S80 p ze mrememermmems amet ste YO a; om WATE 4 FAR SMomE ot weRmAmENm SMTA RR shee oO “ata Oa Koveaber 25, LOGS, TH32 nade contact with the Waited States Inbasey at Naxdeo, D, Fog and advised the Zoliowiag? : . #.5% entered Moxice {iiovalty fres Custexale en . August 29, 3003, traveled to Wexice, De Fe, and subsequently made contset Sth & Micaracuan communist Fosiding in Ucxiae Citys . From thie contact # plas wag doveloped foy Ta39 te travel to ‘ Cuba to study guored\la varfave tactics. Ilv had oceasioa to wiedt the Cubaa Congulste 4u Moxdco, Dy Pe, sovoral digzorest tines for the purpose of obtaining travel documentations gor . eo Cubs by duradebisg false ddoutiticaties pepera 6s & Mexleas . Gatinzen. Be stated thet on Soptenber 18, 1063, he went to ébe Gubza Conzulate, and while sitting in the waiting yoos 2n¥ a group of approxizately ofcht persons enter the Consulate ang the ofgice af Cuban Consul EUSESIO ALCUR, 4 percoa usknova to him vas adtting at 4SCUE'a desk, A short tine later, yaize couree 29 atanding ear the dooy to the uontg room et the Cuban Conguinte, be noticed throes mon convoraing & tow foot i avay fsos bin, Gae of them wag B teil, thic Negro with veddigh hair; the gocond was g xia hom T=32 bad geon previously ‘ holding » Canadien passport dn the waitive roos of the Cubss ‘ oy Cqnsulstes aud the third person way LEZ BARYZY OSVALD. . . Seures etatod thet 0 tet2 Cubes Joined the shove group nonenSarsiy and parsed come UValted States curvensy te tha Nogeve t ne folleving conversation tetwoon the Nerre and GSTALD gag overboard by gources Regro (im Moglish}: Z want to 411i the uate OSALD; You're ao8 mam encugh, 2 62a do it.” i , * ’ ‘ : @ 184 @ , , i ’ Comaussion Exastarr No, 8182—Continued = * . ‘4 698 - ae 3S oe tee ar Bd te Gee Spee | Sat eos, ot + BEG as, 9A PREC bNpt Deo trun hadite amg eae s Aue ET As 6 be as, ‘ Negre (im Gpanigh}: Yean't co with you, TF have a Jez te de, OSVALD? The peoploe are valting for me hack theres Ta32 stated that the Keres then gave OSTATD $6,506 &9 United dtates currency of tarze denowinations, gaying? °Thie toute much.” Of thin aug, $1,600 wan for extra axpensofe The Wogre also gave OS¥AID aboub 200 Moxlcan pences kn a later Sntorview, source atated that tho United States bank notes vore im & maall pack shout ong feurts of an inch thick, bound with a papor band, which the Hegre broke bolorg counting aus $1,500 extra for expensed and $5,000 ag “advance paysent,® FolZ stated that Oswald had carried e@ green passport in hie pocket, and he bolinved he aaw OSWALD weariag & pistol tm a ohoulder holster, but ha eoa not sure of this pointe Ne wtated thet OS¥ALD bad long ehoos and & wrigt vaten with a yeblov-sotal band, Aceordiag fo source, OSYALD appeared to ba complotely at howe at the Congulate and to know and to be knowa by Cuban Consulate pernonnele To32 wae arrested and (aterrogated by Mexican authorities on Nevonbor 20, 1963, and am copy of the daterroe Batson reporg by the Mexican authorities revealed the followLags 4¢ the outcet soureots wtory gonerally racenbied thet wecordad above, He ropeatod to the Kexican authorities the detaily ef the scans dn which ba nay the Xegre, the Canadien and tho duorican convoratng togethor, the delivery @f the woncy $e the duorican by the Negro, and the convorgatios he overkeutds ‘ , To33 adviesd the interviewing Xoxiean offislais that upon gooing the photograph of OS¥ALD fa the nevspapors goliowing the sugascination of Proaident CON F, SEMVEDY, 80 edad GSVALD ag the daerican he had goon at the Cudaa GULATE Ag excerpt frog gourcata statenont to Noxtesn autieritiog, as trassinted from fpanigh, ig ay follews? @ 183 @ . Goneasion Eixurart No. $152-—-Continued
pai cece ratte mee mn nnn etine + thug me ant y soe? ter : ' ‘ . . tA TELLTALE CELE AEA TL, a . .? : ® seo Spontancousty and afloe reennaidering he denirea te axinte that (he daneless te whan he co. : ¢ voferred in the body of hin atatrannt and whoa ‘ . 6 ba row the 38th of Sopterbor af bhia year én tha eo : Cuber Consuinke kad ek soelain genpmliiance, about te : : gor & eixty per cent, $0 LKH SANVAY OUBALD (angaania oe moe of the President of ¢ho Undted Alalaa), That . my eee eee mae ete nee wm tment ee en ee euthtul da ddentifylsg photegvasha of OSYALD as toing fe ee ee ne ne een mn mr emt - 5 2 & persoa. ho sav in the Cubsn Consulate, and he Fas eeted & explanation thoree?, Ho replied that be had fl faith in the aftor the assasaination of Branident XANKEOY the ' + an ‘ Polygragh and would not attonst to refute te roeakt witness took adrantae of thin fact in hig favor a , . Fone on to say that the only cuplins on Ro could of to exploi¢ £¢, furnishing yeraiongs auch ag those dnttially sot forth, for ibe purpnan of provoking wow hat he hed cpoq as Anoricaa iy th Soptenvor 28, 1663, who reaonbiod OSVALD, and {sat wu : ing the photograph ef OSWALD an energetha roaction from Cha pulitignd podut of &0@ Erapa of OS in the Sorspaper, he siow on the part of the United Statea of Anorics yy up withia Binsolf, eithor consciously or subconsciously, 6 sgaAinat the govoranent af ¥iush CANTO NUS and : coaplote belied ¢ $hat ho had no motive other ifan the profound hatred he feels for conmuniue. That all hig 24fe he whtncas had dedicated blasnll to coabating goanunion and ho yegreta At thir moaen§ nob having . ‘Accesplished his objective im the senay of causing & reaction on the part of the Anoriean Goversucnt Sgeiaci FIDEL CASTSO.” ’ facsuga of the fact that audsequent to making the abovacnentiongd statement to Hesican authorities, source elained that he bed changed his atatencnt because of Loar, ha was daterviewces? at considerable Longth aa Boceaber 6 and . &, A863, an Moxkeo, De Fe After raitorating Ale alesy, 7-33 was afferded & polygraph examination ada Reecnber 6, 1003. Ouring the course . \ ‘ of the exsainatdon Bo waa anked, "Je thie the Anordsenh yuu sae . . i ee Congubatel™ At the tiag he was aheva photographs : | 8 > . , . . Grek tiae Se wae aghed this question, he definitalp . gaaponded, "Yea," but 4¢ was noted that the polygraph indicated te a "decepticn response” oh these anawors, Those rosponses and . those with vespect to other quogtions led te the conciusioa that To32 tas & fabricator, It wae specifically pointed ou to An iat the polygraps Sodicated that Be waa not beieg || toa : ‘ , . : ‘ .* a Se, , . , Ste eibe . | , us : a ® Commission Exanarr No. 8162—Continued a #0 WHS OSUALD, U7 Commission Exuintrr No, 3152—Continued ae fe fox was @ Cuban Cozsulat® on Pon built & the Porson he bad occa dn the Cuban eat rebernattbey age Acta, get PAINS OIE NO
