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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination: System

Identification l'orm

Agency Inform: tion

Date:

10/16/20

AGENCY : HSCA

RECORD NUMBER: 180-10110-10484

RECORD SERIES : REPORT ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S TRIP TO MEXICO CITY

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

Document Info: mation

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

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TITLE:

LEE HARVEY OSWALD THE CI AND MEXICO CITY

DATE: 00/00/1978

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SUBJECTS:

CIA

CIA, METHODOLOGY, PHOTOSI RVEILLANCE

SOVIET EMBASSY

OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN 'ERIOD, TRAVEL, TRIP TO

MEXICO

CUBAN EMBASSY

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OUTLINE: LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA AND MEXICO CITY.

Part I.

I. Introduction.

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A. Issues Addressed. (p.. l.)

B. Differences Between the Warren Commission In-

vestigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities

in Mexico City and the House Select Committee

on Assassinations' Investigation. (p. 3.)

C. Conclusions.

(p. 5.)

D. Structure and Relevancy. (p. 10.)

II. Central Intelligence Agency Surveillance Operations

in Mexico City in Sef tember and October 1963.

A. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed

at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound. (p. 12.)

l. Introduction.

(p. 12.)

2.

Physical Positioning of Surveillance Bases

and Targets.

1p. 12.)

3. Objectives of (peration and Scope of Coverage

Provided. (p. 13.)

4. Disposition of Production from the Operation. (p. 30.)

B. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed at.

the Soviet Diplomitic Compound. (p. 31.)

1. Introduction.

p. 31.)

2. Physical Posit: oning of Surveillance Bases

and Targets.

(1'. 31.)

3.

Objectives of Operation and Scope of Coverage

Provided. (p.

33.)

4. Procedure and "'iming Involved in Processing

Production fron the Operation. (p. 45.)

5. Responsibility for the Operation.

(p.47.)

6.

Coordination o:: Photographic and Electronic

Surveillance Operations.

(p. 52.)

C.

Electronic Surveillance of Telephones at the

Soviet and Cuban iplomatic Compounds in 1963.

(p. 53.)

1.

Existence.

(p. 53.)

2. Responsibility.

(p.

53.)

a. General.

(3. 53.)

b. Analysis anl Reporting of Information

Obtained.

(p. 54.)

3. Telephone Lines Covered.

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4. Production fron Operation. (p. 58.)

a. Types. (p. 59.)

b. Handling Procedures.

(p. 59.)

(1) Resuma.

(p. 59.)

(2) Cuban Tapes.: (p.

60.)

Soviet Tapes. (p. 61.)

(a) General Handling.

(p.

61.)

(b) Retention and Reuse of Tapes.

(p. 62.)

(c) English Language Conversations.

(p. 64.)

(d) Handling by Tarasoffs. (p. 66.)

(e) Expedited Procedure for English

Language Coversations or other

Conversations of Special Interest.

(p. 67.)

(f) Handling in the Station. (p. 70.)

(g) Format of Transcripts. (p. 71.)

c. Voice Comparisons. (p. 72.)

III. Information About Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico

that was Known by the CIA Mexico City Station Prior

to the Assassination of John Kennedy and the Sources

of that. Information.

A. Information that was Available.

(p. 72.)

1. Information Available to the Mexico City

Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed

at the Soviet Consulate and Military Attache's

Office.

(p. 73.)

a. September 27, 1963, Friday. (p. 73.)

b.: September 28, 1963,

Saturday.

p..

76. )

c. October 1, 1963, Tuesday. (p. 78.)

d. October 3, 1963;

Thursday: (p. 79.)

2. Information Available to the Mexico City CIA

Station from CIA Headquarters.

(p.

80.)

3. Information Available to the Mexico City Station

from Electronic Surveillance Aimed at the Cuban

Diplomatic Compound.

(p. 81.)

4. Information Available to

the Mexico City Station

from Photographic Surveillance of the Soviet

5.

Cuban Diplomatic Compounds.

and

(p. 81.)

Possibility that Additional Information from the

Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet. Compound

was Available to the Mexico City Station.

(p. 82.)

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6. Possibility that the CIA Photosurveillance

Obtained a Photcgraph of Lee Harvey Oswald.

(p: 90.)

Missing Materials.

(p. 91.)

b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance

Operation would have Missed Oswald. (p. 91.)

c. Reports of the Existence of a Photograph.

(P. 93. )

(1) Phillip Agee Allegation. (p. 93.)

Phillips

(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation.

(p. 97.)

(3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation.

(p. 99.)

(4) Joseph

Piccolo, Jr. Allegation.

(p. 102.)

(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir.

(p. 105.)

a.

HSCA Investication of the Possibility that the

Mexico City hotosurveillance Operation Produced

a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald. (p. 107.)

(1) Introduction.

(p. 107.)

(2) Investigation of the Allegations. (p. 108.)

B. I-formation Connected to Lee Harvey Oswald by the

Mexico City Statior Prior to the Assassination.

i. Introduction.

(p. 115.)

2. Information Available from the Soviet Wiretaps

that was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey

Oswald.

(p. 11t.)

- When were the ir tercepted Conversations Linked

to Lee Harvey Oswald?

(p. 120.)

* The Photograph ‹f the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 122.)

IV. Feronstruction of the CIA Mexico City Station an Head-

gETIerS Actions Prico to the Assassination of President

-===: F. Kennedy•

Entroduction--CIA Interest in and Liaison with FBI

regarding Americar. Cityizens in Contact with Soviet

=7oc Embassies in Mexico City.

(p. 123.)

E.-

Harrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior to

=ne Assassination. (p. 124.)

v.

Megito City Station leporting of Information Concerning

sold After the Assissination.

Reporting

of Information Concerning the Photograph

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of the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 178.)

B. Reporting

of Infermation Concerning Lee Harvey.

Oswald from the Electronic Intercept Operation

Aimed at the Soviet Embassy.

(p. 180.)

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C. Silvia Duran. (p. 184.)

VI. Information Not Available at the Time of the Warren

Commission Investigation.

A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran). (p. 191.)

1. House Select Committee on Assassinations

6/6/78 Interviewo of Silvia Tirado.

(p. 191.)

, 2. CIA Informatior Not Available at the Time of

the Warren Comission Investigation. (p. 194.)

a. LIRING/3 Allegation. (p. 194.)

b. Possibility that Silvia Duran was an Agent

for either Emerican, Mexican or Cuban

Intelligence.

(p. 197.)

(1) Was Silvia Duran an Agent, Asset, or

Source for Mexican or American Intel-

ligence: (p. 197.)

(2) Was Silria Duran a Cuban Intelligénce

Agent? (p. 201.)

3. The Cubans.

(p. ¿02.)

1. Eusebio Azcue lopez. (p. 202.)

2. Alfredo Mirabal Diaz. (p. 205.)

C. Elena Garro de Pai:

(p. 206.)

1. Elena's Story is Reported

I October 5, 1964.

(p. 206.)

2. October

12, 196.4, CIA Memo for the Record.

(p. 208.)

3. November 24, 1!64, CIA Informant Report.

(p. 209.)

4. November 24, 1964, Elena Garro Meeting with

Mexico City

Lecial

Attache Officers.

(p. 210.)

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5. Charles Thomas Meeting with Elena Garro on

December 10, 1965.

(p.

6. Charles Thomas' Meeting with

Elena Garro on

December 25, 1965.

(p. 216.)

7. December 27, 1965, Legal Attache Memo to the

United States Ambassador re Elena Garro.

(p. 221.)

8. CIA Investigation of Elena's Allegation that

She Created a Disturbance at the Cuban Embassy

on November 23, 1963.

(p. 223.)

9. Legal Attache 2/23/66 Memo to the United States

mbassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegation.

p. 225.

10. Legal Attache Memo to Winston Scott re Elena's

Allegation that She Had Stayed at the Hotel

Vermont from the Day After the Assassination

Until Novémber 30, 1963: (p. 225.)

I1. Charles Thomas' September 30, 1969, Letter to

State Department and Legal Attache's Response.

(p. 226.)

12. House Select Committee on Assassination's In-

vestigation cf Elena Garro's Allegations.

(p. 228.)

D. Oscar Contreras Lartigue. (p. 235.)

VII.

Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico

City.

A. Introduction. (p. 240.)

B. Did need sue consulates im meter contact the

(p. 242.)

C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico

City? (p. 250.)

D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald Alone, While He Travelled to

Mexico?

(p. 259.)

Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 1. (p. 261.)

Appendix II:

HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 1.

(p. 265.)

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Appendix III: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 2.

(p. 273.)

Appendix IV: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 2.

(p. 287.)

Appendix V: Biography: Elena Garro de Paz. (p. 297.)

Appendix VI: Glossary of Terms Used in Report. (p. 301.)

Appendix VII: Listing of CIA Documents Cited. (p. 305.)

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ADDENDUM TO FOOTNOTE # 614 OF "LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA

AND MEXICO CITY.

Some controversy has arisen in regard to the question

of whether the tapes existed at the time of the assass-

ination due to a memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the

head of the Secret Service which said:

The Central Intelligence Agency advised that

on October 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive

source had reported that an individual iden-

tified himself as Lee Oswald, who contacted the

Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring as to

any messages.

Special Agents of this Bureau,

who have conversed with Oswald in Dallas,

Texas, have observed photographs of the indi-

vidual referred to akove and have listened to

a recording of his voice.

These Special Agents

are of the opinion that the above-referred-to

individual was not Lee Harvey Oswald.

(Memorandum from Hoover to James. J. Rowley, 11/23/63,

pp. 4-5.) The HSCA has determined that this statement

was probably based on ancther FBI memorandum which said:

Inasmuch as the Dallas Agents who listened to the

tape of the conversation allegedly of Oswald

from the Cuban Embassy to the Russian Embassy in

Mexico and examined the photographs of the visitor

to the Embassy in Mexico and were of the opinion

that neither the tape nor the photograph pertainec

to. Oswald, I requested Shanklin to immediately

send a photograph of Oswald to our Legal Attache.

• (Memorandum from Belmont to Tolson, 11/23/63, p. l. Mr.

Belmont was reporting the results of a conversation with

the Special Agent in Charge in Dallas, Gordon Shanklin,

that occured at 11:50 A.N.)

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Later that same day SAC Shanklin informed the Director

that the tape of Oswald's voice had been erased: "It

should be noted that the actual tape from which this

transcript was made has been erased." (Teletype from

SAC Dallas to Director, # 232220, 7:30 P.M. CST,: 11/23/63.

Emphasis in the original.)

The confusion about whether or not there was a tape

apparently continued for several days after the SAC in

Dallas informed the Director that such a tape did not

exist. On 11/25/63 the FBI Legat in Mexico City sent a

Cablegram to the director which said:

There appears to be some confusion in that no

tapes were taken to lallas but only typewritten

transcripts supplied by CIA, the tapes not being

available because they had been erased.

(Cablegram #. 182 & 183, 1. 2.)

The FBI was asked to explain the paragraph from the

Hoover memorandum quoted above. It responded:

The paragraph appearing on pages 4 and 5 of the

leterhead memorandum, which is quoted in your

(FBI) request of March 17, 1978, contains some

incorrect informatior

regarding a tape recording

of the voice of an irdividual who identified him-

self as Lee Oswald.

Retrievable information contained in files

of the FBI indicates that this Bureau received

information derived from transcripts of tape

recordings furnished by another government

agency which conduct: intelligence type inves-

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tigations.

The transcripts indicated that on

September

28, 1963, and October 1, 1963, the

voice of

an individual identifying himself as

Lee Oswald was recorded by the other govern-

ment agency conducting intelligence type inves-

tigations. Additionally, this government agency

provided the FBI with photographs of an individ-

ual who appeared to be an American; these photo-

no appeared to be

graphs being taken by said agency on October 1,

1963.

It is noted that the FBI never received the

actual tape recordings from which the transcripts

were derived,.as the tapes were erased by the

other government agency providing the transcripts....

As a result, no FBI employee ever listened to a

tape

recording purporting to contain Lee Harvey

Oswald's voice as no tape was ever provided to

this Bureau.

(JFK Classified Document # 131.) No FBI agent interviewed

by the Committee recalled listening to any tape recording

purporting to contain a corversation involving Oswald.

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I. INTRODUCTION

A. Issues Addresse

The House Select Conmittee on Assassinations

investigation into Lee Harrey Oswald's activities in Mexico City

has been directed at answering the following questions:

1) Did Lee Harvey swald visit the Soviet and

Cuban Consulate: or Embassies in Mexico City?

2)

In addition to he visits which may have been

made to the Embissies, what were Lee Harvey

•Oswald's activi:ies while he was in Mexico City?

3)

Was Lee Harvey swald alone in Mexico City?

If not, who wer. his associates and what were

4)

their activities?

Did the Central Intelligence Agency maintain

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any surveillance operation(s) aimed at the

Cuban and Soviet diplomatic missions in

Mexico City? If so, what kind?

5) What information, if any, about Oswald's

stay in Mexico was known by the CIA

Mexico. City Sta:ion prior to the

assassination ad what was the source of

that information?

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6) Was the information, if any, in the

possession of the CIA Mexico City

Station reported to the ClA Headquarters

accurately and expeditiously prior to

the assassination?

7) Was the information in the possession

of the ClA Mexico City Station reported

to the CIA Headquarters accurately and

expeditiously after the assassination?

8) Was the information developed by the

CIA in Mexico City communicated to the

Warren Commission in an accurate and

expeditious manrer?

9) Did the CIA pholo-surveillance of the

Cuban and Soviei diplomatic compounds in

Mexico City, if such photo-surveillance

existed, obtain a photograph of Lee

Harvey Oswald? If so, what became of

that photograph'

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B.

Differences Between the Warren Commission

Investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's

Activities in

Mexico City and the House

Select Committee on Assassination's

Investigation.

The approach taken by this committee's investigation

differs from that of the Warren Commission primarily

in terms of scope. The Warren

Commission and the

investigative

agencies at its disposal went to

great lengths

to establish Oswald's travel to and

from Mexico, but devoted minimal effort to

evaluating Oswald's contacts with the Cuban and

Soviet Consulates. It is the conclusion of this

Committee that the Warren Commission correctly

established that Oswald hac traveled to Mexico

City. Hence, this Committee has chosen not to

reinvestigate Oswald's travel to and from Mexico City.

Instead, the Committee's approach has been to focus

narrowly an Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and

Cuban diptomatic missions. n Mexico City and on

evidence that was not avai: able: to

the Warren

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commission that could possibly shed light on

Oswald's activities in Mexico City outside of the

Soviet and Cuban installations.

The Warren

Report limited its discussion of

Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic

missions to information obtained from Sylvia Duran

and the Cuban Government.l,

At one point in the Report the Commission referred

to other information:

By far the most important confirmation

of Senora Duran's testimony, however, has been

supplied by confidentia

sources of extremely high

reliability available to the United States in

Mexico.

The information from these sources

establishes that her testimony was truthful and

accurate in all materia

respects.

The identities

of these sources cannot be disclosed without

destroying their future usefulness to the

United States.2/

The Warren Commissiond'd not print anything in

the twenty-six volumes of evidence to support

its statement that Silvia luran's testimony was

confirmed by "confidential sources of extremely

high reliability."

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In an attempt to answer the questions posed by

Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to Mexico City in September

and October of 1963, the House Select Committee on

Assassinations has pursued the following investigative

procedure: •

T) Conducted extensive interviews, depositions,

and

executive session hearings involving

Central Intelligence Agency personnel;

#) Interviewed Cuban c' tizens who could have

knowledge of Oswald's sojourn

in Mexico;

3, Interviewed Mexican citizens who could have.

knowledge of Oswald s activites and

essaciations while le was in Mexico;

* Conducted an extensive review of the files

of the

Central Intelligence Agency and the

Federal Bureau of Investigation that

pertain to Oswald ald Mexico City.

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Someone who identified himself as

Lee Harvey Oswald called the Soviet

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individual indicated that he had

visited the Soviet Consulate at least

•once.

Other evidence from the CIA

wiretaps, and witness testimony, indicates

that the indivicual visited the Soviet

and Cuban Consulates on five or six

different occasions. While the

majority of the evidence tends to

indicate that this individual was indeed

Lee Harvey Oswald, the possibility that

someone else used Lee Harvey Oswald's

name during this time in contacts with

the Soviet and Cuban Consulates cannot

be absolutely dismissed.

2) This Committee has not been able to

determine Lee Harvey Oswald's activities

outside of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies

with certainty. There is a report, which

has not been confirmed, indicating that

during his stay in Mexico Oswald attended

a "twist. party" at the home of. Ruben

Duran Navarro, tie brother Melaw of*

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•Silvia Duran. There is also unconfirmed

evidence which, if true, would indicate

that Oswald spert one night and parts of

two days

with a group of pro-castro

students from the University of Mexico.

3) There is a report that Oswald may have

been in the company of a tall, thin,

blond-headed mar while in Mexico. This

report:

has not been confirmed. If

true, it is possible that this same

individual may, on occasion. have used

Oswald's name in dealing with the Cuban

and Soviet Consulates. The man's name,

if there was such a man, is not known.

4)

On the dates that Oswald was in Mexico,

the ClA had photographic surveillance

operations which covered entrances to

the Soviet Embassy and the Cuban Embassy

and Consulate. The CIA also had electronic

surveillance on telephones in the Soviet

Consulate and Military Attache's Office

and Cuban diplomatic compounds. The

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telephone at the: Cuban Consulate was not

subject to that surveillance.

5) The ClA's Mexico City Station definitely

knew of Oswald': contacts with both the

soviet and Cuball diplomatic compounds

and of his desire to obtain an intransit

visa for travel to Russia via Cuba.

The source of this information was the

electronic surveillance on the Soviet

Consulate and Soviet Military Attache's

Office.

6) All information n the possession of the

CIA Mexico. City Station was not reported

to CIA Headquarers in an accurate and

expeditious manner prior to the assassination.

7)

With the except on of a few, possibly

benign, irregulirities, and considering

the possibility that not all of the

information ava lable to the Station has

been provided to this Committee, the

information in

the possession of the

CIA Mexico Stat on was reported in an

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accurate and expeditious manner after

the assassination

to headquarters:

8) With the exception of those areas that

involved sensitive sources and methods,

such as the information pertaining to the

electronic and photographic surveillance

of

the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic

compounds, information developed by

the CIA in Mexico was generally relayed

to the Warren Commission in an accurate

and expeditious manner.

9) It is the conclusion of this Committee

that the ClA's photo-surveillance

operations in Mexico City probably

obtained a photograph of lee Harvey

Oswald entering either or both the

Soviet and Cuban Consulates. The CIA

denies that such a photograph exists.

Hence, the dispostion of this photograph

is unknown.

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10) The ClA telephore surveillance on the sov-

iet Embassy

, taped several calls of a man

using the name 'Lee Oswald." These tapes

were retained for a routine two week period

and were most likely erased shortly after

16 October 1963. These tapes were probably

existence at the time of the assassination.

11) The Committee i: aware of the allegations

that Silvia Tirido de Duran may have been

an intelligence agent for either the Cubans,

Mexicans or Americans. Ms. Duran was pro-

bably never emp oyed by Cuban intelligence.

While there is no direct evidence on

the

question other : han Ms. Duran's denial, the

Committee believes that the circumstantial

evidence that tunds to indicate that Ms.

Duran had a relitionship of some type with

either Mexican or American intelligence is

of such a nature that the possibility can

not be dismissed.

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D. Structure and Relevancy

The following report detailing the results

of this committee's investigative efforts regarding

Mexico City is divided into general areas:

1) CIA surveillance operations in Mexico

City during September and October of

1963;

•2) Information about Lee Harvey Oswald's

stay in

Mexico City that was known prior

to the assassination;

3) Reconstruction ef the CIA Mexico City

Station and Heacquarters activity

regarding Oswalc prior to the assassination;

4) Mexico City reporting of information

after the assassination;

5) Witnesses from the Cuban Consulate;

6) . Investigation of related information

that was not aviilable to the Warren

Commission; and

7)

Reconstruction of Oswald's activities

in

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The reader should be advised at the outset

that the first section following is technical in

nature and may not appear cirectly relevant at

first blush. But the report is cumulative in nature.

The specific, detailed analyses of the standard

operating procedures in the first section are

necessary to, and form a partial basis for, the

reconstruction of the Mexico City Station's

handling of the Oswald case. There are many gaps

left by the documentary and testimonial evidence

concerning the manner in which the ClA's Mexico

City Station and Headquarters reacted to Oswald's

presence in Mexico City. A knowledge of the

way in which the Mexico City Station operated and

the procedures involved in those surveillance

operations which detected Oswald is valuable in

filling the gaps of the specific case which is the

subject of this report.

11. Central Intelligence Agency Surveillance Operations

in Mexico City in September and October 1963

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A. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed

at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound

1.

Introduction

The Mexico City Station of the Central

Intelligence Agency maintained photographic

surveillance on the cuban diplomatic.compound during

September and. October of 1963.3/ The purpose of

this operation was to get identifiable photographs of

all individuals who visited the Cuban diplomatic

compound. 4/

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Physical Positioning of Surveillance

Bases and Targets

The Cuban diplomatic compound covered one

city block in Mexico City between Tacubaya, Francisco

Marquez and Zamora Streets. The entrance to the Cuban

Embassy was located on the corner of Tacubaya and

Francisco

Marquez.5/ Next to this entrance on

Francisco Marquez Street was another entrance for

automobiles.6/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate,

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which was in a separate building from the Embassy,

was located on the corner of Francisco Marquez and

Zamora. Il. The CIA surveillance post was located

at 149 Francisco Marquez Street. 8/ An agent

photographed visitors to tre Embassy from one

window in the third floor ¿partment at 149 Francisco

Marquez Street. g/ A pulse camera covered the

entrance to the Consulate from a second window in the

same third floor apartment. 10/

3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of

Coverage Provided

One CIA, officer, who claimed to have had a

marginal role in this surveillance operation, remembers

that they had trouble covering both the Cuban

Embassy entrance and the Consulate entrance. 11/. "The

Cuban Embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipment

using a pulse camera which frequently developed

mechanical difficulties. "lil Two former CIA employees

who were in Mexico City in 1963 remembered that there

were two cameras

covering he Cuban diplomatic

compound. 13/ Ms. Goodpasture,

a case officer in the

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Mexico City Station, testified that she could not

remember the locations of the two cameras. 14/ David

A. Phillips, Chief of the Cuban Section in the Mexico

City Station, testified that the Consulate entrance

was covered along, with the Embassy entrance. 15/ Mr.

Phillips was not absolutely sure of his recollection,

but thought that it was possible that the Embassy

entrance had been covered ty a manned photographic base

and the Consulate entrance was covered by a pulse

camera. 16/

The CIA staff technician who serviced the

cameras and trained the agents at the CIA photographic

base that covered the Cubar. compound was interviewed

by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The

technician stated that he lad set up the cameras in

the photographic base at the inception of an

operation

in the early 1960's designed to provide

photographic surveillance uf the Cuban compound.

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For

a short time after the incription of the operation,

the technician had been

responsible for maintaining

liaison beiween

the agents inside the base and the

Station.

After the agent'! training was completed,

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the technician turned the liaison responsibilities over

to a case officer.1l1 He could

not remember with

certainty the identity of that case officer, but

thought that it may have

bren (Robert Shaw.18/ The

technician remembered that the operation had originally

covered the Cuban Embassy.tntrancPesbalaiy

with a manually

operated Exacta or Leica)cimera. He said that this

camera had been set up on i tripod and was equipped

with a Bal-Scope.19/ Late", according to the technician,

a pulse camera was installed in this base Ibedps

camera was set up to cover the Consulate entrance,

while the agents continued covering. the Embassy

entrance with the manual camera:

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The technician could

not remember with certainty when the pulse camera was

installed in

the base. The technician told the House

Select Committee on Assassinations that the exact

time of installation could be checked by reviewing the

project files maintained at CIA Headquarters. 20/

The technician remembered quite a few details

about how the pulse camera had been set up and how.

it worked. He remembered that the shutter was triggered

by a device attached to a spotting

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triggering device was activated by changes in light

intensity. ?6.2p34

The spotting scope was trained on a very

narrow area of the door latch of the Cuban Consulate

entrance. The camera itself covered a much broader

field than the spotting scope Told ti

The camera was set up

so as to make sure that a person triggering the camera

by passing between the spotting scope and its target,

the door latch, would be photographed from the waist

up. 22/1b16.

The technician stated that the agent in the

photographic basehouse serviced his own cameras, and

developed the film and made contact prints in the

basehouse.23/ The agent covering the Embassy entrance

kept a log corresponding to the photographs taken. 24/

The project files for this operation bear out

the technician's recollections. An examination of these

files by the House Select Committee on Assassinations

revealed several of the technician's monthly reports.

An examination of the chronological file of dispatches

passing between CIA Headquarters and the Mexico City

Station turned up one additional. monthly report that

was not located in the project file.

A third relevant

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dispatch was made available to the Committee on

20 November 1978. The report in the dispatch

chronology covers the period of l September to

30 September 1963.25/ The fispatch reports that on

23 September 1963 the agent who ran the Cuban

photographic basehouse called the technician into the

basehouse to discuss the layout of the Cuban

Consulate. 26/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate had

been closed in 1961 due to marassment and stink

bombings.21/ A few days prior to the 23rd, the Consulate

had once again opened its door to the public. Prior

to this

reopening of the Consulate door, the photography

agent had limited his coverage to the main Embassy

gate.28/ He used an Exacta camera with a Bal-Scope

with a 30-power eyepiece.

The dispatch reported,

however, from the position he had to cover the main gate,

he could not cover the newl, reopened Consulate

entrance. 29/ The base agent told the technician that at

that time, approximately serenty percent of all the

visitors to the Cuban compound were using the Embassy

entrance and the remainder ised the Consulate éntrance. 30/

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The technician discussed this problem with the case

officer for the project, Robert Shaw. 31/ Mr. Shaw

asked

the technician to add additional photographic

coverage to the basehouse so as to cover the

Consulate door. 32/ On 26 September the technician tested

equipment for use in the bisehouse. 33/ The dispatch

goes on to say:

On the morning of 2i september,

PARMUTH

installed the VLS-2 Trigger Device at the

LIERODE basehouse ard used the 500 mm

lens issued with this system, one 400 mm

Telyt, one reflex housing to be used with

the Telyt adapted to fit the Robot Star

camera, one Robot Siar Camera, one solenoid

release for mountin! and triagering the

Robot Star camera, une Kodak K-100 adapted

for single or burst type exposure, one sole-

noid release to be used with the k-100...

one 152 mm f/4. Cine Ektar Lens, and two

additional tripods. 34/

The photography agent was instructed to test

each camera for four days. The report says that the

results of these test days will be forwarded to the

•Technical Services Divisio, at Headquarters

as soon

as they become available.3il

On 7 November 1963 the Mexico City Station

filed a report on the functioning of the pulse

camera. 36/

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HMMA-22307, paragraph 5, 6.37/. It says that the

VLS-2 triggering device had been performing well with

little false triggering. The 500 mm lens was

replaced with a 6-inch lens so as to obtain wider

coverage of the Consulate door. 381 During the first

two weeks that the pulse camera was in operation,

the VLS-2 triggered the camera anytime that anyone

entered or. left the Consulate door. This dual

photography used an excessive amount of film, so the

base agent adjusted the VLS-2 so that it only

photographed people leaving the Cuban compound by

the Consulate door.39/ The base agent used "the

K-100 camera with the 152 mm lens for one. day ant

turnedgin 10 fee (sic) of 16. mm film."40/ Samples

of the photos taken "on that day" with the camera

are

enclosed with the dispatch.41/ The Robot Star camera that

was placed in the base on September 27 broke down after

four days of operation and was replaced with a second

Robot Star camera.42/ This Robot Star broke down after

five days of operation.

At the time of this

dispatch in November, a Robot Star

camera was in

operation.43/

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were also sent with this dispatch.44/ Hence, between

September 27, 1963 and November 7, 1963, at least three,

and possibly four, cameras were used in the photo base

with the VLS-2 automatic tiggering device. On the

27th, the photo-technician installed two cameras, the

K-100 and the first Robot itar, with the VLS-2.

triggering device.45/ The K-100 was used for one

day. 46/ The first Robot Siar worked for four days;

a second Robot Star worked for five days.47/ On 11/7/63

a Robot Star was in operation at the base.48/ It is

not clear whether the Robot Star which was working

at the time of the November dispatch was a

third

camera or one of the earlier ones which could have

been repaired. In any event, the Station asked that

a new camera be sent to replace the Robot Star. 49/

On June 1964 the CIA Mexico City Station sent

a cable to Headquarters alerting them that they were

sending up the negatives from the pulse camera coverage.

of the Cuban Embassy.50/ 411 available negatives

and five packages of undeveloped film were sent to

Headquarters by transmittal manifest #252572.51/

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The cable apologizes for tie delay in sending the

negatives caused by "consolidation and dating." 52/

The cable suggests that

Heidquarters retain possession

of the negatives and inforns Headquarters that

the

negatives will be forwarded to them on a regular

basis. 53/

A transmittal manifest is "unaccountable." 541

That means that the document and the material it

transmits is not made part of the record and is,, there-

fore, unretrievable. 55/

The CIA made the photo-technician's monthly

port for December available to the Committee on 16 Novem-

ber 1978. 56/ On the morring of 17 December 1963, a

35 mm Sequence camera was installed in the base house with

the VLS-2 trigger device. 57/ The installation of this

Sequence camera was probally in response to the request

for a replacement camera in HMMA-22433.

On 22 June 1965. tre CIA Mexico City Station sent

a dispatch

to Headquarter; to familiarize them with the

details of the pulse camera operation. 58/

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This dispatch is intended to familiarize

Headquarters with

the details of the Pulse

Camera operation in Mexico City, which was

mounted

in December 1963 and is targeted

against the (Cuban) Embassy and Consulate. 59/

The dispatch goes on to report that a technician from

Headquarters brought a pulse camera to Mexico City in

mid-December 1963, installed and tested it, and

instructed the technician resident in Mexico City and

the base agent in the use and maintenance of the camera. 60/

On the basis of HMMA-22307, HMMA-22433 and MEXI

9940, the Committee believes that it is probable that

the pulse camera was in operation on the days that

Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate. This

Committee requested the photographs produced by the

pulse camera by the project's cryptonym on 22 June 1978.

The CIA informed a House Select Committeeon Assassinations

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researcher on 7/20/78 that the cryptonym did not

refer to a photographic project.6l/ A more specific

request for the photographs was made on 21 July 1978.62/

On 13 October 1978 the Committee, as a result

of a review of materials taken by James Angleton from

Win Scott's safe at the time of his death, 63/ addressed

another letter to the CIA en this matter.64/ This letter

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said, in part:

First, while admittedly there are contra-

dictions in the Agency's written

records,

these records nevertheless suggest that an

impulse camera was n operation when Oswald

visited the Cuban Erbassy.

Such a camera

would have automatically been triggered

to photograph any person entering the Embassy.

In addition, it has been determined by this

Committee that Oswad entered and exited

from

the Cuban and soviet compounds on at

least five separate occasions, resulting in

a total of

ten oppo tunities during which

Oswald could have bren photographed by CIA

surveillance camera:. The existence of an

Agency photograph of Oswald has been further

corroborated by CIA personnel both in Mexico

City and at Agency readquarters who claim to.

have seen this mate ial.

Finally,

on Oct ber 6, 1978, a manuscript

written

by the late Win Scott,

former Chief

of Station of the ClA's Mexico City Station,

was reviewed by a staff member of this Commit-

tee.

While the criticism can be offered that

Scott's manuscript as not yet been established

as a true record, relevant portions of this

manuscript do suggest that the contents are

accurate and that photographs of Oswald were

in fact obtained by the ClA's Mexico City sur-

veillance operations.

At page 273 of the

manuscript, Scott wrote:

These visits and conversations are

not heresay; for persons watching these

embassies photographed Oswald as he

entered

and left each one;

and clocked the

time he spent on each visit.

The

conversations

are also known to have taken

place, including the one in which he told the

Soviet to whom he was talking that he

should have heard, received a message, from

the Soviet Embassy in Washington, indicating

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obviously that ¿ Soviet Embassy official

in Washington

hid offered to help

Oswald.

Scott's comments are a source of deep concern

to this committee, for they suggest your

Agency's possible withholding of photographic

materials highly re

evant to this investigation.

Therefore, the lommittee reiterates its

request of May 2, including but not limited to

any and all photogriphs in the ClA's possession

of Lee Harvey Oswal resulting from ClA

surveillance operations directed against the

Soviet and Cuban

Empassies and Consulates in

Mexico City.. In adlition, the Committee

requests a detailed explanation regarding the

withholding of any and all photographs in the

CIA's possession of Oswald resulting from

CIA surveillance operations directed against

the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and Consulates

in Mexico City. 65/

The CIA responded to this letter on 25 October

1978.66/ The CIA informed the Committee that it was

their belief that the pulse camera was not in

operation during September of 1963.67/

First, there was no pulse camera...opposite

the entrance to the Cuban Consulate until

December 1963...In

fact, there had been no

photographic coverage of the Consulate

entrance prior. to the visit of Lee Harvey

Oswald to Mexico. City...The Consulate

entrance had been closed for some time, and

after it was reopered the 27th of September

was scheduled as the day for installation

of photographic equipment for its coverage.

Difficulty was experienced in the installation

and the technician: had to machine a part for

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the equipment... The technicians probably

had

to make the part in question.

-On that

date, or at some date not long afterwards,

there

was

test photography of the entrance...

Various

difficulties were experienced with

the equipment, which seems eventually to have

been resolved by installation of the pulse

camera in December 1963.

There is no question

about the sequence set forth above.681

HMMA-22307 definitely reports the installation

of the two cameras and a ViS-2 trigger device on

27 September 1963.69/ But the cameras did not

function smoothly.70/ HMMA-22433 reported that the

K-100 camera broke down after one day's operation. 71/

It was replaced with the first Robot Star, which had

also been installed on September 27. The first Robot

Star broke down four days after its installation: 121

A second Robot Star broke down after five days of

operation.73/ A Robot Star was working on 7 November

1963, when HMMA-22433 requested that Headquarters send

a replacement camera to Mexico. 74/ In all likelihood,

that request was filled with the installation of the

Sequence camera on 17 December 1963 detailed in

HMMA-22726.75/ Under this interpretation of the

documents, the operation nould have gone into continuous

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operation in mid-December 1963 as claimed by the CIA.

But the first pulse camera vas set up on Friday,

September 27, 1963. The documents do not specify the

days that the original cameras functioned. HMMA-22307

says:

(The base agent) was requested to test

the Robot Star Camera for four days and the

K-100 for another four days. 76/

HMMA-22433 says:

(The base agent) used the K-100 with a 152 mm

lens for one day, turning in 10 fee (sic) of

16 mm film...The

Robot

Star and the Telyt

400 mm lens are now being used with the VLS-2

on this project...The Robot Star camera which

nas given to (the base agent with the ViS-i

broke down after. Adridays of photographing.

(The technician) replaced this with another

Robot.. Five days later the second camera

failed to advance properly. 771

This Committee

believes that it is reasonable to assume

that the base agent started using the equipment

immediately after it was installed.78/ Hence, the one

day that the K-100 was used would have been either

the 27th (the day it was installed), the 28th (a

Saturday) or the 30th (the following Monday). It

is also reasonable to assume that the Robot Star was

put into action the day of, or the day following, the

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days.

So the consulate was probably the subject of

photographic surveillance from 27. September to

1 October, assuming that the five days of coverage from

the original

cameras started on the day of installation

and ran continuously, except for sunday, September 30th.

The base agent deve oped the film from the

pulse camera and turned it over in negative form to

his contact. 79/ The film was probably.routinely

sent to Headquarters: 80

The technician who set up the cameras in the.

base house said that the o jective of the operation

was to get identifiable photographs of all visitors

to the Cuban compound. 81/ The goals of the operation

were spelled out in the 1966 Project Renewal request.

Its original objectives, still current,

include furnishing photographic coverage during

daylight hours of the Embassy and Consulate

entrances..82/

Even though this was the stated objective, Ann

Goodpasture testified that she was not sure, but

thought that the coverage of the Cuban Consulate and

Embassy would have been continuous only during office

hours. 83/ This was also

the recollection of David

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Phillips. 841 During Septerber, October and November

of 1963, the Cuban Consulate was. open to the public

from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.n.; the Embassy was open

to the public from 9:00 a.n. to 5:00 p.m. 85/

A blind memo, dated 11/27/64, entitled "Memo

passed to Mr. Papich of FBI with info on photo

coverage of Embassies and info on Kostikov," implies

that the coverage on the Cuban Embassy was of a

continuous nature during diylight hours. This memo.

also implies that there was a coverage of the Cuban

Consulate.86/ The technician who serviced this

operation in Mexico City remembers that he tried to

get full daylight coverage of the compound but that

it was very difficult.87l He said that the manual

coverage. was usually good lut that human error had to

be

taken into account when considering the manual

coverage. He pointed out that it was hard for a

person to maintain constant. attention in such a

sedentary job and, hence, come visitors would get by

the manual operation.88/ ine technician also remembered

that he had set up the pulse camera to provide constant

daylight coverage.89/ By i965 the pulse camera was

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FOR LEE HARVEY OSWAI,D, MEXICO CITY

AND THE CENTRAL INTEI.LIGENCE AGENCY

See Warren Report, pP. 299-304, 733-736. In support of

its

account of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and

Cuban diplomatic missions, the Warren Commission pub-

lished the following as erhibits:

1) A note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs

to the Swiss Ambassador in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-

bit 2445.)

2) Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba's letter

denying the visa. (Cormission Exhibit 2564.)

3)

Letterhead Memorandum 1:0 J. Lee Rankin from Richard

Helms re: "Technical Eamination of Photographs of

Lee Harvey Oswald's Application for a Cuban Visa."

(Commission exhibit 31::7.)

The pages of Lee Harve' Oswald's notebook with the

telephone numbers of the Cuban Consulate, the Soviet

Consulate and the Sovit Military Attache's office.

(Commission Exhibit 21!1.)

5) A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee Harvey Oswald to the

Soviet Embassy in Wash ngtor, D.C.. (Commission Ex-

hibit 15.)

6) A letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission

listing the contents o: the Federal, Bureau of Investi-

gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to

the assassination.

(Commission Exhibit 834. This

document listed a Central Intelligence Agency "release"

dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)

7)

A memorandum dated 5/11/64 to the United States Em-

bassy in Mexico City fom the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs for Mexico.

(Commission Exhibit 2120.)

8) A memorandum dated 6/9'64 from the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of Mexico to te United States Embassy in

Mexico City. (Commission Exhibit 2123.)

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only working for six hours a day.90/ The House Select

Committee on Assassinations has not been able to

determine the scope of the pulse camera coverage

during September and October 1963 by examination of

the production because that production, if it exists,

has not been made available for review. g1/

The ClA has made the photographic production

and logs from the manual coverage of the Embassy

entrance available for House Select Committee on

Assassinations review.92/ All production from the

manual camera coverage of the Cuban Embassy for the

months of September, October and November was examined. 93/

This examination revealed that the coverage of the

Embassy was fairly consistent between the hours of

9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on weekdays. 95/ There was

coverage, with a few exceptions, on every weekday.96/

There was no coverage on weekends.97/ During the three-

month period examined by tre. House Select Committee on

Assassinations, only four weekdays were not covered

by the photographic surveillance operation aimed at

the: Guban Embassy.98/ There was no evidence in the

files of serious technical

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problems in the manual operation during these three

months. 99/

4. Disposition of Froduction from the Operaton

The photographs from the manual camera were

maintained in a chronologiral file at the ClA

station in Mexico City. 100, These photographs were

routinely shown to a peneration agent in the Cuban

Embassy for identification purposes. 101/ After this

agent left the employment of the Cuban Embassy in

1965, the photographs were sent to the MWAVE

Station in Miami, Florida or review by Cuban

defectors such as AMMUG/1.102/

The disposition of the pulse camera photographs

in general, beyond the fact that as of 1965, and

possibly earlier, the prodiction was routinely sent

to Headquarters, is unknow. 103/ The CIA denies

that the pulse camera was functioning during the time

Oswald was in Mexico. 104/

If the Committee's belief

that the pulse camera was functioning on the days that

Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate is correct, then

the ultimate disposition of the photographs produced

on those days

remains a mystery.

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B.

Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed at

the Soviet Diplomatic Compound

l. Introduction

The Mexico City ClA Station maintained

photographic surveillance on the Soviet diplomatic

compound in Mexico City in 1963. Three photographic

sites, or bases, were used in this operation. 105/

The primary objective of the operation was to photograph

people who visited the Sov et Embassy. 106/ The

operation, generally, covered the main gate of

the Soviet. compound between 900 and 1800 (or dark)

on weekdays and from 900 tr 1400 on Saturdays. 107/

2. Physical Positicning of Surveillance

Bases and Targets. 108/

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ence

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Compound

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There were three bases which provided photn-

graphic surveillance of the Soviet diplomatic compound

in 1963.109/ One of the bases overlooked the enclosed

garden or "backyard". area of the Soviet Embassy. 11.0/

The other two bases, of primary concern to this

Committee, covered the entrance to the soviet

compound. Ill/ The primary base, LIMITED, was.

directly across the street intersection from the main

Soviet Embassy gate; the secondary, or "back-up,"

LILYRIC base was across the street and down a little

way from the main Embassy gate. 112/

3. Objectives of (peration and Scope of

Coverage Provided

The purpose of thi: operation has also been

described as being to obtiin photographs of soviet

officials and their families; all foreigners

(non-Latins) who visited the Embassy; and cars with

foreign license plates.113/ One of the

main purposes

of the photographic bases that covered the Embassy gate

was. to obtain a photograph of every "foreigner," or

non-Latin, in contact with the Soviet Embassy. 114/

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This was done in an attempt to identify possible

Soviet espionage agents.

My understanding of that was that it was to

be used

to identify those people who might

be working for the soviets as espionage

agents who were U.S. citizens who went down

there driving a car with a U.S. license

plate on it, or peofle we did not know

but could identify.

The same procedure was

also used for tryine to identify people.

other than U.s. citizens... 115/ ..!

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It is reported that the Mexican nationals who manned

the photographic bases and actually took the

photographs had an "uncanny ability" to pick out

foreigners. 116/

The House Select Conmittee on Assassinations

next attempted to determine

the scope of the photographic

coverage on the main gate of the soviet Embassy. At

a minimum, the Embassy was probably covered by the

photographic operations during office hours. "The

instructions

were to cover the entire work day.

(office hours)..." 117! "Irstructions were to cover

office hours, photograph eich new Soviet and family,

all foreigners and foreign license plates."118/ The

normal work hours of the soviet Embassy during September

and October of 1963 were from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.119/

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There are some indications that the photographic

coverage was more

extensive: than just office hours.

Even though the Embassy wa: not open past 6:00 p.m.,

visitors could still gain intrance by ringing the gate

bell.

"Russian speakers cin get in any time."120/

One ¿lA officer who was in Mexico City remembers

"that the photo surveillance was constant except for

instances where it would be down for security reasons

or equipment malfunction."121/ A blind memorandum,

dated 11/27/63, entitled "lemo passed. to Mr. Papich

of FBI with info on photo :overage of embassies and

info on Kostikov," says, in part,

We have photographi: coverage during daylight

hours on

the USSR, juban, Czechoslovak and

Polish Embassies.

Their consulates are

located

in the embassies and therefore the

coverage of the embissies would include

coverage of the consulates.

The photographic

coverage is of a continuous nature during

daylight hours.

Horever, weather conditions

and other factors affecting any photographic

efforts require that the coverage not be

considered as total ör complete. 122/

Ann Goodpasture was questioned about the scope

of the photographic coveraje on the Soviet compound.

She said:

cannot give you the exact times (of coverage).

can guess, and my guess is that they were

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open

opened for business

most of the time when the Consulate was

yours.

the per-

son who would have that information,

the only

person

who would know,

is

the

case officer who

was handling the project at that time. 123/

Ms. Goodpasture explained the discrepancy between the

time of coverage as stated in her notes and testimony

and that in the 11/27/63 menorandum by saying that the

memorandum referred to the coverage instituted after

the assassination of John Kennedy. 124/ An examination

•of the photographic production from the LIMITED

base shows that the coverage from that base prior

•to the assassination was fairly uneven. 125/ The log

sheets for this operation sow that, if anything,

coverage decreased after the assassination. 126/

The House Select Comnittee on Assassinations

reviewed production and log materials from one base,

LIMITED, which covered the jate of the soviet diplomatic

compound.121/ The LIMITED rase was referred to as

the "primary" base because it began operation before

the LILYRIC base opened. 128'

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Aug. 31

Sept.: 1

2

3

4

5

6

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

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19

20

21

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photo

LILYRIC was planned

as

an alternate base to

LIMITED.. It was in

an upper storie

•.on

the

same side of the street as LIMITED but in the

middle of the block south.

It had a slanted

view of the front gite of the

Soviet Embassy. 129/

The following chart lists the production from

the LIMITED base which was made available to the

House Select Committee on lissassinations. 130/

Hours of cover-

age stated

Time of lst

photogi aph

Time of last

photograph

Number of Photo

graphs taken

800-1400

956

800-2000

1009

830-1900

935

830-1800

1131

830-1800

1001

1200-1900

1238

830-1800

926

*********

COVERAGE +**:

1220

1321

1556

1334

1715

1510

1702

*****;

******

*NO

COVERAGE ***

900-1900

1159

830-1800

855

900-1900

1132

900-1900

1015

*************NO COVEPAGE*************:

1000-1400

1047

***********

**NO

COVERAGE***

**********

*NO

COVERAGE****

•900-1900

1133

**********

* * NO

COVERAGE ***

900-1900

1105

*********:

8

(Saturday)

6 (Sunday)

19

18

43

12

39

****

***

1640

3

1119

17

1550

14

1233

7

***

1344

10 (Saturday)

***********

*

*******

*******

19

13

***

COVERAGE ****

1549

****************

1654

*********

*********

*******

* * NO

* * NO

* *NO

COVERAGE ***

COVERAGE **

900-1900

113:

*************NO COVERAGE

900-1900

• 1040

*********

***NO COVERAGI:

900-1900

1018

1300

********

1137

******

1146

7

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6

*****

16

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Oct.

28

29

30

2

3

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

* *

****

******* *

** NO

* * NO

* * NO

COVERACE**

COVERACE**

COVERACE**

900-1900

1291

1251

900-1900

11:9

1259

900-1900

1200

1222

900-1900

1103

1251

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*************NO

COVERAGE****

******

900-1900

11÷8

1235

2

14

5

21

****

****

6

900-1900

1219

1232

900-1900

11)8

1210

900-1900

1031

1719

18

900-1900

1522

1733

9

1000-1400

1002

1015

2

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* * *NO

• COVERAGE*

800-1900

831

944

12

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***NO

* *NO

COVERAGE************************

COVERAGE************************

900-1900

1€24

1649

7

1200-1900

-1404

1437

2

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* * *NO

COVERZ.GE************************

*****

****NO

COVER GE****

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****** * ** *

*** NO

COVER GE**

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1200-1900

1:05

1307

3

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1200-1900

1200-1900

1200-1900

1000-1600

+Not Available.

N.A.+

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

8

22

21

14

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Given the somewhat uneven nature of the coverage

maintained by LIMITED, 131/ the House Select. Committee

on Assassinations staff asked whether the two bases

were run in conjunction so as to provide more

comprehensive coverage.. Tromas Keenan, the project's

case officer, did not remenber that this was the case.

He did

remember that both tases operated at the same

time so as to get the most complete coverage possible. 132/

Mr. Keenan. was not sure whether there was routine

coverage of the Soviet Embissy on weekends. 133/ He

said that it was possible that there was routine

coverage on saturday mornirgs. 134/

An examination of tre project file maintained

by the CIA on

the photographic

coverage of the soviet

Embassy does not bear out Mr. Keenan's assertion

that the two bases duplicated efforts.. In fact, the

project file confirmed that the bases complemented each

other rather than duplicated efforts. This was the

case in 1960 when a projeci. review stated:

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LIMITED - This base compiles daily logs

indicating all arrivals, departures and

where

possible, identities of

every person visiting

or working at the LIMERICK target... LIMITED's

photographic coverage is still concentrated on

visitors,

as opposed to employees,

to the

LIMERICK

installation...LILYRIC photographs

also are concentrated

on visitors to the target,

as opposed to employees.

It should be noted

that LILYRIC operates for photographic

coverage during the hours from daylight to

1400 hours each day of the week except Sunday:

The LIMITED base maintains photographic

coverage from 1400 tours to darkness each day

except Sunday. 135/

In 1961 the project review said:

1. To collect operational information

pertaining to LIMERICK personnel and physical

facilities through use of photographic

base houses.

LIMITED, LILYRICES ghotographic bases,

contribute to this

objective.

To avoic repetition, the Station

is omitting the usuil description of the functions

of these three bases and how they contribute

to the above objective.

There has been no change

in the coverage as rescribed in the 1960

Request for Project Renewal. 136/

Similar statements are included in the project reviews

for 1962 and 1963.137/ At one point a move was made

at Headquarters to close the LILYRIC base:

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FI/OPS recommends s: rongly that the photo

coverage be reviewed from the standpoint

of value

and usefulness with a view to

determining whether the LILYRIC activity

could not be safely eliminated and the

additional photographic coverage conducted

on a more selective basis, without

materially affectini overall usefulness.138/

The Mexico City Station took exception to this.

recommendation:

1s "photographic base-

that photographic coverage. is only one of

their

functions... LIMITED is used. as a radio

dispatch base for astomobile surveillance

teams

in addition to physical surveillance

of persons entering the front gate.

Their

photography is negligible compared to their

other duties.

The -ILYRIC base performs

the best photography of persons visiting the

front gate, perhaps because the vantage point

for taking the pictures is from the second

floor and above the street traffic which

partially blocks LIMITED photographs.

LILYRIC also does individual reports on

LIMERICK personnel entering and leaving the

main gate...139/

In 1964 the Mexico City Station restated the operating

procedures of the two bases

in a dispatch referenced

to the above paragraph from HMMA-14793:

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The Station. feels that it would be helpful

to summarize at this time information

previously reported to Headquarters (see

paragraph 3, reference B) concerning the photo

basehouses

under this project and thereby

give Headquarters an updated frame of

reference

in which to view the roles of the

various basehouses.

The LIMITED and LILYRIC basehouses

provide coverage of front of the LIMERICK

installation.

Although on the surface it may

appear that these to basehouses provide

duplicate take,

this is not the case.

• It has

been the Station's experience in running the

unilateral LIEMPTY operation that a 0900 to

evening workday, which would be required of

i workday.

a single basehouse in order to cover the

LIMERICK target effectively, is just too long

for any pair of agerts to remain effective.

This is especially true when it is considered

that these basehouse operators. are essentially

unsupervised during their workday.

It would

also be impossible ior a single base-house to

provide the kind of coverage this station needs

on the target insta lation, especially during

the peak hours of artivity, namely late

morning and.early. a.ternoon.

For these

reasons, the LILYRIl; basehouse generally

operates from 0900 :0 1400 or 1500 weekdays.

LIMITED operates from 1200 to 1800 or dark

as the daily situa:ion dictates) on weekdays,

and 0900 to 1400

on Saturdays.

(These hours

are subject to chane to fit Station

needs.)

Special coverage fo- Sunday is arranged on a

need basis; however, past experience

has shown

regular coverage of

Saturday afternoons and

Sundays is not rewarding.

This schedule

provides for both basehousés to be in action

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during the peak activity hours of the LIMERICK

target.

Although even this arrangement is not

completely airtight, anything less than this

would present unacceptable gaps in the coverage.

It must also be considered that without

two basehouses covering the front of the

target installation, any illness, personal

problem or vacation

for operators of one

basehouse would terminate Station coverage...

It is the Station's opinion that as. long as

the LIMERICK installation is a prime target of

the Station, it will be necessary to maintain

the present

three bisehouses.

To eliminate

any

one of the three would create a gap in the

Station's coverage that would not be

compatible with the emphasis placed

this target.140/6ephosigüddfs)

But the information in the preceding chart does not

correlate with the statement of the coverage in

HMMA-23:343. The above chat, on pages 37-38,

refers to the coverage of :he Soviet compound by the

base that the

review of HMIA-23343 reveals covered

the compound from 1200 to 800 or dark. • The chart

shows that while 1200 to 1800 coverage is sometimes

the case, the

base's coverage of the Embassy, at least.

during the months of Septerber and October, on days

when the base operated at ill, was not always in

that time period.

