13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROGID | CONFIDENTIAL EX- /093.L. 1. The referent memorandum contains two points which require comments. The first point concerns allegations that were made shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy and that ve crept up every so often since then. In one form or &0' r, the allegations are that Lee Harvey OSWALD had¢pes 7 connected with the Agency. The allegations are totarey 5 ‘wifounded. : oe Lng = ay ; ae ES tter are as follows: a. On 2@Novembdes39b3 I was instructed by Mr. R.G. Rocag; p immed: te superior at that time, to make a tho Ly checks} thin the Agency at Headquarters to determin e ee Harvey OSWALD had ever been used by the AgencKor been connected with it in any | conceivable way. He ordered me to make the checks . directly and personally to the degree possible and not to accept statements of intermediaries. He also ex- plained that he was following instructions from-'Mr. R. Helms, who was then the DDP and served as one, of ‘the Agency's key contact officials with the Warrén. Commission. a 2. The facts re b. Although I had already checked the Main Index of IP (then RID) on the night of the assassination, I rechecked the Main Index and found no: record: beyond that which I had already obtained.before (plus, those items which had been integrated izito. the- records system since the assassination). There was nothing in the DDO records which indicated any Agency connection with OSWALD. Pecument somber \4 \128- 000. _____— ‘pee FOIA Review on NOV 1976 rn RECORD COPY J | «CONF | |b Lp7s i, sor tous ? re “POUETED _ a}
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ee, C SONFIDENTIAL ( There was no Zesoyd in their Headquarters files. Arrangements: were then made for me to check telephonically with -each DCD base in the US. The chiefs of\the bases. ‘then serached their records . and spoke withthesr officers. I was then advised by er ere \wvie fs or their designees individ- ESP e had been no contact with OSWALD. en checked with’ Division D, SE Division, and ~ Division's Cuban Operations Group (COG) for any informal desk records. The results were like- — wise negative. e. Through the Sec ity Research Section (GRS) of the Office of J ity I had the security files checked. Therese : o record of OSWALD. £. Although I checked their Sav jan, and Cuban holdings on the remote ance that hey may have recorded something on - <Gheye was no record in those g. In wy e the chief of the CI Staff's Administrative Office called the Office of Personnel CS A | 3 fee me records on Americans, and received the word that there was no record on an > employee or an applicant for employment named Lee Harvey OSWALD. h. I also checked the Office of Medical . Services and found no record on OSWALD. oe ace i. The Covert Action Staff also feu 9ff beanea on him. . ark , j.- Finally, I also checked the-records: of: the CI Staff's Operational Approval Group: (er/oa)- with negative results. ee k. My checks were completes on 4d December 1963 and I then sent a brief informal note to Mr. Rocca ry wee cee ee ee nee nee we COMET “DAORIBTED =
13-00000 | 3 REPRODUCTION PRORBH spect tying SO the checks I had made and stating that the xasu tsashowed that Lee Harvey OSWALD had Beeer pad L 3 Sgonnection whatsoever with the Agengy:*. Ky a statement to this effect w eeesmanten to the Warren Commission. SS - EXON Sifthte ta checks regarding use or employment ~~" "\ > of O& Dhad\been requested by the foreign divisions - Se of their Pp ’ riate stations, I was told, and he | results we negative. , 4 I recall very clearly that we were extremely _ concerned at the time that OSWALD, as an American®’ returning -- £rom the USSR, might have been routinely debriefed by DCD, thus having established contact with the Agency. The same point has now, quite understandably, beén made by the two CBS newsmen. Having some knowledge of this subject I have personally concluded that there is valid . xeason for DCD's lack of interest in OSWALD at that time. He would surely have been contacted and debriefed by DCD had he been to the USSR and returned to the US before 1957/1958. Travel to the Soviet Union by Westerners, particularly by Americans, before that time was quite uncommon and we were hungry for eyewitness information in those days. The thaw began in about 1956 and by the end of that decade ere so many persons travelling to and from the Soles onion that DCD was incapable of talk- ing to all of Ahi Therefore, a program of selectivity and specificrGarsee pplicability was instituted. In light of th@caBove;<ik seems to me that OSWALD-- if he us : nm at all--would have easily been thee fi simply did not possess the type of D was seeking at that time. DCD would Sacre access in the USSR. SeShouta be added that my above-described search a e Agency file holding produced no record or indication that any other US Government agency had -used him as a source or had considered him for recruitment. CONFIDENTIAL — COPY NO.
13-09000 "REPRODUCTION REPRODUCTION | PROWIGITED ‘6. The second point in the referent memorandum concerns the paper M3) were available at on nee. on Oswald before, @fewWay of the assassination. ~ ically, there w@keive documents which had been Ato e assassination. Two of th ents £ the Agency before, t had been sent™ ‘t8) us-BR the FBI, two by the D State, and:one b hesUS Navy. A 201 file J had bey Rees ees enna 1960 on the receipt of the -fiy8t of these five doc ny Conteined gw records that had b cycempyonent. The Mexico C of the as oy toring of Oswald's activi So had. not as yet be included in the 201 file. ae tinent cables from Mexico City were held at the Mexico branch at Head- quarters, while the data contained in them had been disseminated to the FBI upon receipt. The cables were incorporated into the file following the assassination - and were, of course, made available to all concerned, ‘including the Warren Commission. 7. &It should be noted that no particularly great urgency was attached to the handling of the records regarding Oswald hefore the assassination because Qswald's name had-:no par ee x ar meaning before that fate EW SON $8 regarding the records we pi 8. Th ¢ before the.as 3s ination as well as the ma computerxé ites Ssystem were explai aN Warren NN group Of\¢ ‘ited Heatgiarters a OR viewing the | keeping at the tige. From all I have heard rega ng this visit, the visitors were satisfied with our records system and the manner in which we kept our records. Paul iiartran Qu0248- ‘pace _O_ of i6_ Copy NO.
18-00000 REPRODUCTION SECRET PROMIBITED TABLE OF CONTENTS Telephone Conversation between DCI and J. Edga 26 November 1963 - 11:20 a.m. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED ‘REPRODUCTION © ser
13-00000 arenEOce os REPRODUCTION PROMBITED ' “| stm (€22134 i. eee oe ee on of TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DCI AND J. EDGAR HOOVER 26 November 1963 - 11:20 a.m. vee DCI: DCT: E: DCI: DCL: SECRET | Well, all of that ties in importantly into the story and we have I just want to be sure that you are satisfied that this Agency is giving you all the help that we possibly can in connection with your investigation of the situationin Dallas. I know the importance the President places on this investigation you are making. He asked me personally whether CIA was giving you full support. I said that they were, but I just wanted to be sure from you that you felt so. We have had the very best support that we could possibly expect from you. We will feel free to do that I think it is an exceedingly important investigation and report and I am delighted that the President has called on you to rake it. We are trying to do it as fast as we can so we can dispel various wild rumors that have been circulating as to whether this man was the right man etc. that firedthe gun. But there is no question that he is the right man. There are a lot of aspects that we have dug up, for instance, with regards to the matter i: Mexico City. We have now found that the. photograph that was ta cen was not that of Oswald. We do find from our informant do. there that Oswald did call at the Embassy that day and the informant has -- L given us the conversation that he had. He wanted to get a permit i to go back to Russia and the Cuban Embassy couldn't give him the permit. The Soviet Embassy stated that it wald take three I I Good. Well you can call on us for anything we have. 'weeks, He had, I think, ‘a visitor's permit for about a week or ten days so that is why he came back to the United States. those operational sources down there. We want to handle them very carefully. It involves some very high level people down there. Sam Papich and I have talked about that a couple of times. Bi tee hood Mc. Katzenbach , _ Who is handling | it for the Department - ; | it is our intention when the Bureau finishes the report, he will of course go over it very carefully because it will be a report that will be released to the public, probably through the White -PROEIBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED o * . : JOO ee eee oe ae raae P ( wa : Nad wet ot ned ke a htm at A oP ae bale G.) € House, but it is the intention after it is in final form to be checked with each of the. Government agencies that are mentioned in it. State Department is involved in regard to the issuing of the passport to the man to come back to this country and that has got to be explained why it was done, the law requires it, etc. all of which of course we are gathering. The aspects of the Mexico City thing. It will have to be mentioned. It is his intention to check with the agencies, Secret Service, etc. to be sure that whatever is said in the report is conferred in andit . is agreed to by the various agencies mentioned. So you will | have that opportunity to go over it and see exactly what is said and I know he will welcome any suggestion that you care to make. Dcti: Well that will be fine. Thank you HR: Good bye. (tape) mcm ec: DDC ; . DD/P a -SEGREI
13-00000 REPRODUCTION SET = PROMIBITED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII o~ x one 1. DIR 74673, “10 “October 1963 - dissemination to Department of State, Denartment of the Navy.s,.andthe..Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion: [FOIA Nox6- 3] Jers Tnternal. Note | From ROCCA to HELMS, dated Ses March. 1964. [XAAZ-22803 - FOIA "No. 3. Int shal Note from ANGLETON to ROCCA,,. dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809 - FOIA No 6 89> 298] 4. Memorandum for RANKIN, dated 1 ily. 19643 subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival oe in Helsinki on 10 October 1959. _ {Duplisate of FOIA No. 758-325] eae, as 0062136. REPRODUCTION - SENET
13-00000 eee Srrne VSyapeented ie LUE 1 July 196) momma on iw pen Pky Sear General Counsel a CON Nef President Zounedy Vsupamere oo 2 Pipe Taavey Onala’e Arrival Te in RCN Catebes 1959 ~, cates Hrtattiee sod tensed to Toma Riel Game 2100 (xidnight) on the sume day. This is based on the jadg~- mert of officers in this Agenoy familiar with the Nelsinid 2e We eve presently attempting te determine if Comid SR/C1/Research: S.Duncan:cl oo _ Reqritten: RHelms/ecd - 1 Jaty 6 Distribution: Orig & 2 - address: ‘ a tae @ fon. 4 _~ Nm et fiend) Richard Betws | ete Vie ee oon Fo
13,00000 REPRODUCTION ile tdeuaead, « ae : * : en ) ( ~ r oe ote oe’ & «@ Cc : 7 “rege # a wo . ae 8 XKAAZ- 223907 12 May 1964 =-1745 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Rocca ° Tterna | Mews R ardia A Brg Se fs Positron te Deal? with. Wanvin + Sonn’ Siew : a lan ct tha + thadingoee has received a telephone call from RANKIN - co e Commission's desire to interview him at. 1030: ROY Mr. HOOVER is scheduled to appear: at: 9: 00 ont we aN <x S Wa aw 2. The DDP wishes to have from you a shart but comprehensive memorandum which highlights the bast issues or positions entered into by the Agency in its dealings with the Commission. For example, RANKIN indicated that the Commission would wish to hear the Dire ctor's views as to how improvements might be made in protecting the President's life. Further, they will probably ask questions regarding the possibilities that a con- spiracy existed. Such general questioning certainly necessitates that the DCI be made aware of the positions taken during previous interviews. I raised with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent information which: you are processing which originated:¥ with the sensitive WHsource. I informed him that in your ew: this would raise a number* “of nes “ factors with the Commission, ‘that i& should not go tecthe: Co namission prior to the Dire ctor'sSppearatice unless we have fivst b as Dizectox. is fatlyaware of its implications since it coultwell serve 2 ei Basighexdetailed questioning. — The DOP stay a@that he would cov te ely and made a decisiog 9a." He uRREtion of timing. S ; eres Given the schedule, you Spon that the DDP will need a paper covering the above points as sddn as possible. PPh Same . J.A. Document suntue 2 ba- 24 for FOIA Review on JUN 976 ES su Dol. 2 LIA i - - : - i cnet a: ‘REPRODUCTION = ks | : . peewee se
13-00000 - REP xODUCTIC - PROEIITEE XAAZ- 22763 5 March 1964 4 Meme tw yer a oS ex eC +, ° lute rus | Dick: + = | Weave & proble: oF your determination — oS OY y gj his ts sGppbive to paragraph 3 of Rankin's ietten, (eos, - eference. ti JA does not desire to respond disectly ta. Bphiy that letter which made a levy foruur material’ "led ab gotten inte the hands of the Secret Service since” _ 23 November. We found that, except for thréetelegrams, all that the Seeret Service had was material werhad sent to” McGeorge Bundy at the White House, bak mtlys Bevhad simply passed it to the Secret Service as : oe A internal informafion, — os Unless you feel otherwise, Jim would prefer to watt out the Commission on the matter covered by paragraph 2, It they come back on the point he feels that you, or someone from here, should be prepared to go over to show the Gomrnission the materials rather than pass them to thexn in. copy. Incidentally, none of these items are of new substantive interest. We have either passed the material in substance to the Commission in response to earlier levies, or theitems refer teaborted: leads, for example, the famous-six Photo- graphit which were not of Oswald, and the passenger ‘manifest on an. 2 aie ling which also did not pertain to > Oeaas os . ‘Becument Number 3 79-a50 aa for FOIA Review oy JUN 1076 | am 4 name mond! G. 6 Rae _ Be or , - PY be AA’ “g ners Sumepet 2feusre: ‘SOBA ore £5. J AII249 Rock | - Sire OP E24 39
REPWODUCTION PRORATED 2 { 12-82 nee 7 aT es) . a . axico DL INDEX’ Pe SB c R. E Tr. . R —— jeg Benue osu eS pot a ; Oo. FILE- IN: ae NO -_ 7 te $22 o pe STREEN MEXICO cITy [INQUIRING WHETHER THE EMBASSY. HAD RECEIVED awusawigea}- 3 any NEWS CONCERNING: A TELEGRAM WAICH HAD ‘BEEN SENT TO _ AMGIAIH NOLLWOIsISSY 19 , STATES EM 4SSY IN cca TO ‘RETURN To | nie oS “Ws urs BORN WIFE, MARINA, 1 NIKOLAEVNA a A, AND THEIR. . os Docu nt Numbdo= = —_—— a _ ihe A2S7LEE 4 r FOIA Review « on. a, APR sf soot S COPY: ,. OFFICERS GRouP t “T —  f{O eX 63°. a0, reef OFFICER Exeuded from automatic | AUTHENTICATING eB SECRET OFFICER. legs . - Sowngrading and declasai fication pass 4° 2 of
13-00000 "32-62 “ROUTING || DEFERRED a ROUTINE és. i oe: Boa. ~ re ob CTeLAICE NO! UCAS GR proteasome ome ste 6°00 00 OVE nt ae pc tor: ee Cir Lt age Mab & Dp. Blan | GROUP 1 . : : oo 4 Fy declassification aoe hilo: oto A : “pROHIAL, nooo, “cy yo 24 PAGE — of oo ered
13-00000 PROKISITED an we CONTENTS OF. VOLUME IX 1. DER: “90466, 20° December 1963 [FOIA.No. 4290-757] Ze BIR 97829, 29 January 1964 [FOIA No. 498-204] OC 2442
| seypssnt MESSAGE ete «" ‘Joun A. EERE e : . ober oie 3 Bas a) Ino secret | fT [4 C] FILE IN CS FILE NO, ft | | peeBakkot E94 VR , , | ROUTINE < umrcamW, XAUGHE APPEARED BEYORE WARBIN COMTSSION OW 26 JANOARE AID cep asc rer emr em Fo ns. OW, SATURDAY 1. FEB. WS WILL SGN, - cote 2 REPORT CHE ONLD'S ACEIISEES 1 KOO, PEERED Me Sy oS . at fxs mac a cc Ane Aeron Yo wa a EME FOR US TO EED OF MESSAGE Cable sent at request of Mr. Rocca of CI Staff. RECORDS OFFICER STAMP , . tne following action ie °* O authorized: "DE S. oe Tt ze ee CAND os , ané on dinate ss w - S. Legs 9 99- L if appropriate. a . S 2 é) . Co Ye aes ~ - Dosumant Nuniber OT 289248 é so for FOIA Review wn ay 1976 cooRDINATING OFFICERS SECRET e ‘REPRODUCT ION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED, | Copy No, “Pano A RELEASING OFFICER “AUTHENTICATING downgrading and - GFFICER ' ééetassification
1,3-00000 ore :, JOHN Me Saat DATE: + FROM: “DIRECTOR a CONF: ps CM Bees aera | INFO: els D/ect, & DOP, ‘ele, feu VR % =] 9 FILE IN CS FILE NO, 7 a ; 20 RCM 196 Bo. , Es ‘ax aris eh omc " FELE SHOWS BONE OSWALD AND WHF WERE incxERENG {EE SVE OF WASEDOAG HMA NO GOP PERSON #0 NRE YO HOE : 2, EXACE DETAILED INFO FROM LITAMILS 7 AND 9 ON JUST WHAT ‘SILVIA’ DURAN AND CHER: CEFICIALS SAID ABOUF OSKALD'S VISEFS AND HIS TRALINGS WOULD HS VALIABLZ : agp esate comer sree, REQUESE YOU RERUESITON HEM CAREFULLY Co 7 aa REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED CLASSIFIED MESSAGE 1. ( a ae ~ f Stix 7 seers eo | Qe 5613 . _ ~ ES GINO INDEX a Lt | =. Potaserl ‘STAMP To “. aa Sia tion ts t6- |B ROUTINE Bee dz _.. HIB ~ = See Tints Cops _— z poe Zee “CITE DIR "s0468 “Et @aecsun et ton, alte, ": reasons, and coordinate ° ; if BPP Topriate. a . PHO a —— PROTECT YOUR a “air RELY wits igi” Oye: eee a . Yen ce ae ‘S 1 2 | { | ~| | | | G/S Comment:*Re interrogation of Silvia Duran. — 203 DEC 4 1974 _MICROFILMED ’ GROUP 1 " exetuded from-autemetic [ . _ Gowngrading and. declessification ~ Sei 2 ree
13-00000 - REPRODUCTION PROMIBITEL 1. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 February 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, September 28 to October 3, 1963. [XAAZ-36365 - FOIA No. 553-8084] ‘Fae SEGRET TABLE OF CONTENTS 2. Memorandum fo aD Subject: Visi Ky i Warren Commis ARR SECRET.
13-00000 - ( ( REPRODUCTION ed rare lL April ljod MIMGiAwuS MoS OR THE RE SOR 280M ae ; SUBIZCT AQ EC iak ) Three St afi Representatives of Warren wore ssion ¥ << 1934 Messrs, Coleman, Slawson and Wille S ee ives of the Warren Commission, came to \ <<. Ze Arnbaszador Freeman, Mr. Clarence Boons SS Anderson and I met there at 0345 hours on 9 April. my asked that Mr. Clark Anderson and I cooperate fully; Fe three would have Top Secret clearances and that he felt we 3 try to be too secretive in talking to them. wa not a 3. When the three visitors came in, The Ambassador told them that he wished them to call on us for any and all help they needed. He 2” _ said, however, that he wished personally to approve in advance any and | ° oO, all contacts with Mexican authorities and/or Mexican citizens. 4. Tha Ambassador told them that a great deal of our information — came from soma vary secret and sensitive sources, such as telephone taps, and he reminded them that any pudlished item from these sources ' would have to hav x clearance with(XUBARW) and{ODENV}). He . told them that r on of these operations could have very serious visitors 2alaQoun nal SS great harm to Mexican/U.S. relations. The visitors said ama from (KUBARK) and{ODENVY) included ; in the Come ee would have prior appx oval os the origina 0 _ agency. roa UN. ie outlined the "rules" under whic the Fy rk. He told them he had made a protoc + previous e gon Lic. Luis Echeverria, Acting Minj During that call, The Ambazsador told Echeverria o. , Coys Se a
13-00000 — AERA id wee Ly ga esey When the visizors asked if the sy could Ambasgador said that ] would arrange chat if they 5 “aly 2 AY ELS eg fap 7. = S934 for Feoort Ou the vigit of 19 April 1964 S&S, ee n ‘ April and 2 again on 10 April.i954, DCOS \Sy ith the three Visitors in our offices. We spent three hours and about two and ona-half hours on 10 April in our I met with them twicein The Ambassador's offic . wisit Echeverria. In our oiiices, they: KS Sv ae Reviewed the "take" from LIZ ¥ QR ays: 27, 23 September and 1 October 1963 when Les OSW contacted and visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. They made a "schedule" of OSWALDB's activities as far as possible for these days from this saurce, Note: They were given English translations of thess "rakes", be. English translations of the two conversations of 26 Novem- - ber 1953 between President Dorticos of Cuba and the Gubam Ambassador to Mexico Joaquin Hernmandea Armas were also reviewed. c. Had me review the Sylvia Duran case. They were shown - - ° photographs of #f Sylvia and her husband. Lo . on ° Co, dy Had me review the casa of ‘Alvarado, the Nicaraguan. oo 8. Th ors asked what actions the Mexico City Station took a beginning 2 ber 1963. I said we: a : GF Iavded Headquarters, Ambassador Mann and (OD locally sent them all (ia October 1963) sata on one eS ineee all Station assets and sources j SY 6 RES all possible details of OSWALD's travd OK the place Khe had stayed, the contacts he had madi S34 have visited. era
13-00000 8 c. St Yontinuous contact with our Headquarters on 4 : . at em oe ® * . ‘ ads thuy sent and with local [OUENVX)10 soordinace the work of our tw 2 RE ee Q ° KOS quarters aporoval, 0% in 2g Mexican “ . SDNY =e tned their help in many cages We uistanding 7 one beins Wivia Duran and Alvarado caren R y e., Put all possible coverages on Maran, K and any / persons we knew of who had had contact i co WALD. Loe EW oaversations | | | not been noted by . - 9. Note: They knew '4ll abont” wy. OSWALD had, but sald two points had previou them. These were that: ¥: Be OSWALD stated he wanted ro go to ODESSA; and b. OSWALD also wanted a visa for his wife “who was a Ressian", a 10, They said that Assistant Secretary Mann still has the "feeling in hig guts" that stra hired CSWALD to kill Kennedy; they said, ~ however, that (ee. ao ems or photographs were given to sitors, ions {of transcripts) which they : ex t are attached, Wy &S . — q ee ed that all three of thes a Y GN tats work on the OSWALD ABO SY eased Distributions *  3-Haqs
= ~ REPRODUCTION PROWIBITEE 1. Menorandun dated! rie wer Ges, subj ect: Mex CIA D Senination ‘Of “Info on Lee Harveys 7 NAR h 24, 1964, PaAwialll tee EN i OG _SONETR PACE + 1° a 3 COPY No.
13-00000 Wre:mfda | XARZ- 3b6¥%3 MEMORANDUM March 26, 1964 SUBJECT: Mexi IA Dissemination of Informati Son . Le y Oswald on March 24, 1964. NS eS . ch ected a memorandum tod pee Sok - KS anes nt No. 631) in which ee Ge he < RS Wald. I realize that this memorandum is only \ a p sme answer to our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that the complete answers will give us/additional information we requested. © . . . We would like to know just when ‘the Mexican station} got the information with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald and what was the information and how was it obtained. How did the information get from Mexico to the CIA veo and in what ioe come? pod t was the informatio Sham t ee Pinay the tee nerve QO ReOY ably the Lee Harveyageye Ww ad arried to a Russian ve Ssew that when tn Benge *< contained such information. other words, I would like to know whether this was 4nformation available in { coat per (iF COPY NOs -. DOAAAN aaAniw
13-00000 REPRODUCTION : iF ¢ o Mexico or did t ditional trformation get in the message - ® eo? zest nformation was Oswald sock ter the assassi: nection, I hope oe ee h of the memorandum of March 2h, 1952 sent Mr a Ramil n Oi he BS | ntenda€o o ete ae as to : this inquiry. - a AE? ww” ; : We should also determine why the Waxy” ‘nev er furritshed €? f . oe fos CIA is not the answer which the ; the era with copies of the most recent p photographs of ‘Oswald. aod q ae 2 arpa deamon ge Ty 8 Gd MeO ep ay 8 MD oa Ange aOIEAET “eR AEE COYLE IA Big + of Ter BHP & 8 & a é . a Ft , e e 668 FF) WE See SEP PETS SS, RST Re 8 Ogee ce 8 ec eee g ta - SEK CE 1 MRO . 3 3 i Tok SP COPY NO. cence
‘REPRODUCTION SE RORIBITEN TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Report No. EE-390 - Memorandum from Carlos BLANCO, dated 28 June 1963; Subject: Back- ground information on current personnel of the Cuban Embassy in Mexic 2. HMMW-11935, dated 1 September 1963; Subject: Luisa CALDERON ‘REPRODEC TION * PROHIBITED . seer Sem
13-00000 . a EPHOOUE IE on _ Reoatazy's ‘eater, os Baas aire: tenance 3e Is 24 Guia) GF that LITAMIL-9 ecataat papere: few ay duly, attsehed to Eoforaase, SoD soporssd 338. Laisa CALDZICS _ bea a sister residing is Eezyacsa, Toxzdy macciad ta an Azorisan - Of Tesicos deseent. 32 L-3 can feet SJ. ESe Slstors. ear. dosentis ospicitatica eecsica BAsURN S 3, 2. ped icp. to solica op. HeACQUAT ES FRE TUMEER _ SEF 73 27 COPY NO.
