104-10268-10009 10. ll. 12. 13. 14, -15. 16. 17. Sue REP HODUCTION ae: Memorandum for Winston m. SCOTT, dated is October 1966; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. Note, BD regarding contacts of ALFEREV. Memorandum ® Director; Plans, dated 23 To ontact of Lee OSWALD with 4B Assassination dal Department. Memorandum vod Be lee November 1964; Subject: June COE : FOIA No. 928-927] Memorandum for Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Department of State, dated 16 September 1969; Subject: Charles William THOMAS. [FOIA No. 1133-992] CSCI 3/779,814, dated 30 January 1964; Subject: Jack L. RUBY - Lee Harvey OSWALD. PARI-1731 (IN 73050), 4 December 1963 [FOIA No. 298-697] Note to Richard HELMS, dated 23 March 1964, regarding briefing at Allen DULLES' home on 4 March 1964. {FOIA 618-793] Memorandum of Conversation, dated 16 January 1964; Subject: CIA Work in Support of the Warren Commis- sion. [SX-11057 - FOIA No. 482-193] CSCI-3/779,135 to FBI, dated 16 December 1963; Subject: Peter DERYABIN's Comments on the Kennedy Assassination. [FOIA No. 413-76A] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated S June 1964; Subject: Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk, USSR. [FOIA No. 726-314 XAAZ-17620] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 March 1964; Subject: Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD. [FOIA No. 627-821] DIR-92725, 6 January 1964 [FOIA No. 456-771] .Memorandun for J. Lee RANKIN » dated 6 March 1964; session Regarding r 22, 1963. Note from HEL 20 ra 6 March 1964 Memorandum fo ated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201: File. [FOIA No. 563-810] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 23 July 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [DDP 4-3769] CSCI-3/778,881 to. FBI, dated 27 November 1963; Subject: Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in Mexico. City, 13 - 24 November 1963. [FOIA No. 187-622] DIR 85246, 26 November 1963 [FOIA No. 113-48] — - MEXI-7045 (IN 67281), 24 November 1963: [FOIA No. 78- 559]. | } SECRET
13-00000 21. 22. 23. 24, 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 3i. 32. Scie REPHODUCTICN Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 J ROU BITED Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] Memorandum for DC/OPS » dated 23 May 1975; Subject: d Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD Review of S File Regard elere ASTRO Cuban Involvement AG Assassination. Memorandum 9 Subject: Rovde : Qplligence Service in Processing Vi#a pp HEH [Badetion of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy. [XAAZ-36307 - FOIA No. 697-294] dated 15 May 1964; Note dated 10 April 1964 listing material from P-8593 shown to Warren Commission. [FOIA No. 653-828] Brief for Presentation to President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 14 May 1964. [XAAZ-27212 - FOIA No. 695-302A] Memorandum for ROCCA, dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809 FOIA No. 689-298] Letter to E. Henry KNOCHE, dated 15 April 1975. Memorandum to Chief, CI/R&A, dated 19 June 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD [XAAZ-27166 - FOIA "No. 739-319] Memorandum for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 1l May 1964; Subject: AMMUG/1 Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD. [XAAZ-27213 - FOIA Np. 687-295] Blind Memorandum, dated 5 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing of AMMUG/1 - OSWALD Case. Chronology of RGR Meetings with Members of the Warren Commission [XAAZ-27161] Memorandum for the Record, dated 1. April 1975; Subject: Pre ‘REPRODUCTION —— se
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13-00000 oe em esnenenen ga ESESETE 3! of Q: Did you hear: 2 2 two crypts, one sounded by "Jackenet" ?]: pt *e : ; I had not. Belin recalled that Castro had made a speech in which 4f: 95 2 REPRODUCTICE 1 April 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT:. Conversation with David W. BELIN, 1 April 1975 Q: What was the line of reporting in, uring the period I served as working level point-of-contact with he Warren Commission Staff? ce oN Oe A: It was a multiple leveledathings ° ‘(a}:-from the Commission and AWD personally via cCone-f@\ Dick Helmss (B) from Helms to the two or three components Ny “concerned {SE , then SB, Dave Murphy; ‘In practice, the substantive SB input worked LA, then WH; andCb)}x up by one of it a (> photo for example, eta Soe via headed by Lee Wigren--Minsk In addition, on sensikiva apsed via CI. CI had own corector input. ern to_the tigation, : with The Commission. oe (— ET AYES ONLY | he had charged assassination intent by emigres and had promised ne retribution in kind if there was official support. oye Q: Had any thought been given to the assumption that an anti-Castro assassination plot might have been underway and fact it was known to Helms and-to Castro? [Mr. Belin said he now knew that Helms was, in fact, aware of something und egarding Castro. He had no evidence to show that I Tren had Seen informed about it.] Would that change any of the thinking: ve Oswald’ s Mexican trip and contacts? _ traced=e E2 IMPDET CL BY 05543) SECRET EYES ONLY COELETS |
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRONIBITED ‘SUBJECT: Conversation with David WY BELIN, 1 April 1975 b. Our defectorinformation strongly insists that all Western milita defectors-=hike Oswald--were screened by the 13th DepartmentX> eS, c. Thinness of fiPe turned over by Soviets in view of b. I acknowledged in-netrospect-that-Cuban-hypathesis was, worth reron- sidering, though it would appear t 10d0-fnSO-bb eI ice (KGB=DGI) YeTattons” be i.e. = Yefations began later after 1967-68, Venceremos , etc.). Q: Why did Oswald's lies include a denial to Dallas police that he had made the Mexican trip unless there wasCsamething important to hide about it? All his other lies concerned key factual elements of his cover story. Why also did Marina.deny-she knew anything about the Mexican trip in her first story <i’ the FBI=-which she later rectified before the Warren Commission?,~Mr. Belin noted that he had left the hypothesis of Castro/Cuban involvement-opem’in his book. He added that it would have been imfortant tochave known the facts about the anti-Castro plot at the on the: Warren Commission investigation. He felt the least he have doneswould have been to have insisted on the polygraphing o na<Oswald regarding her knowledge of Oswald's Mexican trip. ° ONS Raym a 2 Rocca Counter Intelligence Operations SECRET EYES ONLY | 2 GObLETT COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBIT AN ZK BALE TUG 1 ~~ | , CRS Oe . Chronology of RGR Meetings: with’Mermmbers of the . i Gomreis sion i: 14 January 1964 RANKIN, WILLINS 12 March 1964 © RANKIN oe a 27 March 1964 wittins €f* C Licwieg-) - 26 May 1964 "NLIEBLAND're DeMohrenschild 28 August 1964 # "Commission! CStalssen | 12 October 1964 "Commission" (Se pe . ln. or a *Believe Mr. Rocca was at the Commission at least one other day (probably Saturday, the 29th} reviewing 4 _ en ait) * ‘Fooae a ry jn > a ; 7aeh, Feat a roms i™ FU ] p 8, | celiss3 ; Pace 5 or ole COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED rt coal 5 MAY 16h z_ Rvoetee: oy | _Gsseseue heey Subject~ General: EE w Specific: OSHALD cise ee Noe ‘ i TEE SCURCE DOES NOT BAYS oritGen iiowsina: {OP LSE HARVEY OSWALD Oh UTS ACTIVITTES BUT AS ABLE TO PROVIDES ITEMS‘OF EMPREST 34550 ON COMMENTS OF CUaiN TITSLLIGSNGR - CFFICERS ASSIGNED TO THE DIRECOION WENSRAL OZ INTELIGHNCTA, OF WHICH THs souRcE HONSHL WAS A STAPF OFFICER. THS DIFORMATION APPEARTIG BELOW LAS FURNISHED BZ THE Sot SOURCE AMD LS KEYED. TO QUESYIONS SUBMITTED BY KUDESK.. | i Le Gity o be ICCASLIOX ane chese visite, OSYALD [A] was in contact with the GaERAL DS NREL SENCIA I (bg I), specific cally | with Inisa CALDERON, Hanuel VEGA P eres ont Bes $0 RODRIGURZ Lopage YECA whose Cuban intelligende pacadonym 1s MARCOS is the current | ‘Cuban IS chie? in Mexico. He recently: Ras had’ a-tour of duty in Habana, priox to which he held the sane post sa Gen as oe chief in Hexico. _ Bah 18 stase aftiser in Hexieo, He hag three Cuban | = ow : ead Jose Antonio. , I RODRIGUEZ is a intelligence pseudonyms y The precise rolationshi\ SS. CALDERCH to the DGI is not clear, Sha stent about. six months in Mexicd from which she returned to Cuba early in 195) e COMMENT: WH/SA/CI hag the following references concerming Tuisa GaLeRON Carralereo: Shs was assigned to the commercial office ef the Cuban Babassy in Maxice City, and she had arrived in Mexico on 16 Jamary 1963 and on 21 December 1963 made a reservation + to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlioss VENT 7371, 13 Cecember 1963 IN-@0351, Hiit-0153." She left Hexica Clty Zor Havana on 15 December 1963 using passport 2/63/17 Eyl 7423, 1? December 2963, L-62692, Another references "WiMa-20971, 25 Harch 1563," said that ker date.of arrival in Yexice was 19 Jamary 1963 end that. shs nad replaced Rosario VAZQUEZ, a Hextcan secretary in the commercial office. - Other : referesices apparent tly con— cerning the subject ars iN@-6923 and HEXD 3205 TN-56591 dated 2% Jamary 1953 wnicn doe not appear to add anything of interest to. that. given above. 2. The source does not lnow whebhes or: not. the Cuban Services used OSWALD ia any ager capacity or other RENAE > ge va 3. As ‘Waen news. of the sssiagisation 6 se ‘President Remodr reached the raz, it caused mech coment concerning™tha fact OSWALD had bean in the Cuban autem F 7 art) oi Evetetuss pa adhe ey Shai i aaereclag any eecrasct is uios Pago ee
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITE =s) SEGREI tgivassy in haxicoe In addition, ords ra Gare, issued Tor all headquarters and . €iaid offhcers of tha DGI to sort aa packaze | _al\doous saaents according to whether — they were soy secrato" (vwry sgsrat), | ecnate? Gecrst), and | emortante® (iesort want). Tho material ones packaged. becsa WS Be 9 hald vending further ingstruce tions, In addition, ala Vel: bp Oca and all GT vouches were suse pendad tamorarily. LY” : a & NS Se B, When the news nas Ge was the assassin reached the rat, tasre was no inmediate comment but, when Fidel CASTRO spoke on television to deny Cuban involvement, there was considerable comment concerning U5sALD's visit to hy the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, Ab this time VAGA, who has been mentioned previously, yw+tY/ was in Cuba and commented to a group of DCI staff ofiicers that OSUALD had come | to tay Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused. VAGA did not give any details and the subject was nob pursued. an he it is not Inowm whether information on OSwaiD's visit te the Cuban Consulate in Mexico in September 1953 was relayed to any Cuban service, S. It is net known if the Cuban intelligence services had contact with ‘the New Orlsans! Falr Play for Cuba Commie 6, The only Molina who is recallad is The: Hook", the Cuban who was eom= victed in New York City for the murter of a young girl during @ clash betveen tuo Cuban groups. The DOI staff officer who nad.been in the United Nationa in . “ew York’, SANTIOSTABAN traveled to Cuba with "fie Sock" and with another Cubs , namad CRIBJELA and upen arrival in Cute tried to obtain emmloynent for both — imilviduals, The names Pedro’ ‘Charles, aad Peter have no mown significance. Se 7e ‘The reaction of Soviet officials in contact with the Cuban intelli- gence services is not known. 8 Nothing is known about Soviet prevosals following the news of Presiden’ Kermady's assassinations - i —b> 9. The only fabrication imown is the special natter by Fidel CASTRO corse ' viously mentioned, 10. Nothing is known about Jack RUMENSIEGRI aka Jack RUSL. 22. The name Glilberte LOPEZ is not familiar out, if he vislted DGi head= Guarter3s, a photograph of hin possibly could ba. identified. 12. OSiaLD'g3 phote was seen in ths newspapers but nothing is known about hin othor than what appeared : an the presse . COLLPEG a) MO f— PO “pace 7 ° COPY NO. _ |
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ihe Gubin Stéigence services 1. Was Lee Harvey OSWALD en pefore 23 November SEE 80 witch BervVice? . N 4 aye - . bd Be. “Were the Cuben servicde ‘us ey in any agent capecity, or in - any other manner, before 23\Woveiber 1963? 36 What was the reaction of the Cuben intelligence services to news . - te of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news thet OSWALD ; vas the assassin? . lL. Was information on CSWALD' s visit to the Cuben Consulete in Mexico City in Septeaber. 1953, relayed to any Cuban service? . 802 what action was taken? t i { } i | 5. Was there eny contact between the cuben intelligence * services end . Dott g the New Orleans’ Fair Play For Cuba Committee ?- . ras ee | 6 6. Has: ‘subject ever heard of Mario ex. ‘ROSARIO Nene, 0 or Pedro Charles . known also as "Peter"? ; . 7. How did the Soviet offictals in conte et with’ “the Cuben intelligence - : . services | react to nevs. of the. essassinetion? ; _ . 8. Dia the Soviets propose any “eye of action or investigetion to the a - es _Cubsn intelligence services Following the news of President Kennedy's 4 . assassinetion? - 9. Was any provocative material deliberately fabricated by the Ciben services or others and sent to the United States to confuse the investigation of the OSWALD case? 10. Was Jack RUBENSTEIN ske Jack RUBY known to the cuben intelligence ns services? If so, in what way? SO Ss . 11. Does ‘subject know a Gilverto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November 235 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas end four days later proceded to Havena by special plane. He was 23 years old and cerried a a =, U.S. passport. He also had a Mexican. tourist permit. Develop — oe all information you can on this individual. 22. Attached is a photograph of OSWALD, end a letter from Bevena which is selt-explenatory for guidance of the case officer. Under no cireumstences should the contents of the letter be made know to the suoject. This information came-from the Seeret Service end . FBI. ee ee ‘Fy orem © oon Foe &. I cf ee bee | pe on. rene «rR Yo a CCAR EL PAGE COPY NO. oo o m Ro re . ho
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED a yess “TAM 8 co fia secret 11 May 1964 TO: (om esignation, ber, and Dy : , buildin) cor @ room num COMMENTS (Number each comment te sheve from whem ta whem. Oraw o line across column after cock comment.) Document winter 58 1-29 5 for FOIA Review on SH 76 “fe Ral- 269 2d 9 \ a 610 “tte mone Os SECRET 7 Genes INTERNAL Oo UNCLASSIFIED |. Ne Or . . _ . oe . been weet us a a | CECLFES COPY NO.
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED Eves oy BXAAZ-272'3 | ll May 1964 | MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans SUBJECT: © AMMUG/1 Information on , Lee Harvey OSWALD KS | Ll, This memorandum {400 laforzation and for action, The proposed lines of eC are RSH in paragraph 4, eer ema 2. AMMUG/ Gar an. tateNivence Service defector, has produced inf ton. of; dutexest to the President!s Gommission on the\ASsa Patina of President Kennedy, CI Staff learned of AMMUG on 0 April, A questionnaire was — submitted by the Staff on 1 yAAttachment A), Mr. Swenson, who is handling the AMMUG/1 debriefing, provided a reply on 5 May (Attachment B). It was clear from Mr. Swenson!'s summary that AMMUG/1 had information bearing on the OSWALD relationship with the Cuban Embassy and Cuban intelligence personnel in Mexico City, albiet his knowledge was not that of a direct participant in matters affecting | OSWALD. A follow-up questionnaixe was submitted to AMMUG/1 on 6 May (Attachment C), Mr. Swenson!’s reply was dated 8 May (Attachment D), Attention is directed particularly to the content of paragraph two. of . Attachment D, 3. We have the problem of recoticiling the operational exploitation of AMMUG/1 and satisfying the responsibilities we have undertaken with Mr,. Ranking AMMUG/1 is such an operational gold mine that.Mr,: Swenson wants, at a maximum, two months to work fully... tis palpable, however, that we - must furnish to the Commission't the substance of AMMUG/1's ts me i . Document Number 27395 SESKET for FOIA Review dé JUN 1976 } 701: ar ae race 10 gp 212 COPY NO. -
13-00000 REPRODUCTIC information on OSWALD before: Thaty On 2 the, previous record of our association with the Commisston,: particularly with Mr, Rankin, it seems possible for the  Kgency to; woxRout an arrangement with Mr, Rankin personally ‘would take: care of their needs and ours after a frank discussiem of; the eguilies. Sr : 4, It is recommended ¥ 3 ‘the DDP in person or via a designee, preferably the former, discuss the AMMUG/1 situation on a very restricted basis with Mr, Rankin at his earliest convenience either at the Agency or at the Commission headquarters, Until this takes place, it is not desirable to put anything in writing. Raymond G, Rocca Chief, CI Research and Analysis Attachments C/WH/6 (without atty oS C/WH/SA/CI (without a) wo Zen ram : Filet COCLRES pap dt — oe 212 COPY NO.
13-00000 oes om vise tens AP ee: Sane; SS taal elves Oneal retzroed to toe United Stee peed Teewees 2 ae EFS ony COPY NO.
18-00000 EPRODUC TIC ioe cong otherwisss. 5577 ee é ; Galiertely fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) te coatuea <i: fe tavestigation of Cewald...che.; hina was,
13-00000 es REPRODUCTION PROMISITED 07 May 1964 me at h . “Counter® ‘Intelligence Staff &X “attention: .Mr. Roca ° SUBJECT cart? Derigting of AMMUG-1 2 Specific - The Oswald Case t REFERENCE : Blind Memorandum dated 05 May 964 / l. Reference is made to a telephone conversation yesterday pt with Chief, CI Staff concerning this. matter. oe 2. Because I am not aware of the information already available to the Commission investigating the Cswald Case or furnished by the Agency, my d debriefing of the Source has been based on the questions prepared’ by the CI Staff and on what the Source answers have suggested.’ 1. shall be glad to pursue any — other topics museonens Ne Stath, 3. The Fo pita inforniation in addition to that in the > " reference might iatexestr” , a. Luisa CALDERON, since she returned to Cuba, \ has been paid a regular salary by the DGI even though she has not performed any services. Her home is in the Vedado section where the rents are high, b. Source has known CALDERON for several years. - Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the department which was known as the #7Empresa Transimport". Her title was Secretary General of the Communist : Youth in the department named in the previous sentence. oT c. Luisa CALDERON wae Wvansferred directly from her position in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce t to 2 post in México, a matter of surprize to the Source. -< = . d. Rogelio RQSRIGUEZ ’ Lope (DGI pseudo MORCOS), Oo shortly before he left Cuba for Mexico on or about 16 April 1964, © ---—— saw CALDERON. j Se Ss OR “POAT
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROIBITED 4. As explained to Cl Stata any publicity which would reveal the identity of the Souxce,.” his defection to KUBARK, or the extent of his knowledge: of DGl.activities might prejudice the operationaluse. of the. Salifce himself and of information which he has: ‘provided. “Accordingly, it might be appropriate to pout: out “tothe Cémmission (as agreed by DC/WH/SA) tha KUBARK: ‘hopes, by using the Source, to obtain access to Pp el including those mentioned in paragraph 3. above. x . Harold ¥, Swenson Chief, WH/SA/CI 26[(-2 GRINS COCines pace 15 of 212 COPY NO. es
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION | PROMIBITED vo ’ 5 : \ ; of Not tal ad ‘ 5 . ’ a 6. May 1964 Proposed — QuestiGas: on Onwala Case 3) REFERENCE: Debriefing of — sates May 1964 1. ~The source says that galore October 963, Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy In ics Clix: . or three occasions. It is public knowledge ; \MGzaleo during the perlod 9-26-63 | A) When did source learn of these visits - before or after the assassination? Please deserlbe in detall the clreumstances under which source learned this info tien and identitles of the persons involved. ; B) Did these visits take piace akg the aforementioned period or is the source referring to prexious visits. If the latter, try to get more age fle details regarding these trips and the origin of the Foie information. 2 The source state SS Rdoutork, dating, and after these visits Oswald was In ener’ the’ DGI, specifically Luisa. CALDERON, Manuel VE rea and Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez. This would appear to mean that one or more contacts were _ made after Oswald returned to the United States I.e., between 10-363 and 122-63, A) What does source mean by contact? | B) Can he break down these contacts by the specific Ine dividual named, place and t SyPS of contact, and date of occurence? C) Did Oswald know or have 2 reason to suspect the Intelll- gence connections of these persona? D) What was the purpose of these contacts? “kp S& XRF Z ~272(3 GCE a Nee amia ys | COPY NO.
