10410050023 Ge, OAL * wee ge . wae L Hi . Mr. Stern "March 27, 19h FRO : §&. A. Stem 5 er EEE AES EDEN Oe EDA Vt it id ii : 7 -gunseen: | CIA File on Oowala "oD - Today, Friday, March 2T, , 196%, T Met at CIA headquarve: vs with Me. Rocca to review the CIA file on Lec Harvey Oswold. The file -eonteins those materials furaished to us previously by CIA. In eddition, 1t contains the following materials: a. Cable reports from the CIA station in Mexico of oresber 22 and 23, 1953 relating to photographs of a person who hed visited | the Cuban and Soviet Erbassics in Moxico City during Octobcr and ; bo Novoriber.1953; and reports on these cables furnished on Kovomber 7 foo 23 by CIA to the Secret Service. These messaces are accurately oi pausphraced in the attachments to the CIA memorandum of March 2h, Poo 15d (Conn ssion Document 7674). , >. Cable of October 10 from CIA Horsico City station to CIA headquarters reporting on Oswald contact at Soviet Embassy, and Octoter 10, 1963 message from CIA headquarters to Mexico City stavlon or background information on Oswald. Whese messages are eccurately xeported in the CIA memorandum of January 31, 1964. ' - I did not review any materials lIster than Novexber 23, 1963. svwald documents in the CIA electronic data storage system. There was no ite: listed vaich we have not been given either in full text. or paraphrased. When I evidenced an interest in the CIA olectronic data processing system, bir. Rocca sald that he would arrange a detailed explanation at a future visit. . _ - RECORD ne COPY | nara moras mba ‘ - ~ ee ea pee cage pe ce ee ae orem ee tt cement unger ssopscprmite an ee oe epee eee i | | | oo | - Mr. Rocea also showed me the "printout" of the references to . | | 20/- 028 7298 cory NO+ = eee Nak Re ee eae REE Ge eeereete va sete tee dene lata stn ene nent bo ae ee ee
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION ‘MEMORANDUM FOR: Mer. ds Leo Rankia - * SUBIRCT: ' "nfrmaton Dewahped by Ce wa the | i. This roters to you letter of February 1, 1664 t te indormation fapwarded i by this Agency segarding - the axtivity af Lee Hecven OBRALB in Mezice City during the poried Septersber 23 to Ortaber 3, 1965, 2 The second paragraph of your letter raises a question with regard to reports on curren’ avpects of fayestigation in Mexico, of concerning Meuicen leads in the OSWALD cage. . Gpeciitcally, that paragraph eeema to refer te speculative tuformation provided the White House by Josa l, LASAGA - which erligineted with Salvador DIAZ VERSON. CIA has a nothing to add to the detailed imvestigntion of this mastter 9 =? conivueted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, We . assume that the Commission is already in possession, or SER be in the near fotares, of the details of the onteonce of we CIA te cooperating very cloabiy Ah ear iathe I dovelogmment of ancther Mentcan lead, 25 is orobably already. known to the Commission, Hie the coarse af this epoperation, CIA develops original, substantive rontenial, i: te bail intepsion 0003873,
s,s Fes Jollowing weplies ave heyed to the numeration of ke We ave net ina position to supply copies of telegrams sent between the Soviet Embassies ia “Washington and Mexice CRy, | & Treneiebions of tte tween police iervegation — reporte.of Slivia DURAN are being forwarded to the Comminsion under saparabe cover. ; to report the details to the comuntonton concer BR ever ig made available to the Commission by thal Fh Lk “AS, eon las the evymience: oa hand, we Gednee that OW ALO visited ihe Coban Cotsalate la Mestee City on she, atternoon af 27 September 1963 ami again some thee wal 23 ¢ Segtember © °63, Vhers is ae evideure that he waited it moore’ cites chan sace on the days mentioned, bet wom. Soest, , exchuie cho es _posatb lites. The vere meane that OSWALD was et the Consulate at least once efter his initial vielt, and that this inter visit was an the sfternoun of a day on which the Cuban Coeaul tale~ phoned the Seviet Consulate about OS¥VALDs visg problem, This inmy wel} heave been 26 September, bis we canact be certain of this conciusion, ae We do not know whether Cobas Consalate which Svs DURA mtions toto oe ate ee | oe Paco nent TT nnes we the pedbelte Sanneein of Prepidest Kenaaily, teed a) 7H a é 2 cory 7°78 | og035t | , _ PAGE 6-37. COPY NOe _s