13-00000_ eo: BSHO PROM CARLOS BLANCOs -  GUBURCTs Background information ‘on curse _Exbagsy in Nasico. “. $QURERs P-26. Information received &: “*  .  WEBAR Bemfngues, former Pox imately 30 years of serv. ~ officer with apprese i ., ae Ukley, now daiegate in =... - * = * Maries of the Asacolati mond at voxeign Service ie * ~ x by | Decres No» 3031, ited his exedentials on 33-Aug . ee a 61. ‘Returned to Havana in inte 1997 or carly 1963. Appoiated aa 7 a : Co Delegate of the Foreign Commarce Minister, acting as Dleeeter" eg oe : Zntarnational: Organioma of the, Vice Mindatsy of Commercial Folsey.* eee 3 Os x ) Basolution No. 40, dated 13 Har 63, of the Mintster of Foreign 9° 0 tt 3 &. Hie xopresentation to the Brasilian Government was te a BC a inde’ by Decree Ho.-3296, dated 10-Apr 63. Resolution Ho. 63,~ ~.” ° Es gated ad Apo .G3¢ af the Miglote: of Porsiga Gorman. voscinged. a a : Resolution No, 40 dated 13 Mar 63 which had appointed him as Delegate a : 92 the Foreign Commerce Minister acting as Dizector ef cocarsanlanal ” 7 7 . a Ozganians of the ninistry ef Foreign Commerce. Wags appointed as TO a _asbassador to Mexico by Decrea No. 3321, dated 22 May 6at- “Bei a , Ee - im Mesies on 23 Jun 63. Hasn't presented hig- credentials yet... Bet _“Bas:the following university dsgreess. Lav, Dhilosophy. cna Rgeicaleural ot Be ws: zn_in Pinar dai Bfoy Cuba, Apererizatety 59 woare olf: : : .d (rizot Secretary. yey cory w- — con Charge @’aszaires at preasnt. Quiet man, in the absolute congt- a E . . BE = 8 . es ;° . & ar eG: ‘SE “a = oa ce dae soe Ewa os pea eke ta = RSME - PHOMIBITED Sy 5 cE em :
13-00000_ Oo REPRODUCTION - PRORATED SE een a oN B+, 0° Repetet @/BB-390,,Carlos ea fk eqns De oN ONSe dongan Wi pe Bie will acif as secretag: WAGE: =. | Foxmeé head # the olf ae y - latdly. working on ee we ‘ @clution No. 153,, 20 Aug 62, of the Foreign Comerce \antaces s De pespotis individual. Not trustworthy. g Aharas (Commercial AttachS.) {1F¥ .cs77 oo Anted 2 as Comercial attaché and ageigned te the Eubagey dn “4 —it " Hexdce-by Resolution No. 79, 23 Apr 62, of the Foreign Commerce . . Bs “Minister! , Government bu Algo pexforme other functions4 G22. . \ gamhsre” Commniatr vary Jasyerens. Man in the confidence 'of the . Sar - SDD Gowarnment fiquyass Has a brother whe lives in New York whe oe ree * ; de not a Gommupiat. and e siater whe belengs to a religious order. ' e” GASTELIAR 8 (Commeredal Attach$. 76%. o. sr r Appodhted | as comercial Attaché and assigned to the Exbassy in (  Mesedee by Resolution Ne. 150, 14 Aug 62, of the Foreign Commerce | , 7 ! Mindstex. Dedicated to purchases, According to reports, he -. has recently,dgen transferred. a gy penm't a Attachs. 82. e+ 7? ia e6 to replace CASTSLLAR . od : e -, ' \ anton eare of perseas \5 , sly indivicssl> ted : e “ i B30) FER ast y ae 4 . oat "was an Embassy Goorman. Was a Spanish citigen but has just 25 E ep ge coe mane een oeog om . ’ # rece . oe aoe Pe tee RGIS = Sane we ones eee Ons
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13-00000 pepo PROGR MED) aetegees Loe R Aen We oe? 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. 15... SLE Ay co ee alte nF coer —-«REPQODUCTION row oemens — PRORIBITED Report No. EE- 390, dat Chae 1963; Subject: Background ingornatig’N urrent Personnel of the Cuban Embassy j HMMW-11935, \ CALDERON . ) Subject: Luisa Note, aa to JC fron Win. [FOIA MA MEXI-7105 cv ws 27 November 1963 [ROTA No. 173-61 Memorandum for the File, dated 20 Decenber 1963; Subject: ‘Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542-1108] XAE-813, 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643- 273] OTTA- 1602 (IN 68894), 24 April 1964. XAAZ-22764, 24 April 1964 [FOIA No. 667-282A] WH/SA 64-368, 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Offi- cers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. DDP 4-2533, 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulates; Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens’ Travel to and from . Cuba. DDP 4-3195, 19 June 1964: XA No. 740-319A] LMS and ROCCA chrono- Commission in 1964.) ; Ce : Lee Harvey VAR A DDP 4-4882, 18 Ke 1964; Subject:  Techni- cal Examination of Photographs of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application for a Cuban Visa. XAAZ~-27167, 22 June aS lpgies of contacts wit DDP 4-3401, OSWALD. eis 002285 COPY NO.
13280000 a ( ~ MEMORANDUM FOR: & Lath Presid SUBJECT! & - of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Application | Bhe I Assassination of President Kennedy =; oe Technical Examination of Phetegraphs fora Guban Visa Cte mo - . oe 1, X xvalex to your waquest of 1 September 1964, ‘that the . . - , Central Intelligence Agoncy undertakes a techalcal analysia of . a _ photographed copies of Lea Harvey OSWALD's appileatlon for swe. a Cubas visa, prepared by hima In the Guhan Consulate ln Moles | City, and the reply from Havana conditlonally rejecting OSWALD!'s | application, 2. Qualliled analysts of this Agency have examined and tanated — e these documents, and have xade tho following determinations: en SWALD. a. The signature "Lea H. Oswald" atficad to the visa ee application is the signature of Lee H ‘ ptatement on this hag and the sample of Ma ‘comparison Is fmadequate ra Harvey OSWALD. PRO of the Guban Gonaulate AS 3 merrier nant Oo a St nn ee ane - z i? ert atom trent nage item greene tiene eset i i é state with confidence that tha\notation was notwrittenby Lee - r |
e. Tha visa application ¢ SW, the Cuban Government lop - ix fact. a reduced paeneaese eS fa photograph. on it hag been determined _ that the blurred passp Vz at De: entry “Pasaporte No." on the application SEQ g - So No He SS lyais were deemed: necensary, 3. I return herewith the p ee of the vina application and - Guban rejection of the same, which wera furnished te this Agency by ~ the Coromisaion. - .N. “Richard Helms ne Deputy Director for Plana... Distribution: . . Oo ; oe : _ . Original & 1 = Addveaseo . ° oO . "2Z-DDP | ; 1-SR/CI | NS 2 = C/CI/REA W coe toe. CI/REA/TRHallink (18 Septe toe Ae _
13-00000 = 20 “INFO FROM AMMUG-1 on AGENTS — fhe difference between a Cuban and a fa ‘Recruitment. of foreigners Ee. the schools in Cuba where they oe ca | Once recruited as possible ag ee 3 ape gre Rou pa 2 SAM SY. of agreements with the ts can also be recruited in verrilla training. organizations to which they. belo separated fron the others and placed in DSI houses, where they Lew ei ion as agents. Their life is normal; they use the. cover of being scholarship students supported by the Cuban government. . ‘The DGI supplied them clothes, fvod, and every sort of cara, such as medical and. ‘any other kind. The DGL takes care of their general expanésese Ordinarily kaxg an attempt is made to kesp them from contact with na ‘anyone in’ government circles soas to avoid indiscretions. Any agent recruited in a foreign country is brought to Cuba and arrangements are made so that he has no contacts with persons in Cuba from his own country or any othere Once his. training is | completed, his departure from Cuba is not made known to anyon= attached to hime - ‘In recruituwent of Cubans, an effort is made to find those knowing the fewest — possible persons. “If the Cuban who is recruited is employed in an office or . factory or works sote other place, an effort is made to have him continues his work so as to use his situation to provide true covers instruction is given at ‘hours when he is not working. If the agent has any trouble after he has been. recruited, the DGI tries to help him as mech as S possible without breaking down compartrentation or his covere When he has completed his training ana is sent abroad, the DCL covers the ex penses of his family. If a Cuban who is recruited is unamployed, it looks for a cover adapted to his situation, and the NGI takes care of all the expenses the agent has, including those of his family if he is married. He receives his - training in the hours adapted to bis cover position. His life, like that of the agent who is working, mst contimue normal, just as it was before recruitment. Cubans trained as agents » if their depar fa the counkhy is hot illegal, leave with foreign’ passports. oe 4 - pias 2174 ns |
Be oc ee Spt etre ene PRG LE woe ‘, WAR were we oe mo Seed on Fea . ANO - we NSIIVE SQURCES o~ | se ivOLVED ATHOD. fe Cee “2 JUL 1264 . MEMORANDUM FOR: Mz. J. hecRanka ee _ Gensral Gownsel - . _ ; eo President's Commission on the oo , : . ee  Agsassination af President Benmedy 2 fe sO. . ¥ mo TE SUBIEGT: | ive Harvey Oswald © - "3 lL. The following remarks have been rocently atts ihuied ta Soviet Gonsul Pavel Antonovich Yatskov in Mexica City regarding a tha subjsct. ; . Le "Z moat Oswald here. He stormed inte my offices and _ wanted ms to intreduce and recommend him to the Cubans. He told me that he had Uved inthe USSR. Iteld him that ZL would have to check before I could recommend him. He was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stormed ous - of my office. I don't balleve thst a personas nervous hs, . an Oswald, whosa hands trembled could h-ve accurately ; ie fired a rifle.” Z. Our Moxican Station has cheat BY records for the . period Oswald was in Maxice Cityqsts editis quite possible that Oswald thought he aleriy Kostikey when he actually had apoke he first spoke to Konathkey who aX or Yatskor. 2 3. The source tw sation is a confidential contact of thia Agency in Mesico Ci cay 3 belleved to be reliable, In view of thin relationship, an appropriate sensitivity indicates has “ bean affixed to this rosmorandum « ae | . —., | WARNING NOTICE Ecsts$ oe yam i Oran | SENSITIVE souaces AND Getane ge | - RePRaqUE TER Suuicd [METHODS INVOLVED as . ( fag , : er 7 OC , PAGE 115) of 319° . “copy HO. Syrah AF BAN OLS TT ON TEES! MAOH Ee pe RD are Net en Se mm mesanne oye aa PDE Benet yeti nore senate erent et NAST iB
6 7 * om Rewttied oT sensit” ” SOURCES AND | . -— “os - METhLS INVOLVED a _ - 4, A copy of this merag Co, ~~ forwarded tothe —_ = | oo Faderal Bureau of Invest ES N — . a Sy) ‘a | - fe - rn : i Richard Helms , oT . - Deputy Director for Plans oe Distribution: | Lo, oe a a ; | ~ Original & L-+ Addresses =—Ss_s res _) Be G/CYURRA - cee OR ° ™ 2» C/WH/3 - a “Lo CE/RAA/202 - 4 ee ~, %-G/Cl — a ae Rw GIJREAJAEDooloy . _ 7 rn i 1 » FBI (via CSCI) a OM Dee . Originated by: CI/R&A/AEDooleyinls M July 1964) 20. f a oof: . : ee Ou ° ~ WY : AY . . Fs . i 2 7, . ; ‘ oh Ske NN. . "fy coe. oom CS eee ‘ . 0 he ‘- ma - ; ae \ . a“ WARNING Nor : atta dl - TOTICE Cie ls SENSITIVE nee | a Sri per OURCES AND | _ UCTION | ¥ | METHODS INVOLVED D | copy HO. ;
13-00000 . an | f | - . ‘e a Sy eo, cat “? ae " et ead ate ee ee cond ° corueloaies “st ESuTex sts r 22 dune = 1986 GP, Warres Sonne a re Mr. Rocca: , OA ot - a ' This List R\\. the score of telephone So mie, calls I had with ‘Hire Rar natin the Commission stati Pe Te ly January 195k, ~ Messrs. Allen ¥. Dulles, Rank, items, a - - 300- _ Angleton, and Rocca. 25 Jarmary . Br. Ranicin's office. : W245 7 22 March = Mr. Rankin's office with Messrs. Murphy. ” "22:00 . |. and Rocca - i oe : - 27 Harch Messrs. Slawson, Willems, and Stern ~, 2:30 . with Hr. Recca 2); Juna os Chief Justice Warren , v s : . a é ° eo = ee . . - a3 oy 5 cy wan ¥ ty te 8 ar iE Ls chagsGh “COPY HO.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROWBITED to JC REBAR 27 November 1963 [FOIA No. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1380- 10 73A] Let ‘MEXT- 7105 (IN 6921 EPRCOUCTION... {FOIA No. 173-615] PROLIB Memorandum for WBUED. December 1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. [FOIA No. 1542- 1108] Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 7 April 1964; Subject: Actions of Silvia DURAN after her first interrogation. [FOIA No. 643-273] Memorandum for Chief, WH/PO/A, dated 8 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing Report No. 65 of AMMUG/1 - Duties of DGI Officers in the Field with Regard to Visa Applicants. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 19 May 1964; Subject: Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consu- lates; Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens' Travel to and from Cuba. RNC bs PROWBITED
13-00000 REPRODUCTION oe | ~ PROGIRITED fone teen eee. wT tw cemmece omer nana temniomnen eh ee oT or re wl : aa Preaident's\Commission ¢ onthe’ a —_ aes an gg a Assassination of President Kennedy . oy Hours of Work at Cuban and Soviet Consulatesy ES - '- Procedures and Regulations for Issuance of | -*.,:-' Bt ae .. Gaba Visas; Mexican Control of U.S. Citizens! : a Travel to and from Guba me i. ’ refer to your memorandum dated 24 April, in which you 2 _-. Request information on hours of work at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic. ‘-. - installations in Mexico City, details of regulations governing the oo eboytp? -  .' fesuance of Cuban travel documenta and Mexican control of Ue Se thee! .- ¢itisens travelling to and from Cuba through Mexicos at : . @ The Soviet Embassy and Consulate are not open to the . public; offices in the Soviet compound may be visited by appointment : _ only. A twenty-four-hour guard is mounted at the entrance to the “8 es - compound in which these Soviet installations axe located. Visitors ~~ -:: anespeaking visitors ~ are permitted to enter at any time, butt . . away by the guard after normal hourg\ wor tormal work hours © -.5 0-0-2. 5: ' during September 1963, when Lee SRO WRAY visited the Soviet. 0.055 wo. ..: iustallation, were 6900 te 18088 Ropdnting heweve fees 3 oy.t . Mondays and Fridays have & Ex : 2/2, Sisdeen Soviet families TEES 0 can 3. The Guban Embassy a Qs Sasulate are located in thelr rae ' Gws compound, but these installations have separate entrances. - pee whe oe * : Vialtors may enter the 9 Cuban canpalake frora 1000 to 1400 Bourms oe oe ro S— 8 j Tr . — Etsiad pia aufematies * 4g . dowograding ag Geclassification semen
. PRORATED ” ‘Moaday through Friday. Feahaesy work are 0990 to 1703 - @nthe same days. Visitors tothe = < owsver, usually . * . appear before 1490 hears. Those <a Ss alas in olicet . during September 1963~ ° an be Prior authortaatl, © ‘the Esterlor in SO ‘+ . Hawana ia required bafo betasued. On occasion, °°. 5". | _ wequests for permission te ORS, @tho resulting decisions. -—  _ : _.. ave handled by cabla. The SKS, ils ont a visa application form 2: - -” at the Cuban consulate, Cuban vilas are normally valid for three -.° 0°24) 002 v a : ; B ' months from date of insuance. Visas may be issued on separate ~- - '. '.. @heets of paper te conceal the fact that travel to Cuba waa performed. | Beets ‘The Soviets are r not known to lame travel permite to Cubase. PASE gy The Governmest of Mexico recognises the passport : asan * “yl. Adeatification document only. Mexican immigration officials do not | oe . * | gegegaiae passport entries pronibiting the bearer'’s travel to Cuba, . 8, “'  §£ the bearer helda a visa valid for travel tathat country. Amendment . : : of Maxican laws to permit racogaition of travel restrictions affixed by | a ~ “ll: geveraments issuing passports has been under considerations but ao OE a ane : co . action thereca has presently beea taken. —_ . | vas '. a : "6 Non-Cubass, ‘Including BeSe citizens, entoring Mexico ae ; _ fsom Cuba mast have Mexican visas or tourist carda. Depending _ a _  @a thely outgoing {Nght times, son-Cubans teansiting Mexice do net .— a’ glways need a transit vica. The pagsporta of all persons travelling lo between Mexico and Caba ara stamped in Spanish with the phrasea er -°. | ° “Departed for Cuba” or “Entered frora Cuba", as appropriate. All . _ - passengers, includlag noaeCubans, ento extco from Cuba are - epanly photographed while their des being examinede 7 - : To We hope that the {nfo roast ad\s sete your need as ity Po for data on travel between Msx@QY) — = | " é a tered mehstd has" “ - * Richard Helms ” Distributian: i : Orige & Z vw Addressee 2eDDP. . 1 o C/CI/R&A 1 » C/CI/SIG: a Originated By: CI/R&A/Hal:gwh = "13 May 1964 . | Based On: MEX 9832, 6 May 1364, I IN 77522 BS a a SRE ee
: | PROT oi WH/SA 64-368 08 May 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/PO/ SUBJECT General : Debriefix 65 of AMMUG-1 . Specific : inthe Field with ” DGI officers are cK editing the granting of visas of agents of the DGL. SS: Loan ‘appearing at the Consulate (Source does not know the particular phrase used in every case, Be does know that agents from 1 Salvador in requesting visas a always made mention of the name Mauricio’) The DGI officers | at a Consulate interview visa applicants to find out if they are agents. If the visa applicant does not use one of the indicated ’ phrases, the DGI officers, instead af granting the visa immediately, ' tell the applicant to return in a few days. The officer then notifies Habana and requests authority for the visa. . Swenson ~ WH/SA/CI | "oni at ~ Addressee GQ CA SO 1 - WH/3/ El - 1 - WH/SA/ESEC 2 - Chrono 1- Mary SEGRET eh Te ee cour ; isa : Ae RORY oy eee ey me gue a + TD STEREO HRN. aeRO et
Se am ge fm] go Cw SUBEX® = + Actitae of Silvia RRAT after a <¥4 She Wanner Comin (sso de Referwase is sade to the atinchaashs to my nemoranée Gated 3h Jamar 17% ani 22, Yosruary 135%, infosmmbton - ¢ SE — Deputy Birector foe Plain . omc tee OH 3-273 © for FOIA Review «  o8 uN 878 -—- PRecoRD COM | T ap et ' - QO\- 285045 7 ‘(WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND | METBANS INVENTED - =
13-00000., | ee REPRODUCTION po PRONNENTE _WAP” NG NOTICE SENSITs , Mer: nr j ° » 4 - SOURCES AND “OS INVOLVED bad baniled hip snee 9 the Cuban Conaullate. 7) caly new ites tn the account thet Silvia DEAS Sad threatened to extradite her te the United States far a vise to visit ay to transit the comtey- WARNING NOTICE GROUP ¢ “SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED . _ ~ secner|
CI/RMA/TRHalienh/ bts SS oo pd by C/WH/3) Nov os Based on DIR a3 708 FON ember.1963
REPRODUCTION Pane ay Byatt oe « aia | December 1 NS cember 3 WS SUBJECT: Lee Harvey ma On 1" December Mr. a G AW) BS ddvised that the Bureau was anticipating a request from the Womitission, named by President Johnson to look into this case, for copies of Bureau materials supporting or complementing the report already submitted. He pro-~ vided me with the attached copy of portions of a report passed by the Legal Attache in Mexico City dealing with the Sylvia DURAN aspect in which it would appear rather clear that some United States Government agency was tapping telephones in Mexico. Mr. Papich inquired as to whether information in this report might be given to the Commission or whether this Agency desired to establish some other policy with regard to meeting the needs of the Commission. The matter was discussed with Mr. Whitten and he subsequently ad- vised that as a result of a conference with Mr. Helms and others in which he was directed to prepare certain materials to be passed to the Commission, he was quite sure that it was not the desire of ” t the Agency to make available to the Commission at least in this manner - via the FBI - sensitive information which could relate to telephone taps. MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE consultation with Mr. Angleton’ and Mr. was agreed with Mr. Papich that when the Bureau is fact problems of this nature in meeting the needs of the SS Ss on, the Bureau should not pass to the Commission inforxedions ashe Agency, but should refer the Comaission to the Agee dor anxaikigional information. It was mentioned to Mr. Pagren.ske = nauded to meet the needs of the Commission in anges ax Ee ltrs ») ore complete report or. reports. BIRCH D. O'NEAI, B 1978 Chief, CI/sIG for FOIA Review on FE oo ? : / | Attachment PAGE - of
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 1 | ( ae CLASSIFIED MESSAG* *- ’ vt SECRET ~ E. “ee DEC 4 1974 i i, FROM wexico CITY we , _ | MICROFILMED . % ACTION: cf 4. (WH/3 NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT 17 NOV. DM) INFO Pete ors c/cl 2, VR* AWD cnrera ep : CERO S e+ ON tion is 7 . Rs NYS: vet > i § EC RET 2721492 Sac , IMS EDIATE DIR Soha og < 7. asf i = 8 Unit CLM ee ATIN GALBOND If @estruction, - Peagons and cod + 4 appropriate. 3INEG2~3.— Sod ep Dik §5245<« le SENDING PHOTOSTATIC COPY OF TEN PAGE STATEMENT B ILVIA . ee — es , l } i | DURAW OBTAINED FROM EGHEVARRIA BY HAD OF ROGER T. KINGMAN IN eee | fe ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO GALBOND TRUE AWE. Ze KINGMAN ARRIVING AT DULLES AIRPORT AT 2329 HOURS 26 NOVENSER. _ HE WILL BE MET BY HIS WIFE, HOPES SHE WILL TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH ENVELOPE. sf SORRY NO TIME TO TRANSLATZ STATEMENT. \ . ae: ALSO INCLUDING 22 NOVEMBE, ' EMPLOYEE) TALK: TO UN KNOWN AN FROU LN “SECRET . c/s COMMENT: DISSEMINATION APPLIC , ork agtiarl Sect ay ha, coon on es = Re giestsa Sus acto ya cstle a traasisic- version Sylvia Derants Scacerians |  Dasument Number 173-615 _ > ( 2» “S- y ( {for FOIA Review on, APR 1976 ~ aol AIAN Se ; REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED Copy Ne. " sAgQa PROGMUBIMED — _ a A a a
1B-0G000 BAO: A COREE EH TAR CE = UN Nn te on Re mas te ay umm - me, November 27, 1963 AWS ne ty-to send ou es of these. twa. a had the time to ~ > I've had no time to give to John™ his visit and Algn has had alnost no time with him. We do hope, however, that he has been able to get some idea of our Station and its work by his talks with the various officers who have been able to spend some time with him during these two |. dayse Perhaps when we are little less rushed, he can retum to Mexico for another visit. Dear JC, some items I mentioned to you in g items are attached hereto. I a translate the longer one of t been very rushed. We appreciate your quick responses and good instructions in the case which is taking most of cur time these days. Sincerely, Z 1: Louise CALDERON-<y os Distribution: Orig : r é ang WN ilvia DURAN P WJ Ke, gw | Document Number , PGo- 73 “A “for FOIA Review on ‘Noy 77 PROMBITED 7 - 7  Gopy Wo.
