CABLE - ALVARADO IS FABRICATING HIS STORY OF SEEING OSWALD TAKEN MONEY IN THE CUBAN EMBASSY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR CIA
Document date: 11/27/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Assassination Records Review Board

Final Determination Notification

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

: 104-10015-10398

RECORD

SERIES

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 201-289248

Released under the John

=. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel .

Case#:NW 53199 Date:

06-06-2017

April 18, 1996

Status of Document:

Postponed in Part

Number of releases of previously postponed information: 5

•Reason for Board Action: The Review Board's decision was premised on several factors

including: (a) the significant historical interest in the document in question; (b) the

absence of evidence that the release of the information would cause harm to the United

States or to any individual.

Number of Postponements: 3

Postponement # 1 (Page 1):

Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it reveals the identity of an intelligence agent that

properly may be withheld under Section 6(1)(A) of the JFK Act. The Board is awaiting additional

evidence from the CIA, at which time it will reconsider the postponement.

Substitute Language: Use pseudonym.

Release Date: 05/1996

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Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it discusses sources and methods that properly may

be withheld under Section 6(1)(B) of the JFK Act.

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Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it reveals the identity of an intelligence agent that

properly may be withheld under Section 6(1)(A) of the JFK Act. The Board is awaiting additional

evidence from the CIA, at which time it will reconsider the postponement.

Substitute Language: Use pseudonym.

Release Date: 05/1996

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DIRECTOR CIA

MEXICO CITY

CABLE - ALVARADO IS FABRICATING HIS STORY

IN THE CUBAN EMBASSY.

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LIAISON

ALVARADO UGARTE

FABRICATION

OSWALD,

LEE H.

CUBA EMBASSY

MEXICO CITY

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IN THE FACE OF MOUNIING EVIDENCE THAT

ALVARADO IS FABRICATING HIS STORY OF

BERING OSWALD SAKE MONEY INTHE CUBAN EMBASSY, URGE YOU FOLLOW UP WITH HIS LOCAL

NIC CASE OFFICER AND AVAIL YOURSBLE OF THE HELP OF THE NIC SERVICE, WHICH CAN

SUND ENTI

KROID 3, A GOOD KUBARK ASSET, TO HELP IN THE INTERROGATION. WE FIND IT

ALE THAT THE CUBANS WOULD BRIDE AND PAY AN ASSASSIN IN FRONT OF A NIC

Number

Document

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Review on

FOLA

INTERLOPER.

WE THINK IT POSSIBLE OR EVEN LIKELY THAI HE HAS BEEN IN AND OUT OF THE

CUBAL INBASSY AS A NIC AGENT TRYING TO INFILIRATE CUBA AND HAS PICKED UP

THE NAMES

AND FACES THERE IN SO DOING. ALL HE HAS SAID ABOUT OSWALD HE COULD

HAVE GOTTEN FROM THE NEWSPAPERS, EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN INCORRECT ITEMS SUCH AS

HIS STATEMENT THAT OSWALD WORE GLASSES.

•2. THE PACT THAT ALVARADO IS A CALM, MICS, HAD INTHLLIGET YOUNG MAN DOES NOT

MEAN HE IS NOI A FABRICATOR. FYI WE AND OTHER AGENCIES ARE BEING FLOODED BY

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ABRICAVIONS ON THE GPFLOOR CASE FROM SEVERAL CONTINENTS, SOME ORIGINATING WITH

PEOPLE ON THE FRINGES OF THE INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS. SUCH FABRICATIONS

IMPDET (

ARE NOT USUALLY DONE FOR MONEY, BUT OUI OF SICKLY FANCY AND A DESIRE TO GET

SITO

THE INTELTIGENCE GAME.

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WE DO NOT THINK IT A REMARKABLE COLNCIDENCE THAT BOTH

DORTICOS AND ALVARADO

TALK ABOUT MONEY PAID TO OSWALD.: FOR ONE THING, PAY FOR AN ASSASSIN IS A FACTOR

COORDINATING OFFICERS

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WHICH INMEDIATELY RISES IN THE MIND OF EXPERT AND LAYMAN ALIKE. SECONDLY,

DORIICOS MAY HAVE HEARD THROUGH SOME RUSSIAN OR CUBAN SOURCE IN THE MEXICAN

GOVERNMENT THAT DURAN WAS ASKED WHETHER THE CUBANS PAID OSWALD FOR THE ALLEGED

ASSIGUMENT.

4. WHILE WE DO NOT INSIST THAT ALVARADO'S STORY IS BEYOND ALI BELIEF, WE DO URGE

THAT MEXI PLACE IT AND ALVARADO UNDER THE MOST SEARCHING SCRUTINY.

HIS

INTERROGATORS MUST PROBE DEEPLY INTO HIS MAKE-UP AND LEAD HIM BACK THROUGH THE

THOUGHT PROCESSES WHICH MAY HAVE LED HIM TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE MIS-SIPP. IN

SECURING CONFESSIONS OF FABRICATION, A SYMPATHETIC AITITUDE, STRESSING AWARENESS

OF THE SEVERE MENTAL STRAIN THE SUBJECT MUST BE UNDER, AND WITH GENEROUS

RECOGNITION OF HIS "BASICALLY FINE MOTIVATION," COUPLED WITH PROMISES OF

FACE-SAVING SECRECY, AND EVEN SPECIOUS HOPES OF"USEFUL"FUTURE COOPERATION

ARE OFTEN ENFECTIVE. HOURS MUST BE DEVOTED, TO, THESE TACTICS.

5. HAVE JUST RECEIVED MIXI 710756% CONCUR

LEND ALL ASSISIANCE AND

INDUCE NIC SERVICE TO COOPERATE! & THENK YS

PRE IS JUST NO POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS

A NIC FRAME-UP, BUT HOPE NIC COOPERATION WILL"PROVE MERI

END OF MESSAGE

C/S Comment: *IN 69310-If Hqs,ragrees suggest Majon Jerez be cabled to

ate without question and be present during interrogation.

J.C. KING

C/WHDD

RELEASING. OFFICER

REPRODLCTION

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