13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED - CONFIDENTIAL EX~ /093L nN MEMORANDUM FOR:<: Chiet,, x Staff l Ree SUBJECT < wedorandum of Conversation, Dan Gye Rather/Les Midgley and the DCI, s> 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 cae r, the allegations. are that Lee Harvey OSWALD hadber Y connected with the Agency. The allegations are tote’ 5 witounded. 2. The facts regGeesis ¢ ee tter are as follows: -~- SS A “es os a. On 2 ‘Rovere 3 3 I was instructed by | “ Mr. R.G. nocag Cie immed: te superior at that time, to make a tho RE checkswithin the Agency at Headquarters to determine whe ee Harvey OSWALD had ever been used by the Agenc\Kor 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 2 Commission. Le 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. e & Yor FOIA Review on NOV 1976 [Recon copy | : -BONFIDENTIAL ao gs 48 ResoanneT a — PROWIBITED "
| REPRODUCTION PROWIBIT So. CMNFENTL = c. the n x. component I checked was DCD. There was no -zesorxd in their Headquarters files. Arrangements: were thén made for me to check telephonicafly with each DCD base in the US. The chiefs ofthe basés* ‘then serached their records » and spoke\withthegr officers. I was then advised by ona ese Nahe fs or their designees individ- ua oo e had been no contact with OSWALD. SS” en checked with Division D, SE Division, and ~ a) sion's Cuban Operations Group (COG) for any informal desk records. The results were like- wise negative. e. Through the Secutity Research Section (GRS) of the Office of J a ity I had the security ‘files checked. Ther no record of OSWALD. £. Although €& I checked their SGWet, on the remote oS tree something xe files. SS SS ge RO Oy ‘the chief of the CI Staff's Administrative OfKice 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. . am records on Americans, dgan, and Cuban holdings Shey may have recorded was no record in those val rm ae enn tenet eT PPR h. LI also checked the Office of Medical . Services and found no record on OSWALD. ey i. The Covert Action Staff also fou no” necond on him. . aes oo j. Finally, I also checked the-records: of the CI Staff's Operational Approval Group’ (CI/OA): with negative results. ees a, k. My checks were completed on. 4. ‘December 1963 and I then sent a brief informal note to Mr. Rocca * CMETN
sectsying Ste checks I had made and stating that the:xesu ts>showed that Lee Harvey OSWALD had newer had - yyronnection whatsoever with the Agen¢y.- y a statement to this effect w <Ctonmunlen to the Warren Commission. \ . ag giste® cnecks regarding use or employment~"."\. » of OF ad\been requested by the foreign divisions. -~ of their priate stations, I was told, and ‘the results we negative. - 4. recall very clearly that we were extremely. concerned at the time that OSWALD, as an American: returning | £rom the USSR, might have been routinely debriefed by DCD, thus having established contact with the Agency. The same point has now, quite understandably, beén 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 eRe Sons ere so many persons travelling to and from the Sovz vie§sUnion that DCD was incapable of talk- ing to all of /fliem; Therefore, a program of selectivity and specific -ta t_ applicability was instituted. In light of thevaBoves< seems to me that OSWALD-- if he came to R beesks nm at all--would have easily been simply did not possess the type of D was seeking at that time. DCD would ave ae ts limited manpower on travellers who ma ei greater access in the USSR. | SSI Ge 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 PAGE smn
13-00000 REPRODUCTION = * : : REPRODUCTION | PROHIBITED ‘6. The second point in the referent memorandum concerns the papers<that were available at Headquarters on Oswald before Bay of the assassination. Speg ically, there wera:Sive documents which had been g@ir the Agency befor . the assassination. Two of th ‘de ments | | had been sent: to ‘us-&KQ the FBI, two by the D State, a sone bythe’: S Navy. A 201 file & “opened ecember 1960 on the ff : BPR OF the: IPSt of these five doc Si@ Contained er records that had been nex-camponent. The Mexico C tion Seporting | of the momiSering of Oswald's activi co had. not as yet be included in the 201 file. THES tinent cables from Mexico City were held at the Mexico b ypert 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 hefore the assassination because Oswald's name had-no par ar meaning before that fate 8. a6 2 regarding the records we before thane 83si tion as well as the ae Warren, (aeeher ¥ roe system were explaing Memb oN: a ’ March: 64 for the expresanpye poses Khods and trols we employed ix oY : 2 Sbur 201 file on Oswald wa zaC0 “shown to them at the ORS From all I have heard regatding this visit, the visitors were satisfied with our records system and the manner in which we kept our records. Paul liartnan Qb02408 5 of 16
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13-00000 Poe REPRODUCTION PROBL ’ | sere wee ne i Lewd CC22104 eo. hn ame et be nets BSR te om ot TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DCI AND J. EDGAR HOOVER 26 November 1963 ~ 11:20 a.m. ome DCI: DCI: DCI: DCI: SECRET | Well, all of that ties in importantly into the story and we have 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. We have had the very best support that we could possibly expect from you. Good. Well you can call on us for anything we have. We will feel free to do that I think it is an exceedingly important investigation and report and I am delighted that the President has called on you to make it. 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 fired the 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 i: Mexico City. We have now found that the: photograph that was ta -en 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 i to go back to Russia and the Cuban Embassy couldn't give him the permit. The Soviet Embassy stated that it wold 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. s+ arte ~ arate naan anennatananaanetietatiteneteth ent henna penne se eererereen cae nner 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. Bi tex hood, Me. Katzenbach . Who is handling it for the Department -_ it is our intention when the Bureau finishes the report, he will of course go over it very carefully because it will be a report that will be released to the public, probably throu gh the White REPRODUCTION = PRONISITED =
13-00000 - . DCI: H: (tape) mcm ec: DDCI DD/P REPRODUCTION Pp . . tow : Rai end ar to ed hee te cael em ned 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 conférred 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.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION mT PROMIBIT Crs vy oo CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIIT ~, =” wy 1. DIR 74673,;%10 October 1963 - dissemination to Department of State, Denartment of the Navy.,and.,the.Federal Bureau of Investiga- tiem... [FOIA Now.6- 3] oa ar <Enternal. Note Prom ROCCA to HELMS, dated ox March. 1964. [XAAZ-22803 - FOTIA No. SS 79<25 0H" LO) SY Intern al Note from ANGLETON to ROCCA, ‘dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809 - FOIA Noe: 689- 298] oy ~ 4. Memorandum for RANKIN, dated 1 Jély 1964: subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959. _ Duplieate of FOIA No. 758-325] . 2 0062136 REPRODUCTION ——SEGRET
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITE 2 LE 3| | SECRET Coramansiche ik ™ PO Ns a wo hate a PMA, irony re de Lee pankin, Cenavel Counsel, a - President's Comaission on the Agsassinstion » ome Yalsdnicl on 10 Octobe 1959 Helainkt on 10 Ovtobur 1959 waa Fim Air ftighb 052 phish ar, Ls rived in Ualsinkt ab 2333 (12533 Poe). If Sowmld-had tale: laniing Garsalitise aad reashed tno Tornd Rotel downtown by 2800 (atdnighb) on the sume day, This is based inthe Jade- mont of officers in this Agency familiar with the } Ze We ave presently athespiing to dxternine if ¢ cuald could have taken a pore circuiteus flight fras london, with & atep at Steckhebs,. Copenhagen, or same other clty. any adiiilous informides reosived will te formurded to you SR/CL/Research: S.Duncan:cl Reyritten: RHelms/ecd - 1 July Bi Distribution: Orig &@ = addre goo ck 2- soe a . | SF SON . i AEPROOUCTION a ek PAGE geo
KAAZ- 22309 12 May 1964 = 1745 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Rocca 6 Tvtternal “Mens R with hlewrin (Commi Ssiow | a a u avolin A auc ts Posten th Dealin oe hs Phe® DDP called me this afternoon, 12 May, to: state: < ta they: a Divactor has received a telephone call from_RANKIN - 3S oe Rere Commission's desire to interview him. at.1030. AMY Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appest at 9: 00 on on tbat 2. The DDP wishes to have from you a ae ut 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 rai ed with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent information which: yeu are processing which originated with the sensitive WHsource. I informed him that in your view. this would raise a numberof new factors with the Commission; that i& should not go tacthe: Serpent n prior to the Dire ctor'sappearange ‘unless we havé fivet ha Uso e preliminary reaction ormade gre that the : re of its implications since it coukk ll serve gPardetailed questioning. TreDDP gtae@that he would aK AKGprefully and made a a decision p40 thang S SS . Given the schedule, you ipo @e that the DDP s will need a , paper covering the above points as mas possible. | | J. Ae | Coy Document Number 29 1 6 ba4-a99 | for FO‘A Review | on - JUN ‘S76 | cry gb tuae | = (0°9943 38
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION XAAZ~- 22703 5 March 1964 aS Sy , a “This ts ae to paragraph 3 of Rankin's tetien (see. - a cagterense t JA does not desire to respond dixectly te: S that letter which made a levy for“our materioy 23 Nowember. We found that, except for thie telegrams, all that the Serret Service had was material we-had sont te McGeorge Bundy at the White House, s simply passed it to the Secret Service as __fnformation, . Unless you feel otherwise, Jim would prefer t to wait out the Commission on the matter covered by paragraph 2, If | they core back on the point he feels that you, or someone. from here, should be prepared to go over to show the Comruission 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 reaponse to earlier levies, or theiterms . gefer teaborted: leads, for example, the famous_aix photo- graph® which were not of Oswald, and the passenger rm ihe on an : airline whigh also did not pertain to Oswald, Oy Sr, IES & TE youcdeat¥e to take note af the levy. sXoaragraph’2) a we Xwoald xzecammend that you indicate inthe ‘attached proposed aeeument Numbet 579-250 | | | . oes for FOIA Review of JUN 1975 | . . Rock — my if. ie mond ia GPa ; BID \ A Qeeoy 7 - hs AY “9 af pee afetiTe soba 2 239245, . _ 860 2 esur ** COPY NQe: ce
13-00000 REP HODUCTION a > ROUTING a , me eile “ORIG: “O... BUS*O: | UNIT: WH/3/Mexico. Diinoex - P, ET Os = BOA TENG INoex — om “DATE =~ 0 Oc: 963" EP FILE IN. CS. FILE No.” | MEXICO ‘CITY INQUIRING WHETHER THE EMBASSY. HAD RECEIVED | ANY NEWS CONCERNING & TELEGRAM WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO M3IAZU NOLLVOIaISSV10 - eS ESAT I In Moscow ‘TO RETURN To 'rH Squrren. a WIT 3 3 Se. Sas BORN WIFE, MARINA Toe AND THEIR... nt Numbd@ 28 ae /~2SF7XR ug. 3 | UE a APR ‘7 soot AOL orien rr lo Lex ome . | Exeluded from automatic = AUTHENTICATING — en 8 *. 8 zg c RE T ot . Gowngrading and daciessification FEIGER CUPL NC nn emeameman
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13-00000 2 a. of “ CONTENTS OF: VOLUME IX sO! REPRODUCTION seoaer PROMISED = REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 90466, 20 December 1963 [FOIA No. 420-757] 2c: DIR 97829, 29 January 1964 [FOIA No. 498-204] Ce. 2142
PROMS eee Tee CLASSIFIED MESSAGE (/_ 12.482 ORIG "JON H. . WEEDTEN - > SECRET __ ROUTING it a c ao INDEX 5 cR _ : = 3. oS NO INDEX —— Ci aC sre Bo nite tas 0 FUE WES WO, Logie ORIG IN cS IE NO. 1) a rr ones * ne eduaids 22 a a REPRODUCTION ¢€ Er] “ls ad % || DErERdEO Ey | ROUTINE VR CITE OR wees  TRERcRE a. GED APPEARED HETORE WARN COODESSTON ow 28 JANUARY 400 ra eens or EOD a ON SATURDAY 1. FEB. WS WILL : ONES, . cae A REPORE CO EE OGWALD'S ACEIVINTES I MECICO, PRESENTED ose mo Haggsce vom couces amp excorra. pis ven Zo REPORTING TO US On (THIS SUBSECE AND CABLE I ANYEEING AIDITIONAL YOU WAY ZAVE x DOE For Us 10 SND OF MESSAGE Cable sent at request of Mr. Rocca of CI Staff. RECORDS OFFICER STAMP vYhe following action is CO authorized: “DE sense cite Ore and coordinate ~ “bg 99 L it appropriate, a ' Dacumant Number “20 201-289248 for FOIA Review m Yn MAY 976 ., ee - COORDINATING oFFrcers i GELEASING OFFICER =~ downgrading and ~ RUTHENTIGATING ‘ ‘ SECRET dectassification OFFICER ; Oy REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. | Copy Now | | Fale) Pak ROB!
13-00000 REPRODUCTION paORIaTT eee. ’ , . { . 1262 ORIG +5 JOHN M. WHITTES ae " . Mee "ROUTING UNIT : “WE 3 . : 7 “Oh INDEX Bt’ :. 5613 . _ SS ENO INDEX DATE. : 86 DECEMBER 196 30: FILE IN C$ FILE NO; ~ — : , . : 3, fe] To By Ree oq - oe oo BDA fol sins aetion ig LON = ausiosised: fone a DEFERRED - : _ A rourne a 4 “INFO 2201, soci op, ‘fe, o/c VR ¢ 7 / : To | - ws oF ne = iow. 20, CS awe DIR 0468 | Et beatae 0 or) . Peasons and. coord inate ‘ 4 SEEr opriate. s con) we ats | he aioe uotner wn a masa io mee We, 2 mada wea ae yun Sure nao CPS CEFICTALS. SATD ABOUT OSALD'S VISTIS AND HIS DEALINGS WOULD 52 VALIARIZ 7 ress Pons mR a WO AMEE AOA 8 PUTRI, EOE C/S Comment:*Re interrogation of Silvia Duran. — pec 4 wr [°° -“MICROFILMED -|- . “GROUP. 1 ; Exeluded from-automatic | | = downgrading and : doctassification ~ * 20/ ~2ay. PONE - Systense , oo BS
13000006 . ( - REPRODUCTION I April 1954 : FROM : & sesrect IVY Three Stali Asprezontatives of Warren Commis sion Gy RON Oo 1954 Messrs. Coleman, Slawson and Wille $s Se ives of the Warren Commission, came to ee xy ae \Y S\N 2. Ambassador Freeman, Mr. Clarence Boons Anderson and I met there at 0345 hours on 9 April. Ss asked that Mr. Clark Anderson and I cooperate fully; s thrae would hava Top Secret clearances and that he felt we try to be too secretive in talking to them. =f) ty aypuld not va 3. When the three visitors came in, The Ambassador told them that he wished them to call on us for any and all help they nsaded. He ©. . said, however, that he wished personally to approve in advance any and — all contacts with Mexican authorities and/or Mexican citizens, 4, The Ambassador told them that a great deal of our information came from some very secret and sensitive sources, such as telephone taps, and he reminded them that any puolished item from these sources - would have to hav x clearance with(KUBARK) aad(ODENVY). He - ne told them that r on of these operations could have very aerious De, visite eniaQeene ral, BS great harm to Mexican/U.S. relations. Ths visitors saidy ems: from (KUBARK) and{ODENVY) included ; in the Co gence sae would have prior approval o¢ the origina <> en agency LYS a .. YS re outlined the "rules under which A he SS. the FS rk, He told them he had made a protocaRQall thax a ~ .« previons e " ane aa . PROMIB iT
HEPAOGUETION no puoliciiy. VWoheon the visisors asked if the sy could WS Ambaseador gaid tuat 1 would arrange chat if uney . 3454 for rosort Ou the vigit of 1) April 1954 K, n 9 April and again on 10 April i964, bCCS. &S \SY ith the no isitox s in our offices. We spent three hours y na j and about two and ona-half hours on 10 April in our S 4 » oy I met with them twicein The Ambassador's offic visit Echeverria. In our offices, they: SS “ SW me a Reviewed the "take" from LIE Gr Y ? 27, 28 September and 1 October 1963 when Lee OSY contactedand — - visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They made a "schedule" of 2 . OSWALDB's activities as far as possible for these days from this squrce, a Note: They were given English translations of these "takes", b. English translations of the two conversations of 26 Novem- 7 7 bar 1953 between Presidant Dorticas of Guba and the Cubam Ambassador to Mexico Joaquin Hernandea Armas were also reviewed, Ceo Had me review the Sylvia Duran case, They were shown- - “ photographs of Sylvia and | her husband, . oo, oo ee. a: o Had me review the casa of ‘Alvarado, - the Nicaraguan. - ors acked what actions the Mexico City Station 1 took _ OS oa veginning — ber 1963. ‘I said we: on ee : fe fu EE ~ 4 er " D ty a > | om Rg & ity be fe] ba | if 3] » ie] fu y at) fe) Ly) >: : < ee them all (in October 1563) data on one se ebee 3 his visit to Mexico and his visi.s to che Se w e e NS ; : = all Station assets and sources iniGhs; oF . - . ae all possible details of OSWALD's trave 2 : i ee the place he had stayed, the contacts he had madé he pia oo havea visited, -
13-0000 . REPRODUCTION PROWMEH Cc. Yontinuous consact with our Headquurters on leads they EWN YS svith foc al j (QUENV X £0 so0rdinais the work yia Duran and Alvarado cages e. Put all possible coverazes on et M<\ and any a co persons we knew of who had had contact RSS WwW ALD. of our two GN * 8 ee mS VY Ge ses quartery aporoval, ,0t in to 2S n Mexican QO Lea go Oe their help in many cazea 2S aS L ay. 9. Note: They knew 't&ll abont” WZ SQ ox adtions OSWALD had, but said two points had previoushnot been noted by therm. These were that: a. OSWALD stated he wanted to go to ODESSA; and LO scoot b. OSWALD also wanted a visa for his wife “who was a’ Russian’, so ° ef —, ’ a i aceneeancemneanemananemmeencntunimemememenmeanmammeantanemmnmamnmannnmnmnemenEnmatenmEmnassanananeneeemedtenme tions tern ae neateuse ai e yo . . ‘ 1 10, They said that Assistant Secretary Mann still has the “feeling in his guts" st a63 Oba hired CSWALD to kill Kennedy; they said, ~ however, that (ke & amis sion has not been able to get ww WS of this, hu. Kw ments or photographs were given to foe ; ‘. 4 ions (of transcripts) which they ANS RS QY 3 are attached, Ws’ CSP <>) S ieved that all three of thes ee 3 eased LYS *s work on the OSWALD HO S ae Distribution; : + 3-Hqs oe 7 ae “Abang
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13-00000 WIC: mfda MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Mexi id realize REPRODUCTION Z XAA2- B6Y 73 March 26, 1964 IA Dissemination of roche y Oswald on March 24, 1964 er “A \s ected a memorandum ee Noe Ranign SY ONS rent No. 631) in men SE Go the WN rOSen SO , 4Q09)’ of the information o wald:. I LV SS ON at this memorandum is only 2 p answer to our inquiry to. the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that , the the complete answers will give us/additional information we requested. We would like to know just when ithe ‘Mexican station} got the information with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald and what was the information and how was it obtained. How did the information get from Mexico to the CIA in eee and in what f Harv oO aid St come? | G tne Benge < contained such information. other words, I would like to know whether this was information available in REPRODUCTION ; sae 7325 ‘PAGE 0" ‘of 3 rere, ps COPY NO. . DCRANN anniv
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13-00000. e- -wietol MSrarramnemen tid Sadia surprise Tee J toh a eS peep — en are! er =" foe eae <, hetigg oe ot sERONc officer with apprexe oS | _ Sk City, now dalegata in os; ® by Decree Noe 3032, ated hia credentials on 23-aug | a : @l. ‘Raturned te Havana in late 1se7 6 early 1963. Appointed as 2 - : eS a Delegate of the Foreign Commerce Minister, acting as Digester of) 3 0, . A 7 tatarnational* onganians of the, vice. Ministry of Commercial Foltey,': 3 . a “Ot 3 Rasolution No. 40, dated 13 Mar 63, of the Minister of Foreign — ee, 5 @. His representation to the Brasilion Government was te ma ee a indea by Decree Ho.-3296, dated 10.Apr 63. Resolution Mo. 63,~ -.- oe 3 gated 22 Apr .63, of the Migister of orsign Comberce, rescinded. °° Resolution No. 40-dated 13 Mar 63 which had appointed him as palogata oy of the Foreign Commerce Hinioter acting as Dixector of international © a “ Oxganiens o2 ths uinistzy ef Foreign Commerco. Waa appointed as Tt — a: anbassador to Mexico by Decree No. 3331, dated 22 May 63%. BeEiver = , aa _ = im Mees on 23 Jun 63. Hasn't presented his-oredentialg yot. = = “Bas: the following university Cogreass. Law, Dhilosophy, cna Agetcaltural ot ae “3 (iret socsotany.) MEX cory oT fon om Quiet man, ia the absolute conei- 2 . - . : tp. os . ° = i dee eee . = a CY &- = we = aa ” ~ i me | PROWIBITED | - ; ma ee Be A
13-00000. ig ETON _ PROGIBITED _ Pee aN : - Bo nepett @/an 399, Carlos eK . nee aks Ege Bee Wi; act ‘as. ‘peoratag i aT RMANDZS Armage Conmaniste See | neg head of the o PONY Erde a Cipher Department. Inthe: . e ~ absolute co der De t SSeebereesie on . latdiy working on ae RS a in SN ; i ~ appedaited as Comercial Counsellor and assigned to Mexico by |. ution No. 153%, 20 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce binister. Mee Despotis individual. Not trustworthy. axe (Commercial Attach$.) FY .cs7r . ” Haxico-by Resolution No. 79, 23 Ape 62, of the Foreign Commerce i ~ -} Mindster! | Government » Algo performs other ainotions, > ‘ “ manbax”Comminiots Vary Janyerove. Man in the confidence 'oZ the , . ae - $bB Government figuras. Baa a brother who. “Lives in Hew York who a Post a ‘de not i mmupist, and a sister who belongs to a religious order. : : ey CASTELIAR 26 (Commercial Attach$. USF. o. a7 appoihzed as Commercial attaché and assigned to the Embassy in + "Mexico by Resolution No. 150, 14 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce | ° ’ Mindster: Dedicated to purchases,. according to reperta, he ‘os Bas. recent}y >> a transferred. = .. k ce 96 2b" sh Se Coco anos g ( i Attachs.)/777- come 5 + tt, ell According to reports, he hag e@ to seplace CASTBLIAR . re | es a |S . a = et C=) Ls) J ; Was an Esbassy doorman. was a spanish citizen but has jest i ep Sa a Se re ee a a : e _gRCRBS oo : | Me * . i 2 Pease ie See gee Serre rae ae: St ge cena? Sayeremieee eas BEES i= Le Che Sa iar Pisce eres Ses = a eo ye : - L takeiee = pees as way eee ee Spee rgs bas = ge ee reer Se ear fe ee eee Eee ee ec same cn etnmnettte co armen ter terete mene sa + ete nnd HORMONE =
13-00000. Fought in the Spaniah: Has feelings, but .°¢) +< tes VT Ae hinselZ a Communist. ~ » feoudgi fora *. Ene __ PRON BED et J a
13-00000 = > 10. ll. 12. 13. 14, 15... samet REPRODUCTION voxorconees — PROUBIVED Report No. EE-390, dat June 1963; Subject: Background infornatigN urrent Personnel of the Cuban Embassy 4 co. HMMW-11935, \ ) Subject: Luisa CALDERON . Note, d an to JC from Win. [FOIA No> MEXI-7105 cw Ww 27 November 1963 {Ford . No. 173-615 - 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 TON MS and ROCCA chrono- logies of contacts arr Commission in 1964.) DDP 4-3401, 2 Jy A) a : Lee Harvey OSWALD. yh Ryo Information 21 August 198 DDP 4-4882, 18 re 1964; Subject: Techni- cal Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa. CG CH mes) C0022 a guia PROHIBITED | COPY. NO.
