAB CG) € . . d, The DCI's suggestions for improving policy and ae, - organization with respect. to the personal security of _ the President. Cortain'ateps relating strictly to the Agency's jurisdiction have already been suggested by. memorandum. It is proposed that the Director now make specific suggestions involving legislation which would treat information bearing on the personal security of the President and, advisedly, other Federal officials. directly related to national security affairs in a manner similar to what currently exists by statute for special
13-90000 7. REPRODUCTION PRORISNTED exon Beet 5 TaN nuclear material or weapons “ntye duced to the United Pan States or manufactured therein {Re Atomic Weapons ct of suv 1955). “as ‘D) “ ” e "oawallte Pe ey. “Mexico and his possible —_———ee grave concern to the security of sources and methods have been developed on both of these topics. The information and, in certain instances, knowledge with respect to acquisition has | been made available on a highly: restricted basis to Mr. Rankin and to certain elements of his staff. It is . recommended that the DCI not respond on the record to queries on these topics, He should suggest that all Seo ennai ‘Sea ett sr ec HOC such "technical questions" be worked out in detail through the arr eeeariaeel channels and proce | functioned very well =o we believe -- between the Commission and particular ASTANA A TT TT TA a TD ET OT Ta : CIA components, (TAB E) _ eos ee eens <_saeeteaf en ERERtERR an ra eee oe " 4 t. : : ‘ ’ '
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13-00000 REPRODUCTI PROWMBHT ED TAB A There have bee nurhorsand allegations which began .- Vv i é immediately after the assass} tion which branded_Oswald as a U.S. Government agent. In many instances, CIA has been | namedas his sponsor. The authorship, geographical dispersion — throughout the world, the tact themes and the timing lend & woe oN ; usion | that ‘these charges are elements strong support to the con . C of a world-wide, So program. As DCI, Mr. McCdye welcomes this appearance before the Commission to make a categorical and unqualified denial of these unprincipled distortions of the historical and personal . responsibilities for what was a dastardly and heinous act. In witness of this : the DCI submits to the Commission an affidavit which formalizes this statement. ‘The affidavit is attached. . It is recommended that the-DCI state concurrently with this action that he desires to draw the: Commission's attention to the fact that the irresponsible charges that have been made, sponsored - CCtr ae eco “pate 39 242
PROMIBITED i | scrupulous treatment of the Oswald case’ was neither new as a methods ; and: thie ‘pa Si Se of tho broades campaign against Sy American intelligence ana Sbcarity components which has built _ up momentum over the past six years. We have traced the sponsorship of that campaign directly to. individuals and com-_ ponents within the Soviet police state apparatus. Their un- method nor a surprise as an occurrence. O . If the DCI is challenged by anyone on. the Commission _ . about the substance or: implication of his affidavit, it is recom- mended that response be along the following lines: CLA isa » democratic institution. The DCI has incorporated in his affidavit the results of detailed See oma ce cami geen omen eee ee i ce er omens meme Da Pee mn ne te mm ae
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ( | ‘\ t | an 3 ArpISavir or SOHN A, McCONE ISTATE GF? VIRGH& aia { . JOHN A. McCONE, being duly. sworn, degoses and gaya that he is - lltne Director of Central intelligence, and that based on bis personal - , knowledge of the affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency and on detailed jinguiries he caused to be made by the officers within the Central Intelligence Agency who would have knowledge about any relationship Lee Harvey Oswald may have had with that Agency, he certifies that: i Lee Harvey Oswald was uct an. dyent, employee, or iaformant of the Central Intelligence Agency: sien . a) om gem eee MAP RETINA eMC RECEEREP es an mth tate A SEPP GPITS Geen es meme: gaye talked with him, or received or solicited any reports or information from him, ogcommunicatedwith him, directly or indirectly, in any ether ynanners. op ~ er * factitease ica any funds or monay, or compensated him, direcdpsr indirectly, in any fashion; and AOA i 0 ahr GD the Agency never contacted: hia, tnterviewed him, . } { | Lee Harvey Oswald was never associated or connected, directly or indirectly, in any way whatsoever with the Agency. (L.S.) JOHN AL McCONE Subscribed and swornto this day of | | og 1964, before me, a Notary Public in and for the State of Virginia, by the said JOHN A. McCONE, who ta personally known to me and he duly acknowledged to me the execution of the foregoing instrument. : arn Se eeneunt AON Ge +h pemetieemaretrthcne-- cauaagrseceenete eects ro-emmrengurlneae . Steen er cette EET Ge? eeeupnervanentmemdia oreo . Notary Public |My com:nission expires Z | TTT Seen ie 00 Expat ABE A RHEIN te Re sete eee
13-00000. PROIPETED TAB B has supplied all the informeljon in its possession regarding the activities, affiliations and associations of Osw: Gopies of the reports and access to original data, in specific in- om accordance with the DCI's. expres sed instruction fr orn the inception that the Agency place itself completely at the Commission's disposition, stances, has been given to Commission representatives in | a PV eee OF nary a : Gus tree ie a | pee eee te ett =e ama ne Omang oe Fda ee cone ee ee ae : ee neem eee aan an
13-00000- ao) i | oa: a aS 2 OO SS Ss REPRODUCTION TAB CG The Problem of Conspiracy oe I LL The’ Bet showld note that a eon he start he had given specific indications tokaciey personnel working on the Gornmmission'ts Poe ta information bearing on Oswald's possible vetations ip with foreign spons ors be made available to the Gommission, The DCI may state that he is gratified that his instructions have been carried out SSS diligently and promptly. prong th items of information wN, _provided the Commis ao x have heen: studies on the organi~ . P state which are wart  tactaile individuals and units | PP & Sy charged with aoa of what | is euphemistically referred to as "executive action! «- put is, infact, charged with assassination and sabotage. as Cuban intelligence and assassingtion personne ganie PROHIBITED a ER ETTENTNEEETAS PEO seen et oo PORRERNREONE = Se teeninRNY aiNTeptmun -e ~pgucnerec a oso cs . . ‘ roe q  COCAS48 | “yo 45 212 ~ _— : : . tte - me TT ne cerotanneenae ee gee et ARE A A PR EENE m ‘t
13-00000. PROWMBITED Vieja bok ntic acai Tt is recommended is recomme iat the se bean an jaieestions © a NY from the Comma with me the apparently favorable treatment affo: de Ose A 6 USSR, the withdrawal of his | wife, his possible “CO there with Soviet State ° Security (the | KGB), and related questions which would tend to establish | of - Oswald's associational link, with Soviet intelligence as 7 | "technical questions'' and, therefore, beyond the scope of present testimony, Itis suggested that he rest on the fact that the Commission has taken up these points. item-by-item with, the technical levels of the Agency and. that the ultimate Eimeling s C~ and evaluation can only: be determined by the Commission, a: | tts hoy 0 wa amen en enrnaaiitmemaineen mee: L etme Ct eee we ee - re Str imeem,
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REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED pare rs ja eat 1. 4 s fe Re TAB D ‘Mr. Rankin raised Seat dire ctly by letter. In to its statutory mission. . Specifically, it was suggested that: a. The Secret Service, or TREASURY: record - fc with the Office of Central Referénce a Yexmal require - Tc that, if cite Sacet Service RG intended to expand its uattigence coverage of possible 7 its response, the Agency confined itself to elements relating | threats to the President's security, our experience showed that it would need a specialized organizational | component to handle that task within the Secret Service | in direct touch with the Secret Service -Fegarding the possible utilization fa that agency af « our ‘experience in ‘achine data processing. “On the public record, it is SS | | t [ itself. 7 c. The CIA reply also noted that the Agency was . fa | 7 suggested that the DCI not repeat this detail. } of
13-00000. PROHIBITED. In his presentation to ae Commission after referring to these earlier suggestions, t o Dot shoal state that he desires a to take the opportunity, ter Aap SeStion which he has not tabled heretofore: - . a ~ ‘The Commission's major problem has been the assessment _ of personal motive and the relationship of an individual act to possible conspiratorial guidance. Because conspiracy is the core of the problem, the DCI should point out the possibility of legislative action which might be an assistance in preventing recurrence of the national calamity i it is investigating. There C , is an n analogy at close. hand between the problem of developing in advance information xelating to Presidential security and the ‘~ a problem faced by the countisy 2 a few years ago regarding the | clandestine introduction or manufacture in the U.S, of special nuclear material or atomic weapons. The remedy devised at that | time was embodied in the Atomic Weapons Reward Act of 15 July 1955 . (29 Stat 365, PL,165, 84th Congress). In essence, the Act estab- 7 lished : a substantial reward ($509, 000), for information . bearing on the Act provided by any person, and in certain instances privileged treatment for such persons | -- ‘tor example, asylum if they were - BESONOOTO PROBED eR pw Em nn Pa tonal 9) oreise2 Bo ag Ao 49 ve 212 COPY NO.
