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(15) Vere there any efforts made to develop an OSWALD/ Cuban

Connection?

(16) What form did they take?

(17) What exchanges were there with the FBI on this subject?

(18) What action developed from these exchanges?

(19)

What records are there on these exchanges and where are

they?

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From a review of the Agency's file on Lee Harvey OSWALD,

it becomes apparent that the Agency and its field stations, Parti

cularly in Mexico City and Miaimi, were, not unmindful of the possi

bility that OSWALD did not act alone. During the first few weeks

after the assassination, Headquarters, upon at least three occas

sions, exhorted the Mexico City Station to continue all your

coverage of the Cuban and Soviet installations •

zOn 28: Novem

ber 1963, the Chief, WH/3, told the Mexico CIty Station that there

should be no let down in your efforts to follow all leads and im

vestigate all facts which bear on this case. We have by no means

excluded the possibility that other as yet unknown persons may have

been involved or even that other powers nay have played a role.t

Emphasis added DIR 85655, 28 November 19631 On 30 November,

Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to follow. all leads and

tips."The question of whether OSWALD acted solely on his own has

still not been finally resolved. (Emphasis added. (DIR 860643

30 November 19631 And on the 12th of December 1963, Chief, WH/3,

again asked the Mexico City Station to continue to watch for

Soviet and Cuban reaction to investigation of assassination, evi-

dence of their complicity, signs they putting out propaganda about

case. (Emphasis added.) "FYI only, Soviet intelligence in India

had letters sent to

(US) leaders demanding full investigation

of case. [DIR 88680, 12 December 1963]

the mexico city Station, however, had already initiated a

thorough review of its holdings in an attempt ascertain what infor-

mation was available on Lee Harvey OSWALD, his presence, and his

activities in mexteo City..

This review turned up the fact that

Silvia DURAN a Mexican national employed by the Cuban Consulate,

had dealt with OSWALD during his known visits to the Consulate on

27 and 28 September In response to a suggestion from the Station,

the Ministry of Gobernacion arrested Silvia DURAN and her husband,

Horacio, on 23 November 1963. [MEXI - 7037 (IN aS

) 23 November

1963] Later the same day, an official of the Ministry informed

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the Station that Silvia DURAN was completely cooperative and had

given a written statement attesting to two visits by OSWALD to the

Consulate. [MEXI-7046 (IN , 23 November 1963] Although her

testimony was taken and presented, solely, by the Mexican Govern-

ment authorities, Silvia DURAN was the only live witness on record

regarding OSWALD's activities in Mexico City. It is from her state

ments that it was learned that OSWALD became engaged jir a personat

altercation on 27 September 1963 with Eusebio AZCUE, the Cuban Con

sut and a member of the Cuban intelligence unit in Mexico Gity.

He

Left Mexico on 12 November 1963 after being repiced by Alfredo

MIRABEL Diaz

There is no evidence in the OSWALD file that Silvia DURAN

was subjected toxa systematic elicitative interrogation that would

have related her dealings with OSWALD, known or confirmed by inter-

cept, with the data held on the Cuban DGI (Direccion General de In-

telligencia) its personalities and methods, in Mexico City Was it

normal for a case like OSWALD's, considering the fuss he allegedly

made with AZCUE, for the applications to be handled solely by a lo

cal employee and a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken

by the DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, they were

not asked at the time. And there remains the more fundamental ques:

tion: accepting the DURAN story as it stands, could it have hap-

pended without the knowledge and participation of DGI personnel in

the Consulate? This seems untikely especially because Manuel En-

genio VEGA Perez. later cited by a Cuban DGI defector as having

stated he was aware OSWALD had made several visits to the Cuban

Consulate It is clear CASTRO's overseas intelligence and security

service could have more in its files than was surfaced in the

DURAN statements.

[CI Staff Review, dated 23 May 1975, pp. 16-19.]

and his DGI assistant

Rosells RODRiGUEZ Lopez, vere positively identified in February 1964

by two independent sources as engaged in the active development and

facilitation of the training of Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of

assassinating General Annstasio SOMOZA.

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As of September 1964, Silvia DURAN gave up her, Cuban

Embassy job. In the spring of 1967, Silvia DURAN was reported by

a reliable and sensitive source to have cut all relations with

Cubans. Her account, in 1967, of how she had been taken into

custody and had been interrogated after the assassination re-

peated what was already known. She added, under circumstances

that did not permit the source to challenge or elicit corrodorative

detail, that she had gone out with OSWALD during his stay in Mexico

City and claimed she had sexual relations with him. libid, prole

2001

Almost immediately after the President's assassination,

Agency field stations began receiving information from various

sources of undetermined reliability relating to the alleged assa.

ssin of President Kennedy.

AS the harren Commission reported on pages sus and 50%

of its report, "Literally, dozens of altegations of a conspiratorial

contact between OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been

investigated

The authors of the Report go on to state

that

Among the claims made were allegations that

OSWALD had made a previous trip to Mexico

City in early September to receive money

and orders for the assassination [567], that

he had flown to a secret airfield some-

where in or near the Yucatan Peninsula

[568l, that he might have made contacts in

Mexico City with a communist from the United

States shortly before the assassination [569E

and that OSWALD assassinated the President at

the direction of a particular Cuban who met

with him in the United States and paid him

$7,000[570] A letter received from some-

one in Cuba alleging the writer had attended

a meeting where the assassination had been

discussed as part of a plan which would soon

include the death of other non-communist

leaders in the Americas [571].

The charge.

was made in a Cuban expatriate publication

that in a speech he delivered 5 days after

the assassination, while he was under the

influence of liquor,

Fidel Castro made a

Ship of the tongue and said, "The first

time OSWALD was in Cuba",

thereby giving

way the fact that OSWALD had made one or

more surreptitious trips to that country

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"Some stories linked the assassination

to anti-Castro groups who allegedly were

engaged in obtaining illicit firearms in

the United States, one such claim being

that these groups killed the President as

part of a bargain with some illicit orga-

nizations who would then supply them with

firearms as payment: (573 Other rumors

placed OSWALD in Miami,

Fla., at various

times, allegedly in pro-Cuban activities

there [5741•

The assassination was

claimed to have been carried out by Chi-

nese. communists operating Jointly with the

Cubans 1575] OSWALD was also alleged to

have met with the Cuban Ambassador in a

Mexico City restaurant and to have driven

off in the Ambassador's car for a private

talk [576]. Castro himself, it was alle-

ged, I days after the assassination called

for the files relating to Oswald's dealings

with two members of the Cuban diplomatic

mission in the Soviet Union; the inference

drawn was that the 'dealings' had occurred

and had established a secret subversive re-

lationship which continued through OSWALD's

life: L5771.

Without exception, the rumors

and allegations of a conspiratorial con-

tact were shown to be without any factual

basis win some cases the product of mis-

taken identtfication.

The Warren Report makes reference (bracketed numbers in

the above text) to Commission Exhibits (see Attachment I for list

of Commission Exhibits) most of which had been furnished by the

Federal Bureau of Investigation. Only the first reference the

ALVARADO interrogation was furnished by the Agency. The Agency

did, however, provide assistance and information to the FBI in the

latter'S investigation of three of the allegations (see asterisked

Exhibits). The results pf the Agency's investigation of other

rumors and allegations relating to OSWALD and the possible involve-

ment of the Cubans and Soviets in the assassination, were dissemina-

ted to the FBI, primarily, and to the Warren Commission (see attach-

ment i for a lost of disseminations to the FBT, and attachment iTi

for a list of memoranda to the Warren Commission) •

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Among these cases, which consumed hundreds of man-hours

in Headquarters and abroad

and similarly the FBI in the United

States and Mexico City was the Nicaraguan, Gilberto ALVARADO,

who contacted the United States Embassy in Mexico City on 25 Novem-

ber 1963.

The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the Warren

Commission, in its report, under the cryptograph D'as being

illustrative of the attention given to the most serious allega-

tions.

On 25 November 1963, a young Nicaraguan, Gilberto Notasc

ALVARADO Ugarte

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telephoned the United States Embassy in Mexico City Later, that

day he met with the Embassy security officer and a Station officer

at which time he claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in

Mexico City on 18 September 1963. While in the Consulate he saw a

man whom he later recognized as Lee Harvey OSWALD receive $6,500

in cash to kill an important person in the United States.

ALVARADO described the circumstances as follows While

standing by a bathroom door about noon he saw a group of three

persons conversing on a patio a few feet away. One was a tall,

thin Negro with reddish hair, obviously dyed, who spoke rapidly in

both Spanish and English. He had prominent cheek bones and a

noticeable scar on the lower right side of his chin. The second

was a white person whom ALVARADO had seen previously in a waiting

room carrying a Canadian passport. The white person had green

eyes, blondish hair, with a pompadour hairdo, and dark eyeglasses.

