104-10050-10233 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. 1s. 16. 17. 18. 419, 20. ‘Lee Harvey |B8e SET «REP KOOUCTION Memorandum for Winston m. SCOTT, dated 13 October 1966; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. Note, undated, regarding contacts of ALFEREV. Memorandum f Director, Plans, dated 23 No Gieates: of Lee OSWALD with a uNfssassination Department. 4- ‘a Memorandum cod tees. November 1964; Subject: June i? . re 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 5 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] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 6 March 1964; Subejct: session Regarding r 22, 1963. [FOIA 590- mi #4 ian. AL , Note from "p94 mn: March 1964 Memorandum fo ated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Avaiiable 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] : 7 REPRODUCTION — PROHIBITED SET
13-00000 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. ‘31. 32. SEGRE} REPRODUCTION 7 [BAT ED Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 veal ROI 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: Review of S d_Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File Regard FTE AL Mate ASTRO Cuban Involvement A\\ ony I Assassination. Memorandum fo een RAN dated 15 May 1964; Subject: Rolg lligence Service in Processing Vi#a . tion of that Service to the Assassination of Presi ent Kennedy. [XAAZ- 36307 - FOIA No. 697-294] 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 11 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: PRIMES REPRODUCTION sar PROMISED =
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGMIBITED ( | SECRE T. FES ONLY | 1 April 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT:. Conversation with David W. BELIN, 1 April 1975 £2 AenooueiOn = What was the line of reporting in as working level point~of-contact\ with he Warren Commission Staff? QOS uring the period I served personally via NcCone-to: Dick Helms. (Bb) from Helms to the two or three components Ly” concerned\iSE, then SB, Dave Murphy; LA, then WH; a BY “In practice, the substantive SB input worked up by one of itscxs archccomonents headed by Lee Wigren--Minsk photo for example, et aks=papsed via CI. CI had own defector input. | It was a multiple leveled=thing’s ° (a}-from the Commission and AWD | | | ] In addition, on icecnt0bheLnves tigation, Dick Helms and Murphy aso dealt dire ctly with the Commission. or nea ATES ETDTIOE OTT A LITRE TL ey we 3 Did you hear: ? ?- [two crypts, one sounded by "Jackenet" 2]: ae 7s I had not. Belin recalled that Castro had made a speech in which mg < | he had charged assassination intent by emigres and had promised ae retribution in kind if there was official support. oye | 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 erayvregarding Castro. He had no evidence to show that I leanne Been informed about it. j Would that change any of the thinking: =) Oswald's Mexican trip and contacts? iS a. Fact that his two Ss consular contacts inwtlexico City had been identified as KGB and at feast one (both. 2).had been traced=orgarrtzat rorratty tothe T3th Department assassinations). £2 IMPDET CL BY 055431 - SECRET EYES ONLY ColisTs |
‘REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED - SUBJECT: , “SD b. Our defestor® Tnfornation strongly insists that al] Western milita defectors-A bike Oswald--were screened by the 13th Department © a) Ors c. Thinness of Ate. turned over by Soviets in view of b. I acknowledged inwmedteospec bet bade Cuba Hell yp ypothesis was worth coron- sidering, though it would appear th 1 OdmOfanS0- tereseryice (KGB-DGI)"réTattons bec = refations began later (i.e. 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 Wasco ething 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 <6 the FBl=-which she later rectified before the Warren Commission?,~Nr~ Belincnoted that he had left the hypothesis of Castro/Cuban ino vétnent ‘operin his book. He added that it would have been important toc fave known the facts about the anti-Castro plot at the .€imecet the’ Warren Commission investigation. He felt the least he Gk have doweswould have been to have insisted on the polygraphing of Mayina< Oswalt regarding her knowledge of Oswald's Mexican trip. SNS na ort 2 Kocea Counter Intelligence Operations SECRET EVES ONLY  GCCLET7
” REPRODUCTION FoORIETED Chronolog 14 January 1964 ‘RANKIN, WILLINS 12 March 1964 RANKIN ae ft 27 March 1964 wintins €f* C Liegiee} 26 May 1964 "LIEBLAND'¥re DeMohrenschild 28 August 1964* ~ "Commission" (Statsse-) 12 October 1964 "Commission" (Stee a SE: “eet *Believe Mr. Rocca was at the Coptmission at least one other day (probably Saturday, the 29thy reviewing p i i | oor ” ° - yw) eof yee ‘ on y PS me PT gongs fo 2 fof) o
13-00000 Subjact= General: TEE SCURCE Dees HOT HAVE Ge B REPRODUCTION | a PROIBITED 5 MAY 296k Fees hrs Snec fi ) i, SESE Sew we coy BHSCLlLe 2 LAA, fons? SFnw amen ne IARVEY CSWALD Ok HTS ACTIVITIES & TO PROVIDES ITE GY Terao ASE ot Y GORMEMES cr CUBAN ai Soin sick . ob Sha a PRTORS ASSIGWED TO THE DIREOCION eke. WL i DE INPELIGENCIA, OF WHICH THY SOURCE HINSELP WAS A STAFF OFFICER. THE INFORMATION APPEARING BELOW JAS FURNISHED Br THE SOURCE AMD IS KEYED TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTZD BY KUDESK. visited ths Cuban Embassy in Mexzica : as f and aicer these visits, OSWALD || was in contact with tae DiRECCLON GaxERAL DERIRELICENCEA (061), specitt cally with Inisa CALDERON, Mamel VoCA Peres anc Bogs! o RODRIGUEZ Lopag. VEGA whose Cuban intelligenda: (pseudonym is MARCOS is the current ‘Cuban IS chie? in Maxico. He recente, Ras had’ a.tour of duby in Habana, prior — to whica he held the same post safe as Cuban’ Ay inter ‘in Hexico. von SS “SSS RODRIGUEZ is a Cub es st aif Steer in Mexico, He bas three Cutan intelligence pseudonyms, = a ro’snd Jose Antonio, ww isa CALDERCH to the DGI is not clsar, The precise relations: ani Sha scent about six months in Mexi 19d. from which she returned to Guba early in COMMENT : WH/Sa/ck has the following references concerning luisa CaLSiRON Carraleros She was assigned to the commercial office ef the Cuban Eabessy in Maxice City, and she had arrived in Hexico on 16 Jamary 1963 and on 11 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cebana Airlinse NONE 7371, 13 December 1963 TNeBOISL, HtB153." She left Hexico Clty for Havana on 15 Dacember 1963 using passport £/63/7 "METI 723, 1? December 1963, L!-62592, Another reference MYMAW2OS7L, 2 25 Harch 1963," said that ker data. of arrival in Mexico was 19 Jarmaxy 1963 end that she. had replaced Eesario VAZCUEZ -m Hextcan secretazy in *he commercial office. Other references Apparently con cerning the subject are WM@-6913 and HEXL 3205.5N-5659h dated 25 Jamary 1963 weicn de not appear to aad anything or. Anterest to. that given above. 2. The source does not know whether or ‘not. the Cuban Services used OSWALD in ary ager capacity or other manners ae ee Be Ae iWaen news of the snag or fresident’ Rennndy reached the tar, 1% caused mich coment concerning™tha- fact OSWALD had bean in the Cuban bine we 5 - 12 re
13-00000 wee ° REPRODUCTION PROMI ED hd bd " we i be 2 nn Pid 35 aa Haxico. In adds tion, ords ca ara, Yeu. ad Yor all headquarters and poe field afficers of tha DOL to sort an@ packaze , all docunents according to whether thoy were my secrete" (wry seerét), ye, "Seensta? ‘@eerat) bt), and “Lrportante’ octant}. The material ones ‘paciagad wast tao hald pending further instruc-. tid sa, In addition, all travel: bp TEL, as Piss and all iGI vouches were svs- nendsd temorarily. YXy or Ne we GN) ; B, When the news tat Qi waa the assassin reached the vat, tiazta was no inmediate comment but, when Fidel CASTRO spoke on telavision to deny Cuban involLvenont, there was consicerabla coma concerning USWALD's visit to toe Cuban Embassy in Mexico, Ab tris time VAGA, who has been mentioned previously, 2 ne eer Fry @ Pt , oa was in Cuba and commented to a group of DCL staf? officers that OSNALO had come o tsa Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused. VAGA did not sive any detalis and thea subject was not pursued. i 4. Zt is not known whether information on OSWAID's visit to the Cuban | Consulate in Mexico in September 1963 was relayed to any Cuban service, | i Se It is not knew if the Cuban inteliigence services had contact with ‘the New Orlsans' Fair Play for Cuba Committee. & The only Molina who is x recallad is "The Hook", the Cuda who was cme victed in New York City for the murder of a young girl during a clash between oi two Cuban groups. The DIGI staf? officer who had.been in tho “United Nations in - New York, SANTIESTABAN traveled to Cuba. with "fhe gook" and with another Cubm  - named CRIGUELA ond upon arrival’in Cuts tried to obtain employment for both — individuals, The names Pedro Charlies. and Peter have no lmcwn significances. . . o. Ne : 7. The reaction of Sovlet officials in contact with the Cuban intellie gencs services is not known. 8 Nothing is known about Soviet propesals following the news of Presidents Kermmaay's assassinations ‘b> 9. The only fabrication known is the special natter by Fidel CASTRO org= viously mentioned, 10. Hothing is known about Sack R RUBENSTEDY aka Jacke RUXL i. ihe name Gilberte LOPEZ is not familiar out, if ke visited Do head~ Gaare tars, a photograph of hin possioly could be. identitieds 22, COWALD's photo was seen in tha newspapers tut notaine is knew about him other than what appeared in the presage. COlLeeG ‘came oo rho _ po
13-00000 | SR ‘Were the Cuben serviows on eee What wes the reaction of the Cuben intelligence services to news . - te! wes. there eny contact between the Cuben intelligence services end _Cubsn intelligence services Following the news of President Kenneéy's . assassination? - REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED % Vas Lee Harvey OsHALD stants | cuban “intel Mgenes services before 23 November I so tien service? UD ia any agent ce apecity, or in any other manner, before 2 Her 195 32 of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSWALD was the assassin? . Was information on CSWAID's visit to the Cube Consulete In Mexico City in September 1963, relayed to any Cuban service? If. * 80 what action was taken? Loe — e New Orleans’ Fair Play For Cuba Committee 7 _— Has - ‘subject ever heard of Mario dex F ROSARIO NoLing, 0 or pedro Charles . ‘known also as "Peter"? . ui How aia the Soviet officials in cont act with’ ‘the Cuben intelligence services react to news of the. assessing tion ? ; — . ® Dia the Soviets propose eny tyeee “of - action. or jnvestigetion to the ae Was eny provocative materlal dceliberetely fabricated by the Ciben services or others and sent to the United States to cenfuse the investigation of the OSWALD case? . Was Jeck RUBENS TSO aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuben intelligence services? Tf so, in what way? Does subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November 23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas end four days later proceded to - Havena by special plene. He was 23 years old and carried a 7 . =, he U.S. passport. He also had a Mexican. tourist permit. Develop mh ma 4 all information you ean on this individual. . — ee - Attached is a photograph of OSWALD, end a letter from Havena . ae which is self-explenatory for guidence of the case officer. Under ‘ no circunstences should the contents of the letter he maée known to the suoject. Tnis information came-from the Secret Service end : +20 ane e we ERT: © OORT He gs ' : ol . 2 69 spe if . Menflee ¢ El Le enue | 7 > ‘ i 7 4 . | . wn ee ; Rasy) seisbutetntesttt A ce RRL
REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED "Np SSIFLED oer a a) on afta) SecRer a . NOMS ; re DATE TOs it ding (Grew designation, room number, and Se OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom ‘ : see fon INITIALS to whom. Draw o line across column after each comment.) Document we rnoe 1-295 a) for FOIA Review on SUH 1976 ? . @ aneeet See al apaye | \ = 610 “se Os SECRET 7 Eee Oo OSE Ow oO UNCLASSIFIED ~ | — oeturez
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED ll May 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans SUBJECT: © AMMUG/1 Information on . bepeaameneinten—r< ane aanneneea RITTER remem ee Lee Harvey OSWALD KS | x l. This memorandum for ibformation and for action, The proposed lines of actica ar ave indi ite in paragraph 4, Bese 2. AMMUG/ ie Bia Stban’ intelligence Service defector, has produced inf ation of; tuber est to the President!s | Commission on the\Assa ination of President Kennedy, CI Staff learned of naauckeor April, A questionnaire was submitted by the Staff on 1 y (Attachment 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 questionnaire 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 t the operational exploitation of AMMUG/1 and satisfying’ the responsibilities we have undertaken with Mr,. Rankin: AMMUG/1 is such an operational gold mine that.Mr,: Swenson. wants, at a maximum, two months to work fully.. It is palpable, however, that we | must furnish to the Commis sion-the substance of AMMUG/1's 8 0 i. . Document Number BTS «SECRET for FOIA Review & JUN 1975 | 2 j- a4 ae CCL FES | race 10 gp 212
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMEITED information on OSWALD before. thats . ‘On ‘the previous record of our association with the Commis’ sion,: particularly with Mr, Rankin, it seems possible for the Agency to workout an arrangement with Mr, Rankin personally tHat ‘would: take:: care of their needs and ours after a frank discussiaw of: the équitjes. XS” ae es 4 It is recoramended ¢ 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 att? Soa TS G/WH/SA/GI (without att) .  eckared
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWIAITED 07 May 1964 & jet, ‘Counter’ Intelligence Staff A ‘attention: ‘Mr. Roca XS SUBJECT Generatwy Delirieting of AMMUG-1 4 _ Specific: The Oswald Case i REFERENCE : Blind Memorandum dated 05 May tees S/S 1. Reference is made to a telephone conversation yesterday a pe with Chief, CI Staff concerning this. matter. in 2. Because I am not aware of the information already available to the Commission investigating the Cswald Case or furnished by the Agency, my 4 debriefing of the Source has been based on the questions prepated’ by the CI Staff and on what the Source answers have suggested’ L shall be glad to pursue any ~ other topics suggested He eV Staif, we 3. The Fo infortiation in addition to that in the reference might Ke‘c interest?” Or a, Luisa CALD! RON, 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. - c. Luisa CALDERON as ansterred directly from her position in the Ministry of Extétior’ Commerce to a post in Mexico, a matter of surprize to. the Geuze. ow dd. Rogelio RQORIGUEZ. ‘Lopae (DGI pseudo MORCOS), _ shortly before he left Cuba for Mexico on or about 16 April 1964, —— GoCLRE7 pacz 14 — 9¢212 COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBHT ED re -  -tunns - mo Au mire fy 4. As explained to CI Staff any: publicity which would reveal the identity of the Source, sak aehivities to KUBARK, or the extent of his knowledge’ of DGE acl ities might prejudice the operationaluse. of the. Source himself and of information which he has ‘provided. ‘Accordingly, it might be appropriate to point: out ‘to-ther mmission (as agreed by DC/WH/SA) thafKUBARK ‘hopes, by using the Source, to obtain access to DGI personnel including those mentioned in paragraph 3 above. . Harold F. Swenson Chief, WH/SA/CI1 26(- GI ANY Coli neg pace 15 of 212 © "PONT | | | | 7 | COPY * __
REPRODUCTION ——- PROGIBITED rn . \ . . Cand oe ' , : . . : , | i i | i 6.May 1964 REFERENCE: Debriefing ot Me 1. ~The source says thal pr Gaet October 1963, Oswald vistted the Guban Embassy In Males vcupennee or three occasions, It is publle knowledge ta Uses during the period 9-26-63 to 10-3-63. . A) When did source learn of these visits - before or after the assassination? Please describe in detall the clreumstances under which soures learned this info tion and Identitles of the persons invelved, << as S B) Did these visits take place: ‘daring the aforementioned period or Is the source referring to previous visits. If the latter, try to get more sgeetite detaits | Pegarding these trips and the ozigin of the Beers information. 2 The source state abet ye @, ‘aatlog, and after these visits. Oswald was In contact witttie-DGL, specifically Luisa. CALDERON, Manuel VE res and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez. This would appear to mean that one or more contacts were made after Oswald returned to the United States L.e., between 10-3-63 and N22-63, A) What does amurce mean by contact? B) Can he break down these contacts by the specific ine» dividual named, place and t typs of contacts and date of occurence? €) Did Oswald know or have 2 reason to suspect the Intelli- gence connections of these persona?” D) What was the purposa of these contacts? . : : a6 Byoré7osed T? — . / sf op ; . ad i aca ne . > ry Ho Ae CClingg ‘pack 16 oe 212