Soe PRORIBITIED Crees” “oe & meg Fe ee RN Ze | MEMORANDUM FOR: Preslidént’s Gorumission on, tho Los . | Assassination of President Kennedy  . - os SUBJECT! , | Technical Examination of Phetegraphs _ of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application . el om) Co faeaGuban Visa 00 te . 1. Xxaler to your request of 1 September 1964, thatthe | — , Central Intelligence Agancy undertaka a technical analysia of oy photographed copies of Lee Harvey OSWALD's appileation for og. ee. a Cuban visa, prepared by him In the Cuban Consulate In Moxleo mS City, and the reply from Havana conditionally rejecting OSWALD!a appileatlen, 7 ; — _ - 2. Qualified analysts of thls Agency have examined and tanied these documents, and haye xnade the following determinations:  & The signature "Lea H. Oswald”. gifixad tothe visa - application is the algnaturs of Lee H ROSWALD. - statement on this Nor betta and the sasnple of Mr BAR Pandweriting avallable for ‘cosnparisoasn ts Inadequate a state with confidence that the\notation was not written by Lee - Haxvey OSWALD. . a | @ hd ee Led BS ue) <] a . a a ~ : @ _—. heeaguemgy — PROWBITED comes PAGE i fe of ote ane ee rere emernte rae ae soe wien winrar en eeeeennaneree HuebeEitin ——n
SECRET. SO G. The visa application. Bt S;, the Cubsn Government Aap in fact, a reduced aenesese RS fa photograph. ad, Under stereogr; m it haa been daterrmined _. that the blurred passp : atthe entry "Pasaporte No." | on the application f VES" x OO @. sNo aaais ow ea lyais wera deemad necassarye 3. I return horewit’s sue pk otographs of the vina, application and oO - Cuban rejection of the BAMA, which wera furnished to this Agency by ~ . the Cormmissios. a ~. : Richard Helms ot | Deputy D Director for Phan a Distribution: ae | re oe a | Original & 1 = Addzessee et ‘2 DDP 1 SR/CL 2 erGtRiA 5, oe . oe " crReAsTREte 18 Se a vee | | {18 Sep a 4 i SECRET we re
INFO FROM AMMUG-1 on AGENTS t, of agreements with the ts can also be recruited in rilla trainings Recruitment of foreigners consists, OSV organizations to which they Sw el the schools in Cuba where they Once recruited as possible ageknns; ES separated. fron the others and placed in D&I houses, where they recelve i ion as agentse Their life is normal; they use the cover of being scholarstiip students supported by the Cuban government. . The DGI supplied them clothes, food, and every sort of cara, suth as medical and. any other kind. ‘The DGK takes care of their general expanésese Ordinarily kag an attempt is mde to keep them from contact with nore ‘anyone in government circles soas to avoid indiseretionse 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 own country or any other. Once his. training is completed, his departure from Cuba is not made known to anyone abtached to hte ‘In recruitment of Cubans, an effort is made to find those knowing the fewest possibla persons. “If the Cuban who is recruited is employed in an office or ‘factory or works soiwte other place, an effort is made to have him continue his work so as to use his situation to provide true cover; instruction is given at - ‘hours when he is not working. If the agert has any trouble after he has been. recruited, the DGI tries to help him as much as possible without breaking down cosmpartrentation or his covere When he has completed his training and is sent abroad, the per covers the ex- penses of his family. If a Cuban who is recruited is unamployed, it leoks for a cover adapted to his situation, and the OGI tates care of all the expenses the agent has, including those of his fanily 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 depart the counbby is not iDegal, leave with foreign’ passports. ; Lo — 2114 ais, * COPY bf HO.
13200000 | nS a Si a il “ 7 v: - on HERE eo .° . ee ° , ‘ Sed 78 . eo e o~\ . SENSITIVE 5 SOURC Fem “9 WL B64. MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘Mz, I. Lee Renita oe cee - General Gousel an a _ ae President's. Comminston on the a . a Assassination al Preaident Kennedy TT ts 8 . * . 4 7° SUB IEGT: a Loe Mazvay < Oswaid — i. The following reraarad have becn recently athsihuted to Soviet Gonsul, Pavel jntonsyich Yatskov i in Mexica City vegordlng "% rset Oswald here. He stormed into my offices and . 7 wanted mea to introduce and recoramend him to the Cubana. He told me that he had Uved inthe USSR. I told hirn that i would have td check before I conld recomamend him. He was nervous and his honds trembled, and he starmed out of my office. I don't balieve that a personas nervous ha, . a Oswald, whosa hands trembled could hve accurately _ ; fired a rifle.” | | | 2. Our Mexican Station has cheap eee records fox tha i ined itis quite alexriy Kostikey he first spoke or Yatskove.  . ° G . 3. The source of \ Sationis a confidential contact of this Agency in Mexico City s) 3 belleved to be reliable, In . view of thin relationship, an appropriate sensitivity indicator has ‘ been affixed to this rosrnorandum - . WARNING NOTICE Moers Cala | + ame Boj fro ants: stalls eensarads as (2: . METHODS INVOLVED iS oP SENSITIVE, SOURCES AND . 4 oe ab “PACE 1 15 e319. _ ~ CORY NO. 0 Rey mS mem eR a an aa 22 certo cece crm eene os cena mas wey EAS a sthtnt sth Cotten Suet tak ae,
13-00000. ~ le erensy ee ~ ae ecutind ‘ 4. A copy of this mero, Co, a s forwarded to the - Federal Bureau of Inve eS \ a 7 AY SS (Sigeed) Rickard Bliss 5 . Q _ Richard Helms " Deputy Dixector for Plans . Distributions . | : _ . on Original &lLeAddressea =; , . &eGICtT/R&a . . 7 ™ Le C/WH/3 7 : : * “Lo CL{R2A/201 8 . . - | dw CI/REA/AEDoolsy— - ae i 1 - FBI (via CSCI) SM et . Originated by: CI/R&A/AEDooleyinls 2 July 1964) _. . ot - . $e. oe. ares SO : an , ogee “ ° =, 7 mae WARNING Nor | _ ae td = SOFTICE Cay s SENSITIVE a | he OE) > SOURCES vee METHODS INVOLYsy | . | REPRODUCTION fl } HEITED COPY .NO-
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGBITED Letter to JC "Desh 27 November 1963 [FOIA No TABLE OF CONTENTS 1380-1073A] MEXI-7105 (IN 692 EP RCOUCTION Tes {FOIA No. 173-615] PROMIB Memorandum for®the WETED. December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542-1108] 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. pic REPRODUCTION seus. PROGBITED
13-00000 oF oo) oo ee ome teh etna ae 1 (opr eat ete : é my Assassination of President Kennedy 1°. 51-3 nt oo, Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Conmulatess insets. ‘°°: Precedures and Regulationa for Issuance of ©. *1}-". ee root J te ss 0” Saban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens! ei a Travel to ang fram Guba a an | 7 1, 2 refer to your memorandum dated 24 April, inwhich you 9 21 DTS, .-. request information on hours of work at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic‘: 05:0. _ installations in Mexico City, details of regulations governing the = =o 2: -t;*-| | - . /* fesuamee of Cuban travel documents and Mexican control of U.S Sip Er 2 | “..° eftisens travelling to and from Cuba through Mexico. hy ae UST | 2. The Soviet Embassy and Consulate are not open to the” axe vee | publics offices in the Soviet compound may be visited by appointment - ae only. A twenty-four-hour guard is mounted at the entrance to the porte F compound in which these Soviet installations ave located. Visitors OP gh es ring the bell at this entrance at all hours; ei aa are permitted to enter at any time, but "ak . away by the guard after normal ho Saker}. | duving September 1963, when FANS . installation, were 0900 to 18 . Snr tn neem 3. The Cuban cmtaoey 2 Casulate are located in thelr soe ae ~ “ ; ows compound, but these installations have separate entrances. 72°" ay: _ | Vialters may enter the Cuban Consulate from 1000 to 1400 boura,
No a ” “ - " Moaday through Friday. Embassy worki are 0996 to 1703 - onthe same days. Visitors tothe £ owsver, usually — . ° appear before 1400 hears. Thase «< a were alae la oliect : during September 1963. : > S o oO 4. Prior authoriaatl of the Exterlor in OC .. 2°. Havana isa required befo <a belssued. Ons occasion, > 902". - yequests for permission to. @the resulting decislong. © Oe _.. ave handled by cabla. The appli Ils out a visa epplicatinn form .: -) ~ at the Cuban consulate. Guban vilas are normally valid for three ©. °°) 52s aid ; 3) months from date of insuance. Visas may be issued on separate * |  - ’ eheets of paper te conceal the fact that travel to Guba waa performed. : ~ wT ‘The Saviats are yact known ts isane travel permits toa Cuba... ae “ Be The Government of Mextea recognises the passport ; as an = "1 ideatifieation decument only. Mexican immigration officials do not > 1 * | gesegniae passport entries prchibiting the bearer's travel to Cuba, . we - "af the bearer helde a visa valid for travel to that country. Amendment . of Mexican laws to permit recogaitiaa of travel restrictions affixed by _ Pact, _: goverameats lasuing passporta has been ander consideration, bur ao OE me Ge 3 . . action thereon has presently baer takene oe, ep AY Be ; be Nen-Cubsas, Including UeSe citizens, entering Mexico i toe ". * feoma Cuba muat have Mexican visas o7 toarist carda. Depending — " en their cuigoing flight times, non-Cubana teansiting Mexico donot -  * - a’. glways need a transit viea. The passports of all persons travalling o° 0°) wv between Mexico and Cuba ara stamped In Spanish withthe phrasea « -: : 2: +: *Departed for Cuba” or "Entered fzorm Cuba", as appropriate. AlL | . sss pRasengers, including nomeCubans, ente exico from Cuba are | being examinede ; “ — masts your neod = 7 me so Z . 3 A\y rssrad) rite nal Blas OS -  ° Richard Helms re a " Depaty Director for Plans ot. - ” Distributinn: : oo a foe Orige & Zw Addressee . 2eDDP i. 1 « C/CI/R&A - |» C/CI/SIG Originated By: Cl/ R&A/Hall: gwh oe "13 May 1964 . Based. On: MEX 9332, 6 May 2334 IN 77522 SEGRET %,
ree 08 May 1964 SUBJECT General  Debrieti : 65 of AMMUG-1 . Specific in the Field with ” DGI officers are ciQkge? witkkexpediting the granting of visas of agents of the DGL Bh a BEREN ms Yopearing at the Consulate use a special phrase to indica) é their relationship with the DGI. (Source does not know the particular phrase used in every case. He does now that agents from 1 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 of granting the visa immediately, ' tell the applicant to return in a few days. The officer then notifies ' Habana and requests authority for the visa. 2 Swenson — » WH/SA/CI orig & "Addresses GN CA ee 1 - WH/3/ El Salv 1 - WH/SA/ESEC 2 - Chrono l- Mary. SECRET TEES Bae othe tet ae, . : soe tee - oe cee ee _ : sees et ene a [oe we + mae te pro RAE Cns RRS tenga
13-00000 ee ETE a "ye -B1B 7 < G= APR 254 XD LE . SH. othe Warner. Comm ss sro Be Reference ig cade to the atteshmexts to my wesorsniée dated 32 Jenunry 1964 and 21 Yearaary 1564, 2 for FOIA Review on Sun 878 opt | “QO\- 289248 _ “WARM! NG NOTICE "SENSITIVE SOURCES AND - METHODS INVTVED | - som! =
‘REPRODUETION OO PRONIRITED - . i | Meri: ne haa handled, me eae Bh the Guba Comalae. Be the caly nev tten in the secomd thes silvia Das vies to vials ov te transit the country. WARNING NOTICE | GROUP 4 . . SERRET SENSITIVE SOURCES AND Ce] - METHODS INVOLVED PROHIBITED 7 224.319,
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REPRODUCTION MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE AS SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD W) % On 17 December Mr. epi WN advised that the Bureau was anticipating a request from the Comission, named by President Johnson to look into this case, for coples of Bureau materiais 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 Im Mexico. Mr. Papich inquired as to whether information in this report might be given to the Commission or whether this Agency desired to establish some other 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 " ‘ the Agency to make available to the Commission at least in this manner - via the FBI - sensitive information which could relate to telephone taps. , ; eonsultation with Mr. Angleton’ and Mr. was agreed with. Mr. Papich that when the Bureau is fasd ‘problems of this hs Agency, but should vLonel. information. Ne to meet the needs not pass to the Commission inf refer the Commission to the Ag It was mentioned to Mr. Pg: of the Commission in angst reports. Document Number \54a- \ (OY | | BIRCH. >. O'NEAL .  .. €EB 978 - Chdef, CI/sIG- for FOIA Review onl a . “Attachment cased >» 44 . yaaa ® . ; wo oG Bo. ¢ * oe CONZSIO -
TO DIRECTOR i a FROM Hexieo CITY i. y ; t i ‘ | | 1 ER tatiana = DI 8 5245e% , HE WILL BE NET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SH SECRET De 200 - S- ~ ae ( ‘for FOIA ‘Review on APR 1976 == ‘DEC 4 1974 MICROFILMED “ACTION: of a (wit/3 NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT 17 NOV DM) INFO: pet, oP, c/cl 2, VR* Ac OPPICER gap : AV 4 Sia is . SECRET 2721492. aw oS : IMMEDIATE DIR CITE MEX1-7195 ON a ase in a = - Qn. de unit C ATTN GALBOND Tote: 2 If destruction, - Peasons and co + 4 appropriate. BNE G23. ENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT B ILVIA ; of]. Pd . . DURAN OBTAINED FirOM ECHEVARRIA BY HawD OF ROGER T. KINGMAN IN ‘ ‘Dianne TOTTORI, ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND Taue MAWe. Ze KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT 3839 HOURS 26 NOVEIZER. —E WILL TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE. , 3. “SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. \ ae: ALSO INCLUDING 22 NOVEMDEg EMPLOYEE TALK: TO UNKNOWN HAN FROM BEGAN ef version Sylvia Duran's stacamens - Document Number 173-615 © / . 28 (2A au? } 27New Le REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED Copy No. - COPY NO.
1 B-00000 ?- i i i 4 3 : - REPRODUCTION: PROHIBITED om, November 27, 1963 tyto send ‘you es of these two_ Ps had the time to ~ past few days we have Dear JC, John Horton's return tonight giv sone items I mentioned to you in a.<cany items are attached hereto, Ia SQ) Qoe translate the longer one of t 8 been very rushed. WY So I've had no time to give to John his visit and Alen has had almost no time with him. We de hope, however, that he has been able to get some idea of our Station and its work by his talks with the various 3 officers who have been able te spend some time with him during these two dayse , Perhaps when we are little lese rushed, he can returm to Mexico for another visit. We appreciate your quick responses and gocd instructions in the case. which is taking most of our time these days. Sincerely, - oS Distribation: oe \S N a ae , ws S ~~ 1: Louise CALDERON-djuwre for FOIA Review on NOV 1977
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED  —«SECRET SEERET REPRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS 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. 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. cel
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROLIBITE 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 - AePanouETION =
13-98000 | . a Ns ts SYBJE023 Tein to ieaiss sity : On ucinesdny, oT — iounrd P, Villens, aa Reo, VRliianm f, ules wh, JP.y and Me. W. Pavid Slavson, all en , the stall of the Caimiission, flew fveu Yashington, D. C. te ileateo City. se. Celenan feturned on Sunday, April 12 and Hr. Sliveon and he. Filiens returned en an Rirplene leaving Healeo ity at about 3:20, Honday afterncon, April 13. This _metofandum will bpricfly swauarlce this trip plus seme of the tiesSinss neld in preparation for 4%. | 10:20 a.m. toe 11:99 a.m. , ST Hillens, Colesan and Slovson wet with Agsistent Seavetasy of State for Latin Amertean Affairs Vhosas Ham, Li. Thongs Frarlisha of the Orfice of the Lezal adviser for the State [épurtrent, and two aides to tr, Hann in Ne. Karn's | office at at bout 19:29 2.51. husistant 3 3 ecretary tana was Aubassader te Nexice at the time of the ass: rssinibion and~ personally divested "B SO Damme effort and our relatiors ROD AP Srediately after the new ef the rept Kisco City. A copy with the Ne«iean 1 18; _Seowoera* ae 4 c sh REPRODUCTION
13-00000 . . assassination. | PROMI | iBITED _ Hann contains statements of opinion by hin that Oswald wag probably involved in a sinister fashion, cspecially by way of ' Castro was the ‘kind or Ik REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED TOP SECRET ram en Gree amen wid! ane ase ° . , 74 . . of the file created by his efforts, consisting of telesrams between Mexico City and the State Deportment in Vashinston, had previously been forvanded to the Commission. The purpose of our r meeting with i ssador Mann ras first, to inferm him of our intent to go to Mexico and discuss with him our proposed actions there and seco estions with him about his thoughts an NY diately after the The file turned over to the Coumission by fuibassador LAKLNg & Urine, wiun une Gupan Emoassy in mexaco ULUY OF W2hi some other Castro agency » These eusvicions were reinforced by the allegations of a certain "Alvarado" who at the time was’ being interrogated intensively by the Mexican authorities and by a representatives of the American Embassy in Mexico City because he claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald take $6500 in American bills from an individual in the Cuban Embassy. We asked Ambassador Monn what particular evidence aside from the Alvarado assertions he had for these suspicions. He replied that he had none vo general feeling "in his guts" that et ome out this aD P SECR ae crn cug3 6 pace 20 a8 15 ‘sateeremennteeeerstrteteD, .