The third person allegedly was Lee Harvey OSWALD. ALVARADO waS

convinced of this from published photographs of OSWALD foldowing

the assassination. OSWALD was wearing a black sport coat, but=

toned-up white shirt with short collar tabs, no tie, dark gray

pants, and clear eyeglasses. He had a green passport in his pocket

wore a wrist watch with a yellow band, and appeared to have a pis-

tol in a shoulder holster. A tall Cuban joined the group momen-

tarily and passed American currency to the Negro. The Neto then

allegedly said to OSWALD in English, "I want to kill the man."

OSWALD replied, You're not man enough, I can do it. The Negro

then said in Spanish, Il can't go with you

I have a lot to do.

OSWALD replied

"The people are waiting for me back there." The

Negro then gave OSWALD $6,500 in large denomination U.S. bills,

saying, "This isn't much." After hearing this conversation ALVA-

rado said that he telephoned the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

several times on 20 September before the assassination innan at-

tempt to report his belief that someone important in the United

States was to be killed, but was finally told by someone at the

Embassy to stop wasting his time.

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ALVARADO was known to this Agency as a former informant

of Nicaraguan security service. His reliability was considered

questionable by American authorities although he had, not been

wholly discredited. ALVARADO claimed he was in Mexico City working

against the Cuban communists for his service. The service how

ever, has denied that he was acting on its behalf. While investiga

tion in the United States showed that OSWALD could not possibly hav

have been in Mexico City on 18 September (he was knwon to have been

in New Orleans on both 17 and 19 September), intensive interrogat

tion failed to shake ALVARADO's story.

On 28 November 1963, the Mexican police interviewed him.

At first ALVARADO persisted in hisestory but on 30 November head-

mitted inva signed statement that his whole account about OSWALD

was false. He admitted he had not. seen Lee OSWALD at all and. that

he had not seen anybody paid money in the Cuban Embassy He also

admitted he had not tried repeatedly to phone a warning to the U.S

Embassy in Mexico City on 20 September as he had previously claimed

Instead he had first contacted the U.S. Embassy after the assassi

nation.

ALVARADO said that his motive in telling this false story

was to help get himself admitted into the United States so that he

could participate in action against Fidel CASTRO. He said that he

hated CASTRO and thought that his story about OSWALD, if believed,

would help cause the United States to take action against CASTRO.

Following the above interrogation, ALVARADO retracted the

confession he had made to the Mexican authorities asserting that it

had been extorted from him under pressure. He was then questtoned

by US authorities using a polygraph machine. ALVARADO volunta

rily consented to the use of this equipment. During the quesioning

it was pointed out to him that he was not being truthful, according

to the polygraph, in identifying photographs of OSWALD as the per-

son he saw in the Cuban Consulate. He replied that he had fun

faith in the polygraph, that he would not attempt to refute the re.

sults, and that he "must have been mistaken" In addition, he

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he changed his story regarding the day he visited the Cuban Consu-

late, finally deciding it took place on Tuesday, 17 September.

was concluded from the results of the polygraph test that ALVARADO

had fabricated his story from whole cloth.

[Memorandum to J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel, dated 4 June 19645

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans.]

(Comment: Some idea of the time and effort expended by the Agency

in breaking ALVARADO'S story may be gained from a review of the

Chronological Summary of the Gilberto ALVARADO Interrogation under

attachment IV.

Although the Warren Report had used the ALVARADO case-to

demonstrate the type of allegation the Agency had had to contend

with, the Schweiker Report took the Agency to task for not having

become more suspicious of possible Cuban involvement in the assassi

nation. To some extent, the authors of the Schweiker Report are

right.

There were other rumors and allegations indicating that

OSWALD may not have acted entirely on his own; however, none of

there rumors and allegations stood up under intensive investigation

Moreover, each rumor or allegation was treated as a separate and

unrelated case the only common denominator being OSWALD. There

appears to have been no suspicion on the part of the Agency that

these rumors and allegations might have been part of a larger decep

tion plan orchestrated by a foreign counterintelligence service.

Only a thorough investigation of all available information including

overt comments by responsible communist officials could have allayed

these suspicions or generated additional requirements to be levied

on Agency assets world wide.: Obviously such an investigation would

have required an enormous quantity of patience, time, and personnel

None of these prerequisites was available, especially in light of

the tremendous political pressures under which the Agency, the FBI

the Warren Commission, and others were working precluded the initia

tion of such an investigation.

It was not until eleven years later that the Agency was

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asked to prepare a review of allegations of Cuban involvement in

the John F. Kennedy assassination. On. 15 April 1975, David W.

BELIN, Executive Director of the Rockefeller Commission, addressed

a letter to the Agency in which he stated

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"As you know, there have been allegations

that the CIA was involved in a plan to

assassinate Fidel Castro. For the purposes

of this letter,

we will assume that these

allegations are correct, and based upon

this assumption I would like to know. the

answers to the following questions:

Did anyone with the CIA tell any

member of the Warren Commission or any

Tawyer serving on the Warren Commission

staff that such plans had been underway?

If the answer is yes, we would like to

know what person or persons with the

Agency delivered said information, to

whom it was delivered, when it was de-

livered, what specifically was-told or

said, what documents there are to support

and that response forego sectived

from the-Warren Commission...If.the

Commission was not told about this, why

was it not told and iho made the deci-

sion not to deliver such information

to the Warren Commission?!

N2. There is evidence that castro, prior

to November 22, 1963, knew

about the exis

tence of such plans and the possible in-

volvement of the U.S. Government. Did

the CIA at any time prior to the comple-

tion of the Warren Commission investigation

have any documents or other information in-

dicating that Castro may have known about

such plans? If the answer is yes, would

you please furnish us with copies of all

such documents and details of any such in=

13. Several months prior to the assassina-

tion of President Kennedy there is evidence

of a public speech by Castro that was re-

ported by the Associated Press whereby

Castro alluded to possible assassination

attempts on his life and possible retalia-

tion. Would you please advise us if there

Is any evidence that this Associated Press

report may have appeared in any newspapers

in the United States, including specifically

any newspapers in Dallas or New Orleans.

Would you also advise us of you have any.

other information of public statements of

any Cuban leader prior to November 22, 1963

indicating any awareness of possible assassi

nation plots on the lives of Cuban leaders.

N4.

Would you please advise us if there is

any information in CIA records to indicate

that at any time prior to November 22, 1963

any foreign government or any

was considering a possible assassination of

A do the sai tal on shad a 100

would you please

the CIA was advised of these plans or possi-

bilities:

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Prior to his death Lyndon Johnson sup-

posedly stated that he believed that although

there was no doubt that Oswald killed Kennedy

and Tippitt, nevertheless Oswald might have

been a part of a conspiracy in retaliation to

possible United States assassination attempts

in Cuba.

Would you please advise us of any

information in Agency files showing whether

or not there was any communication to President

Johnson of any possible plans involving the

attempted assassinations of any Cuban leader

and is the answer is yes, also give us all dé-

taits involving this matter.

fetter to Mr. E. Henry KNOCHE, Assistant to the Director, Central

Intelligence Agency, dated 15 April 1975, from David W. BELIN

Executive Director Commission on GIA Aetivities within the United

States l

Insits response to the above letter, the Agency noted

that the results of its review "add nuance, not evidence, to what

the Warren Commission and its staff had laid before them in 1964

in this subject"

As to CASTRO'S remarks during an informal interview by

the Associated Press correspondent, Daniel HARKER, the Agency com-

mented that There can be no question from the facts surrounding the

CASTRO appearance, which had not been expected, and his agreement

to the interview, that this event represented a more-than-ordinary

attempt to get a message on the record in the United States (Em=

phasis added. The Agency commented further that "There is no evi

dence in the files on the KENNEDY assassination that this CASTRO

interview was considered in following up leads or in dealings with

the Warren Commission and its staff although Mexico Station speci

fically directed Headquarters attention to the AP story very shortly

after the Dallas killing

More important, the interview appears to

have been forgotten in the contemporary political consideration ofa

relations with CASTRO's Cuba.

There is no evidence in Agency re-

cords, either, that the Warren Commission staff itself pursued the

implication of the CASTRO interview in dealing with the conspiracy

hypothesis. There is no evidence in the files that anything along

these lines was stated by any other Cuban leader before the assassi

nation."