This is the base that the dispatch

also states covered Saturdy morning. Out of the

nine Saturdays covered by the above chart, this base

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was

in operation on only four of those days.. This

Committee has. not been able to establish or disprove

the

possible inference that LILYRIC covered those

days when there was no coverage from LIMITED because

the production and logs from the LILYRIC base were

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not made available for review. That material was

requested but has not been made available. 141/ An

explanation of why this material is missing was

requested on 7/25/78.142/ The CIA's explanation stated

that the photographs and logs "may have been destroyed

in a purge of Mexico City station files and that the

folders for the destroyed naterial were reused to

forward more recent photographic material to

Headquarters for retention. "143/ The folders which

once contained the production were located at

the

National Archives' Warrenton Records Center but,

according to the CIA's explanation, the folders

contained production material from 1967.144/ Because

the CIA has not provided tre photographic production

and logs from the LILYRIC for examination, no

precise determination detailing the effectiveness of

the coverage of the Soviet compound can be made.

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Regardless of the scope and effectiveness of

the two bases, a question that may never be resolved

due to the conflicting evidence and missing production,

the surveillance was considered adequate:

Q:... How thorough was the coverage?

A: They covered the categories that we asked

them for on a routine basis, which was to

identify any people who appeared to be

non-Latin and any Soviets.

Q:

I understand that was the purpose.

Given

that purpose, how thorough was the coverage?

A: I think it was accurate.

Q:

Was Win Scott satisfied with the performance

of the photo operation at the Soviet

Embassy?.

A: To: the best of my Ancwledge he was. 145/

4. Procedure and Timing Involved in Processing

Production fron the Operation

The ClA photographic bases were manned by at

least one agent who took photographs and kept a log

sheet of people entering and leaving the Embassy and

of the photographs that he took. 146/ The film

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After the assassination of John Kennedy, this

procedure was changed and te film was cleared from

the camera on a daily basis. 148/

The CIA contract agent outside of the United

States Embassy who was in charge of the photographic

bases was Ramon-Joseph Alvarez Durant. 149/ Alvarez

picked up the film, prior to the assassination, from

the photo bases three times a week. 150/ Alvarez

then took the film to his brother-in-law, who worked

at night, to develop it. The brother-in-law also

printed the film into eight-by-ten contact prints. 151/

After the film was developed and printed, Alvarez

turned over the negatives and contact

prints to

Thomas Keenan. 152/

•Ms. Ann Goodpasture picked up the photo

production if Mr. Keenan was not available. 153/ Mr.

Keenan or. Ms. Goodpasture, would then bring the

photographic production

back to the Mexico City

Station in

the American Embassy.154/ Mr.. Keenan did

not remember with certainty to whom he turned over

the material, but believed it was either Ms. Goodpasture

or Herbert Manell.155/

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5. Responsibility for the Operation

There is some controversy as to who had

overall responsibility for this project. Ms. Good-

pasture testified that the responsibility was Mr.

Keenan's. 156/ Mr. Keenan, according to Ms. Good-

pasture, made all the decisions and had all the

responsibility involved in the operation. 157/ Mr.

Keenan was the most junior Operations Officer in

the Mexico City Station in 1963, and claims that his

role in the operation was largely limited to legwork. 158/

Ms. Goodpasture testified that her role in the

operation was limited to acting as an alternate

Case Officer, internal rouing of the production,

and review of the photographs to insure the maintenance

of technical quality in the operation. 159/ Ann

Goodpasture's annual Fitness Report for the period

1 January 1963 to 31 December 1963 specifies her

duties in regard to this operation. The fitness

report says,

Working with Keenan](regular contact and case

officer, supervise's

work of three photo

bases operating against Soviet Embassy;

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Staff Agent. 160/

Ms. Goodpasture denied that she had any supervisory

role in relation to this oferation. 161/ The House

Select Committee on Assassinations redeposed Ms.

Goodpasture in November 1978 and asked her about this

apparent inconsistency betueen her Fitness Report

and her testimony:

Q: Now, having read your Fitness Report for

1963, are there any portions of your

prior testimony that you wish to modify?

A :

No, not really. Now, this LIEMPTY

project, this is a case of where I cannot

seem

to make it clear how our functions.

were.

Now, the case officer had

responsibility for the operation of the

project. He decided how much to pay the

agents, what hou's they worked, where

the meetings wer: held. He hired them;

he fired them an he knew the identities;

he met with. all uf them.

He brought in the photographs, the product.

He dumped it on my desk. and he was finished

with it..

I took the product film and:

prints and the contact file and

distributed those.

Q:

I could levy any requirements of him or

other people in the Station which as he

remembered it it might have been for

supervision, but when he was out of town

I met with one agent with his so-called

cut-out...162/

This (Fitness Report) is not accurate?

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It is not precise the way the work was

divided...163/

Q:

Now, I don't uncerstand why, if you knew

this descriptior was inaccurate, you

ley this documert go to Headquarters?

A :

I think it was nade on the basis of trying

to get a promotion for me: 164/

Alan White, who was

Deputy Chief of Station

in Mexico City in 1963, te:tified that Ann Goodpasture

was "a Special Assistant" l0 the Chief of Station

and that "her main respons bilities were to handle the

surveillance operations."li5/ Mr. White stated that

this included both the pho ographic and electronic

surveillance.166/ Mr. Whi:e remembered. that Thomas

Keenan "did help Annie wit, soma of the pickup

(of production)" but that lis main responsibilities

were with another operatior. 167/ Mr. White also

testified that:

(Ann Goodpasture) carried with her a lot of

invisible authority that devolved upon her

because of her operational relationship with

the Chief of Station, who had absolute

confidence in her.

She had a marvelous

memory.

She was meticulous in detail.

think

he had every reason to put that kind

of trust in her.

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She reported directly to him. While

she may

not have been invested with any

command authority by virtue of her position

at the station, certainly she was a kind

of unofficial deputy for the

purposes of

the operations that she was involved in. 168/

Ms. Goodpasture was asked about Mr. White's statements

as well as similar statements by other people associated

with the CIA's Mexican operations. 169/

Ms.

Goodpasture:

Well,

I made more of those

statements as those people saw it in their

relationship with Mr. Scott's projects. They

are true the way they saw it but I had no

responsibility outside the projects that we

worked on, but the liaison projects and the

telephone

tapping project touched every

operation in the Mexico Station..f just

didn't think I was as important as other

people seemed to imply that I was. 170/

Ms. Goodpasture also testified that her relationship

with Mr. Scott could be termed special in that she was

responsible for the day-to-day handling of the telephone

tapping operation of which Mr. Scott was the case

officer.171/

Mr. Keenan's recollection that he turned the

photographic production over to Mr. Manell or Ms.

Goodpasture was confirmed by Ms. Goodpasture. 1721 Ms.

Goodpasture also testified that the primary

responsibility for the photographs after they were in

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that of Mr. Manell.173/ Ms. Good-

pasture testified that she was responsible for routing

the photographs and that the complete production

went to the Manells before it was filed. 174/

Copies of the important photographs were given to the

Manells for them to retain for routine use in the

course of their work. 175/

The Manells' recollection of their role in

this operation is very dif erent from that of Ms.

Goodpasture.

Mrs. Manell estified that Ann

Goodpasture held the photographic production very.

tightly. 176/ Her recollec: ion was confirmed by

her husband. 177/ The Mane Is stated that they did

not routinely review or ser all of the production from

the Soviet Embassy photogriphic surveillance operation. 178/

They claim they only saw

the

photographs

that Ms. Goodpasture thought were important enough

to bring to their attention. 179/ According to the

Manells, access to this fie was tightly controlled

by Ms. Goodpasture. 180/

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6.

Coordination of Photographic and Electronic

Surveillance Operations

The Mexico City Station employed an operating

procedure whereby the functioning of the photographic

base and the electronic intercept base could be

coordinated. If the listering post monitor heard

something that would lead tim to believe that there

was someone at one of the Embassies that should be

photographed, he would alert the CIA technician in

the listening post who would then alert Ann Good-

pasture.181/ Ms. Goodpasture could then alert

Thomas Keenan who would then notify the photographic

base.182/ The reporting to Headquarters of information

generated by the photograptic surveillance operation

and the

electronic operation was also coordinated. 183/

The station was able to go back to the photographic

chronological file to chect for photographs of

people that were picked up on the tap operation when

the transcripts were revieved. 184/ It was a matter

of routine to check the photographic production when

reporting information deve oped from the tap operation

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that indicated a contact vith an Embassy that was

subject to photosurveilla.ice.185/

A name trace could have been requested on.

the basis of the name alone but that wasn't the

way Win. Scott ran hat Station.

He wanted

the photographic coverage tied

in with the

telephone coverage

.. sometimes there

was a U.S. automob le license number. It

was also part of the "numbers game" of

justifying a project by the number of

dispatches, cables or reports produced. 186/

C. Electronic Surveillance of Telephones at

the Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic Compounds

in 1963

1. Existence

The Soviet and Cuban compounds were, in 1963,

the targets of a multiple, line telephone intercept

operation. 187/ This operation was run in liaison with

the highest officials of the Mexican Government. 188/

2. Responsibility

a.

General.

Win Scott, the Chie of the Mexico City Station,

was, nominally, the case o ficer for the telephone

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surveillance project.189/ Even though Mr. Scott was

the nominal case officer, the "routine case officer

functions" were performed ty Ms. Ann Goodpasture. 190/

An American technician was stationed in the listening

post to maintain the equipment and to protect the

Station's interests there. 191/ Ms. Goodpasture's

duties in this operation ringed from meeting with

the technician/officer inside the base for the purposes

of daily supervision of the operation to handling the

collection

and distribution of the tapes and transcripts. 192/

Ms. Goodpasture worked in this capacity until 1968.193/

With the exception of the echnician, the listening

post

and the transcription room of this base were

staffed by Mexican Army of icers.194/ This listening

post covered up to thirty 'ines at one time. 195/

b. Analysis and Reporting of Information

Obtained

Mr. Herbert Manell vas responsible for the

analysis, processing, and laily review of the Soviet

transcripts. 196/ The transcripts were reviewed on a

daily basis by Barbara Man=l1. Mrs. Manell would

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bring conversations of interest or importance to

Mr. Manell's

attention. 191/

Mr. Manell was also responsible

for reporting

•the information developed from the Soviet wiretaps.

He indicated that the reports were

usually written

oy himself or Barbara Manell.1981 These reports were

usually in the form of cables or dispatches to CIA

Headquarters.199/ The Manells also usually handled

the notification of representatives

of various other

United States government organizations in Mexico City

when the information warranted such notification. 200/

David A. Phillips, a ClA officer who was

stationed in Mexico City in 1963, testified

that

information from the taps would be reported if the

information was important, if it was useful to another

Agency component, or if it was something that should

"go in the record."201/ Mr. Phillips said that only

a small amount of the information developed from the

taps would be formally reported to CIA Headquarters

and that the information that was reported

was

generally something more inportant than the usual

conversations that were routinely intercepted. 202/

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It should be noted, though, that an examination of

the project files shows that Americans in contact

with communist diplomatic institutions were routinely

reported to Headquarters for name traces and dissemination

to the intelligence community. 203/

3. Telephone Lines Covered

This Committee has made an attempt to determine

which telephone lines at the Soviet and Cuban

diplomatic compounds

were

subject to this electronic

intercept operation

in September and October of 1963.

The monthly operational report of this project for

the month of september lists the following phones

as targets of the operation: 204/

14-42-37

14-92-14

25-07-95

14-13-26

15-60-55

15-67-55

15-69-87

15-67-07

15-12-64

Cuban Embassy

Cuban Embassy

Cuban

Embassy

Cuban

Embassy

Soviet Embassy

(Chancery)

Soviet

Embassy

(Chancery)

Soviet

Embassy

(Military Attache).

Soviet

Embassy

(Commercial Office)

Soviet

Embassy (Film Representative)

The report notes that lines 14-92-14 and 25-07-95 at

the Cuban Embassy were disconnected on 23 September

1963.205/

The monthly repert for October says that

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there has not been any change in the lines covered

since September. 206/

A review of the transcripts produced by this

operation revealed that the CIA has transcripts on

file from the two-month period of interest

to this Committee from three Cuban lines:

14-42-37,

14-13-26, and 25-09-14.207' It is noted that the last

telephone line was not listed in the monthly reports. 208/

A review of the Soviet trascripts revealed that the

five lines listed in the monthly reports were tapped

on 27, 28 and 30 September. 209/ Only two of the

lines, 15-61-55 and 15-60-55, were covered on Sunday,

29 September. 210/

The House Select Conmittee on Assassinations

has found some indications in testimony given before

this Committee and CIA documents that more Cuban

lines were tapped at that time.?1l/ This Committee

has not been able to determine with certainty whether

three lines (the number of lines on

file in the

transcripts), two lines (the number given by the

contemporaneous monthly report), or five lines (the

number given by some witnesses and documents, were

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subject to the intercept operation. It should be

noted, though, that there vere five lines tapped in

the Cuban compound in 1964.212/ They were:

14-42-37.

The Ambassador's private telephone

25-07-95

The Chincery

14-13-26

The Chincery

25-09-14

The Conmercial Office

11-28-47

The Corsulate

One ClA employee whe was involved in Cuban

operations in Mexico City remembered that there were

taps on the telephone of the Cuban Consulate. 213/ It is

possible that the employee, Mr. Phillips, who was stationed

in Mexico City from 1961 tr 1966, was incorrect, after

a fifteen-year hiatus, in placing: this tap in 1963.214/

As the above notes, an examination of the project

files fails to support Mr. Phillips' memory,

although those files do show that the Consulate

telephone was tapped in 1944.

4. Production from Operation

The intercept listering post operated from

approximately 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day.215/

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Thirty recording machines hat were impulse activated

every time a tapped telephone was used taped the sur-

veilled conversations.216/ In addition, the

intercepted

conversations vere monitored by personnel

in the listening post. 217/

a. Types

The production from this listening post was

broken down

into three categories for the purposes

of handling the tapes and transcripts: (1) intercepts

of interest

to the Mexican officials (these included

such groups as the Movimento de Liberacion Nacional,

individual Communists, the Mexican Directorate of

Federal Security); (2) Cuban intercepts; and

(3) Soviet

and bloc country intercepts. 218/

b.. Handling Procedures.

(1) Resuma

A summary of the conversations deemed of

sufficient interest by the listening post monitors was

prepared as they were monitored. 219/ These summaries

were called "resuma."220/ The resuma were given to

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Ann Goodpasture by the technician early in the morning

the day after they were prepared. 221/ Ms. Goodpasture

had the previous day's resuma on Win Scott's desk by

9:00 a.m. on the morning. o: the day after they were

prepared.222/ Win Scott murked these resuma for

action by his case officer: before routing them through

the Station. 223/ This Committee has requested copies

of these resuma from the c A but they have not been

made available for review.?24/

The resuma covered ill thirty lines that were

covered by the

intercept operation.22d/ Only important

conversations were includedl. in the resuma. 226/ The

monitors made the decision as to which conversations

were important.221/ After the resuma were

prepared,

the tapes from the lines o interest to the Mexicans

were held for approximatel: ten days and were then

reused.228/ The resuma wee maintained in a

chronological file at the listening post. 229/

(2) Cuban apes

The Cuban tapes (tanes.produced. by taps.on

the Cuban telephones) were left on the machines until

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the reel was used up. 230/ When the reels were full,

they were removed and transcribed in the listening

post. 231/ The transcripts would be turned over

to Ms. Goodpasture at the same time as the resuma. 232/

The tapes produced by the Cuban taps were maintained

in the listening post. 233/ There was a special rack

for those tapes inthe technician's workshop, which

was situated on the floor above the room in which

the listening post was located. 234/ This

rack had thirty slots in it. The tapes from each

day's production went into a separate slot, with the

oldest tapes going back into use in the monitor

room; i.e., the tapes from the Cuban intercept were

held for thirty days prior to reuse. 235/: The tapes

were

not turned over to Mi.

Goodpasture unless she

requested a specific tape.236/

(3) Soviet Tapes

(a) General Handling

The Soviet tapes were removed daily from the

machines.237/ The Spanish language portions of the

tapes would then be transcribed in the listening

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post.238/ The transcripts and tapes from the Soviet

lines were then routinely turned over to Ann

Goodpasture along with the resuma and Cuban transcripts. 239/

Ms. Goodpasture then turned the tapes over to Robert

Zambernardi, who then delivered them to Boris

Tarasoff for translation and transcription of the

Russian language portions

of the tape. 240/

(b). Retention and Reuse of Tapes

There is some question about how long the Soviet

tapes were retained before reuse. There are

indications that the tapes were routinely held for two

weeks and then reused.241/ The technician who ran

the listening post could not state with certainty

what the practice regarding retention and reuse of

the Soviet tapes. was. He said that he did not

hold the tapes at all once they were returned to him

by Ms. Goodpasture. 242/ He stated that he assumed that

some of the tapes were retained by either the station

or the Russian translator because his supply of tapes

for the Russian taps kept dwindling. 243/ The tapes

were not retained by the translator. 244/

It is possible

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that the tapes were held fur two weeks in the station

before they were erased and sent back to Arehart

for reuse. 245/ Robert Zambernardi remembers that

Thomas Keenan spent a lot of time in the Station

erasing tapes on a special machine for that purpose. 246/

One of the main sources for the two-week period

being ascribed to retention of the soviet tapes

is DIR- 88680, which says:

Upon receipt you ma! resume usual practice

of keeping Cuban and Soviet tapes two weeks

and then erasing. 24:

This Committee has not found any evidence that would

contradict the above-quoted statement in regard to

the Soviet tapes..

There was a procedure whereby the tapes could

be held for longer. than twe weeks if someone thought

that the tape should be preserved as well as the

transcript.248/ The interested officer could make

a note on the transcript or he could notify Ann

Goodpasture, orally or by rote, that he wanted the

tape preserved. 249/ There were no written rules or

regulations governing this procedure. 250/

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(c) English Language Conversations

There are some indications that English

language conversations were transcribed at the

listening post. The Tab F Draft says:

Reels which contained Russian or a language

other than Spanish or English were taken to

another location Tother than the listening

posty for translation and typing. 251/

Goodpasture's notes say:

Those transcripts which

had Russian or another

language

besides

Spanish

or English went out of the

listeping post the cay after the transcript

(of the"

conversatiors on the reel) was typed.

These reels were talen to another location where

they were translater and. typed. 252/

But, in her testimony before the House Select Committee

on Assassinations in execuiive session on 4/13/78, Ms.

Goodpasture said:

The transcribers, of the transcription that

I picked up, the

trinscribers were working

at the same place with the Spanish text.

If

the language were o her than Spanish, it

would have to be ta:en to another location

to be

transcribed.

The material

that was

picked up the day after the date on which

it

occurred was in the Spanish language, normally. 253/

It is clear that the reels of tape with

conversations in the Russian language were delivered

to Mr. Boris Tarasoff for translation and transcription: 254/

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Mr. Tarasoff has testified that he was also responsible

for the transcription of the English language

conversations although his wife, Anna Tarasoff, usually

did the actual transcribing. 255/ This testimony is

confirmed by the testimony of Anna Tarasoff. 256/

Arehart, the technician in the listening post, could

not clearly remember whether or not any of his

Mexican transcribers did the English language

conversations. 257/ He remembered that these tapes

were usually sent to the Station. 258/ He said that

he did remember that moniters would often come to

his workshop and ask him to come downstairs to

listen to a conversation ir English. 259/

All of the conversations in the Spanish

transcripts are in Spanish. 2601 Alt appenss inat

of the conversa-.

tions in Spanish were transcribed in Spanish. 261/ It

is doubtful that the listering post transcribers, who

were Mexican nationals, would have translated an

English conversation into "panish and then transcribed

it.. In light of this, Tarisoff's recollection and.

Arehart's recollection, it is probable that all the

English language conversat ons were sent to the

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Tarasoffs for transcriptior.

(d) Handling by Tarasoffs.

Along with the reel. of tape that contained

Russian language conversat ons land probably English

language conversations), Mi. Tarasoff received a

copy of the Spanish transcripts. 262/ When the

Tarasoffs received the tapes, they transcribed only

those conversations that were denoted on the Spanish

transcript as being in Rus:ian. 263/

Mr. Tarasoff routinuly received the tapes the

day after they were made. 204/ Mr. Tarasoff testified

that he would then immedia ely transcribe the tapes

and turn over the completel tapes and transcripts

to his contact the next mo ning. 265/

Mr. Tarasoff said that the volume of work the

had to do

transcripts were always finished in one day. 266/

"Sometimes there was so little work in

transcribing

the Russian portion of the tape that I

was just

hanging around doing nothing. "267/ Ann Goodpasture,

at one time, put the time lag. for completion of the

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Russian transcription at approximately one week. 268/

In her

testimony before this Committee, Ms. Goodpasture

stated that it generally took Mr. Tarasoff one or two

days to complete the translations and transcriptions. 269/

(e) Espedited Procedure for :

English Language Conversations

• or other Conversations of

•Special Interest

There was a procedu-e whereby Mr. Tarasoff's

transcription

could be expidited if there was a

special interest in a particular conversation.270/

When

the monitor in the listening post encountered

something. he considered important enough to require

expedited transcription, it was possible for him to

bring this quickly to the Station's attention. 271/

Although Arnold Arehart was not the Tarasoffs'

contact in September. or October of 1963, he did serve

as such at one time.272/ When he was interviewed by

the House Select

Committee on Assassinations, Mr.

Arehart was asked whether there was a process whereby

transcription of important conversations in English

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or Russian could be expedited. 273/ Me explained

that there would

not have been such a process.for

a Russian conversation, sirce the importance of the

conversation could not be judged due to the fact

that no one in the listenirg post could understand

that language.274/ Areharl. did say that there was

such

a procedure for English language conversations. 275/

When one of the Mexican

monitors

encountered a

conversation in English, he would ask Arehart to

listen to that conversation. 276/ After listening

• to the conversation, Arehat would decide whether or

not it warranted special a tention.277/ If he deemed

that it was important enough, he

would mark the tape

"Urgent," put it in a box, and deliver it to Ms.

Goodpasture. 278/

Mr. Arehart's recollection was confirmed by an

examination of the project files for this operation.

One of the monthly project reports explains this

procedure and its purpose:

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Headquarters (is) not well informed on the

way the Mexico Station exploits operational

leads from (this operation).

The outside

staff agent, Arnold Arehart

has instructions

to alert the Statior immediately if a u.s.

citizen or English speaking person tries

to

contact any of the target installations.

This is done by a telephone call from outside

the tap center at a pay phone to (Ann Good-

pasture) inside the Station.

Emergency

meetings are arranged in double talk...(Good-

pasture) meets Arehirt within fifteen minutes

at a pre-arranged downtown location

and

receives the reel with an extract of the

pertinent conversat on.

The reel is then

taken to the Station and given to the case

officer responsible for the target the person

was trying to contart.

Headquarters is

notified by cable o: the action taken.

Only in rare casess information on

a U.S.

citizen passed without prior Headquarters

approval. 279/

If the tape was from a Sov et installation, the tape

would have been delivered he same day to the Tarasoffs

by Mr. Zambernardi. 280/ A ong with the tape, the

Tarasoffs would receive a lote indicating which :

conversation was to be traiscribed on a priority

basis. The Tarasoffs would then immediately transcribe

that conversation and retun it to their regular

contact that same day. 281/ It should be noted that

the

monthly report says thit the soviet transcripts

would be delivered to the case officer responsible

for the targe

Elassitallitio 1.282/

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Soviet target, that case officer would have been

Mr. Herbert Manell.283/ Mr. Manell testified that

he had nothing to do with transporting the transcripts

to or from the Tarasoffs except in rare instances

when no one else was available to do the job. 284/ Mrs.

Tarasoff testified that the "urgent" tapes were

delivered and picked up by their regular contact. 285/

(f) Handling in the station

All of the transcripts were brought into the

Station to Ms. Goodpasture. 286/ Ms. Goodpasture

routed the copies of the transcripts and retained

one copy for her own file.?871. One copy of all of

gin to the

the Soviet transcripts was put on Barbara Manell 05

I by Ann Goodpasture the morning they were

received. 288/ Ms. Goodpasture routed the Cuban

transcripts to either Robert Shaw or David Phillips. 289/

One copy of all the transcripts eventually went into

a chronological.file.290/ One copy of the Soviet

transcripts was cut and pasted onto separate sheets

of paper and filed in appropriate subject or

personality files. 291/ The resuma were also maintained

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in a chronological file. 29? One copy of the Cuban

transcripts was routinely sent to Headquarters on

a weekly basis. 293/

(g) Format of Transcripts

The format of the transcripts that Mr. Tarasoff

produced was much the same as those of the Spanish

language transcripts described above. 294/ Mr.

Tarasoff's transcripts were from Russian into English. 295/

Many of Mr. Tarasoff's transcriptions bear the notation

"(previously transcribed)" after the meter number

referring to the reel footage location of a

conversation.297/ Mr. Tarasoff indicated that this

notation

meant that the conversation had already been

transcribed from a tap on another embassy phone:

'previously transcrioed". means,

for instance,

I went to the embassy

first and the embassy

number. was 605055.

Now this number 501264

belonged to the filn's office:

So consequently

if that particular

call went out of the main

building to the filns office and it had been

that is exactly what I

transcribed before: "reviously transcribed"

do, put down

So there

was no question of doing it twice: 298/

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C. Voice comparisons

In addition to his translation and transcription

duties, Mr. Tarasoff as a matter of routine attempted

to identify the voices of the participants in a

conversation. 299/ This eventually led to Mr.

Tarasoff's collecting voice samples from tapes

Russian officials whose voices he had identified. 300/

Mr. Tarasorf also.

made comments about the personality

and dispositions of the participants in conversations

that he transcribed.: Generally, these comments, or

"personality assessments" vere made on separate

pieces of paper and not on the transcripts themselves. 301/

III. Information About Lee Harvey Oswald's Stay in

Mexico that was Known by the CIA Mexico City

Station Prior to the Assassination of John

Kennedy and the Sources of that Information

A. Information that was Available

In 1963 the Central Intelligence Agency's

Mexico City Station

surveilled both the Cuban and

Soviet diplomatic compounds

electronically and

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photographically. 302/

The Mexico City Station received daily transcriptions

of the

telephonic surveillance of the Embassies. 303/

The Station received twice, or three times, a week

the photographic coverage of the Embassies and

Consulates. 304/

l. Information Available to the Mexico City

Station from Electronic Surveillance

Aimed at the Soviet Consulate

Attache's Office.

and Military

From the electronic surveillance of the Soviet

Embassy, the CIA Mexico City Station learned of the

following conversations that were subsequently linked

by Station personnel to Lee Harvey Oswald:

a .

September 27, 1963, Friday

(1) At or about 10:30 a.m. an

unidentified man called the Soviet Military Attache

looking for a visa to Odessa. He was referred to

the Consulate.. The man they asked for and was given

directions to the Consulate office.

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were not noted by the tran: criber.. The entire

conversation was transcribed in Spanish. 305/

(2) At 10:37 a.m.

a man called the

Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. He was

told that the consul was not in.. The man outside

stressed that it was necessary for him to get a visa

to Odessa. He was told to call back at 11:30. This

conversation was.

also transcribed in Spanish. 306/

(3) At 1:25 an unidentified man called

the soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. The

man

was told that the consul was not in. The man

outside asked, "when tomorrow?" The Soviet official

told him that on Mondays and Fridays the Consul was

in between four

and five. This conversation was also

in the Spanish transcriptions..307/

(4) At approximately 4:05 p.m. Silvia

Duran called the Soviet Enbassy. She told the person

at the Embassy that an American citizen seeking a

visa was at the Cuban Conjulate. Silvia explained

that the American citizen wanted to know the name

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of the official he had dealt with at the

Soviet

Embassy. Silvia had

sent the American to the Soviet

Embassy, stating that his acquiring a Cuban visa

was contingent on his previously acquiring a soviet

visa. Silvia explained to the Soviet official that

the American had stated that he was assured that

there would be no problem. At that point, the

Soviet official put another official on the phone,

causing Silvia

to repeat tre story. The official then

asked Silvia to leave her rame and number so he could

call later. This conversation was also in Spanish. 308/

(5) At 4:26 p.m. an unidentified soviet

official called Silvia Durin inquiring whether the

American citizen had been o the Cuban consulate

office. Silvia responded iffirmatively, stating the

American was at the office at that time. . The Soviet

official told Silvia that when the American visited

the soviet Consulate offic. he had displayed papers

from the Soviet Consulate in Washington. He also had

a letter stating that he wis a member of an organization

that favored Cuba.. The American wanted to go to the

U.S. S.R. with his Russian wife and remain there a

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long

time. The Soviet official had not received an

answer from Washington to the American's problem. The

problem traditionally took four to five months to resolve

because Washington had to secure authorization from

the U.S.S.R. The Soviet official. added that the

American's wife could get a visa in Washington very

quickly and she could have it sent anywhere, but he

felt that the American would not get a visa soon. Silvia

said that the Cuban government could not give the

American a visa because he had neither friends in

Cuba nor authorization for a visa from the U.s.s.R.

The Soviet official added that the Soviets could

not give the American a letter of recommendation

because they did not know him. This conversation was

also in

the

Spanish transcripts. 309/

b. September i8, 1963, Saturday

Consulate.

At 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet

She said that

there was an American

citizen at the Cuban Consulate who had previously

visited the Soviet Consulate. The soviet asked

Silvia. to wait.a minute.

Upon his return to the

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telephone, silvia put the American on the line. At

first the American spoke i Russian and the Soviet

spoke English. The conversation then proceeded

in English until the Russiin discontinued it and put

another soviet on the line. The Soviet spoke in

English, but the American, speaking in broken

Russian, asked him to speal Russian. The conversation

resumed in Russian at that point. It also became

incoherent and is thus quoted in its entirety:

Russian,:

American:

Russian:

American:

Russian:

American:

What else do you want?

I was

just now at your Embassy and

they trok my address.

I know that.

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went

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Why dor't you come again and leave

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far frem the Cuban Embassy.

Well, l'11 be there right away. 3101

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c.

October 1, 1963, Tuesday

•(1) At 10:31 a.m. an unidentified man

called the Soviet Military Attache and, in broken

Russian, said that he had visited the consulate the

previous Saturday and had spoken to the Consul: The

man wanted to know if the Soviets had received an

answer

from

Washington. At that point, the Soviet

official gave the man the Consulate phone number

and

asked him to call there. This conversation is in the

English transcripts, indicating the man spoke in

either Russian or English.¿ll/

• (21 At 10:45 a.m. 312/ a man who.,

according to the translator's comment, had phoned a

day or so before and had spoken in broken Russian,

called the Consulate and spoke to an employee named

Obyedkov. The man calling introduced himself as

"Lee Oswald" and stated thit he visited the Soviet

•Consulate the previous Saturday. He told Obyedkov

that he spoke with the consul on that day. Oswald

added that the Consul had tated that they would send

a: telegram to Washington ald he wanted to know if they

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had received an answer. Osvald also said that he

did not remember the name of the consul with whom he

had spoken.

Obyedkov asked if it had been Kostikov

and described him

l as "dark." The man outside replied

affirmatively and repeated that his name was Oswald.

Obyedkov asked Oswald to hold on a minute. while he

inquired. When Obyedkov resumed the conversation, he

stated that the Soviet Consul had not yet received

an

answer but the request had been sent. Obyedkov

then hung up the telephone as Oswald began another

sentence with the words "ard what." This conversation

is in the English transcripts. 313/

d. October 3, 1963, Thursday

An unidentified man called the Soviet Military

Attache and spoke in broker. Spanish and then in ....

English. When the man inquired about a visa to

Russia, he was given the Consulate phone number. The

man then inquired if they

ssued visas at the Consulate.

The Soviet stated that he was not certain but that the

caller should call the Con: ul

nonetheless.314/

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2. Information Available to the Mexico City

• CIA Station from CIA Headquarters

On October 11, 1963, three days after the Mexico

City Station made the initial. report to Headquarters

of Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy, the Mexico

City Station received some information about Lee

Oswald from CIA Headquarters. Headquarters informed

Mexico that the Lee Oswald who visited the Soviet

Embassy may be identical to Lee Henry (sic) Oswald. 315/

Mexico City received this cable on 11 October 1963. 316/

This cable described Oswald as:

born 18 Oct. 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana,

former radar operator in United States Marines

who defected to USSR in Oct. 1959.

Oswald is

five feet ten inches, one hundred

sixty five

pounds, light brown wavy hair, blue eyes. 317/

The cable reported Oswald's defection in 1959; his

desire to return to the United States in 1962; his

employment in Minsk; his marriage to a Russian citizen;

the return of his passport;

and the State Department's

issuance of visas.for Oswald and his family. 318/

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3. Information Available to the Mexico City

Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed

at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound

An

examination of the production from the

electronic surveillance of the Cuban diplomatic. compound's

telephones failed to reveal any telephone conversation

that directly mentioned Oswald or information that

clearly and directly referred to him. 319/

4. Information Available to the Mexico City

Station from Photographic Surveillance of

the Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic Compounds

An examination of the production from these

operations failed to reveal a photograph of Oswald. 320/

This Committee has not been able to rule out the

possibility that a photogrash of Oswald was obtained

in Mexico City by these operations since the material

made available for review w.is incomplete. 321/ The

possibility that such a pho ograph was obtained is

discussed in Section 1Il. A.. below. The photograph

that was mistakenly linked o. Oswald by the Mexico

City Station

is discussed ill Sections !!l. B.4.

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5. Possibility that Additional Information from

the Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet

Compound was Available to the Mexico City

Station

Ms. Anna Tarasoff assisted her husband, Boris,

in the transcription of tapes from the Russian

Embassy. 322/ Ms. Tarasoff testified before this

Committee on 12 April 1978.323/ She was shown the

transcripts from the conversations that were

intercepted on 10/1/63 at 10:31 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.;

9/28/63 at 11:51; and 10/3/63.324/ She recognized

these transcripts as being her husband's wurt. 325/

She testified that she could identify his work by the

style of his writing or typing and the use of

slash marks. 326/

In addition to these transcripts, Ms. Tarasoff

testified that she remembered one more conversation

that involved Lee Oswald.

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According to my recollection, I myself,

have made a transcript, an English

transcript,

of Lee Oswald talking to the Russian Consulate

or whoever he was at that time, asking for

financial. aid.

Now, that particular transcript does not appear

here and whatever happened to it, I do not know,

but it was a lengthy transcript and I personally

did that transcript.

It was a lengthy conversation.

between

him and someone at the Russian Embassy. 327/

Ms. Tarasoff testified that the transcript that she

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remembered was approximately two pages long. 328/ She

testified that the caller identified himself as Lee

Oswald. 329/ She was certain that the 10/1/63, 10:45 a.m.

conversation was not the one that she recalled.

No. This would

not be the conversation that I

would be recalling for the simple reason

that this is my husbard's work and at that

time probably the name didn't mean much of

anything.

But this particular piece of work

that I am talking about is something that came

in and it was marked as urgent. 330/

In the call that Ms. Tarasoff recalled, Oswald spoke

only English. 331/ Ms. Tarasoff testified that the

10/1/63, 10:45 conversation could not be the call she

remembered because the transcript indicates that.

Oswald spoke in borken Russian as opposed to English;

the transcript is shorter than the one she remembers;

the transcript is in her husband's style as opposed

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to her own; and there is no mention of Oswald's

finances in the transcript. 332/

Ms. Tarasoff remembers the procedure for

urgent tapes. 333/ Her memory is confirmed in this

narrow respect by the project. files reviewed by House

Select Committee on Assassinations staff members. 334/

Ms. Tarasoff recalled that there would be a piece of

paper enclosed with the reel which would indicate the

footage number where the conversation occurred and

ask for priority handling.cver the other conversations

on the reel. 335/. After the conversation was transcribed,

the Tarasoffs would immediately notify their contact

and then turn the transcript, over to him on the same

day that it had been delivered. 336/

Ms. Tarasoff was questioned about the details

of the conversation which :he remembered. She

stated that Oswald definitely identified. himself and that

he was seeking financial ad from the Russians.

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(H)e was persistent in asking for financial

aid in order to leave the country.

were not about to give him any financiay

aid whatsoever.

He had also mentioned that

he tried the Cuban Embassy and they had

also refused financial aid. 337/

Mr.. Boris Tarasoff also testified before this

Committee on 12 April 1978. •Mr. Tarasoff also recognized

the four transcripts from September 28, 1963 and

OctoberIst and 3rd as his work: 338/ Mr. Tarasoff

testified that he recognized the 10/1/63 conversation

as his work because the name Lee Oswald

was underlined.

We got a

request frem the station to see if

we can pick up the name of this person

because sometimes we had a so-called

"defector" from the United

States that

wanted to go to Russia and we had to keep

an eye on them.

Not

I -- the Station.

Consequently. they were very. hot about the

whole thing.

They said,

"If you can get the

name, rush it over immediately."

Therefore,

it is very seldom that I underlined the

name because I put them

in capitals. In

this case I did because it was so important.

to them. 339/

Mr. Tarasoff testified that he did not know how

Oswald had come to the Station's attention prior to

this conversation or what led to the request to get

his name. 340/. He speculated that it was possible

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that Oswald first came to the Station's attention through

Oswald's contacts with the Cuban Embassy: 341/

Mr. Tarasoff did no! confirm his wife's

recollection of another conversation including

Oswald. 342/ He said that lie did not remember any

other calls involving Lee swald or any details of

Oswald's conversations, that were not reflected in

the transcripts. 343/

Although Ms. Tarasoff's memory was. not confirmed

by the House Select Committee on Assassinations review

of the transcripts for the period while Oswald was

in Mexico, there are several points of circumstantial

corroboration

for her story. There was a procedure

by which tapes could be expedited in the manner in

which Ms. Tarasoff recalls. 344/• There are also

indications that this procedure may have been used when

Oswald's conversation wa: intercepted. 345/ The first

report that the Americans received regarding Silvia

Duran made mention of the fact that Silvia. claimed

that she had

told Oswald:hat the only aid they could

give him was to refer him

to the Soviet Consulate. 346/

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This statement in the original. Mexican report given

to the CIA in Mexico after the assassination would

tend to add credence to Ms. Tarasoff's

recollection that Oswald mentioned to the Soviets

that he had also tried to elicit aid from the Cubans. 347/

At least one other CIA official who was in Mexico

also remembers that Oswalc indicated in his

discussions with the soviet Embassy that he hoped

to receive assistance with the expenses of his trip. 348/

Daniel Stanley Wation, a retired CIA employee

who was Deputy Chief of

hie Mexico City Station from

1967 to 1969, told the House Select Committee on :

Assassinations staff that he had seen a file on Oswali

in Mexico City that contained only one or two intercept

transcripts and surveillance photographs of Oswald. 349/

Mr. Watson also told HSCA staff investigators that Win

Scott had a private personal safe in which he maintained

especially sensitive materials.350/ According to

Mr. Watson, these materials were removed from the safe.

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by James Angleton at the time of Scott's death. 351/

This Committee requested arcess to any relevant

materials from this safe or July 6, 1978.3521

Access

was granted on October 6, 1978. Two statements

by Mr. Scott contained in these materials lend

circumstantial support for Ms. Tarasoff's testimony.

n 1970 Mr. Scott wrote

During no teen se son in Meie ear

i had

write in detail.

One of these pertains to

Lee Harvey. Oswald and what I know (emphasis

in original) of his activities from the moment

he arrived in Mexico, his contacts by

telephone and his visits to both the soviet

and Cuban Embassies and his requests for

assistance from thee two Embassies in trying

to get to the crime with his wife and baby.

During his conversa:ions he cited a promise

from the soviet Embissy in Washington that they

would notify their imbassy in Mexico of

Oswald's plan to ass them for assistance. 353/

In his unpublished manuscript, Scott refers to a

conversation in which Oswald gave the Soviet Embassy

"his name very slowly and carefully. "354/ Although

the transcripts available to not bear out scott's

recollections, there are interesting parallels with

the testimony of Anna Tarasoff and David Phillips. 355/

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There are indications

also that there was

one other additional

call ihat may have been available

to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination

of President Kennedy. In he first statement by

Silvia Duran provided to the ClA by the Mexican

overnment, Silvia says thit the Cuban Consul bebke to

the Soviet Consular officil who dealt with Oswald. 356/

This statement is also missing from most subsequent

reports of Ms. Duran's sta ements, with the notable

exception of the first CIA report to the Warren

Commission. 357/ Ms. Duran's early statement was

confirmed by Eusebio Azcue 358/ This conversation

was not discovered by a reliew of the transcripts from

the intercept operation. It is possible that the call

made by Azcue was to a phole at the. Russian Consulate

that was not subject to elictronic surveillance. It

is known that two of the piones at the Soviet

Consulate

were subject to surveillance.359/ This

Committee has not determined how many telephones were

in the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City.

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While this Committee has not been able to find

any direct corroboration of Anna Tarasoff's claim,

the circumstantial corroboration is such that the

possibility that there was an additional transcript

concerning Oswald that was available.

to the

. Mexico

City Station in late 1963. cannot be dismissed. In

all likelihood, the Azcue call to the Soviet Consulate

concerning Oswald was protably made on telephones

not subject to ClA

surveillance and, hence, would

not have been available to the CIA's Mexico City

Station.

6. Possibility thet the ClA Photosurveillance

Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald

This committee cannot state with certainty

that a photograph of lee Harvey Oswald was not

obtained by the photosurvuillance operations in Mexico

City because of three reaions: (a) the photographs

from LILYRIC, the "alternite" photographic base

which covered the Soviet imbassy main gate, and the

photographs from the puls: camera, which covered the

Cuban Consulate entrance,

with the exception of a

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few samples were not male available for review by the

CIA; (b) testimony from knowledgeable people that it

would have been unlikel, that the photosurveillance

would have missed someone whom it had at least five

chances of recording; 36 / and (c)

reports that such

a photo did, in fact, exist. 3621

a. Missing Materials

The documentition and elaboration of the

first reason can be fourd in Sections Il.A. and B.

preceding. Simply put, this Committee has not seen

all of the photographs produced by the photosurveillance

operations in Mexico City. 363/ Hence, it cannot

conclude that a photograph of Oswald does not exist

among those photographs it has not seen.

b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance

Operation would have' Missed Oswald

CIA officers who were in Mexico in 1963 and

their Headquarters counterparts generally agreed that

it would have been unlikely for the photosurveillance

operations to have missed ten opportunities to have

photographed.Oswald.364/ The transcripts of

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conversations about or involving Oswald intercepted

at the Soviet Embassy reveal that a man later identified

as Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate at least three

times on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28.

They also reveal that he was at the soviet Embassy at

least twice on those same days. 365/

The CIA technician

who serviced the Cuban photographic installations said

that it was possible that the operation missed

Oswald

if: (1) Oswald's visits were after

dark; (2) Oswald's

visits were on Saturday afternoons or Sundays; (3) the

case officer

had given the photographic basehouse

agents the days off that (swald visited; (4) the pulse

camera was

not working.36t/ It is known

that Oswald's

visits were on a weekday curing daylight hours and a

Saturday morning. 367/ This Committee has not

been able to determine with certainty, because of the

missing production, whether all of the basehouses

were operating on the day: of Oswald's visits. 368/

This Committee believes that the pulse

camera

was in

operation on at least one of the days that Oswald

visited (Friday, September 27, 1963) the Cuban

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Consulate and that the LIL'RIC base covering the

Soviet gate should have been operating at the time

of Oswald's visits to the !oviet Consulates on

September 27th and 28th. 36!/

c. Reports of Existence of a Photograph

(1) Phillip Agee Allegation

On 6 January 1978, Fhillip Agee telephonically

contacted two House Select Committee on Assassinations

staff investigators

at their office in Washington,

D.C. Mr. Agee informed the investigators that he

"would give

the true story on the photograph

produced by the CIA which the CIA claimed was taken

of Oswald in Mexico City in 1963. "370/ Phillip

Agee

was interviewed by HSCA staff investigators on

11 and 12 January 1978.

Mr. Agee told the in estigators that he had

been assigned to the Mexico Branch of the Western

Hemisphere Division of the cIA's Clandestine Services

in September of 1966.371/ Mr. Agee was assigned to

work on the Headquarters support for the Agency's

operations in Mexico City that were aimed

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Soviet Union and other Sociilist countries, excluding

Cuba. 3721 At the time that he assumed this job, a

woman named Elsie Scaleti wis in charge of the operational

support projects for Mexico 373/ Agee stated:

.. CSThe

Shenwas the officer in Washington in charge

of all of the paperwork and other administrative

matters relating to he support in Washington

to these operations which were underway in

Mexico City. 374/

Ms. Scaleti trained Mi.. Agee for his new

position. Mr. Agee characturized Ms. Scaleti as "the

key figure in the Mexico Brinch in Headquarters,

because she had been there or so long. " 375/

After his transfer to the Mexico Branch, Mr.

Agee heard

story about photographs of Oswald. Mr.

Agee could not remember with certainty who it had been

that told him the story, bu: thought that it may have

been Ms. Scaleti. 376/ Mr. ilgee's recollection of the

story he had heard was that on the day of the

assassination Ms. Scaleti wis working in the Mexico

Branch in much

the same position that she occupied in

1966.377/

When the news about Oswald's

arrest

reached Ms. Scaleti, she recalled seeing his name and

a photograph taken by an obiervation post in Mexico

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City. 378/ Within

an hour or two, Ms. Scaleti had

located the photograph of swald visiting the soviet

Embassy in Mexico City. 379'. Mr. Agee went on to

say:

I don't know, don't recall in factghow she

had been able to reconcile or how they were

able to reconcile in Mexico City the photo-

graph with the name, unless someone had

known the face.

Because the problem with

these observation posts is that you can get

a lot of photographs from them, but to find

out the exact identity of the people is not

always an easy thing to do. And it may be

that as they were listening to the telephones

•of the Soviet Embassy, and also the Cuban

Embassy, that she remembered the name Oswaldk

or Lee Harvey Oswald from the telephone tap,

if in fact he had identified himself over the

telephone, and tried to make an appointment

with the consul or whoever.

And then they

were able somehow to reconcile the telephone

conversation with the photograph that was

taken

from the observation post the same day

or more or less whenever the appointment was

made.

On the other hand it may be that this

photograph had not been identified until the

time of the assassination but that she had

heard or recalled

perhaps either reading the

transcript from the telephone tapping or

getting a condensed

report perhaps a weekly

report or something of the take from the

telephone tap that she remembered the name

, Lee Harvey Oswald and then went back into

the files of all the photographs and looked

through all the photographs until eventually

she found a photograph that was similar to

all the photographs.of Oswald that immediately

began to come over the television

and the news

•services.

So those details 1. don't remember

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exactly, but I do recall that it was considered

a coup of some sort for her to act so fast

in

digging out the photograph and the information.

on Oswald's visit to Mexico City<380/

Mr. Agee could not remember whether he had

actually seen

the photograph that Ms. Scaleti

allegedly found. 381/ When Mr. Agee was told that the

photograph that the CIA produced from the Mexico

photosurveillance operations did not look anything

at all like Lee Harvey Oswald, Mr. Agee said that that

was the first time he had ever heard that. He stated:

I was

led to believe all along that it in always

fact was Oswald's fhotograph.sl had/been

led to believe. that that was considered a

very significant achievement on the part

of the Agency and

Elsi.e

in particular

for having done thit so fast.. And so

accurately. But now there seems to be some

doubt..

And it was't anything that was

particularly secret around the Branch.

It

was just one of these shop-talk stories that

persist over the years. 382/

Mr. Agee speculater that the production from

the photosurveillance was routinely sent to CIA

Headquarters and that Ms. Scaleti would have had

access to the file at Hearquarters. 383/

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(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation

On June 4, 1978, tie House Select Committee on

Assassinations interviewed Mr. Daniel Stanley Watson

in Mexico. Mr. Watson seived as a CIA officer in

Mexico City from approximitely 1965 to 1969. Mr.

Watson was the Chief of lovert Action (propaganda)

from 1965 to 1967. He wa: the Deputy Chief of the

Mexico City Station from 1967 to 1969.384/

Mr. Watson tol'd the HSCA staff members that

sometime between 1965 and 1967 he had had occasion to

request Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Station

personality file, 385/A then this file was delivered

to him, it contained only one or two photographs and

intercept transcripts.386/ Mr. Watson stated that

the file was very thin and that the photo(s) was a

3/4 shot from behind --"basically an ear and back

• shot. "387/ Mr. Watson said that he

did not think

that there was anyone else in the photograph and he

thought that it was a photograph of Oswald. 388/

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Mr. Watson said that he could not recall why he had

requested to see Lee Oswald's file in 1965 or 1966.389/

Mr. Watson said that it was his understanding that the

file was the complete Mexico City personality file on

Oswald. 390/ Mr. Watson said that he would be

surprised if Oswald's Mexico City personality file was

seven. volumes long. 391/ Mr. Watson was asked whether. :

or not Winston Scott, the Chief of the CIA Station

in Mexico, would have destroyed files or photographs. 392/

Mr.

Watson said that that would not surprise him. 393/

At that point, Mr. Watson volunteered that Mr. Scott

often kept highly sensitive. information in a personal

safe in his office. He

said that this information would

not

have been filed or indexed in the usual manner. 394/

Mr. Watson said that when Winston Scott retired he

had taken the contents of this personal safer added. that

him and stored them in a safe in his home.aühen cuten.

Mr. Scott died, James Angleton flew to Mexiço and.

removed the contents of this safe before. Mr. Scott's

funeral.. 395/ Mr. Watson said he did not know what

had been in Mr. Scott's safe or what happened to the

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things that Mr. Angleton removed at the time of

Scott's death. Mr. Watson said that his source for

this allegation was Winstor Scott's widow, Janet. 396/

Mr. Watson stated that he thought the ClA Mexico City

Station had given the Warren Commission all the

material in its possession but, he added, he also knew

that Winston Scott was capible of "phonying a photo

if asked to produce one. : never believed Win

Scott the first

time he to'd me something. "397/

: (3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation

Mr. Joseph Smith, a retired CIA officer, was

interviewed by the House Sulect Committee on Assassina-

tions on 19 October 1977. At this interview Mr.

Smith mentioned that the Muxico City Station had

been very proud of

finding "the picture of Oswald." 398/

He mentioned this in conne:tion with a woman who

worked for Winston Scott in Mexico. 3991 Mr. Smith was

reluctant to speak about tris at the time and the

topic was not. pursued. 400/

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Mr. Smith was reinterviewed by the House

Select Committee

on Assassinations on 20 April 1978.

Mr. Smith was shown the omribus ClA release letter

and fully

cooperated in

answering the staff investigator's

questions at this intervier. 401/ At this time, Mr.

Smith recalled hearing a story that someone, at the

time of the assassination, had remembered seeing

Lee Harvey Oswald's face somewhere in the photographic

coverage of the cuban or Rissian Embassies. 402/ This

person went back through tle files and found the

picture. 403/

Mr. Smith sad that he does recall that

the discovery of the picture had greatly pleased

President Lyndon Johnson

and that it had made Winstor

Scott his "number one boy.' 404/

Mr. Smith said that he could not recall when

he had first heard this story about the photograph,

but he said he was certain however, that he had

heard the story more than once. 405/ He said that the

earliest that he could have possibly heard the story

was in 1964 while he was sationed. in Argentina. 406/

He said

.that not long afte the assassination he may

have heard the story from omeone "coming through"

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Des (Fitzgerald) might have even mentioned it

when he came through, which was in early '64,

or Gerry Droller might have mentioned it when

he came through, talking about how the Mexico

City Station was helping out during the investi-

gation. 408/

Mr. Smith stated that he did know Elsie

Scaleti. He described her as a "very severe person

and very diligent and very much the Counter-

Intelligence mentality. "40% Mr. Smith stated that

he also knew Ann Goodpasture. He said:

Annie was another one of Win Scott's case

officers. She was in Mexico City for about

14 years.

Annie was what we called the

"resource person."

Annie knew everything. 410/

Mr. Smith said that Win Scott also had another very

knowledgeable woman who worked with Ann Goodpasture

in the Mexico City Station whose name he recalled as

Leach or Lynch.41l/ Mr. Smith's recollection...

associated Ms. Leach (or Lynch) with the discovery of

the photograph of Oswald, but Mr. Smith was not

at all sure of this recollection.412/ When asked if

he had any recollection of Ms. Scaleti finding the

photograph, he said:

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It could

very well have been,

and Annie, too.

But I thought it was this other girl, Lynch.

But no, I don't think I ever heard specifically

who found the damn picture.