13-00000 . kind of ruthless action, either throurh some hope of gaining from it or simply as revenge. The Amassador added that not even the alleyations of Alvarado or other rumors which may have ‘been current in Mexl ® EPR Ouch money had been @iven to Oswald were S suspicions, since the Alvarado allegationfp ii ib [feet 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 “ne 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. : Ambassador Mann said that our intelligence took and was still : ‘taking photographs of both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies | whenever anyone left or entered their main entrances, at least A during the normal. vis hours on Monday through Friday, 7 during the ° daytime a ll ; OD CHIBI without | | me PROBED _ sean me aus wr tee ere ne cnn oe ee oe seers
13-0000. 4r The Anbassador said that he had been kept informed of the Silvyla Duran interrozaticn threugh his aides, Clarke Anéerson and Winston Seott. “He learned of it informally, that is, Anderson and Seott reverted crally to him as soon as any news about how the PROFIT Was p ogressing.. in response to NO BITED the Ambassador recon= they received from Hip h EE 3 at. "Gobernacion"” “mended that when we got to Mexico City we should work through the representatives of the FBI and the CIA et the American - .Enbassy and, through them, with the Mexican officials they recommended, but that we should ao all of this as quietly as poss ible, without «ny newspaper publicity. Me also asked Ambassador Mann to what extent it was known in “Mexico » City eee ee ee eco that the Hotel del Comercio was a headquarters for pro~Castro activities. The Ambaasador ea that it was not known generally at_all intelligence etral ‘circles. “PR ONeTTED | Ambassador Mann said that the fille from his Enbassy ee > current only in ¥ Sa ALLL TES which had previously been foruarded to the Commission econsti- tuted the entire file which was in existence on this particular subject, with the one exception that it may not have included eh aa 4 £ °O P SECRE =f PAGE . 22, of) = FiePRODUCTION 5
| REPROONCTION wae ‘Corr NOw weber 18 fa ( 4 the report from the FRI referred to therein, We confimsed ttt that it had not included that report. ne sai€ that he uas sure that this report could. be ob btai ned from Clarke Anderson in Kexico City, if we thouzht it was necessary. In response to Q similar question about the "Alvarado" file, he replicd that 5 i CT ire authorities HV probably be | any additional papers ‘obtained through the CIA = BR GERI FEY speak to Mr. Scott about this. He said that he had never seen any papers or formal atatements by Silvia Duran; al] his information about phat she is supposed to have told the EHexican police was reepptupad by ynnd af wrauth thranch hia afdes  Semkk and Andsepagp | Ambassador Mann was then called out to another con- ference, for wnich he was Slready a haif-hour late. As the mecting was breaking up he asked tir, Slawson whether, with the benefit of rindi RED ey il) Commission staff felt that his recemmendat' ; () mane Why aster the assassinaticn had been/ 2} (ote we thought. they were unduly rash. Mr. PRO repli tization of the specific allegations of Alvarado had snow that they were in all probability a fabrication, he found nothing 4n what the Ambassador had done to have been unjustified, in 290 P s EC R ET 2 a ane = oe oe a oe REPRODUCTION PRORBITED that although the inves-
13-60000° oe REPRODUCTION \ ed on view of the facts knorn to him and his assistints at the tise and in view of the “Th seriousness of the occurrence, “REC iol AG 33:30 in the PRO ive, vitten of the CIA came to the Coumission offices and conferred there with . Slawson, Wiliens and Coleman. This conference grew out of a - suggestion made by ur. Richard Helms of the CIA about to weeks previous, in which he had mentioned that it would be a 7 good idea if a representative of his agency met with those persons from the Comaiosion who planur.cd to ge to Mexico just Te am mame 8 Ya gums | on die oo sedan &a Funan thas Ate my PUTA ayes? 2 properly advise us of any last-minut 2 arrangements and properly alert its people in REDON of our arrival. a - We discussed NO OOUGTION..... to Mexico | oo officially and openly PROT Epps. and Mir, Witten | -offered to make arrangements to get us into Mexico completely unnoticed 1f we desired to cdo 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 z! OP SECRET. o ome woe game uate GEER Guan Ge Ee come RePpoover =o : . a
PROHIBITED ao I" “3 4 ed 2 wd sf r2 eom® ap age gum se met Ebaasy and to Mexican efficials as wiat ne in fact were, representitives of the Conaiscion. fitten sald wee RODUCTI 10. Winston Seott, fil ib fal with one of the eanization. He said top foreign aperatives in their en that the CZA would give us complete cooperation. the ciA Cale? for Liexleo, We outlined to Mr. Witten cur entire proposed plan once we arrived in He cneral terms, and asked for his ~ gomments on how bent to achieve our_gosls. His reply in every ments on_how bp instance was that we should deal on the spot with Me, Scott. RaALvEL ChuLgie Uses VU phupvecd JUuTTiCy nae a voy Byun Suet He repeated wnat Er. Gi’ had said a while ago, | | that there is no a Robes: CGN AGING fficer” being " on ts apc PROHIBITED - WEDNESDAY - APRIL 8 . 3:15 a.m. to 7:00 om. 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 Washington Air Términal in the Albert Pick Motel at about 8: 15 and lIster arrived at the Airport. at about | 7 :  m 0 P SECRET rae
13-00000 9:99. ovever, weatner and technical difficulties neld up the plane in Phils amie PROD ea Nia off the ercund in Vashington until in tne afternocn. | PROMIED After a sho oz He eans we arrived in - Nexico City at about 6:00 p.m., Mexieo City tine, We rere met as we came cff the airplane by a representative of Eastern - Airlines, fir, Jorge Villagomez, «ho addressed each of us by name, gave us his business eard and cased our way through - Mexican customs. An unidentified man approached Mir, Willens “and asked ir we were from the Imbassy. Willens replied that we were not. The individual asked if it was true that people vere coming to investigate the assassination. Willens refused te a: penne fe ene Nae eae crn sae pm iemnmrennege nemaaienere - © Sopa ne caracarasmt sett erase gs gtsire-hrttnensn stpnemntedieeene to confirm this report. Me. Colenan had some minor difficul-~ ties with the Mexican Dnamipration officials over whether oY not he had been vaccinated recently, and in the course of discussions on this the Eastern Airlines representative men tioned to the meals nothing to the effect that . Br. Coleman was a-rep oon Nleren Comission. fj Pe the person vho had approached Tir. viliens, who in bil i ame had walked back tovards Me. coleman. If all this occurred as we sus pect it may have, it eould explain why there was an announcement in two | cygz1s2 past 26 Puen _ PROMI STD Se eal ane
13-0000. By y in tac following mornings naming a! ora a business for the Just inside the Ul terminal we were met by of the Mexice City us and statins that te. Clarke Anderson and Mr. Rolfe Larsen from the American Enbassy. These men were later identified, respectively, as ’ Chief of the FBI in Mexico City and an FBI agent temporarily “assigned for duty in Eexico City. Anderson and Larson took the . three of us to our hotel, the Continental Hilton. | at the Embassy with Mr, Larson and discussed generally with him the progress of the assassination investigation while we were waiting to meet Ambassador Freeman. Clarke Anderson and Winston Scott, the CIA Chief in Mexico City, were conferring — with the Ambassador and briefing him on the Nexican aspects of | the assassination investigation. Ambass sadcr Freeman had been at this post only two days, having just presented his cre- _dentials to the President ‘of Mexteo on Monday ‘April 6. Pe ee ce et eee eon mara were n OP SECRE Tt --cuy3183- / er
‘emdm emp omen aphm «oe eee We met with the hiaba dor at about 9:30 in the morning. Fresent ~RePHOERETIC the Ambassador were Minister Boonstra, PROPS TED and Clarke Anderson. ir, Coleman explained in IED. terms the purpose of our trip, He said that we wanted +o learn as much as : possible about what investigations weee currently being carricd out, with special emphasis on the Hotel del Comercio and on - O08; sala's northbound journey out of Me: tico City, and that “eo. wanted to cecide upon and initiate whatever new lines of invcs- Fivntiae wn Palit wows eglied feo. Ir comnecttcn wth Rechts 4nto these investigations, we wished to satisfy ourselves that everything reasonably possible was being done and, in additica, _we wantcd to beccme as current as possible on evidence being = - , produced. Also, ue hoped to mals @ contact with one or more Mexican officials so as to lcarn directly fron them what part they had played in fh Pa “had learned that might Bp of vals In particular, we OR AE ED pou what Mes. Silvia _ Buran, the clerk at the Cuban Eubassy who dealt frequently with igation and what they wanted to find out 35 &£ 7 Oswald, ‘knew | Finally, we. hoped to make arrangements fors and 10 ‘TOP. SECRET pereernetec trees oe, a ,
13-00000, " REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED TOP SECRET and perhzps accomplish PRO icertiond of owe evidence obtained in Mexico, . EDR Whons or by invit- ing witnesses to appear PROMBITED 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 Preeman replied that he and his staff would cooperate completely. He said that he saw no objection © yhatever to our talking directly to Mexicans who had some | information to contribute, but he felt that this should be done only in the Embassy and only on the clearly stated basis that all appearances and testinony 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 work through his staff in setting up appointments, etc. The Ambassador pointed out that the taking of formal depositions in a foreign Ponte cond be a very difficult and technical matter. He referred ipa section of the Embassy 3 Nok eile and Anderson felt ae 22 TOP SEGRET
REPRODUCTION PROMMEITED that our seeing Silvia Duran vould 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 | from our seeing other Mexican witnesses, L.e., the Ambassador | approved so long as REPROOUCTION.. Embassy, and | made clear to her th tirely voluntary. There then oP ROKIEITED. of views eon how bes: | | | | { 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 himself for his first staff meeting. which he had calicd for 10:00 a.m. | 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 Ally) PHA t te the FEI, the : GIA and Hr. Boonstra. PROmBITED | a | draw up outlines for our 12:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. "Me. Anderson and Mr, Scott came to room 510 after — cerry NO.
“REPRODUCTION — PROIBETEB <7 OP SECRET the staff meeting had adjourned. We agreed that we vould confer with iir. 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 BO, 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 DED the meeting with Scott if it . would simply involve 1¢ (ral ‘ground he had em BRORIBITED Accordingly, ve met immedintely 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 * at ow. aera Albert Alexander Osborne, also known as John Howard Bowen. . et . Mr. Trent had been the agent primarily ensaged in tracking down and talicing with Bowen, although Larson too had been somevhat involved. Briefly, the agents described Bowen a3 an elderly white hatred gentleman who was probably engaged in some kind his fund raising, because it was not of violation of the he _ . clear that he actual acrid uae for religious es - PROMSITED ZOP SECRET. Pig Oe ate ce ER eNROR tH cere mf mp ee meet na ett cen omens « a Sorento 5 renprnnea nannies - ; . . ™ SAAT pe str esICSAGERAE
13-08000 . use the money for, of RA BE unstable mencally. l= frent describe REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED when he first hov approached Boren he, ror ANGE BH ale. Osborne,” and the reply was that he, Trent, must be mistaken, because he, Osborne, wa: Bowen, Osborne then went on to say that he was + 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 well. 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 Mould . asKed Corect sy TON wey brrousis SSiorns react to. ‘being asked or compelled to appear to testify before “the Commission or a staff 1 member, F “Trent and Larson” were inconclusive. They thought that there might be trouble but they were not sure. then desert bed the procedures the Mexican Immigration Author~ ities were using in dealing with Osborne. In sum, ‘the author-~ © % Q Fs) 9 " ta o és @ iz we ct Cee cee nee . Trent and the other PBI representatives ities had ‘not acted as yet to deport Osborne but they believe . i that they had sufficient grounds to do so at any time. In the meantine they were EP RO DUCTION were questioning | him occasionally. "PROTIETTED felt that 1f we | REPRODUCTION __Pronitenn TOP SECRET. Gum gam caoEy ecm gunn Genet comity Some aoe 4 c 5 pace 25 3 2 of)
13-G0000- a REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET Guat Gump game ued GutuN quae wanted to push it, ¢ BER ROBUC HON ae « aeport Tre discussion then continued on to other investiga-~ tions. Larson pave 2a detailed summary of recent results of o 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 tie Commission. We advised him to include as much . detail as possible in the reports which he sent through ‘channels an 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. Ve then supplice various details about | Oswald's baecksround and character which might assist Larson in | interrogating witnesses in Mexico, Larsen, Trent and Anderson , oir" future reports “Larson and ERO! aNGITED into a Ciscuee Lom of ' the Hotel del Comercio investication. Here, it appears that the agreed to include al from Mexico. ‘conclusion of the Mexican investizatees that-no-one-at—the hotel 3 a ne ee e Eat SECRET um ame GEE aot eee em NN GR ie
‘so that he really knew what he was ordering when he ordered a | apparently believing EP RGD ping money, although * both items, were fneiucettth PR GT cost o full meal, _ | UAeTTED. Oswald and of places. : REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ne ~ “ Te ee ae there wns his name o ES BARRA AiR i arrect. Larson, —_— IN Ole _ after several interroga ll A t Ghe maid at the HY the maid at the hotel did remembor — give soe bits of _ information about him. For one thing, Bhe, as did other wit- nesses,confirmed that he was always alone when she saw him. _? Farther, she said that he invariably had left the hotel before. * ghe cleaned his room at about 9:00 in the morning. Larson had ‘Blso found out that the proprietress of the little restaurant . ° SO eet EES Rc Se - next deor to the hotel vas able to ijentify Oswald, although Larson was not completely certain on how-much she really remembered and how much she may have picked up by sugreestion | from newspaper reporters. Anyway, st.e has stated that Oswald . frequently ate lunches and dinners at her restaurant, that he invariably ordered very cheap meals, that he always ate alons, — —___ and that he was not able to converse sufficiently in Spanish meal. For example, he often refused soup and dessert, ‘Various other investiga where Oswald may have been in Mexico City were also tcuched upon, | 16 PY orp SECREZ PAGE ——_— M5 “AES | een remanent newer names aay ereespaasne:
13-09000 | ) OO REPRODUCTION TOP § 7 CcRET such as the bull fight arena, the jai alai games, and the places where he may have purthased tovrist items. For example, Larson and yer one of their | agents had west CRONCTION sliver shops in an attempt to lecate aE phar wald may have purchased a silver bracelet inscribed "Marina."~ The response had been * negative at each shop and subsequent investigation has shown that such bracelets are proba ably not solid in Mexico at all ; because they are made in Japan and the duty on importing then “Santo Mexico would make their price non-competitive with local products. Po - We then asked what was the status of the Gutierrez TETAS ee he NOES Shien investigation. Trend and Larson : and Anderson all agreed that ; : Semen a . cscanuanaatenenatnacemaameatsaneetien emnmnennemmnsmensaiaasesecuceencemnncnmmmesammmacmmmassssmassamassaamisaaaasaimsssetaiaaaiaaaaiaataaed . Gutierrez was sincere and was doing all he could to cooperate ess eet neta nantes € with the investigation of what he claims to have: seen, In fact, Gutierrez has spend a considerable arcunt of time trying to get more.valuable information and he has never tried to — receive any —RRROMUe Tone weakness in 4 i Gutierrez’ story, neeor ty ONT IO oveee* * 4s the identification of. cowed utiercez has failed to identity Osvald as the man he Baw at the Cuban Embassy | : receiving money when shorn a picture of Oswald passing ous - AT TOPSEGRET Sa Se CE SRT SEE GENS! Gu GED Gna encilit hee ne | PAGE _ 35: o¢ 139 | COPY WO." __ 2.
TE oe seme me ew ao GT Fair Play fer Cuba _-BEPRORBIETION Gupins: the sum: ' of 1963. Gutierrez say that, he neve? sav his man in prefile, only from the rear and il i from a direct foruard view. His best picce of identification 19 to the automobile he saw "Osyald" and the Cuban enter just outside of th Embassy, Even here, however, assumi:: that his deseription of the automobile is completely accurate, there are probably - dozens of such automobiles in and around Mexico City. Renault is a popular make of car in Mexico, znd the color described by _. Gutierrez is a popular color. One automobile answering this . description and frequently seen around the Cuban Embassy has been located, but it is still registered under the name of the man who owned anc sold it several years aro. This situation is apparently common in Mexleo. Mexicans often register a car under the name of its former owner in order to avoid paying 2 ' gales tax on the transfer. However, investigation is continue ing to see if the present owner of this particular auteomeblle can be located. In addition, a constant syrveillance of the ot similar car, and if NER its len: investication will i -be carried out. Pauuieiten a . | - Slawson then mentioned that we had brought with us | ‘Cuban Embassy and - ate : Ari kept, to spot this or F from Washington all the itens of physical evidence thich might a a a i
OO ~" RepRanueTiON PRORIRITE TOP SEER a ed E T ; 2s é . relate to Mexico. It was agreed that Slausen and Larson weuld go throuch these items later. We then inquired as to our seeing the reports scthaauerbn of the FBI in Mexico. Anderson = vei these WIN open to cur cxami- Rol a la He) 12g) azents would show us ‘whatever we would like to sce. We agreed that we would look at nation at any time an: particular reports later, as the occasion warranted. — Silvia Duran was then discissed. It eppeared that her signed statement had finally been obtained from the. ' Mexican Police, Previously, the existence of such a sts tement ° nn —— _had not been known. We agreed that we would see that later in the day or tomorrow and that it would a1S0 be forwarded EnPoughn o-oo came ne. a. . oo channels to the Comission in Was wartess ve" empha sized that we wanted not only a translation of she statement but, 7 Ae een emp ene mnt gimme femsete one NN possibile, a copy of the _BStatement itself. The FBI representa- ‘tives described Duran as best they could, basically, as a "Moxican pepper pot," a devout communist, and "sexy." (‘The CIA '  Jater showed us 5 ch substantially con- - : firmed this desert ee ODT TION... would be the best . 4 “approaches to our eo RO TT ED Anderson felt that . _ this would be a touchy point but agreed that we Should try to- _ —— do it if we could. He thought that the Mexican official that ee we. should see about this as well as all other aspects of our ag a Be TOP SECRET. om Cnet ce ee a ORR a }— - 173
- asked. Bot}: Larson and Anderson give a very good impression ‘which was taken under a polyeraph machine. The polygraph “<tr ran pment eS that now that the investigations were more or less complete i C ° REPRODUCTION PROWIBITER investigation was Luis Echevarria, Acting Secretary of the intericr. i REO O he was well acquainted with Echevarria and thai RE Ee COU CHIGAT with him, as da Messen See PROMBITED Willens, Slavson and Coleman each got the impression from this eanference that the FBI in Mexico City had been ' gompletely frank and open with us. So far as we can determine every question we asked was answered without an attempt at —— a ee Snes _ €vasion, and much information volunteered which we had not of competence and Anderson's knowledce of the details of the assassination investigation was especially ampressive since his duties are primarily supervisory. The Alvarado investigation was also reviewed. Clarke Anderson said that he was_present at the Alvarado interrogation operator, who did not speak Spanish, stood behind Alvarado when he was fastened to the machine and pointed to various questions written in } Anderson to ask. i Anderson would then ask Poh the que m in Spanish. I | | | In response to PROGUEITED... Anderson replied 20 TOP SECRE z=: COPY io.