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ae — PRORIBITED E) lf Oswald did not know tha intelligence affittations of thess individuals, what pretexts, | be a were employed In Ge : | F) Did pourgeever 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 survelillances, technical devices or camera equipment to cover these contacts. fafa Site %) The source says he does not know gvhether the Guban services used Oswald in any agent capacity or otherwise, This cbvilously makes it more important to check out what the 3 source meant in quastion one. OE 3. Did the DGI ever Initlate an investigation of Oswald? 4 What was the reason for packaging. files at DGI headquarters and field offices after news of the asnasaination was received? _ 5. Source was asked whether any provocative material was deliberately fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse the Investigation of Oswald, The raply attributed to him was, "the only fabrication known is the special matter by Fidel 7 | CASTRO previously mentioned," Please clarify. aZe gce"sy GCLLBEO
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED Ve EER So EVES GHLY 08 may 196 ay MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counter Tatelligence Staff Attention" "Mg. *Roeee SUBJECT General : Detiiefing of. AMMEG-1 Specific : <The Oswald. Case” nd Memorandum dated 07 May 1964 nversations between CI Staff and C/WH/SA/CI NAS we , REFERENCE SY . dated 05 May 1964 v Ls) 1, When the Oswald Case first was discussed with the Source the specific questions prepared by CI. Staff were posed. The answers given by the Source were reported in Reference A. That memorandum which I dictated to a Ci Staff stenographer: appears accurate except for sentence #9 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‘elarify 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 knowledge et Pee Harvey OSWALD or his activities and I do not know that-OSWALD was an agent of the | Direccion General de In Tigencia. (BGI) or any other directorate or department of the Gaba Government. I first heard of gap after the assassination of President ' Kennedy when ‘media: carried the name of OSWALD. Personnel in GI first. commented about the case, so far as I can recall, on®dayafter lunch when a group of officers, of whom I was one, were hatting. The officers present were about. ten including Roberto SANTIESTEBAN, Norberto HERNANDEZ de Curbelo, Andres ARMONA, Pedro FARINAS Diaz and f oo | greeny Ona arte = eT # doal ; fo 7 Fe ANE KAN 2Ta13 RoeasT2 {@ “cua
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROWISITED ‘GF Sn tb 8 She B ER BY SS Manuel VEGA Perez. Mataet VEGA Perez previously had been assigned to Mexi¢o: ‘in: the Cuban\Consulate where he was the principal intelligence. officer: of the DGl, VEGA mentioned that t OSWALD had-gone to the Cuban Consulate two or three ines in comection with a visa application during the time\that YEGAw as 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(to’ filicate their relationship with the DGI. (I do not know the-particular phrase used in every case. I do know that. agents. from El Salvador in requesting visas al ‘made mential of the name "Mauricio" ) The DGI officers. ‘Consulate. ‘int ew visa applicants to find out if they agents, If the visa applicant does not use one of the in hrases;. the DGI officers instead of granting the <i ately, tell the applicant to return in afew days. The 2ffien 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 es Lopez also would have seen OSWALD because he work@d\with VEGA and also would - have screened visa apphicare SS ae aN Dano aap t have had contact with OSWALD because | leayned abouftRMarch 1964, shortly before I made a trip to Mexi ast ‘that shih d been involved with an sy) information to which I refer was told fficer nanied Norberto HERNANDEZ de — with HERNANDEZ Curbelo.. (I reméib Shake 4. SPe EI “erns oh | ULGNE eee oe
13-00000 cannot recall. REPRODUCTION PROLIRITED BSP because he gave me $40. dw some shoes and other items during my tfip to Mexico.) I had commented to HERNARDEZ thatit seemed strange that Luisa CALDERON: was, receiving a salary from the DGI although she apparently did not do any work for the Service<C HERNANDEZ told me that hers was a peculiar cas@ and that: heshimself believed that she had been recruited in: Mexico by the Central Intelligence | Agency althoagh Manuel PINEIRO, the Head of the DGI, did not agree. As Krecall 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-ifdicated that there was a Clandestine- ar professional relationship between’ the’ writer and Luisa CALDERON. pus rstood from HERNANDEZ that after the intercs he\letter she had been followed . and seen in the comp an American. I do not know if this could have been OSWALD. 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 whom you asked me in connection with this, whom I recall, is Sylvia DURAN and I know very little about her. What happened was that I was in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico on 23 MarchJ064-about 1230 in the afternoon preparing to return to Habaha‘the sdgreday. I was talking to some other Cubans including: Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez and. fnu BUENAVENTURA of ‘the C sEinbassy; a courier named "Enio"”, a courier name #"Tato" and one other Cuban whom I . 2 Baw pretty ‘girl standing at the end of ameone asked who she was, and one i tice H fad aw te oe carss or 2Le
13-00000 BT ay 14h. Cicende: Bye co} REPRODUCTION PROMBITED ry mee :@ ae Sone ar ay “Hos I recall that, after the xiaws: sai the assassination of President Kennedy reached, the DG ‘orders were issued for all offics of to sort and package they were muy. at uarters and in the field, “all’docuirients ‘according to whether ator (vexy Secret), "secreto" (secret), or “importante” (imp was to be held pending ¢ The material, once packaged, 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 ag I can recall. we were able to unpackage DCI files and use them normally about the, 3rd 6f December 1943. bd oss 3. In brief, the Source does not ‘claim to have any significant information concerning the assag%ihation, of President Kennedy or - about the activities of OSWALDC.IE the paraphrased comments of the Source are considered t urther-clarification, I suggest that Mr. Rocca, who is most f Case, talk to the Source." while, I shall have a q determine whether or no plies with-the details of the OSWALD his canbearranged at any time. Mean- ethin a forthcoming LCF LUTTER to seems to have concealed any information on this matter. ‘Harold F. Swenson. Chief, WH/SA/CI ey sees REPRODUCTION a 2h eA —— etl
13-00000 REPRODUCTION oo. ——- PROGMBHTED (] UNCLASSIFIED =] ye On C1 CONMDENTIAL A.J SECRET me ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET | SUBJECT: [Optional] Chief, CI/R&4 : bo | TO: (Officer designation, room number, and th Ly s : building) . Se \ eee a whem. Draw a line across column after each comment.) I think you will be 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, Rock “Document Number 2 39 “3 y] for FOIA Review on _ _ JUN 197g SAME AS. scpsea Ria rom GTO “see AE] secret. «= (] CONFIDENTIAL =] owt, «== 1] UNCLASSIFIED. PROWIBITED | a | om NO. se ttt 7
13-00000 PRORISNTED ed SOURCE EVALUATION: The Source is believed ta ‘be. very reliable. We have established through independent, vidence and cross- checking that the © major “pa rt. ok she intelligence ‘true. For ekampi, “we kiiéyd Padependent of this Source tha gel VEGA,Perez and Rogelio ‘RODRIGUEZ EEE Cuban intelligence officers 5 in Mexico, mo erayry| WARNING NOTICE | | | BEGREI SENSITIVE SOURE ces AnD . mtn? DS. involv Bo (ColL ESS
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED oLUTIL I 19 June 1904 Tus) : Chicf, CLI /RRA ae . Mr. Raymond or Rboca” FRO oo: CL /ReA/tMr. Sw SUBJ 3: Lee Hurvey osuaLDe. (261-289, 248) L. On 15 May 1964, we provided the President's Commission with a summacy of cur debriefing of Cuban defector AMMUG 1 who had no personal Imowledge of Oswald and no information linking him to the Cuban intelligence services in any manner. As a follow-up, iv. Howard P, fillens of the Commission asked” if he could see the questions us2d in the interrogation... m, 2. Own 18 June, I took the questions “and source's respons to the Comission and shoved them to Mr. Wilkens. He studied thom and returned tha questions. to me with thg-observation that they were very thorough and fully satisricd. ‘his. péquirements. He said that he Saw no need tu pursue this ang he. any ‘further. The questions and answers exhibited to Mc. Willensvare attached. At no tim: during - our contacts with th: Comaission did we disclose the source's Identity or sryptonya. . 3. wh. iillens indicated that the Commission was winding up its investigation. He was highly complimentary of CIA, veferring to the agency personnel he encountered here and in Mexico as "real nvofessionals." Mr. Willens asked that.S\convey his test regards to you. . Document Number J “139- 139-319 2 at oa VS oe eNO le, \etime 3 Z. Dooley ae - for FOIA Review ob SUN 1976. “QF . Attachment; a/s SAME AX, | Ay 3. ‘ V5 as ° | @ <i | Orig &@ 1 - C/cr/Res bey | L - GE/Réa fagDooley 5G, 7 cer | mae RePROOUCTION / dug ‘ratllitg ted on lttlassil ca ite COLLRS7 PAGE 2b. ot212
13-00000 i REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED a _ WARN NOTICE sO a a ’ Srl ia SENSITIVE SOURCES AND , MARTHOUS INVOLVED EMD te Ha t9s on eee oN 6 May 1964 REPERGHC: Debriefing OF L. ‘the source says that biog: ja getter 1953, Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Ci chy ‘on two or three occasions. It is public knowledge he was in Mexico during the period 9-26-63 to 10-3-63. A) When did source learn of these visits - before ov after the assassination? Please descr ibe«in detail the circumstanzes - under which source learned this def Rag tion and identities of | & | ! the persons involved. B) Did these visits 2 plice., diving the ai ‘oremontion ad peviod or is th: soure e@veferring to. previous visits. If the | lattec, try to get mone Specific: detabts regarding these trips and the origin ok a ‘sour cots information . ! 2. ‘thes souree atato Shia t aetore, “ducing, end after these visits Nswald vas in contact wi thothe DGI, specifically Luisa * CALDERON, Manuel VEGA "ez and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez. This vould appear to mean that one or more contacts wore mads. after OQsvald returned to the United States i.e., between 10-333 and 11-22-63. &) What does scusce mean by contact? B) Can he birvek duim these contacts by th: specific individual named, place and type of contact, and date of occurrence ? , Ne C) Did Oswald Imow or have reason to° suspect ‘the int: ‘Lligence connections of these persons? . D) What was the pu.:pose of these contacts 22 &) If Oswald did not know: ‘the ‘intelligence arfiliaticus of these individuals, vhat _pre etext, . if any, were employs din contacting him? Sa vs, _ ; a aes ~~ ¥) Did soucec cvs see any documentary material on any or these conta:ts, or any correspondenire initiated by or addressad to Oswald? a oi od y a Q qs oo enerante a ts = ane WIS Rum! Sahat he hoa “ST SETA eNO ° WARNIN G NO NCE SENS Tie SOURS. AND . AARC Atay: 4 mae) Te (ti Ihe KAde Pig, can a ‘seit [3%
| REPRODUCTION paOneiTeD Whol NS NOTICE TY SENS SITIVE « ite Mije: METHODS ww? Ih Wi¢ “eS AND WAVED G) Did the DGL ever empLaff-pliysical surveillances, technical devices ov camera equipment t tek, gover these conta Sy ts? survices used Oswald obviously male:s it LE $ check out hat “the source meant in questicn BSS , QS 3. bid the DGT <:var initiate an Ynvestigation: of Oswald? 4, (hat was the reason for packaging files at DGI headquarti's and tiald offices after news of the assassination was receivad? 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 CAS SPRO previously mentioned.” Please clarify. Addtndun 18 June with setegense ‘to 155 the only possible fabricdtion® Smo by source was the sp:cific — denial by Fidel CASTRO on a TV program of any Cuban knowledge of Oswald. . extreneery at ranapier  eneeaseie Sm os enema + + emer Sang | WARIHUG HCE
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED WAletiNa i2HC SENSE SCHIRG IS find PeTHOUS WVOLVED 5 May 1964 3 Subject - General: Debrieting. of Cuban Source Specific: AEDS Ease 8 oe oN Y oon | aN The source does not rive 4h: peor Knowledge of Lee Harvey OSWALD or his activities but was abléto 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 en l. Prior to October 1963, osueknnVisitea the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on two or three Gecasions. Before, during and after these visits, OSWALD was inScontact with the Direccion General De Inteligencia (DGI), specifiéally, with. LuisaJCALDERON, Manuel VEGA Perez and Rogedicr RODRIGUEZ: Bépez. ON S “ < VEGA whee Ciibar i stelligence pseudonym is MARCOS is the current Cuban‘IS c fig Mexico. He recently has had a tour of duty in Habana, prigr‘to which he held the same post as now as Cuban IS chief in Mexico. RODRIGUEZ is a Cuban JS 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 frorm which she returned to Cuba early in 1964. . 2. The source does not know whethex 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 niuch 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 document s according to whether they ‘. ne é ) b qa A 3 -aeteet MARE Ht a PG TCE Prin rot a RePRAOUETION ae 27 oe 242 =
REPRODUCTION PROWEITED a MEIHOLS H.VOLVED ok were "Muy secreto" (very secret), ee and "importante" (important). The: materiak once packaged was to be held pending further instruétions. In addition, all travel by DGI officers and all DGI pouaheeovergcsuspnided temporarily. ' Sr B. When the news that BS LD 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. . as . ers 5. It.is not known if the Cuban intelligence services had contact with the New Orleans’ Fair Play for ‘Cuba Committee. 6. The only Molina who-is 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 headquarters, a Photograph of him. posaibly could be identified. ra 12. OSWALD's photo was seen in the newspapers but mee is known about him other than what appeared in the press. dy 4E | 2g oO SCMISHBGD 7 AMD | "oy 13 ao, 2 SevnET ae
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION - _ Pree i 8 nt teen RETEOOS tor FOAVED | 1MAY 1964 1.. Was Lee Harvey @SRSED, kaown'to the Cuban intelligence services before 23 Novergheir $963.% TR so which service? ae > Z. Were the Cuba SNe sceeStoing OSWALD in any agent capacity, or in | any other manner , pee 23 November 1963? . | | 3. What was the reactioa of the Cuban intelligence services to news of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSWALD was the assassin? . 4. 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? wo. Was there any contact between the Cuban intelligence services. ,and the New Orleans! Fair Play for Cuba Committee? 6. Has subject ever heard of Mario del ROSARIO Molina, or Pedro , Charles known also as "Peter''? 7. How did the Sovis fsa in contact with the Ciban | intelligence services react to news of the assassination? om a ~ 8, Did the Sovieg® proposé: SS type of action or investigation to the Cuban intelligence servitgs following the news of President Kennedy's assassinatiGn?: Os}. 9. Wasa Karavogaties ‘material deliberately fabricated by the Cuban servi Ot otfeteand sent to the United States to confuse the investi ionkef the OSWALD case? 10. Was Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuban. intelligence services?. If so, in what way ? ll. a subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November , 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas and four days later proceded to ,” Havana by special plane. He was 23 years old and carried a U.S. - passport. He also had a Mexican tourist permit, Develop all © _inforrnation you ‘can on this individual. | oe goed bat } | a ae atts a ey | \ ttl 3%. VAL ly. cf por : ve ke aan see Bhs a, Le
13-00000 | ~ REPHODUETION PROWIBITED WAR 1S NOTICE 2 No Shite id sensi SOURED AND = ETHODS phate cuevrty 12. Attached is a photograph of OSWALD, andy letter from Havana which is self-explanatory for: guidance: of: ‘the case officer, Under no circumstances should the: ‘contents. of the letter be made known to the subject. This infeipmation- car NA FBI. QY . “Y eles aw Hay § - WARNING NOTICE ; i REPRODUCTION ; a | ; sts ow , os
13-00000 ca? oe a" REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Ungeaive Bagery " - COMMISSION ON CIA ACTLEVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES Washington, DC 20500 Neison A. Rockefelier, . ; Oavid W. Belin, Chairman : : Executive Director Jonn T. Connor s C. Douglas Dillon April 15, 1975 Erwin N. Griswold , Lane Kirkland Lyman L. Lemnitzer Ronald Reagan Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. (& . NM Mr. E. Hensy: Knoche. LY Assista <Cto: the : ‘Direetor Centr Motel ligence “Agency Washing r Txst 2” Dear Mr. Knos 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 is yes, we would like to know what person or persons with the ' 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, - ‘LE any,-was received from - the Warren Commission=> If the Commission was not told about this, why was it net told and who made the decision not to: deliver such information to the Warren Commission? 2. There is evidence. a Castro, prior to November 22, 1963, knew about the existencaYof such plans and the possible in- volvement of: the U. Ss... vernment. Did the CIA at any time prior ‘to the completion of the Warren Commission investigation have any documents’ or. other information indicating that Castro may have k Vabout,- sich plans? If the answer is yes, would you please fi Shish jug? with copies of all such documents and details of any such infprmation. 3. Several months priox to the assassination of President | ‘Kennedy there Wyidence ‘of a public eech, y Castro that was TREES: pi lee Associated Press where Y¥ Castro alluded . 4 va PAGE 31 ope Le