I guess...I

didn't care: 413/

(4) Joseph Piccolo, Jr. Allegation

Mr. Joseph Piccolo, Ir. was interviewed by the

House Select

Committee on Assassinations on ll August

1978. Mr. Piccolo is an operations officer in the

CIA. He was stationed in Mexico City from

December 1957 to January 1960 and again from August

1965 to January 1968. Mr. Piccolo was involved in

anti-Cuban operations.from 1962 to 1968.414/

During this interview, Mr. Piccolo told the

HSCA that sometime

after the assassination of John

Kennedy he had seen photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald. 415/

Mr. Piccolo said that he had been shown these.

photographs by an individual who told him that they

were photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald that were

obtained from the ClA's Mexico City surveillance of

the Cuban diplomatic. compound.416/ Mr. Piccolo could

not remember the identity. of the person who showed

him the photographs, nor when nor where he saw the

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photographs.417/

alre first picture shown was a three-quarter full

shot of Oswald, exposing a left profile as Oswald

and that

looked downwards, The second photograph which Mr. he

piccote remembered

seeing was a back of the head view

of Oswald.418/ Mr. Piccolo remembered that both of

these photographs were taken

from above Oswald and

to his left: 419/ Mr. Piccolo was shown a copy of

Warren Commission Exhibit #237, the famous Mexico

Mystery Man photograph. He stated that this was

definitely not the man in the photographs exhibited

to him.420/ Mr. Piccolo correctly identified an

unlabeled frontal photogragh of Lee Harvey Oswald

shown to him by the HSCA. 421/

Mr. Piccolo was als, asked whether he knew

anything

about the circumstances surrounding the

Agency's initial discovery of the photographs he

claims to have seen. He stated that he did not have

any first-hand knowledge o: their discovery, but

that it was the type of thing, "a coup," that would

have traveled through

the «gency. "grapevine. "422/

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Mr. Piccolo stated that he had heard stories about

a surveillance photograph of Oswald being found both

in Mexico City and at CIA Headquarters in Langley. 423/

He stated that Ann Goodpasture may have been the person

who found a photograph of (swald in Mexico City. 424/

Mr. Piccolo said that he his heard several times that

Isie scaleti found a photograph of Uswald. 42g

darecotled...re.

The last time that he heare this story was two weeks

prior to his interview by the House Select Committee

on Assassinations. 426!

Mr.: Piccolo stated that he currently shares an

office at CIA Headquarters with a man

who worked on

the Oswald. case during a recent CIA "in-house"

investigation.427/ Mr. Piccolo said that they were

discussing Oswald's case because of the House Select

Committee on Assassinations' release of several

unidentified photographs. Mr. Piccolo stated that

during the course of this discussion his office-mate,

Mr. Dan Niescuir, stated that Elsie Scaleti, "the

gal at the Mexico desk," hal found the surveillance

photographs of Oswald.428/ Mr. Piccolo stated that

he assumed Mr. Niescuir had become aware of Ms.

Scaleti's coup through his.

esearch into the Oswald

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case.429/ Mr. Piccolo was not certain as to when he

first heard the story that is. Scaleti had found

the photograph, but he was certain that he had heard

it prior to hearing it from Mr. Niescuir. 430/

Mr. Piccolo speculated that the Mexico City

Station may have routinely sent photographs of

unidentified Americans who visited Communist

Embassies to Headquarters for possible identification. 431/

Mr. Piccolo also told the House Select Committee

on Assassinations interviewers that he was aware, when

he was in Mexico, that Win Scott had a personal

safe in his office. He said that "restricted

materials" were held in Mr. Scott's safe. "Restricted

hie

materials" wore defined as very sensitive materials

that did not find their way into the routine files

and indexes. 432/

(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir

Mr. Neiscuir stated that he had never been

involved in any of the ClA's "in-house" investigations.

of the Kennedy assassination or Oswald. 433/ He

did state, though, that he had once worked on an

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"Oswald Task Force."434/ He said that this

occurred in late September or October of 1975, sitren...

At that time, there were tho or three FOlA suits

brought against the Agency concerning the Agency's

He heralded that treac

files on Oswald. 435/ These files had to be processed

and the task was delegated to the Counter-Intelligence

Staff and he was assigned to the task force. 436/

Mr. Niescuir stated that he was also one of the

primary contacts with two investigators from the

Senate Select Committee whe were looking into the

Agency's files on Oswald at

approximately the same

time.437/ The task force that he was part of

conducted no research and inalysis of which he was

aware.438/ Mr. Neiscuir stated that the only

photograph he remembers sering is the Mexico Mystery

Man photo. 439/ He said thit he did not recognize.

the name "Elsie Scaleti. "440/ He stated that he did

not recall ever being told that there was a photo

of Oswald from the Mexico City surveillance operations. 441/.

He denied ever telling anyone that such a photo was

found. 442/

He did admit, however, to discussing the

assassination with Joseph l'iccolo. 443/

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d. HSCA Investigation of the possibility that

the Mexico City Photosurveillance Operation

Produced a Photogriph of Lee Harvey Oswald

(1) Introduction

This Committee has conducted a general investigation

into the CIA's photographic surveillance operations in

in additlen to the

Mexico City in 1963 as wells a specific investigatior

into the allegations mentioned above. 444/

In an attempt to dete: mine whether the CIA's Mexico

City photographic bases did, in fact, photograph Oswald,

this Committee requested the CIA to make available to

the HSCA the production of these bases. 445/. The CIA

has in part responded to thi:; request. 446/ However,

the production from LILYRIC; the second base

that

covered

the Soviet Embassy entrance, and the pulse camera that

covered the Cuban Consulate intrance, has not been made

available for review. 447/ he Agency's withholding of

certain production materials from the photographic bases

has prevented the Committee : rom determining whether. a

photograph

of Lee Harvey Oswild was taken by these photo-

surveillance operations.

Also in the course of its general investigation

into the CIA's surveillance operations in Mexico City

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and Oswald's

visit to that city, the Committee has inter-

viewed many CIA officers who were stationed in Mexico

City, or worked in 1963 at CIA Headquarters in support

of Mexican operations. They iniformly testified that

the Station had not obtained a photograph of Oswald from

the photosurveillance operations in Mexico City. 448/

(2) Investigation of the Allegations

Ms. Elsie Scaleti worked on the Mexico Desk in

1963. 449/ Ms. Scaleti coul$ not recall her particular

responsibilities while she was assigned to the Mexico

Desk. 450/ She told the HSCA that she would have been

doing routine case officer work which would have involved

name traces, projects, budgets, et cetera. 451/ She

could not recall any specifis projects

that she worked on

and she stated

that the case officers on the desk would

not have had

specific titles such as. "Chief of Support

Operations." 452/ She stated that the work of the Desk

was assigned to the case officers by project and that

work that was levied that was not part of an assigned

project would have been done by anyone on the desk who

happened to be available. 453/

One of Ms. Scaleti's supervisors, Mr. John

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Scelso, Chief of the Mexico ranch in 1963, remembers that:

(Elsie Scaleti)...was the, sort of the

Major Domo of the Branch.

She managed

all the records, hand..ea all of the

cables from Mexico thit dealt with

security suspects, or asked for traces

on security suspects. 454/

Ms. Scaleti was in the position that Mr. Agee said

she was in 1963. 455/

A major part of the a legations is dependent upon

whether or not the CIA Mexic, Station sent the photo-

production to Headquartres. ISCA review of CIA files

has revealed no evidence tha: the photoproduction was

routinely sent to Headquarte's in 1963. 456/

HMMA-22307 detailed the installation of a pulse

camera to cover the Cuban Consulate on September 27.

1963. 457/ The dispatch sta es that the results of

the testing would be sent to Headquarters as soon as they

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were aval ple. 458/ This Comittee did not find any

indication that photographs rom this camera were sent

to Headquarters prior to 6/11/64, when Headquarters

was notified that some production was being sent by un-

accountable transmittal mani est, 459/ with the excep-

tion of HMMA-22433, 11/7/63 which sent samples of the

photographic production from the camera. 460/

These

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wed iv the HSCA did not include.

, photography 461/

Ms. Scaletti was asked about the allegations; how-

ever, her memory of 22 November 1963 is not good:.

Q: When was the next time after you sent a

cable to Mexico City Station and you teletyped

those other agencies, when was the next time

you heard of Lee Harvey Oswald?

A: I don't remember.

The only thing I can say

is that based on what is in the file that I

must have heard about it when the Station

- came in and asked--well, if there was nothing

else in the file the name popped up again, I

just don't remember about the assassination

or whenever.

Would the testinony be that to the best of your

recollection the next time you heard the name

was when you heard about the assassination?

A: Probably.

Q: At that time did the name Oswald ring a bell?

Did you remember the earlier cäble traffic

about him?

A:

I just don't krow. When he was assassinated,

I don't even

remember how long it was before

they got the nime of Oswald.

Q:

Oswald was picled up within two hours after the

assassination ind the name was made public.

A: Immediately?

Q: Yes.

A: If I were in the office, unless I had the radio

on--we didn't have

a

radio

office neces-

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sarily--I would nist have heard the name

Oswald until the next day probably.

would assume this was a little bit unusual,

I mighthave tied it in.

I am sure the

first thing they would have done is make

a name trace when they came up with that

name and they would come up with a 201

file all over again.

Q: Do you recall wher. you were on Friday, Novem-

ber 22, 1963?

A: The only thing I remember about it is going

home and finding iny husband sitting in front

of the TV and taliing about it. I probably

was at the office but I don't remember any-

thing.

I blanked out. I must have been at

the office.

Q: Do you remember bringing John Scelso the Oswald

file on that day?

A: I wouldn't remember that. If he had asked for

it I probably did. It would have been natural

for me to if I dil. I just don't know.

Q: Did you ever find a photograph of Lee Harvey

Oswald at CIA Healquarters?

A: I don't remember ever finding an Oswald photo-

graph.

Q: Right around the time of the assassination?

A: I don't remember it.

l: Did you find a photograph of someone. whom you

thought to be Lee Harvey Oswald?

A: I don't remember that either.

Q: Do you know Philip Agee?

A: Yes.ft

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Did you ever tell Joe Smith or Phillip

Agee that you had

found a photograph of

Oswald or someone you thought to be Oswald?

I did fot know Jcseph Smith in Mexico City.

I had never seen Joe except at the station in

A: I don't recall it and I don't see that I

would have any reason.

Q: I guess for the purpose of clarification I

would like to ask the question one more time.

Did you ever tell Phillip Agee or Joseph Smith

that you found a picture of Oswald or someone

whom you theout

there d'o be Oswald?

A: Not

that I can recall. 462/

At the time of the assassination the CIA's 201

personality file on Lee Harvey Oswald was in the possession

of the Mexico City Desk 46/ That desk had had posses-

sion of the file from 10 October 1963 when ithad received

a report that a man claiminy to be Lee Oswald had been in

contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. 464/

Fortunately, Ms. Sca eti's supervisor had a better

memory of the events that transpired at CIA Headquarters

on the day that President Kinnedy was assassinated.

He

said:

A:

•I do not know how long after

the actual

shooting it was :hat Oswald's name became

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known, ferhaps an hour, hour and a half.

Within minutes after that, they were out

with

the

cables in their hands.

Q: Within minutes of the name Oswald being

on

the radio, an officer came in with Oswald

cables?

A: Yes.

Q: Who was that officer?

A: 1 believe it was Mrs. (Elsie Scaleti) who was

the, sort of the Major Domo of the

Branch. She

managed all the records, handled all of the

cables from Mexico that dealt with security

suspects, or asked for traces on security

suspects.

Q:

Did you ask her tow she was able to obtain

the

Oswald cable: so quickly?

A:

No, I know where she would have gotten them.

We have copies o them right in our Branch.

ve cop res o

Q:

At that time, dirl she also have a photograph

of Oswald?

A:

No, I do not think so.

Q: Do you know whetier Elsie

Scaleti

discovered a pho:ograph

of Oswald

Headquarters?

ever

at CIA

A: I do not think so...I. do not remember any

photograph of Osvald at that time, the day

of the assassination, or even

later.

I do

remember our asking -- we had to ask ONI for

a photo, and

so on.

As far as I recall, they

never sent us

one.

It could be thabslater on

she found one;

but I don't recall.

2010/70

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The chief of the Mexico Branch quoted above was alsc

responsible for the initial ClA investigation into

the

assassination of John Kennedy, 466/

• Mr. Scelso also testified that, at the time of tre

assassination, the name of Lee HarveyOswald did not ring a

[€]

bell with him because

"thousands of names were crossing my

desk every month.'467/ He was asked why Ms. Scaleti, who came

across as many names as he did, would have remembered Oswald

charco.

when he had not. He replit:

She was concerned only with Mexico and I had

five or six other countries to work with as

well.

She has a fantastic memory. Elsie

new

Scaleti) in her job as the manager of records,

paragraph.

traces and files, in this Mexico desk, was

securatio

an

outstanding officer to whom I gave, in one of

by ..

her fitness reports, the highest evaluation,

outstanding, number 6 and so on, that can

be

fris fest

given, that was very rarely given at that time.

Her work was pretty near flawless and she

paragraph

was an outstanding trainer of new employees..

es! 1881

Material removed from Win Scott's safe now in possession

of the CIA

provides critically important circumstantial evidence

that the CIA photo-surveillance operations obtained photographs

of .Oswald:

"(Oswald's) visits and conversations are not

hearsay; for persons watching these embassies

photographed Oswald as he entered and left. each

one; and clocked the time he spent on each visit.".

469/

This Committee believes that a photograph of Lee Harvey.

Oswald was probably obtained by ClA photosurveillance

in

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Mexico. There are allegations that such a photo was found;

there is testimony that sod to photo should have been obtainedt.

These and, Fiker.

the ClAis withholding of materialsioMs. Scaleti's strange

lapse of memory regarding th events of 11/22/63;gand Mr.

Scott's manuscripts these things, in the Committee's view,

--would tend to indicate that i photo of Lee Harvey. Oswald was

obtained. On the other hand, the consistent testimony that a

photo was not obtained in Mesicongthe absence of any record

of transmittal of the photo to Headquarters The weight of this

consideration is mitigated by the fact that there were methods

of communication available that were not incorporated into

the ClA's record keeping systems. )Egand the testimony of Ms.

Scaleti and Mr. Scelso that i photo was not discovered would

tend to indicate that, in fait, the allegations that Ms. Scaleti

found a photo of. LHO are false.

111. B. Information Connected to Lee Harvey Oswald by the Mexico

City Station Prior to the Assassination.

1. Introduction

This study has demonstrated that the information from

the Soviet Embassy taps and from Headquarters was available

to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination of

President. John F. Kennedy. In addition to the Agency

acknowledged information; there is a distinct possibility. that

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the Station had available to it one additional telephonic

intercept transcript, and ont or more surveillance photographs.

This Committee has made in attempt to determine when the

available information

was linked to Lee Harvey Oswald. The

Committee has also made an a tempt to determine whether all

the intercepted

telephone ca' is were in fact connected with

Oswald or involved Oswald. t should be pointed out, however,

that this analysis can only he directed at that information

now known to have been available to the Mexico City Station.

This information will be discussed briefly in the following

section. In addition, the qiestion of whether Oswald or an

Oswald imposter visited the mbassies and made the phone calls,

along with the possibility tiat Oswald was not alone in Mexico

City, will be dealt with in greater detail in the final section

of this report.

2.

Information Availabl: from the Soviet Wiretaps

that was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey

Oswald.

The Mexico City Station Jossessed nine intercepted telephone

conversations that may have lealt with Oswald. The conversations

are summarized below for easy reference. 470/ In the following

discussion the conversations will be referred to by date and

desurrencE.

time of accurance.

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TIME

10:30 AM

9/27/63

9/27/63

9/27/63

9/27/63

10:37 AM

SUMMARY

Man calls. Soviet Military Attache

regarding

a visa for Odessa.

(Spanish.)

Man

calls Soviet Consulate regarding

visa for Odessa. (Spanish)

11:25 PM

4:05PM

4:26PM

9/28/63

11:51AM

10/1/63

10:31AM

10/1/63

10:45 AM

10/3/63

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Man calls the Soviet Consulate and

asks for the Consul. (Spanish)

Silvia Duran calls the Soviet

Consulate. (Spanish)

Soviet Consulate calls Duran

(Spanish)

Duran calls Soviet Consulate and

puts a man on the phone. (Spanish

Russian and English.)

Man calls Soviet Military Attache.

(Russian)

Man calls Soviet Consulate identify-

ing

himself

as Lee Oswald. (Russian

and English)

Man calls the Soviet Military

Attache. (Spanish and English.)

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After the assassination the ClA's Mexico City Station

passed copies. of seven of the above listed conversations to

the U.S. Embassy Legal Attache. 471/

The 9/27/ 10:30 and the

9/27 1:25 calls listed above are not included in this

dissemination. 472/ The cover memorandum states:

Attached are photostatic copies of transcripts

of

all conversations from technical operations

of this offisg which are possibly pertinent in

this case.

The HSCA has not beer able to determine why the 9/27

10:30 and 9/27 1:25 calls vere not included in this memorandum.

While the 1:25 call could bi: considered unrelated, it is .

unlikely that the same would apply to the 10:30 call since

the 9/27 10:37 call is inciuded in the memorandum.

At the bottom of eact attachment page to the Scott

memorandum, a summary of the conversation is provided. 474/

The Station questioned the relevancy of only one of the seven

calls presented in the mrmorandum. The summary of the 10/3

call says:

By the context of other conversations by Oswald

and

the fact that this called (sic) spoke in

broken Spanish and English rather than Russian.

which he used previously, ifsis probable that

this caller is not Os vald.

(Ibid., p.9.)

A judgement that this call did not pertain to Lee Harvey

Oswald could be based on the following facts: --

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1) the caller spoke broken Spanish; 2) the caller did not :

have the number of the Consulate; 3) the caller did not know

that visas were issued at the Consulate; and 4) the caller

states that he is seekingè visa, not that he is. checking on

an application already made. The majority of the evidence

indicates that Lee Harvey (swald could not speak Spanish. 476/

In light of Delgado's assertions, it is possible that

Oswald had at least a limited knowledge of Spanish. It should

be noted that thestraltranscript listed above indicates that

the caller spokefin broken spanish. 4771 The fact that this

conversation was in Spanish, slould not by itself rule out the

possibility that Oswald made the phone call. This is especially

true in light of Delgado's allegations and the 9/27 10:30,

9/27 10:37 and 9/27 1:25 calls which were also in Spanish. 473/

The record reflects that Oswald had the phone numbers

of both the Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache in

his notebook. 479/

It can not be determined when Oswald

entered the numbers in the notebook. Since Oswald had previously

called the consulate it is likely that he had the number prior

to 3 October.. It is also clear that Oswald knew that the

Consulate was responsible for issuing visas due to his prior

dealings with the soviet and Cuban. Consulates. Thus, it is

probable that the 10/3 conversation did not pertain to Oswald.

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The 10/1 10:45 call is clearly relevant because the

caller identifies himself as "Lee Oswald"

The 10/1,10:31

conversation is probably relevant due to the similarity with

the 10/1

10:45 call and the marginal notations about

the quality of the Russian spoken by the caller, The 9/28

11:51

call is clearly relevant, açain due to the marginal notations

and the involvement of Silvia Duran. Duran's calls on 9/27

clearly related to Oswald due to the substantive information

discussed in those calls.

In summary, the above listed calls contain the substance

of the information available to the CIA MCS prior to the

assassination from the Soviet electronic intercept operation.

The first three calls on 9/:7/63 and the one on 10/3/63,

if they were indeed Oswald, add little of substance to the

information that was availalle from the other calls.

3.

When were the Intercepted Conversations

Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald.

HSCA staff researchers reviewed the transcripts from

the liaison wiretaps on the Soviet Embassy. The chronological

production.from this operat on is on microfilm at CIA

Headquarters. 480/ In addition to the choronological file,

numerous copies of the tran:cripts that pertain to Oswald were

found throughout the ClA's iles on Lee Harvey Oswald.

It is obvious that the Mexico City Station linked the

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10/1 10:45 call to Lee Harvey Oswald because Oswald identified

himself in the call and the Mexico City Station reported

481/

Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy to Headquarters on 10/8/63

On this transcript the translator added the notation:

.. the the same person who phoned

gay

or so ago

and spoke in broken Russian..

482

The transcript from the 9/28 11:51 call also bears

marginal notations from the translator. "MO (man outside)

takes the phone and says in broken Russian... speaks terrible,

hardly recognizable Russian. "484/ The first copy of this

transcript in Oswald's Mexico City "p" file 85/ also bears

routing indications

that show that the transcript. was sent to

Win Scott, Ann Goodpasture and Robert Shaw. 486/ These routing

indications were made by Barbara Manel1.487/ Mrs. Manell

"testified that these routing indications would have

been made

when she first

saw the transcript. 488/ Mrs. Manell also wrote

an instruction on this transcript to file it in the "Soviet

Contacts" file at the same time.489/ The 9/27 4:05 transcript

also bears Mx..Manell's.routing and file instructions 490/

The 9/27 4:26 transcript also bears Ms. Manell's

routing and filing instructions. 491/ In addition, this

transcript also bears a notation, from. Win Scot which says

"Is it possible to identify?"492/ Herbert Manell wrote an

instruction

on this transcript to file it in Oswald's "p" file. 493/

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The above four conversations which

occurred on 9/27

and 9/28 contain

almost all of the substantive information

that was available to the Mexico City station on Oswald

from the Soviet electronic intercept operation., These

conversations were not linked to Oswald prior to 8 October

1963 when MEXI 6453 was sent to Headquarters reporting

Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, 1963.4941

The conversations discussed above were linked to Lee

Harvey Oswald by 16 October 1963, the date that the Mexico

City tation opened it's "p" file on Oswald. 495/ The process

by which, and the events leading up to, the linkage of Oswald

to the intercepted calls will be discussed in the following

section on the Mexico City Station's actions regarding the

Oswald case prior to the assassination.

4. The Photograph of the Mexico Mystery Man.

A photograph of an ur identified individual

who visited

the Soviet Embassy was incorrectly linked to Oswald prior

to the assassination. 496/

The manner in which this mistake

was

made and the consequences of that mistake will be discussed

in the following sections on the Mexico City Station's actions

prior and subsequent to the assassination of President John

F. Kénnedy.

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Reconstruction of the ClA Mexico City Station and Headquarters

Actions Prior to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

A.

Introduction--CIA Interest in and Liaison with FBI

Regarding American Citizens in Contact with Soviet

Bloc Embassies in Mexico City.

The Central Intelligence Agency has claimed that no

investigation of Oswald was made in Mexico prior to the

assassination of President Kennedy. For this reason, the

Agency claimed, the fact that Oswald was seeking a

visa and that he had also been to the Cuban Embassy was

not discovered until after the assassination:

It was not until 22 November 1963, when the

Station initiated a review of all transcripts

of telephone calls to the Soviet Embassy that

the Station learned that Oswald's call to the

Soviet Embassy on l (ctober 1963:was in con-

nection with his request for a visa to the USSR.

him to transit Cuba.

Inasmuch as Oswald wis not an investigative

responsibility of the CIA and because the

Agency had not received an official request from

those

agencies havin! investigative responsibili-

ty requesting the Aguncy to obtain further in-

a gie recher sorr

formation, the Station did nothing other than

ask Headquarters on

•5 October for a photograph

of Oswald. 497/

Neither of the above assertions. is accurate. An

analysis of the information available will show that the

first assertion of the abov: quote, that the Station did

not learn of Oswald's conta:t with the Cuban Consulate and

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the fact that he was seeking a visa until after the as-

sassination is incorrect. 498/

CIA's IG Report inaccurately implies that no ac-

tion would have been taken bi! the Mexico

City Station

with respect to an American

in contact with the Soviet

Embassy in Mexico other than merely reporting the contact

unless the Station had receired a specific request from

an interested U.S. governmen: agency. The IGR's implica-

tion is inaccurate because, is will become apparent in

the following discussion, th: ClA had an understanding

with the FBI regarding this :lass of cases and often did

inore that

just

report witiout any specific interest

being expressed by any other agency of the United States

government. 499/ In fact, tre station often

monitored

and

mounted operations against Americans in contact with

Bloc Embassies: 500/ At a minimum they attempted to col-

lect as much information as possible on

Americans-in con-

tact with

the Embassies.

This was routine, it was also

the case with Lee Harvey Oswald.

B. Narrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior

to The Assassination

On 27 September

1963 Silvia Duran contacted the

Soviet Consulate on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald: 501/

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Later that same day, the Soviet Consulate returned

Ms. Duran's call. 502/ Unde normal procedures, these

transcripts would have been

in the ClA Station by the

first of October and Ms. Goodpasture brought these trans-

cripts into the station on tat morning and put them

on Ms. Manell's desk. 503/ 1s. Manell recognized the

transcripts as containing information of a possible coun-

terespionage or counter-intelligence interest and routed

them to Mr. Shaw, Ms. Goodpasture and Win Scott lin

reverse order: 504/ Mr. Scott wrote, at the top of

the 9/27/4:26 call, "Is it possible to identify?" 505/.

This was the first interest in Oswald recorded by the

Mexico Station even though the caller was as yet uniden-

tified..It indicates a routine interest in an American

who is in contact with the Soviet Embassy. After the

transcripts were routed they were filed in a general

subject file. 506/

The 9/28/ call was probably received at the CIA

Station on Monday, 30 September 1963. The routing and

filing

instructions indicate that it was handled in much

the same way as the 9/27 conversations.

Caite

On 1 October 1963 a conversation in which an En-

glish speaking person identified himself to the Soviet

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•Consulate as

Lee Oswald came to the attention of a moni-

tor in the electronic surveillance base-house. 507/ The

monitor immediately notified the American technician

who then listened

to the tape. 508/ The technician

had instructions "to alert the Station immediately if a

U.S. citizen or English speaking person tries to con-

tact

any of the target installation'" 509/ The techni-

cian called Ann Goodpasture and a meeting was arranged. 510/

The technician marked the tape "Urgent," specifying

where the conversation occured on the reel, put it in

a box, and delivered it to Ms. Goodpasture within fif-

teen

minutes of the telephone call to Ms. Goodpasture. 51l/

The tape was delivered to Boris Tarasoff who transcribed

it and returned it to the Station on that same day. 512/

As soon as the Station learned that an American

had contacted the Soviet Emtassy (Ms. Goodpasture began

to screen the photographs from the Soviet surveillance

operations. 513/ The photographs from the coverage of

the Soviet Embassy, however, were not delivered

prompty as the transcripts. The photographs from Octo-

ber 1, 1963, were not removed from the camera until 3 or

4 October. 514/ Hence, the would not have been received

until 4 (Friday).or 7 (Mondily) October by the Station. 515/

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A cable reporting lee Oswald's contact with the

Soviet Embassy was written and sent to Headquarters by

Ms. Manell on

10/8/63. Various reasons have been ad-

vanced to explain the seven day delay in sending this

cable. David Phillips explained the delay by saying

that Mr. Manell. was too busy to be bothered by something

of such a routine nature. 516/. Phillips stated:

Mr. Manellwas a busy

man, sometimes

pro-

crastinating. His wife was working for

him, and on one or tro occasions I spoke

to Mr. Manell kiddingly saying, hey, where

is the cable about this fellow, or something

like that, or maybe to his wife.

I am not

sure.

In

any event, what happened a few

days passed and Mrs. Manel prepared a

message--she was working for her husband,

and as 1 recall it ste typed it herself,

but 1 am not positive on that point, but

in any event, she prepared the cable

and took it to Mr. Mineld at which time he

signed off on it.

Diring that process, it ong

did come to me, also to sign offa because

it spoke about Cuban matters, and then went 517

to the Chief of Station and was released. 577/

A blind CIA memorandom entitled "Delay in sending

the first cable about Oswalr" was located in a soft file

on the. Unidentified Man pholograph. This memorandum as-

serts that Dave Phillips."d dn't know what he was talking

about." The memorandum's a: sertion is correct. Mr. Manel

did not sign off on the cab e reporting Oswald's contact

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with the Soviet Embassy. 5181 Mr. Phillips did not sign

off on that cable. 519/ The cable did not mention any-

thing about the Cuban Consulate or Oswald's contact with

acco-roiis

porary duty assignment in Washington, D.C., and Miami,

Florida, from at least late September

to October 9,

1963. 522/

The blind memorandum referred to above regarding

the delay offers another explanation for the seven

day lapse before sending the cable. After explaining

that the photoproduction would not have arrived at the

Station until Monday, 7 Octrber, the memorandum says:

A name trace could hive been requested on

the basis of the name alone but that wasn't

the way Win Scott ran that Station.

wanted the photographic coverage tied in

with the telephone coverage...sometimes

there was a U.S. automobile license num-

It was also pait of the "numbers

sere of justifying." project by the num-

ber of dispatches, cubles or reports pro-

duced. 523/

In all likelihood the delay in sending this ini-

tial cable was due to a comination of factors.

Mr. Manell

testified that, in fact, he was not too concerned with the

task and left it to his wif:.

the stated:

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The only action I took was the action my

wife took, was to send the cable to wash-

ington summarizing the information we had

his contact with the Embassy...

We also asked

our headquarters for a trace

of an American. That was routine. 524/

The delay could also have been partially due to the wait

for the photo-production. Ms. Goodpasture did check the

photographs and did add a paragraph to the cable concern-

ing a photogarph. 5251

Another reason that the cable was delayed was

that there was some question within the station about who

had the responsibility to report Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy.

Q: What action did you take after seeing

this

transcript (from the 10/1 conversa-

tion)?

A: I think I was the third or beyond person

It was brought to my atten-

tion by the chief, the Head of the Soviet

Section, and by Ann Goodpasture who was

discussing this and who was going to noti-

fy headquarters and whose responsibility

it was.

As I recall, I was told to write

it up.

Q: Why was there discussion about whose re-

sponsibility it

was?

A: I think because when it was an American it

sort of fell between whether we should

nave to do it, whether it was our responsi-

bility to send this up because it had to

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be accompanied by a memo and it took

time, or whether it was Ann's responsi-

bility.

little, not

argument, but a discussion about, well,

"you do

handle sto l don't want to do it, you

and I had to

do it. 526/

The reason that the responsibility would have

lain with the soviet Section is obviously because the

American was in contact with the Soviet Embassy. Ms.

Goodpasture also had a potential basis for responsibility

because she was

responsible for liaison functions with

the Legal Attache, Army, Nayy and Air Force on routine

couter-espionage cases. 527/ She also assisted the

Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station on these

cases as they occurred. 528,

The primary reason for the delay was most likely

a combination of the respon.ibility dispute and the

routine nature of the case is perceived by the ClA-of-

ficers at that time.

: Barbara Manell stated:

(Ann Goodpasture) probably came in--it

was really a matter of here is another

one

of

those things again and we were having

a little gabble abou: who would send

it

up because it was pain to do these.

bably, I think l haniled it as soon as

s pro-

got it but 1 think tiere was a discussion,

as I say maybe a half a day, about who

was going to do it. It was

done because

it was required but it was considered

un-

important. 529/

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Important or significant information was usually

sent to Headquarters by cable as opposed to the slower dis-

patch which was sent to Headquarters by diplomatic courier.

For deal de

ExpLainid

Cables were sent if the information was

of such a

"nature that it had to be acted

on within a day or a day and half. or two

days. Dispatches took so long that you

really could not take any kind of opera-

tional action predicated on dispatch. 530/

Mr. Manell, the Chief of the Soviet Section in

Mexico City recalled that the criterion

for a cable as

opposed to a dispatch was the perishability of the informa-

tion being transmittedy:

The normal criterion would be the urgency

attached to that information, the perish-

ability of the information, not its im-

portance necessarily.

The perishability

was the criterion...If it was something

that concerned an

event that was going to

happen in the two or three days you did

not want to use a medium which was going

to take a week to get to Washington. 531/

Hence, it is possible that Oswald's contact

• was

reported by cable because it was considered significant

by the Mexico Station; but this interpretation is not

supported by the weight of the testimony.

Two other. criteria for

reporting by cable were

pointed out: information corcerning Soviets, Cubans and

Americans.

Generally, "everything Soviet was of high

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priority. Cuban Operations, a lot of cables were sent." 532/

And, in the case of Oswald:

... [I.]n

ta this specific case, a cable was used to

send this information to Headquarters only

because it concerned in American, not be-

cause it concerned a matter was considered

to be of importance. :33/

The tesimony of forme CIA Mexico City officers

consistently supports the position that Oswald's ini-

tial contact with the Soviet Embassy was considered

fairly routine. 534/ The tegimony indicates that the

routine procedure of the Station was to report such a

contact by cable whether it was considered routine or

not. 535/

The Station had instructions to report Ameri-

cans in contact with the Bloc Embassies to Headquarters:

because it was of interest to the FBl. 536/ The follow-

ing quotes illustrate these-points. Allan White said y

because

• Q: Was Oswald's contact at the Embassies in

Mexicop onsidered to be important?

G+A

A: At the time it first occurred?

Q: Yes.

A: I would have to conclude that it wasn't. recog-

nized as anything extraordinary at the time

it first occured.

Q: Why do you conclude that?

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A: Because had it beer, it would have been

pulled out and sent

to Washington either

with a complete trinscription, a com-

plete excerpt out dif the transcription,

or the entire tape and

transcript would

have been sent to lashington by the first

available pouch, probably by special cour-

ier.

Q: Does the fact that Mexico City Station

sent to Headquarters a cable reporting

Oswald's contact suggest that the sta-

tion considered the contact to be im-

portant?*

A: You are asking whal is the significance

of the cable?

Q: Yes.

A: Well, operational, that is all. Here is

an American

citizen, at least a man who

appeared to be an American citizen, speak-

ing broken Russian and in contact with

the Embassy.

This is of operational

interest.

This is the kind of informa-

tion that we were directed among others,

to get back to Washington because they

passed that kind o: thing to the Burea

Q:

Were contacts by Anericans with the Soviet

Embassy considered to be unusual?.

A: Well, we were 1963 then. They were consi

dered

worhty of noce,

let me put it that

way.

of

Of course, fom an operational point

view we were

lo, king for any way we

could exploit a coltact with the soviet

Embassy.

Q: Were

such contacts by Americans frequent?

• A: Not

terribly frequent.

Not terribly fre-

quent:

There were members of the exile

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colony in Mexico City who were in kind

of routine contact with the soviets, usu-

ally on cultural mitters.

No; I would

say they were relarively infrequent.

That is why--

Q: The cable was sent

A: Yes. 537/

The Chief of the Soviat Section testified on

this point also:

Q: Was this particular contact considered to

be unusual or routine?

A: Routine.

•Q: Why is that?

.A: During the summer period, particularly,

or toward the end of the summer period,

a relatively large number of Americans,

for various reasors, made contact with

the Soviet Embassy.

This appeared to

me, when I had the information reported,

to be just another case of an American

contacting the Embassy, for no signifi-.

cant reasons.

Q: In each case that an American contacted

the embassy, woull a cable be sent to

Washington?

A: Yes, indeed. 538/

Mrs. Manell, the person who actually handled the

reporting, also considered the case to be routine:

Q: Was the Oswald contact with the Soviet Embassy

considered to be unusual?

A: No.

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Q: Why not?

A: Well, there were cases of other Americans

who

contacted the Embassy for various rea-

sons.

We were only obliged to report the

contact of any American with the Soviet

Embassy.

Q: So in Oswald's case it was just a routine

contact by an American

as far as you were

concerned?

A: Yes.

Q: If that is the case, then why was the cable

sent

concerning Oswald?

A: That is why I asked you earlier, because

To sen a d

in the case of Americans we were required

to send it by cable and not by dispatch.

Q: Was that a written regulation?

A: I don't know if it was written but it was

understood at our Station that any Americans

who were in touch with the Soviet Embassy

that that fact hac to be known to Headquar-

ters by cable.

It was always sent that way,

whether we considered it very unimportant

or routine or not.

So there must have

been a regulation but I am not aware of.

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It should be noted

The reader should be reminded here that the only

conversation that had been linked to. Oswald. at that point

in time was the one that occurred on 1 October. 540/ The

other transcripts had passer over the Manells and Good-

pasture's desk 541/ but had not been linked to Oswald

because his name was not mertioned in them.

Mrs.

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did not recheck the earlier ranscripts, but did check

the Station's index system to see if it had any record

GENERARI

of

a Lee Oswald,: which it dil not. 542/

aNy the translator, race same no po

"the same who phoned

a day or so ago ani spoke in broken

Russian."

A: Right.

Q: Despite this indication here l believe

your tesimony is that you did not go

back to check the transcript because

by virtue of your nemory you knew that

Oswald's name had not come up in

any ear-

lier. conversation, is that correct?

A: Yes. 543/

So, Ms. Manell drafted the first paragraph of the 10/8

cable

on the basis of the 10/1/10:45 conversation

alone

even though the other information was available. 544/

That paragraph of the cable provided an accurate summary

of the intercepted conversation. It said:

Acc (Soviet wiretap) 1 Oct

63, American

male who spoke broker Russian

said his

name Lee Oswald (Phoretic), stated he

at Sovem on 28 Sept when spoke with Consul

whom he believed to be Valeriy Vladmiro-

vich Kostikov.

Sujb asked Sov Guard Ivan

Obyedkov who answered, if there is anything

new re telegram to Wishington.

Obyedkov

upon checking said nothing received yet,

but request had been sent.

545/

Ann Goodpasture addel a second paragraph to the

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cable. 546/

This paragraph concerned a photograph that she

had found in the production from one of the photosuveil-

lance bases that covered the Soviet Embassy. 547/ This

paragraph said:

Have photos male appears be American

entering Sovem 1216 hours, leaving

•1222 on

1 Oct. Apparent age 35, athele-

tic build

circa 6 feet, receding hair-

line, bagling top. hore khakis and sport

shirt.

source: 1215mp9 548/

The explanation for mistakenly linking this photo-

graph to Oswald advanced by the CIA officers in Mexico

who had knowledge of the circumstances is that this was

the only photograph taken or October 1, the day

that the

conversation occurred, that appeared to be of a non-

Latin, and, hence, possibly an American, 549/ Loncedentro

Q: Do you know how that photograph was

torate

linked to the person mentioned?

A: By date.

It was waken entering the

Soviet

Embassy and leaving on the

same date this conversation took

place.

I remember that proceding

because we were combing through the

takes for that da' to determine any

person who looked like an American

male.

I believe :his was the only

one.

550/

The testimony also corroborites that the photographs would

have been. checked for severil days prior to the date of

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the conversation.

0: You checked the photosurveillance

materials for approximately a four

or five

day period, is that correct?

A: Yes, I think it is.

Q: During

that four or five day period

this man was the only non-Latin ap-

pearing man whose photograph you

found, is that correct?

A: I think it was

pearing

the only non-Latin ap-

person's photograph that we

found

that we could not identify as

somebody else.

A lot of the people

who went to the Scriet Embassy. all

the time, we came to know who they.

were.

After they had been identi-

fied, they made frequent visits there. 551/

The review of the phitoproduction from LIMITED,

the one base that has been made available to this Commit-

tee, makes the explanation of the mistake about the iden-

tity of the individual due to his being the only non-

Latin implausible. The record reflects that unidentified

American males were listed on the log sheet as "U A M"

after the time was given.

he photograph that was linked

to Oswald was the only "U A M" that appeared on 2 October

1963. But on September 27, 1963 another "U A M" had ap-

peared. The Committee has concluded from a review of a.

note that Ann Goodpasture wiote on the log sheet that

this individual had not been identified by the time that

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the 10/8 cable was written. The note says: "This is

a

Mexican named Gutierrez- license plate changed in

Feb 64

to Mexican." 5521

This Committee cannot be certain that other "U AM"s

did not turn up on the production from the LILYRIC base

because that production ha: not been made available

for review.

Ms. Goodpasture was asked about this and explained

that the man, Gutierrez, wis known in the station and

that the base house agent ras mistaken in identifying

him as an American. 553/

This Committee finds the above quoted explanation

hard

to accept for other. reasons. The October l transcript

does not indicate that Oswald visited the Embassy on

that day, however; it does indicate a visit on the pre-

vious Saturday. 554/ Even if he did visit the Embassy

on the first of October, the photograph referred to in

the cable was not taken until the second of October,.

1963. 555/

The photographs from the one surveillance base

for 1, 2 and 3 October were on one roll of, film and

one log sheet

was prepared sy the base. The text of

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the log sheet is in black type. The separate days cover-

age is set off by a row of red typed percentage (%)

marks. 556/

•Ms. Goodpasture attempted to explain this mistake.

• Q: Looking at the log, can you now ex-

plain to the Committee why the cable

referred to a photograph taken on

October Ist when

actually it was

taken

on another day?

A: If you look at the log here you see at

the top--it was just an oversight on .

the part of the person who was writing

that cable.

It looks as though the date

is l October, but if you read it very

closely you see there are only two frames

that were shot on

1 October and 2 Octo-

ber, it starts up with fram number 3,

et cetera, et cetera, and there the shots

occur...

That is the only explanation

I can give.

• Q: Is your explanation that whomever refer-

red to the log simply looked at the date

at the top of the page, the date being

October Ist, and did not see any reference

to the date October 2nd?

A: Right. 557/

This Committee finds it implausible that Ann Good-

pasture, who had the specif c duty of "processing for.

operational leads all. Station photosurveillance info per-

taining to the Soviet targe:" since 1960 and had received

a rating of outstanding on ver annual fitness reports,

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would make such an oversight mistake and not discover

it until. 1976. 558/ This Conmittee thinks that the fact

that the mistaken date of th photograph was not dis-

covered for so long is especially suspect in light of

the fact that on the day aftur the assassination CIA

Headquarters sent a cable to Mexico which said:

"(FBI) says that photos of man entering

Soviet Embassy which

MEXI sent

to

Dallas

were not of Oswald. Presume MEXI has

double-checked dates of these photos

and

is also checking all pertinent other

photos for possible siots of Oswald. 559/

Headquarter's presumption was evidently mistaken. No

record exists that

would indicate a reply to this cable

by the Mexico City Station:

The likelihood that a photograph of Oswald

waS

indeed obtained

makes the "explanation," proferred by

Goodpasture, et al.,

even more implausible. 560/ At

this time the Committee can not conclude why the original

mistake was made even though it does find the explanation

offered by Goodpasture, et al., to be highly, implausable.

Regardless of why the mistake was made, Oswald's

contact with the Soviet Embassy and the mistaken photo-

graphic identification of him were reported to Headquarters.

The 10/8 cable was received at Headquarters on 9 October

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1963. 561/ The cable, as wa: routine, went to the

Mexico Desk for action. 562/ The person who handled

the case for the Mexico Desk was Elsie Scaleti. 563/

Ms. Scaleti initially considured the information

routine. 564/ She took the routine steps of request-

ing a name trace. 565/ From the name trace she learned

that there was a 201 file on a Lee Henry Oswald but

that it was restricted to a branch of the Agency krown

as "CI/SIG." 566/ The custodian of Oswald's file,

in October 1963, was Ann Eli:abeth Goldsborough.

Egerter

of the Counter-Intelligence/special Investigations

Group. This group's purpose and interest in Oswald

is detailed in another section of ths final report deal-

ing with whether or not lee swald was an agent or asset

of the Central Intelligene Igency. 567/

Ms. Scaleti went

to Mi. Egerter and asked

_to

see Lee Oswald's file which vas provided to her by Ms.

Egerter. 568/. Once the info mation from the Oswald 201

and the information in the cable from Mexico. City was

combined, the Oswald contact took on more significance:

Q: Now,

once the information...had been

obtained by you, did that in any way

increase the significance of Oswald's

contact with the soviet Embassy?

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A: As I recall that is what I thought made

it very significant.

Q: Can you explain why?

A :

Any American who hid tried to renounce

his U.S. citizenship in the Soviet Union,

now having again a relationship with

the Soviet Embassy would lead one to

wonder.why hehad.tried to renounce his.citi-

zenship in the firt place, and why he was

still in contact wth the Soviets, whether

there was a possib lity he really was

working for the Soviets or what. 569/

Ms. Egerter remembers that the cable from Mexico

City caused a lot of excitemint. She was shown the 10/9

cable.

Q: Is this the cable :hat cause the excitement?

A: Yes, one of them.

Q: Why was excitement caused by this cable?

A: "Contact with Kostikov."

Q: What is the significance of the contact with

Kostikov?

A: I think we considered him a KGB man.

Q: Any other reason for the excitement?

A: He had to be up to something bad to be so an-

xious to go to the Soviet Union.

At least

that is the way l felt. 570/

After reviewing Oswald's 201; which CI/SIG loaned

to the Mexican Desk where it reamined until the time of

the assassination, Ms. Scaleti drafted a response to

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the Mexico City 10/9 cable and also disseminated in-

formation about Oswald to other branches of the Ameri-

can

intelligence community. ill/ These two documents

were drafted at the same time and were sent within several

hours of each other. 572/ Siveral aspects of these

two documents. are interesting and illustrate various

points, as well as raise sérious questions..

The cable which Ms. Scaleti sent to Mexico says,

in full:

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1. Lee Harvey Oswald who called Sovemb 1

Oct probably identical Lee. Henry Oswald

(201-289248) born 18 October 1939, New

Orleans, Louisiana, former radar opera-

tor in United States Marines who de-

fected to USSR in Octx 1959.

Oswald is

five feet ten inches,

one hundred sixty

five pounds,: light brown wavy hair, blue

eyes.

2. On 31 Oct 1959 he attempted to renounce

his United States citizenship to the

United States Embassy in Moscow, indicat-

ing he had appliec for soviet citizen-

sh1.p.

On 13 Feb the US emb moscow

re-

ceived an undated letter from Oswald

postmarked Minsk en CaFeb 1961 in which

subj indicated he desired return of

his US ppt as wisted to return to USA if

"we could come to some agreement concern-

ing

the dropping if any legal proceedings

against me.

On & July on his own ini-

tiative he appeared at the Emb with his

wife to see about his return.

to the States.

Sub stated that he actually had never ap-

plied for soviet ritizenship and that his

TOn

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application at that time had been to

remain

in USSR and for temporary exten-

sion

of his Tourist visa pending out-

come

of.his request.

This application,

according to Oswald, contained no ref

to Soviet citizenship.

Oswald stated

that he had been

employed since 13

Jan 1960 in Belorussian Radio and TV

Factory in Minsk

where worked

as metal

worker in research shop. Oswald was mar-

ried on 30 April 1961 to Marina Nikolaevna

Pusakova, a dental technician born July

1941 USSR. No HDQS traces.

He attemped

arrange for wife to join him in Moscow

so she could appear at Emb for visa

interview.

His Anerican ppt was returned

to him.

US Emb Moscow stated twenty

months of realities of life in Soviet

Union had clearly had maturing effect on

Oswald.

3.

Latest HDQS info was (State Department) report

dated May 1962 saling

(State) had determined

Oswald. is still U', citizen and both he and

his soviet wife hive exit permits and Dept

State had given ayproval for their travel

with their infant child to USA.

4.

Station should. pais info ref and para one to

(U.S. Embassy, Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion locally.

Navy, and Inmigration and Naturaliza-

Info paras two and three ori-.

ginates with

(State).

5. Ref and possible

identification being dissemi-

nated to HDQS of (FBI,

State, Navy and I&NS).

Pls keep HDQS advised on any

further contacts

or positive identification 'of Oswald. 573/

Ms. Scaleti wrote this cable. 574/ Ms. Egerter

was one of the people who reviewed the cable for accuracy. 575/

The cable was released by the Assistant Deputy Director

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576/

The teltype which Ms.icaleti wrote was sent to

the Department. of State, the Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation and the Department of the Navy. 571/ This tele-

type says:

1. On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive

source in Mexico reported that an American

male, who identified himself as Lee Oswald,

contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico

City inquiring whether the Embassy had

re-

ceived any news concerning a telegram

which had been sent to Washington.

The

American was described as approximately 35

years old, with an atheletic build, about

six

feet tall, with a receding hairline.

2. It is believed that Oswald may be identical

to Lee Henry Oswald, born on 18 October

1939 in New Orlears, Lousiana, a former U.S.

Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in

October 1959 and

ater made arrangements

through the United States Embassy

in Moscow

to return to the united States with his Rus-

sian wife, Marina Nikolaevna Pusakova, and

their child.

3. The information in Paragraph One is being

disseminated to your representative

in Mexico

City.

Any furthe information received is

being made availa le to the Immigration and

Naturalization Service. 578/

The first substantive conflict between these two

documents are the dissimilar descriptions of Oswald. The

response sent to Mexico gave a fairly accurate descrip-

tion of Oswald while the dissemination

to other government

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agencies gave the description that had mistakenly been

connected to Oswald by the 0/9 cable from Mexico City. 579/

Ms. Egerter testified that the could not explain why the

description discrepancies orcurred. 580/ When Ms. Scaleti

was asked why this accurred she first responded tiffe

there was a rule that prevelted the Agency from dissem-

inating any information obtained from a third agency

of the government. 581/ Hence, the accurate descipction

of Oswald which. was from information furnished to the

Agency by the State Department could not be included in

the dissemination. 582/. It was pointed out to Ms.

Scaleti that the information in the second paragraph of

the teletype was from the !tate Department sources and

that the Mexico City Station had been instructed to dis-

seminate the description. lucally which she claimed could

not be disseminated due to a third agency .rule.. She

was asked the question again and the following exchange

occurred:

A. Let us start over again.

The actual

physical description on Lee Henry Oswald

from (the 10/10 cable) was sent to the

Station to assist them in further investi-

gation to see if they knew of anybody or

had anybody down there that really fitted

what we thought was an accurate physical

description of the Oswald that we had a

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file on... When we :ame to... the teletype

to State, Fol and ravy, we did not, and l

would not normally even today, provide

those investigativ? agencies with the

physical description of Lee Henry Oswald

as we thought it to be then.

We provided them only with our intelli-

gence, not with Stite Department intelli-

gence which gave tie stuff out about the

audio and the possible physical descrip-.

tion.

The wording here in paragraph l on

our teletype... is vorded that the American

was described. As I told your man from

your committee earlier, it possibly would

have been better, although it did not occur

to me at

the time and this is the way those

things were written in those times, to say

that an American described as this

could

possibly be identifiable and qualified

but the normal procedure in 1963 was to

provide to the other government agencies

information and intelligence from our

sources.ex

Q: Were you aware when you sent out the cable

and the teletype that you were giving differ.-

ent descriptions?

A: Yes.

I assume I was. I don't remember now.

This is some timener ago.

Q: Was there any intention of your part to de-

ceive any other agencies by giving a descrip-

tion.contained in that paragraph in the tele-

type?

A: None at all. 583/

Ms. Scaleti was interviewed by Committee

staff mem-

bers on 3/30/78.

She was questioned, as she indicates

in the labore quote!

at that time

about the description

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discrepancy. When

Ms. Scale:i was shown the 10/9

cable on that occasion she sated that she would not have

taken the description of the ndividual in paragraph two

to be a description of Oswall. 584/ The description

discrepancy was specifically pointed out to Ms. Bustos

and she was specifically queitioned on that point. The

report of that interview says:

We next pointed out to Ms. Scaletti the

fact that the response to Mexico had a

correct description of Oswald and the dis-

semination had an incorrect one.

She said

that the info in the first paragraph of the

dissemination came from MEXI 6453 and that

explained the incorrect description.

We

pointed out to her the fact that she had the

correct description and that had already

told us that she did not associate the de-

scription in 6453 with Oswald, and that she

had said that the cable and teletype had been

prepared simultaneously by. three knowledgable

people.

She said, first, that the correct

description would not have been put in the

dissemination because it came from the file

review.

I pointed out that all of the infor-

mation

in the second paragraph of the dissemina-

tion was from the file review.

She responded

that they had not been sure that the "Lee Os-

wald" referred to in 6453 was the same as "Lee

Henry Oswald" on whon they had a file, hence

they would not have tad included a description

from 6453 that she did not think was connected

to Oswald.

She said that it had obviously

been a mistake that coesn't matter now,

but

if she had it to do over again, she would not

put any description in the dissemination be-

cause she was not sure that either applied to

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the man who identifiel himself as lee Oswald at

the Embassy in Mexico.

585/

The second point of interest that is illustrated

by the 10/10 cable and teletype is the inference that can

be made from reviewing paragraph 3 of the teletype, para-

graph 5 of the cable, and Thomas Karamessines signing

off on the cable, that the ClA was asking for, and pro-

mising, a further investigation of Oswald without a speci-

which.

ic request from any other government agency the mign

surite out urrds."

have had, as the '77 IGR says, "investigative responsibility."

Herdert ghanall,

1 the Chief of the Soviet Section in Mexico City

recognized such a routine irvestigative responsibility as

part of the normal course of his duties. He stated:

One of our responsib: lities was to assist

the FBI in identifying people who might be-

come Soviet agents, particularly in America. 586/

As a matter of fact, the Chief of the Branch of

the CIA responsible for the Mexican operations at Head-

quarters thought this was one of the Mexico City Station's

strongest and most successfil areas of endeavor.

Late

They (Americans) were detected

enough so

that J. Edgar Hoover used to glow every

time that he thought of the Mexico City

Station.

This was one of our outstanding

areas of cooperation with the FBI. 587/

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The request for further investigation and dis-

semination contained in paragraph 5 of the 10/10 cable to

Mexico was the reason that the cable was sent to the

Assistant Deputy Director of Plans for release. 588/

The Chief of the Mexico Branch was questioned extensively

on this point:

A: Well, it went up to Mr. Karamessines be-

cause

it involved disseminating information

on an

American citizen to the U.S. government

agencies, you see. At that time--probably

still--the ClA dic not investigate or pass

around informatior on American citizens un-

less it were requested to by another govern-

ment agency, either in that particular case

or by some standard operating procedure.

