REPORT:LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA/DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS
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Document date: 1963-11-26 00:00:00
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1.: LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA. This list does not include disseminations

or memoranda

on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte and Silvia Tirado de DURAN. :

These two leads have been

treated separately ulsewhere in this study.

Each document is listed chronologically in the first column with an indication of

the type of document involved (OUT Teletype Message ; DIRECTOR Cable disseminated

by electrical means; CSCI dissemination - through regular liaison channels, or

memorandum. Following the subject of the document there is an appropriate excerpt

from the document.

3. An asterisk in the column headed by (A) indicates that the lead originated in CIA,

either in the field or headquarters..

An abbreviation of a component of the U.S. Government in the column headed by (B)

was osher than the

indicates that the originator of the lead when not CIA and that the later

responded to the originator. An entry appearing in both columns indicates that

a U.S. representative abroad passed the lead in the field to the local CIA

Station. representalive :

The last column indicates which component(s) received copies of the DIA dissemina-

tion or memorandum. The entry appearing in brackets indecates the recipient re-

ceived the document at a later time.

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(B)

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26 November 1963

DIR 85069

Subject: Travel of Pro-Communist Costa Rican

Congressman to Texas on 26 November 1963.

"A usually reliable source reported on 26 November 1963, that Julio SUNOL

Leal, pro-communist, pro-Castro deputy to the Costa Rican National Assem-

bly, planned to leave San Jose,.

Costa Rica, poland.

for Poland 24 November to at-

SUNOL delayed his de-

"Representatives of this Agency in Costa Rica suspect that SUNOL will try

negather date assass no use of prescent ence propaganda in con-

26 November 1963

DIR 85176

Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD.

"The following information on Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD, wife of Lee Harvey

OSWALD, was volunteered by Moroccan student Mohammed REGGAB: born on 3

January 1938 in Safi, Morocco. REGGAB is now living at Nuernbergerstr..

19, West Berlin.

REGGAB was a student at the Moscow Institute of Cine-

matography from September 1960 to April 1962.

He came to Berlin in April

1963 as a student and on 26 November colunteered the following informa-

tion on Mrs. OSWALD, who had been one of his girl friends in Mescow.

He

identified her on the basis of a photo and the first name, Marina, which

appeared in the 25 November 1963 issue of Berliner Zeitung•

"REGGAB makes a favorable impression and is available for further ques-

tioning."

26 November 1963 DIR 85177

Subject: Telecon between Cuban President

DORTICOS and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas.

"Following is account of telephone conversation between Cuban, President

Osvaldo DORTICOS in Havana and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico in Mexico City: at 0940 hours Mexico City time on 26 November

1963 as reported from sensitive source."

(See Chronological, Summary on

Silvia Tirado de DURAN.)

FBI

FBI,.

State, White

House;

Secret Service

FBI,

State,

White

House,

Secret Service

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27 November 1963 ' CSCI-3/778,881

Sex co City, 18 - 24 November 1963+

. Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in

Forwarded as Attachment A is a resume of the observed activities of

Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV

and Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERIEV as reported

by a reliable source in Mexico City.

Attention was given to KOSTIKOV

because of the indication that he is the consul who interviewed OSWALD

on 28 September 1963 •

ALFERIEV travelled with KOSTIKOV to nor-

and ALFERIEV appeared to be normal, as did the activities of the entire

Soviet Embassy complement.

Forwarded as Attachment B is a resume of telephone calls placed to

and from the Soviet Embassy on the afternoon of 22 November, Analysis of

calls made the morning of

22 November and the morning and afternoon of 23

November revealed no pertinent information."

2 November 1963 DIR 85182

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD:

On 23 November 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON, who was acquainted with

Lee Harvey OSWALD, made the following statements

to a close friend in

Bern, Switzerland:

"OSWALD is 'one of us'.

and OSWALD became

Two years ago OSWALD and GIBSON corresponded

a member of the Committee (presumably the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee).

OSWALD is crazy.

GIBSON burned all of his

correspondence with OSWALD.

GIBSON is glad that he (GIBSON) is not

in New

York now-and he feels sorry for 'Lee' who is in New York and

'Tibor'

According to other information available to our representative in

Bern, Richard Thomas GIBSON,

born 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles.

California,

has resided in Lausanne, Switzerland, since April 1963.

He is a negro

journalist and has been

active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee since

its organization in 1960.

In Switzerland he has been involved in the

publication La Revolution Africaine."

FBI.

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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26 November 1963

DIR 85246

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD:

"On 26 November, Dr. Jose Guillermo AGUIRRE of Mexico told the following

information

to Peter MORAGA, United States Information Service officer in

Mexico City:

RODRIGUEZ, who lives in New Orleans

Son-in-law is a

Cuban who lives at 212 Jefferson Parrish, New Orleans,

tel:

Vernon 5-9658. Arnesto RODRIGUEZ runs a Spanish language school

and is anti-Castro. According to Maria Rodriqguez de LOPEZ her son-in-

USIS

/27 November 1963

Blind Memorandum Subject: Yuriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV.

"After examining all our traces on KOSTIKOV, we are convincad beyond

reasonable doubt that he is a staff officer

of the KGB.

Contributing

to this conclusion are his associates, his movements, his Mexican and

other contacts and his cover position, as well as his involvement in

the TUMBLEWEED operation.

"KOSTIKOV's involvement in TUMBLEWEED is our only reason tolbelieve that

he is connected with the 13th Department.

KOSTIKOV was in clandestine

contact with TUMBLEWEED (as definitely confirmed by TUMBLEWEED's photo

identification) and arranged TUMBLEWEED's contact in the U.Si with a KGB

colleague of KOSTIMOV's."

28 November 1963

DIR 85657

Subject: None given.

"On 26 November 1963 a British journalist named John WILSON, and also

known as John WILSON-HUDSON, gave information to the American Embassy

in London which indicated that an

'American gangster-type named RUGY!

visited Cuba around 1959. WILSON himself was working in Cuba at the

time and was jailed by Castro before he was deported.

"In prison in Cuba, WILSON says he met an'American gangster gambler

named

SANTOS who

could not return to the USA because there were several

indictments outstanding against him. Instead he preferred to live in

USEMB

London

- RECIPIENT(S) -

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

FBI

FBI, State, White

House

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relative luxury in a Cuban prison. While SANTOS was in prison, WILSON

says, SANTOS was visited frequently by an American gangster-type named

His story is being followed up.

WILSON says he had onee testi-

fied about Castro activities before the Eastland Committee of the U.S.

Senate, sometime in 1959 or 1960."

28 November. 1963: DIR 85665

Subject: None given.

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service.

[Warren Commission]

of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague and said that she knew the 'Mr.

(sic] who murdered President Kennedy.

She characterized'LEB! as a man

full of hate and violence,

and speculated that he had been misused by a

She said she had

written to GIBSON (undoubtedly Richard GIBSON,

Castro sympa-

with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy.

Maria SNETHLAGE talked again to Third Secretary

"Later on 23 November iMI. LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee' had

SANTOS and said that

been slandered.

It was another person, 'named Lee OSWALD', who had done

SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba in January and again in

May 1963.

'just wait and you will see what we can do.

It will happen soon':

tp be more precise, SANTOS had replied 'just wait. just wait!.

SANTOS iS

reported to have a pro-Castro brother in the U.s.A.

"A very sensitive source reports that after his conversations with SNETH-

LAGE, SANÇOS was furious because she had not contacted him."

28 November 1963 DIR 85676

Subject: Travel of Soviet Diplomatic Couriers.

Reference is made to your teletype of 8 November 1963 concerning the

travel to Mexico of Soviet diplomatic

couriers Valentin Germanovich

PONOMAREV and Aleksey Nikolayevich POPKOV :

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left Mexico City for Cuba on 12 November via Cubana

According to our representative in Mexico Cit? 465 and returned to

PONOMAREV and POPKoV

Mexico City on 18 November via Cubana.

A usually reliable and sensitive source reported that they probably

left Mexico City for New York on 23 November via Aeronaves

Flt 451•

same source reported that one

''ANANYEV! (phonetic) of the Soviet Consulate

requested information on which flight the couriers were taking.

• In Mexico City on 23 November

Assistant

Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV

of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, ""rovided the

information on behalf

29 November 1963

DIR 85691

Subject: None given.

Your attention is called to a series of anonymous telephone calls

the late President Kennedy.

Our first record of.

this matter 1s a Naval

Attache cable from Canberra sent on 24 November 1963.

Australian authorities working on this case consider the called to be

They state that Soviet offices in Australia do not use anything

but Soviet chaufteurs; they have no record of their using a Polish chau-

They are continuing their investigation.'

29 Növember 1963

DIR 85715

Subject: Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD:

Information gathered from various foreign sources regarding the travel

of Lee Harvey OSWALD and his wife in 1959 and 1962.

29 November 1963

DIR 85770

Subject: None given:

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On 1 November 1963, a U.S. Army Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN; serial number

RA

Headquarters

16410707s Coopt Yeard Met absent thou leane free sunt

scheduled for a psychiatric examination that

He apparently

entered Switzerland using a false Army identification

card with forged

travel orders.

Navy

Army

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FBl, State,

White

house, secret

Service

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren •Commission]

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On 6 and 7 November 1963 he appeared in the Press Room of United

Naso wished alert the world to reportes coversment peeragenda cam-

also wished to alert the world to the U. S. Government

paign'.

Army reports show that he voluntarily returned to his unit in

Metz on or about 11 November 1963.

Around 26 November 1963,

after President Kennedy had been assassina-

ted, a Geneva journalist named Alex des FONTAINES, stringer for Time-Life

correspondent for Radio Canada, was reported to be filing a story to

the Paris office of Time-Life recounting

Private DINKIN's visit to Geneva

and quoting DINKIN as having said that 'they' were plotting against Presi

dent Kennedy and that 'something' would happen in Texas.

Des FONTAINES

had been prompted to do this by an unidentified fenale reporter who had

recalled such statements by DINKIN; des FONTAINES thought he recalled he

had heard DINKIN say something like that also, and although he did not

really believe that DINKIN had grounds for his statements when he made

them, he filed the story just to be sure.

All aspects of this story were known,

reported above,

by u.s.

military authorities and have been reported by military attache cable

through military channels."

30, Novemher 1963" CSCI-3/778,894 Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

Attached is an article which appeared on page 2 of the 29 November

1963 issue of the Washington Daily News.

The article contains informa-

tion which implies that two persons might have been involved in the as-

sassination of President Kennedy:

"ad placed on

The Washington Daily News article also states that the full-page

The Dallas

Morning News on

22. November] which presumably

cost $1250.00 was placed by (Bernard] WEISSMAN, that he paid cash for

and that WEISSMAN resided in Dallas at a small apartment house.

The article indicates

that he roomed with one William BURLEY,

The records of this office contain information about one Bill BURLEY,

a U.S. Air Force Tech Sergeant,

stationed in Libia in 1958 who may have

involved in nafarious activities.

You are referred to the Office of

Special Investigations, USAF, for possible additional information.

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114..

Our information indicates that BURLEY had contact with (foreign]

persons whose activities seem to have been questionable:

"6. The above information is provided as a result of a preliminary check

of our records:

The records of this office contain no additional informa-

tion which at this time can be identified as pertaining to the persons who

might be identical with the men who placed the newspaper ad,l or to persons

who might have been in contact with them."

