+ a ee con FSR 23 November 1963 L£X-2SSSO MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director, Plans FROM: Acting Chief, SR Division S SUBJECT : O Contact of Lee OSWALD with a member of Soviet K Assassination Department 1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD was at the Soviet Embassy there on 28’ September 1963 and spoke with the Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV. - This was learned when OSWALD called the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and’ speaking broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the phone whether there was "anything new concerning the telegram to Washington." The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but nothing had as yet been received. (MEXI 6453, 9 October 1963) The FBI liaison officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau has reason to believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. passport or visa matter /perhaps the new passport mentioned in the press articles’, 2. KOSTIKOV is an identified_KGB officer. He was a case officer in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department (responsible for sabotage and assassination). This operation, which is controlled by the FBI under the cryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of Oklahoma who was recruited in Europe, and met this year with KOSTIKOV in Mexico City and shortly thereafter with a known 13th Department officer, Oleg BRYKIN, in New York. The instructions given TUMBLEWEED by the two officers, (pinpointing objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances of their involvement in the case, left no doubt that both of them were working for the same KGB component, the 13th. : i 3. Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent ona sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret Soviet intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, which show that very important agents can be met in official installations using as cover for their presence there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral wee Document Number @6-538 for FOIA Review on APR 1978 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW conpucteo ond_6 APR 1976 | E_@ IMPDET CL BY 2a POL. roe xs a HW 53199 Dacia; 32341409 Page 3
L. BEKRENEV, in a top secret lecture to a Soviet Military Intelligence course at Military-Diplomatic Academy, 1960, said, - "Case officers who use as cover, let us say, the Soviet Trade Representation, TASS or Sovinformburo, can use their cover assignments as backstopping for non-clandestine meetings with certain agents whose particular activities officially associate them with the previously mentioned Soviet institutions. However, such non-clandestine meetings within a legal residency should be restricted to a minimum both as'to place and time. Meetings of this type should be carried out only in exceptional cases with tested and reliable agents in order to avoid provocation by the local counterintelligence service against the Soviet installation being used as cover. Such meetings are held as a rule. in the work offices of the case officer or of the agent during working hours. It is necessary that such meetings be conducted naturally, that they do not attract the attention of outsiders, and that the receipt and transmittal of intelligence matters, properly camouflaged, be carried out discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures against tapping must be taken. One must bear in mind that a meeting with persons outside official premises and during non-working hours usually signifies a relationship between the’ two parties that is above and ' beyond official matters." Also, such contact in official installations may be caused by the agent's own carelessness. Again Admiral BEKRENEV speaks: "Some agents, because of inexperience or because of deliberate violation of the rules of security through peculiar personal rashness,.... approached our case officers at places not stipulated as operational meeting sites, others telephoned the case officer at * his Soviet installation and discussed personal contact arrangements, while others still showed up personally at the Soviet installation in order to contact the case officer." 4, I called the above connections to the attention of Mr. Pappich by phone to his FBI office at 1030 hours on 23 November. ron HW 53199 DBocld:32341409 Page 4
5. I am attaching 1) a summary of our information on KOSTIKOV; and. 2) all valid background information now available on the work of the 13th Department of the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB: a. Extracts from Report on the Soviet State Security . Service (KGB), dated May 1963, based on information from AELADLE. b. Soviet Use of Kidnapping and Assassination ~- Executive Action, dated August 1960. c. Soviet Strategic Executive Action, dated October 1961. Chief, sR/CI HW 53199 DBocld:32341409 Page 5
