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

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TO: INMEDIATE DIRECTOR.

HINTEL RIVIER MASPLASH

REFS:

DIRECTOR 154131

Б.

DIRECTOR 154958

C.

MEXICO C1TY 43602 0236567

D. (MEXICO CITY 43110

LAKEY

1.

REVIEW OF FEI DUCUMENTS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY

OSWALD TRANSMITTED BY IN- 25060 WERE RECEIVED AT STATION

25 JAN AND HAVE BEEN REVIEWED.

CONCUR HOS ASSESSMENT

CONCERNINE 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 SHOCKED CAS THEY WERE IN

CASE OF PREVIOUS REVELATIONS THAT ANY GOVERNMENT COULD

MILLINGLY REVEAL INFORMATION SO EMBARRASSING AND COUNTER-

PRODUCTIVE TO BILATERAL, RELATIONS.

IN ADDITION TO THE DOCUMENTS LISTED IN REF B.

THERE ARE OTHERS WHICH COME CLOSE TO CONFIRMING COMMUNIST

ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN (FBI/CIA AND

MEXICAN SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFICIALS.

RECALL THAT KIMPACT/D SPECIFICALLY WARNED (REF D) ABOUT

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

AND SAID THAT THIS WÜULD "CAUSE GRAVE PROBLEMS FOR ALL

CONCERNED."

SUM TOTAL THESE DOCUMENTS WILL GO A LONG WAY

TOWARDS

CONFIRMING RECENT COMMUNIST ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS THE

VICE-PRESIDENT BY SURFACING BANNER ARTICLE IN PROMIENT LOCAL

NEWSPAPER

ABOUT CIA USE OF MEXICAN OFFICIALS TU SPY ON

MEXICO. (REF C).

SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS WHICH WILL SUPPORT THE

COMMUNIST ALLEGATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

BLIND MEMO BY FBI DATED MARCH 16. 1964 CAPTIONED.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD. "

FIRST PARAGRAPH:

"A CONFIDENTIAL

SOURCE ABROAD WHO

IS THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR WITH THE WORKINGS

OF THE MEXICAN MINISTRY OF GOBERNACION INTERIOR HAS

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FURNISHED THE FOLLOMING INFORMATION CUNCERNING THE PROCEUURES

UTILIZED BY THE MEXICAN INMIGRATION

SERVICE IN CUNNECTION

KITH THE ENTRY AND DEPARTUKE OF NON-MEXICAN CITIZENS INTO

AND OUT UF MEXICO."

URGENT CLASSIFIED TELEGRAM TO DIRAFBI FRUM

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

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

BE NOTIFIED RE PUSSIBLE POLYGRAPH EXAMIVATION OF KOJAS, HIS

IDENTITY AND ALLEGATIUNS MADE BY RUJAS RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIUN

AND ECHEVERRIA'S CUOPERATIUN REQUESTEU TO CONDUCT SAID

MEMO TO DIRECTOR, FBI FROM LEGAT, MEXICO, DATED.

APRIL 28, 1964 REVIEKS INVESTIGATIUNS CARRIED OUT

AGENTS IN MEXICO CITY.

"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

MINISTEK, AND THE SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT UF IMMIGKATION.

LICENCIADO RAFAEL HERNANDEZ OCHOA.

ALSO HANDLED LIAISON WITH

THE MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE AND ARRANGED FOR DELIVERY

OF A COMY OF THE SIGNED STATEMENT OF

SILVIA TIRADO VE DURAN

BY CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERREZ BARRIOS."

MEMO DATED MAY 5. 1964 AND CAPTIONED

HARVEY OSWALD" SAYS ON PAGE 9:

"ON MARCH 24, 1964.

CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERREZ BARRIOS, SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE

MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE (DFS), ADVISED THE THIRD

CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ABROAD THAT HIS AGENCY HAD CONDUCTED

NO INVESTIGATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAVEL IN MEXICO

OF LEE HARVEY' OSHALU AND DID NOT HAVE IN ITS PUSSESSION ANY

PASSENGER LISTS FROM ANY BUS LINES."

ACTIVE IN ME DECCENTS OFAT CAL RENTALAE A STATION EN

MEXICO CITY. HAS JURISDICTION OVER AND MONITORS THE

ACTIVITIES OF THE CUBAN AND SUVIET EMBASSIES. AND CONDUCTS

"SENSITIVE COVEKAGE" OF THESE INSTALLATIONS (PHOTOGRAPH)*

PRIOR ALLEGATIONS OF CLANDESTINE ACTIVITIES OF THE FBI IN

MEXICO ARE ALSÜ CONFIRMED BY STATEMENTS SUCH AS "DECLASSIFICATION

(OF THE DOCUMENT) WOULD DAMAGE OUR OPERATIONS IN MEXICO

CITY," REFERREO TO IN AT LEAST FIVE DOCUMENTS.

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

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CAN ACCOUNTANT) IN THE CUBANA AIRLINES

OFFICE IN MEXICO CITY. ANOTHER MEMO DATEU APRIL 1, 1964

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ACKNOWLEUGES THAT CIA. HAD

AN OPS INTEREST AT

ONE TIME OR ANOTHER

IN

THREE ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS. THE DRE. JURE. AND

30IH

OF

NOVEMBER.

4.

HOS STATED IN REF & THAT IT HAD MADE RECOMMENDATIUNS

TO THE FAI/FUIA FOR FURTHER DELETIONS IN. AND DENIAL

CERTAIN DOCUMENTS.

NE ARE ESPECIALLY CONCERNED

DOCUMENTS LISTED IN PARAGRAPH ONE ABUVE.

PLS ADVISE URGENTLY

ACTION WAS TAKEN ÜY THE FBI CONCEKNING

THESE SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS.

PRESUME THAT ALL DUCUMENTS NOW NADE PUBLIC AND THUS TOO LATE

TO DENY THEIR RELEASE.

5. LSIATIUN PLANNING PROVIDE COPES OF ALL THE

DOCUMENTS

TO DIMPACT/D IN ORDER

TO ALERT HIM WHAT TYPE OF

PUBLICITY MAY BE FORTHCOMING.

6. FILE: 200-120-150. E2, IMPDET-

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