"REPRODUCTION | a PRGRIBITER &XS E) Lf Oswald did not know tia ‘int igence affiliations of theses Individuals, what pretents, isaen were employed In EF) Did soureser ‘ever see any documentary material on any of these contacts, or any correspondence initlated by or addressed to Oswald? G) Did the DGI ever employ physical surveillonces, technical devices or camera equipment to cover these contacts. H) The source says he does nat know quhether the Guban services used Oswald in any agent capacity or otherwise. This obviously makes it more important to check out what the source meant in question one. 3. Did the DGI ever Initlate an investigation of Oswald? 4, What was the reason for packaging - files at DGI headquarters and fleld offices after news of the aa mace lae hen was recelved? | oO 5. Source was asked whether any provoeative material wags deliberately fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse the Investigation of Oswald,. The raply attributed te him was, "the only fabrication known Is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned." Please clarify... =2e | CUCLREG sua ea poem OUC(“‘éOt*t*t COPY NOe
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROBED a, LUT Y \ EVES GNLY os aay 1984 FON MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Countér. Intelligence Staff Attention” Mr. >Roora °) SUBJECT General : Debhiefing of AMMUG-1 | Specific a The Oswald: Case” : oO Ye ww > . i REFERENCE 4 find Memorandum dated 05 May 1964 v | tind Memorandum dated 07 May 1964 | Cc onversations between CI Staff and | C/WH/SA/CI : | 1, When the Oswald Case first was discussed with the Source the specific questions prepared by Cl Staff were posed. The ariswers given by the Source were reported:in.Reference A. That memorandum which I dictated to a CI Staff stenographer-appears accurate except for sentence 79 which should have said that the only possible "fabrication" : known by Source was the specific denial by Fidel CASTRO, ona television program,. of any Cuban knowledge of Oswald. 2. On 07 and 08 May 1964 i further discussed the Oswald Case - with the Source in order to clarify exactly what he knew and what he had heard. In the light of the explanation given by him, I believe that a clearer understanding of what he knows can be reached if I record his knowledge without using the question and answer format. Accordingly, in the following paragraphs I shall report all the information given by the Source paraphrasing his explanations and comments. “ J have no personal mmowledgsn Lee Harvey OSWALD or his activities and I do not kno thatOSWALD was an agent of the Direccion General de Inteligencia: (BGI) or any other directorate - or department of the Catan, Coverepent. I first heard of awa after: ‘the assassination of President Kennedy when ‘inedia carried the name of OSWALD. Personnel in first, commented about the case, so far as I can recall, on®dayaster lunch when a group of officers, of whom I was one, were‘shatting. The officers present were about. ten including Roberto SANTIESTEBAN, Norberto HERNANDEZ de Curbelo, Andres ARMONA, Pedro FARINAS Diaz and | hp GREETS SBN O8y Lape ToT ak 4G KANZ ZBI 200 2571E | oo | 7 ; cee ) - coLaRsd REPRO lal | | PAGE 18 of 242.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED | Got bs 5 8Be F EVES GHEY 2 | a Manuel VEGA Perez. main VEGA Peres previously had been assigned to Mexi¢e: ‘inthe Cubdan\Consulate where he was the principal intelligence officer of the DGI, VEGA mentioned that QSWAED had ‘gone’ to the Cuban Consulate | | ‘was in Mexico. I gathered, | although I do not Imow that VEGA made any specific statement to this effect, that VEGA personally had seen OSWALD. I well could have reached this conclusion | because normally VEGA and his assistant in Mexico for the DGI, Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez, would see persons | applying for a visa to go to Cuba. This is because DGI officers are charged with expediting the granting of visas of agents of the DGI. Such agentKon appearing at the Consulate use a special phrase‘fo inslicate their relationship \ with the DGI. (I do not know the-particular phrase used in every case. I do knowthat agents, from El Salvador in requesting visas always made mention of the name "Mauricio" ) The DGI officers ata Consulate interview visa applicants to find out if they : 8, If the ‘visa applicant does not use one of the in \phrases;: ‘the DGI officers instead of granting the mmediatsty, tell the applicant to return in afew days. The offi ‘ffien notifies Habana and requests authority for the visa. YI cannot recall if VEGA even made the statement that he had requested permission to issue a visa to OSWALD, but I feel sure that he would have done so because — VEGA had said that OSWALD had returned several times and this would be the usual procedure. I believe that Rogelio RODRIGESZ Lopez also would have. _ seen OSWALD because he wor@d\with VEGA and also would . have screened visa applicants: ae I thought that Luisa catoasion nigh have had contact with OSWALD because I learned. about: arch 1964, shortly before . | made a trip to Mexico that ahech d been involved with an American in Mexicgy©) Fie ation to which I refer was told <} cer nabied Norberto HERNANDEZ de = with HERNANDEZ — EVES Aan eae bea the 37a" ace OE AT hui ik GlitEse © COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROIBITED : EYES mry . because he gave me $40. ey some shoes and other items during my t¥ip to Mexico.) I had commented to HERNANDEZ thatit seemed strange that Luisa CALDERON: was. receiving a Salary from the DGI although ghe apparently did not do any work for the Service] CHERNANDSZ told me that hers was a peculiar c S @and that:Hevhimself believed that she had been r ed in. Mexico by the Central Intelligence Agency altneoeh Manuel PINEIRO, the Head of the DGI, did not agree. As Kyecall, HERNANDEZ had investigated Luisa CALDERON, This was because, during the time she was in Mexico, the DGI had intercepted a letter to her by an American who signed his name as OWER (phonetic) or something similar. As you know, the pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon names is difficult in‘Spanish so I am not sure of how the name mentioned by HERNANDEZ should be spelled. It could have been’"Howard" or something different. As I understood the matter, ‘the letter. from the American was a love letter but.ifidicated that there was a Clandestine- professional re is ‘between the’ writer and Luisa Se ee as, cee n CALDERON. €alsqunderstood.from HERNANDEZ that after the interception afthe\Istter she had been followed . and seen in the com an American. I do not know if this could have been ALD, I, myself, considered the case of Luisa CALDERON unusual because I had known her before she went to Mexico when she worked in the Ministry. of Exterior Commerce in the Empresa Transimport Department where she was Secretary General of Communist Youth. She was transferred directly from that position to a post in Mexico which seemed strange. The only other person about whog you asked me in connection with this, whom I recall, is Sy and I know very little about her. What happened 3 that I was in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico on 23 ene as ut 1230 in the afternoon preparing to return to Habana-the sdnteday. 1 was talking to some other Cubans including Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez and fnu BUENAVENTURA of thy Cr NEinbassy; a courier named “Enio", a courier nsamet Tato"; and one other Cuban whom I eBay pretty girl standing at the end of meone asked who she was, and one en) the group said it Yas via DURAN pace CU 20 of eke Le. COPY No. __ a
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROWBITED I recall that, after the xiaws ar th agonsstnaton of President Kennedy reached the DGK-ortlers were issued for all officS of theDGI,-at Headyuartérs and in the field, to sort and pa ‘all’documents ‘according to whether they were "muy\sex! patos (vexy Secret), "secreto" (secret), or “importante” (imp@pfant)’ The material, once packaged, was to be held pending her instructions. All travel by DGI officers and all DGI pouches were suspended temporarily, In addition, I recall that DGI Headquarters personnel were instructed either to remain in the DGI Headquarters offices or to keep the DGI aware of their whereabouts so that they could be reached immediately. I do not know the reason for these measures but I believe it logical that they were issued because of the possibility that the United State might take some type of action against Cuba and the DGI offices, As nearly as I can recall. we were able to unpackage DGI files and use them normally abou Ne 6f December 1963." ees LOS 3. In brief, the Source does net ‘claim to have any significant information concerning the assassination, of President Kennedy or about the activities of OSWALDC: Ifthe paraphrased comments of the Source are considered to_h °-clarification, I suggest that Mr. Rocca, who is most fas wen withthe details of the OSWALD. ‘his canbevarranged at any time. Mean- n askedtih a forthcoming LCFLUTTER to seems to have concealed any determine whether or no information on this matter. Harold F, Swenson - . Chief, WH/SA/CI | pace 2i_ of 12 COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION (] UNCLASSIFIED ) yffRNAL C] conentiaL =») SECRET ra ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET : 4 SUBJECT: (Optional) Chief, CI/R&A LES Ee: | TOs (Officer designation, room number, and ~! we building) . renee» > GOBMMENTS (Number each comment te show from whom 1 2 whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) [think you willbe | particularly interested ih para-. graph 3 of Mr. Dooley's memo | of record, attached, Art went over to wind upfloose end we had with regard to the AMMUG information we had previously furnished, Chief, CI/R&A © Rock Saas “NY far FOIA Review on . JUN 1976 SAME AS, ey ages Spe ghd eat 610 “iter OGM) UNCLASSIFIED clases COPY NO.
13-00000 * eae? SOURCE EVALUATION: <Q The Source is believed ta “pe. yery reliable. We have established through independent evidence and cross- checking that the e major par hs intelligence information fuxttishe d- by hitg idv@hque stionably | true. For example, we ‘kriem independent of this. Source tha Mantel VEGA;Pe rez and Rogelio RODRIGUE TAR Cuban intelligence office ‘in Mexico. . a BECREI een WARNING NOTICE “SENSITIVE © SOURCES AND Mi es. INV vip dad ne 7 oe —— - cectece pace 23 of 012 COPY NO.
13-00000 AMER a REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED LIL | KAAZ ~LITLEG 19 Juae L904 10 : Chief, CL/R8A ae oe i* Mr. Raynicad GX <odea! - NNN FROM oo: CL /ReA/He ia E> rr 1S i) SUBJ oo: Len Hurvey OSWALD RL : (261-289, 248) 1. On 15 May 1964, we provided the President's Commission with a summacy of cur debriefing of Cuban defector AIMUG 1 who had no personal knowledge of Oswald and no information linking him to th: Cuban intelligence services in any manner. As a follow-up, i ift. Howard P, illens of the Commission. asked’ if he could see the questions used in the interr ogation. oF. 2. On 18 June, I took the questions “anid source's responses to the Comaission and shaved them to Mr. Wilkens. He studied thon and returned the questions: to. me with tig observation int they were vary thorough and fully satisfied his. r&équirements. He said that he saw no need tu pursue this anghsvany further. The questions and answers exhibited to Mc. Willensvare attached. At no tla: during our contacts with th: Commission did we disclose the source's Identity or oryptonyn. . 3. il. Willens indicated that the Commission was winding wp its investigation. . He was highly complimentary of CIA, vseferring to the agency personnel he encountered here and in Mexico as "real nvofessionals ." ur. Willens asked that \convey his test regards to you. = Document Number 139° a9. - até Cnt g  ANEele, oF rthuc 2, Doolzy for FOIA Review ob. Gun 1976 oN * - Abtac ent: a/s | SAME, As ED 453 : | “Orig &@l-C/cr/Ra Shey | | 1 - C1/R&A /AEDooLey _ caw stella = faclassilicains , ‘cola? AcE 24 of212_
REPERLHCE : Debriefing of san. Soares: dat: iP 1g6h % REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED WARNIW NOT i ic “E ~ Sct net | SENSITIVE SQURICES AnD METS INVOLVED iceman eT 6 May 1954 La «KS the source says that pe Loe 6 geben 1963, Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico CNY Yn two or three occasions. It is public knowledge he was in Mexico during the period 9-25-63 to 10-3-63. A) When did source learn of these visits - before ov after the assassination? Please describeain detail the circumstanses under which source learned this Qetion and identities of | the persons involved Sa | B) Did these visits ee place, daxing the aforementioned 4 period or is th? sours @ referring. #a-pr3vious visits. If the | lattec, try to g=t ws Specific. detay 3 regarding | these trips and the origin CaN a ‘sources informa tion . the sores state Bee werore;“during, end after these visits Nswald vas in sontact@pthothe DGI, specifically Luisa CALDERON, Manuel VEGA ‘ez and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez. This would appzar to m¢an that one or more contacts wore made. after Oswald returned to the United States i.e., between 10-3-63 and ~ 11-22-43. te Usuata? A) Uhat dees soucce mean by contact? B) Can he brzek duim these contacts by th: specific individual uamed, place and type of contuct, and date of occurrance ? a of C) Did Oswald Imow or have reason to suspect the intelligence connections of these persons ? _" D) What vas the purpose or these contacts? @) If Oswald did not know ‘the inte Lligence affiliations of these individuals, what pretents, if anys were employs din contacting him? es ¥) Did soucee eves see any documentary material on any of thess conta:ts, or any. ; correspondent: initiated by or addressed Bor aol rs qs WARNING Ne ICE SENSITIVE SQuRG: AND — MERIORE ietok iD ” see EI ee owe ‘PAGE 20 | of oie
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED vi re eo arene. , | View NOVICE] SEM. ATIVE : SOU ite ES “A METHODS LOGS Ih we INVOLVED G) Did the DGI ever emp Lay. physical” surveillances, technical devices ar camera equipment. to. gover these contacts Gs an H) The soures says 42 dbs not know Whether the Cuban services used Oswald Sanyo agent; capacity or otherwise. this obviously malki:s it rE $0 eheck out vhat the scoure on 3? meant in question omX<o € QS 3. bid the DGI :vaur initiate an nvestigation’ of Osvald? h, Vnet was the reason for packaging files at DGI headquarters and field offices after news of the assassination was received? 5. Source was asked whether any provocative material was deliberately fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse the invzstigation of Oswald. The reply attributed to him was, "the only fabrication known is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previcusly mentioned.” Please clarify. Addtndun 18 June with coragenes | ‘to ae ‘th: only possible febricdtion: ‘mown by souree was the sp:eific — denial by Fidel CASTRO on a TV ‘program of any Cuban knowledge of Gewald. ~ eo es LHF 3 (SEGKE! {SENS Dee ne?) REPRODUCTION «= le
13-00000 REPRODUCTION Pome E WAKING 2 in ors Pa id e Ne i ; e , » , “~ 7 ; Sidi | AE [ri Out ay UTD | | | i 5 May 1964 Subject - General: Denil of Cuban Source Specific: OS er Case. fe The source does not have <a of Lee Harvey OSWALD or his activities but was abl@to provide items of interest based on Cuban intelligence officers assigned to the Direccion General De Inteligencia. The information appearing below was furnished by the source and is keyed to questions submitted. l. Prior to October 1963, osunGans isited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on two or three  Seasions. Before, during and after | . these visits, OSWALD was inScontiact with the Direccion General De | | 1 Inteligencia (DGI), specifiéally. with Laisa XCALDERON, Manuel VEGA Perez and Rose RROPREUEZY Dépez. VEGA wSxer bar. fatelligence pseudonym is MARCOS is the current Cub ig Mexico. He recently has had a tour of duty in Habana, priigr‘to which he held the same post as now as Cuban IS chief in Mexico. . RODRIGUEZ is a Cuban IS staff officer in Mexico. He has three Cuban intelligence pseudonyms, Eduardo, Casimiro and Jose Antonio. ‘The precise relationship of Luisa CALDERON to the DGI is not clear, She spent about six months in Mexico from which she returned to Cuba early in 1964. . mS 2. The source does not know whether or not the Cuban Services used OSWALD in any agent capacity or other manner, 3. A. When news of the assassination of President Kennedy . reached the DGI, it caused much comment concerning the fact OSWALD had been in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. In addition, orders were issued for all headquarters and field officers of the DGI to’ sort and package all documents according to whether they ‘ , ne a 4 Ya ay 3 x ey Wanita nomice : toate | : . decteeste dos
ia - REPRODUCTION _ PRON BIT ED om 4 Sensitive. SOURCES AND ° a METHOUS ies VOLVED ‘ & s x * “ane were ''Muy secreto" (very secret), secrete «GS cret), and “importante'’ (important). TK material once packaged was to be held pending further instruétions. In. addition, all travel by DGI officers and all DGI pou Rereegeteapnees temporarily. of B. When the news that SQyNip was the assassin reached | ‘the DGI, there was no immediate comment but, when Fidel CASTRO spoke on television to deny Cuban involvement, there was considerable | comment concerning OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. | At this time VEGA, who has been mentioned previously, was in Cuba and commented to a group of DGI staff officers that OSWALD had come to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused. VEGA did not give any details and the subject was not pursued. 4. It is not known whether information on OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico in, . September 1963 was relayed to any Cuban service. 5. It is not known if the Cuban intélligence services had contact with the New Orleans" Fair Play for’ Cuba Committee. | 6. The only Molina. whovis recalled ig ''The Hook", the Cuban who was convicted in New York City for the murder of a young girl during , . a clash between two Cuban groups. The DGI staff officer who had been ‘ * in the United Nations in New York, SANTIESTABAN traveled to Cuba with The Hook" and with another Cuban named ORIHUELA and upon arrival in Cuba tried to obtain employment for both individuals. The names Pedro Charles and Peter have no known significance. 7. The reaction of Soviet officials in contact with the Cuban intelli- gence services is not known. 8. Nothing is known about Soviet proposals following the news of President Kennedy's assassination. 9. The only fabrication known is the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned. . 10. Nothing is known about Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY. ll, The name Gilberto LOPEZ is not familiar but, if he visited DGI headquarter S,; a photograph of f him pos sibly could be identified. ae OSWALD's photo was seen in the newspapers but ee is known about him other than what appeared in the press. me {tee ate ee SCPSHT. SOT. OAMBD WARK. ee ,
13-00000 L. be Oo ~] eo 10. services? If ‘so, in what way ? ll. REPRODUCTION PROMMBHT ED | wear v silty 3 ROUCE METONE | for. “CAVED | ERO tore oo 1MAY 1964 Was Lee Harvey os hat:D kijowsto the Cuban intelligence services before 23 Noverptier: $9632. Tfso which service? WS a Were the coef OSWALD in any agent capacity, or in any other manner, 23 November 1963? . What was the reaction of the Cuban intelligence services to news of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSWALD was the assassin? Was information on OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City in September 1963, relayed to any Cuban service? If so, what action was taken? oo Was there any contact between the Cuban intelligence services and the New Orleans! Fair Play for Cuba Committee? . Has subject ever heard of Mario del ROSARIO. Molina, or Pedro Charles known also as "Peter''? How did the Soviet gotials in contact with the Cuban , intelligence services react to Hews: ‘of the assassination? — won ~ . 2S Did the Soviek® (pentose Sy type of action or investigation to the Cuban nae. servlegs following the news of President Kennedy's assassinati¢ ~ ; Wasa ect deliberately fabricated by the Cuban i r@and sent to the United States to confuse the iork@f the OSWALD case? Was Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuban. intelligence ‘Does. subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico « on . November 23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas and four days later procededto - Havana by special plane.. He was 23 years old and carried a U.S. passport. He also had a Mexican tourist pe rmit.. ‘Develop all information you can on this individual. mS , a ceed bat & ™ ean Rat eave Wine ee “Ai cate t EL
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED “WAR I NOTICE SENSE SOURCES AND METHICHIS bate “Mt 12. Attached is a photograph of aswaLn, and letter from Havana which is self-explanatory for: guidance: of ibe case officer. Under -no circumstances should the: ‘contents: .6£ She letter be made known. to the subject. ‘from the Secret Service and FBI. ~ SED Ay enacanreen AD tet VY ns — WARNING NOTICE -2- SENSITIVE SOURCES AND ee Shey be A at ,
13-00000 a> ae . PROHIBITED Yngeutive Regi? ° —_ COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES . 7 Washington, DC 20500 Nelson A. Rockefeller, ; David W. Gelin, Chairman ; Executive Director Jonn T. Connor ; 2 C. Douglas Dillon ; April 15, 1975 Erwin N. Griswold Lane Kirkland Lyman L. Lemnitzer Ronald Reagan Edgar F. Shannon, de. Mr. E. Henan ‘Knoche.” Y& Assist Cte the : Dirvaetor Centr hel ligence” Agency Washin ey QS Dear Mr. Knoecme: As you know, there have been allegations that the CIA was involved in a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro. For the . purposes of this letter, we will assume that these allegations are correct, and based upon this assumption I would like to know the answers to the following questions: . 1. .Did anyone with the CIA tell any member of the Warren Commission or any lawyer serving on the Warren Commission staff that such plans had been underway? If the answer +s yes, we would like to know what person or persons with. Agency delivered said information, to whom it. was delivered, when it was delivered, what specifically was told or’said, what documents there are to support the: answers. to the fore- going questions, and what response, “if .any,-was received from | the Warren Commission:* If the Commission was not told about this, why was it net to2d and who made the.decision not to deliver such information to the Warren Commission? , 2- ‘There is evidence « Castro, prior to November 22, 1963, knew about the: ‘existencayot such plans and the possible in-. volvement ofthe U. S...Government. Did the CIA at any time prior to the completion of the Warren Commission investigation. have . any docur@rits oxothér information indicating that Castro. may have kr about, sath plans? If the answer is yes, would. you | please f whisk ugewith copies of all such documents and details of any such im rmation. | 3. Several months prior to the assassination . of. President. Kennedy there TED ast: of a public eech by Castro that’ was ® giRehSee ok tH Associated Press whereby Castro alluded Wa ~ cee IT ee See em a ae ote = te | holapnaneiiieas nae
REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED. xetaliation. Would you please advise us if there is any evidence that tks: ‘ASsociated Press report may have appeared in any newspap&rs.: in the: Uwfited States, including specifically . any newspapexs, in Dallas or New Orleans. Would you also ‘advise us &f you have:any other information of public state- ments of @nyCuban.: ‘header prior to November 22, 1963 indicating any awareneus Rossible assassination plots on the lives of Cuban leaders Re wens RED eGTARE IPSS OEE ID NEG MEE 8s seem ree a 4. Would you please advise us if there is any information in CIA records to indicate that at any time prior to November. 22, 1963 any foreign government or any foreign group was consider- ing a possible assassination .of any American leader. _If so, would you please advise us of all details and also advise us who:. in the United States Government outside the CIA was ad- vised of these plans or possibilities. i, 5.. Prior to his. death Lyndon Johnson supposedly. stated that. he believed that although there was no doubt that Oswald killed Kennedy. and Tippitt, nevertheless Oswald might’ have been a part of a conspiracy in retaliation to possible United States assassination. attempts in Cuba. Would yow please advise us of any information in Agency files showing whether or not there was any communication to President Johnson of any possible plans involving the attempted assassinations of any Cuban leader and if the answer is yes, also give us all. details involving ‘this matter. Sincerely yours, on LG Oo fo” a eae : David W. Belin m 'F (; (, Q 72> a> to possible assassination attempts on his life and possible Executive Director | ceciac5. ssomnerie “ op ae are ae ee ee een en rae a een EE ee ee a ee emnneenencinemtee 5 Fis emerettenteraeeat tI A ahem tres
ne REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED | XAAZ- 22907 oe 12 May 1964 1745 MEMORAN UMSFOR: Mai Rocea Lith Mone Rekerclia. A Bad & 's Fes Wen Ie Danlte . ee the PDP called me this afternoon, 12 May, to state - that the Dir aca received a telephone call from RANKIN regarding recton has receiv desire to interview him at 1030 AM, Thursday. Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appear at 9:00 on that morning. ° Ze The DDP wishes to have from you a short but comprehensive memorandum which highlights the basic issues or positions entered into by the Agency in its dealings with the Commission. For example, RANKIN indicated that the Commission 7 would wish to hear the Dire ctor's views as to how improvements might be made in protecting the President's life. Further, ‘they . -will probably ask questions regarding the possibilities. that a con- spiracy existed. Such general questioning certainly necessitates that the DCI be made aware of the positions taken during previous BN interviews. I raised with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent information which you are processing which originated with the ~“=7 sensitive WH source. I informed him that in your view this would ' paise a number of new factors with the Commission, that it should not go to the Commission prior to the Director's appearance unless — . we have first had some preliminary reaction or made sure that the Director is fully aware of its implications since it could well serve . as the basis for detailed questioning. The DDP stated that he would review this carefully and made a decision as to the question « of timing. 3. Given the schedule, you will appreciate that the DDP will need a paper covering the above points as soon as possible. CO, cy Document Number an bF-2 an , for FOU Review on JUN, 76 os a © eemenenaeene
13-00000 (14 May 1964 | “pooument Number (95-302, A for FOIA Review on. oe oo _ PR ITED cee ate yee ee ee ee = eee eee te sanapeeceoommt = tem ee meme ee eS ao mame meme cee er me we ee meee eee epee eee alo Brief for presenti 36 rE rae "REPRODUCTION (% May 1964- ; . a ne ete pre Er enone nb nnn reer epee ene pg eeeeeene Sopetes mane wamavsiseynstanceens . ‘ : . . . : _ JUN g7e | | fer arias 6a e187 _ |
| —— PRORIBITED a. Formal aig jubyualitied negation by the DCI of any contact or association, direct or indirect, between the Central Intelligence Agency and Lee Harvey Oswald, This should be accompanied by the tabling of an affidavit signed by the Director and notarized, (TAB A) bo A formal aamuzance‘ly the Disestor shaball information in the possession of: the Agency regarding: Oswald's activities pani; outside of the cate te TERE es retaeneer rea peng eee eon - _— ae United States has been Spade available to the nemo een ERS TET aaa eect SSE NAAN ieee’ Commission through its staff, with which there has — been close and frequent contacts since the inception | of the Commission's activities. (TAB B) c.. An interim pronouncement by the DCI on the © LATTE er ee E TE oe ea EID roblem-of-eonepiretoriel-responaibility for Oswald! s boli scg ; oe nee bo PE me ee tet nae seam =o earn pene nanneelnacenaten eR Rtane tor -maeRAP sen Aree eect
13-00000* - ROOUET Se ‘REPHODUCTION Seu wks ie mS activity. It is, suggested phat the DCI take the position ithat.at this timethe re is’ no. conclusive evidence of i af Oswald; that all Agency . information beating s onthis problem has been furnished to the Commission for evaluation and consideration i in the framework of its total knowledge of the facts. The Agency, at the present time, is lacking any knowledge of recent information or documentation furnished by the Soviet Government to the Commission with respect to Oswald's activity in the Soviet Union. (TAB c) d. The DCI's suggestions for i improving policy and organization with, respect. te. the personal security of - the President. ‘Certain ateps relating strictly to the Agency's jurisdiction have already been suggested by memorandum. It is proposed that the Director now make apecific suggestions involving legislation which | would treat information bearing on the personal security of the President and, advisedly, other Federal officials _ directly related to national security. affairs in a manner _ similar to what currently exists by statute for special GeCisc5 COPY NO. te ree Ia ee eo ce ce ene pace 36° of 1 PROMIBITED eee teem eR AOR yeaa Mabesen ann eecianeneeneneranesnnaniny
13-00000 ot nuclear material or weapans ntse uced to the United States or manutacturéa therein. (TRS Atomic Weapons ‘ sa 1955). “was D). ai ‘Oswald’ a fees “Mexico and his possible cetationiip To he Gaban Inleligence Sovvicws . . Substantive information of grave concern to grave concern to the security of sources and methods have been developed on both of these topics. The information and, in certain instances, knowledge with respect to acquisition has been made available ona highly restricted basis to C~ Mr, Rankin and to certain elements of his staff, It is ‘recommended that the DCI not respond ‘on the record to queries on these topics. He- should suggest that all such “technical questions" be worked out in detail through the sean! seat CCE ee nNGDAE Aneeremmepaeatttee? channels and procedures that have functioned very. well . = we believe -~ between the Commission and particular — TARTS LT EET I DTT CIA. components. (TAB E) Sesame pace 37 31 9 ee RRR encNENapbasedster REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED 11 memes cect sere et eee AEE Re AR8 my RN Br mre: . ° coe e : *
13-00000 REP Moowern PROWMEHTED There have beenngumnors and allegations which began - a 7) : immediately after the assassi¥ation which branded Oamald asa U.S. Government agent. In many instances, CIA has been named as his sponsor. The auth: chips geographical dispersion | eqmamoiseansane program. . W ron As DCI, Mr. Mesos welcomes this appearance before the Commission to make a categorical and unqualified denial of these unprincipled distortions of the historical and personal responsibilities for what was a dastardly and heinous act. In witness of this, the DCI submits to the Commission an affidavit which formalizes this statement. The affidavit is attached. | It is recommended that the: DCI state concurrently with this - action that he desires to draw the: Commission's attention to the fact that the irresponsible charges that*have- been made, sponsored - REPRODUCTION © 68CEeg > 4 pace 39 3 212
13-00000 Nl REPROOUET Qs ba | @ "9, p < re] rary o 5 ad w [e) 4. @ ce oy pally Gi yy 4 % | 5° oP os ; et foto 2] fu pe S. f hs & p re] Qu g = OF. depen o campaign against American intelligence anid Sbcirity components which has built — up momentum over the past six years. We have traced the sponsorship of that campaign directly to individuals and com-~ ponents within the Soviet police state apparatus. Their un- method nor a surprise as an occurrence. lf the DCI is challenged by anyone on. thie . Commission | about the substance oz: z implication of. his affidavit, it is recome- mended that response be along the following lines: CIA is a democratic institution. The DCI has incorporated in his affidavit the results of detailed and painstaking examination. as a qualification is ~S raised with respect to the = ibden he 2 willingly { | scrupulous treatment of the Oswald case-was neither new as a on the Commission's task> me esnetiitiRttea emma” CCC1913 . + str em sere seem rama elles ieee fe wae RR cee et eer a eet = meine me er
~ RePRoDUCTIOR PROGIBITED = at = Seen mga we REE eoee, ) AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN A. McCONE | STATE OF VIRg 3] poanchanasnaseniy JOHN A. McCONE, being duly sworn, deposes and saya that he ia -. ithe Director of Central latelligence, and that based on his personal. knowledge of the affairs of the Central Intelligence Ayency and on detailed jinguiries he caused to be made by the officers within the Central intelligence Agency who would have knowledga about any relationship Lee Harvey Oswald may have had with that Agency, he certifies that: ij Lee Harvey Oswald was uct an dyent, employee, or iaformant of the Ceatral Intelligence’ ‘Agency: the Agency never contacted: htc, tnterviewed him, — talked with him, or received < or golicited | any reports or information from him, g& Communicated with him, direetly or indirectly, in any ether manners ys” E the Agency n wu him any funds or money, or compensated him, age indirectly, in any fashion; | and | = i. j directly or indirectly, ia any way whatsoever with the Agency. "JOHN Eo McCONE aa Subscribed and sworn to this - day of . a ’ 1964, before me, a Notary Public in and for. the State of Virginia, by the said JOHN A. McCONE, who ts personally known to me and he duly acknowledged to me the execution: of the foregoing instrument. vont x. eee { ] é Lee Harvey Oswald was never associated or connected, . = Notary Public” | My commlasion expires _ _ ; ACO or Miesntte-sattecianienn.-Momiinaaee eieced
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13-00000, REPRODUCTION — —— PRORIBITED | has supplied all the oe in its possession regarding ~ the activities, affiliations and associations of Oswald, Copies of the reports and access to original data, in specific ine _ stances, has been given to Commission representatives in accordance with the DCI?s expressed instruction from the inception that the Agency place itself ‘completely at the Commission's disposition, 7 . cr nrnes momen nem my ag cn mere peerage come . PRO ae me tat . Base seme et hte eh
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13-00000- REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED . —, 1 { i ‘ 3 mB TAB G The Problem of Conspiracy So mame SERENE = eceeeeentene nee The’ Bet should note: that at fromthe start he had given Ss A0t8 on He otter | specific indications teKaesor paapNael working on the ; Commission's air S rormation bearing on Oswald's possible vention Shoe with foreign spons ors be made available to the Commission. The DCI may state that he is gratified that his instructions have been carried out diligently and promptly. Apsong the items of information provided the + Commtast et have 1 been n studies on the organi~ state which are ene facigie individuals and units charged with the Der taimaice of what is euphemistically | a, _ referred to as "executive action! -- but is, in fact, charged i | with assassination and sabotage. | oo The DCI should state that  no(fiemaferidence has thus | : ; fax developed abroad linking known, Soviet, Soviet bloc or | oe CUCLCTS . : nee oe Tne n a oe ee aeecenaatg ea oot ra aE RNR =H, etn Se Saree
PROHIBITED es Sek Sat It is recommended is recomme iat the PET yanile an’ qduestions . EX .. treatment nee ie USSR, the withdzawal of his \ . Z wife, his possible- co there with Soviet State ° Security (the KGB), and related: questions \ which would tend to establish "technical questions" and, therefore, beyond the scope of present testimony. It is suggested that he rest on the fact that the Commission has taken up these points. item-by~item with the technical levels of the Agency and that the ultimate findings TC and evaluation can only. be determined by the Commission, _ ” oe «, Se | Oswald's associational link with Soviet intelligence as 7 gee Teepe “> ~~ GOCASEG OT co ae weet nme en ET foe tate eae eee ne Da LT eal ee Toe eee epee enero eae: ne .