14-00000 es Mexico City in early September to receive money and orders for the “| assassination,** that he had been flown toa secret airfield somewhere in vy: orneay the Yucatan Peninsula," that he might have made contacts in - Mexico City with a Communist from the United States shortly _- before the assassination, and that Oswald assassinated the Presi- 2. Gent at the direction of a particular Cuban agent who met with him in the United States and paid him $7,000.57 A letter was zeceived from ‘= someone in Cuba alleging the writer had attended a-meeting where 2 the assassination had been discussed as part of a plan which would "goon include the death of other non-Communist leaders in the Ameri. er case" The charge was made in a Cuban expatriate publication that in . ea speech ha delivered 5 days after the assassination, while he was under “-,, the influence of liquor, Fidel Castro made a slip of the tongue and said, _. “The first time Oswald was in Cuba,” thereby giving away the i fact that Oswald had. made one or more surreptitious trips to that “2? eountry.o?? 7 poten . 7 Some stories linked the assassination to anti-Castro groups who . allegedly were engaged in obtaining illicit firearms in the United : * States, one such claim being that these groups killed the President as 7+, part of a bargain with some illicit organizations who would then a - supply them with firearms as payment.®? Other rumors placed ob ~ Oswald in Miami, Fla. at various times, allegedly in pro-Cuban ac- . ge -tivities there."* The assassination was claimed to have been carried _ out by Chinese Communists operating jointly with the Cubans.” * Oswald was also alleged to have met with the Cuban Ambassador in. *.”_.& Mexico City restaurant and to have driven off in the Ambassador's 3°) car for a private tallk* Castro himself, it was alleged, 2 days after ,-7,’ the assassination called for the files relating to Oswald’s dealings with "iS. tro members of the Cuban diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union; “sm the inference drawn was that the “dealings” had occurred and had : Oswald’s life®7* Without exception, the rumors and allegations of in some cases the product of mistaken identification. Ais the case of “D,” a young Latin American secret agent who ap- - proached U.S. authorities in Mexico shortly after the assassination “S = -and declared that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald receiving $6,500 to kill v4 the President. Among other details, “D” said that at about noon on “September 18, waiting to conduct some business at the Cuban con- ‘Sy Sulate, he saw a group of three persons conversing m a patio a few “# feet away. One was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hair, obviously dyed, who spoke rapidly in both Spanish and English, and another ’ Wasa men he said was Lee Harvey Oswald. A tall Cuban joined the group momentarily and passed some currency to the Negro. The | Negro then allegedly said to Oswald in English, “I want to kill the man.” Oswald replied, “You’re not man enough, I can do it.” The Negro then said in Spanish, “I can’t go with you, I have a lot to do.” ' Oswald replied, “The people are waiting for me back there.” The ae _ 807 "established a secret subversive relationship which continued through _ ke conspiratorial contact were shown to be without any factual basis, 3 ond Illustrative of the attention given to the most serious allegations. . . ‘ , ' ale ie pa ac BENNNE SP NE A mee RRR ane AN UE SO . * eo ete rete Set ths # ett MERLE OG tint 2 trimers + sera bE mrt hea, teeth cnn tet oe . : oe aan : oof ' . we "sy . :
14-00000 .. an soe . ~ . . ee w! . o ’ a at we ry we a rn ., oe na . . . oan . . . Re . wo ebooe ° ‘rebate Ao A ERA kc Th ESTEE Hi SE EE POEHLER TEP TE AO AE BE AP ESI SER Se OT SE CSE A HE RII ETON NE SE AARNE EDERSEREEE OEM bana tenets} 4 SURED On ee teute sematr senen k= eos . ; ‘ eo oases . , : * ‘ ( Negro then gave Oswald $5,500 in large-denomination American bills, saying, “This isn’t much.” After hearing this conversation, “D” said that he telephoned the American Embassy in Mexico City several times prior to the assassination in an attempt to report his belief that someone important in the United States was to be killed, but was finally told by someona at the Embassy to stop wasting his time. “1” and his allegations were immediately subjected to intensive investigation. Elis former employment’as an agent for a Latin Ameri- can country was confirmed, although his superiors had no knowledge of his presence in Mexico or the assignment described by “D.” Four days after “D” first appeared the U.S. Government was informed by tha Mexican authorities that “D” had admitted in writing that his ’ whole narrative about Oswald was false. He said that he had never seen Oswald anyplace, and that he had not seen anybody~paid money - in the Cuban Embassy. He also admitted that he never tried to tele- phone the American Embassy in September and that. his first call to “the Embassy was after the assassination. “DD” said that his motive ia - - fabricating the story was to help get himself admitted into the United States so that he could there participate in action against Fidel Castro. . He said that he hated Castro and hoped that the story he made up - would be believed and would cause the United States to “take action” against him. . ; Still later, when questioned by American authorities, “D” claimed that he had been pressured into retracting his statement by the Mex- . ican police and that the retraction, rather than his first statement, ' ..was false, A portion of the American questioning was carried on with the use of 2 polygraph machine, with the consent of “D.” When told that the machine indicated that he was probably lying, “D” said words to the effect that he “must be mistaken.” Investigation in the : meantime had disclosed that the Embassy extension number “D” said he had called would not have given him the person he said he spoke . to, and that no one at the Embassy—clerks, secretaries, or officers— "had any recollection of his calls. In addition, Oswald spoke little, if any, Spanish, ‘That he could have carried on the alleged conversation _ with the red-headed Negro in the Cuban Embassy, part of which was supposed to have been in Spanish, was therefore doubtful. “D” now ’ gaid that he was wncertain as te the date when he saw “someone who looked like Oswald” at the Cuban Embassy, and upon reconsideration, he now thought it was on a Tuesday, September 17, rather than Sep- tember 18.. On September 17, however, Oswald visited the Louisiana State Unemployment Commission in New Orleans and also eashed 2 by “D” when he heard the results of the polygraph examination, and on the basis of discrepancies which appeared in his story, it was concluded that “D” waslying** | - - SS that Oswald’s trip to Mexico was in any way connected with the assas- _ sination of President Kennedy, nor has it uncovered evidence that the 308 check from the Texas Employment Commission at the Winn-Disie Store No. 1423 in New Orleans. On the basis of the retractions made’ "Che investigation of the Commission has thus produced no evidence. ee nee rare eres u eens meters gan afar ca veapunenemes ammrienttoitahe Gm Rr a pe aeemreemepenemteenetctnetits eget sry ate te ceganctete & . a