13-00000 : a! e- . REPRODUCTION — PRORIBITIED. to possible assassiiation attempts on his life and possible retaliation. Would you please advise us if there is any evidence that thts: Associated Press report may have appeared in any newspapers. cin the: Uiited States, including specifically . any newspapexs in Dallas or New Orleans. Would you also advise us Ceydu | have: any other information of public state- ments of any, Cuban. ‘Reader prior to November 22, 1963 indicating any awareness gé<possible assassination plots on the lives of Cuban leaders. \C ee ee ED en eT 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. 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. ae oe Sincerely yours, David W. Belin Executive Director CoC48C5 |
a PROWMBITED KAAZ- 22AVOF 12 May 19641745 * nn ry . , Pes then im Dua iv ae. called me this afternoon, 12 May, to state as received a telephone call from RANKIN regarding the Commission's desire to interview him at 1030 AM, Thursday. Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appear at 9:00 onthat . morning. ° that the Dire 2. 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 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 » 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 raise a nurnber 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. | J.A. Meare Ags Document Number lel aS B @ for FO:A Review on JUN 476 nn: 0 cr © reemanmenen GaGLICE
13-00009. . ty 1 (14 May 1964 nocumen Number 695-302, aN SoeN Brief for Presentation 6 President's Commis@ion‘on the Assa REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED for FOIA Review on - é tS copy QEPRoT - te, ow fe 4 eave | See ume af 5 ee [PASE UEEREy ae ee ae memes ae nee ee i i SUN i975. Pr rr, RO AEVAY F fy. May 1964 ' ~ crue tt ett en = A ear a frie ge irs eee ahea pier i npn ent peer serie nena oe oe ; 7 " er a : en le eee ee ate : . 4 : e ° soe 8 ‘ : ’ e . : : e . . ‘ ‘ ‘ : ‘ —ooetees PAGE 34 42212 COPY No. ER EE URN NEE SRNR i
13-00000, POP see ee et Summa ry Outline te e ae QoL a. Formal “aint 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) LS SoS b. A formal assurance by the Disestor thatall information in the posdession of the Agency regarding. en nee een enna nnn nee Oswald's activities: ; in United States. has been made available to the . Commission through its staff, with which there has ‘Tenens soars pear ef EEE ESTES ESTE SNE 080 SE TE . been close and frequent contacts since the inception. . of the Commission's activities. (TAB B) c. An interim pronouncement by the DCI on the | IAAT ATT TET TD EATERS SI ey . problem-of-eonspiretorial-responsibility for Oswald! s pace 35 Seen ae erat ng at ay ye mtemrenerapee annette or eter eepnttan : 7 . . ° REPU THOR BROS ETED eo enwir eg engy seen . oo ne peg a tte . . . ye . ° : e,. oe 212 Te nn ere atelier RR NOTE RNNE anete ete §
13-00000° ‘REPRODUCTION PROLISITED . Qrrert ( ) . . ce totdae activity. It is, Suggested Sora hoe DCI take the position | ENE at" that.at this time tire. is: no. conclusive evidence of. ip ob Oewald; that all Agency . ct | information beating onthe problem has been furnished to the Commis sion for evaluation and consideration 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: q e d. The DCI's suggestions for. i improving policy and organization Sen respect to the personal security of the President. | Certain steps relating strictly to the Agency's jurisdiction have already been suggested Py memorandum. It is proposed that the Director now make specific 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 tae ne nee a NS Ge ete tne ae ere an es
oO RC TIOR PROMIBITED en, . ES nuclear material or weapons “intys uced to the United : a . States or manufactured therein. (The, Atomic Weapons . gas D) “a “Oswald's 4 ecg in Mexico and his Possible aNd : relationship to the Cuban Intelligence Service. 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 C~ ; Mr. Rankin and to certain elements of his staff. It is , . | been made available on a highly restricted basis to recommended that the DCI not respond on the record to queries on these topics. He should suggest that all Oi such "technical questions" be worked out in detail through the channels and proce functioned very well ~- we believe -- between the Commission and particular — AP TT TT TT TT TT TT TD ' CIA components. (TAB E) and Stare eager go seems ts Se ee eee eR REREAD EERE een ® . - oe . PEON Sr as
REPRODUCTION PRORATED TAB A ith hee Harvey Oswald There have be eRiwtor: sC cand) aie gations which be gan | Na immediately after the assassWation wi which branded Oswald asa U.S. Government agent, In many instances, CIA has been namedas his sponsor. The auth@rship, geographical dispersion ESS throughout the world, the tags themes and the timing lend LON : aay onsored ropaganda and misinformation program. = RAAT TTS As DCI, Mr. McGaye welcomes this appearance before the Commission to make a categorical and unqualified denial of 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 eoncurrently with this action that he desires to draw the Commission's attention to the E | i | these unprincipled distortions of the historical and personal - 5 . fact that the irresponsible charges that'have been made, sponsored Giliczs REPRODUCTION ee aon 39. 012
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED so ener RRR ET—s—estnenenenpesenepeeneatsReneen/ steategpestepenee eta American intelligence mera 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- lf the DCI is challenged by anyone on. the Commission O scrupulous treatment of the Oswald case was neither new as a method nor a surprise as an occurrence. about the substance or implication of. his affidavit, it is recom- mended that response be along the following lines: CIA. is a democratic institution. The DCI has a = qualification is . . . tte o _ Lo. : on the Commission's task> . - . ae aes coCts43 incorporated in his affidavit the results of detailed | ie 40 40 of 212,
13-00000 - —\, ee enemas Ngan n eee | we SERED 2 Seta Mreaneesnebtaueeteen cet geeonessummeare=traoonereaavenemereene ee eee ir Se Sano ee ee MEEEAES sna spaniangbemrseereeretnn ee anne ee a AIOE = the Director of Central intelligence, and that based on bis personal . ae knowledge of the affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency and on detailed jinquiries he caused to be made by the officers within the Central Intelligence Agency who would have knowledge about any relationship Lee Harvey Oswald may have had with that Agency, he certifies that: i REPRODUCTION a“ » McCONE See et ttt Bee + Arima: om ese nee a JOHN A. Lic CONE, ‘Deing duly sworn, degoses and ‘gaye that he is . Lee Harvey Oswald was not an dyent, employee, or iaformant cf the Central Intelligence ‘Agency: the Agency never contatéted- hia, interviewed him, talked with him, or received o: or golicited any reports or information from him, oktommunicatedwith him, directly or indirectly, in any eben phanners: oy the Agency nd ser = faite é “nim any funds or money, or compensated him, arekanee indivectiy, in any fashion; and Se aaaameeneimeneneteeaetedte cae atee en anced neni coe amee Tariana naamena Te Tr . Lee Harvey Oswald was never associated or connected, . directly or indirectly, in any way whatsoever with the Agency. JOHN “A. McCONE - tl Subscribed and swornto this - — of. oo . 1964, before me, a Notary Public in and aud for. the State of Virginia, by the said JOHN A. McCONE, who is personally known to me and he duly: acknowledged to me the execution: of the foregoing i instrument, wot Nina . Notary Public _ My com:nission exptres oo Colt et 4
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROBIBITED TAB B The DCI shoul@ rake. the gezeral statement that CIA has supplied all the information in its possession rexairding . 2 the activities, affiliations and associations of Oswa Copies | of the reports and access to original data, in specific in- stances, has been given to Commission repr esentatives in accordance with the DCI's expressed instruction from the Co _ inception that the Agency place itself completely at the Commission's disposition, I | a . KX - ‘oa at
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13-00000-. ee “REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED TAB CG The Problem of Conspiracy Oswald's possible ae with foreign spons ors be made available to the Commis sion, The DCI may state that he is gratified that his oe have been carried out diligently and pr -omptly. Apiongithe items of information C - . provided the Commission I have been: ‘studies on the organi- Ga Dinformation hearing on | - | | zation and functions GE. comp nents of the Soviet police ' state which are eiweto i saehule individuals and units . ) charged ‘with the rtasypasie of what is 2 euphemistically | referred to as "executive action" «- but is, in n fact, charged I with assassination and sabotage, | The DCI should state that nol irr & idence has thus | : ! . oe : . : took TT ta pcm em ce eee emma ee fata ean a A ROE GREE SRE “Mt CR dren = potent
13-00000. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED aetiaeer the apparently favorable there with Soviet State ° Security (the | KGB), and related questions which would tend to establish > Oswald's associational link with Soviet intelligence as technical questions"! and, therefore, beyond the scope of present testimony. Itis 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 foe Sentig pasar gta sek It is recomme that the > PET Handle an aqeestions e USSR, the withdrawal of his — : ANTON | egg oth as a and evaluation can only be. determined by the Commission, | [ i
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13-00000. .. TAB D ‘Mr. Rankin raised this aes SeStion dire ctly by letter. In its response, the Agency confined itself to elements relating ‘to its statutory mission. Specifically, it was Suggested that: a. The Secret Service, or TreasuRys record a {ol a with the Office of Central Referéace a formal require- aan . + ment for information-vGlating to ) Presidential security. i b. Itwass gested that, if the’Sccret Service intended to expand its Baer. 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. | Cs . The CIA reply also noted that the Agency was in direct touch with the Secret Service Fegarding the possible utilization Py | that agency. of our experience in ‘machine data processing. « "On. ‘te’ public record, itis . So suggested. that the DCI not repeat this detail. PROMIBITED | 942"
13-00000... REPRODUCTION PROWEITED to these earlier vase 8 the Dor-showle’state that he desires ad ON to take the cmperenss “<e cr pestion which he has not tabled heretofore: - The Commission! s major problem h: has 5 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 ‘seagate Sempre! ges => om « recurrence of the national calamity it is investigating. There is an analogy at close hand between the. problem of developing in advance information relaiing-te Ps ‘Presidential security and the . problem faced by the county ew years ago regarding the clandestine introduction or manufacture in the U.5, 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 i an certain instances privileged ‘treatment for such persons -- for example, asylum if they were w PAGE 43 . of 212
13-00000 / Rp aETICR —— PROEIBITED foreigners, was assured.” Pinay, + ae a Reward Board was created to admini@ier ¢ the. purposes of: the ‘Act. Beewendt the Commis sion consider a _ récommendation 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 the substantial award, the special treatment, and the publicity which would attend the. implementing legislation in this matter could represent a significant inducement even to staff officers and personnel of secret.associations 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 rest’on 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 - 3 | ~ | t : cecaseg some net ae a gue ama eae So tne coe tate te Me mmm ee em mm ee + REED eR, + i
13-00000 fimo PROCITE | | mo “ such work and for the system.which calls.upon them to do it. \ \ There are specifiatases in the past ten\years which document “ soins S ~ missions have abandoned the mission even without the assurance this assérti o Trustedy 3 sonnel charged with assassination or the inducement which the DCI is here proposing. In making this suggestion the DCI may go one step further in advising the Commission to suggest that the Commission | examine the advisability of le gislation 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 4 . legislation along these lines should be enlazged to include con-~ spiracy to kill any Federal: official ‘in the President's personal , circle of official associates directly concerned with national security affairs. (The Agency's Legal Counsel states that 7 ™ draft bills have been considered on the Hill.) .. aN
“ INTET™“AL SECURITY MANUAL. SENATE cee ES. HEP HODUCTIO _. Pp 275-277 es Aromic VWrarons Revfanos. Ace PROMIBITED ' Act of July 15, 1955 (69 Stat. 305, P.L.. 163, Sitti Gong. —wliomie D j Weapons rewards Act of L955 : ae Melay “De it enacted bythe Senate and House af Cepresentatives of the United Statesof cimerics in: Congress: assembled, That this Act may bo cited asthe ‘Atomic Weapoms Rewards Act of 1955". “Suc. 8. Any person wh6fuynighes oxi ginal information to the United States— aa . “(2) leading to the\Winding or other acquisition by the Gnited Siates of any special nuclear material or atomic __. Weapon which has been introduced into tho United Staics, _ 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 syiecial nuclear material or atomic weapon, ; “€ontrary.to the laws of the United States, . shall bo ‘rewarded by the payment of an amount not to exceed . $500,000. “Sec. 3. An Awards Board consisting of the 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 ‘{ur- 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: tho amount of such award, the Board shall take into consid- eration— “(a) whether or not tho information is of the typo specified in section 2, and “(b) whether the person furnishing the 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. . “Any reward of $50,000 or more shall be approved by the ; . President. - 0 - i “See. 4. Tf 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, 1mthat event, such alien and the mem- bers of his immediate family\may receive immigrant visas and |! may bo admitted to the United States for permanent residence, notwithstanding the requirements of tho Immigration and Na- tionality Act. «See. 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. co (bre. G. Any awards granted under section 3 of this Act shall be 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. — ~ oo “Sec.7. AsusedinthisAct— “(a) The term ‘atomic enerzv’ means all forms of enerzy 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 a separable and divisible part of tho device), the principal purpose of which is for uso as, ! or for development of, a weapon, a weapon prototypé, or 2 weapon + testdevice, ee . “(c) ‘Tho 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:te be special nuclear material pur- . suant to the provisions of the Atomic energy Act of 1954. _ Oe Cd) The tarm ‘United States,’ when used’ in a geographical . ( — sense, includes Puerto Rico, all ‘Territories and possessions o7 the - United States and the Canal Zone; except that in section 4, the = 7 “ "os - term ‘United States’ when so used shall lave the meaning given — : : to it'in the Immigration and Nationality Act.” :. NT ee ere eee ewrense —— REPRODUCTION — (re ae . pace 5? ot nae eat on ane ae ee ae ee i day ae een y . :
13-00000 erence PROMIONTED Be me rine tame eee ces gre eo tee mee ncaa, tee EEE emmerceee + Ome ele ge ER 1 ame Oe same ae ne ete ee me ee ee FERTIL PROGIBITED nn TAB E Extensive “eiSetaatica fag been made available to the LQ . NO Commission by CIA on th 8 WSrteing 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 oad the relationship with- Oswald of certain. ‘Cuban intelligence nn personnel in Mexico” City-and the reaction in Havana within the Cuban Intelligence Bervice to the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Commission Staff is in the course of being briefed on the Cuban aspect. It is suggested that the DCI handle any question on the Mexican and Cuban phases of Oswald's activ i as "technical questions" which members of the Goramisston can develop We NS from or through their own stall wit the ates iate component s? As noe a _ of the Agency. This weil be ‘entize iy. cousistent with the DCI's overall assurance that he a their information completely at the Commission's disposition, tea his personnel to place — COCLE LT = oo | ; pace 54 of COPY NO. ree neo aman ctr | eee on ee a enna tnentaaeneperanenge . Py ’ : . ate
13-00000 SECRET : 10 April 1964 \rO WARREN, COMMISSION: ° MATERIAL FROM Pr 785939 1. English translations of calc ae by roewiiea Russian Embassy: 27 Sep 63 (1037); 27 SepO3(1626); 2h Sep,sa'(i605); 28 Sep ¢ 63 (1151); 1 Oct 63 (1031); 1 Oct 63 (B3 Qe §2 (VY 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. oom es BBE 53-82 8. for FOIA Review or. JUN 7 6 t | 2. English translation of conve between President Dorticos in ! | | I ! ee T RECORD COPY | Bae 2 BIASE