13-00000. C : a REPRODUCTION BO PROWIBITE TOP SECRET [es his expert opinicn was that no foreign conspiracy arising out or or connected with the territery of Mexice existed in cen- nection with the ass = He said that he felt that 4f such had existed, REPRO TON. not have solved it by this time, they igo e some firm indication that it was in existence, vi Hein Tet. were in fact " . dacking. We asked Anderson how many different allegations of “conspiracy had been received by his office and d he repltea, sis. coon ening te Se 2 neers nema | ete ome reels teeta es eee These were: the Gutierrez “allezation, the Alvarado allegation, ———— the_Diaz Verson all egation, the Hartino-Roja allegation, the letter from Victor Cohen, and the allegation concerning tie eT ren cnet tenes tonne Stan fanaa Vie jyoest be 20 dees oD on an bo Boon CF nepwae « ema nge dem Dt doled Bam be 2 es ee Cee GH Some Lc owes WRIA G Wwe BWeerssw aeh sh % te . cap neta aes earn canes opinion. ‘only the. ‘first. three allegations mentioned ‘even seentc i 0 tae cremate serious and that, after analysis, the only one that still seened —_—" serious was Gutierrez’. Anderson readily agreed. B20. oom. to 6:00 ) . | After lunch_the three of us vent to Hr. Scott's office, | , bas B ROBES TON: Alan white; The | \ | | . e@onference was begun = pe us @ complete _ narrative of the CIA's ection with Lee Harvoy : ‘Oswald, beginning in September 1953 when they first picked up . ene ne enn nate: enreme me memenen ora amma A “4nformation that Oswald had appeared at the Russian and Cuban eGo oats 7 39 155,
4 - Washington. -We agreed to this. ' of photographs for all the days in question that had been taken Ben Een ne een _ had had some contact Silvia Duran, who beeause she ee REPRODUCTION meal i) 25 -Of his. narrative . that he intended to make a complete disclosure of all facts, eA a including tho sources of his information, and that he under- “mouacehat epee SSE ESSE SESSA ESE EF Aer TTF grote eO PHO MSEPMERSSIDAFETirPe att ten pn rear wat anonateenEpecem re aL ns oem . stcod that all three of us had been cleared for Top Secret and that we would not disclose beyond the confines of the. Corznission and its immediate staff the information we ebtained _ through him without DRONA Da Apis: superiors “in ow scare A MOUIITED. took a rather long time to complete, and we interrupted him at many points with specific questions. During the course of the narrative we were shown the actual transcripts, plus the translations, of all the sreepeteetttssstanctsiiate =) 0 gentasegataeNate aenP TAF IO aah SP O-AEERSTSSS SSIES, EASES © St ee com +t ec mar oe telephone intercepts involved, and we were also shown the reeis NN Sue wee ee : oe wens agever nae 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 . 7 all its confidential sources of information throughout Mexico to imaediately channel all information into their headquarters, and of compiling as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and | everyone else throughout Mexico who at that tine the CIA knew Be ii Rony especially | . UU been having an pace . 40 of 155_ COPY NO.
13-08000° REPRODUCTION - PROBIBITED POP SECRET Sel Ce affair with Lachuga, the foxmer Cuban Ambassador te Mexico and presentiy the Cuban representative at the United Nations, had previousiy been of substantial interest to the OFA, Eusibio Agaque, Duran's superior at the Cuban Embassy, Kontikev, a KG3 representative at the Soviet Embassy, and others, and conveying this information to Wasnington. In addition, the crs worke@ closely with the FBI and with the Mexican authorities, especially on the Silvia Duran interrogations. Finally, ’ Ne. Scott, along with Hr. Andereon, was in constant contact vith " Ambassador Mann, to kee AB MERAH HE Rysst>2< on all '” 4nformation coming in “BB iti ey ‘All the persons previously mentioned who might have been in Might possibly be involved, were put under surveillance. This | SCocu pointea out thas nis Neauwuarters naa pLrexea tp the name of Lee Harvey Oswald from commerclal radio broadcasts and had begun compiling information on him from its Mexican: files even before being requested to do so by CIA in Washington. All his men were taken off any other assignment they may hav been on and told to concentrate solely on the assassination. contact with Oswald, plus other people who in Seott's opinion included, for example, the Cuban Ambassador and all known lesal Cuban and Russian rete RO UC TION. ., liaison «2s set up with Mexican offi ONL. by Echevarria PROWENTED mor SECRET.
13-00000 « C 7 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED to the American Embassy at this time disclosed that Echevarria and President Lopez Mateo had orderec the Mexican border closed for travel both ways, without having been requested to — do so by the American “REP that the border closure was so thoroush REPRE ON QIN cnararen wer trapped on both sides. PRowignren Scott's narrative plus the materials we were shown disclosed immediately how incorrect-our-previots information had been on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Mexican - Embassies. Apparéntly the distortions and omissions to which our information had been subjected had entered some piace in anne ne Washington, becaus? the ULA inrormation tnat_we were snown by Scott was unambicuous on almost all the crucial points. We : een A I SS comune | had previously planned to show Scott, Slawson's reconstructio+r eee es rrr ttt ett SSG Cipro wn mm. . of Oswald's probable activities at the embassies to get Scott's opinion, but once we saw how badly distorted our infor- ‘Serotec genes CCEA Catt mation was we realized that th this would be useless. Therefore, - 4dnstead, we decided tolPH possible from : : , Pie ORO oe | a the original source materia Ba Zi tine durin i our In view of what we had learned about the photographic * coverage of the Cuban and Soviet Enbassies, we inquired whether ' photographs of Oswald coming or going from one | or both | REPRODUCTION = ougstT8 7 — oe ee snr ae eee eee nena ac ee ee pptnleeN manage
embassies might be available. Scott said they were not. He explained that photozra phic coverage was limited by and large to the daylight weekday hours, because of lack of funds and because no adequate technical means for taking photecgraphs at night from a lonz distance wv celal light, which was of course out of RES had been developed. PROFITED We brousht up the question of Gutierrez and received "from Scott and White basically the same information we had . previously Jearned from the FBI, though somewhat attenuated because, as Seott and White pointed out, the FSI was carryinse 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 7 : such an examination had not yet been made and that he. suspected that it would’ disclose nothing new, because the photographs covered little more than the entrance itself, However, he promised to Bee such an examination. (About a , day later Scott reporte\ rts had. been made and proved neg “PRBITED . ‘oO - REPRROUCTO wate ——— Rigpeoomeriod PR TED ee a see pene eee eee eon aerncensenee ont: ne conte em meen pes emtpe ie awe : ra e . COPY NO. UG ae
an REPRODUCTION “gy lo tg wa tH "2 oJ rd ry In answer to our question, white and Scott gave — their profes sional opinions that there probably was not a foreign conspiracy conneeted with Mexico involving the assassination of the President. They, like Anderson, felt that had there been suc peter at least by this time have had some “PROREITED ons of its existence | “We asked fr. Scots to set il E LD sane with Secretary ' Echevarria for all three of us at the earliest possible time, | We wanted both him and Me. Anderson there, if possible, both as | : interpreters and because their previ ous personal acquaintance with the Secretary would facilitate cur dealings.  Seott tele phoned Anderson and confirmed this request. . . _ We then reentered our discassion of the assassination in general, as it related to Hexico. It appeared that the CIA, , ciartestrtngton-had-nat_forwarded certain material developed” : elsewhere to Scott, even though these materials might have . reasonably related to the Hexican investigations. For example, the contents of the letter which Oswald wrote to the Russian | Embassy after he returned ta the United states, describing F certain aspects of “t reef) iy bed never been disclosed to Scott - - or his staff, AUT HAN ces i ASE TOP sEonEs , oo | xf + this B_letter. at. PAGE 44 of 155, _ Ort NO. _
| ——s REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED Ce ey ean Ga RGD a aR GAR Darin: this general diseugzion Mr. Willens res called out “vo mect with Hinister Eocnstra in regard to the publicity wrich had appeared in the local nevspspers about our visit. This involved the drafting of a tclersran to the State Departnent in vad OR QO C TON: publicit ty and an estimate as to the rea fits » Willens learned at this time from Eoonstra PR d not have a copy _ of-tie Tile forvarded to the Comission by Ambassador Mann. Apparentiy, Ambassador Mann's personil file is the only one new n existence aside trom the ComLasion copies 6 it, BL ee ete Senet tae "eater, . other copies having t been destroyed vhen the Ambassador left bis eevee mts aah ST See e e caa ex remet a ‘post in Mexico. Boonstra told wale: as that he ‘(Boonstra) is the cane en Ne ners only person other than Scott-and—Andcrson-who-was_involved with Ambassador Mann in the assassination investigations. Hr. - spore anew «es sn nai aon eenpeeitetn intern tenenenane pincer enpevenmerose aero anemone fillens asked Eoonstra to begin thinking about how best we could forward a request to the liexican officials 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 possibile, be obtained prior to its being reviewed by the Mexican Foreign Office, because such a review misht censor out ae eee ee a substantial portions for political reasons and in ariy event would involve substant fi a f ‘the Forelgn office be a con one tVa2 EQ Unie TTEL asted that review by | ca Sree arm ae C0 se eece camnmenenae © anes te CE IIT SLL TOT LEGS
TOP SECRET sine, but that SERIO sno sntotaation Back in the CIA offices, SED ee abscnece, MS en Of nes Slawson and Coleman discussed the cable traffic from the Soviet and Cuban Empassies both during the time of Oswald's visits *Seenrenemnnesteemmtne eter SS sirname . the ember-October 1953 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 possibliities that the National Security _ Agency might be able to "break" the xodes for the times when Oswald was in Mexico City, using es a key the fact that | Oswald's attempt to obtain a visa was probably communicated to Washington on Friday or Saturday, September 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- tenant ey seer es eres breaking might be ee EPR however, and should be tried. a! um ot Coleman, Wit1ens and slawson appeared at ‘the FBI offices at 9:00 a. hey as we had agreed to do the previous - yf evening, and there met Rolfe Larson. The plan had been that we Cad
13-60000-- . ee a ( ( eo REPRODUCTION were iiiediately ‘to depart on a tour of the spots which Os::ald had visited during his trip to Mexico, but Larson told us that he had just been régq R Prin ‘i 9:45, because by that time we coe so EPRONUGTION the hour when He eould neet with secret HIE] e therefore sat in Anderson's cffice and discussed with Larson the relative locations and other physical ‘aspects of the places we were to gee later in the morning. Soon Anderson eame in and told us that the appointment with Echevarria was firm for 11:50. The Ambassador had been told about the meeting and again approved - it, repeating his conditions that when we ask Echevarria for pernmissicn to speak Girectly with Mexican citizens that we make clear that we wantcd all interviews to be within the American Embassy and to be completely voluntary. We then had a brief discussion on how we would handle the meeting with ° Echevarrie. 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 conveying the gratitude and appreciation of the American Government to the Mexican Government for lts assistance to date, tts satisfaction with the quality of such assistance, etc., and . | a other matters of evade which we had been told were essential when REP ROE manner * wth ROH, ot TOP SEC - divert = eines emt ome ee oe ae ee cee
: "PRE mexicans. Amderson and the others present at this conference 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 Flecha | @él Comercio, the restaurant next door to the hotel where : Oswald repoxtedly ate many meals, otier hotels in the neighbor- hood of the Hotel del Comercio and “ne vartana hia ataticnna- and this netghborhood generally, the Cuban Embassy and Roja bus terminal, the Chihuahuiences travel agency, the Hotel Consulate, and the Russian Embassy and Consulate. i | Several observations yere immediately ebvious. The two embassies are close enough together so that Oswald almost certainly walked back ana forth betveen them when the occasion exgalled for it. The embassies, althouga theoretically reachable from the Hotel. del Comercio or the inter-city bus stations by local bus, are in practice so lecated that reaching them by. bus would be much too EDR ROTH a was not familiar with the bus lines in “Ping ip a ally for someone ie SECRET = | | 7 i
13-00000 - " REPRODUCTION PRORISITED mann BA A222 5 TOP SECRET who did not spcsek fpanish fluently cisush to ect precise directions. The Hotel del Comercio, although certainly 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 cai ERIN and plueTae out from its surroundinss as being Bs) BOGOR than the othe hotels in the Sorabarsvetin Although one-way streets make it difficult to drive from the Ficcha Roja. bus terminal to the Hotel del Comercio | . except by devious routes, for someone walking, as Oswald was, 7 it would be an easy distance and a natural direction to walk. | . The hotels near this particular bus terminal are almost all 2 . grouped around the same areca as the Hotel del Comercio, and | | it would seem very possible that Oswald could have been | 2 directed towards this neighborhood if he inquired of the whera~ abcuts 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. vould notice. Some.of the other hotels in this neighborhood . closer to the terminal than the del Comercio are also attractive, although perhaps not quite so as the Hotel del Comercio, but hose hotels tend to gct filled rene . Rolfe Larson pointed Chad earlier and therefor n referred further (0031 Co 15 PAGE 4S oe »-L55 | COPY NO.
19 jo tee ca i Q zd “4 r3 coun the street if he inauivecd at one of tnom for a rcom and was turned down. e2 for Cuban revolutionarics or even for-Cubans, | faxry or not. son said that he of course had inves- ‘€igatea this possibility and that his examination of the hotel . register for the periods around Oswald's visit there had dis- “elosed only one Cuban name. Further investigation showed that this belonzed to a Cuban family man yho: had his family with him é and that they were tourists traveling through Mexico. The Gaban ond Soviet Imbassies have no remarkable characteristics except that both are surrounded by high adobe walls which make observation of their interiors extremely aifficult. The Cuban Consulate, where Oswald did most of his dealings, is a small separate building on the corner of the Cuban complex of buildings, with its exterior valls odterminous with the adobe walls which surround the area. Its front door — therefore opens onto the street. Exit and entry into the Consulate, therefore, | el that it can easily TOR exam B22 BK ASS COPY NO. __ -—— REPRODUCTION 50. O. - 5 485. PAGE
13-09000._ the Hexican i _pleasantrics and courtesies. : " REPRODUCTION PROLIBIT After Griving around with firsoen we retuened and pasied the car in ferent of the American Lubasasy and waited just outside the car fer Seott and Anderson te ecme out, as va had asreed beferchand. They came out shortly after 11:00 a.m. Cron Ministry of the Interior toe meet ‘DD Pohevarr Qe sas sf MOMGUTED Re arrived at Senor Echevarria's office somewhat and we all sot into the 21215: | early but were nevertheless immediately brought in toa meet hin. “We vere soor joined by his head assistant for this kind of york, Senor Ibanez, Chief of Inspections. 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 meet ly agreed, Mr. Coleman did the talking for GN the American . | on in particular, for the : his agency. and ‘from the three of -us. na governnent ; and of ong cooperation our netic government generally, and in ceneral excha 2nged Coleman also told Echevarria that cone ean ae cetera Chie? Justice Warren had sent his personal thanks to. Eche verria. 33 ROP SECRET iC PAGE _ov = S51 re 155 COPY yo. 2 “AAT 0
Co ———- REPRODUCTION Coleman asked that the Mexican yoverncnent sive the Commission a complete and as detailed as possible report on 221 the he sovesescoe ERG PAE SUCTION in connection with Y ac 135 the assa ination and on_any othe such a8 closing the border, it had curricd Pa Rea readily agreed to do 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 mistakenly sent to some other police or investigatory agency in Mexico. (We haa 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 imnediately after our conference to alert them that he was the person responsible for the note and vould appreciate its being forwarded to him for his appropriate action. We agreed that we would deliver such a note that afternoon SE OUT his attention as he had requested, ‘Mr. Coleman PR OMIBITED....... that we were treating all communications from Mexico on this subject as oot ar et soem re em etter cement ce “Seen SCRE tu Mee “eA sabe foment o confidential and that we would do the same for the report he was POP SECRET ae Cum tee een ene Ge ame Gam sREEE
PROMBITED reemmnmr me eee eae ee) ed ee) going to cGeliver to us. We would publish only after receivin: elearance from the Mexican government, which clearance ve Planned to seck at sone later point in our investigation. Echevarria egreed that this had been his uncerstanding all along and that it » CROCE TO sanding upon which he would convey the f ( Echevarria neDR ORE) LED the overall ‘situation and gave his strong opinion that there was no foreign _ conspiracy involved in the assassination, at least no conspira- ‘Ley connected with Mexico. Coleman then brought up fhe matter of our anterview- mo ' ing witnesses for docusientation purposes and ta find out additional information, if possible, in Hexic. To give a specific illustration of what we had in mind, Mr. Coleman used. the. manager of the Hotel del Comercio as an example. Echevarria replied basically in the affirmative, but he made two important qualifications. First, he felt that the inter- views should not be in REPROD tint ecause to hold them there would give the appea TON esos investiza- tion being carried on by ne 5 BiH Fea on Mexican — soil, and this, he felt, would be very 4 dvantageous mS | politically for the present Mexican governnent. | He pointed out 35 TOP. SECRET [oe a GE ae ge emt gueM gut emeD | REPRODUCTION _—tunates ee
13-0000 o> ee eee oe 66 ome ame enat an election for president was scheduled to be held in dguiy, that such cleaticns were neld only every Six years in. Mexico, and that the present tine uas therefore extremely sen3itive politically. One of the most effective provasandsa weapens the communists have in Eeaico is the alleged Anerlean €omination and interfercnce with the Mexican sovernnent and any unduly public investigatory. activities con our part would * lend themselves to this iind of propayanda. Second, Echevarria requested that the interviews with Mexican nationals not be . formal but that Anstesf) cht to arrange to have lunch or coffee, EPRODUCTIO with whon we winhed ta rpeah. | PROMBITED Our reply to this, made through Me. Coleman, waa thzt we did not want any appointments for lunch or otherwise made at this time because we wanted to leave the entire problem open. Ye had not in our on 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. ey a ae There was an interruption here while Echevarria spoke in Spanish to Ibanez. The three of us took the cppor- i tunity to consult qu " Coleman felt that in view PRONE Te permit ; |: an POP SECRET. | |
13-00000: about this point, Echevarria abruptly took steps to end the | meeting. He said oo CID ; _ Gueen Juliana,’ HHO Wa l gs REPRODUCTION PRONIBITED Ce formal meetirzic cven with unimportant witnesses such as the hotel clerk, thas the prcpooal we had for Gealing with Silvia Duran oucnt to be he DPR REPRODUCTION « He proposed to do. this by shifcins the conversa o the overall report, stressin. thay in the PROBE RE Rpot we felt that Duran's interro;ation was of the highest imoortance, and then hopefully shiftin; the conversation onto the subjest of how we ' could deal directly with Duran. Jillens and Slawson agreed with this approach. Coleman then again spoke tc Echevarria, referring back to the overall report and describing our feeling of importance as to Silvia Duran, ctc., as outlined in the previous ~ paragraph. Echevarria replied by emphatically agreeing that Duran's testimony was of the greatest. importance and promising Te mamee ees + ae ee mentee wer et onettnenee” ton Seta  snandueeengetheeere tere to go into as much detail and documentation as possible in connecticn with her evidence in his final report. He commented that it vas upon the information his men had obtained from her . that ne had relied most heavily in concluding that no con~ spiracy had been hatched during Oswald's visits to Mexico. At nt to have lunch with : IGN en official visit
13-0Q000°  - re a | < oe * REPRODUCTION Pte cp ome Se ou to KMexico, end that he of course had to be on tine. Coleman d the opportunity to say Jokinjly that wea would like to have lunch with Slivia Duran while Echevarria was with the Queen. Echevarria replied in tne same vein that we would not gn was not 2 good- loolzing Cuban but on N resutt on Duran, the PRG HATED As we were leaving and welcing down the stairs to have ag much fun as i agate rather inconclusive Ca) .the entrance of the building Senor Ibanez came up, behind and - asked Clarke Anderson to stay a minute and speak wlth hin, rhich Anderson did. ‘he rest of us proceeded to our car in the porking 10t outside to await Anderson. Anderson later told us thes 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 too inform. 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 ‘Ministry of the Interior building. Anderson questioned whether ‘this was. in line “oR EPRODUE iN atmosphere that Echevarria hoped to “PRONE Ibanez that perheps it ne TOP SECRET Cd nme cram emi Gee Gee | nS PAGE Sig tse. COPY NO. Fema ee ee cee ne Sea I ee we EO nae ae
13-00000 (RS REERMREpTERE ne cern Fe a ae aac ea REAR ot ae was not. However, the possit: tlity o? using Ipanes' office iil THOR the Ex pasay, srr ny odo MOMUSTIED.. The three of us plus Scott and Anderson went to was not forcclosed. We then REP RHE there about noon. . Minister Boonstra's office as soon as. we arrived at the American ‘Embassy. We reviewed with Boonstra vhat hed occurred with ‘Echevarria, We decided that we woule submit the note to the  Mexdean govermment that afternoon, is possible, although ever ene recognized the difficulty of Gellvering the note te the proper Hexican officials which was created by the visit of Queen Juliana. Eoonstra pointed out that not only was there an official luneh, at which Echevarrla 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 ‘ane that it then be given to him for shaping into final form. We then discussed with Boonstra the problem of Silvia Duran. We pointed out that our only interest in wit- nesscs other than Buy ig cig formal testimony for authentication vamp a TON AGN Ne hat there was any thing we could learn z BID ‘it them that Me. Arson and other FBI agents had ng il Teo. This was not ea ey Ce ee | pace _o/ >! 1 cre Gn eS Fee ORME PE AIREY <ERONSEE™ ceTNORTE  EEReerh en en nein wb POCA SEE EAD APO ETE = LOR A MLN Set RE ESE Ors ter FO eR re etn : ” fs .
