13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBIT —— ecnaenenpcntenseneartmteo™ CONFIDENTIAL - EX- 0932 at Staff MEMORANDUM rone<Ghiet, , SS aun of Conversation, Dan S-eivRather/Les Midgley and the DCI, ‘>?’ Dated 6 September 1975 1. The referent memorandum contains two points which require comments. The first point concerns allegations that were made shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy and that ve crept up every so often since then. In one form or &o: yr, the allegations are that Lee Harvey OSWALD aie aw connected with the Agency. The allegations are totalfy “urffounded. .2. The facts re rahe . tter are as follows: - NSS a ‘Rovenpe mbée< 1963 I was instructed by “ Mr. R.G.Roce a immedi te superior at that time, to ees thin the Agency at Headquarters ps ee Harvey OSWALD had ever been used by the Agenc or been connected with it in any conceivable way. e ordered me to make the checks . directly and personally to the degree possible and not to accept statements of intermediaries. He also ex- plained that he was following instructions from-Mr. R. Helms, who was then the DDP and served as one; of the Agency's key contact officials with the Warren Commission. a b. Although I had already checked the Main Index of IP (then RID) on the night of the assassination, I rechecked the Main Index and found no‘ record beyond that which I had already obtained .before (plus. those items which had been integrated into the- records system since the assassination). There was nothing in the DDO records which indicated any Agency connection with OSWALD. error Revewon Novie7s —-—_—|_RECORD COPY Oo = CONFDENTL gs ° ce . os . i foro gy : : : - jet eee & vwrns ae Se ee  e e pe ne atm ating Rents cme om ae Ae meee st REP MERE ete nrg nnrueneennnertrnngt ng senna ettine eet esteem rena)
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROUIBITED ee ( SONFIDENTIAL ( There was no fesord in their Headquarters files. Arrangements: were thén made for me to check telephonically with. each DCD base in the US. The chiefs pe the” basas* ‘then serached their records and spoke with<thasr officers. I was then advised by a ths thereni Nehiefs or their designees individ- ERS e had been no contact with OSWALD. thax en checked with’ Division D, SE Division, and LAY Division's Cuban Operations Group (COG) for any informal desk records. The results were like- | wise negative. ae: . Ce The n & ‘component I checked was DCD. e. Through the Secu®ity Research Section (GRS) of the Office of oGati ity I had the security ‘files checked. There® Bho record of OSWALD. CS LON £. Although €RS: beepS no records on Americans, I checked their Sgmiet, jan, and Cuban holdings on the remote ance thas Shey may have recorded something on fhere was no record in those . files. XS QY — LS g.- In By e the chief of the CI Staff's Administrative Office called the Office of Personnel and received the word that there was no record on an employee or an applicant for employment. named Lee Harvey OSWALD. | h. I also checked the Office of Medical . Services and found no record on OSWALD. os vad i. The Covert Action Staff also found, no’ ‘record on him. . oe ao . 3. Finally, I also checked the. records: of! the CI Staff's Operational Approval Group: (CT/0A). with negative results. a k. My checks » were completed ‘on 4, December 1963 and I then sent a brief informal note to Mr. Rocca FS CODEN, G0U02106
; REPRODUCTION PROUIBITED spect tying SQ the checks I had made and stating that the\rest ts-showed that Lee Harvey OSWALD had eter kad Sgonnection whatsoever with the Agen y a statement to this effect w Remnants to the Warren Commission. BS? . SY, Siftila Lew-necks regarding use or employment~"~\\ 2 of 0 = Seen requested by the foreign divisions . of their priate stations, I was told, and the oe results were negative. a | | | | 4. I recall very clearly that we were extremely | concerned at the time that OSWALD, as an American: returning _ from the USSR, might have been routinely debriefed by DCD, thus having established contact with the Agency. The same point has now, quite understandably, been made by the two CBS newsmen. Having some knowledge of this subject I have personally concluded that there is valid . Yeason for DCD's lack of interest in OSWALD at that time. He would surely have been contacted and debriefed by DCD had he been to the USSR and returned to the US hefore 1957/1958. Travel to the Soviet Union by Westerners, particularly by Americans, before that time was quite uncommon and we were hungry for eyewitness information in those days. The thaw began in about 1956 and by the end of that decade were so many persons travelling to and from the So wietsunion that DCD was incapable of talk-~ ing to all of fhem Therefore, a program of selectivity and specific- axyet pplicability was instituted. In 3 ere seems to me that OSWALD-- if he ri m at all--would have easily been simply did not possess the type of cD was seeking at that time. DCD would ae Si hould be added that my above-described search in e Agency file holding produced no record or indication that any other US Government agency had -used him as a source or had considered him for recruitment. CONFIDENTIAL PROMIBITED a | — COPY NO.
13-00000 ee REPRODUCTION | PROMIBITED °6. The second point in the referent memorandum _ concerns the pape at were available at poeta on Oswald before heey of the assassination. ically, there were ve documents which had been» the Agency before S e€ assassination. Two of th eo had been sent:.to us- the FBI, two by the D State, ®one’ by, thes S Navy. A 201 file had béaie operied “on Qu December 1960 on theesse, receipt df the “figst of these five doc > £i Contained: records that had b neys: ‘component . The Mexico C ing of Oswald's activi eo had not i as yet be included in the 201 file. ca tinent cables { | SSWeporting | from Mexico City were held at the Mexico nch at Head-~ quarters, while the data contained in them had been disseminated to the FBI upon receipt. The cables were incorporated into the file following the assassination ~- and were, of course, made available to all concerned, ‘including the Warren Commission. 7. It should be noted that no particularly great urgency was attached to the handling of the records regarding Oswald kefore the assassination. because sswald's name had-no part ar meaning before that aS Nevent. Sp 8. Th SS regarding the records we roses before thenBs: oH ation as well as the make computerigeduyre Ké wee orice Warren. eabersg Ys Commission, and = . Commissicn’s st members when the S) sted Headquarters mt jut 3.9464 for the expresa\y \wiewing the ! fitrols we employed i j ac keeping ur 201 file on Oswald shown to them at the tige. From all I have heard rega ng this visit, the visitors were satisfied with our records system and the manner in which we kept our records. Peunl llartman | — gud2tn8 rer a mage
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION : | PROMIBITED Pa iol ew oat fo ads STE te am on TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DCI AND J. EDGAR HOOVER 26 Novernber 1963 ~ 11:20 a. m. on DCI: I just want to be sure that you are satisfied that this Agency is giving you all the help that we possibly can in connection with your investigation of the situation.in Dallas. I know the importance the President places on this investigation you are making. He asked me personally whether CLA was giving you full support. I said that they were, but I just wanted to be sure from you that you felt so. H: We have had the very best support that we could a possibly expect from you. Dect: Good, Well you can call on us for anything we have. HE: , We will feel free to do that | DCI: I think it is an exceedingly important investigation and report and I am delighted that the President has called on ‘you to make it. Hi: . We are trying to do it as fast as we can so we can dispel various wild rumors that have been circulating as to whether this man was the right man etc. that firedthe gun. But there is no question that he is the right man. There are a lot of aspects that we have dug up, for instance, with regards to the matter ii Mexico City. We have now found that the: photograph that was ta cen was not that of Oswald. We do find from our informant doin there that Oswald did call at the Embassy that day and the informant has - = -° given us. the conversation that he had. He wanted to get a permit to go back to Russia and the Cuban Embassy couldn't give him the permit. The Soviet Embassy stated that it wald take three weeks. He had, I think, ‘a visitor's permit for about a week or ten days so that is why he came back to the United States. a es . pr Egg eh ttre DCI: . Well, all of that ties in importantly into the story and we have those operational sources down there. We want to handle them very carefully. It involves.some very high level people down there. Sam Papich and I have talked about that a couple of times. H: Me. Bees - Who is handling | it for the Department -_ it is our intention when the Bureau finishes the report, he will , SECRET of course go over it very carefully because it will be a report. “that will be released to the public, probably through the White aston cS PROMBITED a DO 2500
13-00000 (tape) mcm Cece REPRODUCTION Sk ee a a | House, but it is the intention after it is in final form to be checked with each of the Government agencies that are mentioned in it. State Department is involved in regard to the issuing of the passport to the man to come back to this country and that has got to be explained why it was done, the law requires it, etc. | all of which of course we are gathering. The aspects of the Mexico City thing. It will have to be mentioned. It is his intention to check with the agencies, Secret Service, etc. to be sure that whatever is said in the report is conferred in and it is agreed to by the various agencies mentioned. So you will have that opportunity to go over it and see exactly what is said and I know he will welcome any suggestion that you care to make. Well that will be fine. Thank you Good bye. REPReOTION =
13-00000 REPRODUCTION eT PROUIBITER CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII on l. DIR 74673, S10 ‘October 1963 - dissemination to Department of State, Department of the Navy.s: and:;the..Federal Bureau of Investiga- tian. -[FOIA Now6 - 3] an ntetnal. Nete- ‘Prom ROCCA to HELMS, dated ‘§.March.1964. [XAAZ-22803 - FOIA "No. S579<250F-~ Qs 3. tn geal Note from ANGLETON to ROCCA,. dated 12 sy 1964. [XAAZ~22809 - FOIA No« 689- 298 oy we tos ~S 4. Memorandum for RANKIN, dated 1 July 1964; >> subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD! s ,Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959. _ [Dupl Bsate of FOIA No. 758-325] a Sa Sa 0652 2136 cePOUCTON ; “gma PROGIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITEL monanoat ron are Jo Lee Rankin, Oeneval Counsel ne _- Sresident‘s Commiasion om the Assedeination Panes oO <i President Remedy Cgnegmers “ : > Tew Hervey Csmald’s arrival Time in — _— | cn li al ba bod i | Yelainich. on 10 October 1959 was Fim Air flight 052 pitch: are.” rived in Heletuet a6 2333 (12:33 F.H.). Uf Saeald bed. tales, - lending Cormlities and yeonhed the Torna 05 > bye 2h50 Gxidnight) on the sume day. Pe ek mes jadge next of officers in this Agency familiar with the Relsinid 2. We ave presently atbhewting te determine if Camild could heave taken a pire circudteus flight fran london, with a step at Steckhebs, Copenhagen, or some other city. any additions), informmbion’ recatred will be forwarded to you Richard Helss Deptty Davector for Fane SR/CI/Résearch: S.Duncan:el a Regrittens RHelms/ecd - 1 day Distribution: Orig & 8 ~ addressee. : = 2 - DD 1 = Lf tA 2 = ers) Richard Feins oe . | PAGE eee
13-00000 Qeseax REPRODUCTION e . » . yaaa wee Oe if tf at . ’ e & : oo KAAZ- 22304 12 May 1964 ~=—-:1745 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Rocca 8 Titernal “Mens R avchia A auc Is Positron tw Dealin Ww the. Hever a a Sy “ L«. "the DDP called me this afternoon, 12 May: to: state. < that the, anne has received a telephone call from-RANKIN - e Commission's desire to interview him at. 1030. es Y « Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appear. ‘ate Bs a0 « on, = tat aNS Be S Gemmi vs low : es Th morning. 2. The DDP wishes to have from youa s agen comprehensive memorandum which highlights the bast 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 how 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 interviews. I raised with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent information. which:3 are processing which originated: with the sensitive Wi¥éource. I informed him that in your wiew. this would raise a number “of me K factors with the Commission}: that i& should he. Cormsttisaion prior to the Dire ctor'sappearatige unless we have first hat Se preliminary reaction ormade sare ‘that the Direttor is fathyaware of its implications since it comawell serve asx the basin etailed questioning. Tha BaP atatad that he would Review es efully and made a decisiog 948 He QAtion of timing. S Y Given the schedule, you wipe that the DDP 8 will need a paper covering the above points as nas possible. J.A. re Cy Document Number 5) § ~ ven oFy{-xt iS _ for FOLA Review on JUN 1976 65 e0PY Del. &PGLYE a cemenenEinee prt Or < ane ot reteteteeettpaetieet ss tens vet neues eet si sennenen ele re, snunfel NEE eyn RE ’ ‘ TP Eds 38 of ra . PAGE ne
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION XAAZ ~ 22%03 5 March 1964 Meme ‘ im ye. a=scadge_ +. WAY Yen ° Dicks To hie ts | spe te paragraph 3 of Rankin's lotion = (See om: woe jaeoterence ta JA does not desire to respond disectly te - . | \paragrs that letter which made a levy for“our material’ - 4d hick hay gotten inte the handa of the Secret Strvice since? 23 N ber. We found that, except for three-telegrams, all that the Serret Service had was material we kad sent. to” McGeorge Bundy at the White House, a ently, i@/had simply passed it to the Secret Service a as t internal informafion, — Unless you feel otherwise, Jim would prefer to wait out the Commission on the matter covered by paragraph 2, If — they come back on the point he feels that you, or someone from here, should be prepared to go over to show the _ Commission the materials rather than pass them to them in, copy. Incidentally, none of these items are of new substantive interest. We have either passed the material in substance to the Commission in response to earlier levies, or theitems refer toaborted: leads, for example, the famous_six photoe graph which werg not of Oswald, and the passenger manifest on ar 2 airling watch also did not pertain to Qewald, wae <A cde Sy. ¢ to take note of the levy. tXpardgraph ay we would rec emrmmend that you indicate inthe: ‘attached Proposed age or imium solely that we will takéigare of tt. separately. Disy Decument Number 2H 7 S - for FOIA Review of SUN 1976 | — Rock Wed i. 28 sna G. Recs Oey The Ry ants geen Sori re: soba, 2 2 Z312 Fo _ 266 act: OP NS4 4g COPY NOs, a
REPRODUCTION - PROLIGITED "CLASSIFIED MESSAGE RIG 3 pm. UNIT WH/3 (ss 2xicd oinnx 2 : ” +” “EPNO: INDEX. - °° BP RILE: IN. CS. FILE Ne No. cE ie e j ite 2 ame De STREEN Rds ROUTINE: > |. > CITE /pIR- So - MEXICO CITY INQUIRING WHETEER TRE EMBASSY. HAD RECEIVED | ANY NEWS CONCERNING: & TELEGRAM WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO. _ MBIATH NOLLWOIaISSVT9 uf ‘“OCEOEER mee LATER MADE | ARRANGEMENTS TROUGH ran UNITED a eG ROPE “ERK SSP teri PbO POS MSN ¥ IN MOSCOW TO ‘RETURN TO THE\ UNITED go SDxTES wits _ | So aw —BORN_WIFE, MARINA. 1 reas a Ska AND THEIR __ . / Docu tent Numbde == ——. | =i ia? ue =| - AUTHENTICATING eal OFFICER . | Exeluded from automatic downgrading and ie gs. Ez. cr E eo : deciassification . — aan ( 3) REPRODUCTION. BY. OTHER: THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS IS PROHIBITED... _ py No. rah OFFICE wy , } + FOIA savers on. wn we ofS BURY on OFFICERS | ati. ; D> 02504 : oer | — feo. en cee Be COPY NC.
13-00000 “ ROUTING | | DEFERRED | | ROUTINE é te CT wld ow Ow TAIT. ta SF ate oe ah arg re WIE y 8-H A UE OAT BEIT PF OP ’ SUBSBC x WILL BE FURNISHED ‘You. TRIS 5 meron a Se aan eben THE | Baargaarron AND: Rarurar-rzatiok 3 t<yos 4 rene 6/98/32 ~ GrouP 1 -| Sxetuded from automatic |- . downgrading and - ‘AUTHENTICATING ek oe pROHIEL A . py:No. ce oan reg pack of
13-00000 PROGIBITED LAN CONTENTS OF: VOLUME IX 1. DER/90466,. 20 December 1963 [FOIA.No. 420-757] 2@ BIR 97829, 29 January 1964 [FOIA No. 498-204]
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMI oe = ¢ _CLASSIFIED MESSAGE rez ORIG &, “JOHN x. WEERIEN- ROUTING » UN 3 ro J Index _ ae he 8 wo noe E = a : aT a a: FILE IN CS FILE NO. El a ERD OF MESSAGE Cable sent at request of Mr. Rocca of CI Staff. RECORDS OFFICER STAMP Yue following action is * authorized: "D& Seis inee renner auction, cite reaugns and # ceerdinate Lik for FOIA Review un MAY 1976 -. B - | DEP - L COORDINATING OFFICERS C/wH 3 : RELEASING OFFICER ged Iresautomatic 1 ~~ AUTHENTICATING a SEBCRE®T deciassification OFFICER _ REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. Copy Ne, \ : San °
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION ONG 2, JOmN Me WEEE mY PROGIBITED ' G4) ow \. ( 12620 0° age _ ROUTING _ Bt 5613 DATE + 2 Ioomu 1 CLALEIN CS LENO el EY | Bo ¥ pe Ld “ = a PO Dec 63 | 4 | Iz | IB CRBS eteeerd . | | FROM “DIRECTOR: oo . ae v STAMP | | a Tre Pla: tion 4 , aaa CONF: Cte 2 Hee SO a aut Losised: “5 pst , Lz | | | perERRED ! _— | Bi rourine INFO : Cl, a/oct, | pop, ole, clei VR 7 — : ROUTINE 7 wed OF ee = aE aes CITE DIR: 50466  RribGesin as —(C) Fete. reasoxs. and. coordinate ed SPRE opriate. co 4 ig Soren MASESAOON Be WAT WO COP THREE mau BOBS. | a "KAGE DEEAITED TOO WHOM XORAMTES 7 AND 3 ou JUD WERE SCLVIA' DORAN AND - CHEER OFFICIALS SAID ABOUT OSWALD'S VISITS AND HIS DEALINGS WOULD 3S VALIABLE "AND UBAELE CORROROAELVE EVIDENCE. REQUESE YOU REQUESIION THEM CAREFULLY ON Sse POLES MENDOPEING Gr AS MICE ATINRITT DADA. A POSSIBLE, WETEOUD nt CANE AD ft at NN a C/S Comment:*Re interrogation of Stivia Duran, DEC 4 1974 _MICROFILMED "GROUP 1 " ceetuded from-automatic [ dovengrading and dectassification eae - PPE
13-00000 a . mo, . ( a — ON os) 2 ares oe «rent IL April ljod MIMCG RAW UO i RECORD FROM rs SUSIZCT Os <r Stafi Aspveuentatives of Warren Commission & On x 1954 Messrs. Coleman, Slawson and Wille Ly OS ves of the Warren Commission, came to en ° 2. Arnbassador Freeman, Mr. Clarence Boons CO Anderson and I met there at 0345 hours on 9 April. Ss . uld not ve ae ice, asked that Mr. Clark Anderson and I cooperate fully; thrae would have Top Secret clearances and that he felt we & try to be too secretive in talxing to them. 3. When the three visitors came in, The Ambassador told them thet he wished them to call on us for any and all help they neaded. He said, however, that he wished personally to approve in advance any and — all contacts with Mexican authorities and/or Mexican citizens, 4, Tha Ambassador told them that a great deal of our information came from somes vary secret and sensitive sources, such as telephone taps, and he reminded them that any puolished item from these aources - would have to hav x clearance with(KUBAR) aad(ODENV}). He told them that r on of these operations could have very serious ulddo great harm to Mexican/U,S. relations. Ths SEA visitors sai se ems from (KUBARK) and{ODENVY) included — in the Co ~ eio ¢ would have prior approval of the origina oo _ aaador outlined ths "rules" under whic S) é . the ¥ rk. He told them he had made a protocaQall the ot ~ - previous e gon Lic. Luis Echeverria, Acting Minj of Ge i . During that call, The Ambassador told Echeverria aS en ee » | er ie parr beocewatc, Re att Hehe 232 ce | _ Doazer: _ “a em
13-00000 S -REPRODUGTI PROMIBITED / and said they gece pucliciiy. When the visicors asked if they could ge2 Dcheve & Sne Ambaseador said tint ] would arrange chat if they decider EAS a . GPa 3: Sys for report Ou the visit of 1) April 1964 e a in our offices. We spent three hours y peril and about two and ona-half hours on 10 April in our . ose On, I met with them twicein The Ambassador's "& ent Vos m to _ visit Echeverria. In our offices, they: © \S oe LS n 9 April and again on 10 April 1964, BCOS & = j =. a Reviewed the "take" from LIE x ON days: 27, 28 September and 1 October 1963 when Lee OSW contacted and visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They made a "schedule" of OSWALD's activities as far as possible for these days from this sairce. Se Notes They were given English translations of these "rakes'?, b. Englisi translations of the two conversationg of 26 Novem- . 7 ber 1953 between Presidant Dorticas of Cuba and the GCubam Ambassador to Mexico Joaquin Hernandea Armas were also reviewed, oo - . j c. Had me review the Sylvia Duran case. They were shown - = *, photographs of Sylvia and her husband. - co ° y a Had me review the case of ‘Alvarado, the Nicaraguan. 8. | Th Ors acked what actions the Mexico City Station’ taok a beginning 2 ber 1963. I said we: os a Swed Headquarters, Ambassador Mann and (OPRRY) “ - loc ont them all (in October 1963) data on ona LINN . ode cs $his visit to Mexico and his visivs to the a ‘aiid a oo Oo & SE all Station assets and sources inif} 7 YO es - may 6 BES all possible details of OSWALD!'s rave cox e@xico, “| the place s had stayed, the contacts he had mad have visited, ~2- oom “0 oF, ta ume y Aas y 2 os Shi? Sat. 3 By Go has: ae 22, fae %
13-0000Q REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED Q quarters aporoval, ,ot in to Ww Mexican Ae their help in many casas cet on ai Yivia Duran and Alvarado canes <S es e. Put all possible coverages on oo Ss and any v persons we knew of who had had contact RSS WALD. 9. Note: They knew t&ll about" iw. Saversations OSWALD had, but sald two points had previousNjnot been noted by . thern. These were that: ° = Be OSWALD stated he wanted to goto ODESSA; and © . _ b. OSWALD also wanted a visa for his wife "who was a i 8 | r i i EN with loc al (SoENVS TO coordinacs the wars Russian", : 10. They said that Assistant Sacretary Mann <till has the. “feeling in his guts" that Sgctre 2 hired CSWALD to kill Kennedy; they said, ~ however, that EEG * . S hh. ccaee or photographs were given to Stators. : The Eng iors (of transcripts) which they one ex . by the The sare attached, Wr — So 7 WHE IN oe . SS SS Leved that all three of thes OOP, We . Aiea ts work on the OSWALD aS . oo, i 7 ramis sion hag not been able to get < of of this, Distribution: . -_ .  38-Has re ere
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION CONTENTS OF ee 1. Menoranduu. ae eaal ae i Wied MG Ger; subject: fexico CIA Dissemination Wet ormation | L H h 24, 1964. on Lee Harye ULL Len REPRODUCTION  PROEIBITED — aane2ed PAGE 1s oe 3 COPY NO.