- REPRODUCTIO PROWMBHTED one ome, foreigners, was assured} Finally, a: Reward Board was created to adminigier the j urposes. . of. the “Act. ws a recommendation for ae action designed to induce individuals to furnish information bearing on Presidential security by offering a substantial reward and preferential treatment, | The DCI should assure the Commission that he is convinced that the substantial award, the special treatment, and the publicity which would attend the implementing legislation in this matter could vepresent a significant inducement even to staff officers pad er and personnel of secret.associations and state security organs abroad whose functions include assassination and sabotage. It is these individuals who would be ‘privy to plans of executive action. The reward would constitute additional inducement for such | individuals to take the risk of making important disclosures. osurrmt. . The suggestion does not rest‘on the material elements of | reward and special treatment. The DCI can assure the Com- mission that we are aware that personnel in police state apparatuses charged with the assassination and sabotage functions have repeatedly expressed and, in many cases, ‘acted upon their repugnance for cee: 23 a PAGE = 60 ww. or C1C ene See awe mt i a ne nn rs
; ROU THOR : - | | | such work and for the system which calls-upon them to do it. a There are specifia tases, in the past temysars which document ah Trusted a charged with assassination ~ missions have abandoned the mission even without the assurance. this as sértion, or the inducement which the DCI is here proposing. in advising the Cormmission to suggest that the Commission examine the advisability of legislation making it a Federal offense to conspire and to kill the Chief Executive. 3) The DCI could also indicate that the Commission might desire to. suggest that any C . legislation along these lines should be enlarged to include con- _ Spiracy to kill L any Federal. official in the President's personal circle of official associates directly concerned: with national security affairs. (The Agency's Legal Counsel states that In making this suggestionAhe DCI may go one step further draft bills have been considered on the Hill.) , “page 51 of. 12 ac,
INTE™""AL SECURITY MANUAL SENATE . _ Revise — - 86th Congress Docr ; C 2nd Session. No, 1 EPRODUCTIC! _ pp 275-277 Ln! wrt ~ acromic Wrarons Biofinos. Acr PROMIBITED ' Act of July 1%, 1055 (69 Stat. 305, P.L.. 165, Sith. Gong.) —<Atomie im D { Weapons Rewards Act.of 1955: AZ “Pe it enacted bythe Scuate and House of Etpresentatives of the United Statcxof aAnecrias in. Congress assembled, That this Act may bo cited asthe Atomic Weapons Rewards Act of 19557, “Suc. 2. Any pergon “ees original information to the WIEN Gnired Scates— . “(2) lending to theWinding or other acquisition by the Gnited States of any special nuclear material or atomic __, Weapon which has been introduced into the United Staics, | or which has been manufactured or acquired therein contrary to the laws of the United States, or -“(b)rwith respect to. an attempted introduction into the United States or an attempted manufacture or acquisition “therein.of any special nuclear material or atomic weapon, “ééntrary.to the laws of the United States, , shall bo rewarded by the payment of an amount not to exceed ~ $500,000. “Sec. 3. An Awards Board consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury (who shall be the- Chairman), the Secretary of Defense tho Attorney General, the Director of Central Intelligence, an - of one member of the Atomic Energy Commission designated by that Commission, shall determine whether any person ‘fur- nishing information to the United States is entitled to any oy ; award and tho amount thereof to be paid pursuant to section Cc ” ; 2. In determining whether any person furnishing informa- \ tion to the United States is entitled to an award and the i amount of such award, the Board shall take into consid- eration— “(a) whether or not the information is of the typo specified in section 2, and “(b) whether the person furnishing tho information was an officer or employee of the United States and, if so, whether the furnishing of such information was in the line of duty of that person. wo __ “Any reward of $50,000 or moro shall bo approved by the . President. . af “See. 4. Tf the information leading te an award under section 3 ‘$s furnished by an-alien, the.Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director.of Central Intelligence, acting jointly, may determine that the entry of such alien into the United States is in the public interest and, in-that event, such alien and the mem- — : bers of his immediate familymry receive immigrant visas and | ‘foe may be admitted to the United States for permanent residence, notwithstanding the requirements of the Immigration and Na- tionality Act. “Seo. 5. The Board established under section 3 is authorized to sO a hold such hearings and make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and a amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. oO, : ra a G. Any awards granted under section 3 of this Act shall be certified by the Awards Board and, together with the approval of the President in those eases where such approval is required, transmitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for payment . a out of funds appropriated or available for the administration of . ( the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. _ “Sec. 7. As used in this Act— , *(a} The term ‘atomic energy’ means all forms of energy re- leased in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. | “(b) The term ‘atomic weapon’ means any device utilizing | atomic energy, exclusive of the means for transporting or pro- -pelling the device (where such means is a separable and divisible ' part of the device), the principal purpose of which is for uso as, or for development of, a weapon, a weapon prototypé, or a weapon “(c) The term ‘special nuclear material’ means plutonium, or ‘uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, or any ~ ‘other material which is found to be special nuclear material pur- -- | suant to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Actof 1054. | a ~ @(d) The terth ‘United States,’ when used’ in a geographical ( “ *. gensa, inclides Puerto Rico, all Territorizs and possessions of the Unijed States and che Canal Zone; except that in section 4, the - . term ‘United States’ when so used shall lave tho meaning given ' to itin the Immigration and Nationality Act.” . semerereowrrteapentsinsinegsessnnssee ane fear? rake SMG SERRE ARRESTED oneeeeet+ * SO ee ee er ee (erempn eevee ommeee a P ROWED... _ ; as Sa ere od eter ee mM ee ST eee ae ns ele entertain a wa ete 22 Ft. eens oo aes meses tamer a.
13-00000 ANE REPRODUCTION PROMBITED Q ( 7 pout Fy Tm ES ( ‘ o ne & * peda 4 . aS TAB E Commission Staff has been in detailed communication and conversation with the Agency working levels both in head '. quarters and in Mexico City. Within the past week, | significant information has. been developed by CIA regarding nnn eee annem ememmnmmmmmmnnanaaaat the relationship with: Oswald of certain,Cuban intelligence personnel in Mexico City-and the reaction in Havana within | the Cuban Intelligence Service to the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Commission Staff is in the course activity in Mexico City in September and October 1963. The It is suggested that the DCI handle any question on the Mexican and Cuban phases of Oswald's a nm as. "technical _ cL a questions" which members of the Cofamisston can develop’ from or through their own stat with: the »apprapriat component of the Agency. This mae be entinély. colisistent with the. DCI's XS? Soo” | overall assurance that he: naiQngbricted his personnel to place Grn ree pre ne tee caene are nen 2s eta ry . a e . their information completely at the Commission's disposition. ae ClCis 27 eee ee eee ements eenmemte mee nee me co ete, stn: TER, arn oy oe Ae = POE = CaN gS Ne NES FeSO Aes ete ete ne ee apne!
ee eect SECRET ee ceennceeemmarre <P iy . 10 April 1964 \ro WARREN COMMISSION: ot eneteraeeiaetecastne tes ° MATERIAL FROM P- 8593 4 a SZ MEE LALO Fe ley 1, English translations of calc. fradé by “‘oswAnmo Russian Embassy: 27 Sep 63 (1037); 27 SepG3q{1626);_ r-4 ‘Sep sar(1605); 28 Sep | 63 (151); 1 Oct 63 (1031); 1 Oct 63 (APS Qe & (ay . 2. English translation of conve between President Dorticos in Havana and Cuban Amb Joaquin Hernandez Armas in Mexico on 26 Nov 63. 3. English translation of conversation between Cuban Am to Mexico and President Dorticos in Havana on 26 Nov 63. for FOIA Reyiew on. (MUN 197 6 ar | | oan nme S3-828 5 a | | 5 oe nn» 2702 @ ao on ) [ RECORD COP ory | ADl- 2 SFRAPP lo APR. Ce $ ' ? REPRECUCTIOR
REPRODUCTION ™e VN wre MEMCRANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin > General-Counsel - ~ Prealdent's. Commisaion on the Ansasiti ident Kennedy | Sa ane SUBIJZOT: Roi ithe intelligence Service ia Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of that Services to the Asaassination of President Kennedy lL. Within the very recent period, this Ageacy has sstablished contact with a well-placed individual who has been in close and f prolonged contact with ranxing officers af the Coban Direccion General de Intelligencia (Directorate General of intelligence — DSI). His knowledge of DGI activities, techniques and personalities ta direct and prefeund, This Agency haa oueried him in detail on poasible contaats between Les Harvey CSWALD and the DGI ortor.,, to the assassination of President Kennedy. A report on the Infor- mation thus obtained ls: attached te this ) emerandum. 2. This source le highly sengitiv> and of great, . immediate - aperational significance to thig Agency. The national counterintelli- gence interest abroad requires, thersiore, thal recess to the attached report, 22 snowledge of the existence of this source be restricted, sy ior the present at least, to yourself and a ainimum mumber of your — stale _ Document shumber 4 area Se a Downgraded to = SECRET __ am ie authori aa En of = a3é vc aa = ‘far FOIA Raview of pia ie - " . pon Sfsn tre ayoh ’ aa ae o93 route tad . * he ON ose og te yesh . 7 apres 3 . , . wwwene < a ean cen aeenainnaneteneanemes " oe mA , QGe BUNT FTTsy STI ray. : — is Bel - as7aue., (GCC4E £5 AeONETIO as PROHIBITED... PROWIBITED vine nee genes eee eae eevee eae mere wont EH cepe-cenen | meena GaneaeReee tune ape Som ¢ figpeemNe nes BORCLEmOMER cee ee Feee apt Ee tee en: , .