2a ae. ~ nan ars) Boe se ee i ~ a+ mn a ° 24 MOVE TGS 1953 Co Aen “HCY Ceo Agaten Fe MIOQRANDUM TO: Me. Clark D, Ancarsoa,} Le: yak Xtiacne hel ahha oe Tv ee - ROM : Wists on MM. Scott SUBIEST 2. Gilbecto Nolasco ALVARADO Uzz 7 +? of 1. - On the morning of 26 November an officer of this Section, -‘ accompanied by Mr. Plambeck of the Security Office, interviewed | *- Subject in a parked car on the south edge ofthe city, The following atatements, unless otharwise noted, are those of the Subject: | Se Subject was born 31 January 1940 in Ciudad Rama, Devartamento Zelaya, Nicaragua. He entered Mexico by 7 . bua on 2) Angust 1963 on his way to Cuba to study guersilla sarfare | tactics. He was ta wait in Mexico until false documentation as a Mexican citizen could be arranged through the Gubaa Consulate in. Mexico. The real purpose behind his travel . i a involved a pensatration mission for the Nicaraguan Secret Service, His superior in Mexico City is Major Roger JEREZ, Nicaraguan Military Attache, whose office is located at Pasaje Latino, ‘Ynterior 513, telephone 46-33-37, Mexico City. - On Z September Subject reported i in Mexico City to oO Professor Edelberto TORRES, who lives at General Zuazua, © _) Number 37, Interior 7. TORRES is a Nicaraguan anc is in charge of Nicaraguan Communist travellers to Cuba. Heisa well-known Communist and has a daughter in Moscow who travelled there on false Mexican pavers. On 2 September Supject discussed anti-Samoza guerrilla activities in Departamento Atlantica, Nicaragua, with TORRES and the brothers Gustavo and Humberto Jerez Talavera: Humberto is a teacher in a Mexican female normal school. , TORRES told Subject that he would receive 500 Mexican pesos Ba monthly subsistence allowance pendiag the arrangement # 6970 TA -SfFL ag Mor. ae AOL M$RIGALE CG
14-00000 te ew yeni Blac, tN Eb we Fm Ca) Ga l3 September Sudject went to the Cuban Coasulate ta we urn Ovex passport photos ta Consul AZTUR. While sitting nthe waliing room, he saw a yroup of aopromimarely 3000 ersong enter the Gonsulate and so into AZCUE's office, but — D he noticed that an uakaown person wag sitting at AZCUT's desk. A Guban employee of the Consulate known to Subject in “5 - : alias as Juan Joss, about 20 years old, mustache, normal ; build, straight hair, emerged i from the office and asked a ; Subject to turn over his photographs, At this point, Subject ae aged to be shown the lacation of the men's room and was _ dixected through a door toa passageway leading toa pation The ‘loor of the patio opena off thig Dassaxzoway. at While standing by the bathroom door, Subject SAW 3. , group of 3 persons conversing on the patio a few feet away: : ~- One was atall; thin Negro with reddish hair which appeared - Lit. - te be dyed. He had prominent cheekbones anda noticeable .- scar on his lower right side of hia chin. He spoks repeatedly with a Gupan accent and also spoke some Euglish. Another . one waa a white man whom Subject had previously aeen holding a Canadian passport in the waiting room. This person  .-- had green eyes and dark blond hair which was arranged ina “existentialist” hairda with a pompadour, Te wore glasses of ‘the types with a mirror-like outer surface. The third person was Lee Harvey OSWALD {Subject was completely convinced fzom published photos that this was OSW ALD). He o2id. thera was nota shadow of doubt in his mind, ; me co ~~ OSWALD was wearing a black sport coat, buttoned up waite ae with short collar tabs, no tis, dark gray pants and ear eyeglasses. (Subject stuck to this story that he was wearing eyevlassesa despite the fact that they were not pr esent in published photos of OSWALD.) - Suoject saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and Pass some Americaa currency to the Negro, This unidentified = - Cuban man had apparently come out of AZCUE's office into the SECRETLY a E976
DGG Task Subjuct estimated his ay 2. : ~ ees we se oo IRL- meet never saw this rnan after 13 September. Negro: {in English) I want to «ill the man. OSWALD: You're not man enough. I can do it.. Negro: (in Spanish) I can't go with you. IThavealotte do. - OSWALD: The people are waiting for ma back there. 7 ~~ ‘Tne Negro then gave OSWALD 5,509 doilars in large : om demornination US, bills saying "this isn't much", Of this aum, - 4,500 dollars was for extra expenses. The Nezro also gave OSWALD about 200 Mexican pesos. Later the Subject saw a | _ pretty girl believed ta ba a Cuban emoloyee of the Consplate give OSWALD an "abrazo" and tell him that she waa living ai . Galle Juarez $407 in casa he wished to findher. The girl . 2poreated to be about 20 years old and her manner reminded Subject of a prostimte. OSWALD, the Negro and the Canadian, then went upstairs. Subject left the Conaulate building momentarily to buy a . - popsicle at the corner and saw these threa persons leave by the Mmbassy gate near the corner of Tacubaya where they entered a parked black car, probably a Chevrolet. Subject) reentered the Consulate waiting room and later was aporoachad by the tall unidentified Cuban whoa came out of AZCUE's office - and told Subject to return the next day at which time his finger prints would be taken and he would complete a form for obtaining travel documents. ; " Subject returned to the Consulate on 19 September at about 0345 and filled out the form. He was told at this time thet he would be approached by an Embassy officer to make Boa story for his false Mexican papers. Nlany people were i the waiting room on the morning of 19 September and the door SECVRAT ts
wN OE ORT ( was finatly closed to keeo others from onterins. “ u Sudjece was then told to contact TURES, wheresooa cto TORIAS' home hut TORRES’ wife, a Guatemalus Subject that he was at the Soviet imbaszay. Gabje 2 Se viet Embassy about 1130 bai was not allowed i althouzh he bad been there on earlier occasiona with TORRES, AE this point, Dr. Noel JARQUIN Toledo, Nicaraguan . Communist, who haa been in Moscow, approached and saw a Subject standing at the gate, He asked Subject why he was. 27” there and Subject aaid he was looking for TORRES. JARQUIN ; informad him that TORRES was inside. TORRES soon came out and accompanied Subject to the Cuban Consulate, . POBRESS entered AZCUE's office alone and later emerg telling Subject “you have nothing further to do here mati. t . contact you.” At this point, an unidentified girl entered the Ww - ‘Consulate and greeted TORRES. TORRES replied "not now, . : - come back tommorrow." oo mo Cn the night of 19 Savtember TORRES presided over a - > meeting of about 18 Nicaraguan Communists held at his home to dacugs a recent guerrilla attachxa the Segavia Region of Nicaragna, TORRES announcad that 6 guerrillas had been killed and said that the next year would be a tough one becausa the U.S. policy might change and the Gommunist might find themselves isolated. TORRES asked Subject if he knew the Laguna de Perlas area of Nicaragua where the U.S, is training Cubans. He referred to itas "zona gringa’. Subject replied that he was mot sequainted with the area. 2 2& September TORRES sabt Enrique CUADRA Colladg, "an smpoloy on of Carton Znvases de Maxico, Lago de Canala ig, to rell Subject that he should go to tha Cuban Enrfulate. Subject weat to the Conaulate but waa told to wait because the Conavl WAS very busy. While waiting for the Consul, Subject saw the Ganadian- again. The Canadian was smoking a cigarette and wearing a Roles wristwatch which a Consulate employee was trying to buy from him for 1,000 pes03. The Canadian rc efused ta sell, saying SECRET #6975