HW 53199 SUBJECT: Valeriy Viadimirovich KOSTIKOV 6 KOSTIKOV, who was born on 17 March 1933 in Moscow, was . assigned to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City as Vice Consul on 19 September 1961. A fluent Spanish speaker, he had travelled abroad at least three times before this permanent assignment; moreover, in 1959 KOSTIKOV applied for a visa to accompany Premier Nikita Sergeye- vich KHRUSHCHEV's party to the United States as an official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but we have no record of his having come to this country at that time. KOSTIKOV served as an interpreter at international conferences at Madrid ‘and Barcelona in 1958 and 1959. In late 1959 and early 1960 he attended Soviet exhibitions in Mexico City and Havana; he is known to have been in Cuba from 6 January to 7 March 1960. The physical description of KOSTIKOV quite accurately fits that of a Soviet case officer who nearly a year ago met in Mexico an FBI-controlled double agent. This double agent's Soviet case officer in the United States has been Oleg Danile- vich BRYKIN of the Thirteenth Department, KGB First Chief Directorate, occupying the overt position of translator-trainee, U.N. Secretariat, New York City. BRYKIN was stationed in New York City from December 1960 to July of this year. Since arriving in Mexico, KOSTIKOV is known to have travelled three times outside the capital: In March 1963 and again for the first two weeks of September he went to Tijuana, Ensenada, and Mexicali, ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing cotton. The U.S. Department of State, however, has reported that during these trips KOSTIKOV met local representatives of Movimento Liberation National and Central Compesina Independienta, both large Communist front organizations. In addition, according to FBI sources, KOSTIKOV was accompanied on the September trip by Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERYEV, and he contacted in Ensenada several persons including Communist sympathizers who previously had been associated with Soviet officials stationed in Mexico City. ALFERYEV, a PRAVDA correspondent in Mexico, was in close contact with Cuban diplomats and local Communist leaders during a February 1962 visit to Quito. DoclId: 32341409 Page 6
Date: JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM 07/28/04 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY INFORMATION CIA 104-10015-10056 JEK 201-289248 HW 53199 AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS : DocId: 32341409 ITEM IS RESTRICTED DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA ACTING CHIEF, SR DIVISION, CIA ASST. DEP DIR, PLANS, CIA CONTACT OF LEE OSWALD WITH VALERIY V. DEPT 13 OFFICER. 11/23/1963 7 KOSTIKOV, KGB KGB CONTACT PAPER SECRET 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - 12/02/93 OSW1 : V3 RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 1993.12.02.15:57:12:060028 104-10015-10056 Page 7
Oo C} wiadeg?s | & DD/P acd a), . 23 November 1963 LX-oBSS5O MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director, Plans FROM: - Acting Chief, SR Division S SUBJECT: O Contact of Lee OSWALD with a member of Soviet KGB Assassination Department . . : om, 84 1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD . was at the Soviet Enbassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the ~ Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV. . This was learned when OSWALD called oo . the Soviet Embassy on 1 October; identifying himself. by name and” speaking’=*- broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered. the phone whether there was "anything new concerning the telegram to Washington." The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request. had been sent, bu 5 nothing had as yet been received. _(MEXI 6453, 9: October 1963) The FBI; gon officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 November that: the ‘Bureau has reason to." | believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. pass ort or: | visa matter [perhaps the new passport mentioned in the press articles). anes wees, 2. KOSTIKOV is an identified KGB officer. He was & case officer in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department (responsible ‘ for sabotage and assassination). This operation, which is controlled by the ", _FBI under the eryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of ly Oklahoma who was recruited in Europe, and met this year with KOSTIKOV in Mexico i City and shortly thereafter with a known 13th Department officer, Oleg BRYKIN, | i in New York. The instructions given TUMBLEWEED:.by the two: officers, (pinpointing | _ objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances “of their involvement in the case, e left no doubt that both of them were working for the same KGB component, the 13th, . oo 3. Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret Soviet intelligence documents » describing Military Intelligence doctrine, which show that very important agents can be met in official installations using as ce there some sort of open business: Vice A iral- 34, Document Number for FOIA Review on “T RECORD COPY | 2S Wor [RECORD Ci ype HW 53199 DoclId:32341409 Page 9