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROWBITED b WIC:mfd | | XARS- 36¥%3 MEMORANDUM . March 26 > 1964 SUBJECT: Mex TA Dissemination of Informati Le y Oswald on March 24, 1964. “ “re . sey A Qeoted a memorandum toGNP de an \N Or Cees min S: AS pnt No. 631) in wnteh aG aot REE the 4 WN of the information o Hi wald. ‘ GW nee LO this memorandum is only a 2 PAN answer to @?, our inguiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that the ‘complete answers will give us/additional information we requested. . | | | _ We would like to know gust when ithe Mexican station] got the information with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald and what was the information and how was it obtained. How and in what es “tt come? did the information get from Mexico to the CIA in nnerene tne Benge < contained such information. other words, I would like to know whether this was information available in '. BEPOANDNM naar
13-00000 . a . . eat . we SS this inquiry. ; BRP ews . S se PROTON wow, we are still trying to get an explana- the FBI showed Ma argueett QY : PRO”. Oswald soon\gfter the assassinztion. I hope thee Peragraph * : of the memorandum of March 2h, 15548 wid “et co NNSA @ . . We should also determine why the Nay” never furnished 3 « 7 mee * I CIA is not the answer which the Cra i ntendi to gfe is as to - ! . the “erat with copies of the most recen "7 photographs of ‘Oswald. me ” ere 8 erry eee FER. no tonamarntacd whuteact Ae ROG BS PE AY + Hee GG denen eye Ce ROE . ‘4 Sig af he BMS ow se Gy ao 640 goon eee EO Se wrcrd a a ¢ 8 " 8 * SOG G8 PC SF Se ae ag ee 8 Qe
13-00000 - , REPRODUCTION Ys rage Aula) ok the LITAMIL<9 eontset epee: ter ay daly, evtsehed to Eoforesco, EnS reported that Laisa CALS . bap a sister residieg 33. feoyscsn, Toxssy eackisd ta an Acorfiaan ff | of Pericen cegeest.. 22 LD can fect ~ 33397 the eisisr,.eur- fo | -. doaes3ia: crpleitatica cession Bizae SPE. pesstios to selics wp. | wine [inks tt patra, Mbp, eee Maal rT) Taf 2I Fenty art a ae ae a. cate mania eee ter 4 es aaa “eshte : ttn ee eggzgol pcg 167 gp to COPY. NO. 1 TR Romero Mins 2 ant am one garnet Men: SEU se setsteenpetnteenty cangnborttnaranerer «
13-00000 ca «REPRODUCTION * ao PROLIBIT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1380" 10 751 MEXI-7105 (IN 692 er AGOUCTION..«. [FOIA No. er to J REBAR 27 November 1963 [FOIA No. 173-615] PROLIB - Memorandum for MBITED. December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542-110 Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643-273] Memorandum for Chief, WH/PO/A, dated 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Officers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consu- lates; Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens' Travel to and from Cuba. REPRODUCTION PROFITED PROSITED
13-00000 = 7° 9. 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. 15. SeORET REPP DUCTION Report No. EE-390, dat. June 1963; Subject: Background infornatigN urrent Personnel of the Cuban Embassy 4 co. HMMW-11935, \ RN ) Subject: Luisa CALDERON . Note, d an to JC from Win. [FOIA No: MEXI-7105 caw ws 27 November 1963 [FOTA No. 173-61 Memorandum for the File, dated 20 December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542- 1108] XAE-813, 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643-273] OTTA-1602 (IN 68894), 24 April 1964. XAAZ-22764, 24 April 1964 [FOIA No. 667-282A] WH/SA 64-368, 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Offi- cers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. DDP 4-2533, 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulates; Procedures and ‘Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens' Travel to and from . Cuba. DDP 4-3195, 19 June 1964: A No. 740-319A] XAAZ-27167, 22 June ONG MS and ROCCA chrono- Ipgi¢s of contacts WAHarr Commission in 1964.) DDP 4-3401, SS tS : Lee Harvey OSWALD. & Informatio MbYon Agents, dated RN DDP 4-4882, 18 LQ 1964; Subject: Techni- cal Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa. COPY NO.
13-00000 | ils .. = ow 7 pene PE ia =~ ee st we = 3 path be ae ‘a . Spas wy SOURCE: peaé. Information raceived ; - VEDAR Bomfngues, former PorQy _ imately 30 years of serv. NS he ' Meedes of the Aasoolati © @ficar with apprese = 20 K Gity, now dalegate in .: - ae oa ist Foreign Service ee at 8 on SES bdited to the Brasilian Gov't " . Wate rebated his credentials on 23-Aaug . et alee ae 6l.. Raturned to Havana in late 1967 or early 1963. Apyoiated as a a : - oe a ae Delegate of the Foreign Commerce Minister, acting az Dizector" > Serres ., . . Ee international: Organions of the: Vice Ministry of Commezcial Bolscy, eR aye > Basolution No. 40, dated 13 Mar 63, of the Minister of Poreign Ce, 5 @ Bis yopresentation to the Brasilion Government was va ma Ce at inddd by Decree Ho.-3296, dated 10Apr 63. Resolution Ho. 63,~  -. : gated 22. Apr .63, af the Minister of Foreign Comberce, roscinged, °° : Resolution No. 60 dated 13 Mar 63 which had ‘appointed him aa Delegate - Of the Foreign Commerce Mindoter acting as. Dizector of international © es Ozganiens of the uinistzy of Foreign Commerce. Was onpotntsa ae J. 7 . 3 - Asbassador to Mexico by Decrea No. 3331, dated 22 May 65e-: a , Be . om Mesico on 23 Jun 63. Haon't presented hie. eredentialg = ae, : * “Baa:the following university dagreass. Law, Uhilosophy, ana agetoalewsal oe z en in Pinar dal Rfo, Cuba. Approximately 50 years old. (iret Secretary. yey cor yy ~~ tem Quiet man, in the shsolute conei~ B 3 e ° i ee a . &.: . ba .. = be -] ” « = ay PRORISITED «= RS
13-00000_ ® REPRODUCTION _ PRK a _ ae | SE << os ie ‘, a @/S2 390, Garles EN \S (eont.) . + Of, Rave axinayALONsS naldongy ED; NS retary) Peas. © 199. : Cea B SS) : | Yorned head pf the olf eS BS, ‘J Cipher Dopartnent. in the. ar vte copfider XO : BWahip of the nusligtry. Was 2 in Pai BEE W acy as ‘searats oe 3 mA We : a in the Direction | of IZ2 Regional 5 ‘ | a _dacdly working on aetss "Appointed as Comercial Counseller and assigned to “Mexico by solution Bee 153,. 20 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce hinds CHF o Ma despotic individual. ‘ot trustworthy. f : (Commercial Attaché.) MEY .crrr gf pinted ao Comercial Attaché and apbigned to the Eubasey 10 m4 a_i Haxdeo-by Resolution No. 79, 23 Apr 62, of the Foreign Commerce oc _ ee - Mintater/ Government bu Ee Also performs other Sizeniona, a oo So aoa » spambaaCommuntatr very ereus. Man in the confidence 'o@ the | , . | SBR Government figures. Haa a-brether who lives in New York who °° ; 48 not a Pees p28t, and a sister whe belongs te a religious order. : ze (Commereial attach$. J7é%. oar , Appoihted as Commercial Attaché and assigned to the Enbassy in i “Mexico by Resolution No. iso, 14 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce | ° * Mindsters Dedicated to pur hae gecentjyneen transferred. Qscm’ CONCERCION Mandezss ¢ According te reports, he ps Bat pieced dt PALA MBL beled Te a ne - Fearpanaoyaay, auva 20018 awe v ait ” Was an Enbassy Coorman. was a Spanish citizen be: bas jest en Pepe Sr Le ae ic a 6992853 483 . pags 159 oe 319
13-00000. - V6 ee * Ve Conauiate. <SaUD) areKOns Spanish citizen, refugee... £ » Sonsul Busthio AzoUR. Le ftist tendencies. |" _ . MESON. ls (Secretary of tha aon BAS at, ~ Fought, in the Spanish cmp * WRRTT Meese, ous a anya iad ol COPY NO. PAGR 170 34 qQ ane
Ce ee | (2 SEP 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: & Assassination of Prasident Kennedy | . me a SUBJECT! Technical Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application . "4m fora Cuban Vise ts 1. X xvaler to your request of 1 September 1964, ‘that the | _ Central InteNigance Agoncy undertake a technical analysla of | : nae _photegzaphed coples of Lee Harvey OSWALD's application for © sk eee a Gubaa yilsa, prepared by him In the Cuban Consulate In Moxies | - City, and the reply from Havana conditionally rejecting OSWALD!. applicatlen, : ; 4 ot 2, Qualified analysts of thls Agency have examined and taated. _ these documents, and have made the following determinations: == a. The signatura "Lea H. Oswald" attired to the visa - application ls the signatura of Lee H SWALD. | oO b, The notation in the lowex2s WY of the visa pple | AW. oxiric. Room 18-46~60— — ; >: S 3o SRY RAN, an employee Biatermnent on this Nin e SNS he notation is too faint and the sasnple of Mr ; comparisons ts inadequate £4 atate with confidence thas the puspose, It is posathle te ; notation was nobwritien by Lea. . ad be d 3, E a i | . eo z, ry 4 Ue Ge ARR ER Owe FOUENE | EERE EPS REREERERSGEERENERoERERIOND Lan sat Oe ~~ REPRODUETIOn hasaaeiendamianmedmnaidenrnnier tate es eneunaaammmaaermdamer :
BRBRAnIen a : 7 me _ Ei ' @» The visa applicatica | & S,, the Cuban Government lo, in fact, a reduced KC fa photograph. do Under otereogr .. that the blurred m eR on the application Se  @.sNo addi ON lyals wera deemed necessary. a _ 3. I return herewith the pk ae of the vir applicatlon and oS Cuban rejection of the same, which were furnished te this Agency by - the Coremiszaion. <O- it haa been daterrainad Be at Oe entry “Paraporte No." | os Po pte TT TBF Soe et | | Richard Helms mee Deputy D Director for Plana aS Distribution: - Oy - i. . Original & 1 ~ Addressee a ° . oe, . '2« DDP le SR/CI - NN 2 = C/CUR&A WS CI/R&A/TRHallink (18 Septa PROB BE Te | - es a Z tose ve 173,319 os cory HO.
1300000. 0 ( . oo C0 é ee eee “ePBasicaGy sno YON RONG-L on Josnee < PRORBITED — The difference between a Cuban and a se (of the pet) LS as follows. Recruitment of foreigners consists, t, of agreements with the organizations to which they’. EN Saks can also be recruited in the schools in Cuba where they 2 errilla trainings Once recruited as possible azekhsy t separated from the others and placed in D&I houses, where they receive ifs} ion as agents. Their life ig normal; they use tha cover of being scholarship students supnorted by the Cuban government. . The DGI supplied them clothes, food, and every sort of cara, such as medical and ‘any other kind. The DGL takes care of their general expanésese . Ordinarily king an attempt is made to keep then from contact with a ‘anyone in government circles so as to avoid indiscretions. Any agent recruited in a foreign country is brought to Cuba and arrangements are made so that he has no contacts © with persons in Cuba from his ow country or any others Once his. training is | completed, his departure from Cuba is not made known to anyone attached to hiite ‘In reeruitment of Cubans, an effort is made to find those knowing the fevest possible parsons. “If the Cuban who is recruited is employed in an office or factory or works soita other place, an effort is made to have him continues hig work so as to use his situation to provide true covers; instruction is given ab — ‘hours when he is not working. If the agent has any trouble after he has been . recruited, the DGI tries to help him as much as possible without breaking down, conpartrentation or his covere When he has completed his training and is sent abroad, the UGI covers the ex- penses of his family. I£ a Cuban who is recruited is unemployed, it looks for a cover adapted to his situation, and the UGE tales care of all the expenses . the agent has, including those of his family if he is married. He receives his training in the hours adapted to his cover position. His life, like that of the agent who is working, mst contime normal, just as it was before recruitment. Cubans trained as agents, if their depar’ m the counbhy is not illegal, .” leave with foreign’ passportse Hs es ‘PATE bee CRET cggzs8) - a 7 i. a “paes 2114 ‘a8 “COPY NO.
1300000 ¢ , ns . oe Werke DU wt He tg ua % WARHING | Ree Fekete | . “rt STHOD! NO 3 OO OS tg SUL 1964. MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘Me. I. Lee Rankin oe —— ie, General Counsel : . ne so. Preasident's. Commission on the a “Assassination af Prealdent Kennedy SUBIEGT: Lee Harvey Oswald | moat 2. The following remarks have been rocently atts ihuged ta Sovylet Gonsul Pavel Antousvich Yatskov i in a Menica City regardleg the subject. . "7 raat Oswald here. He stormed inte my offices and wanted mo to intreduce and recommend him to the Cubans. He told me that he had lived inthe USSR. I told him that Zi would have to check before I could recommend him. He was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stormed ond of my office. I don't balieve that a personas nervous ha - _— . Oswald, whose hands trembled eould hive accurately an fired a rifle.” i | i | I 2. Our Moxican Station has cheat bo records fox tha — : iseditis quite  -°-~° alexviy Kostikey he first spoke or Yatskov. - a possible that Oswald thought a when he actually had spouens 3e The source “of NW Nels bation is a confidential contact of this Apency in Mexico Sing 3 belleved to be reliahle. In vier of thia relationship 9 ih appropriate sensitivity indicates has ‘ been affixed to this MASNOTARAIE » WARNING NOTICE _ GR3uP 4 Y Excisd28 trey anomalies SENSITIVE. SOURCES AND Garniege METHODS INVOLVED | oe 175 ot 19° CORK NO. ee nce ce ne ens cie  RaT  abeMy  A ATC EIR IR a SADT go “ardent gp fe se pS es
sehen, ea ae [WaRnit NG ah * sOURCTS AND METH IS BWOLVED oo forwarded to the Ld SENSIT" < “sas Se A copy of this mer Foderal Bureau of Investi (Ss, 28) Fickaid hela. oe Distribution: : ~ , Orziginal & L « Addresses , a . 2« DDP _° Be G/CURGA . ° = Le C/WH/3 _ . . * “Le CL/REA/201 oY - 1-G/Cr | - | ole Ci/RuA/AEDocloy 2, i 1 » FBI (via GSCI) rn Originated bys CHREASAEDooleyiale ik July 1964) cee - . * $.° . ody. . "ate + GS fi GE 8 «S re Terie? ‘OTICE | : Gites Sensitive * . Saye ashe 30 Sahel "_MéTHODS INVOLVANO : | eT oe SS Richard Helas | oe oe . "Deputy Dixector for Plans COPL HO. _-
13-90000 - - Rehan | aa . or Aas Ey e0 ee Las q Pa Fy oe Py thet Re oy, wl Fs . a 3 3 > 3 Mites 83 BSA Rearcca ar + 4% . par PEE Beentemeete a a3. 66 ee - aide: Sila sonata oad > ; LGVRABLIAIes spf Coa Tar) be 22 June WD ieneicr a aeee e "ae Bie arse on Tene ev elem kL, Boe “6 0% as ae s .: ; nee eee cee : . ; tera wares Poy 3 Lay oe Pre: a omer wud sane ae a So sent oe = $ - * . cd Barred Corinnesi - This hist he the score of telephone . oe calls I had with ‘Tir. Rasika ua Commission staff: = 2 january 196) - Messrs. Allen We Dulles, Rankin ites, a 1, :00- _ Angleton, and Rocca. 28 Jamary * Er. Rand's offices a2 March Mr. Rankin's office with i fessrs. ph “22:00. . and Rocea 27 Harch _ Fessrs. Slawson, Wil lens, > and Stern 2:30 . with Mr. Recca 2h June Chief Justice Warren ml " ° Bam Me mn . ps
13-00000 1, 2 xefer to your memorandum dated 24 April, in which you | "- MEMORANDUM roar x Assassination of President Keanedy oe - Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of By . Guban Visas; Mexican Control of Ue 8S. Citizens? . Travel to and fzom Cuba : - REPRODUCTION PROT Bo S ya ee ad = a en ’ : . request information on hours of work at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic. coe a : 7 installations in Mexico City, details of regulations poverning the _...' fasuancs of Cuban travel documents and Mexican control of Ue Se a? citizens travelling to and from Cuba through Mexico. 2. The Soviet Embassy and Consulate are not opan to the oa ws a, ... . public; offices in the Soviet compound may be visited by appointment - only. A twenty-four-hour guard is mounted at compound in which these Soviet installations ring the bell at this entrance at all hourss .. axe permitted to enter at any time, b “. away by the guard after normal hourgh during September 1963, when Leek = the entrance to the aie @ located. Visitora Fou. ian-speaking visitors | we Res xe usually turned Ta OF a Normal work hours —-: Py foes] ND visited the Soviet : oe installation, were 6900 ta 181 ROR r, the houra for 3: Mondays and Fridays hav; ete, WE D0 to 1400 houra. pes ae Sixteen Soviet families LW he <é # va 3. The Cuban Embaasy x Wasulate are located in thelr 2 ae oa _ “: . . ows compound, but these installations have aeparate entranced. °° “* _ | Wislters may enter the Cuban Consulate from 1000 to 1400 boura, o + SEGRET eeefasaileaias . 1 | + REPROOUCTION — PROLIBITED ec0Z¥ 4 20 Doasis on 186 ce 219
Aa - PROHIBITED - ' Monday through Friday. Embassy workiz _ appear before 1460 heura. Those Ay _. at the Caban consulate. Cuban vidas are sormally valid for three -— . gaonths from date of izsuance. Visas may be issued on separate 3  ebeets of paper te conceal the fact that travel to Cuba waa pertormed. | . ‘The Soviets are y mot known to tome travel permite to Cubae at vecogalae pagseport entries proaibiting the bearer's travel to Cuha, . = _ feoma Cuba must have Mexican visas or tonrist carda. Depending | - ea thelr outgoing flight times, son-Cubana transiting Mexice de nct . _ ° "Separted for Cuba” ar - ‘passengers, including noa-Cubana, ente mo _ fer data on travel } between Mexl@e ——s REPRODUCTION - Oo PROHIBITED Co a foe are 0930 to 1703 | owever, usually = - oy alze ta elicct: on the same days. Visitors to the =. <r during September 1963. be Prior authorizatl, LL © ‘the Exterior in . Havana ia required befo in vi belssued. On occasion, —: - wey a | weguests for permissioa tas Bony, @the resulting decisiong. © O' _, ave handled by cabla. The mrt ills out a visa application form .. 0: || _ Be The Governmest of Mexica: recogniaes the passpert as an oF ideatification document only. Mexican immigration officials do not if the bearer holda a vica valid for travel tathat country. Amendment . of Mexican laws to permit recogaition of travel restrictions affixed by aa goveraments issuing passports has bescn nader. consideration, buk no oo ae! action thereon has presently been takens nt wo} 6. Non-Cubaas, ‘including JeSe citisens, entoring Mexico - tie always need a transit visa. The passports of all persons travelling between Mexico and Cuba are stamped in Spanish withthe phrasea «= -:.; or "Entered frora Gubs'', as appropriate. All. axtco from Cuba are | being exnpmined. ~~ Te We hops that the » tafe aOrave: , meets your nead oo j 7 . pe fSered) etic has” Richard Helms fate ‘Bepaty Directer for Plans. et * Distributions , : . Orige &Z Addressee ‘ 2 DDP . . 1 «o C/CI/R&EA "Originated By? Cr/Rea/itallegwh . "13 May 1964 a - Based On: MEXI 9332 6 May 1364, IN 77522 7 ‘SECRET ego2git
13-00000. 7 -B- REPHODUCTION a PRONIGITED Se aha WH/SA 64-383 03 May 1964 MEMCRANDUM FOR: Chief, W3H/PO/3 SUBJECT General - Specific - DGI officers are cig of agents of the DGL ° use a special phrase to indicats Me (Source does not know the partiéular phrase used in every case, He does now that agents from ©@l Salvador in requesting visas as always made mention of the name "Mauricio’) The DGI officers at a Consulate interview visa applicants to find out if they are agents, If the visa applicant does not use one of the indicated ’ phrases, the DGI officers, instead cf granting the visa immediately, ' tell the applicant to return ina few days. The officer then notifies : Habana and requests authority for the visa. Coins _£ Distribution: + Orig &1 - Addressee 1 - WH/3/ a GS l- WH/SA/ESEC 2 ~ Chrono l~- Mary — SECRET ae oe a - a | cones A 7
13-90000 PRED ; ; ne | an SEER RY] WAnr IG NOTICE ote - _ SENSIT!.. SOURCES 17 [ esIET| | METHODS 1S inn res AND | ore Re f ah oe | - yae BiB ia Cada G ae EP 54 | os | Document Number 3-273 - ; for FOIA Review on sun 878 - espe 7 net | Boi-a8tous 7 WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND - : = = ERR canes at ese 4
REPRODUCTION | - PRORIGITE | had hanilea hip case a the Cuban Conaulate, | "Be The only new {ten in the eccount thet stivia DEM %&e ages oe ; eee Sadi Sait ft 2 Eves ee EE Es ah SeTeesice tha’ GWAKD Visites the Renesy only to cet a - GROUP 4 Fined trom autumati _ Bewogradiag deslassificstion WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ‘SERRET
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE WS SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD ro % On 17 December Mr. paptews OI anticipating a request from the Com ssion, named by President Johnson to look into this case, for copies of Bureau materials supporting or complementing the report already submitted. He pro- vided me with the attached copy of portions of a report passed by the Legal Attache in Mexico City dealing with the (Sylvia DORAN aspect in which it would appear rather clear that some United States Government agency was tapping telephones in Mexico. Mr. Papich inguired as to whether information in this report might be given to the Commission or whether this Agency desired to establish some ether policy with regard to meeting the needs of the Commission. The matter was discussed with Mr. Whitten and he subsequently ad- vised, that as a result of a conference with Mr. Helms and others in which he was directed to prepare certain materials to be passed to the Commission, he was quite sure that it was not the desire of ‘a t the Agency to make available to the Commission at least in this manner - via the FBI - sensitive information which could relate to telephone taps. was agreed with z ‘problems of this << on, the Bureau should ° Mie Agency, but should refer the Conmission to the 4 MeLonal information. It was mentioned to Mr. Pare we oe to meet the needs of the Commission in angtite ia Gon more complete report or reports. , | Document Number —=..._=—=. \5Aa- \ (OS © BEACH D. O'NEAT, : FEB 1978 Chief, CI/sIG for FOIA Review on Attachment ee)
13-60000 — REPRODUCTION : ; ( “os. | CLASSIFIED MESSAG* i 7 LYE SECRET. * | [roms -: TO DIRECTOR a St Ay). e exICO € : | -DEC4 1974 sree — RE ¢, FROM uae H rf ny - | MICROFILMED | 7 -f- e ICTR wT : ACTION, cf A (wei/3 NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT Ka DM) INFO Pts DOP, c/cl 2, VR* iiaeeennett WS mh : . VS ioe is f . 63 WS ass a od es Wien ih Pan ' SECRET 2721492 are wo \ - KN) oS : - Im MEDIATE DIR CITE) MEXL7135 ON OS > Ee Soomeeect _\ cn QY’ #1 - Unit LIA HAS | , ATTN GALSOND Wete: If @estruction, ’ ' %, - reasons and co 63 1h 692] 3 | EF DIk 85245<% - « 4f appropriate. i le SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PaGE STATEMENT BOPPILVIA . ' DURAW OBTAINED FROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROGER T. KINGMAN IN * ENVELOPE ADDRESSED To GALBOND THUE MANE. oo . Ze KINGHAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT gaa HOURS 25 NOVENSERe | HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WiLL TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE. - : , 7 3.° SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. -* 4e ALSO INCLUDING 22 vovensedge | EMPLOYEE) TALK: TO UNKNOWN AN FROG Ke EX NNN C/S COMMENT: DISSEMINATION APPLIC ah SN. “SECRET son k aa ent FS ~ * Soe we gy alt Re nrested Siactoa cah le a Sraniletes version Sylvia Trrants - Document Number I73-6l ae : = - } De aoe “S- ¥ ( for FOIA Review on APR 976 3o/ 1AM ba AY ed BG RS
