CABLE: REVIEW OF FBI DOCUMENTS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Originator: CIA
From: MHSPLASH
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 01/27/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2701512 JAN 78

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MEX 1 43499

SECRET 2700082. JAN 78 STAFF

CITE MEXICO CITE 43699.

TO: IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR.

WNINTEL RIVIEN AHSPLASH

REFS:

A.

DIRECTOR 154131

B.

DIRECTOR 154958

C.

MEXICO CITY

43602 07.36567

D.. MEXICO CILY 43110

I I says thi

BLAKSY

REVIEW OF FBI DOCUMENTS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY

OSWALD TRANSMITTED BY IM-Z5066 WERE RECEIVED AT STATION

25 JAN AND HAVE BEEN KEVIEWED.

CONCUR HUS ASSESSMENT

CONCERNING POTENTIAL DAMAGE WHICH CAN BE DONE TO STATION'S

OPERATIONS AND LIAISON ACTIVITIES AS RESULT THEIR REVELATION.

SHOULD DOCUMENTS BE SURFACED MEXICO CITY. BELIEVE WE CAN

ANTICIPATE THAT SENIOR MEXICAN GOVERNMENT UFFICIALS AND

OUR LIAISON COUNTERPARTS WILL BE SHOCKEU CAS THEY WERE IN

CASE OF PREVIOUS REVELATIONS) THAT ANY GUVERNMENT COULD

WILLINGLY REVEAL INFURMATION SO EMBARRASSING AND COUNTER-

PRODUCTIVE TO BILATERAD RELATIONS.

IN ADUITION TO THE DOCUMENTS LISTED IN REF B.

THERE ARE OTHERS WHICH COME CLOSE TO CONFIRMING COMMUNIST

ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FBI/CIA AND

MEXICAN SECURILY ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFICIALS.

RECALL THAT KDIMPACILD SPECIFICALLY WARNED

- CU-OPERATION WITH THE MINISTRY UF GOVERNMENT BEING MADE PUBLIC

AND SAID THAT THIS WÜULD "CAUSE GRAVE PROBLEMS FOR

CONCERNED."

TOTAL THESE DOCUMENTS WILL GO A LONG

TOWARDS CONFIRMING RECENT COMMUNIST ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS THE

VICE-PRESIDENT BY SURFACING BANNER ARTICLE IN PROMIENT LUCAL

NEWSPAPER ABOUT CIA USE OF MEXICAN OFFICIALS TO SPY ON

SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS WHICH MILL SUPPORT THE

COMMUNIST ALLEGATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

BLIND MEMO BY FBI DATED MARCH 16. 1964 CAPTIONED.

LEE. HARVEY OSWALD."'

FIRST PARAGRAPH:

"A CUNFIDENTIAL

SOURCE ABHUAD WHO IS THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR WITH THE WORKINGS.

OF THE MEXICAN MINISTRY OF

GOBERNACION INTERIOR) HAS

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2701512 JAN

78

IN 0258730A

(MEXI 43699

FURNISHED THE FOLLOMING INFORMATION CUNCERNING THE PROCEDURES

UTILIZED BY THE MEXICAN INMIGRATION

SERVICE IN CONNECTION

WITH THE ENTRY AND

DEPARTURE OF NON-MEXICAN CITIZENS INTO

AND OUT UF MEXICO. "

URGENT CLASSIFIED TELEGRAM TO DIR/FBI FROM

LEGAT MEXICO CITY, NO. 360. DATED 2-7-64, CONTAINS STATEMENT:

"LIC. LUIS ECHEVERRIA. ACTING MINISTER OF GOBERNACION. WILL

BE NOTIFIED RE PUSSIBLE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF ROJAS. HIS

IDENTITY AND ALLEGATIUNS MADE BY ROJAS RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

AND ECHEVERRIA'S COOPERATION REQUESTEU TO CONDUCT SAIC

EXAMINATION."

C.

MEMO TO DIRECTOR, FUI FROM LEGAT. MEXICO, DATED

APRIL 28, 1964 REVIENS INVESTIGATIUNS CARRIED DUT

BY FBI

AGENTS IN MEXICO CITY.

UNDER

"SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA" ON PAGE

TWO APPEARS THE FOLLOWING REPORT:

"HANDLED LIAISON WITH THE

MEXICAN MINISTRY OF GOVERNMENT. RECEIVING COPIES OF DOCUMENTS

AND DATA FROM LICENCIADO (ATTORNEY) LUIS ECHEVERRIA, ACTING

MINISTER, AND THE SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT UF

IMMIGKATIUN•

LICENCIADO RAFAEL HERNANDEZ OCHOA.

ALSO HANDLED LIAISON WITH

THE MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE AND ARRANGED FOR DELIVERY

OF A COPY OF THE SIGNED STATEMENT OF SILVIA TIRADO DE DURAN

BY CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERREZ BARRIOS."

BLIND FBI MEMO DATED MAY 50 1964 ANNU CAPTIONED

"LEE HARVEY OSWALD". SAYS ON PAGE 9:

"ON MARCH 24, 1964.

CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERKEZ BARRIOS. SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE

MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE (DFS). ADVISED THE THIRD

CONFIDENTIAL SOUNCE ABROAD THAT HIS AGENCY HAD CONDUCTED

NO INVESTIGATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAVEL IN MEXICO

OF LEE HARVEY OSHALD AND DID NOT HAVE IN ITS POSSESSIUN ANY

PASSENGER LISTS FROM ANY BUS LINES."

OTHER DOCUMENTS OFFICIAL RECOGNIZE THAT CIA IS

ACTIVE IN MEXICO CITY, THAT CIA MAINTAINS A STATION.

MEXICO CITY. MAS JUKISDICTION OVER AND MONITORS THE

ACTIVITIES OF THE CUBAN AND SUVIET EMBASSIES. AND CUNDUCTS

"SENSITIVE COVEKAGE" OF THESE INSTALLATIONS (PHOTOGRAPH)*

PRIOR ALLEGATIONS OF CLANDESTINE ACTIVITIES OF THE FBI IN

MEXICO ARE ALSO CONFIRMED BY STATEMENTS SUCH AS "DECLASSIFICATION

(OF THE DOCUMENT) WOULD DAMAGE OUR OPERATIONS IN MEXICO

CITY," REFERRED TO IN AT LEAST FIVE DOCUMENTS.

TWU OF THE

DOCUMENTS GO SU FAR AS TO IDENTIFY THAT THE FBI HAD A

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT (AN ACCOUNTANT) IN THE CUBANA AIRLINES

OFFICE IN MEXICO CITY. ANOTHER MEMO DATED APRIL 1. 1964

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ACKNUWLEUGES THAT CIA HAD

AIN OPS INTEREST AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER

THREE ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS, THE DRE, JURE. AND 30TM UF

NOVEMBER.

HOS STATED IN REF & THAT IT HAD MADE RECOMMENDATIUNNS

TO THE FHI/FUIA FOR FURTHER DELETIONS IN.

AND DENIAL OF.

CERTAIN DOCUMENTS.

WE ARE ESPECIALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FOUR

DOCUMENTS LISTED

IN PARAGRAPH ONE ABUVE.

PLS ADVISE URGENTLY

WHAT

ACTION WAS TAKEN

BY THE FBI CONCEKNING

THESE SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS.

PRESUME THAT ALL

• DOCUMENTS NOW MADE PUBLIC AND THUS TOU LATE

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STATION PLANNING PROVIDE COPES OF ALL THE

DOCUMENTS

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PUBLICITY MAY BE FORTHCOMING.

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