. ty . ccna tee arn cnmneanns ie ? am a ay L. BEKRENEV, in a top secret lecture to a Soviet Military Intelligence course at Military-Diplomatic Academy, 1960, said, "Case officers who use as cover, let.us say, the Soviet Trade Representation, TASS or Sovinformburo » can use their cover assignments as backstopping for non-clandestine meetings with certain agents whose particular activities officially associate them with the previously mentioned Soviet institutions. However, such non-clandestine meetings within a legal residency should be. restricted to a minimum both as to place and time. Meetings o} this type should be carried out only in exceptional cases with ws tested and reliable agents in order to avoid provocation by the ~ local counterintelligence service against the Soviet installation being used as cover. Such meetings are held as a rule in the work offices of the case officer or of the agent during working hours. It is necessary that such meetings be conducted naturally Y, that they do not attract the attention of outsiders, and that the receipt | and transmittal of intelligence natters, properly camouflaged, be carried out discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures against tapping mst be taken. One must béar in min that:a meeting with ©" persons outside official premises and. during: tio-working hours usually signifies a relationship between the: two. parties that is above and beyond official matters." en i Also, such contact in official installations may be caused by the agent's ow carelessness. Again Admiral BEKRENEV speaks; “Some agents, because of inexperience or because of deliberate violation of the rules of security through peculiar personal a rashness,.... approached our case officers at places not stipulated a as operational meeting sites, others telephoned the case officer at . _ his Soviet installation and discussed personal’ contact arrangements, while others still showed up personally at the Soviet installation in order to contact the case officer." 4, I called the above connections to the attention of Mr. Pappich by phone to his FBI office at 1030 hours on 23 November. HW 53199 DBocld:32341409 Page 10
By ‘ ‘ HW 53199 5. I am attaching 1) a summary of our information on KOSTIKOV; and. , 2) all valid background information now available on the work of the 13th Department of the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB: a. Extracts from Report on the Soviet State Security Service (KGB), dated May 1963, based on information from AELADLE. b. Soviet Use of Kidnapping and Assassination -- Executive Action, dated August 1960. . Docld: 32341409 Page i1 c. Soviet Strategic Executive Action, dated October 1961, ~
HW 53199 “Sn : SUBJECT: Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV KOSTIKOV, who was born on 17 March 1933 in Moscow, was assigned to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City as Vice Consul on 19 September 1961. A fluent Spanish speaker, he had travelled abroad at least three times before this permanent assignment; moreover, in 1959 KOSTIKOV applied for a visa to accompany Premier Nikita Sergeye- vich KHRUSHCHEV's party to the United States as an official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but we have no record of his having come to this country at that time. KOSTIKOV served as an interpreter at intermational conferences at Madrid and Barcelona in 1958 and 1959. In late 1959 and early 1960 he attended Soviet exhibitions in Mexico City and Havana; he is known to have been in Cuba from 6 cJanuary to 7 March 1960. The physical description of KOSTIKOV quite accurately fits that of a Soviet case officer who nearly a year ago met in Mexico an FBI-controlled double agent. This double agent's Soviet case officer in the United States has been Oleg Danile-— - vich BRYKIN of the Thirteenth Department, KGB First Chief Directorate, occupying the overt position of translator-trainee, U.N. Secretariat, New York City. BRYEIN was stationed in New York City from December 1960 to July of this year. Since arriving in Mexico, KOSTIXOV is known to have travelled three times outside the capital: In March 1963 and again for the first two weeks of September he went to Tijuana, Ensenada, and Mexicali, ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing cotton. The U.S. Department of State, however, has reported that during these trips KOSTIKOV met local representatives of Movimento Liberation National and Central Coxpesina Independienta, both large Communist front organizations. In addition, according to FBI sources, KOSTIKOV was accompanied on the September trip by Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERYEV, and he contacted in Ensenada several persons including Communist sympathizers who previously had been associated with Soviet officials stationed in Mexico City. ALFERYEV, a PRAVDA corresponéent in Mexico, was in close contact with Cuban diplomats and Local Communist leaders during a February 1962 visit to Quito. is Docld: 32341409 Page 1?