In other words, the ClA,, seeing an

American

abroad, observing an American abroad, observ-

ing an American abroad engaging in some

skullduggery, woud inform the responsible

U.S. agency here ind sit and wait for instruc-

tions before doin! anything further.

In

this case, we were passing on information

to other U.S. government agencies in Mexico

City and this probably went to other places

in Washington. as well.

Q: This particular information was disseminated

to other agencies without a request of any

such .agency.

Is :hat correct?

A: Yes.

0: This fit into the other category of cases

where disseminations were made?

A :

Disseminations

would be made to other interested

agencies, and any information we came across

had action taken to follow up to take investi-

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gative steps. Dissemination would only be taken

if another agency requested it, either specifically

in that case, or unless it were a part of standard

operating procedure, which would have been agreed

upon with another age icy.

this

Q: Was

any follow-up action contemplated bya(the

10/10) cable?

A: Yes.

"Please keep Heidquarters advised of any

further contacts or for positive identification

•of Oswald."

Q: That would be conside ed follow-up?

A: Yes:

They were instricted to stay alert and report

any further evidence of this man's presence.

There-

fore, Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it.

0: Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it because

follow-up action was :ontemplated?

A: With regard to a U.S. citizen abroad.

Q: For purposes: of clarification, I think you said

that there were two situations where Mr. Karamessines

would have to sign off.

One would be where another

agency requested the dissemination?

A: Yes.

No--not the queition of the dissemination.

It is a question of overational action being taken.

Q: A request for operational action. What is the second

example?

A: Well--

Q: Would the Agency itself decide to take operational

action?

A: Ordinarily, operational action in an ordinary case

would not require Mr. Karamessines approval at all.

It was only because al American citizen was involved.

That interest in an Anerican citizen might come about

because of a specific statement of interest about

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this individual from another U.S. government

agency or it might come about because of a standard

operating procedure:

For

example, we had an agreement with the

FBI that we would

_follow up leads on any American

citizen in Mexico

City who appeared around the

Soviet Embassies,

and so on,. or anybody who was

down there

appearing to defect, which we might

learn through our telephone intercepts.

We could just as well have sent this cable

out without Mr. Karmessines releasing it. I do

not know why we did it.

Q: In fact, you pointed to something which I was

going to ask yu about.

I was wondering

why

somebody as high up in the Agency as Mr. Kara-

messines was tre releasing officer.

A: I would have been because of the U.S. citizen

aspect, because so many other U.S. Government

agencies were involved, State Department, FBl

and the Navy. I suppose one of these things

is the Navy. line of them could be the Immigra-

tion and Naturilization Service.

Q: Let me attempt to summarize again.

Karamessines

would be responsible for signing off on this

because operat onal action pertaining to an

American was tiken?

A: Yes.

Q: Either pursuan: to the request of another go-

vernment agenc/ or pursuant to some

standard

operating procudure of the Agency itself.

A: Yes.

Q: Any other reason that you can think of?

A: No..

Q: I believe you

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or an agreement, with the FBI that any activities

by Americans around the Soviet or Cuban Embassy

would be reported and followed

up on by the Agency.

Was that agreement in writing?

A: I do not know.

It probably was in writing

some-

where.

It antedated my tenure, and the agreement

not in the files.

It would have been

in the

files of the DDP or of the Cl Staff. 5891

The Chief of the Mexico Branch hence believes that

further

investigation of Oshald was requested by CIA;

Headquarters

without the prior expression of interest

from another government agercy with "investigative respon-

sibility. " This request for "operational activity" concern-

ing an American

abroad is ailvanced as the reason for the

Assistant Deputy Director o: Plans signing off on the

cable. Even though the cable was brought to Karamessines'

attention

and he did sign off on it, Mr. Scelso told this

Committee that that was not necessary due to a standing

agreement with the FBI under which the CIA had agreed to

investigate Americans in Mexico in contact with the Soviet

Embassy without any specific request from another agency. 590/

This recollection is corroborated by other testimony and

documents. 591/ Elsie Scaleti also recalled that it would

not have been necessary, in 1963, to bring such a request

for operational action to the ADDP's attention. 592/

She

suggested that the reason for bringing it to the ADDP's

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attention did not have to do with the request for operational

action, but because Oswald's contact was considered impor-

tant enough to merit his attention:

Q: Why would someone as righ up in the organiza-

tion as Karamessines

ask to be the releasing

officer of this particular cable?

A: I can only surmise now that I might have thought

or what several of us

might have thought at

the time, that since it

involved somebody of

this nature who had tried to renounce his citi-

zenship, who was in the Soviet Union, married

to a Soviet, got out vith a soviet wife pre-

sumably, which is very strange, and now the con-

tact with the soviets, we could have a security,

a major security problem.

This was one way of

informing him

and.getting attention at the

higher level. 593/

Even though the ClA denies such an agreement (if it

was in writing) that covered the ClA's investigation of

American citizens in Mexico, this Committee is certain,

on the basis of the above detailed evidence, that such

an

agreement existed, either formally or informally. 594/

Hence, the assertion in the 1977 IG report that "Oswald

was not an investigative responsibility of the CIA" 595/

is seemingly inaccurate and misleading.

This Committee has attempted to determine what

actions, if any, were taken by the CIA's Mexico City Sta-

tion after Headquarters responded to the initial report

of Oswald's contacts with tre soviet Embassy. In this

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respect, two assertions of the '77 IGR are important:

1) that it was not discovered that Oswald was seeking a

visa to Russia. and that he hid also been in contact with

the Cuban Embassy until Noverber 22, 1963; and 2) that

the Station did "nothing other than

ask Headquarters

on 15 October for a photograph of Oswald" because no

other government agency had mide an official request for

further information. 596/ t has already been shown

that the "official request" :hat the Agency claims was

not forthcoming was, in fact, not necessary and that,

as a matter of

fairly routin: operating procedure, the

CIA Headquarters requested'a follow-up on the information

already reported about Oswald. It has also been shown

that the Oswald matter, after the name trace, was done

at Headquarters, was considered to be fairly significant

by the Headquarters officials involved. In this regard,

it should be pointed out that Headquarters communicated

its concern to Mexico by requesting in paragraph 5 of

DIR 74830 more information on Oswald. It should also

be noted that the ClA Headquarters also, by notifying

the interested government agencies that "Any further in-

formation received on this subject will be furnished

i. to.

you"

597/ belied the necessity of one of the agencies

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making an official request for further action. Hence,

the excuse offered for the c'aimed lack of action by the

Mexico Station is invalid and the question becomes 1) whe-

ther or not that Station did any follow-up; 2) whether

they did discover additional information about Oswald

"prior to the assassination; 3) whether that information,

if any, was reported in an a:curate and expeditious man-

ner; and 4) if it was not resorted, what was the reason

for the failure to report.

•The Mexico City Station received DIR 74830 on

11 October 1963. The Mexico City copy of this cable is

in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City "p" file along with

the Station routing slip. There are several interesting

aspects to this copy of the cable and there is evidence

that provides indications of the Stations' actions and

the

timing of those actions.

There are several marginal notations on this docu-

ment. Perhaps the most interesting is the notation "Sic"

with an arrow drawn to the 'Henry" in the name "Lee Harvey

Oswald. " That

notation wa: made by win Scott when he

read the cable on the day it was received in Mexico. 598/

This notation struck Commit ee investigators as very

strange because it was a po:sible indication that. Win

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Scott knew, at the time the cable was received, that Lee

Oswald's middle name was not "Henry." David Phillips

was questioned about that possibility:

Q: Do you have

any reason to believe that when

this cable was received in October of 1963 Mr.

Scott knew that cable's reference to lee

Harvey Oswald was incorrect?

A: No, I don't recall that, but reading this ob-

viously at whatever time

he wrote that "sic"

on there he felt it was incorrect or he would

not have spotlighted it that way.

But I'don't

have any recollection. I don't have any re-

collection that we knew before this cable came

back down that it was Lee Harvey Oswald. 599/

The explanation most often advanced was that Mr.

Scott often used the symbols "Sic" and "aka" interchang-

eably and that all he was indicating here was that the

"Lee Oswald" from the taps was also tobe indexed and

filed under the additional name "Lee Henry Oswald."

600/ Mr. Phillips was also isked about this explanation:

D: was Farin cater insividual that would have

interchanged or used interchangeably the words,

the letters "aka"

and "sic" interchangeably

as having the same mening? Do you appreciate

that?

A: Yes. I don't thinks).

He was an intellectual.

His great secret was that he wrote

poetry. He

didn't want anyone else to know. that.

He was

very well educated, e ‹tremely well read, and no,

he is not the kind of man--

Q: He would appreciate tie distinction?

Fla.

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A: He would appreciate tre distinction between the

two. 601/

If Mr. Scott did in fact make this notation prior to

the assassination of John Keinedy, this Committee has not

been able to determine why "¿ic" was used. 602/

The description of Oswald is marked on this cable with

a double black line, a check mark and the notation "24

years old" in Ann Goodpasture's hand-writing. 6031 - At

chis point at least Ms. Goodpasture and Allan White, the

DCOS, realized that the photograph they had described

in MEXI 6453 was not of Oswald. 604/ But this realization

was evidently not shared by all the officers in the sta-

tion. Ms.. Goodpasture remembers that there was some con-

troversy in the station about whether the man described

in the 10/11 cable was the same man who had been picked

up by the station's photographic surveillance..

Ms. Good-

pasture remembers that she believed, based on the cable,

•that the photograph reported in MEXI 6453 was not of 0s-

wald.: She said that she argued over the identification

with Win Scott and that

'he said, "on, that may be incor-

rect'and so forth.

But there was some quibbling over

it. " 605/

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the dates when subsequent Mexico City Station actions

Cide ia.,i

occurred.

Ms. Goodpasture noted. that "We should ask

HQ for photo. No?"

Barbara Manell noted that the dis-

semination requested by.

Paragraph 4 of the cable was

done on 15. October 1963. Win Scott wrote, "please

set

up "p" file on Lee Henry OSWALD and put all data we

have into it. Photos?" 606/ The document was sent to

the files on 15 October 1963. 607/ Hence, we know that

Oswald's Mexico "p". file was opened on or about 15 Octo-

ber 1963 and that Win Scott asked that "all" informa-

tion be included in the file.. There is substantial rea-

son to believe that most, is not all, of the information

available to the Station wa: incorporated into the file

at that time. 608/

The 10/11 cable greatly increased the significance

of Oswald's contact with thi Soviet Embassy in the eyes

of the Mexico City Station iust as the name trace results

reported by that cable had made the matter more signifi-

cant to the officers involved at Headquarters. 609/

This cable aroused the Station's operational interest

in Oswald.

Mad ente te quote)

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contact with the Soviet Embassy?

A: Oh, yes, sure, it dil. The fact that he had that

kind of background.

Sure, he became someone of

considerable operational interest.

Again, there

was nothing other thin operational interest.

Q: In all liklihood tha: cable would have prompted

the people at the stition to go back and look at

the earlier. transcripts?

A: Yes, I would think so. 6101

This committee believes that Station personnel did,

between October 11 and October 15, go back and recheck

the transcripts and connect the important substantive

calls to Oswald. Under nornal operating procedures a

tape of Oswald's calls to the Soviet Embassy should not

have been erased until 16 O:tober, 4 to 5 days after

the case took on added significance. 61l/ The one trans-

cript of the call on 10/1/6.3 that had definitely been

linked to Oswald prior to riceipt of the 10/11 cable bore

a reference to an earlier conversation by a man who

spoke broken Russian, the tuxt of the 10/1 call allowed

that the prior call had probably occurred on September 28,

1963. 612/ It should have been possible at that point

to compare the tapes to see if they were in fact the same

caller. Indeed, a notation made by Ann Goodpasture on a

newspaper article in 1964 suggests that this was the case.

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The notes says:

The caller from the Cuban Embassy was uniden-

tified until HQ sent traces on Oswald and voices

compared by (Tarasoff. ) 613/

The cable traffic after the assassination confuses

this point rather than clarifies it. This will be dealt

with in more detail in a subsequent section. An examina-

tion of documents in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Sta-

tion P file and

the cable traffic from Mexico City to

Headquarters

after the assassination, raised a possibility

that at least one tape of (swald's voice existed as late

as 16 October 1963. 614/

Assuming that the 10/1/63 call in which an individual

identifies himself as "Lee Oswald" was handled in an ex-

pedited manner, the tape ard the transcript would have

been in the

station by the following day at the latest. 615/

If the tape had been held for the normal two-week reten-

tion period, it would have been erased on or about 16

October. The tape from the: 9/28/63 conversation would

have probably been in the : tation by the first or second

moreover, it

of October at the latest: 116/ let would not have normally

been

erased until on or about 16 October abao. It seems

clear that the tapes, unde normal procedures would have

been retained until at leats

the middle p

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October.

An examination of he documents does not clarify

this question but rather add: confusion to the issue.

Several documents and cables deal with the tapes and

a voice comparison of the re:orded conversations.

In

Oswald's "p" file there is a newspaper clipping of an

article from the 21 October 1964 Washington Post. The

article, by Robert S. Allen ind Paul Scott, is entitled

"CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission."

One paragraph

from that arti:le says:

The investigators also are trying to determine

why the ClA in its preassassination report to

the State Department on Oswald's trip to Mexico

City gave details only of the defector's visit.

to the Russian Embassy

and not the Cuban Embassy.

The ClA did not report the

latter visit until after

Kennedy's assassination in

Dallas.

• Next to that paragraph Ann Goodpasture wrote:

The caller from the Cuban Embassy was unidenti

fied until HQ sent traces on Oswald and voices

compared by (Tarasoff). 617/

That statement is very clear in saying that a voice

comparison was

made. The cable traffic that went from

Mexico to CIA. Headquarters after the assassination is

not so clear.

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On 23 November, the CIA leadquarters asked the

Mexico City Station to

send he full transcripts of 05-

wald's conversations and "or ginal tapes if available"

to Headquarters as

soon as possible by a special courier. 618/

On that same day, Ann Goodpa:ture sent a cable to Head-

quarters reporting the 9/28/13 conversation. That cable

said, in part, "Station unable compare voice as first

tape erased prior receipt be second call." 619/ Later

• that same day Ms. Goodpastue wrote another cable which

said:

(Tarasoff) who did trans:riptions says Os-

wald identical

with person para one speak-

ing broken Russian who called from Cuban

Embassy 28 September to soviet Embassy. B20/

The next day the Mexico. City Station informed Headquarters

that it had been unable to locate any tape of Oswald's

voice.

"Regret complete

recheck shows tapes for this

period already erased." 621/

The statement.

in MEXI 7023 that a voice comparison

was not possible because of the first tape being erased

prior to the second tape being received is inconsistent

with the statements made in testimony and in other cables 622/

and with the procedure then in effect at the station at

that time..

623/ It is, therefore, considered highly

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unlikely that a tape would br held only one or two days,.

the situation that is implied by the statement in MEXI 7023.

The other statements by ls. Goodpasture in the cables

and on the newspaper article; clearly indicate that a

voice comparison was made. 1s. Goodpasture was questioned

about this,:

Q: To your knowledge, was a voice comparison

ever made between the tapes to deterimne

whether the same person was speaking in

each one?

A: I do not know. I did not make one.

I do

not know whether someone else made one or

not.

There is a transcript, a cable here;

in which the transcriber of

the Soviet tape

says that it is the same

voice, which would

lead one to believe that he made a voice

comparison, but it just may have been that

he, from his memory, came to that conclu-

sion. 624/

Q: On the lower righthard corner of the newspaper

article that

is contained there, marked off

with a dark line is ¿ paragraph.

Kindly

read that paragraph, starting with the words

"The investigators..

(Pause.)

A: This would suggest--

- Q: One moment.

A: --Tarasoff compared he voices on a tape of October.

Q: Whose handwriting appears?

A: That is mine

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Q: That indicates that the caller--could you please

read that to us.

Read what you wrote that day.

A: "The caller from the cuban Embassy was unidenti-

fied

until Headquarters sent traces on

Oswald."

Now, that would have been in answer to the

cable

that was dated 8th October. I believe their cable

was 18 October,

"and voices compared by Feinglass."

Feinglass was

the pesudonym used by Tarasoff.

Q: In fact, that indicates--

A: He compared the Cuban Embassy voices with the

others, with Oswald's call, in which he used his

name.

Q: When would that have happened?

A: I said 18 October because I thought that was the

date of the cable.

10 October. 625/

Boris Tarasoff testified that he had not been queried

at all about Oswald in 1963 and that hehadnot done a voice

comparison. 626/ Herbert Manell testified that Tarasoff

did not do a voice comparison but connected the two con-

versations in his marginal comments in the transcripts on

the basis of memory. 627/

Whether or not Mr. Tarasoff or someone else did a

voice comparison of the tapes, it is likely that the tapes

did exist üntil at least the l6th of October and would

have been available for such a comparison. It is possi-

ble that the connection between the 10/1/63 call and

the 9/28/63 call was made on

the basis of Mr. Tarasoff's

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memory. In any event the record clearly indicates that

the tapes should have been

av.ilable, and probably were

available;

as late as 16 October 1963. 628/ This is

significant because it was after receipt of the 10/10 ca-

ble from Headquarters that tre Oswald case took on a

more than routine coloring.

The increased significance that the Oswald

visit took on during the period from October 11 to Octo-

ber 16, 1963, could have provided the station with reason

to retain the Oswald tapes. 629/

Ms. Goodpasture was asked what became of the Oswald

tapesy:

Q: What happened to that tape containing Oswald's

voice?

A: What happened?

D: What happened to that taper yes

A: I do not know.

Q: Do those tapes exist today?

A: What?

2004233

Q: Do those tapes exist today?

A: If they do, I do not know where they are.

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Q: Are you aware of the fact that, after the as-

sassination,

it has been alleged

that some

tapes were given to the FBl to listen to and

that it was said that these tapes contained

Oswald's voice on themi

A :

Someone asked me about that, but I do not think

that I had those tape!.

I do not remember if

I did, and I was not iware that we gave any to

the FBI.

I do not know whether Mr. Manell got

tapes from Mr. Taraso f and passed them to the

FBl, or if the Chief of Station or Deputy passed

anything to the FBI.

I just do not know. 630/

On the whole most ClA off cers who testified stated

that, if a tape of Oswald's voice existed at the time of

the assassination, they did not know anything at all about

it. 631/ One ClA officer, tie Chief of the Branch respon-

sible for Mexico, testified that he believed the tapes

did exist at the time of the assassination:

Q: Were they able to locate the original tapes?

A: I think so.

Q: Do you recall what was done with those tapes?

A: No..

Q: Did

you ever--

A: I never heard them.

A: You

never heard them?

A: No.

0: On what basis do you say the original tapes

were found?

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A: I had the impression :hat after the assassination

they did a lot of transcribing. I may be wrong. t

Q: Let us

look at (MEXI

'025. ) Paragarph four

there,

which

indicate; that the person who did

the transcript and

sa's,

• "Oswald is identical

with the person in

an

earlier paragraph who

spoke broken Russian ind called on 28 September."

That indicates that some sort of a voice compari-

son was made.

A: Yes. Tapes were probably still in existence. 632/

The Tarasoffs do not remimber ever doing, or being

asked to do, a voice compari:on of the Oswald tapes. 633/

other

But the evidence, albeit circumstantial, seems to indi-

cate that the tapes were in xistence and that the voices

were compared by someone: 634/ Herbert Manell suggested

that Tarasoff may have confirmed the fact that the two

calls were made by the same person by memory after re-

ceipt of the 10/11 cable. 63!1

However, the Station made the connections, whether by

voice comparison and/or by cimparison of

the substantive

information in the 10/11 cab'e to the substantive informa-

tion in the transcripts, the conversations were linked to

Oswald prior to the assassinition and probably by the

time that the "p" file. was ofened on or about 16 October

1963. 636/ Ms. Goodpasture vas also asked about this:

Q: On October ist, you frund out that Oswald

had been at the Russin Embassy the preceding

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Was any effort made to check

your materials from the surveillance opera-

tion, the photographic surveillance opera-

tion, or from the telephonic surveillance

operation to get additional information

on this?

A: I do

not

know whether I checked it immediately

or not at this stage.

I do know that they were

checked thoroughly alter the assassination.. In

fact, I think they were checked thoroughly after

the information came

back from Washington iden-

tifying a Lee Oswald.

637

On October 15, 1963, a 'p" file was opened on

Oswald. 638/ That same day the ClA Mexico City Station

requested that Headquarters send them a photograph of

Oswald. 639/ On that date illso Ms. Manell drafted a

local dissemination memo regarding Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy. 640/ Bi this date at least the 10/1/

10:45 call, the 9/28/11:51 call, the 9/27/4:05 call,

and: the 9/27/4:26 call had seen linked to Oswald. 641/

On 16 October 1963 the nemorandum drafted by Ms.

Manell was circualted at the U.S. Embassy. It said:

1. The following

information was received from

a usually reliable and extremely sensitive

source: On 1 October 1963, an American male

contacted the Soviet Embassy and

identified

himself as Lee OSWALD. This officer (sic)

determined that OSWALD had been at the Soviet

Embassy on

28 September 1963 and had talked

with Valeriy Valdimirivoch KOSTIKOV, a mem-

ber of the consular Section, in order to learn

if the Soviet Embassy had received a reply

from Washington concerning his request.

We

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have no clarifying information with regard to

this

request.

2. Our Headquarters has informed us that the

OSWALD above is proba ly identical with Lee

Henry OSWALD, born on

18 October 1939, in

mer or tansu. suisiahle corps ero detectera-

to the Soviet Union

is October 1959.

3.. This office will adviie you if additional

information on

this

mitter is received. 642/

When Ms. Manell was asked wh. she had stated that it

had been. "determined" that Oiwald had been in contact

with the Soviet Embassy on 23 September she said that

it must have been :because she had rechecked the trans-

cripts by this time as othervise she would not have

used such certain language. 143/ When asked why the 10/16

memo suid that there was

no :larifying information on

Oswald's. "request" when it wis known by this time that

he was seeking a visa, Ms. Minell said that "They had no

need to know all those other details. 644/

•There are no indications that any other actions were

taken by the Mexico City Sta:ion prior to the assassina-

tion. 645/

Even though the Station'; actions after the 10/11

cable were not highly extensive, it is inaccurate and

misleading to say that those actions were limited to re-

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•questing a photograph of Oswald from Headquarters. 0-

ther actions

included rechecking the transcripts and

discovering the substantive ones. that concerned Oswald

and reporting the information in MEXI 6453 and DIR 74830

to various components in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

City in a misleading manner. Hence, the fact that Os-

wald was seeking a visa and had been in contact with

the Cubans as well as the Rissians was known prior to

the assassination, and the !tation's actions prior to

the assassination were more comprehensive than merely

requesting a photograph; al:hough if any action other

than a file check was taken, no record of that action

has been made available to this Committee.

It is unlikely, but possible, that this information

that was developed by the Mexico City Station after 10/11/63

was reported to Headquarters. Elsie Scaleti pointed

out that a report of this

additional information on

Oswald's activities in Mexico "would have been expected."

646/ Ms. Scaleti!s belief that the information should

have been reported to Headquarters is shared for identi-

cal reasons by her superior at Headquarters. 647/

The testimony from the people involved, both at head-

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quarters and in Mexico, whil: often uncertain, is, gen-

erally, that they do not remelber that such a cable was

sent. Ms. Scaleti said that she could not recall that

Mexico had

sent any other in ormation to Headquarters

prior to the assassination, but added, l "could not

swear to that." 648/ The head of the Mexico Branch

at Headquarters

was certain hat this information was

reported but he could not revall the form of the report

or whether it occurred befor, or after the assassination. 649/

Robert Shaw first testified hat, to hi's knowledge, the

information was

not reported prior to the assassination

and then added "but I would have no way of knowing."

650/ The Deputy Chief of Strition in Mexico, Mr. Allan

White, was also

unsure on ths point:

Lojia

Q:/Did they

ever indicat to Headquarters that

Oswald had been to the Cuban Embassy as well

as to the Soviet Emba;sy and that he

wanted

a visa?

A: I would have to assum: that they did. I

realize that

"assume" is a bad word.

Q: You don't have

personil knowledge one way or

another?

A: No, prior to the assa:sination I would not. 651/

Ann Goodpasture was also unsure of her recollection

in this area:

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Q: But Headquarters was never appraised of that

voice comparison?

A: I think they were in i cable.

A: Prior to the assassination?

A: No, I do not think they were prior to the assas-

sination.yx.x

Q: it is determined that the same person was talking

on each

tape

and. there is no follow-up to head-

quarters, even though Headquarters clearly consi-

dered this to be significant?

A: The follow-up was made by disseminating this

information from the traces locally and trying

to identify Oswald, trying to locate the man.

That is the way the follow-up was made.

We

thought that he may still be in Mexico.

Q: The point is, however, that upon the making of

a voice comparion, if, in fact, that was done,

that information was not communicated to anyone.

A: I do not know if it was or not. You would have

to check the file completely, the cable traffic,

to see if it was.

To the best of my knowledge,

it was not until after the assassination.dx

Q: In fact, headquarters did not know that he had

also been to the Cuban Embassy?

A: At that point, no.

Q: At. least, according to your recollection, it was

not until after the assassination that Headquarters

was informed of that fact?

6

A: That is probably right. 1a52/

Only one person who was interviewed by this Committee

was certain of her recollection.

Ms. Barbara Manell was

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certain that a second cable reporting Oswald's contacts

with the Cuban Embassy had buen sent to Headquarters

prior to the assassination.

Q: It does not strike you as more significant

that the American con acts the Soviet Embassy

and he also contacts he Cuban Embassy?

To

me that would make hin seem more significant

and therefore, if you found out about this

after the time the (frst.) cable was sent you

would have sent anothur cable.

A: I did not send anothe: cable but I know another.

cable was

sent.. I didn't send it.

Q: Another cable concern ng Oswald was sent?

A: I think so.

Where is the whole file?

Wasn't

there a cable saying lie was in touch with the

Cuban Embassy?

Q: We have not seen one.

A: I am pretty such there. was.

Q: Did you send that cab e?

A: No, I did not send the cable.

When I found out

about it I remember this, I said how come?

Q: Who did? Do you know'

A: I don't know who sent it. I think Ann (Goodpasture)

night have.

She migh: have sent a follow-up one

with this information

653/

The staff of this Commit.ee. suggested that Mr. Phil-

lip's clear recollection of involvement in reporting

Oswald's visit to the Cuban limbassy and that he was seeking

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a visa along with

the

fact that Mr. Phillips was not in

Mexico at the time that the first cable was sent, 654/

could possibly be an indication that he is recalling a

second cable..

When

asked alout this, Mr. Phillips

stated that he had no knowledge of a second cable sent

prior to the assassination. 655/

Some corroboration of Mi. Manell's assertions were

found in the materials from Win Scott's safe.

Scott crote:

?..'

#(0)n page 777 of (the larren) report the

erroneous statement was made that it was not

known that Oswald had visited the Cuban Em-

bassy until after the a sassination! Every

piece of information concering Lee Harvey 0s-

wald

was reported immediately after it was

received

to: U. S. Amba;sador Thomas C.

apou

paragraph

Mann, by memorandum; th. FBI. Chief in Mexico,.

by Memorandum; and to m/ headquarters by cable;

and included in each and every one of these

reports

was the conversation Oswald had, so

far as it was known:

Tiese reports were made

on all his contacts wit! both the Cuban Con:

sulate and with the Soviets. 656/

If the

cable was sent it is not in the files made

available to the HSCA by the CIA.

The head of the Mexico Branch admitted that the

information should have been reported and that, if it

had been, the Oswald case would have been

handled dif-

ferently, at least as far as the dissemination of infor-

mation about him was concerned.

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Q: Had the information concerning Oswald's visit

to the cuban Embassy in addition to the Soviet

one,

that Oswald had

seen requesting a visa,

if it had been sent to ClA headquarters, would

his case prior. to the assassination have been

'handled

in any. different manner?

A: It would have been in the case of dissemina-.

tion of information arout him,

but I do not

think that any operational action would have

taken to apprehend hin or to contact him or

to try to force him bick to the United States.

(tau

Q:

How would the dissemination have been

treated differently?

A: Well, it simply means that we would have dis-

seminated any additional information that we

got. 657/

It- cannot

be determined vith exactitude whether or

not this additional information about Oswald was reported

to Headquarters. In all likelihood it was not. The Chief

of the Mexico Desk was asked whether or not the Station

was ever criticized for this failure to report in the

face of a specific request to do so by CIA Headquarters.

He splied:

No.

That was not because we were trying to go

easy on them,

it is simply because it

is in the

nature of the business.

What you are

trying

to

do is engage, as I used to say, in important il-

legal

manipulations of society, secretly.

We were running,

at that time, a vast poli-

tical

action program

in Mexico City to try to

swing Mexico around from its Leftist direction

to a middle of the road firection and it succeeded.

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I do not know whether you informed yourself about

the magnitude of our political action program at

the time--absolutely enormous.

We were

trying to follow the Soviets and

all the satellites ard the Cubans.

At the same

time, the main thrust of the station's effort

was to attempt to recruit Russians, Cubans and

satellite people. 658/

Perhaps the nature oi the ClA Mexico City Station's

handling of the Oswald case prior to the assassination

can best bé summed up in Dive Phillips! response

when

he was asked how he would haracterize that handling:

"At the very best, it is not professional, at the best." 659/

V. Mexico City Station Reporting of Information Concerning

Oswald After the Assassination

A. Reporting of information concerning the photograph

of the Mexico Mystery Man

Even though some pecple in the Station clearly dis-

associated the photograph that was described in MEXI 6453

659 A

from Oswald after receivirg the 10/11 cable, 656/ it is

clear that

some people st'll considered it possible for

some reason that the photograph was of Oswald. In Octo-

ber, Ann Goodpasture had argued this very point with win-

6598

ston Scott. 657/ On the lay of the assassination, the

•Mexico City Station cabled Headquarters that

fi-twas sending

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659C.

Sovemb 28 Oct who could be identical with Oswald.

658/

The date was later corrected. to read 1 October. 6594

5590

Mr. Scott was not the only person in the Mexico Station

who still thought that the photo could possibly be

Oswald. Mr. Manell testified on this pointy:

Q: As of the day of the assassination, you

thought that there was still a

possibility

that there was a photograph of Oswald?

A: Indeed. As I recall, we tried to get that

photograph to

could.

headquarters

as fast as we

As it

turned out it wasn't neces-

sary to send it.

But Eat was our intention. 6601

The photograph was sent to Dallas where Special Agent.

Odum of the FBI showed it to Mrs. Marguerite Oswald on

23 November 1963. 661/ Mrs. Oswald would later claim

it was a photograph of Jack Ruby, 662/ beginning a peried

of controversy and uncertainty about this photograph that

has continued to this day. The interaction of the Warren

Commission

and the CIA on this: question is detailed

in another section of this resort. On 23 November. Mexico

d.

informed Headquarters that "at obvious photos sent to Dallas

were not iden with Lee Oswald." 663/ Since the time of

the assassination, this man has been identified as Yuriy

Ivanovich Moskalev, a Soviet ‹GB officer. The identifica-

tion is unconfirmed and comes from only one source.

664/

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In any case, it is unlikely that this man

had any. con-

nection with Oswald

outside of the mistaken belief of

several ClA officers in Mexi:o. 665/

B. Reporting of information concerning Lee Harvey

Oswald from the electronic intercept operation

aimed at the soviet Embassy

The first cable that Mexico sent to Headquarters

after the

assassination referred Headquarters to the

cable traffic conferning Oswald that had occurred prior

to the assassination. 666/ Headquarters replied that

they had also noted the "cornection." 667/

The cable traffic on the day of the assassination,

and the early traffic from the following day, deal al-

most exclusively with the plotograph of the person who

later became known as the Mixico Mystery Man. • The

first cable 6681 obviously referred to the October 1

contact and brought it to Headquarters' attention by

referring Headquarters to M:XI 6453. The first cable

that specifically refers to the transcripts occurred

on the following day. Headquarters cabled Mexico that

it was important that the station review all transcripts

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"since 27 September to locate all material possibly per-

tinent." 669/ The cable went

on to instruct the station

to send the full transcripts and original tapes to Head-

quarters by special courier. 670/ The cable also asks

if the original tapes are still available. 671/

This Committee has not beer able to determine how the

CIA Headquarters

knew, on 23 November 1963, that a review

of the tap material should begin with the production:

from 27 September, the day Oswald first appeared at the

Soviet and Cuban Embassies. There is no recrd that

Headquarters had been informed of the 9/27 visits prior

to this

cable having been sent. It is possible, as some

witnesses

have suggested, that his information was provided

to CIA Headquarters by the FBI.

in Washington. 672/ If

that is the case then it merely shifts the question. This

may indicate that the CIA Headquarters was aware of the

9/27 visits prior to the assassination. An even stronger

inference is that they were aware of those visits at least

by the day after the assassination.

The manner in which

they learned of these visits by that date has not been

determined.

It is possible that Headquarters was informed

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by telephone. Even

though witnesses generally denied

that there was telephone communication between Mexico

City and Headquarters at the time of the assassination,

there is strong evidence that there was such communica-

tion on at least two instancis. 673/

As will become evident, he transcripts were cabled

to headquarters that same da!.

It is not clear why Head-

quarters asked that the tran cripts and tapes, if they

existed, be sent to Headquar ers by special courier as.

opposed to cabling the trans:ripts which would have been

faster. 674/ There is no re:ord that indicates that

these transcripts of Oswald'; calls were sent to Head-

quarters by special courier.

On the 23rd, the Mexico sity Station reported all

of the substantive Oswald conversations to Headquarters

by cable. Logically, one would expect that since the

circumstantial evidence indicates that these conversa-

tions

were linked to Oswald. prior to the assassination,

that they would all have been reported in one cable,.es-

pecially in light of the request from Headquarters in

DIR 84886. 675/ At this point, according to the files

and records made available to the HSCA staff by the CIA,

the Mexico City Station had informed Headquarters of.

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only the 9/28 and the 10/1/10:45 conversations.

It

should be noted that the 10/./10:45 conversation makes

reference to the fact that Oiwald was also at the Em-

bassy on 9/28. The next cable

that Mexico City sent to

Headquarters said, in part, 'Other than Info already

sent re Oswald's connection vith Sov and Cuban Embs,

no other info available." 672/

The next cable reports

a literal transcription of the 9/28 and 10/1/10:45 con-

versations. 677/. The next cable that refers to the

transcripts of Oswald's conversations reports the 9/27/

10:30 call, the 9.27/4:05 call, the

9.27/4:26 call, the

10/1/10:31 call, and the 10/3 call. 678/ With this

cable Mexico City informed Headquarters of all the sub-

stantive information available from the Soviet Embassy.

electronic surveillance. 679/

Mexico City also informed Headquarters on. 11/24/64

that the tapes from the period in which Oswald had. vi-

sited the Soviet and Cuban Embassies had been erased. 680/

A cable on the previous day had informed Headquarters

that it was "probable" that the Oswald tapes had been

erased. 681/ An earlier cable that same day reported

that "Station unable compare voice as first tape erased

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prior receipt of second call " 682/ This would imply

that the tape of the 28 September conversation, which

may not have been received a: the station until the

30th or the lst of October, las destroyed before the

tape of the conversation on he Ist of October was re-

ceived

in the station on tha: same day. In light of

the standard operating procelures in effect in the sta-

tion at that time, that possibility is highly unlikely. 6831

In view of what is now krown about the standard

operating procedures and about the Station's actions

prior to the assassination, the Station's confusing and

somewhat contradictory reporting after the assassination

is strange. 6841 It is possible that these confusions

and contradictions arose out of the crisis atmosphere

at the station and the rush to report information. This

Committee has not found any solid evidence that there

1.

were

sinister qualities in the reporting after the

assassination.

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FOR LEE HARVEY OSWAD, MEXICO CITY

AND. THE CENTRAL INTE LIGENCE AGENCY

1/ See Warren Report, PP. 299-304, 733-736. In support of

its

account of Oswald's contacts with the soviet and

Cuban diplomatic missions, the Warren

Commission pub-

lished the following as exhibits:

1). A note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs

to

the Swiss. Ambassado: in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-

bit 2445.)

2) Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba's

letter

denying the visa.. (Conmission Exhibit 2564.)

3)

Letterhead Memorandum to J. Lee Rankin from Richard

Helms re:

"Technical E‹amination of Photographs of

Lee Harvey Oswald's Ap'lication for a Cuban Visa."

(Commission exhibit

• 3127.)

4)

The pages of Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook with the

telephone numbers of the Cuban Consulate, the Soviet

Consulate: and the Soviet Military Attache's office.

(Commission Exhibit 2121.)

5)

A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee Harvey Oswald to the

Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.. (Commission Ex-

hibit 15.)

6)

A letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission

listing the contents of the Federal, Bureau of Investi-

gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to

the assassination.

(Commission Exhibit 834..

This

document listed a Central Intelligence Agency. "release"

dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)

7) A memorandum dated 5/14/64 to the United States Em-

bassy in Mexico City from

the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs for Mexico.

(Commission Exhibit 2120.)

8) A memorandum dated 6/9/64 from the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of Mexico to the United States Embassy in

Mexico City. (Commission Exhibit 2123.)

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9) A letterhead memorandun to J. Lee Rankin from

Richard Helms re:

"Hours of Work at the Cuban

and

Soviet Consulates."

(Commission Exhibit 2568.)

2/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.

3/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, un-

dated, pp. 1-2; David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76,

P. 123; HSCA. Outside Contact Report, David A. Phillips,

5/11778, JFK Document No. 008321; Thomas Keenan Inter-

view, 3/24/78. p: 2; Robert Zambernardi Interview,

6/3/78, p. 2.

4/ Robert Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 4.

5/ See JFK Exhibit F-438, reprinted at page.

6/ Ibid.

7/. Ibid.

8/ Ibid.

g/ Ibid.; see also Section II, A, 3, below.

10/ See JFK Exhibit F-438 and section II, A, 3, below.

A

pulse camera is a camera equipped with a device that

automatically triggers the shutter of the camera thereby

exposing the film.

11/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/18, p. 4.3

12/ Undated Draft of 1977 CIA staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico

Station Coverage of Sovirt and Cuban Embassies (1963),"

p. 5.

Hereinafter cited as Tab F Draft.

13/ David A. Phillips Testimon',

11/27/76, p. 123; Ann Good-

pasture Testimony, 4/13/'8, p. 44.

14/ Ibia.

15/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/16, p. 123; Phitlips festimony,

4125778, p.43.

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16/ Outside Contact Report, David A. Phillips, 5/11/78, JFK

Document NO: 008321.

17/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 2.

18/ Ibia.

19/ Ibid.

20/ Ibid., p. 3.

21/ Ibia.

22/ Ibid.

23/ Ibia., P. 4. CF: Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 107-

108 and Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 45-46 in

which zambernardi is saii to have printed the contact

Sheets.

24/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, un-

dated, pp. .1-2.

25/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.

26/ Ibid., para. 5, C. There vere two common means of communi-

cation between the CIA Mixico City Station and CIA Head-

quarters: cables and disjatches.

A dispatch from Mexico

City to Headquarters alwiys has the letter prefix "HMMA."

A dispatch from Headquar ers to Mexico City always has

the letter prefix

"HMilw'

A cable from Mexico City to

Headquarters always has he letter prefix "MEXI."

A

cable from Headquarters ilways has the letter prefix.

"DIR."

27/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.

28/ Ibia.

29/ See JFK Exhibit F-438.

30/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para.

5, c.

31/ Ibid. There is general agreement that Robert Shaw was

the case officer for this operation.

The only person

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who takes exception to thiit characterization of Mr.

Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 07-108; Goodpasture Testimony,

4/13/78, pp. 45-46; Zambe: nardi Interview, 6/3/78,

p. 6.

But

see: Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,

p. 34.)

32/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.

33/ Ibia.

34/ Ibid.

35/ Ibid. The Committee decline; to assume that there had been

no production by the time of this dispatch in October.

The handling of the production, i.e., when it was picked

up and taken to the Station, when it was developed, etc.,

is not known.

But

as the following analysis will

show,

there is a

strong likelihoodthat the pulse camera was

operating in late September and early October 1963.

36/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.

37/ Ibid.

38/ Ibia., para. 1:

39/ Ibid., para. 2:

40/ Ibid., para. 3.

41/ Ibia., attachment B.

42/ Ibid., para: 3.

43/ Ibia.

44/ Ibia., Attachment C.

45/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para

5, c.

46/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, para.

3.

47/ Ibid.

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48/ Ibid.

49/ Ibia., para. 4.

50/ MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.

51/ Ibid.

52/ Ibid.

53/ Ibia.

54/ HSCA Classified notes of discussion with CIA employee,

7/20/78.

55/ Ibid.

56/ HMMA 22726, 1/16/64, CIA #4098.

57/ Ibid., para. 5, g.

58/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65.

59/ Ibid., para. 1.

60/ Ibid., para. 3.

61/ HSCA Classified Notes of discussion with CIA employee,

7/20/78.

The cryptonym vas changed on 8 July 1964.

(HMMW 12725, 7/8/64.)

62/ Letter from Blakey to Brechinridge, 7/21/78.

63/ See Sections III, A, 5 and 6 below.

64/ JFK Classified Document #12.

65/ Ibid.

66/ JFK Classified Document #1.16.

67/ Ibid.

68/ Ibia.

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69/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para.

5,

70/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.

71/ Ibid., para. 3.

12/ Ibid.

73/ Ibid.

74/ Ibid., and para. 4.

75/ HMMA 22726, 1/16/64, para. 5, g.

76/ HMMA 22307; 10/18/63, para. 5, c.

77/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, para. 3.

78/ This assumption is considered reasonable in light of the

desire of the Mexico City Station to establish coverage

of the newly reopened Cor sulate entrance. See HMMA

22307, 10/18/63.

79/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 3.

80/ See MEXI 9440; 6/19/64; HMNA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 5.

81/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3,78, p. 4.

82/ 1966 LIONION Project Renewil Request, 1/1/66. "LIONION"

was the CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance

operations aimed at the l'uban diplomatic compound.

83/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/1:/78, pp. 43-44.

84/ HSCA Outside Contact Repor:, David A: Phillips, 5/11/78,

JFK Document No. 008321.

85/ MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.

÷86/ See discussion of this memo in Section II, B, below.

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87/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/18, p: 2.

88/ Ibia., p. 4.

89/ Ibid.

90/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. ;.

91/ See pages

24-27,; above.

92/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

undated, pp. 1-2.

93/ Ibid.

94/ Ibid.

95/ Ibid.

96/ Ibid.

97/ Ibid.

98/ Ibia.

99/ Ibid.

100/ Goodpasture Testimory, 4/13/78, p. 47.

101/ Robert Shaw

para. 8.

Testimony, 5/16/78, p. 35; HMMA 26006, 4/30/65,

102/ Ibid.: HMMV 13645, 5/13/65; HMMA 26160, 5/21/65, paras. 1 and

103/ See MEXI 9440 and HMMA 26411.

104/ JFK Classified Document #14?.

105/ Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Staff,

re: "Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage

of Soviet and Cuban Embassies)", 2/10/77, p. 1. Here-

inafter cited as Goodpasture Notes.

See also: Tab F

Draft, P. l; Goodpasture lestimony, 4/13/78, p. 15.

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106/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, ittachment to HMMA 15979,

11/18/60; Memorandum from Chief DDP/PG to Chief of

Operations/DDP, 2/3/61:

107/ HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para.!. It is possible that the

Saturday coverage was more extensive in 1963 during

Oswald's visit.

see toll wing discussion of Review

of Project LIEMPTY, attacliment to HMMA-15979, 11/18/60;

RevIew of Projet LIEMPTY, attachment to

HMMA 17999, 10/31/61; Revew of Project LIEMPTY,

attachment to HMMA-20052, 10/18/62; Reivew of Project

LIEMPTY, attachment to HM1A-22387, 10/25/63; and

Section B. 4, following. " IEMPTY" is the CIA cryptonyn

referring to

the overall photo-surveillance operation

aimed at the Soviet diplonatic compound.

108/

Sketch based on HMMA-4300, 3/12/56 with attachments;

Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/7', p. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;

HMMA-14793, 4/8/60, para. 3; Goodpasture Exhibit #1,

11/20/78.

109/ Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/77, P. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 15.

110/ Ibid.

111/ Ibid.

112/ Ibid. See

Map above. Even :hough LIMITED is referred to

as the "primary" base becuse it was the first to be

put into operation, theilLinIc base produced the best.

photographs.

(HMMA-14793, 4/8/60, para. 3)

113/ Tab F Draft, DD. 2 and 5; H:;CA Executive Session Testimony

of Ann Goodpasture, 4/13/18, p.

13; HSCA Staff Inter-

view of Thomas Keenan, 3/14/78, p. 3.

114/ Ibid. on all preceeding; HS:A Staff Interview of Herbert

and Barbara manell, 3/20/18, p.

5; HSCA Deposition of

Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 18-19; Memorandum from

Chief DDP/PG to Chief of operations/DDP, 2/3/61.

115/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 13.

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116/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 5.

117/ Tab F Draft, P. 5; parenthetical in original.

118/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 9.

119/ MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.

120/ Ibia.

121/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 5.

122/ See also Section II, A, 3 above.

123/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 23.

Ms. Goodpasture

stated that the case officer handling the project was

Thomas Keenan. (Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 34)

Thomas Keenan could not remember with certainty the scope

of the photographic coverage of the Soviet

Embassy gate.

(Thomas Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, pp. 3-6.)

124/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 28-29.

125/ See below for more detail.

126/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78;

Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

10/31/78; CIA File entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J 110)

to 9 Dec. 1963 (J. 163) from Archives-Job #70.209 Box #1

LIMITED

Production Material."

127/ Ibid.

128/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2; H. CA Staff Interview of Thomas

Keenan, 3/24/18, p. 4; Classified Staff Summary of Review

of CIA Documents,

5/12/78; HMMA-31303, 2/7/67 with attached

map; HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para. 2.

129/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2.

ee also map printed above at p. 32.

130/ Classified Staff Summary O: Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78;

Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

10/31/78; CIA File entit ed "LIMITED 17 July 63. (J 110)

to 9 Dec. 1963 (J 163) fi:om Archives-Job #70.209 Box #1

LIMITED Production Mater: al."

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131/ See above chart.

132/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, 3. 4.

133/ Ibid.

134/ Ibid.

135/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, ittachment to HMMA 15979, 11/18/60.

Emphasis added.

"LIMERIC,"

'is a CIA cryptonym meaning

"Soviet."

136/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, ittachment to HMMA 17999, 10/31/61.

137/ See Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachments to HMMA 20052,

10/18/62 and HMMA 22387, 10/25/63.

138/ Memorandum from Chief of FI'OPS to Chief of Operations/DDP,

1/8/60.

139/ HMMA. 14793, 4/8/60, para. 3.

140/ HMMA 23343, 4/30/64, para. 2. Emphasis added.

141/ iiemoranüun for the Record, 1/19/78 from Gabielson/Cornwell.

142/ Letter from Blakey to Breckinrüdge, 7/25/78

See also JK Classified Documents

#'s 142

and 146.

143/ Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA reguest of 25 July

1978, " 8/20/78; HSCA Classified Staff Summary of Review

of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, P. 1..

CE. Goodpasture Testi-

mony, 4/13/78, pp. 47-51,

Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78,

pp.5@-51, where Ms. Goodpasture testified that although

the logs and the contact grints from the LILYRIC base

are missing, thenegatives are on file at the CIA.

144/ Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July

1978," 8/20/78; HSCA Classified Staff Summary of Review

of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, p. 1.

145/ Goodpasture Testimony; 4/13/78, p. 41. HMMA 23343, 4/30/64,

para. 2.

Win Scott was the Chief of Station in Mexico

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City in 1963. He was a demanding and "hard" bose.

(Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. ll.) He was also a

stickler for detail and for recording information in a

retrievable form. (Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, p. 6; Keenan

Interview, 3/24/78, P. 6; Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78,

p. 30.)

146/ Log Film 144; Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 2.

147/ Log Film 144; Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; Tab F Draft, p. 5;

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 41.

148/ Ibid.

149/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7.

150/ Tab F. Draft, P. 2; Goodpasture Notes, p. 2. In 1962 or

1963 a cut-out was institted in Alvarez's dealings with

the LIMITED photographic ase.. The films were still de-

veloped and processed by Alvarez.

(Project Renewal Re-

quest, attachment to HMMA-22387, attached to Memorandum

fox DDP from J. C. King, 11/27/63, section I, B, 1.)

151/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2.

152/ Goodpasture Notes, P. 7; Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 2.

153/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 33.

154/ Ibid.; Keenan Interview, 3/2,4/78, p. 2.

155/ Ibid.

156/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 34.

157/ Ibid., p. 38.

158/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, p. 1.

159/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 33-38, 14-15.

160/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 6/26/78,

pp. 3-5; Annual Fitness Report on Ann Goodpasture,: 1/14/64.

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161/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13178, pp. 14-15.

162/ Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78, PP. 38-39.

163/ Ibid., p. 40.

164/ Ibid., p. 41.

165/ Alan White Deposition, 5/18/78, p. 7.

166/ Ibid.

167/ Ibid•, p. 9.

168/ Ibid., p. 15.

169/ See H. Manell Deposition, 4/28/78, p. 4 ; where he calls

Ms. Goodpasture "an assistant to the Chief of Station;"

B. Manell Deposition 4/28/78, p. 9

., where she calls

Ms. Goodpasture "Win Scott's right-hand person"; Robert

Scelso Deposition, 5/16/78. p. 22.

Goodpasture "sort of the special' where he calls Ms.

assistant to Win Scott";

Robert Shaw Deposition, 5/16/78, p. 1l , where he says

that Win Scott "relied very heavily on Ann Goodpasture."

170/ Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78, p. 34.

171/ Ibid., pp. 8-9.

See Section II, C, below for detail on the

telephone tapping operation.

172/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 34-35.

173/ Ibia., p. 35.

174/ Ibid., pP. 42÷43.

175/ Ibid.

176/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pP. 11-12.

177/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 15. Herbert

Manell was in charge of the. Soviet Branch of the CIA Sta-

tion in Mexico City.

Barbara Manell was his assistant.

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128/ Ibid.

122/ Ibid.: Herbert and Barbard lanell Interview, 3/20/18, p. 3.

180/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert sanell, 4/28/78, p. 15; HSCA

Deposition of Barbara Man=11, 4/28/78, pp. 11-12.

18X

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 64-69; Arnold Arehart

• Interview, 6/2/78, p. 4.

182/Goidpasture pp07-68

pe 188/ lind Mememorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first

'able about Oswald"; Classified Staff Summary of Revie

it CTA Documents, 3/15/76, p. 4i Snapnetee estimon

#733178-00-657

Gsod.pature.

1821

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185/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 12.

A180/

Biind Memorandum entitled 'Delay in sending the first cable

about OSWALD"; Classifier HSCA Staff Summary of Review

of CIA files, 3/15/78, p 4.

Lgr/ Coopaste Wotes, p. I; Goodpasture Testimony, po. 12-13;

HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, p. 6; HSCA Deposition of

R. Shan, pp. 21-24.

A 188/ CIA Component report on wicetap operations prepared by Paul

Levister entitled

"ZRSOL) and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap

Operations," pp: 10-11.

Hereinafter cited as Levister

Мето.

Paul Levister (pse.donym) was

a Headquarters tech-

nician.

He was in Mexico City from 22 September to 1

Kóctober, 1963, preparing a report on this electronic

intercept operation. (HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 8.)

This report will be referred to in some cases in this dis-

cussion of the intercept operation. / The report, however,

was simplified in order "not to risk losing the reader."

(Memorandum from Chief, WHD, to

OÓS, Mexico City, 12/30/03,

para. 2.)

This simplification was mainly in the area of

a distinction between reels of tape and transcripts and

in the procedures

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used in the collection and distri-

bution of the reels and transcripts. (Ibid.) In this

discussion of the operation other sources will be relied

upon in these areas.

In addition to the tel phone surveillance main-

tained by the CIA Station in cooperation with the Mexi-

can Government, the Station a so maintained some unilateral

surveillance on the Soviets w..thout the knowledge or

cooperation of the Mexican of icials. The unilateral

surveillance was not directed at the Soviet diplomatic

compound but rather at the pr: vate apartments of Soviet

officials in Mexico City.

4/13/78, p. 56; Manell Interv. ew, 3/20/78, p. 7; HSCA

Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28,78, p. 7; HSCA Deposition

of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 16-17.)

lateral coverage of some Cuba! targets. (Goodpasture

Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 51-52.) Ann Goodpasture testi-

fied that she believed that some of these targets were

located in the Cuban diplomatic compound. (Ibid.)