13-Q0000 008 ¢ prolonged contact with ranaing officers of the Cuban Direccion Joye se et : . * ; ; ‘ pe aut. | ‘Zon BPSLTra 29ON 35 PST] 6 | Sremee emereees t = . om ‘ ¥ pal eee we od yma: 3h. ; co “ _: : REPRODUCTION At NN or we MEMCRANDUM FOR: Mx. J. Lee Rankin, _ General-Counsel - ~ Prevident's. ‘Commission on the Pasgeaination of: Presid Jenk Kennedy or? : SUBIZCET: Roleakt ‘Shicey a Intelligence Service in aw oor ¥isa Applicants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy le Withia the vary recent period, this Ageacy haz established contact with a well-placed individual who haa been in clove and General de Intelligencia (Directorates General of intelligence ~ DG). His knowledge of DG] activities, techniques and personalities is direct and prefound. This Agency has oueried him in detail on _ possible contacts between Les Harvey COSY ALD and the DGI orior.,, to the as2azszination of President Kennedy. A-report on the Infor- mation thus obtained Ls attached + te this memorandum. 2. This source is highly & Senditivs and of great, Immediate aperational significance ta this Agency. The national counterintelli- gence interes? abroad requires, thersiors, that zecess to the atiached report, 22 nowledge of the existence of this source be rsatricted, oy Zor the present at least, to yourself and a minimum somber of your . stadt. a Document Number <2 BATrAge : a ws) OR ee 4 for r FOIA A Review on JUN 1975 ‘: . Downgraded to < SEOR, c 7a ‘a = 1: ‘by authority of IES RYT —_ ren Cn as os Oe OE ES RENEE RED PUR OTEEEEES BS RT ES ONESE SD SO AES $a  ETES NTCS T SS ID 9 9G) CGH ST MDE Oot . : ° . gener
13-09000 # “o. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED ” this memorandum and the attached report. — 4. 4 scopy of this oremorandum with lta atiachment has deen farwarded to the Tederal-Bureanu of investigazion. ‘(Sizned} Sichard ‘gins Richard Heims Deputy Dirsetor for Piaaa Attachment Distribution: —~ oN . Orig. &2 - Addressee a 2-eDpnpP |. 2 - C/CI/RRA > h -C/WH/3 oS WS wt CY R&A/ ZO eebs C/Ch 3, 3a woprovriata sensitivity indicator 2a4 Seen affixed to . Griginated By: Ghgea/aaitsgn AS May 1964 - Do: wigraded + to SECRE: #7, by | aus thority y . . . . ~— Gate 8 a L258 672 a a a eS ie SY oo te ae 3 a 1 é on PS Gye eye. . : “is SGCURCES As . Se Pte yee | tm ae : a ae we
Downgraded + By. auihgr! ; . ee ap ty ‘ soe aS TET . firges Boe Rs pe 8 : ; date RS 2078 Beck joiz ie! wae | se a: ee REPRODUCTION  PRORIBITED ‘ . ‘ > te eae 4 { e on a he ; Attachment SUBISOT: Law Garvey OS FALD orbin peibities ood tated bir ex OST. ALD wan ou ament of the Direccion General de % geligenc!s (001) ox any ether dixsc- tovabe or do nevicanwed: of She Coulee yewerenrecavt » x OSWALD iter the aasasaination of President SSVALO!s passe. INGE nersounal : in hie presance one day after lunch, when a group of officers ware chatting. Asmeonyg thesr wes Mamael . VEGA Perea wie previously bed been aasigned to the Cuban -- Conselate in Wdexice City, wiers be was thw principal DOi officer. YEGA mentioned that OS ALD bad gone ia the Cubam Consulate Evo oF Hiroe times 2 connection with a.vins application during tha times that EGA was ia Mexica. - an Whether OSFALD had any comines with VEGA Om these eccasions is net known ie ths source, Howeyer DG) offfears stationed in, consulates cnetersarily interview vies applicants to determine if they are DGl agems. Uf applicants ars, Mentified aa agesta, thely | travel is axpedited. Ctberwise, they are usuelly told ta come back ina few days. Duriig the interim applicacts’ names are vebrmitted © co Hevana for ferther checking and instructions. _Ascerding to the sonree, OSWALD may have igen interviewed by VEGA ay ibs - assistask, Rogella RODRIGUEZ Lopes, Sut thia is stricthy con-— jectare on fie next. The soerce doce not know Siivia SCURAMN ar saything pertinent about hey except that she was Drewent In tie. ee Cuban Zrobassy in Mexico in March 195-4. . a tna county to sort and package all documenta accoriieg to whether | they were hein secrets ivery secret), “secrato”* {svexst), or ial 340 f48 _ ra : . . | Eat SLaurrag Goby. ay wi es3"5 Sex the mews of the absassination of President Rennedy a . i “eecasse -
13-Q0000 REPRODUCTION ( SN os 2 bportants"™ (important? : ‘She mnaterial, ones comsctisiated, was co Instructions . ALL travel by DOGI officers we gS suspended temporaxity “abaddities, DG Beadcuarters'’ yersonnal were instructed terexadn. Saal oices om p te 3 ep the mane aware Bowngrae ie — ~ae | : by authority, oF = Tyee 197 - 0 Pa ee [ (ean « : .! oe Om ew 8 ANI i: “oo Cee BS 4 - ; SLES ase j . ee aetrae eee . wer ee eee a ee ee ae ee ee ee em ee — ee ee * cee aoe eee en eee ee cease se ma wee ee : ‘i ° Peete mie vey” 4 re Eats at x ” mettle. ee ee a
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED peeenreOT, SECRET 23 May 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR!  DC/OPS — ae SUBJECT 8 Review of “Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD:File Regarding ae Allegations of > the) CASTRO Cuban ; | Involvement: in: the John: Pe KERNEDE “Assassination ; L | 1. The attac oe and summary was. “written at oo | the express request of\iir. David W. Belin as a follow- . up to Question 3 of his letter to the Agency of 15 April 1975. Do, ce 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. The results of tha 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. al va summary. These can be made avallabla promptly, however, a on request. This summary-does not deal with press,. a magazine and books that dealt with. the. Subject during - the perlod after the assassination. : . 3. My recommendation? ‘ts ‘to “do with’ this. paper ag. 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 . it, aE any, is pertinent SECRET. ea _imever et py02 543! ceca 34 i
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13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED ' é ae, f ‘ ee SECRET 7 . . { a \ SUBJECT ¢ Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File,-Regarding Allega~ tions of CASTRO Cuban’ Involvement in the John. F. KENNEDY: Assagsiz: tion oS REFERENCE ; ‘Letter be David W- ‘Belin to , . Henry Knoche, 15 April 1975, pavaataaty (Reggrding Public Statement ASTRO REY: attached BACKGROUND 1. On Saturday evening, 7 September 1963, . ye Fidel CASTRO appeared at a Brazilian Embassy reception in raren sete eeR STEERER SEO Havana; even more unusual, ‘CASTRO submitted to an informal interview by the Associated Press ~Sonzeeponcents Daniel HARKER. — | CC og 2. HARKER's interview reached New. York on Sunday, 8 September, and was in print throughout the country on | 4 Monday, 9 September. There: can: ‘be:no question from the facts surrounding the’ casta0 appdarance, which had not been Saeed NS expected, and his agreement’ ‘to the interview, that this CY event represented a more-than-ordinary attempt. to get a message on the record in the United States. ® ; SECRET - CUC{ Sag
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ¢ ! - | SECR Beit . | | | leadership, (* times ... the most opportunistic American President of | ee. KENNEDY is 4. The interview also contained an uncomplimentary reference to Senator GOLDWATER and Cuban delay in signing the limited nuclear test ban. There were differences in ' 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 middlevoe Séptember 1963, the HARKER story appeared in the principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, . on Monday, 9 Sentembery-page-?, under a three-colunmn 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. .§ ECRET COCiSgz COPY NO.
1;3-00000 SECRET "Bitterly denonackns what he called recent U.S. prompted”: ‘raids on Cuban terri- tory, Casto said: AG re prepared BO nn in kind. U.S. leaders oe should’ t thes RON if they are aiding terror- ist plans Ye eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.' * ,.. World affairs _ seemed to be entering a more peaceful Climate a few days ago, but now this trend has changed with : attacks. "'The U.S. is always ready: to negotiate maa and make promises which later’ it will. not. honor. This has happened to promises made, during 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 ...°" . 6. The New York Times, in its coverage on 9 September, used a UPI wire service report which omitted any reference 7 to the warning and threat which gave the interview its real significance. The Washington Post did an abbreviated re~ write (9 September, page A~-7) which, similarly, omitted any reference to the main thrust of CASTRO's remarks; SECRET REPRODUCTION ar
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED t /f SECRET or an "The Evening Star of: Washington, D. C., printed the HARKER story nearly in its: enti paper (9 September 96d age B-4) and reworded the content of tie: ‘HARKER Ahtepview, placing the emphasis on the po- ayy \ ow ‘ Spo’ ety in the second section of the ye | litical as - in particular, highlighting the GOLDWATER elements and burying CASTRO's warning to the United States leadership in the middle of the piece. aSsassinatiomthat this CASTRO interview was considered in { | 7. There is no evidence in the files on\the KENNEDY- | | i \ following up leads or in dealings with the Warren Commission and its staff although Mexico Station specifically directed Headquarters attention tothe AP. story very shortly after the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears \ casera amnemmenaaseenscne aOR? to have been forgotten in the contemporary political consid- eration of relations with CASTRO's Cuba. There is no evidence , ere a a in the Agency records, either, that the Warren Commission sta Ttself pursued the implication of the CASTRO interview in dealing with the conspiracy hypothesis. There is no exergy nT S EDT RTOS ST ET TD 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 | from testimony of Marina OSWALD and others = he. read. the f eee CASTRO warning and threat as ‘reported above. The ‘results SECRET ceCis3s. REPRODUCTION = ace at PROGMIBITED ’ COPY NOQ.
13-00000 ee REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED f e ¥ SECRET | | | "of ‘the review, setae heavily using the 20-~--20 quality lated in summary: _There: ts: SS tncrement of credible e " neni eens fictly, of ? ° eidence,applying this phrase st Soviet WQavor Cuban political, intelligence er security service involvement in the as- ‘es EAs op re ENON TTDI DATO SRI PLY TES TTT TT A AS I | | 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. a ak, be redible evidence” that would | upset or significantly modify this judgement did (and does) not exist in Washington. But Seceroseeee meeneNAnnc NN Ae toRUTER es aoneemtenthneree —me such evidence could exist in Moscow and/or Havana, whose voluntary inputs to the Warren Commission were minimal in quantity and guality, designed to cover up any atimissions of knowledge of, or connection with, OSWALD which might be related directly or indirectly. with the assassination. “Pherefore, the belief that there was Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB and/or DGI) connection with OSWALD will persist and SECRET tan WF aed CUCLS4G .
REPRODUCTION — — PRORIBITED " ¢ ° e ow | SECRET ‘Stay in the Soviet Union Sern seem, eset Se report should have left a Pe er ere ote ee ner eon meee sn teen CEES wider "window" for this contingency. That, TSE TE A TNE cE OE tte eRe . indeed, was the opinion at the working level, particularly in the counterintelligence com- ponent in‘the CIA in 1964. As was indicated by Mr. Helms in his testimony before the Warren Commission, CIA would continue to: <> ) a regard this aspect of the OSWALD case as LN aA SS wi still open. oN NS Ce In the absence of gaditionad ‘ep new elements of "credible" oraeate, ase are | ; “nuances” in the record that ngs. as note- . worthy, in the light of other conclusions. These are reviewed and summarized below, item- by-item. | | de CASTRO'S | warning and threat of 7 ‘September 1963.= “At OSWALD did indead read x i oT : 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. Hea ng8 : Vol. V., pp. 120 = 129. See especially p. 124 - "Mr. Helms: ‘Yes. I would assume the case. could: never be. closed.'" - . . . NS a oO 6 ‘onONC Te a ap
1; ;3-00000 circumstances was excusable as retorsion . REPRODUCTION PROGIBHTED to . e SECRET. . it in New Orteans int be considered of great significance. in the light of the pathological evolution of OSWALD’: s passive/ agg saeive makeup after his attempt to kill cenesi’ 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 E1 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 for what the Cuban emigres were doing during the summer of 1963. CUBAN CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, ¢anTa ANA, "CALIFORNIA, EARLY 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 SECRET. COL Sg2 ‘EoMOOST ea a 2ie
a ~ REPRODUCTION Po 7 PROLIBITED i . 4 ‘ SECRET Crogan, told DELGADO that he was in , YG San diplomatic officials in this ouge 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 eeeemaeeeaeeeeetcea een possible operational significance than is mosnecten jy, the eng eT EES, FETCHES 2 a _ = a * to have been run down or developed by investigation. Thus net est SSE PSS EE SS A TTT a a | >. the record of the beginning of OSWALD! s_relationghi Ap _W with the Cubans starts with. a questi n mark. at we ll. The period was one of transition im 0.8" ~ Cuban relations after CASTRO'’s takeover. OSWALD, and DELGADO at nt tice wane eg yen the outset, were CASTRO supporters, OSWALD being particu- larly keen about how to get to the island. DELGADO testi- fied: eee L didn't know what to tell him, so I told him the best thing that I know was to 2 . . Report to the President's. Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter cited as ARSE Pp. 687. SECRET.
‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ¢ _« SECRET ON CoS get in touch with. a@..Cuban Embassy, you know. But at that, time. that\B)told him this - we ; an with Cuba, you know, oo ~ so this: ce £29 subversion or malintent, SiN ee XN SSP you aan, Ae n't know what to answer him. I told him to see them. | "After a while he told me he was in | contact with them ... - a eX " ..- I seen this envelope in his foot~" locker, wall-locker, and it was addr@ased to." him, and they had an official sedi on “ite. “ana” as far as I could recollect ist ag Ero Los Angeles, ‘and he was cel SY Sthete 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 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, ‘fo be | a ‘civilian, otherwise they would ‘have’ Tet, him in.,- ‘so I had to find somebody to relieve " oswaLD, who | was on guard, to. go down 9 . SECR ET CCCicag RePROOUCTION = PROGIBITED
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION — sas REPRODUCTION t . an ~ SECRET —_ A hanes 7 there to visiv'with this fellow, and they spent about an ‘hear and, a pale, two hours, talking, sane” wy” I don't know who the as or = a, hes talked about, but he looked mangas SS nonchla Sat the whole thing when he came back. He never mentioned who he was, nothing. "Mr. LIEBELER: How long did he talk to him, do you remember? ; & : "Mr. DELGADO : About an & aon xX "Mr. LIEBELER: You SS cia conan who this fellow was the tah "Mr. DELGADO : No. No QS "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; in fact he seldom . xeceived mail from: home because I made it a policy, I used (to pick up the mail for our. unit and distripat ite: itcte ‘the guys in there, and very Rey SS seldom did I ‘eversee one for him. But every so often, after he started to get in | contact. with» va SECRET PROHIBITED PROSIRITED CCCHSES “PAGE 1D of 212 COPY No. :
REP RONUCTION PRORIBITED t : -@ _v SECRET NN "~— -- these Cuban rooney Yeast getting letter pamphlets and acpi * 1 OR GARE a4 sone receiving letters, you et NS » Maybe pamphlets, you ORY ) AS | , BSkP church, things we get from ow, but it wasn't a church. know, church, you "Mr. LIEBELER: Were they weitteh Ys . , "Mr. DELGADO : Not tap © no. . SSS “Mr, LIEBELER: me fe to believe that these things from the Cuban Consulate? | OO — 7 "Mr. DELGADO : Well, I took it for granted : | that they did after I seen the envelope, you | know ... something like a Mexican eagle, with a big, impressive reat, 40 Prov. They had dif- ree white; almost looked like cur Gore ft now. But I can' t recall the se€@N& <Rnew it was in Latin, xS United, adeeb Ea that. I couldn't under— stand. It was LaBin. "Mr. LIEBELER: You don't know for sure whether it was from the Cuban Consulate? -iil SECRET. cacis. ae) em * 3) Pace 73
‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ¢ . ; ; 4 SECRET , . ae "Mr. Sao. But he had told me On that envelope in his as prior, just, parce Eo AS - wall locker, that he as receiving mail from SRN sheng ane one Si he offered to show it to me, > put ee KY Ron interested because at the time we hat® work to do, and I never did ask to see that paper again, you know. ne ee eet eee eR Siem TEE it Teed REY tte ents RN 9 ers "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he tell you what his ~“ about? “Mr. DELGADO : No, he aianies "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he eve (dipéte 20° you that it had to do with the conversaQ@uns | that you had about going over to Cuba? “Mr. DELGADO : 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 got out of the service ~- he was going to Switzerdand vee e3 ‘ 12. OSWALD’ s . application to Albert Schweitzer. college, Churwalden, switzerland, ‘was dated. 19 March 1959, and he was presunably-to, xeport there on 20 “April 1960. Destined for discharge gon the Marines on 7. December 1959, OSWALD 3 . a . . Hearings, Volume VIII, pp. 241 - 243. ~—. an 7 12 a) Ha. “] ect