3 December 1963

DIR 86496

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"On the question of why Lee OSWALD felt that he could not get his Mexican

visa

extended without using his real name,

the following may be germane:

Mexican immigration records checked by the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo

and reported through the U.S. Embassy to both out office and yours HARVEY

that Lee OSWALD entered Mexico on 26. September 1963 using the name

OSWALD LEF.

It may be that OSWALD feared that any attempt to extend his

visa would result in discovery that he was in the country under a false

name; he might have had to show some identification to get the visa exten-

ded, and he probably had no documentation in the name of HARVEY OSWALD

LEE."'

4" December 1963

DIR 86702

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Records of the Foreigners Records Office of the German Federal Republic

in Cologne,

Germany, show that Marina Nikolayevna PUSAKOVA OSWALD crossed

West Germany from East Germany to Holland on 3 June 1962.:

She traveled

crossing into West Germany at Helmstedt on 3 June ald entering

Holland no rast at the Bentheim crossing point.

She had West German visa

694/62 issued at the West German Embassy in Moscow. She listed her final

destination as U.S.A.:

Comment:

This confirms information from the U.s.

Embassy in Moscow to the effect that the OSWALD family traveled from Mes-

cow to Rotterdam by rail around 3 June 1962.

Helmstedt and Bentheim

on the main rail route from Russia to Rotterdam. While Lee OSWALD himself

and their infant daughter

are not recorded in German records this probably

because little attention is paid to U.S. citizens and to infants in keep-

ing travel records."

FBI

FBI, State,

White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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5 December 1963

DIR 87189

Subject: None given.

officer

have learned that on 3 December 1963 'Indian communists,

a known Soviet intelligence

to have

in New Delhi, India,

working through

attempted

a number of telegrams sent to President JOHNSON,

Chief Justice

WARREN, and Attorney General KENNEDY from Indian youth,

1egal,

and other

groups, demanding a full probe into the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy.

Apparently the Soviet officer undertook to pay for all

the tele-

grams; he said the whole scheme was based on 'orders from Moscow'-

"2.

Note: To|check on this story and to detect similar activity from

othes wrech haves een re eoved appreciate receiving data on any such tele-

6 December 1963

DIR 87520

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Reference is made to our out Telegram no.

gave information on the travel of Marina

86702 of. 4 December 1963 which

OSWALD (and presumably also Lee

Harvey OSWALD and their daughter) across West Germany on their return

from the Soviet Union.

Information now available from Dutch authorities

seems to confirm this.

On 3 June 1962 one M. OSVALD, listed, ás a male

pussta comment enter is the eved that the lEsting te this person as ar

It is believed that the ltsting of this person as a male

instead of female was just an error of the border officials. Note that

Oldenzaal is opposite Bentheim, the German border point where Marina

OSWALD deft Germany."

9 December

1963

DIR 87731

Subject:

Richard BEYMER, American Movie Actor,

in Touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City:

The Mexico City News of 5 December 1963 carried a picture of Richard

BEYMER, American movie actor, who was a delegate to the Film, Festival be.:

ing held in Acapulco.

BEYMER was in touch with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on 2 Decem-

and a person believed to be BEYMER was in touch with the Embassy on

3n November.

He wanted to speak to Silvia DURAN, who was not at the Em-

Another employee told him that no reply had been received from

Cuba.

FBI, State, White

House

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

(Warren Commission]

FBI

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"3: This office has no information on BEIMER:

"4. DURAN is the Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy with whom Lee H.

OsWALD was in touch regarding a visa for Cuba.

This information is for your use only and may not be disseminated

without permission from this Agency."

9 December 1963

DER 87190

Subject: None given.

The American Embassy in Stockholm, sweden,

has received a letter

mailed 25 November 1963 in Stockholm alleging that the

assassination of

President Kennedy was arranged by the Red Chinese.

The letter purports

to he from one Ryo Liang Yuan of the Red Chinese Embassy in Stockholm,

but no such official is assigned there and there is no record of Chinese

official by this name anywhere abroad.

"2. The letter is written in broken English and stated that the Chinese

communists got in contact with OSWALD when he was in the Soviet Union.

When OSWALD returned to the !.S.A., the Red Chinese re-contacted nim,

threatened to expose him if he did

not cooperate.

The Red Chinese ex-

pected that the U.S. would attack Cuba when it learned that the assassin

was a Cuban sympathizer. The Soviets would then attack the u.s.A.,

Red Chinese would ask the Soviets for atomic weapons, the Communist Bloc

would win the war, the Chinese Reds would then assassinate KHRUSHCHEV and

take over control.

"I3. The writer said he worked for the 'Department of State Secret!, but

no department by this name is known in the Chinese Communist Government.

Our Station in Stockholm judges this to be a crank letter. The original

letter is being sent here for analysis."

• 11 December 1963

TDCSDB-3/658,408 Subject: Comments of Soviet Official regarding

I. Moscow Views on International Situation fol-

lowing Death of President Kennedy: 2. Resump-

tion of Disarmament Talks:

"The Soviet official was recently on a trip home and returned from Moscow

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FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

{Warren Commission]

Full dissemination

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to Geneva about the end of November.

When source,

cussed political topics with him, asked about the

the death of President Kennedy the Soviet official immediately launched

into lengthy commentary.

It may be that subsources ready résponses and

apparent spontaneity resulted from a repition

of widely held views. How-

considering his position it seems more likely that his comments were

intended for western consumption."

12. December 1963

CSCI - 3/779,048

Subject: WILSON, Carlos John with aliases.

Compilation of information from Agency files regarding

Carlos John WILSON

also known as John WILSON-HUDSON and John Hudson WILSON.

12. December 1963

• DIR 88643

Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy

Allegedly Part of Plot against all Democratic

Presidents.

sent to U.S. Ambassador Raymon TELLES, U.S. Em-

the democratic world.

The writer of the letter,

Rodrigo C."

, identifies

himself as

à Costa Rican of Marxist-Leninist ideals, whose assignment is

the

assassination of President ORLICH of Costa Rica and Foreign Minister

ODUBER of Costa Rica:

The envelope in which the letter arrived is post-

marked 28. November 1963, from Heredia, Costa Rica.

The letter is believed

to be the work of a crank."

16 December 1963

CSCI-3/779,135

Subiect:

Peter DERYABIN's Comments on the

Kennedy Assassination.

"1.

Attached for your perusal are the written comments of KGB defector

Peter DERYABIN on some aspects of the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy. As you know, DERYABIN defected from the KGB about ten years ago,

and his personal knowledge is not up to date,

but he has stayed in touch

with Soviet intelligence developments to the best of his ability. His:

comments on how Lee OSWALD and his wife must have been handled by Soviet

intelligence authorities while they were inside the Soviet Union are par-

10-

p. 5.Embo

- RECIPIENT(S) -

FBI

FBI, State, White

House [Warren Com-

mission]

FBI

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ticularly interesting and his suggestions for the questioning of Mrs.

Marina OSWALD are equally provocative.

"2." We have decided to pass on his views without editing,

and this Agency

does not specifically endorse his conclusions or recommendations."!

18 Decemher 1963: DIR 89970

Subject: Lee OSWALD Case:

"Reference is made to our OUT Telegram no: 85182 of 27 November 1963.

Richard Thomas GIBSON, U.S. citizen who was once associated with the

Fair

Play for Cuba Committee in New York was interviewed in early December 1963

by a ll.S. Consular officer in Paris, France, to see if he had information

on Lee OSWALD.

GIBSON said he had never

known any one by that name but

mentioned the following two possibilities:

"GIBSON was

very cooperative and said his association with the publication

'Revolution' was for purely economic reasons."

• 27 December 1963

CSCI-3/779,297

Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy.

"1. Reference is made to a report passed by a field office of this Agency

to your office in Miami on ? December 1963,

stating that the assassination

of President. Kennedy had been arranged in Cuba by the Cuban government and

the Chinese communists.

The report mentioned the names of fnu SAAVEDRA,

Ramon B. CORTES, Fernandez FETTO:

disseminated by our Headquarters becad Robert ShEr to The report was not

the report is still seriously in doubt.

According to him

(sourcel, the statements about the assassination being a Cuban and Chinese

communist plot were made by one: Raul SAAVEDRA, who he says is a high Cuban

government official.'.We have not yet been able to identify him:

13.

We have not been in direct physical contact with our source since his

initial report on this topic:

As soon as we

can talk to him personally,

ranged in the near future. We wish

the past produced several reports of a

sensational nature which turned out

to be untrue. We do not believe he deliberately submitted false informa-

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

FBI

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tion,

but he appears to be unable in some cases to evaluate information

properly."

27 January 1904

CSCI -3/779,729 Subject: The Assassination of President Kennedy-

In connection with our efforts to check possible relatives of Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD,

nee PRUSAKOVA, widow of the suspected assassin of

President KENNEDY, Lee Harvey OSWALD, our attention was drawn

Lyudmila Nikolayevna PRUSAKOVA, Who was one of 28 Soviet students invited

by the Scotish Union of Students to visit England as tourists in May 1960.

A visa application completed by

PRUSAKOVA on 17 March

1960, copy of which

has been acquired from the British internal services, disclosed the fol-

lowing background information:

While there is no indication that PRUSAKOVA is related to Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD, your Bureau may wish to discuss this information with

Marina OSWALD because of such possibility...In the event that PRUSAKOVA iS

related to (or known to) Marina OSWALD, we would appreciate being so ad-

30 January 1964

CSCI-3/779,814

Sucten cavil Rights:

Jack L. RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD -

Reference is made to your memorandum of l January 1964, subject as

concerning a report of a visit to Cuba in early 1903 made by Jack

L. RUBY, assassin of Lee Harvey OSWALD:

This Agency has received a simi-

lar report from a sounce to the effect that RUBY was in Havana in late

1962 or in early 1963.

vidual could verify the above information:

Our source stated that following indi-

"Evidio Bernardo PEREIRA Acosta

(whose address as of

September 1963 was 821 SW 2nd Street,

• Miami, Florida.

We suggest that your Bureau may prefer to interview PEREIRA Acosta:

We would appreciate receiving the results of your interview

PEREIRA Acosta.

Your Bureau will be advised in the event we receive fur-

they information relating to this matter."

125-

- RECIPIENT(S)

FBI

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4 February :1964

CSCI-3/779,817

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

In response to your communication, DL 100-10461, dated 31 December

1963, your file (S)

information from the

airesses, ana loophono mere eterne to the sover inche

as above, enclosed is the requested

This information covers names,

14 February 1964

CSCI - 3/779,988:

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

Subsequent to the preparation of our CSCI-3/779,817, dated 4 February

subject as above, in response to your communication DL 100-10461,

dated 32 December 1963, file number (S) 105-82555, additional information

on the subject has come to our attention.: This information was received

from your office in your communication DBA 59901, dated 20 December 1963.

It is repeated below for the convenience of your personnel involved in the

OSWALD case. ' ..

19 February 1964.

Subject:

Men sassination a resident John kennedy. " soP 4- 0861

[DDP 4-0861]

Your memorandum dated 6 December 1963,

file DL 100-10461,

lists 47 photographs which were among the effects of Lee Harvey OSWALD,"

and made available to your Bureau by... of the Dallas Police Depart-

It appears that most of the photographs were

taken in the

USSR and depict Soviet contacts of OSWALD or scenes in the

Soviet Union.