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the purpose

According to the author of the review was to reconsider

Lee Harvey OSWALD's activity on the assumption that as an avid news

paper reader which is known from testimony of Marina OSWALD and

others -he read the CASTRO

warning and threat which appeared New

Orleans' principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, on Monday,

9 September 1963. The results of the review, admittedly heavi

using 20-20 hindsight, may be set out in summary:

a. There is no increment of credible

evidence, applying this phrase strictly,

of Soviet and/or Cuban political, intelli

gence

or security service involvement in

the assassination to what was developed

and considered by the Warren Commission and

its staffe

The Commission's finding that

Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of Presi

dent KENNEDY and-Officer TIPPITT and did

them in alone and-of his own determination

stands

Credible evidence' that would

upset or significantly modify this judge-

ment did (and does) not exist in Washing-

ton. But such evidence could exist in

Moscow and/or Havana, whose voluntary in-

putse to the Warren Commission were minimal

in quantity and quality, designed to cover

up any admissions of knowledge of, or con-

nection with, OSWALD which might be related

directly or indirectly with the assassina-

tion.

Therefore, the belief that there

was Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB and/or DGI)

connection with OSWALD will persist and

grow until there has been a full disclosure

by these governments of all elements of

OSWALD'S handling and stay and in the Soviet

Union and his contacts in Mexico City.. The

Warren Commission report should have left a

wider window'

for this contingency.

That ,

indeed, was the opinion at the working level,

particularly in the counterintelligence com=

ponent in the CIA in 1964. As was indicated

by Mr. HELMS in his testimony before the

Warren Commission, CIA would continue to

regard this aspect of the OSWALD case as

still open.

"c. In the absence of additional or new

elements of credible evidence', there are

nuances' in the record that emerge as note-

worthy, in the light of other conclusions.

These are reviewed and summarized below,

by item*

item

"a..

CASTRO's warning and threat of 7 Septem-

makeup after his attempt to kill General

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WALKER early in April 1963 and his

identification with Fidel CASTRO

and the

Cuban Revolution which is directly trace-

able as far back as his Marine Corps

service and threat, filin to a consespons

dent HARKER, 1rrespective of whether there

was any formal mandate, or even security

service contact with OSWALD by the Cubans

or the Russians was an act of singular

irresponsibility and under no circumstances

was excusable as retorsion for what the:

Cuban emigres were doing during the summer:

of 1963.™

[Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File: Regarding

Allegations of CASTRO Cuban Involvement in the John F. KENNEDY

Assassination. Cover Memorandum to DC/OPS dated 23 May 1975. 1

[ These items are to be found on pages 7 27 of the review,

a complete copy of which is attached. I See attachment Vol

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY :

Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO Ugarte

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ALVARADO Ugarte, Gilberto Nolasco

In the following are cited those portions (including

footnotes) of the SCHWEIKER Report pertaining to Gilberto ALVARADO.

Comments relating to these portions are in roman charachters.

At noon on November

25,

""D", a Latin

American, appeared

at the American Embassy in Mexico City. 35 (FN. This incident is

discussed in the Warren Report, pp. 308, 309; Cable from Mexico

Station to CIA Headquarters, 11/25/63. [Comment: The first cable

in the file, announcing ALVARADO's claim is MEXI-7067 (IN 68291) ,

26 November 1963. ALVARADO at no time appeared at the American

Embassy some of our own reporting is in error, e.g. DIR 85089,

26 November 1963, a dissemination to FBI, State, and the White

House, states: *On 26 November 1963, Gilberto ALVARADO, a pro-

fessed Castroite Nicaraguan. came to the American Embassy in

Mexico and made a statement about Lee OSWALD. According to ALVA

RADO's interrogation by Mexican authorities, he called the Ameri

can Embassy on 25 November and "succeeded in speaking to a high

official with whom he made an appointment for that same day at

5:30 p.m. near the Hotel Maria Isabel. Two individuals appeared

for the appointment. According to a note in the Mexico Station

file, signed by the Embassy Security Officer, A. C. PLAMBECK -

dated 25 November these two men were SNIGHT and PLAMBECK; both

were Embassy security officers. He told Embassy personnel that he

was in the Cuban consulate on September 17 and saw Cubans who dis-

cussed assassination pay OSWALD a sum of money. [Comment: During

his first meeting with Embassy officials, ALVARADO claimed he had

been at the Cuban Consulate on the l8th of September, not the 17th.

In fact, at no time, did he refer to the date 17 September.

Later,

during his interrogation in connection with the polygraph examina-

tion on 6 December 1963, ALVARADO revealed he was "unsure of the

day of week allegedly saw OSWALD. Thinks that it was on Tuesday!!

which would have been 17 September. (MEXI -7289 (IN 75588), 7 Decem-

ber 1963).] He later repeated his story to the CIA Mexico Station

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Chief. [Comment: At no time, at least there is no mention in the

files, did ALVARADO repeat his story to the "CIA Mexico Station

Chief' ALVARADO first told his story, as indicated above, to two

officers from the Embassy Security Office.

The next morning, he

met with PLAMBECK-from the Embassy Security Office, and a Station

officer. During another meeting that evening (26 November), ALVA-

RADO was interrogated by two officers from the Station.

- (Note for

the Record, dated 25 November 1963, signed by PLAMBECK; Memorandum

for Clark ANDERSON. Legal Attache, dated 29 November 1963, from

Winston M. SCOTT.]~ The CIA and the Warren Commission

Later con=

cluded that the story was a fabrication, but the Agency was clearly

concerned with "D"'s story at the time. 36 (PN: "D" later admitted

that the story about OSwALD had been fabricated. Cable from Mexico

City to CIA Headquarters, 11/30/63.

It had also been determined

by the FBI that OSWALD was probably in New Orleans on September 1?

Cable from CIA Headquarters to Mexico Station, 11/28/63.J [Comment:

There were actually two cables, DIR 85258, 27 November 1963, and

DIR 85653, 28 November 1963, which indicated OSWALD was in New

Orleans on 17 and 19 September 1963•1

Later in that day [26 November 1963], the Mexico Station

cabled Headquarters on the details of its interrogation of "D". 39

(FN: Cable from Mexico Station to CIA Headquarters, 11/26/63.)

[MEXI - 7069 (IN 68376) 26 November 1963.1 It also reported other

information from a sensitive and reliable source which tended to

confirm "D"'s story that OSWALD may have been paid by the Cubans

to assassinate President Kennedy. [Comment: It would appear from

this statement, the authors of the report were referring to Mexi

7.069

7069 (IN 68376); however, this cable does not contain any remarks

alluding to information which "tended to confirm 'D's story".

This information appears in MEXI-7072 (IN 68406), 26 November 1963

which contains Ambassador MANN's message to RUSK, MCCONE, and

HOOVER. MANN's statement reads as foltows:

"While we recognize

lack of established reliability of Nicaraguan and danger of reaching

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hasty conclusions, we suggest that DORTICOS preoccupation with

money angle of interrogation of Silvia DURAN tends to corroborate

to some extent authenticity of the Nicaraguan's statement. Thus,

there appears to be a strong possibitity that a cown payment was

made to OSWALD in the Cuban Embassy there, presumably with promise

of a subsequent payment after assassination." The Ambassador was

reading somewhat more Into the situation than was the case. The

reference to DORTICOS - the Cuban President - relates to two tele-

phone conversation between DORTICOS and HERNANDEZ, the Cuban Amba-

ssador to Mexico, on 26 November 1963.

The first conversation,

which took place at 0924, was forwarded, in resume, to Headquarters

on 26 November 1963 MEXI- 7068 IN

, the second conversation

which took place at 1839, was forwarded, in resume, to Headquarters

on 27 November 1963 (MEXI -7097 IN

aIn the first conversa-

tion DORTICOS asks (if) "the Federals of that country wanted Senora

DURAN to say something, that they had some interest in, and had.

offered some money to the American?" To which HERNANDEZ answers

that there was nothing about money. In the second conversation,

DORTICOS is quoted as saying:"I was referring as to whether they

had threatened her so that she would make a statement that the Con-

sulate had given money to the man - that American." HERNANDEZ ans-

wered that "nothing absolutely was given her" [sic]. It would not

appear from a close reading of these two conversations that they

contain information "which tended to confirm D's! story

This report has never been satisfactorily explained, although it

was made available to the Warren Commission Staff In any event,

these reports certainly must have fueled suspicions of Cuban in-

volvement in the assassination..

Based on the evidence it reviewed,

the warren Commission later determined that "D"'s story was a fabri

cation. [Comment: This statement appears to be gratitous the

Warren Commission did not ask about the ALVARADO case until 21

April 1964. On that date RANKIN addressed a letter to Richard

HELMS in which he stated inter alia "We are aware, of course,

from previous reports that the allegations made by ALVARADO were

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thoroughly investigated by Central Intelligence Agency and Federal

Bureau of Investigation representatives in Mexico City in liaison

with the responsible Mexican law enforcement authorities. Refer-

ence is made to the discussion of these allegations in your memo

randum dated January 31, 1964, at pages 11- 14-

"Upon review of our complete file on this matter, we

find. that we lack full. documentation.of the investigation conducted

of these allegations. It would be helpful if our records could be

supplemented by a report from your Agency supplying more details

regarding the investigation undertaken by your Agency and other con-

cerned Agencies into this matter and your evaluation as to the truth

of ALVARADO's assertions. In particular, it would be helpful if a

report could be submitted by the expert who conducted the polygraph

examination which emphasizes the specific conclusions which he made

based on the responses by ALVARADO in answering key questions on

this matter. (Letter to Richard HELMS, DDP, dated 21 April 1964

from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.) The Agency responded on 1

June 1964. (Memorandum to J. Lee RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964, from

Richard HELMS, DDP; Subject: Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.)]