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED “ow SECRET . SK: ee oo SS | | accelerated his exiton. grounds of family hardship in early b September 1959. gy ‘Septenber 1969 he was issued a ES : U.S. passport (lia fox ‘eravel - among other places to ok Cuba and end USB es entered the Soviet Union from — Finland on , 13. DELGADO'S testimony has the cast of credibility. Granting that, it is of basic importance to focus attention on the male visitor who contacted OSWALD at El Toro Camp. | and talked with him for between one and | a) hal£. to two hours. The event was unique in DELGADO's recollections, and ‘actually ? “a oom there is nothing like it - on the record - ia 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 f ex the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles. Assuming that, the ghesdions are: Who was it, and was ae - there reporting | ffom: Lost Ang les to Washington and Havana that could, in Gfteced represent the opening of a Cuban file on oswag a aS (S SS) “PREDICTION Se Seer a KENNEDY'S DEMISE BY COMMUNIST: PARTY CELL LEADE MORSE BENITEZ ZABOLA, 1962 - oe . , i 14, Guatemala Station forwarded to Headquarters on ° -.) 9 January 1964 a duplicate copy of a raw report by a 4 ; a . U. $./Cuban ‘diplomatic and consular relations were, severed on 3 January 1961. Xe ~s oe S .  - 13 SECRET. ee eee een
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED penetration dated 5. divas, 1962 describing events at the uo yearly Communist® Party “geil meeting. The cell leader, we Morse BENITEZ. @abolas “Denat the Communist Party in Guataméa. shoulaforw’ a Single new party; "We need not So on rN SN Sho preoccupy ont @s over the politics of President KENNEDY because we snow, according to prognostications, that he will die within the present year, 1962." 15. This report apparently had been discountéd when ‘it was received and was not forwarded uijkil’ 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 HAGGE, 7 NOVEMBER 1963 . 16. A sensitive liaison source, reporting after the KENNEDY assassination, indicated that at the Soviet reception on 7 November 1963, the Cuban Third Secretary, | Ricardo L. SANTOS Pesa, discussed the recent refugee raids — on Cuba and their implications with a host~country diplomat, concluding with the admonition: " .e. Just wait and you will see what we can do. It will happen soon.” Asked to -be more specific, what would 1 happen S00n SANTOS replied:. “Just wait, just wait." : 17. These data were passed to the Warren Commission - . by memorandum, .31 March 1964.- SANTOS was reported to have “SECRET eee
13-00000 a REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ape arereran orem pt oy - EECRET . ae N __.a history of medical instability and was summarily recalled cee from The Hague reportedly for reasons related to that fact INTERCEPTED; CONVERSATIGHZOF CUBAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE, LUISA CAEDERON , _AETERNOON OF 22 NOVEMBER 1963 in april 1966.  ~ he KENNEDY assassination, a Cuban Embassy employee named: oe *Luisa” received a telephone call in Spanish from an uniden= tified male outside. . we ve 19. The caller asked her if she had head the latest 7 SO or, i news. "Luisa" jokingly replied: "Yes, of wound, knew , NS 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 | Silvia DURAN's had-been-called off so it would not appear _ that they were. Gerebracieg Ye death of KENNEDY, nor would they have the. party: ceindiac with the burial. Finally she said sncpionined ve that night into the house of a 3 — | doctor (a ond) Sriena. | | , SF | 21. Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto suggestion of foreknowledge? This is the only item in the intercept. coverage. of the Cubans and Soviets after the assassination that contains the suggestion of ‘foreknowledge or expectation. 15 _) EC RET OCT
13-00000 22. REPRODUCTION PROMBITED ft . .@ SECRET The tenuous, enignnatic character of the--conversation is sharply highlighted by the following facts: “J EN, a. _Miuisa’™ was. -ppbabl identi tiga EALDERON; as eadre worker of the Cuban _ pirestoraté General of Intelligence (DGI). 4) returned to Cuba in 1964 and was reported " to be working in DGI Headquarters. eg ee : : ' 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 DGI chief (and as of June 1964, MIRABEL' s successor) was Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez. e. 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 installations 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. 160 “SECRET COCLEE SE ‘PACE 78 of 212
1,3-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED e SECRET aes confrontation wer was requested by the Warren conmiissiion’ statt but rejected by the | Mexican. RGunbrsties. It is from Silvia DURAN's gtftenents that it was learned that OSWALD ‘ : pokna am cengaged 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 February 1964 by two independent sources as engaged in the activé development ‘and facilitation of the training ‘of. Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of assassinating 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.> 3. a oe. . Oo For example, VEGA would have handled the details of the visa action and facilitation of the trip to Cuba via Mexico City from 28 December 1962 - 21 January 1963 that REPRODUCTION aw
13-00000 applications to be handled ‘solely by a local ‘employee and. a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken. by the | : REPRODUCTION | — PRORIBETTED SECRET aN 23.. There -is. , no! evidence in the OSWALD case file that a Silvia Du. was subjected to a systematic elicitative an) intentosatiion that woula have related her dealings with Ne » ow’ F OO" confirmed by intercept, with the data held on ene SOS 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 - DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, they were not asked at the time. And there remains the more SARA O 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 ae 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. ; ; Co. 18 - SECRET. ear OF | a Ho.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED ¢ . a _M SECRET ~ statements. Coming back to the beginning: Luisa" - Luisa CALDERON - 88 ca “méitber of the DGI unit in Mexico City - uld ver weEl have knoten something that would make what os, a 2) she saidcte, ‘her unidentified caller less a matter of ~ a Setanta erento myst boast :bvsel£“Endutgence than was assumed at the time. Co " ) Se SILVIA DUE , 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 [or been offered?] money payments by her Mexican interrogators. 7 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 Ny ~~ cut all relations with Cubans. Her account, in 1967 »: of | how she had been taken. into custody and had been interrégatad after the assassination repeated what was aleéady. known.. ye a a She added, under circumstances that. did net: permit ‘the: NS “Se Lye source to challenge. or elicit corroborative aeteit/ “that 19. | ee : SECRET. Gatiss4
13-00000 | «REPRODUCTION ¢ . .f SECRET _ She had gone out with OSWALD during his stay -in Mexico City and claimed she nd agen relations with him. a oS ALLEGATIONS OR “CONSPERATORIAL CONTACT BETWEEN OSWALD AND CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ALLEGATIONS” OF (A)> ‘ELENA GARRO DE PRAZ AND (B) OSCAR. CONTRERAS. = thee arren Commission reported, “Literally dozens of a eon of a conspiratorial contact betweéan OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been: 2 investigated ..-8 Among these cases, which consumed é . a ; hundreds of CIA man-hours in Headquarters 26. abroad ~ Pa and Similarly the FBI in the United states ; ad was the” - We Nicaraguan walkin in ‘Mexico City, 26 NovenbeR 2963, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. 27. The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the | Warren Commission under the cryptograph "D."" ALVARADO claimed that he had seen an American, whom he identified as OSWALD, receive money some time in mid-September 1963 in a meeting in a patie of the Cuban Consulate in ; an: 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. GoCLS 55 | ceaONE ae PO
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGMBITED . ¢ . @ anes , SECRET Mexico city. ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the ae certain elements of the story persist despite the impeachment of its major premises. aLvAsabo, whose account ‘did not become public until the release’ of the Warren Report in October 1964, talked cptisisténtly. 68) ‘the presence in the Cuban Consulate trapgiction 0 of a -siegro Ox with red-dyed hair. LS’ 29. Elena GARRO de Paz is a mecurial, itulate and Span ALA LAA ET TT ED 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 5 eaaiemmnemeemenemnememeeneeaameunenacumareaseasiam camtasanseataaemma aaa eta SORA sneneRa aa. antipathy between the two women descending from eee ; Silvia DURAN, cited above. There is a strong personal 7 . | ISSAC REE era tar ec AES : Elena GARRO's trenchant anti-Communism, 30. From October 1964 until his retirement in the’ fall | | | of 1969, a U.S. Embassy officer, charles THOMAS, persistently kept up a stream of reports: and memoranda reflecting GARRO's account of what: chad. actually © ‘gone on between OSWALD, the Cubans and<in’ particular Silvia DURAN in September 1963, including a venedted | reference to a | Negro with red-dyed hair. SECRET
13-00000 . ‘REPRODUCTION PROUIBITED os SECRET 31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in FON a Mexico Station Memorandum of Record dated 12 October 1964: - "Elena. GARKO tsaia} that she and her oN, NN | | | daughter’ were- invited, Sto a party at the Cuban : ! E sa6iy diving. the beriog she now finds out | | thaSOswainwas here in Mexico prior to the _ assassin yon: ‘She was invited by a Mexican 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 ‘ehéy + were just passing through.’ She claims that on “thie. 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." . - 7 32. GARRO repeated her story to Mr. Charles William THOMAS, an “Embassy political officer on 10 December 1965: a oo 99. - oe ann oe
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED od SECRET “In September 1963\after her return from abroad, she went “oO to a partys, accompanied by her daughter, at the home of Ruben ‘DURAN Temphasiis added]. Ruben is one of the two - Ye peSthers of Horacio DURAN, who married her cousin. She wy QswiAnD and two other young Americans. At the party she was discouraged from talking with him. Other guests © | were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark. FLORES, | HY Silvia DURAN, who she later learned was OswALD! Ss: 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 ~ afterward, she and her rAgusnter were visited by a friend, Manuel CARVILLO [or- CALVELLO] , then an official in the ran Secretariat of tlie: Gober @sion and were told he had orders to escort thai to: a sina aa ye’ a ae of town. < ee: “kept there for eight days under pretext Sy? haanger. ‘When she told CARVILLO she wanted anivand obscure hotel in the center S that they were to go to the American Embassy and explain what she knew of OSWALD, she was told that the American Embassy was full of © Communist spies. a . a woe ED 33. On 25 December 1965 and 9 January , ‘1966 in further “ interviews with THOMAS, GARRO and hex daughter elaborated and 5 - These particulars were not confirmed by independent. observers at the time. 33. ; SECRET. Hee ee
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMBITED ¢ . Ad "oA SECRET ot in certain particutars significantly modified her earlier Le : account. “also ‘acknowledged that she and her daughter had been @nterviewed: PS) Embassy officers to whom she claimed ag they @idnot, give a’ “very complete story because the wae Embassy officers did not appear to give much credence to anything Whey said. ; we 34. It developed that GARRO and daughter had bei. TAT TT TT TT eS interviewed by the Lega tow : Her information had been similar to what s account to THOMAS but had not been subst < ik uiries. The FBI representative therefore considered the: matter 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, 13 July 1966, GARRO identified the place to which she had been ae CC LL CAT ae taken by CALVILLO | as the Hotel Vermont. (This detail checked ia ove aifimativeny. | GARRO was at the Hotel 23 = 24, 25 — 27 and 28 = 30 vember 1963. ) In another, on 7 February 1967, GARRO's c neh tgling Gicisettuses with the Cubans are set. out. . Ang cinalSg’u oe OMAS's retirement from U. S. “Government, a service, the ‘Department ‘of State, at his request, oe 28 August 1969, ‘disseminated to CIA and FBI. a “compilation of - his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews. ~ - 24- SECRET Cecaes5 of
PROMIBITED ¢ . LA _ SECRET. “~~ “36. There the matter rests. GARRO's chronology of the events she described. as havin ogcurred_in_the..Mexican an_ capital in September 1963. hever_ coincided with the confirmed data of OSWALD's presence “there.” Her story, however, had two points. sense » with ‘allegations by others regarding OSWALD: OW Gwe” ES a. ARADO's allegations regarding the Negro with the red-dyed hair [this detail could, however, have been gleaned from the nok Warren Commission's published account of the < ®D" case] and , oo, - SNL b. Silvia DURAN's later claim of intimate personal contacts with OSW. wy LY Ge yy? 37. Beginning in March and amplified n May’ 3967, the American Consul, Benjamin J. RUYLE, in Tampico developed a contact with a local Mexican journalist, | Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who clained to have encountered OSWALD with other Pro~CASTRO students at the University of Mexico campus in September 1963. 38. In June 1969 CONTRERAS was interviewed by a CIA ‘officer: He’ ieee at the University of Mexico for three onan 1960 - 1964; He belonged to a clandestine pro~CASTRO ‘revolutionary i group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD. <> SECRET of 212
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBIT ED: ns SECRET case he was extremely cautious and although he was not able AX ‘WAbLing to give dates and : names, ne <Si.080 ALD visited the University | oe ai after the Cuban CONN SSS : | Emb ef im a visa to visit Cuba. . ‘¢) oo regarding pro-Cuban revolut Sy Sey groups at the University and 7 was directed to CONTRERAS and his friend. OSWALD met CONTRERAS and four other persons: as they came out of a round-table discussion held in the faculty of Philosophy «. “OSWALD . told the group it was urgent. that: he visit, Cuba and the Cuban Embassy had“dented hin a -wisa. He requested aid from CONTRERAS" 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 of the next day. OSWALD was very introverted and f appeared to be slightly | Ne crazy. ‘OSWALD made. nO: iment.fon of an assassination we << Cy N “) S Sa plot but kept inging, Sethe point he had to travel to Ci simeais AS eaiitaly. ee oo 39. At RNS ON 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 26 SECRET... PROGBITED COPY NO. —
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ¢ SECRET mee for the years 1959 - RX and that he had been publicly fe associated in protest. activity for the Student Revolutionary Bloc (BER) in sinuary | ‘1981. However, the group ceased functioning-as. such-in tWe middle of 1962, and Oscar STRERAS. was: _péver one of its leaders. No further work is seexegte® in the files on the CONTRERAS allegations. 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. ieals a é ve: permitted ‘him to near the hotel, seems hardly likely to carry on for an extended period with © University” student group. ye | . | 27 PROMBINED | COPY HO. gee
REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 31 January 1964 OE ee XAAZ- 22594 SUBJECT: le Iam enclosis ‘Spe esentation of the information — developed by CIA on or $ Lee Harvey COVALD in Mexico City. We have incladed in this paper only hard, schstantive information, Any judgments that are mada rermresent pro- fessional evaluations by isdividuals who have worked over the years ay specialists in their fields, Speculation, rumor, and vague detail not directly related to OSWALD s activity have not beea inchaled, 2. Pursuant to our discussion on 14 January 1764, I have given the enclosure an acpropriate classification, The. compromise of this material in its present form would lead Girectly to the destruction of current sources and methods af this Agency in Mexico and elsewhere, Docuntent Number 509. 509-803 (signed) - for FOL Re Richard Helms | | nt OR oF . sy 8% Deputy Director for Plans ~ qu - Enclosure - rennet dis 8 Se yo 4 - Orig & le , Addressee w/att v | gs \o | (1 = DDP w/att 1 - WH/3 (Mr. Whitten) w/att” re “ “1.SR/CI w/atty n 4 L4 Chief, , CUR&A w/att fo. ot CI/RGRoceaste/ 31 January 1964 BS paoy batt ez guaran eater Sema ae nop 44 oA ——- PROMIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED vayir | fenenens es ee ~- = ™~ ve SEI te AND 31 January 1964 | ° ~~ se = 4 ws faite ede 2 Sa" | Information Develonad by CIA an the Activity of v.34 Lee Harvey OSWALD in agheenico a . - SS 23 Sentember « 3. Geteza®’ 195 . | ; Ne . | 1, On 9 Octob Se the 2 GIA S tion in Mexico City received a : : the following information fim aseliable and proven source Aa American nied : Le OSWALD had contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, 1 October 1963. He had spoken in halting Russian to the Soviet - - Embassy guard, Ivan Ivanovich OBYEDKOV, to whom ‘he said he had visited the Embassy two days earlicr, Saturday, 28 September, Ho asked whether there had been a seply to 2 telegram that the. Conoul with whom boa had spoken, but whose name he could not recall, had promised to send to Washington, OBYEDKOV had attempted to gatalsliat the. newatity of the Consus with whom OSWALD had ratxed if ti had been a daz x: sTs0R, then it had probably boon MOSTIXOV, OBYEDXOV, CEE Ee ee me oS a . : sone © Scond® | WARMING NOTICE. a 2 oo ot "2 f GLa eie of SENSITIVE SOURCES AND ® St . ‘ PTEST EONS UNAS re -eRAIATER —_