In connection with our efforts to assist the President's Commission

on the Assassination of President Kennedy by providing

information which

might be helpful in interpreting available materials relating to OSWALD's

activities abroad, we would appreciate receiving at your earliest

conven-

¡ence one copy of

each of these photographs, or

exemplars, from which we

can make copies:

•18 February 1964

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. HUGHES, The Director of Intelligence

and Research, Department of State.

Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

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Entry in "Historic Diary".

[DDP 4-0864]

"'1:

In a document entitled 'Historic Diary! there appears an entry

which refers to 'an elderly American'

The entry is under the date 26

October 1959 when OSWALD was allegedly confined in an unidentified Moscow

hospital.

tify

It is apparent that every effort should be made to iden-

the elderly. American, if he existed.

Weassume the lead is

still outstanding.

our recommendation that the Department of State

urgently request through its channels a

careful search of Embassy and

sular records

in Moscow which might reveal the identity of an elderly

American hospitalized

at the end of October 1959 and possibly registered

with the Embassy as a tourist.

An independent confirmation of this de-

'Historic Diary'

information on OSWALD's stay in the USSR."!

19 February 1964

Subject:

Cuban Consulate

Memora consulate and Easy in exo

General Counsel etc.

[DDP 4-4581]

Reference is made to your letter of 10 February 1964, relative to in-

formation supplied by this Agency on the activities of Lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City

We surmise that the reference in OSWALD's letter of 9 November to a

man who had since been replaced must refer to Cuban Consul Busebio AZUE,

who left Mexico for Cuba on permanent transfer on 18 November 1963, four

days before the assassination. AZCUE had been in Mexico for eighteen

years and it was known (to us) as early as September 1963 that he was to

he replaced.

His replacement did arrive in September.

AZCUE was schedu-

led to leave in October but did not leave until 18 November

We do not know who might have told OSWALD that AZCUE or any other

Cuban had been or was to be replaced, but

we speculate that Silvia DURAN

or some Soviet official might have mentioned it if OSWALD complained about

AZCUF's altercation with him."

20 February 1964

CSCI -3/779,988 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

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Concerning the entry on page 63 of OSWALD'S address book: ' Lev

ST Subect Lilie May RAHM, contains the following IsfoyAation:

1963, subject:

from your office dated 20 December

Annette (nee ZUGOFF) SETYAEVA, •

i • Is married to a Leo SETYAEV who

worked for Radio Moscow;

5 March 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB

Relative to Marina ONAlD.

[DDP 4-1171]

"1. On 26 Novemher 1963, Mohammed REGGAB, a Moroccan student in West Ber-

lin, made a statement that he could supply information on a Marina Niko-

lovna' who he asserted was identical with Mrs. Marina OSWALD. The attäch-

ment is a summary of our findings in regard to REGGAB's allegation.

covers investigation including polygraphing in Berlin and inquiries

conducted in Morocco during the period 26 November 1964 to 1 March 1964.

It is our conclusion that REGGAB's story of his acquaintance with

MITS:

Marina OSWALD is a fabrication."

20 March 1964 CSCI - 3/780,612

Subject: Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy.

In the course of our research of files pertaining to areas of the

USSR in which Lee Harvey OSWALD allegedly resided, a photograph of an in-

dividual closely resembling OSWALD was uncovered.

"2.. Our files indicate that this photograph (Attachment A) Came from a

color transparency taken in Minsk,

USSR,

on or about 11 August 1961, by

an American tourist, Mrs. Monica F

KRAMER, whose address at the time was

P. D. Box 995, Solvang, California:

Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN, both of whom are United States citizens,

vere contacted by this Agency on a one-time basis, following their return

from their tour of the USSR.

Mrs. KRAMER,

furnished this Agency with 160 color transparen-

cies taken during the trip.

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"9. This office would be interested in any pertinent information which

interviews of Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN by your office might possibly

provide

27 March 1964

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. HUGHES, The Director of Intelligence

and Research, Department of State

Subject:

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

Entry in "Historic Diary"

[DDP 4-1606]

"2. We have received a report that the hospital to which OSWALD was taken

by Soviet authorities

after the suicide attempt mentioned in his

'Historic

may have been the Botkinskaya Hospital in Moscow.

The 1958 and

1962 Moscow telephone directories for Organizations

and Institutions, list

a hospital named:S. P. Botkina.

Our specialists advise that a native of

Moscow would normally refer to this hospital as the 'Botkinskaya'.

said to be the hospital to which foreigners and diplomatic personnel are

generally taken in the event of an emergency or serious illness, and the

building or wing of the hospital is reported to be especially designated

for this purpose.

We would appreciate receiving information on any Americans who might

have been patients at the

'Botkinskaya' in the fall of 1959 that may be

contained in your files or those of your Embassy in Moscow."

31. March 1964

General Counsel etc.

Subtect Menon miles ta be ere are diD and Marina

Nikolevna OSWALD.

[DDP 4-1655]

"1. Reference is made to the second paragraph of your memorandum dated 12

February 1964, and the second paragraph of your memorandum of l6 March

1964, relative to disseminations of information made by CIA to the Secret

1!3.

Attached to this memorandum are exact copies of two teletyped messa-

ges relative to the travels and activities of the OSWALDs (Attachments A

are found refer

ences

which describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON,

85162 and no. 85665 are included as Attachments D and E.".

Paraphrases of no.

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3 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel

etc.

Subject:

Richard Thomas GIBSON.

[DDP 4-1699]

itt

• Attached to this memorandum is the exact text of OUT Teletype no:

WIth GIBSON held by a us consular officer in Paris:

dated 18 December 1963, which contains the report of an interview

This message was

disseminated to the White House, Department of State, Federal Bureau of

Investigation, with a copy to the. Secret Service."

State

7 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Mohammed REGGAB

[DDP 4-1786]

REGGAB has not written since his return to Morocco,

and apparently

come back to Berlin..

Knowledgeable sources which are usually reliable

as of 10 March, REGGAB has not fulfilled the legal formalities

sequired of foreigners arriving in that city. It is apparent, therefore,

that he has not returned to Berlin."

2Ö April 1961

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

BND Report Pertaining to Allegations Concerning Anton

ERDINGER.

[DDP 4-1997]

"1. We have studied the BND report forwarded by your letter of 26 March

A review of CIA files reflects no pertinent data on the principals

involved.

"2. There is one report to the effect that Guenther GRONA (Mentioned on

page 4 of the BND report) was under investigation in 1963 by West German

authorities. He was a journalist and correspondent for an Bast Berlin

radio station.

The basis for, and the outcome of, the investigation is

not reflected in ClA files. However, in view of the peripheral nature of

his involvement in the matter being

considered, his activities are be-

lieved to have little or no bearing on the

investigation."

24 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel

Subject: Lydia DIMYTRUK; Acquaintance of Marina OSWALD.

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"1.

Reference is made to the report of Special Agent Robert P. GEMBERLING

dated 30 November 1963, •

This communciation reported an interview

by the FBI of Mr. George A. BOUHE on 23 November 1963 in which Mr. BOUHE

referred to a Lydia DIMYTRUK of Fort Worth, Texas, who allegedly had asso-

ciated with Marina N. OSWALD.

The files

of this Agency contain the following pertinent information

one Lydia DYMITRUK who may be identical with the Lydia DIMYTRUK referred

above:

28 April 1964

CSCI-3/780,996

Russia.

Subject: Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO, Espionage

Reference is made to your memorandum dated 6 March 1964, subject as

Harvey OSWALD.

contain the following information from NOSENKO

on OSWALD which may amplify or contradict the information forwarded in

reference:

29 April 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel @tE(DDP 4-2160]

Photograph of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

As the result of a search of our graphics files for pictures perti-

nent to the story of Lee Harvey OSWALD's sojourn in the USSR. we have

found the attached photograph (Attachment 'A') of a group of persons stan-

ding near the Palace of Culture in Minsk.

This photograph was taken by an

American tourist in Minsk on or about 11 August 1961.

Although the persons

in the photograph are not identified in our

files, we believe on the

of comparison

with other pictures that the second person from the right is

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"3... It is worth noting that the person believed to be OSWALD is wearing

a short-sleeved sport shirt of the same design or pattern as one worn by

OSWALD in pictures taken of him in his apartment in Minsk in 1962.

Copies

of two such photographs, which were found among.

"OSWALD's effects. after his

arrest and forwarded to us by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; are

attached for comparison purposes.

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Attachment 'A' appears to substantitate OSWALD's presence in Minsk at

least during the

summer of 1961 and to indicate

that he had contact at

least on one

occasion with American tourists visiting that city, as he

once claimed in a letter to his brother, Robert OSWALD."

8 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc:

Subject:

Marina OSWALD's Notebook.

[DDP 4-23511

"Attached herevith is information from this Agency's files on the entries

in Marina

OsWALD's notebook, a copy of which was received from the federal

Bureau of Investigation under their communication dated 13 April 1964.

of this attachment have been forwarded to the

Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation.".

11 May 1964

CSCI-3/781,172 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Security

Russia - Cuba.

: In response to your communication dated 13 April 1964, file number

(S) 105-8255, subject as above, attached herewith is a compilation of

addresses, and telephone

formation from the files of this Agency on name? 'extracted from an address

numbers relating to the Soviet Union, which were

book identified as belonging to Marina OSWALD."'

15 May 1964

Subject:

cants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy.

WIth a thin the very revent perio as saen ose est rosene do contact

with ranking officers of the Cuban Direccion General de Intelligencia

(Directorate General for Intelligence. - DGI). His knowledge of DGi activi

This Agency

and the DGI prior to the assassination of President Kennedy.

the information thus obtained is attached to this memorandum!

A report on

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19 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Allegations of Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to As-

sassination Plot against President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-2534]

Reference is made to paragraph 2 of your memorandum, dated February™

12, 1964, requesting that the Commission

be furnished copies of dissemina-

tions relative to the assassination of President Kennedy that were sent to

the Secret Service.:

Immediately after the assassination the CIA Station in Geneva, Swit-

zerland,

reported allegations concerning

a plot to assassinate President

that were made by Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, serial number

RA - 76710292, on 6 and 7 November 1963,

in Geneva while absent without leave

from his unit in Metz, France.

Available details of this charge, together

with information on its exploitation by Alex des FONTAINES, a Time-Life

st Novem November ia WeThis dissemanation was senetype me sago. o. 85770,

This dissemination was sent to the White House,

Department of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a copy to

the Secret Service.

Since the Geneva Station cooperated with the U.S. Military Attache in

assembling information on this affair, and the Military. Attache reported

on picase the comession may have already received information

19 May 1964

CSCI - 3/781,386

Subject: Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK)

Reference is made to your communication of 1 May 1964 requesting tra

ces on Paul DIMITRIK. (aka

Pavel DYMITRUK)

"2. The files of this Agency contain the following pertinent information

one Pavel DYMITRUK,

born 28 February 1924 in Stariye-Derend, USSR, who

appears

to be identical with Subject and his wife Lydia DYMITRUK:

22 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Anonymous

Telephone Calls to United States Embassy in Canberra,

Australia, Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-2624)

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I refer again to paragraph two of your memorandum, dated 12 February

1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service

made by CIA.

CIA received from the Department of the Navy a

"2. On 24 November 1904 'Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia IN 67327,

copy of a cable from the

reporting a telephone conversa-

self:as a Polish chauffeur for the Soviet Embassy of that city.: This indi

vidual, while discussing several matters of intelligence interest, touched

on the possibility

that the Soviet Government had financed the assassina-

tion of President Kennedy.

