JFK Assassination System . Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: CIA RECORD NUMBER: 104-10010-10249 RECORD SERIES: JFK AGENCY FILENUMBER:  201-289248 Document Information ORIGINATOR: «WC FROM: TO: TITLE: ACCESS RESTRICTED DATE: 04/21/1964 PAGES: 7 ; SUBJECTS : RESTRICTED DOC DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : — Consulted CURRENT STATUS: = Withhold DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 06/25/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : OSW15:V56B 1993.06.25.18:02:01:030250: THIS ITEM HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BECAUSE IT v9.1 DoclIda: 327107690 Page 1 CONTAINS SECURITY CLASSIFIED INFO OR OTHERWISE RESTRICTED INFO. DRAFT MEMO FOR THE RECORD.
AGENCY RECORD NUMBER ' RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO TITLE DATE : PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : _. RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST, REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS Date: 06/12/96 Page: 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION 'C104-10010-10249 201-289248 DOCUMENT INFORMATION WC SLAWSON, W. DAVID, WC MFR CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES IN MEXICO CITY 04/21/64 7 USSR EMBASSY CUBA EMBASSY TRANSCRIPT MEXICO CITY PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SECRET OPEN IN FULL OPEN , 06/25/93 OSW15:V56B 1993.06.25.18:02:01:030250: CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION ANDIOR * OF CIA INFOR IN THIS DOCUMENT — MATION bf a /'3 76 3/7119 JO: FID JOY — JOO/6 — UV D AE LY EW SHOE OE Deleted the Vara oe L) SO2GG ' 4 —Y a) a en/) a Ae PROCES f YO 712006 —/OLGF (cary om ZD DOCU FP? HL 7 AMF S DoclIda: 37107690 Page 2? Or AL4RE- - ITEM IS RESTRICTED
) . | DRAFTAMr Slawson/2i Apr 64 . “ ‘ . aT ae, : . 0 ‘ 7. Aetler MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD | 26 Dev 7S. 2] / y /t “FROM: | Ww David Slawson . | 7 SUBJECT: Intercepts from the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in | Mexico City _— The following ‘are my notes’ from reading the inter-. cepts. in question in ‘the American Embassy in Mexico Citys translated from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April 13, 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I. ‘could make them without actually quoting the entire ‘trans “ eripts. In a few instances, either where it was very important or where the meaning was obscure and therefore. difficult to paraphrase, I have quoted exactly. I have noted these portions by placing them 4m, quotation marks. . Septenber oT - “10: 37 a.m. A person who sounds like an American speaking poor Spanish, later identified as Lee Harvey, Oswald, telephones the Soviet Embassy . oe ~ OSWALD: May I. speak to the Consul? INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. Bn OSWALD: © I need some visas, in order. to. BO, to Odessa. INSIDE VOICE: “Please. ca 1 at i: 30. | a OSWALD: Until when? : ! en INSIDE VOICE: (Hangs up) | tts [3 "The Natio : od} action io the t this document. Ss nal Archives has soatoe § elease | Ol ee fate alee nae wat eee on nae me ee ere cere te ee oe ~ ET 20/- 0289298 Doclda: 327107690 Page 5
September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman! 8 voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, speaking from the Cuban Consulate, -ealis into the Soviet Embassy. — SILVIA DURAN: _ There is an American here who has requested an in- transit visa because he is going to Russia. - | | _ would like to know whom he spoke to at the Russian Embassy, because I sent him to you thinking if he got a Russian visa. ; that I could then issue him a Cuban visa without any more ‘processing. Who did he speak to? He claims he was told there = were no more problems. INSIDE VOICE: Wait a minute. (The inside voice « then explains to someone else on his ‘side of the line that Silvia Duran is. calling, that she is calling in reference to an American who : ‘says hi “he had. ‘previously been to the ‘Soviet | Embassy, etc.) | 7 ANOTHER INSIDE VOICE: Please leave -the name and. - 7 number and we will call you, ack. | SILVIA DURAN: ' (She leaves her name and her telephone mumber and’she then engages in’ some personal ‘conversation in regards to the fact that she has recently changed apartments and therefore would like the "bulletin" sent to her new address. The voice in the Soviet Embassy agrees.) ee ee eect a ne mate ns cer nen ee ee ae en ee ne RE fH te ptt ett Lane RTA re met Docld:32107690 Page 6