"REPRODUCTION ~ PROBIBITED November 27, 1963 I ! i ; i i e i i i : + : Dear JC, John Horton's return tonight giv NON: nity"to send you sone items I mentioned to you in 3.<cany es of these two}. m had the time to “ ™~ past few days we have items are attached hereto. I ay : transiate the longer one of t i been very rushed. © SL I've had no time to give to John during his visit and Alan has had @lmost no time with him. We do hope, however, that he has been able to get some idea of our Station and its work by his talks with the varions a officers who have been able to spend some time with him during these two dayse eae mA em ms ; Perhaps when we are little less rushed, he can return to Mexico for ancther visit. We appreciate your quick responses and good instructions in the case i which is taking most of our time these days. ae ; . Sincerely, Distribution: oe Orig ( King : \N : a 3 DURAN Pw ew , a eS l:- Louise CALDERO} Koyesve for FOIA Review on NOV 1977 coa28e? D oasal 198. 319° REPRODUCTION == 8 8 ~ —
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Nemorandum to Howard P. WILLENS from W. David SLAWSON, dated 4 February 1964; Subject: Letter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Posing Certain Questions on their Letter to Us dated 31 January 1964. SeGRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for the Record, dated 27 March 1964; Subject: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey — OSWALD's Stay in Mexico city: Visits to Soviet and Cuban Embassies. Memorandum: from COLEMAN-SLAWSON, dated 2 April 1964; Subject: Mexico: Questions Raised by the Ambassador MANN File. Memorandum for Record, undated; Subject: Intercepts from the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City. Wiel Dee BRG Hien ‘Sta PROMETED ‘REPRODUCTION = PROWIBITED  — SECRET
13-00000 REPHODUCTION 31 Jul 78 NOTE FOR FILE: TOP SECRET DOCUMENT DTD 22 April 1964 by the | authority of the National Archives, Marion M. | Johnson has been regarded to CONFIDENTIAL Date of authority 3/25/76 REPRODUCTION — Do28322
13-90000° é a = 4 r REPRODUCTION Benes yee ft By a ee SYEJEoY: sip to tkates sity On wc.ines Sdn ne aa TED penare P, Villens, Cremer eee) Hoe Villian T. Goleman, Jr., and op. WV. David Zlavsen, 21 eu oom @ fac starl of the Cann Ssien, Flew Prcu tashincton, DBD. ¢. te ifleaico Caty. Ue. Celeuan ceturned on Sunday, April 12 and Rr. Slivson ang he. ¥lliens returned cn an aleplane leaving Pa @ aif alin Bo Rp HCALEO “iby 2t about 3:29, Sonday afterncen, April 12. This + oe tes Memorandum will briefly sumanarisce this trip plus some cf the Mectinis neld in preparation for it 20220 a.m. feo dis 39 2.m,. WLilens, Colecen and Slayvson wet with Agst stent 3 Yhemas anna, 5 Ceevretury of tate Lor Latia fmertean Arfa it. Thomga Fhrlicsh of tne Orfiee of the Lezal adviser fer the State Uepirtment, and tuo aides to {, Hann in Me. Barn's - office at akeut 19:29 a.m. Ausistant Seorctar: Hana was a rn Aubascader te Uexice at the time of the asaussination and | Bap Gm ersongliy directed DEB investigatory effert and cur relatiois ERODE trmieciately afters the new of the ee PROEE au sned” Fexlce city. a copy with She Me<iean las EOE 2 wwe LJ
; assassination. Castro yas the ‘kind oc Ik oP Be omever of the file created by his efforts, consisting of telesrans between Mexiszo City and the State Department in Vashinston, had previously been forwarded to the Commission. The purpose of our meeting with fubassador Mann ras first, to inferm hin of our intent to go to Mexico and discuss with him our proposed’ actions there and seco about his thoughts an PRO ITED The file turned over to the Commission by Ambassador _ Hann contains statements of opinion by hin that Oswald was probably involved in a sinister fashion, especially by way of Lakangs a vrive, wien une Guvpan Embassy 1n mexico GLty OF Within some other Castro agency » These fu syicions were reinforced by the allegations of a certain "Alvarado" who at the time was’ being interrogated intensively by the Mexican authorities and by representatives of the American Embassy in Mexico City because he claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald take $5500 in ‘American bills from an individual in the Cuban Embassy. We asked Ambassador Mann hat particular evidence aside from the Alvarado assertions he had for these suspicions. He replied that he had none excep Be e Dion tet feeling "in his guts" that e carried out. this ~ A D OP SECR cu93t5 6) "REPRODUCTION PRORIBITE PROWSITED ‘ep Re PRET Per «emer mn aoe es ee SAoNN BS PAGE 20 os | 5 >
13-Q0000: . Oo "REPRODUCTION kind of ruthless action, either throuzh some hope of gaining from it or simply as revenge. The Amoassador added that not even the allezations of Alvarado or other rumors which may have ' been current in Mexidp aye OCT ON. money had been given to Oswald were ; Ly . S suspicions, since the Alvarado allegation NG rae 5 5 yotia a day or so later, but that the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban and Russicn - Embassies in Mexico City shortly before the assassination, which ‘he had learned from his security officers at the Embassy, plus _ what he believed about Castro's character, seemed sufficient to ‘him to raise the gravest suspicions. Later, he pointed out, when he had a chance to listen to the Dorticos-Armas intercepts, his suspicions were strengthened. Ambassador Mann knew of no contacts by Oswald with anyone in Mexico City other than his visits to the Cuban and © Soviet Embassies and his staying at the Hotel del Comercio. pmbassador Mann said that our intelligence took and was still taking photographs of both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. es whenever anyone left or entered their main entrances, at least i ' Guring the i on Monday. through Friday, i | during the daytime wh ee a
The Ambassador said that he had been kept informed of the Silvia Duran interrogation threugh his aides, Clarke Ané€erson and } “ansten Seott.. He learned of 1% informally, that is, Anderson and Seott reverted crally to him as scon as they received from Hp > iui nGHIN ait at "Gobernaciton" any news about how ~ PROMIBIT was p ogressing » . in response to NOI ED. the Ambassador recon= “mended that when we got to Mexico City we should work through the representatives of the FBI and the CIA at the American .Enbassy and, through them, with the Mexican officials they recommended, but that we should do all of this as quietly as possible, without “ny newspaper publicity. We also asked be — Ambassador Mann to what extent it was known in Mexico o City A | that the Hotel del Comercio was a headquarters for pro-Castro activities. The Ambasse oe replied that it was not known generally at_al sta: CBee © 4 current only in yi = TAR ES iy 0 on eater Ambassador Mann said that the file from his Enbassy ee —_—— which had previously been forwarded to the Commission consti- tuted the entire fille which was 4n existence on this particular subject, with the one exception that it may not have included . e - fe wetter woes eeBeso . JA Wor. SECRET a cam Gam eee exep famee Smee
13200000 - SRE 7 oe 0 ee the report from the fbRI referred to thevein, Ve confined that it had not included that report. Ne said that he was sure that this report could be ob btained from Clarke Anderson C . 7 CO REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED ain Mexico City, af we thouzht it was necessary. In response to Q similar question about the "Alvarado" file, he replicd that any additional napers Tit erican autherities | probably be | that might be in existence: ‘obtained through the CIA a speak to Mr. Scott about this. He said that he had never seen any papers or formal statements by Silvia Duran; all his information about ‘phat she is supposed to have told the Hexican police was peentyna toy yr Af raukh ¢hreanech hia atdae ‘Senkh and Andeapasp . "Ambassador Menn was then ealled out to another con~ ference, for which he was already a half-hour late. As the mecting was breaking uo he ‘asked Hr, Slawson whether, with the benefit of ae Commission staff felt - that his recommendat ly after the assassination had veen/ DRA (OT her we thought. they were unduly rash. Kr. PRE of rep tization of the specific allegations of Alvarado had show that they were in all probability a fabrication, he found nothing “in what the Ambassador had done to have been unjustified, in —eu93158 a, that although the inves~
13-0Q000 - PROGMBIT ZO iro t3 bo 2 ne ri . View of the facts known to him and his assistaunts at the time end in view of the ics: ODT ( Tio ny oceurrence, AG 3330 in the nee cn. “Witten of the CIA eame to the Commission offices and conferred there with Slawson, Willens and Coleman. This conference grew out of a ' suggestion made by Mr. Richard Helms of the CIA about tuo weeks previous, in which he had mentioned that 1¢ would be a good idea if a representative of his agency met with those persons from the Comminsion who planr.cd to ge to Mexico just fem Maman 2 Ya gems Yom Sills Ledbeel mandonge Gaon 2 ymene eayes thas bts MPR mmoe? F EF TE RD TAR TUT PAR Weg capa we gy aon (eo ome ttn eb wee man aE teint nd Pant wr—mbay tel KE _aRE wD properly advise us of any jast-minut : 2 arrangenents and properly alert its people "1H 9 our arrival. | . - We cet EPRO OOUETION.... . to Mexico officially and openly PROTA Epps. and Me, Witten -offered to make arrangements to get us into Mexico completely unnoticed if we desired to do So. We told him that we did not “want to ory to keep the trip entircly secret. We would do our best to avoid any kind of newspaper publicity or public announcements. We intended to introduce ourselves at the 6 | EOE. SECRET eens Sao Se gee cay ER EET hans) C, REPRODUCTION . ae RE eA GT ea AERP
— PROFIBT {>3 lo P SRECRERF Gust ate ape a OM ae Enbaasy and So Mexican officials as wiat re in fact were, doh representitives of the Comaiscion. Witten said ‘BE nantes OM. Winston Scott, the CIA Chie? for Liexieo, PRE top foreign spcratives in th cir enti Jonization. He said ing with one of the that the CZA would give us complete cooperation. We outlined to Mr. Witten cur entire proposed: pian ao eee ten en once we arsived in Tex cneral terms, and asked for his > comments On how bent—to_achieve_our goats. His reply in every instance was that ve should deal on the spot with ue. scott. AG eee Ciiuiagiae Vilew wus pirupyowd JUUNGy Kas a vory BYU ucts He repeated wnat Hr. Gi hed sata a while ago, | that there is no ees ROnUE ions det HON fficer" being "on seme PROMIBITED WEDNESDAY — APRIL & teen ne ee em an 15 a.m. to ti: 00 n no. Our plane was scheduled to leave Washington from Dulles Airport at 9:30 in the morning and accordingly all three of us mot at the vashington Air ferminal in the Albert Pick Motel at about Gs 15 and later arrived at the Airport at about “POP SECRET CU03161 PACE 5 —— Sta Fe a anna ae ane nae nay eres ergo earn Bee TS
9:99. Novever, weather and technical difficulties held up the plane in oes REP ROOUETION rf the eround in Uashington until almost : ore xin tne afternoon. | PROAIGITED.. After a sho ars Poe eons we arrived in Mexico City at about 6:00 p.m., Mexico City tine. We vere met as we came uff the airplane by a representative of Eastern | : Airlines, Fr, Jorse Villagomez, “who addressed each of us by | name, gave us his business card and cased our way throush | - Mexican customs. An unidentified man approached We, Willens | and asked iY we were from the Fmbessy, Willens replied that we were not. The individual asked if it was true that people ! were coming to investigate the assassinatiou. Willens refused to confirm this report. Mr. Coleman had some minor difficul-~ tics with the Mexican Innigration officials over whether or not he had been vaccinated recently, and in the course of discussions on tnis the Eastern Airlines representative men- - tioned to the SE REP mothimns to the effect that . Er. Coleman wag a-rep CORON Hiae. Neven Commission. bil TEL iN the person who had | approached rie. Wallens, who in the a This comment could navp) time had walked back - t ouards iit. Solem man. If all this occurred as we sugpect it may have, it could explain why there was an announcenent in tro G tT Aime on gg _ oe nh . ; a ie
a ———” RePRooueTioN ~~ %eeREL of the Kexlea City 2} zy mapers the following sorrins naming ERAN | OD LC HON on business for the Conaiasion. PROLIBITED Just inside the airport terminal we were met by us and statins that Me. Clarke fmderson and Mr. Rolfe Larson from the American Enbassy. These men were later identified, respectively, as ' Chief of the FBI in Hexi.co City and an FEI agent tomporarily “assigned for duty in Hexico City. Anderson ond Larson took the _ three of us to our hotel, the Continental Hilton. At 9:00 _P my a met in the FBI offices _ at the Enbassy with Hr. Larson and discussed gencrally with him the progress of the assassination investigation while we were waiting to meet Ambassador Freeman. Clarke Anderson arid Winston Seott, the CIA Chief in Mexico City, were conferring» with the Ambassador and briefing him on the Hexican aspects of _— the assassination investigation. Ambassador Freeman had been at this post only two days, having just presented his cre- cn 8 meena gemenp ot cnats emommnpuen iat eaten e D dentials to the President of Mexico on Honday, April 6, oO = — (ep) Cad
13-00000 " REPRODUCTION : PROGIBITED We met with the fiabas sador at about 9:30 in the morning. Fresent ~-REPRORE TION: the Ambassador wore fininter Boonstray, PROBED and Clarke Anderson. ie, Colenan explained in IED. er m5 the purpose of our trip. He said that we wanted to learn as much as : possibile about what investigetions weee currently being earvicd out, with special emphasis on the Hot22l del Comercio and on -QOsyald's northbound journey out of Mexico City, and that we. wanted to g@ecide won and initiate whatever new lines of invcse Sd wnbhiawm yam Pelt cmmn ARTI At Paw tT ee =a o = dopo an tel « oes od - Lo nelle eee - aD ae ab eS ma Ea @ CO MATT AT  DaU Oe "RAG Ee het wre mate an into these investigations, we wished to satisfy ourselves that everything reasonably possible was being done and, in additica, we wantcd to beceme as current as possible on evidence beins 7 ° produced. Also, ve hoped to make contact with one or more Hexican officials ‘SO as to learn directly from them what part re: : tigation and what they had lear ened that might as of IUUIG In particular, we OLA Epp eou what Mrs. Silvia Duran, the elerk at the Cuban Eabassy who dealt frequently with i wanted to find out a8 Py Osuald, knes ts Finally, we hoped to make arrangements for, and
PR ETED and perhaps accomplish Ep ero of our evidence obtained in Mexico, whe Oe Mer EON ions or by invit- ing witnesses to appear eroinemrey™= to testify. Mr. Coleman added that we hoped in all this to be guided by the counsel of the Ambassador and his staff, because we did not want to do anything that would disturb the good . pelations of the American and Mexican governments. Ambassador Freeman replied that he and his staff would cooperate completely. He said that he saw no objection whatever to our talking directly to Mexicans vho had some informaticn to contribute, but he felt that this should be done only in the Embassy and only on the clearly stated basis thet all appearances and testimony were totally voluntary. on the part of the Mexicans. As to speaking to Mexican officials. the Ambassador again said that this would be fine and he asked only that we worl: through his staff in setting up appointments, etc. | The Ambassador pointed. out that the taking of formal depositions ina foreign country could be a very difficult and technical . ate section of the Embassy iow. ‘ ¢ ‘ em a ee Co a
13-80000- REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED MOP SECRET that our seeing Silvia Duran would be a highly sensitive matter and that it should be discussed fully with the Mexican officials, but they agreed that it did not differ in principle seme Gor pn ap Me + a from our seeing other Nexican witnesses, i.e., the Ambassador approved so long as REPRO ne or Embassy, and made clear to her th aryrecu ware tirely voluntary. There then eo OMIBITED, of views on how best: to approach Mexican officials, what Mexican officials would be _ most valuable for our purposes, and the general substance of our work. At about five minutes to ten the Ambassador had to excuse himaclf for his first sterf meeting. which he had callcd for 10:00 a.m. | oo ee eee et aD = EER fe eA aPC EO ge Aasentseteeipee ts Se f 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Willens, Coleman and Slawson retired to the office ‘that had been assigned to them at the Embassy, room 510, to. discuss .the conference the Ambassador and generally to i I Nao the FBI, the CIA and =" Boonstra. PROGIBITED - 12:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m, draw up outlines for Sue! a) fogs 2 tree ane Le emron cmtime tier tinea a “Mr. Anderson and Mr. Scott came to room 510 after
= | ——" Repponwerien TOP Ss bCRET the staff nesting hed adjourned, We agreed that re u6ould confer with ir. Anderson immediately and mect Mr. Scott later in the day, at about 3:30. Mr. Anderson was welcome to come with us at our meeting with Mr. Scott, if he desired to do BOs ~. ' and he said that he would make up his mind on this after he had conferred with us, because he of course had-other work to do and would not want to attend the meeting with Scott if it : would simply involve is. ‘ground he had “me ee PROBIBITED Accordingly, we met immediately with Clarke Anderson in his offices, He invited Rolfe Larson and a Mr. Trent to take part in the conference. Mr. Trent was also an > agent of the FBI temporarily on duty in Mexico. One of the topics of conversation was Reverend — ° ° "eI aterm taoreeet Albert Alexander Osborne, 2139 known as John Howard Bowen. Mr. Trent had been the agent primarily ensaged in tracking down and talking with Bowen, although Larson too had been somewhat involved. Briefly, the agents described. Bowen as an elderly white haired gentleman who was probably e ngaged in some kind : n his fund raising, because ‘it was not of violation of the BEapag _ glear that he actual rte le for religious a PROGID S| 2 OP & ECRE 2 fog ‘ 0 re eects areata rem me aa ae ee emi eae ee oon eg oo _ aan nei -
13-90000 : the Commission or a staff tr member , Trent and Lars son were PROMI purposes, at least of the kind he represented that he would use the money for, a “REPROCUETION as someuhat unstable mencally. ‘rent described how when he first approached Boren he ros AUG NE Alper. Osborne,” and the reply was that he, Trent, must be mistaken, because he, Osborne, wa:s Bowen. Osborne then went on to say that he waa + often mistaken for Osborne but that he had not seen that other gentleman in some time, and believed he was in some other section of Mexico, ete. Trent said that Osborne carried this ‘off very we3l. It was not until later that Osborne admitted that he was really Osborne but that he often used the name Bowen. When asked directly how they though: Osborne would meaner na A AL need react to being asked or compelled to appear to testify before inconclusive. They thought that there misht be trouble but they were not sure. Trent and the other FBI representatives then described the procedures the Mexican Immigration Author- ities were using in dealing with Osborne. In sum, the author- ities had not acted as yet to deport Osborne but they believe . that they had sufficient grounds to do so at any time. In the PEP PROBE CTION: were — meantime they were him occasionally. “PROGID felt that if we. TOP SECRET 32 care ato et! tN + — nee Hr wen? | <7: tenement ene unten am rupee eta PEPEErro cane etieesfepantin setae . ~smcrstrstuss
"REPRODUCTION Brg TOP SECRE wanted to pu: ih it, t BED RODUCTBA on. ceport Osborne quickly. PROGIBITED The discussion then continued on to other investiga- tions. Larson pave @ detailed summary of recent results of the investigation of Oswald's northbound travel on the Transportes del Norte bus. — I will not go into. what he said _, here because it is now reflected in an FBI report in the pos- ‘session of tne Commission. We advised him to include as much _ detail as possible in the reports which he sent through ‘channels in Yashington to our Commission because the detail which he had told us orally seemed ts fit what we knew about Oswald's bactground and was therefore valuable as confirmatory material in the overall picture, even though it perhaps seemed important to Larson. Oswald's background and character which might assist Larson in | interrogating witnesses in Mexico. | agreed to include ~ from Mexico. | the Hotel del Comercio investigation. conclusion of the Mexican investigators that-no-one-at—the hotel EPROOUCTION __PROMIBITED — } Larsen and PROL OnlBITED into a discussion of We then supplicd various detalls about aetna attire Larson, Trent and Anderson Tor” future reports + Here, it appears that the eee neg Fees te sane detemnomnee pace ~~ of = 7 COPY NO. |
13-00000 -. | apparently believing wePRODHE ing money, ‘atthoush both items were ae) PRG cost o full meal. _ a (ITED. Oswald and of places REPRODUCTION ee he maid at the hotel dtd remember aE give some bits of nae * information about him. For one thing, She, as did other wit- nesses confirmed that he vas always alone when she saw him. ee tp _+ Purther, she said that he invariably had left the hotel before. ’ she cleaned his room at about 9:00 in the morning. Larson had ‘@lso found out that the proprietress of the little restaurant - next deor to the hotel vas able to identify Osuald, although Larson was not complctely certain on how-much she really remembered and how much she may have Picked up by sugrestion | from newspaper reporters. Anyway, st.e has stated that Osweld _ frequently ate lunches and dimmers at her restaurant, that he - invariably ordered very cheap meals, that he alveys ate alons, and that he was not abic to converse sufficiently in Spanish ‘so that he really knew what he was ordering when he ordered 2 meal. For. example, he often refused soup and dessert, Various other investig where Oswald may have been in Mexico City were also touched upon, : 16 TOP SECRET REPRODUCTION cware = gg gas PACE _ PROIIBITED | . 7 | 7 | | | | Be
