INTEL CABLE: CUBAN PRECAUTIONS FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION
Originator: CIA
From: MONTEVIDEO
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/23/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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23 November 1963

Disposition - This document was denied. The information was received

from a foreign liaison service and the message contains cryptonyms,

Agency unit designations, information confirming the existence of an Agency

station in a foreign country and filing instructions internal to the Agency.

This denial was made under the authority of exemptions (b) (1), (b) (2) and

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IN 67186

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INTEL

° Intel Cable Reguitiz Plice Pritiction for Cuban

SUPDATA: SOURCE:

CAVALANCHE-S WITH HIS USUAL INACCURACY, AVCANE D

HAD ADVISED THE STATION THAT THE CUBAN EMBASSY HAD REQUESTED

POLICE PROTECTION BEFORE THE SHOOTING.

HOWEVER,

AVALANCHE 6 CHECKED THE OFFICIAL LOG IN PRESENCE OF CO AND CONFIRMED

IT OCCURRED AN HOUR AFTER SHOOTING ANNOUNCED:

GLASSIFICATION & SPRY 1975

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PADA: URUGUAY, MONTEVIDEO, 23 NOVEMBER. 63

SUBJECT: CUBAN PRECAUTIONS FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

KENNEDY

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TDCS-3/565,829

CUBAN PRECAUTIONS FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION)

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(URUGUAY, MONTEVIDEO,) (23 NOVEMBER 1963)

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FIELD REPORT NO. HUM-2414

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

URUGUAYAN POLICE OFFICIAL (B).

(CUBAN INTELLIGENCE

1. RICARDO GUTTIEREZ TORRENS, THIRD SECRETARY AND CIS/

SERVICE)

CHIEF OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN MONTEVIDEO, TELEPHONED THE

MONTEVIDEO POLICE AT 1718 HOURS (MONTEVIDEO TIME) ON 22 NOVEMBER TO

REQUEST EXTRA POLICE PROTECTION FOR THE CUBAN EMBASSY. GUTTIEREZ

SAID THE EMBASSY HAD RECEIVED REPORTS, THAT A MOB WAS PLANNING

TO STONE THE EMBASSYS. (FIELD COMMENT: THE NEWS OF PRES

GLASSIFICATION REVIEW

KENNEDYS ASSASSINATION WAS RECEIVED./IN MONTEVIDEONAT

CONDUCTED ON & APR 1976

APPROXIMATELY 16D HOURS, MONTEVIDEO TIME) .

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2.J THE POLICE FURNISHED EXTRA: PROTECTION TO BOT THE CUPAI

EMBASSY: AND TO THE SOVIET LEGATION ALTHOUGH THE LATTER HADLY

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MADE NO REQUEST, AS OF I6DD HOURS 23 NOVEMBER THERE HAVE BLEN

NO DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST EITHER DIPLOMATIC INSTALLATION.

(FIELD

COMMENT: THE POPULACE OF MONTEVIDEO HAS BEEN PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED

AND GRIEF STRICKEN OVER PRES KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION.

A. SPONTANEOUS

CROND. ESTIMATED BY PRESS TO COMPRISE 3800 PERSONS

s/9-69, 2r26-

MARCHED TO AMERICAN EMBASSY RESIDENCE EVENING OF.

-THORESOLION HERS'

22 NOVEMBER TO EXPRESS THEIR, SORROW •

3. (FIELD DISSEMS STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCSO.)

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33--537

23 November 1963

Disposition - This document was denied. The document is a memo

which recites the speculative thinking of an Agency officer on the assassination

of President Kennedy. The paper deals with a possible explanation of the

assassination. He treats the problem experimentally with a thesis which is

not born out by facts available then or later developed. The thinking

expressed was imaginative but not definitive.. No decision was based on

this paper: It appears clearly to be the type of documents contemplated for

exemption under subsection @ (5). The document also relates information

received from a foreign liaisonservice. It contains information from and

about a sensitive source. The document also identifies Agency officers and

components and contains internal Agency fling instructions. This denial

was made under the authority of exemptions (b) (1), (b)(2), (b) (3) and

(b) (5) .

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To:

Assistant Deputy Director, Plans

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To

From:

chief, SR/cI

Subject: "Cable From Chief, SR Division, re Possible KGB role La kennedy

ANONES

1.

The following is the text of a cable fron Chief, SR Division,

via closed channel from Frankfurt at 23162 on 23 November, for the attention

"I. I desire that you consider these reactions to the Kennedy

aSSASSINatION:

a.

Within minutes of the first news, Moscow radio statements

(as heard in london attributed the assassination to "right.

wing elements." Only as the true identity of the believed

assassin became known did Moscow begin to complain that

U.S. reactionaries were using Oswald as & pawn.

b. Should not the assignment of 13th Dept. officers to the KGB

residency in the united Nations In New York be considered

1n a new l1ght?)

c.. I discovered from Arthur Martin (of MI-5) during our 1018

and exceptionally valuable discussions, that one of Harold

Wilson's principal scientific advisors 1s Captain Ian Maxwell,

who has a long Soviet Intelligence background.

shed new light on AELADIE's report LI.e., that Harold Wilson

may be & Soviet agently

2. Putting it baldly, was Oswald,

unwittingly or wittingly, part of

a plot to murder President Kennedy In Dallas as an attempt to

further exacerbate sectional strife and render the U.S. Government

capable of dealing with soviet initiatives over the next

year? If AELADLE's views on Wilson and the information noted in

paragraph Ic above have any substance (and they cannot be ignored)

this suggests that we can expect major Soviet pressures over the

next seyeral months, for which the Soviets have made careful,

Zong-range preparations."

The above reference to 13th Dept. officers in New York refers to the

presence, reported by an FBI penetration of the KGB locally, In New York or

Washington of one or two known officers of the 13th Department of the lst Chief

Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the KGB. This department is charged with

"Iiquid affairs," sabotage and assassination.

One of the 13th Deote officers,

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oy the way, met clandestinely with & Soviet "exchange student" from a

Pennsylvania university during the school year 1962-63, which suggests that

the Soviet student 1s also a 13th Dept. officer or agent. Perhaps

significantly, his course of studies was in food chemistry!

3. You will note that Mr.. Murphy's comments come without benefft of

he traces we passed to you earlier today, showing that Oswald had contact

Ith a 13th Dept. representative In Mexico City.)

Owa VIsa to the USSR and Cuba (ia transit) and may, therefore, have been

really rather than ostensibly innocent.

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