14-00000 tp jan uvstairs. As he wae leaving the waitiay coom,: <‘- * rm ye The ved haired Negro mentioned sarlier then cams in and took the Gaaad ths Canadiaa flashed a largs wad of U,S, dollars and gaid Tim : zolag. Tae skiea are clouding up and they'rs waiting foo me At tha end of Septernber Subject phoned the American’ Embassy several times to report his belief that samsone rt important in the U.S. was to be killed. In making these calls, | _ 7 he used the name Jorge KYNAUT (phonetic) to protect his .-.; 0-7 identity. He was asked if the call related to visa metters and. he replied "no, it involved a political matter, he wished to speak with a person of confidence." His first call waa screened by two fernales and he finally spoke to a rman who took Subject's phone number (30-19-52) and said he would call back. The man never called, Subject triad repeatedly to contact the Embaasy — “by pnone but was finally told “quit wasting our time; we are working here and not playing.’ os When Subject.saaw the photograph of OSWALD in a local news= paper, he contacted the Embassy Security Cfifice on 25 Movember, | . 2, The officers interviewed Subject on 24 November and agr “aed | that he was a young, guite serioua pergon who spoke with conviction, He showed that he knew enough English to understand rudimentary conversation in that language. Subject said that he had ta'ken training in the Panama Canal Zone when he was with the Nicaraguan Army and admitted that he was still a member of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, having originally been a convinced Marxist, Later he-became disillusioned and for the past four years has worked as a pene- tration agent for the Nicaraguan Government. He said he expected to enter Cuba within 2 months. - Subject explaiméd that he was outraged by the agsassination of President Kennedy which ha was "30 percent sure was a SECRET 85976
14-00000 5 * Momaraaist plot. Ee said he did not wish to becomes favolved in nay Sig pwolicity aplash and roped that hia naine would de fsect uescret, but that he would be williny ro do "whatever necessary." aE this time, Suess | waa living at Pino 173, . 3. On the night of 26 November ha wag interrogated ey ¥ two officers of this Section. His story remains substantially the same as set forth - above, He recognized photographs of the following Cuban Embassy - personnel: Silvia DURAN, Franciasco LLAGOSTSRA, Orastes RUIZ, ” Samuel PEREZ, Rogelio RODRIGUEZ, Raul APARICIO, Rolanda - »- S, : ESTEVA, Heberto JORRIN, Oscar CONCEPCION, Antonio GARCIA. ee Jose Fernandez ROA, And>e3 ARMONA, Joaquin HERNANDEZ mane . wRawl", Pereguina ALONSO, Lmisa CALDERON, and Alfreda MIRABAL © did not know any of thase persona by nama, but waa able to give ~ | partial descriptions such as duties, height, skia coloring, condition of teeth, disposition, accent, etc, He identified the photograph of Oscar CONCEPCION as the tall Cuban mentioned above anda photozrapn of Luisa CALDEROM as the pretty girl mentioned above. He also identified Bronciaceo LLAGOSTERA as the mustached Cuban whom he had known under aliss3 of Juan Jose. This was the sara person incidentally who wag trjing to buy the watch from.the Canadian, Subject quickly identified the New Orleans mug shot of OSWALD which had baen supplied by your _ office. _He said that he was positive of thass identifications. , 4, At this interrogation, Subject said _ OSWALD had carried a green passport in his pocket and Subject believes he saw OSWALD wearing 2 shoulder holster pistol. He didnot seem to ba too sure of this 2 poiat. He aaid OSWALD wore long shoes andhadawrist: ~ watch with a yellow metal band, He illustrated OSWALD's miannar of slouching ina chair at the Conaulate while ip ix the waiting room at about noon on 18 Sentember. He said "OF. that CSWALD seemed ts ba completely at homa and appeared to know and be known by Consulate personnel, Ak one point he heard OSWALD use the Mexican slang expression "Cabron", SECRET: . . #8976
‘Negro broke before counting out 1,500 doliars for extra - Suoject reenacted the conyscsation aal money puszing conver gate: sxcent at this time fivst reply to the a ili him,’ yo. gocume tescribed + was essentially the ne had OSWALD u Negra; hence, OYoutes mot tha y ¥y e ped rel 2) Me said thatthe U.S, bank notes were inaasmalh «0... pack about 1/4 inch thick bound with a pager band which the oF Cw expensas and 5,000 dollars aa "advance payment.” 0 ON Subject said that he is ati a sargeant in the Nicaraguan Givil Guard and that he entered Mexico illegally on 29 August * without travel documents, paying a bribe at tha border and ....” having tranaited Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador en |, 7 route, He said that he had been to Mexico in 1941 oma mission - for the Nicaraguan Secret Service after a contrived escape from false arreat in Nicaragua, followed by aperiod of asylum _ ‘in the Mekican Embassy. He sail that hia training received in the Canal Zone took place in Fort Glick in March 1956 {note . Subject would have only been 16 years old at that time). oS Subject said that ha had been to the Cuban Consulate On Zaz 3 September, 15 or 16 September, 18 Septembar,- a a 7 September, 26 September and 25 November. —. 2 admits to having visited the Soviet Embassy apporoxi~ Mats ay 6 ox 7 times; about 4 times with TORRES. He was somewhat fuzzy on xeagone for thase visits and waa mot : oressed for detail at this seasion. ’ , - 5. In order to keep Subject available for further interrogation, ha was instructed to find other living quarters where he shoul register inanalias. On the following morning, 27 November, he reported that ne had registered aa Alberto SANCHEZ, Room 293, Hotel Necaxa, Oa 23 November he was arrested by Mexican police at the hotel. This oiftice has no further contact with Subject, . ; pared DISSSMINATION OF THIS INFORMATION OUTSIDE YOGR OF FICE SHOULD BE CLEARED WITH CUR HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, Ls ed, 47 we tee . so . 3 -_r-f if? . om Z wee Pe ee?