EI 2 OP SECRET emt ethan uth oom. oom ee oat tne ome such as the bull fight arena, the jai alai games, and the places where he may have pubthased tourist items. For example, Larson and ther one of their agents had connote OO Silver shops in an attempt to locate Ain wald may have purchased a silver bracelet tnseribed thertae The response had been . negative at each shop and subseauent investigation has shown that such bracelets are probably not sold in Mexico at all _ because they are made in Japan and the duty on importing then ~4nto Mexleo would make their price non-competitive with local preducts. " | We then asked what was the status of tne Gutierrez COAST AEE: OOS OT OEY on investigation. Trend and Lars on and Anderson all agreed that . ae Gutierrez was sincere and was doing all he could ta cooperate with the investigation of what he claims to. have seen. In gE Tate AAI ED ISS SA SL AT EAE ron nema enetecratem . fact, Gutierrez has spend a considerable anount of time trying to get more. valuable information and he has never tried to receive any oe HE PROOUET! IGF weakness ‘in . 4 Gutierrez! story, neeor ty 9 the FBI representatives, is the identification of ooveide Henne utierrez has failed | ‘to. identity Os ald as the man he saw at the Cuban Embass y . receiving money when shown a picture of Oswald passing out ' oar (“ROPSEGRET Gam Gets ted Gt cemetary eet treed pace - 9° of COPY NO.° . REPRODUCTION wm
Seal PST ero oop tom om 8 ern Fair Play fer Cuba . REBAR BCTICN during the san - of 1963. Gutierrez say that he neves saw his min in profile, f only from the rear and ‘ H ' sai) from a direct feruard view. His best picce of identification is to the automobile. he saw "“osyald" and the Cuban enter just outside of the Embassy. Even here, hovever, assumi:c; that his de seript ion of the automobile is econpletely accurate, there are probably ' @ozens of such automobiles in and around Mexico City. Renault is a popujer make of car in Mexico, end the color described by a Gutierrez 48 a popular color. One automobile ansverins this Gescription and frequently seen around the Cuban Embassy has been located, but it is still registered under the name of the man who owned and sold it several yesnrs azo. This situation is apparently common in Mexico. Mezicaus often register a ear under the name of its former owner in order to avoid paying 2 sales tax on the transfer. However, investigation is continu- ing to see if the present oxner of this particular automobile can be located. In addition, a constant surveillance of the ina similar car’, and if % Cuban Enbassy and. ate : aa kept, to spot this or investigation will Slawson then mentioned that we had brought with us from Washington all the items of physical evidence hich yo mighe 18 " REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED
13-00000 | " REPRODUCTION BRE RIBETER > td ¢ relate to Hexico. It was asreed that Slaysen and Larson would go throuvh these itens later. We then inquired as to our seeing the reports REPRESUETION of the FBI in Mexico. Anderson “=e lei these i open to cur cxami- Rall 120) azents would show us . nation at any time an whatever we would like to see. We agreed that we would iook at particular reports later, as the occasion warranted. — Stivia Duran was then discissed. It appeared that eer eA A LS en nnn Rhett Se SAS . her signed statement had Pinally been obtained from the . econ CL ee . Mexican Police. Previously, the existence of such a statement nnn _had not been known. We agreed that we would see that later in the day or tomorrow and that it would also be rorwardea through ap ree eeetetetenmetct ceeeeneereee smnaaaaangaan sapakinamnonsonceseeseegteesesees CaS SEPCESSES channels to the Commission in Was ston. Ve emphasized that ve wanted not only a translation of she statement but, if 2 possible, a copy copy of the statement itself. The FBI representa- tives described Duran as best they could, basically, as a -"Hextcan pepperpot," a devout communist, and "sexy." - (fhe CIA later showed us 5 ch substantially con- firmed this. desert we SODTETION.. would be the best approaches te our oo ROHR EB Anderson felt that _ this would be a touchy point but agreed that we should try to do it af we could. He. thought that the Mexican official that we should see about this as well as all other aspects of our Come emo enenee pene a aren pen ate
1300000 ° that now that the investigations were more or less complete . HE ome oem oomue ote gm aan investigation was Luis Echevarria, Acting Secretary of the intericr. ERG he was well accuninted with Echevarria and that TMEIP QBUG CGR: 1 with him, as did Winston Scott. | | P ROMBITED Wlilens, Slanson and Coleman each got the impression from this conference that the FBI in Mexico City had been - Completely frank and open with us. So-far as we can determine . every question we asked was answered without an attempt at ene crete _ €vasion, and much information volunteered which we had not . asked, Bot}: Larson and Anderson give a very good impression of competence and Anderson's knowledge of the details of the assassination investigation was especially arpressive since his duties ave primarily supervisory. fhe Alvarado investigation was also reviewed. Clarke omnes een acca nee eee, I Anderson said that he was_present at the Alvarado interrogation which was taken under a polygraph machine. The polygraph sotto tenant CA . operator, who did not speak Spanish, stood behind Alvarado : | when he was fastened to the machine and pointed to various © 4 ; i questions weitten in Anderson to ask. | _ Anderson would then ask Poi the que mn in Spanish. i. i j | In response to- our TE... Anderson replied 20. TOP SEGRE? COPY io.
13-00000- : REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED his expert opinicn was that no foreign conspiracy arising out or or connectca with the territcry of Mexice existed in ¢ecn- nection with the ass ; He said that he felt that if such had existed, aio not have solved 4t by this time, they PROBED some firm indication sole . that it was in existence, which ons were in fact _ lacking. We asked Anderson how many different allegations of ce et ae arte ‘eonspiracy hed been received by his office and d he repitet, Bist. to cue rome as me sane. tees Tere Serene neers tae ne 2, arena OSM mente These were: the Gutierrez @allezation, the Alvarado allegation, og the_Diaz Verson 1 allegation, the Hartino-Hoja alleration, the . letter from Victor Cohen, and the allegation ‘concerning the grrr mie ot meat ma +o saRmNONB RE oe TE = + 1 Sete 08 emt ene Ot I aa se ye 6 ooo Stan fa ad Ve jyornt ee 0 dane od om am dav Bean, CCF megs weno mmm ge dem PG Soka co # & am het awd cmt ee ee Ot GF aa WE LT ar awe UH RORRREAO OE w OP Meh ED waswee epi & eo ad = eonanye segea meme 2 Irn ee Senter. “aoe ERAS Pate REI T= Meee © PREFERED Eh era opinion only the first three allegations mentioned even seentc 1 7 Aen arena ee esis serious and that, after enalysis, the only one that still seened serious 1 was Gutierrez’. Anderson veadily agreed. 3:20 p.m. to 6:00 ols After lunch_the three of us went to Mr. Scott's office, | ePID Suesion Alan white; The \ | conference was begun "YB PROGID us @ complete narrative of the CIA's nection with Lee Harvey Oswald, beginning in September 1953 when they first pick ced up ‘ana were there intrody “4nformation that Oswald had appeared at the Russian and Cuban POP SECRET om)  , cy . Cs3 , aad Or & paGE 3S 39 oe 155 COPY NO. i. 2 Tn +: ae terest EEN ANS
comp qunsh Ente Gee ante | a Evibassies. Me. Ecotte stated at the ber 2s Of his narrative . tha t he intended to make a complete disclosure of all facts, ee ON Oe eee =~" including tho sources of his “Anfornation, and that he unde L— stcod that all three of us had been cleared for Top Secret and that we would not disclose S beyond ‘the confines of the - Commission and its immediate staff the information we obtained h him without sis} DA lean: - Vashington. -We agreed to this. Mr. Scott's nar OGD took a rather long time to complete, and we interrupted him at many points with Afbis superiors “in throu specific questions. During the course of the narrative we were 2 arene os shoxyn the actual transcripts, plus_ the translations, or all the ‘telophone intercepts involved, and ye yere also shown | ‘the reels of photographs for all the days in question that had been taken secretly outside the Cuban and Soviet Embassy entrances. Me. Scott's narrative disclosed that the CIA's action immedi- ately after the assassination consisted basically of alerting: - / | all its confidential sources of information throughwt Mexico to imsediately channel all information into their headquarters, and of compiling as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and “everyone else throughout Hexico who at that time the CIA knew had had some contact Yee Un especially , Siivia Duran, wno because 8 been having an T 0 SECRET _AexaNOTT “apants - PROGIBINE ) pace _ 40. e155. Copy NO. —2——_
a REPRODUCTION POP SECRET ed affair with Lachuza, the former Cuban Ambessador to Mexico and presentiy the Cuban represcatative at the United Nations, had previousiy been of substantial interest to the ora, Eusibilo Agque, Durants superior at the Cuban Embassy, Kostinev, a KCB representative at the Soviet Embassy, and others, and conveying this information to Washington. In addition, the cr. worke@ closely with the FBI and with the Mexican authorities, especially on the Silvia Duran interrogations. Finally, ’ Ms. Scott, along with Hr. Anderson, was in constant contact with |. '” Ambassador Mann, to ket) AB RAGE Fa Rssteze on all ' 4dnformation coming in BROT aie Sc OCG pOointea ou that nis neauyusrcters Rao picke Pas, up the name of Lee Harvey Oswald from commercial radio broadcasts and had begun compiling information on him from its Mexican: files even before being requested to do so by CIA in washinzton. ° All his men were taken off any other assignnent they may have been on and told to concentrate solely on the assassination. All the persons previously mentioned who might have been in contact with Oswald, plus other people who in Scott's opinion | mignit possibly be involved, were put under surveillance. This | included, for example, the Cuban Anbassador and ail known iosal - Cuban and Russian intell To. 2 Vtaison was OM. by Echevarria to P Ss ECRET set up with Hexican off1 . PRE OUETE | | Bae gil a of 155. econ
PROUIBITED to the American Enbassy at this time disclosed that Echsvarria and President Lopez Mateo had ordered the Mexican border closed for travel both ways, without having been requested to — do so by the American En ad that the border closure was so tnoroush REPRE Gite HOUN entraren wer trepped on both sides. PROGIBITED Scott's narrative plus the materials ue vere shown disclosed immediately how incorrect-our-previous information had been on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Mexican - Embassies. apparently the distortions and omissions to which our information had ‘been subjected had entered ‘some place in Wasnington, because tne ULA inrormation tnat_we were snown by _ —_— hanna " _ Scott was unambiguous on almost all the crucial points. We had previously planned to show Scott, Slawson's reconstruction “Sess cera steepness SE ITE EON EE et : of Oswald's probable activities at the embassies to get Scott's opinion, but once we saw how badly distorted our infor- eee ener eenetanereternttarengrerencererninen ETE Att mation was we realized that th. this would be useless. Therefore, Nena wee eee an : instead, we decided tof Nie possible from _ . : time durin wz our : In view ‘of what we had learned akout the photographic ‘coverage of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, we inquired whether photographs of Oswald coming or going from one or both PAGE “42 of 159 | COPY NO. 0 ‘REPRODUCTION °°"
oo PROWIBITED POP SECRET embassies might be available. Scott said they were not. He : explained that photographic coverage was limited by and large to the daylight veekday hours, because of lack of funds and because no adequate technical means for taking photcgraphs - at night from a lonz distance yw clal light, which was of course out of 1 og had been developed. PROFITED We broucht up the question of Gutierrez and received ‘ from Scott and White basically the same information we had . previously earned from the FBI, though somewhat attenuated because, as Seott and White pointed out, the FBI was carryinre the primary responsibility with Gutierrez. We suggested that Gutierrez’ story might be confirmed or refuted by photographs taken by the CIA, that in particular the automobile he claimed to have seen might show up on the fringes of some of these photographs, and we inquired whether an appropriate examina- tion of the picture reels had been made, White replied that ~~ eee pm ie ames such an examination had not yet been mace and that he suspected that it would’ disclose nothing new, because the Ho: wever, he promised to. Bie such an examination. (About a . day later Scott scores ROU TG re had been made and proved PROEIBITED | . en t photographs covered little more than the entrance itself, | | a =) I) ae S 2) qa _&D- — S — es - PAGE 43 — :
13:09000° PROWBIT TOP SECRET In answer to our question, White and Scott EAVG their profecsional opinions that there probably was not a forelen conspiracy connested with Mexico involving the assassination of the President. They, like Anderson, felt that had there been suc peels at lcast by this time have had some PROFIT ions 0 its existence. ‘We ask: sed ie. Seott to i IT E Deane with Secretary '-Eehevarria for all three of us at the earliest pessible time. We wanted both him and Mr. Anderson “here, 1f possible, both as - . Interpreters an@ because their previous personal acquaintance with the Secretary would facilitate cur dealings. Scott tele- phoned Anderson and confirmed this request. _ We then reenteree our discassion of the assassination in general, as it related to Mexico. __ it appeared that the CIA ‘ irs forvarded certain material developed elsewhere to Scott; even though these materials might have reasonably related to the Mexican investigations. For example, een eee ne ne tate the contents of the letter which Oswald wrote to the Russian emcee stresnone 9 ene te awe _ Embassy after he returned ta the United states, describing certain aspects of mf “cee ian never been disclosed to Scott or his staff. - show atedind | FPPRHHNRL this Lette letter at | mae - PRT Co c Cc Ca3 ps co cD REPRODUCTION
13-08000 ‘ ( Dacing this general dlacuszion Me. Willens ras called out ro meet ‘with fiinister Escnatra in regard to the publleity which had aneared in the local nevsp2pers about our visit. Tnis involved the drafting of a telesram to the | State Pepartment in vad OR DICE GN s= puvlicity and | an estimate as to the PREG: Villens learned at | this time frem Eoonstra thatll d not have a copy | _ | ' of-the Tile forwarded to the Commission by Ambassador Mann. - | | Apparently, Ambassador Mann's person3il file is the only one . nevi n existence aside from the Comulssion copies it, all eremae ®ve mime, a een _ other copies having been destroyed vhen the Ambassador left his , ‘post: “tn Mexico. Boonstra told Willens that | he ‘(Boonstra) is & is the || et So _stemmsannnentrntgtentioe eeetertirctecn aren eaten Te ene, only person other cott-and—Andorson-who-was_involved with Ambassador Mann in the assassination investigations. Hr. Willens asked Boonstra to begin thinking ahout how best we could forward a reguest to the lexican of Pficials for a complete report on their role in the assassination investigations. At “this time Boonstra’'s only comment was that such a report should, if possible, be obtained prior to its being reviewed by the Hexican Foreign Office, because such a review micht censor out - substantial portions for political reasons and in any event would involve substant ip fia that review by ‘the Foreign office be a con ion at a later — TOP S E b RET COPY NO. wD er
13-66000 - offices at 9:00 Boley as we had agreed to do the previous i REPRODUCTION PRORIBITEB TOP SECRET ~ofREPRODUCT = time, but that it wo VE Ne the information Back in the CIA offices, during Willens!' _abscnee, Slawson and Coleman discussed the cable traffic from the Soviet Fee EERE ae and Cuban Empassies both during the time of Oswald's visits “Steen ne EPA nasa _ the ember-October 1963 ar and immediately after. the assassination. Scott and White said that no increases or : unusual variations had been noted at either time. We ‘then dis- cussed briefly the possibilities that the National Security _Agency might be able to "break" the nodes for the times when Oswald was in Mexico City, using as a key the fact that Oswald's attempt to obtain @ visa was probably communicated to Washington on Friday or Saturday, Sentember 27 or 28. Scott pointed out that all his office did with coded materials was to send them back to the National Security Agency in Washington in the form in which it obtained them. They felt that the code- eee eee eerie ermine breaking might be ae however, and should be tried, FRIDAY eweriog | | Coleman, Willens and Slawson appeared at the FBI evening, and there met Rolfe Larson. The plan had been that we TOP SECRET i van 46 358 COPY NO. __ oe cee emer ee mn amememneee ae ene men at ween ot 2 nnn we ee Se nenecomr : :
13-G0000 -° OS REPRODUCTION were i:nediately to depart on a tour of the spots which Os:ald had visited during his trin to Mexico, but Larson told us that he had just been eRe ROO ; that time we expected s eon aac: the hour when we could neet with secret te HOH Ee therefore sat in Andégerson's cffice and discussed with Larson the relative 41 9:45, because by locations and other physical aspects of the places we were to see later in the morning. Soon Andesson eame in and told us | that the appointment with Echevarria was firm for 11:30. The Ambassador had been told about the meeting and again approved . it, repeating his conditions that wren we ask Echevarria for permissicn to speak directly with Mexican citizens that we make clear that we wanted all interviews to be within the American Embassy and to be completeiy voluntary. Ye then had a brief discussion on how we would handle the meeting with - Echevarria. Willens and Slawson said that we had agreed the ‘previous evening that Bill Coleman would carry the discussion for us and that Coleman would spend the first few minutes in -“eonveying the gratitude and appreciation of the American Governnent to the Mexican Government for its assistance to date, tte satisfaction with the quality of such assistance, etc., and other matters of tage vis ia ,which we had been 7 told were essential when d manner with . | PAGE © 247 of 155. COPY NO. __
2 REPRODUCTION PROBED ee) mexicans. Anderson and the others present at this conference a i FNO-NVeauae 9:45 2. Fis The three of us were driven by Rolfe Larson in an unmarked automobile around the various points that had been touched upon by Oswald. We saw the Transportes del Norte bus . terminal, the Transportes Frontera bus terminal, the Plecha | dél Comercio, the restaurant next door to the hotel where ' Oswald repo.wtedly ate many meals, otuer hotels in the neighbor- hood of the Hotel del Comercto and “ne vartona his atationn: and this netghborhood generally, the Cuban Embassy and Roja bus terminal, the Chihuahuiences travel agency, the Hotel | Consulate, and the Russian Embassy and Gonsulate. | | 5 | Several observations were immediately obvious. The two embassies are close enough together so that Oswald almost certainly walked back and forth between them when the occasion ecgelled for it. The embassies, although theoretically reachable from the Hotel del Comercio or the inter-city bus stations by local bus, are oto ABD 80 lccated that reaching them by - bus would be much too [RF a au was not familiar with the bus lines in a ally for someone ae SECRET oe 4 PAGE t= COPY NO. : , ert 7 &
13-00000_ " REPRODUCTION. PROUIBITEL mit a OR GE SN GEE who did not spaak Spanish fluently cisush to gct precise directions. The Hotel del Comercio, although cectainly a cheap hotel and one in which Americar tourists would ordinarily never stay, has a neat, clean appearance and, according to Larson, is in fact "SEONG side, and stands out from its » a) | Er RO DUC TBAR. than the other | hotels in the ae PRORIBIFED | | | | | | surroundinss a3 being d Although one-way streets make it difficult to drive from the Flecha Roja. bus terminal to the Hotel del Comercio . except by devious routes, for scmeone walking, an Oswald was, it would be an easy distance and a natural direction to walk, The hotels near this particular bus terminal are aimost all grouped around the same area as the Hotel del Comercio, and it would seem very possible that Oswald could have been directed towards this nelghborhood if he inquired of the whera- abouts of an inexpensive hotel. Moreover, coming from the direction of the bus terminal, the Hotel del Comercio would very. ‘Likely be the first reasonably clean and attractive hotel that : one would notice. Some.of the other hotels in this neighborhood | : closer to the terminal than the ded Comercio are also attractive, 7 although perhaps not quite so as the Hotel del Comercio, but Rolfe Larson pointed e hotels tend to get filled - earlicr and ther efore referred further COPY NO. . — Fo
13:60000" " REPRODUCTION dovn the street if he incuircd at one of them for a recon and was turned down. “Larson noc Tet tion whatever tnat the Hotel “edd i) LL}: ou Eee rr e2 Lor Cuban revolutionaries on_even—for Cubans, ReneS fab Tarson said that he of course had inves-_ tigated this possibility and that his examination of the hotel Anderson 1 and Scott earlic . register for the periods around Oswald's visit there had dis-~ “closed only ane Cuban name. Further investigation showed that this belonzed to a Cuban family man who had his family withhim and that they were tourists traveling through Mexico. The Cuban ond Soviet Embassies have no remarkable : characteristics except that both are surrounded by high adobe af walls whieh make observation of their interlors extremely difficult. The Cuban Consulate, where Oswald did most of his” Gealings, is a small separate bullding on the corner of the Cuban complex of buildings, with its exterior valls coterminous with the adobe walls which surround the area. Its front door - | therefore opens onto the street. Exit and entry into the Consulate, therefore, OWEN in that it can easily Px ZoOP S2ae¢R SS . be observed. by persons - REPREOUE TO : ae os - PROLIBE a -50 . “paar 50. 5158 COPY NO.