13-0Q000 | REPRODUCTION 3. 3a appropriate sensitivity indicator naa pete aETl ered te this memorandum and the attached + report. 4, 4 sepy of thia uremeraadum with Ita attachment haa been forwarded to the Federal. Bureau of investigasion. Richard Haims . Deputy Director for Plana | | Attachanent - Distribation; — SN Orig. & 2 = Addressee a 2-DDP” 2 = CfCl/ R&A Sy h = C/WH/3 ~ * a C at- CUR&A/ 20 an io ~ - C/G! ar eo Originated 1B wena | “13 May 1964 FF, by aut thority ‘ge 0 eS . cate mw? GOSS BEL aL a we spec armen ag Term cree meetin Se = a ee oe ee ee > copemerenpreppeneetites - Sateen ame net ee tea ne a meee cee tee En ence ee ne eee RNAI me ey ce
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13-Q0000 erg”? . Cowngraded t Oe ape pie = ey: 26:3) Sots REPRODUCTION ‘PROLIBITED DSWALD ooo sa cana c IDG) ox any other dirsc— iia Gest 2 ~i OSWALD aay the aseansioation of Previdene Zennady when aaws de oR SSVALD's nate. OGE perscunel, Srst commentad about the in hia presence ous day after lunch, when & group of oiGcers were charting. Among thems was Mansi . VEGA Perea wie previously bed been aasigned to the Cuban =. -- Consvlate in Maxice Gity, where he was ise principal DOI officer. YOGA mentioned. tbat OSWALD Sad goue ta the Cuban Consulate ee thee eck VEGA. won te Meee ae ara Whether OSWALD had any contacs with VEGA on these occasions is net known te the sources. Howeyer DG] officers stationed in consulates cnetexsarily interview vise. acpticants to determina if they eve DGI agemts. Tf applicants ard. identified 9a agents, thelr travel ig axpedited. Ctberwise, they are usually told <0 come back in a See days. During tha interim ovpiicants' nares are vabnoitted bo Mavana for derther checking and instructions. . According ta the sosree, OSWALD may have Seen biterviewed by VEGA ar his assistant, Rogelie RODREWEZ Loges, Sut this is stricthy con- jectare on bia part. The sogrce docs not know Stivia DURAN ee 0) Se er ee ae eae ne Prreent ie Soe nen Cuban Drobassy in Mexico in March 1954. . 7 Adter the mews of the aveassinstion of President Xennedy seacked the Us » anders were issned fer all DGS comsponexks in the country te sort amd achage ail. documenta 3ecording to whether | they wera “smay secrets fvery secrete "secreta? feocrst)- ox Ak toatl le eee, Bee. * echmnan 2 oo e ee eet - ee er) JSttachmenk - | cocss2 | APROOUCTIOR eg at
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROFIBITED SECRET 23 May 1975 ° “A \ MEMORANDUM FOR) DC/OPS — a SUBJECT g Review of Selected Items in the , Lee Harvey. OSWALD. File Regarding Allegations of the) CASTRO Cuban InyOlvement-in the | John Pe KENNEDY Assassination < wae me . od 1. The wig Gouden and summary was. written at the express request o - David W. Belin as a follow- up to Question 3 of his letter to the Agency of 15 April 1975. - os 2 2. The results - as I have already told nim - add. nuance, not evidence, to what the Warren Commission and . its staff had laid before them in 1964 on this subject. The results of the review are stipulated in paragraph 8 of the Attachment. There-seemed to be no reason to. «_—siéi«éj _ attach copies of the case reports from the file to this... .... se-.: summary. These can be made available promptly, however, .- «+ : on request. This summary-does not deal with press,. magazine and books that dealt with the. Subject during — the period after the assassination. . voy 3. My recommendation: ts to da with this paper. as we did with. the earliex ‘one. requested by Mr..Belin on - the unidentified man: let him read the entire summary and then decide how much. of Lt, ‘AE. anys is pertinent SECRET. e___impver et sy02 5.43! COCi a4 e- PACE Gf. of 210
1:3-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMEITED to his and the Commission's needs aad then decide how muuch will go into the classified ra eo J x * te oO FJ £3 +3 Raymond G. & Las Attachment SECRET.
REPRODUCTION PROMIRITED SECRET nos | a -~ : | SUBJECT : Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File.-Regarding Allega- | tions of CASTRO. Cuban’ ‘Inyolvement. in the John F. KENNEDY ‘Assassination REFERENCE : -Letter by Davia. . Belin to ' , Mr. E.Henry Knoche, 15 April 1975, paragfapty’3 (Regarding Public Statement : by CASTRO, eeeey attached o . i BACKGROUND 1. On Saturday evening, 7 September 1963, 4 ‘Pidel CASTRO appeared at a Brazilian Embassy reception in Ne se eel Havana; even more unusual, CASTRO submitted to an informal interview by the Associated Press SEEESEECHe ead : ‘Daniel HARKER. a Oo 2... HARKER's interview reached New York on Sunday, 8 September, and was in print throughout the country on Monday, 9 September. There. can’ ‘be:no question from the facts surrounding the: ‘CASTRO“appéarance, which had not been Sisee S? , . . expected, and his agreement. ‘60. the interview, that this aR, event represented a more-than-ordina attempt to get a message on the record in the United States. | e SECRET REPRODUCTION =” ee cate
13-00000 REPRODUCTION f . ; | NN 3. CASTRO's statements’ to HARKE covered a range of topics but dealt principally with i ¥ican political Pa leadership, in pareieatee 3 Préaidett KENNEDY, whom he ex-. Ge wrov \cative fashion * ... the BATISTA of his , AN coriated in extraordtin \ (* times ... the most opportunistic American President of all time ..."). 4. The interview also contained an uncomplimentary reference to Senator GOLDWATER and Cuban delay in signing ‘the limited nuclear test. ban. There were differences in the replay by United States newspapers like the New York Times and Washington. papers, with a result that CASTRO's “message” was significantly modulated. 5. In New. Orleans, where Lee Harvey OSWALD resided . ot until the middle: Of, “Séptember 1963, the HARKER story appeared in the principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, - on Monday, 9 Sept bp~page?, under a ‘three-column head- line: “CASTRO Blasts Raids on Cuba. Says U.S. Leaders “Imperiled by Aid to Rebels." The story followed under the HARKER by-line: : | : Havana (AP) - Prime Minister Fidel Castro said Saturday night: ‘U. Ss. “leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of” SECRET COCi S37 Pe nee COPY NO
REPHODUCTION PROMIGITED ¢ SECRET "Bitterly denouncing what he called recent U.S. prompted™ ‘raids on Cuban terri- tory, cast@ sada: re prepared to -. in ‘Kind. U.S. leaders should” tree Roe if they are aiding terror- ist eg eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.’ e-. World affairs vee seemed to be entering a more peaceful climate a few days ago, but now this trend has changed with , attacks. *'the U. S. is always ready: to negotiate: and make promises which later: it will not honor. This has happened to promises tiade. during the October crisis. They have been broken as can be seen with new attacks. | "But I warn this is leading to a very | | dangerous situation that could lead to a worse crisis than October's ...'°* 6. The New York Times, in its coverage on 9 September, used a UPI wire service report which omitted any reference to the warning and threat which gave the interview its real significance. The Washington Post did an abbreviated re- | write (9 September, pagé A-7) which, similarly, omitted ‘any reference to the main thrust of CASTRO's remarks. _ ;  & 3 | SECRET . - REPRODUCTION a PRONE pace 65 ot 212 COPY NO.
REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED a ‘SECRET The Evening Star of Washington, D. C., printed_the HARKER 4 4 = story nearly in ‘its entizety in the second section of the of ng Hanne dieerview, placing the emphasis on the po- ww Se _UXSRS)> litical as - in particular, highlighting the GOLDWATER | Low paper (9. september 1964, base B=-4) and reworded the content | elements and burying CASTRO's warning to the United States leadership in the middle of the piece. 7. ‘There is no evidence in the files on\the KENN assassination)that this CASTRO interview was considered in following up leads or in dealings with the Warren Commission and its staff although Mexico Station specifically directed Headquarters attention. tothe AR. story very shortly after the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears \ scanners . to have been forgotten in the contemporary political consid- eration of relations with CASTRO's Cuba. There is no evidence in the Agency records, either, that the Warren Commission staff ltself pursued the implication of the CASTRO interview 3 : in dealing with the conspiracy hypothesis. There is no stated by any other Cuban leader beforé the assassination. ° 8. The purpose of this review, undertaken at Mr. Belin's request, is ts reconsider Lee Harvey OSWALD’s activity on. the | assumption that as an avid newspaper. reader ~ which we know | : . from testimony of Marina OSWALD and others =: he. read “the CASTRO warning and threat as reported above. - the. ‘results SECRET -cetis3s: COPY NO.