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMBITED Nemorandum to Howard P. WILLENS from W. David SLAWSON, dated 4 February 1964; Subject: Letter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Posing Certain Questions on their Letter to Us dated 31 January 1964. SECRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for the Record, dated 27 March 1964; Subject: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey OSWALD's Stay in Mexico city: Visits to Soviet and Cuban Embassies. Memorandum: from COLEMAN-SLAWSON, dated 2 April 1964; Subject: Mexico: Questions Raised by the Ambassador MANN File. Memorandum for Record, undated; Subject: Intercepts from the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City. Palas REPRODUCTION - PROMBITED | SECRET
13-00000 REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED 31 Jul 78 NOTE FOR FILE: TOP SECRET DOCUMENT DTD 22 April 1964 by the authority of the National Archives, Marion M. Johnson has been regarded to CONFIDENTIAL | pate of authority 3/25/76 “ReaoncTOR
13-00000 _ ~ | ~ os aw} i¢ wee ZOE SUSRES awry lense? 7m 9 BM Bas 3 wan wat Anrii ¢ eas Loy SYEJSo2; Dein to seal sity ” Mo. Viliirs oa Gelenain, Jv. and ir, W. Pavid Slauson, all oes 8 the starfl of the Cenmission, Plew feeu “ashinston, BD. ¢. te iieaico City. He. Scleuan ceturned on Sunday, April 12 and Hr. Slaveon and He. ¥iliens returned en an aleplane leaving Hesico Gity 2t about 3:29, Monday afterncen, April 13. This _memoranium will brictly swanarisce this trip plus some «of the mestin3s nelé in preparation for 41t. PIESVAY -— APRIZE 7 | y i Halieuis, Calecan and Slavson wet with Assistant svetury of otate for Latin American Affairs horas Ronn, it. Themsa Frarli ef the Offices of the Leral Adviser for the State Cepirtment, and two aides to [. Hann in fe. Harn's (office at about 10:20 2.m. fusiatant se erctary Hana was Aubassador to texico & at the tine cf the B38: ssiniticn and severe anes —eteege eer pee bes a ° personally di pee = REP investigatory effort and our relatios3 node aoe fremsecdia ately attes with Sha Me«iena 26 City. aA copy REPRODUCTION’ oe | a Al
13200900. _ Mann contains statements of opinion by him that Oswald waa probably involved in a sinister fashion, especially by way of lating a Urive, wien une Gupan Empassy in mexico ULty or W2hi he claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald take $6500 in ' . American bills from an individual in the Cuban Embassy. We asked Ambassador Mann what particular evidence aside from the «REPRODUCTION : PROHIBIT TOP SECRET ® . 4% of the fille created by his efforts, consisting of telesrams between Mexizo City and the State Department in Vashinston, had previously been forwarded to the Commission. The purpose of our meeting with Aubassador Mann ras firs s6, to inform hin of our intent to go to Mexico and discuss with him our proposed actions there and seco alap once 6.aquestions with hin about his thoughts wae i ; Ol WTO ratory after the ounce. PROBIBITED The file turned over to the Commission by Ambassador some other Castro agency. fhese gus.icions were reinforced by the allegations of a certain "Alvarado" who at the time was: being interrogated intensively by the Mexican authorities and by. os representatives of the American Embassy in Hexico City because Alvarado assertions he had for these suspicions. He replied that he had none excep Bie @ Donat feeling "in his guts" that : Castro was the kind of | aly mee e carried out. this ED “POP SECR eaarp ous quant — 2mm ened oamy dem com cug3156_ _AERANOE TN seem iss PACE “90 08 5
13-00000'.. "REPRODUCTION kind of ruthless action, either throuzh some hope of gaining from 1t or simoly as revenge. The Amoassador added that not even the allezations of Alvarado or other rumors which may have ‘been current in Mexi i Bp ij cron: money had been given to Osywald were Ly S Suspicions, since the Alvarado ariecetion RAB FE ots a day or 50 later, but that the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban and Russicn - Embassies in Mexico City shortly before the assassination, which ‘he had learned from his security officers at the Enbassy, plus _ what he believed about Castro's eharacter, seemed sufficient to ‘him to raise the gravest suspicions. Later, he pointed out, | ‘when he had a chance to listen to the Dorticos-Armas intercepts, his suspicions were strengthened. Ambassador Mann “new of no contacts by Oswald with anyone in Mexico City other than his visits to the Cuban and Soviet Embassies and his staying at the Hotel del Comercio. i Ambassador Mann said that our intelligence took and was still taking photographs: of both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies — _ whenever anyone Left or entered their main entrances, at least during the normal ~ on Monday through Friday, curing the daytime wh ee
PRORIBITE! "OP SEGRER Tne Anbassador said that he had been kept informed of the Silvia Duran interrogation threugh his aides, Clarke Anéerson and Winston Seott. He learned of it informally, that is, Anderson and Seott reported crally to him &@sS soon as they received from AR ii flat "Gobernacion" any news about how soca WW * ogressing. _ . in response to NOTE [TED .. the Aubassador recom mended that when we got to Mexico City we should work through. . _ the representatives of the FBI and the CIA et the American .Enbassy and, through them, with the Mexican officiais they recommended, but that we should do all of this as quietly as possible, without «ny newspaper publicity. We also asked Ambassador Mann to what extent 4t was known. in Mexico City cee that the Hotel del Comercio was a headquarters for pro-Castro st teen et SEEDERS ERE EES ae ne CGE Ct + emet The Ambassador replied that it vas not known infedtigence oleh ‘circles. PR ONlaITE ; - | , Ambassader Mann said that t file from his Embassy ed « activities. generally at_all Wy current only in. ‘ ene . . Se which had previously been forwarded to the Commission consti- tuted the entire rile which was in existence on this particular / subject, ‘with the one exception that it may not have included "PAGE - = 2 a ge
13-00000 - the report from the FEI referred to REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED TOP SECRET om ee herein, We confimned shat it had net included thet report. sure that this in Kexico City, 1f we thouzht it was necessary.. he sai€é that he uas report could be ob btain ead from Clarke Anderson In response to Q sinilar question about the "Alvarado" file, he replied that any additional papers that might be in existeks ‘obtained through the about this. formal statements by wnat she is supposed rapptuved hy yan AP ranth ¢hennskh hig atdag Ambassador Mann was then called out to another con- ference, for which he was already a half-hour late. pecting was breaking up he asked Hr, am Commission staff felt a (ie : that his recommendat benefit of hindsight assassination had deen /DHA (OPTED we thought. they _ Mr. not rep at although the inves- tigation of the specific allegations of Alvarado had shown that were unduly rash. they were in all probability a fabrication, he found nothing in what the Ambassador had done to have been unjustified, in _RERIODET _PAOWERTED He said : UT authorities On probably be | CTA Fert Giinliidlaiaiy speak to Mr. Scott that he had never seen any papers or Silvia Duran; all his information about to have told the Hexican police was fSeakh and Anders sp As the Slawsen whether, with the e038 Oo . | | 23, » 155 corr Tor ata ree ne ele ee nee ees ee meee
"a8 Ep 00" a om rol Oe a ; _ 7 «REPRODUCTION. view of the facts kn 1ioun to him and his assistants at the tine end in view of the e Te onic of the occurrence, SS OTCTION AG 3:30 in the “PRO IeD,. Mitten of the CIA came to the Commission offices and eonferred there with Slawson, Willens and Coleman. This conference grew out of a - suggestion made by Mr. Richard Helms of the CIA about two weeks previous, in which he had mentioned that 16 would be a "good idea if a representative of his agency met with those | persons from the Commission who planr.cd te gO to Mexico just bn Meme Spee [ae 8 cw dan fe Annas tens Aten RPR mmoot® 2 _ i RP TE ED TOD TP Wamergg sentra we ye aim t. tet om ee waa wenpdae ww tr Ra wm properly advise us of any Jast-minut : arrange: ments and properly alert its people in RED H an of our arrival. - We discussed PRO! OOUGTION. to Mexico officially and openly PHBE Epp to, and Mr, Witten -offered to make arrangements to get ua into Hexico completely unnoticed 1f we desired to do so. We told him that we did not want to try to keep the trip entircly secret. We would do our best to avoid any kind of newspaper publicity or public announcements. we intended to introduce ourselves at the | 6 FO P SECRET 6 Gap ome eam om am oem me Gm Goin _ CORY NO. -_
ae PROGIBITED {>a i rE ix 2 eu ‘Ws i e Finbaasy and to Mexican efficials as wiat xe in fact were, representitives of the Conulscion. Mitten said alee uaa 1008. Winston Scott, | the CIA Chief for nexteo, | ng with one of the “top foreign opcratives in PRG HU (<a He said that the CEA would give us complete cooperation. once we arrived in Hexico, 4n general terms, and asked for his comments on how bent to_achicve our goals. His reply in every instance was that we should deal on the spot with Be. Seott. PALLEL Ghiuigiat Uilewts VUL Puyvosd JUuUTIuy Kase a yvory BV Lucat. He repeated what Er. GIA had said. a while AZO, / that there is no fis One ane GN fficer® being "on | | te spetct POSITED a WEDNESDAY - APRIL 8. : BS 8:15 a.m. to 7:00 nem. - 4 Our plane was scheduled to leave Washington from Dulles Airport at 9:30 in the morning and accordingly all three | of us mot et the “Washington. Air Terminal in the Albert Pick | . Hotel at about &: 15 and later arrived at the Airport at about © "RO Pp 3s EC RE = ip ‘Cu03161 — Fe ante eee ect cemm ng ls aa cty  o cete BG T
9:99, Hovever, weatner and technical difficulties held up the plane in vatieaaiG EON the cround in Uashington until NEP oO the afternsen. After a nol ROITED... ms we arrived in Nexico City at about 6:00 p.m., Mexico City time. We were met as we caine cff the airplane by a representative of Eastern " Airlines, lie, Jorse Villagomez, who addressed each of us by “name, gave us his business ecard and cased our way throuch . Mexican customs. An unidentified man approached ifr, Willens “and asked i: we were from the Embassy, Willens replied that we were not. The individual asked if 1t was true that people vere corning to investigate the aB5a Ssinatiou. Willens refused to confirm this report. Mr. Colexan had some winor difficul-. 2 . SPT e en we meee ee 0 ater street teenie angeyreneru tan arenes - tieca with the Mexican insigration officials over whether or not he had been vaccinated recently, and in the course of _ discussions on this the astern Airlines representative nen— tioned to the Innig nothing to the effect that. Me. Coleman was a- MERRIE Hig Neven Commission. = This comment could nov AG i Ps the person who had epproached TIP vLliens, who in the s Utne had walked baci towards Me. Soleman. If ail this occurred as we suepect it may have, it could explain why there was an announcement in two teed
by ‘ mil the following sornims naming zy iF A WOH OA on business for the Comaissicn. promis | : oITED Just inside the airport terminal we were met by of the exiles City us and statins that Me. Clarke fnderson and Mr. Rolfe Larsen from the American Enbassy. These men were later identified, respectively, as ' Chief of the FBI in Mexico City and an FEI agent temporarily “assigned for duty in Mexico City. Anderson ond Larson took the _ three of us to our hotel, the Continental Hilton. AC 9:00 a.m rf Paar met in the FEI offices | at the Enbassy with Mr. Larson and discussed gencrally with © him the progress of the assassination investigation while we were waiting to meet Anbassador Freeman. Clarke Anderson and Winston Seott 3» the CIA Chief in Mexico City, were conferring ; . with the Aubassador and briefing him on the Nexiean aspects of . _ the. assassination investigation. Ambassador Freeman had been at this post enly two days, having Just presented his cre~- dentials to the President of Mexico on Monday, April 6. freee metas ang ot reteset a: D 9 | ep) Cad “cuuat —_ee
‘REPRODUCTION. PROHIBITED oa gam my quem oEEGe GmE We met with the fuabas sador at about 9:30 in the mornins. Fresent REPO BOT a the Ambassador were Minister Boonstra, PROBIBTTED and Clarke Anderson. ie, Colcnan explained in EEL 0. terus the purpose of our trip, He said that we ranted to learn as much as ~ possible about what investigations weee currently being carricd out, with special emphasis on the Hotel del Comercio and on - O8% sald's northbound journey out of Mexico City, and that ue wanted to @ecide won and initiate whatever new lines of invcs~ fiwatian wa Palit vers antied foo. Ie eornccttsn wth Testtit | into these investigations, we wished to satisfy ourselves that everything reasonably possible was being done and, in additica, we wanted to become as current 25 possible on evidence beings. 7 _ produced. Also, uo hoped to make contact with one or more Mexican officials so.as to learn directly from them what part they had played in +h PRP , had learned that might Bip of IC In particular, we a what Mes. Silvia 7 Duran, the clerk at the cuban Iibassy who dealt frequently with igation and what they wanted to find out 25 Oswald, kney We Finally, we hoped to make arrangements for, and. “PAGE | —
all appearances and testimony were totally voluntary on the _. that we work through his staff in setting up appointments, etc. " REPRODUCTION PROLIITED TOP SECRET and perhaps accomplish Beara of our evidence obtained in vevtee, wo Vel HON. Nhons or by invit- ing witnesses to appear PROMBITED to testify. Mr. Coleman added that we hoped in all this to be guided by the counsel of the Ambassador and his staff, because we did not want to do anything that would disturb the good _ . yvelations of the American and Mexican governments. Ambassador Freeman replied that he and his staff “would ccoperate completely. He said that he saw no objection whatever to our talking directly to Mexicans who had some information to contribute, but he felt that this should be done only in the Embassy and only on the clearly stated basis that part of the Mexicans. As to speaking to Mexican officials. tLe Ambassador again said that this would be fine and he asked only The Ambassador pointed cut that the taking of formal depositions | in a foreign country could be a very difficult and technical ate section of the Embassy 2 | and Anderson felt oe ART + ewe Tay
ae "REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED matter and that 1t should be discussed fully with the Mexican officials, but they agreed that it did not differ in principle from our seeing other Mexican witnesses, i.e., the Ambassador approved so long as R REP ROOUCTION.. Embassy, and made clear to her tha tirely voluntary. There then oP RORIRITED. of views on how best: that our seeing Silvia Duran vould be a highly sensitive | | | { to approach Mexican officials, what Mexican officials would be : . most valuable for our purposes, and the general substance of | ‘our work. At about five minutes to ten the Ambassador had to | excuse himaclf for his first stoff meeting, which he had callsd | for 10:00 a.m. a | 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Willens, Coleman and Slawson retired to the office ‘that had been assigned to them at the Embassy, room 510, to discuss .the conference } the Ambassador and Generally to | Hg AIpatn the FBI, the CIA and Mr. — PROHIBITED - | | 12:00 a.m. to 1:45 P- nm, draw up outlines for our ‘6 og ORs ome eet eRe TRAE: fe nde woe ® a Mr. Anderson and Mr. scott came to room 510, after 212 TOP: SECRET ae eam aD cyan aim’ qummp aime | deemtp | Seeen
ZOP SECRET oe re ee ee ce ee the staff mecting had adjourned. We agreed that ve vould confer with fiir. Anderson immediately and mect Mr. Scott later in the day, at about 3:30. Mr. Anderson was welcome to come with us at our meeting with Mr. Scott, if he desired to do 80, ~. and he said that he would make up his mind on this after he had conferred with us, because he of course had: other work to do and would not want to attend the meeting with Scott if it . would simply involve rad eve GON ground he had comets PROUIBTED Accordingly, we met immedintely with Clarke Anderson in his offices. He invited Rolfe Larson and a Mr. Trent to take part in the conference. Mr. Trent was also an | > agent of the FBI temporarily on duty in Mexico. One of the topics of conversation was Reverend ° Albert Alexander Osborne, _al30 known as_ sohn Howard Eoven. Me. Trent had been the agent primarily enzsaged in , tracking down and talking with Bowen, although Larson too had been somevhat involved. Briefly, the agents described Bowen as an elderly white haired gentleman who was probably engaged in some kind of violation of the nls his fund raising, because tt was not "FTE et TOP SECRET fa 2 tt srs cm —tmeter * mentee te ete oon SHG = aD aD ee tye Oe ee ee ne sg ener : clear that he actual — l
13:90000. the Commission or a staff 1 member , “Trent and Lars son, were .that they had sufficient grounds to do so at any time. In the * REPRODUCTION PRORISITED purposes, at least ef the kind he represented that he would use the money for, REPRODUCTION” as someuhat unstable menzally. frent NOU TIC when he first approached Boren he ros AG ET BNET [ae [ite Osborne,”™ and the reply was that he, Trent, must be mistaken, because he, Osborne, was Bowen. Osborne then went on to say that he was _ often mistaken for Osborne but that he had not seen that other gentleman in some time, and believed he was in some other section of Mexico, ete. Trent said that Osborne carried this — off very well. It was not until later that Osborne admitted that he was really Osborne but that he often used the name Bowen. When asked directly how they though: Osborne “would react to being asked or compelled to appear to testify before inconclusive. They thought that there might be trouble but they. were not sure. Trent and the other PBI representatives then described the procedures the Mexican Innigration Author- ities were using in dealing with Osborne. In sum, the author~ ities had not acted as yet to deport Osborne but they believe meantime they were Psy PROBUCTION™ were questioning | . him occasionally. PROT felt. ‘that af we. ‘BOP SECRET oe . . ——_"
Osborne quickly. | ” PIBTED The discussion then continued on to other investiga-~ tions, Larson gave @ detailed summary of recent resuits of ° the investigatioa of Oswald's northbound travel on the | Transportes del Norte bus. I will not go into. what he said . here because it is now reflected in an FBI report in the pos~ ‘pession of the Commission. We advised him to include as much _ detail as possible in the reports which he sent through ‘channels in washington to our Commission because the detail which he had told us orally seemed ts fit what we knew ahaut Oswald's baclcround and was therefore valuable as confirmatory - material in the overall picture, even though it perhaps seemed | important to Larson. We then supplice various details about | Oswald's background and character which might assist Larson in | interrogating witnesses in Mexico. Larsen, Trent and Anderson ii or future reports “from Mexico. j Larson and PROL Onl BITED . into a discussion of ' the Hotel del Comercio investiration. Here, 1t¢ appears that the pial . agreed to include al conclusion of the Mexican investigatecs that-no-one—at—the hotel - a ars peepee TOP SECRET  : © © | | em am qnaD om a ee a GRR oH =
13-0000. REPRODUCTION. " PROBIBATER renenbered Cavwalda an ad that the only cvidence of his stay ee eee ere cc pars Son, t& the maid at the eee, hotel did remembor att give some bits of information about him. For one thing, She, as did other wit- nesses ,confirmed that he was always alone when she saw him. eee Oe | _: Purther, she said that he invariably had left the hotel before. ’ she cleaned his room at about 9:00 in the morning. Larson had  &lso found out that the proprietress of the little restaurant - next door to the hotel vas able to ijentify Ose wald, although Larson was not complctely certain on how-much she really remembered and how much she may have picked up by suggestion | from newspaper reporters. Anyway, st.e has stated that Oswald - frequently ate lunches and dinners” at her restaurant, that he ‘so that he really knew what he was ordering when he ordered 2 . ; apparently believing RE, iE HEP RODHOR ying money, . although. invariably, ordered very cheap meals, that he always ate alone, ee and that he was not able to converse sufficiently in Spanish meal. For example, he often refused soup and dessert, both items. were ne sneludedpip cost o full meal, ie | Various other. Url (ED. Oswala and. of places” - where Oswald may have been in Mexico City were also touched uDOoNn, - TOP SECRED PAGE _~ pits cae ee mesenger i He mentee eS
PROHIBIT TOP SECRET such as the bull fight arena, the jai alai games, and the places vhere he may have purthased tourist items. For example, Larson and ther one of their agents had weil RCT. silver shops in an attempt to locate ae Gini 21/ nil RARER may have purchased a silver bracelet inscribed ert The response had been .. negative at each shop and subseauent investigation has shown that such bracelets are probably not sold in Mexico at all ; because ‘they are made in Japan and the duty on importing then : into Mexico would make their price non-competitive with local products. ae . We then asked what was the status of the Gutierrez investigation. Trend and Lars son and Anderson all agreed that a . Gutierrez was sincere and was doing all he could to cooperate Sct ome: ame “tes eevee bienete eet ENED GEER wore arr € - with the investigation of what he clains to have seen, In fact, GutiLerrez has “spend a considerable amount of time trying to get more. valuable information and he has never tried to receive any conpenaat PR OCT IG weakness in a Gutierrez’ story, neon" B XO the FBI representatives, is the ; identification of Oswald. by ne HOud hel utterces has falied to identify Osvald as the man he saw at the Cuban Embassy . . receiving money then shoun a picture of Oswald passing ous “ROPSEGRET Pow Guo Gens ELD Gee ewe quel uN. aueUD
PROMIBITED Fair Play fer Cuba _ acre durin: the sunmer - of 1963. Gutierrez says that he never? saw his man in profile, only from the rear and from @ direct feruard view. His best picce of vdontatteatien is te the automobile he saw "“osyald" and the Cuban enter just outside of the Embassy. Even here, however, assumi:3 that his description of the automobile is completely accurat«, there are probably . dozens of such automobiles in and around Hexico City. Renault is a@ popular make of car in Mexico, end the color deseribed by _. Gutierrez is a popular color. One automobile answering this description and frequently seen around the Cuban Embassy has been located, but it is still registered under the name of the man who owned and sold it several years ago. This situation is apparently conmon in Mexico. Mexicans often register a car under the name of its former owner in order to evoid paying 2 $ales tax on the transfer. However, investigation 18 continu- ing to see if the present owner of this particular autowoblle can be located. In addition, a constant syrveillance of the Cuban Embassy and sai?) ‘similar car, and ar ote a being kept, to spot this or investigation will weenie PROMIBITED Slawson then mentioned tnat we had brought with us from Washington all the items of physical evidence vhich might ee }— ~d PO PAGE _~ 5
" REPRODUCTION  PRORIBETEEB TOP SECRET [ou fe é é relate to Hexico. It was agracd that Slasen and Larson would go throuch these items later. We then inquired as to our seeing the reports Schaar of the FBI in Mexico, Anderson ee) vie hat these ton open to cur cxami- RAO Ad aT ia) gents would show us. ‘whatever we would like to see. We agreed that we would look at nation at any time an: particular reports later, as the oceasion warranted. | Silvia Duran was then discissed. It appeared that eae ett A Caetano, he: signed statement had finally been obtained from the . ~-_ . eeeed : . . Mexican Police, Previously, the existence of such a sts tement ° i eS TS _had not been known. We agreed that we would see that later in the day or tomorrow and that 1t would also be forwarded through 9 ne em neater nye ed channels to the Comis sion in | Washington. Ve emphasized that we wanted not only 2 translation of the statement but, if tomes en eeecae ere wo gupnit meee o peeernccnren AA EP AEE A .- possible, a copy of of the statement itself. Tne FRI representa~- tives deserihbed Duran as best they could, basically, as a "Mexican pepperpot,"” a devout communist, and "sexy." (Tne CIA later showed us f ch substantially con- firmed this desert SEPRUDCL TION. at would be the best : approaches to our eo OTT Poy Anderson felt that : this would | be a touchy point but agreed that we should try to do it if we could. He thought that the Mexican official that we should see about this as well as all other aspects of our . a a ee nt
13-60000 - '. When he was fastened to the machine and pointed to various _ Anderson would then ask Aba the que n in Spanish. “that n now that. the > Anvestigetions were more or less. complete i REPRODUCTION P ROMIBIT a investigation was Luis Echevarria, Acting Secretary of the antericr. oe ER he was vell accuainted with Echevarria and thai NE COUCHIOR with him, as dia Mineton seott-  PROMIBITED Willens, Slavson and Coleman each got the impression: from this conference that the FBI in Mexico City had been ' completely frank and open with us. So-far as we can determine every question we asked was answered without an attempt at — me eo eae a ae ae once oO , _ evasion, and much information volunteered which we had not ‘asked. Botli Larson and Anderson give a very good impression ef competence and Anderson's knowledge of the details of the assassination investigation was especially ampressive since his duties are prinarily supervisory.. fhe Alvarado investigation was also reviewed. Clarke ae Anderson said that he was_present at the Alvarado interrogation which was taken under a polyeraph mashine. The polygraph nc em aah ee ee cen operavor, who did not speak Spanish, stood behind Alvarado questions written in i Anderson to ask. | in ‘response to our ive. Anderson replied oe ee cee nt ca NE SNR Ce ee ies eet se am oe a 20 “BOP SECRET COPY 0.
