104-10099-10270 = g DEC B76 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Interview with Charlotte Bustos-Videla - |. John Leader, ‘Teal Anderson (O/S) and I met with Ms, . Bustos yesterday to. discuss her recollections that might bear a on the Oswald matter. 2 She stated that she has not yet been contacted by Mx. “Kessler, She and her husband have arranged for an unlisted _. telephone and a post office box to protect their privacy. If ' contacted she will decline to have any discussions with Mr. - Kessler. Contrary to my understanding she is returning to Headquarters’ PCS and will be here for some time. 3. Ms. Bustos stated that the most important person to. whom we can talk is Ann Goodpasture who has retired to Texas, | ‘She stated that Ms. Goodpasture was a case officer in the ‘station; she "ran liaison;" she handled sensitive things for the . - COS; and, after the assassination of President Kennedy she ‘“cwould have been the one to conduct the reviews at the station. She was involved in the investigations of the Duran aspect of ‘the matter (we do not know if Ms. Goodpasture is the person interviewed by the Downing Committee investigators; she does _ not fit the description of a secretary). 4, “The next person ‘that she mentioned was = Milly Rodriguez ° ' She handled Tasaroff and the Soviet transcribers. Ms. Bustos’ _. ; ; ciA feels that Ms. Rodriguez would be more informed on what _ RETURN TO * only happened than Dave Reardon “sp ?). - SO ~ Background, Do' Not Reproduce 5. Ms. Bustos stated that she got involved from the Cuban | . angle, not from the Soviet point of view. It is her present re- i, collection, contrary ‘to/what we have been told, that the Cuban ~ . tap was active at the time that Oswald visited Mexico. _ We dis-- cussed the fact that he called the Soviet Embassy from the.Cuban’ Embassy and asked if this might explain her recollection that the Cuban tap was active; she thought not. , a rn Mo.been Sine sper bent mats neeie ai wets
14-00000 fo, ty 6. Ms. Bustos said that when the report on Oswald came in from Mexico she did the name trace on him. She took action to notify the Navy, the FBI, and the field. She states that the station was told to notify the Legal Attache and the three Military Attaches. In notifying the "Pentagon" she said that she asked ‘fora photo of Oswald from his military file which might be used . . in his identification against photography coverage in Mexico City. She said there was no answer from the ''Pentagon:" In response © to our questions she stated that this would mean his military -service, which probably was the Navy as Oswald was a Marine, - She said that she waited for comments and reaction but that there . ‘was no response. By way of explanation she observed that lots | of people were in contact with the Soviet and Cuban Embassies , in Mexico City and no/response at that time might not be unnatural . She cannot recall if there was a follow up. = oO, rae 7. She gtated that‘initially our telephone taps in Mexico City were (unilateral,| bearing the cr tonym LIFEAT. Later, Goin t?. AA ‘telephone taps Gone cateblishedt she could not recall the date); . it came to be known as LIENVOY. The LIENVOY LP had about . (30 ‘lines, ‘15 each ffor CIA an Liaisoy. Most of the embassy LO ; eee lines were Switched to LIENJOY, but |LIFEAT continued to have. ees ‘houses for LP's "all over town. " The lines in LIENVOY were tapped [from céntral;\ which Ms. Bustos sees as indicating that there was. probably no standdown on the Cuban Embassy so far as technical reasons are concerned. She felt that the LP case , officer managed the distribution of coverage so that there would ' be no duplications in the lines covered. She could not remember . the identity of the person but she said that Win Scott read everything. Ms. Bustos stated that there was photo surveillance on both the _... Soviet and the Cuban Embassies.,,,The Cuban photo surveillance "Project (LIONION) was|a joint opetation| Coe tt oe 8. Ms. Bustos said that Ann Goodpasture handled the Material from LIFEAT and she recalled that a person named _ ' Anderson handled LIENVOY. Ms. Goodpasture did the history | . of the Mexico Station and would be very familiar with all of it. As Ms. Bustos did not.go to Mexico until 1967 her personal . _ recollections are a mix of the period commencing when she re 7 arrived PCS and her knowledge from the Headquarters desks. ne
14-00000 . ( . oGS Ly Rf oS ten & oe ( 9. Ms. Bustos stated that Win Scott retired around 1969 and that the files were purged around 1970. She felt that all permanent material was sent to [i arrefiton land would not be at[the station] She said that about 75% of all the paper was destroyed but that the Oswald file would have been sent to Washington. uo 10. Ms. Bustos has no real recollections now about what she did at the time of the Kennedy death. She recalls only the Oswald 201-file. Her assumption is that a task force would have taken over the maiter, as was customary of LA Division handling special matters which would take it out of the Mexican ll, We agreed to get some information that might help Ms. Bustos refresh her recollection and agreed on a later contact. » . S. D. Breckinridge ce: O/S a