pleasantries and courtesies. Coleman also told Echevarria that c=) REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED After driving around with iirson we returned and partied the ¢ar in frent of the imerican Labassy and waited pact outsice the car for Seott and Anderson to come out, as we had ayreed belorehand. They came out shortly after 11:00 a.m. cron Hinistry of the Interior to meet Senor Fehevarrt nag tf RORIBITED We errived at Senor Echevarria's office somewhat and we all mot. into tic early but were nevertheless immediately brought in toa meet hin. “We sere soor joined by his head assistant for this kind of vork, Senor Ibanez, chief of Inepections. Clarke Anderson acted as interpreter, under our instructions that he should feel free to elaborate as to courtesies and details at any tine, and Winston Scott also interpreted at a few points. As ae ly acrecd, Er. Coleman did the talking for the three of us. ud ON’ the American | governncnt, and of the;--ka onmission in particular, for the cooperation our natic SOGNAA LY £ his agency and fron the Mexican government generally, and in general ex cchanged fe ene em mm semen tee eae ee et ‘ Chief Justice Varren had sent his personal thanks to Echevarria. PAGE =e copy NO. __ .
Se «REPRODUCTION a TOE SEGRES Colensa asked that the Nexican governement give | the Commission a complete and as detailed as possible report on 2ll1 the inveaticatfibfaDID A HEME CoC TON in connection with ar 2c > the assa ssination and on_any oth such as closing the border, it had curricd PROM [pein readily agreed to ao this, saying that all the basic reports which would go inte such an overall report had already been prepared and that he : could deliver the overall report on 48 ‘hours notice. He | asked, however, that we deliver a formal request for this . report to the Mexican foreign office, addressed to his atten- t4on, in order that it not be mistakiunly sent to sone other police or investigatory agency in Mexico. (ve had learned . - from other Sources that there are 25 different police forces operating in the Mexico Federal District alone.) He said that he would telephone the foreign office immediately after our conference to alert them that he vas the person responsible for the note and would appreciate its being forwarded to him for his appropriate action. We agreed that ve would deliver such a note that afternoon VSCOM his attention as he had requested. Mr. Coleman ER OUIBITED, cewees that we were treating all communications from Mexico on this subject as. Se eteeae ae ae 2 cr meemntapees greece valep rsonqpamunewamrat A confidential and that we would do the same for the report he was z o PSs E. CRET PAGE — COPY NO. wee”
13-00000*. Pummntmenes ee nee ee me fd or St REAR going to dellver to us. We would publish only after receivin.: elearance frem the Hexiecan government, yvhich clesrance re planned to seck at some later point in our investigation. Echevarria @greed that this had been his understanding all along and that it PEP Ht er tanding upon which he would convey the f ON Eenevarria nel? ROME TED se the overall ‘situation and gave his “strong opinion that there was no foreign . cons spiracy involved in the assassination, at least no conspira~ ey ‘connected with Mexico. Coleman then brought uo fhe matter of our intervicu- ro ing witnesses for documentation purposes and to find out “additional information, if possible, in tlexieo. To give a | specific 4llustration of what we had in mind, Mr. Coleman used the manager of the Hotel del Conercio as an examole. Echevarria replied basically in the affirmative, but he made two important qualifications. First, he felt that the inter- vievs should not be in REPROD assy, because to hold then there. would give the appear: ican a investiga- _ tion being carried on by FUE HA ! HA H Feo on Mexican | soil, and this, he felt » would be very disddvantageous - politically for the present Mexican government. He pointed out. a ees : . Mn eae tier GREEN «Semen sanlateene +
13-0000 ~ REPRODUCTION PROMI ED Ce giet an election for preauident «2s scheduled to be held in July, that such cleaticns were held only every six years in Mexico, und that the present tine uns therefore extremely sensitive politically. Qne of the most effective proevasanda weapons the communists have in Eexico 1s the alleged American comination and interfercnce wit th the Mexican sovernment and any unduly public investigatory activities cn our part would | Lend themselves to this kind of propayanda. Second, Eshevarria requested that the interviews with Mexican nationals not be . formal but that Anstet AT cht to arrange to have lunch or coffee, etc NE with whom ve AoC Our reply to this, made through te. Coleman, waa th2t we did not want any appointments for lunch or otherwise made at this time because we wanted to leave the entire problem open. ke had not in our own minds decided whether and to what extent we wanted to proceed on this basis. Echevarria agreed that he would take no action until we requested it. There was an interruption here while Echevarria spoke in Spanish to Ibanez. The three of us took the oppor- tunity to consult ee . Coleman felt that in view 2 A “PRORETTE oo TOP SEGES!2 . oo cuoaie aS ~ PROM ull) ED a - ne Sk SS were CF Pama s seems ween SN IT:
13-00000° ~ _ that it was upon the information his men had obtained from her REPRODUCTION - PROHIBITED formal mectiais oven with unimportant witnesses such as the hotel ark, thas the Brcpooal we had for Gdeuling with Silvia Duran oncnt to be haz REP R e He proposed to do this by shifting the REPROMOCTION the overall report, stressing thas in the PROT ERpoe we felt that Duran's interro:jation was of the hichest importance, and then hopefully shiftins the conversation unto the subject of how we ' gould deal directly with Duran. Willens and Slawson agreed with this appreach. Coleman then again spoke ta Echevarria, referring back to the overall report and describing our feeling of importance as to Silvia Duran, etc., as outlined in the previous paragraph. Echevarria replied by emphatically agreeing that ee 2 ne na meee caret pnt ete 2 meme pencneneen settee Duran's testinony was of the greatast importance and promising to go into as much detail and docwmer.tation as possible in connecticn with her evidence in his final report. He commented that he had relied most heavily in concluding that no con- ‘spiracy had been hatched during Oswald's visits to Mexico. AG about this point, Echevarria abruptly took steps to end the oe ! meeting. He said —_ nt to have lunch with : Queen Juliana, ENO wa py Lig a én official visit | : Zoe SECRET ‘PACE — e) 155. _ COPY NO« ee
oe REPRODUCTION MOP SECRET to Kexico, and that ne of course nad to be on time. Colenzn d the opportunity to say Jokinsly that we would like to have lunch with Silvia Daran while Echevarria was with the Queen. Echevarria replied in the same vein that we would not ype was not 2 sco0c- loolzing Cuban but on Ud N i DG a resuit on Duran, the PROMOTED As we were leaving and walcing down the stairs to have as much fun as i ia S rather. inconclusive the entrance of the building Senor Tbanez came up, behind and _ asked Clarke Anderson to stay a minute and speak with him, vhich Anderson did. The rest of us proceeded to our car in the parking lot outside to await Anderson. Anderson later told us thas Ibanez had held him back to say that he /Thanez/ was completely at our disposal for . making any arrangements for lunch or otherwise with Mexican nationals. Clarke Anderson told Ibanez that we appreciated this “but that in some instances we might find it rather teo informal at a luncheon to transact the kind of business we hoped to do with some of the witnesses. . Ibanez replied that in that case he would be happy to set up appointments at his office in the | Miniatry ef the Interior building. Anderson questioned whether this was in line PP RADEE OM atmosphere that ‘Echevarria hoped to aap) Ibanez that perheps it NORIBITED TOP SECRET ee a) ed TS MemTOn ae = nea pana eeteee MEE EY Hf oere REED 04 ERESRIRIPUIT SOF hd RnR AN steer strat fe re ecegr eae a? 0 orem a . om) Cc CS (ee) + pond we) PND Serguei re oe ieee died:
13-00000_ | “Reo eaCTHOE: PROWIBITED was not. However, the pessibility of usin: Ipoanes' office ¥2s not foreclosed. vo REPRODUCTION “= > there about noon. NOMBTED, i2: 0 A stare: ut. e alle The three of us plus Scott and Anderson went to . Minister Boonstra's office as soon as we arrived at the American  Bebassy. We reviewed with Boonstra vhat hed occurred with ' Eshevarria. We decided that we woule submit the note to the - Hexiean government that afternoon, iv possible, althouzh ever;- one recognized the difficulty of delivering the note to the proper Mexican officials which was created by the visit of Queen Juliana. Eoonstra pointed out that not only was there an official luneh, at which Echevarria was now in attendance, but that a state dinner was planned for that evening. Boonstra requested that we draft the substance of the note immediately “and that it t then be given to him for shaping into final L form. We then discussed with Boonstra the problem of Silivia Duran. Ye pointed out that our only interest in wite nesses other than a) git Moe testimony for | authentication as AGN nat there was any~ thing we could learn | them that Me, Larson and other FBI agents a NG Harned. This was not | 39 | ee “POP SECRET ee ee oe 0v031! pSaBUC TI a gE pace, vf secre st anne. tempi raten tes sprees mandate st ete ee we ee eee Ao ee CERRITOS oa j— tO Tad)
13-Q0000 - | Rg OAUNETION teuc of Duran, hovever, beanuse she hid been interviewod only by the Mexican police and we considered that interview inadequate. (I should point out that we do not consider it etany imtete RAR GTAP ees woo Csvald's physical app nein D. ents or remarks he may al I D) snterrcvate ites. Duran further. Qn the essential point of whether or not his have made, ctc., that lvaly 7 contacts with the Embassy consiated or anythin other than "an attempt to travel to Cuba, Silvia Duran's knowledge has _ probably been exhausted.) We discussed with Roonstra the best approach to try to speak to Duran. Boonstra frankly stated that at this point it was his cpinion that we would not be ble | to set through to her. He felt that the Mexicans were too | politically sensitive to risk having her picked up a third : time under arrest and that she, being a comaunist and especi~ ally because her husband was a very militant communist and a very bitter person in general, would not azree to any kind of voluntary appearance. Nevertheless, he /Eocnstra/ would raise no objection to our attempt to orrange a meeting with her. te ! thercfore agreed that Scott or Anderson would recontact | Ibane2 and if necessary Echevarria as well to try to arranye a meeting with Silvia ie that even ‘though the meeting w¥ m2" as stated by
+3 i c4 24 © oJ iz] ry | Echevarria, possibly for lunch, we could arrange that the luncheon would be in @ private place and that its location “would not be disclosed to Mrs. Duran prior to her arrival there. She could be picked up in an Embassy car and driven to some other part of the city. Also, if necessary, the room and/or our persons could be fitted with recording mparatus so that no notes would “EP RODE HGR proof of what was " @iscussed could be obtained and kept for an indefinite period " thereafter. P ROK [B Bl TED Boonstra suggested that we consider the use of a “cutout” for Duran. By this he meant that she could be taken to the Unived States on some unofricial journey, for example, to give her story to an American magazine, and while in the aoe United States she could then appear before the Commission. We discussed the pros and cons of a cutout and decided that it was worth considering, and that we would bring it up at the highest _ levels of the Commission after we returned to the United | States.” | | | The conferenrs half hour. All of us the office which had eR ‘Coleman ¢ at the Embassy, and wson, Willens and arbi NC TG eetves to room so, | ll the note to be sent eomOOC ; cat | se iS ce eee oe eee
oo PROMIBITED TOP OLSRAT to the Maxican pov PROD aii offielal pecerts on , the acsasainatica. . 43 sec ie TnO%o bus vearn up 4b was Gelivered Beek > HOHE KE continued Gur conference. Tits sonference ecnsistud of 2 much fuller dis- ty cussion of the alternatives of setting Duren te tes SOLLy eithes to tne Comalcsion or to representatives cf the Coamission. . The details, €ifficultica and possible viriations ef a "cutout* were gone into by Seott. we also invormed Scott end Andersen — in detail of the king of paygenta whicn Turan could lesitiost+ly ' expeet if she vere to journey to Wasvingten, that is, the usaal witness Pees, hor hotel and weal expenses, the hotel and mead Ss we sem gg May 8 aoe 1 oe Pe ge SF er om & * wy a de a 2 oe ae tei? = Sete te ae = wan 8 ete 2% Chita Gee OA Y Cs te OH oo Ott WHige @ 64 ye BO Re Win ie deta GH i we SO Me We Biel he aD ' fees, ang of course the travel expenses for both of ticm. This conference ended when we cealced Lt was time te break for lunch. It was az greed that Anderson would contact Isanez te ty;z SG Work out an tmnediate follow-up ca buran in Mextea city. while we were there, reaches to Duran, for exanplic, a request ta ashinsten ox | ! elscunere in the ae rance barore the Commission, the | "outeut” approach, efc., uoule be cefer red . pending receipt or the outcome of ‘Anderson's convers stion vith, Ibanez. 82 Ie {> }v [ta [rs In {= foes 13 Cad pe CD wo | page TtOR Pom erence epee ieee tem ot
13-00000 ~ “REPRODUCTION Mr. Anderson was OE _ but ve vere vecmmanad ean PRORISITED 2:40 a.m. to 3:30 o.m. After rand? He ir WEF Ot Glarice Anderson. ck seeing Ibanez, - Larson hed two documents for us to read. The piel) was Slivia Duran's sign rned statement, gecompanicd by a translation, and the second was 2. - group of reports on the exit of Oswald ‘from Mexico by ansportes del Norte bus. We also used the occasion to discuss with Larsen the best procedires for authenticating the evidence gathered in Mexico. Since the conditions set up by Echevarria were not amenable to our getting direct authentication from the Mexican witnesses involved, we proposed thet the FBI agents who had heard the testimony or received the pertinent itens of docu- mentary or physical evidence from the Mexicans would them- selves be asked to give testimony before a representative of the Commission and, by reference to the source of their | materials, indirect arte explained in some detail how this would work in aske nm to conduct his procedures 80 2S ‘to EP CEH FEBhcation as firm and ag easy 23 possible, and to convey this message to all other FEI agents in the area who 1 were working on the assaseination. Coleman, especiclly, emphasized to Larson the desirability of tne * eee tte NE eR ge Marte a ete ew: ete me conte se mame: teas ne nine ten come aes ine + Aton eT as — PROG MED pack 6 —— COPY 3 —
" REPRODUCTION “PROHIBITEL accurately Lentifying documentary ma » by number cr other code, and REE : — number of hands through which a doc pt to a mininum and that each eocument PROMI] fal a of a reliable person at all times. son gave the impression of readily understanding all this and he of course arreed to our BUZEES— tions. 33:30 p.m. to 3230 - By pre-arrangement we met at 3:30 with Winston Scott: . With him agzin was his assistant, Alin White. The occasion for this meeting was to give us the opportunity to go through all the intercepts carefully and to use them as a basis for reconstructing Oswald's activities insofar as they touched upon the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. This we did, and we then shoxed White and Scott the result of our work, for their comment. They agreed in every respect with our conclusions. ZI will not go into great detail here because these conclusions will of course be inc wabive report on Oswald's activities in Mexico, , e the conclusions - were as follows: PROBED . On Friday, September 27: Time — 10:00 a.m. ' Flecha Reja bus arrives in . Mexico City PAGE _ 62g 155.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIGITED TOP SECRET Pine 10: 37 & eile Somat REPRODUETTEN Oswald tel pephones the Rugs Embassy get “visas to Enbos ne isn N cores Cuban Consulate. Some PROB hea. visits Russian still msulate, — Some time later still, which includes the period 4:05 to "Bs 226 in the afternoon Saturday, September 23: Tine Morning . , Some time includ- a, ing 11:51 a.n. Some time later _ Tuesday, Tine 11:20 a.m. We then discussed the Dorticos-Armas intercepts and examined them in some detail. 45 Je = On Osvald visits the Cuban Consulate and durins this visit Silvia Duran. calls the Russian Consulate and soon thereafter the Russian Consulate telephones her .back. Osvald visits the Russian Geisulate Oswald visits the Cuban Consulate and during this visit Silvia Duran phoned the Russian Consulate. i Osvald probably again visited © the Russian Consulate Bi hussian Consulate instead. Oswald calls tne Soviet. Consulate. He is hung up on. asked Mr. Scott for his POP SECRE . REPRODUCTION cU03199 PAGE 2 63 spt
TED "paces aimmmt etmanas qm ge anom «teed «Gana eee : ‘reacing then OF HON original he was Cuba was not referring many tirics and liste of the opinion that a to the fact that money Csvald at the Cuban Embassy .. ‘He ewphasized, however, that the telephone connection was a very bad one -~ he said the voices rose and fell extremely, as will sometimes happen on a radio connection ona . long distance overseas call ~=- and he suggested that ve have the tapes re-translated by some Spanish-speaking Cuban who is . familiar with the dialect of Spanish current on that island, ‘4ncluding suang and nuances. He salu the tapes were currently with the CI4 in washineton and that we eantd arranre far such ‘a re-translation when we returned. He emphasized, hovever, that his own opinion was firmly as he just stated it. He Suggested the re-translation only as a means of eliminating any doubts which might be in our minds and as a doublecheck on his own opinion which after all, under the circumstances would be in error. Willens “REPRO Helms to begin — : | | the process of re-tr nen he, Scott, saw - Helms in Washington me 1g scheduled for the | week of April 13. Scott said he xe this. oe 7 . I ' | We then discussed what the Commis sion could eventually publish to the American 1 public out cf all the material we had _ AG | “TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET . received in Mexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us - realized that any ace EDR ae IN afternoon could be tentative only, sine x Fane decisiori would have to be pan eH HED pas and the Commission. Slawson put out the suggestion that the Conmlasion might nade at the higher echeljo publish a narrative containing all the detail obtainable from Silvia Duran's statements and from the "open" investigations _ carried on by FBI agents and Mexican police agents throughout Mexico, supplemented to some extent by the information obtained | through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's : ~ ; informants. This supplement, however, would not be in detail; rather, for example,. 4t would use phrases like "in the after- noon" in place of "4:05 p.m." Also, no absulute quotes would be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative would be stated to be Silvia Duran's interrogation, the "open" investigations and "other ‘eonfidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and | the federal intellizgen ved." Mr. Scott's reply - | to this suggestion miley Or oN.. be acceptable | to the CIA. He said = PRO TED a certain amount of compromise of his security arrang the compromise was acceptable when balanced against the importance of the occasion. IL We. asked whether he felt 1t would disclose to Russian and Cuban: TOP SECRET HRC ame ee tiegss
13-0Q000. | | —_ a REPRODUCTION intelliconée the oxistenze of thie particular wire-tapping by - the CTA. Mis renly IE ably assuyed its (xe angi IN. tne proposal put NOU forward would ge existence of any pnotezvranphic observations. Nor, ve, would it disclose existence anyyay. anything that vould permit enemy intelligence to discover whe the CIA's inforaants are in Mexico or where they are located. } ; We then briefly discussed the statement of Silvia Duran which ve had read earlier in the dey in the FSI offices, . The ora had 1 not yet seen this statement. 53:30 p.a. to 6:00 v.m. fre three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson's office. Anderson yave us a report on his meeting with ibanez, He told us that. Ibanez and he had discussed our making arranze- nents to see Silvia Duran. The outcome of the discussion wes that Ibanez himself was very agreeable but said that he would - have to clear it ia Echevarria. 6:00 P.M. : We returned to hanced a: copy of the formal “ sequest to the Mexican Government ee as : “gor its complete report on the agsassination. R copy is.