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION ¢ eo ¥ SECRET , { | k "of ‘the review, aanittedly heavily using the 20-—-20 quality of hindsight,“ ‘may: be = stibylated in summary + a! ve NS - *, WD rae There: ts: po increment of credible e ‘. meaner eAdenve, applying this phrase stfictl , of ? ° = Soviet Layor Cuban political, intelligence or security service involvement in the as- cect roe GSO A SATS LESTE LT IE CTT ES NI | sassination to what was developed and con- 7 | sidered by the Warren Commission and its | staff. The Commission's finding that “ | Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of | President KENNEDY and Officer TIPPIT and did them in alone and of his. own determination stands. | a - - b. “Credible evidencé” that would | upset or significantly modify this judgement did (and does) not exist in Washington. But “ernest teen eenrsceamnoen smeeomonan such evidence could exist in Moscow and/or Havana, whose voluntary inputs to the Warren Commission were minimal in quantity and quality, designed to cover up any admissions of knowledge of, or connection with, OSWALD which might be related directly or indirectly | | with the assassination. Therefore, the belief . that ‘there was Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB andlor DGI) connection with OSWALD will persist and . 5 SECRET. wcasse of
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION " ¢ . . - oe SECRET NN ~~ "grow until there: fas been a full disclosure _ by these governments of all elements of a CET TORS wider "window" for this contingency. That, _indeed, was the opinion at the working level, particularly in the counterintelligence com- ponent in‘the CIA in. 1964. As was indicated | by Mr. Helms in his testimony before the | Warren Commission, CIA would continue. 60 S regard this aspect of the OSWALD case. as on ae still open. oy oof elements of "credible" ev Sante, Chaye axe | \Y) "nuances" in the record that eme e as note- c. In the absence x linet on “new worthy, in the light of other conclusions. These are reviewed and summarized below, item- by-item. | | d. CASTRO's warning and threat of 7 September 1963. my OSWALD did indeed read ‘Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. - KENNEDY. Hearings. Before the President's Commission on the '- Assassination of President KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter cited as Hearings, Vol: V., pp. 120 = 129. See - - especially p. 124. ONE, Hélms: ‘Yes. I would assume ~ the case. could: never be closed. us Ss :
REPRODUCTION == Cuban revolution which is directly trace~ CASTRO’ s s Cuba. ¢ SECRET it in New orleans <A t be considered of great significance, in ‘the light of the pathological. evolution of OSWALD's passive/ asaxeseive itakeup after his attempt to kill cenes\i WALKER, early in April 1963 and his identification with Fidel CASTRO and the able as far back as his Marine Corps _ service in El Toro, California. CASTRO's warning and threat, given to AP corres-. pondent HARKER, irrespective of whether there was any formal mandate, or even security service contact with OSWALD: by the Cubans or the Russians - was an act ef singular irresponsibility and under no circumstances was excusable as retorsion for what the Cuban emigres were doing during the summer of 1963. 9. The testimony of Nelson DELGADO contains an SECRET -PROFIBITED ‘CUBAN CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, EARLY 1959 (2) assertion . Of germinal significance to any review of the background of Lee Harvey OSWALD's feeling toward and relations with DELGADO was probably the closest peer group ecCisg? PAGE 69 COPY NO. of ” REPRODUCTION PROWIRITED 212
13-00000—~ — REPRODUCTION is SECRET | | | my member to OSWALD. during his specialist training period at El Toro Marine, Corpé\Base December 1958 ~ September 1959. The Warren Gonmission, Heport takes note of this: CrosWALE baud DELGADO that he was in ES LG SBan diplomatic officials in this cowtsy, which DELGADO at first took to be ‘one of his lies, but later believed.'"2 10. Actually DELGADO's testimony says a lot more of LL LTTE TT TT a aD possible operational significance than is reflected by the eA TE TIT TTT ae NTT SD : language of the report, and its implications do not appear ~ Te Se TET eed to have been run down or developed by investigation. Thus, >. the record of the beginning of OSWALD's relationshi ip with the Cubans starts with a questi n marke a a .ll. The period was one of transition. im U. s. ~ Cuban relations after CASTRO" s takeover. OSWALD, and DELGADO at | _ the outset, were CASTRO supporters, OSWALD being particu- | larly keen about how to get to the island. DELGADO testi- | fied: oe | | | | * woo T didn't know what to tell hin, so | I told him the best thing that I know was to | 2. oo, Report to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter. cited as Report, P- 687. SECRET | AaNOE TE re
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGBITED ¢ i. SECRET _ oS CUS get in touch with a)Cuban Embassy, you know. But at that time, that 2)told him this - we were on ecienaiy, dene with Cuba, you know, ‘ubversion or malintent, om AON" T)\Gibdin ' t know what to answer him. I told him to see then. "After a while he told me he was in - contact with them... - aX * ..- I seen this envelope in his. foot~ locker, wall-locker, and it was adaréssed to him, and they had an official seal on its “ana” as far as I could recollect eat, waa mai)” #ron Los Angeles, and he was aS 4 Geaete was a Cuban Consul. And just after he ‘started receiving these letters - you see, he would never go out, but stay near the post all the time ... | | wee. he had one visitor after he started receiving letters he had one visiter. It was aman, because I got the call from the MP guard shack, and ‘they gave me a call that OSWALD had a visitor ‘at.the front gate. This. have Tet: him in. So I had to find somebody to relieve OSWALD, who was on guard, to go down. - SECRET. a PROHIBITED ‘man had. to: be a civilian, otherwise ‘they would , celas as PAGE 7] cr O12 COPY No. _
13-00000- 0 vn, t . i a § ECRET -_ aS — there to visie“with this fellow, and they spent about an near and whale, two hours, talking, I guess and” he came: back. I don't know who the assor’ what they talked about, but he looked nonchal ankQ\ubdut the whole thing when he came back. He never mentioned who he was, nothing. "Mr. LIEBELER: How long did he talk to. hin, do you remember? ES "Mr. DELGADO : About an agar‘ and half, two hours ... SO, re "Mr. LIEBELER: 10H GREY agi ked:, OSWALD SS ; OF? who this fellow was eee rete to "Mr. DELGADO : No. wo “Mr. LIEBELER: Did you connect this visit that OSWALD had at that time with the Cuban Consulate? "Mr. DELGADO : I did; because I thought it | funny for him to be receiving a caller at such | a late date ~ time. Also, ‘up to this. time he hardly ever received mail; in fact he seldom | received mail from. home ‘because I made it a policy, I used ta” pick up the mail for our unit - and distribute "it to the guys in there, ‘and very ST seldom. dia I ‘ever~see one for him. But every ‘so ‘often, after he started to get in contact with 10 SECRET REPRODUCTION = --PROGIBITED ~ REPRODWCTHON PROUT COlASSES | PAGE 12 . of 212 COPY NO.
REPRODUCTION PROMIAITED a SECRET : _-=- ~- these Cuban people ‘One getting letter pamphlets and AN . an & 4 Car receiving letters, Sons = ox you kn eS Xe ned achoass, maybe pamphlets, you {c. NS know, Ge churen, things we get from church, you * but it wasn't a church. "Mr. LIEBELER: Were they written 3 Spanish, any of them, do you know%” — ra "Mr. DELGADO : Not ena oni races) "mr. LIEBELER: rR to believe that these things & es me ~~ no. from the Cuban Consulate? | i | , "Mx. DELGADO :_ Well, I took it for granted | that they did after I seen the envelope, you know ... something like Mexican eagle, with a big, impressive seal, . ow. They had dif- ferent colors on it eC red white; almost looked like our _ Bier, $e now. But I can't | recall the axe ST Ray new it was in Latin, United, s SStnat. I couldn't under- | stand. It was” eet : | | "Mr. LIEBELER: You don't know for sure whether it was from the Cuban Consulate? | 11 SECRET - cOlis4é
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED AS ‘ "Mr. DELGADO: re. But he had told me ! AXefound that envelope in his FON ° wall Logis, thas prior, just. befoxe tes o xa ¢ & SECRET | | 3 | themg’ and one tine he offered to show it to me, CONK YS : but cee interested because at the | time we h work to do, and I never did ask | to see that paper again, you know. | { j I "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he tell you what his“ aan correspondence with the Cuban Consulate was... about? "Mr. DELGADO : No, he didn‘ eS . "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he ever’ Gpidig Rae y you that it had to do with the conversa phat you had about going over to Cuba? _  ©Mr. DELGADO : No. . The only thing he told me was that right after he had this con- versation with the Cuban people was that he. was . going to - once he .got out of the service - he was going to Switzertind eee "3; | 12. OSWALD’ s. application to Albert Schweitzer. College, Churwalden, Switzerland, ‘was dated 19 March 1959, ana he was presunably to report there on 20 April 1960. Destined _ for discharge fron. the Marines on 7 December 1959, OSWALD TT ns ~ " Hearings, Volume VIII, pp. 241.- 243. ee SECRET REPRODUCTION om og COPY NO.
