NW 48327 Classification: LVS assification: sis as (This form is to be ised for material. extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) ~£5- (H}e was: persistent im asking for financial aid in order to leave the country. They were not about to give him any financial aid whatsoever. He had also mentioned that he tried the Cuban Embassy and they had also refused financial aid.337/ Mr. Boris Tarasoff. also testified before this Committee on 12 April 1978. «Mr. Tarasoff also recognized the. four transcripts from September 28, 1963 and October Ist and 3rd as his work:338/ Mr. Tarasoff testified that he recognized the 10/1/63 conversation as his work because the nane Lee Oswald was underlined. . We got a request frem the station to see if we can pick up the name of this person because sometimes we had a so-called “defector” from the United States that wanted to go to Russia and we had to keep “an eye on them. Not I -- the Station. _ Consequently they were very. hot about the whole thing. They said, “If you can get the name, rush it over immediately." Therefore, it is very seldom that I underlined the name because I put them in capitals. In this case I did because it was so important: to them. 339/ - Mr. Tarasoff testified that he did not know how Oswald had come. to the Station's attention prior to this conversation or what led to the request to get his name. 340/_. He speculated that it was possible Classification: ji) ; ’ Docld:32263839 Page 97
| gronry (This form is to ‘be used for moteriol extracted _ > a from ClA—controlled documents.) -86- that Oswald first came to the Station's attention through Oswald' s contacts with the Cuban Embassy. 341/ Mr. Tarasoff- did no‘. confirm his wife's recollection of another conversation including Oswald. 342/ ‘He said that he did not remember any other calls involving Lee dswald or any details of Oswald's conversations! that were not reflected in the transcripts. 343/ Although Ms. Tarasoff's memory was. not confirmed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations review. -of the transcripts for the period while Oswald was in Mexico, there are several points of circumstantial corroboration for her story. There was a procedure by which tapes could be er pedited in the manner in which Ms. Tarasoff recalls. 344) There are also indications that this procedure may have been used when Oswald's conversation wal. intercepted. 345/_ The first report that the Americans received regarding. Silvia Duran made mention of the fact that Silvia. claimed that she had. ‘told Oswald :hat- the only aid they could. give him was ‘to refer him to the Soviet Consulate. 346/ 2,02 a NW 48327 Docld: 32263889 | Page’ 98 “SI, SE SERRA. “GRA =P. Ga
Vi ae: ae ae ae cummin QrRary ee r (This form is to be ysed for material. extracted from ClA—controlled documents. ) -37- This statement in the original Mexican report given to the CIA in Mexico after the assassination would tend to add credence to Ms. Tarasoff's recollection that Oswald mentioned to the Soviets that he had also tried to elicit aid from the Cubans. 347/ At least one other CIA official who was in Mexico also remembers that Oswalc indicated in his discussions with the Soviet Embassy that he hoped to receive assistance with the expenses of his trip.348/ | Daniel, Stanley Wat:.on, a retired CIA employee who was Deputy Chief of Le Mexico City Station from 1967 [| told the Hoise Select Committee on | Assassinations staff that he had seen a.file on Oswald in Mexico City that contained only one or two intercept transcripts and surveillaice photographs of Oswald. 349/ Mr. Watson also told HSCA staff investigators that Win Scott had a private personal safe in which he maintained especially sensitive materiais.350/ According to Mr. Watson, these materials were removed from the safe a | Classified by derivation: I HW 48327 Docld:322763889 Page 99