Ms.

Goodpasture's memory is not borne out by the project

file for the unilateral intercept.

The only Cuban tar-

get of this project was the home

of the Cuban Commer-

cial Attache. (HMMA-22536, 11/9/63, para. F.2.)

189/ Project Renewal Reguest, 1/11/6;, attachment to HMMA-25i41;

Goodpasture Notes, p. 5:

190/ HMMA 21845, 1/30/63, para. 8.

191/ Goodpasture Notes, P. 4; Arehar: Interview, 6/2/78, p. 1:

Levister Memo, p. 22.

192/ Goodpasture Notes, P. 5; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78,

p. 54.

193/ Goodpasture Notes, P. 7.

194/ Tab F Draft, P. 4; Levister Mem>, p. 21.

195/ Tab F Draft, P. 4; Memorandum t, DDP from Chief WHD,

1/21/64, para..5.

196/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, pp. L-2; HSCA. Deposition of

H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 4.

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197/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, 1. 2; HSCA Deposition of B.

Manell, 4/28/78, pP. 7,

3'.

198/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, i. 2.

199/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 22-24.

200/ Memorandum to the Ambassado: Erom Winston M. Scott, 10/16/63,

re: Lee Oswald/Contact wish the Soviet Embassy; Manell

• Interview, 3/20/78, pp. 11-18; HSCA Deposition of H.

Manell, 4/28/78, PP. 21, 31, 36; HSCA Deposition of B.

Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52.

201/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/75, p. 19.

202/ Ibia., p. 20.

203/ HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 1.

also HMMA-22267, 10/8/63;

para. 4; HMMA-22135, 9/13/63, para. 4; HMMA-22452,

11/7/63, para. 4 which all list reports of intercepts

of American citizens, or English speaking people, in

contact with Communists in Mexico.

HMMA-21845, 7/30/63,

para. 4, reports that the "traffic" is reviewed daily

for

English speaking persons making contact with the

Soviet or Soviet satellite embassies.

204/ HMMA 22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.

205/ Ibid. In addition to the lines at the Soviet and Cuban com-

pounds, telephones of interest to the Mexicans, lines at

the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian Embassies were sub-

jects of taps.

(HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.) The two

lines disconnected on 23 September at the Cuban Embassy

were put on lines at the Yugoslavian Embassy on the.

same day.. (Ibia.)

206/ HMMA 22452, 11/7/63, para. 2.

207/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78,

p. 1.

208/ See above; HMMA 22267, 10/18/63, para. 2.

209/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,: 7/26/78,

p. 1.

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210/ Ibid.

211/ See Tab F Draft, P. 4, which states that five Cuban lines

were covered; Goodpasture Notes, p.

8, which also states

that 5 Cuban lines were covered; and Phillips Testimony,

11/27/76,

p. 11, and Goolpasture Testimony, 4/13/78,

pp. 51-53,

in which they state their beller that more

than three lines in the Ciban diplomatic compound were

covered by this liaison intercept operation.

212/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment to HMMA :

25141, section D, 1 i (b), (1).

213/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 11. See also Section III,

A, 3, below.

214/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

undated, entitled "Periodic File Summary - Dave Phillips -

3 Components," p.. 1.

215/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5; Levister Memo, P. 22.

216/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 2.

217/ Ibid., Levister Memo, P. 11.

218/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 3.

219/ Ibia., p. 2; Levister Memo. P. 11; HSCA Deposition of R.

Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 20.

220/ Ibid. See also Tab F Draft p. 4. Cf. Herbert and Barbara

Manell Interview,.

3/20/71, p. 8, In wheih the Chief of

the Soviet Section in the Mexico City Station claims

never to have heard of such summaries.

221/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp.. 2-3.

222/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, ?. 8; Levister Memo, P.

11; Me-

morandum from Paul Levisser to Chief/FI, 10/2/63, para. 2.

223/ Ibid.

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224/ Letter from Blakey to Breck nridge, 7/6/78.

225/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 1. 2; Levister Memo, p. 11.

226/ Ibid.

227/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 3. 2.

228/ Ibia., P.

4; Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment

to HMMA-25141, Section D, (2).

229/ Ibid.

230/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.

231/ Ibid..

232/ Ibid., p. 2:

The resuma provided quick summaries with the

full detailed transcripts arriving at the Station one

or two days after the resuma.

233/ Ibid.

234/ Ibid.

235/ Ibid.

236/ Ibia., p. 3.

237/ Ibia., p. 5.

238/ Ibia.

239/ Ibid., p. 2.

240/

HMMA 22267, 10/2/63, para. 8; HMMA 21845, 7/30/63, para. 8.

For handling of English language conversations see

Sections II, C, 4, b, (31, (c), (d) and (e) below.

241/ DIR 88680, 12/13/63; Goodpasture Testimoy, 4/13/78, p. 63;

Phillips

Testimony, 11/27/76; P. 43.

242/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 3.

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243/ Ibid.

244/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 11.

245/ After the assassination Healquarters asked Mexico City

not to destroy

any of the Soviet tapes from this opera-

tion. (DIR 87770, 12/9/631.

A note written by Ann Good-

pasture in 1963 seems to sonfirm Arehart's assumption

that the tapes were retained at the station.

(The Soviet tap operation) people just keep bring-

ing in the reels to me (the ones I give them are not

labeled so they don't necessarily know which ones

Ieturn.) The storage problem is one for us and as

the reels come in with transcriptions, I store them.

When we can erase them, I'll take off the labels

and send them back out.

(Note by Ann Goodpasture, 12/10/63, attached to DIR 87770.

12/9/63. Second parenthetical in original.)

246/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3,78, p. 5.

247/ Emphasis added. Mr. Arehat was absolutely positive that

Cuban tapes were retainer for thirty days because he

maintained them in the special rack. (Arehart Interview,

6/2/78, p. 3.) Hence, the two week "usual practice" is

probably not correct inscfar as the Cuban tapes are con-

cerned.

248/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/'6, pp. 40-47.

249/ Ibid.

250/ Ibia., p. 47.

251/ p. 5.

252/.p. 8.

253/ p. 61.

254/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, ?.

8; Tab F Draft, p. 5; HSCA

Deposition of H. Manell,

3/28/78, pp. 28-29; Boris Tara-

soff Testimony, 4/21/78,

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Interview, 6/3/78, P. 4; Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 4.

255/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/14/78, p. 19.

256/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/14/78, pp. 2-3.

257/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.

258/ Ibid.

259/ Ibid.

See also Section (e, below.

260/ Classified Staff Summary 0: Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

pp. 2-4.

261/ Levister Memo, P. 32.

262/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/1:/78, p. 8; Boris and Anna Tara-

soff Interview, 4/11/78; Boris and Anna Tarasoff Interview,

11/30/76, p. 17.

of the Embassy which was tiped

sy in on ,

The Span.sh transcriptions had the name

at the top of the first

page of each transcript. ('ranscript here means one day's

coverage on one telephone ine.) Following the name of

the Embassy, the number of the phone covered is given.

The date and times of cove:age follow immediately after

the phone number.

been the 8

The reel number is also given at the

top of the page.

Along the left-hand column of the page

is the cite to the meter nimber on the tape recorder

where the transcribed conversation is located. Generally,

the time that the conversa:ion occured, and a notation as

to whether it is an incomig or outgoing call, appears

at the beginning of the transcribed conversations.

sified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Document, 3/9/78,

p. l; Goodpasture Testimon,, 4/13/78, pp. 69-70.)

format of the transcripts

The

from the Cuban Embassy was essen-

tially the same as the fornat of the Spanish language

transcripts from the Soviet Embassy.

(Classified Staff

Summary of Review of CIA documents, 5/12/78, pp. 1-2;

Classified Staff Summary of Review

of CIA Documents,

3/9/78,

pp. 1-2.) Conversations that were in Russian were noted

on the Spanish transcript vere a number referring to the

place on the reel where the conversation occurred

(Classi-

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1798; Tarasolt Interview,

4/11/78 TarasoffInterview, 11/30/76, pp. 17-18.;

264/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; B. Targooff Testimony, 4/12/78,

p. 9.

285/ Ibid! Mr. Tarasoff preparel an original and two carbon

copies of all of his traiscriptions

4/12/78, p. 15.). One ca-bon was cut and pasted onto

a separate sheet of pape:, with the conversations grouped

by identity of the calle: or by subject matter.

she not pape:

This

was done by Mrs. Tarasoff. (Ibid., and p. 19.) The

original, one intact carson and the one cut up carbon

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266/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 09.

252/ Ibia., p. 12.

A 368/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; Pal/F Draft, p. 5.

2à8/

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 61

270/ Goodpasture rest

#2; Phillips Testimony,

11/27/76, p. 36;

A. Tarasoff Rostimony, 4/12/78, pp.

8-11; B. Manell Depositio1, 4/28/78, p. 28.

273/ fab F Draft, pp. 5-6: Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, Pp. 36-37.

- 2221 Arehart Interview, 9/2/78,

3. 5; HMMA/2267, 10/8/63.

8; HMMA 41845, 1/30'63, para. 8; HMMA<22452, 11/7/63,

para. 8.

278/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 3. 5.

279/ Ibid. The daily resuma for spanish language conversations

(See Section

II, C.

4, b, (1); above) largely negated

the need for a smiliar procedure for Spanish language

conversations in

that the important and/or interesting

ones were summarized in the resuma.

2281 Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 3. 5.

278/ Ibid.

20// Ibia.

278/ Ibia.

Ait. 229/ HMMA 22005, 8/23/63, para. 4.

see also Levister Memo, p. 19.

280/ A. Tarasoff/ Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 8-12.

28// Ibid.

-

11

282/

HMMA 22005, 8/23/63, para. 4.

\783/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p.

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285/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 8-12.

286/ Ibia., p. 12; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 62-63.

287/ Ibid.

288/ Ibid.:

HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 8.

289/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 63; Phillips Testimony,

11/27/76, p.. 14.

290/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, ?. 3; Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76,

pp. 14-16; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 54, 63.

291/ Ibid.

292/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attached to HMMA 25141.

293/ HMMA-22135, 9/13/63, para. 3; HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para.. 3.

294/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

p. 1.

295/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 7.

296/

Ibid., pp. 16-19; Classified Staff Summary of Review of

CIA Documents, 3/9/78, PE. 3-4.

297/ Ibia., pp. 2-3.

298/ B. Tarasoff. Testimony, 4/1:/78, p. 30.

299/ Ibia., p. 13.

300/ Ibia.

301/ Ibid.,P. 14; Manell Interv: ew, 3/20/78, pp. 4 and 11.

302/ See Section II above.

303/ See Section II, C, 4 above.

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304/ See Sections II, A and B above.

305/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

p: 5: MEXI 7025. 11/23/63.

306/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.

307/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

p. 6.

308/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

pp. 6-7; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.

309/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

pp. 7-10; MEXI 7025,, 11/23/63; CIA Transcript from Rus-

sian Embassy, 9/27/63.

310/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

3/9/78, pp. 10-12, CIA T'ranscript from Russian Embassy,

9/28/63.

311/ Classified Staff Summary Of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

p: 12; CIA Transcript frum Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.

312/ CIA Mexico City Investigat: on Chronology, Bulky #WX-7241,

Vol: I, p. 3.

The transcript of this call does not

give the time the call ocured. (CIA Transcript from

Russian Embassy, 10/1/63 )

313/ Classified Staff Summary 0: Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,

pp. 12-14; CIA Transcrip: from the Russian Embassy,

10/1/63.

314/ Classified Staff Summary Of Review of CIA Documents,

3/9/78,

p. 14; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy,

10/3/63.

315/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63. See also MEXI 6453, 10/8/63 and

Section IV, B, below.

316/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63. (Mexico City copy.)

317/ Ibid.

318/ Ibid.

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319/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

5/12/78, P. 1.

On September 27, 1963, at 10:54 a.I.,

the following call occured. • A woman named silvia

named Guillermo Ruiz.

Ruiz tells her that he has

not

yet been able to reach the consul and because of that.

he has not called her.

Silvia tells him that "we"

have no time for that and

asks him for the Consul's

phone number.: Ruiz respords by asking her not to get

annoyed and he wants to know if Silvia wishes to speak

to the Consul personally. Silvia responds that she

does.

Ruiz says that the number is 11-28-47. Silvia

says that is fine and the conversation ends. (CIA

transcript from Cuban

Embassy,

9/27/63.) It cannot be

determined whether this caller was indeed Silvia Duran or

if she subsequently callei the Consul since Duran's of-

fice phone was not tapped.. The tap was on the telephone

used by Ruiz.

320/ Classifed Staff Summaries of Review of CIA Documents,

undated

and 5/12/78.

321/ See Sections II, A and B abrive.

322/ See Sections II, Cr. 4, b, (i), (c) and (a) above.

323/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12,78.

324/ See Section III, A, 1 above.

325/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12,78, p. 4.

326/ Ibid.

327/ Ibid., p. 6.

328/ Ibid.

329/ Ibid

330/ Ibid.

331/

Ibid. See also Sections II, C. 4, b, (3), (c) and (e),

above.

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332/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 7-8.

333/ Ibid:

334/ See Section II, C, 4 b, (3), (e) above.

335/ A. Tarasoff

Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 7-8.

336/ Ibid., p. 9..

337/ Ibid., p. 10.

338/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 25.

339/ Ibid., p. 26.

340/ Ibid.

341/ Ibid., p. 27.

342/ Ibid., p. 33.

343/ Ibid.

344/ See Section II, C, 4, b, (3), (e), above.

345/. See Section III, B below.

346/ Blind Memo re: Lee Harvey swald/Silvia Tirado de Duran,

Source: LI/4, 11/26/63, 3. 5.

347/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 10. It is also in-

teresting

to note that Ms. Duran's statement that Oswald

had blond hair,

is also left out of subsequent CIA

and Mexican official reports.

(See Section V, C and VI, A

below.)

348/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 52-53.

349/ Daniel Stanley Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 1.

350/ Ibid., p. 2.r

351/ Ibid. James Angleton testified that he had in fact cleaned

out win Scott's safe but

that he had not found any

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(HSCA Deposition of James Angleton,

10/5/78, p. 116.)

352/ Classified Letter from Blakey to Breckinridge, 7/6/78:

353/ Draft of letter from Scott =0 John Barron, 11/25/70,

p. 3.

Emphasis added.

354/ Foul Foe manuscript, p. 267.

355/ See discussion above.

356/ Blind Memo re: Lee Harvey Cswald/Silvia Tirado de Duran;

Source: LI/4, 11/26/63, F. 5.

357/ See Sections V, C and VI, A., below.

358/ Eusebio Azcue Public Testiminy, 9/18/78, pp. 33-35.

359/ See Section II, C,

3 above.

360/ See Sections II, A and B, i bove.

361/ See below.

362/ See below.

363/ It should be noted that the two sets of photographs which

are missing are the most relevant of all the photographs

produced by the Mexico C.ty surveillance operations.

Had a photograph of Oswald been obtained, it would

have most likely have been done by one or both of the

bases from which production is missing.

Oswald visited

the Cuban Consulate whic, was covered by a pulse camera.

The photographs of people entering the Cuban Embassy

have been made available to this Committee for review

but

the materialfrom the pulse camera which covered

the entrance

to the Consulate which Oswald visited has

not been forthcoming. (See Section II, A, 3, above, for

details.)

The documented standard operating proce-

düre of the Soviet target bases indicates that LILYRIC,

the base from which production was not forthcoming,

would have been the one in operation at the time of

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(See Sec:ion

II, B, 4 above and

Section (b) below for detiils.)

In addition, HMMA-

14793, 4/8/60, indicated hat the base from which pro-

duction is missing "perfo ms the

best photography of

persons visiting the fron: gate."

364/ Deposition of John Scelso,

5/16/78, p. 95; HSCA Deposi-

tion of Elsie I. Scaletti, 5/19/78, p. 65; HSCA Depo-

sition of Allen White, 5/18/78, p. 42; HSCA Deposi-

tion of H. Manell, 4/28/73, p. 51; Ann Goodpasture,

4/13/78, p. 98.

365/

See preceding Section III, A, l. In fact, Oswald may

have visited the Soviet Embassy 3 times also.

See

analysis in Classified Letter from Turner to Stokes

10/25/78, JFK Classified Document #146.

366/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 6.

367/ See Section III, A, 1, abore.

368/ See Sections II, A and B, ¿bove.

369/ See Sections II, A, 3 and JI, B, 3 above.

370/ HSCA Outside Contact Report:, Phillip Agee, 1/6/78, JFK

Document No. 004578.

371/ Phillip Agee Interview, 1/1/78, p. 1, JFK Document No. 004633.

372/ Ibia., p. 3.

373/ "Elsie Scaleti" is the CIA assigned pseudonym of this

individual.

374/ Agee Interview, 1/11/78, P?:

3-4.

375/ Ibia.

376/ Ibia•

377/ Ibid.

378/ Ibid.

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pp. 5-6.

380/ Ibia-i pp. 6-7.

381/ Ibid.,

p. 11.

382/ Ibid., pp. 18-19.

383/ Ibid., p. 12.

384/ Daniel Stanley Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 1.

385/ Ibid.

386/ Ibid.

387/ Ibia.

388/ Ibid.

389/ Ibid.

390/ Ibid.

391/ Ibid.

392/ Ibia.

393/ Ibid. and p. 2.

394/ Ibid., p. 2.

395/ See HSCA Deposition of James Angleton, 105/78 , p. 116.

396/ Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 2.

397/ Ibid.

398/ Joseph B. Smith Interview, 10/19/77, p. 2, JFK Document

No. 003012.

399/ Ibid.

400/ Ibid.

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No.

008279.

402/ Ibia.,

p. 6.

403/ Ibid.

404/ Ibid.

405/ Ibid.

406/ Ibia.

407/

Ibid.

408/

Ibid., and p. 7.

Des Fitzgerald was the Chief of the CIA's

Cuban Task Force in 1964.

Droller was a CIA Officer.

409/ Ibid., p. 7. Mr. Smith explained the "Counter-Intelligence

mentality"by saying that people who had it were "rabid

anti-Communists"

(Smith Interview, 11/2/77, P. 3, JFK

Document No. 003012) and "confirmed believers

in the

world Communist conspiracy theory...These guys actually

believed that the split between the Russians and Chinese

was a great deceptive operation.

Colby (former Director

of Central Intelligence) even says something more amaz-

iny.. He claims that Angleton absolutely believed that

all CIA operations were run by the KGB. (Soviet Intelli-

gence.)

He says Angletor (former Chief of Counter-In-

telligence for the CIA) believed that every top Soviet

defector we took in was a plant.

I think that's incredi-

ble but I know there were some guys on his staff were

his true believers.

(Smith Interview, 4/20/78, p. 3.

JFK Document No. 008279.)

410/ Ibid., p. 7.

411/ Ibid.

412/ Ibid.

413/ Ibid.

414/

Joseph Piccolo Interview, ≤ /11/78, p. 1.

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/ 416/ Ibid.

417/ Ibia.

/ 418/ Ibid.

419/ Ibid.

420/ Ibid., p. S 4.

- 121/ Ibid, p..1?

422/ Ibid. jp.5.

1423/ Ibid.

/ 424/ Ibia.

/ 425/ Ibia.

426/ Ibid.

427/ Ibid.

V 428/ Ibid.

/ 429/ Ibid.

430/ Ibid:

431/ Ibid. +8p7-45.

/ 432/ Ibia., p. 6.

433/ Dan Neiscue IntervieW, 8/9/18, p. 2, JEK Sanfierl

<434/ Ibid.

435/ Ibid.

436/ Ibid.

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438/

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439/ Ibia:

440/ Ibid.

441/ Ibid.

442/ Ibid:

443/ Ibid.

the above detailed allegations, it is im

portant to distinguish between the allegation that a

photograph was found at headquarters as opposed to the

assertion that a photograph was found in Mexico City.

It is also important to remember that these allegations

are what can be termed "grapevine stores."

There was

a photograph found in Mexico City of a man that was

thought possibly to be Oswalc.

This photograph and

the circumstances surrounding it will be dealt with in

a subsequent section.

Ms. Arne Goodpasture of the

Mexico City Station found

this photograph. (See below.)

In the absence of any evidence otherwise--Note: The

Watson

allegation says there was a photo in Mexico City in the

mid-60's; not that it was found there--it is most

likely that the grapevine stories about a photo being

found in Mexico arise from M:;. Goodpasture's report-

ing

the photo of the man who has since become known as

the Mexico mystery man in the same cable that reported

Oswald's visit to the soviet Embassy.:

(See below.)

The findings of this Committee regarding the general

Mexico City surveillance operations are presented in

Section II, A and B above.

In suminary.

this Committee

found that there were three photographic surveillance

bases (four cameras) that may have photographed Lee

Harvey Oswald in September and October of 1963.

This

was determined

from

analysis of project files for these

operations and the testimony of CIA officials.

(See

preceding sections.)

445/ Letter from Blakey to Carpentier, 3/2/78, JFK Document No. 005879.

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446/ See JFK Classified Document No. 146; HSCA Classified

Staff Summary of Review o: CIA Documents, undated; HSCA

Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

5/12/78;

JFK Classified Document No. 142; and Sections

II, A, 4 and II, B, 3 abore.

447/ See JFK Classified Document No. 142; JFK Classified Docu-

ment No. 146.

448/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 37, 96; HSCA

Deposition of Ann Elizabe:h Goldsborough Egerter,

5/17/78, P. 73; HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,

p. 56; HSCA Deposition of Allen White, 5/18/78, P. 25;

HSCA Deposition of H. Mane11, 4/28/78, pp. 20,

47;

David Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 67; David Phillips

Testimony, 4/25/78,

p. 44; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,

4/13/78, pp.. 77, 97.

449/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, pp. 6-7.

450/ Elsie Scaleti Interview, 3/30/78, pp. 3-4.

451/ Ibid.

452/ Ibid.

453/ Ibia.

454/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 31.

455/ Ibid.

456/ In addressing this questior, the HSCA staff reviewed all

the cable and dispatch traffic between Mexico City

'and

Headquarters for the perjod from October 1, 1963 to

26 November 1963 in an attempt to determine whether Os-

wald's photo may have been sent to Headguarters.

This

examination also reveale no evidence that a photograph

of Oswald was sent to CIl. Headquarters.

This Committee

did find that there were several types of communications

between Headquarters and

field stations that were treated

as non-record material.

Because of the non-record nature

of these communications, it was not possible to review

that material.

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457/ See Section II, A, 3 above.

458/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.

459/ See Section II, A, 3 above.

460/ Ibid.

461/

HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, attachments B and C.

462/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaletti, 5/19/78, pp. 44-47.

463/ HSCA Deposition of Ann E. C. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 70; HSCA

Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p. 31.

464/ Ibid.

465/ Ibid.,. and p. 32.

466/ Ibid.,

p. 7.

467/ Ibid., p: 47.

468/ Ibid. Emphasis added:

469/ Foul Foe manuscript, p. 27:

470/ See Section III, A, I above for a more detailed exposition

of the conversations.

471/ Memorandum to Clark Anderson from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,

with

seven attachments.

472/ Ibid.

473/ Ibid., P. 1.

474/ Ibia.

475/ Ibid., p. 9.

476/ Warren Commission Testimons of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,

Vol. II, p. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo

Rodriguez, 1/21/64. Vol. II, P. 341; Commission Exhibit

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2120, p. 7; Commission Exribit 2121, p. 54. CF, Warren

Commission

Testimony of Nelson Delgado, Vol. VIII,

p. 236. and 237 in which i: is claimed that Oswald spoke

Castillian Spanish.

477/ CIA Transcript

from Russian Embassy, 10/3/63.

478/ If one assumes that Oswald could not speak any Spanish

then only two conclusions about the first three calls

of 9/27/63 are possible: 1) either these calls do not

pertain to Oswald, or 2) they do pertain to Oswald

but were made by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald.

This second possible conclusion will be addressed in

a more detailed fashion in subsequent sections due to

its ramifications vis a vis Oswald's activities and pos-

sible associates as opposed to the substance of the in-

formation available to the CIA Station prior to the

assassination.

479/ Warren Commission Exhibit 2121, p. 112.

480/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78.

481/ CIA Transcript from Russiar Embassy, 10/1/63; MEXI 6453,

10/8/63. This cable was sent from Mexico on 8 October

and was received by Head uarters on 9 October.

Hence.

it is alternately referred to as either the 10/8 or

10/9 cable.

482/ CIA Transcript from Russiar. Embassy, 10/1/63; B. Tarasoff

Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. :6-28.

483/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/78.

484/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/28/63.

485/ A "p" file is simply a personality file.

It was the Mexico.

• City Station equivalent f a

201 file.

486/ Ibid.

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487/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78,

p. 38; HSCA

Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p.

488/ Ibid.

489/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.

490/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript fron Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.

491/

Ibid.

492/ Ibid.; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 76.

493/ Ibid. HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.

494/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 69; HSCA Depo-

sition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39,

495/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA

Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, P. 46; HSCA

Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-99.

496/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 107; MEXI

6453,10/8/631 para.

497/ 1977 CIA Inspector General's Neport, Tab G-2, pp. 2-3.

Hereinafter cited as '77 IGR.

498/ See Sections III, B, 2, above,

and IV, B, below:

499/ D. Phillips Interview, 8/24/78;

Report on Oswald from

John Scelso: to J. Angle:on, 12/24/63, p. 4.

500/ Ibid.

501/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/78.

502/ Ibia.

503/ See Section II, C, 4, b, (il), above.

504/ HSCA Deposition of B. Mane: 1, 4/28/78, p. 72; HSCA Deposi-

•tion of H. Manell, 4/28/8, p. 38.

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505/ CIA Transcript from Soviet Imbassy, 9/27/63; HSCA Deposi-

tion. of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 76.

506/ CIA transcripts from Russiar. Embassy, 9/27/63.

507/ Tab F Draft, P. 5.

508/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 1p. 4-5.

509/ HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 4;

see also Section II, C, 4.

above.

510/ Ibia.

511/ Ibid.: Arehart Interview, 6,2/78, p. 5; Testimony of B.

Tarasoff, 4/12/78; P. 10.

512/ Testimony of Boris Tarasoff.

4/12/78, P. 11; Testimony

of A. Tarasoff, 4/12/78, 1. 14.

513/ Tab F Draft, p. 5.

514/ Ibid.

515/ Tab F Draft, p. 5; Precedin, Section II, B, 5; Log Film

144. 10/1/63 through 10/3, 63.

516/ See Nightwatch, pp. 140-141.

517/ David A. Phillips Testimony. 11/27/76, p. 64.

518/ MEXI 6453, 10/8/63.

519/ Ibia.

520/ Ibid.

521/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 58; HSCA Depo-

sition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 35.

522/ Classified HSCA Staff Summasy of CIA documents, undated,

entitled "Periodic File Simmary - Dave Phillips - 3

Components."

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523/ Blind Memorandum entitled "Jelay in Sending the first

'able about Oswald."

524/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert lanell, 4/28/78, p. 30.

525/ Tab F Draft, P. 5; MEXI 6453, 10/8/63; HSCA Deposition

of B. Manell,. 4/28/78, pp. 62-63; HSCA Deposition of

Herbert Manell, 4/28/63, 3. 21.

526/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 56-57.

527/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,

6/26/78, р. 4.

528/ Ibid:

529/ Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 65. CE. "Foul Foe".

manuscript, p. 268, where Win Scott writes: "In fact,

Lee Harvey Oswald became a person of great interest

to us during this 27 September to 2 October 1963 period";

and on page 269, where hewrites: "Because we thought at

first that Lee Harvey Oswald might be a dangerous po-

tential defector from the U.S.A. to the Soviet Union,

he was of great interest to us, so we kept a special

watch on him and his activities."

530/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 25.

531/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, pP. 25-26.

532/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 26.

533/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 36.

534/ See above. Cf. "Foul

Foe' manuscript,. pp. 268-269.

535/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 52.

536/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, P. 26-28.

537/ Ibid.

538/ HSCA Deposition of H. Mane: 1, 4/28/78, p. 30.

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539/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manel:, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52.

The

HSCA has requested

of any internal regulations

or any liaison agreement with the Federal Bureau of

Investigation that may hare been in existence in 1963.

(Letter to Breckinridge, 1/20/78.)

The CIA responded

"that there are not now, or were there any, agreements

between the CIA and FBI:O: other U.S. government agen-

cies concerning CIA respo sibility to report on contacts

of U.s. cutizens with Comnunist Embassies or officials...

The CIA under operative legislation has a counterintelli-

gence responsibility for counterintelligence cases

but it is notamatter of ag/eement with other agencies nor

does it concern simple contacts of Americans abroad with

Communist Embassies or officials." (Memorandum to

Breckinridge from Shepanes, 7/31/78.)

540/

HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p.

69; HSCA Deposi-.

tion of H. Manell, 4/28/73, pp. 38-39,

541/ See Section III, B, 2, above.

542/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, PP. 59-60.

543/ Ibid., p. 62.

544/ Ibid., p. 59.

545/ MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 1.

546/ Tab F Draft, P. 5; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78,

pp. 62-63, 66; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78,

p. 21; MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 1.

547/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell,. 4/28/78, pp. 62-63.

548/ MEXI 6453, 10/8/63, para. 2.

The connection of this photo-

graph to Oswald by including the description in the

cable that reported Oswald's contact. with the Soviet Em-

bassy has created more confusion and controversy: than

perhaps any other CIA related issue stemming from as-

sassination.

Conseguently, this Committee has made an

attempt to determine the circumstances surrounding the

mistaken linkäge

of this photograph to Oswald as well

as the consequences of that mistake.

The consequences

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subsequent sections.

549/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 33; HSCA Deposi-

tion

of John

Scelso,.5/16/78, p. 35; Ann Goodpasture

Testimony, 4/13/78, PP. 81, 86-87.

550/ HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 28.

551/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 107.

See also Ann

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, P. 84; and HSCA Deposi-

tion of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 32.

552/ Log Film 143, 9/25/63 through 9/27/63.

553/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Goodpasture, 11/16/70, pP. 57-58.

554/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.

555/ This mistake was evidently not discovered until 1976.

See

WX7241, a chronology of the Mexico City investigation

prepared by Raymond Rocca in 1967 which lists the date

as 1 October; A note on FMMW-15488, 5/18/67 which indi-

cates that Ann Goodpasture checked the photographs and

that

"negatives are in LIMITED photo chrono for 1 Oct

1963."

556/ Log film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63.

557/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 102.

558/ See Classified HSCA Staff Lummary of Review of CIA Docu-

ments, 6/26/78, po. 3-5.

559/ DIR 84888, 11/23/63.

560/ See Section III, A, 5 above.

561/ MEXI 6453, 10/9/63.

562/ Ibid.

563/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 34; HSCA Depo-

sition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, p. 26.

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565/ Ibid.

566/ Ibid. A restricted file is i method of keeping abreast of

any information that deve ops on the subject of the file.

The file is marked to ind cate that it cannot be reviewed

without the permission of the person who made the re-

striction.

The effect is that if anyone wants to see

the file, the custodian o the file learns of that de-

sire and the information leading to it. (HSCA Deposi-

tion of Ann E. G. Egerter. 5/19/78, p. 51.)

567/ See Section

568/ HSCA Deposition of A. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 77.

569/ Deposition of Elsie Scaleti. 5/19/78, p. 29.

570/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Eger-er, 5/17/78, pp. 78-79.

571/ Ibia., pp. 70-71; HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti,

5/19/78, p. 33.

572/

Ibid. The Zed (Greenwich) times stamped on the cable and

the teletype indicates that the teletype was sent before

the cable.

573/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63.

574/ Ibid:

575/ Ibid.

576/ Ibia.

578/ Ibid.

577/ Teletype from CIA to State, FBI and Navy, DIR 74678, 10/10/63.

579/ The mistaken identification of Oswald as "Lee Henry" is

dealt with in another section of this final report.

580/ HSCA Deposition of A. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 77.

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581/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scileti, 5/19/78, pp. 34-35.

582/ Ibid.

583/ Ibid., pp. 35-37/

584/ Elsie Scaleti Interview, 3/30/78, p.

585/ Ibia., pp. 11-13.

586/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 37.

587/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 51.

588/

Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James Angleton,

C/CI, 12/24/63, p. 4.

589/

HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 40-43.

Empha-

sis added.

590/ Ibid.

591/ See preceding text.

592/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78; p. 31.

593/ Ibid., p.

30; See also HSCt. Deposition of Juhn Scelso,

5/16/78, pp. 27,

28.

594/ See HSCA Deposition of Johri Scelso,

5/16/78, pp. 40-43,

51; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p.

37; HMMA-

22005, 8/23/63, para.: 4.

595/ '77 IGR, Tab G.3, p. 3.

596/ 'Ibid.

597/ Teletypes from CIA to State, FBI and Navy, 10/10/63, DIR

74678.

598/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell,

tion of B. Manell, 4/28/18,

4/28/78, p.

pp. 89-90.

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599/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, p. 30.

600/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pP. 90-91; Ann Good-

pasture Testiony, 4/13/73, p. 142.

601/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 92-93.

602/ Scott's manuscript may provide a clue when he writes that

during his first contact with the Soviet Embassy, Oswald

"gave his name very slowly and distinctly."

(Foul. Foe

Manuscript, p. 267.) If Oswald used his midale name at

that time it would explain why Scott wrote "sic." by

"Henry."

But it should be noted that Oswald's name

does not come up in any of the transcripts made available

by the CIA until 10/1/63, and Oswald's middle name is

not given in that transcript. It is possible that

there is one additional transcript, possibly of the con-

versation that Scott, or page 267

of his manuscript,

refers

to as Oswald's "first contact," which, if in exis-

tence, has not been made available to this Committee.

(See Section III, A, 5, above.)

603/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63.

604/ HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 35; Ann Good-

pasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 104.

605/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony. 4/13/78, p. 105.

606/ Emphasis in original.

607/ Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63.

608/ HSCA Deposition of Alan Write, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA

Deposition of H. Manell,

4/28/78, p.

HSCA Deposi-

tion of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pP.

84-86, 88-89.

609/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 43-44; David

A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p.

89.

610/ HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, P. 37.

611/ See Section III, A, 7, atove.

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612/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

613/ Note on Article by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "CIA

Withheld Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission,"

10/21/64.

614/ The Chief of the Mexico Branch at Headguarters has told

this Committee that it is his belief that the tapes were

probably still in existence at the time of the assas-

sination. (HSCA Depositicn of John Scelso, 5/16/78,

p. 76-77.) But the tesitmony of the persons at the

Mexico City Station is consistent in saying that the

tapes did not exist at the time of the assassination.

(See HSCA Deposition of Fobert Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 29;

HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 20; David

A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 63; David A. Phil-

lips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 17, 23; Ann Goodpasture

Testimony, 4/13/78, р. 94.)

615/ See Section II, C, 4, bi (:)e (e); Tab F Draft, pp. 5-6.

616/ If the 9/28/63 conversation received expedited handling

also it is possible that it would have been in the

Station prior to the first or second of October.

617/ A. Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 95.

618/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2:

619/ MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, para. 2.

620/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63, para. 4.

621/ MEXI 7054, 11/24/63, para. 3.

622/ See discussion in text abore and below.

623/ See Section II, C, 4, above:

624/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p.

94.

625/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 95-96; See also

pp. 77, 93, 110.

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0626/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/1:/78, pp. 12, 13.

1627/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 28.

628/ See discussion above. •

629/ See footnote 614 above.

~ 630/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 96.

63/ HSCA Deposition Of Robert shaw, 5/16/18, p.129;.

'ISCA De-

position of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 20; 'David A

Phillips Testimony, 11/21/76, p. 63; David A. Phillips

Testimony, 4/25/78, PP. 17-23; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,

4/13/78, p. 94.v

l' 632/ HSCA Deposition of John Sc:1s0, pp. 76-77:

633/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78,pp. 12, 13.

~ 634/ See Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 94-95, 77.

~635/ HSCA Deposition of H. ManeL1, 4/28/78, p. 28.

636/ H. Manell and B. Manell In erview, 3/28/78, PP.14 ISCA

Deposition of

Allan White, 5/18/78, pP. 33-34;

Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 88-89, 84-86;

VHSCA Deposition of H. Marell, 4/28/78, PP. 38-39, 46.

U 637/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 75. Emphasis

added.

V 638/ Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63.

V 639/ MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.

Dicine

640/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 96.

641/ H. Manell and B. Manell Interview, 318/78,

p. 14-45; ViscA

Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 33-34; VHSCA Ne-

position of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pP. 84-86,

88-89; HSCA

Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39, 46; Ann

Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 75.

See

also Sec-

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642/ Memorandum for the Ambassador frcm Winston M. Scott, re:

Lee OSWALD/Contact with the Soriet Embassy, 10/16/63.

Emphasis added.

643/ Manell Interview, 3/28/78, p. 17

644/ Ibia., p. 18.

645/ There are some cryptic references to the CIA Station trying

to determine Oswald's whereabouts after receiving the

10/11 cable. (See Testimony of Ann Goodpasture, 4/13/78,

p. 113. ) The procedures used in this attempt and the

actions that may have been taken have not been deter-

mined. If any records exist f these efforts they have

not

_been made available

to this Committee.

646/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie I. Scaleti, 5/19/78, p. 43.

647/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 61-62.

648/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie I. Sca eti, 5/19/78, pp. 29-30.

649/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 44-47.

650/ HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78, pp. 62, 69.

651/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, p. 36.

652/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 111-114.

653/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 75-76; See also

Ibid., p. 81.

654/ See discussion above.

655/ Phillips Interview, 8/30/78, P 5.

656/ Foul Foe manuscript, PP. 268-2;9. Emphasis added.

657/ HSCA. Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 63-64.

658/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 64-65.

659/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 96.

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659-B/ Ibid.

659-C/

MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, раґ. 3.

659-D/

MEXI 7203, 11/23/63, раrz. 3.

660/ HSCA Depositin of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 53.

661/ JFK Classified Document, #131.

662/ Ibia.

663/ MEXI 7029, 11/23/63, para. 1.

664/ Clasified HSCA Staff Summary, 3/15/78, p. 11.

565/ See Section III, B, 2, above.:

666/ MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, para. 2.

667/ DIR 84802, 11/22/63; para. 1. The sequence of the cables

can be determined in that they were numbered sequen-

tially as they were sent.

In this regard it should be

noted that this system can indicate the order in which

he cables were sent but rot the order in which they

were written because, at least in Mexico, several of

the Station officers were drafting and sending cables.

Hence, the order of writing them may not be the same

as the order in which they were sent.

668/ MEXI 7014; see preceding paragraph.

669/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para.

1.

670/ Ibid, para. 2

671/ Ibid., para. 3.

672/ HSCA Deposition of John Scrlso, 5/16/78, p. 37.

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673/ David A. Phillips interview, 8/24/78, P. 16; Routing and

Record Sheet for MEXI 7033, 11/23/63; HSCA Deposition

of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 45, 87.

674/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2.

675/ MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.

676/ MEXI. 7024, 11/23/63, para. 6.

677/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.

678/ MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

679/ HSCA staff have wondered whether or not the Mexico City

Station was entirely forthcoming of their own will

with Headquarters.

This speculation was based on three

pieces of information.

The first is the report in

MEXI 7024 that Headquarters had all the available in-

formation.

The second i: a note from Win Scott on the

Routing and Record Sheet for MEXI 7.033 which says:

I had a call from Wastington ( John Scelso) at

1620 hours on 23/xI.

I told John Scelso

at

1630 hours (our time) on 23/XI that this would

be on route to him.

The third is

a cable reporting that on the 23rd Win

Scott had an urgent call to see the President of

Mexico. The cable reporis that Scott expected the

President to express his condolences over the assas-

sination but

"developed : hat (Mexican agent) had

to velope

located call to Soviet Elbassy of Lee Oswald

made on 28 September.

Bi:lieve fact that (President

of Mexico) aware of this contact (from our joint

operation)

and passed da:a to COS is important."

• (MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, paras. 2 and 3)

The Committee declines to speculate that the Mexico City

Station

was possibly considering not reporting all

the information availabl:to them. It was considered

that this may have been contemplated in order to pro-

tect. themselves from a charge about their failure to

report the information prior to the assassination.

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The discovery that the Mexicans were also aware of

the conversations would have made holding back the

transcripts perilous in that the Mexicans.could have

revealed their existence to the detriment of the

Station. Hence, the full report followed very shortly

after the meeting between the Mexican President and

Win Scott, and immediately after Scott discussed the

situation with his nominal superior in Washington

by telephone.

Scott's superior was

asked about this.

He said that he did not remember the substance of

his telephone call to Wir Scott on the 23rd.

(HSCA

Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p. 88)

'"I do

not have any idea

why (I called).

I may have been

ordered to call him on ary number of things." (Ibid.,

p. 87.1

He was also asked about Scott's meeting

with the Mexican Presidert.

You get a psychological question. The Chief

of Station is called in to speak to the Presi-

dent of Mexico.

There had been a big fight

when the new Ambassader got there--no, it wasn't

that.

It was a very peculiar situation in Mexi-

co whereby the Mexicar. President's primary con-

tact with the U.S. government was through our

Chief of Station rather than through the Ambas-

sadors.

This caused 1:0 great problem with the

then-Ambassador whose näme I have forgctten.

Q: Thomas Mann?

A: Yes.

He was a ver!' fine guy and recognized

the usefulness of this arrangement. The next

Ambassador, MI. Freman, tried to cut Win

Scott out of contart with the President of

Mexico, whereupon the President of Mexico

called in Win Scoti: and said, "I want you to

send a cable to thr: White House telling them

I am not going to deal with

this jackass, I

want to deal only with you."

So, the result was. eventually, Winston

Scott and Ambassador. Freeman went to the

White House and talked to President Johnson

and straightened the whole thing out in favor

of Winston Scott.

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So, Scott is just emarking that it is

interesting that the President of

Mexico is

aware of our telepione operation.

Q: He should have beer since it was a liaison

operation.

A: Yes.

But you do not always know whether he

was informed.

I trink we always knew he was

informed.

I think we always knew he was in-

formed. It is jus: significant that the per-

son calls you in aid says, here is some intel-

ligence about the. fennedy thing.

(HSCA Deposition of John ¿celso, 5/16/78, pp. 83-84.)

Win Scott indicated that le was going to write a memoran-

dum concerning his meetin, with the President of Mexi-

co.

(Routing and Record shhet for MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.)

If Mi. Scott wrote such a memo, it has not been made

available to the HSCA. David Phillips, who after serv-

went on to accumulate quite an impres-

sive record as a Chief of Station in several countries

himself, told Committee i vestigators that a memoran-

dum of this sort, along with other "sensitive" informa-

tion would be the type of thing that win Scott probabiy

kept in his private safe. (David A. Phillips Interview,

Mr. Phillips added that he did not

know what happened to Mr. Scott's safe after he died

but he had heard vague stories about someone finding

a lot of documents that Sott had kept. (Ibid.)

680/ MEXI 7054- 11/24/63, para. 3.

681/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.

682/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.

683/ MEXI 7023, 11/26/63, para. 2.

684/ See Section II, C, 4, above.

685/ For example, MEXI 7023 reports that a voice comparison

was not done while MEXI 7025 implies that one was done

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and a year later Ann Good,asture noted on a newspaper

article that such

a comparison was done.

Note also

that MEXI 7024 reported tat HQ had all the available

information when in fact all conversations were reported

in a later cable, MEXI 7033.

685/ See Section lIlI, A, 1, above.

686/ See Section III,. A, 1, above.

687/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

688/ See Section III, A, l, above.

689/

Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;

Cable re Oswald-Duran,

MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA

No. 441; Raymond Rocca

Chronology. Wx 7241, Entry 36,

November 23, 1963, CIA NC. 635.

690/ Ibid.

691/ See below, p:

692/

Note written by Winston Scett re phone call with John

Scelso, November 23, 196:; Chronology prepared by Ray-

mond Rocca, WX7241, entrs 37, November 23, 1963, CIA

No. 635.

693/ Ibid.

694/ Ibia.

695/ Chief of Station phone cali. to Luis Echevarria, November 23,

1963, CIA NO. 440; Flash Cable from Karamessines to

Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA

No. 403; Chronology of Riymond Rocca, entry 46, Novem-

ber 23,

1963, CIA No. 636.

696/ Blind Memo Ie Lee Harvey O::wald and Silvia Duran, Novem-

ber 26, 1963, CIA #473.

697/ Ibid.

698/

Cable from Mexico City Sta:ion to Headquarters, November

27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA

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When President John f. Kennedy was assassinated

on November 22, 1963, the Inited States investigative

agencies--FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.--were. asked to.

investigate the assassinaticn.. When the Central Intelli-

gence Agency's Mexico City tation remembered that Lee

Harvey Oswald had visited Mexico City during late Septem-

ber and early October, it reviewed the electronic surveil-

lance files and found eviderce of phone calls to the so-

viet Embassy made September 27th, September 28th, and

October Ist, that could have been made by Oswald. 685/

Review of the electroic surveillance files also produced

telephone calls on September 27, 1963 between the Russian

Consul and Silvia Duran, a secretary at the Cuban consu-

late, where Oswald was discussed. 686/ In addition,

the Mexico City Station fourd a September 28, 1963 phone

call from Silvia Duran to tre Soviet Consulate where Silvia

Duran stated that there was an American citizen at the

cuban Consulate who had previously visited the Soviet Con-

sulate. 587/ A finai phone call was made on Octoder i, 1963

where the "alleged" Osvald ilentified

himself was alse

found. 668/

On Moventer 23, iSts the Mexico City Station deter-

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mined that it would request the Mexican government--

with whom

it had a good relitionship--to arrest Silvia

Duran (as Silvia Duran was 1 Mexican citizen, she did not

have diplomatic immunity) because she might shed some light

on the circumstances surroulding the assassination. 688a/

The Mexico City Station sent a note to the Gober-

nacion head, Luis Echevarris, with Silvia Duran's address,

her mother's address, her bother's address, her license

plate number, her home phone number, her place of work and

a request that she be arres:ed immediately. 689/ The Mexi-

co City Station also sugges:ed that Duran he held incommuni-

cado until she could be queitioned on the matter.. 690/

The Mexico City Station did not receive prior au-

thorization from ClA Headquirters to request the arrest of

Silvia Duran by Mexican authorities. 691/ Headquarters

feared that a request to ar est Ms. Duran would jeopardize

the clandestine relationghip between certain Mexican

govern-

ment officíals and the ClA f it were disclosed that Americans

were behind Duran's arrest, 6721 John Scelso, Chief of Western

Hemisphere! 3, stationed at langley Headquarters, telephoned

Winstor. Scott, the Maxico ilty Chief of Station, and requested

that Siivia Duran no: be arrested. 693/ Scott told Scelso that

he could not resctro

the request, and that. Headquarters should

already have deisticated:

can a stating that Silvia Curan had

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been arrested. 694/ After

dinston Scott's conversation

with John Scelso, Scott called Luis Echevarria and stated

that the Mexico City Statior desired that all information

received from Duran be forwarded immediately to the Mexico

City Station, and that her arrest and statements not be

communicated to any leftist groups: 695/

On November 27, 1963, the Mexican government for-.

warded to the Mexico City Station a copy of Silvia Duran's

ten-page signed statement. $96/ It said,

"Upon learning about the assassination

she and her husband speculated that Presi-

dent Kennedy might have been assassinated

for racial reasons.

When she became aware

that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, she

ascertained that it was the same man who ap-

proximately two montes prior had been to the

Cuban Consulate to solicit an intransit visa

to Russia.

Having taken his name from the

special documentation he presented she knew

that he was married to a Russian woman and

belonged to the "Fair. Play for Cuba Committee."

She checked the data in the Consulate archives

and became certain tat it was the same indi-

vidual who was blond?, short, dressed

,unelegant-

ly and whose face turned red when angry. The

Consul had denied the visa because to obtain

an intransit visa

from the Cuban government,

it was imperative that he previously obtain

visa from the Soviet Consulate.

since obtain-

ing a visa

from the soviets took four months

and Oswald's Mexican visa expired.soon Oswald

was advised that he see the soviet Consul, and

calling the person in charge of that office.

The sovier official told her that they would

have to cursuit Moscow which would take four

manths. That afternoon, Oswald returned

to the

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Cuban Consulate and silvia Duran

confirmed

that he could get a luban visa only after he

received a Russian v sa. She gave Oswald her name

and business phone number but never gave him her :,

address because she lad no reason to give it to

him.

The only aid sle could give Oswald was advising

that he see

the sovint Consul and calling the person

in charge of that office.

She knew that phoning the

Soviet Consulate was not one of her duties and that

if she did so she did it only to help Oswald. She

gave

Oswald

her business phone number only because he

would have to call

subsequently to check whether he

had obtained a visa. He never called back."

Silvia Duran, released on November 24, 1963, was rearrested

November 27, 1963, when the Mexican government alleged that she

was attempting to leave Mex co for travel to Havana. 698/

According to the Mexican of icials who detained Duran a second

time, there was no addition to her story. 699/

The Mexico. City Stat on forwarded Duran's ten-page signed

statement to Headquarters or: November 27, 1963. 700/ The

following day, Headquarters sent a clarification cable to the

Mexico City Station seeking to

insure that neither Silvia.

Duran nor the cubans would lave any basis for believing that

•the Americans were behind her rearrest. The cable stated,

"He want the Mexican author ties to take the responsibility

for the whole affair." 701/

When the Central Intelligence Agency began to work

wien the Warren Commission, Headquarters cabled the Mexico

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City station that its plan in passing information to the

Warren Commission was to eliminate mention of telephone

taps in order to protect their continuing operations. 702/

Headquarters cabled

that it would rely on Silvia Duran's

statements and on the Consular files which the Soviets

gave the State Department. 703/ Headquarters stressed

that exact, detailed information from LITAMIL-7 and

•LITAMIL-9--penetration agents in the Cuban Embassy--on

what Silvia Duran and other officials had said about 0s-

wald's visit and his dealirgs would be valuable and usable

corroborative evidence. 704/

When the Central Intelligence Agency forwarded to

the Warren Commission a cory of Duran's signed statement.

•It read as follows:

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... she

remembered..(that Lee Harvey Oswald)

was the name of an fmerican who had come to

the Cuban Consulate to obtain a visa to travel

to Cuba in transit to Russia,

the latter part

of september or the early part of October of

this year, and in sipport of his application

had shown his passport, in which it was noted

that he had lived

ir that country for a

period

of three years; his labor card from the same

country written in the Russian language; and

letters in that same language. He had

presented

evidence that he wa: married to a Russian woman,

and aiso that he wa: apparently the leader of

an orgarization in the city of New Orleans

claim-

ing that he should le accepted as a "friend" of

the Cuban Revolutior.

Accordingly, the declarant,

complying with her ruties, took down all of the:

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information and completed the appropriate

application form; ard the declarant, ad-

mittedly exceeding ter responsibilities,

Informally telephoned the Russian Consulate,

with the intention

of doing what she could

to facilitate issuarce of the Russian visa

to Lee Harvey Oswale.

However, they told

her that there woule

be a delay of about

four months in processing the case, which

annoyed the applicart since, according to

his statement,

he was in a

great hurry

obtain visas

to

that would enable him to travel

to Russia, insisting on his right to do so

in view of his background and his loyalty

and his. activities in behalf of the Cuban

movement.

The declarant was unable to re-

call accurately whether or not the applicant

told her he was a member of the Communist

Party, but he did say that his wifetttwas

then in New York City, and would.follow

him,*** (Senora Duran stated) that when Os-

wald understood that it was not possible to

give him a Cuban visa without his first hav-

ing obtained the Russian

visa,*** he became

very excited or angry, and accordingly, the

affiant called Consul Ascue (sic),*** (who)

came out and began a heated disucssion in En-

glish with Oswald,

that concluded by Ascue

telling him that "if it were

up to him, he

would not give him the visa," and "a person

of his type was harning the

Cuban Revolution

rather than helping it," it being understood

that in their conversation they were talking

about the Russian Sccialist Revolution.and

not the Cuban.

Oswald maintained that he had

two reasons for requesting that his visa be

issued promotly, ane they were: one, that his

courist permit in mexico was about to expire:

and she other, that he had to get to Russia

as quickiy as possitle.

Depsire her annoyance,

the decalarant gave Oswald a paper*** in which

she put down her nane,

"Silvia Duran," and

the number of the telephone ai the Consulate,

which is "11-28-47" and the visa application

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was

processed

anyway

it was sent

to

the

Ministry of (Foreign, Relations of Cuba; from

which a routine repl: was received some fifteen

to thirty days later, approving the visa, but on

the condition that the Russian visa be obtained

first, although she loes not recall whether or

not Oswald later telephoned her at the Consulate

number that

she gave him. 705/

The Central Intelligence Agency had relied on Duran's

statements but had deleted Juran's description of Oswald as

blonde and short. 706/ It lad also excised Duran's statement--

"The only aid she could give Oswald was advising that he see

the Soviet Consul, and calling the person in charge of that

office" which alluded to Oswald asking for some type of aid at

the Cuban Consulate. 707/ In addition, Ms. Duran's strong state-

ment "He never called her back" 707a/ was changed to "she does

not recall

whether. or not Oswald later telephoned her at the

Consulate number that she have him. 707b/ Had the statements

been included, the Warren Commission's conclusions would not have

seemed as strong.

