04-10015-10359 | Ui bl UNCLASSIFIED it [] CONF) ATIAL [-] SECRET \ a o ri): dN A | | | = ba ~~ ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET SUBJECT: (Optiozal) FROM: = v4 A Ws F423 OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom fo wham. Draw a@ line across column after each comment.) YO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) Rau RECEIVED | FORWARDED 1 TPZ 6 MAR t975 toe Dy . Document Number 130-599 for FOIA Review on APR to7¢ } ane ont! on RAL /P? V4 CLASSIFICATION REVIEW CONDUCTES ov 4 MAY 1976 E__IMPDET CL BY_O/ 220% L FORM 6] 0 USE PREVIOUS scat mons [] SECRET  [_] CONFIDENTIAL [(] {NTFRNAL =) UNCLASSIFIED ™,
13-00000 Bo. eet “4. . . . ee ' 2h November 1963. ns 1. Our. first information on OSWALD came from a technical It operation in Mexico City and was cabled in on 9 October 1963. revealed that on 1 October 1963 Lee OSWALD had been in touch there with Soviet Consul Valery KOSTIKOV about a telegram which the Soviet Enbassy was supposed to send on him to the Soviet Embassy in Washington. The data showed that OSWALD had also been at the Soviet Embassy on 28 September. Traces showed OSWALD was a former U. S. defector to the USSR and on 10 October CIA Headquarters notified the FBI, State and the Navy (OSWALD had been a Marine). Our Mexico Station 4 By was told to pass its information on OSWALD to the Mexico City offices of the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Embassy. Since our Agency is not supposed to investigate U. S. citizens abroad without special request, we did nothing further on the case. 2. After the assassination of President Kennedy on 22 November, Mexico Station, which immediately recalled its earlier report on OSWALD and cabled us about it, begen researching all its files and records for reports which might relate to him. It turned up pictures of a man - believed to be OSWALD entering the Soviet and Cuben Embassies on various days in October, including 1 October, but when some of these pictures were sent to the FBI in Dallas they proved to be someone other Document Number 130-592, APR 1976 for FOIA Review on CLASSIFICATI REVIEW ‘ 4 MAY 197 CONDUCTED ON — wb ov 63 E__IMPDET CL BY OL ZOE 201-289 248
13-00000 VA CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROSRARi a IN FULL 1995 than OSWALD. Mexico Station has, to date, found no pictures of OSWALD entering the Soviet or Cuban Embassy. . 3- The search did reveal more data from technical operations, however. This information, which comes in in great masses, had not been previously associated with OSWALD because his name is not actually memtioned in it, but the subject matter shows it is about him, and our expert monitor says the voice is identical with the | voice of 1 October known to be OSWALD's. 4, his further technical information covers a round-robin of telephone calls and visits which OSWALD made to the Soviet and Cuban | Embassies in Mexico City between 27 September and 3 October 1963. This has peen supplemented by reports on his travel in and out of Mexico | obtained by the U. S. Consulate in the border town of Nuevo Laredo from. Mexican Immigration Service records. 5. In brief, all this information shows that Lee Harvey .OSWALD entered Mexico (apparently by car) at Nuevo Laredo on 26 September 1963, claiming he was a photographer, living in New Orleans and bound a eae an A tN for Mexico City. On 27 September he was in Mexico City phoning the Soviet Embassy to ask for a visa so he could go to Odessa, USSR. On 28 September, he was at the Cuban Embassy, and Silvia DURAN, a Mexican Employee of the Cuban Embassy, telephoned the Soviet Embassy about his | problem. It seems that OSWALD (whose name is not mentioned) wanted e Cuban transit visa so he could go to Cuba and wait there for a Soviet
13-00000 ee CAL Rey EW had travelled on a Mexican Tourist Card in lieu of passport. 9. On 23 November 1963, Mexican authorities »[ no get the same _ technical information which we do who had noticed the name of Lee OSWALD in it, arrested Silvie DURAN and her husband and interrogated them. She confirmed the information given above, saying that Lee OSWALD had professed to be a Communist and an admirer of Castro. She and her husband are being held incommmicado and their arrest will not be made known, for the time being. 10. Observation of the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico and. of their principal intelligence officers, including KOSTIKOV, since the assassination of President Kennedy, by both technical and physical surveillance, shows nothing unusual. 11. Mexican President Lopez Mateos is aware of this cad and of | J He will doubtless support any further police action which is necessary.