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13-00000_ “PONTE oe to its statutory mission. REPRODUCTION PROGMBITED aos its response, the Agency confined itself to elements relating a. The Secret Service, or Preaseny: record with the Office of Central Referénce a “foxmal require- a ment for informationsGlating. to ) Pre sidential security. ma. e 4 oe ted that,. if t the’Secret Service ww wit TAB D SANS ‘Mr. Rankin raisdd thi@ agestion dire ctly by letter. In Specifically, it was suggested that: Ss intended to expand its  Guattizence coverage of possible . threats to the President's security, our experience. showed that it would need a.specialized organizational . component to handle that task within the Secret Service itself, — c. The CIA reply also noted that the Agency was. in direct touch with the Secret Service -Fegarding the possible, utilization by t that agency of our ‘experience in AS oe suggested that the DCI not repeat this detail. machine data processing. “On. the public record, itis — .  GOCASAE 4g 212, COPY pace 49 _ NO.
13-00000. — In his presentation to the Commission after referring to these earlier suggestion’, ‘the Detsioale state that he desires a x to take the parte oe postion which he has not tabled heretofore: The Commission's major problem has been the assessment _ of personal motive and the relationship of an individual act to | possible conspiratorial guidance. Because conspiracy is the core of the problem, the DCI should point out the possibility of legislative action which might be an assistance in preventing recurrence of the national calamity it is investigating. There C , is an analogy at close. hand between the problem of developing in advance information rebiling ts Prostdéutial security and the | problem faced by the county § ee years ago regarding the clandestine introduction or manufacture in the U.S, of special nuclear material or atomic weapons, The remedy devised at that time was embodied in the Atomic Weapons Reward Act of 15 July 1955 (29 Stat 365, PL. 165, 84th Congress). In essence, the Act estab- | | lished a , substantial reward ($500, 000) £ for information bearing on - the Act provided by any person, and in certain instances privileged . treatment for such persons -- for example, asylum if they were | ce gpegepe
foreigners, was ence Finatty, a: Reward Board was — created to admi tar the, purposes. of the ‘Act. al Os » The DCL: Should su geabthat the Commission consider a - recommendation for original legislative action designed to induce individuals to furnish information. bearing on Presidential security by offering a substantial reward and preferential treatment. The DCI should assure the Commission that he is convinced that which would attend the implementing legislation i in this matter could represent z a : significant inducement even to staff officers C and personnel of secrekarivctations and state security organs abroad whose functions include assassination and sabotage. it is these individuals who would be privy to plans of executive action. The reward would constitute additional inducement for such individuals to take the risk of making important disclosures. — The suggestion does not o SSE bn The material elements of “reward and special treatment. The DCI can assure the Com- mission that we are aware that personnel in police state apparatuses charged with the assassination and sabotage functions have repeatedly _ expressed and, in many cases, acted upon their repugnance for cs Gras | t the substantial award, the special treatment, and the publicity | | i | t PAGE. 50 of C1C + ome. wre ee a i a en ee in,
REPRODUCTION -——-PRORENTED such work and for the system: ‘which calls. upon them to do it. aan a * vy There are specificrcaises in the Past ton years which document | ha this assértion, we, ~ missions have “abandoned the ‘mission even without the assurance or the inducement which the DCI is here proposing. in advising the Commission to suggest that the Commission examine the advisability of legislation making it a Federal offense to conspire and to kill the Chief Executive. 3) The DCI could also indicate that the Commission might desire to suggest that any oy, 4 i. legislation along these. lines should be enlarged to include con-~ spiracy to kill any Federal: tficial in ‘the President's personal circle of official associates directly concerned with national security affaira. (The Agency! s Legal Counsel states that In making this cuggestion2 tne DCI may go one step further . _ draft bills have been considered on the Hill.), .- Ea & co foots  ) Po am e cr Pn woth ae
7 i INTE” ~4L SECURITY MANUAL SENATE ae tevise 86th Congress Docr 4 5 ( ; 2nd Session, No, I EPRODUCTIC | | (Bp 275-277 ok \ | Atomic VWrarons Rwanos Act ° PROHIBITED ‘Act of July 15, 1935 (69 Stat. 303, P.L.. 265, 98 Gong) —Atomie Bw D , we 13-00000., Weapons Rewards Act.ef 1955: eo eet “De it enacted bythe Senate and Louse of Evpresentatives of the United Staten of sigrerics in: Congress, assembled, That this Act may be cited agthe “Atomic Weapprs Rewards Act of 1955". *Suc. 2. Any person “ences original information to the United States— . “(a) leading to the\inding or other acquisition by the United States of any special nuclear material or atomic _. Weapon which has been introduced into the United Staies, _ or which has been manufactured or acquired therein contrary to the laws of the United States, or -“(b)-with respect :to.an_ attempted. introduction into the United States or an attempted manufacture or acquisition “therein.of any spiécial nuclear material or atomic weapon, “é6ntrary.to the laws of the United States, . shall bo ‘veiwarded by the payment of an amount not to exceed - $500,000. “Sec. 3. An Awards Board consisting of tho Secretary of tho Treasury (who shall be the-Chairman), the Secretary of Defense. the Attorney General, the Director of Central Intelligence, an - of one member of the Atomic Energy Commission designated by that Commission, shall determine whether any person ‘fur- nishing information to the United States is entitled to any ay ; award and the amount thereof to be paid pursuant to section =: C ° : 2.. In determining whether any person furnishing informa- ! tion to the United States is entitled to an award and the : amount of such award, the Board shall take into consid- | eration— “(a) whether or not the information is of the typo specified in section 2, and 4 “(b) whether the person furnishing tho information was | an officer or employee of the United States and, if so, whether the furnishing of such information was in the line of duty of | _ that person. a :  . “Any reward of $50,000 or more shall bo approved by the '. President.  - oe * “See, 4. If the information leading to an award under section 3 is furnished by an-alien, the.Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director. of Central Intelligence, acting jointly, may determine that the entry.of such alien into the United States is in the public interest and, 1#:that everit, such alien and the mem- : bers of his immediate family may receive immigrant visas and i _ may bo admitted to the United States for permanent residence, notwithstanding the requirements of tho Immigration and Na- tionality Act. “Sec. 5. The Board established under section 3 is authorized to hold such hearings and make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. “Bree 6. Any. awards granted under section 3 of this Act shall bo certified by the Awards Board and, together with the approval of the President in those cases where such approval is required, transmitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for payment . -out of funds appropriated or available for the administration of ( the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. | — “Sec. 7. As used in this Act— “fa) The term ‘atomic enerzy’ means all forms of energy re- leased in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. . “(b) The term ‘atomic weapon’ means any device utilizing. atomic energy, exclusive of the means for transporting or pro- pelling the device (where such means is 2 separable and divisible | -part of the device), the principal purpose of which is for uso as, or for developmént of, a weapon, a weapon prototype, or a weapon test device, OS a '  (¢) The term ‘special nuclear material’ means plutonium, or ~ uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, or any * . other material which is found'to be special ‘nuclear material pur-- ae - | guant to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. ; Y . “(d) The term ‘United States,’ when used’ in a geographical _ ( oo mo sense, includes Puerto Rico, all ‘Territories and possessions of the tit United States and the Canal Zone; ‘except that in section 4, the ==. | oe ne term ‘United States’ when so used shall fave the meaning given , -  toitin the Immigration and Nationality Act.” . - enge 392 + semoee aoe, ee ee os oe oo ccCase5 REPRODUCTION = pace 5? of PRO IBITED a a 7 | : | oF Hoe a eam eet oT se ee mn ea ee em cen nee nee eee tim eed Noe eemee Fe see ee weet man one unmaers wef eemo-ngeremapeae nen ont ern cme 7 enema ae Fee TTT : 7 : cor TST =
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13-00000 wee ae nee me ent sane ee nae on a0: ag ee 2 ee i 528 cee eam OE a ena ene a ger tem seem mee et ‘Mexican and Cuban phases of Oswald's REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED ( TAB E Extensive Terman hag been made available to the Commission by CIA on t oo level regarding Oswald's activity in Mexico City in September and October 1963, The Commission Staff has been in detailed communication and conversation with the Agency working levels both in head~ ' quarters and in Mexico City. Within: the past week, significant information has. been developed by CIA regarding a naan nnmnnmnnemmetiear memameameamammnnnell the xelationship with’ Oswald of certain. Guban intelligence personnel in Mexico’City-and the reaction in Havana within . the Cuban Intelligence Service to the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Commission Staff is in the course . _ of being briefed _on the Cuhan aspect. It is suggested that the DCI handle any question on the | as “technical questions" which members of the Cofamisston can develop from or through their own sta withthe sopegpeite component of the Agency. This neile be ‘entirely: ‘eoiisistent with the DCI's ; Oy > A Soe 77 overall assurance that he nadigpctea his personnel to place their information completely at the Commission's disposition.  caeeeannneenernege= eater" : ow . . e foe poem ates mee eee . al
Oc ‘REPRODUCTION TED oe SECRET 7 . : oo 5 10 April 1964 | ° MATERIAL FROM Pr 8593 4 l. English translations of calle ina dé by oe Russian Embassy: 27 Sep 63 (1037); 27 Sep3{1626);_ at ‘Sep\6a(1605); 28 Sep | 63 Q151); 1 Oct 63 (1031); 1 Oct 63 (OPS (63. cae 2. English translation of conve between President Dorticos in Havana and Cuban Amb Joaquin Hernandez Armas in Mexico on 26 Nov 63, 3. English translation of conversation between Cuban Am to Mexico and President Dorticos in Havana on 26 Nov 63. Document sump 33- B72 gS ry ; : . iy | fer FOIA Review on- JUN 976 a — | | ion f RECORD ¥] ao as727%? te cen te a ee ee
13-Q9000 REPRODUCTION M=EMCRANDUM FOR: hr. J. Lee Raakia > - General-Counseh Prealdent's Commidaion on the ar atnation: . Pe SUBIZCT: Rol bisa) £ a Intelligence Service. ia Prbcds ‘eiag Visa Applicants; Reaction of that Service to the Asaaspination ai President Kennedy 1, Within the very recent period, this Ageacy haz astablished contact with a well-placed individual who baa been in clove and prolonged contact with ranzing oificers of the Cuban Direccion General de Intelligencia (Directorate General of intelligence ~ DiI). His knowledge of DGI activities, techniques and personalities ta direct and prefound. This Agency has aueried him in detail on possible costaats between Lee Harvey CSWALD. and the DGI orior.. to the aszaazzination of President Kennedy. A report on the tnfor- mation thus obtained Ls: attached to thie memorandum. om, 2. This source ie highly senditivs and of great, immediate operational significance to this Agency. The national counterinteili- gence interest abroad requires, theresiore, thal necess to the attached report, as knowledge of the existence of this source be restricted, “. zor the present at leaat, to yourseli and 2 minimum nember ag your tate Document Number STEAage - a SUN 1975 Downgraded te 3 SECRET a =F by authority of WZES AAP date. AT _B*1os ER 1973 ‘for FOIA Review on — ome ae ° pre, >. fen Bo - a 23 7943 . ¢ ’ fe ne at TO HPS COMENTARIOS ETRE MARTY © I Hen EHD Grint HN  eebEINeHE MAR 1 cOMENIrEDCs HEORIN PAERHND ate Hoe RUS Cate eg RORUNE HERA be Oh SNe EETES «Som : , . . ae RM a a ea te en meee - — coe - ~
13-00000 Sing? Subas Drabassy in Mexico in March 196+. — Downgraded ts eas ee eT gan seu! op tS =i # oy . > Se. 3, Scrat -_ mice, REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED . SSVALD was we aspen any oy any cthex cirsce 8 , Ma Ses 2 -E C5 WA2.0) der the sosassination of Preston Sonmedy wher mows vy SSWALS's nase. OXSE persennel Srst commentad sbout the in hie pressace ous day aftes lunch, when & group 04 sificers ware chatting. Azmong thers was Memsed Consviate in Aaxice City, where ‘be was the principal DOI oiticer. YEGA mentioned that OSWALD bad gous ba the Cuba: Conmulate twe or three Oran ne ne Tie nppllestion taxing . Whether OSWALD had any contecy with VEGA on there eccasicna ig not known to ths source, However DGI officers staticnsd in consuletes cosicansrily interviow vise enplicants to determina if they eve DGI 2gembs. 38 applicants ard, Mentified a8 agents, ‘Piney travel is axpedited. Ctherwise, they are nsually told to come back in a tow days. Duriig the interim 2vplicants' RAMes are yabroitied _ & Havana for Serther checking and instructions. - Acterding ta the — sonree, OSWALD may have heen interviewed by VEGA ay Sis | assistant, Rogelie RODRIGUEZ Lopes, but this ia strictly com | fectare on his pest. The sources does not know Sifvia DURAN sr rt tang deeper rnarteg i raisrivwrd aati ieadaaiael ot a veached the UCd, orders were issaed for all OCR sompanerks in. . the toumtyy te ert amd package sil. documents ycecording to whether they wera ay secretsl berry necret)s “secrete” sowerot) or eae Sttachment . oS . eS EN }  GECLES2 PT oe mers my .
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED SECRET 23 May 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR} DC/OPS d=. SUBJECT : Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD.File Regarding Allegations of the) CASTRO Cuban InvOlvement:in’the | ooh: BP. KEMNEDY "Assassination . - | PAG Sp oe . aN SS } 1. The attached & whew. and summary was. written at the express request o « David W. Belin as a follow- up to Question 3 of his letter to the Agency of . 15 April 1975. Se . 2. The results - as I have already told him - add... ‘nuance, not evidence, to what the Warren Commission and . its staff had laid before them in 1964 on this subject.. fhe results of the review are stipulated in paragraph 8 of the Attachment. There- seemed to be no reason to ..... ~_ attach copies of the case reports from the file to this.. ne vse summary. These can be made available promptly, however, Co a on request. This summary-does not deal ,with press,. bos magazine and books that daalt with the. subject during. the period after the assassination. . ve . 3. My recommendation is ‘to do: with this paper. as on we did with the earlier one. requested by Mr..Belin on - the unidentified man: let’ him read the entire summary. and ‘then decide how much of ath, az. any, is pertinent SECRET e__smeper et sy22 943! Reno a
13-00000 — PROUSITED = - REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED to his and the Commissioa's needs amd then decide how much will go into the classified xz co a & QS Raymond G. Retca Attachment  SECRBR TT.
13-00000 PROMIBITED ' a Ser... t ‘ ee SECRET. ; . . J SUBJECT : Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File-Regarding Allega- | tions of CASTRO. Cuban‘ olvement in the John F. KENNEDY. ‘Assasis tion | I 1 i REFERENCE : ‘Letter be pavid, WR. ‘Belin to , Mr. E ‘Henry Knoche, 15 April 1975, paragiaply’3 syprding Public Statement | by CAS Ses , attached ; | BACKGROUND : i Ll. On Saturday evening, 7 September 1963, Fidel CASTRO appeared at a Brazilian Embassy reception in ‘Havana; even more unusual, CASTRO submitted to an informal interview by the Associated Press ~Soeseseeneent’ sea Daniel HARKER. . a 2. HARKER's interview reached NewYork on Sunday, 8 September, and was in print throughout the country on Monday, 9 September. ‘There. can’ ‘be: “no question from. the . facts surrounding the( CASO" appdarance, which had not been expected, and his agreement ‘to the interview, that this _ aR event represented a more-than-ordinary attempt to get. a message on the record in the United ‘States. * ST coe
the limited nuclear test ban. There were differences in REPRODUCTION t "oe  SECR Bey Se | | | | | ("_... KENNEDY is times ... the most opportunistic American President of all time ..."). - | : oe | 4. The interview also contained an uncomplimentary reference to Senator GOLDWATER and Cuban delay in signing the replay by United States newspapers like the New York Times and Washington. papers, with a result that CASTRO" s "message" was significantly modulated. 5. In New. Orleans, where Lee Harvey OSWALD resided until the middle’of, Séptenber 1963, the HARKER story appeared in the principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, on Monday, 9 Septembery~page-?, under a three-column head- line: "CASTRO Blasts Raids on Cuba. Says U.S. Leaders Imperiled by Aid to Rebels." The story followed under the HARKER by-line: . “Havana (AP) ~ Prime Minister Fidel Castro said Saturday night: ‘U.S. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba.’ ® a SECRET COCic ge | REFRNOUCTIOR, ee ee ~ PROHIBN COPY, NO.
