104-10300-10162 - fons “ . ye ey 23 November 1563 MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director, Plans FROM: Acting Chief, SR Division SUBJECT: Contact of Lee OSWALD with a member of Eoviet KGB Assassination Department et eo 1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD “yas at the Soviet Embassy there on 23 September 1963 and sooke with the /\. Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich’ KOSTIKOV’® ‘this was learned when OSWALD called : " the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and speeking brokea Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the shone whether there was “anything new concerning the telegram to Washington.” Tne guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but nothing hed as yet been received. (MEXI 6453, 9 October 1963) The FBI liaison officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 Novesber that the Bureau has reason to believe that OSWALD'a visit was to gst Sovlet support for a U.S. passport or visa matter tye perhaps the new peasavort mentioned in the press articles af ‘ 2. KOSTIKOV is an identified KGB officer. He was a case officer in en operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department .(respoasible for sabotage and assessination). This operation, which is controlled by the Fat under the ecryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved-a German-national resident-of: (Oxlahoma)who was recruited in Europe, and met this year with KOSTIKOV in Mexico City and shortly thereafter with a known 13th Department officer, Olég HaYKIN, N ins in New York. The instructions given TUMBLEWEED by the two officers, (pinpointing objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances-of their involvement in tho <age, left no doubt that both of then were working for the same KGB component, the L3th. 3. Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret Soviet intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, -vhich show that very important agents can be met in official installations uslag a3 cover for their presence there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral
13-00000 L. BEKBESEV, in a top secret lecture to a Soviet Military Intelligence course at Militery-Diplometic Academy, 1960, said, "Case officers who use as cover, let us say, the Soviet Trade Representation, TASS or Sovinfermburce, cen use their cover assignments as backstopping for non-clandestine meetings with eerteain agents vhose perticular ectivities officially essociate them with the previously mentioned Soviet institutions. However, such non-clandestine meetings within a legel residency should be reetricted to e minimm both as to place end time. Meetings of this type should be carried out only in exceptional cases with tested and reliable agents in order to avoid provocation by the lecal counterintelligence service against the Soviet installation being used as cover. Such meetings are held as a rule in the work offices of the case officer or of the agent during working hours. It is neceasary that such meetings be conducted naturally, that they do not attract the attention of outsiders, end that the receipt and transmittal of intelligence matters, properly camouflaged, be eaerried out discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures against tepping must be teken. One must beer in mind that ea meeting with persons outside official premises and during non-working hours usually signifies a relationship ‘ between the two parties that is abeve and beyond official matters.” Aleo, such contect in official installations may be caused by the t's own eerelessness. Agein Admiral EEXRE: agen “Some agents, because of inexperience or because of deliberate violation of the rules of security through peculiar personal rashness,..-. epprosched our case officers at places not stipuleted as operational meeting sites, others telephoned the ease officer at his Soviet installation and discussed personel contact errengemente, while others still showed up personally at the foviet instellation in order to contact the case officer." h, I called the above connections to the attention of Mr. Pagpich by ‘phone to his FBI office at 1030 hours on 23 Hovember.
13-00000 5- I am attaching 1) a summary of our information on KOSTIKOV; and. 2) all valid background information now available on the work of the 13th Department of the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB: ‘ a. Extracts from Report on the Soviet State Securit Service (KGB) , dated May 1963, based on information from AELADLE. — b. Soviet Use of Kidnapping and Assassination ~- Executive Action, dated August 1960. c. Soviet Strategic Executive Action, dated October 1961. Chief, SR/CI “03
13-00000 . agg as 4 are geet) ° i . . a: yan ts ey * v3 SUBJECT: Valeriy Viladinirovich KOSTIKOV KOSTIKOV, who was born on 17 Maren 1933 in Moscow, vas assigned to the Soviet Embassy in Mexieo City es Viee Consul cn 19 September 1961. A fluent Spanish speaker, he had travelled abroad at least three tines before thia permanent assignment; moreover, in i959 KOSTIKOV applied for a visa to accompany Premler Hikita Sergeye~ vich KHRUSHCHEV's party to the United States asa an official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but we have no record of his having come to this country at that time, KXOSPIKOY served as an interpreter eat international conferences at Madrid and Bareelona in 1958 and 1959. In late 1959 and early 1960 he attended Soviet exhibitions in Mexieo City and Havana; he is known to have been in Cuba from 6 January to 7 Mareh 1966. The physical deseription of KOSTIKXOV quite aceurstely fits that of a Seviet case officer who nearly a year ago met in Mexico an FBI-controlled dowble agent, This double agents Sovietcase officer in the United Statea has been Oleg Dantle- viehn’ BRYKIN of the Thirteenth Department, KGB First Chief Directorate, occupying the overt position of translator-traines, U-Ne*Secretariat, New York City. BRYKIA was stationed in Kew York.tity from December 1960 to July of this year. Since arriving in Mexico, KOSTIKOVY is known to have travelled three tines outside the eapital: In March 1963 and again for the first two veeks of September he went to Tijuana, Ensenada, and Mexicali, ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing cotton. The U.S. Department of State, however, has reportad that during these triysa KOSTIXOY wet local representatives of Movimento Liveration National and Central Compesina Indevendienta, both Large Communist front organizations. In addition, according to FSI sources, KOSTIKOV was.accompaniled on the September trip by Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERYEV, “and he contacted in Ensenada several persons including Communist sympathizers who previously had been associated with Soviet officials stationed in Mexico City. ALFERYEV, a PRAVDA correspondent in Mexico, was in close contact with Cuban diplomats and local Communist leaderg during a February 1962 visit to Quito.