Reference. was made in this cable to the receipt

of a similar anonymous telephone call on 15 October 1962:

"3." Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the following action:

"4. The CIA Station in Canberra arranged for discussion of the calls with

the Australian security service. In the opinion of the Australian authori-

ties, the caller was a crank.:.

27 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassina-

tion of President Kennedy.

"1. Reference is made to paragraph two of your memorandum dated 12 Febru-

requesting copies of disseminations relative to the assassination of

President Kennedy that were sent to the Secret Service.

Shortly after the assassination the United States Embassy in Stock-

holm received

arletter, mailed on 25 November 1963, which accused the

Chinese Communist of plotting this act.

This information was

disseminated

on 9 December to the White House, Department of State, Federal Bureau of

Investigation,

with a copy to the Secret Service. The exact text of the

dissemination

is attached to this memorandum.

• In view of the fact that this letter was received at the United States

Embassy,.

the Commission may have already received information about the

document from the Department of State."

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3: June 1964

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

Subject:

ment.

Documents on Lee Harvey OswALD rurnished by the soviet Govern-

[DDP 4-1764]

"1. The Soviet documents forwarded to this Agency under your letter of 20

May 1964 provide some additional detail on OSWALD.

The information in

these documents parallels that already available from other sources,

does not contradict our previous information.

The documents do clarify

somewhat OSWALD's alleged occupation at the Minsk radio plant giving the

original Russian terms used in decstabing his job.

"2. The following points relating to the documents are worth noting:

A significant omission from the materials provided is the letter

OSWALD allegedly wrote to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citi-

zenship.

OSWALD signed a receipt in 1960 for his Identity Document for

Stateless Persons,

and a second receipt in 1962 for his Identity

Document for Foreigners.

The similarity of wording of the receipts

regarding his understanding of Soviet residence and travel regula

tions further supports our

belief that

such regulations are identical

or nearly identical for bearers of either type of identity document.

This means that OSWALD should have obtained permission in July 1961

to travel to moscow, but; as we know from other

cases,

failure to ob-

tain travel permission is not uncommon and not a serious oftense.

"c. The includsion of Marina's exit visa 'application' is singular

in view of the fact that the Commission had not requested information

on Marina.

The Soviet translators for OSWALD's early documents are believed

to be identical with persons already referred to in OSWALD's 'diary!.

113:

The format and wording of subject documents appear to be consistent

with Soviet practice."

3 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

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Subject: George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

[DDP 4-27701

"1. Reference is made to your memorandum of 31 March 1964 requesting any

information on

George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT that is available in CIA

Our review shows that the files contain reports received from

The review also produced

references to information in the records of the Coordinator of Information

and the Office of Strategic Services. According

to records of those

information developed by CIA (or its predecessors) before the assassina-

of President Kennedy had established any link between the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs and Lee Harvey OSWALD or his family.

"9. You may also wish to make inquiries at the Office of Naval Intelli-

gence; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army;

the Department of State,

and the Civil Service Commission because these

departments also have information about George de MOHRENSCHILDT."

5 June 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel ètc:

Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk,

[DDP 4-28441

"1. Allegations of the existence of a Soviet intelligence and/or sabotage

training school in Minsk, USSR, have come to the attention of the Agency

from press reviews.

Also, there had been an informal inquiry from a mem-

ber of the Commission, Mr. DULLES,

very recently on this detail.

I take

this opportunity to furnish to the Commission the information which the

Agency had on this topic.'!

A careful review of CIA files has produced no hard information regar-

ding Soviet intelligence or sabotage training in Minsk since 1947.

5 June 1964

CSCI-3/781,543

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

the Clandestine Services is developing a

machine on time mone man ente a developinigence

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and security services. As yet, the data base is very narrow, with the re-

sult that any search against the program has a very limited chance of suc;

cess. Nonetheless, a search was made using those items of information which

one dated 10 No-

vember 1963 and addressed to OSWALD,

which are known reiarine to the two lander rent danad 27 November 1965

and addressed to the Attorney General.

The print-out listed 19 names,

of which only two seemed to

hold any interest.

A review of the files

these two eliminated one,

leaving a single candidate.

"3: At the same time,

a routine name trace has been run in the main index

on. the name Mario del

Rosario Molina, the name with which the 27 November

1963 letter was signed.:

There were no traces on

that name, but informa-

tion was available on two persons with somewhat similar names.

10 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel, etc.

Subject:

Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His

Associates.

"1.

Reference is made to your memorandum of 19 May 1964, requesting that

this Agency furnish any information intits files relative

to Jack RUBY,

his activities, and his associates.

•Examination of:'CIA records has failed

to produce information on Jack RUBY or his activities.

We.also have no in

dication that RUBY and Lee Harvey OSWALD ever knew each other, were asso-

ciated, or might have been connected in any mahner whatsoever.

12 June 1964'

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Letter Relative to Assassination of President Kennedy Sent to

United States Embassy in Costa Rica:

[DDP 4-2988]

"1.. The information given below, and the attachment to the memorandum,

are furnished in order to complete the

Commission's file on

crank letters

generated by the

assassination of President Kennedy

Since the letter was

received by a United States Embassy the Commission may have received this

information previously from the Department of State.

"2. The United States Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, in late November

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1963 received a letter claiming that the assassination of President Kennedy

Was part of a plot to kill all the presidents of the free world.

This un-

dated letter, portmarked 28 November 1963, Heredia, Costa Rica,

was ad-

dressed to Ambassador Raymond TELLES.

This document was disseminated to

the white Houses hot seat to the scate serviche Federal Bureau of Inves-

"3.: This letter was adjudged to be the work of a crank.. Details of the

document were passed to the Government of Costa Rica.

No further informa-

tion on the writer of this document, who signed himself RODRIGO C., has

ever been received."

29 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subgect:

Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier,

Morocco.

[DDP. 4-3347]

"1. The reference memorandum [FBI Memorandum, /dated 10 June 1964] con-

tained a request that this Agency conduct inquiries HosTALgier Moroquiries

to resolve certain allegations concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD.

have been completed and the results show that the entire story concerning

OSWALD's presence in Tangier has no basis in fact."!

30° June 1964

CSCI -3/782,058

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

"Reference is made to your memorandum,

dated 10 June 1964, requesting

Agency to

conduct: the necessary inquiries to resolve allegations that Lee

Harvey OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

The inquiries were completed on

19 June 1964 and the results show that the allegations have no basis in

Ydur representatives, Mr. S. J. PAPICH, was verbally notified of

the results and, at his suggestion,

the results were forwarded, by memo-

randum, to the President's

Commission on the assassination of President

Kennedy.

A copy of that memorandum is attached for your files and for any

additional action you may wish to take.".

1 July 1964

Subject:

Memorandum: for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959:

[DDP: 4-3889]

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"1:

In response to your memoranaum of 4o May. -904, we have established

that the only direct

flight from London

to. Hersinxi on

10 October 1959 was

Finn Air flight 852 which arrived in Helsinki at 2333 (11:33 p.m.):

OSWALD had taken this flight, he could not normally have cleared customs

and landing formalities and reached the Terni Hotel downtown by 2400. (mid-

night) on the same day:

This is based on the judgement of officers in

this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport.

"2:

We are presently attempting to determine if OSWALD could have taken a

more circuitous

flight from London,

with a stop at Stockholm, Copenhagen,

or some other city:

•Any additional information received will be forwarded

to you promptly."

2 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

[DDP 4-3401]

The following remarks have been recently attributed to Soviet Consul

Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV in Mexico City regarding the subject.

'I met OSWALD here.

He stormed into my office and

wanted me to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans.

He told me that he had lived in the USSR.

I told him that

I would have to check before I could recommend him. He

was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stormed out !

of my office.

I don't believe that a person as nervous as

OSWALD,

whose hands trembled could have accurately

fired a rifle.'

Our Mexican Station has checked its records for the period OSWALD

then me a mind adise otten he see that as spoken!

to YATSKOV;

or that he first spoke to KOSTIKOV who turned him over to his

superior YATSKOV.

14.

A copy of this memorandum has been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation."

6 July 1994

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN; General Counsel etc.

Warren Commission

FBI

Warren Commission

FBI

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Subject: Statements Reportedly Made by George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

Concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the Assassination of President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-3479]

"1: The information furnished below has been received from usually reli-

able sources and consists of statements reportedly made by the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the assassination of President

Kennedy.

among the guests attending a cocktail party in Haiti.

The de MOHRENSCHILDTs were asked if there was

any substance to the view expressed in certain foreign

periodicals such as L'Express, a left-wing Parisian

MOHRENSCHILDT said that President Kennedy was hated

by the Dallas elite, and he felt that it was very

likely that certain reactionary elements in Dallas had

organized a plot to get rid of Kennedy and used a dis-

turbed person such as OSWALD to achieve their ends.

MTs: de MOHRENSCHILDT agreed fully with this thesis:

"3. A copy of this memorandum is being forwarded to the FBI."

27 August 1964

: CSCI-316/00856-64' Subject:

rity, Russia - Cuba.:

Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Secu-

Reference: Your Memorandum dated 28 July 1964•

A review of the results of monitoring Soviet foreign broadcasts at

the time when an interview with Lee Harvey OSWALD had apparently been

taped was conducted with negative results.

Therefore, it is assumed

that such a tape, if broadcast at all, was aired over

a local USSR facili-

ty for internal consumption.

"2. With respect to the same question, Yuriy NOSENKO was asked if any

attempt had heen made hy the Soviets to exploit OSWALD for propaganda

purposes, such as Radio Moscow broadcasts,

telecasts, or lectures.

NOSENKO replied that this had not been done either in Moscow or in Minsk.

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Reference document is FBI request to CIA requesting the latter to

identify broadcast by OSWALD in USSR sometime hefore early January 1960.)

28 August 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

• General Counsel

Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

[DDP. 4-4479]

"1..

The files of this Agency contain no identifiable traces on Konstantin

Petrovich SERGIEVSKY or on his sister.

112.

We have no information which would either confirm or refute allega-

tions that Lee Harvey OSWALD made one

or more visits to the city of Gorky

in April and May 1960 or at any other time.

The term 'mokrym delam' which appears in the notes which SERGIEVSKY

brought with him to the British Embassy may be translated 'wet affairs'

'liquid affairs'

It is an expression or jargon

used by the KGB. to refer

to activities involving kidnapping or assassination.

RANKIN asked for Agency comments concerning allegations of a Soviet

citizen In Moscow on 29 July 1964:)

Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY, who walked into the British

Embassy

1 October. 1964 :

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Joachim JOESTEN

[DDP• 4- 5110]

"1.: Attached are reproduced copies of a set of German documents seized by

the U.S. authorities

at the end of World War II.

The documents concern

P. C.

State

JOESTEN had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany Since 1932.

You will note that the attention of the German security organs was direc-

ted at JOESTEN as early as 1936.:

: At that-time the Communist Party had been

been outlawed in Germany and the German authorities apparently had begun

collecting information about JOESTEN and his activities.

Their investiga-

tign seems to have culminated in the proposal for revocation of his Ger-

- 29.

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Warren Commission,

FBI, State, IGNS

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man: citizenship.

[Comment:

The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of a book

by Joachim JOESTEN entitled, "OSWALD - Assassin or Fall Guy?" (1964) pub-

Inc. of New York,

in which

lished by Marzani and Munsell Publishers' in his mind that OSWALD was a mi-

JOESTEN states that there is no question

nor CIA

Marzani, a known communist, was coauthor of a pamphlet,

'"Cuba Vs. CIA". published in 1961.