REPRODUCTION PROMIBITE ¢ SECRET a, “Bitterly denouncing what he called od recent U.S. Prompted “raids on Cuban terri- We) re prepared to SY in kind. U.S. leaders tory, Casto. said: f ‘, %, Mal te acer Aan should thz BR pat if they are aiding terror- ist plans eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.? ee. World affairs cee seemed to be entering a more peaceful climate a few days “ago, but now this trend has changed with . attacks. "The U. Ss. is always ready: to negotiate ~~ and make promises which later it will not. honor. This has happened to promises made. suring the _ October crisis. They have been broken as can be seen with new attacks. "'But I warn this is leading to a very - dangerous situation that could lead to a worse ; crisis than October’ s eae” 6. The New York Times, in its coverage on 9 September, - ysed a UPI wire service report which omitted any reference ~— PROMIGE fala _to the warning and threat which gave the interview its real. “significance. The Washington Post. did an abbreviated re~ write ic) September, page A~7) ‘which, similarly, omitted any reference to. the main thrust of CASTRO' s renatks.. ® SECRET ©
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROHISITED ¢ * SECRET fhe Evening Star of Washington, D. C., printed_the HARKER story nearly in its: entiz ety in the second section of the paper (9 September ta6d,” age B-4) and reworded the content oN, of tHE HARKER thtesview, placing the emphasis on the po- Ser CoN QQHry litical asian in particular, highlighting the GOLDWATER elements and burying CASTRO's warning to the United States leadership in the middle of the piece. 7. ‘There is no evidence in the files on\the KENN assassination)that this CASTRO interview was considered in following up leads or in dealings with the Warren Commission and its staff although Mexico Station specifically directed . Headquarters attention to. the AR. story very shortly after the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears EERE NARA to have been forgotten in the contemporary political consid- eration of relations with CASTRO's Cuba. There is no evidence ST TTR A RI MIN ES in the Agency records, either, that the Warren Commission staff itself pursued the implication of the CASTRO interview in dealing with the conspiracy hypothesis. There is no © esse rsa re ea a NE evidence in the files that anything along these lines was stated by any other Cuban leader beforé the assassination. 8. The purpose of this review, undertaken at Mr. Belin's request, is to reconsider Lee Harvey OSWALD's activity on. the assumption that as an avid newspaper reader = which we know 7 ‘from testimony of Marina OSWALD and others” = he. read ‘the CASTRO warning and threat as reported above. The results _ a 7 7 oe a | | SECRET. mercies . "COPY NO. __ PROBED ;
13-0000 - REPRODUCTION PROLIBITER ¢ a on. SECRET | | er ean gn ~.0f the review, aanittedly heavily using the 20---20 quality of hindsight may be st oo in summary t ee sThere’ is, ig nd increnent of credible e or security service involvement in the as- casi TORI OSSTONe ener TAA ET TST EN PE TTT TT TTT ET sassination to what was developed and con- sidered by the Warren Commission and its staff. The Commission's finding that < Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of President KENNEDY and Officer TIPPIT and did them in alone and of his. own determination stands. aoe b. * redibleevidence" that would upset or significantly modi fy this judgement did (and does) not exist in Washington. But -such evidence could exist in Moscow and/or Havana, whose voluntary inputs to the Warren Commission were minimal in quantity and quality, designed to cover up any admissions of knowledge of, or connection with, OSWALD which might be related directly or indirectly . . with the assassination. Therefore, the belief that there was - Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB and/or . _ bet) connection with OSWALD - will persist and SECRET CoCie4o ©
13-00000 " ¢ e 2 vt SECRET (~=- "grow until there: fas een a full disclosure . ——cmmmerms ~ by these sovermnents.2f all elements of aia”, EE BED wider "window" for this contingency. That, Se ERT eA IP ST NER ce ES TE He Nats .indeed, was the opinion at the working level, particularly in the counterintelligehce com- ponent in‘the CIA in. 1964. As was indicated by Mr. Helms in his testimony before the Warren Commission, CIA would continue. we regard this aspect of the OSWALD case as ~ still open. , oe c. In the absence of adaieional c S Exe OS elements of "credible" overt, < are "nuances" in the record that emerge as note- worthy, in the light of other conclusions. These are reviewed and summarized below, item- - by-item. . | | a CASTRO'S warning and threat of 7 September 1963.5 Af OSWALD did indeed read Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. KENNEDY. Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter cited as Hearings, Vol. V., pp. 120 + 129. See especially p. 124 or. Helms: ‘Yes. I would assume . the case. sould: never be closed. ta ee
{s- 00000 - ‘REPRODUCTION SECRET. it in New Orleans. Aids be considered of great significance, in the light of the pathological evolution of OSWALD's passive/ aggxessive makeup after his attempt to kill Genensi- WALKER. early in April 1963 and his identification with Fidel CASTRO and the Cuban revolution which is directly trace- able as far back as his Marine Corps. service in El Toro, California. CASTRO'’s warning and threat, given to AP corres-. pondent HARKER, irrespective of whether there was any formal mandate, or even security service contact with’ “OSWALD: by the Cubans | or the Russians - was an act of singular irresponsibility and under no “circumstances was excusable as retorsion for what the Cuban emigres were doing during the sumer of 1963. oe a "CUBAN CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, dana ANA, CALIFORNIA, - -BARLY 1959 (?) 9. The testimony of Nelson DELGADO contains an assertion of germinal significance to any review of the background of Lee Harvey OSWALD's feeling toward and relations with | CASTRO’ s Cuba. DELGADO was probably the closest peer group re Oe —  C8C4SAR co - oo pace 69° of ele
13-00000.- . : ene . a : ~ @ _ | SECRET TON —_ “member to OSWALD - during his specialist training period at El Toro Marine, Compe Base December 1958 - September 1959. ooo The Warren ‘Commission Keport takes note of this: osm tere DELGADO that he was in Cees t nel’ wid (aban diplomatic officials in this country, which DELGADO at first took to be ‘one of his lies, but later believed. '"2 10. Actually DELGADO's testimony says a lot more of a euneennenenmnnenenana possible operational significance than is reflected by the TSE the nauort. and ite implications do not am 3 _im ations 3_do not appear sO to have been run down or developed by investigation.. Thus, | >. the record of the bedaela. 9 etcnts-rleptatina il. The period was one of transition im u. Ss. - Cuban relations after CASTRO' s takeover. OSWALD, and DELGADO at the outset, were CASTRO supporters, OSWALD being particu- larly keen about how to get to the island. DELGADO testi-_ fied: . . . | | " ... I didn't know what to tell him, so _ I told him the best thing that I know was to Report to the President's Commission on the Assassination cited as Report, p. 687. 2 SECRET REPRODUCTION oe PAGE 0 of 212 a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED _¥ SECRET _ — co SS get in touch with a. “Cuban Embassy, you know. were on fxiendly, terns with Cuba, you know, ae at so this. wasn" nes subversion or malintent, SY Sin’ t know what to answer him. you k I told him to see them. | "After a while he told me he was in . contact with them... . eX . eee I seen this envelope in his. foot” But at that. time, that Byeola him this - we | | | locker, wall-locker, and it was adaréssea to” him, and they had an official ses: on “pesca” ! as far as I could recollect tint wae. at} Los Angeles, and he was tel 4 Sepete was _ a Cuban Consul. And just after he ‘started | | | receiving these letters - you see, he would never go out, but stay near the post all the time eee | " see he had one visitor after he started receiving letters he had one visiter. It was | aman, because I got the call from the MP . guard shack, and they gave me a call that | | OSWALD had . & visitor. at. the front gate. This” man had. to be a. civilian, otherwise they would have | Tet. himin.,- So. I had to find somebody to. | relieve OSWALD, who was. on guard, to go down, > SECR ET — CClieag Pace 7] cf COPY NO. wie
13-00000 ' man REPRODUCTION OO PRORIBITED ¢ “de ECRET ee there to visit’with this fellow, and they spent about an hor and x hale, two hours, talking, r guess¢ and’ he: sane back. I don't know who the asior \ What they talked about, but he looked Yee” SX” nonchal LaiQ)ebout the whole thing when he came back. He never mentioned who he was, nothing. "Mr. LIEBELER: How long did he talk to. hin, do you remember? "Mr. DELGADO : About an AS ana/halt, two hours ... I "Mx. LIEBELER: You Ge at asked, OSWALD who this fellow was cei tathe 40? | | “Mr. DELGADO : No. No QYS "Mr, LIEBELER: Did you connect this visit that OSWALD had at that time with the Cuban Consulate? | "Mr. DELGADO : I did; because I thought it "funny for him to be receiving a caller at such a ' late date < time. Also, up to this. time he hardly ever received mail; vin fact he seldom - ‘received mail from: home: because I made it a policy, I used te pick up the mail for our unit - and. distripate it te the guys in there, and very seldom did I” ‘ever see one for him. - But every so often, after he started to get in contact with . me ee Jf > SECRET PROMIBITED cots 65° PAGE 12 of 212 COPY NO.
13-00000: i ‘REPRODUCTION. PROMBITED . f ° - 6 a SECRET “~~ -* these Cuban porte @ pares getting letter pamphlets and Se . ag on receiving letters, \ maybe pamphlets, you Saale things we get from church, you ow, but it wasn't a church. | "Mr. LIEBELER: Were they writteh Ye Spanish, any of them, do you knows 2 "Mr. DELGADO : Not meee ¢ can =e no. & 2 : “Mr. LIEBELER: Dig ion . to believe that these things from the Cuban Consulate? "Mr. DELGADO : Well, I took it for granted | that they did after I seen the envelope, you know ... something like een eagle, with a. big, impressive seal, ea Bhow. They had dif— cq “red pe white; almost ferent colors on it looked like our recall the s abt » “> United, s nq stand. It was | "Mr. LIEBELER: You don't know for sure whether it was from the Cuban Consulate? - SECRET - covae. ae) oa CO) PAGE 73, of
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ¢ : e . .@ SECRET ‘ae "Mr. PEEGAPO. $9 o. But he had told me ens that envelope in his aN . e wall roster, thattng as receiving mail from . ed =, Sand ‘ones tine he offered to show it to me, COS Sree no oe interested because at the work to do, and I never did ask prior, just. befoze time we h to see that paper again, you know. ee ee tee Renee Lat cae gunman cute st Aste Saurtnnmee Nunta «gain aan ths snunnteuuhutpangeessetepsnen hire titre ete "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he tell you what his correspondence with the Cuban Consulate was . about? "Mr. DELGADO : No, he didn: EO co "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he ove Gia iets, “$6” you that it had to do with the. conversa Qs that you had about going over ‘to Cuba? "Mr. DELGADO z No. . The only thing he told me was that right after he had this con- versation with the Cuban people was that he was going to - once he an out of the service ~ he was going to Switzer?and a | 12. OSWALD‘ Ss. application to Albert Schweitzer. College, Chuzwalden, Switzerland, ‘was dated. 19 March 1959, and he was. presumably’ to xeport there on 20. April 1960. Destined - £or. discharge | from. the Marines on 7. December 1959, OSWALD e ~ Nw 3 oO . a Hearings, Volume VIII, pp. 241 - 243. - FL _ SECRET COPY NO.
13-00000 accelerated his extn grounds of family hardship in early on the male visitor who contacted OSWALD at El Toro Camp ‘REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED ¢ . ; /@ “oA SECRET Sy Runes 4 September 1959. Cs ‘Seuiteger 1969 he was issued a U.S. passport alia fete - among other places to QE: Cuba and ses asti, <p ere the Soviet Union from — Finland on 1959. 13. DELGADO'S testimony has the cast of credibility. Granting that, it is of basic importance to focus attention and talked with him for between one and a half. to ‘two: hours. _ The event was unique in DELGADO's recollections, and actually —~ Cn at there is nothing like it - on the record ~ in everything else we know about OSWALD's activity in the United States before or after his return to the United States. The record reflects no identification of the EL Toro contact. DELGADO's presump- tion is that he was End the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles. Assuming that, the questions are: Who was it, and was there reporting stom tos“ingetes to Washington and Havana that could, in Gétect¢ represent the opening of a Cuban ee SS file on - OSWA Des ES OY BL | sppeprenrosS OF IDENT KENNEDY'S DEMISE BY COMMUNIST” PARTY CELL LEADER’ MORSE BENITEZ ZABOLA, 1962 oS : , i xy 14. Guatemala Station forwarded to Headquarters on 9 January 1964 a duplicate copy of a raw report. by a 4 ; 7 ' U.S. /Cuban diplomatic and consular relations wareJeevered on 3 January 1961. oo SECRET CECLESS
13-00000..°. PROWIBIT GECRET . % moe -penetration dated 5. wana oS yearly Communise® Panty gen meeting. The cell leader, fan 1962 describing events at the ' Morse BENITEZ, ‘tabola;<aals that the Communist Party in Se cuatanda: shoula forw’& single new party; "We need not ST AG AS)> preoccupy outs’ @s over the politics of President KENNEDY because we know, according to prognostications, that he will die within the present year, 1962." 15. This report apparently had been discounted when ‘it was received and was not forwarded ied: the Station | ; | re-reviewed all of its material after the’ assassination. . The file reflects no follow-up or formal dissemination of the report. ENIGMATIC THREATS BY CUBAN THIRD SECRETARY IN THE 2 mie, 7 NOVEMBER 1963 - 16. A eensitive liaison source, reporting after the KENNEDY assassination, indicated that at the Soviet reception on 7 November 1963, the Cuban Third Secretary, | Ricardo Le SANTOS Pesa, discussed the recent refugee raids on Cuba and | their implications with a host-country diplomat ,— - concluding with the. admonition: " 1... Just wait and you will see what we. can do. rt will happen soon.” “Asked. to be more | specific, what would happen soon, SANTOS replied: "Just wait, just wait." | an These data were passed to the Warren Commission aaa oe by memorandum, 31 March 1964. SANTOS ‘was reported to have. (SECRET. “Tan sna a | : corr iO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMGHT ED SECRET © - | | | | . ar ™ . a history of medical instability and was summarily recalled from The Hague reportedly for reasons related to that fact nS. . aN os in april 1966. INTERCEPTED: CONVERSATIONOF CUBAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE, LUISA CALDERON , _-APTERNOON OF 22 NOVEMBER 1963 KENNEDY assassination, a Cuban Embassy employee name> "Luisa" received a telephone call in Spanish from an uniden= tified male outside. ran —— Oo | 19. The caller asked her if she had heard the latest WIRY news. "Luisa" jokingly replied: "Yes, of are, “knew it almost before KENNEDY ... Imagine, one, two, three and now; that makes three {she laughs], what. barbarians! ..." — , 20. Both speakers agreed on the seriousness of the / assassination. "Luisa a so stated that the party at : ON Silvia DURAN's had-been called off so it would not appear _ Vv that they were. Gelebiating the death of KENNEDY, nor would they have the party: coindide with the burial. Finally she oy said snekeipmnat tome that night into the house of a doctor (a wong Ys riend. 21. Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto suggestion - of foreknowledge? This is the only item in the intercept os = ' coverage of the Cubans and Soviets after the- assassination that contains the suggestion of foreknowledge or expectation... - 15 SECRET COPY NO.
13-00000 is sharply highlighted: By the following facts: " to be working in DGI Headquarters. REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ¢t * .#& SECRET “22. The tenuous, enigmatic character of-the-.conversation “0 ~} = _“buisa” was.) ptpbabl identi Lugs GALDERONY a  g¥are worker of the Cuban _ piredtorate,| gpnéral of Intelligence (DGI). returned to Cuba in 1964 and was reported eee A ge 2 ry 2 + b. The DGI element in Mexico City in the fall of 1963 was headed by Alfredo MIRABEL Diaz — who had arrived on 2 September 1963, formally ‘as the replacement of the Consul Eusebio AZCUE. (departed 19. November 1963). “The-deputy- DEI chief (and as of June 1964, MIRABEL's successor) was Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez. | | c. The “Silvia DURAN" named in Luisa's conversation was the receptionist, a Mexican national, who dealt with OSWALD during his known visits on 27 and 28 September to the Cuban installation$ in connection with a Cuban visa ‘application for stay and/or transit. | Silvia DURAN is the sole live witness on the "record regarding OSWALD's activity in Mexico City. Her testimony, however, in its entirety was taken and presented, solely, by the : Mexican Governmental authorities. A direct. “16 7 Ss E CRET. — CCCLS SA “pace 18 of 212 . COPY NO.
13-00000 Oo REPRODUCTION a PROMIBIT SECRET A | \ aes confrontation with ‘ber was requested by the Warren ‘Commission ‘state but rejected by the Mexican: ‘authorities. It is from Silvia DURAN's ac statements:that it was learned that OSWALD beSen cengagea in a personal altercation on 27 September with Eusebio AZCUE. . | d. Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez, | alias Marcos, and his DGI assistant, Rogelis RODRIGUEZ Lopez, were positively . identified in Pebruary 1964 by two independent sources as engaged in the active development ‘and facilitation of the training’ of. Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of assassinatang General Annstasio. SOMOZA. VEGA, it is estab- lished, was on post in Mexico City during OSWALD's stay there 27 September - 2 October 1963. He left Mexico City on 3 November 1963 for Havana. ~ It was reliably reported about VEGA that all individuals going to Cuba, legally or illegally, had to: pass through him first. He took the biographical data and sent it to Cuba for name checking, a procedure which normally took fifteen days.5 For example, VEGA would have handled the details of the .wisa action and. facilitation of the trip to Cuba via Mexico City from 28 December 1962 - 21 January 1963 that _ Bo - 47 | SECRET. PAGE 19 of 212 Cory NO.
13-00000 ya ‘applications to be handled solely by a ‘local ‘employee and ‘REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED oe SECRET 236. there.- -is, . Ro! evidence in the OSWALD case file that Silvia DURAN wats subjected to a systematic elicitative Coe intesfogation that ‘yéula have related her dealings with | SOF confirmed by intercept, with the data held , on the ‘SES DGI, its personalities and methods, in Mexico City. Was it normal for a case like OSWALD's, considering the fuss he allegedly made with AZCUE, for the a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken: by the DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, “they were not asked at the time. And there remains the more fundamental question: accepting the DURAN story on its face, could it hav appened without the knowledge and participation of the DGI personnel above cited? This seems unlikely especially because VEGA is later gited by a Cuban DGI defector as having stated he was aware OSWALD . made several visits to the cuban Consulate. It is clear ' CASTRO's overseas intelligence and security service could have more in its files than was ‘surfacéd in the DURAN ye was taken by. Vincent Theodore LEE, the organizer of the Fair Play Committee for Cuba, with which OSWALD established relations from Dallas during the period 19 April - — 2 November 1963. There is an overlap between LEE'’s and. _VEGA's travels to Havana during that period: VEGA. '_- @departed Mexico City on 6 January for Havana and returned on 13 ‘February 1963. 18 * BORED COULE SS COPY NO. NAT TEM | | : 0.
13-00000 ¢ ° a ON SECRET ~ statements. Coming back to the beginning: Luisa" - Luisa CALDERON - as ‘a ‘geitber of the DGI unit in Mexico City - uld ver well. have known something that would make what oe she Saja to, ‘her™ unidentified caller less a matter of boast fulsel£“inaulgence than was assumed at the time. _ SDE ED SO TEAL A TTT EE ETE St ttc ee Scones Se - SILVIA puna SUBSTANTIAL AMPLIFICATION OF ADMISSION OF ALLEGED PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, . 1967 24. The defects viewed in hindsight of the Silvia DURAN testimony already have been suggested above. (In that context of criticism it would also be relevant to reconsider the implications of the two intercepted telephone conversations on 26 November 1963 between the Cuban President, DORTICOS, and his Ambassador to Mexico, Joaquim Hernandez ARMAS, because the thrust of the conversation dealt with the ques- tion whether Silvia DURAN had been asked about for been offered?] money payments by her Mexican interrogators.) 25. As of September 1964 Silvia DURAN gave up her Cuban Embassy job. In the spring of 1967 Silvia DURAN was reported by a reliable and sensitive source to have x cut all relations with Cubans. Her account, in 1967 4 ca how ‘she had been taken: into custody and had been, interrégataa after the assassination repeated what was alxéady. row. She added, under circumstances that did nGe permit! the:” , source to challenge or elicit corroborative deteib/”that | 19 : eo SECRET. ! G0C1854_ REPRODUCTION COPY NO.-
13-00000 ? REPRODUCTION ¢t « o& SECRET ~"ghe had gone out with OSWALD during his stay -in Mexico City and claimed she hag Bena relations with hin. Le ALLEGATIONS e “CONS PYRATORIAL CONTACT BETWEEN OSWALD AND CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ALLEGATIONS” OF (aAy~ -ELENA GARRO DE PRAZ AND (B) OSCAR CONTRERAS ~ a Oy SS ike Ae siarren Commission reported, “Literally dozens of aNegations of a conspiratorial contact between OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been 2 investigated ..." n6 Among these cases, which consumed af hundreds of CIA man-hours in Headquarters a abroad ay and similarly the FBI in the United Stafes > was the” nnd Nicaraguan walkin in ‘Mexico City, 26 NovenbeX 1983, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. 27. The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the Warren Commission under the cryptograph "Dp." , ALVARADO EAE TT Sn Claimed that he had seen an American, whom he identified as OSWALD, receive money some time in mid-September 1963 . | ina meeting in a patio of the Cuban Consulate in i i See Report, p. 305 ££. -Some of the others were the cases of Ylario ROJAS Villenueve in Cozumel and Guadaloupe, the allegations of Enrique Ruedolo GONGORA in New York City, | the claims.of Robert. Edward GALLANT, Santa Clara Prison. Farm, California, and the allegations of Ray DOBKIN's. See Report, .pp..307 ~ 308. 20 SECRET _ Rear a
13-00000 . - ‘epommocin ¢ . _@ * 9s SECRET Mexico city. ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the ton ESTERS ES aE ES tame eeetiaNeR use of the polygraphyon which ALVARADO showed evidences of deception, and by bringing ALVARADO's former Nicaraguan security service. cont: into the case. 28. wae ALVARADO, ‘story is a particularly acute repre- sent sfen,of | the. gifficulties that beset the evaluation of CPN)? despite the impeachment of its major premises. wns, whose account ‘did not become public until the release of the Warren Report in October 1964, talked coasistently, of the presence in the Cuban Consulate tr ra on = with red-dyed hair. _ LY’ Ss , 29. Elena GARRO de Paz is a mecurial, a adgitulate and | aetna TEES socially prominent Mexican writer, married, but separated from a high-ranking Mexican foreign service official. She is also the cousin of Horacio DURAN, the husband of | Silvia DURAN, cited above. There is a strong personal  — antipathy between the two women descending £xrom : Elena GARRO's trenchant anti-Communism, oo — . | 30. From October 1964 until his retirement in the fall : of (1969, a U.S. Enbassy officer, Charles THOMAS, persistently kept up a stream of reports: and memoranda reflecting GARRO's account of what ‘had actually- gone on between OSWALD, the. Cubans and <in’ particular Silvia DURAN in September 1963, including a Yengated reference to a Negro with red-dyed hair. SECRET. GUC S55 COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED * SECRET _ 31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in A a Mexico Station Memorandum of Record dated 12 October 1964: . a“ | | | "Elena. GARRO - tsaial that she and her | daughter: Were- invited Sto a party at the Cuban | : . | Embassy “atizing: the period she now finds out . SAY fe ss thaw 8 Ssuain’ assassinXtion. ‘She was invited by a Mexican De wes here in Mexico prior to the _ secretary in the Cuban Embassy whose husband is a cousin of the GARRO family [Horacio DURAN]. At the party she saw three Gringos, not drinking, not mixing and more or less just standing around together like three bumps om a log. They were so obviously out of place that she asked someone in the Cuban_ Embassy about them and was told that ‘they. were just passing through.’ She claims that on the, way these three Gringos stood out she took> a good look at them as did her daughter. When the assassination occurred and OSWALD's picture was spread into the newspapers, both Elena and her daughter immediately said that he was one . of the three Gringos ‘without a doubt’ at the party." . a, | _ 32. GARRO repeated her story to Mr. Charles William THOMAS, an Embassy political officer on 10 December 1965: Be AePeooueTioR 7 . 7 | cars 4 oa - PROMIBITED | | oe _ ==
13-00000 Oy Deke? REPRODUCTION PROUIBITED ad . SECRET In September 196\after her return from abroad, she went to a party x: Gecinibanied by her daughter, at the home of muben ‘DORAN.’ ‘temphasy s added]. Ruben is one of the two péSthers of oxstio DURAN, who married her cousin. She met OStiBED) ha two other young Americans. At the party | she wie SE: discouraged from talking with him. Other guests © were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark FLORES, — Silvia DURAN, who she later learned was “OSWALD's. mistress while he was here, Emilio CARBALLIDO and a Latin American Negro man with red hair [emphasis added]. In November 1963 when the identity of the assassin became known, she and her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted "assassins" and other insults at the staff there. ® Shortly 7 afterward, she and her daughter were visited by a friend,- Manuel CARVILLO [or -CALVELLO], then an official in the aan Secretariat of. tlie: Gobernat ion and were told he had orders i <r a smaIVand obscure hotel in the center SN ‘ y wo ‘set there for eight days under pretext of town... ger. When she told CARVILLO she wanted to go to the Américan Embassy and explain what she knew of OSWALD, she was told that the American Embassy was full of © Communist spies. | wo tay 33. On 25 December 1965 and 9 January 1966 in further? ” interviews with THOMAS, GARRO- and her daughter elaborated and These particulars were not confirmed by independent observers “at the time. 23 SEC RET C8CiScs Pace 85 | of 912 COPY Wo.