OS REPRODUCTION ETE [rs POP SECRET Qe eeu 6 Gem ReaD Gate his expert opinicn was that no foreign conspiracy arising out or or connected with the territcry of Mexice existed in ccn- nection with the ass ; io said that he felt that 1f such had existed, AP ROOUP TO Mae not have solved 4t by this time, they ROTETTEN e-some firm indication that it wae in existence Wi Ter... were in fact . dacking. We asked Anderson how: many different allegations of - ‘eonspiracy had been received by his office and @ he replied, siz. me ow vane cucu ne see arenes stetie  enene 6 wan a ane CERN attest These weres the Gutierrez alle; sation, the Alvarado allegaticn, een ‘the _Diaz Verson 1 allegation, © the Martino-oja allezation, the eee ce ate es 5 wets letter from Victor Cohen, end the allegation concerning the erent ottoman tas + enamine ne + 11 senm em cane enema eae ee te tee eteuttere etna asters, Star fnna Vie jynent ben ow Boge a om am be Bean, HF meet ome at comme mae de om gf ohne Se Bm To 2 go oui ame on Qa SP WD en GE PE a OD SF MPAA LTE arse WORT EMES EO RHI Whew eds ap %ae em ent-n come 2 ae OS Sar yy tenet te NEN © Ere SLRADNLNONNN —W Oethe Wane © ey sanutnnnnneenetirrctraD opinion only the first three allegations mentioned even seemte 1 een m9 eae erence serious and that, os analysis, the only ene that still seened serious was Gutierrez . _ Anderson veadiily arreed. 3:20 p.m. to 6:00 After lunch De three of us went to Mr. Scott's office, | ‘ana were there -iiasion Alan whites The conference was begun vB xz us @ complete narrative of the CIA's PROGID EDD cotton with Lee Harvey oo Oswald, beginning in September 1963 when they first picked up ‘¢nformation that Oswald had appeared at the Russian and Cuban cymes Gumem een pe ey AGE - 39 oe 159 _ pm naay ees eee ne nee = fet cae bee fee sens new ee ee we nee eee cee enema ee ag - cat . me ‘ fi statement henna
13-00000 ~ _ through him without Padres ili - Washington. -We agreed to this. had had some contact i REPRO nn especially Slivia Duran, who because 5 iu been having an C. REPRODUCTION PROMI EL ir, Scots stated at the ber 35 -of his. narrative tha t he intended to make a complete disclosure of all facts, ee includiny tha sources of his” _information, and that he undar- stcod that all three of us had been cleared for Top Secret ce tr I memes aba on mete cee cern nee TI EC A and that we would not disclose beyond the confines of the - Commission and its immediate staff the information we obtained pean hi : : 7 + ilies EH N S superiors in ae sooner e A OUTED VED. tock a rather long time to complete, and we interrupted him a& many points with specific questions. During the course of the narrative we were SAREE meaner oe shown the actual transcripts, plus the translations, or all the telephone intercepts involved, and we were also shown ‘the reels of photographs for all the days in question that had been taken secretly outside the Cuban and Eovist Embassy entrances. Me. Scott's narrative disclosed that the CIA's action immedi- ately after the assassination consisted basically of alerting ; all 4ts confidential sources of information throughout Mexico to imacdiately channel all information into their headquarters, and of compiling as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and everyone else throughout Mexico who at that time the CIA knew PRO ISITED — PFOP SECRET. ome come ene ane ems GRD GRERD EER GREED Is PAGE 40 of £00 COPY No. __9—— |
13-00800 ° SO REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED POP SECRET omnes Ce ee ey affair with Lachuza, the feoxmer Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and presentiy the Cubzn representative at the United Nations, had previousiy been of substantial interest ‘to the. Cra, Eusibio Azque, Duran's superior at the Cuban Embassy, Kostinev, a EC3 representative at the Soviet Embassy, and others, and conveying this information to Kashington. In addition, the CIA worked closely with the FBI and with the Mexican authorities, especially on the Silvia Duran interrogations. Finally, . ’ Me. Scott, along with Mr. Anderson, was in constant contact with '” Ambassador Mann, to ket) AB MRA ET HE Rysstb2< on all ’ 4nformation coming in PRA other Rie SCott pointea out Oh I heauquarters naa prexea tip the name of Lee Harvey Oswald from commerclal radio broadcasts - and had begun compiling information on him from its Mexican: files even berore being requested to do so by CIA in washincton. All his men were taken off any other assignment they may have been on and told to concentrate solely on the assassination, All the persons previously mentioned who might have been in contact with Oswald, plus other people who in Scott's opinion might possibly be involved, were put under surveillance. This ' included, for example, the Cuban Ambassador and all known iccal Cuban and Russian intell ign liaison vas set up With Mexican offi avail OM. by Echevarria mc  SuUSTT, Os an sno
13-90000 «. TOP to the American Enbassy at this time disc REPRODUCTION PRORIBIT 5 E CRET losed that Echsovarria . and President Lopez Nateo had ordered the Mexican border closed for travel both ways, without having been requested to — do so by the American “Rep inp id that the border closure was so thoroush JR CON IN children were trapped on both sides, PROGIBITED Scott's narrative plus the materials ve were_ shown disclosed immediatcly how incorrect -our-previous information had been on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Mexican - Embassiés.Abpar ently the | distortions and omissions ‘to “which our information had been subjected had entered some place in nent ce tae Washington, becaus®? the ULA inrormation. Scott was unambiguous on almost all the Oe oe had previously planned to show Scott, Slawson's reconstruction nn of Oswald's probable activities at the embassies to get Scott's opinion, but once we saw how badly distorted our infor~ Seren rane anegesansnaneetteremeneeaseseeseen ATC CC CL ett mation was we realized that this would be useless. cae instead, we decided 1 tol hale OTM the original source mater: a Ss, a PROWISITED. visit. In view of what we had learned about the photographic nnn that _we were snown by crucial points. We eae Therefore, possible from 4 time durin ng our ‘coverage of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, we inguired whether photographs of Oswald coming or going from one or both | REPRODUCTION
jv) 2 hes) 03 3 | Q pes) be J embassies might be available. Scott said they were not. He explained that photographic coverage was limited by and large to the daylight veekday hours, because of lack of funds and because no adequate technical means for taking photcsraphs at night from a lonz distance 1 Glial light, which was of course out of Pere nstance » had been developed. PROF TED We broucht up the question of Gutierrez and received . from Scott and White basically the same information we had . previously Jearned from the FBI, though somewhat attenuated because, as Seott and White pointed out, the FBI was carryingc the primary responsibility with Gutierrez. We suggested that Gutierrez’ story might be confirmed or refuted ty photographs | taken by the CIA, that in particular the automobi le he claimed to have seen might show up on the fringes of some of these photographs, and we inquired whether an appropriate examina- tion of the picture reels had been made. White replied that _ such en examination had not yet been mace and that he suspected that it would’ disclose nothing new, because the However, he promised 2D make such an examination. (About a . day later Scott revert BROUGH ON ee had been made and proved neg “PROGIBITED t photographs covered little more than the entrance itself, _ | | ! am PAGE 43 42 gS.
oe rar In answez to cur question, white and Scott gave their profersional opinions that there probebly vas not a foreign conspiracy connested with Mexico involving the assassination of the President. They, like Anderson, felt that had there been suc ret. at least by this time have had some “PRO ETE ons of its existence. We asked Mr. Seott to set up ITED « with Secretary ' Eshevarria for all three cf us at ths earltest possible tine. fa wanted both him and Mr. Anderson there, if possible, both as . interpreters and because their previcus personal acquaintance with the Secretary would facilitate cur dealings. Scott tcle- phoned Anderson and confirmed this request. We then reenterea our discussion of the assassination in general, as it related to Mexico. _. rt appeared that the CIA ————___ Cir 4 forwarded certain material developed elsewhere to Scott, even though these materials might have reasonably related to the Hexican investigations. For example, ee the contents of the letter which Oswald wrote to the Russian Embassy after he returned to the United states, deseribing certain aspects of him fadn.. had never anh disclosed to Scott or his staff. - ~ OP SECRET? Pt renee ee re namo ns caemanngattn a aR tt Se SRO ace 44. of 19D, 58 5 _ COPY io... J — ae REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED t
1386000 - coos RIL PROHISITEE Daring this general disnuation called out to meet with Viinister Escnstra in regard to the publicity wrich had anyeared: in the local newspapers about our visit. This involved the drafting: of a telesram to the State Departnent in vad OR DMG Ges publicity and | an estimate as to the “PRe be » Willens learned at | this time from Eoonstra tha d not have a copy | of-the Tile forwarded to the Comaission by Ambassador Mann. | | | | Apparently, Ambassador Hann's personil file is the only one . nein existence aside from the Constlssion copies of it, all enn, eens oo — + + eae other copies having been destroyed vhen the Ambassador left his we one TEE ee tee oe ets oe eee. ‘post in Mexico. Boonstra told wane; ns that he {Eoonstra) fo the ee . ne eecarea ated i tee only person other 2 cott-and—Andcrson-whoe-was_involved with Ambassador Mann in the assassination investigations. Hr. . Willens asked Boonstra to begin thinking about how best we could forward a request to the Mexican officials for a complete report on their role in the assassination investigations. At ‘this time Boonstra's only comment was that such a report should, if possible, be obtained prior to its being reviewed by the Mexican Foreign Office, because such a review micsht censor out substential portions for political reasons and in ariy event would involve sn ean i the Foreign Office be a "Bi on © nbkegaition at a later TOP Jats ET ed that review by once 45 ot 155° SOPY NO. __ Qs ae Sos meee Tenet se crceremeenemarnse erence
Pe REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET wo AREPROQUET! - time, but that Lt sol WE dn Ne the information at this stage. : PROKIB : Back in the CIA offices, during Willens! absence, Slavson and Coleman discussed the cable traffic from the Soviet and Cuban Empassies both during the time of Oswald's visits “Senet Sr ST tS tht. ensrtanresy the ember-October 1963 } and immediately after. the assassination. Scott and White said that no inereases or - wmysual variations had been noted at either time. We then dis- cussed briefly the possibilities that the National Security _Agency might be able to "break" the nodes for the times when Oswald was in Mexico City, using as a key the fact that Oswald's attempt to obtain a visa was probably communicated to Washington on Friday or Saturday, Sentember 27 or 28. Scott pointed out that all his office did with coded materials was to send them back to the National Security Agency in Washington in the form in which 1t obtained them. They felt that the code- breaking might be ee REPO however, and should be tried. ‘FRIDAY - terion | op 9:00 a. RA) pe , : 4 uy ae. Coleman, Willens and Slawson appeared at ‘the FBI uf) offices at 9:00 a.m., as we had agreed to do the previous y evening, and there met Rolfe Larson. The plan had been that we | | oo 28 ; | : POP SECRET  _ | an Gd }— co REPRODUCTION = wee _ PROHIBITED RETREAT mene mee oomermeere mt ecnsmrates Oy COS mo Somme neeee eens ee wee eras cee nme ome ate i ee a woe wo .
13-G0000-.- : REPRODUCTION had visited during his trin to Nexien, but Larson told us that he had just been eRe Donk that time we expected s WW REI: the hour when re eould neet with secret IS TH Ee therefore sat in Anderson's cffice and discussed with Larson the relative i 41 9:45, because by locations and other physical aspects of the places we were to see later in the morning. Soon Andesson came in and told us that the appointment with Echevarria was firm for 11:30. The Ambassador had been told about the meeting and again approved - it, repcating his conditions that when we ask Echevarria for permissicn to speak directly with Mexican citizens that we make clear that we wanted all interviews to be within the American Embassy and to be completely voluntary. Ve then hed a brief discussion on how we would handle the mecting with - Echevarria. Willens and Slawson said that we had agreed the | previous evening that Bill Coleman would carry the discussion : for us and that Coleman would spend the first few minutes in conveying the gratitude and appreciation of the American : Government to the Mexican Government for its assistance to date, its satisfaction with the quality of such assistance, etc., and | | . - other matters of etagive wise which we had been ; told were essential when d manner with | TOP SEC (20) : i) ae PP BAe err Grae t= = ” ee eeeeee FL EE IO ESS LE .
ons, Cc ONE TION oo PRORIBITED Mexicans. Anderson and the others present at this conference oon PNET a ; cat RF 9:45 2. Bs The three of us viere Jou by Rolfe Larson in an unmarked automobile around the various points that had been touched upon by Os» wld. We saw the Transportes del Norte bus . terminal, the Transportes Frontera bus terminal, the Plecha | Roja bus terminal, the Chihuahuiences travel agency, the Hotel _ dél Comercio, the restaurant next door to the hotel where * Oswald repo.tedly ate many meals, otiuer hotels in the neighbor- hood of the Hotel del Comercio and “ne vartana hia atationn- and this netghborhood generally, the Cuban Embassy and Consulate, and the Russian Embassy and Consulate. Several observations yere immediately obvious. The two embassies are close enough together so that Oswald almost certainly walked back and forth between them when the occasion ecgalled for it. The embassies, althougn theoretically reachable from the Hotel del Comercio or the inter-city bus stations by with the bus lines in Mexico ally for someone PROWIBITED ETOP SECRET : 4 bus would be much too ie IN was not familiar | j | local bus, are in practice so lceated that reaching them by |. i | | PRONE cowusiss a
PROBMRNTER who did not spask Spanish fluently ci:such to sect precise directions, The Hotel del Comercio, although cectainly a cheap hotel and one in which Americar tourists would ordinarily never stay, has a neat, clean appearance and, according to Larson, is in fact clean.ingide, and stands out from its surroundings as being Ba) DOC HOR: than the other | | | | . hotels in the mete PRORIBIFED Although one-way streets make it difficult to drive from the Flecha Roja. bus terminal to the Hotel del Comercio . except by devious routes, for scmeone walking, as Oswald was, it would be an easy distance and a natural direction to walk. The hotels near this particular bus terminal are almost all | grouped around the same areca as the Hotel del Comercio, and | it would seen very possible that Oswald could have been | | directed towards this neighborhood if he inquired of the wher3- abcuts of an inexpensive hotel. Moreover, coming from the direction of the bus terminal, the Hotel del Comereio would very likely be the first reasonably clean and attractive hotel that : one vould notice. Some .of the other hotels in this neighborhood | . “eloser to the terminal than the de1 Comercio are also attractive, although perhaps not quite so as the Hotel del Comercio, but Rolfe Larson pointed se hotels tend to gct filled earlicr and therefor ! CaLGAL. referred further 3 LUY3195 ‘pace 49 oe, 155 corr Wee
" REPRODUCTION OP SECRE® 1 dovn the street if he inculecd at one of thom for a rcom and was turned down. “Larson confirm SmI * anderson 1 and Scott earlic OILAY Pose them had any indica- or Cuban revolutionaries or even for Cubans, ee said that he of course had inves-~ 7 ‘€igatea this possibility and that his examination of the hotel . register for the periods around Oswald's visit there had dis~- ‘elosed only one Cuban name. Further investigation showed that this belonzed to a Cuban family man (ho had his family with him and that they were tourists traveling throush Mexico. The Guban and Soviet Imbassies have no remarkable characteristics except that both are surrounded by high adobe walls which make observation of their interiors extremely difficult. The Cuban Consulate, where Oswald did most of his dealings, is a smail separate pullding on the corner of the Cuban complex of buildings, with its exterior valls coterminous with the adobe walls which surround the area. Its front coor therefore opens onto the strce Exit. and entry into the 7 bay ee in that it can easily | “| IR : Consulate, therefore, Pe be observed by persons NUE, emIuTED ASOT wes 50° of PAGE 153, COPY NO. __
‘pleasantries and courtesies. Coleman also told Echevarria that * REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED After driving around with firsen we retuened and pacied the car in frent of the american Labasay and waited gust outside the car for Scott and Anderson to come out, as we had asreed beforehand. They came out shortly after 11:00 a.m. Wie Hi\e Ministry of the Interior to meet ‘DD  "Eohevare a. We arrived at Senor Eechevarria'ts office somewhat and eo all wot. into the early but were nevert theless immediately brought in to meet hint. “We | sere soon joined by his head assistant for this kind of york, Senor Ibanez, Chief of Inepections. Clarke anderson acted as interpreter, under our instructions that he should feel free to elaborate as to courtesies and details at any tine, ankl Winston Scott also interpreted at a few points. As aed ly agreed, Mr. Coleman did the talking fer the three of -us. nal GIN’ the American | governnent, and of there omission in particular, for the cooperation our natic n his agency and fron the Mexican government generally, and in general ex cchansed Chie? Justice Warren had sent his personal thanks to Echevarria. PAGE == cory No. 22 see cena eg =e
1300000 *. REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET Coleman asked that the Mexican poverncnent tive the Commission a complete and as detailed as possible report on 211 the ne srvesescns PRE RAE COGTI On in connection with the assassination and on_ any other &c such as closing the border, it had scurried PROM ARB. readily azrecd to do this, saying that all the basic reports which would go inte such an overall report had already been prepared and that he : could deliver the overall report on 48 ‘hours notice. He . asked, however, that we deliver a formal request for this - report to the Mexican foreign office, addressed to his atten- -t4on, in order that it not be mistakenly sent to some other police or investigatory ageney in Mexico. (ve had learned . from other sources that there are 26 different police forces operating in the Mexico Federal District alone.) He said that he would telephone the foreign office inmedietely after our conference to alert them that he was the person responsible for the note and would appreciate its being forwarced to him for his eppropriate action. We agreed that ve would deliver such a note that afternoon Ce ROOUETIN his attention as _ he had requested. Mr, Coleman lt OUBITED eeecess en that we were treating all conmunications from Hexico on this subject as. So eee 10 ea EI edn nt ne ptigntennete : confidential and that we would do the same for the report he was | L 3h TOP SECRE a ed em omme ome seme ome cum _ See “ * rc SED COPY NO. woo re eee tnt TRRREPOEN RHR
13-0000". a — “Tepe ADUCTION PROMILT TOP SECRET Ce wed fe me Se oN aT goins to deliver to us. We would publisn only after recelvin.: eloaransce from the Hexica n gover onment, which clenrance we planned to seck at some late er point in our investigation. Echevarria egreed that this had been his uncers standing all Qlionss and that it » REPRO tanding upon which he would convey the f CTON ; Echevarria nel ROME ED» the overall ‘situation and gave his strong opinion thet there vas no foreign _ conspiracy involved in the assassination, at least no conspira- ‘ey connected with Mexico. Coleman then brought uo fhe matter of our sntervicu- ro - ing witnesses for documentation purposes and to find out additional information, if possivle, in foxico. To give a specific illustration of what ve had in mand, fr. Coleman used the manager of the Hotel del Conercio as an examole,. Echevarria replied basically in the affirmative, but he made two important qualifications. First, he felt that the inter-_ views should not be in REPROD y, because to hold then there would give the appears ica a investiza- tion being carried on by ar H ip HF Fea" on Mexican spoil, and this he felt, would be very 4 dvantageous St a mae ee ee AR SORES ERNE RRA ree atte fee nt meee mr het politically for the present Hexican governnent, He pointed out POP SECRET Gum gummie . aeymee qxoap gem gem «qm gems qagt Gs ood c 2 6 + nenepneneaneee nen neater ae ne . * - . 1 entmeercante samen tenn © SOE Yo Oa we mera “Enemas epeeenennieen =u anacrceins snvenpaee
13-0G000°" - shat an election for president was scheduled to be held in July, that such cleaticns were held only every six years in Mexico, und that the present tine uns therefore eatremely sensitive politically. Qne of the most effective proevasanda weapons the communists nave in Eeaico is the alleged American conination and interference with the Mexican sovernment and any unduly public investigatory. activities or our part would ” end themasives to this kind of propaganda. Second, Echevarria requested that the interviews with Nexican nationals not be formal bub that insteft cht to arrange to have lunch or coffee, ¢é REPRODUCTION with whom ve winhen ta rpeab. PRORIBITED Our reply to this, made through Mr. Coleman, waa th2t we did not want. any appointments for lunch or otherwise made at this time because we wanted to leave the entire problem open. ke had not in our ovn minds decided whether and to what extent we wanted to proceed on this basis. . Echevarria agreed that he would take no action unti2 we requested it. we eee nee ean sae pen mee ‘There was an interruption here while Echevarria | a spoke in Spanish to Ibanez. The three of us took the oppor- | Hl - vam aay a ene another,’ | sthelibr Neste to permit i " Coleman felt that in view 0 tunity to consult qu
13-00000 - that it was upon the information his men had obtained fron her. about tnis point, Echevarria abruptly took steps to end the : meeting. He said tha RE ' Queen Juliana, BNO Wa REPRODUCTION PROWNITED MOP SECRETS ee ed formal mectizis cven with unimportant witnesses such as the hotel clark, that the prcposal we had for Gealing with Silvia Duran othe to be kh “REP RG REPROPUCTI CN’ le proposed to do. this by shiftins the converda o the overall report, atressins that in the PROBE RE Bpot we Pelt that Duran's interro;ation was of the highest importance, and then hopefully shiftins; the conversation unto the subject of how we ' eould deal directly with Duran. dillens and Slauson agreed with this appreach. Coleman then again spoke te Echevarria, referring back to the oversil report and describing our feeling of importance as to Slivia Duran, ctc., as outlined in the previous paragraph, Echevarria replied by emphatically agreeinz that epee are nae 9 a ee tenement rem eecpnre gamete Duran's testimony was of the greatast importance and promising to go into as much detail and documertation as possible in connecticn with her evidence in his final report. He commented that. he had relied most heavily in concluding that no con spiracy had been hatched during Oswald's visits to Mexico. At nt to have lunch with GN ‘an official visit ong amps qoute CE | oe) t) 9 aaa 8
ee REPRODUCTION ae 7 | — PRORIBITED am Goh GE a Pathe to Kexico, #nd that he of course nad to be on tine. Colenzn uSed the opportunity to say jokinsly that we would like to have lunch with Silvia Duran while Echevarria was with the Queen. Echevarria replied in the same vein that we would not gn was not 2 gsG0d- looking Cuban but on N result on Duran, the PROMBATED As we were leaving and welding down the stairs to have ag much fun as i ae S rather inconclusive the entrance of the building Senor Ibanez came up, behind and _- asked Clarke Anderson to stay a minute and speak with him, vhich Anderson did. The rest of us proceeded to our car in the perking Lot outside to await Anderson. Anderson later told us thes Ibanez had held him back to say that he [inanez7 was completely at our disposal for. . making» any arrangements for lunch or otherwise with Mexican | nationals. Clarke Anderson told Ibanez thet we appreciated this but that in. some : instances we might find it rather too informal at a luncheon to transact the kind of business we hoped to do : with some of the witnesses. . Ibanez replied that in that case he would be happy to set up appointments at his office in the - Ministry of the Interior building. Anderson questioned whether this vas in ‘line ee neDNS ao atmosphere that, - a Echevarria hoped to RP RiOe MN that perhaps. it. TOP SECRET 7 ahem emit spine Ce ee eo +t Amour esto ot venta Ana TTD Suny er Re AF ARR OR fe REED SERS RAPE ERE Son NY ove toe ‘ e . j—* ee) PO en RE eo ne ee an Ne ane NH ee meme en oe
