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oo, . ,DRAFT/Mr Slawson/21: Apr 64 mit'd . ; a an 1 i ; ee » ; : an a . . ne | | jo ae Se | . ea! Ae . | Me t-  KARZAM MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD - ae they 75. of / 0 yar 6Y FROM: | W. David Slawson . SUBJECT: Intercepts. from the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City _ The following are my notes from reading the inter-. cepts, in question in the American Embassy in Mexico City, translated from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April 13, 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I (could make them without actually quoting the entire trans cripts. In a few instances, either where it was very important 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. , September 27 - 10:37 a.m, ‘A person who sounds like an American speaking poor Spanish, later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, telephones the Soviet Embassy. OSWALD: May I speak to the Consul? INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. i — - OSWALD: I need some visas in order to go to Odessa. INSIDE VOICE: Please. c211. at 11130. 5 | - OSWALD: = Until yohen?, ’ INSIDE VOICE: (Hangs up) Archives has not fF § — RET — - onal The Nati he release ot Le - obdje schon tome! this document. RECAOR papy - : . . aay 20/- 02892 V8 DocId:32107690 Page 5
DocId: 32107690 September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman's voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, speaking from the Cuban Consulate, calls into the Soviet Embassy. - 7 SILVIA DURAN: | There is an American 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 an American yo “Says “He “had previously been to the Soviet — Embassy, etc.) . ANOTHER INSIDE VOICE: Please leave the name and number and we will call you -back. | SILVIA DURAN: (She leaves her name and her telephone numbér 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. The voice in the Soviet Embassy agrees.) Page 6
t |o P CRET - ‘September 27 - 4:25 p.m. - Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban Embassy. . . . , - VOICE FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of the Cuban Consul? . VOICE AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY: rts 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 no answer from Washington, and it will ‘probably take four to five months. We cannot give a visa here without “asking Washington. He says he belongs to a pro-Cuban organization and the Cubans cannot give him a visa without his first getting a Russian visa. I do not know what to do with him. -I have to wait for an answer from Washington. DocIad:32107690 Page 7
_S- =e . SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows no one in Cuba and therefore it’s difficult to give him a visa, He says he knew it would take a long time to process the Soviet visa but hoped to await that in Cuba. RUSSIAN EMBASSY: “the thing is that 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." . | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "We can issue a visa only according to instructions." . | “SILVIA DURAN: "That is wnat I will put in my plans." ° RUSSIAN EMBASSY: “We can't give him a letter of recom- a - mendation either, because we do not know him. Please pardon the bother." . . SILVIA DURAN: "No bother. Thank you very much." September 28: - 11:51 a.m. Someone at the Cuban Consulate later identified as Silvia Duran telephones into the Russian Consulate. « Doctid:3210769G0 Page 8