13-00000 : ° AEN Ce te REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED ¢ . , @ "oe SECRET aw in certain partigulars significantly modified her earlier Le account. “ “also: acknowledged that she and her daughter had been Snterviewed by Embassy officers to whom she claimed ~ oe tnezGi not sive, a°very complete story because the vavening Macy os said. ; . ne a 34. It developed that GARRO and daughter had béen ~° account to THOMAS but had not been subst Biatea by oy uiries. The FBI representative therefore considered the mitter closed and reaffirmed his disengagement from the matter to the CIA Chief of Station on 27 December 1964 and to the Ambassador on 25 February 1965. 35. The Embassy Political officer, however, persisted in his interviews and reporting. In a memorandum of conversation, Fr a cael . 13 July 1966, GARRO identified the place to which she had been "taken by CALVILLO as the Hotel Vermont. (This detail checked out sifimmatively: - GARRQ was at the Hotel 23 - 24, 25 - 27 and 28 - 30 Revember, 1963. ) In another, on 7 February 1967, GARRO's Fe! i Sai scituaes with the Cubans are set out. . on aS 5 And ‘inal ue SOMAS' s retirement from U. S.. Government. a service, the Department of State, at his request, 28 August 1969, disseminated to CIA and FBI a ‘compilation of. Ss “> his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews. : 24, SECRET 6Cecass3 of ; COPY NO.
13-00000 t | ™N 7" “36. There the matter rests. REPRODUCTION PROGBIT ft SECRET GARRO's chronology of the ‘ ccna aaa, events she described. as havin (a) Cheer Eat eB SOT capital in September 1963. Rever coincided with the confirmed data of OSWALD's presence there. Her story, however, had two pointe, cogseyene with ‘allegations by others regarding \ 2s e vey? OSWALD: WS XY a. RADO's allegations regarding the Negro with the red-dyed hair [this detail could, however, have been gleaned from the ates Warren Commission’ s published account of the ®D" case] and b. Silvia DURAN's later claim of = SR intimate personal contacts with mien Y 37. Mey 3367, the American Consul, Benjamin J. RUYLE, in ampico developed a area RENT cn ‘Beginning in March and amplified contact with a local Mexican journalist, Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who claimed to have encountered OSWALD with other pro-CASTRO students at the “University of Mexico campus in September 1563. 38. In June 1969 CONTRERAS was interviewed by a CIA officer: oe >» Be’ studied Jay at the University of Mexico a fa for three. approximately 1960 = 1964. He belongea to a clandestine pro-CASTRO revolutionary. , ; group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD SECRET  COC4E CS ” pace 87. of 2i2 ‘COPY NO.
13-00000 - RPRAOUET held in the faculty of Philosophy. “OSWALD LSS 39. At thi REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED f . . “ SECRET case he was extremely cautious and although he was not wee to give dates and ON » names, he Gi GNOSHA D visited the University CFR, NS a visa to visit Cuba. quiries. regarding pro-Cuban revoluesy dey groups at the University and was directed to CONTRERAS and his friend. | OSWALD met CONTRERAS and four other persons. as they came out of a round-table discussion told the group it was urgent, tHiat he visit, - Cuba and the Cuban Embassy had“dented him a 7] -wisa. He requested aid from ‘@owiaenis* group. _ CONTRERAS and others mistrusted OSWALD because they felt he was a CIA provocation. The group allowed OSWALD to accompany them the rest of the day, that night and part Sa the next day. OSWALD was very introverted and appeared to be slightly crazy. OSWALD made’ no ment fon of an assassination a ~ PO a plot but kept bx fnging sb toe! point he had to travel to 2 ihmea bat ye . oe Roe is oL SY h FBI knowledge, the matter was turned over to the Mexican authorities who determined that . CONTRERAS was indeed at ‘the: University of Mexico but only SECRET  ECCisei Ss. _ oe race 88 op 21” COPY NO.
43-00000° ¢ SECRET come meee for the years 1959 ~ 1260 and that he had been publicly Pe SSy associated in protest, activity for the Student Revolutionary Bloc (BER) in anuary “1961. However, the group ceased functioning-as such tp pie middle of 1962, and Oscar work i Apart from the unsustained claims made by CONTRERAS about his own presence at the University, there is an additional element that undermines the credibility of his, accounts, OSWALD's Spanish, which was barely adequate- to get him méals near the hotel, seems hardly likely to have. permitted” him to c on for an extended eriod with versi “Student arry P @ipiv ersity group. Xs 27 SECRET GI01° G2 - OUT a G COPY NO. “eeu PROHIBITE of 2 2 aE
13-00000 l . - REPRODUCTION a PROMIBITED L — ( arn a Ce XAAZ-2259¢ 31 January 1964 ce an SE ten developed by CIA on or Lee Harvey CSWALD in Mexico City. We bave incladed in this paper only hard, achbstaxtive information, Any judgments that are made represent pro- fessional evaluations by individuals whe have worked over the years a3 specialists in their fields, Speculation, rumor, and vague detail not directly related to CSWALD's activity have not been inchaled, ee ne ae ee cae narrate nan pttrttnnapaannni ae 2 Pursuant to our discussion.on 14 January 1764, I have given the enclosure an appropriate Classification, The compromise of this material in its present form would lead directly to the destruction of current sources and methods af ' : this Agency in Mexico | and elsewbere, i _, Document Number 509- 527-g03, / (signed) © | for FO Richard Heles i anion om oR. sy 1976 Seputy Director for Plans © get , aroun ti on , Orig & 1 « Addressee w/att v | a Lv — . | Lew DDP w/att ye a 1 « WH/3 (Mr. Whitten) w/att” Enclosure - & 1. SR/CI w/attv “Chief, CI/R&A wiatt / - qk OS cURGReccasde/ 31 3) January 1964 | a | SO US GoFY 7 _ par BRN pavrastaes | aay i. fas! a Runeuser
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 7 PROLIBITED KS - GEC er | Wes, wo { , ™~ aa SGI 7% AND 4 + Hee informatio on D evetoned by CLA on the Activity of v.34 F: y OSWALD ink RECS City : - 23 Sen smbes «» 3, Octepax’ 1953 31 Jaauary 1964 | | i | | | | | =the GIA S ation in Mexico City received NO a i 1. On9 See the following information irikn a reliable azd proven source: An American nusumed Lee OSWALD had contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuescay, 1 October 1963, He had spoken in halting Russianto the Soviet _ oe Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to whom ot he said ho had visited the Embassy two days earlier, Saturday, 28 September. Re asked whether there had» | beena seply to 2 telegram that the. Consul with whom be : had spoken, but whose pame he could, not veces, had» promised to send to Washington, OBYEDKOV nad - attempted to establiok the Aventity of the Consul with whom OSWALD had satkeds if uc had been a daz: yutson, then it had mr ebebhy b becy KOSTINOV, OBYEDKOV, | Seem NET WM oat Le qm qame # 8 Seeedt i WARMING NOTICE . j ¢ SENSITIVE SCURCES AND. 8 . vy. . 6 tRY ARS Ines Leeeom COPY NO. |
1,3-00000 - REPRODUCTION oo - wpe Pe eT ; ~ . oem Oe ao _— Aw Ey after a check with Sovict Consular personnel, asaured OSWALD the telegram had been sent to Washizgton but no answer had been received, The informat ion was forwarded AON Io ta CLA Hoadquaxters ZN tho 62m6 aay it was receivade . Wd ’ ‘: ‘S matters roveate the possibility of ofan ident sity between the Lee Se OSWALD who had spoken with OBYEDKOV, and presumably Ny | Ze & file cheek. ia weaning en is routine in thease - | | | with KOSTIXOV, and the defectar returnce, Lee Harvey OSWALD,* 3, On10 October 1963 CIA Headquarters disseminated by ae | : * cable the report in substantially the form and in the detail — indicatad above, in paragraph 1, to the Federal agonuciss whoss jurisdictional interesta bad been established by a review of OSWALD's file; the Federal Burceu of Investigation, the Depar to % ‘The CIA file on Lee Harvey. CSWALD was opened on 9 Decormber 1960 to accammodate biographic information developed by CLA ia response to an inquiry from the Department of State ona list of : j American defectors in Soviet Bloc countries, OSWALD's was . 7 ' arnong the names in the list, ‘T he Department of State inquiry was dated.25. October 1960,. An interim reply was given by CLA on 3 November 1960; a final reply, on 21 November 1950, Uniti eazly October 1963 the contents of ths OSWALD file held by CIA - consisted entirely: of press materials and disseminations received from the Department of Stata, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Navy Department, mo . Wrest bed | pe wee 8 Deed : SED seiiWe SOURCES ANG t i ae of i METHODS INVOLVED a . ™ Ce oe an . ; ; ata nena rs me oe opm cere. — er) wun Fe ve "Npa pe ee ee TL ag ome 20 aan athe ES a, t Lek lea emai ae aoe. tina SAGAN ig eatin ae ce ed ~ ot ss ee or jot = ‘oe ee hem als a wae . Sorte waa. PAGE 136 o212_ COPY NO. __
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITE a . . st ~ o 7 e ome ee fm eg gt he. mr i i Serie aT ‘oganae! AND ™~ He es TODS Wie TD shies No wacut of State, the Navy Degasimest, and the Immicration and Apcommont was included in the repart Naturalization Serviée. noting the, Mikeltbood chat: #2) veubject, Lee OSWALD, was » or obably identical with 5 the former Marine who had defected to Ve the Soviet Union in 1989. (The report disseminated by CIA in NS . Washington on 10 Ccteber also included a physical descriptian pa ee eee ate ne mene ene ae et nee ne ef EES ° of an individual who was believed to have been the OSWALD wher, had contacted the Soviets in Mexico City, It was sub Beg ently: * | established by investigation that the description cf dia not perta fa wot. I TTY ° | to OSWALD, ) , Wa : 4, Onthe same day, 10 October 1983, CIA Headquarters sent a lengthy cable summary to the Mexico City Station of the 7 background information held in the Neadquarters! file on ~ SWALD, An instruction was incluled for the Mexico City Station to pass the substance of its 9 Cetoher report to tho local representatives of the same Federal departments aad ageacies that had beea given the information in Washington, This instruction was immediately carried out, ta this manner the information on OSWALD ta contact with ‘he Soviets on 1 Cctaber was passed in Mecice City to the e Embassy, the BI representative, ot tha Ne aval Attache, and to the office of the lmmigr ation and . Neturalizatt on Service. There were no requssts from secigants of ' the report far further information or for follow-up investication, quiets ewes ene | WARINNG io. _ - en i SENSITIVE SCURCES AND co Nsd. me : ; METHODS INVOLYEA BO — Geketag REPRODUCTION «ss i am 137 | EX l | oo pace 137 oe 212 : a . OO COPY HO. __ _.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITER *. Sq 2 ~ oad 4 Snail _— . seem ee ma wean . te 8 . we an . ie '§. After the assassination ci President MenacJy and the arrest of Lec Harvey OSWALD, an Intensive review of all ANN a BLO s available sources wa .s uidextaise in Mexico © tty to dctermaine fac puspos se aic ot i ALD's visite: It was learncd that OSWALD en we “A . : \ aN ~ wd oO: as : ¢ ° & had also ted the Cube Consulate in Mexico City anc bad . ee talxed there en clexe, a Mosican national, named Suvisa - DURAN. After the assassination and the publicity about Lee OSWALD, Slvia DURAN had told a nurther of relatives and fvlonda that she had talked to OSWALD about a Cuban visa. Silvia DURAN and her husband, Horesio DURAN Navarro, wera detained and questioned by the Mexican police from 23 to 25 November 1963. 6 Aftes glving some of the details of her own personal background - she ls an adraitted Leftist sympathizer and had formerly wort ced for the Mexican-Cuban Institute of Cultuzal Relations - Silvia DURAN said that when she first head of the AS . death of President Keanedy ana yecn deprossec and thought - Na the assassin must ape eens mani When she learned that he was assoc weit the nFaly. Play for Guba Coramltteo"" OOS * she did net be a its” . 7. She talked about the case to her husband and when she heard the name of Lee OSWALD montioned, she recognized it as aS OED RN Ee Fa aniffenthtt ] WARXIMG NOTICE | ; rs i SENSITIVE SCH ET res AND ote RETIRES AMET Og ‘ew wgea OT SG So ao eam tenn em - COPY NO.
i "REPRODUCTION pe ——— BRORIBITIED & « —_ a ; nee ; . ee ee ee my : the man who had corne to the Consulate about two months before to gcta visa to trans cay his way to the USSR. She N vealised that sacle aia was married to a Russian and that = ot he ha lo ged to the ne aig Play for Cuba" ; group. She checked me 2 fi oa it in the Consular ayehives and from the descietivé =~ data, she wis gure it was the samc man. He was short, blond, . - poorly dressed and his faco got rod when he talked He was denied a Cuban transit visa because he did not yst have a Sovict | oo ; visa, and he was told to get tho Soviet visa flret,. bat it was noted. | “ that this would take about four months. ‘Ske had asked the Cuban - a | Consul himself, ‘Eusebio AZCUE, to talk te OSWALD and they | had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Mexico | | instead of waiting there. The Coneul had phoned the Soviet Con- sulate and talked to. the person handling OSWALD's case, who had said it would take about four months to hear i from Moscow about the Sovict yisa, The s ene OSWALD had come back again and she bad 2 same thing. ‘Sha’ a gave Se site ane and telephone number oa . OSWALD a alle. it in case ies got his soupet’ visa. He didnot call back, she sald. 8. Silvia DuRANs husband, rf oracio DURAN Navar IQ, gave ; essentially the sarae story, as he had previously heard it from his wife aiter the assassisatlon. He had never had any Personal contact with OSWALD. os seman se 8 gem ERGY VARIG POUR * — envi fr~ pier * ke 6 hee enna! AND wees ie | 3h piSitiVe 5 Ba ces. * Pon) @ seems se se ne ccenereemeeneeeRennS oneness «empties ineremeemnttrtemmrmenmnsenniemnge = ~omame em o ra Babbar hd _ . het ee ea ee a eee ee . . -- : ae oa 7° om :
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED a $ ° ™ - . - ’ “, o eeepc ssi SSA « eepa hom é ‘ CF eo: “yy - 2] 9. Siivia DORAN wes reiater gated by the Moestican police from 27 to 29 November & BUR che did not chaage or add materially “oO to her story ahout. ‘osws AED, | vale et go! ath * Atte in known thet the Cuban Amba ; Cupnan Government sent the Mossican Government a stif’ note of | ~~ . . ~ I protest, which the Mexicans rejected, ae ES | ll. Me gre xctiably informed that on 26 -wevenee, $hxe day after DURAN's release, Gubsa Providers DOT cos suszicd - HERNANDEZ about his renort, HERNANDEZ confirmed that » there had been an altercation between CSWALD and Consul ae AZGUE, DORTICOS made a persictent but unsuccessful effort to determine from HERNANDEZ whether the Mexican authorities oy . had ques stioned M Be. DURAN about money, or thought that the confirmed x = which have a bearing on Mes, DURAN's account: | : ° ae 27 Segtember. ta mid-afternoon, Silvia DURAN informed the Soviet Embass sy thata mals Amorican citizen: we ‘nad requested a visa ta transit Cuba on his way to. the “bi (BITED a
- REPRODUICTICR po PROWIBIT ° ~ a wt menee we eens eee oe meres i fa WAG pa | } ce ay : < 6 me wes ae . . : ed Soviot Union. Sue desired to know who the American had oN, tabsed with z % the Soviet Consulate, Also, she indicated that the Cuban Con alate coula grant kim the visa and i arrange immigrationdetetl if the couceasion of a Soviet a “were asouréd, ~ ee Bi Sentember, Pursuant to her incuiry, Silvia eet ar eae oon Ar, HAN, ast DURAN received a confirmation from the Soviet Eiabasey that the American had beon to the USSR jmsialation, Ee a bad shown them a letter frora the Soviet Consulate, a ext + ry Washington indicating that he had been 1 2g awaiting a visa for himself and his wits to go to the USSR. No Ls eee gue wee ented amet ‘ > answer bad come from Washington nj however, the waiting period was sometimes four or five months, The American also had a letter attesting that he was a member ofa proe . Cuban orga nization but he ned aimed that the Cubans would not give him a visa ‘unlces ho had already received a Russian visa, ~~ oo 2S Although she America =} was still at the Cuban . EA van \e Gonsulate, via oe repeated that she douild not give - _ hima transit visa unless a Soviet viea was forthcoming, . notwithstanding the Americaals wish to go to Cuba to wait 2 vy we af nomtisenineometecotene oan sepa 48 etto58 INVOLL na COPY NO.
13-00000..:*- REPRODUCTION . ~ there for his Soviet vise %, s#ccording to DURAN, the (eS American know ae. ene Cuba. and shoe istesd ed to o , appr opsiatély aanotate: the Amezican's card, The Soviet Silvia DURAN was erain visited ~ eo co Jf at the Cuban Embascy in Mozzico City by the Americans secking a Cuban transit visa, Mrs, D GRAN contacted: at least two members of the Soviet t Rusboosy and £ facitizarid @ diroct conver sat: ion between one 6f the! Saviets ‘and the . WSs’ . American, Conversing in poor Russian, the-American ' stated that he | alzeady had been to the Soviet Consulate and had icoft anaddresa, The Sovict official replied that he was aware’ of that, ‘The American sugvested thot he had not known his address then, and he had gone to the of SR anne een . Cuban Embassy to ask for tha address, because they pad it, The American then acceded to the Soviet oificialls - invitation te come by and. give:them the adereas. | a 1 October, In mid-morning an unidentif fied i individual, speaking’ broken Rus cian, eortacted the Soviet fal a ——nanennarme , cd Mi itary Attache in s Mexico City. He said he had been to. REPRODUCTION — Oo ee p22 ~ PRORIBITED ~
: ETI ’ e fa _ Co « §& o ” ° ~\ wroweees ane esees om Lt aes omens e SEP’ teere had u, sens ~s et A THOGS ; or ED | tac Brcbasey tho previous Saturday (28 September) ax | nN : had telked with 2 Sousrb who had said they would cend a . tolegra om 1 to Washington kad there becnareply? He | wo oo-teferred to the Condi ate for the information, | ma Ca @ wl State, aud the Federal Bursau of isyvestication, an e, 1 Octeber, Seo paragraph 1 2hove for Lea OSWALD's contact with the Soviet Consulate. MN, Veloriy Viadissivevich LOST ovo ~ ° . 13. Ib is believed that the Soviet official se whem OSWALD dealt in Mexico City was Consular Attache Valeriy Visdimirovich ROSTIROV, born in Moscow, 17 March 1933, A photograph of f KOST TKOV, is attached, In his letter cf CORED wrote about his aeetings ith Comrade KOST (Sic) aéshe Soviet Unios in Mexico! oe Mezigo," There is no official — Se oe of the Sevier + Embasey te Mexico City with a name resemibling. WKOSTIN", othig Yhen Co Consul KOSTIXOV, 14, KOSTIKOV is the senicr cfficer of five Sovict Consular representatives who deal with visas and related . : re a sae Lege TS ie SObaCES’ a eee EE, Ce chase Non? = REPRODUCTION = : - a PROMISITED
13-00000 G , | t 7 PaO OUCTIC CLASSIFIED MESSAGE (_ 49 Sececy ae “| Th ifollowing ac action “Es” 4 ees ce) ¢ DIRECTOR ‘ROM : MEXICO CITY BS PRUE \CTION: C/SR 5, “(MRS BAGLEY, SR, MR. REICHHARDT, wis. ANORDS: Kadina: ~ .COPLES ISSUED AT 0030, 24 Nov 6 . NFO. ADDP, C/Cl, c/ci/oPs,. C/Fi, C/wH2, D/OS'2, VR Note: If destruction, cite o~ a reasons and coordinate 3) AE - 4 appropriete. | | ena? RED 000, Lorim OVER REF DIR gABEy a: er PASIMPOET CL By_O7ad oF Tuto Pp OF LOCAL AF7ILE PR OV IDED BENG "SUFFICIENTLY DEFINITIVE. SUMMARY CONTACTS IVAN GAVRILOVICH ALFERTEV CUNLESS OF HERW ISE STATED , INFO FROM LIENVOY) . is, 19, 25 NOV 6@ CONTACTS WITH ENRIQUETA GOMEZ OF GON RE EXTENSION OF COURTESY PERMIT FOR SELF REMAIN IN MEXT 4 185 11 Nov 6@ WITH FNU VARELA RE DELIVERY OF SUBJ'S FURNITURE. ~ .9° NO 62 AND 7 MAR 61 WITH JUAN SEDILLO RE INSURANCE SUBJ CAR. - .8 NOV 6% SERGIO DURAN OF NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK RE PICKUP OF MONEY. _ 14, 15 NOV HUMBERTO GONZALEZ RE PICKING UP NEW CAR. 25 -28 NO SUBJ. TREATED )_ AR SANAT ORIO REFORMA CUSUALLY USED 8Y sos) BY WELL KNOWN Lerrist DR. CARLOS NOBLE HOYO WHO USED ~ FREQUENTLY BY sos. 83° DEG WITH THIRD SEC CUBAN CULTURAL ATTACHE TERESA PROENZA*RE saRaerye mess CONFER ENCE FOR ROLANDO CUBELA 2 PRESIDENT OF ‘CUBAN FEuS? 18 FEB AND 28 MAR 61 WITH DENTIST DR. " LESLIE VALERY FOR} SP OINTMENT FIX SON’S TEETH.” VALERY > Dd al-2€7 ate SY SOVS. 1 MAR ARRANGES MEETING WITH IGNACIO ACQSra .* ' Ho Meyney VIO JOF “E pies t H ~—-- db udy BES SBT MIN wewnoed FREQUENTLY USED LAGUNES, PROMINENT FRO. COMHIE AIDE OF GEN LAZARO CARDENAS. 28 MAR FNU FEMALE NANJARREZ (PHONET Gy Epyon MONITOR S3ELIEVES BE ANER i rents. Dis SECRET we a folate te al wt . es P gn te sa a an REPRODUCTION. BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE is PROHISITED ' Copy Ne. “ee eg TET OTE a eanwTE oR ed Ga 02r47 COPY. No.