The American Ambassador in Mexico later sent a cable

[MEXI-7072 (IN 68406), 26 November 19631 to State Department through

CIA channels. In that cable he gave his opinion that the Cubans

were involved in the assassination, and recommended certain inves-

tigative steps which should be taken in Mexico.

40 (EN: Cable from

Mexico Station to CIA Headquarters, 11/26/63.)

By November 27, the Mexico Station and CIA Headquarters

were also beginning to question the accuracy of "D"'s stroy. The

cables between the Mexico Station and Headquarters indicate the

possibility that the story was a fabrication. Nevertheless, on

November 28, Headquarters cabled a reminder to the Mexico Station

to "follow all leads". The Station was instructed to continue in-

vestigating the possibility of cuban or soviet involvement, because

Headquarters had not excluded the possibility that other persons

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were involved with OSwArD. 11 (PN: A cable from CIA Headquarters

to Mexico Station, 11/28/03-1 [DIR 85655, 28 November 1963)

Later that day (27 November Headquarters leared that

Mexican authorities planned to arrest Silvia DUrAN again and warned

the Station that the Mexicans must take responsibility fon the an

rest. After learning that the u.S. Ambassador was continuing to

press for a vigorous investigation into Cuban involvement, Head-

quarters also warned the Station Chief that the Ambassador was

pushing the case too hard and his proposals could lead to a "flap"

with the Cubans. 46 (FN. A cable from CIA Headquarters to Mexico

Station, 11/28/63. [DIR 85655, 28 November 1963] Finally, the

Agency concluded that "D"'s story was a fabrication and terminated

its interest in him.

47 (EN: Ibid.)

On November 30, Director McCONE met with the President

at 11.a.m.

While there was a discussion of the allegations

made by "D" the memorandum records no action was required on the

"OSWALD situation". 49 (EN: Memo-andum for the Record by Director

McCone, 12/2/63) [Comment: Memorandum not available in the file.]

On December 1, McCONE met with the President and BUNDY?

MCCONE's memorandum of the meeting indicates they again discussed

"D''s story. Later that day, Headquarters cabled the Mexico Station

and stated that the white House had been told the story was a fabri

cation.

Later that day (2 December], the Mexico Sta-

reported it had reason to doubt its earlier conclusion that "D"

was fabricating.

[Comment: The authors of the Report give no

source for this statement.. Moreover, they leave the reader in the

air as to what was the outcome of further investigation to deter:

-mine whether the earlier-conclusion-that ALAVARDO was fabricating

was an accurate conclusion. The facts are as follows:

On 2 December, Captain WHEELOCK* saw ALAVARDO during the

* Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, chief of the Anti-

Communist Section of the Nicaraguan Office of National Security,

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On 2 December, Captain WHEELOCK saw ALVARADO during the

afternoon for the first time. In a brief interview, which lasted

only seven minutes, in the company of two Mexican officials,

ALVARADO reverted to his previous story. He claimed he did seo

OSWALD and that he did call the Embassy to report. (Latter state-

ment not supported by Embassy investigation.) ALVARADO went on to

say that he told the Mexicans he was fabricating because he was

"mentally mistreated", specifically because he was threatened that

he would be hanged by the testicles. Actually he was not physically

mistreated. WHEELOCK said he was unable to come to any definite

conclusion as to ALVARADO'S veracity; however, he would be able to

do so once he returned to Managua and had a chance to complete the

interrogation. (MEXI-7023 IN 71702, 2 December: 1963)

On 3 December 1963, Headquarters tells the Mexico Sta-

tion that although Headquarters is confident that ALVARADO is a

fabricator and that his retraction of his confession is false, it

has been decided that he should be placed on the polygraph. Head-

quarters asks that the Station arrange to have ALVARADO released

to CIA custody for several days and ask WHEELOCK to remain in Mexi

co to assist.

A polygraph operator from the Office of Security will

arrive on 4 December. He will be incharge of the polygraph inter-

view, but will be assisted by Clark ANDERSON (Legal, Attache) , who

has been selected as an interpreter. The FBI will notify ANDERSON

of this. (DIR 86563, 3 December 1963)

* Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, Chief of the Anti-

Communist Section of the Nicaraguan Office of National Security,

arrived in Mexico City on 29 November 1963. WHEELOCK went to

Mexico in response to Mexico Station's request for assistance in

interrogating ALVARADO. For further details see accompanying

chronological summary on Gilberto ALVARADO.

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ECHEVARRIA, the Acting Minister of Gobernacion, agreed

to permit CIA to "borrow" ALVARADO: The plan was to pick up

ALVARADO on 5 December and return him that evening. (MEXI-7229

IN 72877, 3 December 1963) ALVARADO was picked up as planned and-

underwent preliminary questioning on 5 December. The next day he-

underwent a, polygraph interview. The results of this interview

indicated that ALVARADO was fabricating his story.

Interrogation

revealed that he was unsure as to the exact day of the week he alle

gedly saw OSWALD. He thought it was on a Tuesday which would have

been the 17th of September. When ALVARADO was shown a series of

photographs during the testing, deception patterns became evident.

When he was confronted with this he answered that he had the utmost

confidence in the polygraph and that it must be correct. The in

terrogation was concluded with ALVARADO admitting he must have made

an honest mistake" in relating the original story in his identifi

cation of OSWALD. (MEXI-7289 IN 75588, 7 December)

Following the receipt of the results of the above inter

view with ALVARADO, Headquarters disseminated the results to the

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"The re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

Nicaraguan informant who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD receive money to assassinate Kennedy,

has been concluded. Our Mexico City Station ad-

vises us that ALVARADO admitted he must have

been mistaken in saying that he saw OSWALD in

the Cuban Embassy.

Also, he was uncertain of

the date on which he might have seen someone

like OSWALD and thought it must have been on a

which would have made it 17 September

Toes. ay Although the fiave report ot the poly-

graph interview is not yet available,

the pre-

liminary, finding is that ALVARADO evidenced

deception reactions when talking about OSWALD.

"It is expected that ALVARADO will be de-

ported to Nicaragua on 9 December 1963.

"A representative of your Bureau partici

pated

in the interrogation of ALVARADO.

(DIR 87667, ? December 1963)

Except for forwarding to the Warren Commission various

reported material on ALVARADO, the Agency had completed its inves

tigation of the allegation that the Cuban Consulate had given

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OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars to assassinate an un-

named target.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO Ugarte

18 September 1963

According to ALVARADO's statements made during an inter

view conducted in the morning of 26 November 1963 by an American

Embassy security officer and a member of the Mexico Station in

Mexico City, ALVARADO went at noon on 18 September to the Cuban

Consulate to turn over passport photographs to the Cuban Consul

Eusebio AZCUE.

While standing by a rest room off a passage

way leading to a patio, ALVARADO saw a group of three persons. con-

versing on the patio a few feet away. One man was a tall, thin

Negro with reddish hair, obviously dyed. He had prominent cheek

bones, and a noticeable scar on the lower right side of his chin.

He spoke radpidly with a Cuban accent and did speak some English

Another member of the group was a white person whom ALVARADO had

seen Previous Yoin the waiting room, carrying a Canadian passport.

The Canadian had green eyes, blondish hair combed in an "existen-

tralist manner with a pompadour He was wearing dark eyeglasses

of a type with a mirror like reflection on the outer surface. The

third member of the group was Lee Harvey OSWALD.

He was waering a

black sport coat, a buttoned up white shirt with short collar tabs

no tie, gray pants and clear eyeglasses.

ALVARADO saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and

pass American currency to the Negro. This unidentified Cuban ap-

parently came out of AZCUE's office onto the patio.

• ALVARADO des -

cribed the Cuban as a tall, solidly built mulatto, with curly hair,

who appeared to be about 37 years old.

He was wearing a brown suit

and a red-striped tie.

ALVARADO never saw this man again after 18

September.

ALVARADO claimed he overheard the following conversation

between the Negro and OSWALD:

Negro (in English) :

"I want to kill the man".

OSWALD

You re not man enough.I can do

it m

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Negro (in Spanish) "I can't go with, you.

Thave a lot

to do.