1300000 pe PROWBITED was not. However, the possibility oi usin: Ioanecs' office was not foreclosed. | there about noon. ON the Exbassy, arriving The three of us plus Scott and Anderson went to . Minister Boonstra's office as soon as. we arrived at the American Embassy. We reviewed with Boonstra vhat hed occurred with “Echevarria. We decided that we woulc submit the note to the ~ Mexican goverment that afternoon, i> possible, although evere one recognized the difficulty of delivering the note te the | proper Mexican officials vhich was created by the visit of Queen Juliana. Eoonstra pointed out that not only was there an official lunch, at which Echevarria was now in attendance, but that a state dinner was planned for that evening. Boonstra requested that we draft the substance of the note immediately ‘and that it then be given to him for shaping into final form. | We then discussed with Boonstra the problem of Silvia Duran. We pointed out that our only interest in wit~ nesses other than Duy a eb Pani formal testimony for authentication varpodtlel> hee i GIN) HONE hat there was any- thing we could learn then that Mr. Larson “ . . e peeemen co eee remem 4 oe sy co OF Seten ean Rees me emirate enepcenpRenoree areas ih eet iste etary sae + nano er: san RT St ETE SSUES a ree ee eer RA? PERG a oh wef esr HEE FUP eas a CERT . a . . and other FBI agents had NG ih rned. This was not - . 39 a Ps, ZOP SECRET we oe ovosia3 ae ae “ DOSE - | ee ace: _57 5 |
13-00000- truc of Dursn, hovever, besause she had been interviewed only by the Mexican police and we considesed that interview inadequate. (I should point out that we do net co ev 4t totally srecessate HEP RO DOG HONS Getalls such as ‘Oswald's physical appgar: Ric macnts or remarks he may interropate Mes. Buran further. Qn the essential point of whether or not his have made, ctc., that lke contacts with the Embassy consisted oF anythin other than ' an attempt to travel to Cuba, Silvia Duran's knovledze has . probably been exhausted.) We diseussed with Roonstra the best approach to try to speak to Duran. Boonstra frankly stated that at this point it was his cpinion that we would not be shle to get throush to her. He felt that the Mexicans were too politically sensitive to risk having her picked up a third time under arrest and that she, being a comuiunist and especi- ally because her husband was a very militant communist and @ very bitter person in general, would not azree to any kind of voluntary appearance. Nevertheless, he fEocnstra/ would raise no objection to cur attempt to orrange a meeting with her. te thercfore agreed that Scott or Anderson would reeontact | meeting ‘with Silvia fave é NIC Ibanez and if necessary Echevarria as well to try to arranye a Rv ed out that even. thouzsh the meeting we ad Apa" as stated by TOP SE UTE, REPRODUCTION
TOP SECRET Echevarria, possibly for lunch, we could arrange that the luncheon would be in @ private place and that its location would not be disclosed to Mrs. Duran prior to her arrival there. She could be picked up in an Embassy car and driven to some other part of the city. Also, if necessary, the room and/or our persons could be fitted with recording pparatus so that no notes would REP RODE HORN proof of what was discussed could be obtained and kept fer an indefinite period Sear, PROMIBITED Boonstra suggested that we consider the use of a “cutout” for Duran. By this he meant that she could be taken to the Unived Staves on some unofricial journey, ror example, to give her story to an American magazine, and while in the sreens —- United States she could then appear before the Commission. We ‘discussed the pros and cons of a cutout and decided that it was worth considering, and that we would bring it up at the highest _levels of the Commission after we returned to the United | States. The conferenrs half hour. All of us. the office which had bee - Coleman at the Embassy, and Al COPY ~ e
| PROMISED 53 ct sm wm Tt 2s? &B 8. e ah ve & ants tte anaeh wm Gm Beige sand Tan 6 amass to the Mexican a ae Gr the assassination. . Ag s¢ % the nove wus drarn up ib was centered tsk to Sod ROHIRDH REDE 2 cetinee os sonfcrunce. Tits sonference ecnsisted of a mush fuller Gis- cussion of the alternatives of getting _ te testify eithe: to the Comaission or to representatives cf the Commins ON. The details, éifficultica and possible variations ef a "eutout® were gone into by Seott. Se also invormed Scott end Andersen — in detail of the kind ef paysents unicn Turan eould lesitinst<ly xpect if she vere to jeurney te Wasyington, that 1s, the usual wltnesa fees, nor howed ark} weal expenses, the hotel ang meal ae or. 9. os | - 2 2 oe go # we 3 eo wwe. See & aa Se 8 op « Oe ge Gen ® Bemg + a ae ~- RI PRBS Ee & Bees Se BP Be ter am Shea Oe thts arn one Fy WO an WP BOF WHEgh B Oa te year wane eta GH Ep we SS Re We bes tee me fees, and of course the travel exper.ses for keth of them. This conference ended when we cealded lt vas time te break for dunch. It was agreed th tat Anderson would contact Isanez te bey rte) york out an imnediate follow-up ca Duran in Bextea City. while we were there, ‘REPROMICTI re2zches to Duran, for example, a request te ON. Weshincten er elsewnere in the oP ROH ATED pnearanee before the Commission, the “cutout” approach, etd, would be deferred pending reeetpt of the oatcone of ‘Anderson's conve ersstion with Thanez. ‘ko FOR SEERET wen eioe 60 of 158 PROUD MES REPRODUCTION. see steht tae = rer PE Ef ECE
13-00000 ~ oo 2:40 a.n. to 3:30 o.m. After in EP ROB HE at of Clarice Anderson. ce ae W 3 ck seeing: Ibanez, Me. Anderson vas not PRO £ ' but we were accompant BED BED . Larson had two Gocurients for us to read. The ont) was Siivia Duran's signed statement, accompanied by a translation, and the second was 2 - group of reports on the exit of Oswald ‘from Mexico by ansportes del Norte bus. We also used the occasion to discuss with Larsen the best procedires for authenticating the evidence gathered in | Mexico. Since the conditions set up by Echevarria were not amenable to our getting direct authentication from the Mexican witnesses involved, we proposed that the FBI agents who had heard the testimony or received the pertinent itens of docu- mentary or physical evidence from the Mexicans would then- selves be asked to give testimony before a representative or the Commission and, by reference to the source of their materials, mage explained in some detail how this would work and as? n to conduct his procedures so as to 1 PR NORA BIT Epp cotton 2 as firm and as easy 23 possible, and to convey this message to all other FBI agents in the area who were working on. the assaseination. ‘Coleman, especielly, emphasized to Larson the desirability of ‘REPRODUCTION "PRET See tonearm ee = samme oe, te ane: : . mk een ae an eee tee mer me cm te cae a eh EN Beak Oe ae , PAGE a £ =e
ize THOE ey ee aroRD GORD are accurately identifying documentary ma isl, by number cor other code, and adv he number of hands through which a “emanate to a nininum and that each aocument woe DR HaHa BAD a pad of a reliable | person at all times. Larson gave (e8 impression of readily understanding all this and he of course arreed to our sugges tions. 33:30 p.m. to 3230 - By pre-arrangement we met at 3:30 with Winston Scott: “With him agcin was his assistant, Alin White. The occasion for this meeting was to give us the opportunity to go through all the intercepts carefully and to use them as a basis for reconstructing Oswald's activities insofar as they touched upon the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. This we did, and we then _ shoxed Khite and Scott the result of our worl, for their comment. They agreed in every respect with our conclusions. I wi3l.not go into great detail here because these conclusions wild of course be inc Oswald's activities in Mexico; : ne -were.as follows: | PROUIBITED : on Friday, September 27: Tine 10:00 a.m. Flecha Roja bus arrives in Co Mexico city a | Fe ek em a nae etme os mg ratnan ean baw . [ oma) Gy ja co
PROBE TOP SECRET Paro 10:37 a .Sometime ister RePRooucreRt Oswald tel ephoned the Rugsicsn Embassy, to get “visas to OSviaild Visits Cuban Consulate, Seme «AP ROHIBI HED visits Russian still late. | Some time later still, which includes the period 4:05 to “hes 226 in the afterncon Saturday, September 23: Tine Morning . Some time includ- he , dng 11:51 a.m Some time later Tuesday, Time 11:30 a.m. Oswald visits the Cuban Consulate and durine this visit Slivia Duran. calls the Russian Consulate and soon thereafter the Russian Consulate telephones her back. Osvald visits the Russian Geusulate Oswald visits the Cuban Consulate and durinz this visit Silvia Duran phoned the Russian Consulate. Osviald probably again visited the Russian Consulate “>, PRODUCTION telephones the Russian y and is told to eall the Russian Consulate instead. Oswald calls tne Soviet Consulate. He is hung up on. We then discussed the Dorticos-Aarmas intercepts and examined them in some ‘detail. ve asked Mr. Scott for his om ca ee SeNe foe Gme - erenCUET _ PRORIBM —CU03199 nat goa epss COPY NO. _ en
REED came quae Ce epinion of them and he told us that after re-reading them many tinics and raster PROD GOT BIN original he was of the opinion that therRres Cuba was not referring to the fact that money PRO atiE Ssvuald a& the Cuban Embassy. He emphasized, however, that the telephone connection was a very bad one -- he said the voices rose and fell extremely, as will sometimes happen on a radio connection on a . long distance overseas call ~- and he suggested that we have the tapes re-translated by some Spani.sh-speeking Cxban who is - Lamiliar with the dialect of Spanish current on that island, including 83 ang and nuances. He saiu the tapes were currently with the CI4 in waahtneton and that we enntd armanee far such | a re-translstion shen we returned. He emphasized, however, that his own opinion was firmly as he just stated it. He _Ruggested the re-translation only as a means of eliminating any doubts which might: be in our minds and as a doublecheck on his own opinion which after all, under the circumstances would be in error. | Willens as ea Helms to begin the process of re-tra2 hen he, Scott, saw —_ Helus in Washington Fee CIV! scheduled for the week of Apria 136 Scott said li i o this. Ve then discussed what: ‘the Commission could eventually publish to the American public out cf all the material ve had POP SECRET
13-00000- Bo REPRODUCTION _ OO PROMIBITED TOP SECRET received in “iexico and in Washington from the CIA. All of us - pealiced that any «ot EPRODUCTION afternoon could final decisilo be tentative only, sine Bi would have to be POE HEY FED. and the Comuission. Slawson put out the suggestion that the Commission might made at the nigher echney publish a narrative containing all the detail obtainable from Silvia Duran's statements and from the "open" investigations _ earried on by FBI agents and Mexican police agents throughout Mexico, supplemented to some extent by the information obtained _ through the CIA's wire-tapping activities and the CIA's informants. This supplement, however, would not be in detail; ‘rather, for example, it would use phrases like "in the after- noon" in place of "4:05 p.m." Also, no absulute quotes would 1 | be used. Only the substance of conversations would be given. The sources for this narrative would be stated to be Silvia Duran's interrogation, the “open” investigations and "other confidential sources considered reliable by the Commission and | the federal intellizgen ved." Mr. Scott's reply - i to this suggestion emai RNR be acceptable’ : to the CIA. He said thats Nery lved a certain amount of compromise of his security nino ED the compromise was acceptable. when balanced against the importance of the cccasion. We asked whether he felt it would disclose to Russian and Cuban TOP SECRET
intellizence the oxistense of this particular wire-tapping by - the CIA. Nis renly ypaply acsused its existence anyway. MEPROCME TON. IN: tne proposal put forward would oveeroes PROHIB existence of any pnotouvaphie observations. Nor, TED.“ would it disclose anything that would permit enemy intelligence to discover HAG the CIA's informants are in Hexico or where they are located. } We then briefly discussed the statement of Silvia Duran wnich ve had read earifer in the day in the FBI offices, .fne CIA had not yet seen this statement. 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. T:e three of us then returned to Clarke Anderson’s office. Anderson yave us a report on his meeting with Ibanez, He toid us that Ibanez and he had discussed our making arrange- ments to see Silvia Duran. The outcome of the discussion wes that Ibanez himself was very agreeable but said that he would have to clear it aan Echevarria. 6:00 p.m. to 63 ee We ‘peturned to . hanged a copy of. the formal request to the Mexican Government ‘for its complete report on the assassination. A copy is eNO omens ses sean
“REPRODUCTION PROMUBIT ED attached to this memoriundum. We were told by Me. Montlilor, political officer "REPL 2d been mace to del to an attempt - A ernoon if had failed bees ause all. the respon RT Ry BR fAffeta2s were out entertaining Queen Juliana. Another a yould be made at approximately 6:30 p.m. this sane day, and if that failed, continuing attempts would be made on Saturday. (We were later “. anformed that the note had been delivered late Saturday morning.) wee. We took the copy of the note which had been handed to "as to Mr. Harry Bergold, Second Secretary in the embassy, and asked him to see that the Commission be informed throush channels in Washington of the contents of this note, when 16 was derivered, what the response was, when the response was received, and in general a full documentation and report on the entire series of transactions. He agreed that he vould see that this was done. Coleman, ~ PRONE Fe met in room 510 and 72 spent about an hour or slightly mor reviewing what we had accomplished to date and what further work we hoped to get cone REPRODUCTION — 49 | TOP SECRET. Cu03203 nce 67. ot 155
13-00000 . "REPRODUCTION : | —-PROWIBITED TOP SECRET before returning to ocr We agreed at pay time DUCTION there was sufficient work renaining SO that |p PRO a TED should stay over at least until Monday afternoon but that unless Ibanez | replied to the effect that an interview with Silvia Duran could be arsanzed shortly, Mr. Coleman was free to return to the United States on Sunday. 22:00 Noon to 3:00 v.m. Arter having decided among ourselves what further work had to be done while we were in Mexico, we went to | Mr. Anderson's office where we met Me. Anderson and Rolfe | Larson. The following points were covered, with the conclus— | . ions as stated: We asked that the exact time, rather than the scheduled time, upon EPPA bus from Nuevo Laredo» _ arrived in Mexico Ci COM GM 27 be ascertained. We pointed out that Git RETR dl es Sl in determining — | : . whether Oswald immediately ft ephone calls and/or oy his visits to the embassies or whether he first checked in at . his hotel. The FSI agreed to do this. . We reminded Anderson and Larson that we had some items. of physical evidence which, although not of prime ee See 68 op 155
ee TOP SECRET importance, might be helpful a thei» further investigations, CDC TN meet early Monday morning to £0 rough. YU We asked snaelh RCWIRITED, the hours upon which both the Cuban and Russian Consulates were open to the public and it was decided t 8) BRA during the dates when Oswald would have had excess to them. Also, if possible, the FBI should desermine if it was common 7 practice to stay open later than the normal hours or be open on days such as Saturday when they were not officlally open. Once again we asked Anderson to review the Gutierrez investigation, which he did. We asked if there were any reports either being prepared or that had already been sent to - Washington on this matter which we had not yet received. We were told that there were not. The status of the Gutierrez Anvestigation 4s therefore that the surveillance of the Cuban Embassy will continue indefinitely in an attempt to pick up the . automobile which was identified by Gutierrez, all other lines of investigation which aff sD imigh Oi followed as far as SD aed, W ly negative results. - | For purposes Aiton our Mexican evidence we told Anderson that we would want a list of the names of all f£ seemed to have beer | ae a 3 : * . “the FBI agents who had obtained evidence in Mexico and we OP SECRET cugs20s eee oe . einen oe ee
PROMIBITED _Giscussed briefly vhat vould be the inmost convenient place to have these agents meet with a represontative of the Commisszis,, for the taking of their depositions. Anderson replied that either Washington or New Orleans would be fine from his point of view. We none DTIC “he hoped to follow in 2utHs wiBVenidence through the agents, as we had oe reo on Friday, and | 2 Anderson agreed that it would be a workable arrangement. In ocedures which we this connection it came out that Osxald's tourist card aypli- .. gation, which vas made from New Orleans, was not handled by . the FBI Mex’.can office and therefore authenticating it would be a problez to be handled elsewhere. We agreed that we would b. - pursue this when we returned to Washington. We requested an itemized list of the cost of the items and services that Oswald. probably purchased while in Hexico and while me Bap and lye Mexico. It was agrecd that Slawson and aril DUC HON go through this in detail. - "Pak , We then discussed the desirability of our obtain @ more complete knowledge of the procedures of the Cuban Embassy, especially as they ‘relate to the practice in grant . visas and the different kinds: of travel permits which woul! “52 Pop SECRET ne err sage Aree --anpeeermererepcoenenennierraneerertneenennniinns
13-00000 | . Mexico and Guba Anderson that the reas Gd FE that we get this and thereby the reliability, of the other evidence we Had on _ what Oswald yas doing and trying to do at the Cuban and Soviet " REPRODUCTION — PRORIBETED avallable to someone in Oswald's circumstances. Likewise, we . ’ were interested in learning what obstacles to travel betreen ) ALE p é Reedy from the Mexican, rather than the Cuban, BRS TED. agreed to give us as full 2 report on Ly ] but the difficulties are obvious. In general, he told us that, largely at the instigation. of the United States government, the Mexican author- ‘ities are very strict about Americans traveling between Cuba. and Mexico. For example, their passports are stamped "Departed for Cuba on ,1964" before the traveler gets on an airplane ‘bound for Cuba. Likewise, the Mexiczn Immigration officials will not permit anyone, whether Mexican or American, to depart for Cuba unless he has the proper Cuban travel permits. No special Hexican travel permit is required for Americans at least, but the Mexican officials indirectly enforce Cuban law by insisting upon complete Cuban documentation. (It should be pointed out that this is unusual. Normally, border officials are concerned only REPRODOCT heir country or with their own nationals who m: We pointed out to information was that we needed it to tést the plausibility, Fubassics, dees, we wanted to see. whether his activities made MOP. SECRET - PAGE =. of === . -_— : A CC EE EA EET TTT Ct RSet t
13-00000 - Paine both tended to confirm the one-suitcase evidence. We . search immediately, because we had not yet had an opportunity practical. Anderson and Larson both felt that the FBI was Lully capable of searching Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for a "REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED TOP SECRET sense in the light of the normal Cuban and Mexican precedures. Je then b briefly discussed the "tu0 sultease problem We related how ve ee 4a2ld left New Orleans for Mexico he was bub that all our evidenee relatins aico pointed to the fact that he had with nim only a single suitcase, a small blue zipper bag. Marina's testimony and the testimony of Irs. Ruth said that we did not want the FBI to undertake any kind of to vre-interrogate our witnesses in New Orleans who had testi-~ MOD go cB Be sy = why gow g Reo Baw Baw en mend bs we me ge wm £ oa omamcem Fae mam Galina dn save opts Ba ata ho th ORD Wd dentate 2 Cad tye afin, & BED CRU = et ate OF ENT he ted sd bet Taste RHP KD iti Ge HE WaQwy ew a wh uted re-interrog.ition confirmed thelr testizony in this respect, we wondered what kind of searches in or around Laredo, Texas H H ' i t or Nuevo Laredo, Hexico for such a missing suitcase might be missing suitcase, eee verini as to make such gz search unrea sonably diffic ve told na ROHIB WB ITED not yet come to a firm decision as to whether we would want to bring Albert Osborne ae ee een Se mm eee > to Kashington or elsexhere in the United States to testify before the Comaission or a representative of the Conmission, | - | | : OP SECRET |
“TtePxooweTiON . 7 PROWIBITED POP SECRET even om a voluntary basis Certainly if he were soins to resist testifyine and we had to subscena him, we nanted to think further about Be BB POWMCTION oncorea what the FBI in Mexico could do “PRE Ley Te of Osborne so that te. ) tice 4f we desired to - we could obtain him on ress do so in the future. After some discussion of the alternatives open in Hexico » where Osborne was at last report, for *eepiny . tabs" on an individual, Anderson replied that he would ask th2 Mexican police to put Osborne on a “two week reporting basis." He felt sure the Mexicans would comply, This means that Qsborne, bet ng a person under suspicion and being an alien, is told that be must come into a certain police station and report on a regular basis. Tyo weeks is a common interval for this sort of thing, but is sometimes even done on a daily basis. A daily reporting schedule is extrenely burdensome, however, especially for someone who cannot afford to travel by auto- mobile, 28 we believe Pp) REID ae UCT HE roy and especially when that person is Livi the police station to vhich ‘he has to report. oe ERE [etre lalDerson, the Mexican police at our request will order Csborne deported and give us advance warning of when and where he will be pushed across the ; border. We could then arrange to have someone waitins for hin - north of the Rio Grande with a subpoena. Anderson of course POP SECRET emeaneeeoEe San nS PNERNRAD at at A + ae ae meme
13-00000 REPRODUCTION TOP SECRET We asked Anderson if ha hed a ecpy of the "dessier" on Csiald mentioned in the Ambassado2 Bann file. He revlied thet he did not have Di 1D, assunea that it could ke found soncolace, since it REPRO SET OM time, and said that he would mea PROFITED . We then discussed the Alvarado situation and pointed 4, * out that we had never received a final resort on him. _ Anderson replied that his agency had not taken the primary _. responsiblilty here but that the CIA had handled this investi- ' gation. We agreed that we would bring this up with Winston Scott. Winston Seott had previously mentioned to us that be thought that Anderson had heard some vague rumers from expatriate American communists in Kexico that might bear on the assassination and sugsested we ask Ander son about them. Seott had said that Anderson had spoken with him about this info ration many weeks before, to inquire whether the CIA could Mexico as “NBo tty Hora,” had made some rathex vague assertions © | ‘about Oswald which, ‘throuzh informants, Anderson's office was ot TOP SECRET “SnD : PAGE 75 199 | vo . COPY NO. Ge
13-00000 ‘been examined and tha REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED TOP SECRET trying to follow up. For the last month or two, however, Ton whole line of BANE r several years fi inate) and in Anderson's le person anywz:7, 50 he did not feel Betty Mora had been,e investigation was tiiba Betty Mora has not be opinion she is not a reliab that her assertions would ever amount to much. He promised us @ report on then, hovever, notwithstanding his feeling that - they were not to be accorded a great deal of weight. Finally, we posed the question to Anderson whether he knew of anything further, important or unimportant, which we £2 representatives of the President's Commission ought to be told. After so:re thinking and after asking Larson whether he haa anything along these lines and receiving 2 negative response, Anderson replied that he believed he had given us everything he knew. We then briefly dropped into the CIA's office again — and saw Scott and White. . We were told by White that the examination of the reels of photographs pertaining to the tine periods covering oe RO DUE HGR Cuban Embassy had PN ere negative. No auto- ROR, no persons were shown mobiles appeared in t ‘who answered the descriptions given by Gutierrez or who might have been Gutierrez himself, (I will note here that we did | ao TOP SECRET “SORT COPY NO. Pai 16 155
13-00000 \. . : REPRODUCTION ‘PROKIBITED ~ 7 *—~POP SECRET not ask the CIA to haye these photographs Gisplayed directly to Gutierrez. This RUC HOM. the easicst way of determining whether PRETTY. as the Cuban who passed the money t * | ! in one of the photo- graphs, but this would also have involved such a serious breac of CIA security arrangements that we did not believe that it was justafizd.) | | Oo . We then asked Scott and White the same question we had asked Anderson about there being any further information - we should be given. His answer, concurred in by White, was to ‘the seme effect as Anderson's, ‘cot acreage ete REPRODUCTION — PRORIBTTED 29 TOP SECRET 7 ROTTED PAGE’: 77 of 155. COPY NO.