PON PRA Tg ne Classification: ae eee ae (This form is to be «sed for material extracted @ from ClA—controlled documents.) -£8- by James Angleton at the time of Scott's death.351/_ This Committee requested access to any relevant materials from this safe or July 6, -1978.352/ Access was granted on October 6, 1978. Two statements by Mr. Scott contained in ihese materials lend circumstantial support for Ms. Tarasoff's testimony. In 1970 Mr. Scott wrote; | rene. Wh enna A Mower ”l had y experiences, some of which I can rite in detail. One of these pertains to Lee Harvey. Oswald and what I know (emphasis in original) of his activities from the moment F / he arrived in Mexico, his contacts by .; & telephone and his visits to both the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and his requests for. assistance from the:e two Embassies in trying to get to the Crime. with his wife and baby. During his conversa:ions. he cited a promise from the Soviet Embuissy in Washington that they -would notify their :mbassy in Mexico of Oswald's plan to as< them for assistance. 353/ In his unpublished manuscript, Scott refers to a conversation in which Oswald gave the Soviet Embassy "his, name very slowly and carefully."354/ Although > recollections, there are. iitéeresting parallels with | the testimony of Anna Tarasoff and David Phillips. 355/ the transcripts available do not bear out Scott! s - - : @ Oo a Classification: - a - me | 203 s . we ME rad * oo me to ‘Clossified by derivation: RW 48327 DocId:32263689 Page 100
oA. aa a a an a a . Classification: fi yo (This form is to be sed for material ae a Uf © . from ClA—controlled documents.) { | 7 ~09- | There are indications also that there was one other additional call ihat may have been available - to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. In che first statement by os Silvia Duran provided to the CIA by the Mexican spoks. +o government, Silvia says that the Cuban Consul the Soviet Consular official who dealt with Oswald. 356/ ‘This statement is also missing from most subsequent | reports of Ms. Duran's sta-ements, with the notable 7 & - exception of the first CIA report to the Warren : | Commission. 357/ Ms. Duran’s early statement was confirmed by Eusebio Azcue.358/ This conversation was not discovered by a review of the transcripts from the intercept operation. [t is possible that the call made by Azcue was to a phoie at the. Russian Consulate that was not subject to el?2ctronic surveillance. It is known that two of the piones at the Soviet ‘Consulate were subject to surveillance. 359/ This ¢ Committee has not determined how many telephones were : in the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City. Se Pf o3 . . . . 7 uy Wii . rine ane — PAN) A ; (> ee - Classification: EW ne «1 ; RE aD - a | ~ Classified by derivation: a ear mmr maar rm mee NW 48327. Docla: 32263889 Page 101
Classification: 11 Hn se : , £493 ve i. (This form is to be used fe material extracted”: r . from ClA-—controlled documents.) -90- While this Committe2 has not been able to find any direct corroboration of Anna Tarasoff's claim, - the circumstantial corroboration is such that the possibility that ‘there was an additional transcript concerning Oswald that was available to the Mexico City Station in late 1963. cannot be dismissed. In all likelihood, the Azcue call to the Soviet Consulate concerning Oswald was” probably made on telephones not subject to CIA Surveillance and, hence,. would” ‘not have been available tc the CIA's Mexico City - | | | Station. 6. Possibility thet the CIA Photosurveillance . Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald This Committee cannot state with certainty that a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was not " obtained by the photosurveiliance operations in Mexico City because of three reasons: (a) the photographs from LILYRIC, the “alternite” photographic base which covered the Soviet -‘mbassy main gate, and: the _ Photographs from the pulls» camera, which covered the Cuban Consulate entrance, with moe exception of a oo. we move fp ate . an wee rn tea tee tow NW 48327 | Docld:32263889 Page. 192°
9 (This form i is to be used for material extracted from ClA—contr olled documents. ) 4 “. - few samples were not made available for review by the © J CIA: (b) testimony from knowledgeable people that it A ; "would have been unlikely that the photosurveillance ; . would have missed someone whom it had at least five chances of recording;36/ and (c) reports that such a photo did, in fact, e>ist.362/ a. Missing Materials 4 “The documenté tion and elaboration of the } first reason can be fourd in Sections IT.A. and B. preceding. Simply put, this Committee has not seen ‘ eft, all.of the photographs produced by the photosurveil lance operations in Mexico City. 363/ Hence, it cannot \ enatituefin conclude that a Photograph of Oswald does not exist ; among those photographs it has not ‘seen. _- b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance Operation would have' Missed Oswald ene Pale wants CIA officers who Vere in Mexico in 1963 and ; their Headquarters counterparts generally agreed that if . it would have been unlikely for the photosurveillance he Coe operations to have missec ten opportunities to have "photographed. Oswald. 364/ The pranscr ipts of a Be Classification: _” = ivi soe a a aoe “NW 48327 Docld:32263889 Page 103 |