The Warren Commission staff was not completely satis-

fied with Ms. Duran's ten fage signed statement obtained by

the Mexican authorities. I. David Slawson wrote:

We then discussed... the problem of linter-

viewing) Silvia duran.

We

pointed

out that

our only interest ir. witnesses

(in Mexico)

other than Duran was

to get their formal testi-

mony for authentication purposes... this was

not true of duran,

towever, because she had

been interviewed only by the Mexican police

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and we considered that Interview inadequate.,

11 should point out that we do not consider

it totally inadequate, however.

It is only

on details such as Oswald's physical

appearance, side comments or remarks he

may have made, etc., that we would like to

Interrogate Mrs. Duran further.

On the

essential point of whether or not his con-

tacts with the Embassy consisted of anything

other than an attempt to travel to Cuba,

Silvia Duran's knowledge

has probably been

exhausted. 708/

The Warren Commission staff's attempts to inter-

view Ms. Duran never succeeded. 709/ Ms. Duran was not

interviewed by Americans until 1976, when two reporters

from the Washington Post interviewed her. 710/ On

June 6, 1978, representatives of the House Select Committee

con. Assassinations interviewed Ms. Duran in Mexico City.

2CJ0903

VI. Information not

available at the time of the Warren

Commission

investigation

A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran)

House Select Committee on Assassinations 6/6/78

Interview

of silvia Tirado

Ms. Tirado (Silvia divorced Horatio Duran in 1968)

was never questioned by American officials in 1963. Thus,

the Committee established contact with the Mexican govern-

ment and requested that the mexican government make

silvia Tirado available for an interview. 711/ The Mexican

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government complied on 6/6/78. Ms. Tirado told the House

Select Committee on Assassinations the following:

Lee Harvey Oswald. Visited the Cuban Consulate three

times on September 27, 1963, not twice as the Warren Com-

mission previously reported. 112/ Oswald first visited

the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m., requesting

an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destina-

tion. 713/ He showed her some documents, then

left to

obtain photographs needed for his application. 714/

Oswald returned at approximately 1:00 p.m. with

four photographs. 715/ Ms. Tirado typed the application

in duplicate, stapled a picture. on top of each and had Os-

wald

sign each in her presence. 716/ As identification,

Oswald showed her documents he had brought: his Russian

labor card, marriage certificate with the name of his

Russian wife, his American Communist Party membership card

and his "Fair Play for Cuba' membership card. 117/

Ms.:Tirado found Lee Harvey Oswald's behavior suspi-

cious because normally a Conmunist traveled only with his

passport as belonging to the Communist Party was illegal

in Mexico in 1963. 718/

There was a procedur: whereby the American Communist

Party would arrange visa ma:ters for their members with the

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Cuban Communist Party. 719/ The American would then

come to Mexico, visit the Cuban Consulate, and receive

his visa immediately: 710/ When Tirado asked Oswald why

he did not have the American Communist Party arrange his

trip. to Cuba, he stated tha: he had not had the time. 721/

After explaining to swald that he had to acquire

a Russian visa before he could receive a Cuban visa, Tirado

jotted her name and busines; phone number on a piece of

paper and gave it to Oswald who then left to get his Rus-.

sian visa. 122/

Oswald returned to tie Cuban Consulate between

5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.; which was after normal working

hours, 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. !23/ The guard called Tirado,

stating that someone who did not speak Spanish was at the

gate inquiring about a visa. 724/ As routine procedure,

she asked the guard to escot the individual to her office. 7251

Oswald told her that he had acquired a Russian visa. 126/

since he did not produce it when asked, she called the

Russian Consulate. 121/ In: Consul told Duran that Oswald

had been to the Corsülate requesting a visa and had been

sold that the reply would tike approximately four months. ?28i

ähen she relayed the messaga to acraid; he got very excited,

insisting that as a persor she had been in jail because

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of the cuban Revolution he :hould receive a visa. 129/

Oswald stated that he could not wait that long because

his Mexican visa

expired in three days. 730/ At this

point, Ms. Tirado informed lionsul Eusebio Azcue of the

situation. 731/ Azcue had leen in his private office

which he shared with his upcoming replacement, Alfredo

Mirabal. 132/ Azcue polite y explained the requisites

for an intransit visa to Oswald. 133/ When he noticed

that Oswald was a stubborn man he told Oswald that he

was obviously not a friend uf the Cuban revolution be-

cause he would otherwise understand that Cuba had to be

extremely careful with the people it allowed in the coun-

try. 134/. Azcue and Oswald yelled at each other. 735/

Then Azcue went to the door opened it and asked. Oswald

to leave. 736/ Oswald did not revisit or telephone the

Consulate. 737/ Ms. Tirado described Lee Harvey Oswald

as approximately five feet ix, with sparse blonde hair,

weighing about 125:

pOUns's. 738/

2. ClA information not grallable at the time of

the barren Cormistion investigation

in 1967 a report thai Silvia Duran had had intimate

relations with

.lee

•arvey vira'd came to the attenzion

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of the Central Intelligene Agency's Mexico City Station. 739/

The source, LIRING/3, statel that he had recently re-

ceived a call from Silvia Diran. 740/ A telephone tap

on LIRING/3's telephone con irmed that Silvia Duran had

called LIRING. 741/ LIRING'3 reported that he had visited

silvia to renew acquiaintan.ees. 142/ During the visit,

Duran told LIRING/3 that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald

at the Cuban Consulate when he applied for a visa and

had dated him on several occasions. 743/ Duran admitted

that she had had intimate relations with Oswald, but in-

sisted that she had no idea of his plans. 144/ In addi-

tion, Duran told LIRING/3 tiat when the news of the as-

sassination became public kiowledge, the Mexican govern-

ment arrested her and during the interrogation beat her

until she admitted that she had had an affair with lee

Harvey Oswald. 145/ Rowton 746/ counseled LIRING/3

against any further contact with duran because the Cubans

or the Mexican police might become suspicious of him. 1471

There is no indication in Rowton's report as to why con-

tact with Silvia would maxe the cubans suspicious.

The cia Mexico City itation reported this informa-

tion to Headararters:

First, thai Silvia Diran had sexual intercourse

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with Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions

when the latter was in Mexico is

probably

new, but adds little. to the Oswald case.

Second, the Mexican police did not report

the extent of the Duran-Oswald relationship

to this Station. 149/

In the chronology of the Mexico City investigation

of Oswald, Raymond Rocca notes: "Why didn't Mexico

police give us all info?" 150/. This was not the first

report of such a relationship between Oswald and Duran.

Elena. Garro had reported the same information to Charles

Thomas in 1965. 751/

That the Mexican government did not disclose all

the

information in its possession to American authorities

raises one of three possibilities:

1) the Mexican government did not want to disclose

that one of its citizens had had intimate rela-

tions with the assassin of John Kennedy; or

2) Silvia Duran was a Mexican penetration agent

in the Cuban Consulate and the Mexican govern-

ment. was protecting its informant by minimizing

her relationship with. Oswald; or

3) they forgot, i.e., a pure aro simple mistake.

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b. The possibility that Silvia Duran was an

agent for

either American, Mexican or Cuban

Intelligence

Since the publication of the Warren Commission

Report in September 1964, critics have written about the

possibility that silvia Duran was an intelligence agent

for either the Americans, Mexicans or Cubans.

1) Was Silvia Duran in agent, asset or source

for Mexican or American intelligence?

In an effort to resolve this question, the House

Select Committee on Assassilations reviewed the United

States investigative agencies' files on Silvia Duran. 752/

The Committee found no evidence in this file review that

Silvia Duran was either an American or Mexican intelli-

gence agent.

In addition, the Committee has interviewed most

of the Mexico City. Station imployees about the possibility.

Orly David Phillips, Chief of Covert Action and the Cuban

Section in che Mexico City itation in 1963, a position

which made hin very knowledleatie, considered that Duran

was possibly an agent or

source.

Mr. Phillips stated that

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"at one time the

agency pit:hed 753/ almost everyone

at the Cuban Embassy." 754/ Mr. Phillips stated that

he had first heard Duran's name from the telephone

intercept transcripts. 755/ But Mr. Phillips asserted

that the ClA had no interest in Ms. Duran because "she

wasn't friendly with anyone." 756/ Mr. Phillips had

previously mentioned the CIl Mexico City Station's in-

terest in recruiting a former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

named Lechuga. 757/ Mr. Phillips was shown a memorandum

written by W. David Slawson.of the Warren Commission staff

regarding a trip to Mexico sy Warren Commission staff

members which said:

Mr. Scott's (Chief of the CIA Station in Mexi-

co City narrative disclosed that the ClA's

action immediately after the assassination con-

sisted basically of alerting all its confiden-

tial

sources of information throughout Mexico

to immediately channel all information into

their headquarters,

and

of compiling as.com-

plete dossiers as

possible on Oswald and every-

one else throughout Mexico who at that time

the CIA knew had had some contact with Oswald...

This meant especially Silvia Duran, who because

she had previously been having an affair with

Lechuga, the former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

and presently the Cuban representative at the

United Nations, had previously been of substan-

tial interest to the ClA.

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Mr. Phillips was surprised by this and stated

that. "No one let me in

on this operation." 759/ But

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Mr. Phillips added that he doubted that Duran would

have been pitched because the Station could not identify

any of her weaknesses. The Committee staff members then

told Mr. Phillips about the reporting on file concerning

Ms. Duran from one of the Station's penetration agents,

LITAMIL/9, at the Cuban Embassy. At one point LITAMIL/9

had reported to his case officer that all that would

have to be done to recruit Ms. Duran was to get a blonde,

blue-eyed American in bed with her: 761/ With this, Mr.

Phillips said that it did indeed sound as if the Station

had targeted Ms. Duran for recruitment, that the Station's

interest had been substantial, and that the weaknesses

and means had been identified. 762/ Mr. Phillips

pointed out, however, that because Duran had been targeted

did not necessarily mean that she had been pitched. 763/

In addition, he stated that he had never heard that Duran

had been pitched. 764/

Mr. Phillips did state that he would expect that

Ms.. Duran's file at the CIA would be "very thick" because

of all the telephone intercepts that concerned her and

the substartial interest that the Station had in her. 165/

He stated that much of the naterial in her file should

predate the assassination. 765/ Mr. Phillips stated that

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he would be very surprised if Ms. Duran's 201 file was

small and contained only a few pre-assassination docu-

ments. 767/ This is in fact the case of the Headquarters

201 file. 768/ This Committee has

asked the CIA to make

Ms. Duran's Mexican "p" 769/ (personality) file available

for review. The CIA informed the Committee that there

was no "p" file available on Ms. Duran. 170/

Another ClA employee, Dan Neiscuir, who worked on

an "Oswald Task Force" in late September or early October

of 1975 dealing with Freedom of Information Act law suits

brought against the Agency concerning the files on Lee.

Harvey

Oswald,

stated that he believed that Ms. Duran may.

have been a source of information for either the CIA or

the Mexicans. 17l/ Mr. Neiscuir could not recall why he

specifically had this recollection, but thought that it

was due to something he hac seen in Oswald's file. 112/

He said that it may have been the Agency's attempts to

protect Ms. Duran after the assassination and the heavy

cable traffic that those attempts generated that led him

to his inference that she has a source of information

for either the Agency or the Mexicans. 173/

Despite LIRING/3's case officer's asking LIRiNG/3

not to recontact Ms. Duran,

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Mr. Neiscuir's hazy recollestions, the

"Committee cannot

definitely resolve whether Silvia Duran was a Mexican or

American

intelligence agent or source.

(2) was silvia Duran a Cuban intelligence agent?

In an effort to resolve this question, the ASCA

reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files

on Silvia Duran. 174/ The committee found no evidence in

the files that would indicate that Ms. Duran was associated

with Cuban intelligence.

In addition, the HSCA interviewed most of the Mexi-

co City Station employees about the possibility that Duran

worked for Cuban intelligence. Only Barney Hidalgo, a

CIA officer who travelled to Mexico City in 1963, considered

the possibility to be likely. 175/ Mr. Hidalgo, professing

not to remember all the details, stated that he thought

that Duran was a Cuban intelligence agen:. 776/ Hidalgo

said:

At the time when thi; contact toid

me,of

Silvia Duran I tied

the two together, yes,

sir.

i don't know, row at that time

it

was obvious to me

as an

inteiligence agent

that there was some

connection there but

it was of no interest whatsoever io me,

I do remember that wien I next saw this

contact of mine I mentioned

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wanted to. 777/

Mr. Hidalgo further itated that he never resolved

the issue. 178/

With no corroboratin, evidence for Mr. Hidalgo's

memory, the Committee must :onclude that Silvia Duran

was probably never employed by Cuban Intelligence.

B. The Cubans

1. Eusebio Azcue -opez

When Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban

Consulate, Eusebio Azcue Lovez, a Cuban citizen, was the

Cuban Consul. 179/

Because he had diplomatic immunity,

the Cuban government had never been asked to make him

available for questioning. 180% The Committee, in an ef-

fort to investigate Oswaid'; contact: with representatives

of the Cuban government, asked the Cuban government to

make Eusebio Azcue available for Committee and staff inter-

views. 781/ The Cuban government complied with the Commit-

tee's request on April 1, 1978. 782/

During that intervier. Mr. Sacue alleged that the

man Jack Ruby shot in the Gallas Police Station was not

the same individual who had visited the Cuban Consulate

in 1963. 783/ In addition, ir. Azue stated that Alfredo

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Mirabal, who in September 1163, had recently arrived

from Cuba to assume the Conjul's duties, had also been

present during Oswald's visit. 784/ During a second

trip to cuba, the Committee interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. 185/

Subsequent to this second tip to Havana, the Committee

asked the Cuban government :0 make Eusebio Azcue and

Alfredo Mirabal available for the public hearings on Sep-

tember 18, 1978. 786/ The juban government complied with

the Committee's request.

Eusebio Azcue Lopez old the House Select Committee

on Assassinations at a public hearing on 9/18/78 the

following:

An individual who gare the name Lee Harvey Oswald

visited the Cuban Consulate on three occasions in late

September 782/ and early Oc:ober 1963. 788/ The indivi-

dual first visited the Cubail Consulate during working

hours, requesting an intran iit visa

to cuba with Russia

as the final destination. I3g/ The man showed the secre-

tary, Silvia Duran, some do:uments 7892/ which he believed

would be sufficient to obtain a visa. 189bi When the

secretary would noù grant him a visa, the man asked Azçue

to see whether upon examina:ion of the documents he could

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grant him a visa. 189c/ Azcue answered negatively.

789d/

The individual then left te obtain photographs needed

for his application: 789e/

The man probably returned on September 27, 1963 789f!

with the photographs and completed the applications

in Ms. Duran's presence. 7899/ As the amount of time re-

quired to process this document could have taken as long

as twenty days. or the response could have been negative,

azcue told the man that he could grant him an intransit

visa to Cuba, without consulting his government, if he

had a Russian visa. 789h/ The individual then left to

attempt to obtain his Russian visa. 789i/

After the man left the Cuban Consulate, Azcue re-

ceived a telephone call 1891/from the Soviet Consulte. 790/

The Soviet Consul explained that the man's documents

were legitimate, but that the Soviet Consulate could not

issue a visa until it received authorization from Moscow. 191/

Emphasizing that the Cuban Consulate never re-

ceived visitors after working hours 792/ Mr. Azcue opined

that the individual probably returned to the consulate

on September 28,, 1963. 793/ lihen Azcue explained to

Oswald that he could not grant nim

a visa, the man made

statements directed against Cuba and called Cuba a

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bureaucracy. 194/ At that point, Azcue became upset and

asked the individual to leare the Consulate. 795/ Oswald

did not revisit the Consula:e. 196!

Mr. Azcue described he man who visited the consu-

late

as follows: a white male, between 5'6" and 5'7":

over. 30 years of age, very :hin long face, with straight

eyebrows and a cold look in his eyes. 797/ Azcue alleged

that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as

the man who visited the Cubin Consulate in 1963.

2. Alfredo Mirabal Diaz

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz told the House Select Committee

on Assassinations, at a public hearing on 9/18/78, 797A/

the!following:

Lee Harvey Oswald, speking a visa, visited the

Cuban Consulate twice 798/ in September 1963. 199/ Since

Mirabal could not speak English though he was the new Con-

sul, ex-Consul Azcue

handlel the matter. 800/

Onboth

occasions there were such loud arguments between Oswald

and Azcue that Mirabal thought that the man's visit to.

the consulate was a case. of provocation. 8oii

Though Miratal caugh: only glimpses of the man

he opined that the person miose picture appears on lee

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Oswald who visited the Consulate. 802/ Mirabel was about

4 meters away from Oswald eich time he caught glimpses of

him. 802a/ Oswald was at the Consulate between 15 and 20

minutes on each visit. 802b/

C. Elena Garro de Pai

On October 5, 1964, eleven days after the publication

of the Warren Commission Report, Elena Garro de Paz' story

alleging Lee Harvey Oswald': presence at a party in Mexico

City attended by Cuban goveinment personnel came to the attention

of the Central Intelligence Agency. 803/

1. Elena's story as reported October 5, 1964

Elena Garro de Paz 814/ and Deba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan, first cousins of Horatio, Ruben and Lydia Duran,

were invited to a twist pary at the home of Ruben Duran

in the middle of the week in the fall of 1963. 805/ Lee

Harvey Oswald was alleged to have been at this party in

the company of "two other bratnik-looking boys." 806/

The Americans remained toge her the entire evening and

did not dance. B0Z/ When E end tried to speak with the

Americans,' she was "shifted" to another rocin by one of

her cousins. 808/ The memo does not state whether Elena

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to the Americans. One of l'ena's cousins told her at

the time that (he or she)d'd not know who the Americans

were except that silvia Durin (an employee of the Cuban

Embassy and the wife of Horitio Duran), had brought

them

to the party: 809/

The day after the party, Elena and Deba saw the

three Americans on the Insurgentes, a main avenue in

Mexico City. 810/ The Garris claimed that they had recog-

nized Oswald's photograph wien it was published after

the assassination. 81l/ Siivia Duran's arrest "under-

lined the Garros'' certainty'.

that the man had been Lee

Harvey Oswald. 812/

The source of the menio was a witting 813/ Central

Intelligence Agency asset krown by the cryptonym LICOOKIE/1

whom the committee identified as june cobb Sharp while

reviewing the LICOOKIE file. According to Elena, Ms.

Cobb was sent to her house shortly after the assassination

for a few days, by à mutual friend, a Costa Rican writer

named Eunice Odio. 814/ Ms. Garro asserted

that while

at her house, Ms. Cobb exoressed interest in tre Kernady

assassination. giE/ One nient, Elena's sister Deba, who

was visiting, got drunk and told ine whole story. Bie!

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Deba go to Texas to tell their story. 817/ Elena stated

that when Cobb's suggestion was rejected,. Cobb stated

that she would arrange a meeting with the CIA Station

Chief:

818/ The meeting dic not occur because Ms. Cobb

was asked to leave the Garro house evidently because

she kicked Elena's cat. 819/ A notation on the memo says

that LICoOKlE/l never regained contact with Elena Garro

de Paz. 820/

The LICOOKIE memo was not inserted in either the

Elena Garro or Lee Harvey Oswald "p" 821/ (personality)

file but in a local leftist and Cuban project file.. The

Committee learned about the memo from Wx-7241, a chrono-

logical history of the Oswald case prepared by Raymond

Rocca for the CIA in 1967. The memo was found in Decem-

ber, 1965 by Stanley Watson. A marginal notation on

Wx7241 says, "Why was this not sent to Headquarters?" 823/

The Committee has been able to determine that the memo

was forwarded to Headquarters shortly thereafter.

2. October 12. I9EL Cid Memo for the Record

On October 12, 1966 tre ClA Mexico City Station's

Chief of Covert Action, dim Flannery, wrote a mamo for

ine record reporting that Elena Garco de Paz had toid

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her story to Eunice

0d1o. 8:4/

The Committee has no: been able to determine if

Elena Garro told Ms. Odio the story personally or if

Ms. Cobb related the story :o Ms. Odio who relayed it to

"Tichborn." 825/

The story is. not as letailed as the 10/5/64 ver-

sion. There is no mention of Deba Garro Guerrero Galvan.

The story, perhaps because

it is third hand, differs

from the previous story in :wo areas: It states that

the party was at the Cuban imbassy, as opposed to Ruben

Duran's; and that Elena tal‹ed to a Cuban Embassy offi-

cial instead of her cousins about the three Americans.

• Attached to the memo was a note from Flannery. to

the chief of Station, Winston Scott, which read, "Do you

want me to send the gist of this to Headquarters?" Scott

then noted that the memo should be filed. 826/ The file

indications show

that the memo went into the Oswald "pi

file and the Elena Garro "p' file. 827/

3: November 24, 1964 CiA Informant Refort

on Norember 24, 1954 a Central Inteiiigence Agency

agent 3E3/ regarted inforaition 222/ dertred.from an asset,

"LICHANT/T," E30/ Tre agent asser-ed that june cobb was

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an "American Communist" who rented a room from Elena

Garro. B31/ In addition, the informant claimed that

Elena had also told her story to an American official

at the Embassy, who claimed to represent the Warren Com-

mission. 832/ The Chief of Station noted that he had

asked LICHANT/1 to pursue the story 833/ but there is

no indication that the Chief of Station followed through

with the request. 834/

4. November 24, 1964 Elena Garro meeting with

Mexico City Legal Attache officers

Elena and her daughter reported their story to the

Mexico City Legal Attache on November 24, 1964. 835/

(The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.) They

recounted the same story previously given to june cobb

Sharp in October 1964. 836/ Elena gave the date of the

party as September 30, October 1. or October 2, 1963. 837/

The agent who wrote the report 838/ noted that Lee Harvey

oswald could not have been identical with the American g39/

allegedly observed by Mrs. Pat at the party if this party

were beid ar the evening of October 1 or October 2, 1963. 9401

Elena was quescioned regarding the identity of

persons attending the party at the Ruben Zuran home

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who might have been in aposition. to. observe the three

Americans. 841/ Elena stated that in the course of

the party her daughter met i young man named "Alejandro"

at the party and danced wit, him. 842/ He was apparently

quite smitten with the daugiter and tried to call her

on several occasions after the party. 843/ The daughter

did not take the calls and is a result "Alejandro" wrote

several letters to the daugiter. 844/. Ms. Garro exhibited

two of the letters, as well as a business card which

identified the young man as Ario Alejandro Lavagnini

Stenius. 845/

The letter which Ms. Garro said was the first

written by the young man to her daughter bore the date

September 1, 1963 and the Mexico City Post Office post-

mark dated September 2, 1963. 846/ When this was pointed

out to Ms. Garro she commented that the Communists pro-

bably had facilities for falsifying postmarks. 847/

To investigate Ms. Garro's story further, repre-

sentatives from the legal Actache's office interviewed

Ario Alejandro Lavagnini Stinius en November 27, 1964. 848/

Lavagrini recailed that thee were approximately thirty

people at Ruben Duran's party, few. of whom he knew. 849/

He recalled having met a Merican girl who had recently

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returned from living in Fraice, 850/ He was unable to

fix the date of the party but felt it was probably early

In September because of a heavy rain which occurred as they

were leaving the party abou: 2:00 a.m. 851/

Lavagnini said that 10 Americans were present at

this, party, 852/ He was familiar with the physical de-

scription of Lee Harvey Oswild because of publicity fol-

lowing the assassination of President Kennedy, but other-

wise had no knowledge of him and had never seen him except

for news photographs following the assassination. 853/

Lavagnini was the only person interviewed by

the Legal Attache represent.tives who attended parties at

the Duran house in the September-October time frame.

There is no indication in the FBI document that

this information was given o the Central Intelligence

Agency's Mexico City Station. 854/

5. Charles Thomas' frst meeting with Elena Garro

where Lee Harvey swald is discussed

On 12/10/65, Charles Thomas, a political officer

at the American Embassy, write a memorandum about a con-

versation with Elena Garro de Paz. 855/ The meeting

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tioned knowing Oswald. 857/ Thomas noted that she was

reluctant to talk but did. 358/

Elena's story reported here is the same as that

given in the LICOOKIE memo fated 10/5/64, but with more

details. She said that General Jose Jesus Clark Flores

(a friend of Ruben Duran's), Silvia Duran, Eusebio Azcue,

Emilio Carballido. la pro-Conmunist writer-friend of

i. the

Durans), and

a Latin. American Negro man with red hair

(unidentified) were at the party. 859/ A marginal com-

ment by this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena know

about

a red-haired Negro?" 860/ Elena also told Thomas

that she had later learned that "silvia Duran had been

Oswald's mistress while he was there." 861/ A note by

this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena Garro know

about Silvia being the mistress of Oswald? This is 1965."

862/ The Mexico City Station did not hear about

the

Oswald-Duran "affair" until July 1967 when a CIA asset,

LIRING/3, reported it. 863/

Elena told Thomas that she and her daughter had

gone to the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963 and shouted

"Assassins" and other insults at the Embassy employees. 864/

According to Elena, that same day, a friend, Manuel Cal-

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Gobernacion, took her and her daughter to a small hotel

in the center of Mexico City. 865/ Calvillo kept Elena

Garro and her daughter. there for eight days under the pre-

text that they were in danger of being harmed physically.

by Communists. 866/ Elena claimed she told Calvillo

her story and that she wanted to tell it to the American

authorities at the U.S. Embassy 867/ but that Calvillo

dissuaded her by telling her that the American Embassy

was. full of Communist spies. 868/ Elena said that some

of the other people who had been at the party were taken

to Veracruz where they were "protected" by Governor

Lopez Arias. 869/ She said that Ruben Duran, reportedly

•"protected" by General Clars Flores, was very prosperous

and was driving a big car. 370/ Elena also claimed

that Ruben Duran told her months after the assassination

that he was not really a Conmunist and that killing. Ken-

nedy had been a mistake. 871/ Ruben Duran claimed he

had no reason to tell Elena that killing Kennedy had been

a mistake since he had no livolvement. 872/

Charles Thomas circulated a copy of his memorandum

concerning Elena's allegatiins in the American Embassy

inciuding the Central Inteiligence Agency's Mexico City

Station to aid them in thei: investigation of the donn

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F. Kennedy assassination. 8'3/ The COS wrote a note on

the memo: "What an imaginat on she has!?. Should we

send to Headquarters?" 874/ The Officer replied, on

the memo, "Suggest sending. There have been stories

around town about all this, and Thomas is not the only

person she has talked to... If memory serves me, didn't

LICOOKIE refer to Oswald and the local leftists and Cu-

bans in one of her squibs?" 875/

The Mexico City Station cabled

the information in

Thomas' 12/10/65 memorandum of conversation to CIA Head-

quarters. 876/ The cable reported that Elena's story

would be checked with LICHANT/1, against the production

from the Cuban surveillance operation "and other

sources." 877/ Winston Scott wrote, next to the routing

indications on the cable, "Please ask Charles Thomas if

he'll ' follow up."

Get questions from Ann G. 878/

Please let's discuss. Tharks." 879/

After the December 10 memorandum of conversation,

• Winston Scott 880/ and Natran Ferris 881/ called Charles

Thomas for a meeting, 8821 They asked him to get a more

detailed account of Ms.. Garro's story. 883/ At this

meeting, Winston Scott made it clear that the fol had

full responsibility for an!' further investigation in the

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6. Charles Thomas' Meeting with Elena Garro on

December 25, 1965

Thomas

met with Elena again on December 25, 1965.

On that date, he wrote a memorandum of conversation which

provided a much more detailed restatement of Ms. Garro's

alleged encounter

with Lee Harvey Oswald. 885/

Elena admitted that she had spoken to two men at

the Embassy, "presumably from the Legal Attache's Of-.

fice." 886/ Elena said that she did not tell them

the complete story because "the Embassy officers did not

give much credence to anything she and Elenita said." 887/

She stated that the party had been at Ruben Duran's

home. 888/ She was unclear about the date of the

party. 889/ She thought it had been a

few days before

the Soviet Astronaut, Gagarin, visited Mexico; she thought

that this would put the party around September 2 or 3,

1963. 890/ She believed tlat the party was on a Monday

or Tuesday because it was iin odd night for a party. 391/

Elena could not check her valendar to refresh her memory

at the time of chis interr ew because the calendar was

in a desk that had been stured away. 892/

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During the conversation, Elena described Oswald

and his companions. 893/ The man who she thought was Os-

wald wore a black sweater. 394/ She said he was quiet

"and stared a lot at the flior." 895/ One of his com-

panions "was very tall and lender and had long blond

hair and a rather long prot-uding. chin." 896/ The other

companion was also tall, with short, light brown hair

and no distinguishing chara:teristics. 897/ The three

Americans did not dance or nix with the other guests. 898/

Elena, saw the same three mer on the street the

next

day.

899/

Elena was certain that Eusebio Azcue, Horacio

Duran, Silvia Duran, Lydia Juran, Deba Guerrero, General

Clark Flores and his mistress, a doctor from Dalinde Hos-

pital, a young American couple who were honeymooning in

Mexico, and several other people were at the party. 900!

She said that Ricardo Guerra, whom she claimed converted

Horatio Duran to Communism, and his wife, Rosario Castel-

lanos, were supposed to be at the party but did not at-

tend. 901/

Elena alieged that the red-haired man and Emilio

carballido were not at the party that Oswald attended

but at another party where carballido and Azcue got into

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a heated argument about Pre: ident Kennedy. 902/ "They

came to the conclusion that the only solution was to

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was before or after the par y where she met Oswald. 905/

Eusebio. Azcue stated that this conversation never

occurred. 906/

Elena reitereated thit the incident at the Cuban

Embassy, where she and her laughter shouted "assassins,"

etc., at the Embassy employies, occurred on November 23

at or about 3:00 p.m. 907/ Elena and Elenita were driven

to the Cuban Embassy by Elela's brother who was embar-

rassed by their behavior. 908/ This occurred before

they.

had seen photographs o: Oswald. 909/

Ms. Garro claimed thit later in the day she and

Elenita were visited by Manuel Calvillo who told them

that they were in serious danger from the Communists and

that he would take them to i small hotel, where they

would be safe for a few day:. 910/ Elena said she

trusted and believed Calvil o because he was a known

undercover agent for the Me. ico Government. 91l/ He

was also a friend of Noe fa omares 912/and of President

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. 913/ Cilvillo also told Elena and

her daughter that Silvia Duran had been arrested. 914/

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Duran's arrest was not public information at that time. 915/

Elena could not remember the name of the hotel

so that same day (12/25/65) she took Thomas to the sec-

tion of Mexico City where she thought it was. 916/ They

found the hotel, the Hotel Vermont. 917/ Elena said

that she assumed that Calvillo had registered them as rela-

tives or friends from San Luis Potosi. 918/ They stayed

at the hotel until the following Friday, November 30, 1963,

hardly leaving their rooms. 919/

Elena claimed that while she and Elenita were at

the hotel they saw the photos of Oswald and realized

that he had been the man at Ruben Duran's party. 920/

When Calvillo visited them at the hotel, Elena told him

that she wanted to report her story, which she related

to calvillo, to the Americin Embassy. Calvillo, however, .

dissuaded her by saying that the American Embassy was

full of Communists. 921/ Elena stated that when she

returned home, guards were fosted outside her house. 9221

Elena alleged that after she returned home she

saw her sister, Deba Guerrero, who had independetly

come to the conclusion that Lee

Harvey Oswaid had been

at Ruben Duran's party. 92:/ Deba was "terrified" be-

cause approximately two norths after the assassinazion

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two "Communists" personally warned her never to reveal

that she had been to a part, with Oswald. 924/ Deba,

consequently, would

not accompany Elena to the American

Embassy to tell her story o1 November 24, 1964. 925/

Elena stated that it was "common knowledge" that

Silvia had been Oswald's mistress. 926/ When asked who

could verify the allegation, she could only remember one

person who had told her this. 927/ Elena claimed that

person was Victor Rico Galan, 928/ a "pro-Castro journa-

list." 929/

(See Section VI, A,. 2, a, above.)

Subsequent to December 25, 1965, Elena found her

calendar and reconstructed the date of the party as

late September and not early September. 930/ When Tho-

mas went

to Ferris' office and informed him, Ferris re-

plied that Elena had given the late September date when

she had originally reported her story at the Americar

Embassy. 931/ However, Mr. Ferris explained to Thomas.

that someone who had been at the twist party had

stated

that there vere no Americans there. 932/ Mr. Ferris

did not teli Mr. Thomas that Ario diejandro Lavagnint

•Stenius had provided this information in 1964. 933/

Mr. Ferris suggested that it was not necessary for Thomas

to pursue Eiena's allegaticas since he considered the

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Oswald case closed and had neard all the rumors before. 934/

Thomas.

forwarded (the same day) a copy of his

memorandum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico

City Station to aid in its investigation of the John F.

Kennedy assassination. 935/ On the first page of the

memorandum of conversation, Winston Scott wrote,

"Shouldn't we send to Headquarters?" Someone responded,

"Of course." 936/

The Mexico City Station sent a cable to Head-

quarters on December 12, 1955, reporting that it was

"following.up" and would cable the results. 937/

7. December 27, 1965 Legal Attache Memo to the

United States Ambassador re Elena Garro

On December 27, 1965 Nathan Ferris wrote a memo

to the Ambassador reporting that Elena and her daughter

were interviewed on 17 and 24 November 1964 by the Legal

Attache's office in Mexico

sity. 2381 The memo recorded

that Elena and her daughter had furnished information si-

milar to the information resorted in Thomas' 12:10/65

memo. 939; The neno further states.

"inquirias conducted at that tine (lievember

19641, Roberer, falied to substantiate

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allegations made by !irs. Garro de

Paz

and her daughter.

In view of the fact

that Mrs. Garro de Piz' allegations

have been previously checked out without

substantiation, no

further action is

being taken concerning her

recent repeti-

tion of those allegations. 940/

The Legal Attache forwarded a copy of the memoran-

dum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City

Station 941/ prior to 12/23/65. 942/

A cable written by Anne Goodpasture on December

29, 1965 reporting the Legat interview with Elena and

the Legat Office's failure to substantiate Elena's story

was sent to Headquarters. 243/ The cable promised to

keep Headquarters advised if any further information

was to developed. 944/

LICOOKIE'S 10/5/64 memo is attached to the 12/29/65

cable. Wx-7241 expiained this in a marginal comment, "This

document by LICCOXlE was not in (Oswald's file), but

was copied from la project file) and attached to MEXI

5741, 29 Dec. 65. ° 9461

A notestapled to this cable by Allen White stated,

"I don't know what Fei did in November, 1961, but the

Garres have ceen talking about this for à long time

and she is said to de extremely bright " it?; Arne Good-

pasture wrote that the fê! had found Elena's allegations

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unsubstantiated but that "we will try to confirm or

refute Ms. Garro de Paz' information and follow. up." 948/

Win scott wrote, "she is also 'nuts.'" 949/

8. ClA Investigation of Elena's allegation that

she created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy

on November 23, 1963

On February 3, 1966, Anne Goodpasture forwarded

Thomas' December 25, 1965 memo to the Cuban section at

the Mexico City Station with an attached note asking

the Section to check whether Elena was "seen creating

such a disturbance as they claimed in front of the Cuban

Embassy." 950/

One Cuban section officer responded,. "No bells

ring with me." Another one wrote, "Me neither." The

third officer wrote, "No pictures either." 951/ There is no indica

tion, after reviewing GiA files, that the genetration agents in

the Cuban Embassy were queried about Elena's allegation: 952/

. That

there are no pictures is reasonable since Elena claimed

that the event hopperád: l) on a Saturday at 3:00 g.m.

when the cuban sabessy was at normally photographically

surveilied; gEs/ ande, tha "disturbance" occurred in-

side the Caban ccacuund. MiCA examination ce the CiA

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Cuban Embassy photographic surveillance showed no sur-

veillance on 11/23/63. 954/ The Committee found that

Central Intelligence Agency made no other effort to

corroborate Ms. Garro's allegations.

9. Legal. Attache 2/23/66 Memo to the United States

Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegations

On 2/23/66 the Legal Attache wrote a memo

to the

Ambassador reporting that "extensive investigation"

failed to disclose that Oswald had traveled to Mexico

prior to September 26, 1963 and that no information had

developed that

would show that he had.not. been in New

Orleans in the early part of that month. 955/ The memo

reiterated that no further action was being taken by

the FBI because Elena's allegations had not been substan-

tiated by it. 956/ The Legal Attache forwarded a copy

of this memo to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico

City station. 957/ A marginal comment made by Raymond

Rosca next to this entry in Hx-7241 says, "How can it

be ascercained that Camala did not travel to Mexico

srior to eariy Septamper 1353? There must be some basis

for Elena's reporting. " 958i

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10. Legal Attache Mero to Winston Scott re Elena's

Allegation that he Had Stayed at the Hotel

Vermont from the Day After the Assassination

Until November 31, 1963

On 10/13/66, the Legil Attache wrote a memo to

Win Scott reporting that a reliable confidential infor-

mant had reported that the records of the Hotel Vermont

disclosed that one "Elena Piz, housewife from San Luis

Potosi," had registered at the Hotel Vermont on November

23, 1963. 959/ She left on November 30, 1963. 960/

The memo said, "The above irdividual may or may not be

¡dentical with Elena Garro de Paz." 961/ The House Se-

lect Committee on Assassinalions has been unable to deter-

mine why the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal

Bureau of Investigations waited until 1966 to investigate

this aspect of Elena's story.

Charles Thomas' 12/2:/65 memo stating "She and

ner daughter did not personally register at the hote?.

She trinks Caivillo registered them as relatives or

friends of his from san Luis Potosi, " corrotorates

Elena carro's presence at tle Hotel Vermont. 962! The

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entry for the 10/13/66 Legat memo in Wx-7241 bore the

notation, "This

is what Elena claimed and no one would

believe her." 963/

11. Charles Thomas' September 30, 1969 Letter to

State Department and Legal Attache's Response

No further report on Elena's story was generated

until 1969 when Charles Thomas was "selected out" of the

United States Foreign Service. 964/ At that time, he

wrote a memorandum to the Secretary of State which in-

cluded a cover letter stating, "Since I was the Embassy

Officer in Mexico who acquired this intelligence informa-

tion, I feel a responsibility for seeing it through to

its final evaluation." 965/

Charles Thomas' memorandum stated that "he got

no reaction from Nathan Ferris and Winston Scott" regard-

ing his memorandum of. Decerber 25, 1965. 966/ In addi-

tion, Thomas wrote that the only person to speak to him

about the December 25, 1965 memorandum, Clarence Boon-

stra g67/ told him that Ostald had not been in Mexico

on the date given for the santy. 968/ Thomas noted inat

ever anen he reiterated that Elena had not changed her

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story but rather that she hid now given a more detailed

account, Boonstra stated thit the date was wrong and dis-

missed the entire affair. 962/

One of the Mexico Ci:y Legat Officers, Nathan

Ferris, in reply to Thomas' letter and memorandum, asserted

that Thomas' office had beer advised by memoranda dated

December 27, 1965 and Februiry 23, 1966 that since Elena

Garro's allegations had preciously been investigated

without substantiation, no urther action was being taken

concerning her recent repet tion of those allegations. 970/

In its report, the Legat's O'fice concluded that either

the Counselor for Political Affairs did not route the

memoranda to Charles Thomas or that Thomas did not re-

call receiving them. 971/

Thomas wrote that when he went to Nathan Ferris'

office to inform him that Elena had found her calendar 9723/

and had reconstructed the dite of the party as late

September, Ferris replied trat Elena had given the late

September date when she had originally reported her story

at the American Embassy, Jli! Thomas noted that Ferris

explainee that someone who tad been at the party had

stated thai there had not been any Americans in attendance. 973/

Thoras wrote that he had assumed that Elena could nave

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clearly been mistaken about the identity of the Ameri-

can she saw there, but neve doubted that she had seen

some Americans. 974/ Thoma:; wrote that Ferris had sug-

gested that it was not neceisary for Thomas to pursue

the matter since he conside ed the Oswald case closed

and had heard all the rumor; before. 975/

The Legal. Attache's 'eply to Thomas' memo stated

that Mr. Ferris had not told Thomas that someone who was

at the party had stated tha: there had not been any Ameri-

cans present. 976/ The Leg.il Attache's memo asserted

that Thomas

had been told that it would not be necessary

for him to pursue the matte any further since Elena's

story had been investigated previously without being

substantiated. 9l/ In addition, the memo stated that

Thomas had been told that Elena's story was considered

a closed issue;

not that th Oswald case was closed. 978/

12. House Select Committee on Assassination's

Investigation of Elena Garro's Allegations

The House Select Comnittee on Assassinations in-

vestigated Elena Garro's story both through file reviews

and. personal interviews.

Tie Committee requested and

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reviewed the CIA's, FBI's and State Department's files

on Elena Garro de Paz, Elen ta Garro de Paz, Manuel. Calvillo,

Noe W. Palomares, June Cobb Sharp, Victor Rico Galan,

Eunice Odio, Sylvia Duran, lydia Duran, Ruben Duran, Betty

Serratos, Horatio Duran, Eu: ebio Azcue, and Emilio Car-

ballido. Only the Elena Garro de Paz file contained in-

formation on her allegation:. Though all the names listed

above played a role in Eleni Garro de Paz' story, not one

of their files included a reference to Elena Garro de Paz.

Furthermore, the Houe Select Committee on Assassina-

tions requested and reviewed the Central Intelligence

Agency's LICOOKIE/1, LICHAN /1, LIRING/3, and TICHBORN

files. Once again, not one of the files included a men-

tion of Elena Garro's allegitions. The House Select Com-

mittee on Assassinations leurned that LICOOKIE/l, who first

reported to the CIA Elena's allegation, was June Cobb

Sharp. 979/

LiCHANT/1 was

Manuel Calvillo who had hidden Elena Garro and her daughter

in a hotel the day followiny the assassiration. 980/

He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been arrested

before this faci had become public knowledge. g8l/

Since a file review ias inconclusive, the Committae

arranged interviews in Mexico with Ruben Durar, Horatio

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Duran, Elena and ElenitaGarro, Silvia Duran, Lynn Duran,

Emilio Carbillido and Betty Serratos. 982/ The Mexican

Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassina-

tions that Elena and Elenita Garro disappeared in 1968

during the student uprising; and have never returned to

Mexico. 983/ The officials stated that Elena and her

daughter might be in Spain. 984/ The Mexican government

reported that Emilio Carballido could not be found. 985/

The others were interviewed between June l and June 6,

1978. 986/

Betty Serratos, Lydi, Duran, Rüben Duran and

Horatio Duran all stated thit Elena was not the dancing

type and therefore did not ittend any of the twist parties

at the Duran homes: 987/ Wien Silvia Duran was asked if

Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties at the

•Duran homes, she recalled E ena attending one twist party

at Ruben's home in 1963 aftur the Garros returned to Mexico

from France: 988/ All the Durans denied that Lee Harvey

Oswald had attended any pary at one of their homes. 989/

The Committee next a xed the Central Intelligenca

Agency to arrange interview: with LICHANTil (Manuel Calvilio),

LiCOCKIE/l lune Cobo!, who may have had infornation related

to Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City, 990/

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Central Intelligence Agency declined to aid the Committee

in this aspect of the investigation. 99l/

The Committee returned to Mexico City on August 7,

1978 and

attempted to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel

Calvillo on its own. 992/

The' Mexican governmert told the Committee that

June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781,

on June 27, 1947 when she ertered Mexico through Nuevo

Lardeo. She asked, but was denied, permission to repre-

sent the magazine, Modern Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she

received a coutesy permiet, number 25556.

Furthermore,

the Mexican government explained that she disappeared in

1954 and never returned to Mexico. 993/

•The Committee believes that this information is

incorrect.

According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file, she worked

for the agency as an asset in Mexico from 1961 through

1966. 994/ Elena also stated that Ms. Cobb resided at

her home in .1964.9351

The Mexican government told the Committee that

Manuel Calvillo did not live at Cuchtemoc 877-3 as ire

Committee had informed ii. The Mexican Government's

agert-in-charge had spoken to the superintendent at ne

apartments at which Manuel Calvillo was believed to reside,

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and was informed by the superintendent who had worked

at the apartments for twenty-five years, said that no

Manuel Calvillo had ever resided there. When Committee

staffers gave the Mexican government Calvillo's pen

name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 996/

The Committee believ's that there is a possibility

that mr. Calvillo lived at his address since it acquired

the address from a recent ClA document. 997/

The Committee believes that there is a possibility

that a U.S. Government agen:y requested the Mexican govern-

ment to refrain from aiding the Committee with this aspect

of its work. 998/ (See Procedural Write-up Trip 2 Mexico

City and Section VII, C, be'ow.)

The Committee made e'ery attempt possible to locate

Elena.

On July 7, 1978 the Committee telephoned her pub-

Tisher, Mortiz, in Mexico 6 ty and inquired about Elena's

whereabouts. 999/ The publ sher stated that Ms. Garro

was living in the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Madrid, Spain. 1000/

The Committee telephoned Err Hotel S.A.C.E. in Spain and

spoke to the manager who to 1 him that Ms. Garro had

moved. 1001/ on july l4, 1!78 che committee called her

publishar again and was toi: io contaci the lexican Embassy

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in Madrid, Spain. 1002/ The publisher stated that all

Elena's payments were sent here because she did not

even trust her publisher wiüh her address., 1003/

The Committee called the Mexican Embassy in

Madrid, Spain and spoke to lidolfo Padilla, a Mexican em-

ployee of the Embassy who sated that when Elena had

visited the Embassy a couple of weeks before to pick up

a check she seemed financia ly destitute. 1004/ He

stated that when he asked E ena her new address she

declined to give one, stating that she would return every

few weeks to pick up checks and mail. 1005/ The Commit-

tee gave Padilla a telephon: number and a message asking

Elena to telephone the Comm ttee collect. 1006/

On September 5, 1978 Elena Garro called the Commit-

tee. 1007/ When it was exp ained that the Committee wished

to talk to her in person anil would pay both her daughter's

and her travel from Spain tw the United States, Ms. Garro

asked why she should believ: the Committee was what it

claimed to se. 1008/ The Curmittee asked Ms. Garro to

call back collect in the net few days when it could ax-

plain to ser when and where she coule receive a Committee

letter selinearing any the committee wished to interview

her. 1009/

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ments with the State Department for a letter to be hand-

delivered to Elena át the Anerican Embassy. in Spain. 1010/

On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Com-

mittee and asked when the letter would arrive. 1011/

The Committee explained that she, could pick up the letter

on Monday, September 11, 1978 from George Phelan, the

Counsellor for Consular Affairs

at the American Embas-

sy. 1012/ Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter

on September 11, 1978 and follow our suggestions. 1013/

Ms: Garro never went to the American Embassy in

Spain to pick up the Committee's letter. 1014/ The

Committee, hoping she would pick up the letter before

her flight date, proceeded to purchase air tickets for

both Elena and her daughter. 1015/ Elena did not pick

up the tickets at the airpo t. 1016/ The Committee has

not been able to regain con :act with Ms. de Paz again.

The Committee also jivestigated whether Charles

Thomas' "selection out" was related to the Oswald case.

After interviewing his widor, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the

Committee nas concluded tha: his dismissal was unre-

lated. 1017/

In sum, the House Se ect Committee on Assassinations

has not been able to confirn the evidence that would indi

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cate that Lee Harvey Oswald, on one night while he was

in Mexico, attended a "twis: party" at the home of Ruben

Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. In

addition, the House Select committee on Assassinations

has been unable to confirm he allegation that lee Harvey

•Oswald travelled while in Mixico City with "two beatnik-

looking boys."

•A large par: of the Committee's attempts

to investigate these issues has met with frustration.

D. Oscar Contreras Lirtigue

On March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul

in Tampico, reported to the American Embassy that he had

spoken to a reporter who allegedly had met Lee Harvey, Oswald

at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City 1018/

in 1963. 1019/ The reporter, stressing that he had only

a fleeting contact with Oswild, had claimed to have known

only about Lee Harvey Oswall's desire to travel to Cuba

and the Embassy's unwillingless to grant him a visa. 1020/

When B. J. Ruyle asked-the eporter for permission to

cabie the story to the American Embassy, the reporter

declined, stating that he feared losing his job. 1021/

Subsequent to the assassinacion, the reporter had told

his editor about his contac: with Lee Harvey Oswald, who

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had advised him not to report it. 1022/ The reporter

granted B. J. Ruyle permiss on to cable the story to

the American Embassy when Ruyle promised that it would

be handled with the stricte:t confidence. 1023/ Ruyle

wrote that he thought the riporter was genuinely con-

cerned about his job. 1024/

A letter from B: J. Buyle to the State Department

dated May 11, 1967 provided additional details of the

reporter's story. 1025/ The reporter alleged that he

and some fellow students hal met Lee Harvey Oswald as

they exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia

(school of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous Univer-

sity of Mexico. 1026/ Oswald told the group that he had

gone to the National Autononous University of Mexiço

looking for pro-castro studints who might help him per-

suade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. 1027/

oswald claimed that he was from California and was a mem-

ber of a pro-Castro group 11 New Orleans. 1028/ Oswald

remained with the students the rest of that day and even-

ing, as well as the following day. 1029/ The reporter

described Oswald as a stranje and introverted individual

who spoke very tittie Spanish. 1030/

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The State Department forwarded a copy of Ruyle's

letter to the Central Intel igence Agency. 1031/ On

June 14, 1967, ClA Headquar ers sent the Mexico City Sta-

tion a copy of Ruyle's lettur to Bowles. 1032/ CIA

Headquarters considered Ruy e's report. "the first piece

of substantive info about Oiwald's sojourn in Mexiço"

since the assassination. 1033/ Consequently, Headquarters

cabled that though it under;tood the source's reluctance

to become involved "the fac: remains that this info

cannot continue to be withhild or concealed." 1034/

Headquarters instructed the Mexico City Station to eli-

cit the identity of the sou ce from Ruyle. 1035/ In

addition, Headquarters asket the Mexico City Station to

bear in mind, while intervi.wing Ruyle's source, that

Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. 1036/ The final

sentence of the dispatch, "it is our hope that the facts

obtained through these inte views. will help to confirm

that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement

of anti-Castro Cubans, the :IA, etc. are false," 1037)

explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for

pursuing the story.

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Headquarters that a station officer had gone to Tampico

where he had interviewed Ru/le's source, Oscar Contreras. 1038/

The cable reported that Con:reras was a reporter for

E1 S01 1039/

•in Tampico; was circa

thirty years old; married, vith three children; studied

law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

(UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; belonged to a pro-castro group

at UNAM; was persecuted by the Mexican police for this

affiliation and moved to Tampico to escape the persecu-

tion 1040/•

Contreras told the Mixico City Station official

that he and four other indiriduals 1041/ had met Oswald

as they exited a roundtable discussion held at the School

of Philosophy at UNAM. 1042' Contreras stated that Oswald

had made inquiries on the UVAM campus about pro-Cuban

groups and had been directed to his group. 1043/ Con-

treras

reported that though the group initially mistrusted

Oswald fearing he was a "CIl provocation," they allowed

Oswald to remain with them that day. and night and part

of the following day. 1044/ Contreras noted that Oswald

never mentioned

assassination but kept emphasizing chat

he had to get to Cuba. 1045/ In addition, Oswald had

exhibited no homosexual tendencies while he was with the

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group. 1046/

On JuTy 4, 1967, Healquarters cabled the Mexico

City station that Contreras story should be explored

to the fullest even

though lie might have fabricated it. 1047/

Headquarters suggested that the FBI handle the story. 1048/

The following day, July 5, 967, the Mexico City Station

cabled that it preferred tuining Contreras' case over to

the Mexican authorities and to the F.B.I. 1049/ The

same day, the Chief of Stat on informed the Legat of Con-

treras' story, but asked hin not to take any action with-

out first consulting the Mesico City Station. 1050/

On July 10, 1967, Jeremy K. Benedum ("JKB") wrote

•a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government

review. of Oscar Contreras' file. 1051/ According to a

memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM law

school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, born 2/14/39

in Ciudad Victoria, Tamauligas. 1052/ The memo also re-

ported that a newspaper article appearing in "Excelsior"

listed an Oscar. Contreras as a signer of a protest for

the Bloque Estudiantil Perclucionario 1053/ which nad

been formed mid-1961. 1054/ The memo speculated that

Contreras probably signed tne protest as a front man to

protect the real leaders of

the group. 1056/

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→ City Station cabled the information to Headquarters the

following day, June 11, 1961. 1056/

The Committee has de:ermined that the Central In-

telligence Agency's main in erest in Oscar Contreras

was "to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations

about involvement of anti-cistro Cubans, the CIA, etc.

are false." 1057/ After tie CIA Mexico City Station

official's interview with Contreras 1058/ revealed

nothing that could be useful to the agency, it decided

to allow the FBl to follow :he story through. 1059/

Nonetheless, the Agency's Mixico City Station inter-

viewed the key witness, reviewed pertinent files and

records about the witness in the Mexican government's

possession, and reported all the information to Head-

quarters expéditiously.