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wn os oe ee 7 a arr aneety on ts, eee 8G - UN eg Ea! TE ~thoer 24 we OD LL ee ue 2 ‘FYnis person [ALFANO ced’ shay he was 24 years sia, uommoviad, © Cachobic, a chanteur, who came Pron Ciuind Asm, sissiminen: DE Colac, Sesublie of Gieernus, ac4 vie Lives nt Salle fino No. R73 in tris casltal (Hertes City). , 2. indicated tbat os Ausoss 29 of this pour he ertered Rexiecs dlisrmblly, britin: an exmplowes of the Mieratiogs t2Pice iss Uiuéad Connbscemes, Chisges, Keocloo, for EA) pases. Be added - ton’. RO was reswiiasinsg comemaionm snd four that reason the sbhiees OF his cimiss co Moles wos $6 Iey 20 ankiltrate the sroupa ar . that g0f3ibatios, for the mesh pert Coban prmips, wlth the nizde Rate purpose of possing infoxcation to Mayer Hoser UBER Aliaro, tRilcery Attache of thw Hicerastean Exbusay in Hexice with qhon pesos a menth for is expessea, She Information that he iathers be passes to sald Biliiery Attacks or ha senda 25 diveetly ie General Guscayo LOSPTESL, Cite? of the Tntelli oxte lervice af 3. ALYANADD caid thar by preieedin, to be @ eousamist, Bod thy, h Protesdee Bdelbest.o TORS, well-known Hicaraguen | | s, -‘coummist, he wet pm icubivideal te the meee of Serlos Jono, ‘@2 i-rortact eoplioyes of the Cubes Eohanay. She meretins coourred fast Lepteriber 3 or 5... The pratech of the megiicg was that ALVATAUO verted to 9D tn Cuba, ati for thar reason be trols Carvlos Jr 2. be wes a zoek ooemmies. On the 2Oth or Leck of ihe eaze bocth, sy explores OF the Cuban Exheosy hed bis inh out & guestionmnive sna seked bis Pos there photosapha, which mrevexia he cmtiiowd ts Pregueun the Cubsn Eofeassy trying te” obtain infersation to send to Mager TRAnS2 or to General MOUTTEL, ia cee cocaston they toli kin dn che Embassy that in over to neble hin to remain in the comtry (fsa), they were coins to have m Levyer cer for his 6 passgert, birth cercifiente, er certimieste of sdlitery serris® a3 2 Mexicau and in Shes way be pola trevtl to Cuba. rece
14-00000 5%. Me midoad thay on 23. eptenter a: shows 286 ALR, EG ung 2 che wedtin, reo of che isos of the Ustn ionevliato (sic) acs Seo obrasrvad 2 Worth femrioan of =eter 75 spntizeters in sisht, redinn bedld, bus mather thin, weerin, say isoners, Diack sors SOAS, wRite shirt, 2 Texa-styla cord, tie ard brown shorn. se rouicoi the Indiviceal beemisa he was vary fade ckiroed, cad isokia., and imd very devi sunken ayes. The mau leocwed bo ble Lite a set Ed avaies. Te also noticed thas tlhrin man's twit ves, Pos the mast pxrt, ark, Deh was Stmteked wlth Siosd. Re estimated that tke ran wea nbows 25 yeara sid. ALAS BAO sata teat Prem te Loker one eng see poe cireet.cng be say that gpscaite che Cammiate a tard pulled up carrying tyo peopled ere & negro, tell, af sbont 2 aoier 22 semtineters tall, m ikic man, but stron:y with imisins apse, b i ehees toms, tics Lip, reddish, nicky batr, acl wearing 5 Es sro enite * tee = Sttn sa wilt, & youn Pan of about 2), rate beanie . Lis cote, Se yaa ahonk 2 mete “73 centinsters an hoist, ef rather tetaes bulla. ALFARO gotdoed that he carried to bis bem 2 Soh DySavitt, 2 Peeepart which Pron she a ae $a be Camulion. When these ted dpiivicnels arrived, the Nerth veinisiaaad et wa Pros his ceab anf greeted then eed the three oP the = | - Berd inte ‘che Cousalaia bacetie: 1 Ge. | Absa’ 15 alaates, ALVARADO crossed the wating reas ee the Cananiate to go to the resy room, and on caesenkinn the |: stairs, he tay & very poverTsh Iooki; individral, dork ia cones, tell, veatin, vhite rimeed classes. The mag Worked in the Cobse Enobes sys because ALIJAZAOO med geen him there Defame. Ee sox hin give the sok reized Mecte 2 pockeee Rhigk appeared toconigin we oe Upon emia, ont of the rest roma, be cay that in @ bet be Hesrpy hae Garaatan an& ths Yorth Aeerican were baying m-} hewted soserest2 ‘Bp roticed that -the ace bet & very: Pale ses2 On tbs Ticht slaw of hig chin am timi he ws eceitiss =~ mooey ard gavine 8 te the Herth Asorican. ALYARSBO heard thes eoustin: to the ars of 2650m. - SLFARADOD weert tecls tower’ the vant nt aod sotios’ tent the Zorth fserieen and tbe Canna ien wiser . shenlias holstexsn like can stern eed O58 he heard the tan aay to She Booth Ameclest, °E cant 29 with you.” The Forth Acerican orsvered, “Som sre cob a pen,” gid adfed, “KE ean do dt. FE cen k232 mim,” ALYSSARG levi, and on satursls as £9 see Joey, noticed ‘that the Forth Americus a3 the Usendion vere aimia etlerizg the office of che Cones tat. they eek a fey morents to tots with en oxployee oF the Consilnie who Inoked Like = nrostitute ank yinse nem was Horla Lulsa.e & }, i ee Py ce rong Pent alil & a 79 5% 44 1 ore antag _&
* ~ Bre ay a eer TNR BESS 23 », 8 oe eget te 2 te Bee . &, Jo na Fok Coie a Sa TERT Lat Varin iat ao TAl aa Aes + Bead ro -— 3 7 ot ot. x Ag . grows nilek, snd wrile Gola tila he gay che Nero, veo Sort Azexiess sod ihe Canadas leave ute offines aml lec insta o blag, Leulel sulssosile, which nypaarnd to he a Chevrolet. AGIARASY tate oe eee what a arime vas ie toe sokin: and Zh cecixgn so him to inPoove the [nites ctates Emibmasy txt if did ot ctour to him to «oO to the Mexicen officials. On 20 ° bepienbet na telephoned the fcerican £ Eabass¥, Oh because he Wo nol bream’ naaen iz persos, they paid ne aliontios 29 him ia opive of the 7 26ph ba said tlat cha pybrer mes vonfiganiiel and that b me vonisd aa teik te oa bth of oebte te? Sa @32 opt 5o to the Acacionn Eoin x for fea of heins eee by the %-2 of Cite eptes, sod un for tha pessest be forroh the iucliest, ALYASALO ead& thas bp remi in tha novapapers abowh the death oF tha Sresidens oF the nite) States ark mi or 7 OC. seeing the photgstssh of tha nisasnin he xeengaiecd : Simas he -. Horth Auectcan whims ba bedi eeea tn the Gsthan 2 He therefore otodn callea the American Exhassy ook sreeseteg In. ppeekin3 vo 2 Risk ubticink vith wom he mate Ba aypoisimen: Pa chats sess Bay at Ste the Eotel Mewle Isaket. This ve ee é, tee intivtiesls eupessek Por the essotatcenc. They we: tdenciftied themselves and bad the eredentials of FST agents, Eb: tong = bens the above frets ati they rade another esrainte mens fer 5:15 ead mexsk moreins in the testament, dom, Located on the Ayaan 8  ,elom and the Paseo de la Refeses,. The tro mex be pet the Gay before, arvdersk Por tie sevornd aypeinimens alton, eV2th qanthae an thoes nee nas Esdolfo TATALSO?, with these thres cen be vemk to the caletexvia of the Hotal Freccia after which they éxove op ama dova a Pew streets im en euiseopilea,. He acpia tol thea ties be haa ebsersrca in the Gihen Coesilate erd they seve hin 6 303 pase DILL nea told iin they weald cold hin Be the member 42-07-93, whick 2s the mober of the place where ALYATADG Lives. ‘They calies bin thas same fey at G:h5 son. and, tola dim te keet them 39 mdvaxces Inter in front of tne Kooweent te Jusrea. They per him there el <he appois ted Lic, 3,  GAYALCOS and ALVARADO weat In a pese eas to the corneas of tha Hotel Merin Teabel where exothee Asericen 2a woitiog Pine ines, ank to,ethes they crouse’ the streen ead went to aus epertment in a imildins Leosted on chs cormex of Oxford ok Before. Soe there, ht ainin related the Imolitents acd in an obo af pincicee arazgks Identified the parsean who aye money te the tho Beara, tm tha
Nasal atia df s, tote te need ~ orm tat Ne & * Wor nel picAAL, Co &: > Sh Fe. “Smebye, = . ba) ta tee = Ferny eos . . . . Pay oxy Srbassy as wel as =D O.he? persone v1.0 Vere been seen tm rhe ~ s Boyd scape Fw 2 ee og: oh ASS BOR LES yawn ® * . ey eat et” 2 * yy «te. ha: eR rq She Shall Ser ay be ae Soh ROS On Said ne CERES 20. Aber this, ihe ran wave ALYADADG 5CA) pesms, cold tis so ‘Rove co 2 RoOMtlL, atl wo tek thee to which note] he wes movin, ‘2t ALVARADO @id the Pollowln: day, G7 Soneesber. Ne ome EAFALDSS a cari wits the information Shay wanted, buc bo face these men here nol recontesiad hin. Atver eakin: the shove sietomenio, ALYASADG °°. @& i Tab onowemeusly, end after recoeaitzemstion, be. Sesires 2 shale thay the Norte Aceriosau te wae he ind woe yefermel in the bods of his stateeest asd whom be exe oe Ot a 35 Segtember af this year in the Cutan Gomsslava toot Eiiey, '- ana be vas 603 sue that he ieskad Line, Lee Barmy OSSALD, 7. vie opsascin of the Preaident of the United States. — ee b. That after the assasaizatios of Presiaeus Kewiedy. 9 - ALYASADO tock nivartage of tiese dccurreaces, civimy ravsieons <. - Buch 3 the above one, Pox the pircese Of sroyvekins 2 Stroms reaction in favor of the United .tates nm alcat the sovermeenk  - Of Fidsl CASTRO Buxe 2 SL we _ @e- That be hed => other motive chan the deep hauxved which be feels for commmict, ani bas throujheut tis life dedicates himeel? to coakatiiag communise. ee (o@ crusing 4 remetios on the part of the United ftaces stvverte ment Sains: that of TASTER. a tome . '&» that vhe telepkose conversation which be referred to chive In his statesent, ues uot sada on 12 Ceptester 24a be paid, bul rethes after ihe daats of Preabient Nenedy, of © 25 tepteaber. ‘This callus made tn the momber hi )-oO, te eae connected with erbersio: LL in exder to relate che dzeidesnts glresiy reatiosed, .
