CABLE: HQS WAS UNAWARE UNTIL 28 NOVEMBER THAT HOUSE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS WENT TO MEXICO CITY
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 11/30/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1.: HAS WAS UNAWARE UNTIL 28 NOVEMBER THAT HOUSE SELECT

•COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS WENT TO MEXICO CITY ON Z? NOVEMBER TO

INTERVIEW A FORMER AGENCY TRANSLATOR POSSIBLY MR. BORIS TARASOFF

WHO NOW RESIDES IN GUADALAJARAL AND AN UNIDENTIFIED FORMER AGENCY

TYPIST WHO ALLEGEDLY PREPARED A TRANSCRIPT OF A TELEPHONE CALL MADE

IN LATE SEPTEMBER 1963 BY. LEE HARVEY OSWALD TO THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN

MEXICO CITY. THE TRANSCRIPT OF THIS CALL, ACCORDING TO MR. RONALD

KESSLER IN HIS 2? NOVEMBER "WASHINGTON POST" ARTICLE, ALLEGEDLY

CONTAINED AN OFFER BY OSWALD OF UNDEFINED INFORMATION IN RETURN FOR

A FREE TRIP TO THE USSR. Y .

2. SHOULD HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS CONTACT THE

STATION YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT NO STAFF MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE

HAS YET RECEIVED A SECURITY CLEARANCE. STATION SHOULD, THEREFORE.

NOT DISCUSS WITH. INVESTIGATORS ANY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION REGARDING

OSWALD'S ACTIVITTES IN MEXICO CITY SEEN YEARS N

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3•: IN LIGHT OF DEVELOPING HOUSE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS WOULD

APPRECIATE REPORT OF ANY REPEAT ANY PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO

THE OSWALD 1963 VISIT TO

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THAT ARE STILL HELD IN THE STATION. IF ANY PLEASE DESCRIBE SO

DECISION CAN BE MADE CONCERNING FORWARDING TO HOS- Y

4. SOME CONSIDERATION BEING GIVEN AT HOS TO MAKE FULL PUBLIC

DISCLOSURE OF AGENCY HOLDINGS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY OSWALD ACTIVITIES

DURING 1963 TRIP TO MEXICO CITY EWHICH IN PART MONITORED BY TELTAP

AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCES, AS WELL AS RELATED DEVELOPMENTS.

SUCH PUBLIC DISCLOSURE WOULD OBVIOUSLY REVEAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIP,

JOINT OPS AND AGENT TRUE NAMES INCLUDING POSSIBLE IDENTITY LESSEE OF.

HOUSES USED FOR PHOTO SURVEILLANCE. PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR

CONSIDERED VIEW OF REACTION OF LIAISON AND MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND

POLITICAL AND OPERATIONAL CONNOTATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS IF A FULL

PUBLIC DISCLOUSURE WAS MADE. Y

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