_ REPRODUCTION —. Femumvor + or me CLASSIFIED MESSAGE IN_6728;_paGs 2 BS ee mm fSewons = a Ae EE ETO ON. eT aD ED MD TALKS FAMILIARLY WITH SU8J AND INVITES HIM TO PRESS CONFERENSS~" En. om? a tae Ge CUD SONNE HY ee term + TURE AT HOTEL REFORMA EHERE A CUBAN TO SPEAK. 3 MAY WITH Guadalupe PEREZ MACIA OF GOBERNACTON RE ‘OBTAINING CUNDETERMIN 12D) VISA. 4- .JUNE AND 6 JULY with “‘OScaR GANT AELLAy FORD SALESMAN. 7 JUNE WiTd JUAN ZAR CLAC, AND FNU PEREB“GR0Z.C0, 1 ‘DOD GE SALESUEN. 2 AUG CALL Ss [ROGER onoseer. ‘KATZ. OF " FRANCE FRESSE” TO INVITE To sovena ‘PRESS . CONFERENCE. NS Bay AND 16 JUNE 1962 CALLS EDMUNDO JARDON OF PRENSA LATINA TO GET TOGETHER. 14 JUNE ASKS SPEAK WITH DR. GUILLERKO MONTANO ISLAS, PROMINENT MEXICAN PRO CONMIE LEADER VELL KNOUN HOS. 22 JUNE HE AND TASS REP ANATOLIY PAVLENKO INVITED. TO LUNCHEON BY MEXICAN PRESIDENT'S PRESS SEC HUMSERTO ROMERO. 25 SEP IS INVITED TO LUNCHEON WITH DR. IGNACIO CHAVEZ, RECTOR AT UNAM. 3 DEC ACCEPTS — INVITE ATTEND BUFFET FOR PRESS ON BEHALF CARL J. KI@MAIL, u-S. | NEVS AND WORLD REPORT. 23 JAN 63 HORACIO CHANCACLINI OF UNITED | NaT IONS POSTPONES HIS APPGENEMENT WITH ‘SUBJ. 19 FEB FNU SABIN CASRERA OF INSURANCE. FIRM: RE PAYMENTS. 8 MAR INVITES CaNaDIAN NEW SPAPERMAN JOHN “AL TUS To ‘expe DINNER. 36 APR REQUESTS APPSI ENT veseen wooieatrenes it WITH R ICARDA. “POERY CERVANTES, PROMINENT: sLEFPIST ‘JOURNAL Ist IN | oe weno * te eNOS cee 1 eer « CL OSE FREQUENT iad SOV S. i An £7 “RY TALKS Wisa NEV YORK KE TIMES REP PAUL EDY wHO INVITES. SUbd- DINNEN Be 26 WAY. 18 XsY DIRECTOR OF VOZ DE MEXICO AND PCM CENTRAL CONMITTEEMAN GaNUEL TERRAZAS GUERRERO, ASKS SU3J FOR SOV FINANCIAL suBSIDY.: 23° AY “SUBJ CALLS JOHN RETTIE (SEE NEXT 4785). 14 JUNE: ‘CALLS "WELL “KNOW _ os mee: LEFT Ist CLEMENT INa BASSGLS To INTERV IEW HER. 14 oct INVITES - 2 te EN IQUE LOUBET OF EXCELSIOR TO SOVEN2 “RECEPTION BEMAL F COSNONALT S, wee woes 7 ca fat te “SAME | maa
a epanuci —s3 ZUASsIFIED MESSAGE [ i C 14 OcT. INVITES JAVIER SANTOS LORENT OF NOVEDADES T3 Sakl ew EVIL Tv 3$@ OCT UNSUCCESSFULLY IR IES CONTACT CLENENTINA BASSGLS. 14 TRIES CONTACT RICARDO POERY CERVANTES. . 1A AND 13 NOV ARRANGES SAE i VIRGINIA omen | LEFT ISE- ‘AND PAR AMOUR OF POERY. C/S COMMENT: *-REQUESTED INFO RE TRAVEL VALERIY. VLADIMIROV ICH KOSTIKOY, v +8 2 @-twor sence =o ee Men rmtett i tamer ratte tee var REN AEROS ® . e 5 . 4 : e PROZIBITED ——_ :
13-00000 REPRODUCTION a) Maguire more nee semen nie pee ve Fob meme ee a: ~ cs] . oe . 27s BRGY f} INDEX xT: 5613 °  — (J NO INDEX DATE: 95 How 63 ‘> Cy FILE IN CS FILE NO. THS WHITE SCUSR ATTH: MOCGEORGS BUNDY TO : DEPARTMEST OF STATS ATT#: MR. U. ALEXIS JOHNSON FRGH : crm CENTRAL INTELLIGESCE AGENCY . - . . DEFERRED oct, GD « VR* ag ont) DOEDIATR CIEDR grasa - “ 85246. OF MEXICO TOLD THE FOLLOWING . ; | ROCIO DE LOPE) SAID A Scat IN Ld OF pismesrd RCORIT, sq haves Tr MEW GHATS Wis WELL, aDQLATiNED wanyjfize oswatD. "SON TH LAW IS A CUBAN WHO LIVES AS 212 JEFFERSON PARRISH, NEW ORLEANS, 7 | T2Le VERNON 5.9658. ARNESTO RODRIGUEZ RUNS A SPANISH LAieuaGE scucoL | Axp IS ABET CASTRO. ACCORDING TO MARIA RODRIGUEZ UE Lob HER Gon for FOIA Raview'dn APR 1978 €} Oo ti ~ : Oo. 4 : 5 : 23 m - i CLASSIFICATION REVIEW _ conouctzo on_2.4_ MAY i877 &_IMPGET CL BY.2/22 °° | ‘¢/S COMMENT: * DISSEMINATION APPLICABLE TO RYBAT GPFLOOR CABLES. END OF MESSAGS oe ite c+] a Dar-avtad | _ RELEASING OFFICER “ AUTHENTICATING OFFICER REPRODUCT ION BY OTHER THAN : -THE ISSUING OFFICE IS. PROHIBITED. | Gepy Now “SEED oe a
13-00000 © pen PROMIBIT ED . ® ‘ : —— ™ - BOC. MICRO. SER. MAY 1517S | 27 (OK es | _MICROFILMED aL vee | TO : Director - IZ om, YICCE : Federal Bureau 62: ‘Tnvestigatioa Fa ttention: ite, Ss ~J, Papich F2 ; _Snvey Brera SPtana) py A us as Attachment pia eed resume of the observed P a4 Viadinmiroyi mG yan Cayvriiow asl of Sts es of Valeriy ef CSTIXSY and Lys 0! IGMOaLZSRIEY ag re tiable source in HMaxico City. rorSual Attestion was given to,KOSTI 4 ce Gey tRat_he is the consul“ yas “int 23 September _ lw Mines yo55 (see CSCI-3 7825, 25 November 1593). ALSERIEV trav- weme Slied with KOSTISOY to Horthern Mexico during the early part AANE beaw ct Sestember 1963. Seurce reported that during the period . coated under review the observed activities af\£OSTIEOV and ALFDRIZSY ! fora > appeared to be normal, a5. did the. aetive e3 of the entire . Soviet Eabassy complement. ae : . : NC A > a. Forwarded as Attachwent Bis a resume of telephone cas placed to and from the Soviet. Embasay on the afternoon 2 22 November. Anal fof calls: made-the morning o2 22 Noveaber and the : “and aZterncon oZ 23 Navember re= . vealed neo pertinent aS ae Sy? 3. Technical survet: $3 of the hemes of several known and suspectsd Soyiet inteliigence officers produced no pertie nent informatica. @ Forwarded as Attachwent C is @ list identifying the ‘Soviets whose names appear in Attachments A and B. 3. Bacause of the extrene sensitivity of the enclosed information, we urge that the sources data and the information ‘be given the most secure handling possible. This. informatica . is for background use only and may not. be disseainated without . . permission from this Agency. " “TREGOND COPY] Poon renter 187-62 oz a for FOIA, Reyieir on APR 1876 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW _ SEGRET : sonpueren on 24 MAY 187 ; Ng Fer Gh DISSE A a 27 her 63- E—IMPOET CL av_6/2.2.24 | eS “28426 CSCI~2/778,881 — PROAIBATED a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ae ry Dee ’ ~, a FOP yom ae WS io Za wa/3/ilexice/Terry Ward:urd 27 Novenber 1363 Distribution: BaASIcs: Orig. « . - Addressee . MEMT<7C50 (IN-37292) L @ RI (201~289248) HEsZI@-7O038 CIN-672523) L= CI/LIA oF ss Maxle7036 (IN-67237) = CI/REA -- . obs _ HEST-7034 (IN-67231) CI/SIG oe! UES l~FO32 (IN-67198) 2 = = “WH/3 /ilexico” : HO. PROJECT Ny ae | SEGE ET NO FOE GH DISSES PRONETTED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISITED Enclosure a 18 November 0857 —- Alferiev enters Eabassy alone (Departure not nated) 1556 - Xostikov entera\ tone oe 7 1629 Koatikev: ‘departs: alone | 1856 =Késtizov enters alone yest By Réstixow: departs alone | | 1755 = Roatikev enters alone 19 November | 1216 ~ AlZerievy enters Embassy alone 1312 — Alferiey departs with Garmaschey 1352 — Alferiey and Gatnaschev retura 1413 = Kostakow: departs alone a = ANS - 1833 = Alfertey centers: ‘alone | fior departure not noted) vO 1633 = Eostikaw\sxters viene ao November No coverage 21 November 0852 - Alferiev enters Bubasay. sith wife MD oil Sse FONE ng 380 ee
13-00000 N S REPRODUCTI PROHIBITED £2 290 OY I set gE . ° . i aan & ae sl NO FOREIGH ogee Teel? Bs noi’ i 0816 .—. Zostizkov enters alone O317 - Alfertey departs alone 0949 ~ Alferiey enters alone 1133 - Zostikoy departs with Shubin 1206 - Alferies departs alone . . = 1240 = Roatixov enters ‘with Shubin . 1310 =< Rie std 3 dar driven by KGB chauffeur Kalinin 1341 ~ istincr ‘enters. with Kalinin ; 1353 - Alferie} enters alone | 4427 - Kostikov departs alone | 1630 — Kostikov enters alone : b. | | >} November - €853 - Alferiev enters Embassy alone 0904 ~ Xostikov enters alone 1003 ~ Kostixov has discussion with Shubin 1016 — Kostikov departs with Shubin 1028 = Kostikov enters ‘with: Shubin 1020 ~ Kostikov departs. wie. wie and Shubin 1250 ~ Koatixond, wit and. Shubin return | 1302-1312 - Raat ‘apenas in garden with Kazantsev — “1336 Kostikoy departs with Shubin, Shpakevich, ‘Teryein, 1402 . = All above return . driven by Badan RPAOOUCTIOR PRORATED TAPEe} Tere No Fer ul GH GISScH COPY NO. __ ‘PAGE ASL e212.
13-00000 | ! ; 1492 1539 1240 1410 - *1425 1439 . 1440 1100 1207 : ceacia 7 REPRODUCTION PROHISITED PnF — AG Fares AIQREN oo to - Xéstikov tal cing in garden with Algeriev, 4 and Purygin sostikov vepar’* 2a car with family ~ Alferiey dopattS, alone v= Alfersev ‘enters. Dee . oN caer depaxta\ai ne Vo coe mY Alferiev.. enters alone \ ee ye = xoshiwoy enters alone 23 Noveuber - Eostikey syeaks with Kazantsey and Shubin = Kostikoy departs with Hazantsey and Shubin _ Alferieyv enters alone = Xostikov, gazantsev and Shubin:enter we - Kostikov Page vyolteybatT with Kazantsev,. Borkinanoys and. § ye? ~ Kostikov s speaks\ tg SkwBin and Slavnoy iv - KXostikov departs with Shubin and Romanchenko = Alferiev departs alone 24 Novenber | ~ Alferiev enters: Embassy alone | ~ Kostikov. enters wits; ‘and Shubin CLUES ‘ MO FORE ny Lasse PROAIBITED ndreyev, atskov, Shubin,
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISITED Znclosure B 22 November coverage of Soviet =mbassy normal. aN 22 November coverage sohtome SS . es 1230 @- Cuban Consul Alfredo. Mirabad Diaz asks to speak wits Yatskoyv.. Latter apparestly unavaLllable and Koatiko€ comes on line. with-following conversation ensuing famtliar-form,) hau? \ 338: Forgive sv for arriving late. NiR: Did you recover the suitcase? ’ KO33 Yes MIR: Then it was arriving on the other trip. | KOS: Yes dIR: I called to tell you the following, that regarding that matter that we had talked arout, to see if ’ we would spend Sunday in Charultepec Park because ” my wite is preparing some food to eat there. hOS3 I'm sorry but I*ve just sade cian for another trip and i'm leaving this very. y. So please forgive me for not being mole -) go with you, EIR; I'd like to talk.to Pavel: ‘Yatakav. ZO0S: Wait a minute, he'll sone agg. , - Vass we De BIZ: I2 he's busy 11h eal} bis later, but I°21 be available for thi halZ hour at telephone Ho. 1iW-28—@47, : ZOS: O. EK. 1334 = Reporter requests statement. Unidentified Soviet male refuses. 1323 - Female implies toa: Sukharenko that the Soviet. Ambassador bas: said to make: no. statement. 1445 o Yugoslav. Ambassador. Wikenov calis and speaks with Soviet Anbasssdor. Bazaroy An\iubstan. Talk briefly ahout : assageination tet corey other what they mnow, | which | wu AN NS Spr SE Oo a ‘Ho He ES il DISSE! geal 27 Renamer Be eae —-PRORIBITED
13-00000 1556 ~ 3, 4 ee == 1643 ‘ubicentatsed. aalerions far Yukbarenko, told be isn't “ine ak nea . . . re > Ca bg | (“1715 = ~- Sazgantsew cails his residence, personal. c2li. , . “Ai daa? Nel wan as Sd ew iQ FOREIGN wiSSEbl ¢ appears to be cnly waat they vot. isentizied woman. advises ssyiets e Unidentified ‘pesorter asics Por Eazantsev, acvised _ det Sazantsev nee\in, will be back donuay, 0950—1-00. wy) tntdeieiriea female reperter told Secviet Enubassy not working today, Saturday or Sunday. Raperter calis for statement. AUN Teepe ( REPRODUCTION rom the radia. af sosa3gination. sone vivyen. Hot in. | 1744 = Reportee told to call back Monday. 730 ~ Unidentizis’ male asks for’ Leoaov. 1735 @ above calis again | ~ Reporter told call back Monday... ~ = | 0 ranma pro. . pial -PROGEITED. PROGMBIT  pacs 199 212 _ COPY No.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITEL ATTACIMENT C TO CSCi-3/773, 831 | tvan Gavrilovich ALFERIZY . Yaleriy Vladimirovich: KOSTIECV “= Aleksey Ivanovich GARMASCHEY one nix 5 Sattriyertcn 3 aia = Boris AsGsaswrovich KAZANTSSV - Viadisir Ivanovich SHPAREVICE — Yiadinir Ivanovich ANDREYEV - Vladimir Vasilyevich TURYGIN Pavel Antonovich TATSROV - Viadimir PORZHUNOY | = Genunadiy STROGANOV — . - Nikolay Petrovich SLAYNOV =.= VYiacimir ROMANCHES RO. ~ S - in Lev Fedorovich SHENGALZY os Fe oleg Haksimovich NECHIPORENED = oe Sergey Semyonovich RUSHARENEO . Nikolay Sergeyevich LEONO? ~~ - SECRET Consul Chaufieur Nid FOPEIOH  DISSEM | | Erayda a Correspondent Attaches Consular Office Attaches . - Counselor Third Secretary First Secretary ~- Third Secretary Attache Code Clerk Radio Operator Code Clerk second Secretary _ =aployee, Comercial Gstics  “‘Fice Consul. Second Secretary; viet rofarmatien _. SULLG@TI Third Secretary AO FOREIGN DISSE mM ‘REPRODUCTION PRORISITED OO pace 156 op 212 COPY NO.
13-0Q000 REPRODUCTION PROSISITED ahT# os co cheney 32 Eovember coverage of Soviet inuessy normal. 22 Hovemoer coverage Zollows®\ o 12350 — Cuban Consul Alfredo tirabal piaz asks to speak with Yatskov. . Latter! Bz atly unavailable and Kost eov) coe on- line with following conversation 4 e i ng familiar f¢ form Wey" 7. xos; Forgive. ne Gor arriving late. HIRs Did reenver the suitcase? KOS: Yes HIER: Them it was arriving on the other trip. S63: Yes MIR: ff called to tell you tha Zolicwing, that resarding tuat matter taat we bad taiked about, to see if we would spend Sunday in Chapultepec Park because ny wife ils preparing sce food to eat thers. og zOS: {'s sorry batcT've just made plans for another trip and i*m leaving this very day. So please Lorgive me for nok. being able to go with FOU. aIRs iva like to tal: t6 Pavel Yatakov. ZGS: Wait & minute, ke’ll come now. “TR: If he’s busy I'11 call him later, but 1°11 be availaole tor the next half hour at telephone 1334 < Peporter requests statosient, nicentizied Soviet. . ae 1223 ~ Feuale inplics- to - patna eat the Soviet Ambassador Bas said tomake no Statement. 1445 = yugesiav A Ne sade ‘Wiahov calis and speaks with Soviet aAnrassader = Base ~Fussian. alk briefly ubout nssazsination be g each other what they know, which. oP are PAT a
13-00000 1652 1716 1744 1750 i735 Unidentified male Aska for huxharenxo, told he isn't REPRODUCTION PROWIITED oebue j. MQ FOREIGN Bissau | | t appears to be only what they got from the radic. Unidentified woman advises Soviets of assassination. AS Unidentified reporter asks for Hazantsev, advised that Sazantsey not in, Wwii1 be back Monday, 09°9~-1400, ime an —- Unideatitiea senna’ ccoiter told Soviet Zabagsy not working today, Saturday or Sunday. Reporte ‘alas for statement. Hone given. Kazantsev calls his residence, personal call. Reporter told to call back Monday. | Unidentified male asks for Leonov. Not in. above calls again | . Reporter told call back Monday. cooara, STE)
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROBIOITED ~ sepper NO FOREIGN DISSEM STTACESNT C TO CSCI@3/773, 851 lL. iyan Gavrilovich ALPERISV\, «= Pravda Correspondent 2, Valeriy Vladinirovich ROSTESOY ~ Attache Consular Office so Moxsey. Ivanovich CALRASCEY - Consul | 4e Vatalig. Borisovich. siesta = Attache _ 5. Yuriy nat iyo ZALIVIN - Chau2Zeur : 8 Boris Aleksandrovich KAZANTSE? = Counselor : 7. Yiadimir Ivanovich SHPAKEVICH < Third Sseretary : 8. YViadimir Ivanovich ANDRETZY = First Secretary i 9. Yiadimir Vasilyevich TURTGIN - Third Secretary : 20, Pavel Antonovich YATSXCY = Attsche : ‘21, Viadimis PORSHUNOy _ - Code Clerk | 23. Gennadly STROGAEGSY “= fadio Cyperater : 13. Nikolay Petrovich SLAYSOY — aCe ‘Clerk 14, Vladimir ACKASCHESSD ~~ ‘Second Secretary | 15. Ley Fodorevich SHERGLZY. = + ~ Mploree, Commercial | 15. Oleg Waksizovich ACen ‘= Vice Consul | 17, Sergey Seuyonovich mma - Second Secretaria : 18. Nikolay sergeyevich LZONOV oe Tisd Sece Seavetary | a) ra SSE : COPY NO.