14-00000 SBy'0C1, D/oc}, DOP, Suen VRE a oe Zp I (7S _CLASsiFigD MESSAGE” , ORIG : (Sec HH, raseten | - MY ia a DN | C/an/3 Oo IND “4 v “BE iG RG  56h3 0 " [NO INDEX : = ~ 29 Nov 1983 ( FILE'IN Cs FILE NOT ON WITS HOUSS ATTN: MR. MOGSCRGS. BUNDY ;7O +: FRORRAL BURMA OF INVESTIGATION . . i DEPARTMSE? OF SEATS ATE URS Ue ALESIS SEES | FROM: DIRECTOR a eee eee Leeamennstti tins 18 TS TELLING BSGENNTALEE 2 S SAMS STORE? CHE DILRFRRSNCE IS THAT HE FAXLED To ° ‘RECOGHIZS A pHonoGeans J er ne no 8 * 32-62 ROUTING f fo 4 - fj arate trite ie en = co E jmp ft | D REN , - {oo ROUTINE «= | _ CMEDIATE ‘58 DED So RECOGriS IR WERT. INVERROGAESD ERESTOUSLY BY GIA PERSONNEL. THE = Doms TS - SEEEERROGAION oF ALVARADO SAYS HE “posts” ALVARADO!S enone AND. la i3. hie mage Vee SHEED HEDORD Om He PACERS CF EE JENKIN OFFECTAL 4 TERATO ALVARADO, HGARAGHRM VEOM EAS CIATED HE SK TE OSWALD ‘nace 6500 DOMARS "ut Us CORA ]HEASSE Ti oorcD ERE OH 18 SuFTRUN 1963, SOS | TLYEA DURAN AS AN) EMPLOYES OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY, Wetereas : MEXICAN Bae Lares, Bieta WORK po "REA am. THES TUPORATION WAS KECKIVEED IN xtCO omy ae 330 HOUES WASETSDTON TMG 29 NOVEMBER 1963. oT Act ote cE . . . . . * "4 ‘ : Pr we _ END OF MESSAGE Ps . _ CLASSIFICATION Review . conoueTen on’ 4 MAY tO7g}° ‘ “samp LES ° : wie ‘eh wh ee . iv thant by OF . 4 RECHARD HatuS” " posurment Number - ) efs Comments * DISSEMINATION APPLICABLE TO RYBAT GPFLOOR CABLES. QV\-BAD © _ for FOIA Review on: ‘ pop ~ ; i Ree -S"~ UL COORDINATING OFFICERS RELEASING OFFISER . ; ae RE r Exciudsd oom automatic . grengiacing 3 . £ licata, IS PROFUBITER. |. . REPRO SpuCTION BY OTHER TIAN THE ISSUING OFFICE z a . 2 - Lee “re? iTS a on . me OU . . Nam lt rr tad eter et seer APR 4976 § ol, coke CkourP 1 Corn piaGing ang Gechssslicahen “es 43 tere . eet 4 om wee 7 * + AUTIHENTICAT LS: OFFiCEn DuYyZ
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14-00000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM >: Raymond A. Warren Chief, Latin America Division VIA : Deputy Director for Operations SUBJECT : Citations from Robert Dietz Morrow's Beok, "Betrayal" in "Midnight," a Weekly Tabloid, entitled, "How CIA Plot to kill Castro Backfired" REFERENCE © : Memorandum for DCI from C/LA, Subject: "Possible Accusations Against the CIA," Dated 31 July 1976 ~ 1. Attached is a copy of Subject article from the 2 August 1976 edition of the tabloid "Midnight." 2. Also attached is a copy of a 24 March 1976 memorandum for the Deputy Director for Administration from the Director. of Security relative to Robert Dietz Morrow. This memo indicates that Mr. Morrow was granted a Secret contract clearance in September 1962 for use by the Office of Commu- nications which contracted with Morrow Products, Baltimore, Maryland, to produce an adapter which would greatly reduce interference on radio receivers. The adapter was delivered in February 1963 and found te be worthless and the contract was terminated. Subsequentiy, Morrow became involved with Mario GARCIA Kohly and made. the plates from which Kohly produced counterfeit Cuban pesos. Morrow and his wife, Cecily, were arrested along-with Kohly by the Secret Service on 1 October 1963. At that time Morrow told the Secret Service that he had become associated with a "certain agent" after building a device which he demonstrated to CIA. Sa a nee nf at Eegeien peep | E? IMPDET Waites GeUbe CL RY 9560 SEASHEYE GNTCLLIC ECE SCURCES AND SLGHGOS 1AVOLYED
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HH MOOS @chrho wp om on MEMORAN EID FOR: Dircetor of Central Intelligence THT 2 yee — “ FROM > Raymond A. Warren Chief, Latin America Division e VIA ae Deputy Director for Operations SUB.ECT : Possible Accusations Against ‘the CIA On 30 July 1976 at 1630 hours, Latin America Division vised by Mr. Tom White of the Office of Legislative lL that he had just talked on the phone to a staff aide resentative Thomas Downing, Democrat of Virginia. The aide told. White that Representative Downing had just ceived information from a Mr. Robert Morrow, author of a ecent book (Betrayal) on the Jchn F. Kennedy assassination, Morrow provided tnis alleged information to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, a Richmond newspaper (Times cr Newsieader, perhaps), and others. According to this information, which the staff aide said is to appear in the New York Times on sunday, 1 August: VE so a n we oa £ 2 fo) on & f& ia] eh e a. President Richard Nixon promised a Mr.. Mario GARCIA Kohly that if an invasion of Cuba were successful; Nixon would arrange that all Cuban leftists outside Cuba would be killed.’ The implication was that these killings would be carried out by the CIA. b. British overflights from the Bahamas Showed that there were Sovict missiles in Cuba as early as 1960, and.they were not removed until 1964. President Kennedy Knew of this information, but withheld it from the public. e 2. The staff aide said that Representative Doxning plans to call a press conference on Monday, 2 August, to disclose the above information, but not necessarily to attest to its accuracy, faa ct tr 24 Mporr : oN a
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14-00000 By HARRY ALTSHULER MIDNIGHT Staff Writer The CIA and Fidel Castro were both betting on the same agent —~ and Castro won, The CIA plotted to murder Cas- tro by using a Cuban agent code-named Am/Lash, who agreed to lead a coup to overturn the Castro government. But Am/Lash was a double agent. ‘Kennedy Was Trying To Get A longtime faithful pal of Casio, Castro, named Rolando Cubelo, he took the K CIA's muney — and spilled its plans > B * into Castro's car. Bu t In angry retahation, Casio setup . the asscsination of President John Castro F, Kennedy. Thatis the story — alieady fang. known in seme Washington circles — behind the reopening of the file on JERK 's murder, Bui the truth may be even more comples. Naw a former CLA opene tive. Robert D. Morrow, has spilled a dozen yeurs of secrets into a confessponal book, "Be- | trayal,” published by the Henry Regnery Co., Chicago. Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin, Morrow is- sents, Oswakl was just the chump setup to Like the blame, while the teal killers escaped. According to Morrow, Osw ald was a amall-time CLA em- Got To Him First —LBJ ployee, working under orders. He had no idea what it was all about of where his own actions fitted injo the picture, A group inside the CIA itself, working closely withGis- gruntied Cuban eailes. plotted the assassination, say? #for- row. Oswald's boss was another CLA employee. Jack Ruby, Ruby knew the scope of the plot and wanted no part of it, But Ruby had a racket of his awn on the side, Urng-running from Cuba. It made him vulnerable to blackmail Ruby was the Dallas nightclub operator who walked up lo Oswald and, as the nation watched on TV, shot him at close range. Ruby too is now dead, but his claim was he performed the act oul of love for the dead President. Morrow says this is the truth about Ruby: He was ordered to liquidate Oswald, to keep his mouth shat, and threatened with a jail sentence on a drug charge if he hesitated, “ . What did the CUA cabal have against JFK? Morrow ex- plains the CIA group and its Cuban exile friends blamed Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs invasion failure. And they chai ged him with playing politics in the Cuban missile crisis. “If our President and his brother sit on the missile infor mation, he won'tlive through his first term," Morrow heard from an insider. The CIA-Cuhban exile plotters regarded JFK as a traitor. They felt he wasn't ready enough to battle Castro, whom they saw as a deadly menace to the U.S. Their first plan was to ruin Castro by counterfeiting Cuban currency to smash the economy. They were running their counterfeiting operation with U.S. government funds and salaries, but naturally they had to keep it dark from the White House. Their secrecy succeeded too well — for the Secret Serv: JOHNSON refused to spill any details. CIA blamed Kennedy for Bay Of Pigs failure. Morow himself was handed a two-year sentence, sus- pended, in connection with the scheme. The insiders felt the White House had interfered with ROBERT MORROW, former CIA man, holds Mannihicher rifle he was ordered to buy before the, assassination. Three men fired at JFK he claims. the President first, so we can get at Castro,” one of them warned Morrow. shesioes The kingpin of the gioup, his book says, was Clay Shaw, Be SI ae. BE Pease 13 Pe ot ae ROLANDO C'NISELO, left: Cuban Police Chief, Efigenio Amejeiras; Fidel! Castro; and Havana University President Juan Marinello, in the early days of the Castro victory. fa v ice broke in and arrested them as ordinary counterfeiters. , their last hope — short of violence — of breaking Castro. “If we can't get Castro because of the President, we'll Re Wirtien Commission fear ot ROLANDO CUBELO, almost a Castro lookalike with the beard and cigar, wore his arm ina sling as a result of wounds he received in the Presi- dential Palace takeover in Havana on Castro's behalf. now dead. a New Orleans businessman who was a power in the CIA. Morrow quotes him as declaring: ‘The assassina- tion of a President may seen a monstrous act, but not if the alternative is an America under communist rule...” Long afterward, Shaw was indicted on a conspiracy charge, and acquitted as innocent. But meanwhile. as Morrow tells it, the plot went ahead. Oswald was picked as the fall guy, to be fed to the police while the men who actually fired the shots in Dallas that Nov, 22 got away. . This part of the story fits in with recent Senate Intelli- gence Committee revelations of two Cuba-connected fugi- tives following the assassination. One fled Texas for Mexico the same day, and a Cuba-bound airliner was held back till he scrambled aboard. _ The other reached Mexico the following day. and was immediately flown out to Cuba on an airliner with no other Pussengers. According to Morrow, these were the men with Mann- licher rifles similar to the one Oswald owned, who fired at the President from hidden vantage paints, The explanation that there was more than one man firing accounts for the puzzling profusion of wounds. ot tf the truth was known or suspected in Washington, why has it been so long coming into the open? Current talk in realize Castro’s involvement hid were openly accused, his backer, Russia — whole world dreaded. So they kept quict — even the man in Lynden B.Johnson. News commentator Howard K. Smith has now revealed a confidential conversation with Johnson, long ago. “ETI tell you samething about Kennedy's murder that will reck vou, Johnson confided. “Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first.” Smith admits, "1 was rocked all right. | begged for details, but he refused, saying it will all come out some day." True enough, there have been rumors for years, in MID- NIGHT and elsewhere, despite the massive efforts to bury lavestigation under the Warren Report, The CIA und the FBI were naturally reluctant to fet the woudl find out they hit been booby-irapped by a double 4 iS tt would lead to a confrontation with possibly the nuclear holocaust the the White House, agent, hey did teven want to think about the truth — that at ‘ e was the CLA plotting against Casteo that fed fo the death of Ethe Amencon President That was why the CLA and the FBI kept secrets fom the ind even failed to follow up leads for what they might feam, the nation’s cupital is that the first ones to, a terrible fear that sf heé Z isniny GIN — 9264 z 4HD! I u a] 2 ga
r _ . ‘ 4 H he ; adk ded herve Tota ett ar "ASS sociated. Press yesterday:- under: i ON PAGE. 2 | Peel tee, Bes “ ols l Associated Prose TTI eo ao 4, Contrary to-swom testimony, the ‘CIA once considered using presiden-- Hal assassin Lee Harvey Oswald asa i source: of ‘intelligence . information. : about the Soviet Union, according to a a newly released CIA document... wat In sworn ‘testimony . before - the? Warren - Commission, - formers €1 AZ Director Richard’ Helms. said’ the-. ugency never had.“‘or even contem-.: plated’ any contacts With Oswald, ‘The newly released document, written by an unidentified CIA officer three days after President John F. _ Kennedy was killed i in Dallas on Nov. = -27, 1863, says that “we showed intel: “Neeace interest! in Oswald’ and “‘dis--. cussed. “the: “Je eying” “on. of. intery views? . Deere act - The anidentiviea. officer - ndeed: that? : md do not Know what action developed - : eet MEMOL WAS AMONG hanes deeds of pages* of. documents. ‘from’: the CIA's tile onLee Harvey Oswald.