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION PROMISITED ~ SO a Atria fe , o3 after a check with Sovict Consular personnel, assured OSWALD the telegram had been sent to Washizgton but no answer had been received, | The infor mati tion was forwarded NW lo ta CLA Headquarters Zea tho same aay it was seceiyade: N ao oS 2. & file cheek: faWe shingee® which is routine in thase - 8 a Me oe matters revea a the possibility ofan ideatity between the Lee - a - OSWALD wko had spoken. with OBVYEDKOV, and presumably “> with KOSTIKOYV, and the defector returnce, Lee Harvey OSWALD,* 3, On10 October 1963 CIA Headquarters disseminated by ae | * cable the revort in substantially the form and in the detail | : indicatad above, in paragravh 1, to the Federal agoncies whose jurisdictional interesta had been established by 2 review of OSWALD's file: the Federal Burcau of Investigation, the Depart. * The CIA file on Lee Hariey. CSWALD was ope zed on 9 Decomber 1960 ta accammodate biogr raplic information developed by CIA in response to an inquiry ; froma the Departrneat af State on a st af eg American defectors. in. Soviet. Bloc countriss, OSWALD's was ° _arnong the names in the list, “T ke Department of State inquiry was dsted.25 October 1960,; ‘Ant interim reply was given by CIA on 3 November 1960; a final resiy, on 21 November 1960, Usii eszly October 1963 the contents ¢ of tha OSWALD file held by CIA - consisted entirely of press materials and disseminstions “reccived from the Departmext of State, the Feder ah Bureau of Investigation, and the Navy Department, pee eye , ‘ ae a WE ba ee teed a ” t S=> SSTIVE soune Ho) AND - wae T, 4 METAS METHODS INVOLVED ee or a pec mma ENO a ALB a EO ee ORE Rigg ooo teh (Nene Sigg oes? eet gael TT BOR TE, OT eto Tg Mra ae ile? wii Oo ace 212 PROMBITED | te
“REPRODUCTION _—-PROISITED oe 7 . 4 an Sitse AT he abine .. AbD ™~ Seu... Lt TOS wie “TD . . oh ene Naturalization Services, SS comment was included in the report noting the Likelihood thattha\subdject, Lee OSWALD, was . probably identical with the former Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, (The report disseminated by CIA in Ny sacut of State, the Navy Regs tasty end the Immicration and | | Washington on 10 Octcber also isclided 2 physical descripticn . of an individual who was believed to have been the OSWALD mate bad contacted the Soviets in Mexico City, It was sub 3d established by investigation that the descripti ead Gia not perta ain yy : to OSWALD.) Wye “A &- Onthe same day, 10 Ceteber 1963, CIA. Headquarters gant a lengthy cable summery to the Mexico City Station of the - 4 background information held inthe Neadquarters! file on OSWALD, An instruction was inclwled for the Mexico City Station to pass the substance of its 9 Cetober repors to the local representatives of the same Federal departments aad ageacies that hed been given the information in Washington, This | instruction was immediately carried out, In this manner the informatioa on OSWALD": fa contact with a the Soviets on 1 Cstaber wes passed in Mexico Ch tg the Embassy, the FBI rep sesentative, the Naval Attacke, aud to the office of the Immigration and  Neturelization Service, There were no requests from recizsnts of the report far further information or for follow-up tavestiga ation, _Miettom re mes = soe 6 . « ~. eT? es 2 pede alt SENSITIVE SOURCES AND PM METHODS INVOLYEA en aod? a WP, tone aes . s on 8h Sa wt tere ate Me 8 a dS So a oes” eee ee eee ee COPY NO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION — ——— PROWIBITED + pee oe See Y . . ashes” - ‘ % . an “ a wwe ae eet es w] ‘aaah Baas tarrsoen * § After the assassination of President Menncwy and the + arrest of Lee Harvey OSWALD, an intensive review of a avallsble sources wa 9. widemtale in Mexico Clty to dcterraine t fac pus OES aes WALD's vis its. its ewe 3 learned that CSWALD had also\yi se the Cube G onguiate ia Mexico City anc bad 7 ~ oL talked there et clerk, a Mexican national, named Silvia “ DURAN. After the ass nation and the publicity about Lea GSWALD, Slivia DURAN had told a number of relatlves and fylonde that she had talked to OSWALD about a Cuban visa. Silvia DURA AN and hes hushand, Horazio DURAN Navarro, wera detained and questioned by the Mexican police from 23 to 25 November 1963. & After glving some of the details of her own personal backgsound = she is an adraitted Leftist sympathizer and had formac: sly worked for the Mexican-Cuban Institute of Culmzal , Relations ~ Silvia DORAN said that wren she f ik thea zd of the SOON death of President Keanedy fit ha pecn deprossed ang thought the assassin must nawe beens maniac. When she learned thas . . Ze _ ‘ ke was assoc With the "als biay for Cuba Commalites" : QS | | she did net re @ iss a ; : . | . Ne mo . ‘ . . . 7. She talked about the case to her husbaad and when che heard the name of Lee oSw. moentioncd, she recognized ita i WARXING RN STICE i 4 2 . — : SENSITIVE sc" aa PFS AND Cote PU METIENT AVE Se ge beet eee Tate was Ale ae St a! : oe 7 ot. Co te “an
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED cn een the man who had corne to the Consulate about two months before to gct a visa to transi, Lean a his way to the USSR. She realised that hectiad: said ‘he was married toa Russian and thas he naagifonged # to tae "FE raiz Dlay for Cuba" group. Sac checked WN oe: ° . . . . * hey fi 276 on isin in the Consular archives and frora the éescittive - sure it was the same man. He was short, blend, - poorly dressed and his face got red when he 1» tie was denied a Cuban transit visa because he did not yet nave a Sovict visa, and he was told to get tha Soviet visa sissy buti it was noted “ that this would take about four montas. She bad asked the Cuban ~~ Consul himself, Euseblo AZCUZE, to talk te OSWALD and they had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Mexico instead of waiting there. The Consul had phoned the Sovflet Cone sulate and talked to the person handling OSWALD's case, who had gaid it would take about four months te hear from. Moscow about the Sovict yisa. The sax Wiernoon, OSWALD had ceme bac again and she had ERS wYrehe same thing. ‘She gave ay OSWALD a slip > ebfere: with be Paans os, abme and telephone number oa NS ceed nn , 2 it i in case ES got his: sovree’ visa. He did not call back, she said. cy 8. Silvia DURAN husba nd, Horaclo DURAN Navarro, gave. essentially the same story, as he had previously neard ie from his wits aiter the assassination. He had never chad any personal contact. with OSWALD., et mie em ye + eR o: Aga Pye, i 0e ‘ SYA QING MOUSE Vie ee 6 % * . er fr eh 8; re ae ob ge wath 2 ! iS A eS LAD * ote oe ae amtes ose . Cc . ys & ba a a Bun Kia: aS oad 4 : e FY eet eerie ‘ : ee - . ort ahd tee ee cata: ammee "NAD canta TE Sm 7 wT er. . sete . . . soe, oe vat
13-00000 pEPWODUCTION PROWMBHTED ~ & . - o? ores, ¢ ey i =“ Vhak. . — ermacaet encencnaths . Vo MENG RU FCCE 9. Silvia DURAN wes reiaterr gated by the Mexican police from 27 to 29 Noverabez- Bet che did not change or add materially “3 to her story about. ‘osw. AID, ae a LOS te ta. Iehown. that-the: Cuban Amba Z oe Stes SCRNANDE 52) Av pans resorted on ¢} Cuban Gevernment sent the Mosican Government a stift note of protect, which the Mexicans sejected, day after DURAN!s release, Cubsa orekident BORTICCS auex ied - scene ean HERNANDEZ about his zcvoyt, HERNANDEZ confirmed that y there had been an altercation between CSWALD and Consul | i 3 inters og : est pOwthto 5, ahs 7 | ! | I AZGCUE, DORTICOS made a nereictent put unsuccessful effort to determine from BERN RDEZ whether the Mexican authorities confirmed re ay which have a bearing on Mra, DURAN's. account: de 27 September. In mic~aft eznuoon, Silvia DURAN infor med the Soviet Eanbassy that a mals American citizen: _ had requested a visa te tronsit Cuba on his way ‘to. the” : -_ = mee egeaen sees mee Came £ wu OTICE. *. . woe Ute : . ® aT ea om er eed. i MoTODS " PE OUMED etl bat Ase 2a AO cmos metre er A EE ANNA tee 2 NEES? 6 at Yenc SG + # we hs eaten vie smeconr ~mrnetpenrerenmee wn SOOT NH 282
13-00000 ot we twee mere oe ee) REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ~ wo ~ —_ ~ tre homo eos . . Soviet Union. She desired to know who the American had talsed with ct = Soviet Consulate, Also, she indicated that the Cuban Consulate coul’ grant kim the visa and arr rEanige immigration dctails if the couceasion of a Soviet . ber, Pursuant to her inquiry, Silvia ot DURAN received a confirmation from the Soviet tmabassy . a} i . that the American had been to the USSR installation, -He had shown therm a letter from the Soviet Consulate ia’? W cabington indicating that he hod been Jorg, awaefting a. CONS) ww NS 8 visa for himself 2 aad his wifs to go te th USSR, No - answer had come from Washington; however, the waiting period was sometimes four or five months, The American. also had a letter attesting that he was a2 member of a pro» . ®, Cuban organizction but he had-claimed that the Cubana. a Russian visa, 7 “> Although the America: oy wag still at the Cubana. ss cana agen repe ated that she douid not give him a transit visa Nee a Sovict visa was forthcoming, notwithstanding the American's wish to go to Cuba to wait . , SENSI, ask SGuaces € ANS . on ova diye SUAS ia ted Ca | __ Ratcos INvOUe er career ee IS TTT HO FUP t  o soe - GeG2014 - COFY NO. PAINTER
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWISITED there for his Soviet visa, «According to DURAN, tha ime cased to a on 2 appropri jatel; y canctate- tik American's card, The Soviet or ok V echoed her exatfment that the American was not Silvia DURAN was again visited st the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City by the American’ secking a Cuban transit visa, Mrs, DUR URAN contacted: as en ») least two members of the Soviet t Binboosy and £ facilivarta @ divoct conversation between one of the: Saviess eg and tne ; Woe . American, Conversing in poor nussiny, vne‘American ' stated that he alrcady had been to the Soviet Consulate and had ioft anaddresa, The Soviet official replied that he was aware of that, e American suggested 525 he had not known his address then, and he had gone to the ot ea Sn Oo it. The American thea er to the Soviet official's on invitation to come by and. give ‘them the addzeaa, de ‘J ‘Ccteber. In mig -morning an unidentified Me individual, speaking’ broken 3 Ruscian, contacted the Sovict . C —endl ran, 7 Militar tary Attache in Mexico City. He said he had been ta -
i i * 8 ° @ ~_ ome - ¢ re - = . ~ i | vewweees ane Soe ee age g —_ ss ¢ : . a ae Ve Hits 1 Betta i MSTRRIUS bes 2 FD | tac Excbassy tho previous Osturday (26 September “ | hod talked with 2 _CosautWhe had said they would send a . telegram a to Washingt ous hod there becna reply? He wag-teferred to. the Coa adulot e for the informatian, These odditional material were nrorantly dissamizsted in . a3 Ny = - = : . Washiagton by the CIA to the White Louse, tha Desartmcnt of oe ° 2 as, : State, aud the Federal Burcay of investication, ae @, 1 Octeber, See paragraph 1] ahove for Lea OSWALD 's contact with the Soviet Consulate, , Voalsriy Visdinsivoviel KOSTIZOV “ . e . 13. Ib is believed that the Saviet oti cial width whom OSWALD dealt in Mexico Gity was Consular Attache Valeriy ¥ Vizdimirovich KOSTISOV, born in Moscow, 17 March 1933, & pnotorvapa af KOSTIROV, is attached, In his letter cf 9 November to the Soviet Gassuiate in W ashington, Oa Ac Saled “ ia v3 wrote about his pinectings or, : Gomrade KOS {sic} gf the oe" There is no official of the Gviet Exbasés i 2 Mex sico City with a name resembling << NKOSTING, ots Phan Consul KOSTIXOV, ea 14, KOSTIKOV is the senicr officer of five Soviet Consular representatives 5 who decal with visas ant relate oo re sr pts Si ce a8 | Go0er46 | i oe ne 1 2
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13-00000° ( | REPRODUCTION CLASSIFIED MESSAGE 2 ees TALKS FAMILIARLY WITH SUBJ AND INVITES HIM TO PRESS CONFERENOIe En. nw we Oe OE TURE AT HOTEL REFORMA WHERE A CURAN TO SPEAK. 3 MAY WITH GUAcaALUrs PEREZ MACIA OF GOBER NACEON RE OBTAINING CUNDETERNINED) VI S JUNE AND 6 JULY witir “oscar. t SANTAELL A, FORD SALESMAN. 7 JUNE Wild JUAN GAR CLAS AND. FNU PEREZ © “on ozc0, ‘DOD GE SALESMEN. 2 AUG CALLS _ -ROGER of RosERT: KATZ» “OF "FRANCE PRESSE” TO INVITE To “SOVENS PRESS | CONFERENCE. Ye way AND 16 JUNE 1962 CALLS EDMUNDO JARDON OF PRENSA LATINA TO GET TOGETHER. 14 JUNE ASKS SPEAK wITH DR. GUILLERNO MONTANO ISLAS, PROMINENT MEXICAN PRO COMMIE LEADER WELL KNOWN 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 UNAN. 3 DEC ACCEPTS INVITE ATTEND BUFFET FOR PRESS ON BEHALF CARL J. MI@MAIL, U.S. | wS AND WORLD REPT. 25 JAN 63 HORACIO CHANCACL INI OF UNITED | NATIONS POST PONES HIS aprotitent WITH SUBJ. 19 FEB FNU SABINO Ca SRERA OF INSURANCE. FIR. RE PAYNENTS. 8 MAR INVITES CANADIAN NEW SPAPERMAN JOHN “aL IUS to ‘stad DINNER. 36 APR RE REQUE ST S APPSSINT SENT obo ate gone . care wg cots wa paprectve ? : if WITH R ICARDA. “POERY CERVANTES, PROWINE NM: LEFP IST JOUR Nav Ist IN eet * seme crnmn _e ome names « CL OSE FREQUENT’ Ke “SovS. AS AND £7 AY TALKS, wiga Naw YORK KE TIMES REP PAUL ED Y. WHO INVITES _SOBH DIMER B26 HAY. 18 £AY DIRECTOR OF V0Z DE MEXICO AND PCM CENTRAL CONMITTEEMAN HANUEL | TERRAZAS GUERRERO, ASKS SU3d FOR SOV FINANCIAL SUBSID-Y<: 23° 0A SUBJ CALLS JOHN RETTIE (SEE MEXI 47435). 14 JUNE: CALLS. WELL “KNOWS i LEFT Ist. CLEMENT INA BASSGLS TO INTERVIEW HER. 1 ct + avites ° + ovens ESS LQUE LOUBET OF EXCEL STOR TO SOVENE RECEPT LON BEHALF cosy ONaLTS - © 8 em ogee ee tebe Ge c204s:
ee eee pees eet | 7 : CLASSIFIED MESSAGE SECRER REPRODUCTION ~ PROLIEATED Bet nas 2 (201 ~ PATI. ” 3 t come a temas or ream cmoncaen ons 14 CcT INVITES JAVIER SANTOS LORENT OF BOVEDADERS TI SAEC ew EVIN I o. 3G OCT UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIES CONTACT CLEMNENTINA BASSOLS. 14 48 TRIES CONTACT RICARDO POERY CERVANTES... 14 AND 15 VIRGINIA GOMEZRIET.O, LEFTISE AND PARAMOUR OF POERY, YO €« ced a C/S_ COMMENT: # REQUESTED INFO RE TRAVEL VALERIY VLAD IMIROV ICH KOSTIKGY .  QALE — gaceras: page 146 4212 COPY NO.
nePHOOUCTIN PROWIRITED ceo ca . f} INDEX EXT. : 5613 - . CONS INDEX DATE: 2S How 62 ‘°C FILE IN CS FILE NO. 7 TS WEITE ZCUSE ATTS: MEXZeORGE BUNDY TO oo: DEPARTMENT OF STATS ATTN: MR. U. ALEXIS JOHNSON rom: QXERXERE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCE fe ao . . | ROUTINE wie ° { 4 ¢ . | , IMMEDIATE Bt) ue Fy ee | OK BED EB. - a, sz SD SOUTER oF ES gD SPLOT RENNIE DL; SAID A Som ON Li oP Pisces nonin, Seq DIES TH wEv GHLEANS WS’ WELL, acQiATIED wanjtize OswaiD. ‘SON TH LAW IS A CUBAN WHO LIVES AS 212 JEFFERSON PARRISH, IEW ORLZANS, TEL: VERON 5-9658. ARNESTO RODRIGUEZ RUNS A SPANISH LANGUAGE ScHOOL | Ao IS ANTI CASTRO. ACCORDING TO MARIA RODRIGUEZ DE LOPEZ HER SON Iv LAW HAS A TAPED CONVERSATION FOE SERS? Number 13-498 for FOIA Raview dn APR is76 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW 4 87 CONDUCTED on_2 = MAY i397 E__IMPCET CL avciee Os c/s COMMENT: * DISSEMINATION APPLICABLE TO RYBAT GPF LOOR CABLES. | Di fee sate a “28-2912 | END OF MESSAGE ~ GROUP i Excluded from automatic sawngrading and deeiassification AUTHENTICATING 9 RELEASING OFFICER FiGe FFICER REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. Copy No. eens)
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISITED ® oo‘; ~ | SeGheT - BOC. MICRO. SER” May 1510975 | A | MICROFILMED | TO > Director - Fecersai Bureau 62) Investipation Attention: — bie, ad “3, Papich amr Director Plas) Yet. KOsTE REE an ~~ a. wo deed o “ as _ NZ NA > * 1 1. “40 as Attachzent isa reaume of the observed Sic O} ctizities of Valeriy Viadimirovic#’cSTIxoy and Tyan Cayrilz= | yo! a IGlkLZSRIEY ag reported by a retiable source ia Haxico city. | ‘‘AEteation vas oa Was given to ,KOSTIKOV (because of the 4 Corsa ce: That he is the consul~vas “int oS contenber i Meties Yosz (see ClCIn“g 7925, 25 November 1583). ALFERIEV trav- sem" lied with KCSTIZOY to Northern Mexico during the early part : AANS beew ef Septesher 1963. Source reported that during the period \ncatel under review the observed activities OQ ZO0TIZO¥ and ALFORIEV fOouineo appeared to be normal, 25 cid the activ’ Seles az the entire i . Soviet Enhassy complement. a a 3. Forwarded as Attachwéat. Bis a resume of telephons | calls placed to and trem the. Soviet. Embasay on the afternoon of 22 Novemter. Anal B): of: calls. made-the morning of 22 Novenber and the "and&k aiterndon oz 3 November ree ‘yealed no pertinent Bee 3. Technical survetilme: and suspected Seviet intellizence officers produced 2 20 perti- nent information. 4, Forwarded as Attachment Cis a list iceatifying the Soviets whese nases appear in Attachments A and 5. i 5. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the enclosed. information, we urge that the sources data and the information tbe gives the most secure haadiing possible. This. informatica ig for background use only and may not. be disaeninated vithout permission from this Agency. “Document Number "= \97- “622 3 3) = : - for FOIA. Reyiew ¢ on APR 1875 CI-3/778,881 SERPET oe , “ CLASSIFICATION REVIEW | ( SEGHE | | conoucren cx ZA NAY EZ ONO FOREIGN DISSE 27 fier 63» _ E—-IMPDET cu ay_S/2 295] © nn Oo Oe) ~2 $446 - Coc al 24 REPRODUCTION noe 148 wo 212 PROAIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWMBHTED 4 ne a POY Py . a WH/3/uexico/Terry Yard:nrd 27 Novenber: 1363 — | Distribution: - BASICS: Urig. « _ ~ Addressee MEXT-7650 (IN-67292) L = RI (201-~289248) MESI=}7038 (1N-67253) L- CI/LIA 67-4 MEXI~-7036 (IN-67237) L- CI/RRA Se  «~HEXT@7034 (1N-67231) 1» CI/SIG a MEXI-7032 (13-67198) cS Nin rence nieces NO FOREIGN QISSERI _4 COPY NO.
