7 me i: 2 £ oT aie : | 6 Oh Mr. Goldsmith. Did you find a photograph of someone | ; whom you thought to be Lee Harvey Oswald? | a | Mrs. Scaletti. I don't remember that either. | ‘ Mr. Goldsmith. Do you. know Phillip Agee? | 6 Mr. Goldsmith. what is your opinion of his reputation | 7 | for veracity? | | 2 | Mrs. Scaletti. Yousmeansin the book or just in person? | 9 Mr. Goldsmith. As a person. | 10 Mes. Scaletti. I think Phil had lots of problems. | I ! 1] | certainly think he is capable of exaggerating. I certainly 2 | think he is capable -- talking about the book or as a person, | .® a = ‘I. think he plunges into things, thinks they will be great and | es i | then he is disillusioned and things never turned out the way 1s | he thinks they are going to and he is dissatisfied. I am talk- | 14 ing about personal setbacks. I don't think he is guite capable, 7 | of handling things. — - . . Co a Mr. Goldsmith. In terms of telling the truth do you think 19 | he generally tells the truth or not? { . 30 | Mrs. Scaletti. I would probably say that sometimes he a thinks he does but t don't think he necessarily always does. on 2 | Mr. Goldsmith. Did you ever know a CIA employee named “3 | Joseph smith? | 24 | Mrs. Scaletti. Yes. | 2 i Mr. Goldsmith. What is your opinion of his reputation? | i | he : . 001755 a] : ud seen bas ie ae So sag a hase, poe: | man HY 50955 Docld: 32277223 Page 49 i
2UP VLUNEE 94 Mrs. Scaletti. I didn't know Joe as ‘much as I knew Phil. epee pe eee ne ene enna an ewes wee i | ~ 2 ij I might guess possibly that Joe might have his feet more soundly 3 | on the ground than Phil. This is just off the top of my head. ; | I only knew. him in the office and very superficially, Joe 5 Smith. {ft . . 6 Mr. Goldsmith. Did you ever tell Joe Smith or Phillip ? } Agee that you had found a photograph of Oswald or someone you | . | 7 thought to be Oswald? 9 Mrs. Scaletti. I did not know Joseph Smith in Mexico | : 10 | City. I had never seen Joe except at the station in Mexico | . - 24 | City and Phil-I_only,saw.when I was in Mexico. I would have 12. | no reason to-say.that. “a i! ee on a3 Mr. Goldsmith. So your. answer to the question is no? _ | 1 Mrs. Scaletti. I don't recall it and I don't see that I 1s | woud have any reason. ie Mr. Goldsmith. I guess for the purpose of clarification | a would like to ask the question one more time. Did you ever ! ye 1g | tell Phillip | Agee or Joseph Smith that you found a picture of is | Oswald or someone whom you thought to be Oswald? | Mrs. Scaletti. Not that Ian recall. | | Mr. Goldsmith. After the assassination of the President |; | | | did you have any responsibility with regard to the Oswald file? | | | Mrs. Scaletti. I don't believe so. Mr. Goldsmith. Did you work with Jacke Whitten at all on | . ithe investigation of the assassination? i ij 001756 1 9 Pye 4 HWY 50955 Docld: 34977223 Page 450 | Ws the Pang pay eer ae) arn omc Be: D oo pogseg raced
fou aw Qe a” me is a . , i Mrs. Scaletti. No. Not that I recall. I think that ; © 2 was taken away from the branch immediately. a | 3 Mr. Goldsmith. Will you please read CIA number 246? . | : Mrs. Scaletti. Right. I wrote that. 5 : “Mr. Goldsmith. What is the date of that? 6 Mrs. Scaletti. 18 May 1967. ? Mr. Goldsmith. That pertains to Oswald? & Mrs. Scaletti.. I wrote a dispatch on 18 May 1967 7 requesting the station. to forward any photographs that they ie have. I don't remember. this. | i} Mr. Goldsmith. Would the fact that you wrote that help 12 | refresh your recollection at all as to whether you worked on i .@ ow 18 | the Oswald case after the assassination? id { Mrs. Scaletti. The only thing I can remember is that I 1s was not a member of any task force. Somebody could hfve said | 16 || “Charlotteywrite this," and I could have written it. : 17 oS Mr:.Goldsmith. © In terms of responsibility for the Oswald | 13 file did you have any responsibility for that after the assassi- 19 nation?. | : 20 Mrs. Scaletti. I would say that the desk might have had ! 31 responsibility until it was turned over to a task force, not | & - 23 necessarily myself. : ‘ ; “4 : . ~°Mr. Goldsmith. At the time of the assassination the file ie a4 was at the Mexico Desk, is that right? . | oo a5 Mrs. Scaletti. It may not have been. It could have been 2 001757 | | THE OfAarT | i HW 50955 DocId:32277223 Page 51 i 'F Pook EP Gg ah PG
