CABLE:JFK ASSASSINATION ISSUES
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 11/30/1994
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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DIRECTOR 932873

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*SUBJECT: <JFK ASSASSINATION>ISSUES

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3003212 DIRECTOR

932873

1. ACTION REQUESTED: SEE BELOW.

ASCSTATION AWARE, THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF INTEREST IN

*THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE<ASSASSINATION>OF<JFK. > OVER THE PAST

YEAR THE AGENCY HAS BEEN REVIEWING ITS DO HOLDINGS (AS WELL AS

OTHER GOVERNMENT COMPONENTS' MATERIALS AFFECTING DO EQUITIES)

*PRIOR TO ANY RELEASE TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER THE<JEK>

*ASSASSINATION>RECORD COLLECTION ACT OF 1992.

INCLUDED IN THE

REVIEW IS INFORMATION ALREADY RELEASED BY THE AGENCY UNDER FOIA

AND IN THE PUBLISHED CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION FINDINGS OF THE

* <ASSASSINATION.>

3. THE SPINOFF TO THE FACT THAT<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>WAS

*MEXICO PRIOR TO THE<ASSASSINATION> AND

IN TOUCH WITH THECRUSSIAN

CIND CUBAN EMBASSTES IS THE POSSIBLE IMPACT ON STATION THE

SPECIFIC ISSUE ADDRESSED IN THIS MESSAGE IS THE APPEARANCE OF

OSWALD ON MEXICO CITY TALTAPS) THIS ISSUE HAS TWO SUBISSUES: A)

THE EXISTENCE OF THE CELIAR OPERATIONS' AND THE STATION' SS

INVOLVEMENT WITH THE (PELTAPS, AND B) THE EXISTENCE OF TAPES DE

OSWALD'S_CONVERSATIONS-IN MEXICO_ CITY_WITH THE RUSSIAN AND

ENRASSIES.

WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO KEEP THE STATION BAND

CONNECTION WITH THE CELTARS IN THE BOX, AT LEAST TO THE EXTENT

BE BEEN NO OFFICIAL CIA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WHERE THE

PARES, CAME FORM OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TELTAP OPERATIONSA

BELIEVE IT IMPORTANI TO GIVE STATION SOME DEGREE OF DENIAL IN

ORDER TO PRESERVE CIAISON EQUITTES: IF (STATION BELIEVES_II NOT

NECESSARY, PIS-ADVISE. THE TAPES WERE FROM A JOINT TELTAP

LOPERATION ON THE RESPECTIVE EMBASSIES.

THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASINATIONS< (HSCA) >

DEPOSED NUMEROUS STATION AND HQS PERSONNEL ON WHAT THEY KNEW

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ABOUT OSWALD DURING THE PERIOD HE WASSIN MEXICON THE POSSESSION

OF (TELTAP TAPES, THE PROCESSING OF TRANSCRIPTS,, NOTIFICATION OF

TIME FACTORS, ETC.

THESE DEPOSITIONS, TAKEN IN 1978, ARE

*AMONG THE MATERIAL BEING REVIEWED UNDER THE<JFK>LAW.

RELEASING THE NAMES OFFSTATION PERSONNEL, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF

SCOTT, GOODPASTURE AND PHILLIPS.

THE NAME OF THE NOC WHO TRANSCRIBED THE RUSSIAN TAPES-

HOWEVER, HAS APPEARED IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PUBLIC INDEX IN

CONECTION WITH OSWALD.

THE NAME WAS USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A

LIAPESTURNED OVER BY THE HOUSE OF AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY THE

* <HSCA. > HQS IS INTERESTED IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE NOCIS

CURRENTLY LIVING IN MEXICO (IT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT AS OF

1976 HE WAS RETIRED AND LIVING INCUADALJARA,

WHEREJ HE WA

* INTERVIEWED BY MEMBERS OF THE<HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE> ON

*<ASSASSINATIONS. > HE WAS ALSO AMONG THOSE DEPOSED BY<HSCA>IN

QUERY WHETHER (STATION CAN DETERMINE WHETHER THE NOC, (A

U.S. CITIZEN) IS STILL IN(MEXICO?

ALSO, WOULD APPRECIATE

STATION'S THOUGHTS ON IMPACT TO STATION OPERATIONS AND EQUITIES

IF ADDITIONAL, DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE NOC-S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE

(OSWALD TAPES> OCCURS:

FINALLY, IF CONTACT WITH THE NOC IS

POSTER SOUSE ONE ONE THE ARM NOT RECITO ARE

FULLER DISCLOSURE OF HIS ROLE WITH THE TAPES?

6.

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