OSWALD

The people are waiting for me back

there."

The Negro gave OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars

in large denomination US bills saying? This isn't much "Of the

sum, one thousand live hundred dollars was for extra expenses The

Negro atso gave him about 200 Mexican pesos.

Later, ALVARADO saw a pretty girl, whom he believed to ber

a Cuban employee of the Consulate, give OSWALD an abrazo embrace

and tell him she was living at Callo Juarez number 107 where he-

could find her the girl peared to about 20 yours old and had

manners which reminded ALVARADO of a prostitute. OSWALD, the Negr

and the Canadian then went upstairs.

ALVARADO left the building momentarily to buy popsicle

on the corners he saw the above three men leave by the Embassy gate

near the corner of Tacubaya where they entered a parked black car,

possibly a Chvrolet.

At the end of September, ALVARADO telephoned the American

Embassy several times to report his belief that someone important

in the United States was to be killed.

When ALVARADO saw OSWALD's photograph in the newspaper,

he again contacted the Embassy on 25 November.

IMEXT-7069 (IN 68376), 26 November 1963]

25 November 1963

ALVARADO called the United States Embassy

That same

eveningshe met with the Embassy security officer.

IMEXL-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 19631

[Comment: According to the Mexican police report of the interroga

tion of ALVARADO, the latter called the American Embassy and

"succeeded in speaking to a high official with whom he made an

ap

pointment for that same day at 5:30 p.m. near the Hotel Maria

Isabel:]

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Two individuals appeared for the 5:30 p.m. appointment

They identified themselves and were carrying the credentials of

FBI agents.* ALVARADO told about his seeing OSWALD, etch Anöther

appointment was made for 9:15 the next morning at the Jena Restau

rant:

|HMMA- 22561, 5 December 1963; CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 19631

"Comment: The two individuals were SNIGHT, the Embassy security

officer, and A.C. PLAMBECK (P) , Mexican Station officer. ALVARADO

may have mistaken Embassy identification documents for FBI creden

tialso

25 November 1963

ALVARADO claimed inter alia that two persons were in the

Cuban Embassy the morning of 25 November 1963 at 1100 who are in-

volved in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy He described

them as one being a white person with a large cleft nose. The

other had closed, cropped hair with a copote fsicle

ALVARADO Claims

that on the 18th. of September, he was

the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and ho saw Loe Harvey OSWALD FOR

ceive $6,500

OSWALD was speaking with a Begro, about 29 years of

age, who had a scar on his jaw, and bad reddish hair which is pro-

bably tinted. The Negro spoke English well and might be a North

American OSWALD was speaking of eliminating someone. The Negro

then said he was sorry that he could accompany OSWALD, saying:

"You understand my situation." To which OSWALD replied: "Thats

all right, I can do this myself."

The "'source" (ALVARADO ?) was of the opinion that OSWALD

had come from Havana. When OSWALD entered (the Consulate? he

was affectionately greeted by a female employee of the Cuban Em=

bassy, who has blue eyes and lives at Calle Juarez 407

"The "source" also stated that OSWALD was given $1,500

for extra expenses. Source stated that when he went to the bather

room he saw OSWALD counting the money, in American dollars, on the

patio which is adjacent.

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[Blind memorandum dated 25 November 1963]

Comment o

There is no indication in the file that any follow up

was made on the information given in this paragraph.This parti

cular information appears no where else in ALVARADO's interroga.

tions .]

26 November 1963

ALVARADO meets the same two men from the Embassyswhom he

had the evening before, at the Jena Restaurant on the Avenida More-

los and the Paseo de la Reforma. The two men were accompanied by

a third man named Rodolfo GAVALDON. ALVARADO went with these three

men to the cafeteria of the Hotel Erancis after which they drove

up and down a few streets. ALVARADO told them again what he had

observed in the cuban Consulate and they gave him 100 pesos and

told him they woudl call him at the number 41-07-31, which es the

telephone number of the place where, ALVARADO was Living ALVARADO

was called the sane day at 8:45 p.m. and was told to meet the three

menlater in from of the Juarez, monument:

(Blind memorandump

Lated November 1963, Memorandun to Clark

ANDERSON, Legal Attache, dated 29 November 1963; And HMMA-22561

5, December 1963, and CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 1963.]

26 November 1963

Station officer and local security officer are inter-

viewing a Nicaraguan who claims that on 18 September he saw Lee

OSWALD received six thousand five hundred dollars during a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

MEXI -7067 (IN 68291) - 26 November 19631

[Comment:

This Cable was the first report to Headquarters on the

allegations made by ALVARADO.]

26 November 1963

At the appointed place and time the evening of 26 Novem:

ber, Rodolfo GAVALDON meets ALAVARADO.*

They take a cab to the

corner of the Hotel Maria Isabel where another American 1s waiting

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for them together they cross the street and enter an apartment in

a building at the corner of Oxford and Reforma. After talking with

these men, ALVARADO received 500 pesos and was told to move to a

hotel and to tell them which hotel he moved into.

[HMMA - 22561, 5 December 1963; CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 19631

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26 November 1963 (date of, cable)

Managua

Station

reports on identity of ALVARADO ande

suggests that "Should case develop to point where Mexico and Head

quarters believe it desirable to break ALVARADO, the Station

2486G

could probably, arrange to have NIC officer who handled him come

to

Mexico to question him.

MANA 4609 (TN 68452) , 26 November 1963)

(Comment:

NIC = Nicaraguan Security Service)

26-November 1963 (date of dissemination)

issemination by, cable, to the FBl State and the Whites

House repor

1ng, pre

ults.of

results of Headquarters name trace

2415

On 26 November 1963 Cilberto ALVARADO, a

professed Castroite Nicaraguan born, 31. January,

1940 in Ciudad Rama, Zelaya, -Nicaragua, Camer

to the american Embassy in Mexica and maderar

statement about Lee OSWALD. He said that on

aSeptember 1965 he saw Lee OSWALD receive

six thousand five hundred dollars in a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City

18.2 A

About himself ALVARADO sata

he in Mexico

City awaiting false documentation so he could

go to Cuba: for sabotage training He namese

three other members of his organization in Ni

caragua as Juan LORILLO, Rolan ALVARADO, and*

CArLOS FONSECA Amador Questioning of ALVARADO

is continuing.

n3. (Comment: Gilberto ALVARADO is a weit-known

Nicaraguan communist underground member who is

also a regular informant of the Nicaraguan Security

service and oneer, of which has provided is

Agency with his reports for over a year. * We con

sider his reliability to be questionable although

the has not been wholly discredited. The-other men

he names are well-known Nicaraguan communists.

check of the files of this Agency does. not showd

where Lee OSWALD actually was on 18 September 1963

when ALVARADO says he saw OSWALD in the Cuban. Ema

bassy in Mexico, but based on the information

available to this Agency as of this date OSWALDE

visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico for the first

time after 25 September 1963•01

(DIR 85089, 26 November 1963)

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to Mexico Station that

investigation, suggest you

contact

ALVARADO'S NIC case

WIn your

officer

6 1N

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in Mexico City and ask him whether ALVARADO has ever told him this

story or anything like it.

[DIR 85178, 27 November 1963]

27. November 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that After considera

tion by BRENT and KNIGHT, we feel that investigation and analysis

of ALVARADO's story should be pursued further before more excutive

action is taken.M

[DIR 85198, 27 November 1963]

27. November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters makes dissemination to FBI, State, and the

White House incorporating information forwarded to Headquarters

in MEXI-7069 (IN 68376, 26 November 1963 (q.Ve)

DIR 85199, 27 November 19631

27 November 1963

ALVARADO's story being checked as thoroughly as Station

assets make possible. He also being re-interviewed in much greate

detaile ALVARADO is being moved to sate address.

[MEXI -7093, (TN 68530), 27 November 1963)

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

Two Station officers interviewed ALVARADO in safehouse

again night of 26 November: ALVARADO'S Story remained substan:

tially the same. ALVARADO says he has been to Cuban Consulate on

2 or 3 September, 15 or 16 September, 18 September, 26 September

and 25 November. The Station comments that Station photographic

coverage of the Cuban Embassy did not include consulate gate until

October ALVARADO did not appear in photographs of persons using

Embassy gate. He admits visiting the Soviet Embassy 6 or 7 times;

however, he has not been identified in photographie coverage of

Soviet Embassy:

[MEXI-7098 (IN 69127),

27 November 1963]

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27 November$1963

Ambassador MANN send message via CIA channels to RUSK,

McCONE, and HOOVER, in which he suggest inter alia that Washington

should urgently consider feasibility of requesting Mexican authori

ties to arrest for interrogation: Eusebio AZCUE, Luisa CALDERON;

and Alfredo MIRABAL.

