CABLE - SILVIA DURAN'S FIRST ARREST CAUSED GREAT DEAL OF DISCUSSION IN EMBASSY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR CIA
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 11/28/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Assassination Records Review Board

Final Determination Notification

AGENCY

: CIA

RECORD NUMBER

: 104-10016-10005

RECORD SERIES : JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 201-289248

Released

under the John

Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

(44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 53199 Date:

06-06-2017

June 24, 1996

Status of Document:

Postponed in Part

Number of releases of previously postponed information: 3

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

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

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

States or to any individual.

Number of Postponements: 7

Postponement # 1 (Page 1):

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

properly may be withheld under Section 6(1)(A) of the JFK Act.

Substitute Language: The postponed information is the true name of the individual whose pseudonym is

John Scelso.

Release Date: 05/2001 The postponed information will be opened in full on either May 1, 2001, or three

months after the decease of the individual, whichever occurs first.

Postponement # 2 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: "LI-crypt"

Release Date: 05/2006

Postponement # 3 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: "LI-crypt"

Release Date: 05/2006

Postponement # 4 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: "LI-crypt"

Release Date: 05/2006

Postponement # 5 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: "LI-crypt"

Release Date: 05/2006

Postponement # 6 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: No suitable substitute language

Release Date: 05/2006

Postponement # 7 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: "LI-crypts"

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Board Review Completed: 05/14/96

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY

RECORD NUMBER

RECORD SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

CIA

104-10016-10005

JFK

201-289248

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR :

FROM. :

TO

TITLE

CIA

MEXICO CITY

DIRECTOR CIA

CABLE

- SILVIA DURAN'S FIRST ARREST CAUSED GREAT DEAL OF DISCUSSION IN

EMBASSY.

DATE

11/28/63

PAGES

SUBJECTS DURAN, SILVIA

MEXICO CITY

CUBA EMBASSY

ARREST

INTERROGATION

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

SECRET

RESTRICTIONS

: 1A, 1B

CURRENT STATUS

RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

: 12/15/93

OPENING CRITERIA

COMMENTS

OSW1:V7 1993.12.15.16:02:15:750028:

[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

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CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

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SECRET

TO

: DIRECTOR

DOC. MICRO. SEROUTING

DEC 4 1974

MICROFILMED

•FROM : MEXICO CITY

ES COPY

ACTION: C/WH 4. (MR. WHITTEN, NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED" AT P325 28 NOV. 63 OJ)

The fol:ow.

stion is

INFO. : DCI, D/DCI, DDP, C/CI 2, VR

authortsed: Pesensilse

SEGRET 2818112

Signed:

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PRIORITY DIR 'CITE MEXI 7815

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#I - Unit CTO6S

«PFLOOR

Note:

If des'rue ion,

cite

20 Now 63 IN 6:9636

reasons and coordinate

1. LITAMIL S REPORTED 27 NOV AFTER StIR BULAN FIRST ARREST

WAS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE GREAT DEAL DISCUSSION OF THIS IN

EMBASSY. SHE BACK IN OFFICE 25 NOV AND SEEMED QUITE PLEASED WITH

HER PERFORMANCE. HER ACCOUNT INTERROGATION CONTAINED LITTLE NEW

EXCEPT POLICE HAD THREATENED HER WITH EXTRADITION TO U.S. TO FACE

OSWALD. SHE MAD NO FEAR OF CONFRONTATION. L- 9 DESCRIBES HER AS VERY

INTELLIGENT AND QUICK WITTED.

for FOlA Review on

Document Number

20 OF ASSASSINATION ITSELF LÖ9 SAID THERE ALMOST NO DISCUSSION

IN EMBASSY. STAFF. MEETING 23 NOV VERY SHORT AND SOMBER WITH GENERAL

IMPRESSION BEING ONE OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF. HEARD NO EXPRESSIONS:

OF PLEASURE.

APR 1976

3. LITAMIL ? SEEN NIGHT 27 NOV HAD NOTHING TO ADD TO ABOVE.

INDEED HER VERSION MUCH LESS DETAILED. NEITHER L'7 OR L-9 HAD

ANY PERSONAL KNOVLEDGE OSKALD PRESENCE JUBAN EMBASSY AT ANY TIME.

SECRET

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