13-Q0000 - - REPRODUCTION truc of Dursn, hovever, becnuse she hid been intervileyed only by the Mexican police and we ecnsideved that interview inadequate. (I should point out that we do not consider 1t totally troceasnt es HERG DU BTN” Getalils sach as Cswald's physical any my nouments or remacks he may A 1 interrovate Mrs. Duran further, On the essential point of whether or not his . have made, ctc., that Ikalny contacts with the Embassy consisted of anythin other than ‘an attempt to travel to Cuba, Siivia Buran's knovledze has _ probably been exhausted.) We diseusned with Eoonstra the best approach to try to speak to Duran. Boonstra frankly stated that at this point it was his cpinion tnat we would nat be shle to get 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 comuunist 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 feocnstra/ would raise no objection to our attempt to orranze a meeting with her. te i thercfore agreed that Scott or Anderson would recontact Ibanez and if necessary Echevarria 2s well to try to arvanye a "meeting with Silvia thoush the meetings ae ape meg, eee : : boca eee te ee we eee semen eet tae ee eae
13-QQ000- ~~ ee Sane | Echevarria, posaibly for lunch, we could arrange that the luncheon would be in a 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 pert of the city. Also, if necessary, the room and/or our persons could be fitted with recording pparatus so that no notes would REPROD HC HGR proof of what was " @iseussed could be obtained and kept for an indefinite period - thereafter. . P ROU (IR BI TED Boonstra suggested that we consider the use of a “eutout" 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 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. - | | When « to room 510, -_ wson, Willens_ and aye conferengs half hour. All of us < the office which had Levon Bi - Coleman at the Embassy, and - _ rs the note to be sent | COPY #3
7 REPRODUCTION a PROHIBITED to the Maxtican cord RODUCT Hint elal pasert on . Che ee ARE Ph iy ION wy Wits Use ap Lb was Gelivere’d Baek to Bou BOLT Tete re continued cue senference. Tiis asnterence ecnsisted of 2 much fuller dia- cussion eof the altcrnatives of ae etCins Duren toe teselify either: to the Comaission or to representatives cf the Commission. . The details, difficultics and possibile variations of a "eutout® were gone into by Seott. Se also informed Scott and Andersen tn detail of the kind cf paygents whicn Turan could lesitinsat+ly " expect if she were to journey to wWasningtan, that i3, the usaal | er ee Co  ) B - - o Bom go a on: te * pe eB * Ly « ao - ge & © Brom - a ae . BARRE OHSS AP BW FW CEthiN EEE Ahn P Wem Wen Wig H Fs ‘v0 Or woanre Ep PPE we Ob ee we Bed bel Ee wlinesa PEESy hor hotel and weal expenses, the hotel and meal _ £eea, and of course the travel experses for beth of thcm. This conference ended uhen we cecie red it was tine te break ¢ lunch. It vas agreed that Anderson would contact Inanez te wie e | to work out an imnediate follow-up cn Duran in Mecstico city. while we were there, ‘REPRO reazehes to Duran, ger example, a request to TUTOR: o Washinztcn er @lscvnere in the oss PROTLBETED ppespanee baerore the © | a Commis sion, the “cutout” approach, efa., weule be de eferred ; pending receipt of the outcome of ‘Anderson's conve ersstion vith Ibanez. o to san re eee trep etre eee ee ee * ke FOP SECRET saeseenre-eertihetammgapeneneey-evengrnice rene wee ee tee cen pee cone ent en : : 7
REPRODUCTION PROIBITED After REP B9 of Clarke Anéerson. Me. Anderson v2s * P “ce he Be RnaKe nay ck seeing Ibanez, _ but we vere acconpani PUM Bs BED) lice. Larson had two documents for us to read. The first was Silvia Duran's signed statement, gecompanied by a translation, and the second was 2 - group of reports on the exit of Oswald ‘from México by ansportes del Norte bus. . We also used the occasion to discuss with Larscn the best procedares 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 that the FBI agents who had heard the testimony or received the pertinent items of docu- 1 ee ee ES A Hens em ee ete mentary or physical evidence from the Mexicans would tnhem- selves be asked to give testimony before 2 representative of i the Commission and, by reference to the source of their materials, me explained in some detail how this would work (oie aske n to conduct his procedures 80 as ‘to NG FEHB I TB atten as firm and as easy as possible, - and to convey this message to all other ‘Por : °. , mete 8 antes cane oun om eee sme mame renbemom matin meet vin agents in the area who were working on the assassination. ‘Coleman, especiclly, enphasized to Larson the desirability or
13-0 ‘eomment. They agreed in every respect with our conclusions. will of course be ine  Qswald's activities in Mexico; 1 , = as follows: PROWIBITED - | , : | , Fa OED | oe | = COPE Hoe 2 REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED Ce accurately Adentifying documentary material, by number cr other code, and RE 1e number of hands threugh which a doc pt to a mininum and that each ducument -DRGIADATER ai hoa of a reliable person at all times. Larson gave (eb ia ression of readily understanding all this and he of course agreed to our SUSEES= tions. 33:30 p.m. to 3:30 - By pre-arrangenent we met at 3:30 with Winston Scott. With him agcin was his assistant, Alin White. The occasion for this meeting was to give us the oprertunity 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 | I will not go into great detail here because these conclusions on Friday, septenber 27: . fime 10:00 a.Me a Flecha Roja bus arrives in Mexico city TOP SE CRE T Gu be PAGE
13200000 C ( - 7 REPRODUCTION PRORBITED TOP SECRET Paes eal Oswald tel ephoned the Russisn Embassy , to gct "visas to O:37 a. REPRODUT THON, | Semetime later CTON cers Cuban Consulate. some tap Ge [BIE Ble vista Russian still Some time later Osvald visits the Cuban still, which Consulate and during this visit includes the period Silvia Duran. calls the Russian 4:05 to 4:26 in the Consulate and soon thereafter afternoon the Ruesian Consulate telephones her .back. Saturday, September 23: Tine Morning - Osvald visits the Russian ; - Geusulate Some time includ- Osvald visits the Cuban ing 11:51 a.m. ' Consulate and durinz this visit Silvia Duran phoned the Russian . Consulate. | Some time later Oswald probably again visited the Russian Consulate Tuesday, REPRODUCTIO Time ON , 10:32 3 PRON [BIR telephones the Russian y and is told to eall the Russian Consulate instead. 12: 20 a.m. Oswald calls the Soviet : 7 Consulate. He is hung up on. | - We then discussed the Dorticos-Armas intercepts and ‘examined them in some detail. We asked Hr. Scott for his REP NODUCTION - ee gst ts
13-00000 SEO cunenn - PRORIBTTED wet " RePRODUETIOR oo PROIBITED a GU su me eM SOT epinisn of tnem and he told us that after re-reading them many timcs and liste ARE RD eh oe TiON original he was of the opinion that PRT was not referring to the fact that money Oswald af the Cuban Embassy .. ‘He emphasized, however, that the telephone connection was @ very bad one -- he said the voices rose and fell extremely, as will sometimes happen on a radio connection on a ; 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, including sjang and nuances. He saiu the tapes were currently with the CT4 in Washington and that we eantd arranre far such a re-translstion when we returned. He emphasized, however, that his own opinion was firmly as he just stated it. He | Suggested the re-translation only as a means of eliminating any doubts which might be in our minds and as a doublecheck on his ' own opinion which after ail, under the circumstances would be. in error, Willens a ¢@ Helms to begin the process of PERNT. he, cott, saw Helms in Washington ar PROF RR Dp Fe scheduled for the week of April 13. Seott said i wo o this. We then discussed wnat the Commission could eventually — ‘publish to the American public out cf all the material we had 46 ' POP SECRET e ne gy ane te ee oo i tee ear PSPSPS “64. , isd COPY NO. nl
RS PROMIBITED TOP SECRET received in Mexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us - Pealizced that any ace fF [oN afternoon could ' be tentative only, oD Py £inal decision would have to be - POR HBT EeDxs and the Commission. Slawson put out the suggestion that the Commission might made at the higher eche]o 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 te some extent by the information obtained through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's . 4nformants. This supplement, however, would not be in detail; ‘rather, for example, it would use phrases like "in the after- noon" in place of "4:05 p.m." Also, no absulute quotes would be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative would be stated to be Siivia ‘Duran's interrogation, the "open" investigations and “other confidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and | the federal intellizen . yed." Mr. Scott's reply - | to this suggestion REE ONAN 1OUNiaa be acceptable 2 to the CIA. He said cna HARE lved a certain amount : of compromise of his security Ome the compromise was : acceptable when balanced against the importance of the cccasion. | I We asked whether he felt it would disclose to Russian and Cuban : TOP SECRET  sqeerermtrempeningg em emer SI oe er carne tiem pee Mme werent can oe ee eetnnnetinies AO A nee neem Geman He te " . . —-—— ete eee EEE SEE PE SE ESSE MTEC
13-00900 . intellicende the oxistence of thiz particular wire-tapping by - the CIA. Wis reply abi} assuyed its existence anyway. EPROM On, INI: tne proposal put forward would ae existence of any pnotogvaphie observations. Nore Ter would 16 disclos< anythin: that vould permit enemy intelligence to discover who the CIA's informants are in Mexico or where they are located. } ; We then briefly discussed the statement of Silvia Duran which we had read earlier in the day in the FBI offices, .fne CIA had not yet seen this statement. 5330 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. fre three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson’s office. Anderson pave us a report on his meeting with Ibanez, He told us that Ibanez ana he had discussed our making arranze- ments to see Silvia Duran. The outcome of the discussion wes that Ibanez hinsclf was very agreeable but said that he would have to clear it oe Echevarria. 6:00 p.m. to 6? : ' handed a copy of the formal request to the Mexican Government: re returned to eater eae te nem npn ane Paseo nace ne etn neeeenen es : ‘for its complete report on the assassination. A copy is neronoO re mopman we Oe ELEONORA aaa ye ete : : : te eee soneee Th te eR Tree a eaten epee: mee ae ERC eS EAE AEN sre
- ‘ REPRODUCTION PROWISITED attached to this memorandum. We were told by hr. Montlior, political officer thoush an attempt had been mace to REPRODUCTION... it had failed beca use all. the respon ATR Epes were out entertaining Queen Juliana. Another attempt would be made at approximately 6:30 p.m. this sane ‘day, and 4f that failed, continuing attempts would be made on Saturday. (We were later \ dnformed thet the note had been delivered late Saturday .norning.). we. We took the copy of the note which had been handed to a us to Mr. Harry Bergold, Second Secretary in the embassy, and asked him to see that the Commission be informed through channels in Washington of the contents of this note, when 46 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. | Coleman, Wi ce met in room 510 and spent about an hour or Slightly more In reviewing what we had accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get done 49 | TOP SECRET
mo | - - Oe OES : = ; -“Geoonnnereat. — PROBIBETED TOP SEGRE before returning to nen eTIg oo We agreed at this time DUCTION there was sufficient work renaining so that POTN Rep should stay over at least until Monday afternoon but that unless Ibanez | replied to the effect that an interview with Silvia Duran could be arranzed shortly, Mr, Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 12300 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 Mr. Anderson's office where we met Me. Anderson and Rolfe Larson. The following points were covered, with the conclus- ions as stated: We asked that the exact time, rather than the — scheduled time, upon 's bus from Nuevo Laredo arrived in Mexico alate ROD eign Hf} MN ge 27 be ascertained. 7 We pointed out that PRG ant in determining — _ whether Oswald immediately begay est) calls and/or 7 . | 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, although not of prime 50
TOP SECRET importance, might be helpful in thei» further investigations, sa iN an meet early Monday morning to BO We asked PR EL the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public and it was decided t Elai Guring the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them. Also, if possible, the FBI should desermine 1f 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 Gutlerrez investigation, which he did. We asked if there vere 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 ee PAH fi il in of seemed to have been followed as far as op ied, W Oy negative results, For purposes PROB ITED our Mexican evidence we told Anderson that we. would want @ list of the. names of all Ate me hemi emer ee ee am Tot re emee ee cosae x “the FBI agents ‘who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we 5: TOP SECRET ~ €u93205
PROMIBITED TOP SECRET .Giscussed bricfly what vould be the inost convenient place to have these agents meet With a represontative of the Commissis. for the taking of their depositions. Anderson replied that either washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We ne REPRO hoped to follow in euthen WUE bed HUB dence through the : . ; . - | agents, as we had exp PROS! FEB” on Friday, and | Anderson agreed that it would be a vorkable arrangement. In oeedures which we this connection it came out that Osvald's tourist card appli- . gation, which vas made from New Orleans, was not handled by . the FBI Mex*.can office and therefore authenticating Lt would be a problem to be handled clsevnere. We agreed that we would ' pursue this when we returned to Washington. We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services that Osyvald pr robably purchased while in z to and from Mexico. It was agrecd 8) THON go through this see PRET We then discussed the aGesirability of our obtaini* Hexico and while tra fy j that Slawson and Larse a more complete knowlecce of the procedures of the Cuban Embassy, especially as they relate to the practice in grant : visas and the different kinds of travel permits which soul | al TOP SECRET i ie an’ le PROGIBTTED ee a
PROGID available to someone in Oswald's circumstances. Likewise, we were interested in learning what obstacles to travel betreen I . oF ae from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, Begs TED. agreed to give | us as full 2 report on U ] 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-~ ‘4ties are very strict about Americens traveling between Cuba and Mexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed for Cuba on ,1954" 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 i special Mexican travel permit is required for Americans at | least, but the Mexican officials indirectly enforce Cuban law | by insisting upon complete Cuban documentation. (It should be : pointed out that this is unusual. Normally, border officials are concerned only w fe Wenn ae country or with their own nationals it PROD We pointed out to : Anderson that the reo OB TTE that we get this | information was that we needed it to tést the plausibility, i and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we Had on what 05401d was doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet Enbassics, lee, ; we vented to see whether his activities made — TOP SECRET -
" REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET sense in the light of the normal Cuban and Mexican precedures. fe then briefly discussed the "tuo sultease problex." We related how we REPRODUCTION ald left New Orleans for Mexico he was but that all our evidence relating ‘eawico pointed to the fact that he had with nim only a single suitcase, a small blue | ‘gipper bag. Marina's testimony and the testimony of lirs. Ruth - Paine both tended to confirm the one-suitcase evidence. We said that we did not want the FBI to undertake any kind of . search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity to re~interragate our witnesses in Mew Orleans who had testi- BOD eo oh fe ym ha lng gue yg Ro Be ‘Gecem mord Go we mm om + mam escomn oe me Selma fn awe «te ee wadenn oo wo ate ap @ vow oo tina A Gite ee ae OP ru coo ene tb eee Oe CaS TE aN tet UH re-interrog.tion confirmed their testimony in this respect, | . we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas  f i or Kuevo Laredo, Mexico for such a missing suitcase might be : practical. Anderson ana Larson both felt that the FBI was fully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a | missing suitease, 7 as to make such 2 : search unreasonably d. ppg a | i, ‘We told sale not yet come to a firs a decision as to whether we would vant to bring Albert Osborne i to Kashington or elsewhere in the ‘Inited States to testify before the Comaission or a representative of the Comission, _ . sh TOP SECRET.
13-00000°. “REPRODUCTION oe PROLIGITED even om a voluntary basis. Certainly if he vere soins to resist testifyin:n and we had to suk na him, we wanted to think further about  PEPRODING 1 ONowzeree vhat the FBI in Mexico could do as of Osborne se that we eould obtain him on ret : * tice if we desired to . do so in the future. After some discussion of the alternatives open in Mexico, where Osborne was at last report, for ‘keepin: - tabs" on an individual, Anderson replied that he would ask the | Mexican police to put Osborne on a “two week reporting basis." tHe felt sure the Mexieans would comply. This means that Osborne, ber ng @ person under suspicion and being an alien, ig told that be must come into a certain police station and report ‘sort. of thing, but on a regular basis. Tso weeks is a common interval for this fe et ae prema ater ee ete is sometimes even done ona daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extremely burdensome, however, especially for someone who cannot afford to travel by auto~ mobile, as we believe RAR iy Weal iui and especlally : when that person is Pee the police station to vhich | ° ren (Jerson, the Mexican ; he has to report a police at our request will order Csborne deported and give us “advance warning of when ang where he will be pushed across the “border, Ve could then arrange to have someone waiting for him : north of the Rio Gr | BPR mE a — PROMIB STE ande with a subpoena. _ Anderson of course TOP SECRET Pade 73 os 155 ‘COPY HO.