13-00090: * REPRODUCTION —— BROWIBITED attached to this memorandum. We were told by bir. Nontllor, political officer cthoush an attempt had been mace te NEP ROCUC TION... it had failed because all. the res spon OBE Eo were out entertaining Gueen Juliana. Another attempt would be made at approximately 6:30 p.m. this sane ‘day, and if that failed, continuing attempts would be made on Saturday. (We were later ~ anformed thet the note had been delivered late Saturday .rorning.). “oe. We took the copy of the note which had been handed to “Tas to Mr. Harry Bergold, Second Secretary in the embassy, and asked him to sce that the Commission be informed throush channels in Washington of the contents of this note, when it was delivered, what the response was, when the response was received, and in general a full documentation and report on the entire series of transactions. He agreed that he would see that this was done. () I Coleman, wi aa met in room 510 and spent about an hour or Slightly mor n reviewing what we had accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get cone 49g ‘TOP SECRET
1390000... pO — PRORIBITED POP SECRET before returning to REPRODYe — : We agreed at this time DUCTION vas sufficient work remaining so that PRO RT rape snould stay over at least until Monday afternoon but that unless Lbanez | replied to the effect that an interview with Silvia Duran could be arranged shortly, Mr. Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 32:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m. After having decided among ourselves what further work had to be done while we were in Mexico, we went to Me. Anderson's office where we met Me. Anderson and Rolfe Larson. The following points were covered, with the conclus- ions as stated: mo _ We asked that the exact time, rather than the | scheduled time, upon ‘gs bus from Nuevo Laredo» arrived in Mexico aiiaty RODE Kione 27 be ascertained. We pointed out that GIR Gini Re ant in determining — | whether Oswald immediately began STEN... calls and/or - | his visits to the embassies or whether he first checked in at | his hotel. The Far agreed to do this. | . | | We reminded Anderson and Larson that we had some items of physical evidence which, ai though not of prime ‘50°
a TED TOP SECRET importance, might be helpful in thei: further investigations, Bree) ri HDC TON meet early Monday morning to EO rough.. these. We asked snarl Cal TED) e the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public and it was decided t Hy Guring the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them. Also, if possible, the FBI should desermine if 1t was common - practice to stay open later than the normal hours or be open on days such as Saturday when they were not officially open. Once again we asked Anderson to review the Gutierrez investigation, which he did. We asked if there were any reports ; | either being prepared or that had already been sent to : | Washington on this matter which we had not yet received. We were told that there were not. The status of the Gutierrez investigation is therefore that the surveillance of the Cuban Embassy will continue indefinitely in an attempt to pick up the . automobile which was. identified by Gutierrez, all other lines of investigation which PP ft of seemed to have been followed as far as D ied, W DM... negative results. For purposes PROWeITED our | Mexican evidence . we told Anderson that we would want a list of the names of all Ave oom ee denen ee we eee res te tema me cee ‘ “the FBI agents who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we TOP SECRET | a L 3 Sas
13-0000" oe " REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET Gisecussed bricfly what vould be the inost convenient place to have these agents meet with a represontative of the fommissis.,; for the taking of their depositions. Anderson replied that either washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We review i ARK —th s | hoped to follow in ie ; iwEdence throuzh the agents, as we had exp} a ake DEFER: on Friday, and | - | Anderson asreed that it would be a workable arrangement. In seedures which we this connection 4t came out that Oswald's tourist card appli- .. gation, which was made from New Orleans >» Was not handled by _the FBI Mex’.can office and therefore authenticating it would be a probles to be handled clsevhere. We agreed that we xould ! pursue this when we returned to Washington. We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services that Oswald probably pur chased while an Hexico and while trays Bap iM from Mexico. It was agrecd that Slawson and Larx i if CUCTHGNE go Sarougn this pena "Pa We then discussed the desirability of our obtaini™ amore complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban — ‘Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice in grant t4 a . a . visas and the different kinds of travel permits which woul! .  - PoP SECRET — PROBED | : a
13-08900 * ——— Rigegonuerion PROHIBITED available to someone in Oswald's circumstances. Likewise, we were interested in learning what obstacles to travel betreen Pa CaP from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, POTANE nie agreed to give us as full 2 report on but the difficulties are obvious. In general, he told us that, largely at the . Mexico and Cuba instigation. of the United States government, the Mexican author- * ates are very atrict about Americans traveling between Cuba. and Mexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed for Cuba on ,1964" before the traveler gets on an airplane ‘bound for Cuba. Likewise, the Mexiczn Immigration officials will not permit anvone, whether Mexican or American, to depart for Cuba unless he has the proper Cuban travel permits. No apecial Mexican travel permit is required for Americans at least, but the Mexican officials indirectly enforce Cuban law | by insisting upon ccmplete Cuban documentation. (It should be pointed out that this is unusual... Normally, border officials are concerned only “RE heir country or with their own nationals who POUUOeTitiay Ye pointed out to Anderson that the reas fl GTB that we get this information was that we needed it to D. the plausibility, and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we had on what O3ald was doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet | “Babasoles, t.e,, we wanted to see whether his activities made | _ oe 53. - ; . TOP SECRET - co nD
13-00000 4 1 ‘ 1 : i 4 i 4 we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas 4 ‘to Kas shington or elsexhere. in the United States to testify ' REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED TOP SECRET sense in the light of the normal Cuban and Mexican procedures. We then b beiefly discussed the "E60 sultcase problex." We related how ve ~ REPROOOE HR w2ld Left New Orleans for Mexico he was carry “BR i mses bub that all our evidence relating to hi that he had with nim only a single suitcase, a small blue wico pointed to the fact zipper bag. Marina's testimony and the testimony of ltrs. Ruth . Paine both tended to confirm the one-sultecase evidence. We said that we did not want the FBI to undertake any kind of . search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity to re-interrogate our witnesses in New Orleans who had testi-~ SOR ao ok he Be Bey gos g Bae Bow. Pmne em man Go me on gn ow 5 a mma neae Pane mn folie fe wea ato Bo alo eo tay wie wadion BP Mao ality B BERD PREP «a Talay OM Gah weRE TE? GP tee 3 ot woe ene ab eonnamame a os Sp Sanu a ex seurE Ee re-interrog.tion confirmed their testizony in this respect, or Nuevo Laredo, Mexico for such a missing suitease might be practical. Anderson end Larson both felt that the FBI was fully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a ae UCT ION as to make such 2 search. unreasonably “Pag We told male OTB WBITED not yet cone to a firs decision as to whether we would want to bring Albert Osborne missing suitcase, n —_pB en Ce ee me eee before the Comaission or a representative of the Commission, TOP SECRET C4 Cc C. Cad ND [| we)
: " REPRODUCTION PROMIGITED TOP SECRET even om a voluntary basis. rtainiy if he vere coins to resist testifyins and 3 G& to subycona him, we wanted t think further about it ‘Aeianuenar Nonecrea vhat the FBI in Mexico could do as of Osborne so that we could obtain him on nolL. if we desired to . do so in the future. After some discussion of the alternatives open in Hexico, where Osborne was at last report, for "keepin - tabs" on an individual, Andersen replied that he would ask th: Mexican police to put Osborne on a “two week reporting basis." "He felt sure the Mexicans would comply. This means that 'Qsborne, bet nz a person under suspicion and being an alien, is. told that he must come into a certain police station and report On. @ regular basis. Tyo weeks is a common interval for this . 2 jee emer ane arenes Sra 0 prarinannnnestte sort of thing, but is sometimes even done on a daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extremely burdensome, however, especially for someone who cannot wer to travel by auto- CETION and especially when that person is Livi the police station to which he has to report. names [Rijoracn, the Mexican police at our ncuest will order Osborne deported and give us mobile, as we belleve f advance warning of when and where he will be pushed across the ; border. we could then arrange to have someone waiting. for him -north of the Rio Grande with a subpoena. Anderson of course TOP SECRET Yee ey, COUsZu Fa fen - BEES
13-00000 \ REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET We auked Anderson if he had a ecpy of the "dessier ® all isuald mentioned in the Ambassado> Hann Pile. He replied thet he did not have Dir BD) assuned that it could he found soncolace, since : REPROBUCTON time, and said that he would forward = Sommer We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed ~ out that we had never received a final report on him. - Anderson replied that his agency had not teken the primary .~responsiblilty here but that the CIA had handled this investi- gation. We agreed that we would bring t this up with Winston Seott. | Winston Seott had previously mentioned to us that he thought that Anderson had heard some vague rumors from expatriate American communists in fexico that might bear on the assassination and suszested we ask Anderson about them. a 7 I Scott had said that Anderson had spoken with him about this . information many weeks before, to inquire whether the CIA could ; shed any. light on  MRU CT ght the subject up a with Anderson. Anderso By com nist named Elizab eh sate oe dine umemmemee ne tee ae Hexico as "Be tty Mora," had made some rather vague assertions : | : about Osawa 14 wich, through informants, Anderson's office. was TOP. SECRET? _ResMUTT goat copy NO. fo
13-00000 mobiles appeared in t ‘REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED - POP SECRET trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, a whole line of SE ey r several years intial and in Anderson's opinion she is not a reliable person anyw2:, so he did not feel Betty Mora had been-,e investigation was tanbs Betty Mora has not bed that her assertions would ever amount to much. He promised us a report on them, however, notwithstanding his feeling that ' they were not to be accorded a great deal of weight. Finally, we posed the question to Anderson whether he knew of anything further, important or unimportant, which we £2 representatives of the President's Commission ought to be told. After so:e thinking and after asking Larson whether | | he haa anything along these lines and receiving a negative response, Anderson replied that he believed he had given us | everything he knew. We then briefly dropped into the CIA's office again and saw Scott and White. We were told by Yhite that the examination of the reels of photographs pertaining to the time periods covering creer Cuban Embassy had been examined and oe ere negative. No auto- no persons were shown who answered the des eriptions given by Gutierrez or who might have been Gutierrez hinself, (I will note here that we did TOP SECRET [aan JU9 pace 16. 155_ | - - COPY No. a a
13-00000 , RB ARLNETTON - | TOP SECRET not ask the CIA to have these photographs displayed directly to Gutierrez. This PED ROC TG Men the easicst way of determining whether ntificd as the Cuban who passed the money ROTTED in one of the photo- . graphs, but this would also have involved such a serious breach of CIA security arrangements that we did not believe that it was justifi:d.) | | 7 We then asked Seott and White the same question we had asked Anderson about there being any further information . we should be given. His answer, concurred in by White, was to ‘the same effect as Anderson's. REPRODUCTION PROKIBITEN * : e : ‘ senna rs = te Ah cme Nee MERC SE EEN CON ah hc sth neg sae eee: seston map eaten ERNE pe 59 TOP SECRET . Oo / | | paar 17 of 155. _ COPY %.
13-00000 \ OO REPHODUCTION eantmyaeare Gumtatnn eh yehantehaneP NENG. RRR Gan Re pI tt om at aed es oar rer, 4 ay ’ nie. oe Gare WLth ie Tolie Lersson BG nbous O15 papa ED i emi cue other Fill ecete Verlous LY a st) 1@ FPadsoval Disteict of Metco (siuich iuelul of Ica oxieo City were exonined and ue agreed that . one of the lore, clear ones would boat serve as the official exhibit far she: ing tue Location of various us places ‘gnich Lee Herve Gayald provebly viedted while he was in Mexico Cli. Me. Levson said that he woold keve this ron emerepriately marized end formwrded to the Corxission in the near future. For ry personal ves in the tine while ; the iirmce formal cay wus bain 3 Drecored, Me. Larson delivered to me a sroller na wits ®) had theses sore location: mrked on it. We then vent throvch esch of the items cf physical evidence witich J kei teton along to Iiakeo City. For a ésserigtion of these mie te the "icorendum for Teeerd” ested ee 2, itens of Yhysicel hus toan abtechad to this She three of vs be diceovored by further work in coeneetion. Wita sliver identification tf braceist 2 iogertbod “Havknae’ " Hee Larson ond ir. Clarke Ardorson had sorte susky peinted out wnob ire than 500 silver ghons in eles | City had been questioned es to this breeelet on the tasis of a pa togreph of it anil, despite ‘the % that sone minor mestkincs ~60- C23 PM | es "PARE D
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITER wef o-oo . 24, «ho o gat a. ee 4 pie etter ca vhe bonewises Lcecabe .o.heh Cid nos choy up an the wm Be ge deo sos on pt. %. i etrhe FoBte le «ret: =, oe oe = theiwvwity Bane ef the chus nad otrle3 th 8 “her even sol@ lvceeleis corteirly “sin ba negative. We a2 eee Even LY tae shop “ne thosk] te disecovaral a aac te Ing Eurvey Csunld, mrocnvly all tie q@atest could tell us would be the Zes, he prs: vably ‘BOLd Uhe bracelet to semeonte | | Ve. Tercon noted dom ol the words.oa the back flylear of the Syanich-layglisn dictions wy and he alco noted the Rarkiness on sores 5, 113 ond 210 mrt to verious Szantsh words. Hone of us could sco any particular help at this time which would coze fron these writings and marines, rut we felt thet Ma. Larsen at lenst oumt to have thea with hin. The Moscican relizious megel was iclt to be £9 corsion 9s to be probably witrateable end, im addition, fron its age we guessed thet 46 nay not have been purehesad in Coptecter 1963 in ifoxico City but ould perhaps bay . p sto the United States and obtained by Orwald sone RAN TOs Neary in Dallas or | . kee Lerson noted dova DT EA. on page ue oz Onmld's ¢ } address booke Ne caid that he would hoek each of the teleshoue wumbers and addrezes to sce if they xatexre3 to the eubassics and g@trlines to which thoy 6 grom to refor ond, iz they did not, he veulk | Sis ows whose teleghone nbers or cé¢resses thoy veree Th ¢ acaition, he praised ‘to éo. abl he could to Cand ous vkctier Lee carrey Crald bed cver enti up et the Cubono fax rlines as the adirers bom: Intieates, eae PAGE ee COPY: 79 of 155.
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION OO - PROMIBITED ; th. frlorson c PROCITE tengron} that the delay — was wefortumtioe. Tic an RD te reer tis. assassina tion of tuose in the Enuessy vho vero reaponsib?e vaa thes the bes st results vould bo geaievad ty working prainceily throvgh the Gextean authoritios, veo at the tine were certainly highly motivated by the éceive to elene their coun Sey of any involvenens by eacavering ay Cuban ar otuer consniracy or instigation which wisht have exisiol ond who omneors! sunsorebly eorpstent. Anderson peinted aegede 98. eto mgm pated ce modu dew Satemmaae Soo maces mm yyy oon gee ade Ate do Pan ewe? todo ed Bie ey ww seem wm ane wees eee cam he Es eT wae Catt, fot ee hare hed adverse politic:.1 effects and therefore Lave hiniored the over-all cfferte But, he edrttted, subsequent xosults, such as the inedemuste Hotel del Concvede investigation end the feilure ef the ?timtenn police to Lost barend the fnet thet the some "Ceval gpreerel on the Teuneporres Frontera parsencer manifest, shoved py ac rot food enovwche hea that EA = ae betetise aysurcit, said J? steleets nary je 12279 were - . Icter in the maining, at nome time abeub noca, Eeomrd - & * 94 Kall. mn and lire MLGKcON, esconponiad ty lh. Clone Anderson, visited thee Borns te, tiuwster fer Political “.trsirs ct. the American Tubsacsy. Mo noints wore direussad with Mey doxnstrne | ‘PAGE _83 § 155 COPY NO. Ge
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13-00000 | REPREOUCTOR ea wets REPRODUCTION : PROHIBITED a2o9 2 FR Pen 78 iad ee ira Sea Bes @ 2,6, ° Pr, = weg: ba rete prebhers iseycsed wht ile. Reonuben wr the ewes GGT z..? a» Be a : be = 8 so o He oY & 7 = y ~ -” a e a1e, at, ésPVZeUaLloy os ai fontos Gryervmunh romvestanw SaRGn Faris elects thet - REPROE TION KG ites co ulate fils ¥ wpe ae ointct St clay er 3 TIES Palnvai ows that the Fe®, rr De en Lois Serves Omnli ty testbumy of Lik iin De gue indenaicnt evidence @ avaiiechie £ to us indicate strongly that fee Carvey Cavalé acbually muie cub e formal ar, -stieat tion fora Cuban ylon, which prommably is in cis baniwsdting oy at least cigned by hin, end the Gocn goverment vent so for cs te act on this apniientian sazi authorize the issuance ef a vica eantitionel only uson his firs ob vaduing a Ruseton vica, obowts 15 ényr after bis visit to the Cxben nuwecsye «should these A pom ene he aah *, Bete. habe i et ied -_— 7 @ . “2 & Pes * & - aad ae ~~ ase wo nerome mae ke mpem te BG waMIeS  Fiay Me ares Parmys  Tan the filhediwtal aoES frukceencentl ¢ guthentiented thro ouch Oswald's handyeitin:. La. Boonstea was inclined to fool thet such ao reques$ nicht not only serve the mopeuce ¢f the Coumtent on bub ecutid wise & 2 of political tamefit to tis United States G Csyormcute Pe comomicd thas the Cuban Govectasens pls He ehosce to cormsly 7 teense it uns presimtly cocising Otator, snd beenuse 26 mig ab HONsrareants with Oswald were dmuscant and full , Duran in her interrosstion th the Heriean police. : stra cor ite. Anderson ar) ¢ bY could a th: rots of toyy retteriol adver] polllical results unkch weet: arise frm? such a revucst, since Leth 2 Tole tat coal Was the ross rabtusul thisg tn the vor at for & joverrent te vent to tryos GLeKGe . $he essassination of its president and cush ® requcs sb wots be fubly - 67 -
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13-00000 (.. 6 8 [3 [ro t Bi! ©3 oS bo 3 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Dated 21 April 1964 (see memo- 22 April 1964) FROM: W. David Slay REPROD T iN SUBJECT: Intercepts fro d_ Cuban Embassies in . Mexico Clty | P OF iD ISITED The following are my notes fal reading the inter- cepts in question in the American Embassy in Mexico City, translated from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April 13, - 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I ‘gould make them without actually quoting the entire trans- : eripts. ‘In a few instances, either where it was very Amportant . or where the meaning was obscure and therefore difficult to paraphrase, I have quoted exactly. I have noted these portions by Placing them in. quotation marks. ” : i meri ‘speaking poor ot Spanish, later identified as Lee a, telephones thes: Soviet Embassy . | POGIOITED. | OSWALD: May I speak- ‘to the Consul? September 27 ~ 10:37 a.m. ‘A person who @oanec INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. - OSWALD: x need sonie visas in order to go to Odessa. _ INSIDE VOICE: "Please cail at 11:30. OSWALD: Until when? — | “INSIDE VOICE: (Hangs up) _ ere - ese _ ee 7 cory NQe mage etme wee
13-00000 . . then | explains to someone else on his side o* the line that TOP SECRET September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman's voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, REPRODUCTION: Consulate, calls into the Soviet assy SILVIA DURAN: ie | aiphscan here who has requested an in-transit visa_ because he is going to Russia. I would like to know whom he spoke to at the Russian Embassy, because I sent him to you thinking if he got a Russian visa that I.could then issue him a Cuban visa without any more processing. Who did he speak to? He claims he was told there were no more problems. INSIDE VOICE: Wait a minute. (The inside voice Silvia Duran is calling,. that she 1s calling in reference to an American who REPRODUCTION to the Soviet Embassy, etc.) PANGHD : ANOTHER INS HORE leave the name and _ number and we will call you back. _ a 22 SILVIA DURAN: (She. leaves her name and her telephone . number ‘and ‘she then engages in some personal “conversation in - The voice in the Soviet Embassy agrees. ) regards to the ‘fact ‘that. she has recently changed | apartments and therefore ‘would like the "bulletin" sent to her new | address. ee CUU3224 | 88 155 PROGIBITED PACE . % COPY. NO. sneenrentntcnsnssett
"gee" September 27 ~ 4:25 p.m. Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban moesy- REPRODUCTION VOICE FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of a the cuban Consul? P ROWBITED. VOICE AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY: Its 11-28-47. . ’ September 27 - 4:26 p.m. Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones into the ~ ; ‘Cuban Consulate. The person answering the phone at the Cuban - Consulate is Silvia. Duran. * RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Has the American been there? SILVIA DURAN: Yes, he is here now. RUSSIAN EMBASSY: According to the letter that he showed from the Consulate in Washington, he wants to go to - | Russia to stay for a long time with his wife who is Russian. : - But we have received REPRODUCTION. and it will ° : , probably . take four to p months. t give a visa here | without asking Washingt Rige ChB T FEB prones to a pro-Cuban . ! organization and the Cubans cannot give him a visa without his fy first getting a Russian visa. I do not know what, to do with him. I have to. wait for an answer from Washington. TOP SEGRED wo Fee cy a ' Biptirndl - “e003. 322! _ 2 =o spl BS
13-00000 ( 7 REPRODUCTION me | PROHIBITED " SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows no one in Cuba and therefore its difficult to give him a visa. He says he knew it woul EDD AIA CHRON the Soviet visa but hoped to await that in Cuba RUSSTAN eveassy> ROL HALT IeDjenae if his wife is now in Washington . she will receive the visa for return to Russia. .. She will receive it and then ean send it any place but right now ‘she does not have it." - . - SILVIA DURAN: "Naturally, and we can't give him a “wisa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be approved." ' ’ HUSSLAN BepASSY: “we can issue a visa only accoraing a e Tera eee: com camer cee remem mr meer vem eer eR Re ee RT * ee! AUaN een e+ eer arn PRON eatin EPR to instructions." SILVIA DURAN: "that 4s what I will put in my plans." ° RUSSIAN > so : "We can't Cuioran, him a letter of recon- COUCHOR. ° Please. pardon the bother." . — me | | SILVIA DURAN: MTD you very much." September 28 —~ 11:51 a.m. mendation either, peclt Someone at the Cuban Consulate later. identified as . Siivia Duran telephones into the Russian Consulate... .