MEXI-7104 (IN 69225), 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

FBI says: OSWALD applied for unemployment insurance in

New Orleans on I September, one day before ALVARADO says he saw

him in Cuban Embassy, Mexico. FBI checking all airlines tones

ho coule have flown to Mexico by 18 September He was in. New

Orleans on 25 Septenber and left that day for Texas without paying

his rent. He is believed to have been without funds during this:

period. FBI says his New Orleans landlady believes he was there

continuously between 17 and 25 September.

DIR 85258, 27 November 19631

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

According to Mexico Station, ALVARADO story after two din

stallments tends prove only that he has been in Cuban Embassy and

knows some of employees by Sight, name of both. To resolve doubt

only effective way is to have cooperation of Major JEREZ directed

by his headquarters in interrogating ALVARADO.

If HO agrees sug

gest he be cabled urgently to cooperate without question with

American officer who will contact him morning 28 November

Station

wishes JEREZ be present during interrogation to throw all Nicaragua

official weight behind it, but not to participate except in portion

relative ALVARADOS alleged mission for JEREZ.

IMEXT-7107 (TN 69310) • 27 November 19631

27 November 1963

Headquarters states that lin the face of mounting evi-

dence that ALVARADO is fabricating his story of seeing

OSWALD take money in the Cuban Embassy, urge you fol:

low up with his local NIC case officer and avail yourset

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of the help. of the loservice, which can

send (WHEELOCK), I a good CIA asset, to help

in the interrogation.

We find it incredible

that the Cubans would brief and pay an assassin

in front of a NIC interloper. We think it pos-

sible or even likely that he has been in and.out

of the Cuban Embassy as a NIC agent trying to

infiltrate Cuba and has picked up the names and

faces there in so doing. All he has said about

OSWALD he could have gotten from the newspapers

except for certain incorrect items such as his

statement that OSWALD wore glasses.

..The fact that ALVARADO Is a carm, nice, and

intelligenteyoung man does not mean he is nota

fabricator.

FYI we and other agencies are being

flooded by fabrications on the OSWALD case from

several continents, some originating with people

on the fringes of the intelligence business.o

Such fabrication are not usually done for money,

but out of sickly fancy and a desire to get into

the intelligence game.

3.

We do not think it a remarkable coincidence

that both DORTICOS and ALVARADO talk about money

paid to OSWALD. For one thing, pay for an assassin

is a factor which immediately rises in the mind of

expertrand layman alike. Secondly, DORTICOS may

have heard through some Russian or Cuban source

in the Mexican Government that DURAN was asked

whether the Cubans paid OSWALD for the alleged

assignmenta

Whito we do not incist

ARADe Ston

is boyond all bolief, we d

that MEXI ploes

i and AbHARADO under the mos

His interrogators must probe dooply into bir

make up and load him back through

BIR: 85616,

27 November 1963]

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia.

Name encrypted in

Etext.

28 November 1963 (date of cable)

FBI says their follow-up investigation of OSWALD'S acti

vities has rpoduced "reasonable indications" that he was in New

Orleans on 19 September 1963. This, coupled with earlier evidence

that he was in New Orleans applying for unemployment insurance on

17 September 1963, means OSWALD would have had to fly to Mexico and

back between 17 and 19 September in order to be at the Cuban Embassy

getting his pay=off, as ALVARADO Claims, on 18 September. With

this added information, believe Mexico can confidently regard

ALVARADO as fabricator and tailor interrogation accordingly.

DIR 85653, 28 November 19631

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28 November 1963

Headquarters informs Mexico that

4100

We have just heard by phone from. KINGMAN,

who is at home, that MEXI evaluation of ALVARADO

story may have been seriously warped by a piece

of misinformation which has crept into this case.

From conversation with your officers, KINGMAN&

has the impression that they believe there is

other evidence that Lee OSWALD madera. bank de:

posit of five thousand dollars in the United

States after he got back from Mexico on 3 October.

1965. This would tend, if true, to corroborate

ALVARADO's story that he saw OSWALD get five

thousand for the job and fifteen hundred for ex-

penses i

#KINGMAN thinks he heard that CURTIS

Winston SCOTT got the information aboutthe

bank deposit from an FBI, man named Clark.

#2.

We know of no such bank deposit and have n

never heard of one.

Pot here has just, attirner

they never heard this story

The story of the

deposit of five thousand dollars is therefore

almost certainly erroneous.

Please check it

with FBlithere. We have advised FBI that this

rumorexists in Mexico.

EBt has just levied on us officlal request

for full information on source and originsof

rumor about a five thousand dollar bank depositi

EDIR 956547

28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Headquarters stresses to Mexico that there should

be no let down it your effort, to fortow all leads and investigate

all facts which bear on this case. We have by no means excluded

the possibility that other as yet unknown persons may have been n

volved of even that other powers may have played a role.

Please

continue all your coverage of Soviet and Cuban installations and

your liaison with Mexicans.

[DIR 85655, 28. November 19631

[Comment: This remark by Headquarters was in support of its posi

tion in response to Ambassador MANN's earlier

message, in which

Headquarters expressed its distinct feeling that "the Ambassador

is pushing this case too hard, and might well create

flap

with cubans which could have serious repercussions.

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28 November 1963

Mexico Station requests OPIM authoritization turn ALVARADO

over to Mexican authorities with a brief explanation he claims to

be witness to payoff to OSWALD in Cuban consulate 18 September,

admits is in Mexico Illegally, admits Communist Party membership,

admits visits to Soviet Embassy, claims that Cuban consulate now

involved in documenting him with false Mexican papers for travel

to Cuba. Latter point alone would give Mexican authorities good

reason to subject him to detailed interrogation.

[MEXI -7113 (IN , 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Headquarters responded to the Station's request (see

above) by saying not to turn ALVARADO over. to the Mexicans. We

have officially asked the FBI for their position on this move, and

pending the FBI'S answer and our final consideration, ALVARADO

should not be surfaced to the Mexicans or turned over to them.

Advise us if the FBI in Mexico attempts to get you

to act one way or the other on the question of turning ALVARADO

over to the Mexicans

Headquarters concludes Its message, to Mexico by commentin

that Larry KEENAN, an FBl agent, is now in Mexico.

He was sent

especially to follow up leads on the entire assassination.

Head

quarters asks that the Station cooperate with him fully

[DIR 85661, 28 November 1963]

28 November. 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates by cable to the FBl, States

and the White House, the information obtained from ALVARADO during

night 01 216 November 1965 Information obtained from ALVARADO on

the latter date was forwarded to Headquarters in MEXI 7098 CIN

69122, 21 November 1963 (See appropriate entry above.)

(DIR 85662, 28 November 1963}

30 November 1963

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28 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that

Mr. Clark ANDERSON, Legal Attache, told

the cos and Ambassador MANN of rumor that.

OSWALD had deposited five thousand dollars

ina banka in the United States.&

w2. On 27 November Ambassador in presence

of COS asked ANDERSON about this again and

ANDERSON said rumor was on television and

radio in Mexico:

ANDERSON said he had no

information from his Headquarters-to con-

firn or deny this He said he would check:

his Headquarters.

"3. COS has not heard rumor regarding five

thousand dollar deposit on television or

radio, but feels sure ANDERSON or some of

his office did hear this. This Station had

no additional information concerning this

but assume ALVARADO may have heard same

radio or television report and thus have had

"basis for five thousand dollar payment.

INEX C7114ON 6962192

28. November 19631

28 November 1963%

The Managua Station in Nicaragua stated that it had

requested (General Gustavo MONTIEL)*

cooperation Mexico through Major JEREZ and if

possible bysending Captain WHEELOCK) to

Mexico. MONTIEL said ALVARADO in Mexico with:

out (Service's) authority and passed off suga

gestion use JEREZ but agreed immediately to

send WHEELOCK.

HO (WHEELOCK) now in

process getting, visa and plane reservations

and will probably be in Mexico today unless

Headquarters and Mexico wish to cancel.

N2.Even though his story regarding OSWALD

may be false it possible he has been working

other angle to penetrate Cubans and (WHEELOCK)

will be able to assist in getting facts straight.

IMANA-4613 (IN 69629) 28 November 19631

[* General Gustavo MONTIEL, Chief of Intelligence Service,

Nicaraguan Army

(Name encrypted in text..)

Major Roger JEREZ Alfaro, Military Attache, Nicaraguan

Embassy, Mexico City:

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, Chief of Anti-

Communist Section of the Office of National Security, (name

encrypted in text.)

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over to mexican authorities

and that the Agency

request Mexican authorities to interrogateS

ALVARADO in detail.

The FBI reports that it understands that

Mexican authorities have a capability of poly-

graphing and requests that the Agency request

Mexican authorities that he be polygraphed.