- “The material asi released ‘to..The ‘the Freedom of Information Act. 0-247 A. second -document -reveals- “that: former’ Cia. Director Allen Dulles, ‘while serving as.a member-ol! the- Warren Commission, “privately: coun seled CIA officials on the best way. to ansvec questions-from .the.coramis-- sion about allegations, that, Oswald wasa CIA agent... Ta dates TF, Dulles “thought ; Janguape® Swhich | made it clear. that Lee Harvey Gs-- wald yas never an employe or agent. af CIA would suffice,” an unidentt-. fied CIA officer wrote Helms in April 1954, . wee RT “J agree witht him that a carefully _phrased denial of the charges of in-j volvement with Oswald seemed most approncia Be * the unidentilied ulficer. ha Docur oy t Contrat liets Tesiimeny~ se pecan teancttnritne BH , ereemmaemnmerst : rs t renal nA Saat) a xP, - A” 3 S5% NT, cas cl Bee 4 ‘mission in ae 1954, Helin then “head ‘of. thé “agency's.. clandestine “services, testified ,under~ oath that -there’s no imaterial in-the-Central “Intelligeace’s Agency, ° either, in ‘the records oc in the mind of any of the’ _ individuals: that there. was any ‘con- “tact had or even n gomtemplated with’? Oswald. ~ . : CHE NOV-25 , 1663, riermo explahis i that the agency's interest in Oswald as a. potential inteRigence source was _ due: to. his “unusual. behavior in the -USSR,”. to which. he had defected in A959 FE at wy Sogisly 2S ‘We. were particularly: interested. “in the (deleted) Oswald might pro-- “vide on the Minsk factory in which he fhad been employed, on certain sec-- ‘tions.of the city: itself, and of course. .we thought.the usual (deleted) that “might help develop (deleted) person- F ‘ality dossiers,” the memo states.- : isthe memo‘indicates.that Oswald: Se Teet ic was. also of.. interest to. ther CIA, be-!: Cause of | concer th that: i his: -Russian=- — ey wt teat “born wife, “Marina, might have been ipart of a ‘trend for Soviet women to “marry foreigners, : leave the country ‘and settle overseas where they could Serve eas spies, v . eesrate RUE MEMO ‘ABOUT the’ agency's s ‘interes stin- Oswald said the: discus- sions about Oswald occurred “some- time in ‘summer. 1960." The authoc! continued:"I. don’ t recall if this was: discussed while Oswald and his fami-} ly were en route te our country: ox if it was after their arrival.” Fe et eee 8 Fa Ee tee aa
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14-00000 . . foe oy Om, eM Pt Oe et FD te ee . tS Dit eee eS ee on PNG! ce FY CEERI ED : ‘ as see PQ Ast wed itd nee SF ome on orf eee une Si odie bar tea) 1.4 ae B27 eeada tats Gwe an BL ee MERERAL | 2&- 08% MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM : John H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : Washington Star Story, 1 October 1976 1. This is for your information only. 2. Onl October 1976 the Washington Star published a.news story with an Associated Press credit line, headlined CIA Viewed Oswald As Information Source (copy aitached). The lead stated: Contrary to sworn testimony, the CIA once con- sidered using presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as a source of intelligence information about the Soviet Union, according to a newly released CIA document. In sworn testimony before the Warren Commission, former CIA Director Richard Helms said the Agency never had "or even contemplated! any contacts with Oswald. The news story, in another section, made the following staternent: The November 25, 1963, memo explained that the Agency's interest in Oswald as a potential intelligence source was due to his "unusual behavior in the USSR, '! to which he had defected in 1959. posse - Te ee ie ed oe eg ot ye Re pene
14-00000 ee 3, There was such a memorandum, written by a case officer then stationed in Paris, recently released under FOIA, Writing three days after President Kennedy's assassination, this case officer recalled that there had been interest in Oswald, As soon as I had heard Oswald's name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed --- sometime in the summer of 1960 -~ with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the laying on of interview (s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels... I remember that Oswald's unusual behavior in the USSR had struck me from the moment I had read the first ODACID dispatch on him, and I told my subordinates something amounting to 'Don't push too hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd. "' ~ _« 0 « « 1do not know what action developed there- after e e oe * 4, The Helms testimony before the Warren Commission on this subject was as follows: Mr. Helms. On Mr. McCone's behalf, I had all our records searched to see if there had been any contacts at any time prior to President Kennedy's assassination by anyone in the Central Intelligence Agency with Lee Harvey Oswald. We checked our card files and our personal files and all our records. Now this check turned out to be negative. In addition I got in touch with those officers who were in positions of responsibility at the times in question to see if anybody had any recollection of any contact having even been suggested with this man. This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. @ 2- qe at PE ah it Oi i ci care ars) et i. on ee es r y A Abe accnae ce Lane eed ee ee ye at sed oa
14-00000 see Pe as re ass ve, . nm . me - * a yeaa sow Han ee nm oat hee tt a eM ee Le ae f hogs A fgacghad : owas wre et 3 Wires, onda tase ar le ba la oo a ES —— 5. Mr. Helms did state exactly the words quoted in the news story -- "or even contemplated."* But the context of | those words was what was reported to him as the result of a search of records and memories. To this day those familiar with the extensive Oswald records state that there is no reflection in those records that anyone even undertook to propose or approve a contact with Oswald. It would have been natural to do so, but apparently any such thoughts did not progress to formal action. From the memorandum quoted, it is apparent that someone at Branch level did think about it, even if nothing ever came of it. This hardly con- stitutes a responsible or official or serious contemplation" of the idea. Mr. Helms' full statement on this point seems literally correct in the full context of his statement, although more refined qualifications might have reiterated the basis for his conclusions. The news story is misleading on this_ point. 6. -The news story statement that Oswald was considered due to his "unusual behavior in the USSR," is exactly the opposite of the statements of the quoted memorandum, which reported the care that should be used if Oswald were approached, because of his strange conduct. 7. The statement in the news story about Mr. Dulles consulting with Agency personnel on how to answer questions is basically true. The interpretation to be placed on this counselling will depend on the interpreter. The inference of the news story is that Mr. Dulles was counselling slanted responses on the Oswald issue, thereby tending to reinforce the interpretation of deception attributed to Mr. Helms. “Sohn “HL de Attachment: As Stated cc: DDCI w/atts DIG: SOBreckinricse: js (BR 1407 Distribution: Orig wfatts - Addressea' 1 wfatts ~ bAaCcT ort or on 3 oP 2, o -s oe? iS oe of Twfatts - ER 1 watts - IG Chrono ~3- 7 watts - SD8 Chrono H = 2 rt OPA ey moot no em wfatts . Ist Suby eS ee aaa ons a pti se 4 rs eos ae . nar? + es 8 . aseot . 4 - PWobacclaut Ws aaatia ts. wl ea he a Reo Ce SP