te So |, . Date: 03/07/05 . JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION Peleased under the John AGENCY : CIA , . Eennedy RECORD NUMBER : 104-10419-10272 Wesassination Records RECORD SERIES : JFK olleetion Bet of 1992 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE DOCUMENT. INFORMATION (44 USC 2107 Nate). ases#: NW 53320 Date: We—26-2017 AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : - TO. : MFR TITLE : REVIEW OF AGENCY HOLDINGS REGARDING PHOTOGRAPH OF UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL IN THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT. , DATE : 05/12/1975 - PAGES : 7 ™ SUBJECTS : RUBY, JACK , DOCUMENT ‘TYPE : PAPER CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC -- RELEASED WITH’ DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 12/03/98 . COMMENTS : JFK-RH10 + F182 : 1998.12.03.15:32:48:293108 Lo CORRECTED TO 7 PAGES VICE 16.. ~ ‘TRI - ITEM Is RESTRICTED 104- 10419- 10272 320 Docld:32393710 Page 1
&. compounding this erroneous conclusion was the fact that, when . - she had been shown a copy. of the same photograph in her appearance before the Commission, “it had been cropped by the ‘FBI in Washing- ~ ton in a slightly different manner. - 4, Although in no way related to Lee Harvey OSWALD or his _ stay | in Mexico city from the morning of 27 September | 1963 to the _ . morning of .2 October 1963, at least one set of photographs of the . unidentified man originated during OSWALD's stay there. It’ is - important, therefore, to an understanding of the acquisition and handling of the photographs by the Mexico Station to- review what.” the Station ascertained and did with the information it developed - about OSWALD. in Mexico City, together with Headquarters action on that information. 5. From all credible evidence known to this time (none, “incidentally, added since the exhaustive work of the Warren Com mission), Lee Harvey OSWALD spent four (4) full days” and two. (2) partial days -- about 116 hours in all -- in Mexico City from ‘about : 10:00 a.m. 27 September. 1963 to about 8:30 a. m. 2 October 1963. His” place of residence was a small commercial traveler hotel, not ‘frequented by " rin os" -- the Hotel Commercio -- where he was- q yY § 8 registered under alias. Exhaustive and detailed interviews and interrogation by the Mexican authorities and the FBI. after. the assassination established that, in the recollection of all hotel personnel, he left and returned late each day of his stay. 6. Allowing for the fact of late arrival and early departure, and assuming that he slept one-third of the time of his stay WW 53320° (38: or 39 hours), there remain some 78 hours of activity to be Docld:32393710 Page 2?
accounted for. Overall, CIA's information can account only for very brief periods during 28, 29 September and 1 October. AI1l coverage by CIA during the entire period was technical. The Station had no live source (living agent) coverage. 7. It should be noted that OSWALD was in no sense “under investigation." None of the facts of his defection and stay in the USSR and return to the U. S., 1959 -- 1962, were known to the Mexico. Station or in its files before 10 October 1963. On that. date, the bare bones of his biography were forwarded by. Head- quarters in response to a Station cabled report of 8 October which had forwarded,-on a routine basis, what appeared to be a contact by an American for a visa to Cuba in transit to the USSR. ‘This was indicated and deduced from technically acquired infor- mation on 1 October, which was the first and only occasion on that. visit in which OSWALD was recorded as identifying himself © (partially) by true name. | | | 8. At no time during his stay in Mexico City did the CIA acquire a photo of OSWALD. A careful review of all coverage --- technical as well.as .photographic -- was conducted by the Station on 22 and 23 November 1963 after the assassination, including materials back to August 1963. This confirmed that there was no i CIA photo coverage of OSWALD at any time during his Mexico trip or stay in Mexico. City. Moreover, although it had made a cabled | request: on 15 October, the Mexico Station had no photo of OSWALD in its records, nor did it receive one from Headquarters -- which did not have one either.-- before 22 November 1963. HW 53320 9 BDocld:32393710 Page 3 3 ee