"3. The FBI expressed a desire to have the

results of the interrogation as soon as possible

and that the Legal Attache be kept advised of

developments.

6004.

The FBI takes the position that inasmuch as

Silvia DURAN may be released some time today (23

November according to information which the FBI

has from the Legal Attache, ALVARADO should be

turned over to the Mexican

as soon as possible,

so that their stories can be checked against each

other.

**5.

Mexico Station is instructed to carry out the

FBI's requests

set out aboves

Give full coopera

tion to the Legal Attache:

EDIR 85663, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Manuagua Station reports that Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK

Garcia, a Captain National, and chief of the Anti-Communist Section

of the Office of National Security, will arrive in Mexico at 0945

on 29 November 1963.

MANA- 4614 IN 68671), 28 November 19631

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates the following to the FBI,

State Department, and White House:

"Acting on a request made to this Agency by

the Federal Bureau of Investigation on 28

November 1963, our Agency is instructing its

office in Mexico City to turn over Gilberto

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan informant who claims that.

he saw Lee OSWALD accept six thousand five ise

hundred dollars in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico

City on 18 September 1963 to assassinate Presi-

dent Kennedy, to officials of the Mexican Minis -

try of Government for further interrogation and

Investigation.

On 28 November, ALVARADO had

still not changed his story,

despite increasing

doubt that it was true.

The Nicaraguan Intelli

gence Service, for which ALVARADO once worked,

as dispatching a sentor official to Mexico City

to assist in the interrogation and investigation

at the discretion of the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation.

Notification of the appropriate

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Mexican office for the turnover was effected

at 1630 Nashington time on 28 November 1963

[DIR 85666 28 November 1963]

Comment.

This cable is the first time that President Kennedy

was mentioned as the target of OSWALD's alleged mission described

by ALVARADO.

The conversation between the red-haired Negro and

OSWALD, as reported by ALVARADO, makes no mention of a specific

person. 1

28 November 1963

Mexico Station requests that a Spanish-speaking poly

graph operator be made available for ALVARADO and possibly for

others.

MEXT -7120 CIN

, 28 November 19631

28- November 1963

Headquarters responds that there is no Spanish speaking

polygraph operator.

N2.0

Forereasons of security and compartmenta=

tion prefer not to have Agency operator doublo

tracked with Mexican operator. Would only con-

ruse the case. Prefer to wait until all Mexic

can resources exhausted before we decide if we

want to resume management of case, including

polygraph.

Seasoned operators available here on short

notice."

IDIR 85667, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that

in contact with acting Minister of

Gobernacion Luis ECHEVARRIA at 1430 hrs Mexi-

co City time and ECHEVARRIA grateful that

ALVARADO being turned over to Gobernacion.

ECHEVARRIA was given ALVARADO"s, present

address and alias under which he registered.

Mexicans will pick him up and question him

on basis of very brief story given ECHEVARRIA

by COS.

MEXI 7124 CIN

0 28 November 1963]

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29- November 1963

Mexico Station reports that the COS is handling the

OSWALD case personally and that continuous liaison with the

Ambassador and the Legal Attache is necessary. The COS wishes

to control these contacts personally.

MEXICO IN 70104)g 29 November 1963J

29 November. 1963

An official of the Ministry of Governacion reported to

the Station that ALVARADO Claims he present inside the Cuban Em-

bassy when OswAlD given six thousand five hundred dollars

Station comments that ALVARADO gave the Mexicans the same story

he gave Station Officers. One difference is that ALVARADO failed

to identify Silvia DURAN from several photographs he was shown.

ALVARADO had identified her when he was being questioned by the

Station.

(MEXI- 7127 (IN 70145) • 29 November 1963]

29- November 1963

Headquarters asks Mexico Station

(to continue

to keep us filled in on status of interrogation of Silvia DURAN,

ALVARADO, and others implicated as fast as you can get information.

We have no other ready source of information on these cases. Re-

quest you utilize capable officer for liaison with Gobernacion to

skim off details and relay them to your office for cabling to us

at regular intervals Request status report, even negative, by

0900 Mexico time.Be sure to keep us informed of what information

if any is leaked to public information media."

[DIR 85672, 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

In the interest of speed, Headquarters wishessto be

"sure that you are immediately giving the Legal Attache everything

you get about ALVARADO and DURAN so the Legal Attache in Mexico

City can cable the same

data direct to FBI Headquarters.

Please

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satisfy yourself that the Legal Attache there has adequate comno

factlities and secretarial staff to keop tus Headquarters informer

as fast as you keep us informed, and advise us on this

"2. If you find that the Legal Attache there does not

have adequate commo or staff and wants to rely on us to relay the

material, they may of sourse send messages Fight through our:

channels, or you can rely on us to relay the information as we

have been w

(DIR 85712, 29 November 1963]

29 November, 1963

The Mexico Station responded to the above messageaby

stating that

The Legal Attache is locally being advised.

by COS personally of everything station rearns

concerning OSWALD case and, now, on ALVARADO

interrogation.

2 Felt sure that Legal Attaches office,

which

almost same size as the Station, has adequate

staff for reporting needs.

163.

Usual procedure here is that COS notifies

Headquarters, reports to the Legal Attache and

to the Ambassador orally then subsequently ad

vises the Legal Attache by memorandun:

Headquarters is assured that all information

known to Station on these cases is being given to

them and shortly after information obtained

[MEXI 7128 (IN 70162), 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the FBI,, State department

and the White House that "The first very sketchy report on the pro

gress of the Mexican official interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

shows he is telling essentially the same story

The

Mexican official doing the interrogation of ALVARADO says ho

"doubts' ALVARADO's story and will begin work to breakt him

298:

EDIR 85744 29 November 19631

29 November 1963

Thief of Mexico Station Forwards memorandum to Mr Clark

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D. ANDERSON, Legal Attache, containing the results of three inter

views, conducted by the local security officer and members of the

Mexican Station on 26 November 1963, of Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO

Ugarte. [See memorandum for complete text.

29 November 1963

Official of Ministry of Gobernacion stated that after

his first session with ALVARADO he believed ALVARADO's story to be

a fantastic, lie, after second session and all previous and interim

interrogations, ALVARADO sticks to same story on OSWALD. Official

stated. "Alchough this still preliminary, either ALVARADO is telling

the truth essentially or he is the best liar I have talked to tony

many years and Thave talked to some of the biggest. He is in

clined to believe ALVARADO is telling the truth in general outline,

but bélieves he is mixed up on dates.

IME X1-7156 CIN

• 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that Captain WHEELOCK has arrived

in Mexico City and is staying at the Geneve Hotel.

[Ibid.]

29 November 1963

Captain WHEBLOGK meets with official from Ministry of

Gobernacion; he tells the official that ALVARADO: has been 75%

accurate in his reporting and had had access to and furnished good

information on communism in the past. WHEELOCK said, however,

ALVARADO is inclined to "go off on his own' at times and impossible

to controls

[MEXI -7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963]

30 November 1963

At 1030 hours (Mexico City time), official from Ministry

of Gobernacion told the Chief of Station that'ALVARADO has signed

a statement saying that story of seeing OSWALD inside the Cuban

Embassy is completely false. He also stated that he had not

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seen anyone handed money by Cuban consular officers.

He said too

he had not called the U.S. Embassy. (as he had previously claimed)

on 20 September to warn them. His firstecall to the Embassy was

on 25 November, the evening he saw the U.S. Embassy security

officer.

(MEXT 7168 (IN 70860) 30 November 19631

30- November 1963

Mexico Station reports that the Legal Attache is being

informed of the above information (as well as other information

contained. in MEXT 7168)

IMEXT-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963)

30 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates information co fBl, State

Department, and the White House, that ALVARADO admitted his story

was a fabrication

[DIR 86063, 30 November 19631-

30 November 1963

Headquarters asks the Station obtain all, details on

ALVARADO's confession.

The Station is asked to "continue to follow

all leads and tips

The question bf whether OSWALD acted solely

on his own has still not been finally resolved.

IDER 86064, 30 November 19631

2 December 1963

Captain WHEELOCK Saw ALVARADO during afternoon for first

time. Meeting lasted only seven minutes

In brief interview in

company of two Mexican officials, ALVARADO reverted to his pre.

vious story

He claimed he did see OSWALD, did call the U. S.

Embassy to reporte Embassy investigation does not support latter

statement.) He went to say that he told the Mexicans he was fabri

cating because he was "mentally mistreated", i.e., threatened with

physical harm, although he was not actually physically mistreated

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1%.

WHEELOCK said he unable to come to any definite conclusion as to

ALVARADO's veracity however, he would be able to do so once here

turned to Managua and had chance to complete the interrogation.

