— | - (_ | . 7 a ‘a SECRET ——— : o8Ga Nae RAS ov sor ° co erg . & 2 ‘May 1975 OO, “Ss < a ‘MEMORANDUM FOR: - beputy oS S serations Staff | SUBJECT _ 3. Review of Agency Holdings regarding - Photograph of Unidentified Individual _ ain Mexico City published by the Warren Commission REFERENCE : Letter dated 15 April 1975 by ' Mr. David W. Belin, Executive Director ‘of the Commission on CIA Activities ‘within the United States,.to Mr. E. Henry Knoche (copy attached to. accompanying report) 1. This is further to, and in completion of, my interim memorandum of a few weeks ago. 2. The attachment is a detaile iew in narrative, chronological order ~- together wi opriate comment- ary - of our extensive holdings 4 cxaohe t case that have a bearing on the matter ofp s taken by Mexico City Station on(t, (jana "08. 1963 of an e of a combina- tion of analytical erroryS Bb and under the stress of an urgent de ment of the investigati cropped version of one’o TRESS Unidentified Individual was Agtroduced into the chain of evidence in the OSWALD case on 23 November 1963 by an FBI representative in Dallas. The successive vicissi- ‘tudes which have now made this event a cause celebre right down to the present moment are detailed in the narrative. Unidentified.Individual. . Caton - po, oe St VOE | peeg te a * a SECRET. EL MAPBET et sy cQuZe tS. PACE 87 of COPY No. 319 neers SES
14-00000 2 . SECRET | , & cement oe ; 9 | 3. The attached report ihe Slneenaea to be an answer to the Fensterwald/0}: icle which Mr. Belin attaches to his memorandume\\ epared a paragraph- by-paragraph refutation andy that article, f ty handled by a sepa- pod geet ane prepare this as NS tea a Lege ht” a4 ’ ive. ae deve which I believe is MOR SBPrOR rate memorandum to M ON a memorandum if ch&OUS des s . : ‘co ere 4. The point of ene QB renced memorandum is that: “ @ ° ere: consideration should be given now to "whether or not the Se entire matter can be fully disclosed at this time." This. ghel? submission is designed to make it possible for you, the IG and others whom you may desire to consult to make this decision. The narrative-interpretive summary has been ‘put together in such a: way that.it discloses no cyptonyms, pseudonyms or other CIA jargon. However, its contents qo well beyond what has been released to the public thus far in the Warren Commission documentation. This point must | be borne in mind in making a decision on Mr. Belin's . question. To remove any question in anybody's mind about our good faith in this matter, the narrative is backed up by copies of actual documentation from our files. It 4 seems to me necessary, in reply to Mr. Belin, that he or , SO his representative review the documentation that backs up the narrative. The documentation has not been keyed into the narrative presentation, but it follows the chronologi- cal order of presentation from 9 October into the latest ee nn developments in the matter, and there is an overall index ce. ; to facilitate reference to individual items. (NB: There GON few I of this collecti this is it.] per : . se eee i . av Lf ' '5. As noted above, one o » hotographs taken in “Ae Mexico City on 4 October 19& duced into the yt Le Warren Commission public xeéca ex, it was intro-  f¥/ Ach-: duced into that record _inGtwe Cron ersions. The we pie Warren Commission and Sat wake *made fully aware in ¢«*“'f¢ the course of their i Sw wkquarters and in pat Vaid Mexico City of the Gi SAR photograph, the fact» EY tas that we had additiontY p =< phs of the same individual oii! taken at different times Sct exico City and on the basis of full knowledge of these “facts reached their own con- . clusions regarding the irrelevance of the photograph to OSWALD and the assassination. . 6. In fact, we actually hold twelve different photo- graphs of the Unidentified Individual. Each of these ate i reproduced in the collected documentation backing up the oO narrative report (see Items 25 - 27). Chief, LA Division, SECRET . ed ra cuuze76 PARE | 88 of 319 _ COPY NOo