y DocID: 6598222 €:03/24/97 | JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM o— IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSA RECORD NUMBER : 144-10001-10125 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : N1404 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : ~ FROM : LOWMAN, DAVID Arr = >Own = oS TITLE : SSCSGO-ASSASSINATION DATE : 13/09/78 PAGES : SUBJECTS : So OSWALD, LEE, PROPOSED RUSSIAN TRIP (1963) ; ; ERE DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT | CHSTRTCHTOW - : CURRENT STATUS : X _ DATE OF PAST REVIEW : 08/12/93 OPENING CRITERIA ORIGINATING AGENCY’ § DETERMINATION REQUIRED : COMMENTS : | EON TANS SENS EERE COMPAR FMEN HEB EN FORMAT EON Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
ATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE \ ' FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755 Serial: N1404 3 December 1975 —— -2QR-SECRER— MEMORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY AND DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE | SUBJECT: Senate Select Conmmbeter Request for Additional Information on Matters Related to President Kennedy ' s . Assassination 1. Please refer to my Memorandum, Serial: N1380 dated 24 November 1975 which forwarded our initial response to the subject request. 2. Myr. Peter Fenn of the Select ‘Committee Staff has requested copies of the. four messages referred to in our initial. response. They are inclosed for your review and © Cte bomen DAVID D. LOWMAN Special Assistant: to the Director for Congressional Reviews forwarding to Mr. Fenn. 4 Incls: a/s Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection reel ASS FY UPO Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note) N REMOVAL - Is ri oa} Eg
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With relation to. the, Snoreat on! publ ished. toda newspaper. -Excelsion “in Mexico Ciby aff izming Phat: OSWALD had requested a transit visa. fo Union’ ac. the: uban Consulate’ ir, Mex om On n bang finders Sos" ‘the consular officials ti office could not grant ‘such a visa without . the nuthosizet ‘o£ the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relat Lois ,: fy would not grant it if it was not previously authorized Y sthe - Country of eghiation, Bee, OSWALD, lett: pisgusted. This ‘detail, in connection vith th Soths that: ‘surround: ‘the facts ,. confirm our .stispic saga ination: of KENNEDY was a provocation ‘against world P ave perfectly and’ thoroughly planned by. i NOE rhe United States. _
ae te ‘ts evident: that these ‘sectors planned beforehand : involve Cuba and the Soviet Union in these deads ‘The inconceivable. ‘and inexplicable” dividual of known penal, antecudenta :as assinate OSWALD, ” principal accused of the assassination of. Président . ‘KENNEDY ‘the presence of the police. themselves and inthe’ ; Joprison, demonstrates in a scandalous -and: ‘Andisputable, » “that ‘the ‘powerful reactionary political .forées. within th ‘United States. are making use of all thelx’ resources and influences: cin order ‘to conceal those who master-inin ed. KENNEDY" 5: it is. ‘absurd that the political authorities attorney of Dallas have declared that: the cas is losed when chardly 48 hours have passed since ‘a ' . the assagsination of the President of.
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Bow ae T2456-63 S29 Mov 22732 a Dist: OP St’ 300: 0/27282-63 “CASTRO SPEAKS ON PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION AND CUBAN ECONOMY a om 28 Nov' 63 FIDEL stated, ‘ 'Ekent s, are denmmatvackie the sinister plot behind the assassination, of KENNEDY, Contradictions; show that OSWALD was made the. culprit by the police or was prepared to commit the act with promise-of: escape, and was. assigned activities ‘$0 as to have responsibility ‘fall on or be instnuated against ' those-whom the perpetrators wished, it is clear that United. states reactionaries tried to make. Cuba and the world the victims. of their criminal designs, even at “the price of asysasinating their. own president. They sent OSWALN to Mexico to aaquanie a transit visa to Cuba for later travel: to the USSR. Imagine the president! s assasin just returning ftom the USSR and _GROUP 1 — — EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC ete. aed ' DOWNGRADING AND DECITASSTFICATION PAGE 1 ‘of _3 paces) 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) b(iii) OMS 19 ee ot cuban [ws 3732 ax/of_r24se-63 (0/27282-63 PAGE _ PAGE(s)