13-00000 . Sars UgcayT ite : 5, We do not think & would be iasemonial 3 foe sibeia DURAN to tell OSWALD he could not ave 4 cea, : an évanalt vise unlese he first got a Soviet visa. ack © frank atatements are quite common in consular practice, as far as we know, 6. We believe theh Silvia DURAN's ststement that 7 7 OSWALD knew no one ie Cuba meant Mterally that, and this would mean that uo one there could sponeer hina, vouch for him, or inswre thet he would not become 6 public charge. Gn the other hand, the remark of the ° no pravinus record of OSWALD, ab least in Mesico, if a Boe , idee the Soviet official wes telling the truth, x eescag tegen oats da aan Bari Ne %, 9.- Vercannot'hereure what OSWALD meant by his - Woocsn: to hia uidttes, He wer to Mexico while ke Was, moviag bis tamliy-crem New Orleans to Tenas, and he may have acquired a new Tenses forwarding address in the process which he gave first to the Cuban Consulate, . Shen misiaid or forget, and finally recovered from Cuban. Consulate {tles se he could pase it te the Soviet Consulate, 3 could alse he that he was talking about his Mexice City hotel address which he might have maonechay By foxgotton while af the Soviet Consulate, % The Cuban Consulate and Cubea Embassy is Mexico Gity are seperate offices located in separate ne balldinge that stand on adjecent inte separated by a Po Gyubas official parking ict. mora Etroetevant the Eiekesay : _ & corner a8 Marques sad Zamora Ctreete ust the Embassy _ ait is af 160 Marques Street, ‘fhe i: ovint Exionany onl 4 oT al he Consulate are both located in ai cate mangion with Hao | 1A Ni connected outbuildings, F 8 im sy) mia te vis H on | 20, We scr mive that the veferene.i vey A sil 7 Novetsher letter to.9 sen who Red since been replaced — 435 "py  COEY NOe | 3
13-00000 ned 7 a munt refer to Cuban Consul Eusedio AZGUR, il Fr a Mexico for Cuba en permanent transfer |BANS we 1963, four days before the assassination, “Reus Haul Cl been in Mesice fer eighteen years and it was known to us as sarly ap September 1963 that AZCUE wastebe  ‘vepisced, His replacement did arrive in Sentember, AZGCUE wae scheduled to leave in October but dil net leawe until 19 November. We do net mow who might have told OSWALD that a AZCUE or any other Cubans had been or was to be replaced, by, — but we speculate that Silvia DURAN ay some Soviet official 2 . : - mnight have mentiaiie i if COWALD | complained about ce } iC PRS sastticnal information om OSWALD's - Wel reser ‘This part of the raiiineiaea He # & Hi Hic ae HH i | . terough f for further informotion but none has been. ; developed, . Neither pro- nor extieGASTRO persons or groupe have produeed what we regard a9 hard infsrmation. i2e We can ouly guess why Silvia DURAN deveribed OSWALD as ablomie, Forhepa his complecion seemed | . hight to her, compared with that of mos? Latin Americans, \ When she was arrested, she had not seen OSWALD for Pc ams en oe about two months, but apparenthays a blonde in her Consular recordin ‘Distribution: Original & Z « Addressee LeDDP prepared by C/WH/3.) . 4 . ~ ee _— - — ; ~- 9903576) ae - es | : :
1300000 CLASSIFICATION SECRET/RYBAT ——-,- PROCESSING ACTION MARKED FOR INDEXING NO INDEXING REQUIRED ONLY QUALIFIED DESK - ovens mame PR ' Chief of Station, Mexico City on MICROFILM SUBJECT ne  BRTEAFFY ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Please transmit the attached envelope to Fletcher M. KNIGHT only. 7 ~  Witlara G, CURTIS _ Distribution: 3- WH, w/att CROSS REFERENCE TO . DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER ; DATE : - HMMA~22390 . 25 October ae _ CLASSIFICATION : , ; HQS FILE NUMBER oO f— COPY NOe ee ee: nous5tt. - - fo? Fitere prpeeratagragctine waeiee a ae epee pe paler agate lier cman mrgane On Shana ar an rman earner nns reich 8 ec an tt an ra ee eA ere ERECT OST AONB Fee