13-00000 ee (— : REPRODUCTI rt rs] “ bod ve st en aad op . ae eloceepnas Goutnaie a Meebereamasepe Tod auntie nanGoein aetaneiraisanGe atid 2a" @ ity. at J 2 ns oy pe, STE, WA é op Yap snare emi cine othe: For eoesbe me reduvel Disteiek of wteo (hich izelud os Moarieo Cit ty) ware exenined and ve ogrecd that . one of the Lame, clear ones vould bust sevve us the official exhibit fos showing tue location of various places watch Les Hervey Gayald probably vieite? while ke was in Mexico City. Mo. Lev said that he vould hova this rex empropriately morked and forwarded to the Corsission in tka near future. For my personal uso in the tine uhile _ the derge formal mop wos boing prepared, Me. Larson delivered to me roller an wiiteh had thace smae Location: marked on it. We then went throuck esch of the items of ypiycical evidence phict Zz kei totion a ens to Tnocteo City. For a descrigtion of thece Py 4 dtu, reteronce is here mue to the “husorandum for heeerd™ ented Clinmon, subjects “Ztens of Faysical a tne 2 126 from We  B at = Bvldssce e Which May Kt Pp) CG ‘Givi & Copy of vaich hue been ebtecked to this PR Par i | “ “Ske three of | us agrees i B HED) ae sizmizicance could . be diceovared by further work im commoction with silver iventitication i ‘beacelet interthed ““orinae” Mr. Iorson end My. Clerze Anderson had . provlorsly pointed owt thot more than 390 silver ghons an ilecieo | City y had. been cwistioned es to tks bracelet en the basis of a JA GIS TT PU of it and, decnite the Dact that Some Timor mach 7S = €0 - nr cUC321" tim etiam anh i > PAGE 08 pa noe COPY NO. » ry
13-00000 sh mee tte ee | of REPRODUCTI =) aod a ce gets . 38, 2. weg oa,"h ow, fo fo we ep a Sf gv kk @* @ 4. ge” 7 fe® tibiae orogter ot vhe Lemeiies desab? ...ieh Cad mos chev up on the om © a0 oy 08 TIEly ee ¢3. kh + sts 3 Bt,, 5 + Fob . 2 oF a = a ss — ef tits tind end the: PRODUCT! ‘ir woud olinst eortcindy aocin ba negative. RG ote ‘e' hy Bold the brecalst ta pemeouce + ever if tae sham che. wh] Ge discovaread wit PRG TTD ing Earvey Osuald, yocculy all fia osiex could toll ws youl’ be that Yes, he pro: vably Hix. Iercon noted dow all the words.on the teeck flyloar of the Spanish-Inglish dictionary and he alco noted the markines on capes 5, 113 end 210 mxt to verious Syunish words. Tone of us esuld see any narticulor hein at this time which would cowe from these weitings axl mrcines, but we fclt thet lo. Lorson at lenst outs to have thea with hin ‘The Norican relizious nesel was yelt to be s3 comsion os to te probebly imtrateable end, in addition, from its ave ve guessed a. &3 bub cowld perhens kay obt2ined by Ocwold come Tl ret 26 ney not have been prreehesel in steps tomber 1953 in ifexico Clty . we the United States and aa Neary in Sellas or . itr. Lercon noted dova IB ci I iD ding on sage uy of Ocmmld's £3 aivess boote He said that he would check each of the teLegho: numbers and addrercs to sce if they xefcrre’d to the embassies and aiglines to which thoy scom to refor ant, 4 they did not, ke = bed cver cacwtt up et the Cubcno farlines as the address ton: indicates ~ CL - vould fis ous vhose telerhune MELC rS or cé@vesses they veree Tn acdition, 2 prodised to do a4 he eculd to find ous whether Lee Harvey Csvald PAGE - es 79 of “COPY:NO. __ N > cere ernreren TD rc ry gg ANP nent API EERSTE Pw ae ERD een 155 erence
13-00000 emunticnlly that Onveld did not cpp REPRODUCTION PROKIBITED jo «PY Pad om at Se. 4 oF te a, . oS qo Fe, . bug Gis of mavense wh peace foc (hibisubtics an meyy mek be . ata. e ro «eo * ofo4 o te : eavsisuely cheerahlee Treat for the batters duis 3 reubboncd, "9 esuld ces no Din ~ = EPROBUETIO acriplis am the Horlin Ooweld had testified to the Commiccion thet Iee Esrvey Comlid told her, after he retuned fron Eccico, tiat while there he iad visited the Cuban and Russian Eobassics to go ell he conlé to 26 to Guha and had clso seen a DOL fMoht, vintted come museums and done a cone sishteseeing. Mrs Iercen soid that the bull fight arora had alrendy been echockel out insofer e& possible with the result baing ante age ge ane eR ewe RTCA te | Re GE TTA FE: NE ERE er SP + GE a+ NEE thet no one there rocembers Ommld visitine the orena on the Carday in cusstion % cout alse that no one thera fn ct all caortoin that he did fe en apee meme. se mot vitit the arena. Furthertzore, there te ection in the arena set ccide for pernons who are not formally @resesg and therefore Counld could pave got & scat ovea the uss ue Gi4 tov ecrey a cant and nochtie with hia. G6 vas monbioned in this conneetion that the gal alst gceumes in Uecico City ere gerdctly rogerved Zor Pe persons uho. Dues ext$ez without a neghktie. i ii BUST in Iimnieo city, cays are provesly ettired on Tais wius the fact tha pescticel profcrsional Pr . fl Lend | us to cactlite | that conta meaver woate to the fat eloi CuEes Geouite the notcticn in. nis iz andioi~feoriean étetionsry AmoRee t Laws that he intenged to ds so. Te feeb that he fetled + .sZon enye: ning ab ous the jai alat cores to Marina efter he reburacd points towrnl this ssiv conclusion. fae 4 od b 2 oe) PAGE | 80 ot 195
13-00000 Oe ——- REPRODUCTION es gh OTP de eo Se Se i oh é at ae . o* Oe ee 2 Pog mye ree .0B Bowe. Bat ace Pe ee 1 a ng g de a . Sem te ° rio wine a gohoemons tiso5 wold snd a raoytetied s peryeree ae ato Thu ig Ole. 3 3 Van ot _ Guay Table thay ini te “piece io e203 fineshA WALA reohanly Lava white: ey Sete Cumetsnoy Tho tehes . ~ 4 ow oe, a) e en 2s ons an, Gund 12 Osveld bed viektad thore.e ES. Iersom ond ee re) 4 2 ee teet 2 gute myeemeete of Bios gas aed otter dad : alc SP She af mobs es able to idawdivy the other escent agreed thas they youl & foblay this lead ct the earilast onpartumitye | ; Zo them told Lorson that the Cacts.ssien was intercsted in Min the elty. In this comcetion it vas aersed thet the Meiean orfica of the FOL vould foun to the avission, througe chanucis, an itemiced cstinate of Ceveld's expenses whic would include at least the follearing item: de Des Ture beth southbound awl morshbemd in Moxieo3 2. Gea fee for the travel sponey, Lf ayy, peda by Ocwdld © Meee os fer His nurtibound Grovel enservavienss 3e Fhe cost ik Ka ger dol Comercio; ke The nl pe bets: prile ePeve Lak on28 he ate 5s cent OT ee -  prabsbly cst Ge he cost, if eny, of the muscu vuleh he vintted fod ay = Rene ope? Pena Biman frees % YVYovious toc umpirtetson comts by bus aniyor taxienb : demos cn tie yeobecn trite ta hnce ke pe laidy 4 neo : taf ge sat =~ tania fi Tiwsioa City wes ‘ye cgealn.tion of tha rep of *,) aie Pe” the elty vo omock tis Cows ral bly tack & 6p - OC ca032i1 ~ PROWIBITED
13-00000 me ; e . * » , 4 7 . 3 : : 7 8 * * id el ba "? a Q Brg “8 Gmemea ao” spTErt@® some afterward: ange 0 Boe 8 omee awn SER wa aa oy qe oo 7 . Pt a s . r . * . a, . I . . Nt a tnd al Aen pout oy 2. * r) wal OSGi Ga 9. Turennce of six pieture sssuteortee -_ ix. Siewson then work to fl. Winston Seeti's office wiers ho itt Bee Saotts's souratary, “Doliie,” as arra ongod yi ties Seott the previcus Eatumiay. Duttie carricd the telopuone Sntoreesis ints the noncuy cmateimiea row, hanicd thos over to ie. Siauson tide evden! 2a un eu Umrouiiows tic cubirve time th. Clason Siti on thette Ilge Hlevsot pont wtih aveat 11:5) Gazing not fraa the inseremste, aftcr which he voturned them ta Bettie. These _ : ean ee moter owe in the estacl.cd remtiethe deta #icdl a1, 1S oy dre Iie. Glove ther rebiered to the FYE seetien ef the Ribaseyy. shasta daz i Tete WibRenze She tro of us held a weary brief diccumsica whGh Gite Clasico fsataveon iu tis offices. Ur, Villons t.22 imicraca tere hay Mansy & ond flevson ond Toate es woll Led bean very 6 ace, a: Semoeialy iP nk heres ahem the Fut officers we Led * je : FP F.0q oe? : « wey fa Bese CLby fo Lteadae = tee Sagem 826 a aey Se css bheda eat S2 Comrst eiGile - Lu Was OFS ey, ” oe ae Serre a Ser $~ we “ Rowe aity Wiss cecues Dor vication, vnhich &> rita u3 ve owsld ous: sve hed Leon vary thomciihly Len2Lel, bigeguolity CUU32i9°
13-00000 . REPRODUCTION — PRORIBITED . . ad @ er he) ov Sn ad Ft | ce % « Be : oa ae 348 of PARA B Sh Neer sen safttereseenneyeeetemestennntpeeity + aEesittey hoarse bee A rome Lan, 2 ee ePaamany go Vamrate Tl ge keay 8 tent, Stor a work In Teeseo Cobed cpaly from cheut inte Pobreery, whan FEE ogouts 2? FY Bey 88 ae gone * z ere with momorionco tu iieiscs 1 L been cosicnec to the icb. [v. Yillons ’ 0 it, fmlorssn was tefartwirte. Us sa IN genie of tuose in the Eolessy vho vere reapaneib?.c waa thes the best: <e is Es te 3 z t? FF he ae o B results vould be geaievad ty we orkingy princrily throvgh the Mextean euthoritics, v0 at the tine vere certainly hichly motivated by th dcaire to eleoe their coumtyy of any involvenent by ciceovering ayy Cuban or otier comeniracy or dustigation which rishkt have existed ond who sepcersd smasonebly ourpotent. Ancerson pointed omgsde PSe ate mm gy te ce mde bee Penn Poe mame om ayy monte le Rm de Pee, oe? clad out “lint am ntiiyt ts Sioiv In iv cum mam ct ths tins mkt have hed adyorsa politic:.1 effects and therefore ave binilored the over-all effort. Dut, he admitted, subsequent results, such as the inecemiste Estel del Con cic investizat tion end the Pod lure of é Fo pee oy Bay nto “by Fea ot &} money Pf eue: ah Pag ose oF eg fe Me @ oc i222 {wd ho Sete! the stem pollce to Lock bovrond the facet & the s Crval ee OR Che Taumucportes Frentera msesenzer ronifest, showed oat ool exouch. then that sok aly Pane (Ment aN were essizuad ta ae PROGISITED beemse ayrxmirent, said 32 stelees nas wtih 12:79 ar. Later ia the merning, at meme time abeub noon, Fewmnl . ‘ tps ‘ ~ eo fo neints were dineussad with ah eae UN tre ” REPROOUCTIOR -PROMIE CU93219- PAGE pow pron? that the delay — 983 o 155 COPY NO. a
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13-00000 -arice frat such & remuest, slice both felt thet it “TaD ITED REPRODUCTION a PROMIBITED a) o 3,8, ae Meee cecond » wis discussed with flee Reonstea was the a Pane gen VFB PS oe hy F118 deca? £9 - mee e * oe Mpls « Pad ao’ meivenivElliy of the Viulted Ssotes Gyyvetmmunt ranvesting cheeuch Wise sissies the sg bre man STINE its cacnlete file ad ve be FM po gh 2 age? gos bean oo 7 %, Ga Los Carvey Osmela totes Gow nates 5 tis pointc? ou’ that the i tosbhuny of filvin Dabball Paced ane eget Ff avaiichie to us indicate strongly’ that ice Carvey Cuvalé actually muie cub e Lerma) anpliention fox a Cuban vicn, which promanbly is in nis hasmieedting or at least cigned hy hin, ond the Goscn goverment wont oo far 2s to act on this amelicntian mink awthorize the isszance of a vica eantitlonnl cnly uo his firss obtaining a Fuselan visa, about 25 days after bis vwicit to ti Caden URE Bye Bnevld these 5) pene, & he aaiddeaal Baim . date © same! qo oF . 7 3 @ om wm a hee * o = none a@ae ae. feet ene: ae weeny ffar B94 Fume ‘Ge tap Haband BOGE fiukoencontl;y authenticated throuch Oswold's handuritiny. Ik. Zoonstra was inclined to fecl thet such a roaues$ nicht not only serve the muomecces of the Cosmienion bub cowid also be of molitzesl benerit’ to tha Unites States Gavormacube Me ecrtomicd taes the Cutan | . govertasient mish’ choocs to conaly Weeause it cas present tly eadkins urs United Stator, snd beenuse 26 eiciut a woeprercet3 with Oovwsild with the ioe-siean polices could thinks of say rm reberinl adverse pellitesd results ubich would fe 9.9. adn @ ig He : ws tha moss robin. tua in the yortd fox g foverruent to wont to im resticnta | She etsasn nh atten er tis pres éoni and cuth a requcwst word be felly CO03221 7 GORY NO. 85 155
13-00000 or a REPRODUCTION = . : e e oo Go oF TO Bra Ae as | Reever Reertbeee eacreeeerrreee iat ceenibets ares epanenpes heres eefeeeci Rees eee ED tems, Pos, Beanctiee here ton 7 mes *, meee 2 Pm Bee MT fe bla _ . ot faq pee vse tous Su te 744 ES & vectein zane wa Insy fev winwtes of Wallous! end Elecsona's tine wore taken up saykuy coadbye to the individusls in tho is cacsy vith vie we hed wosked amd thonting then for thete eoaperntione Ee alco inde eeu Lact rimite crranpexmis to keve cor notes ex?! dcocunentory Fs Ed ugierisl, most of which wns classified "ContidenticL™ or "Score, delivered to ug In Weahington, 2. . by dipicmatic pouch. ois was to be bended by Ure Clavie Andoram's office. Cute the goodbyes amd dnlayery errancmnes were Gusp.necu we isiy bine AubmshsnrerD gy tamed - Sumeh cud wore Later wet at the Cantiucntal ites Motel by Cloris ASGoToOR and Rolfe larzon, Wo drove vs to the snirpsrt. We deportel | en ru lvsatemn Airlines flisht far % Vasbinvioa vie Hou Cylons af 2:26 a.m . —— PROBIBITED | ~-B = | - OEPAROUE TR Oo 008222 ae ak Cory ae
OS _— Repeamni MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Dated 21 April 1964 (see memo- 22 April 1964) FROM: W. David Slay REPRODIN Tl HN SUBJECT:. Intercepts fro d_ Cuban Embassies in . Mexico City . P OL (TED The following are my notes fal reading the inter- cepts in question in the American Embassy in Mexico City, . translated. from the Spanish by Embassy personnel, on April L3s . 1964. These notes are about as accurate and detailed as I. ‘“eould make them without actually quoting the entire trans~- ; eripts. In a few instances, either where it was very 4mportant or where. the meaning was obscure and therefore difficult to paraphrase, I have quoted exactly. I have noted these. portions by placing them in quotation marks. ” aif id¥ re mre speaking poor | Spanish, later identified as Leé-¥ ad telephones the Soviet Embassy. . PROGISTTED. | OSWALD: - May I speak: to the Consul? ‘A person who INSIDE VOICE: He is not in. ; | OSWALD: I need sowie visas in order to go to Odessa. _ INSIDE VOICE: "Please cail at 11:30. ~” OSWAED: — ‘Until when? De : ® et Fm ete eet ne plea din ein none tee cempn ee tn * INSIDE VOICE: — ‘(Hangs up) Se te cory NO. __ eregeecnmens mn n  tone
13-00000 ee calls into the Soviet . then | explains to someone else on his side o* the line that — 7 REPRODUCTION | | PROMBITED TOP SECRET September 27 - 4:05 p.m. A woman's voice, speaking in Spanish, later identi- fied as Silvia Duran, REPRODUCTION: Consulate, assy | SILVIA DURAN: He faptcan here who has requested an in-transit visa_ because he is going to Russia. _I 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 Silvia Duran is calling,. that she is calling in reference toe an American who ° en to the Soviet Embassy, etc. PaO : SrTED leave the name and ANOTHER INS number and we will call you back. | ae SILVIA DURAN: (She. leaves her name and her telephone . number ‘and ‘she then engages in some personal ‘conversation in ‘regards to the ‘fact that she has recently changed apartments and therefore ‘would ‘like the "pulletin" sent to her new | address. The voice in the Soviet Embassy agrees. ). TOP SECRET . “POUT ii PACE . . op 155. _ COPY NO. ee
13-00000 N " 9@ Someone at the Soviet Embassy telephones the Cuban REPRODUCTION VOICE FROM THE SOVIET EMBASSY: What's the number of Embassy. ' 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. Consulate is Slivia Duran. oe RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Has the American been there? SILVIA DURAN: Yes, he is here now. | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: " According to the letter that he showed from the Consulate in Washington, he wants to go to ; The person answering the phone at the Cuban - Russia to stay for a long time with his wife who is Russian. _ But we have received REPRODUCTION and it will . | probably take four to f months. & give a visa here ' REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED September 27 - 4:25 p.m. . . | PROWBITED. . @ ce AE Oo eee ee te eNO YN NEE reat amen at ete eee ete REE mo, without asking vaansrarle AGL COBH HEB rones to a pro-Cuban : i 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. . < have to wait for an answer from Washington. + REPRE re a . ‘POP SECRET .  * . coose pace OF 89 ceed COPY NOs
13-00000 * REPRODUCTION | PROMI | oA . He says he knew it ou PP RORNCHONE CS the Soviet visa but hoped to await that in Cuba . She will receive it and then can send it any place but right now ‘she does not have it." . “visa here because we do not know if his Russian visa will be to instructions." | mendation either, | peclh . SILVIA DURAN: We have to wait too, because he knows no one in Cuba and therefore ts difficult to give him a visa. RUSSIAN ensassy> ROL ALT nae if his wife is now in Washington she will receive the visa for return to Russia. - SILVIA DURAN: “Naturally » and we can't give him a approved." , RUSSLAN BMDASSY: “we can 1ssue a vasa oniy accoraing SILVIA DURAN: "That 1s what I will put in my plans." RUSSIAN E REPRODUCE “We can't give him a letter of recom- SOOOTHON * Please. pardon the bother." PO yO | * SILVIA DURAN: GRIT... you very much ." ‘September 28 ~ 11:51 a.n. Someong at the Cuban Consulate later identified as , Silvia Duran telephones into the Russian. Consulate. e |. 0003226 REPRODUCTION . 6 : COPY NO. eee .
ROR at TOP SECRET SILVIA DURAN: There is an American here who says he re has been to vhe Russian Consulate. sinaa. “aR M. Silvia Dura en uy a ak ‘in English to someone apparently = PROHETEED This conversation goes as follows: & ne mee see terete ters area ‘"He said, wait. Do you speak Russian?” "Yes." ; | "Why don't you speak’ to him then?" “"y don't know ... " : Py . een wea EERE fear ©: PEELS <b ubceneAenetet IT REPUTE fA ow . 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: > REPRODUB EGG 20 spoke to your scr eal OL oo oe RUSSIAN EMB BITED. you want?™ " OSWALD: “ZI was s dust now at your Embassy and they took my address." . | ae , me . | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: "I know that." sist 7 3 . SECRET Is fo. {ro a . . . oO COPY NO. CG
13-00000 , a REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED a? OSWALD: "I did not know it then. Iwent to the °° Cuban Embassy to ask them for my address, because they have it." RUSSIAN REPRODUCTION by and leave it. then, we're not far. OSWALD: " weil ROHMORED = away." October 1 -~ 10: 30 a.m. a ; - | ‘A person later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, ‘speaking in "broken Russian," telephones into the Soviet Embassy. | [ | | | i i OSWALD: "Hello. JI 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?" | RUSSIAN EMBASSY: Call another telephone number, if you will. . OSWALD: . Please. RUSSIAN EMBASSY: 15-60-55, and ask for ‘a “consti. OSWALD: REPROD DUG a | RUSSIAN EMBA “getenet a= 22090 aa, PROHIBITED © = tt The same voice, still speaking in broken” Russian, 7 telephories the Russian, Consulate. - He speaks to a man identified . a)
EIR POP SECRET as "Obyedkov." - OSWALD: Hello, this is Lee Oswald. I was at your place last Saturday.and talked to you? Consul. They said | Tone to ask you whether there was anything new, remember the name cere comma PIRORIBITED OBYEDKOV: _ "Kostikov. He is dark?" they'd send a telegr _ OSWALD: "Yes. My name is Oswald." : . OBYEDKOV: “Just a minute. I'I1 find out. They say - they have not received anything yet.” 7" OSWALD: "Have they done anything?" OBYEDKOV: "Yes, they say a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet." . OSWALD: "And what ..." ’ OBYEDKOV: tee . ry 9c coaen een en eet PAPE? AF IE FEET“ neve te et ara PP CECA atenenepecteisteempACNNETUD® Sour atom Seu GFOMEUPUREE sue + ers % COPY No.