A EY al named LEFF i LD tia camel ae Classification: : (This form is to be ssed for moterial extracted | @ from ClA—controlled documents.) ry . -)2- i conversations about or involving Oswald intercepted at the Soviet Embassy reveil that a man later identified as Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate at least three times on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28. They also reveal that he was at the Soviet Embassy at “least twice on those. same days.365/ The CIA technician who serviced the Cuban photographic installations said that it was possible that the operation missed Oswald if: (1) Oswald's visits were after dark; (2) Oswald's © : visits were on Saturday afternoons or Sundays; (3) the’ | case officer had given the photographic basehouse agents the. days off that Cswald visited; (4) the ~ pulse visits were on a weekday curing daylight hours and a Saturday morning.367/ This Committee has not been able to determine with certainty, because of the missing production, whether all of the basehouses were operating on the day: of Oswald's visits. 368/ ' This Committee believes that the pulse camera was in camera was not working.36€/ It is known that Oswald's cf r i ‘operation on at least one of the days that: Oswald i,» visited (Friday, September 27, 1963) the Cuban & | —. Classificetion: 3:0) et a: : PONS 3 JB SUL a - 20° | ; ” Classified by derivation: 7: a: ae ay ener ff <VT << emmy NW 48327 Docld:32263889 Page 104 —
sie’ tae ay | an aw WP emp ecg pi tes Classification: # : PAR SEORTT Be Wiha . (This form is to be used for material extracted Ga from ClA—controlled jocuments.} . -3 Consulate and that the LILYRIC base covering the Soviet gate should have been Operating at the time of Oswald's visits to” the Soviet Consulates on | September e7th and 28th. 36¢/ Cc. Reports of Existence of a Photograph. (1) Phillip Agee Allegation On 6 January 1978, Fhillip Agee telephonically contacted two House Select Committee on Assassinations — po staff investigators | at their ‘office in Washington, di ; D.C. Mr. Agee informed the investigators that he | “would give the true story on the photograph produced by the CIA which the CIA claimed was taken of Oswald. in Mexico City in 1963."370/ Phillip Agee was interviewed by HSC4 staff investigators on 1] and 12 January 1978. a Mr. Agee told the investigators that he had been assigned to the Mexico Branch of the Western ‘Hemisphere Division of the “IA's Clandestine Services in September of 1966. S7/ ltr. Agee Was. assigned to work on the Headquarters Support for the Agency’ s k - operations in Mexico City that were ai & - ; : oe _ Classification: : ifs a om ° a ‘. “Oe NW 48327 Docld: 32263889 Page 105 yy Ge i oer ya TT We am ae
(This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) -9é- Soviet Union and other Socizlist countries, excluding Cuba.372/ At the time that he assumed this job, a woman named Elsie Scaleti wis in charge of the operational support projects for Mexico. 373/ gos. aketod » oe CSThe . Sheajwas the officer -n Washington in charge of all of the paperwork and other administrative matters relating to whe support in Washington to these operations which were underway in Mexico City.374/ Ms.Scaleti trained Mi. Agee for his new position. Mr. Agee characterized Ms: Scaleti as "the key figure in the Mexico Branch in Headquarters, “because she had been there ‘or so Tong."375/ After his transfer to the Mexico Branch, Mr. Agee heard a story about: photographs of Oswald. Mr. Agee could not remember with certainty who it had been that told him the story, bu: thought that it may have’ been Ms. Scaleti.376/ Mr. Agee's recollection of the story he had heard was that on the day of the “assassination Ms. Scaleti-wis working in the Mexico Branch in much the same position that she occupied in 1966.377/— When the news about Oswald's arrest reached Ms. Scaleti, she recalled seeing his ‘fame and 7a photograph taken by an ‘ob; ervation post” in n Mexico PTS TN. gh aa Gaga - Classification:. re | “Classified | by derivation: a aT Sa aay NW 48327 Docld:32263889 Page 106