- RP A ETIOR BRO RBSTED ew SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he has been to the Russian Consylate. REPO. Silvia Dura én h ak in English to someone apparently PROTED this conversation goes as follows: od wee ne ow arnenl ete COTE ‘"“He said, wait. Do you speak Russian?” "Yes." "Why don't you speak to him then?” ‘“Y don't know ... " | The person who was at the side- of Siivia Duran and es . . 7 eteceeera mA EDSFEOSERID SERIE e+ mannan ee sehr ett ESP GEER nee Ow ty woe - | ‘who admitted to speaking some Russian then gets on the line and speaks what is described as "terrible, hardly recognizable Russian." ‘This person was later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, ® : i OSWALD: " REP cr RODU GEOR spoke to your | Consul." _ ot NOG 7 odo oe RUSSIAN EMB BITE. you want?” ' OSWALD: "I was s just now at your Embassy and they took my address." a oo Bt . RUSSIAN. EMBASSY: "I know that." | Fs : SECRET [3 {o [rd
OSWALD: "I did not know it then. I went to the . ~° ' Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it.” RUSSIAN so ED ING ee iN o iwilk fail YE iN by and leave it. then, we're not far. OSWALD: we ROLF 0% = away." October 1] ~ 10: 30 a.m. ; ‘A person later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, . “speaking in "broken Russian,” telephones into the Soviet Embassy. OSWALD: "Hello. I was at your place last Saturday and talked to your Consul. They said they'd send a telegram to Washington, and I wanted to ask you, is there anything new?" | _ RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Call another telephone number, if you will. , OSWALD: Please. - RUSSIAN EMBASSY: 15-60-55, and ask for Consens _ OSWALD: he a TON - The same voice, still speaking in tole" Russian, . telephones the Russian Consulate. - He speaks to a man identified . ® ® 2 + fam mp oncertreT uy eeeRttEeee sane eet=teetent snpmentne-<rCitD Garch® EREREGRTSESY ASPECTS ast sASPersetsunaeeenaseneneerenaente . ° '
13-00000 as "Obyedkov." REPRODUCTION PROGIBITE! OSWALD: Hello, this is Lee Oswald. I was at your Place last Saturday.and talked to you Consul. They said they'd send a telegr whether there was anything new, of the Consul. , OBYEDKOV: . _OSWALD: "Yes. PROWIBTED = "Kostikov. He is dark?" My name is Oswald." : OBYEDKOV: | "Just a minute. I'Il find out. They say ’ ‘they have not received anything yet." OSWALD: "Have they done an:thing?" OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet." . © OSWALD: . | ‘ OBYEDKOV: PRORIBITED Mand what ... "| PROGUCTION TOP SECRET cugsZz2° PAGE | 93 195 _ COPY NO. 06 —npen nents Setanta ek nA te = Ste ety EE cg Fn ?
13-00000 —_ (. - ; AK ~_ 7%. MEMOF ‘DUM oril 2, 1964 e712" om exreme-sowen -—-»-REPRODUCTION SUBJECT: Mexico: Questions Raised by ee DRG HATED 1. What actual evidence is there that Oswald departed Mexico on October 3 by automobile? Can we see the ‘documents involve ANT sk to be introduced to the proper “= PPROOUC TION. purpose of making our investigation.  PROMBITED 2 What is the "rather complete dossier" of Oswald's referred to in the telegram of November 28? We ‘would of course like to see it. \ . 3. What 1s the source of information referred to in the November 28 telegram, that Oswald intended to settle’ down in Odessa? “REPRO TInt: on Silvia Duran, for example, the evidence romiscuous. type." 5. We we OFIBI UTED. coses of the transeripts of the "intercepts", translated if possible, in all cases where the intercepts refer to the assassination or related subjects. In particular, we would like to see the intercepts SECRET “yuu32h Deasay" co, 108 4¢ 155 tore ios BSS L0l- 0289 ZYE ‘REPRODUCTION 3 PROWIBITED
13-Q0000.. 7 es Co io C ree ee ¢ - inw hth “allegation: that money par -d. at e Cuban Embassy was discussed. | SeROOTICTION ef orto: PED mercio from the Cuban Oswald got the na connate? PROMIBITED 7. What exactly is the evidence that the Hotel | Cuba is a cover for Castro intelligence operations? Is this fact known so widely that virtually anyone who stays at this hotel is suspect, for example, those persons who were guests at the same time as Oswald, or is this fact known only in law-enforcement and diplomatic circles? Is it likely that the clerk at this hotel is a Cuban agent and is holding back (. information on Oswald, since he has stated that he has no recollection of Oswald ever having stayed at the hotel? 8. Has any further information come to light on the persons who were guests of the Hotel del Comercio on the same floor as Oswald? Would it be possible to have the Mexican "ove EER Bn knowledgeable sources scan the entire hotel on the gy UCHON- other significant meet PROGIBITED 9. We should see the entire Embassy file on the whole Kennedy assassination, including copies of all 2 SECRET UUVI24S
18-00000 corre’ vnden to other government ager oo 10. We wound ane like to eet [A ce told by pavarado. © > Fi HO OTION SITeD 11. Have: in totem made to locate the ad uw pidge? imi red-headed Negro man who was “Suppor Uy in the conference with Oswald observed by Alvardo? | ‘REPRODUCTION = PROSIBITED ‘REPRODUCTION ee ORME carne me ee nT ida’ . . oe cone suntan eee ee eee cewnmee nee coe en
13-00000 os ‘eect ES ag on ro. eee V - ae be > vy yo ) Revised Draft oe “se heproouerian MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD PROFITED PROM: W. David Slawson SUBJECT: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico City: Visits to Soviet and Cuban my Embassies hy best guess from the available data is that Lee Harvey ' Oswald followed the itinerary shown below: IME PLAGE Friday morning “* @uban Consulate Friday morning or | . | early Friday afternoon ; Russian Consulate . Friday afternoon Cuban Consulate | (Silvia Duran telephoned the Russian Consulate while Oswald was at Cuban Consulate.) (Saturday morning) (Azque telephoned the Russian Embassy) Early Saturday ban Consulate mueT 19 Oswald put "in direct contact" with Russian Consulate by - PROLIBITED. ' phone from Cuban Consulate: "address" — |  dise.) Add-CEA-—inter- - pretation-of—this.} Late Saturday afternoon a Russian Consulate SE CRET gyus2a7 | REPRODUCTION  «-«s(‘(w «SAS pace +240 Lit gis a Seca SYROSY sea STG TEE A a ESAT ERP AO CONST OTEE
A ‘REPRODUCTION — PROIBITED | Ce ee Time Place Tuesday ns fREPRODUCTIONS = Military Attache Late Tuesday morn Tuesday arternesai oN IBITED Russian Consulate 1. One of Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate other ~*~ than his first was in the afternoon. See paragraph 11 of the LPirst police interrogation. 2. My conclusion is that Oswald visited the Cuban ‘Consulate at least twice and probably three times. This seems so because: a. There is no evidence whatever that he was at the '.Cuban Consulate at any time on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday ° b. We know for sure that Oswald was at the Cuban . Consulate at least once on Friday and at least once on | Saturday, see CIA memorandum, | pages 6 through 8. e. We kno hat he visited the Cuban Consulate on Friday and that he pe ssniisiiany to the Russian: _ Consulate that same PRONE page Te d. Oswald was supposed to be in the Cuban Embassy at least once during the mornings see the second police | inter- ‘rogation of Silvia Duran, paragraph 11, and this was only < a | on ewe SE og am math UUU3Z48
13-00000 ee es? "REPRODUCTION = < me : REPRODUCTION - seenes PROMIDITED visit “to request information about getting to Cuba," and was apparently so brief that Duran was not able to remember Oswald's physical PEOOODNT from this visit, see second Or car ea Ca HON could easily have been overlooked in “Paani” police interrogation, — ' paragraph ill. ee. Oswald's argument with Azque was in the after— police interrogatiok i noon, and it was on some visit.to the Cuban Consulate which occurred after the first visit, see the second police inter- . rogation, paragraph ll. ‘This afternoon visit during which . the argument with Azque took place was itself different from and earlier than the visit to the Cuban. Consulate during which | Silvia Duran "confirmed" to Oswald that he would have to get a Russian visa first and during which she gave Oswald a slip of paper with her name and telephone number; because Azque | telephoned the Russian Consulate after arguing with Oswald, see paragraph 4 of this memorandum, and Oswald was given Duran's slip of. peper subsequent: to this phone cali, when he "returned" to the REPRORUCTION police interroga- tion, paragraph 1 ES} eon total of three times. | f. The fact PINOl the ln to the first . police interrogation of Silivia Duran states that Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate twice 1s of course some evidence. ‘contrary to my conclusion. However, I think from the context SECRET - yyusZ4s- - PRORIBITED ns 4 © coves ar © on at} mene ebrapeennnensn eee OTTER OES ETITCIS * ee ee ee
13-00000 (. C ee per 28 4 : . 42 a./29/75° wear 4 q wt authority. Nene Agescy Guts f ran Tae Et. Mts 2, kept ee 8 E oe BE won, Peclassily ons ¢ } | “ enonamia — . vv an 4k February 1964 TO: Mir. -_pepaeeay . FROM: W. David supe OHIR m., -, -,.SUBJEHCT: . Letter to the Centra gence Agency (CIA) | eT atte tee Posing Certain Questions: on their Letter to Us. dated 31 January 1964 Ir would include in our letter to the CIA the ‘following 7 questions: 1. Were you able to uncover anything about the alleged meeting between Oswald and the Cuban Ambassador which was - supposed te have taken place in an automobile outside the. ° Cuban Embassy in Mexico City? ~-- 2. Do you have access to the wire sent by the Soviet Mexican Embassy to the Soviet Washington Embassy? if you do, can we find out its contents? - 3, Reference is made to paragraphs 5 and 6 of your letter. Would it be possible for us to see the full report - of the Mexican s ponies. Anperzogetions. of Hrs. ‘Duran and her husbarid?. . Peele STUBS It 4. Paragraph 7 of your letter states that “Oswald; "that same afternoon,” came back "again" to the Cuban Embassy. Does this mean that he was there twice the same day, or does it mean that he was there once on the previous day and once on the same afternoon that Azque telephoned the _Soviet Enbassy? Only the latter interpretation of this sentence seems consistent with the CrA-confirmed information | found in the subsequent paragraphs. In general, we would appreciate as much tion as you can give us on the ja avagraph 7. Of 3 Trea\ the full text of time sequence of th the Mexican police interrogation e can try to piece gourse, if you are out the time sequence ; i | E PROG le if my 7, in which —&. Reference is ma -, Mrs. Duran. refers to "descriptive data" on Oswald which she found in the Consulate "archives." “The use of these terms seems to leave open the. PopsaDalsty, that the Guban Embassy RECRACED GOHSBENTIAL < oo “ gyRMET peas oxtemarie “7tHessitizatzn at £0. 11522, Sex. SENS Bathory AAAS, Sel Srewes pte! AU Peres ee Jan tef24/ 76° % nr BARS, Dats. ae —— “Te aad Apert ah. tes v2 See: ee pn vee PE menet $9.09? _AEROT _ — Doses! UUU3281° ~
« ~ ) | ( | (AetiAl | pesnirs th GALA are ; . ' . . satzanwy CRO SE pt [2577 [Le a Od a i ; enema Bs, wed EDDA NIT fe 8) bc 518) RR 2 BE had matertal | on EPR OCT back, perhap previous sear 1963. this the meaning she intended? IBTED 6. Reference is made ta ¢ sentence in the 2nd subparagraph of paragraph l2b. Is there any significance to the word, "Although"? We wonder whether the informant meant to say that there was something unusual in Mrs. Duran reporting her instructions to Oswald when he had continued to remain at the Cuban Consulate. . 7.. Refermce is again made.to the 2nd subparagraph of - Baragraph 12d. Your letter states that Mrs. Duran told the Soviet Embassy” that Oswald“knew no one in Cuba; and that the Soviet official "echoed her statement that the American _ was not known." It is unclear to us whether this discussion . 4nvolved Oswald's not being known by the Cuban and/or Soviet - Officials, or whether it involved Oswald's not knowing anyone in the Soviet and/or Cuban Embassies. 8. Reference 4s made to paragraph l2c. Was the "direct conversation" between one of the members of the Soviet Embassy and Oswald a telephone call from Oswald while he was at the Cuban Embassy, or did the informant mean to say that . Mes. Duran sent Oswald personally over to the Soviet > Babassy - Sa- contact. ‘one. of tha officials there? es 9. Reference is again made to paragraph 12¢. Could you clarify the many references to the "address" referred to eh frequently in this paragraph? . 10. Throughout your entire letter the term "Soviet Consulate” seems to be used interchangeably with the term "Soviet Embassy,“ Likewise with "Cuban Consulate" and — "cuban Embassy." We assume from this that the Soviet Consulate and the ‘Soviet Embassy | must be the same in Mexico City, or at least i 1) (Re cs ad that the same must hold true for : En PAS Sy | 16 Cuban Consulate. W111 you confirm to us. gunpeiins are correct or’, if they are not, ei a tuation? ll. In Oswald! Rye tet Embassy in .. Washington written after he returned to the United States ' from his trip to Mexicd, he refers to the Cuban Consul - : (presumably, Azque) as Raving been "replaced." Bo you know | ; * —_ “ ; ; EYEN?PT metpeatie “eetctg—", - ; rea SQNEUENTAL ae te = cate puthariy 5-84 Ory. /2/? Te Pon A Ui dros Cha. t Lf 4 7e |, 2 oR-2-2 ee ya a § bo wR, we mele Fo am oom awD a) Ma) MeSaSe03 ave bes, a
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13-00000 - - Ne oo, a) f ° . e ew 2 . : t : e Oe . ® s 2 . . . eee EMDAJADA DE CUBA: 25-C9-14.- 22 de nov.63.-— Neh. L 2h .- 1556 - 1925.- — a a ‘ LIZ Raa tacenang - | 002, Entrada. —l heb (bene aU og hors NDO y NILDA “informa ~- que estd abajo, be ioum hah | rd fig uue lo Llame y ‘NICO dice que si. Ll lel ml (empiezan a. hablar ex == el niimero 017). . NILDA: gue le disa a ICO sate parece que ROLANDO salid vn momento a la.calle, pero que resresa en se guida. :NELA des:ués de dar: el recado a NICO, dice que— era para indicarle que tenia ios paygquetes des... y que su-— nieraxque se Los iba a llevax GUILLORMHO. . NILDA: que le-— | presuonte siya estén envueltos. NELA asi lo hace y con-- testa que si. NILDA: yue estd bueno.—, 029.- os a - 029. Salida al hs ~91- 21. ~1632.- NICO solicita hablar con -— el Sr.CARHoOna. . MF le informa que ya le tiene su juego~ de juntas, pero no tienen los anillos. : . Luego Dn. PSULIX | con NICO (empiezan a hablar en el mim.073) para indicarle - yue ya tiene preparadas las juntas, que anillos no tiene y-— el minero de arriba de la nota no encuentra gre pieza es” ~ porque no viene en el catdlogo. NICO: que mondaré pregun tar alld para que le digan que cosa es eso;que pasara a re- coger las juntas; noe hay posibilidad de conseguir el juego de TDA dice que si, que Los puede con— seguir an ole PROD GN: de su = . NICO mn OMBITED. = GeO, Entrada 1638.—- VICTOR HERNANDEZ. pregunta a GUIL EVM A UTS qué hay de nuevo y éste dice que nada, pero hoy sale _ para La Habana. y vuelve dentro de 5 dias, por lo que ya — habra noticias para él. HERNANDEZ acepte y pide salude— | -a todos alld... RUEZ: okey. 101.- ey HO. ens “4149, “455. mer pen PS
13-00000 : He | an : vs “¢ oy? op, a 101. , Entrada 1730.- HP pregunta a LUG UH {Lt . ° os : « ¢ . rma noticia y LUISA en son de burla, dice "si, claro, me en- teré casi antes que HERSBDY" HF sonrie y conenta que - t To, - a % eso estd muy mend gue caren yue habia sido — uno de los ox t Hts ee pala LAR VOSS que, estaban en contra— de la eer al BU ae del trato limpio com “uba. LUISA: que, de eso también ya one quc aprehendicron aun A ead dt tipo que es nada He ontve de uno de los comité e se enters. HF; yue todavia no conf iriman nada, pero pa- -TeCeseeee Que el que lo haya hecho, estaba loca, indepen--- dientemente ‘de que muy ‘bien podfa desvidrsele eso a KENNEDY "digamos en las condiciones Internacionales y las condiciones Na ; _ internas de Estados Unidos, PUES. +26" LUISA: y externa mas, principalmente. oe HF; por eso te digo en lo Inter- nacional eooe se podia ver bastante afectada y no sueden -— sufrixr un gran cambio, con un cambio de Prosidente 6 con wna cosa de ese tipo; sobre todo Guesse. LUISA Lo interrum pe y pregunta si era gringo el que lo maté y HF indica que-— si, pero dijo que habia estado en Rusia, que queria naciona lisarse ruso, pero que Rusia no le habia querido dar la na- cionalizacidm....- LUISA se sorprende y dice“"oye, -- cémo alla saben cosas, carajo ! cofio } ™. HF: que si; que sabe ruso muy bien y que adends éste tipo habia ido con las fuerzas de pica a ja sierra, 6 queria ir, algo asi, -- quien sabe + some PUD Bor eNee _ EVISA:que + grave. HE: » DIOMULD Te que mas ha sabido por ahi- y LUISA dice que OBER eso, que hace rato se en teraron y ya estdn.- see HF:que esta ny mal eso% que — estaba comiendo ‘con un0s amigos y comentando la Revista Po~- oe . litics, y la cual ya salid, cuando uno Iiegé y les diéd la -- noticia; que él se sorprendiéd y creyé que los estaba vaci-~- lando. LUISA: que ya estuvo mirando la revista, pues -— precisament: la llevé el compafiero..... HFssue su ---