1,3-00000 “REPRODUCTION PROWMGITED "ow SECRET ee accelerated his exit On grounds of family hardship in early September 1959. onc 2a7° Septe er 1969 he was issued a BK U.S. passport wali fos eave - among other places to © SEHy Cuba and ee He dnterea the Soviet Union from — Finland on 1959. 3. DELGADO'sS testimony has the cast of credibility. Granting that, it is of basic importance to focus attention on the male visitor who contacted OSWALD at El Toro Camp and talked with him for between one and | a. half. to, two hours. The event was unique in DELGADO's recollections, and ‘actually meer there is nothing like it - on the record - in everything else we know about OSWALD's activity in the United States before or after his return to the United States. The record reflects no identification of the B1 Toro contact. DELGADO's presump- tion is that he was exSm the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles. Assuming that, the questions are: Who was it, and was | a . there reporting Son tosh les to Washington and Havana DD gxS that could, in @etece< represent the opening of a Cuban. CY ES , file on OSWARD?S as | Q crmaserS Sar SSe00n KENNEDY'S DEMISE BY COMMUNIST ° PARTY CELL LEADER’ MORSE BENITEZ ZABOLA, 1962 = > i 14. Guatemala Station forwarded to , Headquarters on os) 9 January 1964 a duplicate copy of a raw report by aos” u.S./Cuban diplomatic and consular relations were severed on 3 January 1961. “Sy . _ - 13 aed
- REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED SECRET . %» a ‘ penetration dated 5. Sanwa AC oe yearly Communist Panty en meeting. The cell leader, 1962 describing events at the Morse BENITEZ, "dabolas< ‘ ia’ that the Communist Party in cuatandie: ‘shoulaforw a Single new party; "We need not GINS ae i preoccupy ous: @és over the politics of President KENNEDY | because we know, according to prognostications, that he 15. This report apparently had been discounted when will die within the present year, 1962." ‘it was received and was not forwarded weit the Station a ; | re-reviewed all of its material after thé assassination.’ - The file reflects no follow-up or formal dissemination of the report. ENIGMATIC THREATS BY CUBAN THIRD SECRETARY IN THE Ep unbee, 7 NOVEMBER 1963, . 16. A sensitive liaison source, reporting after the KENNEDY assassination, indicated that at the Soviet reception on 7 November 1963, the Cuban Third Secretary, Ricardo L. SANTOS Pesa, discussed the recent refugee raids on Cuba and their implications with a host-country diplomat, | concluding with the admonition: " .e. Just wait and you | will see what we can. do. It will happen soon." ‘Asked to be more specific, ‘what would happen soon, SANTOS replied: "Just wait, ‘just wait." 17. These data were passed to the Warren Commission’. by memorandum, 31 March 1964. SANTOS was reported to have "140 “NO SECRET.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWGITED (pemipe erpyemcten meme we SECRET . we ™ . __@ history of medical instability and was summarily recalled . a — from The Hague reportedly for reasons related to that fact .. : > . in april 1966. INTERCEPTED- CONVERSATIONOF CUBAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE, LUISA CALDERON , _APTERNOON OF 22 NOVEMBER 1963 ; fay | et ae KENNEDY assassination, a Cuban Embassy employee named. "Luisa" received a telephone call in Spanish from an uniden= tified male outside. . van | as —_ we 19. The caller asked her if she had heatd the Latest SY co: ; news. "Luisa" jokingly replied: "Yes, of wound, F knew it almost before KENNEDY ... Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three [she laughs], what barbarians! ...* ! ‘20. Both speakers “ree on the seriousness of the assassination. "Luisa®: Saso stated that the party at Silvia DURAN's had: bees called off so it would not appear — nd that they were_ celebrating the death of KENNEDY, nor would _ coindide with the burial. Finally she they have the. party: said anelonned ig we that night into. the house of a doctor (a yon} Siena. | 2i. Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto suggestion > of foreknowledge? This is the only item in the intercept coverage of the Cubans ‘and Soviets after the assassination. that contains the suggestion of foreknowledge or expectation. 15 §s ECRET Mera an on. 12
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGID ¢ , 4 SECRET 22. The tenuous, entgnnatic character of-the- conversation is sharply hightigiited by the following facts: tuisd EALDERON? cs ~eadre worker of the Cuban piveccirate Gopdral of Intelligence (DGI). returned to Cuba in 1964 and was reported — “to be working in DGI Headquarters. cream ge BO a gt . ° b. The DGI element in Mexico City in the - fall of 1963 was headed by Alfredo MIRABEL Diaz who had arrived on 2 September 1963, formally ‘as the replacement of the Consul) Eusebio AZCUE’” (departed 19. November 1963). “Thedeputy DGI chief (and as of June 1964, MIRABEL's successor) was Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez. c. The "Silvia DURAN" named in Luisa’s conversation was the receptionist, a Mexican national, who dealt with OSWALD during his known visits on 27 and 28 September to the Cuban installation$ in connection with a Cuban visa application for stay and/or transit. Silvia DURAN is the sole live witness on the record regarding OSWALD's activity in Mexico City. Her testimony, however, in its entirety was taken and presented, solely, by the | Mexican Governmental authorities. ‘A direct | -SECRET neONOOC 7 “PAGE 18 of _21e COPY HO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGMBLIT GC ECRET Ae | aN ene confrontation with her was requested by the Warren ‘commission’ staff but rejected by the Mexican authorities. It is from Silvia DURAN's stitenenta that it was learned that OSWALD : potas cengaged in a personal altercation on . ; . 27 Septémber with Eusebio AZCUE. | d. Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez, alias Marcos, and his DGI assistant, : . Rogelis RODRIGUEZ Lopez, were positively | identified in February 1964 by two independent sources as engaged in the activé development ‘and facilitation of the training of, Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of assassinating General Annstasio SOMOZA. VEGA, it is estab- lished, was’ on post in Mexico City during OSWALD’'s stay there 27 September - 2 october 1963. He left Mexico city on 3 November 1963 for Havana. It was reliably reported about VEGA that all individuals going to Cuba, legally or illegally, had to pass through him first. He took the biographical data and sent it to Cuba for name checking, a procedure which normally took fifteen days.” For example, VEGA would have handled the details of the _. wisa action and facilitation of the trip to Cuba via _ Mexico City from 23 December 1962 - 21 January 1963 that | a ae | a a Otiss2 : a "TRIE | | | - COPY NO.
13-00000° Sa oS PROHIBITED ‘applications to be handled ‘solely by a local. ‘employee and a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken: by the © ‘were not asked at the time. REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED * xs SECRET AQ. , : 2 ES 23-. There- is ne! evidence in the OSWALD case file that Silvia DoH was + sapped to a systematic elicitative ose Die, on ve DGI, its personalities and methods, in Stes “ae confirmed by intercept, with the data held . : Sow UNS Mexico City. Was it normal for a case like OSWALD's, considering the fuss he allegedly made with AZCUE, for the DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, they And there remains the more fundamental question: accepting the DURAN story on its face, could it havVé@“happened without the knowledge and - participation of the DGI personnel above cited? This seems unlikely especially because VEGA is later pited by a Cuban DGI defector as having § stated A he was aware OSWALD It is clear CASTRO's overseas “intelligence and security service could have more in its files than was surfacéd in the DURAN was taken by Vincent Theodore LEE, the organizer of the Fair Play Committee for Cuba, with which OSWALD established relations from Dallas during the period 19 April - 2 November 1963. There is an overlap between LEE's and VEGA's travels to Havana during that period: VEGA departed Mexico City on 6 January for Havana and returned on 13 February 1963. . 18 = 6 § EBCRET “pace 80 op 242. COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION is ° e _ SECRET ~ statements. Coming back to the beginning: Luisa" - Luisa CALDERON - a8. la "weber of the DGI unit in Mexico City - uld ve wet have knGin something that would make what ew ne she Latta ‘Her untdentified caller less a matter of boast fulvsel£-Enautgence than was assumed at the time. SC SY . ~ SILVIA DUE SUBSTANTIAL AMPLIFICATION OF ADMISSION OF ALLEGED PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH LEE HARVEY - OSWALD, - 1967 24. The defects viewed in hindsight of the Silvia DURAN testimony already have been suggested above. (In that context of criticism it would also be relevant to reconsider the implications of the two intercepted telephone conversations on 26 November 1963 between the Cuban President, DORTICOS, and his Ambassador to Mexico, Joaquim Hernandez ARMAS, because the thrust of the conversation dealt with the ques- tion whether Silvia DURAN had been asked about for been | offered?] money payments by her Mexican interrogators.) 25. As of September 1964 Silvia DURAN gave up her Cuban Embassy job. In the spring of 1967 Silvia DURAN was reported by a reliable and sensitive source to have of eut all relations with Cubans. Her account, in 1967, OE how she had been taken-into custody and had been intexrogatid after the assassination repeated what was alxéaay. known. a She added, under circumstances that did net: ‘permit’ the,” source to challenge or elicit corroborative aetyiy” that - 19 * | SECRET. AOU Ss COPY i10. ‘pacE 81 ot 212
13-00000 NN t t 6 “OTD REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED t . ~o SECRET She had gone out with OSWALD during his stay -in Mexico City and claimed she hag eexual relations with him. Va oN ALLEGATIONS ox CONSPERATORIAL CONTACT BETWEEN OSWALD AND CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ALLEGATIONS OF (A). ELENA GARRO DE PRAZ AND (B) OSCAR CONTRERAS,” 2 Ske Gecwrren Commission reported, "Literally dozens of aNegations of a conspiratorial contact between > OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been o investigated | -2278 Among these cases, which consumed | ‘ hundreds of CIA man-hours in Headquarters afd abroad a and similarly the FBI in the United States, se was’ the’ Ny =e . PN, ae aad Nicaraguan walkin in Mexico City, 26 Novembes L183, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. . 27. The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the Warren Commission under the cryptograph "D."" ALVARADO Claimed that he had seen an American, whom he identified as OSWALD, receive money some time in mid-September 1963 in a meeting in a patio, of the Cuban Consulate in See Report, p. 305 ff. _ Some of the others were the cases of Ylario ROJAS Villenueve in Cozumel and Guadaloupe, ' the allegations of Enrigtie Ruedolo GONGORA in New York City, the claims of Robert. Edward GALLANT, Santa Clara Prison . Farm, anand and the allegations of Ray DOBKIN's. 7 See » Report BR. 307 - 308. 20 SECRET . GOCLoS5 - COPY NO. pace 82 ot 12 ctneenpmntneaneneanenest:
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ae SECRET Mexico city. ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the CI SESE DT SS pS EIS use of the polygraphy\on which ALVARADO showed evidences of deception, and by’ bringing ALVARADO's former Nicaraguan security service control into the case. 28. fie ALVARADQ. ‘story is a particularly acute repre- sent sion of the gifticulties that beset the evaluation of observed ecgaaiice: certain elements of the story persist despite the impeachment of its major premises. ALVABABO, whose account “aid not become public until the release” of the Warren Report in October 1964, talked colisistently. of) a the presence in the Cuban Consulate tr Seyion, of a Negro f y»Sy with red-dyed hair. VE 29. Elena GARRO de Paz is a mecurial, Se. and 7 epee ne ARETE TT TTD socially prominent Mexican writer, married, but separated from a high-ranking Mexican foreign service official. She is also the cousin of Horacio DURAN, the husband of Silvia DURAN, cited above. There is a strong personal antipathy between the two women descending from Elena GARRO's trenchant anti-Communisn, 30. From October 1964 until his retirement in the fall of © 1969, a U. Ss. Embassy officer » persistently kept up a stream of ‘reports’ and memoranda reflecting ‘GARRO's account of what. chad actually | ‘gone on between OSWALD, the Cubans and - in | particular Silvia DURAN in September 1963, . including a repeated reference to a Negro with red-dyed_ hair. SECRET.
