104-10268-10003] aE eae ti alee ee et te te tener = mane eee ae ene GC a ay mite ne po fC bee 7 At OG kd foe BA “— "ga stexn/aw/3-27-64 | } my 3. , Mr. Stern March 27, 1964 : - : Files ~ — a 1 o C - yo | MEDRANDUK RE TNT mr i FROM : S.A. Stern = °° ‘PROLIB po . SUBJECT; CIA File on Oswald - Today, Friday, March 27, 1964, rz met at CIA headquarters with hic, Rocca to review the CIA file on Leé Harvey Oswald. The Pile conteins those materials finished to us previously by CIA. in addition, it. contains the following materials: a. Cable reports from the CIA station in Mexico of overber 22 and 23, 1963 relating to photographs of a verson who had visited » the Cuban ond Soviet Exbassics in Mexico City during October and Novenber. 1953; and reports on these cables furnished on Kovember ne 23 by CIA to the Secret Service. These messaces ara accurate a  paveaphrased in the attachments to the CIA memorandum of March 2h, po 1964 (Comission Locunont J'6T4). be Cable of October 10 from CIA Mo:cico City station to CIA — . headquarters rcporting on Oswald contact at Soviet Exbassy, and - October 10, 1963 message from CIA headquarters to Moxico City station or background infomation on Oswald. These messages are accurately xeported in tha GIA monorandum of January 31, 1964. I did not review any materiale later than Noverber 23, 1963. . .' Hy. Rocea also showed me the “printout” of the references to .- Oswald documents in the CIA electronic data storage system. There was no item listed which we have not been Given either in full text or paraphrased. When I evidenced an interest in the CIA clectronie data “processing system, Mr. Rocca said that he would arrange a dctailed explanation at a future visit. - . bh [es FORE | : oe Se HACTEACT (e RECORD y CORY w] enamel ngmmemaatiecaneneait cme CO 2or- 02% aye (rn we eee eer me ee eect cee amr screams wee ogo so nee ne | en ee agen a ons sq ae eee Ee ge ae atten Lene eRe ge a one ene ternenner etree unin me Remini ort A neta heaton Eo meet Sheen Migrant daneett fe sme
MEMORANDUM FoR: Mes Je leo Rankin & a) the activity of Lee Harvey C8 CawALD ia Re M the period September 23 te Octaber 3, 1963. Ze ‘The second paragraph of your letter ralses a question with regard te reports on current aspecta of investigation in Mexico, of concerning Mexican leede in the OSWALD cage. Speciiically, that paragraph eeems to refer ta speculative information provided the White House by Jose L LASAGA - which originated with Salvader DIAZ VERSON. CIA has sothing to add to the detailed fevestigztion of thie matter coniiveted by the Federal Buregu of Investigation, Wo . aseuene that the Goversiesion is already in possession, or wil be tn the near feture,, aft the details of the outcome af 3. GIA ts evoperating very closely with the FBZ tothe 7 known to the Commission. Hina the course of this cooperation, — PAGE
13-00000 | to regert the detalles to the Comeaiesion concurrently with whate ever ig made avallable to the Commission by the F51, 4. The foliewing replies are keyed te the numeration of your letter of Febevary 10: he We ere not ine position to supply copies of telegrams sent between the Boviet Embassies in. Washington and Mexico City. & Transistions of the twa polics interrogstion — reperts.of Silvia DURAN ore being forwarded ta the hand, we deduce that ted Pie ply in poragraph voven of our resort, om pages four and five, ts based on the statements of Siivia DURAN and eRe that OSWALD wae ot the Consulate at cast once after hig initial visit, and that this later visit was on the afternoon of 9 dey on which the Cubsa Cangul tale~ phoned the Soviet Consolate about OS¥ALD's visa problem, This may well have been 29 September, but we canact be certain of this conclusion. . & We ée net know whether Cuban Consulate evchivee contained information on OSWALD asbe~ dating hie Sepbember-Octuber 1963 visit, From the statermests of Slivia DURAN, one could conchiule that. sta bad never heard of OSWALD witli he visited the — Gonsuiate in inte September 1963,. The file om CSWALD © ‘him at thet time and which she looked up agein when of Preset Kennedy. of Presldest | ous bAlto Pi ium Sune | CGPY 76f B | “a eh (ga035th | COPY NO. Se {
13-Q0000. . public _todeed the Soviet official wes telling the trath, | Mexico Gity ave separate offices located in separate . Cham official parking iat. The Cuban Consulate ie on DURAN te tell OSWALD he could not hav Sean tvaneit vise unless bo flest sot a Soviet visa, Bech Sravk statements sre quite common ia consular practice, ae for ag we knew, 6. We believe that Silvia DURAN's statement thas OSWALD knew ao ond in Cuba meant Mterally thet, and vouch for him, or iesure thet he woukd not become @ am previous record of OSWALD, at least in Mexisa, it We believe that O8WALD bath telephoned to the F it the process. > which be guve fir6t to the Caban Consulate, then misiaid or forgot, and finally recovered from Cuban Consulate files oe be could pase & te the Soviet Consulate, - & could alsa be that he was talking about his Mexics City aoe ere terial Camcatee, ne mencoestar ty Longton while at the Soviat Consulate. De - She Cuben Coasulate and Cuban Euibasoy ta . bulkdinge that stand on adjacent inte separated by a. & corner at Marques sai Zamora Strests and the Eebasay | is ab 160 Marques Street, She Soviet Esnbasey asd . Consulate ave beth located in a large maneion with ©
13-00000 eine ae ea aa i Fear an ae : Nes, Zn s 4 { ik iB} must refer to Cuban Consul Eusedio AZCUS, nl Mezice few Cuba on parmanent transfer on 14 Norember 1963, four days before the agsaseination, AZCUE had been in Mexico fer eighteen years and & was known to us a9 aavly ae September $963 that AZCUE waatobe -  2epieced, His replacement did arrive in September, AECUE was scheduled te leave ta October but dil net leave until 13 November. _\fs do no ow wh sng have tohd OSWALD chat ow | “ye - . through tte own factiities, Mele of irentgncion Pp epsexted for further information but none hasbeen = \\ Po groupe have proiieced what we regard ao tard information, . 2. re gay Wa can only guene why Silvia DURAN deseribed | 1 ‘OSWALD os ablonie, Perhaps his complecion seemed se . gat to her, compared with thet of most Latin Americans, or re When she was arrested, she had not seen OSWALD for a . gout two months, but apparently she had noted him as . a * a blonie in her Gonsalar reconde, SO Be , , Distribution: Original & 2 « Addressee N
13-00000 CLASSIFICATION SECRET/RYBAT __PROCESSING ACTION MARKEO FON [IDEXING . Chief of Station, Mexico City ae _ ZRTAFFY “RETION REQUIRED “REFERENCES =SC~“‘“‘*<“<‘“SOS™S*™~™~™”™TOC™ Please transmit the attached envelope to Fletcher M. KNIGHT only. “WillardG, CURTIS ~~ |. | Git Ae © 30 ber GF . _ _ Envelope _ CHIBITED - C Lone — Distribution; a 3- WH, w/att a CROSS REFERENCE TO DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER GATE - | . HMMA~22390 25 October . CUSSIICRTION HQS FILE NUMBER: | A 70 /— || ; ~ . 4 COU3577 no PAGE ce cory. NO- . Dood eercaerernr ste ii eer