1;3-00000. Gist NO FEREISH DISSEM Enclosure a 18 November 0857 ~ Alferiev enters Eabassy alone (Departure not noted) 1556 = Esostikov enters\ ‘atone 1629 @ Koatikey’ ‘departs alone 1556 «Kigitzov enters ‘alone “17121 Ns Sbatikey- departs alone 1755 - Koatiney enters alone 19 Novenber 1210 ~ Alzerievy enters Eabagsy alone 1312 — Alferiey departs with Siarmaachey (1352 - Alvertey and Cafmascher return 1413 = Kostilow) departs” alone aN Ve v We 1333 = Algerie? enters lane Sior departure not noted) io 1633 = Zostikav\enters e ione 20 November No coverzge 21 November 0852 ~ Alferiev enters Bahesay_ sith wife) M aR 08 sa Noe ~ Goer 23 COPY NO. 212.
13-00000 0916 = Xostizov Q317 «| Alferiev 0949 ~ Alferieyv 1133 ~ Zostikoy 1206 = Alferier 1240 - Rostixow 1310 ~<ostikov. 1341 = oatixor o1 1383 ~ Alfertev e 1427 ~ Kostikov 1630 =~ Kostikov C3853 ~ Alferiey 0904 ~ Kostikov 1003 ~ Eostikov 1015 ~ HKostikov 1028 - xostikoyv 1030 Kostikov 1250 ~ 1302-1312 enters alone departs alone enters alone departs with Shubin departs alone enters ‘wien Shania departs i car driven by KGB chauffeur Kalinin enters ‘with 3 Kalinin enters alone departs alone enters alone 22 Movenber enters Embassy alone enters alone has discussion with Shubin departs with Shubin enters with Shubin departs. with wk , SUNS and Shubin Kostixov, vite and\Shnbin return - Koatikev ‘apeais in garden with Kazantsev 336 = Kostikoy depatta with Shubin, Shpakevich, Turyein, 1402 = All above return | ccrRNOUET as driven by Kalinin PROMBIMED Ce ocareg ‘pace 151 ofl . COPY NO.
13-00000 | t I 1402 1425 1426 1440 “1100 1207 - REPRODUCTION Veit AO Faoeiait AQeRN fits i xhstikey talkins im garden with Alferiey, Andreyev, and ‘urygin kostikovy desarts aa car with family Al2eriey depas gts aione Alferfev “enters. aw oe. Ae €Uteriev copie? =a Alger tev. entets alone Nay aa Zostued Ov , enters alone 23 November Rostikov speaks with Kazantsey and Shubin Rostikoevy departs with Xazantsev and Stubin dlferiev enters alone Xostizov, kazaatsev and Saubia' enter. Kostikov plays. volleybatT vitheYatstov, Shubin, — Kazantsev, ‘Porkhunoy;:’ and\ strobdaov Xostikov. speaud(itg sini » and Slavnov 4ostikov departs with Siubina and Romanchenko Aigzeriey departs alone 24 Novenber Alferiev enters Embassy alone cs Kostizey enters ea ihi as ‘and ‘Shubin PROHIBITED pene eR PEPER
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED o~ AD Fa Fes ] BSE oo Aww 1326 = Alferiev departs with- “Shengalev 1410 « Alfertey enters with Shengalev 1449 « Alzexfer,\Kostikov,. Kazantzev and 2 unidentified WA —s —) Soviet visitors: depart (A's car) ° w vi cyst 7 a . = aoa vow mats 24 Feo .
13-00000 amen ee REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED Enclosure B 22 Novenber coveraga of Soviet umbassy normal, “1 23 November coverage follows: - 77 \.‘\ 1230 = Boat iko~ cones on line ‘with-followiag conversation . se Cuban Consul Alfredo Mirabad, Diaz asks to speak wits Yatskoy.. Latter apparestly unavailable and . : cnsuing font) iar fon Cesc BOS 3 Forgiv@uag tor arriving late. EIR: Did you recover the suitcase? ' KOS: Yes MIR: Then it was arriving on the other trip. — EOS: Yes WIR: I called to tell you the 2ollowing, that regarding that matter that we had talked about, to see if we would spend Sunday in Chacultepee Fark because ny wizfe is preparing gome food to eat there. ROSS I’m sorry but I’ve just made plans for another trip and I'm leaving this very. aay. =O Dleass forgive me for not being: a5le: to go with you. Hin; I'd like to taik.to Pavel” “Tata. oo “ BOS: Wait a minute,” he'll cone’, nog or BIR: i2 he’s busy I" Lb Gand ba later; but I°Ll be. - available for thay a half hour at telephone Ho, 11-28-47. —— zOS: O, K, | . | 7 ! Reporter requests | rries Unicentified Soviet male refuses. Fenale implies to: mukharenko that the Soviet Ambassador has said to make: ‘Boystatenent. ‘Yugeslav_ dmbassador- Wkahoy calls and sgoeaks with Soviet Anbassador Bozarov in\RaSsian. Talk briefly about assasstuation tell ina each, other what they know, which Se SS Wwe? SEGRE ‘ at “Oy en asset GOC2CE
13-00000 L556 REPRODUCTION PROWMGITED. appears to be cnly waat they wot froma the rudia. ur dentified weaan. advises Bays ets of acsassination. wc ook 1544 - Unidentif ted yeporter ess for Xazantsev, advised _ eee cazantsev, Reins © ill be back “onuay, O950—1i06. a FORE - | | | | | 13545 * Yatesnrsesed. spire for r Hukharenko, told he isn't 1LGS2 = Unidentified icmale reporter told Sceviect =nbassy aot working today, Saturday or Sunday. (“1715 - Reporter calls for statement. Mone given. | = Sazantsev cails his residence, personat. call. > 1744 - Reporter teld to «ali back wonday 730 ~ Unidentified male asis for: Leonov. ‘Mot in... 1755 = above calis again Me ~ Meporter told call hack tonday.:. aan
13-Q0000 . REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ( Ng Fie BT nissen ATTACHMENT C TO CSCI<-3/773, 831 | Evan Gavrilovica ALE L Ey Yaleriy Vladimirovich’ HOSTIECY - 2rayda Correspondent Attache Consular Office 3. Aleksey Ivanovich GARZASCHEY - Consul ; 4. vata1ig Bértsovicn. SHUBIN - Attache — . 5. niGE pattriyevich, SALINTN = Chanfzeur : 7. eee SHPAXEVICH ~ Third Secretary 8 VYiadimir Ivanovich ANDR&YEV - First Secretary 9, Vladimir Vasilysvich TURYGIN <- Third Secretary 10, Pavel Antonoyich YATSKOY - Attache ll. Vladimir. PORZEUNOY ~ Code Clerk 12. Cennadiy STROGANOV ~ Radio Operator 13. Nikolsy Petrovich SLAVROV _ « Osde Clerk 14, Vladimir SOMANCHENEO <7 - Second Secretary _ 15. Lev Fedorovich SHENGALEY _ ~ Seales’ Commercial 16. Oleg Haksimovich NECILPORENRD © = Vice Consul . 17, Sergey Semyonovich KUXEARENED — Second Secretary; So- 18. WNikelay Sergeyevich LEONOF  _ qniza secretary , ; SRT = NO FOREIGN USSEM nee) ee 7 oscz 156, ot 212 COPY nO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMISITED SN Chetry ~ enki he Fs Gets ais te a9 22 kovember coverage of Soviet inbessy normal ate? 3 Hagenper me fe ile fsx. 22 sovenper coverage 29 qea’s wae Lf 12350 — Cuban ConsulCalfredo. Sarabal IMaz asks to speak #ith Yatekov. Latter | ae arently unayallable and . dostieoy)\comes on line-with following conversation oneiiing, familiar form “eu” - mo3a:> Foxtive.ne Gor arriving late. MIR: Did ou recover the suitease? . KOSe ‘PF 423 HI: Then it was arriving on the other trip. S63: Yes MIR: I called to tell you tha 2oLllewing, that regarding — that matter that we had talked about, to see if we would spend Sunday ia. Chapultepec. Park because ny wife is preparing some sood to eat thers. trip and I’ leaving this very day. So please forgive me for not. being able to go with you. HER, I'd like to talk to Pavel Yatakov. 2035: Wait a ainute, he'll come now. Miz: If he’s busy Fl] call him later, but I'll be available tor the next half hour at telephone Hoe Llelk=$7, - mo 1334 - Leporter requests statesiént,: ob Unicentizied Soviet — Coe : male refuses. ky ae 123 = Fenale implics- to. Haaren tat & the Soviet Anbaseador has aaid tomake ne statement. 7 . Oo, ONS Co SANS +1445 — Tugeslav . ads. “Tlaboy calis and speaks with Soviet dAabassador = ora “$p- Fussian. ‘alk brie?ly ubout assnasination % 4 each other what they Bnow which Panter OS
13-00000 _ REPRODUCTION oe | PROHIBITED SooRey NG FOREIGN GISSEN aa ty U ‘oe cl] appears to ke only what they got from the radio. 1550 - Unidentified woman advises Soviets of assassination. aw 1S¢4 — Unidentified reporter ‘asks for Hazantsev, advised that Bazantsey xiot day will he back Monday, 0920-1400. 1645 = Unidentified male ass) for * Rukharenko, told he isn't Ame — ae aoe 1652 = Unidemtified Zenale> ‘yeporter told Soviet Embassy not working today, . Saturday or Sunday. | . 1716 = Reporte\\< \ehlls for statement. None given. | - Kazantsev calls his residence, personal cail. 1744 = Reporter told to call back Monday. 1750 = Unidentified male asks for Leonov. Not in. 1735 - above calls again ; - . | = Reporter told call back Nonday. a re pS ot | oo0arss ae a - ms sot 22 a
13-00000 Pe REPRODUCTION. , | OAT! PROMBITED oe yee ~ SECRET | NO FOREIGN DISSER STTACEXENT C TO CSCI-3/7738, 831 | 1. Ivan Gavrilovich ALYERIS¥ « Eravda Correspondent | 2, Yaleriy Vladimirovich xOSTIEOY ~ Attache Consular O2fice Je Alexsey Ivanovich GAnaiScasy ~ Consul 4e vataliz, Borisovich saat am Attache - | 3. Yurty Dat tPayertch ‘RALIVIN = Chaw2Zeur | 2 §. Boris Makstadrevich & EATANTSEY ~ Counselor : 7. Vindiuir Ivanovich SHPAREVICH - Third Secretary | 8. YViadinir Ivanovich ANDREYZY - First. Secretary | S$, Yiadimir Vasilyevich TUINTGIN <- Third Secretary | 20. Pavel Autonovich YATSXCY = Attache | , 21, Viadimir PORSHUNCY ~ Code Clerk | 43, Gennadly STROCAZOY | Radio Cperator | 13. Hikolay Petrovich SLAVAOyY — = cede ‘Gers (414. Vladimir RCMANCHZSKO oe a ~ Second Secretary | 15. Lev Fadorovich — | ~ ages Commerciat 16. Oleg Yaksimevich NACHT 5: = Yice Consvl | . | “17. Sergey Semyonovich XU: f Second secretary; so : 18. Hikolay Sergeyevich LEOHOV |. gph ootary oO 7 SEORET oo OE No FOREIGN ass ee | coca oz Cory NO. __
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIAITED oe ™, CECH] : SE cr”) a a Cathe o& | 23 JULI. | MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Loe Rankin | General Counsel - | President's Commission on tha Assassination of Prealdent Nennedy. _ SUBJECT: LeetHarvey Oswald yp alr ae 3 i. Myr. James: . a Friday and requeated that. CLAS pignels® of your ataff phoned me last urnish the Cormmission with an affldavit reapecting tho orlain’ ad circumstances of a pnotocraph . | of an uaicnowna Tadividual wi ich was furnished by Hise Agency to - ON nae aw. aN Ze or ateg an affidavit with thio memorandum which 7 rust willl satisfy your needs. Hecause of the extrema. sensitivity of the source Involved, I have refrainsd from adding further detalla,. oe 3. Che Central Intelligence Agoncy recommends that.” this chotograph not be reproduced in the Commission's report,. because it would jeopardise a moet confidential and productive operation, In addition, it could be embarragsing to tha indie . vidual involved who as far as this Agoncy is aware, had no ’ connection with Lee Harvey Oawald or the: sasossination of ' President Kennedy. 4, in view of the above, a sensitivity a indieatox has bee _alfilxed to this communleation, “Attachment ~a/s_ . MMe rat ey Pree ao a Richard Helms , Deputy Dircctor for Plana em, /SEGRET ~ PROKIGITED = PAGE 160 of O12 | COPY NO.