13-00000 - SECRET 31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in. a Mexico Station Memoxane jum of Record dated 12 October 1964: “Elena. GARRO.. {saia] that she and her way daughter” Were. invited. to a party at the Cuban Empey ‘auiting: the periog she now finds out oe C thas Uswann assassin son: ‘She was invited by a Mexican was “here in Mexico prior to the secretary in the Cuban Embassy whose husband is a cousin of the GARRO family [Horacio DURAN]. At the party she saw three Gringos, not drinking, not mixing and more or less just standing around together like three bumps" on. a log. They were so obviously out of place that she asked someone in the Cuban. Embassy about | them and was told that eney were just passing through. ' - She claims that on thie, way these three Gringos stood out she took: 3a good look at them as did her daughter. When the assassination occurred and OSWALD's picture was spread into the newspapers, both Elena and her daughter immediately said that he was one | of the three Gringos ‘without a doubt! at the party." | . oO 32. _GARRO repeated her. story to Mr. Charles William “THOMAS, an ‘Eubassy political officer on 10 Decenber 1965: : a 7 22 . ; * Ss oo SECRET . REPRODUCTION = ccCass7 pice 84 COPY NO. of O12
13-00000:, 2 a. ieee sapere at “In September ig6\after her return from abroad, she went of town.. . OSWALD, she was told ‘that the American Embassy was full of © REPRODUCTION PROWMET ¢ - 4 ad SECRET to a parte “accompanied by her daughter, at_ the home of Ruben ‘DURAN: Temphiaa}s added]. Ruben is one of the two . she was discouraged from talking with him. Other guests’ head : 7 ‘Wee . i pebthers of Horatio DURAN, who married her cousin. She : OX Xe? free wt O sWADD, na two other young Americans. At the party wy Se ‘ | were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark, FLORES, : Silvia DURAN, who she later learned was OSWALD’ s° mistress : while he was here, Emilio CARBALLIDO and a Latin American Negro man with red hair [emphasis added]. In November 1963 when the identity of the assassin became known, she and her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted . "assassins" and other insults at the staff there. ® Shortly — afterward, she and her daughter were visited by a friend, Manuel CARVILLO [or CALVELLO], then an official in the . on: Secretariat of tife Gobe ion and were told he had orders to escort then toa stienVina obscure hotel in the center SS) that they -to go to the Am AmSrican Embassy and explain what she knew of” Communist spies. 33. On 25 December 1965 and 9 January 1966 ih , further’ : interviews with THOMAS, GARRO and her. daughter elaboratéd and 8 These particulars were not confirmed by independent observers. ~ at the time. ; 23 SBC RET. Calisss "PAGE 85 | of 212 COPY NO.
13-00000° And final Sag Soma" s retirement from U.S. “Government. , ft ° a 7 SECRET ad. in certain particulars significantly modified her earlier | account. an (also: acknowledged that she and her daughter | had been @nterviewed By Embassy officers to whom she claimed aoa they dia not give, a “very complete story because the Cra Embagsy oftiegré did not appear to give much credence to a anything ‘hey said. ; es 34. It developed that GARRO and daughter had been Le ae ane a interviewed by the Lega The FBI representative therefore considered tha matter closed Chief of Station on 27 December 1964 and to the Ambassador on 25 February 1965. | | 35. The Embassy Political officer, however, persisted in his interviews and reporting. In a memorandum of conversation, 13 July 1966, GARRO i@entified the place to which she had been taken by CALVILLO as the Hotel Vermont. (This detail checked out affirmatively. - ~GAREO. was at the Hotel 23 ~ 24, 25 = 27 _— a vs ~ and 28 = 30 yovember:: 1363. ) In another, on 7 February 1967, SS GARRO's ett ing uisiasitudes with the Cubans are set oie, > ¢ service, the Department of State, at his request, oe 28 August 1969, disseminated to CIA and FBI a ‘compilation of his reporting of the Elena. GARRO interviews. ~ 24 | SECRET. Ceca e 55 . of COPY NO.
_ REPRODUCTION f . ‘ & _ SECRET. oa 366 There the matter rests. GARRO's chronology of the events she described. as s havin oc inthe Mexican an capital in September 1963. ever, coincided with the confirmed data of OSWALD's presence theres Her story, however, had two points. copgtuaht with allegations by others regarding OSWALD: W Es” a. AARADO's allegations regarding the Negro with the red-dyed hair {this detail could, however, have been gleaned from the Warren Commission's published account of the — "Dp" case] and . | se b. Silvia DURAN's later claim of & intimate personal contacts with OSW. OF > 37. Beginning in March and mised nr the American Consul, Benjamin J. RUYLE, in Tampico developed a contact with a local te, = Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who clainied to have encountered. OSWALD with other pro-CASTRO students at. the | University of Mexico campus in September 1963. 38. In June 1969. CONTRERAS was interviewed by a CIA officer: LBS a He studied tay a at the University of Mexico r~ . for three. approximately 1960 - 1964. He belonged to a clandestine pro-CASTRO revolutionary © group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD: we | | 25 SECRET CUCLEES pace 81 ot ele COPY No.
held in the faculty of Philosophy. ‘OSWALD oy "REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED ¢ . e a SECRET case he was extremety cautious and although he was not able Be witting to give dates and names, he e@icoswann visited the University wetly after the Cuban im a visa to visit Cuba. CO hiries regarding pro-Cuban seit ae groups at the University and ~ was directed to CONTRERAS and his friend. OSWALD met CONTRERAS and four other persons. as they came out of a round-table discussion - told the group it was urgent. tHat-he visit: _ Cuba and the Cuban Embassy haaGentea’ hi a ~ ‘wisa. He requested aid from ‘GovTRERAS" group. CONTRERAS and others mistrusted OSWALD because they felt he was a CIA provocation. The group allowed OSWALD to accompany them the rest of the day, that night and part the next day. OSWALD was very introverted and: { appeared to be slightly crazy. OSWALD nade( Goons ten of an assassination aging ab the point he had to eS plot but kept >) travel to inineaatedy. | _ SS. -. 39. At this\poi LS h FBI knowledge, the matter was “turned over to the Mexican authorities who determined that CONTRERAS was indeed at the University of Mexico but only © SECRET CCCAS6L pics 88 COPY No.
1;3-00000 anu wo REPRODUCTION PROMI ¢ SECRET mee \ for the years 1959 - SS and that he had been publicly associated in protest, activity for the Student Revolutionary Bloc (BER) in sanuary ‘1981. However, the group ceased functioning-as_ such-in. twe middle of 1962, and Oscar TRERAS.- was never one of its leaders. No further a Sree hd work is Sef ste in the files on the CONTRERAS allegations. Apart from the unsustained claims made by CONTRERAS about his own presence at the University, there is an additional element that undermines the credibility of his. ‘accounts, OSWALD's Spanish, which was barely adequate: to get. him meals near the hotel, seems hardly likely to pave permitted him to carry on for an extended period with © University student ONS group. 27 & EC RET “pace 89 COPY NO. GOL SES oe 21 es
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED 31 January 1964 SEE XAAZ-2IST¢ SUSIZECT: . LLANES TRE 1. I am enclosi developed by CIA on or Lee Harvey CSWALD in Mexico City. We have inclhaied in this paper only hard, achstastive information, Any judgments that are made represent pro- fessional evaluations by individuals who have worked over | the years a9 specialists in their fiekla, Speculation, rumor, and vague detail uot directly related to CSWALDIs activity have net been inchuled, ) 2 Pursuant to cur discussica on 14 January 1964, I have given the enclosure an anpropriate classification, The compromise of this material in its present form would lead : directly to the destruction of currest sources and methods af . this Agency in Mexico and elsewhere, ( | | rocuent Number 50 9. 509-03 (signed) a * for Fota Richard Helms | anion om am 78 _ Deputy Director for Plana oo get Enclosure m | ene AiR , ; oO 4 Orig & la ~ Addressee w/att vo | L yo ‘Le DDP w/att ; ; AK 1 = WH/3 (Mr. Whitten) wejase” b» . 1=SR/Cl w/attv | i ° “Chief, CI/R&A w/att / re Ce CI/RGRoccasde/ 31 January 1964 ot . , | ATT oe a | pov asiaes useusers “PAGE 134 2h COPY NO. __
13-00000. PRONIBITER bo wn ncn oe ne chen amend 31 Janvuzry 1964 | faite atte, Bree | Sa | Information Develoned by CLA an the Activity of v. 34 Lee Harvey CSWALD in-Maexico Cit . : | 2° Sentormber ~ 3,Cetesas 1953 1, OSWALDIs Activity-in Mexico City 1, On9 Octabes: tie CIA Station in Mexico City reccived | | 7 Ge so ' the following information frien a sclizble and proven source: ! e . . An American named Lee OSWALD had coatacted ; the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, 1 October: 2963. He had spoken in hating Russianta the Soviet _ : Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to whom a he said he had visited the Embassy two days earlier, : Saturday, 28 September, Ho asked whether there had been a seply to 2 telegram that the Consul with whom ha . had spoken, but whose name he could not recall, bad promised to send to Washington, OBYEDKOV had atternzted to establish the. jwentity of the Conaul with whom CSWALD had catxeds’ if x: had been a dar vurson, “then it had probably bean KOSTIXOV, OBYEDXOV, 7 ¢ SENSITIVE SCURCES AND - Sorye ARE gress aR oy “9+ ae . Ls wet GCCL2FC8 COPY NO.
