14-00000 seoR ET associated with the assassination, but he did say he was sure we had a file on the man. He asked {f he could have the photographs, and [ asked hdw he could use then, -He said he did not know and finally agreed that for the time being he would not press “his request’. Lae The whole. meeting was extreme ly friendly and they thanked. us for our response." The following is extracted from the Memorandum of Recérd - by the other CIA man present, Mr. Arthur E. DOOLEY. "Mr, FENSTERWALD said he knew who the person was and had spoken to him; that the man was tco . fervous to cane forth dn his own, FENSTERNALO ae would not give the man's name but said he is an ° American, serving a prison term in this country on a criminal charge, and that he had met OSWALD in Mexico. J asked whether the prisoner had any conspiratorial relationship with OSWALO. FENSTERWALD replied he did not know the answer as he had not interviewed the man as yet. We reiterated that we did not know who the man was, and said that we would like to knaw his identity; FENSTERWALD replied that CIA has a 39 SECRET Seem ~e . 4 an : Rae RET EE Stee unre F om > CTE 8 PRETO TS ter eRe AE EE o moe oa a IL PoE TP ERR SORTED - FEO RRES 20 = BE ID at as Fee Nena nee te re ea onan + $ a re
Se CRL ET thick file on the unknown man. and that we will be furnished his name in due course 2...” Mr. FENSTERWALD made no reference in his subsequent . | "Ay conversations and correspondence to this allegation about the identity , of the “Unidentified Individual,” though the claim, if true, would : be of direct evidential interest and possibly permit us to assert en fo . >. with finality what we belfeve has been the fact from the beginning: the “Unidentified Man" has nothing to do with the OSWALD case at all. : Attachment A: Memorandum by David W. Belin to Mr. E. Harry Knoche, . : “~ dated 15 April 1975, with attachment: “The CIA and ; . the Man Who Was Not Oswald” fron the New York Review of Books, by Bernard Fensterwald and George O'Toole. Attachment B: Pages 364, 365, and 667 from the Warren Comnission's report. ; SECRET
14-00000 4 WON GES CUS ARG EM GED OMG GEEES Gad Wasa taa, DO ied A UMAEDS siaiy fle peerteee PY sce Pere week Camara bees "as ae tb, LOTS : Apetl . Larnnitess . TS LA . 1 bh, Sheaaan, fe. . Mr. FE. Henry Knoche Assistant to the Director Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. . Deac Mr. Knoches As you. know, Lea Harvey Oswald was in “Mexico City in late SeptemBse and early October, 1963. Shortly after he left Mexico city a-photograph was taken Of an American male and a question was raised whether or not this male was Lee Harvey Oswald. ‘fhe CIA and the Warren Commission both determined that the picture was not of bee. Harvey Oswald and that the picture was takon after Oswald left Mexico City. Although portions of this record have been roleased to the - ; public, other portions have romualned classified because Lo, of concerns by the CLA at tho time that a release of the _ €ull picture might. disclose sourees and metheds which the CIA felt were not in the netional interest to disclose at that time. In light of tha false alleqations about the assassination of President Kennedy and the false allegations o£ CIA involvement, I feel thet it: would be appropriate to reconsider whether or not the entire matter can be fully disclosed at this time. XY would Like to receive by April 22 a full report from the CLA on this entire matter. Sincerely yours, 00 pavia G. Belin Executiva Director ale LeeF we n: ug