RESPONSES TO THE CABLES LISTED UNDER QUESTION 'WHAT REPORTING WAS THERE FROM THE FIELD IN RESPONSE TO HEADQUARTERS' REQUIREMENTS?
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What reporting was there from the field in response to Head-

quarters. requirements?

SECTION I

Responses to the cables listed under Question (1) aböve are

given below under each cable.

DIR 84608, 22 November 1963

Response: On 23 November the London Station stated that Head-

quarters' alert had been passed to the British (services - MI-5 and

MI-6.) The fatter service) told our london Station it was alerting:

its field stations. ILOND-6038 (IN. 67061)]

Comment: This response was the only one which speeifically

made reference to DIR 81608; however, the latter cable undoubtedly

sparked Headquarters components, Headquarters personnel on TDY

abroad, and field units to react immediately.

Examples are to be

found in a separate section to this question.

DIR 84886, 23 November 1963

Response: Mexico City Station sent three cables: on 23 Novem.

ber containing the texts of seven tèlephone calls believed to be

relative to OSWALD. (Later it was determined that two of the

telephone calls believed to have been made by OSWALD had been

made by some other unidentified person.) [MEXI-7023 (IN: 67108),

MEXI-7025 (IN 67188), and MEXI 7033 (IN 67232) •1

DIR 84914, 23 November 1963

Response: The three cables cited above may be considered as

a response to this cable.

DIR 84920, 24 November 1963

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Response: The only/source of information on the reasons for

OsWALD's trip to Mexico City was Silvia DURAN, a Mexican employee

of the Cuban Consulate, who was-detained on 23 November and ques:

tioned by Mexican authorities from 23 to 25 November. Mexico City

Station had already alerted Headquarters to DURAN's arrest and had

forwarded information in several cables, particularly MEXI-7046

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on 24 November 1963. Mexico City responded to DIR 84920 with

MEXI-7054 on 24 November 1963. This cable contained additions

or amendments to MEXI-7046. (In addition to information obtained

from Silvia DURAN contained in her file, see also the review of

selected items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD file regarding allegations

of the CASTRO Cuban involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassina

tion, dated 23 May 1975.)

DIR 84926, 25 November 1963

Response: Mexico City Station cabled all Station held infor-

mation regarding Silvia DURAN in MEXI-7065.

DIR 84938, 25 November 1963

DIR 85133, 26 November 1963

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a. On 27 November, Helsinki) reported on OSWALD's presence in

HO 602 10 0 10 800 or 1:8120 7 83021240)

traces were to follow. [ROME-1233 (IN 68802)]

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On 27. November, Ottawa reported no traces in Station

or (also) Elles. TOTTA 2275 (IN 69005)1

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19-6 d. On 27 November, (Copenhagen) forwarded a negative report

(COPE) 3469 (IN 69011)]

e. On 27 November, London Station reported that the "Traf

fic Index" showed that OSWALD had arrived in Southampton on 9

October 1959; he left the following day by air for Helsinki.

[LOND 6097 (IN 69100)]

f. On 27 November, Ottawa Station sent a second cable con-

taining information on the initial reaction of the Cuban Ambassa-

dor CRUZ and his staff to the report of the assassination. After

further information was received (by the Cubans) that OSWALD had

connections with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, there was some

apprehension concerning !ossible United States reaction.

COTTA 1277 (IN 69233)]

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g. On 27 November, (Os10) Station cabled a response that

there, were no traces on OSWALD in Station or liaison) files.

COSLO 4490 (IN 69290)]

h. On 28 November, the Madrid Station replied that there

was no information in Station or (liaison) files. (MADR 9789 (IN:

69328)]

i. On 29 November, the'Brussels Station stated there Were

no traces on OSWALD. [BRUS 8739 (IN 69852)]

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j. On 29 November, the Rome Station reported no (liaison

traces on OSWALD. (ROME 1258 (IN 70111)]

k.

On 5 December, the Paris Station reported that Station

and diaison traces were negative. (PARI 1770 (IN 94234)]

1. On 10 December, the Paris Station reported that the

French press was giving sensational coverage to the possibility

that the assassination was "a many-angled plot". [PARI 1853 (IN

77148)]

ĐIR 85817,

29 November 1963

DIR 85973, 29 November 1963

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DIR 86077, 2 December 1963

On 4 December, the Bonn Base forwarded information regar-

ding Marina OSWALD's entry into Germany at Helmstedt on 3 June 1962:

She left Germany the same day at Bentheim. Marina OSWALD was tra-,

veling on a West German visa no. 694/62, Issued by the West German

Embassy in Moscow. (BONN-5579 (IN 73338)] (Copies of the documents

referring to Marina OSWALD were forwarded to Headquarters as an at-

tachment to EGNT-1400, 9 December 1963.

b. On 6. December, the Munich Base cabled a negative reply.

[MUNI- 8316 (IN 75065)]

C.. On 4 December, The Hague Station cabled information that

M(arina) OSWALD entered the Netherlands on 3 June 1962 at the Old-

enzal border point. [HAGU-5110 (IN 73378)]

d. On 9 December, the Stutgart Base replied that the Base

had no confirmatory information relating to OSWALD's travel. ISTUT,

5545- (IN 76758)]

SECTION II

In addition to specific action taken by the Agency as given

above, Headquarters components, Headquarters personnel on IDY, and

field units reacyed as shown below:

a. On 22 Novembor, Mexico City Station directod Headquarters!

attention to previous traffic relating to Lee Harvey OSWALD and

asked for a photograph of OSWALD in order to compare it with avail-

able photographs in the Station which might be of the assassin. The

Station indicated that it was forwarding as soon as possible copies

of a photograph of the only visitor to the Soviet Embassy on 28 [sic

- 1] October who could (might] by identical with OSWALD.