18-00000 . REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED oo, ; | ae a BE ORET po om . ~. owe ™ st-~ io “: Fe) : Aw | Co after a check with Sovict Consular personnel, assured OSWALD the telegram had been sent to Washington but no answer had been received, Tho information was forwarded aS Is ta CLA Headquarters NS the same day it was received Ss | . ‘. 2 A file cheek: te Washingted which is routine in thase = cf Xt wey aT oN in ea matters rovea! ed.the poasibility ofan identity between the Lee ON ‘2 OSWALD wko had spoken. with OBYEDKOV, and presumably with KOSTIKOV, and the defector returnoe, Lee Harvey OSWALD,* 3. Onld 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 agoucies whose jurisdictional interesta had been established by a review of | OSWALD!s file: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Depart. . ; * The CIA file on Lee Harvey. OSWALD was opezed on 9 Decomber 1960 ta accommodate biographiic information developed by CLA in yesponse to an inquiry from the Department af State ona Mst of American defectors in Soviet Bloc countriss, OSWALD's was’, _arnong the names. in the list, The Department of State inquiry as dated 25. October 1960,. An interim reply was given by CLA on 3 November 1960; a final resiy, on 21 November 1950, Wstil - azly October 1963 thse contents of ths OSWALD file held i by CIA > consisted extively of press materials and disseminations received from the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of ' Investigation, and the Navy Department. a are SENSITIVE soUunCES AND a “1 METHODS INVOLVED + 1 iS INNES , Cd fete g BAe we S ee ee - % eee, ote sleet ue Pe * es gehen eee ER OPS = al ee Sal aC BI8 2 eet 8 RE AE RTA ea Nine ett el Le eae eT ATT Sa ™E ee rm CebAt(S
13-00000 REPRODUCTION _ Poesia an okt Deities Gaunt AMD ™ "4. . . .: °T! HOS u we na ty eens vacut of State, the Na avy Begsie nont, and the Immicration and Naturalization Ser viée. J comment was included in the report oe noting the Likelihood that. +82) subject, Lee OSWALD, was ° or ch@bly identical with the former Marine who had defected to ce we the Soviet’ Union in 1959. (The report dlaseminated by CIA in Washingtoa on 10 Ccteber also includ od a physical descriptien of an individual whe was beHeved to have been the OSWALD whe) had contacted the Soviets in Mexico City, It was subsea: ently; * a ce} a *y investigation that the descript rieHens aia not perts sta vote | é&, Onthe same day, 10 Ccteber 1963, CIA Headquasters sent a lengthy cable summary to the Mexico City Station of the “oe background information held in the Meadquarters! file oa | SWALD, An instruction wa was included for the Mexico City Station to pass the substance of its 9 Cetober rapor$ to the local representatives ef the sarme Federal departments and agencies . that had been given the information in Wasbington, — This instruction was immediately carried Sut. In this manner the 4nfor mation on OSWALD ‘a coutact with the Soviets onl Ostaber 23 9 passed in Mexico “City t to the Embassy, the BI repr esentative, — ths Naval Attacke, and to the office of the immigration a: Neturalication Service, There were no recussta from zeciesnts of . the report fax fusthor information or for followup’ investigati on, gtr vemos, . . tee @ 2 . - i 4 -_ oe -— 1 WARDING aus be ews «3 aBe. wrig SENSITIVE scURCSS AND - ee METHODS INVOLVED woe are wee sree . . ts Ne et Meee tale yen te ot wee ele seme” ees Frame een “oN te. a, Sp
13-00000 | ee es PROGISITED . - . _ t soon wee ene mse sem - wen, Shae : - 8 . : . &> & a Re Bebe Lovaas nd '§. After the assassination of President MenncJly and the available sources we S &, wade meales arrest of Lec Harvey OS% aN, iutensive review of all in Mexico City to dcterraine rhe purpoze ef OS Sw. FALD'S visi its It was learned that CSWALD o. ‘\ . . ! 7 @. on Consulate in Mexico City and bad | talked there - pe clar's, a. Moezican national, named Silvia DURAN. After the assassination and the publicity about Lee OSWALD, Silvia DURAN had told a nunaber of relatives and ivlonde that she had talked to OSWALD about a Cuban visa. | Silvia DURA N and hes husband, raztio BURAN Navas 70, wera Getalned and questioned by —_ Mexican police: fxdza 23 to 25 November 1963. : 6. After giving some of the details of her own pezsonal background = she ig an adraltted Leftist sympathizer and had formesly worked far the Mexican-Cubaa Institute of Cultural Relations #» Silvia DURAN said that when she fivai h card or the da: ath of President xennsay ecn deprossed az ag thought a, the as sassin must haat Seen’a, Basi. When ske learned thas a , : — - wih d the wFals Biay for Cuba Commlitec! a its — . . - a - > ‘he was assoc she did. net RON y She t sated Sei the case to her husband and when ene heard the name of Lee OS WALB mentioncd, she recognized it as WARKING NOTICE i. a ea sc Ines AND : ¥ ome marpe =, sho y CNR SG GUI gt + + SN om no ote ee ete wed ack ‘Boe as “te . . oo « . a rr Gocat1a PAGE 138 of 212° COPY NO. __
13-00000. ee cee REPRODUCTION PROWBITED Seinen al the man who had corne to the Consulate about two months befora to ect a visa to transit rece his way to the USSR. She at on oe sealised that hertiad said ‘he was married toa Russian and that Sane chacked her ride’ on hit In the Cen: sular archives and from the éescistive “s data, sha Kon sure it was the same man. Ho was short, blanc, ; - poorly dressed and his face got ved when he talised, He was denied a Cuban transit visa because he did not yct have a Sovict visa, and he was told to get tho Soviet visa frst. bat it was noted ” that this would take about four montas. She had asked the Cuban” | Consul himself, ‘Euseblo AZCUE, to talk te OSWALD and they | had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Mexico . | instead of waiting there. The Consul had phoned the Soviet Con-~ | sulate and talked to the person handling OSWALD's case, who | bad said it would take about four months to hear from Moscow bout the Soviet visa, The s \aaeneaal OSWALD had come. back again and she had ES Rie the same thing. ‘Sha’ gave <n DQ A tps with, he ame and teleghone number on OSWALD a élip it in case Roe got his: soyiae visa. He did not cal tL back, she sald. 8. Silvia DURAN'S be husband, Horacio DURAN Navarro, gave essentially the same story, as he had. proviousl y hear rd it from’ his wife atter the assassination. He had never had any persoaal contact with OSWALD. + PO aay va" ee to AV, REINS POUeE rhe: free any eet eter . poms | SRSEE ESS AN ar ee eee . SUSIE 3 St “cg rye : 0} a5 @, wiere “> PAGE 139 of 212 “COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION a é al a ae ae ol o ~ we Wahsded, meee 71 eens em an seenttr 6 3 2D 9. Siivia DURAN was reiaterresgated by the Mexican police from 27 to 29 Novembee G Bey she did not change or add materially to her story ak honit. oswarD, ARS Bia known. that. tho Cuban Amba > . J 02g jw HERNANDEZ Ks ~mac, resorted on tk . a RO, ‘e . Guban Gevernment sent the Mesican Government a tice note of protect, which the Mexicans rejected, 11. We aSwably.d d.that' on day after DURAN!'s release, Cubsaa F Providers DORNIEGS ¢ guezicd - HERNANDEZ about his resoyt, HERNANDEZ confirmed that a, there had been an altercation between CSWALD and Consul co AZCUE, DORTICOS made a nersistent but unsuccessful effort to determine from HERNANDEZ whether the Mexican authorities _ . had aentlone’ M Se DURAN about mousy, or thought that the confirmed r “=< which have a bearing on Mra, DURANs account: i ; - Be 27 September, In mic-~afternooa, ‘Silvia DURAN . infor med the Soviet Embass sy that a male Amor! ican citizen bee ‘bad reques sted a visa ta transit Cuba on his way ‘to the. - | ancapebeeaniameeniael © coms gummy, areaw » ; . At fe OER aK OTICE bn tant EE bd So Pee e ns) 4 thee ed od Pager ace serene AAP Alin veo ge — « a + IEEE TART hf wae: GERRI mt sarees orm ap +t quae age eee ne semen
13-00000 wewonl eas re eh eh ee wane Le ee Ope Oe woth  RUMEREE © ein ae nT + “REPRODUCTION PROLIBET + eee ete seam hep ~. a ~ ; tf WRENS poe } = piney re emonoe “ap “pecans bey Seviot Union, She desired to know who the American had AN, talked with ae a Sovict Gonsulate, Alao, she indicatad that the Cuban Consulate coula grant kim the visa and _ arrange ge immigration état if the couceasion of a Soviet < > wis were assured, “ Qe Sentember., Pursuant to her inquiry, Silvia oe DURAN received a confirm=tion from the Sovict Embassy a that the American had been to the USSR fastallation, He bad shown them a iettor fsom the Soviet Consulate, tg7 Washington indicating that he had Beda long awaiting a al oO) S e - answer had come from Washington; however, the waiting period was sometimes four or five months, The ‘Am merican also had a letter attesting thet ke was 2 member of a prow Cuban organization but he had<ot timed that the Cubans would not give him a visa unleeo ko had already received a Russian visa, ~*~ Consulate, sng LAN repeated that ene dould not give him a transit visa . unless & Sovie t viea was forthecom ing, notwithstanding the American's wish to go to Cuba to wait nents, seaenpanee se eomamyee  ~ COPY NO. aniTED
Po A there for his Sovict visa, sAccording to DURAN, tha aN N\ American knew Ae “Gnesi Cuba and sho intend ed to appr ops iatély sanctate-si American's card, The Soviet wor 2 <- echaed her r stettinent that the American wes not temscr, Silvia DURAN was crain. visited aly at the Cuban Embascy in Mezsico City by the Americaa> secking a Cuban teens Me visa, Mrs, DURAN conta cted at oe least two members of the > Sovies Biaboasy and £ snoilizartia a direct conversation between cnc of the Sovists ‘and tue wy’ NSor American, Conversing i in poor Russiam®, the- American ‘ stated that he already had been to the Soviet Consulate and had icft anaddress, The Sovict official replied that he was aware’ of that, The American suageste shat he had not known his address thea, and he had gone sa the | _? Cuban Embassy to ask for tha address, because they bad it. The American then acceded to the Soviet official's oy invitation t: to come by and give them the adézes a. 1 “Ccteber, In mid-morning an unidenti‘ied individual, epeaking sf roken Rus cian, contacted the Sovict ae Military Attache in Mexico City. He said he had been to mace 142. e212 COPY NO.