REPRODUCTION ——- PROEIBITED a —  QEBEET - | | ab inal tie A . Distribution: Orig & 1 © Addressce 2-DDP “A . 1 - CI/R&A/Oswald 20k S 1 « CI/R&A/Dooley »~ 1 = .WH/ Whitton ~ CI/R&A/Dooleytpma- Wor? 22 July 1964. enfant Gi uithe PROMIBITED
13-00000 S "REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED t on SECRET ( EYES QHLY [ i } 20 February 1964 SUBJECT: Documents 5 Available in OSWALD's 201 File * a ce ~ . ON \ Sy? lL A machinglvting of décuthents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201 file waXhequested and is attached. The actual machine work of this type $s 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, ~ 3. Machine inquiries ‘for the location of these documents have not been made. oo mo yt neni BBO ie _ o Ly ye : ~ Dacument Number wat Se 5 for FOIA Review on YUN 1976 SrORET EVES ONLY
13-00000 . 4 a Would ula you please be goad enough to tele~ Tye! : _ Phone me on Monday, 9 March, yas assum youwill. have ae Ber entty ta ey ae : No | ; Mee Je oat mene this materials» wet REPRODUCTION PRONIGITED. 6 March 19a, a a | 062036. "PAGE 163 « of 912 COPY N
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROIBITED ¢/-/2.2 f XAAZ- 2259S & Mar 64 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr, J, Lee Rankia ‘sation in CIA's £& Sossession _-. >, \Brior to November 22, 1 363 a es range, theol _ _ te hl earren Led ALA Ee, Le . ed . a \ a This refers to your letter of February ab’ 196% acetal nse Directer of Central Intelligence which has been passed to me for reply, 42. Paragraph three of your letter requested the Azency to suoply the Commission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding Lee Parvey COWALD prior to Movember 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footacte on rage two of CIA's revert to the Commission dated 31 January 1964, entitled: “Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey CSWALD in Mexico City, 23 Sep= ternber » 3 Cctover 1963", bere is sees aa exact. t reproduction af the dossier carries the security classification af Secret aad consists of thirty documents’arranged in chronological order, Cn the basis of clearances from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State, the Depaztment of Mavy, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service: who were queried by us after the receipt of your lettex,” wevare able to make available exact copies of all materials in an file up to early Cctober 1963, These include: oe Document Number _590- 935, ae vet FLEETS. 55 008, OF OF gyre cae ae for FOIA Revie on JUN 197607 FN | 7 ATT. “| ARROG BITY tar ae “NO 6 Mor bE C0G2037 RePRROUCTI | ag Ek ate
13-00000 ug ee REPRODUCTION: PRORIONTED a, Seven documents received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Be fen documénts received from the Department sae document (a name check request) Gora the Immigration and Naturalization Service. e, Four newspaper clippings, £, Five internal CIA notes, ANN ge GIA report dated 3r saacaby 1964 to the Gommission which covers all sunstantive: developmenta aiiecting CIA. in the matter ot Lee Harvey CSwaALp from 9 Octoser to 22 Nove 1963. The report, indicated the disseminations a . of infor mation: developed by: ‘ClAtHat were saade to other Federal agencies during that period, This itera, 25 was ‘pointed ont at time, is particularly sensitive and bears - appropriate se Su Wity indicator 3. °. =. You will note that almoet all of the documents carry tmazkings required for CIA's internal records processing, A few of the papers contained the rames of our employees or identifications ef specific organizational components, We have taken the liberty of blocking out these items as they do ast bear on the substance of the Commission's request, Richard Helms Deputy Director for Flaas é.ttachment Original & 2 ~ Addressee ~ Le C/Cr/sic.... 1 «= DDP Subject.” - C/CI/R&A '1-DDP Chronos. {GPT law C/WH/3 1 C/CI Grr 2014289248 CL:RGR occardc/7468/4 March 1 ee (Inventory of documents contained in file attached a ° . 7 20!- 239245. PROETED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWISITED Inventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded vod /2, av v3, * M4, et, sr Hb wv Ht6 8, + Se ~ “il, % /14. a4 AS. « AY - 3, ATT. | Te: _ eAUETO - State Instruction A-273, April 13, 1961 (OUO) - 6, State Telegram Now 1304, October 31, 1959. (Confidential) YY Newspaper. Azticle. from the W sehing ton Post, November 1, 1959 ° cy, LSN’ Internal Note. dated 2 _ November 1959 (oral FBI name . qeee request} and. NR reply dated 4 November 1959 (c confidential) —~ olga Service Despatch 234, November 2, 1959 (Confidential) / x State Telegram 1358, November r 9, 1959 (Confidential) + State Telegram 1448, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) a Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959 ‘ems maaan C ~ . to the Gommission i | Newspaper Clipping from Evening Star, November 26, 1959 DBY 49478, 45 5 May 1960 (Confidential) ~ — Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated cirea a May 1960 | (Confidential) Sen tad Letter from the ‘Department af Stata. (Curnming) to DDP (Bissell) dated October 2s, 1960, (OD/P 0-5679 « Secret} | DDP RB ves neuae to maqueprie) 3 21 November 1960 (DD/P 0-6003 - - ‘Sacret) Internal CIA Request for Opening of 201 file, $ December © 1960 (Secret) eee ee State Memorandum of Conversation dated January 26, 1961 (OUO) / / Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 (OUO} . Foreign Service Despatch 29, July ll, 1961 (OU0} . DFB 2181, July 13, 1961 (Confidential) - XAAZ- asas 83 bry oo | 7 PAGE 166 of QL. COPY NO. = — PROMIBITED
| _ Sern ne an ab CLASSIFIED MESSAGE °C | tte ioe fl S/BE/G RENO Inox -RYBAT SECRET He = - card ; 2° o¢ ( FILE IN CS FILE NO. pee * =p —s ~ < hd " a . " 40: : Fant ig di2 <3 #ERLIN FRANKFURT j . . FROM: DIRECTOR _ CfvH he vn ; an a . | ae DEFERRED meo : Ct, D/OCI, DDP, ADDP,-C/c1,c/ei/si, VR | yf a oo 70 } BALN . : aan FRAN | pst "CITE DIR | 9 9 79 Bo oo. . PELAT GPFLOOR - | RE: BRUNSI67 (IN soses) * x SS pr SL woe . . . SF o , - INVIE! AB CONNECTION MARINA OSWALD HEADQUARTERS . DVRS’ ~) 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 cinernatographic 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 s long range asset in Morgee - « RECorns OFF IC. The er ER STaup ‘ " ores n tng 2 ac uB6 “FH cs copysstersee et: vgn te, CLASSIFICATION REVIEW CONDUCTED on_2 9 5 HA ¥ ch E_—IMPOET CL BY_224 07 document Number bs! _ | ‘gs FOIA Review on RAY i978 -D-200-5-41 _ ee . : Lite wa rena fetes Te ree DC/CI : Lin, t. L Z : Wika COORDINATING OFFICERS - GROUP 2 - | Excluded feom automatic |. on nef: -- RELEASING OFFICER © Soumadingag to _AUTHENTtoaTING: . : :§  Geelassification 7 iCER REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED..- - °_ Copy No, | RePOAOUCTION gg gt PROGISITED.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED U - Sino. anon | “XAAZ~- 2ace D Uf | Ut MEMCRANDUM FOR: Mr, J. Lee Rankin . - SUSBIZCT: ES *3 on Activities and Travel at wt _ ME sina fizolawna CSWALD as ee: Beas ‘Toe af Pa * OS : te Liles ees, Cc: = man s see ote ae OA, me tee dated, 12: z February eed, and the second para- graphot y memoéramium of 16 March 1964, relative ¢ to dicsemisatigos inforrmation made by SILA to the Seer | Servica, 2o immediately after the assassination of Presiient wennedy CLA undertook te assembie through its stztions in Europe all avaliable data, including information in the ies of other governments and intelligence services, on the traveis and activities of Les Harvey OSWALD and Marina Mikolevma OSWALD, This, information, as lt was collected, was made available to the White House, the. Department of _ State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Copies of these messages wersalso Sent’ to the Secret Services 3, Attached to this \Getnorandum are exact copies of two teletyped mesaages relative to the travels and activities | af tna CSWALD= (Attachments A and B}). Paragrapas g and h of Attachment C are paraphrased, In Attachment C, OUT Teletype No, 85715, are foumi references to two other tele- typed messages (OUT No. 85182 and OUT No. 35665) which ~ describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON, a negro jose ro anise | | fe ult rm Tharp pene RESTRIC] c D TO cred SEL NA Vo mayroy vigg 10} | -) 2) 3G 4equiny) juownoog “00242 . “PAGE 169 212_
13-00000 ‘REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED now residing in Switzerland who has been active in the Fair lay for Guba Committee, Paraphrases of No, 35132 and No. 85665 are included aa Attigoments Dawl=E, Access ta ovigival texts of paraphrased: te elns will be provided whan members of your staif visit: ‘Eangley. The information on which paragraphs ¢ and bof Attachment C ars based was received at CLA oom November and dissemi- rated on ca November. “ we | ‘This, mi@merandum and the attachments contain very sensitive t fgrinati ton which has a direct bearing on sources and = 8, An appropriate sensitivity | indicator Las therefore been aifixed, . Richard Neims Geputy Director for Plans Attachments« as stated Distribution: ow : 4, Original & 2 » Addressee wiattacs Se . . | 1 = DDP Chrono watts)» ; 1-~DDP subjecf'w/atts aa = Mr, Rocea. watts | — : ~ c/caisic w/atts:: SAN, i - ote” | SRE CI/R&A/TRHall/6664/26 March 1964 re PROGIBIMED
13-00000 - ~ REPRODUCTIO:! PROWIBITED fg] Teletype message, OUT No. 96702, dated 4 December 1353, tiled at 1411 hours, to the Whites House, the Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service, aN ; oY Attachmert A ! | | | SUBJECT; Lee Harvey OSWALD a OS Records of the forsigners records office of the German E Federal: Republis in 2 Seogze) Germany, show that Marina | Niksiay _ a CSWALD crossei West Germany from East G Geemiany to to Holland on 3 June 1962, _ She traveled by rail, cruesing into West Germany at “Helmetedt on 3 June ami enter<_ ing Holand by rail at the Bentheim crossing point, She had | West German visa 694/62 issued at the ‘¥ est Germany Embasay in Moscow,. She listed her final cestination as Ue S.A. Gorament: This confirms infarmation £s Tom. the U.S. ‘Embassy ia Moscow to the effect that the CWA LS family. traveled from Moscow to Rotterdam by rail around 3 Jone on 1962. Helmstedt and Bentheim are oa the ; main z sail routs from Russia to Rotterdam. While Lee CSWALD himeelf and their infant daughter are not recorded‘ ‘in German. records this is probably because little attention is : paid to U.S, citizens and to infants in n keeping travel records, cts ey hep T $0 4 i ; i , : ; reny Wwe 5 | ATT 3 mo fo Ger [ Se nae 28 25 IA TS | POKNBTTED Be
13-00000° ‘REPRODUCTION PROSIITED ; | ot - | 7 Teletype message, TUT No, 87520, dated 6 December [£553, Ziled at 1829 hour 8, to the “i! hite House, the Denartrnernt of Pom & f9 68 aE R cr) & et ¥ Ai & 4 » - rN es | = “Reference is made/to our OUT telegram No. 36792 of, ae on Bavecner 1963-which gave information on tlie travel of As nn sarlek(cBiVALD {and presumably alse Lee rarer ALD avd their daugnter) acrosa West Germany on their return irom the Soviet Union, Information aow available & om Puts! ) authorities seems to confirm this, On 3 Juna 1962 ome mM. COSVALD, Hsted as a male Russian citizen, ertered The Netherlands by train at the Oldenzaal. boider point. Gomroext; te. is believed that the isting of this person asa mele instead oi female was o just! aa error of the border officials, Note that Oldenaial i is ppposite Bentheim, the German border point where Marina OS) ALD teft Germary. _ | | bo ELE i ROT DPTED ET ATT. 2 t: “Xan2- 22¢0!, 7 | . | ate ores “SEEM
REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED Attachovent S faistebenanentantaeanaaans Teletype message No. 85715, dated 29 November 1963, filed at 1340 hours, tothe White Houge, tha Department of State acd the Foderal Bureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret _ | Service, . aa | oe ei a  & 9 Cetober 1959: According tore iiicial | British travel records CS¥“ALD arrived ia _ po | Southampton this date claiming on his land card that he bad no fixed address but plannedtoremain in the United Kingdom ona week for vacation before | going on to 'some school" in Switzerland, (Head- quarters comment: or cheachy referring to the Albert Schweitzer College {a Switzerland with which | he is known to have been ia errespondence.) | i - io. October. 1959: According to the same official British. travel records CSWALB leit Lonion “Ss this date by air for Helsinxi, © OO 301 . 23 , oo 1249 “De TT 3 ot. XAAZ- RIG 6:
13-00000 te Co Cetoher 1959: Stockholm newspaper, BDazens Nyheter, | ‘of 25 November 1563 states Lee CS*tVALD A, -passed ta gh ee during Cctober 193}. . Article po “Sates, aia tas VALD was unsuccessiul in obtaining | ving ne USSR in Helsinki which resulted in his - : \ returning ta Stockholm, Two days after be arrived RY. ) : Stockholm OSWALD traveled directly to Soscows co ae aN, Conciuding sextence cf article states 'T his. SBlzates ao - . that the Russian Smbassy (Stockhoizo Grea a via, " According to a reliable source nS a astecg ont . that there was any request for a USSR visa NS aaoed through normal channels for CSWALD at any time - “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 tancinsion which | can be drawn is that CS. WALD rust have received his visa diz ectly £ fromthe Soviet - A: an a“ Embassy i in Sfocithoim, which occasionally is done ia ST vo . special caste bat the source. had no evidence to confirm . this assumption, . , a2e
REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED / d. 10to15 October 1953: & ccording toa very: a reliable wae Saxeioniy, sDasitive source COVALD stayed | a Wc a7 - at the Torni ‘Hotet i in 2 Hlaiakt fom 19 to 11 October and | _ t i mownt to ‘the land ‘Kurki Hote i where he stayed 3 115: Citeber, “agparcatly waiting for 2 visa ta be isswed bim by the Soviet | Consulate in Helsinki, He ee eae oe . | traveled to the USSR by train, croasing at Vainikkala on 4 \5 Gctober, ' a! 4 e. 13 May 1962: According toa Dutch official source, the Deteh Gharge ia Moscow: isouad a transit S) visa. to OSWALD 's wife on 13 sid 2962, The - pedords w reveal his wife was barn on 17 July oe of 19 Jaly 1941 and in Severotivins instead of Minsk, There is no record of her having actually transited ‘The Netherlands, | £, 1962: Official British records do not reflect ‘that OSWALD returned to the United States from the Son through the United singe However, if he were merely transiting, 1 it would not bave been ‘neceasary for ‘him to fill ott a, landing card, and therefore there would be no record of hia travel in i the official traffic intlest, ae PRO:MIBITED
13-00000 . REPRODUCTION PROKISITED reliable source, on 23} ‘Novigmbex Mavia SNET HLAGE, ake? head of the; 1 ferkgroup Informatie Cuba" (Workgrou — Inforiation Cubes told  Saremployes of the Cuhan ye = ( gs 1983: According te an extremely sensitive and | | that Mr, ‘LEE is Havazra, who did the murder", .She | described nim as 2 man of violence and entirely full of | hate and imdicated that it was possible that this man had | been misused by a group, She said she tad written to | 'GISSON" about the bad impression she had had of this : LEE, (Headquarters comment: Please vefer to cur teletype Nos, 85182 and 25665 for additional information on GISSON,) Later, SNETHLAGE told Castro Cubans in The Hague that "Mr, LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee“ had been slandered and that it was another person named Lee CS¥ALD who had done it, SNSTHLAGS seemed to be glad to have heard this ‘correct" version, (Headquarters comment: Mr, LEX may be identical with - | | Vincent Theodore LEE who replaced Richard GISSGN as Head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee,) PROWIBRTED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROBED b, According to retahle (mation SNETRLAGE was in Cuba in Jassuary L 3635. 2 according to an official ., ae ~ ' Dutch source, She again ts traveled focus for the May Day celebrations & 1988, Se a . , . . K” | : pal PROBED i a { LON Coe CEC pags 2 177 212 coPY NO. — ———
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED. 20 Attachment D vg Teletype No, $5132, dated 22 November 1963, filed at 1932 hours, to the White House, the ‘Degartment of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,. with copy ta the Secret Service, (naraphrase} 1, In conversatica with a close friend in Bern, — .e eee oe eee LR EE Re A OOO ep gr Eh DEE Switzerland, on 23 Novernper 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON ~’ _ hte remarked that OSWALD is ‘one of us", OSWALD and GISSON | had correspended two years previously, aud: os; YALD. had joined the Committee, (Comment: Reference \jeSaumably to the Pair Play for Cuba. Committee, } GIBSON added that he . “SO had destreyed all his. letters from CSWAILD, CSWALD is of a crazye. cisscatthen remarked ae he is happy that he was. net in neg te 3 | He felt sory "tor 'LEZ” in New York and - Sor for Piss ar _ 2, The information given above was supplied by en ~ extremely sensitive source who is usually reliable, 3. According to other information that was available, : ‘Richard Thomas GIBSON, born 3 May 1931 in Les Angeles, California, i is a negro Jourmatis who has been active in the BF flap _ /%6; 2.6: -297249 m2. AA £3 He) ATT. Te, bana ance “eum oe
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PRORIBITIED - lane a -—— —_ Yair clay for Cuba Committee sin 1}60. He SAS ras ithe, since April 1953 at onic In thia latter | country cEsoMhaay spied inthe publication of La | Revolstion Ve Gatnes i le a3 2 e RU aa | | | | SM oma gy rams: ed wa d ~2- PROMIBITED ROI 257248 — €82C52 * page 179 oe 212 | COPY NO.
REPRODUCTION PRORIBITIED ~, by Attachment E Teletyze message, CUT No, 35565, 23 Novermber 17953, filed t 1826 hovrs, the White Houst, the Department of State and the Federal Sureau of Investigation, with copy to the Secret Service, (paraphessed} a a ye - wat ° i. = en Hague bas reported that on - 23 Novermer 1963, a local Castroite named Maria SNETHLAGS | teld Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Exbasay in The Hague that she knew the "Mir, LEE" (sic) who murdered President Kennedy, She described "LEE" as a man full of hate nat and violence, and speculated that he fad. been rmisused 7 oy a gzoup", Ghe said she bad ve fiten toG i3SON {umdocbtedly . 7 D) Rickard GIBSON, ee gittzen, of. Lausanne, 5 Switzerland, born ge sa Mlay 1935, a Castro OO Netherlands recectly and had been in contact beth with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy). 2, Later that same day Maria SCNETHLAGE told Secretary SANTOS that “Mr, LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee! ned Deen slandered, The assassin had been another person, Lee OSWALD. SNETHLAGE is reported'ta have been in Cuba Cy oa C1 REPRODUCTION TE ea