[MEXI -

7014 (IN 66781).]

•A subsequent cable sent the same day from Mexico City indica-

ted that the Station had photographs of the same unidentified Ameri

can. (referred to in the above cable) who is possibly OSWALD entering

the Cuban Embassy on 15 October.

[MEXI-7019 (IN 66846)]

b. On 22 November, the Agency's Station in Miami reported

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that OSWALD of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee had participated in

a debate in August 1963 on the New Orleans radio station, WDSU.

OSWALD was a former Marine who had gone to Moscow in 1959 where he

renounced his American citizenship. [WAVE-8049 (IN 66782)]

-c. On 23 November, the Chief, SR/CI forwarded a memorandum

to the Assistant Deputy Director, Plans, in which the latter's atten

tion was drawn to the fact that OSWALD had been in contact on_ 28

September 1963 with Soviet Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV.

According to current information available to SR/CI, KOSTIKOV was a

known KGB officer and considred to be a member of the KGB's Thir-

(sabotage and assassination)

teenth Départment/of the First, Chief Directorate. According to the

FBI liaisón officer, the FBI had reason to believe that OSWALD's

visit was to get Soviet support for a United States passport or visa

matter. Chief, SR/CI closed by saying that he had reported OSWALD's

connections with a known member of the Thirteenth Department to the

FBI liaison officer at 1030 hours on 23 November 1963.

(Memorandum for ADDP, 23 November 1963 (file nO. SX-25550)}

d. Qn,23 November, the Mexico City Station forwarded to Head-

quarters the names of three persons who had flown from Mexico, to the

United States, during the first twelve days of November, who might

have been identical with Lee Harvey OSWALD. [MEXI-7020 (IN 66891)]

e. On 24 November, the Mexico City Station reported to Head-

quarters that the United States Consulate in Nuevo Laredo had infor-

mation that OSWALD had entered Mexico at Nuevo Laredo on 26 Septem-

ber traveling on Mexican Tourist Card no. 24085 and had left Mexico

by auto [sic] on 3 October 1963 at Nuevo Laredo. [MEXI-7040 (IN

-67261)]

f. On 24 November, the Chief, SR/CI, forwarded a memorandum

to the Assistant Depauty Director, Plans, in which he quoted a cable

sent by Chief, sR Division, who was, at that time, In Frankfurt.

The latter asked the question if OSWALD was not unwittingly of

wittingly a part of a plot to murder the president in Dallas as, an-

attempt to exacerbate further sectional strife and render the United

States Government less capable of dealing with soviet initiatives

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over the next year. The Chief of SR continued-by suggesting that

if AELADLE's. (Anatoliy Mikhaylovich GOLITSYN) views on (Harold)

WILSON and the information noted in paragraph Ic below have any

substance (and they cannot be ignored), this suggests that we can

expect major Soviet pressures over the next several months, for :

which the Soviets have made careful, lon-range preparations.

Paragraph 1a:

"Within minutes of the first news, Moscow radio

statements as heard in London attributed the assassina-

tion to 'right-wing elements'. Only as the true iden-

tity of the believed assassin became known did Moscow

begin to complain that United States reactionaries

were using OSWALD; as a pawn."

Paragraph lb:

"Should not the assignment of 13th Department officers

to the KGB Residency in the United Nations in New York

bo considered in a new light?"

Paragraph lci

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-"I discovered from Arthur MARTIN MI- 5J during our

long and exceptionally valuable discussions, that

one of Harold WILSON's principal scientific advisers

is Captain Ian MAXWELL, who has a long Soviet intelli-

gence background.

This may shed new light on AELADLE'S

report, i.e., that Harold WILSON may be a Soviet agent."

Chief, SR/CI, pointed out that the SR Chief's comments come

without benefit of traces passed earlier to the ADDP sowing that

OSWALD had contact with a 13th Department representative in Mexico-

City. Chief, SR/CI, ended by indicating that another recently ar-

rived cable suggests that OSWALD's business with the Soviet Consul

was connected with his own visa to the USSR and Cuba and may,

therefore, have been innocent. (Memorandum for ADDP,

21 November 1963 (file 70, SX-25598)}

§: On 24 November, the Agency's Station-in Miami reported

information received from the local FBI representative.

The latter

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had received a request from his Headquarters to ascertain the vera-

city, including sources, of a statement made by DRE leader, Jose

LLANUSA Gobel, to the effect that Fidel CASTRO had threatened lives

of United States leaders in the event of United States aggression

against Cuba. LLANUSA attributed the above threats to Fidel CASTRO

who made these remarks during a reception in early September 1963

at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana. [WAVE-8133 (IN 67394)]

h. On 25 November 1963, the Mexico City Station also called

Headquarters' attention to an AP story datelined Havana, 7 September

1963. At a reception held at the Brazilian Embassy, CASTRO is :

quoted as haveing said: "We are prepared to fight them and answer

in kind. United States leaders shouldthink Isic - consider ?] that

if they are aiding terrorist: plans to eleminate the Cuban leaders,

they themselves will not be safe." IMEXI-7055. IN 67620)]

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