VIl. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in

Mexico City

A. intredüction

After the darren conmission published its report

two very important abregatiors related to lee Harvey os-

waid's activistes in vextes city cane to the attention of

the ünited States investigative agencies.

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Garro de Paz reported that she had seen Lee Harvey Oswald,

accompanied by two other mer, at a party at the home of

Ruben Duran Navarra the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. 1060/

In 1967, Oscar Contreras Lartique reportedi that

he met

Lee Harvey Oswald on

thé carpus of the National Autono-

mous University of Mexico. 1061/

In addition, the testimony of the Warren Commission's

primary witness

related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado

Duran, has been called into question by the critics.

throughout the years. 1062/ Some of the information

that is inconsistent with Mi. Duran's original story--i

that Oswald visited the Consulate on two occasions which

were the only times she saw him--was available at the

time of the warren Commission's inquiry although it was

ignored. 1063/

Some of the information has developed

after the publication of the Warren Report. 1064/

The Garro and Contreras allegations, in conjunction

with the inconsistencies of Ms. Duran's story raise three ma-

jor questions: (1) did lee Harvey Aswaid or an imposter

visit the cuban Consulate ir Mexico City?: 121 other.

than nis visits to the cuba: Consulate, what were Lee har-

rey Dana d's activities in Mexico city?; and, (3) was

Lee Hariay deals travelline alone in Mexico? These

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three questions overlap som what in detail; e.g., if Os-

wald was

not traveling alon:, did one of his companions

impersonate him at the Cuba, Consulate? Nonetheless,

each of the three questions will be dealt with in separate

sections below.

In an attempt to ansiver these questions the House

Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) interviewed

Mexican 1065/ and Cuban ci:izens 1066/ who could have

knowledge of Oswald's visit:; to the Cuban Consulate;

2) interviewed Mexican citi:ens 1067/ who could have know-

ledge of Oswald's activitie:; and associations in Mexico.

City; 3) conducted an exten: ive review of the files of

the Central Intelligence Aguincy and the Federal Bureau

of investigation that pertan to Oswald's sojourn in

Mexico City. 1068/

e. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact

the Cuban and Sov et consulates in Mexico City?

Lee Harvey. Oswald hillself procably visited the Cuban

Consulate at least once since his application for a Cuban

instransit visa bears his s gnature. 1089/ Though the

Cuban Consulate alioned visi appifcants to take blank

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applications out of the Consulate to be returned when

completed, 1070/ Silvia Duran stated she was certain that

Oswald

signed the application in her presence. 1071/ Os-

wald's signature on the Cuban visa application, however,

does

not by itself rule out the possibility that someone

impersonated Oswald in contacts with the Cuban and Soviet

Embassies.

An analysis of the telephone.conversations which

the CIA's Mexico City Station intercepted by tapping the

Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's tele-

phone reveals that someone, later identified by the CIA as Oswald,

visited the Cuban Consulate at least two times and the

Soviet Consulate at least tiree times. 1072/ On Septem-

ber 27, 1963, at 4:05 p.m. silvia Duran called the Soviet

Consulate. In this conversition she referred to an Ameri.

can seeking an intransit viia to Cuba. 1073/ The substan-

tive information given indicates that she was discussing

Oswald. 1074/ At this time the individual using Oswald's

name already had been at the Soviet Embassy at least once,

since Siivia recuested the nume of the Soviet Embassy offi-

cial

who deals with the American. 1075/. Silvia also

stated that the American wa!, at that time, in the Cuban

Consulate. 1076/ At 4:26p pm. a Soviet Consular official

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returned Silvia Duran's call. 10711. This official sta-

ted specifically that Oswald had visited the Soviet Con-

sulate. 1078/

On September 28, 1963, at 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran

called the Soviet Consulate. 1079/ She put the American,

later identified as Oswald, on the telephone. 1080/ The

American, who was at the cusan Consulate at the time,.

said that he had just been at the Soviet Consulate. 1081/

The conversation ended with the American stating that he

was returning to the Soviet Consulate. 1082/

Analysis of Silvia Duran's and Eusebio Azcue's

testimony would tend to indicate that Oswald, or someone

impersonating him, visited the Cuban Consulate at least

one and possibly two additional times on September 27,

1963. Silvia Duran says that Oswald first visited the

Cuban Consulate at approximitely 11:00 a.m. requesting.

an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia las the final de-

stination. 1083/ Ms. Dura, sent Oswald to obtain photo-

graphs that he needed for the visa application. 1984/

Eusebio Azcue recalls that this visit probably occurred

on the date on the visa application, 9/27/63. 1025/

Ms. Duran also stated that Oswald retürned at ap-

proñimately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs. 1086/ Eusebio

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that the ndividual later identified

- as Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate about 1:00 p.m.

with the photographs probab y on "the date that appears

on the application, that is to say on the 27th." 1087/

The committee believes that there is a possibility that

the argument between Azcue ind the individual occurred

during this visit. 1088/

Ms. Duran stated tha: Oswald's third and last

visit occurred in the late ifternoon after. working hours

on the 27th. 1089/ This visit is confirmed by the CIA's

tap on the Soviet Consulate. 1090/

In addition to the a leged Oswald visits to the

consulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may

have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the Consu-

lates. 1091/

Several deta'ls about Oswald's visits to

the Cuban Consulate, and teiephonic contacts with both

consulates suggest that the individual involved may not

have been Oswald..

Silvia Duran's description of Oswald did not

re-

semble Oswald's true physicii appearance. 1092/ This

description, which appeared early in the reporting of in-

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Report. 1093/ (See Section

V, C, for details.) Eusebio

Azcue's description of Oswald was similar. to Silvia

Duran's, but more detailed. 1094/ Perhaps the most re-

markable thing about these descriptions is their simi-

larity to Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Os-

wald's alleged companions. 1095/

Another possible incication that an imposter may

also have visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 intercepted

conversation. 1096/ Silvia Duran adamantly denies that Oswald

or any other American visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday,

September 28, 1963. 1097/ In light of the CIA intercept

of that date, Ms. Duran has either lied to the Committee

or the individual who visited the Consulate on September

28 was not Oswald. 1098/ Ms. Duran, in light of the in-

consistencies detailed in Sections V, C and VI, A above,

may not be the most credible witness, but there are indi

cations that she was truthful when she stated that Oswald

•did not visit the Consulate on September 28. The Septem-

ber 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald because

of the marginal notations made by the ClA transiator on

the transcript. 1099/ The translator noted on the trans-

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Russian. " 1100/ On Octobe: 1, 1963, a man called the

Soviet Consulate and

identified himself as "Lee Os-

wald. " 1101/ This man also stated that he had been at

the Consulate on Saturday, the 28th. 1102/ The transla-

tor noted that this was the same man who had called the

Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken in broken

Russian. 1103/: From this information, and possibly a

voice comparison 1104/, the 9/28 caller was identified

Oswald. 1105/ The problim with assuming that the

caller on 9/28 and 10/1 was Oswald is that Oswald spoke

fluent Russian. 1106/ Gran:ed, Ms. Duran's denial.of

the Saturday visit and the proficiency of the caller's

Russian is not sufficient elidence to conclude that the

person who visited the Cuba, Consulate on Saturday and

who called the Soviet Consulate on Saturday and on Octo-

ber lst was an imposter. Yut the information is suffi-

cient

to question the assumition that it was Oswald,

especially in light of Azcuu's and Duran's descriptions

and Elena Garre de Paz' allugation.

The committee notes he possibility, but does no:

conclude, that the missing production. from the pulse

camera and the ilLYRIc base has schething to do with tha

possibilizy that someone impersonated usmaid in Mexico.

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Three calls that also occurred early on September

27, 1953 may have been by al imposter. At approximately

10:30 a.m. a man called the Soviet Military Attache

looking for a visa to Odessi and was referred to the so-

viet Consulate. 1108/ At 111:37 a.m. a man called the

Soviet Consulate and asked or a visa to Odessa. 1109/

He was told to call back at 11:00. 1110/ At 1:25 p.m.

a man called the Soviet Embissy and was told the Consul

would return between 4:00 pm. and 5:00 p.m. that day:

While only the calle's' requests for a visa to

Russia 1112/ (Odessa) conne:t these calls to Oswald,

the HSCA believes that they do fit logically into a time

sequence created by what is known from testimony and the

electronic intercepts about his actions on that day.

For example, the following is a reasonable possible

chronology of Oswald's actins on 9/27/63 based on analy-

sis of the available eviden:e. Oswald probably arrived

in Mexico around 10:00 a.m. on September 27. 1113/ By

10:30 Oswald had time to arrive at the Hotel del Comercio

and to place a cail to the soviet Military Atrache wno

referred him

to the Consul. 1114/. The military atrache

also gave the cailer directions to the Consuiate, il15/

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During the 10:37 a.m. call to the Consulate, the caller

learned that he could conta:t the Soviet Consul at 11:00

a.m. 1116/ This done, Oswald then visited the Cuban

Consulate where he arrived around 11:00.a.m., on his way

to the soviet Consulate. Tris meeting lasted only approxi-

mately fifteen minutes. 11l3/ Oswald was then sent to

obtain photographs

and to tie Russian Embassy to get the

necessary Russian visa. 11l?/ Oswald returned to the.

Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. 1120/ At this point he

had his encounter with Azcu: and completed his application.

Oswald realized at this point that he would have problems

obtained the visas. 1122/ Ifter this visit to the Cuban

Consulate, which lasted appoximately fifteen minutes 1123/

Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald

claimed had assured him thas he would have no problems

obtaining a visa. 1124! Heice..

the 1:25. call. 1125/

During this conversation Osrald learned that the consul

would be in that evening berween 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. 1126/

Oswald returned to the cuba, consulate at 1:00 and Silvia

Duran called the Sariet Conid! or his behalf. lizi!

Hence, the 4:05 and 1:25 ar. caiis involving Duran. 1123/

But there is a groclam with attributing the firs:

three ca!is on

1963 to Oswald..

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wald did not speak Spanish.

Hence, either the above

detailed calls were not made by Oswald or Oswald could

speak Spanish.

There is not enough evidence firmly to conclude

that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the

other hand, the evidence is of such a nature that the

possibility cannot be dismissed.

C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in

Mexico City?

When the warren Commission wrote about Lee Harvey

Oswald's activities in Mexico City, it concluded:

The Commission undertook an intensive investi-

gation to determine Oswald's purpose and acti-

vitres on this Journey, with specific reference

to reports that Oswald was an agent of the Cubar

or Soviet Governments:

As a result of its investi-

gation, the Commission believes that it has been

able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's

actions during this time.

By saturday, September 23, 1963,

iee Harvey

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failed to obtain

visas at both

the Cuban and Soviet Embassies.

from Sunday,

September 29, through Wednesday morning, Octo-

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when he left vexico ding on a bus bound

for the inited States, Oswald spent considerable

time waking his craval arrangements, sighiseeing

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learn whether

anything had happened on his.

visa application. 1l31/

Subsequent to the Warren Commission's Report,

the allegations of Elena Garro 1132/ and Oscar Contreras

Lartigue 1133/ came to the attention of the United

States investigative agencies. The main allegation of

both these people, that they met Lee Harvey Oswald

in Mexico City, remains to this day without direct corro-

boration. Yet the Committee feels that it cannot dis-

miss these allegations without giving them any considera-

tion.

The testimony of Silvia Duran and the Cuban Consu-

late Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's last

contact with the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, Septem-

ber 27, 1963. 1134/ The transcripts from the ClA's wire-

taps on the Soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visits

to the Soviet and Cuban Corsulates on Saturday morning,

September 28, 1963. 1135/ Oswald's last telephonic

contact with the Soviet corsulate came on Tuesday,. Octo-

ber 1, 1963. 1136/ Oswald's activities on the days be-

tween September 28 ans Octcoer l are noù clearly recorded.

The warren Commission speculated that he spent most

of inis tine signtseeing and making trave? arrangements. 1137/

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It is entirely possible that oswald did spend some of

his time during this weekend sightseeing and making

his travel arrangements. It is also entirely possible

that, after his failure to obtain his visas on Saturday,

September 28, that Oswald did not give up completely

and did attend a party where he would have come into

contact with

the Cuban Consular officials and, later,

sought help from pro-Castro students.

It is entirely possible that Ruben Duran had a

"twist party" on September 30, or October 1 1138/ as

Elena Garro has'

claimed. Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia

Duran all admitted that they frequently had twist par-

ties in 1963. 1139/ Only Silvia Duran recalled Elena

Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at the Durans'

home. 1140/ She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter,

= Elenita, attending one twist party at Ruben's home in

1963. 1141/ The other Durans adamantly denied that Lee

Harvey Oswald had attended a twist

party at one of their

homes. 1142/

Many of the detaiis of slena Garro's allegations

have no: been, or cannot be, corroborated. For exampie,

Eiena's allegation that sone of the people who had been

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at the party were taken to Veracruz under the protection

of Governor Lopez Arias 1143/ has not been verified. Ruben

Duran denied that he had ever discussed the assassination

with Elena Garro. 1144/ Eusebio Azcue denied that he

had discussed President Kennedy with Emilio Carballido

at a party at the Durans' home as alleged by Elena

Garro. 1145/ The Committee has not been able, to verify

whether or not guards were posted outside of Elena's

home in 1963 as she claims.

But other details of Elena's story are very credi-

ble. Perhaps the most striking is the suggestion that

Oswald's relationship with Silvia Duran was more exten-

sive than just the business contacts in the Cuban Consu-

late. 1146/

Another detail is the manner in which Elena's

allegations were handled, and the manner in which this

Committee's attempts to investigate those allegations

have been frustatred. 1147/.

In 1965 Elena Garro reported that Silvia Duran

had been Oswald's mistress while he was in Mexico City. 1148/

In 1967 this report was confirmed by a clA agent who

calked to Silvia Duran. 1142/ The ClA Station did not

consider the information significant and toid the agent

to end his contact with Ms. Duran. 1150/ If that informa-

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a party would not have been surprising. Silvia Duran

admitted that the Mexican police had questioned her on

this point but denied that she had had an affair with

Oswald. 1151/ Ms. Duran denied having any extra-marital

affairs while she was married to. Horacio Duran. 1152/

This denial is not consistent with evidence of her reputa-

tion at the Cuban Consulate. A CIA penetration agent

there reported to his case officer that all that would

have to be done to recruit Silvia Duran, whom he referred

to by using the Spanish word for whore, would be to get

a blond blue-eyed American into bed with her. 1153/

There

is also CIA information that indicates that Silvia

Duran had an affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

in the early 1960's. 1154%

The MSCA attempted to interview the CIA penetra-

tion agent about Ms. Duran. 1155/ An interview with the

agent was also desired so as to attempt to verify whether

Elena Garro had created a cisturbance at the Cuban Embassy.

on November 23, 1963. 1156; The Committee's attempts

to irterview this agent were frustrated. 1157/

Ms. Garro's claim that she stayed at the Hotel

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October 13, 1966. 1158/

Ms. Garro claimed that she had

been held there by Manuel Calvillo whom she believed

worked for the Mexican Ministry of Government. 1159/

1963, Mr. Calvillo was an unwitting asset of the Central

Intelligence Agency. 1160/ Ms. Garro claimed that she

told Mr. Calvillo her story on November 23, 1963. 1161/

• Yet the ClA Mexico City Station did not receive a report

from Calvillo on this matter until November 24, 1964, the

same day that Elena first told her story to American of.

ficials. 1162/ For these reasons. it was felt that

Manuel Calvillo could well se a key to determining the

veracity of Ms. Garro's story. The Committee's attempt

to

interview Mr. Calvillo were also frustrated.

There: is also circumitantial corroboration of Ms.

Garro's allegations regarding June Cobb Sharp. For exam-

ple, Ms. Cobb was indeed a :lA agent and she did file

the first report of Ms. Gar-o's story, 1164/ It should

be noted that this first resort was accurate in its detail

in that Ms. Garro's story rimained essentially the same

in subsequent repetitions.. Ms. Garro claimed that she

kicked MS. Cobb out of her louse. 1165/ There is a nota-

tion on Ms. Cabb's report tiat she was not able to regain

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access to Ms. Garro. 1166/ The Committee attempted to

obtain

an interview with Ms. Cobb, but was once again

frustated. 1167/

Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City

Station and the Legal Attache's office in Mexico City

handled. Ms. Garro's allegations reveals that, at best,

her allegations were handled in an irresponsible manner

because they were dismissed after a superficial investi-

gation.

The first report that came to the CIA was mis-

filed and forgotten. 1168/ The Legat, after talking to

Elena, dismissed her story after interviewing one person

whom she said may have been at the party. 1169/ The

manner in which the official American community handled

Charles Thomas! reporting is detailed in Section VI, C,

11, above. Mr. Thomas speculated in 1969 about why Ms.:

Garro's story had been largely ignored by the American

officials in Mexico:

It would appear that

whereas

the FBI has

discounted the Elena

Garro allegations,

the cla is still considerable disturbed

by them.

The ClA may not have pressed for

further investigation, however, for a ruT-

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1) considering

the sensi-

tive overlap and subtle competition berween

two intelligence

collecting agencies. it

had to yield to the FBI's clear jurisdic

tion; 2) there are ebvious complicaticis

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in conducting such an investigation in a

foreigh country; 3) there is a close

and delicate relationship between the CIA

Station Chief and the former Minister of

Interior--President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz;

and 4) some of the people appearing in

the Elena Garro scenario may well be agents

of the CIA.. Under the circumstances it

is unlikely that any further investiga-

tion of this matter will ever take place

unless it is ordered by a high official

in Washington. 1170/

The Committee attempted to locate Elena Garro.

Although the Committee esta, lished telephonic contact

with Ms. Garro, the Committee was totally frustrated

in this aspect of its investigation, but yet believes

that there is

a possibility that lee Harvey Oswald did

attend a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran.

The Committee also considers it possible that

Lee Harvey Oswald contacted pro-Castro students at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad

Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, hereinafter UNAM) as claimed

by Oscar Contreras Lartigue, 1172/ Silvia Duran admitted

that she had told Oswald of two ways in which he could

get a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intransit visa by

first obtaining a visa to another Communis: country such

as Russia; 2) he could obtain a reguiar Cuban visa by

knowing someone in Cuba who would vouch for him. 1173/

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It is possible that after Oswald's attempts to obtain

a visa by the

first method were frustrated on Saturday,

September 28, that he made one final effort to locate

someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to vouch

for

him.

There is no direct evidence about how Oswald

could have

learned of the pro-Castro group at UNAM.

There

is a possibility that Ernesto Leffeld Miller,.

a friend of the Durans who borrowed Horacio's car often

took Lee Harvey Oswald to the campus of the National

Autonomous University. On the days when Lee Harvey Os-

wald allegedly visited the Consulate, Mr. Miller did also.

It is possible that Silvia Duran asked him to escort

Oswald to the campus. Mr. Miller denied having ever

met Oswald. 1174A/ Oscar lontreras says that Oswald

first contacted him as he was leaving a round-table dis-

cussion at the school of prilosphy. 1174/ It 15 known

that, in 1963, the Durans vere close friends with the

Chairman of the Philosophy department at UNAM, Ricardo

Guerra, who held sentnars un kant, Hegel and Marx in the

Durans' home. 1175i it is aussible, if Silvia Duran has.

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that she referred Oswald 10 one of Guerra's Marxist

seminars in his search for help. Unfortunately,

Contreras. does not name who headed the round table dis-

cussion at which he met O: wald. 1176/ Silvia Duran

denied that she referred liswald to anyone for help. 1177/

Ricardo Guerra is present y the Mexican Ambassador to

East Germany and was not i vailable to the Committee

for an interview. On both of the Committee's trips to

Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee that

Mr. Contreras would be madle available for an interview.

The interview never occurred. 1178/ Although the Com-

mittee's attempt to inves :igate Mr. Contreras' allegat-

tion met largely with fruitration, the allegation can

not be dismissed.

D. Was Lee Harvey Oiwald alone while he cravelled

to Mexico?

The warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Os-

wald travelled alone whil: he was in Mexico. 1179/

Ail of the mitnesses, with the exception of Elena Garro

de Paz who stated that Os vald was accompanied dy two

"beatnik looking boys" 1i30/ at Ruben Duran's party,

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not believe that it can readily dismiss Ms. Garro's

• allegation that Oswald had a companion in Mexico in light

of: 1) the corroboration of details of Ms. Garro's story; 1181/

2) the possibility that soneone impersonated Oswald in

Mexico 1182/ and 3) the siniliarity in the description of

Oswald by Ms. Duran and Mr. Azcue and the description of

Oswald's companion by Ms. Carro. 1183/

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Appendix 1: HSCA Procedural Write-up

Cuba Trip 1

Select Committee memoers Chairman Louis Stokes

and Congressman Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G..

Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell and Ed Lopez of the Select

Committee staff arrived in Cuba at 3:30 p.m., March 30,

1978. They were. met and escorted through Cuban Customs

by the Mayor of Havana, Honorable Oscar Fernandez Mell,

the Minister of Justice, Dr. Armando Torres Santrayll,

Señor Buergo, Ricardo Escartin and the Cuban government

translator, Juanita Vera. At approximately 7:30 p.m.

Señor Mell escorted the Select Committee staff to a

restaurant in Old Havana. The following day Congressman

Richardson Preyer arrived in Cuba at 7:00 a.m.

At 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 1978 the Select Committee

representatives met with Ficardo Escartin, Senen Buergo

and Captain Felipe Villa ef the Ministry of the Interior.

The Cuban Government gave the members and Committee

its

official reply to the committee's'

questionnaire, given

=o the cuban government prior to the Committee's trip

to cuba.

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Ricardo Escartin, Senen Buergo, Felipe Villa and Juanita

Vera. During this

session, the two major areas of dis-

cussion were Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and

the dates of Jack Ruby's risits to Cuba in 1959. 1184/

At 7:30 p.m. the House Select Committee on Assassinations

staff dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando Torres

Santrayll.

At 9:00 a.m. on April 1, 1978, the Select Committee

staff again met with the :ame cuban officials for a

third session. Santo Traificante was the major area of

discussion. 1185/ At noor, Committee members and

staff representatives met with Cuba's Minister of Educa-

tion, Honorable Jose Ramor: Fernandez, who gave a pre-

sentation on the improvement in quality of Cuban educa-

tion since the Cuban Revo ution:

Following Señor Fernandez's discussion, at 3:15 p.m..

Eusebio Azcue was intervirwed by: the Committee staff re-

presentative. Azcue was questioned extensively about

Oswald's aileged trip to lexico City, Oswald's alleged

visits to une cuban consu ate, and Señor Azcue's alleged

argument witr Lee

Harvey "swald. 1186/

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At 7:30 p.M., April 1, 1978, Messers. Escartin.

and Hernandez

accompanied the House Select Committee

staff for dinner and show to the Tropicana Club which,

prior to the Revolution, vas operated by organized

crime. The Tropicana Clut is presently run by the

Cuban government.

At 11:00 a.m. on April 2, 1978, the Committee

staff again met with Senen Buergo, Ricardo Escartin,

Felipe Villa, Aramis Guet errez and Juanita Vera. Santo

Trafficante, Jack Ruby and. Mexico City were the major

areas of discussion. 1l87, This session terminated at

1:00 p.m. At 4:50 p.m.,: he morning's meeting resumed.

During the afternoon sess on, the major areaffof dis-

cussion was the alleged plo-Castro involvement in the

assassination. 1188/

At 9:15 a.M:,, April 3, 1978, the Committee staff

met with the cuban officials for a final work session.

During this session, the ntelligence agencies and

general questions derived from the questionnaire which

the Committee had provide to the Cuban government

sere the major areas of discussion. 1189/ During the.

session, the Committee stiff and Cuban officials also

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exchanged listings of pending material which might be

covered during a subsequent trip to cuba by HSCA repre-

sentatives and Congressmen. 1190/

At 6:00 p.m. the Committee staff met with Presi-

dent Fidel Castro Ruz who assured the Committee that

neither he nor his government had any involvement in the

assassination of president John F. Kennedy.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations staff

departed Havana, Cuba at 10:00 a.M., April 4, 1978,

arriving in Washington, D.C. at 4:30 p.m.

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Appendix 2: HSCA Procedura: Write-up Mexico Trip

House Select Committre on Assassinations staffers

Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap

arrived at the Mexico City airport at 8:30 p.m., May

30, 1978. (A11 times are lexico City times, unless

otherwise specified., The: were met and escorted through

Customs by David Patton, ail employee of the United

states Embassy.

The following mornin'!, May 31, 1978 the HSCA

representatives

met with U.S. Embassy Political Officer

Richard Howard concerning procedure. Mr. Howard sche-

duled a meeting at 11:15 a m. with the Chief of the CIA

Station in Mexico City. This meeting was preliminary

in nature and concerned procedures regarding arrangement

of the interviews of ex-CId employees in Mexico.

At 12:00 noon, the HiCA representatives and Richard

Howard met representatives of the Government of Mexico.

The Mexican representative: were: 1) Dr. Jesus Yanes,

Advisor to the Attorney General's Executive Officer;

2) Fernando Baeza, Chief Aiministrative Officer for tne

Attorney General; and 3) Commandate Florentino Ventura,

Chief of the Mexican Federil Police.

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informed the staff members at this meeting that they had

located Silvia Duran, Horario Duran, Ruben Duran and

Pedro Gutierrez Valencia L'92/ and that each person

was willing to be intervieved by the HSCA representatives.

procedure for conduct of the interviews was also dis-

cussed at this

meeting.

The Mexican government decided that the initial

interview would be an informal contact with the witnesses

in which the Committee's oljectives would be described.

The witnesses' statements would be formalized at a later,

taped. interview. The Mexican officials informed the

HSCA staff members that thuy had been unable to locate

Oscar Contreras, 1193/ Eluna Garro de Paz, and Elenita

Garro de Paz. 1194/ The Mixican Government had not had

contact with the Garros silice 1968. The Mexicans said

that they were trying to lucate the Garros through

the Foreign Ministry since Elena's ex-husband, Octavio

Paz, had once been an impo tant person in that ministry.

The Mexicans asked that we determine the name of the

Mexican Government contact during 1964 with the Warren,

commission so that they could locate their records in

the Archives.

The Mexican official; left to set up the preliminary

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interviews with witnesses. The preliminary interviews

were conducted by Gary Cor,well. HSCA staff members

Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez ald Harold Leap were present

during Cornwell's questioning. The

Mexican Governmen't

was represented by Dr. Jesis Yañes, Commandante Floren-

tino-Ventura, and Jesus Meixueiro Kanty, second in com-

mand to Ventura. Pedro Gucierrez Valencia was inter-

viewed at 2:30 p.m. Ruben Duran was interviewed at

5:00•p.m. Horacio Duran wis interviewed at 5:30 p.m.

Silvia Duran was interviewed at 6:15 p.m.

At 9:30 a.m. on June 1, 1978, the HSCA staff re-

presentatives met with the Mexican police representatives.

The HSCA staff requested l) the records of the company

that employed Gutierrez Valencia in 1963; press clippings

of the Mexican newspaper coverage of Oswald and Silvia

Duran (attached); 3) once sgain, an interview with Oscar

Contreras; 4) individual files on Elena Garro de Paz

and Silvia Duran; 5) evidence related to Silvia Duran's

assertion that Oswald was st the Cuban Embassy on one

day only; 6) an interview mith Deba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan; 1195/ 7) an interview with Eunice Odio; 1135/

9) an interview with Emilic Carballido; 1197/ and

10) an interviem mitn victor Rico Galanay

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ASCA also asked to be show the Cuban Consulate.

The Mexican representatives informed the HSCA

staff that Victor Rico Galin had, at one time, been

arrested

on political charges but that he was subse-

quently pardoned by either Diaz Ordaz or Luis Eche-

varria. 1199/ The Mexican: said that they were search-.

ing for all files and newspaper articles requested

by the HSCA.

The Mexican official: also offered their obser-

vations orally on the preliminary interviews conducted

the previous day. They ponted out that they found it

strange that Silvia had to d Oswald he could not travel

while in Cuba. They wondered what Duran was trying to

tell Oswald and whether she thought that Oswald had

some objective in going to Cuba other than that ascribed

by the popular version. They also considered the manner

in which Silvia obtained erployment at the Cuban Consu-

late unusual. Generally they noted that silvia and

her brothers seemed to hays almost programmed responses

and a defensive demearor. They poirted out, nowever.

that all the burans had been very incerested in talking

•to us. In their opinion, uben durar was the most

credibie of those interriered by the AStA the previous

day.

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At this point, a Mexican official who had been

checking the computer recods informed us that Victor

Rico Galan had died.

HSCA staff members povided the Mexican authori-

ties with the names of the Mexican officials who had

been

involved in

the inves:igation in 1963.

HSCA staff members mit again with the Mexican po-

lice authorities at 10:00 1.m. on June 2, 1978. At

this time, the Mexican police provided the copies of the

newspaper

clippings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the

Excelsior. HSCA staff memiers asked if the Mexicans

could persuade the newspapers to reveal the sources

of their stories about Oswild and Silvia Duran. The

Mexican officials' response was negative. The Mexican

officials informed the HSC. staff members that most of

the data we wanted from the files was in their Security

Service files.. The Mexical officials working with

the HSCA explained that they were the Mexican equivaient

of the F3l and that the Security Service was the Mexican

equivalent of the cia: hen:e chere was the usual cureau-

cratic praciem involved in abtalding access to the se-

curity serice's files. Tia Mexicans informed the esca

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• that Deba Garro could not be located; and that there

was no record of anyone naned Eunice Odio. SCA repre-

sentatives told the Mexicar officials that odio, who

was either Costa Rican or Cuatemalan, had been the

mistress of Emilio Carballido. The assassination

and the reaction of the Mesican people to it was

discussed.

At 1:00 p.m., HSCA staff members conducted an

• interview at the United Stites Embassy in connection

with the ClA aspects of the Mexico City investigation.

At 2:30, Gary Cornwel discussed problems with

the Chief of the Mexico City CIA Station. He requested

that the COs cable Headquarters regarding restrictions

placed on the HSCA staff in Mexico.

At 6:00 p.m., the HSIA

staff members, accompanied

by Jesus Meixuerio Kanty ald his assistant, Honorio

Escondon, met with the ass stant chief of the Mexican

Security Service Nazar. Mi. Nazar gave an oral resume

of the interviews snich Me:ican officials conaucted in

1963 of Silvta, Moratio and Ruben Durar and Betay Serrates.

Mr. Nazar said thai the dies had to be formally re-

quested before

ne sould colsider releasing then. Ha

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States courts from the witnesses whom we wished to

interview. Mr. Nazar suggested that our best investi-

gatory avenue would be to concentrate on Oswald's inter-

rogation"

after his arrest on November 22nd. Mr. Nazar

had a very low opinion of ¿lena Garro de Paz' credibil-

ity. He felt that she con used fact and fiction.

June 3 and 4, 1978, 'vere spent on CIA-related

aspects of the Mexico City investigation. Two inter-

views were conducted. All interviews, with the excep-

tion of interviews with. CIl personnel, were taped and

later transcribed.

At 11:00 a.m. on Jun: 5, 1978, the HSCA staff

interviewed Horacio Duran for the record. 1200/ At

1:00 p.m., HSCA staff member Edwin Lopez and Mexican

officials Honorio Escondon and Dr. Alfonso Orozco

Gutierrez interviewed Pedro Gutierrez Valencia for

the record. 1201/ At 5:00 p.m.. MSCA staff members in-

terviewed Lynn Duran, aka -ydia Duran, for the record. 1202/

On June 6, 1978 at 11:00 a.m., the HSCA staff in-

terviewed Ruben Duran for the

recors.1202/ At ::00 p.m.,

the staff rebresentatives net with commandate Ventura.

The staff representatives agreed to supply the Mexicans

with questions for two witnesses, Oscar Contreras and

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Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, who could not then be inter-

viewed. 1204/ Commandate Ventura authorized Honorio

Escondon to interview Oscar Contreras Lartigue and

Ernes to Lehfeld Miller. At 5:00 p.m., the wife of

Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, 1205/ was interviewed for

the record. At 5:45 p.m., Silvia Duran was interviewed

for the record. 1206/

The HSCA staff representatives left Mexico City

at 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 1978, arriving in Washington,

D.C. at 5:30 p.m., Washington time.

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Appendix 3: HSCA Procedural Write-up

Mexico Trip 2

House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez

and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7,

1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton,

a State Department official, at the Mexican airport

at 10:15 p.m. Mr. Patton then checked the staffers into

Room 1754 at the Maria Isatel Hotel.

Mr.

Patton informed the staff nembers that Larry Sternfield

CIA Chief of Station in Merico City, wished to see us

at 8:30 a.m. the following morning.

On Tuesday, August 8: 1978, Committee staffers

met with LarrySternfield. He informed the staffers

that the two individuals the Committee wished to inter-

view; Dariel Flores, 1207/ aka Luis Aparicio, and Ramon

Alvarez Duran, 1208/were now available.

At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem-

bers interviewed Danny Flores. 1209/ The interview

ended at approximately 10: 5 a.m.

Committee staff memburs returned to Mr. Sternfield

office. Mr. Sternfield sta.ed that it appeared that the

Government of mexico had only been able to locate two

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witnesses for the Committee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue 1210/

and Noe W. Palomares. 1211/ Sternfield asked the

staff members to whom they wished to speak. The Commit-

tee staff members explainer that they would like to

interview LICHANT 1, 1212/ LICOOKIE I, 1213/ LITAMIL 7, 1214/

LITAMIL 9, 1215/ and LIRING 3, 1216/ Mr. Sternfield

then stated that it appeared that the House Select

Committee on Assassinations had already asked the Mexi-

cans to locate the individuals listed above.

Mr. Sternfield stater that the HSCA's interview

with Ramon Alvarez Duran wis considered "highly sensi-

tive."

He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotel

would be used. In one rooni, Ramon. Alvarez Duran. would

sit, Committee staff members would sit in a second room

and two cla personnel officers would insure that the

equipment worked properly na third room. Mr. Stern-

field then phoned. Mr. Nile: Gooding, who had been sent

to the Mexico City Station from Headquarters to arrange

the procedures for the interviews. Mr. Gooding ex-

pained that in 1977 Stans:ield Turner had created a

new position at Headquarters to insure that important

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arranged. Mr. Gooding stased that the Central Intelli-

gence Agency had been unde: greater Congressional scrutiny

the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in

order to demonstrate the Ajency's good faith, had en-

gaged a retired Army officir to act.

as liaison at

sensitive interviews by Congressional representatives.

Mr. Gooding then explained that the HSCA staff would be

escorted by two CIA personiel to the interview

with

Ramon Alvarez Durant.

At 10:55 a.M., August 8, 1978, Committee staff

members interviewed Ramon Alvarez Durant. 1217/

At 12:30 p.m., Committee staff members telephoned

Captain Fernandez Ventura gutierrez. His secretary

explained that Mr. Ventura was not in the office, but

that she would have him call us when hé returned. At

6:30 p.m., since Mr.. Ventura had not yet returned the

staffer's call, they again called his office. His se-

cretary apologized for.

Mr. Ventura and explained that

he had not yet returned to the office and she assured us that

Mr. Veniura would telephone upon his return. At 9:15 p.m.,

or. Jesus Yañez, the Assistant to the official mayor,

telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura

was very busy on an important assignment and asked us

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to visit the Police

Station known as the Procuraduria

General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning.

At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff

members met with State Department Official Richard

Howard to alert him that the Committee would request

the Mexican officials to make Silvia Duran

available

in Washington for an HSCA hearing. Mr. Howard explained

that once we had permission from the Mexican government,

the State Department would insure that she was in

Washington when necessary.

At 11:00 a.M., August 9, 1978, Committee staff

members met with Dr. Jesus Yañes and Ciprianio Martinez

• Novoa. Mr. Yanes told Committee staff

members that

Ciprianio Martinez Nova, the Mexican agent in charge,

would try to aid us in all our interviews. Mr. Martinez

then briefed the Committee staff members on their up-to-

date progress:

Oscar Contreras Lartigue had been located and pre-

interviewed by Mr. Martinez in Tampico, Mexico. The

Committee would fly to Tampico on Friday, August 11,

1978 at 7;35 a.m. to interview him.

Noe W. Palomares had been located and could be

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1978 at his office, Cerradi de la Presa 4. His phone number,

595-0891, was made available to the Committee.

June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number

72781, on June 27, 1947.

she entered Mexico through

Nuevo Lardo, Texas. She r-quested

but was denied permission

by the Mexican government :0 represent the magazine, Modern

Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she received a

courtesy permit,

number 25556. She disappeared in 1954 and

never returned

to Mexico.

The Committee staffe's did not tell the Mexicans that

the House Select Committee on Assassinations had evidence

from review of June Cobb's 201 file that she was in Mexico

in the sixties.

Eunice Odio Infante, a Costa Rican, received a

three-month tourist permit from the Mexican government

on February 9, 1964. She 'emained in Mexico, illegally

residing at Nacas-45-a; un:1l 1972.. She applied to write

for the Excelsior magazine on many different occasions,

but was rejected every tim:. In 1972, Ms. Odio married

a Comminist painter, Rudolio Sanabria Gonzalez and moved

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to Rio Neba-16 Apartment 411. On May 24, 1972, Ms. Odio

was found dead in her bath ub. The official presiding

at her autopsy concluded that Ms. Odio had poisoned

herself.

Emilio Carballidó Fontanes was in Carcas, Venezuela,

on vacation and scheduled :o return to Mexico in early

September. His address is Constituyentes 207. His phone

number is 515-8345.

Consuelo Esperon's' (-ITAMIL 7) personnel record in

Mexico could not be located. When the Mexican officials

inquired about her at the suban Embassy in Mexico City

prior to the Committee's trip, no one at the office

remembered that she had worked there. Committee staff

members were told that Esperon was probably.

dead. No basis

was given for the Mexican government's conclusion.

Carlos Jurado J. Delmar (LIRING 3) was born in Cuba

on November 3, 1927. He entered Mexico July 1, 1965 and

taught Graphics and Art at V.N.A.M. until January. 1, 1968

when he disappeared.

The Mexican officials assumed that

he

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General Jesus Jose C'ark Flores 1218/ died in the

early 1970's.

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, 1219/ Academic Coordinator

at the School of Interior lesign, had not yet been located.

Luis Alberue Suoto (LITAMIL. 9) lives at Michelet #7,

Apartment #301, Colonia Antura, Mexico City. His phone

number is 545-9947. The lindlady at his apartment explained

to the Mexican officials that Mr. Alberue had left town

hurriedly on Monday, August: 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing

to know when he returned, liad placed a piece of scotch tape

on the bottom right edge of his door. Mr. Martinez explained

that he checked it every four hours and would notify us if

Alberue returned before we left.

Manuel Calvillo (LICIANT 1) did not live at Cauhtemoc

877-5 as the Committee had. stated. The landlady for the

past twenty-five years at the apartments told Mr. Martinez

that Manuel Calvillo had never resided there. Committee

staff members explained thit Calvillo went by a pen name

which would be forwarded to the Mexican officials the

following morning.

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When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms.

Silvia Tirado Bazan could estify at an HSCA hearing,

the Mexican officials statud that they would have an

answer for the staffers by Friday morning. The Mexican

officials explained. that they would have to speak to her

to insure that she was wil ing to travel to Washington.

On Thursday, August 10, 1978, at 11:00 a.m. the

Committee staff members me: with Dr. Jesus Yanez, Agent

Ciprianio Martinez Novoa, 'aptain Florentino Ventura

Gutterrez and Attorney General Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo's

"pen name" was given to th: Mexicans who stated that they

would check it with the laidlady at his alleged apartment

building.

Committee staffers returned to their hotel room with

Agent Ciprianio Martinez Novoa after the meeting. Agent

Martinez attempted without success to telephone Oscar

Contreras Lartique to infom him of our visit. At 3:30 p.m.,

Agent Martinez finally rea:hed Mr. Contreras' child who

informed him that Mr. Cont-eras was not in Tampico. He

had traveled to Mexico Citi for a Partido Republicano

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Institucional convention. When Agent Martinez asked the child

if he knew where his fathe was staying in Mexico City,

he responded that he did not. Agent Martinez explained

to the child that he would call at a later time to speak

to his

mother.

Agent Martinez telepioned Noe W. Palomares at 4:00

p.m. and arrange an interview. for 6:30 p.m. that evening.

Mr. Martinez asked Committie staff members to meet him at

his office at the procuradria General at 6:00 p.m.

At 6:00 p.m., August 10, 1978, Committee staff members

met Agent Ciprianio Martinez at the Procuraduria General.

Martinez then drove the ISSA representatives to Mr. Palomares'

office. At 6:30 p.m., Comnittee staff members interviewed

Noe W. Palomares. 1270/

Following the interview, Agent Martinez returned to

the Maria Isabel Hotel with Committee staff members. He

attempted to reach Mrs. Contreras telephonically at Tampico

twice without success. At 9:45 p.m., he finally contacted

her. Mrs. Contreras told Agent Martinez that Mr. Oscar

Contreras had toid her that ha would try to get a room

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at either the Hotel Regis or Hotel San Francisco. Mrs.

Contreras explained that since there were a few conven-

tions scheduled in Mexico City that weekend she could

not assure that he would be at either

hotel. Mrs. Contreras

told Agent Martinez that she would notify him if her.

husband should call.

Mr. Martinez called toth hotels and inquired whether

Oscar Contreras Lartigue wis registered. He was not

registered at either; they were completely booked up.

Mr. Martinez attempted to reach by telephone Silvia

Tirado Byazan at ther home to ask her whether she would be

willing to travel to Washirgton to testify at a HSCA hearing

and to ask if she knew where Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller

could be located. She was not at home, however.

Agent Martinez explaned that he would attempt.to

locate Oscar Contreras Larligue at the hotel where the

Partido Republicano

Institucional (Institutional Republican

Party) was holding its con ention early the following morning;

after which he would meet the staff members at 9:30 a.m. at

their hotel room.

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At 9:45 a.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez met

Committee staffers at thei hotel room and explained that

he was unable to locate

Mr. Contreras Lartigue at the

convention. Mr. Martinez hen left to check the where-

abouts of Mr. Alberue Suot, and Silvia Tirado Bazan.

at 12:30 p.m.,

Augist 11, 1978, Agent Martinez

returned to the Committee taff members' hotel room. He

telephoned Mrs. Contreras. in Tampico who stated that her

husband had not telephoned her since she had last spoken

to Agent Martinez. At 1:5) p.m., another agent, Honorio

Escondon, telephoned Agent Martinez at the Committee staffers'

hotel room to inform him trat Luis Alberue Suoto must be

back in town because the sotch tape placed at the base of

his entranceway door was no longer

in place. AT 1:55 р.m.,

Agent Martinez telephoned -uis Alberue Suvoto. During the

phone conversation, Alberu: denied that he had worked at

the Cuban Embassy in the Sixties, stated that he knew nothing

about the assassination, and declined the Committee staff

members' request to interview him.

At 2:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez telephoned

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silvia Duran..

Agent Martinez then gave the telephone to

Committee staffer Lopez. Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado

whether she would be willirg to testify sometime in September

at a Committee hearing in lashington; she answered affirma-

tively.

She stated that. September 13th, 14th and 15th

would not be "good days" because the Mexican Revolution

celebration would be taking place and she was a planner and

participant. When Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado if she knew

Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's phone number, she stated that

she did not, but

she stater. that if we telephoned her

husband Horatio at either.! 16-0398 or 515-8621, he would

be able to help us.

At 2:15 p.m., Commit ee staffer Lopez telephoned

Horatio Duran, who have him Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's office

phone number, 548-4839. A: 2:20 p.M., Lopez telephoned

Mr. Miller and arranged a neeting for 9:00 p.m. that

evening.

At 2:30 p.m., Agent liartinez telephoned Captain Ventura

to report on his progress, pertaining to his work with the.

HSCA. When Martinez told lentura that he had located Alberue,

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Ventura asked Martinez if le was alone. When Agent Martinez

lied and stated that he wa; alone, Ventura told him that

he should under no circums:ances allow us to interview

Alberue. When Agent Martilez completed

his phone call,

he said, "I don't understald why nobody wants you to talk

to him."

• At 9:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Committee staffers

interviewed Ernesto Lehfel1 Miller. 1221/

At 11:15 a.m., August 12, 1978, Committee staffer

Lopez called Luis Alberue suoto at his home. When Mr. Lopez

identified himself, Mr. Alverue immediately stated that

he knew nothing. He further stated that he never worked

for the Cuban Embassy. When Lopez explained to him that

employees at the Cuban Embassy had stated that he had been

employed there, Mr. Suoto hung up. Mr. Alberue's voice.

quivered throughout the short talk.

At 11:45 a.m., Silvia Tirado called Lopez and stated

that she had thought all night about travelling to washington.

She said she had seen a report in the newspapers in which

Azsue had stated that the man who visited the Cuban Consulate

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in 1963 was not Lee Harvey Oswald. She stated that Azcue

had only seen Oswald once while she had seen Oswald at

least three times.

Ms. Duran further stated

that if she testified in Washington and the Committee

concluded that she was lying she would be crucified when

she returned to Mexico. Mr. Lopez reassured her and explained

that when he returned to hashington he would send her a long

letter explaining procedures.

At 12:05 p.m., Agent Martinez met the Committee staff.

members at the airport. te stated that Contreras and Calvillo

had not been located. The Committee staffers gave Martinez

a list of questions to ast Oscar Contreras Lartigue. Agent

Martinez

stated.

that he would mail the results of the interview

to Lopez at the Committee offices in Washington, The

Committee never received iny interview reports from the

Mexican government.

The Committee staff members left Mexico City at 1:55 p.m.

and arrived at Washington s Dulles Airport at 10:35 p.I.

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Appendix 4: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 2

On August 25, 1978, Congressman Richardson Preyer

•and HSCA staff members. G. Robert Blakey and Edwin Juan

Lopez Soto traveled to Cuba from Miami at 8:25 a.m. on an

Air-Taxi Service charter plane. The Committee representa-

tives arrived in Cuba at 10:15 a.m. They were met by the

Minister of Justice, Armãndo Torres Santrayll; Washington

Consul Ricardo Escartin; American Department official,

Senen Buergo; and translator, Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. The

Committee representatives were escorted to their suite,

room number 2003, at the Hotel Riviera at 11:00 a.m.

At 12:15 p.m., the Committee representatives met

with Ricardo Escartin, Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and

translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. Also

present were two Cuban stenographers. Senen Buergo, the

spokesperson, welcomed the Committee representatives to

Cuba and thanked the Committee for its correspondence.

Mr. Buergo

apologized on behalf of the Cuban government

for the postponement of a previously scheduied trip of

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May 24th and 25th, 1978.

1r. Buergo stressed that in

his opinion there was a conspiracy to link cuba to the

assassination of John F. Kennedy. At that point, he

handed four files to Congressman Richardson Preyer. The

files consisted of: a) material concerning Santo Trafficante;

b) a letter dated 25 November 1963 from Hernandez Armas

(Mexican Ambassador in 1962 to Raul Roa (Minister of Foreign

Relations in 1963); c) the results of the cuban government's

research into mis-information linking the Cuban Government

to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and d)

the report of

the Investiçative Committee of the International

Tribunal of the Eleventh festival reporting on the defamation

campaign to link Cuba to the

assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Mr. Buergo stated that both Eusebio Azcue Lopez and

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz wouls that day be made available for

interviews.. Mr. Buergo slated that Nilo Otero 1222/ would

be made available for interview the following day, 26 August

1978. Mr.

Buergo stated : hat. Rogelio Rodriguez 1223/ was

presently stationed in let Germany. Buergo stated that

Ricardo Escartin previous y interviewed Mr. Rodriguez ano

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was told by Rodriguez that he had had no contact with Lee

Harvey Oswald. Mr. Buergo stated that if the Committee

still desired to interview Rodriguez, he would be made

available to the Committee: Mr. Buergo stated that an

interview with Rolando Cubola Secades 1224% would be

arranged.

Mr. Buergo asked if he Committee was still interested

in interviewing Orestes Gu Ilermo Ruiz Perez. 1225/ Mr.

Buergo stated that the Cubin government had no record of

a citizen named Griselle Rubio. 1226/ Mr. Buergo inquired

whether the Committee reprisentatives were interested in

watching the videotaped stitements of James Wilcott 1227/

and Phillip Agee 1228/ at he Tribunal. 1229/ Congressman

Preyer responded that the committee's representatives would

want to view the wilcott and Agee videotaped statements.

Mr. Buergo stated thit our schedule included dinner

with the Minister of Justi:e at 8:00 p.m. on 25 August 1978,

fishing on 27 August 1978 Sunday), and a farewell dinner

on 28 August 1978.

Congressman Preyer tranked the cuban officials for

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making both the documents and witnesses available to the

Select Committee.

Professor Blakey stited that the Committee was

longer interested in interviewing Rolando Cubela. Mr.

Blakey stated that Griselle Rubio had been found in Miami

and interviewed by a Committee investigator. Mr. Blakey

stated that the Committee wanted to interview Oreste Guillermo

Ruiz Perez for two reasons: He worked at the Cuban Embassy

in September 1963 when Osald allegedly visited the Cuban

compound in Mexico City; ind, he is married to the cousin

of a counter-revolutionary, Antonio Veciana Blanch. Mr.

Blakey stated that Rogelic Rodriguez need not be interviewed.

Captain Felipe Villa stated that the Cuban government,

relying on the seriousness and honesty of the Committee's

work, thought that the Conmittee should have knowledge of

Cuebela's statements. Mr. Villa stated that the Committee

still needed to provide the cuban government with the

following: a) a workable formula on counter-revolutionaries

that could be used by the cuban government to aid the

Committee in its investigation of such organizations;

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b) copies of Lee Harvey Osrald's signatures that the

Cuban government could use to perform its own hand-

writing comparison test; and c) E. Howard Hunt's aliases;

Mr. Blakey stated that examples of Lee Harvey Oswald's

handwriting would be forthcoming. Mr. Blakey stated that

the Committee had not yet developed a formula for identifying

counter-revolutionary groups active against the Cuban.

government in 1963 or a method for providing E. Howard Hunt's

aliases.

Mr. Blakey stressed that both these areas would

be discussed in the Committee's final report.

At 1:00 p.m. the first work session ended.

At 3:15 p.m. House Select Committee on Assassinations

representatives interviewed Juan Nilo Otero in Room 2003 of

the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson

Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen.

Buergo, Ricardo Escartin, captain Felipe Villa, translator

Juanita Vera and two stenographers. 1230/ The interview

ended at 5:15 p.m.

At 8:00 D.M. the Connittee's representatives met

Senen Buergo and translato Nellie Ruiz de Zarade at the

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Hotel Riviera's lobby. The group was chauffered to the

Bodeguita del Medio--one of Cuba's most famous

restaurants--

where they dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando

Torres Santrayll.

At 10:15 a.m., 26 Aujust 1978, Select Committee

representatives interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. Diaz 1231/ in

Room 2003 at the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman

Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto,

Senen Buergo, Captain Felise Villa, Ricardo Escartin,

translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and

two stenographers. The interview ended

l. at 12:45 p.m.

After the Mirabal interview Mr. Buergo asked whether

the HSCA representatives wished to interview Jose Verdacia

Verdacia, 1232/ the Warden of Trescornia while Santos Traffi-

cante was a detainee. Wher Congressman Richardson Preyer

stated that the Committee rould indeed be interested in

interviewing Jose Verdacia Verdacia, Mr. Buergo stated that:

he would be available for in interview at 3:00 p.m.

At 3:30 p.m.., HSCA representatives interviewed

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Jose Verdacia

Verdacia in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.

Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert

Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Seren Buergo, Captain

Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin, Arais Gutierrez, trans-

lators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade, and

two

stenographers. 1233/ The interview ended at 4:20 p.m.

• On Sunday morning, 27 August 1978, the Cuban Government's

representatives took the Select Committee representatives

to. Veradero Beach.

•At 8:35 p.m. Select Committee representatives interviewed

Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Hotel Internacional at

Veradero Beach. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,

G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juana Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin,

Captain Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and translator Juanita

Vera. 1234/ Because there were no stenographers present

the Cuban representatives tape-recorded the interview.

The

interview ended at 9:20 p.".

•On 28 August 1978, at 10:25 a.m., HSCA representatives

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Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,

G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juin Lopez Soto, Ricardo Escartin,

Captain Felipe Villa, Sene, Buergo, translator Juanita

•Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zaade, and two stenographers.