JOESTEN is revealed in a German Security

dated November

the German Communist Party (KPD) since May

, 1937, to have been an active member of

12, 1932; he was issued Commu-

nist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch) No. 532315.:

Cited in "The Soviet and Communist Bloc Defamation Campaign", Congressional

Record - House, 28 September 1965, pp. 25391-25393.]

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1. LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA. This list does not include disseminations or memoranda

on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte and Silvia Tirado de DURAN.

These two leads have been

treated separately olsewhere in this study.

2:

Each document is listed chronologically in the first column with an indication of

the type of document involved (OUT Teletype Message

DIRECTOR cable disseminated

by electrical means; CSCI dissemination • through regular liaison channels, or

memorandum Following the subject of the document there is an appropriate excerpt

from the document.

3. An asterisk in the column headed by (A) indicates that the lead originated in CIA,

either in the field or headquarters:

1. An abbreviation of a component of the U.S. Government in the column headed by (B)

was athic than the

indicates that the originator of the lead when not. CIA and that the later

responded to the originator. An entry appearing in both columns indicates that

a U.S. representative abroad passed the lead in the field to the local CIA

Station, representalive

5..

The last column indicates which component (s) received copies of the lIA dissemina-

tion or memorandum..

The

entry appearing in brackets indicates the recipient re-

ceived the document at a later time.

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26 November 1963 DIR 85069

Subject: Travel of Pro-Communist Costa Rican

Congressman to Texas on 26 November 1963.

"A usually reliable source reported on 26 November 1963, that Julio SUNOL

Leal, pro-communist, pro-Castro deputy to

the Costa Rican National Assem-

bey& the World Peace Conference in Warsaw,

planned to leave San Jose, Costa Rica' poland.

for. Poland 24 November

SUNOL delayed his de-

parture and now plans to leave San Jose 26 November.

"Representatives of this Agency in Costa Rica suspect that SUNOL will try

to gather data in Texas

FBI

26 November 1963

DIR 85176

Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD.

"The following information on Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD, wife of Lee Harvey

OSWALD, was volunteered by Moroccan student Mohammed REGGAB: born on 3

January 1938 in Safi, Morocco.

REGGAB is now living at Nuernbergerstr.

19, West Berlin.

REGGAB was a student at the Moscow: Institute of Cine-

matography from September 1960 to April 1962. He came to Berlin in April

1963 as. a student and on 26 November colunteered the

following informa-

tion on Mrs. OSWALD, who had been one of his girl friends in Mescow.

identified her on the basis of a photo and the first name, Marina, which

appeared in the 25 November 1963 issue of Berliner Zeitung:

toning makes a favorable impression and 1s available for further ques

26 November 1963.

DIR 85177

Subject: Telecon between Cuban President

DORTICOS and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas.

"Following is account of telephone conversation between Cuban President

Osvaldo DORTICOS in Havana and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico in Mexico City at 0940 hours Mexico City time

on 26. November

1963 as reported from sensitive source.".

(See Chronological Summary on

Silvia Tirado de DURAN.)

FBI,

State, White

House, Secret Service

FBI, State,

White

House,

Secret Service

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27 November 1963

CSCI-3/778,881

Sebec city, 18 - 24 November 1963.

Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in

Forwarded as Attachment A is a resume of the observed activities of

Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV and Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERIEV as reported

by a reliable source in Mexico City.

Attention was given to KOSTIKOV

of the indication that he is the consul who interviewed OSWALD

on 28 September 1963 .

ALFERIEV travelled with KOSTIKOV to nor-

thern Mexico during the early part of september 1963.

Source reported

period under review the observed activities of KOSTIKOV

and ALFERIEV appeared to be normal, as did the activities of the entire

Soviet Embassy complement.

Forwarded as Attachment B is a resume of telephone calls placed to

and from the Soviet Embassy on the afternoon of 22 November. Analysis

calls made the morning of

22 November and the morning and afternoon of 23

November revealed no pertinent information."

27 November 1963

DIR 85182

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD:

On 23 November 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON, who was acquainted with

Lee Harvey OSWALD, made the following statements to a close friend in

Bern, Switzerland:

"OSWALD is 'one of us'.

Two years ago OSWALD and GIBSON corresponded

and OSWALD became a member of the Committee. (presumably the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee).

OSWALD is crazy.

GIBSON burned all of his

correspondence with OSWALD.

in New York now and he feels sorry for.

who is in New York and

'Tibor'.

According to other information available to our representative in

Bern, Richard Thomas

born 13 May. 1931 in Los Angeles, california,

He Isha negro

Ber relear, on coen active Th the pat May for Cua Commit Since.

journalist and has been

its organization in 1960. In Switzerland he has been involved in the

publication La Revolution Africaine."

FBI

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

(Warren Commission]

2.

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26 November 1963:

DIR 85246

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD:

USIS

Mexico City:

RODRIGUEZ, who lives in New Orleans

Son-in-law is a Cuban who lives at

212 Jefferson Parrish, New Orleans,

tel: Vernon 5-9658. Arnesto RODRIGUEZ runS

a Spanish language school

is anti-Castro.

According to Maria Rodriguez de LOPEZ her son-in-

law has a taped conversation with OSWALD.!'

V27 November 1963

Blind Memorandum Subject: Yuriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV.

reasonable doubt that he is a staff officer

Contributing

to this conclusion are his associates, his movements, his Mexican and

other contacts and his cover position, as well as his involvement in

the TUMBLEWEFD operation.

"KOSTIKOV's involvement in TUMBLEWEED is our only reason to believe that

he is connected with the 13th Department.

KOSTIKOV was in clandestine

contact with TUMBLEWEED (as definitely confirmed by TUMBLEWEBD's photo

identification) and arranged TUMBLEWEED's contact in the U.S' with a KGB

colleague of KOSTIMOV's."

28 November 1963.: DIR 85657

Subject: None given.

"On 26 November 1963 a British journalist named John WILSON, and also

known as John WILSON-HUDSON, gave information to the American Embassy

in London which indicated that an

'American gangster-type named RUGY!

visited Cuba around 1959.

WILSON himself was working in Cuba at the

time and was

jailed by Castro before he was deported.

"In prison in Cuba, WILSON says he met an Aherican gangster gambler

named SANTOS who could not return to the USA because there were several

indictments outstanding against him. Instead he preferred to live in

USEMB

London

RECIPIENT(S) -

FBI, State,

White

House, Secret Service

FBI

FBI, State, White

House

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relative luxury in a Cuban prison. While SANTOS was in prison, WILSON

says, SANTOS was visited frequently by an American gangster-type named

His story is being followed up.

WILSON says he had once testi

fied about Castro activities before the Eastland Committee of the U.S.

Senate, sometime in 1959 or 1960."

28 November 1963 DIR 85665

Subject:

None given.

"ast Stat and Me HaSe HE Parked to third Cretary 1c65do SANTOS

of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague and said that she knew the

(sic] who murdered President Kennedy.

She characterized 'LEB'as a man

full of hate and violence,

She said she had

and speculated that he had been misused by a

written to GIBSON (undoubtedly Richard GIBSON,

Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy):

Maria SNETHLAGE talked again to Third Secretary

"Later on 23 No that Mr. LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committe%' ad

SANTOS and said that

been slandered.

another person,

'named Lee OSWALD', who had done

SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba in January and again in

May 1963.

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

(Warren Commission]

'just wait and you will see what we can do.

to be more precise, SANTOS had replied 'just wait. just wait!

reported to have a pro-Castro brother in the U.S.A.

SANTOS iS

"A very sensitive source reports that after his conversations with SNETH-

LAGE, SANTOS was furious because she had not contacted him."

28 November 1963 DIR 85676

Subject: Travel of Soviet Diplomatic Couriers:

Reference is made to your teletype of 8 November 1963 concerning

travel to Mexico of Soviet diplomatic

couriers Valentin Germanovich

PONOMAREV and Aleksey. Nikolayevich POPKOV:

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left Mexico City for Cuba on 12 November via Cubana

According to our representative in Mexico City' 465 and returned to

PONOMAREV and POPKOV

Mexico City on 18 November via Cubana.

113.

A usually reliable and sensitive source reported that they probably

left Mexico City for New York on 23 November via Aeronaves Flt 451.

same.

source reported that one

'ANANYEV! (phonetic) of the Soviet Consulate

in New York contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on 23 November and

requested information

on which flight the couriers were taking...

Assistant

Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV

of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, Provided the information on behalf

29 November 1963.

DIR 85691

Subject: None given..

Your attention is called to a series of anonymous telephone calls

the late President Kennedy.

Our first record of this matter is a Naval

Attache cable from Canberra sent on 24 November 1963.

"8. Australian authorities working on this case consider the called to be

They state that Soviet offices in Australia do not use anything

but soviet chaufteurs; they have no record of their using a Polish chau-

ffeur. They are continuing their investigation."

29 November 1963

DIR 85715

Subject: Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Information gathered from various foreign sources regarding the travel

of Lee Harvey OSWALD and his wife in 1959 and 1962.

29 November. 1963

DIR 85770

Subject: None given.

On 1. November 1963, a U.S. Army Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, serial number

RA 76710292, ahout 24 year And, ener a sepot thou leane he wasnat

Headquarters Company, U.S. Army

scheduled for a psychiatric examination that

same day. He apparently

entered Switzerland using a false Army identification card with forged

travel orders.

Navy®

Army

- RECIPIENT(S)

FBI, State,

White

House,

Secret

Service

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren •Commission]

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On 6 and 7 November 1963 he appeared in the Press Room of United

Office in Geneva and told reporters he was being persecuted. He

also wished to alert the world to

the U.'S. Government 'propaganda cam-

Army reports show that he voluntarily returned to his unit in

Metz on or about 11 November 1963.

Around 26 November 1963,

after President Kennedy had been assassina-

ted, a Geneva journalist named Alex des FONTAINES, stringer for Time-Life

correspondent for Radio Canada, was reported to be filing a story

'they' were plotting against Presi

dent Kennedy and that 'something' would happen in Texas.

Des FONTAINES

had been prompted to do this by

an unidentified female reporter who had

recalled such statements by DINKIN; des FONTAINES thought he recalled he

had heard DINKIN say something like that also, and although he did not

really believe that DINKIN had grounds for his statements when he made

them, he filed the story just to be sure.

"5.

All aspects of this story were known,

reported above, by U.S.

military authorities and have been reported by military attache cable

through military channels."

30 Novemher 1963 CSCI-3/778,894 Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

Attached is an article which appeared on page 2 of the 29 November

1963 issue of the Washington Daily News.

The article contains informa-

which implies that two persons might have been involved in the as-

sassination of President Kennedy:

"2 .

The Washington Daily News article also states that the full-page

ad [placed in The Dallas Morning News on

22. November] which presumably

cost $125D.Dn was placed by Bernard WEISSMAN, that he paid cash for

the ad,

and that WEISSMAN resided in Dallas at a small

apartment house.

The article indicates.. • that he roomed with one William BURLEY, •

The records of this office contain information about one Bill BURLEY,!

hen invor ved ce mata sious activstatio

stationed in Libia in 1958 who may have

You are referred to the Office of

Special Investigations, USAF, for possible additional information.

FBI

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Our information indicates that BURLEY had contact with

[foreignl

persons whose activities seem to have been questionable.

The above information is provided as a result of a preliminary check

of our records.

The records of this office contain no additional informa-

tion which at this time can be identified as pertaining to

the persons who

might be identical with the men who placed the newspaper ad lor to persons

who might have been in contact with them."

