AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM TO - TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS ' JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM Peleased under the John AGENCY INFORMATION : Kennedy CIA WSsassination Records 104-10125-10041 4 ollection Act of 1992 JFK (44 USC 2107 Note). 80T01357A ase#: NW 53294 Date: He—-14-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA : ACTING CHIEF SR DIVISION : ASST DEPUTY DIR PLANS CONTACT OF LEE OSWALD WITH A MEMBER OF SOVIET KGB ASSASSINATION DEPARTMENT. : .11/23/1963 2 JFK ASSASSINATION OSWALD AND KGB PAPER SECRET 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 05/26/04 JFK56 : F4 20040225-1049118 HW 53294 Bocld:32364076 Page 1
23 November 1963 ok X-c2S SSO | MEMORANDUM FOR:: “Aesistant Depaty 1 Dir ec tor, Plans FROM: 7 “Acting Chief, SR Division G. SURJECT: Contact. of! lee’ OSWALD with a menber of Soviet KGB | Assassination Department 1. According to an intercepted: ne call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD wes at the Soviet Embassy there ‘on > 28 September 1963 and spoke with the Consvl, Velerily Viladini Sy rich KOSTIKOY. 3 vets was learned when OSWALD called — the Soviet Embassy . ony ‘October, 1denthty ng himself by name and speaking oe broken Russien, stating ‘the abov and Bsking the guard who answered the phone =, ~ whether there vas Ceirything "1 OE oneerning the telegram to Washington.” ok The guard checked and peat topa OSWALD thet a request had been sent, but Co nothing had as yet bee \eddBivea. (MEXI 6453, 9 October 1963) The FBI Laison a orficer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau has reason to _ . believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for: ai Ue Ss. passport or: visa matter [perhaps the new passport mentioned in the préss” articles). Us operation woich is awoably sponsored by the KGI KGB's 5 ; 1th Department, (responsible for sebvotege~ant~assussinetiony. Tas operation, which is controlled bythe FBI Gitider the eryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of , Oxlohoma Who Was Tee pees CARTS ERLE KOR TTROT 3 in Mexico . City aid shortly thereafter with a knovn 13th Department officer, Oleg BRYIKIN, in NEWYORK: “whe fastractions given 3 TUMBLEWEED by the two officers, (pinpointing _ objectives for sabotage] and the circumstances.of_thsir involvement “in the case, left HO-dOuSE That both of them vere working for the | same KGB component, the L3th-: - ron we renee : . 3. OF course it is not usual for a KGB. agent on: ig sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet Enbassy.: “However, ehave top secret ; Soviet intelligence documents, describing Militery- dnbelligence doctrine, which (ss show thal y very Important agents can‘ ‘be met in official ‘installations IS uSing as ence > there some: ‘sort of “open business: Vice Admiral 2. KOSTIKOV_i KGBofficer. He was a case: offices in a an a . t | { SY Number = CMSSIFICATION REVIEW for FOIA Review on APR "h 18 APR 976 a ° CONDUCTED ON oll > AE H2 JE Z d 2 RL LD. pace CU of 2ie wh ON copy HO. ————— HW 53294 . Docld:32364076. Page 2 000+ - a 2 nee ne
L. BEKREQEV, in ‘a ‘top secret lecture toa Soviet Military Intelligence ‘course at cree anes Academy, 1960 > sald, losal counterintelligence service against the tad being used AS cqVeP. “Sich Meetings are held as a rbieVN thé Vork offices of the case officer or of the ageat du: ring ¥ working hours. It is necessary that such meetings be conducted naturally, that they do not attract the attention of outsiders, and that the receipt. and transmittal of intelligence matters, properly camouflaged, be - carried out discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures against tapoing must be taken. One must bear in mind that a meeting with persons outside official premises and during non-working hours usually signifies a relationship between the two parties that is above and, beyond official matters." ; 1 Also » such contact in official installations be_caused bythe agents Ss Own pina os CaLSLESSOSes« Again Admiral BEKRENEV spews ~ . oF : } i | i { "Some agents, because of inexpertefce ox : because of of P deliberate vidlittion-ofcthe-rutes-of se y” Peete he pthrougis peculiar : personal. rashness, »s¢ approached our CaSe  ofticere vat P places 1 not _ stipulated as operational meeting Sitesy. GEhsrstetey HOWsa tHe case © officer ‘at HVS “Soviet Mistarrav ror see SeuSeed. pete ‘personal contact arrangements, while Others still SHOWET i DEFSO order to contact the oft hk, I called the above Sonn¢ to the attention of Mr. Pappich by phone to his FBI office at 1030 houes on 23 November. nate be eran vargeeearegoerest Wally” atthe Soviet” instartationr in 208, 212. COPY NO. ns HW 53294 Doc d:32364076