13-00000 | REPHODUCTION are ; oN SchEl © Ser 0 AT AD Awe Corbet a x rae | MEMORANDUM FOR: Mer. J. Lee Rankin General Counsci - President's Gommission on tha Assassination of Prealdent Nennedy. - | | SUBJECT: | Leaciiarvey Oswald Wale (oS l, Mr. James: Wo Liebelar of your ataff phoned me last Friday and reqieated thas. SIAN urnish the Commiasion with an affidavit reapecting tha. orlaia d circumstances of a photograph of an yaknewn- individual witich was furnished by this Agency to the F Fedexud Burson of ivestigation on November 22,' 1963, SRQw oY 2. 7 orwarding an affidavit with thio memorandum ° which I trust wll satisfy your necds. Decause of the extrema sensitivity of the source involved, I have refrainsd from adding iurthor detalls, 3 4% 3. Whe Central Intelliconce Agoncy recommends that.” this shotograph not be reproduced In the Commission's report, _ because [¢ would jeopardise a moat confidential and productive operation, In addition, it could be embarraasing to tho indie . vidual involved who as far ag this Agoncy is aware, had no > connection with Lee Harvey Oswald or the aasagsination of ' President Kennedy. So 4, In view of the above, a sensitivity i indieatox has been affixed to this communication, a R ichard Holme , Deputy Dircctor for Plana Pee Attachment « a/s- | SEGEET REPRODUCTION PRONIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION . . 2 & ane . ~, arent ~: eg 2 te . ves re ‘ ” done btde B Distribution: Orlg & 1 = Addressce 2° DDP aoa la CI/R&A/Oswald 201. . 1 « Cl/R&A/Dooley -~ 1 = WH/Whltton © < Cr/ R&A/Dooleys pra - a a2 July 1964. . . . i ornneny I Soba - RePeooucTion ey BL ee PROGIBIMED
13- 00000 REPRODUCTION a oT REPRODUCTICE PROIBITED on SECRET C EYES QALY 20 February 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/REAG ~ SUBJECT: . Documents “Available in OSWALD's 201 File ° l A machingIéting. of: dodiizhents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201 file waXnequested and is attached. The actual machine work of this type Was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous dates were also recorded. 2. A comparison of the documents physically available in the 201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37 documents which should be in the 201 file are not available init. This total is made up of: 2 dispatches 7. memoranda from the FBI 1 CSCI 2 State Department documents 25 cables. oo 3. Machine inquiries for the location of these documents have not been made, ane oe “See Number we 5b, i é AiO” for FOIA Review on JUN 1976 - SECRET. mS sy 0aC R35, 162. PROBED 222
13-00000 ~ scAOOTICR PROGIBITE! Mre de too Ranietn pons na on ty 2 Marche I Oo ao, mh 4 have had. eo gperetty to oo De é “er oe eke a ed} tao atoog | hire oe YY Cs + - eS wo Richard Helms a dA\s Attachment | Co ‘ Pd wf \ me ' a eid - 62035
13-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr, J, Lee Rankin SUBJEST REPRODUCTION PROUIBITE o/-/24 A XAAZ-Q2QSTT q& Mar 64 vsation in CIAts Possession “Reganding Lee Harvey CS ALG ; a Prior to Nowember 22, 1563 as Treangsnitheeol 7 = Aplavren Cs les la, Sid this refers to your letter of February 12, 1964 address ta thie. Directer of Central Intelligence which bas been pas to me for reply. PROMISED With the . file up to early Cetober 1963, These isclode: re 2. Paragrapn three of your letter requested the Agency to suoply the Commission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding wee Barvey COWALD pricr to hovember 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footacta on rage two of CIA's report to the Gommission dated 31. pnts 1904, entitled: ‘“Inforrnation Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey CSWALD in. Mexico Gity, 28 Sepe tember 3 October 1963", 3 here is attached an exact s reproduction af the v's cificial dossier}on Lee Yarvey CSWALD beginning opening sheet dated. 9 December 1960, The entice dossier carries the security: classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, Gn the basis of clearances from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Devartment of State, the Department 2 ok Navy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. “wap were queried by us after the receipt of your let tex, . “wegire able to make available exact copies of all materials in ca Document Number & for FOIA § Revieie on
13-00000 _ Attachment. REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED Bureau of Investigation, athe Z Be Pen docunients received from the Department Tws documezs received fror the Department Cue document la mame check request) Gora the Immigration and Naturalization Service, e, Four newspaper clippings, — £, Five internal CIA notes, g. CIA report dated 31 Janz 1964 to the Commission which covers all substantive: develorments affecting CIA in the matter of Lee Harvey OSWALD from 9 Sctover to 22 November 1963, The report, indicated the disseminatians - of information: developed by ClAtHat were made to other Federal agencies during't that’ period. This itera, as was pointed ont at time, is particularly sensitive and bears appropriate senkitivity indicators. ™ a, Seven documents received from tae Federal | i i { 1 & You will note that almost all of the documents carry rvarkings required for CIA's internal records processing, A_ few of the papers contained the rames of our employees or identifications cf specific organizational components, ‘We have. taken the liberty of bieckiag out these items as they do not bear. on the substance of the Commission's requast,. Richard Helms Deputy Directar for Plans Original & 2. Addressee — lw c/cr/sic” l'» DDP Subject.’ — C/CI/R&A 1 - DDP Chronoy. anal lw C/WH/3 ~C/Cl Lm 201~289248 CERGR ocearde/ 7468/4 March 1 ne (Inventory of documents contained in file attached. for alt bus Sizeaase) - 2a ~% QSILES wt 238 mo ~ PAGE 165 of 212 COPY NO. _ ance
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROLISITED Inventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded w 126 Av w3, -S4, 1h, rr Hb ¥ Ate i 8, + Ie ~ Ll, « /14. «415. - . XAAZ-gasts UOPY - REPRODUCTION ~ PROG ED to the Commission State Telegram No e138 0¢, October 31, 1959 {Confidential} vA Newspaper. Axticle from the W. a Nac Post, November l, 1959 cy, LEN Tnternal Note, dated 2 _ November 1959 (coral FBI name Scour and. NR reply < dated 4 November 1959 (Confidential) c ice Despatch 234, November 2, 1959 (Confidential) / SHEARS . State Telegram 1358, November r 9, 1959 (Confidential) + State Telegram 1448, November kD 1959 (Confidential) va Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959 Newspaper Clipping from Zvening Star, Novernber 26, 1959 DBY 49478, 25 May 1960 (Confidential): ~ pots Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated « circa ‘May 1960 _{Contidential) OR 8 + Rete Ae a a Letter from the Department of State (Gumming) to DDP (Bissell) dated October 25, 1700 (DD/P 0-5679 ~ Secret) DOP Resnouae to maquepries) 3 21 November 1960 @D/P 0-603 - “= Secret) Internal CIA Request f for Opening of 201 file, 9 December 1960 (Secret) one eee ee State Memorandum of Conversation dated January 26, 1961 (OUO) - State Instruction A-273, April 13, 1961 (ou0) f Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 (OUO} - Foreign Service Despatch 29, July 11, 1961 (OUQ) wv DFB $2181, July 13, 1961 (Confidential) - .PAGE COPY NO. 166 | Qel-23T243 12
REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED aN » 1/15, internal clk Memoa,for the Record, 28 September 1961 (Secret) v £20, Fercign Service Despatch 317, Cotober 12, 1961 (OUO) VV atk ad Axiuns Name ChecleRequest, December 5, 1961 eos Joa. 3 t Message 20197/RB/3, 3 March 1962 (Confidential) ed » /23. DNA 1624, 26 April 1962 “ £24, Newspaper Clipping from Washington Fost, June 9, 1962. + 25, DBA 20883, Septernber 7, 1962 (Confidential) »—26, DBA 51407, 10 September 1963 Pace . aoa? . ~ #27, DBA 52355, 24 September 1963, 7 Nmewbe’ 4U5 "deve weed : Bi bchobe” 143 - » 28 DBA 55715 (number obtibar),” November 7, 1963” 3! othe 1463 [ake ol Ave) . vy #29. DBA 55777, November: Bs. +1963, ! ' , . ow A. CIA. Summary Report on ‘Activities of OSWALD in Mexico City, . dated 31 January 1964 Ww oe FBP: we ¥ aoe DO-2It Ze? REPRODUCTION gg a8T PROMIBIED
13-00000 sme : es an an ( CLASSIFIED MESSAGE °C, 1262 . tiled >. Erich W. Isenstead:bi ¥ ROUTING — [ont S/E5/G ENO nox -—R¥BAT SECRET ie “pards 23 . | - sard ; 2°: nm 1G44 C] FILE IN CS FILE NO. oT FO: | : Fun i§ 452 _., SERLIN FRANKFURT P FROM: DIRECTOR ee _ Cons, C/HHY ee a - . ~ ae DEFERRED bBo ee . p ROUTINE — mrq - CCH, D/DCI, DOP, ADDP,-C/ci,C/ci/Si, VR A ’, as ‘, RE: BRUIN-SE67 (IN 90848) yD ph oo wo ~=BRLN (7 INFO. FRAN oe, ; Yoo eneoRr | oe ET GPFLOOR no Hn oo, es ‘Sevimrangoas 0 CONNECTION MARINA OSWALD HEADQUARTERS ESOT | DOES NOT DESIRE LONG-RANGE OPS INVOLVEMENT SUGGESTED PARAGRAPH 3 REF, . END OF MESSAGE C/S COMMENT: *Reggab has number complex financial, documents and personal problems which leading him consider return to: Moscow for further study in cinematographic institute. Believe he would definitely return if encouraged by us and that he susceptible to recruitment as KUBARK agent during Moscow sojourn and possibly. as » tone range asset in Morge _ RECORDS OFFY. CLASSIFICATION REVIEW U5 Phe 73 lowin CEE STaup — |conpuctep o£ HAY 18 é ~FR authors, ved: Perea is, =. |e __impoer CL BY.@Zaay socunent Number hain r cs cory a: Ds Sé ENS; 75 | igs FOU Review on HAT 876 | | Blgneas — og oe R.0. #1 . tr ’ | D-200-5-41 “ een Boy, Wate: EG fox 709288 “eo to “fe _ acne destruction site BOns , telat pjand cox dinate De/ OF | d 2 pla Kaur | CIWH aie WW Ne sland —_—_ foe So COORDINATING OFFICERS = Excluded fears automatic - og n> 8 RELEASING OFFICER . a * downgrading and te "AUTHENTICATING: ; op , - | @eetassification =f. OFFICER REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE-ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. - - 7 | Copy No. GoG2r4t - pace 168 168 o212_ cory Oe ncn fen Aneta, ean Na re tae, 3.6 EER
13-00000 ‘REPHOOUETICR ee “X¥AAZ - 22eey / a ate como MEMORANDUM FGR: Mr, J, Lee Rankin . F-) ne +3 on Activities and Travel SUBIZCT: | . Harve; SN ALD awd "Mazina Mizelewma CSHYALD as es: ween ‘ttl | a ate was ren. Cs amine! et pt ake: Refecence: is sagike to the second paragraol ak your meagan dated. 12F February 1964, and the second sara- graph‘of yeux memorandum of 16 March 1964, relative ¢ to disseminatigas Sf inforrmation made by CIA to the Seer oe Service, 2. Ummediately after the assassination of President iennedy CLA undertook to assembie through its stutiozs in Europe all avallable data, including information in tha files of sther governments and intelligence services, on the teaveis and activities af Les Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikoleyma OSWALD, This information, as it was collected, was made available te the White House,. the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copies of these messages weraaiso Sent to the Secret Service, oo 3, Attached to this \Getnorandum are exact copies o of two teletyped mesgages relative to the travels and activities of tha CSWALD= (Attachments A and B). Paragrapas ¢ andih of Attachment © are paraphrased, In Attachment C, OUT Teletype No, 85715, are foumd references to two other telee typed messages (OUT No, 85182 and OUT No, 85665) which — describe one Richard Thomas GISSON, a negro journalist — Bach e4avor RESTRIC ED Toc of ad. 7 oe 201-284 245 3/6) nar ¥e meno Vio 10} | a”, 8-129 sequin juownoog oe ooearae: . oo os PAGE 169 212 _
13-00000 © Sete ea PP now residing in Switzerlacd who has been active in the Fair slay for Guba Committee, _Paraphrases of No. 35132 and No, 85665 are included aa Att@ghmanta Dand Z, Access to origizal texts of paraphrased. “ite 3 will be provided whan members of your staif visit. ‘Bingley. The information on which paragrapha ¢ and h of Attachment C aze based was received at CEA Headquarter 59 7 November and dissernie mated on 2H November. - > ‘This, ssdmoesediam and the attachments contain very sensitive tatoeisation which has a direct bearing on sources and = 8. Anappropriate sensitivity | indicator has therefore been affixed, Richard Helms OSeputy Directar for Plans as stated Distribution: — SS) Original & 2 - Addressee wiatta-% . 1 - DDP Ghrono watts.) > » 1-~DDP subject w/atts ~ Mr, Rocca. watts —" 1» C/Gx{siG wiatts*. le C/ WEES Ww / atts 1 ~ 201-~ Qs CI/R&A/TRHall/6664/26 Match 1964 | oeitie. ~2- oo | “vats pace 21 U 170 ‘of 212 ann | . - : 7 7 copy HO. = | REPRODUCT PROWIBM
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHISITED Teletype message, OUT No. 860702, dated 4 December 1483, filed at 1411 hours, to the White House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service. a . . re) Attachment A { | 1 | SUBIJEST: Lea tasvey OSWALD Records of the foreigners records office of the German a i aN Federal Republic in. Cologne) Germany, show that Marina | Nikolgyeve Pusakors ‘OSWALD crossed West Germany Seam: "ewes East ¢ Germany to Holland.on 3 June 1962, She traveled by rail, erouesing into West Germany at Helmstedt on 3 June and enter ing Holland by rail at the Bentheim crossing point, Sha had West German visa 694/62 issued at the W est Germany Eunbassy in Moscow, She listed her final destination as U.S.A, Gorsmert: This confirms information from the O. S. _Erbassy in Moscow to the effect that the OSWALD family traveled fram Moscow ta Rotterdam by rail around 3 June 3962. Helmstedt and Bentheim are on the : rain rail rout frora Russia to Rotterdam, While . Lee OSWALD himself and their infant daughter are not recorded.“ do S in German records this is probably because little attention is — a paid to U.S. citizens asm to infants in keeping travel recerder i 63 Gary oS KX, J Neots RAAZ- anc) * Oo —<S 3
13-00000 REPRODUCTION eletype message, SUT No, 87520, dated 6 December £553, silted at 1329 hours, to the “i hite House, the Denartrment of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigatina, sith copy to the , Secret Service, : | . “) Attachment B | | | | | Bs tr} SUBJECT: Lee Hartly, CSWALD | - > “Reterence. is Beade!to. our OUT telegram Now 36702. of . > anne 4 4 December 196340hich gave information on ‘fe travel of ~ AR MarioCBWALD {and presumably alac Lee Harve Gavan awd their daughter) acroea West Gerraany on their return from the Soviet Union, Information acw evailable fr ore Puts! ‘authorities seems to confirm this, On 3 Juna 1962 one M, OSWALD, listed as a male Russian citizen, entered The - Netherlands by train at the Oldenmzaal. parder point. Comment: z is: believed that the Noting of this person 25 a ragie instead of female was just aa error of the border _ afficials, Note that Obaelunval | is ppposite Bentheim, the German border point where Marina CStF AiD iaft German ° TT. 2 t ..XAAZ-DDEON) | ee geet 4s
13-00000 - - REPRODUCTION PRORIBITEL ee? eel Attachment G Teletype message No. 85715, dated 29 November 1963, filed at 1320 hours, tothe White House, the Department of State and che Foderal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service, . | oe . - SUBIZOT: ‘Travel Les Harvey CSWALD as oo =, cet he ‘The talon information has been gathered from € ‘Feliable sources + ‘egarding tia travel of Lee Narvey CSWA iD aN | | aod bias wita: . Tags a. 9 October 1959: According to! wens : os | | British travel records CSNALD arrive tia ° ~ | Se | Southampton this date claiming on his alia tard that he had as fined address but planned to rema2in in the United Kingdom ona week far vacation before going on to tgeme school" in Switzerland. (Head . Quarters comment: Probably referring to the | Albert Schweitzer College ia: Switzerland with which he is known. to have been ia correspondence.) 30 October. 1959: According te the same | official British travel records csw ALD left London | “thie date by ats for Hatch | 257249 Har an (fa gem 65 Ubi i BEY 4 a Os te, XAAZ-2WEG! “0 =a)
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBIT Se Cetsber 1359: Stockholm newsraper, Davens Nyheter, - of 25 November 1363 states Lee CSIVALD te . - passed thecugh Sweden during | October 1933. Article ‘alse aaa te SOSH FALD was unsuccessiul in obtaining yy . . video The USSR in Helsinki which resulted in his a returaing te Stockhoim. Two days after he arrived in< | Stockholm OSWALD traveled directly to Moscow. 5 a we Canciuding sentence of article states ‘This 5 Eaticaten that the Ruaslan oobasay (Stockholm Gem fica &. visa. a : According to a reliable source ene os aa ceped ° thas. there was any request for a USSR visa Spoocesced through norsnal channels for CSWALD at any iime - during 1959, and source indicated it was difficult to explain how OSWALD might have received his visa in two days without going through normal channels, The. . only conclasion which can be drawn is that COwALD must have received his: visa diz setly from the Soviet Embasiy i in. a Stockholm which n occasionally i is done in | NSS AD special cascag bat the source had no evidence to confirm this assunsption, . | REPRODUCTION — 7 _ . pos 414 374 212 PROHIBIT
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED reliable eee sxtmermely gdusitive source CSVALD stayed iy ad : ~ ~ ( ad. ldto 15 October 1953: According toavery: — | at the T Torai | Hotel om from 1Qtoll Octcber and w=" : , ' , Sete sf ole, apparently waiting for a visa to be . A f issued him by the Soviet Consulate in Helsinkl, He - eT Le eee ' traveled to the USSR by train, crossing at Vainikkala on i ; i %. : : 5 e. 13 May 1962: According toa Dutch official’ source, the Dutch Gharge in Mescow Last a transit yD visa to OSWALD 's wife on 13 bing 2962, Their setords reveal his wife was bara on 17 July ‘Qiviens of 19 July 1941 and in Sever odvine!e instead of Minsic, There is no record of her haying actually transited The Netherlands, £. 1962: Official British records do not reflect | that OSWALD returned to the United States from the SSR through the. United scingdoans However, sf he were merely transiting, 1 it would not Lave been necessary for ‘hime to fill out a landing card, and therefore there would be no record of his travel in the official traffic index. . w3e
1300000 ge EE EE a ‘HEP 7 a PROMEITED 7 { ge 1263: According te an extremely sensitive and reliable source, on 237 Novgraber Maria SNETHLAGE, head of the. he Workgroup ‘Informatie Cuba!’ (Workgroup | Infgriation Cubs), told ,darbeaptayes af the Cuban onibaayt din ‘The. padeot that she was sure she had met - | ‘that ve Seow t is Havara, who did the murder. .She | described him as a man of violence and entirely full of | ‘hate and indicated that it was possible thas this man had | | peen misused by a group, She said she tad wr ten to | 'GISSON" about the bad impression sha had had. of this ! LEE, (Headquarters comment: Please refer to our | ! teletype Noa. 83132 and 85665 for additional information . on GIBSON.) Later, SNETHLAGE told Castro Cubans in The Hague that "Mr, LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba - Carmamittee~ had been slandered and that it was another  ~person nasned Lee CS¥ALD who had done it, SNETHLAGS seemed to be glad to have heard this “correct version, | (Headquarters comment: ie, LEZ may be identical with Vincent Theodere LES who replaced Richard Ginson as Head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, ) coURt 4s
13-00000 Sacra  nugy ATT - PROHIBITED REPRODUCTION PROMIGITED 3 was in Guba in January, L 263) ana pecording to an official = ( b, According to reliable(faftismation, SNETHLAGE ' Dutch source, she eagaiats traveled iio Guba for the May Day Beat we . . 3! “4 ee: 7 ~ . &3 £554 AGE ZVI2Z4EG 7 oouees G
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMI ED Ze Attachment D : ¢ Teletype No, 85132, dated 22 November 1963, filed at 1932 hours, to the White House, the Degartment of State and the Pederal Bureau of Investigatian,.‘ with copy ta the Secret $ Service. (paraphrase) SUBIECTE 1 Lee o Harvey OssvALD : re: 1, In com \reation witha close friendin Bern, 9 | Switnerland, on 23 Noversber 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON. a remarked that OSWALD is "one of as", OSWALD and GISSCN 2 had correspanded two years previously, Sok SS¥ALD fed . Ca: oy joined the Committee, (Comment: Reference io \brésumably to the Pair Play for Cuba Cosnthittes, } GIBSON added that he as bad destroyed all bis. letters from CSWALD. OSWALD is CFAazy. cmsqutben remarked that he ia happy that he was ae — ‘net in neato a “Het felt t Sorry for "LES" in New York and Se for ! TOA, hn 2. The information given above was supplied by an. extremely sensitive source who i is usually reliable, Be According to other information that was available, ee iichard Thomas GIBSON, bora i3 May 1931 in Los Angeles, California, isa negro journalist who has beem active in the ATT. “+ Te. XAAz- 2.266: | : ava 38 a2¥% pace 178 op oLe . COPY NO. een
13-00000 Peco Yair Slay for Cuba: Committee a on ah ae since Anril 1363 at Lausatne,, country GIRS Revolution Afiicaines ne oid SA mee ° we tse teste Wied Y w2e - REPRODUCTION — -— PROBIBITED. ~ REPRODUCTION PROMI BiTED ne See ener Te Se has resided in this latter aT wae romant Shar participated in\the publication af la — ROl-2ITAES PAGE 179 ot 212 COPY NO.
‘REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Teletype message, CUT No, 35565, 23 Novermber 1953, filed at 1826 hours, to the White Hous, the Department of Stats and the Federal Sureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret cervice, (paraphrased) 1. station a The Rague has 3 reported that on ; ye * 23 Nevermer 1763, a local GCastroite named Maria SNETHLAGS told Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cubaa Exbasay in The Hague that she knew the "Mz, LEE" (sic) who murdered President Kennedy. She described " Les as a man full of hate and violence, and speculated that he fant been misused } oy a. group", She said she » tad wiles ty GIBSON (umisubiedly 4? Netherlands recently and had been in contact beth with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy). 2. Later that same day Maria SNETHLAGE told Secretary SANTOS that “Mr, LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Commi ima been slamiered, The assassin had been another Berson, . Lee OSWALD. SNETHALAG = is reported to ‘have been i ix Cubs » in Jamary and again in May 1965, oo | . a, renee REPRODUCTION = tao
13-00000 OO ‘REPRODUCTION a PROHIBITED 3, 2 .ccording. to Dutch authori ities on T Movers ger 2963, t in talking about attacks by Cuban refugees a, gainst the Suban | mainland, SANT OS had. replied “just walt aud you will see what om ou - - SANT CS bad replied. dist wait, ast wait, SAMECS is reported, | we can do, Rome “pappen | soon ' Asked to be more precise, { | & A very sensitive source reports that attoz his conver « sations with SNETHLAGS, SANTCS was.very ancry because she had contacted him, B35 eg? oo east See = : —— a =Le euler
13-00000 REPRODUCTION _PaaeeTD KAA Z~ 17626 _-Pyenldant’s Commicsion on the ao ~o Assadsination of Presidan? Xameady o Dy . ore Allegations Regarding Intellizence Training wy ~ i . Sehsel is iinsk, U USew as Traucw! Heel Te oe aa Jarren Cemmissign a ; we ‘ ) ~~ i. “Thagations of the existence Sia foviet intelitgenes's asad a fox’ | sapockags training echool in Minsk, UIGR, Rave come. so the on ‘ attemtion af the Agency frew preas reviews. Also, thers ha wy | iaest aa informal iequisy from s cawmber of tha Commission, ce i K Bir. Iulies, yery racently ¢ on this detail. f €ake ‘this epportantty to furnish to ths Commission the information eiiel, Gee ageacy a . bas om 23 $3 tagic. oo Ke 2. \ careful veview of SLi files bas processed as bard information regarding Zoyiat intaliigenca or sabotage training in Minsk since 1947. Une erm of information suppliad Sy a Soviet | dulector in 49 reported tha existence, ae of 1947, of an intelligence training school in Mingk. Ne adiitiemal details, however, were available regarding its curriculam or location in Minsk, Infermatian | . deyslesed from our sources cincs 1049 has no? menkionsd, confirmed, - or corrobersted the continued exietenes of the installation. UO MBINGY WI Hy o> 7 POQUNN JuowNoOg Vy 9261 ue 3 my) a O 4 RRS SA ARR RRA CY 7 RAE ° : . j 3. amether reference in SL” files to training is Minsk. relates te the: existence of a sabetags echoei which functioned im Minsk antil thse Terme attack on the | Soviet Unien in 1941, atkor which the choot . WAS mover to  Keningrad ae | “ Ee a ee _ _— “nee we setmeene at aan aa 2 ot Zé 29048 Bes een siees i : WARNING NOTICE Esc Cott ; iD) grtanes, Ff 0 Rot: 2th emer Oe PS Srpary | Sensitive sources AND 7 rice 182 of 222 COPY NO. - ee Pat aw?) — Cit qn <= ow PROHIBITED. Same te ete
13-00000 “tw povacaszion of thin Aganey r Saey. aD garnie seesah, to the Cormisaica of tha Senaitivs yourtes training In tims. ovicr te cosnplete i to sésords. Boekusg aN t. These two items of isiornistion are the onky once La the REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED rubsting to intelligences asi eaboteg2 im invelvad, it haa beat nites sary to les sensitivity bidiec ator to thig mBemeT Eee, ay (v raft i wn teee s “tn Richard Yehna. Seputy Lissetor for Pians Distributions: x Original & lw Adiveesse , . 2 HOP } we ERSCLIQ = Gf/CL{/SES » CICU RSS . a ciss Ra fT! Roa ‘ : : + SU RBA? ak a ae x Griginased ber cl RRA ER#a REPRODUCTION PROIBITED CCLRb EE rakiS6e4, 4 3 Juma 1964} NOTICE - WARNING SENSITIVE SQUNCE* _AND | AAETSER Cts ANE tee ER Ne ee oe ae vena: see 183 183 212_ cory yo. id
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED | 16 December 1963 > : Zh se eae 2 Peder = ma Lami RES Sh  Saasee “Vesta rein SERENE 9 Comemcaten the Eeroeiy Savona “ Frreddeess Stina Pa Soviets. | oe you kace, SRERNTS aoferted tras” The 40S ahah tok yee, SRDS aarsuenl heertedee fs sot <3 te date, bet be ur sped im tdoes with Soviet invetticones omeLocmments te Saar basb.ot Abe abiiite. Ete coemess on sor "a See ead Shas site: Spat hve seme Receiies Uy “ovexe iaseii a sa ame dnettat to sase ex his whew yithout sitting, ee Ti sais wey cote ast spesitiesity teccres bis yoacimiiccss N / ff ge el oo od a | on Fi ee | i ne md ge . te . * i ‘ 3 : : A \ t A 6 1 Hi ] wt a0 ~_ 6 = ev oR ee epee a. — meee PROAIBITED.