13-00000 \ - oo REP RODIETTICR TOP SECRET We auked Anderson if he had a ecpy of the "dossier" isuald mentioned in the Ambassador Kann file. He revlied that he did not have De BID, assuned that it could he found soncolace, since it REPRO BUCTON time, and said that he would nes & PROM a SITED | ff? . ATT We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed ' out that we had never received a final report on him. . Anderson replied that his agency had not taken the primary _~responsibillty here but that the CIA had handled this investi- ' gation. We agreed that we would bring this up with Winston " Seott. | Winston Scott had previously mentioned toe us that he thouzht that Andersen had heard some vague rumors from expatriate American communists in Mexico that might bear on the assassination and suszested we ask Anderson about them. | ! Scott had Bale that Anderson had spoken with him about this ‘inform mation many weeks before, to inquire whether the CIA could ent the subject up at an American expatriate . left wing circles in Mexico as "Betty Mora," hae made some rather vague assertions» | . about Oswald which, through informants, Anderson's office was ST POP SECRET FEO “cugaatn 7 cory NO. Lo
REPRODUCTION PROBIBITED POP SECRET trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, Betty Mora had eens this whole line of investica tion was r several years Betty Mora has not be and in Anderson's opinion she is not a reliable person anyw2y, 80 he did not feal that her assertions would ever amount to much. He promised us a report on then, however, notvii thatanding his feeling that : they vere 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:re thinking and after asking Larson whether Aen PE OT Ee tthe Esoteric 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 White that the examination of the reels of photographs pertaining to the time periods covering « ole RODUE HON Cuban Embassy had | 1. been examined and oe ere negative. No auto- " who answered the descriptions given by Gutierrez or who might mobiles appeared in t BT no persons were shown “have been Gutierrez himself. © (I will note here that we did BO POP SECRET. UI3Z12 pac 18 155_ COPY NO. -a-—
— ETON BRON ETED 7 | TOP SECRET no& ask the CIA to a) these photographs displayed directly to Gutierrez. This : PED ROME TIO Non the easicst way of determining whethe ntificd as the Cuban who passed the money * pore et in one of the photo- graphs, but this vould also have involved such a serious breach of CIA security arrangements that we did not believe that At was justifi-:d.) | , We then asked Scott and Vhite 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 seme effect as Anderson's. REPRODUCTION PROABITED 59 TOP SECRET - REPROOUETOR cama PROTBITED COPY NO. | pace! ! of 155.
a * REPRODUCTION 13-00000 itse Uolte Lerson emi cue othe: Fut COCs VoriLous tae Of The FPadsural Distsict of Kaxieco (xiuich iueludos Markco 04 sy) ware exsnined and wo ogreed that - one of the larte, clear ones vould bust serve 2s the official exhibit fox showing the location of yard OUS pleces wh wnieh Lee Eerveyr Gayvald provusbly viecited while he was in Mexico City. Ms. Levcon said that - he woold hove this reo emeropriately morked 2nd formirded to the Corzmission in tha nosz fuburee For ry personal weg in the tine vhile the Large formal roy was being prepared, Me. Larson delivered to ne seller ae vilich had thece smut location: mazked on it. We then went through exch of the items ef yiuycicsl evidence wirich - tei teten alens to tearkeo Ci tye For a éoscrivtion of these bisa itu, reference is here rade te the ‘ixcorandum for Reeerd™ dated -) Euxch 1G, Lresr Ve iB a ED subsee "Ztens of Faysical . i DID EG Evld:sce Which Moy nora E Pott HIV i hus been abtectiad to thiz She three of B bbs  sismificerce could — be diseovared by further work im connection wit: 1 sliver igontifieantion . byecelct ingestbed “to vinae" Hire Larson end five Clarke A Anderson had provlously pointed out t shot nore than 320 silver ehons 20, i: =cico City vy ho a been quostions ed es to tt ils bracelet on tas tosis of a photograph of it and, dese pite the act that same tiinor meskings ~ 6 - * Cc? pane Cad t- . ~
13-00000 m wan pe winks enpwer cA vhe Lbenesles Leccie sho a < ty s 7 eh br ee 2) cafe ray TINY Boum? 8S 2 é fe wey) Thats ard at ke ow they cso ROBE TION corteiniy aocin ba noayjatave. Ye aico : procnuly all hua ex could th wa would be that 3 6014 the bracelet to someone. Bre Tn of the Seanisch-? exslion dictionary an? ke alzo noted the markinss eould cco any narticular help at this time which wo those waltings and masicings, but ve ?clt thet 3} out to have thea with hin fhe Movican velivious medel tas relt to be be probably \rtrateable end, im addith Oey § thet Lt may not have been pimrehe but cowld perhaps ae) obtained by Orwald RK ae GM ably in Dallus or ire lercon noted doun IB} D.. on address boate Me caid that he would cheek each of w“umhers and addrescs to sce if they xefceread to the ambassics and girline 3 to vl ten thoy g-com ts rertor and, whose tel ophone mbers or cé¢resses they Rete be pruciced to do a3 ke could to fii out whctier bed over east up at the Cubs ~tl~ Like 3a not clov showed close folt teat even LP the chop the.ld be disesyavol = ROS TE te Ino Eurvey Czunld, reson noted down all th 1@ words.on the beels flylear on poses 3s 118 and 210 mxt to verious Syantsh woris. ~ Larson at lenst fron its ave ve gues Loe | sed in Soptorber 1963 in itoxico City . i? thoy did not, he voulk wes A,B @ fas rlines as the address ~ €u03215 REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED ° tt am bie ‘ even £418 byreeelets Ze3, he proval Eone of us aid couse from & 83 CODIG2 38 s and Sep Oe TT mETTI A at © neat en A tN Set ten se ete 8 ren ere “npr pres eptetentiestetberehrrteheeeee et aah TESA AN Sune ae meee Pee regs epee ere page ur of Omali's the teleghoue veree In acdition, 2 Lee Harvey Cowal oe of bonis indieates, “PAGE __ T3 of 155. COPY NO.
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13-00000 ~ REPRODUCE wy appeared em the enuportes Trentera PSESONLer mondifress Pillons anl tic. UCLevcon, cnosepanted <= REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED % be f eS ret oe SRCGRA PS Th pT ET REDE RENT ERLE PHP ED EEE E EOE, 5 SMG TIED e ronaf See a & fn . Fyreiede Fak ot ey le werk in Ixccies Caled caly from cheut Inge Pebresry, vhem FT ogouts Pot, =, 2 aA a 0°. *, z ere with comarioantos ia iivics ote icbe la. Villans ik, tnt UESSTL p snnat the delay as weatortuats. Ga EP tig. oe ssassination oP taose in the Inuassy vio vere reapansib?.e vas thet the best: results vould be gcaievad by wo slg princeily throw the Metean cuthoritics, wo at the tine vere certainly hichly notivated by the écaire to eleny thei county of any involvenens by aincavering ary Cuban ar otuer comepiracy or dustication which riskt have exisiol ond vho amncers! siasorably competent. Anfarson peinte? ages 9% pete wm diode ce media dee fT momene See meee op yyy eremee ale RA we A Puree age cola Be eee RoE ee Rew ety ee neat, eR oe have hed adverse pabltie:2l effects ani therefore have biniorad the. 8 bs) overall effort. But, he edrtited, subsequent results, puch the imeSeauste Eotel del Cuicreie investigstion and the feilure ef the Mertoenn police to Loa: beyond the faet thet the some “Covald® = thet the veret ons - B as rot food exovche then that beemsa gyemarent, said Uk BR BELO were axssicued ta se PROMIBITED «= oe 1A oteleets noon eit], 12:79 oem Leber da the rerning, et rece tine abeub noon, Kenmrd itse Hovhstre, ‘indster fer i Political sifairs ct. the Ac serioon mubsany. . ww Bo. Bro points were diceussad wit tin Keys Mestre . ~ use --¢093219- r . ‘PAGE 83 $ pn Se COPY NO. ¢
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13-00000 ges inclinelt to fecl thet such a REPRODUCTION oe PROHIBITED zo > sof. oo Sees bat ass atten epee eects en ee. a 2% 2? Ts, aameeg: foe Sn ond petbhen discucserl with ile. Reonunten was th TG GSO to oe tee 8 gen Ty FPS & hh Se es ae ee oy rows © da BoB an o2, tevin; Ueiliy of the Vilted foetas Gyvermunt romvssting arenes P22 oon * * ] le 2 © 8, wate (22068 Gustin that RE apt Ca) if i 20%, |G its =$e file a fl Be & gee oS ., ‘ ee %, em ins Narva Osvela ts (fe a te a3 Tos pointe oub that the tastisusy of filvia Eres Hope inloemsicnt avidence avellcnie to us indicate strongly tat Ice Unriey Csuald acbually made cube Lerma ars sion Lox a Cuban Yaon, which prosambly is in nis hombriting or at leest cigned by hin, ond the Gcn goverment vanG no far cs t to act on tris aoaiiention savl aithoerizce the issuance of a visa eantitionn? exly upon his Mires obtaining a Puselen visa, about 15 cényr after bis vicit to tna Cisben cowecsye Showld thease 3, pone, & he anid *, Bos dota © cand an ook « ee 7! . am Pees aa) > na ~ ee aa Sta! Pestiest cy SP wants Side Me toed Taye ed ind Zion comtls, authenticated throuch Gswald's hanivriting. Tar. Boonstra ag roqvess nict:é not only serve the ex the Ccurdenion but eould alse be of politic eal ranelst both 56 5 Bal fe Bo we 4 ant be aver, ts oe! a +o 2 = United States Covernuante 2 @crmoted tadé the enets } = gee Sak ma presiontly cacking end beenuse 26 mice could thinks of ang rmttergel adverse politieni mosults tnich would | : oe ae res . % ; slucs both felt thet 16 wes tho moss arice frat such a remuas$y. ratumik tug fn the vorld for e goverrzions to wont to investigate ; $le 6585! ah ation of 40s presidant and cush a requcst would be folly CU03221. COPY 0. 85 155
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13-00000 (. . ( * oe.” ee REPRODUCTION MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Dated 21 April 1964 (see memo- 22 April 1964) FROM: ‘W. David Slay REPRoDintTy iNT SUBJECT; Intercepts fro d_ Cuban Embassies in . Mexico City | P ete TED 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 [on ‘could 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. a Spanish, later identified Nl ’ telephones the Soviet Embassy. | ip ns BITE D., OSWALD: May Ir speak: to the Consul? ‘A ‘person who By INSIDE VOICE: - He is not in. OSWALD: . I need somie visas in order to gO to Odessa. _ausmpe"vorce: | Please ceil at 12:30. | | "OSWALD: Until when? ; | oo —_ vo ‘Gangs up) ne yt ‘MOP SECRET ©  % pace 9! @ * A wc nm neem ee a eas fe RE annseme Hee rumen Hie e Serr oH. tess es ante : e = erm 9 YO Oat Ne YATE ARE OP ETERS Se aR CE Pea NT eptntennene i wtp on tetera Ee rer SEE ED ECS EEG Cory NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROLIBITIER 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: He faptcan 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 . then | explains to someone else on his side of the line that Silvia Duran is calling,. that she is calling in reference to ay “eer * Embassy, etc.) a FER leave the name and _ number and we will call you back. ° oe! SILVIA DURAN: (She. leaves her name and her telephone . mumber™ ‘and ‘she then engages in some personal ‘conversation in regards to the fact that she has recently changed apartments and therefore ‘would like the “bulletin” sent to her new | address . TOP SECRET * REPRODUETION yp ae | buus2e4 a ‘pace 88 88, 155, PROMBITED The voice in the Soviet pmbassy agrees. ) copy NO.
13000000 September 27 ~ 4:25 p.m. ' Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban seo. REPRODUCTION E FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of - the cuban Consul? P ROMIBITED. 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 f months. t give a visa here , without asking veanaree AGL CHB T EB} ons to a pro~Cuban 7 organization and the Cubans cannot give him a visa. without his A first getting a Russian visa. I do not know what, to do with him.  ‘T have to wait for an answer from Washington. = } . ; otk - gop SECRED er "POSMEATE — i - 7 oe 7 ce . _ cn : uae 89 of 155
13-00000 C ( - REPRODUCTION \ 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 vou EDDA ane HCHIGNP Ce" the Soviet i visa but hoped to await that in ae RUSSIAN sxoassty OHO epee if his wife is now in Washington she will receive the visa for return to Russia. ; she will receive it and then can send it any place but right now ‘she does not have it." - SILVIA DURAN: "Naturally, and we can't give him a ‘visa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be approved.” - , RUSSLAN BOBASSY: “we can 1ssue a vasa only accoraings ty ° re 808 mone Om EE ESSAY SA AR en: “Att te mp rere REECE = AGRE Gtuennnehrte tee * seen <Sien-nemrenr ma ub +e winnie enue to instructions.” | SILVIA DURAN: "That is what I will put in my plans. mo RUSSIAN veo a RODUGE "We can! t give him a letter of recom- COSCON * Please pardon the bother." Fa 7 us SELVIA DURAN: COTE. you very much." September 28 - lis 21 a.m. mendation either, peelh Someone at the Cuban Consulate later identified as a . , Silvia ‘Duran. telephones into the Russian Consulate. , | PROMBITED = 88, 20 fl
ee RGR aw TOP SECRET —D om GEER ae C8 md goon * SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he has been to the Russian Consplate. HEP. an. Silvia Dura en hea ak in English to someone apparently ~PROHOTFER “This conversation goes as follows: . e oe a ete eemeye wenger ‘"He said, walt. 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 Silvia Duran and e ‘ Sr Ps eemeatnarteesOomen RON TTR POE © LO So SSE ERARAnNENN tghtree SHEET nMOS 6 =m won em, - 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 bee Harvey Oswald. ej ¢ OSWALD: “AREPR =F RODUE HI spoke to your — } Consul." _ PROB ota ' OSWALD: "I was just now at your Embassy and they took my address." ot 7 oO no, ‘RUSSIAN: EMBASSY: "ZX know that." — . ct - [e3 jo Irs imo fest Ke) [oo tei [3 -- COPY No. _- ind a
“OSWALD: "I did not know it then. I went to the Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it." RUSSIAN =o REPRODUCTION by and leave it. then, we're not ‘far. OSWALD: “of ROE + ~ away." October jl ~ “40: 30 a.m. ae | - ‘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 toa Washington, and I wanted to ask you, is there anything new?" _ RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Call another telephone number, if s s you will. "OSWALD: | Please. - RUSSIAN “RD ann He and ask for ‘a Consul. °: { "RUSSIAN EMBA oe he DUG | | October 1 - 11:30 a.m. nIBITED - a = | The same voice, still speaking in itoken™ Russian, fp i telephories the Russian Consulate. He speaks to a man identified [ronnenOnanaN wee ee ee eee oe : ee
13-00000- ’ -they have not received anything yet." cfeccma.— PRORISITED ZOP SECREI as "Obyedkov." - OSWALD: Hello, this is Lee Oswald. I was at your place last Saturday.and talked to you? Consul.’ They said DiNG Vial HeTION to ask you whether there was anything new, emember the name they'd send a telegr OBYEDKOV: . "Kostikov. He is dark?" _OSWALD: “Yes. My name is Oswald." : OBYEDKOV: "Just a minute. I'll find out. They say OSWALD: "Have they done anvthing?" . _OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet." . . . OSWALD: "And what coe ™ REPRORUCTIO on ) PROAIBITED - * OBYEDKOV: REPRODUCTION PROHIBITE : e . ® ® Oe nee eee 6 a AO A Oe»
C. ( - ve TF 4 IR MEMOP UM vil 2, 1964 PROM: Coleman-Slawson REPRODUCTION SUBJECT: Mexico: Questions Raised by the PRG SED 1. -What actual evidence is there that Oswald departed Mexico on October 3 by automobile? Can we see the documents ae NEE ODOC TION. to be introduced , to the proper Mexi e purpose of making, our investigation. PROGIBITED 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 is the source of information referred to in the November 28 telegram, that Oswald intended to settle’ down in Odessa? Bice ETN on Silvia Duran, for example, the evidence romiscuous. type." 5. We we NOFUBE [BI TED.optes of the transcripts 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 = Teva. PESERLY un be yuva2se pace US 20 [- O20 298
13-00000 en Ge nn coe eee C . in.w ch th ‘allegation that money pa: :d at re “cuban - Embassy was discussed. | scoeRGETION nore nmy PRO mercio from the Cuban Oswald got the na consuiater —  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 police RIPEN Hieron sources scan the entire hotel on the PoDue Not other significant nanest “FAISITE. 9. We should see the entire Embassy file on the whole Kennedy assassination, .including copies of all 2 ne SECRET wuys2is
8S poppe: ‘anden > to other. government ager .e3. 7 10. We ours oe like to ctl REPRODUCTION | - told by Alvarado. | Pus wR Ly Covering 7 PROGIBITED | Ae) A 11. Have: Hh ittaees Re made to locate the red-headed Negro man who was ann teAly in the conference with & ‘REPRODUCTION = PROHIBITED eae oe ROI~ O2BGAYS a a ereemnmmtnne tS ae
13-00000 eran gE wg © gt eh pi we SEGRED C v ni "y yb Oe ‘e ye ) Revised Draft . Lo” ” "REPRODUCTION meee MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD PROF BIT ED FROM: - W. David Slawson SUBJECT: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico City: Visits to Soviet and Cuban a Embassies ; My best guess from the available data is that Lee Harvey . Oswald followed the itinerary shown below: Friday morning : Cuban Consulate Friday morning or | | . a early Friday afternoon . Russian Consulate 7 \. Friday afternoon Cuban Consulate (Silvia Duran ' telephoned the Russian Consulate while Oswald was at Cuban Consulate.) (Saturday morning) (Azque telephoned the. . fugelan Embassy) Early Saturday ban Consulate . muer 0 Oswald put "in direct contact" with - Russian Consulate by ~ PROLIBITED phone from Cuban Consulate: "address" disc.) Add-CEA—inter- - pretation-of—this.} Late Saturday afternoon — . Russian Consulate SECRET guus2kt “REPRODUCTION == iti a ste nS FERED SPS rth RAO PLSD SP Se STRESS TOUT erin cone
13-00000 “REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED | Time Place ae ~~ REPRODUCTION == Military Attache Muesday “afternci p(t Ril IED) 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 first 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. cD Br patties the Cuban Consulate on Priday and that he ik IP CBG TIGA gone to the Russian: Consulate that same ai ff a re page T. d.- Oswald was supposed ‘to be in the Cuban Embassy at least: once during the morning, see the second police’ inter- | rogation of Silvia Duran, paragraph 11, and this was only a com> aun OG ete emt UUU3248 « eee te es Se Mag E Gere re mmmaDIRE entry ATED EE SE EES TEN TTR TTT” ee. 9 canownn  Riinbarda aioe (ERO “PSNR a 9 «TED PeRERDEMESINIRNNNN Gen et AN GI Ge SEPT CHET 'S FATED SoM smh mete mie ween «
NT - PepRODUICTION “FEO | 7 | ; Oo pace fy 88 cme Gm eT om Gm TD " and was visit "to request information about getting to Cuba, apparently so brief that Duran was not able to remember Oswald's physical PEO DaDON from this visit, see second nin CTTHON could easily have police interrogatiow\ |i been overlooked in “PROTEMED police interrogation, e ' paragraph 11. e.- Oswald's argument with Azque was in the after— noon, and it was on some visit. to the Cuban Consulate which > . oceurred after the first visit, see the second police inter- rogation, paragraph lil. ‘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. paper subsequent: to this phone call, when he "returned" to the REPREATE TOKE: police interroga- tion, paragraph il. is makes a total of three times. e The fact PRORIB TED... to the first police interrogation of Silvia Duran states that Oswald - visited the Cuban Consulate twice is of course some evidence ‘eontrary to my conclusion. However, I think from the context ro re - wy3zs « + ame we so: nn eee ery ten on Me oe a fa ages soe ee ee tr Seer 8