13200000 fe ce not :  vewor pum a pril 2, 1964 en mon enumenan, REPRODUCTION t SUBJECT: Mexico: Questions Raised by the PRG CED File . SJ ) 1. What actual evidence is there that Oswald departed Mexico on October 3 by automobile? Can we see the ‘documents involve Ra Dil sk to be introduced to the proper REPRODUCTION. purpose of making our investigation.  PROMIBITED 2. What is the "rather complete dossier" of Oswald's referred to in the telegram of November 28? We would of course like to see it. \ . . 3. What is the source of information referred to in the November 28 telegram, that Oswald intended to settle’ down in Odessa? | 4, “EP RODE nee example, the evidence : promiscuous type." 5. We we RORIRI ar. of the transcripts of the "intercepts", translated if possible, in all cases -on Silvia Duran, for where the intercepts refer to the assassination or related subjects. In particular, we would like to see the intercepts SECRET “RMT Carr] le COPY 0. (20l- O28F2 98
13-00000 ( C inw ch th allegation that money nat dat ie Cuban Embassy was discussed. croton Oswald got the name oat PROKIBITED 7. What exactly is the evidence that the Hotel | Cuba is a cover for Castro intelligence operations? Is this fact known so widely that virtually anyone who stays at this hotel is suspect, for example, those persons who were guests at the same time as Oswald, or is this fact known only in law-enforcement and diplomatic circles? Is it likely that the clerk at this hotel is a Cuban agent and is holding back (. information on Oswald, since he has stated that he has no recollection of Oswald ever having stayed at the hotel? 8. Has any further information come to light on the persons who were guests of the Hotel del Comercio on the same floor as Oswald? Would it be possible to have the Mexican me Dy ‘ knowledgeable sources scan the entire hotel on the WER Bop I ana ay other significant names? PROEIBITED 9. We should see the entire Embassy file on the whole Kennedy assassination, .including copies of ali 2 a ee ee SECRET vugs2’ 4
13-00000 \ . ee corres onden.~ to other government ager ‘es. | a0. We would also like to get lB RESROMUCLION . e PS) AS ey told by Alvarado. ew Ean POCCTION Hh | PROMI ~~ IND) UN fs p t 11. Have: ‘any (at mps ee made to locate the ~ bai Tie i red-headed Negro man who was Se. in the conference with Oswald observed by Alvardo? ‘REPRODUCTION = PROSIBITED
130000000 * REPROMUCTION MENORANDUN FOR RECORD PROWBITED PROM: - W. David Slawson SUBJECT: Tentative Conclusions on Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico City: Visits to Soviet and Cuban Embassies ‘ , My best guess from the available data is that Lee Harvey Oswald followed the itinerary shown below: TIME PLACE | ! Friday morning : Cuban Consulate | Friday morning or | | a early Friday afternoon . Russian Consulate 7 \ ——s*~«*«éRiday: afternoon Cuban Consulate : (Silvia Duran telephoned the Russian Consulate : while Oswald was . at Cuban Consulate.) (saturday porning) | (Azque telephoned the Russian Embassy) ~~ Saturday ban Consulate ee : | muer 0 Oswald put "in 3 direct contact" with Russian Consulate by i PROEIBITED. - phone from Cuban ‘ Consulate: "address" i | disc.) Add-CIA~—inter-- pretation-of—this.} Late Saturday afternoon Russian Consulate SECRE L guosZa4t DI “ a a 7 a —- PAGE iL
13-00000 “REPRODUCTION = PORTED Friday and that he REPRODUCTION PROWMEHTED Time Place Tassaay tor ~~ REPRODUCTION Military Attache Tuesday ‘afternci pita iB ITED Russian Consulate 1. One of Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate other ~~ than his first was in the afternoon. See paragraph 11 of the first police interrogation. 2. My conclusion is that Oswald visited the Cuban ‘Consulate at least twice and probably three times. This seems so because: . a. There is no evidence whatever that he was at the Cuban Consulate at any time on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. | b. We know for sure that Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate at least once on Friday and at least once on Saturday, see CIA memorandum, pages 6 through 8. G ic to the Russian da. Oswald was Ui to be in the Cuban Embassy Consulate that same ¢ _ at least once during the morning, see the second police inter~ rogation of Silvia Duran, paragraph 11, and this was only a | mma mame im gee gam UUI3248 "PAGE 112. 1 55 cOPY NO. 9
13-00000 jenna are 119, REPRODUCTION PROFIT visit "to request information about getting to Cuba," and was apparently so brief that Duran was not able to remember Oswald's physical ‘PeODORNTG from this visit, see second CT HON could easily have police interrogation lf been overlooked in “PROTIETTED * police interrogation, . _ paragraph ill. e.: Oswald's argument with Azque was in the after- noon, and it was on some visit.to the Cuban Consulate which . . occurred after the first visit, see the second police inter- rogation, paragraph ll. ‘This afternoon visit during which . the argument with Azque took place was itself different from ‘and earlier than the visit to the Cuban Consulate during which Silvia Duran "confirmed" to Oswald that he would have to get a Russian visa first and during which she gave Oswald a slip of paper with her name and telephone number; because Azque telephoned the Russian Consulate after arguing with Oswald, see paragraph 4 of this memorandum, and Oswald was given Duran's slip of paper subsequent to this phone call, when he "returned" to the REPROBUCTION: police interroga- tio Ths. ‘paragr aph 1 ES} iis a total of three times. ' £. The fact PING the PE en. to the. first police interrogation of Silvia Duran states that Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate twice is of course some evidence ‘eontrary to my conclusion. However, I think from the context SECRET - yuusZss 2g errs ww 20 ae Sete Een TEER ESTES ee ee ee) an mages we eee eet Seer *
1300000 Gi Er . 0 if oe P D | 3 > “AMARA a £6. taist, fas. PROWMENTE OnIB aesHAtEp pe 5 - puthorttye sac A LE. ,2L a/qg7 Jbn ri CER infers "He ere Agescy Gaeta - La ae pss oi 2) 2/7 Fe. Mes Py Fre. wp ae eae ewe. OY “Dae ‘ad oO ae es ee ee ae _ — ? | ° “al te wW/ noice § a 2 wos, ke tm eS MENORANDUW ne ot - o February 1964 TO Bie. lB FROM: = -W. David Siz ih ne ..-, -, .SUBJECT: . Letter to the Centra gence Agency (CIA) | oe ot Tight. ns, Posing Certain. Questions’ on their Letter to Us. ° mo ' @ated 31 January 1964 Ir would include in our letter to the CIA the following 7 questions: 1. Were you able to uncover anything about the alleged meeting between Oswald and the Cuban Ambassador which was . supposed to have taken place in an automobile outside the. * Cuban Enbasay in Hexico City? -.-- 2. Do you have access to the wire sent by the Soviet Mexican Embassy to the Soviet Washington Embassy? If you do, can we find out its contents? ' 3. Reference is made to paragraphs 5 and 6 of your letter. Would it be pessible for us to see the full report - of the Mexican t Police. interrogations. of Urs. Daren and her husbarid?. . ee a ae 4. . Paragraph 7 of your letter states that Oswald, - "that same afternoon,” came vack "again" to the Cuban Embassy. Does this mean that he was there twice the same day, or does it mean that he was there once on the previous day and once on the same afternoon that Azque telephoned the _ Soviet Enbasay? Only the latter interpretation of this sentence seems consistent with the CiA-confirmed information found in the *mueh Glaz paragraphs. In general, we would appreciate as much at on as you can give us on the time sequence of the! aragraph 7. Of course, if you are abla ts the full text of | the Mexican police interrogation selr, we can try to piece . out the time sequence é iB E an 5. Reference is ma il ) T. in which -> + ',, Mes. Duran. refers to "descriptive data” on Oswald which she found in the Consulate "archives." The use of these terms seems to leave open the, PORssPATaty, that the ‘Cuban Embassy RESRAUED  BGERHEATIAL * So BYESPT preee evens” *cstocnsaaa tata SAAR Dah Greees ft Vite ed Do tf2g/? ae ——— oo . gers : | PND wn 5 eo, ee. es 2 Aen aE Nat Gs. - mo Vere mera GUU3281. 159
13-00000 had material on ~ EPRI meant to say that there was something unusual in Mrs. Duran . paragraph 12b. Your letter states that Mrs. Duran told the . dnvolved Oswald's not being known by the Cuban and/or Soviet - Officials, or whether it involved Oswald's not knowing anyone in the Soviet and/or Cuban Embassies. PROM a ‘autherwy.. t a ne } h a id ne TE Pen, Ch ER Ree ™ oo aaees BO, tig $- ye EM! CT yor be Bek . finneng we o°tee waits oye? Mi) back, perhep previous to Septembe i BITE this the meaning she intended? pre 6. Reference is made to ¢ (o/TED sentence in the end subparagraph of paragraph 12b. Is there any significance to the word, "Although"? We wonder whether tha informant reporting her instructions to Oswald when he had continued to remain at the Cuban Consulate. 7. Refermce is again made. to the 2nd subparagraph of Soviet Embassy” that Oswald“knew no one in Cuba; and that the Soviet official "echoed her statement that the American was not known.” It is unclear to us whether this discussion 8. Reference is made to paragraph l2c. Was the "direct conversation" between one of the members of the Soviet 7 Embassy and Oswald a telephone call from Oswald while he was at the Cuban Embassy, or did the informant mean to say that Mea. Duran sent Oswald personally over to the Soviet  Babassy "Be. ‘contact. one, of tha officials Shere? es 9. Reference is again made to paragraph 12¢. Could you clarify the many references to the "address" referred to 80 frequently in this paragraph? 10, Throughout your entire letter the term "Soviet Consulate” seems | to be used interchangeably with the term . ,soviet Embassy.“ Likewise with "Cuban Consulate” and _ "Cuban Embassy." We assume frem this that the Soviet Consulate and the {Deg Embassy must be the same in Mexico City, or at least i ae i 3 must hold true for : z area W211 you confirm to us« : yg NCS are correct or, if they are not, sepia i tuation? . . 11. In Oswald' BI Let Embassy in Washington weitten after he returned to the United States from his trip to Mexico, he’fefers to the Cuban Consul (presumably, srl as having been "replaced." Do you know ENTIAL : - a . 3 De ; . : ExeurT trem meteorite ton? vcegtttnnet - Sect, PE, | Pim AA, fae - 2 erst & ve - a COPY NO. REPRODUCTION : « . e ene ttn on eR OED GE Pen ED a ag a PP TP en PRs di tanner ee mene pace _1 15a 358 |
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13-00000 «Ct me — r . : ; e x 8 ‘ as , * & . 4 - ye HAJADA DE eva: 25- O91 = 22 de nov .63,— rot 2h. L 2h .-: 1556 - 1925.- | oo a re) Q } : 002, Entrada. Ab Ib NU SALE ROAR IDO y NILDA informa -- que esté abajo, ie que lo Llame y NICO dice | 4 que si. Lué Wii NBGA (cmpiczan a. hablar en -~ el niimero 017). NILDA: gue le disea a ICO “we parece ave ROLANDO salidéd von momento a ila. calle, pero que rerresa en se guida.. , :-NELA des:ués de dar el recado a NICO, dice que— era para indicarle que tenfa os paquetecs esece y que su-- piera»que se los iba a llevar GUILLURMO. - NILDA: que le-~ prezonte si ya estan envueltos. | NELA asi lo hace y con-—. testa que si. - NEILDA: yue est bueno.-.029.—- = 5 2) 029. Salida al h5-91-21. ~1632.- NECO solicita hablar con a el Sr. CARNONA. MP le informa que ya le tiene su juego— de juntas, pero no tienen los anillos. : Luezo Dn. FELIX con NICO (empiezan a hablar en e2 niim.073) para indicarle ~ que ya tiene preparadas s jas juntas, gue anillos no tiene y- el nimero de arriba de la nota no encuentra gee nieza es’ = porque no viene en el catdlogo. NICO: que mandaré pregun tar alld para que le digan que cosa es eso;que pasaxrd a re- corer las juntas; pregunta si hay posibilidad de conseguir+ 1 juego de an FELI“N dice que si, que los puede con— ees guir ve en) dep Pato TIEN de su parte. 7 Nreo oma nota acept - Gao, Entrada ait (inl HEREANDEZ pregunta a GUIL LES MO — RUIZ qué hay de nuevo y éste dice que nada, pero hoy sale _ para La Habana y vuelve dentro de 5 dias, por lo que ya —-— habr& noticias para &1. _ FERN ANDEZ acepta y pide salude—_ -a todos alld. | RUIZ: okey. ~ 101.- REPRODUCTION 35 vy, ~* PROMIE BITED en ae a . pe sg 155. COPY TO. Se tint mae BC rT aS haan HATS Reet mn seme et at rn ree ot ey ne ne ptampemppnenereninererts a Sete net A BL tee gnametetett othe tg tats
13-00000 | oo: ws ~ . | gee 7 ° ( , oo 2 one a OL.” Enteada 12730.- HE pregunta a LUISA si ya sabe la ulti- ra noticia y LUISA en son de burla, dice "si, claro, me en- teré casi antes que KENNEDY". HF sonrie y comenta que — a . eso estd muy aKiae Sapinuaina ‘i yue habia sido — iN ev le UNS } uno de los ext elt tas eeddodons! be ite u z é H i # que estaban en contra— de la integracié Dvr vf Steen ane tonne ae que aprehendicron aun in| tipo que es nada iC Bi dente de uno de los com del trato limpio con Cuba. LUISA: ne: de cso también ya se enterd. HP s.que todavia no con ifirman nada, pero pa~ “TCCCseeesen QuUe el que. Lo haya hecho, estaba Loca, indepen-—— dientemente ~ "de que muy bien podia desvidrselé eso a KENNEDY an - "digamos en las condiciones Internacionales y las condiciones , Os - ; ; internas de Estados Unidos, pu Ose 05”  SINISA: y externa — mas, principalmente. . HF; por eso te digo en lo Inter- macional .... se podia ver : bastante afectada ymno pueden -— ° sufrir un gran cambio, con un cambio de Presidente 6 con una cosa de ese tipo; sobre todo ues ses LUISA Lo interrunrt pe y pregunta si era gringo el que lo maté y UP andica que-— si, pero dijo que habia estado en Rusia, que queria naciona lizarse ruso, pero que Rusia no le habia querido dar la na-— cionalizacisr..... LUISA se sorprende y dice"oye, -- cémo alla saben cosas, carajo !. cono } ve HF: que si; que sabe ruso muy bien y que ademds éste ‘tipo, habia ido con Las fuerzas de (Dice a ja sierra, 6 queria ir, algo asi, -~— . quien sabe comol PPO Gees _ IISA: que < EZrave. — HF: Hey NOT f que mds ha sabido. por ahi- y LUISA dice que PRCT BE FED <e- que hace rato se en teraron y ya estan. sees HF:que esta muy mg. eso% gue = estaba comiendo ‘con unos amigos y comentando la Revista Po~ 1itic, y la cual ya salid, cuando uno Ltezéd y les did la -— noticia; que él se sorprendid y exey6 que los estaba vaci-- ljando. LUISAs:quie ya estuvo rirando la revista, pues | - precisament: la Lievé el compafiero....- HE ssjue su --—
13-00000 | we Ly me ‘ ~ 3- pee ° nig _ 7 amigo ce: arent ds que lo habia mat ado ih “is AG ey rr , se habia dado cuenta que los Patados Unidos nos habian ude tado Texas y por venganza maté al wre ataente: aie todo fut broma, pero no le erefan hasta que les dijo que prendieran- 2 . e - ° & . ‘el radio; que asi lo hicieron y ahf se enteraron; que lo —— P35 7 Pex: as ye SERIE viltimo que achba_! Te ix: on momentito, eS gue ese- ‘ SAacuch \ Wy ! tipo es un tall eld, confesado nada, DID ft]! Rist VET vero que ya. saben que habl., PROMI. D ruso y que pertenece a uD ro-Cuba; que ya saben que - HAY . Leelgue éste sea, pero no ha el tipo queria nacionalizarse, pero el tipo no ha confesado,: HF le d& la razén, agreg ndo que podria ser gue trataran de encontrar digamos una solucién.de ese CLpo, Porguessecss. * - , LUISA" después de pedirle que se espere un momentico, pide ~ . que le’ diga. HF: nostros pensamos que si acaso hubiera — sido 6 si acaso parecta wae publica o que habfa sido vno a de los segregacionistas 6 en centra de la intefracién Los: _ gue habian asesinado a KENNEDY, entonces habia digamos, po- sibklidad de que surgiera una especie de lucha civil 6 gue- rra civil en Estados Unidos; digamos que se agudisaran mas— las contradicciones, la siteacién critica por la que pasa — el pais,, entonces estabamos conentande aqui, que encontraran una resolucién de ese tipo no?, ya mas internacional; 6 - lo van a encontrar 6 fué cierto, quien sabe; pues vamos a - . ver que pasa. . LUISA sonrie y pregunza qué pasard. HF: guien sabe. «LUISA: fagdrate, uno, dos, tres y ya,-— ya son tres REPRO TON MF: yo creo que — va a ser el tem RO IN. fiesta esa de SILVIA. LUISA:que la susp eh pe. no podian ir. co ' HE pregunta por g ining BEIM, Lara ‘que desrués digan — queestamos celebrando la muerte de KCNNEDY, entonces ‘hablamo: con SILVIA. y ésta acepté suspenderla y dejarla para la sema, na que viene, pero que no coincida con el. entierro (se rie)", 2 HFsque hay yue tener en cuenta eso. _ LUISA:gue sera _ — [ere del luto y todas esas porquerias. = 9 = et ey Nee: ‘dénde se va a quedar ahora y LUISA conent: Stary POR “uu uusee cee pee ane tan eee cee
13-00000 © 173. “3184, 488, | q@te ahord piensa mudarse ésta noche Yip tora. HP pregunta si abs ya sa uica que si, pero mo sabe como esté la cosa RG se tendran que- guedar en la embajada, sin embargo creé que hoy no seri -- posible Porat a bor pare el aerorucrto x no — He Pe HN tiene coche elit af diba High argo posiblemente mafiana en la mafiuna en itil nt ulo de estudios, se mudard. en la embajada 6 en la casa, ya que si no,se quedan en la-~ ' HF:que entonces 13/b] ° LUISA: que la procure emba jade se ard para su casa, en donde estard como a las - 10, HF acepta.- 173.- Entrada 1810.- DURAN pregunta por URBIETA y LUISA des- pués de decirle que mo estd, indica que le pasé su recado y “ URBIETA le dijo que no recordaba cual era su asuate y no -— sabia su teléfono. DURAN: que no tiene su teldfono, pues unicamente tiene su direccién, . LUISA pregunta cud es— “su asunto y DURAN. dice que .es sobre el Mineral de RUTILO --— de parte del ‘Ing. NONROY. LUISA: que Llame mafiana, - DURAN acepta.- 184.- entrada.- HF pregunta por CG jNCEPCION y LUISA informa — que anda yo ERO (CBUCTION:: «= ‘le hablard nds -- tarde. PROEIB esta bueno t— ROuBITED - , Entradas sin contestacién.~ 202.— era pt GUU32n9
13-00000. €). | oe ‘common Le - PRTED a DPMP TG | | EP ncks IISA if she bas AN leant DANY eli I A ina Joking tone says, aa re. smiles and coments. that is | “Yes, of course, I knew almosy) Pil tii D) t Z bf one of the rere tlonsey extrents sts very bad; thet at first they th 7 who vere ngeinast Inbegeattion and that » but it seams tht thay eporchended a ‘type who a is notuirg more than the president of oe of the comalitters of the Fair Play for 7 Cubs, LUISA: That she know this eiso. Hi: That nothing has been confined yet, a bab it seems. tbat the one who did It, WAS Crazy, independently of the fact that _ (hts could bave been sala about KENNEDY "elven the international ¢ ondttions and © the Internal conditions of the Units ea States, well...” JUISA: And externally, | prinetpelly. HP: ‘That's why I sey, internationsliy...1b seemed quite affected - | end they can't go through e great change > with a change of President or scnething | of thet sors; ebove ell, thet... LUISA: Interrupts and asks 17 it was a gringo that killed hin end HS says yes, tut said thet he had been in Russie, end that he wanted to becose a Russian ettizén, but Russig, had not Kented to natlonelize hiv... “SUISA is surprised and says “Listen ~ they really know things therei" HP: Yes: tat he inows Russien vexy well and peslaes this wpe had gone with Fidel’s forces to the Sierra, or vented topEDy REE IN 0 knows how it wase DVESA: ; Pretty SErLOns. Hs qutralle ii Un [Nene nas learned, and GIS so says just about that, that PRG Little while ago and they args. ; “i Dy al _ HF: That 16's ell very bad, that ke vas eating with sone friends and commenting on | the Revista Politica watch had dust cone ont > when someone cane | pea gave them the news; that he was surprised and thought he was joking. LUISA: ‘That she had been ‘Looking at the magazine, that the confade had brought ‘it to Dee That — pepranwertai Bown g - a PROBED wt ys
13-00000 ' gay soluticn from him, beceuse.. LUISA after asking him to walt a minute, asks him . ona of the segregutionists or egainst integration who hed killed Kennedy, then _ there vas, let's say, the possibility that a sort of civil war would axise in the -gecount. IZUISA: That ‘4 will be after the mourning and all of that nonsense. _ a oo] pis friend commented thet a Howden had ktlled him, that puddanly he had reallced, that the United Stetes had te PRP and out of revenge killed the President; thet it was alla Jokes ‘put Hey al Peal mG dees 3 ne void then to tir on the reiio; that's What they aio CIEES Bout Lt; | ‘thal, ‘the ‘last he had RUDI : heard, ® moment ago, was that boos type is ones De that it ie pelieved that. this is the one, ‘hut he has not confe esed mmythhinge.. LUISA: But they slesdy keow that he speaks Russian andl belongs to ‘the Pro-Cuba Comittee; thet. they = slresiy know Thats he : wanted to yationalize hinsel?, but he has not confessed. & uF says she is right, adding thak it eotld be that they tried te find some let's to go on. HF: We think that if it had been or «= bad seemed...pvibiiec or had been’ United States; thet cormbra@ictt ons. would be sharpened, the critical atiuation the ountry is going through, then we were comenting here, that they Pound a resolu- tion in this: tyRe, no? More international ; they wit find it or i ves truc,vho knows ; Let's see vhat me PPG CUETO hat wilt lappen. Hi: Oo “Who Imovs. LUISA: Tnaging, ona, by iN Ue Ce makes three (she laughs). - HP: L think thet 1t will be oe, ‘lnihae ) that party of SILVIA's. ee © | Ue UD) A IVISA: They suspanded it because they could Ae a HS asks why, and INISA says ~ "so that after they cen say that we are observing the death of KENNEDY, then ve spoke vith SYLVIA and phe agreed to suspend it and Jeave it wotil next week, bat it will not coinside with the burial (she Joughs)", stig thet hes to be teken into Ce ee Ss nate Chath ate, pe Se eBiRR MR aan  e
13-00000 jy Th ai coments that nor EP: Olmy; he asks where “Te NTE TG : EN te } she plans to rove tonight to the house-or UM ve). HP asks if they ATOR earcecs . , kmow everything nos, anid LUISA Ping i rel a Sus} know how the thing is, or if. ANTE im aa they wll have to stay in the exbassy, hovaver believes tint today Jt will not be possible, because everyona bas gone to the airport and the embassy has no car, | hovever, possibly tonerrow morning instead. of going to the study circle, she wlll. move. Hp: Then he will call her tomorroy, LUISA: To try the exbassy or atthe — house, since if they Wil nob stay at the enbassy, phe: WILL go home where she vill | ‘be at about 10. . HP accepts. ts, ~ REPRONWCTION Spa TTA! LAA TERE MEE oa sR get eer naa DA a BAL CRUE ng oP ia bias eds dL eae its
13-00000 REPRODUCTION SECRET = PROMIBHTEL TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 24 March 1964; Subject: CIA Dissemination of Informa- tion on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 10 October 1963. [FOIA No. 622-258] Copy of document as released under FOIA. PRO? PSITED LUUS Nee caw) a) SECRET 1 12 CCPY NO.