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2x/0 Frees. 18 (29 Nov 22 232 Pe Dist: OF ST 300 -0f2728%-¢ 63 “CASTRO SPEAKS ‘ON PRESIDER WT KENNEDY'S ASEASS HLNATION nao cman * ECONOMY. | Hos” Sete’ 28 Nov 63 FIDEL stated, “Events, are , demons Cemeiig, the sinister piot behind the assassination. of KENNEDY, Contradictions show that . OSWALD was. ‘made the. culprit by the police or was prepared to ao commit the: ‘act with promise of. escape, and was. assigned activities,” sovas ‘to have ‘responsibility fall on or he instnuated ' against — those whom: the perpetrators wished. It is ‘clear that. ‘United . States. reactionaries tried to make Cuba and the world ‘the victine. of their criminal. designs, even at the price of assas inating their. own’ ‘president... ‘They ‘sent OSWALD. to Mexico to FEgUESE ansit ‘visa to Cuba.. for: later travel * to the USSR. ‘Imagine. sident' s assasin just pebyaning. from he USSR and DOWNGRADING’ AND DECIASSIFICAT ION E aia pai) WS 17312
‘ 1 ' passing through Cuba. The visa te the USSR he could have  peaquEsbad from the nearest Es ropean country ind net have to come. to Cuba to later go to the USUR, which is much fax ther." “He also sata. "By 1970 we wiil be in condteion to surpass. -~ id akLlion tons of sugar end to export it. The economy berlas to improve solidly. - We have sugar sold at close: to 16 centavos: 'cor 1965. and. 1966. There shortly will be a notable incre ease in: ‘meats. and other articles: At the year's end, nougats; wine | tand grapes -will reappear as the result of the ¢ develepment of. _koret gy. trade. a! , T4USC2107 CNG) OND) at (iii) PAGE() mD FROM AUTOMATIC QURIGRADING AND DECLASSIFICAi ‘TON
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“HAVANA VERT F Les OSMALAVS REQUEST por AUST VISA Bop RUSSIA cHavana: . utvaex oe ”, 26 Nov §2 O°. Circular (Warsaw: Cuban. Emba yICLAD} —. Msg-Nr: 7482. Lae Bag See reported yesterday th at iehis informat: 2 Mexico City Concerning Lae OSWALL's reques: to for a transit ISSR, which Was requesced from the Cuban ‘Coupulare: ida, is t This visa was requested 97 September from seid: consulate, which ed’ that tt could NOC grant the visa “Without Permission 7 tall and ules s Permission ha been gtanced pre- | oously Py hs Country of: “destination, OSHALD fave UP! aunpying th th and ae tsa was PRYSP granted, ar on. in ‘the newspaper. . . and. others, ‘confirm ‘the 5 a. PTOvocat ion agaitst: wo Tt ts evidenr Suspicior thete bine KENNEDY” rid Peace’ by ithe. . Te BIg _fectors Planned CO hy nee me . x a a a on of wa -PAGE() “EXCLUDED FRow one a: _ een etT nn DOWNGRADING | USCIS) } b(ii) WS 17303. 2x/o, T240~ 63 0/2724) ~63 of 3 PAGE(s) _
1 1 ' 1, v o/Z7247 bs be fomehiind to “imvwlige Cuba. ard the USSR inthe aera, tne" incoacels able impunity of a person who, with a kioen police. record could | ‘murder OSWALD in the presence of. che. police in a- prison basenent, -°: demonstrates’: the scandalous meana .whicn reactionary forces are,“ using in the United States Co cover up the perpetrators and the wis motives . for KENNEDY! S| ASSas sination, World-wide publis opinion “ demands a! clarification of the facts It is atcurd that: ‘the Dallas: District: ‘Attorney’ ts clos sing the cuse 2 of the death ot the President scarcely 48 hours after, the deed. ((A)) 5 sent ‘to ; ‘Cuban EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC ae RENEE DOMECBADING “AND BECLAS SIFICATION
— 2x/od _|r2440- ts TS 28 Nov 1949. Dist: HCE 42224 VEST FOR TRANSTY VISA FOR RUSSTA 7 26 Nov ‘63 oe ' ' ' ' reported yesterday that the informat ton. jn Lhe news paper Excelcior oF Mexicd. City concerning LEE OSWALD's reques® for a transit visa to go to sthe US SSR, which was requested from the Cuban Consulate in: Merida, is true, This visa'was requested 27 September from seid. consulate, which statad that it*<cuuld noe 8rant rhe visa without permission of sand unless hermission had been: gtented pre- viously by the country o£. destination, OSWALD gave vp aunbying che Geese TaEG p and the lise was. never granted, . . “” This detail, and others; gonfism the Suspicion deat the - KENNEDY assassination WaS a provocation against warld peace “by the msc re ‘actionary’ sectors, It ts evident chat these sectors; planned . GROUP 1 / ‘DIGS ALS Wud . 44USC21075\G)\2)\D TL ae Nov 63 MS. 17303 axio[__pr2440-63 (O/27247663, PAGE J of od PAGE(s)
-ax/o| — fr24a0-63 ns ine A nmin iteancnsay Vemma befovehand to ‘Involve Cuba ard ‘the USSR in the aera. The’ Lnevitcetvt ° - oe an ‘able impunity of a person wha, with a kiewy police: ‘cecord ‘could , de : oh / murder OSWALD in the presence of the polive in a prison’ basement, en 7 , - demonstrates ‘the scandalous meane whi civ reactionary forces ‘are om Be using in the United States to coverup the perpetrators andthe — ty a re  _ motives for KENNEDY 's absassingtion, Worldewide public opinion res , we . a” os demands a clarification of the facts, ft is at.urd that ‘the Ballas sto : ne District Attorney is closing the cuse of the death of che President of 7! scarcely 48 hours, after the deed, . Doo Pn 98 rn . . pet. "o°. - ((a)y) gent. to Cuban Of cae ° "GROUP ch PAGE 2. oof PAGE(s) 44USC2107(5)\a\ EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC. Tey se (i) OOMANCAINILSB EE, ae —__—_—— _DORSEOABINS AUB WRCLASSIFICATION a vo . bk * «