a "REPRODUCTION PRONIGITE meee ee a pasves .. “e RECRACEP “SRIER AL 33 EM 3 E ha mF winnl & £53, ,2f tis Le are aia 18 % on nom BABS, bin 7p 2/7e= Eels, bet Hes, Be poeta ec ee ¢ | ° . a “enonames TO: | lr. = FROM: W. David S148 nO a. “ae - _.BUBJECT: . Letter to ul. Central. gence Agency (CIA) . pera’ eR SG ‘Posing Certain. Questions’ on their Letter to Us. Gated 31 January 1964 <r would inelude in our letter to the CIA the following . questions: 1. Were you able to uncever anything about the alleged meeting between Oswald and the Cuban Ambassador which was - supposed te have taken place in an automoblie cutside the ° Cuban Enbassy in Hexico 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 cut 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 1, Police. interrogations. of Mrs. ‘Duran and her husband?. - Pye Ts tee let rer > awe 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 . Gay and once on the same afternoon that Azque telephoned the Soviet Embassy? Only the latter interpretation of this sentence seems consistent with the CiA-confirmed information found in the subsequent paragraphs. In. general, we would appreciate as much tion aa you can give us on the 5 aragraph 7. Of the full text of time sequence of the “4i the Mexican police interrogation e can try to piece course, if you are 4 out the time sequence PROT E : if Ql. 7, in which 5. Reference is ma . . Mrs. Buran. refers to "desoriptive data" on Oswald which she ’ found in the Consulate "archives." “The use of these terms seems to leave open the. Poss PAlsty. that the ‘Cuban Embassy. | REERATED BO BeATiA L< oe _  EXERPT trem: stems * “nana $1532, wooo Authority C24 Oty Pears crest a ee é2 a. 12f? 25/ 75° cum cmap GRAS cmon ere meu : Apes? : 3. Riis sok Rats, Bats.. ipy ade oe ] ; ES. “ee AeA cee p- pot J nad a : %2. 7
me - REPRODUCTION ‘Auth Ft . renee 24) aaa BD, the $2, ies & Tp feta had material on call Pak shee pack, perhaps previous to September i BIT this the meaning she intended? : 6. Reference is made to [oy TED sentence in the 2nd subparagraph of paragraph 12b. Is there any significance .- to the word, “Although”? We wonder whether the informant wi °. meant to say that there was something unusual in Mrs. Duran a 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 12b. our 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. 2 48 8. Reference is made to paragraph 12c. 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 Embassy wets - $a. ‘contact. one, of tha officials there? ae a 9. Reference is again made to paragraph 12¢. Could you Glarify the many references to the "address" referred to 80 frequently in this paragraph? 10, Throughout your entire letter the term "Soviet Consulate” seens | to be used interchangeably with the term jsoviet Embassy,“ Likewise with "Cuban Consulate" and "Cuban Embassy." We assume from this that the Soviet Consulate and the ‘Seviet Embassy must be the same in Mexico City, or at least i 5) Bament sake d that the. same Place { . Must hold true for ae Cuban Consulate. Af they are not, cevorsmn AMET tuation? li. In Oswald’ fet Embassy in W111 you confirm to uss ns are correct or, oe Washington written after he returned o the United States " {vom his trip to Mexicd, he refers to the Cuban Consul . | (presumably, Azqua) as having been "replaced." Bo you know | oo, ENEMIT them ertereite “estesigeetany ee a oo oper rT on os pee ieee Cr, ee es Am aoe Cae. tele
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13-00000 . Co mnie i | 8 ry Ps % ; . . , i He | - CLASSIFIED MESSAGE page: PROG UB) 3G sR, COMMO  ~ : — SECRET 1 snes P25 | | CHRONO (DUMMY) CLASSIFICATION Silvia DURAN P | Luisa CALDERON P| EFERRED PRIORITY mb a OPERATIONS fed Fed rare { ROUTINE _ IMMEDIATE - 0 IMMEDIATE DIR no ID | KAPOK ws §, ATTN GALBOND : if * i fre } REF: DIR 85245 ; 1, SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COP Y OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT BY | | | SILVIA DURAN OBTAINED FROM ECHEVARRIA BY HAND OF ROG ERT, as KINGMAN IN ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND TRUE NAME. a | 2. KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT 0800 HOURS ; 28 NOVEMBER, HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WILL _ TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE, | oo. : .3, SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATE STATEMENT. ° 4. ‘ALSO call ART Io LUISA CALDERON (conan 2 CONSULAR muecover) Mi SOON FROM LIENVOY. 7 Pa ED : END OF MSG na i COORDINATING OFFICERS . , : SECRET - | ~~ w.c.c. AUTHENTICATING OFFICER : CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER : OUTGOING — | ERNST wom
13-00000. | me ws oe TS EMBAJADA DE CUBA: 25-C9-14.- 22 de nov.63.-— wMP2k. L ak ,- 1556 - 1925.- | ao ‘ LROUANDO y NILDA informa -— 28 omens, 002, mas que estd abajo, pay oy Held Net » que lo Llame y NICO dice JPN Es ile a el niimexro 017). | NILDA: gue le discaa ICO. “me parece que que si. oL (Uh (emp: ienan a hablar en -~ ROLANDO salié on momento a ja. calle, pero que regresa | en se guida. :NELA des:ués de dar el recado a NICQ, dice que-— era para indicarle que tenia Los paquetes lessee y que su-— piera»~que se los iba a’ llevar GUILLERMO - * NEILDA: que le-— | pregunte si ya estdn envueltos<— ‘NELA asi lo hace y con~ - oO testa que sie | NILDA: yve esta bueno.-,029.-- - Se ° O29. Salida al hs91-21.-1632.- NICO solicita hablar con _- el Sr. CARMONA. MPF le informa que ya le tiene su juego- de juntas, pero no tienen los anillos. - + -uego Dn. FELIX con NICO (empiezan a hablar en eée2 niim. 073) para indicarle - ue ya tiene preparadas las duntas, que anillos no tiene y- el niimero de arriba de la nola no encuentra qne nieza es - porque no viene en el catdlogo. - NICO: que mandard pregun tar alld para que le digan que cosa es eso;que pasard a re~ corer las juntas; pregunta si hay posibilidad de conseguir- Juego ce =D) Wein FELIX dice que si, que los puede con _ eae seen ce a): PRODUCTION: de su parte. eo nrc ““PROLBITED. So — GB9. Entrada 1638.— VICTOR HERNANDEZ pregunta a GUILLERMO - IZ qué hay de nuevo y este dice que nada, pero hoy sale _ para La Habana y vuelve dentro de 5) dias, por lo que ya a habrd noticias para &€1. ILERN ANDEZ acepti y pide salude- -a@ todos alld. RUTZ:okey.~ 101.-
13-00000 Srila ee ca cémo alld saben cosas, carajo ! cofo ! x ry Rik R24 Entrada 1730.- HE pregunta a Le) "Bion let ; We; ma noticia y LUISA en san de burla, dice teré casi antes que KENNEDY". We sonrie y conenta que - ; a \ eso esta muy niet Tigi Bt sppptaing TiShospensaren yue habia sido - pages He “ray aad . Mle PAUL ae "rane vno de los exti rs vag: detonated pe ey pe de la scores ey tipo que es nada gue estaban en contra— eine’ que aprehendiecron a un del trato Limpio con “uba. LUISA: gre: de cS0 también ya se enterd. © HPF: que todavia no confirman nada, pero pas -weces.ees ane el que Jo haya hecho, estaba loco, indepen--— . dientemente ‘de que muy bien podia desvidrsele eso a KENNEDY "digamos en las condiciones Internacionales iy las condiciones ine . internas de Estados Unidos, mues..e." LUISA: y externa mas, principaimente. . HF: por eso te digo en lo Inter-— Macional .... se podia ver bastante afectada y no pueden —--— sufrir un gran cambio, con un caribio de Presidente é con una cosa de ese tipo; sobre todo GUC eee | LUISA Lo interrun | 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 lizarse ruso, pero que Rusia no le habia querido dar la na- & cionalLizaciom..ecee LUISA se sorprende y dige” Yoyes, -- Be ® UF: que si; que sabe ruso muy bien y que adends éste tipo habia ido con las fuerzas de iDicio a ja sierra, 6 queria ir, ‘algo asi, -~ BN DSA, | LUISA: que a quien sabe comely, PEPIN ae grave. - HE: bastante;p JG wt mas ha sabido por. ahi- vy LUISA dice que PRK E eso, que hace rato se en teraron y ya estdn...- HF: que esta muy mal eso} que = estaba comiendo con unos amigos y comentando la Revista Po- “tities y la cual ya salid, cuando uno Liegd y les did la —— noticia; que él se sorprendidé y ecreyé que los estaba vaci-~- lando. LUISA: que ya estuvo mirando la revista, pues “- precisament: la Lievé el COMpAherds ese  HEssue su --- EFRON 9 CAgy ii Srésadente de uno de los comités fi
13-00000 — Va | Ly a € . . ae *, : ~~ 3 ~~ e wt ° e 2% ft, ’ : , * amigo coments que lo habia matado iin / ft Pepente : se habia dado cuenta que Los Estados Unite EDP ox tado Texas y por venganza matd al Presidente; aie todo fué— broma, “pero no ‘le creian hasta que les digo gue prendieran— * - ; ? . 7 el radio; que asi 1 hicieron y ahi se enteraron; que le -— viltimo que ace tipo es un INE confesado noe PROBED ero que ya, saben que habl, ruso y que pertenece é ro-Cuba; que ya saben gue — momentito, ¢S que ese— foramen, 6: éSgue éste sea, pero no ha el tino queria nacionalizarse, pero el tipo no ha confesado- HF le dd la razon, agres. ndo que podria ser gue trataran de | “encontrar digamos una solucién.de ese tipo, porque.s.cec -- - - Lursa™después de pedirle que se espere un momentico, pide ae que Je" diga. ; HP: nostros pensamos que Si acaso hubiera gido 6 si acaso parecita ecoe PUbDLica 6 que habfa sido vno - . de ios segregacionistas § 6 en centra de la integracién Los. a que habian asesina do a KENWEDY, entonces habia digamos, po~ | sibklidad de que surgiera una especie de lucha civil é gue rra civil en Estados Unidos; digamos que se agudisaran mds— las contradicciones, la sitaacién critica por fa que pasa ~ el pais,, entonces estabanmos conentande aqui, que encontraran una resolucién de ese tipo no?, ya mas ‘internacional; 6 - lo van a encontrar 6 fué cierto, quien sabe; pues vamos a — ver que pasa. LUISA sonrie y pregunza qué pasard. 7 HF: quien sabe. - LUISA: figkirate, uno, dos, tres y ya,— ya son tres (eo REP Al a HF: yo creo gue ao va a ser el tem ROMTETION Ne ‘fiesta esa de SILVIA. LUISA: que ‘a susp eh Fs los no podfan ir. = HP pregunta por git ROLE *. desrués digan -— queestamos celebrando la nuerte de KENNEDY, entonces hablamos con SILVIA y Esta acepts suspenderla y dejarla para la sema na que viene, pero gue no coincida con el entierro (se rfe)". HF: yue hay que tener en cuenta eso. oo, DUT gue serd - , del luto y todas esas porquerias. a u'dénde se va a gquedar ahora y LVISA conent: 2. Gan. ge ARE OEE ARs a a | oe aren arenes seen dnl ne genie lagi acer t
13-00000 e CY @ 173. 184. 488, Fe Laer as etree ORT ES RS Fee ABO Na -a8 Ploeg lo artacwre oe ae, et sid Neecataiameacrere cs = Eres Capris bra, ape ot eee ve a op oT ig oS are | ve eet ise Hf qic ahori piensa mudarse ésta onnet REP WOU tort. HF pregunta si ahf ya Pa ‘if que si, pero no sabe como es sté la cosa 6 si thea pee CLE Ce. cu) quedar en la enbajada, sin embargo cred gue hoy no serd -- posible porg a fe rain i el aecropuerto ¥ mo - tiene coche elit De an UN argo posiblemente mafiana ne) able en la embajada 6 en la ts ya que si no, Se quedan en la-— en ita mariana - sO eral in ‘pF ag de estudios, sc muidara,. a at hh Act ' HF: que entonces LUISA: que la procure emba jade, se ir& para su casa, en donde es stard como a las — 10. HF acepta.— 173.- Entrada 1810.~ DURAN pregunta por URBIETA y LUISA des— ™ pués de decirle que no estd, indica que le pasé su recado y URBIETA le dijo que no recordaba cual era su asunto y MO -—~ sabia su teléfono. oe DURAN: que na tiene su teléfono, mes unicamente tiene su direccién. LUISA pregunta cudl ese ‘su asunto y DURAN. dice que es sobre el Mineral de RUTILO -—~ de parte del Ing .MONROY,. LUTSA:que Llame mafiana,. - DURAN acepta.— 184.- entrada.- HF pregunta por CO NCDPCION y LEISA informa — que anda p- - REPRODUCTION: le hablaré nds — tarde. LUISAsque esta bueno.— PROMBITED Entradas sin contestacion.— 202 .- - PRONIEKTED RODUETION - WUU3Ra8
13-00000 tt foe ins amie D) 1D) DMD TT HP ests LUISA if she bas may ile gS Mew ina joking tone says, | “Yes, of COULEAs X knew alnos Se twin DS IND} ae satles and coments that is very bad; that wt first they ‘thought (at kad F3) one of the rensblonsry “extrentsts who were against Labegseatiton and that, - but 1t seams that thoy Hporchended & ‘type yho - 4s nothing more then the president of one of tha comlttess ef the Faiv Play for 7 . Cuba, LUISA: That she knoy this also. Hi: That nothing has been eonfineed yet, . “spat 2b seees..sthat the cna vho dia it, was eresy, independently of ths fact that this could bave peen sala shout REMEDY "given the international ¢ ondttbtons ond the Inbernal conditions of the Tatbea States, well.ee” LUISA: And externally, | . principally. HPs That's why £ BBY, internationsliy.. tt seemed quite affected | | aad they can't go through a great change 7 with a change of President or soaething of thet sort; ebove all, that.. LUISA: Interrupts end asks 1Z at was n gringe that ‘Killed him and HE says yes, but seid that he bad been in Russia, and that he wanted to becone 2 Russian eltizen, but Russia bad not wanted to nationalize him... IWISA is surprised and says “Listen - they really Imos things there!” HP: Yes: ‘tist he knows Russien very well and peataes this type had: gome with ‘Widel's Foress © , to the Slerra, | or wanted taj Ree en R who knows how 1% WaSe TULSA: oo, oe , Pratty serious. Hirs catiel\ i Tay LIN se has Learned and LOISA : ; says just about thet, that oP PATER Little while aZO and they BXGoes _ BPs hat Lt's ell very bad, thet ke vas enting + th sone frien ds and comenting ¢ on the Revista Polltica which had just come ont, when sGmeone came pad gave them the news; that he was surprised and, thovght he vas doxing. IUESA: Yeet she had . 7 A/D} Rat the magazine, that the contaae had brought it t6 ber...HP: That yeaa a 455 . > pace : 453. of 7 - : “AgeY NO Sao
13-00000 this is the one, ‘hut he has not confessed anything...» LUISA: Bub they Strendy _ there vas, let's say, the possibility that a sort of civil war would arise in the ‘United States; thet contradictions would he sharpened, the criti icel ‘situation the spoke with SYLVIA and she agreed to suspend it ana leave it wmitil next weelx, Int at . ‘his friend commented that a Mexican hed Etlled him, that puddanly he had realized. thet it was alla joke, but tney ” Bay “solution from him, pecause.. DUTSA after asicing him to valt a minute, asks Sam _ona of tha segregationists or egainst interration who hed killed Kennedy, ‘then, [eal ur Hy: I think thet it will be ee ie a ETD that verty of SILVIA's. —# eT Fe | YUISA: They suspanded it beeemse they ue not go. HS asks uby, ark TUKSA says wil not coincide with the burial (she Jaughs)", HP: ‘that"hes to be taken into | * gecount. LUISA: That it wilh pe after the mourning ant all of that nonsense. . aeaval pT & the United Strtes had trices nee nN. revenge KkLLea the Prosident; i isha he told then to tum on the vedio: that's what they aa Sc ai mb Lb; “thal ‘th the Last he ‘baa - NOT TD) me heard, a monsxt a0, Was that thet type tee ons TEED, that $t is beLleved thet Imow that he speaks Russian and belongs to the Pro-Cuba Comstites; thet they - Ss plrenily know that he vented to nationalize hinself, but he ‘hes not confossea. ; & a says she is right, adding ‘that £6 could be that hey tried to find some lets to goon. HF: We think that if it had been or « had seemed...public or had been” country is going Choy then we were comnenting here, that they found a resolu- tion in this type, no? Nore international; they will find it ox ib Yas trues, who Imows; Jet's see what REPRODUCTION: b vill lappen. HPS “Who knows. LUISA: Jmagine, one, te IN [oe rakes three (she Tenghs) « ; "so that after they can say that We are observing the death of KENNEDY, then ve  guosZah
13-00000 oe hetaovenan “© PROHIBITED : Of oh sks whe shea fon LUISA ¢ comments that now BP: Olmy;. hea ere is PPRCIE i it | PTE phe plans to move tonight to IN Lhe or’ Nebnate). He asks if Lf they Imow everything now, end LUISA PINGe spre know hov the thing is, or it they wilt have to stay in the embassy , peseven belleves tint to aaty B WALL not be possible, pecavse everyone bas gone to the airport and the embassy has no car, - a | however, possibly tonorroy morning instead. of going to the study elrele, she will, ROVE. HPs. Then he will call her tonorroy. LUISA: | To try the enbassy or Re,  khe house, since if ‘they WII2 not stsy at the embassy, she dL Zo hone where ghe vo _ be at about 10. ‘EP accepts. PET PROGID ny Cr 3 wo FR a sewnee Roumesacseneacs none 18 AS PIER elo me OPT afew ee ae ay Sega faces sors cor s seen: Reed
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION SECRET PROLIBIT TABLE OF CONTENTS 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. * Gus eR ARO DG HON PROWBITED cribed above. IA No. 622- tuys 293
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Oo femme p PROWIBITED =." | *Repert te Warren Commizsion (hing whe Len H. , OSWALD ublch CIA cdissemina el before rT a Cio Oot o2) “yD Site, FB! Navy ancl INS” MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin SUBJECT: Co. mit rer Pe a s Ae i. Reference la made ta paragraph three of your ietter, ” dated 16 Marek 1964. You reqsested that the Comission be furnished a cogy ef the dlasemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD made to several Geverament agencies by CLA om 16 October 2 An exact copy of this dizsemination (Out Mesaaga No. 74673) by teletype, is atinched. It was transraltted te the De- partment of State, Faderal Bureay of lavestigation and Depa rte ment of tha Navy. A copy was concurrently made avallabie by hand to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 3. Please note that OS WALD‘s middle same waa errone- _ aasly given as “‘Heary” ta the subject line 2 aad in. paragraph two of the diasemina o A(R Parse eseers in the message gatname of Mra. OSWALD wag Sy 4 On 23 aes » 4 telatyzed messages — J (Gat No. 779738} was sant to the De of the Navy reforriag to Out No. 74673, and requesting that the Navy farnlah CIA aa soon ag possible two copies of the meat recent photegraph of | . OSWALD tha was avaliadie, for use in checking the identity of the Les CSWALD In Maxice City. These photographs had not been supplied to this Agency by 22 Nevember 1963. Our con- clusion thet the photograph did net refer te OSWALD was based _ on press photos generally available on 23 Nevember 1963, Document Number? eens 2a; ¢ hel=) GObA or spre FETA gosrives 2 ATTS, for FOIA Review an. ‘JUN Senin BITS oat 2592, +7 ™~ icaiet Mae wie 4A. at Mar. se <P me : Pay Seoamnene - CuU3295 oo : = _
13-00000. _ eT a ee t  §, This memorandum and the attachments convey infor- ma$ion eriginating with very scasltive scurtes and methods. They therefore bear am apprepriate sensitivity indimater. REPRODUCTION asses my PROABITED om Ao or en eee re B- Copy of Out Message 779 Distribution: Orig & 3 Addressee . - C/CI/R&A - C/CL/SIG . i C/WH/3 a 201-289248 CI/R &A/TRYaAn pr 23 March 1964 2- Od? . --REPRODUETION - PRORETED cory — 1 2OI-23T243 |
13-00000 Oo ——«igpaoouernn Attachment ES Out Massage Noe, 74573, datad.19 Cetabar 1963 and ifled at 0393 haura, to Department af Etate, Fsedsval Bureau of investigation, Sa al Le. "ok. on , October NOG SO soures ta Mazice reperted that an American male, who bientified himself aa Lee OSWALD, contacted the Seovict Embassy in MexitcoChty 8 inguiving whether the Embassy had received any sews cane corning 2 telegram which had been sent te Washington. The Amervtean was deseriszed as approximately 35 years old, wlth an athletle build, sbout slx feet tell, with a rcesdiag hairline. | 2 it ls belived that OSWALD may be lientical to Lee Heary OSWALD, born oa 18 Coteber 1939 in Now Orleans, Louisiana. A former U.S, Marine who defected to the boviet Ualon in Ceteber 1929 and latay mide arrangement theough ihe Ualted States Embassy in Moscow fo return te the United 2“ States with hia Rusafets rane aad their ealld, (9 oe The Information bs pa. nated to your ropresentativas ia Meales Cley. Aay further | (formation received on thie subject will be furnished you. . ATT. | tes XAAZ-225q¢ BCP | 2ol- 2I7243 3. t | PAGE | oof 4.2 COPY .NO.