3 December 1963

DIR 86496

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"On the question of why Lee OSWALD felt that he could not get his Mexican

extended without using his real name, the following may be germane: !

Mexican immigration records checked by

the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo

and reported through the U.S. Embassy

OSWALD LEE.

It may be that OSWALD feared that any attempt to extend his!

visa would result in discovery that he was in the country under a false

hame "he miere have had to show some dentificarion to get the visa extent

ded,.

and he prohably. had no documentation in the name of HARVEY OSWALD

4 December 1963

DIR 86702

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Records of the Foreigners Records Office of the German Federal Republic

in Cologne, Germany, show that Marina Nikolayevna PUSAKOVA OSWALD crossed

West Germany from East Germany to Holland on: 3 June 1962.:

She traveled

ho ran east at the went eum crosst posted She 3 addest ermen visa

694/62 issued at the West German Embassy in Moscow.:

destination as U.S.A. Comment:

This confirms information from the U.s.

Embassy in Moscow to the effect that the OSWALD family traveled from Mes-

cow to Rotterdam by rail around 3. June 1962. Helmstedt and Bentheim are

on the main rail route from Russia to Rotterdam.

While Lee OSWALD himself

and their infant daughter

are not recorded in German records this probably

because little attention is paid to U.S. citizens and to infants in keep-

ing travel records.!'

vis.nd.

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FBI

FBI, State,

White

House, Secret

Service

[Warren Commission]

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5 December 1963

DIR 87189

Subject: None given.

officer in New Delhi, India, working through

We have learned that on 3 December 1963 Indian communists' Justice

a known soviet intelligence

attempted

to have a number of telegrams sent to President JOHNSON, Chief

WARREN, and Attorney General KENNEDY from Indian youth, legal,

and other

groups, demanding a full probe into the assassination

of President John

Kennedy•

Apparently the Soviet officer undertook

to pay for all

the teler

grams; he said the whole scheme was based on 'orders from Moscow!-

"2:: Note::.

To check on this story and to detect similar activity from

this Agency

grams which 'have been received."

would appreciate receiving data on any such tere

6 December 1963

DIR 87520

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

"Reference is made to our oUT Telegram no.

86702 of 4 December 1963 which

gave

information on the travel of Marina OSWALD (and presumably also Lee

Harvey OSWALD and their daughter) across West Germany on their return

from the Soviet Union. Information now available from Dutch authorities

seems to confirm this.

On 3 June 1962 one M. OSVALD, listed as a male

poist. Comment enter is believed that she traine the s denson boade

It is believed that the ltsting of this person as a male

instead of female was just an error of the border officials. Note that

Oldenzaal is opposite Bentheim, the German border point where Marina

OSWALD deft Germany."

9 December 1963:

DIR 87731

Subject::

Richard BEYMER, American Movie Actor,

in Touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City:

The Mexico City News of 5 December 1963 carried a picture of Richard?

BEYMER, American movie actor, who was a delegate to the Film Festival bee

ing held in Acapulco.

BEYMER was in touch with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on 2 Decem

ber, and a person believed to be BEYMER was in touch with the Embassy on

He wanted to speak to Silvia DURAN, who was not at the Em-

Another employee told him that no reply had been received from

FBI, State, White

House

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret

Service

[Warren Commission)

FBI

Cuba.

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"3: This office has no information on BEYMER.

DURAN is

the Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy with whom Lee H.

OSWALD was in touch regarding a visa

for Cuba.

This information is for your use only and may not be disseminated

without permission from this Agency.

9 December 1963

DIR 80796

Subject: None given.

The American Embassy in Stockholm,

Sweder, has received a letter

mailed 25 November 1963 in Stockholm alleging that the assassination of

President Kennedy was arranged by the Red Chinese.

The letter purports

to he from one Ryo Liang Yuan of the Red Chinese Embassy in Stockholm,

no such official is assigned there and there is no record of Chinese

official by this name anywhere abroad.

The letter is written in broken English and stated that the Chinese

communists got in contact with OSWALD when he was in the Soviet Union.

When OSWALD returned to the U.S.A., the Red Chinese re-contacted him,

threatened to expose him if he did not cooperate.

The Red Chinese ex-

pected that the

U.S. would attack

Cuba when it learned that the assassin

was a Cuban sympathizer.

The Soviets would then attack'the U.S.A.,

Red Chinese would ask the Soviets

for atomic weapons, the Communist Bloc

would win the war, the Chinese Reds would then assassinate KHRUSHCHEV and

take over control

its.

The writer said he worked for the 'Department of State Secret', but

no department by this name is known in the

Chinese Communist Government.

Our Station in Stockholm judges this to be a crank letter. "The original

letter is being sent here for analysis."

11 December 1963

TDCSDB-3/658,408 Subject: Comments of Soviet Official regarding

Moscow Views on International Situation fol-

lowing Death of President Kennedy, 2. Resump-

tion of Disarmament Talks:

"The Soviet official was recently on a trip home and returned from Moscow

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

{Warren Commission]

Full dissemination

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to Geneva about the end of November:

cussed political topics

When source, who has previously disi

with him, asked about

the reaction In Moscow to

the death of President Kennedy the Soviet official immediately launched

into lengthy commentary.

It may be that subsource's ready responses and

apparent spontaneity resulted from a repition of widely held views.

How-

considering his position it seems more likely that his comments were

intended for western consumption."

12 December 1963

CSCI-3/779,048

Subject: WILSON, Carlos John with aliases.

Compilation of information from Agency files regarding Carlos John WILSON.

also known as John WILSON-HUDSON and John Hudson WILSON.

12 December 1963: DIR 88643

Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy

Allegedly Part of Plot against all Democratic

Presidents.

to the assassination of President

Kon ay an veil a arora plan co extonate 14 he pretenden -

the democratic world.

'Rodrigo C.", identifies

the assassination of President ORLICH of Costa Rica and Foreign Minister

ODUBER of

Costa Rica.

The envelope in which the letter arrived is post-

marked 28 November: 1963,

from Heredia, Costa Rica.The letter is believed

to

be the work of a crank."

U.S: Emo.

16 December 1963 CSCI - 3/779,135

Subiect: Peter DERYABIN's Comments on the

Kennedy Assassination.

Attached for your perusal are the written comments of KGB defector

Peter DERYABIN On

some aspects of the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy. As you know, DERYABIN defected from the KGB about ten years ago,

and his personal knowledge is not up to date,

but he has stayed in touch

with Soviet intelligence developments to the

best of his ability.

comments on how Lee OSWALD and his wife must have been handled by Soviet

intelligence authorities while they were inside the Soviet Union are par-

10-

- RECIPIENT(S) =

FBI

FBI, State, White

House [Warren Com-

mission]

FBI

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ticularly interesting and his suggestions for the questioning of Mrs.

Marina OSWALD are equally provocative.

We have decided to pass on his views without eating,

and this Agency

does not specifically endorse his conclusions or recommendations."'

19 December 1963

DIR 89970

Subject: Lee OSWALD Case.

"Reference is made to our OUT Telegram no. 85182 of 27 November 1963.

Richard Thomas!GIBSON, U.S. citizen who was once associated with the

Fair

Play for Cuba Committee in New York was interviewed in early December 1963

by a lliS. Consular officer in Paris, France, to see if he had intormation

on Lee OSWALD.

GIBSON said he had never

known any one by that name but

mentioned the following two possibilities:

"GIBSON was very cooperative and said his association with the publication

'Revolution' was for purely economic reasons."

27 December 1963

CSCI-3/779,297

Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy.

Reference is made to a report passed by a field office of this Agency

to your office in Miami on 7 December 1963,

stating that the assassination

of President Kennedy had been arranged in Cuba by the Cuban government and

the Chinese communists.

The report mentioned the names of fnu SAAVEDRA,

Ramon B. CORTES, Fernandez FETTO, and Robert NIETO:

The report was not

disseminated by our Headquarters because we wished to check it.

the report is still seriously in doubt. According to him

communist plot

were made by one Raul SAAVEDRA, who he says isia high cuban

government official..:We have not yet been able to identify him.

We have not been in direct physical contact with our source since his

initial report on this topic.

As soon as we can talk to him personally,

ranged in the near future reports of a sensational nature which turned out

the past produced several

to be untrue..

We do not believe he deliberately submitted false informa-

FBI, State,

White

House,

Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

FBI

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but he appears to be unable in some cases to evaluate information

properly."

27 January 1964

CSCI -3/779,729

Subject: The Assassination of President Kennedy

In connection with our efforts to check possible relatives of Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD, nee PRUSAKOVA, widow of the suspected assassin of

President KENNEDY, Lee Harvey OSWALD, our attention was drawn to one

Lyudmila Nikolayevna PRUSAKOVA, who was one of 28 Soviet students invited

by the Scotish Union of Students to visit England as tourists in May 1960.

A visa application completed by PRUSAKOVA on 17 March 1960,

copy of which

been acquired from

the British internal services, disclosed the fol-

lowing background information:

While there is no indication that PRUSAKOVA is related to Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD, your Bureau may wish to discuss this information with

Marina OSWALD because of such possibility.

In the event that PRUSAKOVA is

related to (or known to) Marina OSWALD, we would appreciate being so ad-

vised."

30 January 1964

CSCI-3/779,814

Suctect c1v11 Rights:

Jack L. RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD -

Reference is made to your memorandum of ? January 1964, subject as

concerning a report of a visit to Cuba in early 1963 made by Jack'

a. RuBY, assassin of Lee Harvey OSWALD This Agency hn avanlved late

lar report from a sounce to the effect that RUBY was in Havana in late

1962 or in early 1963.

vidual could verify the above information:

Our source stated that

following indi-

"Evidio Bernardo PEREIRA Acosta

(whose) addressias of

September 1963 was 821 SW 2nd Street, Miami, Florida.

"2. We suggest that your Bureau may prefer to interview PEREIRA Acosta.

We would appreciate receiving the results of your interview of

PERFIRA Acosta.

Your Bureau will be advised in the event we receive fur-

ther information relating to this matter.

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4 February:1964

CSCI-3/779,817

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

FBI

dated 31 December

the requested

This information covers names,

addresses, and telephone numbers relating to the Soviet Union."

14 February 1964 CSCI-3/779,988

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

subsequent to the preparation of our CSCI-3/779,817, dated 4

February

subject as above, in response to your communication DL 100-10461

dated 31 December 1963, file number (S) 105-82555, additional information

on the subject has come to our attention.

This information was received

from your office in your communication DBA 59901, dated 20 December 1963.

It is repeated below for the convenience of your personnel involved in the

OSWALD case..: ..

FBI

Your memorandum dated 6 December 1963,

file DL 100-10461,

lists 47 photographs which were among the effects of Lee Harvey OSWALD,

and made available to your

Bureau by.

It appears

that most of the photographs

..of the Dallas Police Depart-

were taken in the

USSR and depict Soviet contacts of OSWALD or scenes an the

Soviet Union.

In connection with our efforts to assist the President's Commission

on the Assassination

of President Kennedy by providing information which

might be helpful in interpreting available materials relating

to OSWALD's

activities abroad, we would appreciate receiving at your

earliest conven-

ience one copy of

each of these photographs, or exemplars, from which we

can make copies.

18 February 1964

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. HUGHES, The Director of Intelligence

and Research, Department of State.

Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

113.

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Entry in "Historic Diary"

[DDP 4-0864]

In a document entitled 'Historic Diary' there appears an entry

which refers to 'an elderly American'.