bes a 49 | returned to where it was: where I got it from. We do not keep all the files like that, necessarily. I could have kept the da aos { | | | i) £ile pending a reply or further investigation but that is not | | { | | | until I get further -- | | | necessarily normal. I generally keep a copy of my cables just | 6 f ' Mr. Goldsmith. In fact, according to the Agency's records ; the file was on the Mexico Desk at the time of the assassination. 3 Mrs. Scaletti. It was just waiting then for a reply. : 3 / Mr. Goldsmith. Was there anything unusual ‘about its . ' iC being at ‘the Mexico Desk at that time? | H | Mrs. Scaletti. No, because we had written correspondence! . 12 on it. Tether we can hold the file until anything else comes ; a 13 | in or we can send it back and when we get material we can send i i i¢ } it on. There is nothing unusual about that. In. those days . . ! | | 13 we were more apt to keep files than we are in these days. 16 They try to keep them down. in the central-repository. | 4 | Mr. Goldsmith. Do you know whether the: México! City: =i. 13 stationever. obtained. a photograph of Oswald? me , Mrs. Scaletti. “No, I do not. : | , 20 | Mr. Goldsmith.” Do you know whether they ever obtained a | 1 | tape recording of his voice? Let me rephrasesthat. At the G - 22 time of the assassination do you know whether they had a tape | - "3 | recording. of his voice?. 2s | Mrs. Scaletti. I don't know and they would have if they | kept the tapes but they normally do not keep those tapes on 28. _ 001758 MW 50955 Docld: 32377223 Page 52 i
iq j d : i * 2 A ‘5 ay cog a "ys “oy de Sf Ge 3g 4 30 i tap. nN in oa ee ee rt Mr. Goldsmith. What is done with the tapes? G3 Mrs. Scaletti. They are erased. Mr. Goldsmith. ‘Why are they erased? Mrs. Scaletti. They erase them because they need them, They extract from-them what they feel is pertinent and then i i 7 | they are kept a certain -- at that time they were kept a : : g | certain amount of time, I don't know how much it was, a week or! i 3 two weeks, in case somebody decided they wanted to keep on 7 for the record. But ‘they had to resue these’ tapes. | Mr. Goldsmith. As a matter of routine? 2! Mrs. Scaletti. As a matter of routine. Mr. Goldsmith. This dispatch con-ained in CIA number 246 with regard to the photograph of the man who had been seen 1s : leaving the Embassy, was the agency concerned about the par- i ticular photograph? wi Mrs. Scaletti. Yes, because you can tell from the way it a. was written. | | Mrs. Goldsmith. Do you know why the Agency was concerned } | | apout these photographs? ov | Kt a Mrs. Scaletti. To see if they could clarify whether it 29 | was Oswald or was not who had gone in. - 7 Mr. Goldsmith. This is 1967. By then they should have ! 1. | clarified that issue, I would think. Was there any other reason a8 why the Agency would have been concerned about that? ' i 1 i : | 001759) a. THE OEeDLT | | HW 50955 DocId:32277223 Page 53 4 iE g oak : i, qi 7 4 -
Cae] ig ol 28g) tf a P Sy we RL RO ag YL yO: # ‘42 A ge Fs Mrs. Scaletti. Somebody must have said, “Look, we never got an answer to that," or "let us see what they have", or something. Somebody must have been doing a file review or an 4.3 something. It says here "The recent reopening of publicity | regarding Oswald and Agency evidence, headquarters would like | : 6 | to determine:..;° Apparently somebody did a‘name trace. They 7 | were asked to look something up and they could not find it. g : We had to go to the station to see if the station still had ) 9 | negatives. Most. of this information was held at the station 10 : and was never sent to Washington. | | an This is a dispatch going: out to Mexico asking if they 12 | have something in théir files. ! 7 aii 13 [ Mr. Goldsmith. Let us Look at CIA number 197. Will you id please read the second paragraph? It is to the Director from | i - ! 13 ! Mexico City. “| i ; i 1 Mrs. Scaletti. Okay, I have read paragraph 2 of 197. i YW Mr. Goldsmith. Does that paragraph suggest to you that at 2 the time of the assassination the Mexico City station still haa! 9 lat least one tape of Oswald's voice? In other words, the | | 20 | paragraph does not say that both tapes had been erased. It 7 Says one was erased. | @ 43 : Mrs. Scaletti. This was 23 November. When was the : _ - 3 assassination? | Mr. Goldsmith. 22 November. Mrs. Scaletti. This was the day after the assassination. | . t I ee , wm Be ‘ * . 7 2 AFAR Fs i : q RT ow EY aa 3 ara my 8 Re ot x thas ame uh wd ug “~ aa :