9. -It must be stressed that what technical information the Station had was not (and normally is not) ‘processed in "real time. The means of acquisition and the volume of: ‘the. infor- mation preclude anything. but the spot reporting of items judged to be of more than ordinary interest and, therefore, “noted in summary logs. Full texts ‘of selected items require consultation of the tape and either a full transcription or full translation or both. Photo coverage tends to become available in | quantity . lots which requires scanning and selection on a rapid and “accelerated basis in four or five day "peaks." One. of the | "triggers" that normally operates to focus. and accelerate 1 more speedy review and reporting of this kind» of raw intelligence is _ the mention of a name. ‘This was “precisely what occurred in- the “second of two conversations on 1 October, during which the speaker said he was "Lee OSWALD." It was- ‘this information "reported by the Station to Headquarters in its first indication on OSWALD on 8 October 1963. 10. -The Mexico. Station did one more thing in ‘its 8 October report on Lee OSWALD based on the 1 October information: it coupled the data with descriptive information it had acquired. from a sensitive source: -- a photograph of a male individual, apparently an American, “who was observed entering an Embassy "suggest that the data led to any deduction that the photo’ was in. | HW 53320 on 1 October. The Station reported this detail on ‘the 8th as a matter of coincident fact. The Station did hot assert: or fact OSWALD or, indeed, was in any way related to OSWALD. DoclIda: 32393710 Page 4 . 4
. , a) 7 wills Lo. il. ‘one additional element of background must be. stipulated now as the final precondition to understanding the relevance (or irrelevance) of the photo of the unknown individual placed in the. chain of evidence on 23, ‘November in | Dallas by the FBI agent: what was the. totality of CIA Mexico’ Ss coverage of OSWALD! s activity. as of the afternoon of. the 23rd when all- available coverage had been checked? 12. The totality of Mexico Station coverage on or ‘reasonably inferable to be OSWALD: consisted of five (5) voice intercepts. _ Each of these items, i including the text of the raw intercepts, _ were read by, discussed with, and examined by Warren ‘Commission staffers: ‘in Headquarters and at the Mexico Station during a stay | from 8- 13 April 1964, ~All were made available promptly to ; . - the FBI. : | 13. At about mid-day on 1 October, the camera registered the entry into an Embassy of a white- shirted individual. In the opinion of the Station, among all the persons photographed that day, he appeared to be the only non-Latin and possibly ‘American who entered. On the. chance that there could be an association 7 between the identification data derived. from the voice inter- cept and the descriptive data derived from the photograph, the Station reported the two elements as separate facts in its cable to Headquarters on 8 October. | 7 | 14, ‘The: Station’ s action was not unusual and really amounted to an analytic “quantum leap, " in terms of the primitive status of the OSWALD identification. Many examples of a similar kind of thing can be found in the day- to-day record of Station- Headquarters HW 53320 Deep ombenne pak seporting.
AW 53320 Docld:32393710 Page 6 : . . nee om cs AY, yi. : ¢ We ete 15. On 22 November 1963 the Mexico Station cabled Head- quarters at 2229Z time after learning of the arrest of Lee H. OSWALD, age 24, possibly in connection. with ‘the: assassination, and referenced its’ earlier messages of 8-9 and 15 October and . Headquarters” reply of 10 October. The Station requested by: "priority. pouch a photo of OSWALD so that Station | can check all recent coverage for. OSWALD. "-Forward- ing soonest. copies of only visitor on 1 October who. could be identical with OSWALD. " | 16. This obviously was for comparison at the Station which had estimated the age. of the unidentified male whose photograph it had. selected as having the “apparent age of 35. " 17. . The Station meanwhile had begun an exhaustive and - accelerated review of all its technical and photographic intel- ©. ‘ ligence. A dispatch was prepared in accordance with the a indication given in the cable of 22 November. The — dispatch | noted that photo coverage of the unidentified individual had oo turned up on 4 and 15 October. The text of the’ 22 November 1963 pouched dispatch read: a | _— mS "1. Attached are copies of. the only srotocep obtained. . .on 1 October 1963 which appeared to be | an American, This same man visited [ari] Embassy on 4 October 1963. | | oe "2. Copies. of these photographs were shown to ‘the U. S. Ambassador on 22 November 1963 and a copy of. each of. the two. photographs was - given to Chief FBI, . Mexico, on ‘that date. . . Lo —
~ "Pp. S. Photographs dated 15 October 1963 were inserted after typing of dispatch. These were taken as [the] person entered fan} Embassy." 18. The "Unidentified Individual" remains to this day unidentified. There is still no credible evidence, as far as CIA is aware, that the individual in the photograph had any connection with Lee Harvey OSWALD or the assassination of President Kennedy. HW 33320) Bocld:32393710 Page 7