The entry is under the date 26

October 1959 when OSWALD was allegedly confined in an unidentified Moscow

hospital..

It is apparent that every effort should be made to iden-

tify the

elderly American, if he existed.

•We assume the lead is

still outstanding:

our recommendation that the Department of State

urgently request through its channels a careful search of Embassy and Con-

sular records in Moscow which might reveal the identity of an elderly

American hospitalized at the end of October 1959 and possibly registered

with the Embassy as a tourist.

An independent confirmation of this de-

information on OSWALD's stay in the USSR."

19 February 1964

Subject Cuba consulate and be syn execoal Co

General. Counsel etc.

[DDP 4-4581]

• Reference is made to your letter of 10 February 1964, relative to in

formation supplied by this Agency on the activities of Lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City

"3. We surmise that the reference in OSWALD's letter of 9 November to a

man who had since been replaced must refer to

Cuban Consul Busebio AZCUE,

who left Mexico for Cuba on permanent transfer on 18 November 1963, four

days before the assassination.

AZCUE had been in Mexico for eighteen

years and it was known (to us) as early as September 1963 that he was to

he replaced.

His replacement did arrive in September. AZCUE was schedu-

to leave in October but did not leave until 18 November.

We do not know who might have told OSWALD that AZCUE or any other

Cuban had been or was to be replaced, but we speculate that Silvia DURAN

or some Soviet official might have mentioned it if OSWALD complained about

AZCUE's altercation with him."

20 February 1964

CSCI - 3/779,988

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

1418

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Concerning the entry on page 63 of OSWALD's address book:

SETYAEV - Radio Moscow.:.

a report from your office dated 20 December

1963, subject:

Lillie May RAHM, contains the following information:

Annette (nee ZUGOFF) SETYAEVA, : •

•is married to a Leo SETYAEV who

worked for Radio Moscow; •

5 March 1961

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB

Relative to.

Marina OSWALD.

[DDP: 4-1171]

"1.: On 26 November 1963, Mohammed REGGAB, a Moroccan student in West Ber-

lin, made a statement that he

could supply information on a Marina Niko-

lovna' who he asserted was identical with Mrs. Marina OSWALD. The attach:

ment is a summary of our findings in regard to REGGAB's allegation."

covers investigation including polygraphing in Berlin and inquiries

conducted in Morocco during the period 26 November 1964 to 1 March 1964.

It is our conclusion that REGGAB's story of his acquaintance with

Mrs: Marina OSWALD is a fabrication."

2n March 1964 CSCI-3/780,612

Kennedy.

Subject: Assassination of President John F.

In the course of our research of files pertaining to areas of the

USSR in which Lee Harvey OSWALD allegedly resided, a photograph of an in-

dividual closely resembling OSWALD was uncovered.

"2. Dur files indicate that this photograph (Attachment A) came from a

USSR,

on or about 1l August 1961, by

KRAMER, whose address at the time was

P. D. Box 985, Solvang, California.

Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN, both of whom are United States citizens,

were contacted hy this Agency on a one-time

basis, following their return

from their tour of the USSR.

• Mrs. KRAMER,

furnished this Agency with 160 color transparen-

cies taken during the trip.

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"D.: This office would be interested in any pertinent information which

interviews of Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN by your office might possibly:

provide

27 March 1964

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. HUGHES, The Director of Intelligence

and Research, Department of State.

Subject:

• Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

Entry in "Historic Diary".

[DDP 4-1606]

We have received a report that the hospital to which OSWALD was taken

by Soviet authorities after the suicide attempt mentioned in his

'Historic

Diary'

may have been the Botkinskaya Hospital in Moscow.

The 1958 and

1962 Moscow telephone directories for Organizations and Institutions, list

a hospital named S. P. Botkina.

Our specialists advise that a native of

Moscow would normally refer to this hospital as the 'Botkinskaya'.

said to be the hospital to which foreigners and diplomatic personnel are

generally taken in the event of an emergency or serious illness, and the

building or wing of the hospital is reported to be especially designated

for this purpose.

We would appreciate receiving information on any Americans who might

have been patients

at the

'Botkinskaya' in the fall of 1959 that may be

contained in your files or those of your Embassy in Moscow."

31 March 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKINg

General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Reports on Activities and. Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina

Nikolevna OSWALD.

[DDP 4-1655]

"1. Reference is made to the second paragraph of your memorandum dated 12

February 1964, and the second paragraph of your memorandum of 16 March

relative to disseminations of information made by CIA to the Secret

Service.

"3. Attached to this memorandum are exact copies of two teletyped messa-

ges relative to the travels and activities of the OSWALDs (Attachments A

and B).

are found refer-

ences to two other teletyped messages

which describe one Richard Thomas

GIBSON,

85162 and no. 85665 are included as Attachments D and E."

Paraphrases of no.

•: 16.

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mission, FBI

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3 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

subject:

Richard Thomas GIBSON•

LODP: 4-10991

Attached to this memorandum is the exact text of OUT Teletype no.

89970,

dated 18 December 1963, which contains the report of an interview

with GIBSON held by a U.S. consular officer in Paris:

This message was

Investigation, with a copy ou the secret service ate, Federal Bureau of

Investigation,

7 April 1964

subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J: Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Mohammed: REGGAB

[DDP 4-1786]

"2:

The CIA Station in Berlin has reported that, contrary to his promise.

REGGAB has not written since his return to Morocco, and apparently has not

come back to Berlin:

Knowledgeable sources which are usually reliable

fulfilled the legal formalities

staured ot foreigners arriving in that city. It is apparent, therefore,

that he has not returned to Berlin."

•20 April 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

BND Report Pertaining to Allegations Concerning Anton

ERDINGER.

[DDP 4-1997]

"1. "We have studied the BND report forwarded by your letterlof 26 March

A review of CIA files reflects no pertinent data on the principals

involved.

There is one report to the effect that Guenther GRONA (Mentioned on

page 4 of the BND report) was under investigation in 1963 by West German

authoritles: He was a journalist and correspondent for an Edst Berlin:

not restected in CiA files.

The basis for, and the outcome of, the investigation is

However, in view of the peripheral nature of

his involvement in the matter being considered, his activities are be-

lieved to have little or no bearing on the investigation."

24 April 1964

Subject: Lydia DIMYTRUK; Acquaintance of

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN' Marina OSWALD

General Counsel etc.

[DDP 4-2099]

17K

State

FBI

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Reference is made to the report of Special Agent

Robert P. GEMBERLING

dated 30 November 1963, •

This communciation reported an interviow

by the FBI of Mr. George A. BOUHE on 23 November 1963 in which Mr. BOUHE

referred to a Lydia DIMYTRUK of Fort Worth, Texas, who allegedly had

asso.

ciated with Marina. N. OSWALD.

The files of this Agency contain the following pertinent information

one Lydia DYMITRUK who may be identical with the Lydia DIMYTRUK referred

above:

28 April 1964

CSCI -3/780,996

Subject: Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO, Espionage-

FBI

Russia.

tend to corroborate or disprove NOSENKO's information concerning Lee

Harvey OSWALD.

Our files

contain the following information from NOSENKO

on osal which may amplify or contradict the information forwarded in

reference:

29 April 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel @triDDP 4-21,601

Photograph of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

found the attached photograph (Attachment 'A') of a group of persons stan-

ding near

the Palace of Culture in Minsk. This photograph was taken by an

American tourist in Minsk on or about 11 August 1961.

Although the persons

in the photograph are not identified in our

files, we believe on the basis

of comparison with other pictures that the second person from the right is

Lee Harvey OSWALD.:

It is worth noting that the person believed to be OSWALD is vearing.

a short-sleeved sport shirt of the same design or pattern as one

worn. by

OSWALD in pictures taken of him in his apartment in Minsk in 1962.

Copies

of two such photographs, which were found

among OSWALD's effects

after his

arrest and forwarded to us by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are

attached for comparison purposes:

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Attachment 'A' appears to substantitate OSWALD's presence in Minsk at

least during the

summer of 1961 and to indicate that he

had contact at

least on one

occasion with American tourists visiting

that city, as he

once claimed in a letter to his brother, Robert OSWALD."

8 May 1964

11. May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Marina OSWALD's Notebook.

[DDP 4-2351]

"Attached herewith is information from this Agency's files on the entries

in Marina

OSWALD's notebook, a copy of which was received from the Federal

Bureau of Investigation under their communication dated 13 April 1964.

Copies of this attachment have been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation."

CSCI-3/781;172

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Security

Russia - Cuba.

In response to your communication dated 13 April 1964,

file number

(S) 105-8255, subject as above, attached herewith is a compilation of in-

book identified as belonging to Marina OSWALD."

15 May 1964

• Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Role of the Cuban Intelligence:

Service in Processing Visa Appli-

cants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy.

Within the very recent period, this Agency has established contact

with a well-placed individual who has been in close and prolonged contact

with ranking officers of the Cuban Direccion General de

Intelligencia

(Directorate General for Intelligence : DGI). His knowledge of DGI activi

This Agency

assessed inside at on pete contacts between Led HaTVes seA

and the DGI prior to the assassination of President Kennedy.

A report on

the information thus obtained is attached to this memorandum."

FBI

FBI

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FBI,

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19 Mạy 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel ete.

subject:

Allegations of Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to As-

sassination Plot against President Kennedy•

IDDP 4-2534]

dated February

"I References made at par commission be curested copes of dissemina-

12, 1964, requesting that the

Commission

tions relative to the assassination of President Kennedy that were sent to

the Secret service.

Immediately after the assassination the CIA Station in Geneva, Swit-

zerland, reported allegations

concerning a plot to assassinate President

that were made by Pfc Eugene B: DINKIN, U.S. Army, serial number

RA- 76710292,

on 6 and 7 November 1963,

in Geneva while absent without leave

from his unit in Metz, France:

Available details of this charge, together

with information on its exploitation by Alex des FONTAINES, a Time-Life

stringer in Geneva,

were disseminated

as OUT Teletype message no. 85770,

on 29 November 1903•

This dissemination was sent to the White House,

Department of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a copy to

the Secret Service.

Since the Geneva Station cooperated with the U.S. Military Attache in

assembling information on this affair, and the Military Attache reported

through his channels,

the Commission may have already received information

of PFC DINKIN's allegations."

19 May 1964

CSCI-3/781,386

Subject: Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK)

Reference is made to your communication of I May 1964 requesting tra-

ces on Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK) •

"2. The files of this Agency contain the following pertinent information

one Pavel DYMITRUK,

born 28 February 1924 in Stariye-Derend, USSR, who

appears to be identical with Subject and his wife Lydia DYMITRUK:

22 May. 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General, Counsel etc.

Subject:

Anonymous Telephone Calls to United States

Embassy in Canberra,

Australia, Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy.

IDDP 4-2624]

Navy

Navy.

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1'1..

I refer again to paragraph two of your memorandum, dated 12 February

1964, relative to disseminations to the

Secret Service made by CIA.

copy of a

On 24 November 1964 'Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia

CIA received from the Department of the Navy a

cable from the

IN 67327,

reporting

a telephone conversa-

tion the previous day

self as a Polish chauffeur for the Soviet. Embassy of that city.

This indi-

vidual, while discussing several matters of intelligence interest, touched

possibility that the Soviet Government had financed the assassina-"

tion of President Kennedy.

Reference was made in this cable to the receipt

of a similar

anonymous telephone call on 15 October 1962.