NB: ALVARADO was to be deported to Nicaragua on 4 Decembera

MEXT 7203 TN 71702) , 2 December 19631

3 December 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that although we are

confident that ALVARADO is a fabricator and that his retraction

of his confession is false, it has been decided that he should be

placed on the polystaph. Headquarters asks that Station arrange

to have ALVARADO to be released to us for several days and ask

WHEELOCK to remain in Mexico to assist

Calvin DAVIS of the Office of Security will arrive on

4 December. Polygraph should be administered in safehouse and all

sessions should be recorded. DAVIS will be in charge of the poly

graph interviews however, he will be assisted by Clark ANDERSON,

who has been selected here as interpreter.

The FBI will notify

ANDERSON of this The idea is that ANDERSON would be able to tes

tity at any. later hearing.

[DIR: 86563, 3 December 1963]

3 December 1963

ECHEVARRIA, Acting Minister of Cobernacion, agrees to

permit the COS to "borrow" ALVARADO. Station submits plan for

handling LAVARADO:

a. Clark ANDERSON and Joe GARCIA of Legal Attache

office to pick up ALVARADO from Gobernacion.

D. ALVARADO will be taken to safehouse or hotel

suite:

Ca ANDERSON TO GARCIA will act as interpreters.

d. Plan to "borrow" ALVARADO early morning of

5 December and return him that evening

NEXT 7229. (IN 72877), 3 December 19631

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4 December. 1963

Headquarters approves Station'S plan and adds that the

"exact role of the FBI men is up to their local chief

The FBI has specified that Mr. ANDERSON act as their participant

in the interrogation and any variance should have approval of Mr

ANDERSON.

[DIR 86621, 1 December 19631

5 December: 1963

More plans by Station for interrogation of ALVARADO?

TMEXI-7256 CM(273) 5 December 19631

51 December 1963

Mexican Station

forwards copies of Mexican interrogation

report on Gilberto ALVARADO. Ugartes

*Station notes that ascopy of

this report was handed to the Legal Attache:

HMMA- 22562, 5 Decembex 1963]

5 December 1963

Preliminary questioning of ALVARADO, took place

[MEXI 7267 (IN 74696) , 6 December 1963]

6 December 1963

ALVARADO submitted to examination

by polygraph.

The

results of this examination indicated that he was fabricating his

story. Interrogation revealed that ALVARADO was unsure as to the

day of the week he allegedly saw OSWALD. He thinks it was on Tues

day which would have been 17 September.

When ALVARADO was shown

a series of photographs during the testing, deception patterns

became evident. When he was confrinted with this he answered that

he had the utmost confidence in the polygraph and that it must be

correct. The interrogation was concluded with ALVARADO admitting

he must have made "honest mistake" in relating original story in

his identification of OSWALD.

ALVARADO to be held by the Mexicans until 9 December.

MEXT-1289 (IN 75588), 7 December 1963]

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7 December 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters cables a dissemination to the FBI on the

results of the examination by polygraph of Giberto ALVARADO.

The re interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO;

Nicaraguan informant who claimed to have

seen Lee OSWALD receive money to assassinate

Kennedy, has been concluded. Our Mexico

City Station advises us that ALVARADO admitted

he must have been mistaken in saying that he

saw OSWALD in the Cuban Embassy,

Also, he was

uncertain of the date on which he might have ahe

seen someone like OSWALD and thought it must

have been on a Tuesday, which would have made

it 17 September 1963.

Although the final

report of the polygraph interview is not yet:

available, the preliminary finding is that

ALVARADO evidenced deception reactions when

talking about OSWALD.

"It is expected that ALVARADO will be deported

to Nicaragua on 9 December 1963.

YA representative of your Bureau participated

in the interrogation of ALVARADO.

LOIR 87667 7 December 1963]

7 December 1963

An official of the Ministry of Gobernacion advised the

Chief of Station that ALVARADO will be returned to Managua by

TACA flight no. 773 leaving Mexico at 0930 hours on 8 December.

MEXT 7290 TN 75835) 7 December 19631

13 December 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters forwards a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on Gilberto ALVARADO to the FBI.

Attached is a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on Gilberto

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD accept $6500 in the Cuban Embassy

in Mexico City to assassinate President-

Kennedy The report states that ALVARADO re-

tracted these assertions and admitted that he

made them to induce the U. S. to take stronger

action against Cuba.

The two persons whom ALVARADO met and to

whom he first told his story are undoubtedly

His claim that they.

used FBI credentials is,

officers of this Ageney of course, absolutely

falser

Our officers use no credentials in

Mexico City.

13.

as you know, ALVARADO retracted the con-

fession of fabrication which he made to the

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Mexican police and had to be reinterto-

gated by representatives of this Agency

and your Bureau.

This later

interroga-

tion, showed that he was probably lying "

ICSCI: 3/279,136

13 December 1963. (Comment: Translation was

made of the Mexican police report forwarded to Headquarters as

an attachment to HMMA-22561, 5. December 196301

31 January 1964

The Agency forwards a memorandum to the Warren Commission

enclosing a presentation of the information developed by CIA onsor

about Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. A summary of the informa-

tion relating to the monetary payment to OSWALD and the investigas

rion of this allegation appears on pages 11 through 14 of the en-

Closure.

[Memorandun for MroJ. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964 subject

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City x28 September = 3 October: 1963.a

21 April 1964

The General Counsel, J: Lee RANKINg of the Warren Connis

sion forwards the following memorandum to the Deputy Director for

Plans:

"On behalf of the Commission I would like

to thank you and your representatives for the

fine cooperation which was extended to represen-

tatives of the Commission during the course of

their work in Mexico City from April 8 through

April 13, 1964.I am informed that Mr. SCOTT,

the Chief of your Station in Mexico City: was

particularly generous with his time and advice

and in tact, contributed greatly to the success

of our mission in Mexico.

During their stay in Mexico City the

Commission representatives discussed with me

Mr.

SCOTT and agents of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation that portion of the Lee

Harvey OSWALD investigation which concerned

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarto.

We are aware, of

course, from previous reports that the allega-

cions made by ALVARADO were thoroughly inves-

tigated by Central Intelligence Agency and

Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives

in Mexico City in liaison with the responsible

Javrenforcement authorities.

Reference is

made to the discussion of these allegations in

your memorandum dated January 31, 1964 at pages

11 3 1401

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"Upon review of our complete file on

this matter we find that we lack full docu-

mentation. of the investigation conducted of

these allegations. It would be helpfulsit

our records could be supplemented by a report

from your Agency supplying more details. re-

garding the investigation undertaken by your

Agencyand other concerned Ageneies, into this

matter and your evaluation as to the truth of

ALVARADO Stassertions

In particular, it would

be helpful if a report could be submitted by

the expert who conducted the polygraph exami

nation which emphasizes the specific conclusions

which he made based on the responses by ALVARADO

in answering key questions on this matter "

fetter to Mr Richard Helms, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 21 April 1961 from J, Lee RANKIN, General Counsel ]

1 June 1964

In response to the above letter from the General Counsel

of the Warren Commission, the Agency forwarded by memorandum the

texts ofs the following disseminations relative to ALVARADO that

were made to other us Government agencies:

our teletype No. 85089,

dated 26 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

b. OUT Teletype No. 85199, dated 27 November 1963,

Subject Lee-Harvey OSWALD

OUT Teletype No.

85662

dated 28 November 1963

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

OUT Teletype No. 86068, dated 30 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

OUT Teletype No. 85666, dated 28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

Memorandum, dated 12 (sic 13) December 1963,

Subjects Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO

Subjects

OUT Teletype No. 87667, dated 7 December 1963

fee Harvey OSWALD:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, datod 1 June 1964, from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans: Subject. Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte. 1

13:0ctober 1964

The General Counsel forwards the following letter to

the Honorable John A: McCONE, DCI:

We are enclosing a copy of your SECRET document

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dated January 31, 1964, concerning informa-

tion developed by ClAion the activity of

Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September

3 October 1963-

we have deleted all references touthe Secret

Agent by the marking, "D'. Since this docu

ment was cited in our summary report, we are

requesting your authority to publish it in

If this is not agreeable, may we

have a synopsis of this document which may be

[Letter to John A. McCONE, Director,

Central Intelligence

Agency, dated 13 October 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General

Counsel. Enclosures: Commission Documents 347 and 1084.1

20 October 1963

The Deputy Director for Plans forwards a memorandum

to the General Counsel of the Warren Commission in response to

the latter saletter of 13 October 1964.

The Commission's Report (pages 307-308)

contains information furnished by this Agency

In memoranda dated 31 January and I June 1964

Since both include information relative torin-

telligence methods and operations which should

not be placed in the public domain

I suggest

the use of the revised and consolidated ver-

sious dated June 1964 which is forwarded as

an attachment. Me

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 20 October 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director, for Plans. 1

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