I - September 27 - 4:25 p.m. ; | "Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban Embassy. — - | . | oe | | - VOICE. FROM THE: SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of the Cuban Consul? VOICE AT THE CUBAN EMBASSY: Its/ 11-28-47. - September 27 - 4:26 p.m. _ Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones into the Cuban Consulate. The person answering the phone at the cuban. ‘Consulate is Silvia Duran. . ae RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Has the American been there? : SILVIA DURAN: ‘Yes, he is here now. . oe RUSSIAN, ‘EMBASSY: | According to the letter that he. | showed from the Consulate in Washington, he wants to go to. Russia to stay for a long time with his wife who is Russian. But we have received no answer from Washington, - and it will “probably take four to five months. We cannot ‘give a visa here without “asking Washington. He says he belongs toa pro-Cuban organization and the Cubans cannot give him a visa without his first getting a Russian visa. I do not’ know. what to do with him. ae have to wait for an. answer ‘from Washington. wee ee nal a cae ee nee ee nem Te cee ee ne a Tae eee tem ent gt ensmeenanetcn memento * DoclId: 327107690 Page 7
Lo SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows Se emt eee no one in Cuba and therefore its aifficult to give him a visa. He says. he knew it would take a long time to process the Soviet visa but hoped .to await that in Cuba. RUSSIAN EMBASSY: “he thing is that if his wife is now in Wash ington | ‘she will receive the visa for return to Russia. She will receive it and then can send it any place but right now she does not have it." . _ |. STEVIA DURAN: "Naturally, and.we can't give hima visa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be approved." | — . 7 | | | a RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "We can issue a visa only according - to instructions." eo | 7 oo . “SILVIA DURAN: "That is what I will put in my plans." "> RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "We can't give him-a letter of recom- oo - - mendation either, because we do not know him. Please pardon the. bother." | co ee 7 SILVIA _ DURAN: "No bother. Thank you very much." Septeiiber_ 28. - Li 51 a.m. Someong 2 at the Cuban Consulate later identified as te cn NR AE TRAE RE A A Et _Docld: 32107690 Page 6
ro SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he has been to the Russian Consulate. . me RUSSIAN CONSULATE: Wait a minute. - Silvia: Duran is then heard to speak “in English to. someone apparently sitting at hers “side. _ This conversation | goes as follows: | | on : "He said, wait. Do you speak Russian?" "Yes. 7 | - "Wy don't you speak to him then?" "I don't know’... " The person who was at the side of ‘Silvia Duran. and ‘who admitted to speaking some Russian then gets on the line and. speaks what. is described as “terrible, hardly ‘recognizable . _ ‘Russian." ' This person was later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald.’ - OSWALD: "y was in your ‘Embassy .and spoke to your Consul." . | a | _ RUSSIAN. EMBASSY: "what else do you want?" a OSWALD: wt was dust now at your Embassy and they took my address." | . ; . ce RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "I-know that." ements eee ten ne tte we = eeenenemneeennrmecnreninahen wee ds teens ee aim weer een ee a cre santa einementeranntaneetmyn sonar trae j. i , DocId: 32107690 Page 9
OSWALD: "I did not know it then. I went to the “Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, ‘because they have it." RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Why don't you. come by and leave it oe . then, we're not fare OSWALD: "Well, I'11l be there “right away." “ October 1 - 10:30 a.m. A person later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, “speaking in "Broken Russian," telephones into the Soviet pnbassy. OSWALD: "Hello. I was at your place last Saturday and talked to your Consul, They said they'd send a telegram to Washington, and I wanted to ask you, is there anything: new?" RUSSTAN EMBASSY: Call another telephone number, : if. you: will. “OSWALD: Please. RUSSIAN. EMBASSY: | 15-60- 55a and ask: for @ consul. . OSWALD: Thank Your - Fee EMBASSY: "Please." ~ October | lL : = “an: 30-.a.m. The same voice, still speaking : in broken, ‘Rissian, telephones the Russian Consulate. He speaks toa man identified =v teem nanennaneeteninerten antennae gene ttenr enn che ential , DocId: 32107690 Page 10
ore a | ig Copa as "Obyedkov.” OSWALD: Hello, this is Lee ‘Oswald. _I was at your - place: last Saturday. and talked to your Consul. They said _ wt send a telegram to Washington, and I wanted to ask you aa whether there was _ anything new, but I. cannot remember the name | of the Consul. _ ; . OBYEDKOV: "Kostikov. He is dark?" _ OSWALD: "Yes, My name is ‘Oswald. a — _OBYEDKOV: "Just a minute. I'dl find out. . They say they have not received anything yet. " OSWALD: "Have they done anything?" | OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent” out, “but nothing has been received yet. mo ~ OSWALD: “And what ...°" | 7 ") * OBYEDKOV: (Hangs up) ae en nena eet eee rea ee eee , DocId: 32107690 Page 11