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BS REPRODUCTION — At@schoarent B ‘Qut Teletype Message No. 775972, dated 23 Cetober 1963 and filed at 1419 hours, te the Department of the Navy. sae? RODUCTION “etereee a ana TED. ansre, ax 10 Ceteber 1963, regarding peesible presence af subjeet in Mexico City. 18 ls requested that you forward te this offles _ &% 600m a8 poasibie twe copies af the most recent photograph. ' pou hove of subject. We will forward them te our regresenta- ° tive ia Mexbes, whe wlll aftemp? to determines if the Lee GSWALDS tn Mexico City and subject are the same Individual. ——- REPRODUCTION’ = -—PROWIEITED sie 1S Pop tas tg aoa: . ATT 2 te xaaz-2259c 8 Cory - QO nrazer - hoa db ae nm j Fn meet eemeetee = ate mom meee entreaties fetta
~ REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED oN tm * ° = “Revert te Warren Qewmwmiss: 214, A atai}ing inte eu Lew He: _OSt jALY het ch CIA Aissininnted beter. eszarst nett Cie Cet G. MEMOAANDUM FOR: = x Lee Rankla 0-7 ee seas = Oe "Pe iecsdied re aT AS oO Ler 7 sieierenee la mada to pacagraph three of your iatsar,. Lo dated 16 Mazes 1964,. You reqmeatad tha’ the Comemivzaion ba © _ Suralshed a copy of the disaemination om Las Harvey OS SWALIR.«. Taaka Lo several Government ageneiss by CIA 0 on 20 Oetcier - 1963. ; - Co a 2. “hm axats copy pf ‘Ais dissertation {Out Massage New : | 34672) by teletype, Is attached. It was transmitted tothe Da. partment of State, Federal Bureas of investigation acd Desari~. _ Ehent of tha Novy. ee ee ey meds avaliskie by . : 3 ‘Please note that OSWALD's middls name was ert .  gualy glvea as "Henry" in the subject line and la paxagzaph two. : af the dissemination. (The same error cecurs In the message —__ ts the Navy diseugeed in paragraps four, below,} The maiden ‘surname of Mys./ld cri ix ra bal listed a3 NSUSASOTA. a ep a telatyped messags / {Ont No. 77973} wags at of the Navy refserriag to”. - Ous No. 74673, amills: Hag ithe Navy furnish ClA as ~ g00n 23 posslble two copies © od S the moat ‘pecans z ohotegrank of OSWALD that was avaliabla, for usa in exacking the ldanthy of the Lee OSWALD im Mexice City. These photographs kad not .. Deen sepplied to this Agescy by 22 November 1963. Cus con- - ¢iusian thet the photograph did not refer to OSWALD was based press photos generally available on 23 November 2953, | pone - Documsnt Number ———S== 225258. ane e aan io - . Co a AT ITS, sor FOIA Review on SUN CS-00FY> ore / ; oe oe _ #4 am canning e woe . a : . oo oe ad Mail,
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toqaizing ohelbes ha E Easbassy had received any sews Some - _ Gnlned States Embess - States with hls R ‘iePRanwOTIER Atétrchment A our Massage Nb. 74873, dated 19 Catobar | 2563 and fsa 2b 33858 hours, to Departmen’ af tate, Faderal Euseau of Investigation, . Depastsnant oi the 3 RODUCT = A = | Biexhbee sapertad shat an Amma yA sale, whe identified binsselE - as Lee CSWALD, cocaine the Sovlet basay ta Miantoa Cley Amerteas waa dosesibed as sopemetmsialy 33 years , ats, elie an athletle ball, about atx feat tsi, with a sending balsiom : Bt la belinped tat OSWALD may bs identical toLes *- Hensy OSWALD, bora on 18 Ostcber 1939 ta New Orleans, | | 7 o a - Jat rat & former U.S. Marine who deferted to the Sovier a  Galon ta Satebes 1989 exa Jasay munis arrongemest Riorgh the in Moscow to reine to the Uninet” The taformstion a MoT Gre is being dissemi- 7 . natod to your reprasentatives i in Mamizo Cly. Aay faxthay _ Information received on thia subjoet will b :3 furnished you. ; cuoz30g2. | a pace 1: of COPY NO.
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION SECRET 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 re, EOD UCTIOR oc wx 00033057 PROHIBITED 8©——_SEGRET
mit £Y 1... HEM ON 2) GPRIL G wateas TO" PLAY A ROLE HAO BEEN SHELVED © “WHICH RAN QUT ON. 29 FEBRUARY, WAS NOT. THAT THES AGFION DIDENGT. RESULT FROM S PAST COCPERATTON” SAPPRECTATEO, - VABLE THAT “THE SOPERAEION MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEEN ABLE. TG. ESTABLISH HIS GOVER LAST REASON FOR FERMINATION AND SAID HE WOULD” OULD SE GF ANY ASSISTANCE, Ih Discuss’ Ng: : PED), ‘NOW THAT. HE HAS RECE: VED ALL THE a TIONS FOR -OOING BUSINESS IN GERMANY , HE SORICUSLY F- EAD WITH THE VENTURE FN.COLCGNE. QUWIN Saio HE | WITH AIS. WIFE s wits ONLY HESITATION | IS IN COMMI T= As “CONF-LRMED BY DIR-1 2541. or 28 Way i962 AND DYSTUSSIONS | aN HEADQUARTERS IN Jucy [S62, 27 : Bite. C ATE! LS STILL NOT IN. PLACE, ALTHOUGH —-- PAN WSSUE CF THIS wirH HIM tm August 1963. WHETHER (REO. YNTENDED TO COMMIT HIMSELF TO THIS ASSIGNMENT REMAINS . 4 ROZENEY.. “HAS. STRONG bDousTs.. “QUWIN'S PERSGRAL H» STORY 1 AND. THES HABET .OF HEDGENG HIS BETS iS a THis DOES NOT IMPLY SECURIT ANYONE. EXCEPT PERHAPS, 1S WiFE. JEROWN TO QUHIN ‘BY TRUE: NAME» “ROZENEY USED THE. UT: +S ASSUMED THAT HE HAS IDE NTiFiED SH NOWS * THE - *EELEPHONE | ‘NUMBER Of THE © 1 ‘NG. - DISMANTELED ih FORWARDED UNDER SPATS BH Sa Me LIRR PE oe ek ee .
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13-00000 - Foe i ae 27 ‘JUN AU MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Foreign Intelligence SUBJECT: QJUWIN % eae 1. Confirming our conversation of 26 June 1963, I make the following recommendations concerning the further handling and possible disposition of QJWIN: a. I believe the original purpose for which QJWIN was gnnon {Die pe sent to his present under- One validity cover tityetne tae to justify tne Se pie yond the termination of his” a contrac or this purpose alone. : HIB I b. QJWIN, in nl al FD) 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 Taree eS 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. c. It is recommended that the present Chief of Station Luxembourg 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 QUWIN 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 é ea perhaps for minor _. been terminated and aa accountings, be co ital is’ project. page 13 oe of 43
13-00000 | 7 REPRODUCTION : ‘. SENDER WILL CHECK CLASSI TION TOP AND BOTTOM f-[ UNCLASSIFIED [| [| CO.SIDENTIAL | | SECRET CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP To] CNAME AND ADDRESS | pate | iNiTiacs | Mr. William K. Harvey aan Cs a [REP es Fs C02 |__jaction si], =i oimecr Repty | | PREPARE REPLY | [approvaa | oisparcH | TRECOMMENDATION _| | fcommenr | ee err |__| concurrence | information | [signature ities, you are hereby cipal agent QJWIN and S as may be required. force through at time. | him, QUWIN's salary the expenses of tivity will be in y them, and these covert operational this activity, ategory and by certi- blished for QJWIN, 800 through pcessary, they will Mr. Harveys . Sam Hines gave me the attached approval for ZRRIFIE. Since we retain no files on the project, I am sending this to you with the suggestion that this be incorporated in your project folder. Helen Vigness iment of reference | the previous Cn red in lieu of project | vel, per diem, opera- FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER FROM: neers ADDRESS AND PHONE NO. ; NO. 937 Use previous editions oe REPRODUCTION PROHI st Deputy Director (Plans) y be handled strictly
13-00000 = ne al PROMIBITTED iy) MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. William K. Harvey SUBJECT: Extotstor of Authorization of ZRRIFLE Agent REFERENCE: Memo xé EDP : same subject ‘1. ¥For the varposelDe\ didw TED... you are hereby _ authorized to retain the services of principal agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be required.. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1963 subject to renewal at that time. 2. <As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be $7,200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by certi- fication. In addition to the salary established for QJWIN, you are authorized the expenditure of $13,800 through 31 December 1963. If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. - 3. This memorandum approves an amendment of reference — memorandum increasing funds authorized for the previous << rn, from $14,700 to $16,200. and constitutes authorization for all travel, per diem, opera— .tional, and other expenses. 5. It is requested that this activity be handled strictly on an EYES ONLY basis REPRODUCTION 4. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of —, co a Cad Cad f--a fae pace _1 15 of | 43. _ COPY NO.
13-00000 oe ‘aren a pan em ae WwW > Crnorr Vass ved se 19 February 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: REP POHCTION SUBJECT: r aye of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities 1. For the surpode ue ED vities, you are here— by authorized to retain the services of Principal Agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be ‘required. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1962, subject to renewal at that time. 2. As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be 37, 200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these. receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational ‘file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by your certification. In addition to the salary established for QJWIN, you are authorized the expenditure of $7,500 through _ 31 December 1962. If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. , 3. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of pro- ject and constitutes authorization for all travel, per dien, operational and other expenses. 4. It is requested that this activity be handled strictly on an EYES ONLY basis. Richard Helms . Birrector (Plans) --0uu3320 | oS pace 16, op _ 43 43 ' COPY NO.
13-00000 ser rene Memorandum for Chief, CI/R&A, dated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File. [FOIA No. 563-8 Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN , dated 6 March 1964; mer OS
13-00000 —-PROGIBITED /2ayg XAAZ~ 22595" & Mar 6¢ REPRODUCTION MEMORANDUM FOR: SUBIECT: § Possession Revardi ing Lee Barvey CSYALD Prior to Novernber 22, 1963 as Treanyn' fool » nb Llawren Coo memes toon. . 1, This refers to your letter of February 12, 1964 addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which kas been passed to me for reply, 2. Paragraph three of your letter requested the Agency to supply the Cormmission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding Lee Harvey CSWALD prior to November 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footnote on page two of CIA's report to the Cornmission dated . 31 January 1964, entitled: ‘Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OOWALD in | Mexico Gity, 28 Sep- tember - 3 October 1963", 3. There is attached : an exact reproduction of the Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning _ Investigation, the Department of State, the Department of were queried by us sien tae able to make availaj ie lerkarr with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1960. Thea entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, . On the basis of clearances from the Federal Bureau of 7 Navy, and the kbmmigration aod Naturalization n Service, who Document punber 2 AO LITS Cobh oF gta gosmsuy: for EOIA Re Revie on tt 16s Saneetaenn ee a arrana "Quy S33" oo _ PRICED 8 PACE 31 of ee —) . * a mpeeeeespetetets akeENr og qenteqpeneenPeenteRRnEENpNOeR “ONeEy® Mnttehpessasaepmtrenges AT TY tpg a ° , e . . . ’
eae an - . PRORIBITER 13-00000 w a Seven documents received from the Federal , Bureau of Investigation, b. Ten documents received from the Department ee Ce Two BD Oey of Navye a, One veel 0 name wll TED Fequest) irorn the immigration and Naturalization Service. e. Four newspaper clippings, £, Five internal CIA notes, g. CIA report dated 3] January 15954 te the Commission which covers all substantive developments affecting CIA. in the matter of Lee Harvey CSWALD from 9 October to 22 November 1963, The report indicated the disseminations of information developed by GIA that were made to other Federal agencies during thet period. This item, as was pointed ont at the time, is particularly sensitive and beara appropriate sensitivity indicators. & You will note that almost ail of the documents carry - markings required for CIA's internal records precessing, A few of the papers contained the names of owe employees or identifications of specific organizational components. We have taken the liberty of Pigs . fs items aa they do nct bear » PRR. pT Richard Helma Deputy Director for Pians Attachment Original & 2" Addressee - 146C/CI/SIG . a . 1 » DDP Subject ‘# C/CI/R&EA ce - a « DDP Ghrono, > ORY 1. C/WH/3 . « C/CL. Xo 2014289248 CLRGRoceasde/ 7468 /4 March 1964 (Inventory of documents contained 7 in file attached for all but addressee) 26! ~2SI2ZEV . Eee RESON os es de SPRUE SI, ns em yet
2 | -——-REPROBUICTION Inventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded . to the Gommission , Jl. State Telegram AP AooCT (Gin ) (Confidential) Y Vd 2» Newspaper Article from the Washing at, November 1 i, 1959 * + w3, CI/LSN Internal wo DR Qa CED {oral FBI name Check request) and NR reply date > ovember 1959 (Confidential) * -/%4, Foreign Service Despatch 234, November 2, 1959 (Confidential) J ve WS, State Telegram 1358, November r 9, 1959 (Confidential) a y + b5 State Telegram 1448, November 9, | 1959 (Confidential) wo ov Ate. Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959 v “8. Newspaper. Clipping from Evening Star, November 26, 1959 le v9 DBF 49478, 25 25 May 1960 (Confidential) - » .t0. Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated etred'h ‘May 1960 (Confidential) Sma oR. - ce “il, Letter from the Department of State (Cumming) to DDP (Bissett) , dated ee 25, res (PD/ P 090-5679 « Secret) _ + W112. DDP Resnease’ to State, dai dated 21 November 1960 (DD/P 0.6003 “ — ‘Secret) . - wt M13. Internal GIA REPRODUCTE ON file, 9 December 1960 . OF > eeret)- Danica 0UUC(“‘<‘“‘i‘CTST!!!SOSCSCS™! a KS 14. State vremoranae NOMIUBITED. 00a s Jemary: 26, 6, 1961 fouo) / / ff wus, State Instruction A-273, April 13, 1961 (ou0) , xwi6, Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 (OUO). « AY. Foreign Service Despatch 29, July 11,, 1961 (ou0) a ~ 8, DFBY2181, July 13, 1961 (Confidential) = a ATT. (ote: KARZ 9a595 «6S cory
+3-00000 #19, ¥ 20, “ Yel. + /22, ye f 236 “S24. Internal CIA Memo for the Record, 28 September 1961 (Secret) Foreign Service Despatch 317, Cetober 12, (1961 (OU) I&NS Name Check Request, December 5 1961 wey lage 2 (C onfidential) v DNA 1624, 26 ~ PROB Newspaper Glipp (BITE Post, June 9, 1962, | PRODUCT “ 3 25, DBA 20883, Septernber 7, 1962 (Confidential) “4-26, DBA 51407, 10 September 1963 | ‘wv 27, DBA 52355, 24 September 1963 _ _» 28 DBA 55715 (number unclear), November 7, 1963 v 42% DBA 55777, November 8, 1963 yy JA. CIA Summary Report on Activities of OSWALD in Mexico City, dated 31 January 1964 REPRODUC Tog PROKIGITED She ae, , . 2o\- 25T2e8
TOR ~ Cw : 7 ee Cee eo | a PROMIBITED SECRET C : 7 AYES BAY 20 February 1964 MEMORANDUM nv roRGPROBUCTI iON ; SUBJECT: 7 7 PRO ierreD OSWALD's 201 File 1, A machine listing of documents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201 file was requested and is attached. The actual machine work of this type was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous - dates were also recorded. 2. A comparison of the documents physically available in the 201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37 documents which should be in the 201 file are not available in its This total is made up of: . - 2 dispatches 7 memoranda from the FBI '1CSCI 2 State Department documents 25 cables. ee EPROM TION cone: - rs —— | _ PROHIBITED... a BIO for FOIA Review on JUN 1976 a7 & ~ SECRET “EYES ONLY ve ACT oe ot oO gopy 0. — —_—_—-
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ee RP RODMETHOR SECRET Chief, HE ‘ & aes ' Chief of Station, Paris ws wane EPROOUCTION For the record we forward herewith a memorandum _by/Thomas B. CASASIN > in which he gives his recollections .of SR interest_in Subject follo O Ste 295 Subjects cee ae States from the USSR, ~Gi4+2 | ; ) ROBERT G. LAMPRELL Encl. Distribution _ - . &-Z~ SR wen) — OG Cte CUS S 3 = WE | sumer 435, | : . aoe RODUCION - 15 A | . ‘PROHIBITED 4 So . 12 pee 1963 DEC 35 1989 | er ae * a : . . : \e i ae an | —OFPA~73512 CS BC RET: RYBAT 201-287 ay 8 > uus3se , PROGIB e fH . page © of Ui | a | Oo COPY NO. ee
REPRODUCTION F ’ . ° f, ra e 4 C é a .) Ae = cS) 25 November 1963 RYT ASe us] : Walter P, HALTIG# A . 1, It makes little ae a AT ELD nooo had at one time an OI interest in Oswald. As soon as I had heard OswalB's name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed <= sometime in Summer 1960 -~ with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the laydng on of interview(s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels. At the moment I don't recall if this was discussed while Oswald and his family ...0 [00 a», were en route to our country of if it was after their arrival. o 2. iI remember that Oswald's unusual behavior in the USSR had struck @ me from the moment I had read the first ODACID dispatch on him, and I told my subordinates something amounting to "Don't push too hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd." | Ne were -particularly interested in the OI Oswald might provide on the Minsk factory in which he had been employed, on certain sections of the city itself, and of course we sought the usual BI that might help develop target personality dossiers, ” ‘ 3. I was phasing into my LPOVER cover assignment, and out of KUDOVE, at the time. Thus, I would have left our country shortly after Oswald's artival, I do not know what action developed thereafter. REPRODUCTION, .... — PROGIBITED . 4 As an afterthought, I recall also that at the time I was becoming . - increasingly interested in watching develop a pattern that we had discovered in the course of our bio and research work in 6: the number of Soviet women marrying foreigners, being permitted to leave the USSR, then eventually ~~ divorcing their spouses and settling down abroad without returning “home”. The AEOCEAN 3 case was among the first of these, and we eventually turned - up something like two dozen similar cases, We established links between some of these women and the KGB, KUDESK became interested in the developing — trend we. had come across. It was partly out of curiosity to learn if Oswald's wife would actually accompany him to our country, partly out of _ interest in Oswald's own exper d in the U SSR,. that. we showed operational intelligence interest. in the, arvey story. an TB.c. are page 3 of i ' COPY = Se =) (rd mo) ES) >) =) = S&S eS
13-00000 — REPWODUCTION 1. Agency Support to Intelligence Community and Warren Commission - Tab E. 2. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 9 March 1964, regarding file received from Central Intelligence Agency on 6 March 1964. RENTED
ETON 2 my LOMRQEMTIAL - | PRONE Naaby tof. oe Oe... 28 J 24% ale qf{7as7 my Ae BARS, Data 3 128/% one per £.0. ‘id Boa "es, An Ho den i 2Je a ° Name 7 — +}. Is ae ad ; Co f Be cael Els. 6: Mies, 8. 57) Bak wr WE a ie ccmtmmatninn, CCAGSSLY OB: . i KI Mere 9, 1965 | VEMORANTAA TO HR. Je ae y, hts 18 the file sicctved foeu Central Intolligense i Agency lets in the aftermon on Fritay, March 6, 1965. | The letter of Febsuery 12 eskes tus requests. | (1) Ba te soeand paregregh of tia latter we asked GUA to send | —_ eondes of the feports or commumicetions segmriing the assessine~ ee tion which were dissuainsted by CIA mel are in the possession of Pe the Seerst Service. We Inferesd CIA that Seexes services would — not release these materials to us end acked for conten of there : rererts on socom an posathle.. (2) Im the thimt parseraps of the letter we asked CIA te exyply the Camelsnion with ths seport on the informa ' éion in the possession ef CIA receding Osvald pricr to Yovenber 22, | | peste joker sm rete to other agtnaten alded, | nea " $3 the 32a cher ooesber 9 ant ntiow to Sewenber 22, 1963. aie | As I mentioned ta you ou the teleghane I eslled Hr. Iblna today in your sbeensne i— Bolg stated that cur first request givexr [| Mon referred to hes alvealy tesn peased om to the Comdsaion fo a jn ° oe matters uikie® had sot checked oub. Ee stated that they would ee prefs not ¢a camnly with tils reeves’. then I onqeested that we f° ae8 certain peebless with thie proposed we agreed tant fer we Guild tale she i: ch coor meas cmeriieds f+ Et fast, the 55h zeoqunse-to-cux Tebramy c to as dptioten’ 4: mugther substantial respect. If tis” Pile parities te ‘by CIA ie the official ddssteron Oowald, then 16 contains no reports ro received by by headquarters from the Mexican station or any other foreiga office -. on8 SS suuelies m0 infomation xepaniing the dissesination os of materiel by { be Pe - EF pon nem etme dco r - ; . SO peru om AE We jos Dan Bi mS 7 ae _ a oS Authority  sonatTnaaa en re0t oS0o8 . ; Agescy Date ——_ ee Be wD AOD nats, tet. 3)Pe/7 elite fe £2 {Ine LO) Deke web fe BR. “4 : Decieraiv ont “APeETAN _ PRORIBITE PAGE e a COPY NO.