PROWMBHTED SCF 3/274, 7? . af no a) $6 OG ED Federal Burem of Investigation Attention: Hr. 5. Jd. Papich FROM $ Doguty Divectar (ens) SUBJECE ¢ Pater. , DERZABIS"s Comenrts:on the Kemedy Assassination i. svGched-for your yeriaal are the written ccaments of HEB & TEATABIS on ’scae aspects af the assassination of Khim P<‘Kemetly. As you mov, DERYABIN defected fron the EGS ost Kgpirs ago, ond his personel Inovledge is not wp to date, bas stayed in toech vith Seviet intelligence ' dewelosments te the beast of his ebility. Tis cousents on how Lee CGWALD and bis wife must have been handled by Soriet intell- igence authorities while they vere inside the Soviet Union are particularly interesting snd his Suggestions for thevquestioning of Hrs. Marina COWALD are equally provocebive. 2e We have decided to pasa on bis views without edit ting, Sn ee ee oe Reet ticallly eaiorse Bis eonclusicis C/wa/3/J-M.Waitten:eny. a «42 Decesiber 1963 "Distribution; . | BASIC: -1 ~ RI - _ .° NO PROJECT  :2 = CL/sTG a 7 - oe | Document Number 5 3-76 a> . 7 from Reten at = alt pee 65 REPRODUCTION | : ou 60020 58 . ae 7 ones sn 185 g ; aie - CORY NO. __
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED SUBRZCT os Peter DEYZASEI's Caments on President Semedy's Assaessinkticn ie We shoula understarid thas my cements uhich fallow axe nob besed nolely ot the thesis that CSNALD was apecifically Aispatehed to wurder cur President. ; ee De Western pressure bering the leadership of ‘ihe 0SA. o would automatically case wp. Se re mama's © imeedinte concllistery telegran to MExUnkciny, after the rude. Ye wiznt. mention thet the SA waa the chief grovenent for nob extending xenge oreadits te the USSR. Extension of lomy range credits piso aclate that CSvALD ves. Su ion Eee) ity ¢ ‘aries . ot = me "ipperncst : ° President?” T believe ve can make a gcod cose as to the precisa’ grins cccrueling to the LESR and most specificslly accrveling to | } long ' 4s vital. to the GOSH a6 this jooetere. the USSR. ae eaten ten ae ee aietinn Get tan . : Be in the Cuben aituatios eny USA ar Cuben expatriate nations agaist Cube wiSi not ba tainten by the fact thet these A eee Set reply une Soutate ore ares tener a, ec a. Avmoce mendile fuewtca vill strengthen XIMURCTSY's hav im his rumiing battle with the CHICOS. He will thes hove . enother resscn to say bis fom of peaceful cosxistence is superior to thst of the CHICds'. oo, Re ress.” % oe Re SY Pa ee i ‘| ere ro) pil ae cobers3, (i (wsSCt:«E BE oe 21
REPRODUCTION PROBIBITED ecticns to gos even more fica with the Soviets curing the pre- cloction year are thas sabotaged by the President's murder. Pe ihe Soviets covimsly wilerstooi that the death cf President KESEDY would xesnit in the emergence of DeCAVLLe a8 a Strong Nestern lesdar. DeGAULLS of samrse says “whek's gpok for France ig nob necessarily bad for the ERR.’ a oa oo ge soe” henth of President KSRISDY removes a popular \ é wong oe Be Concadomnbly suy of President KEXGIEDY’s plomned | i j | - dggert ana the Clovering of the arta under the ISUNDYs. Zhe” — . oe te Tas Se oF Rasen im the SPSS este ass pa) viarrone oe Ou , \ he 3 the USSR has any cusiticus aims in Ue 8. miblie opinion their samier of President MUREDY would serve to exacexsbate the present differsnces between the rallical lett to cay the wrder uns committed by the redical vight ag scoa as the deed wes dome nai before OSHALD was cegtured. to Buasin’s own aitizens, as the Sorat intelligence services : bove suffered sone vary real reverses recently vith PEMK ? GOLECS IT's Gefection, their igncuimious oxsalsica fiom the Congo, to such on the spot assessment. © Gee vabae Ghat the is att east 6 CSNAIO vag. pk aniypropeniy would aot ba ectrusted Pies uch 6 pace 187 of 212. yas ve . ‘COPY HO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISED ob. , In such on coerstion tha Roa could not use a Soviet citizen though the very real possibllity Seta tet GuAto was “Taig by a Seriet iMlegal of the KG2 15th Departast. Sticking to sssewtialse~I¢ was 2 good plan thes did sueceel. CSHALD Q18 esospe fran the book butlaing. ~ ae Ba 23a get to a theater which cowla have been his point. of contact with bis Diegal case officer. Certainly we poe See HB AGBta'pentbant for using thesters fur meting places. ae fitter his sxvest, which wos ealy due to his w- “So seats sy How ike the behavior of Col, AGiiwe his beherlor in pepard.. e. ROSY rewaine silent and his cover 1s helding up. "a. Se Mes « goed legend of temporary ineathy- Be Re has 8 reascnable chance to escape the dentin centence. tne CONALD wovacte cP thin one af a= kaee the falicuine about . bis actbivities pricar te bis deverture to the USSR: (2., h., and c. below offer three possible atswers to the questicn, . a22 he go to Nessows" ; . . Be First, COWALD wes a self-cnde Marxist or Commis. \ uho-deelded to gon an his ows that is, he mde this decisics ” Oy binself an sreagtea by no ane. ‘Be possibly was looking far | & better life without Mowing vhat the Savist Union really i9- b. Seeond, after CSUALD's Qischarge ne an “undesirable” Neos “from the Marines, ke fama hingel? in a difficult ard unpleasant _ Sitvation: 45 i¢ possibile thet in this siimmeticn he vos noticed. ~ dy a spotter cerreeruttier for the Dilegals or ecem cther depert- ment and was considered ap a possible comiidate for use or Hirh : : < Ww | | _ PROKIITED a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMGHTED reernitcmcs? The full infomsetion abowk GSTALD wes sent to Hoscow, and om Hescow's order an investigation of GSWALD was made and there, ete a Geckalon to | areite" bin ¥0 Hoseow. Using te Ce a “Third, COULD web to Noucow, ar was semt to Hoseow, Uo Dye see, pxo-Sorlat, nro-Comemist$, pro-dyben organiestion(s) , \beving in ind that he would stay im the Soviek Unien for a few coe paegesanaeoredelecele pein five pinata daiaes dealt structions fi ” carly bine, end how much tine elensed between these talks and we oe Heyy, vee ssi through whom 448 CGHAID cot his e b. To vino Gia by talk, when did he contaet st this mw | . i | Be How long dia 4% take for hin to get the visa? . £. hen emi how ata CSUALD travel, to the usa (air, seny through wrieh coustries; in virich comtries, if ony, did he meke stops; hor long vere such stops)1 other, brother, relatives, friends, neigzbors, gitlh friends, boy Priemds, old buddies, ete? To whos d1l4 CONSLD say 2 vefare he left for the USSR: personally or by telepghae, by mL? Bia ibe aver Sak onyans ony questions oa traveling to the USSR? When? eo dbdy : Bowery , wey : 3 Ne wed : PROBED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED culsr ense, under the Sena Chie? Directorate ier). heave investigebion divegted ot unavering the question of uy thia Be reli ninas nina lager ethabdar ir Sr pened fumed Mercola whether they imew im edvance about CSWALD oy not; anyway, the: vould candies’ such an invesbigutian). Byery possiale bit af infor _ Seticn was taken Dros (S9ALD abont the GAA, especially about his service in the Narine Corps, cts. oF ne Se ee «22. then CoNAKD shoved sane issatisfestton shout the a SIA be al life (4% is wsual for Auericans)--eni by this tine sg . REP RODUCTION = ee ga PROBED 88
13-00000 . capitalism; os our Hitt 3 «together vita an eee Toa ietkoceke., KE? (aGEE tnd Seven doe " @& low level ense officer of State Security told bin thet to have ' ghoved up, or she vas thers before, but by this time ohe usa REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED hia to ind hén--to maize hie happy ax to maze sure tast he would not leave tha Soviet Union)--the X68 at the same tims contimed to train hia, prevebly in the way cf en cli-feenioned Harriat, telling him tant be would be a good fighter aguinst isperialishs eed agninst imerican williowires, such as ROCKSREIIES, CESIEDY exd cthers. Ana somevkere here, while in this kind ef training, & better lara m the U. S. you have to Slignt vary hard to tury ocmevhere here, “42 be was already a Soviet agent or not, the gizt pregzant and CSWALD decided to go te the Uaa. Then he was tali. After this takk, CSHALD shouted—where ls your freedom? She is py wife, we beye a chila, ond I wad lim to go. If he aid make a big nolee, they decided to let hin ani her go; or if he elreedy vas a trained agent, than without omy xind of noise on <o MS part, bub with seme diftionlties, pernisaion wes granted for | Sansone orbs Woneds Reach ee _ Miether they sre Comunists ar nob. : 13. Zivestigs Bcf CSUALD's wife ahold be undertaton, GOUORCES Pa "a COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED a- First, who is shet Eer education, profession, age, fomily backeramd, Party affiliation (Komsemol mesberskin). IZ she was & mewber of the hensawol, than the Komeasol organization Tae, ae Sn Rene Pose tile oeninet how Sraveling to the U- S- Also, she must be expelled from the Keegemol., ami then che aute- then, 42 she wis a member of the Kaspescl and this ection did “Heb take Place, at waa because of Hid interference against euch me . father nothery brothers... Jf they were sembers of the CPSU  && Be Mo viich offices wee she invited before ani after Vaan i? she waa invited So same official Soviet offices, . end ap these offices asked her not toe marry a Poreigzer and nok te go with his, then pretably che vas uot a meer of the lomscmcl, ana she did 26 on her cen wild; bwk if she anewers thet no one invited her to such offices, then the vhola jcb vas done ty the Eogeagmocthly and qguiletiy, with no tale going aroumd about 15. .@. ho balved her ond how meny thes to urite papers “for thn Sovlet Hintstey ef Foreten A&fuies to usp that ei hed marries” on Amexicen citizen and wold like te 26 vith him to the USA? Tf it wes dome a. few times and with great difficulties, then probehily it was dene caly with a little help from the a0a. Ie, however, the was oe SS ee for Fecaiacica to vow to the V. Se. was processed very wasily ani quickly. ) —* ° at . Be  saueve A438 her insta’, OS4AID, work? Tn whet factery? Gn a hia hows of werk? Bov lepg aia be opend In Moacew bew wes to Limek? “he these bMinske~did he or did saseens ae eloet f. Who vere ber fusteni's trienisi Feros vhet circles? Yorkers! Iotellecteals? . fe Sow may tines ware she and her imsbast—wihile. they : other office then tha KGS which vould nals such an invitation. zt sakes no difference if they vere egents or not.) Guerin . oy z B’tat 28 49 B¥ei2 |
REPRODUCTION PROMIBIED Pa . eee? ye h. ios suart (Intelligent) is she? Dows she really speck 30 Englidgh? Is her English betters then she ehoxs or better than it should be after being hore auly two years: or worse’: i. Vix ¢ does che say chou Life im the Soviet Union? . de ‘Did her bmsband beve a gm vhile be vas in the Sevist Thien: - Ig so, how does she lnoy sbeut 1¢7 When did he -@eb 3%: Did he bave special permission to carry a gem‘ Did he oT bring this gm with him serosa the border? Yor your information, Jesming of it. Leost of all an Anerican. \e Neod ke tho geve finanelal help to them before they lets Sthe Soviet Union? (BOrs: Yor a regiler worker in the Soviet Unions, 2¢ 1s imposathle to save enongh to buy ae ticket ond ioe say Kind of prenerations to g0 abrend. an ; ke bo gave instructions to SS¥ALD to esk for fimeneiol aseistonce <b the Auericon Sibessy upon his rete to the USA? rte ses hate finst child born fa Pussianbaptined in the USSR? Ef ao, im wheat ciaerch? Wrose iden yos iti Ddd they beptine theirasecend child, bom in the U. 8.7 te Ef CONALD never had a permmment job here in the ; USA, then who was guing to Pinence hia max txip to the USSR: How sath G14 his wite new about his plan to retumm to the USER - via Cobar Ua. The ingestigatbion ef the wife shoulda be made steo. | oo! by step, keeping in mind oml mever forgetting thet CORAID as ° i. well. eg ohe hersel? vere under coostemt coservaticn and with . constart with orgmms of tne A083. bitheout such conservation emicenterta vith orgens of the KES, no foreigners can live. within the Soviet Union. | “as. Ta muy investigation of this case ve should not lose _Be inthiative. im view of the cixzcumstances anes ~gyailahle info on GUACD's story in the GSR emi the - i Eeose “ye oh Bis, visit t6 the Soviet Inbassy in Mexico City. A-frientiy | \petged can be expected to honor such a request. We best learn  Dereat deal fren the Soviet resly. . Pieces TRITVA TTT STs wae soey = vo? ne wea oe] CF) @), a AcE 133 of el COPY No. REPRODUCTION — bea PROGMBITED
REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED F BASLEY _we #40: Lot . } re ° wd SPIO se bse Ulm: oR if 16 January 15964 eee: i 3 ray) (an se Passe ca eet vA 2; ia ea Tad $2. 3 Hay a Sc ee Lease S$ ¢ spa eo sent sare SEO eae oo att a a ese eee: poe seem tens la TPS a, ree “3 ae 2) mame, oF CONVERSATION’ toot veces * %0: Chief, . BR tee Utes CES _ era Work: in Support of the Warren Commission . Pa . -— aces Wee Py aa I Betou ds summary of the matt cers discussed in our Tee jen “ee \peéting-wit th Messrs. Angleton and Rocca on the evening of 15 gannary -E G4. In turn, Mr. Angleton was reporting. taus the ance of his meeting with Hr. Allen Dulles, Mr.) SS Je e Rankin, Chie? Counsel, Hr. Wellins of the Justice-~ | Department, ir. Helms and Mr. Rocca, which took. place ¢ on, the afternoon of 14 Jamary 1984. - LN 2. Mr. Angleton said that ur. Daitgs, ° “apparently. pro- yoked by press accusations that the Warren Commission has been dilatory, asked CIA for suggestions of Gnesticns or requests to be fneluded in a letter to the SOgIet-tovernment. This letter, trom the Warren Commission and‘to be transmittea through the Department of State, would seek additional evi- dence which is. presumably available in Soviet files whick could assist the Commission's deliberations. Mr. Dulles did not have a detailed idea of what he wanted to ask the Soviets for but did say that the questions should be "not teo tech — nical.” Although Mr. Angleton thought that the letter should — be written only after the CIA report and comments have been complated, in order to make the letter as effective as possi- ble, ti. Dulles felt it should go now, be phrased in generali- ties and allow the Soviets more flexibility in their handling of the matter than would a mors pointed letter based on our concrete findings. Mr. Dulles asked CIA only for the questions and not for a draft Tetter. Ur. Murphy suggested that we ask a only for certain records rather than put specific questions to the Soviets. Hr. Murphy suggested that these might include Soviet tospital records connected with Lee Oswald's attempted suicide, ‘city visa and registration records for Moscow and Minsk, factory personnel records from Oswald's place of emmloy— ment, etc. ~AIso Oswald's diary noted that his case had passed ‘through two commissions in the USSR; we might ask for the ‘records of these commissions as well. Hr. Angleton said that in transmitting our suggestions to Mr. Dulles we can include any introductory paragrs aphs or explanatory coments that we _ uL04- IAD doe corte a : oo ‘ remy i i ; ‘ i tt he H 1 1 } Hy He } Fa k if it bY eee users Oscument Number ocumay Lis da a an: n 1 99 ge for FOIA Review . ; we ee st | ;
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBIT “ ~ -~ ~ on ——— -~ 2- PH a H felt necessary to explain to Mr. Dulles the direction of our thinking about these proposals. (Note: I instructed Mr. Wigren to prepare a draft of suggested queries, using the assistance of DERYABIN and to have this ready; 12 possible, by the closa of - business today. ) Cote “ 3. _Rankin stated that the Commission wants to account | in detail, minute by minute and hour by hour, for Oswald's tine’ outside the United States. Mr. Bagley suggested that. the. narrative chronology of Oswald's Stay in the Soviet Union be converted. toa chronology tabulation which would permit us more sf{mpiy to fmsert added details and dates as we learned of then(i¥ other documentation which ve can: expect to receive shortly. This was agreed. a f 7 4 (Note: I instructed Moe. Wigren to begin Lg _ f casting the narrative immediately inte © this form.) 4 ir. Rankin said that the Commission has a waist-high stack of documents and reports received from the FBI and Secret Service which CIA has not yet received. These include Secret Service interviews with Marina Oswald, letters from-Lee Oswaid in the USSR and other material. He promised to send this material to Hr. Helms shortly. | (Note: We will pass appropriate parts of this material to DERYABIN for further analy- sis along the lines of his earlier work -on documents already in our possession. ) 5. Yessrs. Angleton. Murphy and Rocca considered DERYA- BIN's. initial analysts of Marina Oswald's documents, and the questions a which it gave rise, to se nie ae impor: tribution. CIA would be unable to Waka any seri- ous anal \er even hypothesis until some of DERYABIN's questions been answered. Mr. Rocca suggested that DER¥A-_ BIN'’s paper be recast into more of a questionnaire form. and: ir. Bagley agreed, pointing out that DERYABIN'’s corment and. speculation could be put off to the side as explanatory con~ ment on exch question, as appropriate. Mr. Angleton and Mr. Murphy thought that it would be desirable to send this paper — to the Warren Commission in advance of other CIA reports with a menorandum informing the Commission that we would need " ° answers to this interim questionnaire in order to reconstruct i a detailed chronology of Oswald's time in the USSR and to comment on his activity there. The Commission would be asked os to procure the information from Marina through any Agency it ‘might choose. ro | REPRODUCTION ; | “great 68° - ris 195 ce 24 PROGMBITED a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROFISITED - 3m (Note: I instructed Ur. Wigren to prepare the DERZABIN paper in this format urgently.) 6G. Ur. ‘Angleton ‘veported that he had asked the Commis— en08 representatives certain questions pertaining to our use £ de tectors. in analysing the Oswald papers: oe Was ‘the- Commission formally requesting us to > hive defectors. analyse the material? ‘Qo? _< | absWellins thought that the answer Gk this question is yes. . However, « Angleton asked for a formal request from the Comaission to this - effect. The FBI. has stated that its -~ reports are not to be passed to | OO AELADLE, which may cause some Sompiay ~ cations. ee at b. Would the Commission be-prepared to: assume the buxsden of responsibility if such: ‘@ Sefector:. should disa= * gree with the Commission's opink or Comey up with a radically different hypothesis or ix¢ etation? Ca The persons present said that the Commission would. ec. If a defector who had contributed to the analy- sis of the documents should be unwilling to appear person< ally and formally before the Commission, would the Commission exercise its subpoena powers against hin? — Hr. Rankin thought that if there was @ xvisk involved for the defector, the ‘Commission would not do so. However, Rankin promised to get a fornal answer from the Commission on this point. . qd. Will the classification we put on our corres- pondence to the Commission be honored? The answer was.that in principle our classification would be honored. How= ever, \ir.. stouid aot bope to evade ed that Chas ou not rope to evade eriti- &) os tw. - oF) G) PRORIGITED
: REPRODUCTION — PROMIBITED A SC Sx Nes 7 -~ 4 = 6 Nr. Angleton reported that Nr. Richard Davis is repre— senting the interests of the Department of State in this inguiry. Mr. Thompson had ruled himself out because he was Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the time of the events in question. — 7. -One matter which had been brought to light by the Oswald case was the. need for a mechanism in the United States Governnent to record’ and assimilate cur knowledge of the Soviet handling of Amerid¢an defectors to the USSR. The Bureau is ' apparently in. some danger of criticism for its failure to keep an eyaomSswald after his return. Similarly CIA has not systematically collected nor compiled information on Soviet defector handling. Berlin Base had kept a list of -American defectors at one time, but these individuals have not. been debriefed on their return to the West. 1 8. The Commission representatives at the 14 January 1964 meeting estimated that the Warren Commission would need from three to six months to complete its task. 9. Mr. Bagley raised the question of the desirability of having DERYABIN participate personally, representing the FBI as en interpreter perhaps, in a debriefing of Marina. , \Hessrs. Angleton and Murphy were convinced that CIA must avoid aa rect involvement with this investigation. Although it is ess efficient as a method, we will conten’, Gyrees ves with ; patties written questions to Marina to be @e@seed-hy whatever Agency the Commission may choose to use. . Tennent H. Bagley Chief, SR/CI Lat-2 8924 § PROMIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMI ED XAAZ- AVE ait with, DuLlEs s oa rai rise | Dick: , oa te f: 3f 6 ‘Had a briefing at ANlen Dulles! house on saturday! after= a noon, (We were assembled te discusa hig taping session with > . Ait* >D eryabin,._Helen Macinnss,-Donovan-and-Hanson-Baldwin.inN aw York itonight.. None of the others were present.) ; AWD showed me a letter ha had received from Rankin | recently expressing the desires to reach a modus vivendi in - order to allay the story of CIA's possible sponsorship of Oswald'a activity, The point of the communication to AWD was to-suggest — . Ci IP | that he serve as @ii Us xeviswex forthe Cammigaion, The letter ; outlined alternative possibilities in this matter (affidavit from the DGI, ete, )e. In my presence, AWD wrote the answer:' Be. Declining the invitation to serve as file nen aerate reviewer tow good and sufficient reasons. - a a +. Stating his willingness te provide a state~- Séh yap UO MEVEN VIO . jequuny wewnsog  eLBiT" a a teatiniony to the Commission with respect to YOO ledge of Oswald during his tenure as DCI, He noted In the tail-off af the letter that as bs ashecould ~*. rs) remember-he had never had any knowledge at any time prior to the date of the assassination. ot ag 9 tag gy. rr. ne | — PROMIBITED