Also present was Antonio Hernandez who escorted Mr. Cuebla

from prison to the Hotel. 1235/ The interview ended at

11:45 p.m.

At 3:25 p.m., HSCA representatives interviewed Maria

Teresa Proenza y Proenza in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.

Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey,

Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin, Captain Felipe

Villa, Senen Buergo, Antonio Hernandez, translator Nellie

Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers: 1236/ The interview

ended at 4:15 p.m.

On 29 August 1978, at 9:30 a.m., the HSCA representatives

met the Cuban delegation for a final work session in Room 2003

of the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson

Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez, Ricardo Escartin,

Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, translators Juanita Vera

and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers. 1237/

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The Cuban delegation spokesperson, Senen Buergo,

explained that Mr. Manuel Piniero 1238/ was. out of the

country and therefore an interview could not be arranged.

Mr. Buergo explained that the Cuban delegation had located

Luisa Calderon Carralero 1239/ but because she was ill an

interview could not be arranged.. Mr. Buergo suggested

that the HSCA

•forward questions to the Cuban Government.

Ms. Calderon's answers would then be forwarded to the.

Committee.

Mr. Buergo explained that Raul Roa 1240% had a very

busy schedule. Mr. Roa felt that he could not add any more

information to what Nilo Otero had already provided and declined

the interview.

Material handed to the MSCA representatives at this

time included:

a) a list of persons whom the cuban delegation

believed to have had close relations with Santo

Trafficante:

b) photographs depicting what the Cutan government

beijeved to be a centra! Intelligence Agency

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photographic surveillance base targeted

against the Cuban Consulate and Embassy in

Mexico City during 1963;

c) an essay entitled "Imperialism's Political,

Economic, and Military Organizations and

Agencies of Crime, such as the CIA" and

d) an article entitled "Finally We Have Eliminated

That Pinto in the White House, said Bob, When

He Heard About JFK's Assassination"

The final work session ended at 11:00 a.m.

At 1:00 p.m., the Cuban delegation escorted the Com-

mittee's representatives to the airport. At the airport

they were bit farewell by the Minister of Justice, Armando

Torres Santrayll, Senen Buergo, Juanita Vera and Nellie

Ruiz de Zarade.

At 3:30 p.M., the HSCA representatives and lashington

Consul, Ricardo Escartin, departed Cuba.

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Appendix 5: Biography: Elena Garro De Paz

Elena Garro de Paz wis born of Spanish parents in

Puebla, Mexico on December 11, 1917. (Al1 information in

this section culled.from Biography Data form prepared by

Charles Thomas.) Ms. Garr, attended the National Autonomous

University of Mexico and liter did graduate work at Berkley

in california and at the University of Paris. In 1963,

Elena had long been marries to Octavio Paz, a career

diplomat who is also one of Mexico's finest poets and leading

intellectuals: When Octavio was named Mexican Ambassador

to India, the couple separited by mutual consent. Elena's

daughter, also named Elena, has always resided with her

mother.

Since Elena spent seventeen years of her early life

in Europe she had a ratner un-Mexican objectivity about her

native land and had a reputation for being one of its more

articulate detractors.

At the same time, Elena was considered

emotionally committed to many

aspects of Mexican life and

made an

important concributior to its artistic deveiooment

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In the 1960's Elena became a significant writer.

Hogar Solido, El Rey Mago, La Senora en su Balcon, Ventura

Allende, Andaise por las Rumas, Parada Empresa, and El Viaje

are plays that have had appreciative audiences in Europe,

where they were translated into German, as well as in Mexico.

Ms. Garro's short stories ure collected in a volume called

La Semana de Colores. The Literacy Supplement of the London

Times has called her novel, Los Recuerdos de Porenir,. "a

splendid success." Critic:; have said of her: "For Elena

Garro, there is no frontie: between reality and fantasy;

in any case, the latter is a second reality--perhaps more

intense--to which one may penetrate without passport or

forewarning, thanks to the effectiveness of a literature

fired with passion, flavor and life." Many people who

knew Elena have asserted that the frontier between reality

and fantasy is also difficult for her to distinguish in

real life. (Biography Data. Fort on Elena Garra de Paza

prepared by Charles Thomas i

Ms. Garro, for many lears, was an active worker in

the Confederacion Macciona Campasina (CNC), the agrarian

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arm of the Partido Reformi!ta (PRI). Because Ms. Garro

was a tireless propagandis: and agitator on behalf of

the poorer Mexican peasanti, she was on close personal

terms with and enjoyed the respect of peasant leaders.

from all over the country. (ibid.)

Elena was considered a witty, urbane and opinionated

woman with an unflagging sinse of humor. Her forthright

opinions and sharp wit tenled on occasion to ruffle feathers

in Mexico, but her importalt social, literacy, and political

connections rendered her fairly immune from serious cunter-

attack until 1968. Then, 1s. Garro was forced to flee the

country with her daughter, Elenita and her sister, Deba

Guerrero de Galvan, in the midst of the student strikes.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations has been unable

to determine the exact reaion Ms. Garro had for fleeing

Mexico.

Before her disappearance from Mexico, Elena was well

disposed toward the United States and had been friendly

with Embassy officers. Her broad range of significant

personal friends, the views of many important to the

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American Embassy, made her a useful Embassy target. (A

"useful Embassy target" is a person deemed

important

enough becausè of acquaintinces to merit frequent

contact, either witting or unwitting, with American

Embassy officials.)

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APPENDIX SIX: GLOSSARY O! TERMS USED IN REPORT.

Agent: A person who know ngly works for the CIA on a

contract or job bisis.

Asset: A general term fo: persons, not officers, used

by the cIA..

Fo: example, both agents and sources

are assets.

An asset is anyone used in an

operation or project, whether or not that is

aware that he l; being used.

Case officer: See Operations officer.

Coverage: Surveillance.

Cryptonym: A series of litters used by the CIA to iden-

tify someone or something while protecting that

person or thing: true identity.

All. the letters

in a cryptonym are capitalized. The first two.

letters are assigned by the subject matter or

local to which the person or thing belongs. The

rest of the cry tonym is randomly assigned. See

LIMITED for exanple.

The "LI" designates that

the project was located in Mexico. 2) The planet

on which Superman was born.

Chronological file: A folder in which material is stored

in chronological order. Usually used for produc-

tion

or communisations type material.

Electronic intercept bas?: House, apartment, or building

that contains ejuipment

used in intercepting and

tapping telephone conversations subject to

electronic surveillance.

FOIA:

Freedon. of Information Act.

LIEMPTY:

CIA cryptonym for photographic project aimed at

the soviet Embassy in Mexico City.

LIERODE:

CIA cryptonym, pre-1961,. for surveillance operation

aime@ at the cubans in Mexico City.

LILYBIC: CIA cryptonym assigned to one of the three bases

which provided photographic surveillance of the

sordet embassy

in Mexico City.

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LIMERICK: CIA cryptonym meaning "Soviet"

LIMITED: CIA cryptonym o: one of three bases which provided

photographic su veillance of the Soviet Embassy

in Mexico City.

LIONION:

CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance.

operations aimel at the Cuban diplomatic com-

pound in Mexico City after July, 1964.

Listening post: See elec=ronic intercept base.

Logs:

A list of photographs taken and the times they

were

taken prepared by agents in the photographic

base houses.

Monitors: Mexican Army officers who worked in the elec-

tronic intercept base listening to conversations

on telephone lines subject to wiretaps and

summarizing those conversations they deemed

to be important.

Officer: CIA career employee.

Operation: A subpart of a project. Often used interchangably

with "project".

Operations officer: CIA career employee; term usually

used in connection with an employee with respon-

sibility for a particular operation or project.

Benerat. che car in the cume

enetration acent: An agent who works inside a target

For example, LITAMEL/9 worked for

the CIA in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

P file:

Designation assigned to a personality file in the

CIA's Mexico City Station.

A file for the

retention of irformation in written form arranged

according to irdividual's names.

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housirg ci photographic surveillance equipment and

the agents who operate it. Always located near

the target.

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Pitched: Made an effort to recruit as an agent, asset

or source..

Production: Materials or information generated by an

operation or project.

Project: A group or set of operations by the CIA aimed

at a specific person, institution or thing,

with the aim of collecting information, influ-

encing behavior, etc.

Project files: A folder for the retention of information

generated by, or relating to a project. Gene-

rally broken down into four sub-files: Devel-

opment and plans, production; support; and

operations.

Psuedonym: False name assigned to CIA officers for use

in communication channels.

Pulse camera: A camera with a shutter that is automat-

ically tripped by a triggering device activated

by changes. in light density:

Resuma:

Daily summary of important conversations on

surveilled telephone lines prepared by monitors

in the listening post.

Selected Out: Phrase used when a Foreign Service officer

is retired after having been in one grade for the

maximum period of time and is not considered

qualified for promotion to a higher grade.

Source: A person who either wittingly or unwittingly

provides information to the CIA.

Station: A CIA over-seas installation.

It is the

Headquarters

fer operations in a particular

country and is ussually located in the United

States Embassy in the capital of the country

in which it is situated.

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writter. form arranged by the subject matter of

the information

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Target: A person, institition of thing at which a

project, operation or pitch is aimed.

VLS-2 trigger device: A nachine which automatically

triggers the shitter of a camera when it

senses a change in light density. Used along

with a camera ard a spotting scope in a "pulsé

camera."

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APPENDIX SEVEN: LISTING O: CIA DOCUMENTS CITED.

Annual Fitness Report on inn Goodpasture, 1/14/64.

article, with note in margin, in Oswald P file, by

Robert S. Allen

and Paul Scott, "CIA Withheld

Vital Intelligence fron Warren Commission,"

10/21/64.

Blind Memorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first

cable about Oswald.

Bline Demon, Source: Le ar/26065ald/Silvia Tirado

CIA Component Report on w retap operations, "IRSOLO

and ZRJOINT: Two Teleplione Tap Operations," Paul

Levister.

DIR 74830, 10/10/63. (A "DIR" is a cable from Head-

quarters to

field stition.

In this report the

field station is alway: Mexico City.)

DIR 84886, 11/23/63.

DIR 84888, 11/23/63.

DIR 84916, 11/23/63.

DIR 85371, 11/28/63.

DIR 87770, 12/9/63, with ittached note.

DIR 88680, 12/13/63.

DIR 90466, 12/21/63.

DIR 16823, 7/4/67:

Draft of letter from Win !cott to John Barron, 11/25/70.

Foul Foe, The, by Winston Scott writing as lan Maxwell.

HMMA 4300, 3/12/56.

CAn 'HMMA" is a dispatch from

Mexico City to Headquarters. i

HMMA 14793, 4:8/60.

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HMMA 21845, 7/30/63.

НМА 22005, 8/23/63.

НММА 22135, 9/13/63.

НММА 22267, 10/8/63.

НММА 22:307, 10/18/63.

НММА 22433, 11/7/63.

НММА 22452, 11/7/63.

ИММА 22536, 11/9/63.

НММА 22726, 1/16/64.

НММА 23343, 4/30/64.

НММА 26006, 4/30/65.

HMMA 26160, 5/21/65.

НММА 26414, 6/22/65.

HMMA 31303, 2/7/67.

HMMA 32243, 5/27/67.

НММА 32497, 7/11/63.

HMMW 12725,

718/64. (An "HIMW" is a dispatch from CIA

Headquarters to Mexico :ity.)

HMMW 13645, 5113/65.

HMMW 15557, 6/14/67.

HMMW 15429, 5/15/67. (Mexico City Coay.)

Inspector General Report, 1977, Tab 3-2.

Log Film 143, 9125/53

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entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963

(J163) from Archives-Job # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED

Production material.

Log Film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63, in CIA file

entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963

(J163) from Archives-Jub

# 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED

Rroduction material.

•LIONION Project Renewal Request, 1/1/66.

Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July,

1978," 8/20/78.

Memorandum for the Record from W. David Slawson re: Trip

to. Mexico City, 4/22/66.

Memorandum from Chief DDP, PG to Chief of Operations/DDP,

2/3/61.

Memorandum

from Chief of /I/OPS to Chief of Operations/

DDP, 1/8/60.

Memorandum from Chief/WHD. to COS/Mexico City, 12/30/63.

Memorandum from "JKB" re: Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67.

Memorandum from Shepanek :0 Scott Breckinridge, 1/31/78.

Memorandum

from Winston Scott to the files re: June

Cobb, 11/25/64.

• Memorandun to Slark Ander: on from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,

with seven attachments

Memorandum to DDP from Ch ef/WHD, 1/21/64.

Menorandum

to the lega? Atache from the COS/Mexico City,

7/5/57.

Mencrandum

to the ancassa.lor from wirston

19/16/63,

re

stee

oswald Contaci with the Soviat

Embassy.

Mexico City

investigation

coronelogy, Bulky # wx-7241,

Volume

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EXI 6453, 10/8/63.

from

Mexico City. 'Mex co copy. A "MEXI" is a cable

MEXI 6453, 10/9/63. (Hearquarters copy.)

EXI 6534, 10/15/63.

MEXI 7014, 11/22/63.

MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7024, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7029, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

MEI 7054, 11/24/63.

MEXI 7101, 11/27/63.

EXI 7105, 11/27/63.

MEX: 7364, 12/12/63.

MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.

MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.

MEXI 5621, 12/16/55.

MEXI 5741, 12/29/65.

MEXI 1950, 6/29/67:

MEXI 1991, 7/5/67.

Note from Ann

Goodpasture to Mexico City Station Cuban

Section, 2/3/66.

Nose to luis Echevarria, 11/23/63.

Notes made by A. Goodpastire for john Leader, 1G Staff,

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re: "Background on Mex co Station Support Assets

(Coverage of Soviet anil Cuban Embassies),"

2/10/77•

Project Renewal Request, /11/65, attachment to HMMA 25141.

Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James

Angleton,. C/CI, 12/24/113.

Review of Project LIEMPTY: attachment to HMMA 15979

11/18/60.

Review of Project LIEMPTY. attachment to HMMA 17999,

10/31/61.

Review of Project LIEMPTY. attachment to HMMA 20054,

10/18/62.

Review of Project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 22387,

10/25/63.

Routing and Record Sheet or DIR 74830, 10/11/63.

Routing and Record Sheet or MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.

Routing and Record Sheet or MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

Teletype from the CIA to :he State Department, FBI and

Navy, DiR 74678, 10/10,63.

Transcript from Cuban Embissy, 9/27/63.

Transcripts from Russian Imbassy, 9/27/63, 9/28/63,

10/1/63 and 10/3/63.

Undated Draft of 1977 CIA Staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico

Station Coverage of Soliet and Cuban Embassies

(1953). "

Write-up: Maliace B. Roween meeting wich LIPING/3, 5/26!67.

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to the bove listed

documents many Sum-

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file regious, Jepositions of employees:

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and a year later Ann Godpasture noted on a newspaper

article that such a comparison was done.

Note also

the MEXI 7024 reported that HQ had all the available

information when in face all conversations were

685/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

686/ See

Section III; A, 1, above.

687/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

688/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

688a/ Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;

Cable re Oswald-Duran, MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA

No. 441; Raymond Rocca Chronology WX 7241, Entry 36,

November 23, 1963, CIA i0. 635.

689/ Ibid.

690/ Ibid.

691/ See below.

692/ Note written by Winston Scrtt re phone call with John Scelso,

November. 23, 1963; Chronology prepared by Raymond Rocca,

WX 7241, entry 37, Novelber 23, 1963, CIA No. 635:

693/ Ibid.

694/ Ibid.

695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23,

1963, CIA NO.

440; Flas, Cable from Karamessines to

Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA No.

403; Chronology of Raymond Rocca, entry 46, November 23,

1963, CIA No. 63€.

696/ Blind Memo re Lee Harvey Oswald ard Silvia Duras, November

26, 1963, CIA #473.

69i/ Ibid.

698/ Cabie from Mexico City Station to Headguarters, November

27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA #1?

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699/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Director, December 12,

1963, MEXI 7364, CIA No. 557-558.

700/ Cable Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November 27,

1963, MEXI 7105, CIA No. 479; Chronology of Raymond

Rocca, November 27, 1963, entry no. 127, CIA No. 562.

701/ Cable from Headquarters to the Mexico City Station, November 28,

1963, DIR 85371, CIA No. 464; Chronology of Raymond Rocca,

Nov. 28, 1963, WX 7241, Entry No. 141, CIA No. 658.

702/ CIA Cable from Headquarters to Mexico City Station, December

21, 1963, DIR 90466, CIA No. 549; Chronology of Raymond

Rocca, December 21, 1963, Entry No. 268, CIA No. 682.

703/ Ibid.

704/ Ibid. also see Section VI, B, 1.

705/ CE 2120, pp. 37-40.

706/ Supra, p. 186.

707/ Supra, p. 187.

707a/ Supra, p. 187.

707b/ Supra, p.. 190

708/ Memorandum for the Record le Trip to Mexico City, from

w. David Slawson, 4/22/64, pp. 39-40.

Last Parenthetical

in the original.

709/ Ibid.

710/ ASCA Interview of Silvia Diuran, 6/6/78, JFK Document #011775, p.

17.

T-/ Letter HSCA to Mexican gove nment,

• JFK Document #

712/ HSCA interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFR Doc. #011775, p. 20.

713/ Ibid., p. 19-23.

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715/ Ibid., p. 23.

716/ Ibid., p. 24-25.

717/ Ibid., p. 28.

118/ Ibia., p. 30.

719/ Ibia:, p. 29-30.

720/ Ibid., p. 30.

122/ Ibid., P. 29.

722/ Ibid., P. 45, 31.

723/ Ibid., p. 40.

724/ Ibid., p. 40-41.

725/ Ibid., p. 41.

726/ Ibid.

727/ Ibid., P. 42.

728/ Ibid., p. 43.

729/ Ibid.

730/ Ibid.

731/ Ibid.. P. 42.

732/ Ibid., P: 43.

733/ ibia., p. 43, 51,

734/ Ibia.

735/ ibid.. p. 48.

736/ Ibid., p. 51.

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737/ Ibia.

738/ Ibid., p. 96.

739/ Write-up: Wallace B. Rowto meeting with LIRING/3, May 26,

1967.

740/ Ibid.

741/ LIRING/3 was a source the cIA rated reliable.

742/ Ibid.

743/ Ibia.

744/ Ibid.

745/ Ibid.

146/ LIRING 3's case officer's p›seudonym.

747/ Ibid.

748/ Ibid.

749/ HMMA-32243, 5/27/67.

750/ See Section, VI, C, below.

751/ W -7241, entry no. 613.

752/ FBI, CIA, State Department

753/ "Pitched" is a term used by the CIA to designate an attempt

to recruit an individual

754/ HSCA Interview of David Ph: llips, 8/3/78, P.

See also

ASCA Testimony of Ann Cordpasture, 11/20/78, p.

63.

755/ HSCA Interview of David Ph: llips, 8/3/78, p. 8.

756/ Ibia.

757/ Ibid.

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758/

Memorandum for the Record en Trip to Mexico City, from

w. David Slawson, 4/22/64, pP. 22-23. Emphasis added.

759/ HSCA Interview of. David Phillips,. 8/3/78, p. 8.

760/ Extremely reliable source.

761/

HSCA Review

of LITAMIL g file.

762/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 9.

763/ Ibid.

764/ Ibid.

765/

Ibid.

766/ Ibid.

767/ Ibid.

768/ Summary of CIA file review of Silvia Duran.

769/ Personality•

770/ The HSCA requested of the (IA On August 20, 1978 an explanation

of why there was no "p"

file on Silvia Duran, Luisa

Calderon Carralero, Teresa Proenza Proenza, Eusebio Azcue

Lopez, Guillermo Oresta,

Ruiz Perez, Gilberto Policarpo

Lopez, Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso and June Viola Cobb Sharp

The agency responded the following on September 11, 1978:

Station index cards show the following information re

201 numbers and "p" nunbers:

1) Silvia Duran (No info re "p" number)

2) Luisa Calderon Cerraiero P-8292 Destroyed

3) Teresa Proenza Proenza (NO info Ie "p" number)

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4) Eusebio Azcue Lopez P-6613 Destroyed

5) Guillermo Orestes Ruiz Perez (No info re "p" number)

6)

No index card on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, there

is an index card on one Gilberto Policarpo Lopez

which does not list any 201 or "p" number.

7) Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso (No info re "p" number)

8) June Viola Cobb Sharp P-7381 Destroyed.

771/ SCA Interview of Dan Neiscuir, 8/29/78, p. 1.

772/ Ibia.

773/ Ibia., p. 1.

774/ CIA, FBI, State Department.

775/ HSCA Testimony of Barney Hidalgo, 8/10/78, p. 16.

776/ Ibid.

777/ Ibid.

778/ Ibid.

779/ Warren Commission, p. 302.

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780/

The

U.S.. relations. with Cuba in 1963-1964 were not

-

very good.

See U.!i.-Cuban Relations Section.

Also, Azcue traveled frol Mexico to Cuba on November 18,

1963.

781/ Letter from HSCA to Cuban (overnment,

• JFK DOC.

782/ See Transcript Cuba Trip 1, April 1, 1978.

83/ HSCA Interview of Eusebio dzcue, April 1, 1978, pp. 12-

21, JFK Doc. # 007005. See p. 205

784/ Ibid.

785/ See Cuba procedural write-up trip 2.

786/ Letter HSCA to Cuban goveinment,

• JFK DOC. #

787/ MI. Azcue could not pinpoint. the exact dates of the visit.

788/ HSCA public hearing testiminy of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,

9/18/78, pp. 30-31.

789/ Ibia.

789-A/ Communist party membership card, Fair Play For Cuba

membership card, Soviet Union residence card, marriage

certificate with the nare of his Russian wife.

789-B/ HSCA Public Hearing Test: mony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,

9/18/78, p. 5-30.

789-C/ Ibid., p. 29-30.

789-D/ Ibid., P. 30.

789-E/ Ibia., p. 20.

799-E/ zeue couid not pinpoint the exact date.

789-G/ ASCA Publie Testimoy Of lusabio Azeue, 9/18/79, p. 32.

789-H/ Ibid., p: 33:

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789-I/ Ibid.

789-J/ Azcue could not pinpoint the time of the phone call.

790/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimony of Eusebio Azcue. Lopez,

9/18/78, p. 34.

791/ Ibid., p. 35:

792/ 10:00 - 2:00

793/ HSCA Public Testimony of Elsebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,

p. 36.

794/ Ibid., P. 38.

795/ Ibid.

796/ Ibid.

797/ Ibid., pp. 50-51. 797a/

AM 1UG

Mabel DiA Detected seated that

798/ Mr. Mirabal could not pinprint the exact dates of Oswald's

visit but opined

that the second visit occurred on

September 27, 1963.

799/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 117.

800/ Ibid.

801/ Ibid., p. 118.

802/ Ibid., p. 120. 802a/ Ibid. p. 199 802b/ Ibid.

803/ WX 7241, P. 94, entry no. :30; Blind Merio dated 10/5/64.

304/ See appendix 5 for biograpty..

805/ WX 7241, p. 94, entrj no. 136: Blind memo jated 10/5/64.

806/ Ibid.

807/ Ibid.

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Ibid.

809/

Ibid.

810/ Ibid.

811/ Ibid.

812/ Ibid.

813/ A "witting" asset is the title given to a CIA source

whose information is being used by the

CIA.

814/ CIA No. 580-583, WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

815/ Ibid.: circa October 1964.

816/ Ibia.

817/ Ibid.

818/

Ibid.: Also, Winston Scott was the Mexico City Chief in

1964.

819/ CIA No.'5 580-583; WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 42, CIA #719.

820/ WX 7241, P. 94, Entry $430, CIA #721; Blind memo dated.

10/5/64, CIA #576.

821/ Personality.

822/ See WX 7241, p. 94, CIA $721.

823/ WX 7241 p. 87, CIA $714.

824/ СІА 10/12/64 мето, CIA #595; WX 7241, P. 87, CIA #714.

B25/ Tichborn was denry ?. Lope:' cryptonym. . Mr. Lopez was a

witting assat wro

wrote propaganda pieces for the CIA.

After careful review of Lopez' dIA file, the ASCA has

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826/ The Committee has not been able to determine why the memo

was not sent to Headguar-ers.

821/ CIA 10/12/64 Memo, CIA #595; WX 7241, P. 87, CIA #714.

828/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine

the agent's identity since his name does not appear in

any CIA files.

829/

' Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb, 11/25/64;

CIA No.

592-593; WX 7241, p. 88, Entry # 404, CIA #715.

830/ While reviewing LICHANT/l'; file the Committee determined

that the CIA asset's true name was Manuel Calvillo

who Elena claimed escorted her and her daughter to the

Vermont Hotel for protec ion the day following JFK's

assassination.

831/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb Sharp,

11/25/64, CIA Nos. 592-513, WX 7241, p. 88, Entry #404,

CIA No. 715.

832/ Ibid.

833/ Ibid.

834/ HSCA Review of Classified CIA Documents.

825/ The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.

836/ FBI 105-825555 Report, December 11; 1964 entitled, Lee

Harvey Oswald.. p. 1.

837/ Ibid.

838/ To be checked at FBI.

639/ FBi investigation of Presidunt Kennedy's assassination had

estabiished that Lee Harrey Oswald had departed Mexico

City by bus at 8:30 a.I. on October 2, 1963. Elena Insurgente.

340/ FBI 105-825555 Peport, Decimber il, 196% entitied Lee Harvey

Oswald, E. 1.

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3.

842/

Ibid.

843/ Ibid.

844/ Ibid.

845/ Ibid.

846/ Ibid.

847/

Ibid.

848/ Ibid., p. 4.

849/ Ibia.

850/ Ibid.

851/ Ibid:

852/ Ibid.

853/

Ibid.

854/ A review of CIA files corr borrated that the FBI never

forwarded the informatio, to the CIA.

855/ CIA # 586-587, WX-7241, En=ry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

856/ The Committee has been una le to determine who initiated

the discussion re Lee Ha:vey Oswald.

857/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Ent:y No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

858/ Ibid.

859/ Ibia.

260/ Ibid.

861/ Ibid.

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862/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Ent: No. 425, CIA p. 718.

863/ See Section VI, A, 2a.

864/ CIA #586-587; Wx-724: • Ent:y No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

865/ Ibid.

866/ Ibid.

867/ Ibid.

868/ Ibid.

869/ Ibid.i also see USCA inves:igation of Elena Garro de Paz/ alle-

gations.

870/ CIA No. 586-587, Wx-7241, intry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

871/ Ibid.

872/ HSCA pre-interview of Rube, Duran, 5/31/78

873/ The House Select Committee has determined that the Central

Intelligence Agency received the copy of the Thomas me-

morandum prior to December 25, 1965, his next meeting

with Elena Garro; Also, see below.

874/ CIA No. 588, note from Stalley Watson to Chief of Station.

875/ Ibid.

876/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621..

Dec.

1965, CIA No. 584-585.

87?/ Ibia.

878: Ann Goodpasture.

879/

Cable from

Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621,

DeC.

16, 1965

CIA NOS. 584-585.

880/ Chief of Station in Mexico

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881/ Sucessor to Clark Anderson as Legal Attache in Mecico City.

882/ State Department: Letter f::om Charles Thomas to William

P. Rogers, July 25, 1969. JFK Document No. 011684.

883/ Ibid.

884/ Ibia.

885/ CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry $427, p. 92, CIA #719.

886/ Ibid.; The meeting with th Legal Attache officer occurred

on November 24, 1964. Also, see supra, P.

887/ CIA Nos: 580-583,

Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92. CIA #719: "**"

888/ Ibid.

889/ Ibid:

890/ Ibid.

891/ Ibid.

892/ Ibid.

893/

Ibia.

894/ Ibid.

895/

Ibid.

396/ Ibid.

897/ Ibid.

898/ Ibid.

899/ Ibic.

900/ Ibic.

901/

Ibid.

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902/ Ibid.

903/ Him: John F. Kennedy.

904/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92.

CIA #719.

905/ Ibid.

906/ HSCA Public Testimony of Essebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 84-85

907/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #42?, p. 92, CIA #719.

908/ Ibid.

909/ Ibid.

910/ Ibia.

911/

Ibia.

912/ Noe Palomares was the Mexi:an Minister of Immigration in

1963.

913/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA #719.

914/ Ibid.

915/ Ibid.

916/ Ibid.

917/ Ibia.

918/ Ibid.

919/ Ibid.; Also, for confirmat on see Memo Srom Legat to

Winston Scot:, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564; Wx-?241, Entry

#466, p. 98, CIA #725.

920/ CIA Nos. 530-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA ?. 719.

92l/ Ibid.

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923/ Ibid.

924/

Ibid.

925/ Ibid.

926/ Ibid.

927/ Ibid.

928/ Victor Rico Galan is dead. The Committee could not verify

Ms. Garro's allegation.

929/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA p. 719;

also, Silvia Duran denied the allegation, (see HSCA Inter-

view at Silvia Duran, 6,6/78, JFK Document No. 011775,

p.. 81

• Also, see Serition VI, A, 2a.)

930/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA, p. 719.

931/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, PP. :-4, JFK Doc. No. 011684.

932/ Ibid.

933/ Supra, p.

934/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pP. 1-4, JFK DoC. # 011684.

935/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241 Entry $427, p. 92, CIA #710.

936/ Ibid:

937/ MEXI 5621, Dec. 16, 1965; Wx-7241, Entry #426, p. 92,

CIA 4710.

938/ Memo to the Ambassador fim the Legal Attashe,

12,27/65,

CIA $578; WX-7241, Entr? 429, D.

94, CIA #721.

939/ Ibia.

940/

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941/ Ibid.

942/ Winston Scott superimposed a note to Ann. Goodpasture on

this memo which read, "Can we send in a report to Head-

quarters 'dismissing' ou: cable? Goodpasture responded,

Done."

The cable Winsto, Scott wanted dismissed was

MEXI 562] which reported that station was "following up"

and cabling results.

The new cable was written and

sent on December 29, 196;; see text. •

943/ 'Cable fromMexico City to tie Director, 12/29/65, MEXI

5741, CIA #575; Wx-7241. Entry #430, p. 94, CIA #721.

944/ Ibid.

945/ Ibid.

946/ Ibid.

947/ Ibid.

948/ Ibid.

949/ Ibid.

950/ Note from Ann Goodpasture 0 Mexico City Station, Cuban Sec-

tion, 2/3/66, CIA No.

57); Wx-7241, Entry 428, p. 94,

CIA $721.

951/ Ibid.

952/ Ibid. HSCA Staff Surmary of CIA Files on LITAMII-T and LATIMIL-9

953/ See Section II,, A, 3 above.

954/ Classified Summary of Staf: Review of CIA Documents, un-

dated, p. 3, CIA $763.

955/ Menc fron Legat to Ambassalor, 2/23/66, CIA #571: Wx-7241,

EntIY $455, P. 95, CIA #:22.

956/ Ibis.

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957/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine

when the copy was forwarded to the CIA.

958/ Ibid.: see also 12/25/65 Inomas memo for corroboration.

959/ Memo from Legat to Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564;

Wx-7241, Entry #466, P. 98, CIA #725; Thomas' 7/13/66

960/ Ibid.

961/ Ibid.

962/ Memo of Conversation by Charles Thomas, 12/25/65, p. 3,

CIA $582. JFK DOC. $011684.

963/ Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 98, CIA #725.

964/ "Selected out" is a phrase used when an officer is retired

after having been in one grade for the maximum period

of time and is not consilered qualified for promotion

to a higher grade.:

965/ State Department: Letter from Charles Thomas to William

Rogers, Secretary/State, July 25, 1969. JFK DOC. #011684.

966/ Ibid.

967/ Deputy Chief of Mission, State Department, Chief of Affairs

at the time of President Kennedy's assassination and sub-

sequent Oswald investigasion.

368/ Lett State, Chay 25, 1969 50W11 7 160, Secretary -

969/ Ibid.

970/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, D0. 3-4, JFK DOC. # 011684.

971/ Ibid.

573/ Letter from Charies Thomas to Willian Rogers,

Secretary

of State, July, 25, 1969. JER DOC. 4011684.

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The Comnittee was unable =o determine when Elena found her

calendar:

--1..

•':"

9.73/ Ibid.

974/ Ibid.

975/ Ibid.

976/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, p..4. JFK Doc. # 011684.

977/ Ibid.

978/ Ibid.

979/ Supra, p.

980/. Supra, p.

981/

Supra, P.

982/

Letter HSCA to Mexican Goverment,

• JFR Document,

983/ See Mexico City Procedural Wirte-up Trip I.

984/ Ibid.

985/ Ibid.

986/ Ibid.

987/ See HSCA Staff Interview o! Betty Serratos, 6/6/78, p. 6.

JK Document No. 013392 • BSCA Staff Interview of Lydia

Duran, 6/5/78, P. 6, JFR Document No. 011681; HSCA

Staff Interview of Roratio Duran Navarro, 6/5/78, p. 25,

JK Document No. 011683; HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben

Duran, 6/5/79, F. 16, J."K Document No. 011680

988/ HSCA Staff Interview of Siivia Tirado Duran 6/6/78, p. 90,

JFK Document No. 01:775.

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989/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOC.

4011775, P. 54

; ASCA Staff pre-interview. of Lydia Duran

-6/5/78p

; HSCA Staff pre-

Interview of Betty Serratos, 6/6/78,

; HSC. Staff Interview of Horatio

Duran Navarro, 6/5/68, iFK Document. # 011683, p. 9 ; HSCA

Staff

pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78

990/ Letter from HSCA to CIA,

991/ Letter from CIA. to HSCA.

992/ See Procedural Write-up Trip 2, Mexico City.

993/ Ibid.

994/ HSCA Staff Review of June Cobb Sharp file at CIA Head-

quarters.

995/ Supra, p.

996/ See Procedural Write-up Mexico City Trip 2.

997/ HSCA Staff Review of Manue 1 Calvillo file."

998/

See procedural write-up Trip 2, Mexico City and Section

VII, C, below.

999/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFR Document No. 10016,

1000/ Ibid.

100÷/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFR Document. No. 013486.

1002/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/14/78, JR Document No. 9950.

1003/ Ibid.

1004/ HSCA Staif Contact Report, 8/31/78. JFK Doc. # 013487.

1005/

Ibiu.

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1006/ Ibid.

1007/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78, JFK Document No. 011268:

1008/ Ibid.

1009/ Ibid.

1010/ Letter to Elena Garro from Committee, 9/6/78, JFK Document

No. 011383; see also, HSIA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78,

JFK Document No. 011268.

1011/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/7/78, JFK Document No. 011345.

1012/ Ibid.

1013/ Ibia.

1014/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488:

1015/ ESCA Staff Contact Report, 9/12/78, JFK Document # 011344.

1016/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.

1017/ ESCA Staff Contact Report,

• JFK Document #

1018/ UNAM - Universided Naciona! Autonoma: de Mexico

1019/

American Embassy Incoming t'elegram # A-43-570, p. 110,

#737.

1020/ Ibid.

1021/ Ibid.

1022/ Ibia.

1023/ Ibid.

1024/ Ibid.

1025/ ietter to Wesley D. Bowles, Chief of Mexican Political

Affairs, Office of Mexicir. Affairs, Department of State

from B. J. Ruyle, Americir Consul, Tampico, 5/11/67;

#x-7241 Entry $597, p. 1:4, CIA #741.

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1026/ Ibid.

1027/ Ibid.

1028/

Ibid.

1029/ Ibid.

1030/ Ibid.

1031/ The Committee could not determine when the State Depart-

ment forwarded the letter to the CIA.

1032/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMMW

15557; Wx-7241, Entry $616, p. 117, CIA $744.

1033/ Ibid.

1034/ Ibid.

1035/ Ibia.

1036/ Ibid.

1037/ Ibid.

1038/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67,

Wx 7241, Entry $622, p. 118, CIA #745:

1039/ El Sol is a newspaper, The Sun.

1040/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;

Wx-7241, entry $622, p. 118, $745.

1041/ When Contreras was asked to identify the other four indi-

viduals who had met Lee Harvey Oswald, he refused to

reveal their names becal se he feared that inforring on

them night endanger his family.

1042/. Cable from Mexico City

• to Director,

MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;

Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118,. CIA #745.

1043/ Ibid.

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1044/ Ibid.

1045/

Ibid.

1046/ Ibid.

1047/ Cable from the Director to Mexico City,

7/4/67, DIR 16823,

Wx-7241, Entry 626, p. 119, CIA #746.

1048/ Ibid.

1049/ Cable 250, Mexico

1049/ Cable Irom Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI 1991;

Wx-7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.

1050/ Memo to Legat, 7/5/67 from Chief of Station; Wx-7241,

entry 628, p. 119, CIA $746.

1051/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67, Wx-7241, Entry

#634, p. 120, CIA #747.

1052/ Ibid.

1053/ The leaders of the group were Victor Manuel Barcelo, Carlos

Andaluz, Hugo Castro Aranda, Antonio Tenario Adane, Jose

Guerrero Guerrero, Carlos Ortiz Fejeda, Daniel Molina,

BriOn Balvez, Humberto Hiriarte, Oscar Gonzales, Hibam

Garcia, Pedro

Sainz Zepela, Alberto Cerecer, Jose Eduardo

Pascual, Juan Saldana, Martin Reyes Baissadel, Vicente

Lvillamar,. Rubelio Fernandez Durado and Jesus Ochoa.

1054/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67; Wx-7241, Entry

$634, p. 120, CIA #747.

1055/ Ibia.

1056/ Dispatch from Mexico City to Director, HMMA 32497, 7/11/67;.

Wx-7241, Entry $635, p. 121, CIA #748.

1057/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico Cisy, 6/14/67, HMMW

15557; Wx-7241, Entry 4616, p. 11?, CIA

$744.

1058/ Cable from Mexico City to the Directs, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67:

Wx-7241, entry $622, p.

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1059/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI

1991; Wx7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.

1060/ See Section VI, C.

1061/ See Section VI, D, above.

1062/ See Warren Commission Repcrt, PP. 299-304, 733-736; also,

Section I, B, VC and VI A above.

Some of the more prominent

are Paul Hoch and Peter Dale Scott in the Assassination in

Dallas and Beyond and A. I. Weberman in Coup d etat in America

1063/ See Sections V C, VIA and B respectively.

1064/ Ibid.

1065/ Silvia Duran®

1066/ Eusebio Azcue Lopez, Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, Orestes Guillermo

Ruiz Perez, Nilo Otero, Maria Teresa Proenza y Proenza.

1067/ Noe W. Palomares, Pedro Gitierrez Valencia, Silvia Duran,

Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran, Lydia Duran, Betty Serratos,

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller.

1068/ See Glossary.

1069/ The

Handwriting Panel concluded that the signature on the

visa application was identical to other samples of Lee

Harvey Oswald's handwriting.

1070/ ESCA Interview of Silvia Iuran, 6/6/78, JFK Document 011775.

Consul Azcue stated that stardard operating procedure at the

Cuban Consulate did not allow applications to be removed

fron the office.

(HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azeue,

9/18/78, p. 41)

1071/ Ibid., pp. 31-33.

1072/ See Sections II C, III A ! and III B 2 above.

1073/ See. Section III B 2 abeve.

1074/ Ibid.

1075/

CIA Electronic Surveillance trarscript from Soviet Entassy,

9/27/63.

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1077/ Ibid.

1078/ Ibid.

1079/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,

9/28/63.

1080/ Ibia.

1081/ Ibid.

1082/ Ibid.

1083/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775, p. 19.

1084/ Ibid., PP. 20-23.

1085/ ESCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 36.

1086/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

$011775, p. 23.

1087/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,

p. 32-33.

1088/ See Sections VC, and VIB above.

1089/ HSCA Staff Interview of Siivia Duran, 6/6/78, JFR Docu-

ment # 011775, p. 37.

1090/ See Supra, p.

1091/ See Sections III, Al and I'I B above.

1092/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran,, 6/6/78, JFK Docunent

$ 011775, P. 92-109; aiso, see Section VC for details.

1093/ See Sections VC for detail::.

1094/ ESCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue Lopez 9/18/78, p. 51.

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1095/ See Section VI C above and VII B below.

1096/ See Section III A 1 above. Telephone taps.

1097/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011775, p. 44

1098/ The CIA's classification o the transcript of this conver-

sation prevented the HSCil from directly confronting

Ms. Duran with the inforation.

1099/ See Sections II, C, 3, 4 and III Al above.

1100/ CIA Electronic Surveillanc: transcript of Soviet Embassy,

9/28/63.

1101/ Ibid., October I, 1963.

1102/ Ibid.

1103/ Ibid.

1104/ See Section IV, B above.

1105/ Ibia.

1106/ ESCA Public Testimony of Mirina Oswald,

mission Testimony of George DeMorenschildt.

mission Testinony of George Boule.

Warren Com-

Warren Com-

1107/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.

1108/ Ibid.

1109/ Ibid.

1110/ Ibid.

lill/ Ibid.

1lE/ The caller saic odessa.

1113/ Warier. Comissior Report,

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1114/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, September

27, 1963.

1115/ Ibid.

1116/ Ibid.

1117/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775, p. 31.

1118/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 119.

1119/ ESCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFR Document

011775, p. 23.

1120/ Ibid., p. 31.

1121/ Ibid.

1122/ Ibid.

1123/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 119.

1124/ CIA Electronic Surveillane: of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.

1225/ Ibid.

i126/ Ibid.

112l/ Ibid.

also HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,

JER Document No. 011775. p: 41.

1128/ Ibia.

1229/ Warren Commission Testinon' of

F. 236-237.

Nelson Delgado, Vol. III,

1130/ warren Connission Testimony of Pamela Munford, 5/19/64.

Tol. II, P. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo

Rodriguez,

CE 212, p. 54.

7/21/64, Vil. II. B. 34, CE 2120, p. 7;

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1131/ Warren Commission, Report, p. 301.

1132/ See Section VI.C, above.

1133/ See Section VI D, above.

1134/ See Section VII D, above.

1135/ See Sections III, A 1 and III B 2.

1136/ Ibid.

1137/ Warren Commission Report, p. 301.

1138/ A night when Oswald's activities are not known.

1139/ HSCA

Staff

-pre-interview of Ruban Duran, 3/31/78, No. 011580,

p. 54; HSCA Staff Pre-interview of Lydia Duran, 6/5/78,

HSCA Staff Interview of foracio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Document

No. 011683 p. 9; HSCA Stiff Pre-Interview of Betty Serratos,

6/1/78, USCA Staff Intertiew of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78;

JFK Document No. 011775, p. 54.

1140/ HSCA Staff Interview of S:lvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775, p.91.

1141/ Ibid.

1142/ HSCA Staff Interview of Riben Duran, 6/ 6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011680

HSCA Staff Interview of

Lydia Duran, 6/ 5/78, JIK Document No. 011681, P.

ascA Start Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/ 5/78, JER DO-

cunent No. 011683, p.

HSCA Staff Interview of

Betty Serratos, 6/6-179. JFK Document No. 013392.

1143/ See Section VI, C,

above.

1144/ HSCA Staff Pre-interriew if Ruben. Duran, 5/31/78.

1145/ HSCA Public restinony of lusabio Azcue Lopez, P. 84-85.

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arove.

1147/ See Mexico City Procedure: Write-up Trip 2 Appendix 3.

1148/ See Section VI, C.

1149/ See Section VI, C. .

above:

above.

1150/

'See Section VI, A 2 above

1151/ HSCA Staff Interview of S: Ivia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775 , p. 81.

1152/ Ibid., p.87-88.

1153/ HSCA Staff Review of LITAIL 9 file.

1154/ HSCA Staff Review of CIA silvia Duran file,

1155/ See Appendix 3.

1156/ Ibid:

1157/ Ibid:

1158/ See Section VI, C 10 abov=.

1159/ See Section VI, C.

1160/ See Section VI, C,

1161/ See Section VI, C

1162/ See Section VI, C

1163/ See Appendix 3.

1164/ See Sectior va, C, 1 above.

1i65/ Ibid.

1166/ Ibid.

above.

above.

above.

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1168/ See Section VI, C 1 above.

1169/ See Section VI, C,

at ove.

1170/ Letter from Charles Thonas

to William P. Rogers, July 25,

1969, JFK Document No. (11684.

1171/ See Section VI,C,

¿ bove:

1172/ See Section VI, D above for details.

1173/ ESCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

No. 011775, р. 95.

1174/ See Section VI, D above.

1175/ ESCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK No.

011755, p. 101-102.

1176/ See Section VI, D above.

1171/ isch Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DocU-

ment No. 011775, p. 95

1178/ See Appendices II and III.

1179/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.

1180/ See Section VI C above.

1182/ See Section VII, C above.

1182/ See Section VII, B above.

1183/ See Sections VI ABC above.

1-84/ See Verbatim transcript of meetings prepared

vernment.

by cuban 90-

Hereinafter, called transcript.

JFK Doc. #012212.

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4/1/78, JFK Document. No. 007005

See transcript.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

See HSCA Interview o1 Fidel Castro Ruz, April 3, 1978.

JER Document # 007004

Pedro Gutierrez Valer.cia claimed that he bumped into

Lee Harvey Oswald at the Consulate on September 27,

1963.

Valencia was at the Consulate doing a credit

check on one of the Cuban employees.

See Section VI, D abe-ve for details on Oscar Contreras'

allegations.

See Section VI C for details on Elena and Elenita

Garro's allegations.

Elena Garro's sister who came to the conclusion that

Lee Harvey Oswald wis at one of Ruben Duran's-twist

parties in the fall of '63.

Eunice Odio reported on Elena Garro's allegations in

1965. See Section II, C.

above.

Elena Garro reported that at one of the twist parties,

Emilio Carballido ard Eusebio Azcue had come to the

conclusion that Kenredy had to be assassinated. (See

also, Section VI, C.

above.

Elena Garro alleged that Victor Rico Galan had claimed

that Lee Harvey Oswild had been Silvia Duran's lover.

See also, Section VI, C.

above.

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Diaz-Ordaz and Echeva:ria were the two presidents of

Mexico respectively Erom 1964 to 1970 and 1970 to 1976.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK

Document No. 011680.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Pedro Gutierriz Valencia,

6/5/78, JFK Document No. 011682.

Lynn Duran is the sis:er of Horatio and Ruben Duran.

The Committee wished to ask her whether Lee Harvey

Oswald had attended iny twist parties at the Durna

homes.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Lynn Duran, 6/5/78, JFK DOC.

# 011681

1203/

See ESCA Staff. Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK

DoC. # 011680.

1204/

The Committee never sent the Mexican government the

questions because a Ind trip to Mexico was arranged.

1205/

The Committee wished so ask Ms. Serratos whether Lee

Harvey Oswald had atsended any twist parties at the

Duran homes.

See HSIA Staff Interview of Betty

Serratos, JFK Doc. # 011392.

1206/

See HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK

Document No. 011775.

1207/-Danny Flores was one ›f AMMUG's (a Cuban DGl Defector in

1964) Security Officers.

The Committee wished to

ask Mr. Flores about AMMUG's statements about Lee

Harvey Oswald's Trip to the Cuban Consulate.

1208/

Ramon Alvarez Dupont was a CIA agent in charge of

picking up the photographic surveillance film from

personnel stationed at the three bases and delivering

it to his brother-in-law. (unknown) and later delivering

it to his case officer Ann Goodpasture.

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1215/

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1217/

See BSCA Staff Write-lips of Danny Flores Interview

8/8/78.

oscar Contreras Lartie claimed that he met Oswald

in Mexico City in the fall of 1963.

See Section

VI, D above.

Elena claimed that when she told Noe W. Palomares about

meeting Lee Harvey O::wald, he advised her to send an

anonymous letter to 'exas, explaining her account.

The Conmittee wished to question Mr. Palomares about

Elena's credibility.

LICHANT I is Manuel Cilvillo. See Section VI, C

for details and sign ficance.

LICOOKIE I is

June Colb Sharp. See Section IV, C

for details.

LITAMIL 7 is Consuelo Esperon, a CIA penetrator agent

working as a secretary at the Cuban Embassy.

The

Committee wished to isk Ms. Esperon about commentary

after the assassinat:.on at the Cuban Embassy about

both lee Harvey and iohn f. Rennedy's assassination.

Litamil 9 was Luis Allerue Suoto, a CIA penetration

agent at the Cuban Elbassy. The Committee wished to

question Mr. Alberue about the Cuban Embassy employees

reactions to the assissination. The Committee also

wished to question M:. Alberue about Silvia Duran

and his knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald.

LIRING 3 was a Cuban ¡itizen, Carlos Jurado delmar who

was a source for the CIA.

Duran had told him that she had had an affair with

Lee Harvey Oswald. the Committee wished to question

him about Silvia Durin.

See HSCA Staff write-lip of Intersiew with Ramon Alvarez

Durant.

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General Jesus Jose Cark Flores escorted Ruben Duran

to Russia in 1962 and was considered by many to be

Duran's protector.

Also, Elena claimed that Flores

was at the party that; she stated Lee Harvey Oswald

was in attendance. the Committee wished to ask

Mr. Clark Flores about all the above.

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller is a Mexican citizen that

resembled Eusebio Azrue's description of the man

that allegedly visited the Cuban Consulate.

All the Durans recognized Miller. Horatio and

Silvia said that Miler was a close friend and

borrowed Horatio's cir often.

See House Select Coum: ttee on Assassinations- Staff

Write-Up of Noe W. Pilomares, 8/10/78.

See HSCA Staff write-lp of interview with Ernesto

Lehfeld Miller, 8/11,78.

In 1963 Nilo Otero as an official in the Cuban

governments Ministry of Foreign Relations, interviewed

Eusebio Azcue about lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the

Cuban Consulate.

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Rogelio Rodriguez

at the Cuban Embassy.

The Committee wished to interview

Mr. Rodriguez about lee Harvey Oswald's visits to

the Cuban Embassy employees' reactions to the Kennedy

assassination.

Rolando Cubela, Known as AMLASH, was prominent in the

Senate Select Cornittee's Book V which reported the

possibility that the Central Intelligence Agency's

attempts to assässinite Cuban President Fidel Castro

provoked the Cubar givernment to orchestrate the

assassination of President Kennedy in retaliation.

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In 1963 the Cuban government employed Orestes

Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Cuban Embassy. The

Committee wished to interview Mr. Rodriguez about

Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate

and about the Cuban imbassy employees' reactions

to the Kennedy assassination.

In addition,

Mr. Ruiz

is the cousin-in-law of one of the most active

anti-Castroites, Antonio Veciana Blanch.

Griselle Rubio claimel in a letter Dec. 1963 to DRI

that Ruby had been in Cuba in 1962 or 1963 visiting

Solomon Pratkins.

The Committee located and

interviewed Ms. Rubis in Miami.

James Wilcott is an ex-CIA employee who appeared

voluntarily in August 1978 at the Cuban Government's

Tribunal which accused the CIA of complicity in the

John F. Kennedy assassination.

Philip. Agee is an ex-CIA employee who appeared voluntarily

in August 1978 at the Cuban government's Tribunal

which accused the CIA of complicity in the John f.

Kennedy assassination.

The Tribunal, held in August 1978 was an effort by the

Cuban government to accuse

the CIA of complicity in

the John F.

Kennedy assassination.

EX CIA agents,

James Wilcott and Phillip Agee testified at the

Tribunal along with ex-Cuban Consul in Mexico,

Eusebio Azcue.

See ESCA. Interview of Juan Nilo Otero, 9/25/78, JFK

Document No.

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz

assumed the Consul position,

in the Cuban goverment's- Mexico City Consúlate

on Septenier 2, 196:.

He was present during all

o= Oswald's visits to the consúlate.

Also,

see

HSCA interview of Alfredo Miracal Diaz, 8/26/78, JFK

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The Committee wished to question MI. Verdacia about

the identities of the organized crime figures

detained in Irescornia at the inception of the

Cuban revolutionary government.

HSCA Interview of Jose Verdacia Verdacia, 8/26/78,

JFK DOC. # 012224.

See HSCA Interview of Orestes Guillerno Ruiz Perez,

8/27/78, JFK DOC. #

See ESCA Interview of Rolando Cubela Secades, 8/28/78,

JFK Document #

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Maria Teresa

Proenza y Proenza at the Cuban Embassy.

The Committee

wished to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's

visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban

Embassy employees'. jeactions to the assassination of

John F. Kennedy. Also, See HSCA Interview of Maria

Teresa Proenza y Preenza, 8/28/78, JFK DOC. *

See Verbatim transcript of 8/28/78 session.

JFK Doc. # 012208

In 1963, Manuel Piñicro, Chief of the Ministry of

Foreign

Relations, interviewed Eusebio Azcue about

Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate.

In a-dition, Mr. Piñiero was the Cuban revolutionary

government official who met with Santo Trafficante

and gave him 24 hou's to leave the country.

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Luisa Calderon

Carralero at the Cu›an Embassy.

The Committee wished

to interview Ms. PIvenza about lee Harvey Oswald's

visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban

Embassy employees' reactions to the assassination

of John F. Kennedy.

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