23 Bovenber 196 FROM: "Acting Chief, 88 Division SUBJECT: Contact of Lee OSWALD with a menber of Soviet KGB “SOIR Mone ne OsWeeD ) Cont tact with Valery Vv. Kos Ti Kev, K¢@ Dept. (3 officer. as aT ree aca BOS Roy, i. [ecording to an intercepted yhias’ Galli Waiteo City, Lee OsKALD was et the Soviet Exbassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the ea Consul, Valeriy Viedimirovich KOSTIKOV. This was learned when OSWALD called | the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and speaking | { | { broken Russian, stating the shove and asking the guard who answered the phone whether there was “anything new concerning the telegram to Washington.” The guerd checked and then told OSWALD that «a request had been sent, but : nothing hed as yet been received. (MEXI 6453, 9 October 1963) ‘The FBI liaison officer, Mr. ich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau hae reason to telieve: that’ ‘a vieit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. passport or vies matter Lpernapa * the new passport mentioned in the press articles/ . eae ee tt MLSE yg th gs wart Fen a aaa “2, KOSTIEDV is an tdentifiea KGB ‘officer. He was a case officer in en A i fo, operation which is evidently spong for sabotage and-assassination) <ggut Ae net ertnnsete tent eet nm 3. Of course it is not ususl for a KGB agent on «& sensitive mission to have such overt contact with e Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret Soviet intelligence documents, describing Militery Intelligence doctrine, which show that very important agents can be met in official inetalletions using as cover for their presence there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral am. | Der BEIZYS { ! 4 le , eve HR TASK FORGE ea a | | ps n ot . S ao | cinseified WWF 0 RELEASE APEURL ae vee 1” RELEASE (N PART i xe veal” C) TOTAL DENIAL HW 53199 DocId: 32341409 Page 13
GUBJECT: Valeriy Vledinirevich KOSTIEGY (Gol 50565) . KOSTIKOY, who was bore en 17 March 1933- in Koscov, ves asetgned te the Eovlet Exbessy in Hexico: City ag Vice Consul on 19 Septerber 1961. A fluent Gpenish epeaker, he had travelled abread at Lessi fo. three times before thie permanent aseignrent; moreover, in 1959 ; KGSTIXOV applied for « visa to sccompany Premier Nikita Sergeye- vich KHRUSECHEV's party to the United States ne an official of the Boviet Ministry ef Forefen Affairs, but ve have no record . of hia having cone to this country at that time, EOSfIROY served as en interpreter et international cenferences at Kadrid a and Barcelone in 1956 and 1959. In late 1959 and early 1960 4 he attended Scviet exhibitions in "e sea City and Havana; he is known to have been fa fabs fron canuary to Merch 1966 tk Tre Shyeteal /deserivticn 0 KGSTIEOY ite securstely fite that of a Soviet cuse officer Bhe near @® year age net fin Hexico en .¥BIacontrolliedé double egents “This: double agent's Soviet case officer in the United States "has beea Oleg Denile- vick BEYKIN cf the Thirteenth ‘Departuentj EGE First Chief Directorate, ecctpying the overt posits f tranglator-treainee, UE. Secretariat, Hew York City. SRYXI# ves stationed in Zew Tork. sala a December 960 te Jaly. oft ince arriving in Hexicc, ZOSTIRZOV fc Zeewan to heave travelled threes tines euteide the capital: Ia HMareh 1963 and again for the first two weeks of September he vent te Tijuana, Eneenedsa, ané Hexicali, ostensibly for the purgose of purchesing cotton. The U.S. BDesvartment of State, kowever, has reported thet curing these trips KOSTIEGCV wet lecal representatives of Hovimente Liberation Netforal and Centrsal Conpesine Inégependients, both large Communist front orgenisctione. In addition, aceerding tc FRI sources, KOGTIKOV was accompanied an the September trip ty ! Iven Gavrfiloevwiech ALFERYEV, end be contacted {a Ensensda several i persons freluding Comsuriat synpathigers whe previcugly had been esgoclated with Soviet officials stationed in Hexica City. 4 i ALFEBYEV, & FRAYDA correspondent in Mexico, was in close \ eoutect with Cuben diplemets and local Cemmuniet leeders daring \ s February 1962 visit ta guite. of SY fF, ee. “p24 fer Ob, bk SE os deep ok. git ;  Seagte . Ahatli Ze Ld Eel wk Che ed — (elie antag de. fee ee dad fetch ew Ebi a Cote te ane ws eee ~ Caz MALAI L. € ht Nett ieee ket SN Me eae ad aay G+ Bhai at hee el of! te hgbanra una? F ey owe behing “f re Olea. di? i wee SueF Sho Lele HW 53199 DBocld:32341409 Page 14
Wife: Rosa Aleksandrovna, born 2 March 1932 Arkhamgel Oblast. Daughter: Svetlana Valerievna born 1959, Moscow, Wife and daughter accompanied Subject to Mexico. Graduate of Foreign Language Institute and/or Institute of Foreign Affairs, Moscow. From 30 June to 10 July 1999 was at the Electrotechnical aan ty tokayet bet ony EE EU Wee elon a Set ag 4 tatty ard Congress in Madrid; attended a conference in Madrid and Barcelona in 1958, November 1959 to 6 January 1960 ~ Soviet Exposition in Mexico City. 6 Saeent (2lo- se tere pects her AT Vers Case, Contacts in Ensenada, Baja, California, September 1963: 1. Daily’ with’ Isaak’ Karlos “CHAPLUK’ ‘(3022 JSSGU18B) and with CHAPLUK'ts son. pe ale ph oe Rhy Tae a Phage Doth gy Py ht ey 2. 7 September, ‘stayed MS “minutes: at’ Nuna- SIMANOVKA's Curio ‘Shop. sutdssty Vata eg oa 5 if Sorel Sod tha tet. bear es Q pel ak TAM yt yet 3. 7 September, dinner with Miguel POPOFF (301- 286055). Note that ALFEREV claimed that he was a guest of the party of . Eva Samano de Lopez MATEOS, wife of the President of Mexico, Adolfo Lopez MATEOS. On the trip to Baja, California; Mrs. | Lopez was attending a Congress of the National Institute for the Protection of Children. Sk gsr e Te UE rete alee 90/ ~ 9298 HW 53199 DBocld:32341409 Page 15