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13-00000 - e Re ert +e. Harven ome sx ion ———-RepRODUCTION OO _ aT BR eg eng PTR ee ’ . PEACH, sae PROHIBITED: cat |i ou“ Les H. mentee hee 6 ¢ OSWALD whieh CIA clissemina ek low Fore, ling iether @ Ont e2) + Ste FBI Navy anel INS MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin SUBIECT: i. Rederence ls mada ta paragraph three of your istier, ” dated 16 Marek 1964. You requested that the Comznlssion be furnished a copy of the dlasemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD | made to seweral Government agencias by CIA om 15 October 2 An exact copy of this dlasemination (Out Meszaga No. 74673) by teletype, is attached. It was tranaraltted to the De- partment of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation sad Depart- ment of tha Navy. A copy was concurrently made avallable by hand to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 3. Please note that OS WALD's middle name waa arrone- ously given as ‘Heary” ia a the subject line and ka. paragraph twe = eecielsDRG ae - ~— t the Navy 4 Ga 23 Maran able » 4 telatyzed message . J . (Gat No. 77978} was sent to the of the Navy reforriag to Ont No. 74673, and requesting that the Navy faraleh CLA aa secon as poasible two coples of the meal recent photograph of OSWALD that was avallabie, for use in checking the identity of the Les CSWALD In Mazico City. These photographe had not _ been cupplied te this Agency by 22 Nevember 1963. Our con- clasion that the photograph did not refer te OSWALD was based om press phates generally available on a November 1963. Document Number @ Sou oa; fe ane cob ot cere LFA Gora re i a 2 ATS, iar FOIA Review on Jun 876 emt +7889 RITS mua 2992, ice a gant meneame . atte : . 7 + ’ a repel oe Eg eri. i ; oy . 4
13-00000  RePRonwerion  § This memorandum and the attachments ts convey Infor~  - maagion originating with very sensitive scurces and methods. - They teevefore beaz am appropriate sensitivity Indicate. ‘REPRODUCTION sate PROMIBITED om 3 Copy of Out Message 70675 3 + Gapy of Out Message 77973 Distribution: Orig & 3 Addressee i - C/CI/R&A - C/CI/SIG 1. C/WH/3 ,- 201-289248  CUR&A/ TRHallspn . 23 March 1964 a- OoP ——- REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED SS CPY —..  Qol- 287243 | H —_ , re
Attachment ry Out Massage No. 74573, dated. 19 Cctaber 1963 and filed at 0400 hours, te Department of State, fsdeval Bureau of Invesatigatica, ~ e ae ‘ Mexilce reported that an American male, who identified himself as Lee OGWALD, comitacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City =, inguiting whether the Embassy had received any nawa cun- corning a telegzam whieh had bees sent to Washington. The Amartean waa deseribed as apyprouimstely 33 years old, wlth an athletic bulld, about slx feet tell, with a receding hairline. 2. it ls beliewed that OSWALE may be Wientical to Los Henry OSWALD, born on 15 Ceteber 1939 in New Orleans, Lowislana. A former U.S Se Marine who defected to the Soviet Galion in Ceteber 2989 and latay mida arrengement theough ihe Balted States Embassy in Moscow to return te the United os Statew with his Rusaly Bio FSS Se The information ba. pa TOy nated to your. representatives in Meukes City. Aap farther | tajormatien received on fale subject wilt ba farnished you, £3
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION ot | erty | ( XAAZ-22.5%6 | - eel | se “ = (at Mar 6¥ Attcchment B Out Teletype Message No. 77973, dated 23 Cetober 1963 and fled nt 1610 hours, to the Department of the Navy. cat REDUCTION 10 Ceteber 1963, regarding possible presence af subject ia Mexico City. It Le requested that you forward te this offies . of so0R as poastbla twe coping af the moet recent photograph ’ youhcave of subject, We wil] forward tham te ogr recresentae tive in Mexico, who wlll aftemp? to determina Lf the Lee CSWALD tn Mexico Clty and subject are the same Indiyvykas), - REPRODUCTION -—— PRORIBITED Wed yey: : ATT. 2 tes XAAZ- 22596 oS cory re | QOl- 2FU24EH | WIR on Ma te 2S
‘REPRODUCTION . -™@¢-* : el ctnt Jin Revert te Warren ow! sx... i GSHALD whitch CIA olissumineate cl latere, eorrcivl nn Go Cet G. ch Ste FEL Nevy ancl INS - MELA ANDUM FORt ma Loe Rankla oo ae “Wie alec dn aS ‘ail SSE : at te. <f te | a le Reference ta mada to pacagraph three of your fatter, ‘ dated 16 gare 1564,. You requested thad the Coremisaion ba «|. , iurished a copy of the disasminaiion on Las Harvey OSVALIN.. tase Lo Several Geversmacst agencies by CIA 0 oe 18 Deter 2. “An annet coy od thin dlasemtaation (Cut Message Ie. - 74872) by teletype, Is attached, It was transmitted to the Dea- parbeent of State, Federal Bureas of lavestigation and Desari~. Tent of thes eee a Srey concurrently made avaliable by ‘Se Please note that OSWALD's middle nam was ersune-  eataly given as “Henry” in the subject line and ls paragraph twe-  - of the dissemination. {The same erres occurs in the message te the Navy 4 at =n ranioapetata The maidan ‘sumame af 3x3. lay isted as *> AKOVA". Ca 23 Cctmher ithe gone ereet = date > a telatyped z mesaags J (ut Ne io. 3. T7978) wag Bau} it +e ness of the Navy refsrviagto ”. - Oust No. 74673, andlrdyis cE J Navy farsieh CIA as s00n as possible two sie of S the meat recent ohotegzank of OSWALD tha’ was avaliabia, for use in checking the ldanthy of the Lee OSWALD tn Mexico City. These photographs kad not _. Deen supplied to this Agency by 22 November 1933. Cus Con | €ingian that the photograph did not rejer to OSWALD was panes a press phetos generally avaliable on 23 November 22536 6225258. Document Number $2 Seer ee tgs ~ REPRODUCTION CT emeaaed . 8 — a ae eee Cug33CO*
13-00000_ . Oo a Heron This RATA TALE and the atiachmenzs csavey tia mmistica origina with vary canullive scurtes and methods. They th toareiory bearan appropriate suasitivisy inileater. _ RPhcoenay | — _ Fasc PE = Gopy of Ont Mamange 24573 - Be | Copy of Gan FFF? Distribution: _ m Orig & 3 Addres see i Ne ee pe | - “mehaentnn td | ae 7 ~—gug33el | : oe ue a of Le. ‘Gory NO. . “pene PROGIBITER
1300000 ATT. AEPRODUETION PRORIETED ; Talend States E Exabass cand Shale eid, Attrch=ent A ‘REPRODUCTION out Massage Bide 74873, cated 15 Crtobay 1563 and fMsd 2 033 hows sy to Department af : an Padara) Eusean of inyvatigailen, _ ahexkeo reparted that an Z aS te male, whe sdontified himself | inqalsing whulhier tha Embasvy had recsived any news Came - - as Lee CSWALD, contstted the Soviet Pbasay tn Maslee Choy comming a telagsons which bad buen seat te Washington. ‘the - oe Amarican 2a described as sppsmimstaly 33 ysars ala, et ; an athlatle Balla, about atx feat ish, wits Sa esending nalciioe eo os: 2. Bb is beliaved thad OSWALD aay ba tdeniical toLea” oo | Beary O€WALD, bora on 18 Ceteber 1939 in New Oplasnzy, ae - bacielanas & formez U.S. Marine who defected. to the Soviet : "e 3 States with hi R Gre is being dlzsem - Oo ‘elon ka Dotober B9389 ond late asda arrangement eos whe “PROBED ee The toformetion = paragsapa natod to your representatives i im Maazies chy. Any favther - "Information Fecsived on thle abhi stk witb Cu033¢2 farnished you. . a Dn ae page 19 _ of te COPY NO.
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\ —— BY te 6 Oust Teletype Meaaage HS. TASB Gated 23 Cetober 2753 sad / filed at ise a: te: tbe Department of the Navy. me | co Lo Cetber 1963, “seganding possible presence of subject ix oo . oe te Menten City. teks reqeseted thot ye forsard te this oiftes.” «20 abou aa posatble ie copia of the most recent photogragla oy you ive of sabjact. Wa will forward them to oar regdosenian wa | "thw to Meteo, whe wil attemps to determine i the Leo weg oe a OSWALD Db Ruaalen Clays abject are te anne Inve, _ AERATOR »-PRORIBITED “BOONE - puesach oo 12
13-00000 SEGRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 19 February 1962; Subject: Authorization of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Memorandum for William K. HARVEY, dated 6 March 1963; Subject: Extension of Authoriza- tion of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities. Note attached to above memorandum. Memorandum for Chief, Foreign Intelligence, dated 27 June 1963; Subject: QJWIN. OLLS-369, 30 September 1963; Subject: Adminis- trative/Finance - QJWIN. Nine pages of notes in draft regarding ZRRIFLE een 24 RODUCTIONG owes Ter- PROMMBITED REPRODUCTION =
13-00000 OIBITED,.. HEM ON 2] APRIL EN, WHILG) nates TO.PLAY A ROLE HAO BEEN SHELVED, HCH Sacyron Oia: Non negate NOT. I DISCUSS! NG: Js SUGBESTED, ‘NOW THAT. “HE HAS RECEIVE GO ALL THE -. NECESSARY. AUTHORTZATTONS FOR DOING BUSINESS IN GERMANY HE SCRICUSLY CONSIDER ‘BOING RHEAD WITH THE VENTURE IN COLOGNE. SJWIK saio HE | S$ THY ais ONLY HESITATION 1S iN COMMIT= 1s De- 62 (ste PARAGRAPH. 6, OLLA-i426 CF . yu RENEW WAS (CONFHRMED | BY DIR-1 2541 oF 28 Mav 1962 ANG VSCUSS1.ONS tN HEADQUARTERS IN Jucy S52, 27 wae LATER, HE 1S. SToLL NOT IN PLACE, ALTHCUGH. SUE. OF THIS WHF HEM ay AUGUST 1963. WHETHER - HES “ROZENEY. HAS. STRONG pouaTs.. “QUWIN! 4 PERSUNAL Hi STORY TABNL: SAND UTHE © HABHT: .OF HEDGING iS BETS 1S a 3: ; ART OF WLS. CHARACTER: THIS DOES NOT IMPLY A SECURITT “Af * BREACH nd: AEMEBE: st ANGLHANS TO tNDACATE THAT HE HAS OISCUSSED HIS--~-4] 4° : RELIAT FONSH DP WITH ANYONE EXCEPT. RERHAPS » wis WIRES fA eee Py KNOWN: O° QuWEN By TRUE : NAME. “ROZENEY USEO THE ckT .PS ASSUMED THAT HE HAS IDENTIFIED SW ENE: “KMOWS THE - “BELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE. . was NG DISMANTELED 18 2 -RORWARDED UNDER PES we Te MD PRN ee
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13-00000 27 JUN 863 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Foreign Intelligence SUBJECT: QJWIN 1. Confirming our conversation of 26 June 1963, I make the following recommendations concerning the further handling and possible disposition of QJWIN: a. I believe the original purpose for which QJWIN was continued and sent to his present under- cover assignmen 5 A (@nrs to justify the CRE J ale termination of his presen contrac or this purpose agent who is capable of operating in certain circles in Europe where we have very few assets. Whether this is of sufficient worth to continue his services depends on the determination of how he can be used either by % the German Station.or by the Austrian Station or by any other KUBARK Tapes ee a long term unofficial cover agent. He is not being used at the present time. He is being paid but he is on ice as far as any operational assignments are concerned. e. It is recommended that the present Chief of Station Luxembourg and RABNEY be consulted by Headquarters for their best recommendations as to the continued use of QJWIN. After these recommendations are received, I suggest that the German and. Austrian stations be consulted for their possible interest in using him. If after these discussions a sensible framework for the operational use of QJWIN can be established, I would recommend we continue him. If not, I would recommend that he be terminated at the time his present contract expires. 2. As far as the ZRRIFLE aspects of this operation which have been covered under the QJWIN authorization for security reasons and with which Fletcher M. KNIGHT is fully familiar as I orally advised you on 26 June 1963, except for one precautionary "life line", aspects of this case have # been terminated and neem h perhaps for minor accountings, be con ‘ Peay project. RePROOUCTION «= tk!” PAGE 13 of 43 COPY Ne nena
13-00000 oe ——- REPRODUCTION Cc CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP NAME AND ADDRESS | DATE | INITIALS Sea a pI | ee, ewe |__[aeTion ——s—sd| SC DIRECT REPLY =| —_—s| PREPARE REPLY |__[approvaa sss] i isparcH =| | RECOMMENDATION |__|commenr  —ss|| fre —t—“‘LS Cd RETURN FC |_| GONCURRENCE _—s|_—sL INFORMATION | —(| SIGNATURE = 2 ye) ri wd = =z ary 1962, ities, you are hereby cipal agent QJWIN and 8 as may be required. force through at time. him, QJWIN's salary the expenses of tivity will be in them, and these covert operational this activity, ategory and by certi- blished for QJWIN, 800 through ecessary, they will Mr. Harveys: . a -Sam Hines gave me the attached approval for ZRRIFLE. Since we retain no files on the project, I am sending this to you with the suggestion that this be incorporated in your project folder. Helen Vigness iment of reference the previous a Cn, i . red in lieu of project | vel, per diem, opera~ FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER FROM: err ae ANOS PHONE NO. SB FORM ua. 937 Use previous editions eee HEPIODOCTION - PROUIe Deputy Director (Plans) y be handled strictly Be a oe Guugare _HeronguCt jon ne -
te PRORIBITED MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. William K. Harvey SUBJECT: Extension “ Authorization of ZRRIFLE nenodl g REFERENCE: Memoxne i F man | DR same Rect OMRITED.. 1. For the. vurposelle ARE PT Vities, you are hereby . authorized to retain the services of principal agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be required. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1963 subject to renewal at that time. 2. As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be $7,200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN. and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by certi- fication. In addition to the salary established for QJWIN, , you are authorized the expenditure of $13,800 through 31 December 1963. If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. - 3. This memorandum approves an amendment of reference | memorandum increasing funds authorized for the previous <n from $14, 700 to $16,200. 4. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of —, and constitutes authorization for all travel, per diem, opera .tional, and other expenses. 5. It is requested that this activity be handled strictly oe an HS oi REPRODUCTION, : HELMS : Wotor (Plans) ouugaLe PAGE . 15 of 43 3 _ COPY NO.
13-00000 | REPRODUCTION ean “e 19 February 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: REP R PPRCTION SUBJECT: r zation of ZRRIFLE Agent Activities 1. For the surpode PROBL e, vities, you are here— by authorized to retain the services of Principal Agent QJWIN and such other principal agents and sub-agents as may be ‘required. This authorization will continue to be in force through 31 December 1962, subject to renewal at that time. 2. As established by contract with him, QJWIN's salary will be $7,200 per annum. Accounting for the expenses of QJWIN and other agents involved in this activity will be in the form of receipts for funds received by them, and these | receipts will be retained in the ZRRIFLE covert operational file. Because of the sensitive nature of this activity, accounting for funds will be by general category and by your certification. In addition to the salary established for | QJWIN, you are authorized the expenditure of $7,500 through 31 December 1962, If further funds are necessary, they will be provided. , 3. This memorandum is to be considered in lieu of pro- ject and constitutes authorization for all travel, per dien, operational and other expenses. 4, It is requested that this activity be handled strictly on an EYES ONLY basis. Richard Helms i Ni ector (Plans) “Guu3320 COPY NO. PAGE 18 oe _43 PROG
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13-00000 SECRET REPRODUCTION ras or coxrers = PRROUIBITIED . Memorandum for Chief, CI/R&A, dated 20 February 1964; Subject: Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File. [FOIA No. 563-810] - Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 6 March 1964; Subject: Inf (A) Wak sion Regarding Lee Harvey OS Oy Ry Ne 3. [XAAZ-22595 - o/ So PROMIEMTES
13-00000 . ° * a sot XAAZ- REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED Q2IQV5T5 G& Mar 6F REP OTUCTION MEMORANDUM F OR: SUBJECT: § Possession Regarding Lee Harvey OSWALD Prior to Nowernber 22, 1963 as Trea xn’ tel vk ' [lewren Coo mentor ton. 1, This refers to your letter of February 12, 1962 _ addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which kas been passed to me for reply. 2. Paragraph three of your letter requested the Agency o supply the Commission with a report on information in the Agency's possession regarding Lee Harvey CSWALD prior to November 22, 1963, The request was predicated upon the footnote on rage two of CTA!s report to the Coramission dated 31 Janvary 1964, entitled: ‘Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in | Menico Gity, 28 Sep= tember « 3 Octeber 1963", . 3. There is attached an exact reproduction of the _ Agency's official dossier on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning with the opening sheet dated 9 December 1960. The entire dossier carries the security classification of Secret and consists of thirty documents arranged in chronological order, On the basis of clearances from the Federal Zureau of - investigation, the Department of State, the Department of Navy, and the immigration and Naturalization a Services who were queried by us Bile PE able to make availa) =r Document, Number 4 i fi LETS ceba. ‘a7 SET? ges megeqect : it ie eet {Perec uit? ERED for EOIA Re Ree on pec antag “oudaset aoe
REPRODUCTION 13-00000 a, Seven documents received from the Federal . Bureau of Investigation, b. Ten documents received from the Department oo maa oe le of we | pe PROMI & One document (a name Bl] De &orn the immigration and Naturalization Service. e. Four newspaper clippings, £, Five internal CIA notes, ge CIA report dated 31] January 1964 to the Commission which covers all substantive developments aifecting CIA. in the matter of Lee Harvey CSWALD from 9 October to 22 November 1963, The report indicated the disseminations of information developed by CIA that were made to other Federal agencies during that period. This item, as was pointed out at the time, is particularly sensitive and bears appropriate sensitivity indicators. . 4, You will note that almost ail of the documents carry markings required for GIA's internal records processing. A few of the papers contained the names of our employees or - identliications of specific orsanizational components, We have taken the liberty of fe pains out these items as they do uct bear on the substance of 5 CHEER PRET. oy Richard Helms Deputy Director for Plans Attachment . Original& 24 Addressee 1-2 C/CI/SIG ~ | 1. DDP Subject  _-t« C/CI/R&A . a ; - DDP Chrono, > COPY 1» C/WH/3 » G/CI Io 201+289248 - | CLRGRoceasde/ 7468 /4. March 1964 (Inventory of documents contained a in file attached for all but atitresaee) . (20! ~2ABT2ZF4F “ove a eee ERO UB eer a ratte 0 SETTERS A een I ES AS 1
ee REPRODUCTION -——-PROIIBITED Nay “Inventor of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded : to the Commission —_ . fl. State Telegram HOB aii ) {Confidential} ~ 4 w/2, Newspaper Article from il Tan neton Post, November A, 1959 Beg {oral FBI name ovember 1959 (C onfidential) + w3, CI/LSN Internal Nod * eH. 4 Foreign Service Despatch 234, November 2, 2959 (Confidential) J ve A, State Telegram 1358, November 9, 1959 (Confidential) vo ) yy #6, State Telegram 1448, November ce | 1959 (Confidential) ow rae Ste Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959 v 8, Newspaper. Clipping from Evening Star, November 26, 1959 | i+ w%e DBF 49478, 25 25 May 1960 (Confidential) = “ iQ. Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated otros Mt May 1960 (Confidential) tims LR ce “il, Letter froma the Department of State (Cumming) to DDP (Biseet) dated rare 25, 1960 (DD/P 0-5679 - Secret) - W122. DDP Reswemse to State, das “etl 21 November 1960 (DD/P 0-6003 - “ | a, Secret) - ve vi3. internal GIA REPRODUCTE [ON file, 9: December 1960 AERA, ED OT omy = oe . . (Secret). Bia Ip _ 7 on j « /14. State womoranal NOGIISTTED.. 0s Jamary’ 26, 6, 1961 (ovo) v + WAS, State Instruction A~273, April 13, 1961 (ou0) / -wwi6, Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 {OU0) « AY Foreign Service Despatch 29, July 11, 1961 {ovo} vA oe ~ 8, DFB B $2181, July 13, 1962 (Confidential) a ° | * é aa 7 - QOl~ AVILES | GUU333. - _ emmNUE pace 3S of 3, (COPY NOe ee
_ a REPRODUCTION */19, Internal CIA Memo for the Record, 28 | September 1961 (Secret) - ¥ £20, Foreign Service Despatch 317, Cctober 12, (1961 (ouco) VV “ yél, I&NS Name Check Request, December 5, 1961 + . f22, Navy ieaagern Nite (Confidential) “> /23. DNA 1624, 26 Ag SPIE ng (IBID Post, June 9, 1962, | vy 625, DBA 20883, September 7, 1962 (Confidential) “#24, Newspaper Glipp “3226, DBA 51407, 10 September 1963 “» 72% DBA 52355, 24 September 1963 _y +28, DBA 55715 (number unclear), November 7, 1963 v £29 DBA 55777, November 8, 1963, w A. CIA Summary Report on Activities of OSWALD in Mexico City, dated 31 January 1964 - REPRODUCTION PROMIITED Qoi- 297248 - PACE *~ 40. ot 13. COPY HO, ,
BO eae - EVES RLY 20 February 1964 se wonssoon so REPRODUCTI 10 ; SUBJECT: ; | : PROMBITE in OSWALD's 201 File 1 # machine listing of documents officially recorded as being in OSWALD's 201 file was requested and is attached. The actual machine work of this type was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous -dates were also recorded. 2. A comparison: of the documents physically available in the . 201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37 documents which should be in the 201 file are not available init... This total is made up of: . 2 dispatches 7 memoranda from the FBI 1 CSCI 2 State Department documents 25 capiee ID RED iN | 3. Machine inquiries. PRODUCTION... documents have» not. been made. = apne om - PROFIUBITEDLe aoe 5E2-B1O for FOIA Review on «SUN O76 SECRET “EYES ONLY
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Jeet 2 / a , + PROLIB p SECRET Chief, SR RYPA7 | | Chief, HE ‘ ' Chief of Station, Paris oa GPFLOOR ~ Lee Harvey RODUCTION ° . ' For information PROMBITED For the record we forward herewith a memorandus by/Thomas B, CASASIN 3 in which he gives his recollections of SR interest _in Subject following 93429? Subjects return to the United States from the USER, CoeZaso | - ROBERT G,. LAMPRELL Encl. . Bistribution « T= SR wfencl — OW" ee YS | 3 ~ WE CLASSIFICATION REVIE Number 435- im 3 py SO, ~ leonpueteo ON ‘i PEPRODUC : | EBs viewon wy GE | are eS PRORIBITED Se 72 pee 1963 DEC 18 789 ook Awe : ’ : | \\ ad. Cs |  OFPA~73512 oi 7 ; vad SECRET. RY BAT 201-284 ONS
yo oo a a . a | PROMIR a ne REPRODUCTION Lene eS 25 November 1963 t6 $ Walter P. HALTIG/ = fi 1. It makes little Hither eeieioirn.. had at one time an OI interest in Oswald. As soon as I had heard OswalB's name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed <= sometime in Summer 1960 -- with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the laydéng on of interview(s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels. -At the moment I don't recall if this was discussed while Oswald and his family J. ye were en route to our country of if it was after their arrival. " o 2. I remember that Oswald's unusual behavior in the USSR had struck > me from the moment I had read the first ODACID dispatch on him, and I told my subordinates something amounting to "Don't push too hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd." We were -particularly interested. in the OI Oswald might provide on thg Minsk ‘factory in which he had been employed, on certain Sections of the city itself, and of course we sought the usual BI that might help develop target personality dossiers. , 3. I was phasing into my LPOVER cover assignment, and out of KUDOVE, at . the time, Thus, I would have left our country shortly after Oswald's arrival. I do not know what action developed thereafter. _ REPRODUCTION, oc. sende ‘PROGIBITED . 4 As an afterthought, I recall also that at the time I was becoming ¢ increasingly interested in watching develop a pattern that we had discovered in the course of our bio and research work in 6: the number of Soviet a women marrying foreigners, being permitted to leave the USSR, then eventually ~~ divorcing their spouses and settling down abroad without returning “home”, The AEOCEAN 3 case was among the first of these, and we eventually turned - up something like two dozen similar cases. We established links between some of these women and the KGB. KUDESK became interested. in the developing trend we had come across, It was partly out of curiosity to learn if . Oswald's wife would actually accompany him to our country, partly out of interest in Oswald's own exper d in the U SSR, that we showed operational intelligence interest in the/farvey story. eo . B.C. - REPRODUCTION. — PROGIE aee Pace of. —
13-00000 REPRODUCTION 1. Agency Support to Intelligence Community and Warren Commission - Tab E 2. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 9 March 1964, regarding file received from Central Intelligence Agency on 6 March 1964. PROMI ED - bbuaEZE SECRET = ae pet
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