"3. Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the following action:

"4.. The CIA Station in Canberra arranged for discussion of the calls with

the Australian security service. In the opinion of the Australian authori-

ties, the caller was a crank.:

27 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassina

tion of President Kennedy•

"1. Reference is made to paragraph two of your memorandum dated 12 Febru-

requesting copies of disseminations relative to the assassination.ofl

President Kennedy that were sent to the Secret Service:

Shortly after the assassination the United States Embassy in Stock-

holm received a letter, mailed on 25 November 1963, which accused the

Chinese Communist of plotting this act.

This information was disseminated

on 9 December to the White House, Department of State;

Federal Bureau of

dissemination

Investigation is attached to this memorandum.

with a copy to the Secret Service. The exact text of the

In view of the fact that this letter was received at the United Stätes

Embassy, the Commission may have already received information about the

document from the Department of State."

Warren Commission

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3 June 1964

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Documents on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by the Soviet Govern-

/[DDP 4-176411

The Soviet documents forwarded to this Agency under your letter of 20

May 1964 provide some additional detail on OSWALD.

The information in

these documents parallels that already available from other sources,

does not contradict our previous information. The documents:

do clarify

somewhat OSWALD's alleged occupation at the Minsk radio plant giving the

original Russian terms used in decsribing his job.

"2.

The following points relating to

the documents are worth noting;

A significant omission from the materials provided is the letter

OSWALD allegedly wrote to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citi-

zenship.

OSWALD signed a receipt in 1960 for his Identity Document for

Sole to meet te sincerity of wording oe the rectl

Desander foreigner and of solar te if need and of the receipts

tions further supports our belief that such regulations are identical

or nearly identical for bearers of either type of identity document.

This means that OSWALD should have obtained permission in July 1961

but, as we know from other cases,

tain travel permission is not uncommon and not a serious offense.

The includsion of Marina's exit visa

'application' Is singular

in view of the fact that the Commission had not requested information

on Marina.:

The Soviet translators for OSWALD's early documents are believed

to be identical with persons already referred to in OSWALD's 'diary'

The format and wording of subject documents appear to be consistent

with Soviet practice."

3 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

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Subject: George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

[DDP 4-27701

information on George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT that is available

Reference is made to your memorandum of 31 March 1964 requesting CIA

Our review shows that the files contain reports received from

other U.S. Government agencies, primarily the FBl as well as some informa-

tion developed by this Agency in 1957 and 1958.

The review also produced i

references

to information in the records of the Coordinator of Information

and the Office of Strategic Services. According to records. of those agent

cies, George de MOHRENSCHILDT had been considered for employment in 1942,

but was not hired because he was alleged to be a Nazi espionage agent.

information developed by CIA (or its predecessors) before the assassina-

tion of President Kennedy had established any link between the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs and Lee Harvey OSWALD or his family..

You may also wish to make inquiries at the Office of Naval Intelli

gence; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army

the Department of State,

and the Civil Service Commission because

departments also have information about George de MOHRENSCHILDT."

5 June 1964

Subiect:

USSR.

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN;

General Counsel 'etc.

Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk,

[DDP 4-28441.

"1. Allegations of the existence of a Soviet intelligence and/or sabotage

training school in Minsk, USSR, have come to the attention of the Agency

from press reviews. Also, there had been an informal inquiry from

ber of the Commission, Mr.

DULLES, very recently on this detail.

I take

this opportunity to furnish to the Commission the information which the

Agency had on this topic."

A careful review of CIA files has produced no hard information regar-

ding Soviet intelligence or sabotage training in Minsk since 1947.

5. June 1964

CSCI - 3/781,543

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

the Clandestine Services is developing

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and security services. As yet, the data base is very narrow, with the re-

sult that any

search against the program has a very limited chance of sucr

cess. Nonetheless,

a search was made using those items of information which

one dated 10 No-

vember 1963 and addressed to OSWALD,

and addressed to the Attorney General.

The print-out listed 19 names, of which

only two seemed to

hold any interest.

A review of the files on these two eliminated

Leaving a single candidate:

'3.. At the same time,

a routine name trace has been run in the main index

the name Mario del Rosario Molina, the name with which the 27 November

1963 letter was signed.

There were no traces on that name,

but informa

tion was available on two persons with somewhat similar names.

10 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel,etc.

Subject:

Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His

Associates.

Reference is made to your memorandum of 19 May 1964, requesting that

this Agency furnish any information intits files relative to Jack RUBY,

his activities, and his associates.

Examination of CIA records has failed

to produce information on Jack RUBY or his activities.

We also have no in

diction deen care on eye ter each other, were asso-

12 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Letter Relative

to Assassination of President Kennedy Sent to

United States Embassy in Costa Rica.

[DDP 4-29883

"1.. The information given below, and the attachment to the memorandum,

are furnished in order to complete the Commission's file on

crank letters

generated by the assassination of President Kennedy. Since the letter

received by a United States Embassy the Commission may have received this

information previously from the Department of State.

12.

The United States Embassy in San Joge, Costa Rica, in late November

24.

FBI

State

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1963 received a letter claiming that the

assassination of President Kennedy

dated letter portmarked 2e November y156de tered the costa Noeld:

This un-

dressed to Ambassador Raymond TELLES•

assador Raymond YELLES. This document was disseminated to

the White House, the Department of State service.

and the Federal Bureau of Inves?

tigation. It was not sent to the Secret

This letter was adjudged to be the work of a crank. Details of the

document were passed to the Government of Costa Rica.

No further informa-

tion on the writer of this document, who signed himself RODRIGo C., has

ever been received.".

29 June 1964

Subgect:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier,

MoroCCo:

(DDP 4-3347]

tained a request that this Agency conduct inquiries OstALgie out roguiries

"1. The reference memorandum [FBI Memorandum, dated 10 June 1964] con-

to resolve certain allegations. concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD.

have been completed and the results show that the entire story concerning!

OSWALD's presence in Tangier has no basis in fact."!

30 June 1964

CSCI - 3/782,058

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

"Reference is made to your memorandum,

dated 10 June 1964, requesting this

Agency to conduct the necessary inquiries to

resolve allegations that Lee

Harvey OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

The inquiries were completed on

19 June 1964 and the results show that the allegations have no basis in

Ydur representatives, Mr. S. J. PAPICH, was verbally notified of

the results and,

at his suggestion,

the results were forwarded, by memo-

randum, to the President's

Commission on the Assassination of President

Kennedy:

A copy of that memorandum is attached for your files and for any

additional action you may wish to take."

1 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959.

[DDP 4-38891

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In response to your memorandum of 25 May 1964, we have established

that the only direct

flight from London to Helsinki

on 10 October 1959 was

Finn Air flight 852 which arrived in Helsinki at 2333 (11:33 p.m.):

""If:

OSWALD had taken this flight, he could not normally have cleared customs

and landing formalities and reached the Terni Hotel downtown by 2400 (mid-

night) on the same day:

This is based on the judgement of officers in

this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport.

"2. We are presently attempting to determine if OSWALD could have taken

more circuitous flight from London,

with a stop at Stockholm, Copenhagen,

or some other city..

Any additional information: received will be forwarded

co you promptly."

2 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

[DDP: 4-3401]

The following remarks have been recently attributed to Soviet Consül

Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV in Mexico City regarding the subject:

'I met OSWALD here.

He stormed into my office and

wanted me to introduce and recommend him to

the Cubans

He told me that he had lived in the USSR.

I told him that

I would have to check before I could recommend him. He

was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stormed out

of my office:

I don't believe that a person as nervous as

OSWALD, whose hands trembled could have accurately

fired a rifle.'

Our Mexican Station has checked its records for the period OSWALD

to YATSKOV; or that he first spoke to KOSTIKOV who turned him over to his

superior YATSKOV.

"4.

copy of this memorandum has been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation."

6 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

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Subject: Statements Reportedly Made by George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDI

Concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the Assassination of President Kennedy:

[DDP 4-34791

The information furnished below has been received from usually reli-

able sources and

consists of statements reportedly made by the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTS

concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the assassination of President

Kennedy.

Kennedy thorse end Sense de MORENSCHI werne

among the guests attending a cocktail party in Haiti:

The de MOHRENSCHILDTs were asked if there was

any substance to the view expressed in certain foreign

periodicals such as L'Express, a left-wing Parisian

George de

MOHRENSCHILDT said that President Kennedy was hated

by the Dallas elite, and he. felt that it was very

turbed person such as OSWALD to achieve their ends.

Mrs: de MOHRENSCHILDT agreed fully with this thesis.

"3. A copy of this memorandum is being forwarded to the FBI."

27 August 1,964

CSCI-316/00856-64 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Secu-

rity, Russia - Cuba. Reference:

Your Memorandum dated 28 July 1964•

"1. A reviow of the results of monitoring Soviet foreign broadcasts at

the time when an interview with Lee Harvey OSWALD had apparently been

taped was conducted with negative results.

Therefore,

it is assumed

that such a tape, if broadcast at all, was aired over a local USSR facili-

ty for internal consumption.

With respect to the same question, Yuriy NOSENKO was asked if any

attempt had been made by the Soviets

to exploit OSWALD for propaganda

purposes, such as Radio Moscow broadcasts, telecasts,

or lectures.

NOSENKO replied that this had not been done either in Moscow or in Minsk.

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NOSENKO later reviewed this statement and confirmed it."

Reference document is FBI request to CIA requesting the latter to

identify broadcast by OSWALD in USSR sometime hefore early January 1960.)"

28 August 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

General Counsel et IDDP 4-44791

The files

of this Agency

contain no identifiable traces on Konstantin

Petrovich SERGIEVSKY or on his sister.

We have no information which would either confirm or refute allega-

tions that Lee Harvey OSWALD made one or more visits to the city of Gorky

in April and May 1960 or at any other time.

"3. The term 'mokrym delam' which appears in the notes which SERGIEVSKY

brought with him to the British Embassy may be translated 'wet affairs

'liquid affairs'.

It is an expression or jargon used by the KGB to refer

to activities involving kidnapping or assassination.

RANKIN asked for Agency comments concerning allegations of a Soviet

citizen in Moscow on 29 July 1964.)

Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY, who walked into the British

Embassy

1 October 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Joachim JOESTEN

[DDP 4-51101

"1. Attached are repoduced copies of a

set of German documents seized by

the U.s.

authorities

at the end of World War II.

The documents concern

JOESTEN, author of Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?, Marzani & Mun•

sell Publishers' 1936

dates from July

936 to November 193l and contain the statement that

The captured documents in this set range in

JOESTEN had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1932.

You will note that the attention of the German secarity organs was direc-"

ted at JOESTEN as early as 1936.

At thatstime the

Communist Party had beer

been outlawed in Germany and the German authorities apparently had begun

collecting information about JOESTEN and his activities.

Their investiga-

tign seems to have culminated in the proposal for revocation of his Ger-

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State

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man citizenship.

[Comment:

The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of a book

by Joachim JOESTEN entitled,

"OSWALD - Assassin or Fall Guy?" (1964) pub-

JOESTEN states that there is no question

nor CIA agent.

Marzani, a known communist,

"Cuba Vs. CIA". published in 1961.

was coauthor of a pamphlet,

JOESTEN is revealed in a German Security

8, 1937, to have been an active member

of!

12, 1932; he was issued Commu-

nist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch) No.

532315.

Cited in "The Soviet and Communist Bloc Defamation Campaign"

Congressional

Record - House, 28 September 1965, pp. 25391-25393.]

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