13-00000 CS , Ko aed 2 e " o ~3- ( . amigo cotentd que lo habfra matado vin ‘ime The se habia dado cuenta que los Estados Uns tado Tes cas y por venganza taatd al vresidente 5 aie todo fud— ~ broma, pexo no ‘le ercian hasta gue les digo gue prendieran— & el radio; que asi lo hicieron y ahi se euteraron ; que lo -- tipo es un tal aut confesado nade. DI Tues ero que ya. saben- que habl, Onl i ruso y que pertenece a Weds rein momentito, es que ese- reéGque Este sea, pero no ha orm ro-Cuba; que yan saben que — el tipo queria nacionalizarse, pero el tipo no ha confesado, xiF le dé la razén, arres ndo que podria ser gue trataran de encontrar digamos uma solucién.de ese tipo, porque...... - LUISA™ después de pedirle que se espere un momentico, pide - que le* diga. HF: nostros pensanos que si acaso nubiera sido é sii acaso pareeisa cee publica 6 que habia sido vno ~ . de los segregacionistas 6 en centra de la integracién Los _ gue habian asesinado a KENNEDY, entonces habfa digamos, po- sibklidad de que surgiera una especie de lucha civil & gue— rra civil en Estados Unidos; digamos que se agudisaran més— las contradicciones, la sitaacisén critica por Ta que pasa - el pags,, entonces estabamos conentande aqui, que encontraran _ 3g ee 5 > . Fa -_ - e una resolucion de ese tipo no?, ya mas internacional ; 6 - lo van a “encontrar 6 fud cierto, quien sabe; pues vamos a — ver que pasa, . LUISA sonrie y pregunza qué pasard. - HF: quien sabe. LUISA: figirate, uno s dos, tres” y ya,- ~ ya son tres REPRO ‘A 5 HF: yo creo gue — va a ser el tem A i) tN. fiesta esa de SILVIA. Bit los no podfan ir. _ «lis inctail (elo. ara que des-ués digan - queestamos celebrando la muerte de KENNEDY, entonces ‘hablanes LUISA: que la susp@ HP pregunta por qf con SILVIA y ésta acepté suspe nderla ¥ dejarla para la sema na que viene, pero gue no coincida ‘con el. entierro (se rie)". HFique hay que tener en cuenta eso. ' LULSAsgue serd ~ des;nés del duelo, del luto y todas esas “porquerias. — HF; okey; pregunta’dénde se va a quedar ahora y LVISA coment: . a ' 3h Whttals seem eaters tear ty sey tn Sean's ot we eee serene can crtieninatte eaten One ae)
13-00000 . we 7 gue ahord piensa mudarse ésta nod DS apa Le La doc ay Ma indica | #8 _ e que si, pero no sabe como esté la cosa 6 si se tendrdn que- tora. — HEF pregunta quedar en lla emba jade, sin _embar gO cr eé que. hoy no sera -- “8 td posible, por mre TPN pera el aerorucrto y no - Pip via t Reh Lif fi} nie (lif HA . aa Ne : s ae tiene coche EP mb HUI argo posiblemente mafiana eae yore de. estudios, se mudara. Fall eS LUISA: que la procure en 1a mafiuna en de: fy PR {| fis SGA en la emba jada 6 en la casa, ya que si no,se quedan en la-— HF: que entonces embajade, se ird.para su casa, en donde estard como a las - “10. HF acepta.- 173.- 173. Entrada LB10.. - DURAN pregunta por URBIETA y LUISA ‘des~ | , pudés de decirle que no estd, indica que le pasé su recado ¥ . URBIETA le dijo que no recordaba cual era su asunto y no — sabia su teléfono. ' DURAN: yue no tiene su teléfono,nues unicamente tiene su direccién. . LUISA presunta cud] es~ su asunto y DURAN. dice que es sobre el Mineral de RUTILO --— de j-arte del Ing.NOx TROY. LUISA? que lilame mafiana. _ DURAN acepta,~- 184,~- 184. Entrada.- HF pregunta por CONCEPCION yv LUISA informa ~ que anda por [YER Iga COTION:* * le dantard nés a tarde. LUISA:que esta bueno. ae ce 188, . Entradas sin contestacién.= 202 .— . aha. ' Me- vie i anne me RTA LE SOLEIL PRED RORY stSe men- somes ee tn anne NE DAE POET Retreat spear ero stots SS meee spp Ayre Ae ERT rae ge
13-000000 oy a vA ne a emer ' so ° = o3 . ? | oC ae ) HP esks INTSA if she ‘bas AN tll (Ae ie in Mesa, ina joxing tons says, — “Yes, of course, £ imew mari VE PING D) that nt First they thougee f Lee Gy one of the rose! tLlonaxy extrouists Al i salles and comments. ‘that is A vary bad; : “who vers ageiost Lnbegsratton and thet, . but 4% seams thet they uporchended, a . type who - 4s noting more than the president of oxe of the comalttees af the Rete Play Lor | “Cubs, LUISA? That she kney this also. HI: ‘That nothing has been confined yo | put 26 seees..ethat the one who did it, was crazy, independant ly of ths fact that | this could have been sald ebart KENNEDY "given the international ¢ onditions and 7 the Internal conditions of the United States, vel...” LUISA: And extern : prinelpelly. HP: “That's why ZX say, internatloreliy.. tb seemed quite affected : | and they can't go through e grest change ? | with a change of President ox sonething 7 OF that sort; above ell, that. LUISA: Interrupts and asks 1f it was a gringo that | killed hin and HF says yes, but seid thet he had been in Russie, and that he wanted to become 2 ‘Russian eltizen, but Russia bad not wanted to nationslize him. +. | LUISA is surprised and saya “Listen ~ they really Imov things there" HP: Yes: | that he inovs Russian very well and _ this type had gone + ith Fidel’ forces — | to the Slerra, | or waned “4 | ‘Pretty serions. HP: = “REPRO pays just about that, that FRAT Libtle while ego and they are... _ Hs That itis eli very bad, that ke vas eating with sone friends and comienting an CCNA jee knows how St VASs BUTSA: UE Ne has learned ara CUTE the Revista Politica woich had just come ont, when someone cane, pa gave them the news; that he was surprised and thought he was joking. IYESA: That she had been ‘Looking at the wagazine, that the comrade had brought ‘St to her... HPs That aa | Pr e. LU cif . . Spenser oe ee | - Rephaot iON FETED yun32st ee oPA G8 4 53 . money HO. 7
13-00000 his friend commented thet a Moxlcan had Ktlied him, that puddsnly he had realised that the United Stetes had +t ACER Dut if i oh ? of revenge Yi Liead the President; lin fF thet it vas alla Jokes but Nee WET. TG RELL x be told then to turn on the redlo; that's what they di ‘i 29 ina — ont 4t} thab the last he had | heard, 2 “omen BEOs Was that ten wo Sit JU dl, that it is belisved thst. this is the one, hut he has not conve sed Bnythinges. WOYSAs Bub they slready Ikoow that he speaks Ru ssian and beloags to the Pro-Cuba Cocmittee: thet they & . alreniy imow Tbst be wanted toe nationalize hinselZ, but he has not confessed. BF says she is right, aiding ‘that it cand be that chey tried to find some letts ay ‘solution from him, beceuse.. LUISA after asicing him to walt a minute, asis bin te goon. HP: We think that if it had been or : had seemed...publite or had been” “ona of the segregationists or egainst integration who hed killed Kennedy, then there was, let's BEY the possibility that n sort of civil war woula axise in the United States; thet contradict ons vould. be sharpened, the erttieel sttuation the country is going through, then we were commenting here, that they Pound 2 resolu- tion in this type, no? More international ; they will find it or it vas trie, vho knows: let's gee what ames if CCT TN met. wild ta pren. He: . , cNG Weal \bat males three (she Janghs} . “Who knova. LUISA: Imagine, one, tbe HPs < think thet Lt will be oDDAE ilk OH PE that party of SULIA's. Gill | LUISA: They suspanded it because they could not go. HF asks vhy, and IISA says "so that after they can say that We are chuerving the death of KENNEDY, then we spoke with SYLVIA and she agreed to suspend tt and leave St uobtl pet west, tout it oS “""" $94 not ecoineide with the purtel (che loughs)", HPs That hes to be taken into. | “ gecount. LUISA: That it will ‘be after the mourning and 21 of that nonsense. ea — ; : — - . ar GS 2 54 of AD.
13-00000 | ok “PROWBITED at ey ey TUTSA comments that now } fi ce Hi In | '. she plans to move tonight to IN ine Sof ley one. HY ASKS iz they Be: Olny; he ASKS where aarti is ital know everything nov, and LUISA [Dh PRG: bi SIT EL imow how the thing is, or if | they wil have to stay in the emDESSY 5 hovever bel eves tint to ni at wad Nob: be - possible, because everyone pas gone to the airport and the embassy has no car, | hovever, possibly tonorroy morning instead. of going to the study elrele, she wi : move. | BPs Then he will cell her tomrroyv, TULSA: To > try the eubassy or atthe house, since ‘4e they WAL not stay ot the embaasy, phe wit LO home where she vA . be ab about 10. . HP accepts. a,
13-00000 REPRODUCTION SEE PROLIBIT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 24 March 1964; Subject: CIA Dissemination of Informa- tion on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 10 October 1963. [FOIA No. 622-258] Copy of document as released under FOIA. 2 oe ecribed above. [XAAZ-22 ROTA No. 622- 258] ONE —
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+3-00000 ‘eran oe PROT if &: Label Sema id Alf : on - | | Dove “peje LISS. reac — N naz 22S * Re ort Harven & Omi Seen, BITED: Lee. H. : OSWALD whe <7 ca oli ssemine eel before Leng de en. Ge Oe-t 62) MEMORANDUM FOR: Me. J. Lee Rankin SUBJECT: 4. Reference la made to paragraph three of your letter, re dated 16 Marek 1964. You requested that the Commission be furnished a cegy of the dissemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD msde to several Goverament agencias by CIA om 15 Cetober 1963. 2 An exact cogy of this diasemination (Out AMesaaga No. 74673) by teletype, {s attached, It was transralited te the De- partment of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation sad Depa rte ment of thea Navy. A copy was concurrently made avallabie by hand to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 3. Please note thet COSWALD's middie name waa aerrone- ously given as iS ED ia the subject line and in paragraph twe es, ef the dissemina OP ue ecserd in the message te the Navy 2 Se uiuili ie ») The maiden surname of ddrs. OSWALD waa mistakbhy Heted as “PUSAKOVA". 4& On23 oe RG ro » & telatyaed rarssage ° J {Out No. 77973} was sent to the of the Navy reforriag to Out No. 74673, and requesting tat the Navy farnieh CLA aa soon a3 possible two copies of the meat recent photegraph of | OSWALD that was avaliable, for use in checking the identity of the Lee CSWALD In Mexico Cly. These photographe had not | Deen aupplied to this Agency by 22 November 1963. Our come Clasion that the photograph did not refer to OSWALD was based om press photos generally available on 23 November 1963, Document Number 62a,ax8 GOoBA ee &pT2 eer coi arre - hime. 2 AT TS, jor FOIA Review on _ SUN Ig7Bse - Tes BRITS Se ANI247 PROAIBITED - | no dt pets . . co . @ * ve ke MOCO ae S i . sarees ome we au
13-00000 REPRODUCTION  §, This memorandum and the attachments convey infor- mation originating with very sensitive scurtes and methods, They thertore baa am appropriate smneitiwity ixdirated, REPRODUCTION ine PROWBIED i A « Copy of Out Message 74673 5 - Copy of Out Message T7978 Distribution: Orig & 3 Addressee a - C/CI/R&A - C/CI/SIG - C/WH/3 a 201-289243 CI/R &A/TREall pm 23 March 1964 2- HOOP- - REPRODUCTION - PRORIBTTED CS COPY —... » 2el-z2sqae3 | i ; ae. . oe my and 4 af q. oge : eas ~
‘PROWIBITED &tiachement 4A Out Massage No. 74573, dated.15 Cctebar 1963 and filed at 0499 hours, to Department of State, Fedeval Bureau of Investigation, a, ont conser lL se eae Maexlce reported that an American male, who bientified himself aa Lee OSWALD, ¢ontacted the Soviet Fmbaasy in Mexico City - inquiring whether the Embassy had received any naws cane cerning a telegram which had bees sent te Washington, The Amartean waa deseribed as approutmately 33 yzars old, with an athtetle build, ebout sbx fect tall, with a recadiag hairline. 2. It ls believed that OSWALD may be identical te Los Henry OSWALD, born on 13 October 19359 in New Ovleans, Logielane. A former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Gaion in Cetober 1989 and later muds arrangement theough ihe United States Embassy in Moscow to return to ihe United ; States with hia Rusafiaet 7 - and thele ehild. ay The loformation in pazey _ nated ta your representatives ia Mexlee chy. Aay further tsforemtion received on thia subject will ba farntahed you. ATT. [ te: XAAZ- gasac & CoP : Doin 289249, ere at PAGE . . of 4 a COPY: NO.
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REPRODUCTION : mod | $2.5 . os at Mar OF At@teebment B m4 Out Teletype Messages No. 71973, dated 23 Cetober 1963 and filed nt 141) hears, to the Depactment of the Navy. sl RODE TION nates to ll LETTE. scr, se 10 Ceteber 1963, regarding possible presence of subject tn 7 Mexico City. It le requested that you forward te this offices . &% 600m as peaslble twe copins of the moet recent’ photograph ' you hove of subject, We wlll forward thera te oar representa~ | tive in Mesico, whe will aftemps to determina if the Lee COWALDS ta Mexleo City and subject are the same Indiviliual, REPRODUETIORN PROLIBITED . , me on: & ar “yo ty le or! r Y - ‘fa ATT. 2s XAAZ-2asqc OS COPY 0, 2ol-are2ey COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ~ ae — ne cee Y PROMIBITES eae! ° Reoert te Marve n Qoeww! Se. sein, Atal}, ns ute Ew is H. _ 63> ALD hitch GaiA olissuminated le Sere. eseevci net in Cie CGeT 6. Te eee oS Toaeeaeaeaemv vo MEMORANDUM FOR: ~ = Lee Raskla Fras WLS, s ee "ee er oe = oe we = 7 le sieference is made to pazagraph three of your lather, os dated 16 Sdases 1964, You requesied t1a3 tha Commmizaion ba «|  Seraished a cosy of the disaermination om Las Hazyey CSWALD. Tagan 10 several Government agsories by CHA on 20 ‘Cetaivex 7 2 An exact sony of this dissemination (ous | Message te . 74873) by telstype, Is attached, It was transmitted tothe Da— pariment of Siate, Tedesal Bureas of Investigation acd Desarte. _ . tent of tha Navy. A SEPT ae See remy aed avaliskie by bam to the Immigration and Natarclisation Sezvics- _ _ 3 Please note that OSWALD's middls name was errunse | - oualy given as "Henry" in the subject line and In paragrash twa. af the dissemination. {The same errer cecure in thea message _ to the Navy 4 wayrass four, below.) The maiden = ‘summame of Mem BD listed az "RUSABCVAN. 4 Gn 23 Cctaker {its correct ante > a talatyped mesaags / {Out No. 77973} wag ii aH pines of the Navy reforziagto ” - Oust No. 74673, and ivi Y a lis iy avy {nralee CIA aa - s00n a3 posslbie two copias ci the moat recent shotegrank of OSWALD thst was avaliable, for usa in checking the idantity of the Lee OSWALD in Mexico City. These photographs kad not been supplied te this Agency by 22 November 1963. Cux con~ ae | clustan that the photograph did net refer to CS¥YALD was based 2 om press photos generally ayallable on 23 November 3953. a Document Number 2. C&L 625A 58. re 7 | 2 ATTS, Fon Reieven : ay ESCORT > 7 ey CO ; oo © a = oC cuo3see | ee PEOKLOTE fed
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~~ | a a ores ro —?p RORIBIT ED | Attschenents A Sut Massage Fie 74573, dated 15 Cetohar 1563 and ified 2t 933 hours, to Department df itate, Federal Hureanu of Inpeatigailen, = —_ =a ras m ihexteo rapertsd shat an ¢ Arma TES male, who stontified iaaeelE | as Les CSWALD, coutaebed the Soviet Embassy tn Beate cay | fogaizsing whelber the Exstasgy bod received any sews om no . cerning a telageam whieh bed bean sent te Washington. ‘the ve oy . American} waa deseribed as wppsmdmstely 33 years ala, eles oe o - ; an athlatle Bulla, bout atx feat tll, we ba rendieg Ralston - 7 | ee 2. Te la believed that OSWALD may bs iSantical toLea oo Henry OSWALD, bor on 13 Cetsbar 1939 in New Orlane, . a ot, Louislane. A former U.S. Marine whe Gefested to the § Sovier : me —— "Belem ka Cctaber 1989 end latas moda arrangement sare oe ; United States Embs - in Moscow to return fo thie nized” pet creases States with hia i ZB The information ie mel Sue is being éLes somai~ 7 oe | a” natod to yom representatives f im Mexzies City. “fay favthar Isformation received on thle e sub}: sek will ke farctahed you. | COPY NO.
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION SEGHET REPRODUCTION Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 19 February 1962; Subject: Authorization of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 6 March 1963; Subject: Extension of Authoriza- tion of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Note attached to above memorandum. Memorandum for Chief, Foreign Intelligence, dated 27 June 1963; Subject: QJWIN. . OLLS-369, 30 September 1963; Subject: Adminis- trative/Finance - QJWIN. Nine pages of notes in draft regarding ZRRIFLE een 24 ODUCT LONG ovr Ter- - 000330¢. ' —-PROGIBITED =——‘SEGRET
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13- 0Q000 eS “ OLLA-1736, Pry * aye 1963: | Paris T/k #3~-588,. 2 | a a. Bees Te) ‘Reces pts and ‘documentation ‘trananitted to Headquarters, per: - * é ‘peferences‘cited above, substantiate the fact that subject agent. ren. 1,3 ceived: am. es ne advance in the: amount of 3400.06 (20, o00Btrs): ; funds.’ were ezpended for the purpose. stated, including substanti-. oe oa i 7 — Terabe: or other documentation: Ga available, PEOper » or. neces- - i, Sere ‘view of certain } tha en ean [7 ia, requested that..future: transmit anid | tenga bars tps ala activition;, be classified <9 : on Daniel, c. Brilierd ! cup i ib Os noe Tio iN "PASUIEITE t Cc a Cad f~4 73 REPRODUCTIO DO 25 43 PAGE _ = 12 43 a cory No. —
13-00000 27 JUN i963 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Foreign Intelligence SUBJECT: QJWIN ® gee 1. Confirming our conversation of 26 June 1963, I make the following recommendations concerning the further handling and possible disposition of QJWIN: ae I believe the original purpose for which QJWIN was continued and sent to his he under= cover assignmen if 8 ient validity to justify the ¢MmE imu i yond the termination of his presen contrac or this purpose alone. P HB TED b. QJWIN, in Rt al competent, usable agent who is capable of operating in certain circles in Europe where we have very few assets. Whether this is of sufficient worth to continue his services depends on the determination of how he can be used either by * the German Station.or by the Austrian Station or by any other KUBARK Ree aa a long term unofficial cover agent. He is not being used at the present time. He is being paid but he is on ice as far as any operational assignments are concerned. ec. It is recommended that the present Chief of Station laxembourg and RABNEY be consulted by Headquarters for their best recommendations as to ‘the continued use of QJWIN. After these recommendations are received, I suggest that the German and Austrian stations be consulted for their possible interest in using him. If after these discussions a sensible framework for the operational use of QJWIN can be established, I would recommend we continue him. If not, I would recommend that he be terminated at the time his present contract expires. 2. As far as the ZRRIFLE aspects of this operation which have been covered under the QJWIN authorization for security reasons and with which Fletcher M. KNIGHT is fully familiar as I orally advised you on 26 June 1963, except for one precautionary "life line", aspects of this case have ? been terminated and He h perhaps for minor accountings, be con ‘ REST is’ project. PROM —a PAGE As) of.