1$3-00000 - REPRODUCTION PRORIBITE o Lt “~ ; * o . ~~ \ | PEER Ce won ~The ee. ce or an 8, @, ‘tad eS = de 2 i tac basey tho previous Onturday (28 Septeraber) az EN had talked with a Consul who had said they would send a telegram to Washingtonn, had there becnarecply? He wo nockeferred to the Conti ate for the informeatian, These zéditionsl mat ateyials were nroraptly dissaminsted in . Washington by e CIA to the White Mouse, the Dezartmcnt of | State, aud the Federal Surcay of investication. ; at, : @, 1 October, Sce paragraph 1 above for Lee OSWALD 's contact with the Soviet Consulate, OY, Voaloriy Vindimivovich KOSTIZG a ye . 13. It is believed that the Sevict official with whom OSWALD dealt in Mexico City was Consular Attache Va aleriy Vizcdimirovich & HOSTISOV, born in Moscow, 17 March 1933, 4 photograph of KOST TOM As at ached, In his letter of ston, OSWALD wrote about bis _ineesings i f 36 5 (ste).atshe a Mexico’ cue Mexico," There is no offi cial ey aN 9 Novermber to the Soviet Consulate im Wash Soviet Uniort in i are of the Sevier Embaséy ta Mexico City with a name resembling sd NROSTIN",. othing than Gonsul § CSTIXC ° “14, KOSTIXOV is the senicr efficer of five Soviet Consular representatives who deal with visas and related a re ee oj Sees ey % ogo ou et J x ROTC ; i save Si SBURCES 8 ae 2] i
a -———-REPRABINETION la ; Prenengate “SEAME | Th igo Toning Dee “55° ENS/T. IE: CLASSIFIED A\ESSAGE 19 SECRET eS fe) : DIRECTOR _ ROM +. MEXICO CITY 03 20% / \CTION: C/SR 5. “(MRS BAGLEY, SR, "MR. REL CHHARDT “COPIES ISSUED AT 0030, 24 Nov "'5 NFO; ADDP, C/Cl, c/cifors, fF ly c/wH2, D/OS 2, VR ote: If destruction, cite ow aN. “reasons and coordinate 3) EON —SPRRORE RIG 7 > ay REF DIR sikey os OF ct eyOTETGF . Tuto P PR OV IDED BEN OW “SUFFICIENTLY DEFINITIVE SUMFART-OF LOCAL IF7ILE CONTACTS IVAN GAVRILOVICH ALFERIEV (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, INFO FROM LIENVOY).s 18, 19, 23 NOV 6@ CONTACTS WITH ENRIQUETA GOMEZ OF GON RE EXTENSION OF COURTESY PERMIT FOR SELF RENAIN IN MEXI. . 10, 11 NOV 60 WITH FNU VARELA RE DELIVERY OF SUBJ'S FURNITURE. 37 NOV 69 AND 7 MAR 61 WITH JUAN SEDILLO RE INSURANCE -SUBJ CAR. PRESIDENT OF: CUBAN: peu” 18 FEB AND 2@ MAR 61 WITH DENTIST DR. "E . Ss = .8 NOV 6% SERGIO DURAN OF NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK RE PICKUP ” 8 ; | QO 3 |. OF MONEY. 14, 15 NOV HUMBERTO GONZALEZ RE PICKING UP NEW CAR. > § | , @ 25 -2 NOV SUBJ TREATED AK SANATORTO REFORMA (USUALLY USED 8Y se © | t = a i ‘SOVS) BY WELL KNOWN, Lair ot DR. CARLOS NOBLE HOYO WHO USED [a a : 9 } FREQUENTLY BY sovs. 83’ DEG’ WITH THIRD SEC CUBAN CULTURAL ATTACHE > | . =— | TERESA PROENZA RE “ARRANEINS PRESS CONFERENCE FOR ROLANDG CUBELA bi som j won Be | ; ! i Nee a “LESLIE VALERY RQ@* gBPOINT MENT FIX SON'S TEETH. VALERY - Dal- -2€4 24 FREQUENTLY USED 8Y SOVS. 1 WAR ARRANGES MEETING WITH IGXACIO AGISTA LAGUNES, PROMINENT PRO CONMIE AIDE OF GEN LAZARO CARDENAS. 28 | MAR FNU FEMALE NANJARREZ (PHONETS Gp ai MONIT OR BELIEVES BE AMER ICAL D: 20 Ss “Yl carom et, ethudag ee eee oof a do | REPRODUCTION. BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PRORISITED » Copy No. pt Toe Ll 212 | U uN = oO page L44 or ele COFY No.
13-00000° mo PROHIBITED CLASSIFIED MESSAGE | | [ : | | TURE AT HOTEL REFORMA WHERE A CURAN TO SPEAK« ‘3 MAY WITH GUADAL UTE PEREZ MACIA OF GOBERNACTON RE “OBTAINING CUNDETER? iINED) VISA. ths JUNE AND 6 JULY with “oscant B SANTAELL A» FORD SALESMAN. 7 JUNE witi JUAN CARCIACA ND FNU PEREG™ “oR 0200, DODGE SALESMEN. 2 AUG CALLS — ROGER of Rostrr. ‘aTZe OF “FRANCE PRESSE” TO. INVITE TO SOVENB PRESS. CONFERENCE. Ye Way AND 16 JUNE 1962 CALLS EDMUNDO JARDON OF PRENSA LATINA TO GET TOGETHER. 14 JUNE ASKS SPEAK WITH DR. GUILLERKO MONTANO ISLAS, PROMINENT NEXIGAN PRO CONNIE LEADER WELL KNOUN HOS. 22 JUNE HE AND TASS REP ANATOLIY PAVLENKO INVITED TO LUNCHEON BY HEXIGAN PRESIDENT'S PRESS SEC HUMBERTO ROMERO. 25 SEP IS INVITED TO LUNCHEON WITH DR. IGNACIO CHAVEZ, RECTOR aT UNAM, 3 DEC ACCEPTS — INVITE ATTEND BUFFET FOR PRESS ON BEHALF CARL J. KI@AIL, U-S. | NEWS AND WORLD REPORT. 23 JAN 63 HORACIO CHANCACLINI OF UNITED NAT IONS POST PONES HIS aPROSNnENT WITH SUBJ. 19 FEB FNU SABING CASRERA OF INSURANCE FIRM RE PAYMENTS. § MAR INVITES CaNADIAN IEW SPAPERNAN JOHN “AL IUS to sree DINNER. 30 APR REQUESTS APPSINTEENT ane g boom ganantata OAS . ad saree: $ euge core HO0: ° wre R ICARDA. | “porn CERVANTES, PROMINENT, ‘LEFPIST. T” JOURNAL ist IN . | ow - pom comarca re see oe ce SRO 98 « CL OSE FREQUENT” ca *Sovs. 5 AND ‘$v “BY TALKS, Wis a New YORK KE fas ne ght #2 apa TINES REP PAUL EDY WHO INVITES. SUEY DINNER "26 BAY. 18 ZAY- DIRECTOR OF VOZ DE MEXICO AND PCM CENTRAL COMMITTEE GAN MANUEL _- ‘TERRAZAS GUERRERO, ASKS SU3J FOR SOV FINANCIAL SUBSIDY: 23° HAY" SUBJ CALLS JOHN RETTIE (SEE MEXI 4745). 14 JUNE: CALLS. WELL KNOWE wo mee: . : - LEFTIST CLEMENT INA BASS. S TO INTERV IEW HER. 14 oot qwvites . ENO I@UE LOUBET OF EXCELSIOR TO SOVENS RECEPTION BEHALF COSNONALTS.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBIT Se Cctoher 1959: Stockholm newspaper, Bazens Nyheter, of 25 November 1363 states Lee CSVALD Paton passed the ough Swedsn during Cctober 1333, Article (aA, wee “ale sides a tag ov ALD was unsucceasful ie obtalnlog — viskto She USSR in Helsinki which resulted in his | . returaing ta Steckhoim. Two days after ue arrived IA, Stockholm OSWALD traveled directly to Moscow,” ~ Conciuding sentence cf article states "This 2 Gileates | Sw Aceording toa reliable source ther : 2 that there was any request for a USSR visa processed theough normal channels for CSWALD at any time - during 1959, and source indicated it was difficult to explain how WALD right have received his visa wa two days without going through normal channels, The. only conclasion which can be drawn is that CSWALD rust have received his visa Gir ectly from the Soviet Eubasiy i ias Stocldhste which occasionally is done i in > special casey but ‘the source had no evidence to confirm _ this assunrption. > “RT
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED . d. 10to 15 Ostober 1959: According t9 3a very : reliable ee extremedy,  sdnative pours 6 CSVALD stayed at the: Tarai Hotet teat from 10 to 11 October and 277 af issued him by the Soviet Consulate in Helsingl, He ee eee | traveled to the USSR by train, crossing at Vainilkala on 4 % e. 13 May 1962: According to a Dutch offictar a wy source, the Dutch Charge in Lioscow issued a transit | 3) a aa visa to OSWALD 's wife on 13 Disp, 2962, Theis. geéorda reveal his wife was born on 17 July ress ef 19 July 1941 and in Severodvine: instead of Minsle, There is no record of her having actually transited ‘The Netherlands, | £. 1962: Official British records do not reflect - “that OSWALD returned to the United States from the USSR through the United singlom, | However, Ef he were merely: wansiting, it would nat lave been necessary for him to ti out a landing card, and therefore there would be no record of his travel in the official traffic imdece. ; a. ‘PROMBITED