CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE, CITES DATES AND SPECIFIC CABLES
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Document date: 10/20/1964
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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO Ugarte

18 September 1963

According to ALVARADO's statements made during

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

Embassy security officer and a member of the Mexica Station in

Mexico City, ALVARADO went at noon on 19 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 reddishthair, 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 previously in the waiting room, carrying.

a Canadian passport

The Canacian had green eyes, blondish hair combed. in an

Wexisten-

tralist manner with a pompadour He was wearing dark eyeglasses

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osa type with to tike reflection on the our surfaces

third member of the group was Lee Harvey OSWALD. He was

waering

black sport coat on

a buttoned up white shirt with short collat tabs

no tie, gray pants

and clear eyeglasses

ALVARADO saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and

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pass: American

currency to the Negro. This unidentified Cuban ap-

parently Cane out of AZUE'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

"Youre not man enough,

I can do

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Negro (in Spanish):

"I can't go with you..

Thave a lot

to-do."

S OSWALD

The people are waiting for me bac

there."

The Negro gave OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars

in large denomination US bills saying:

"This isn't much."

:0f

the

At rin

sun, one thousand five hundred dollars was tor extra expenses

Negro also gave him. about 200 Mexican pesos..

Later, ALVARADO saw a pretty girt, whom he betieved, to

@Cuban employee of the Consulate, give OSWALD an abrazo embra

and tell hin she was living at Cal fo Juarez number 107

coutd find her The giri appeared to about 20 years

manners whi chareminded ALVARADO. of a prostitute

OSWAJAD

and the Canadian.

then went upstairs

ALVARADO left the bufiding nomentarily to buy popsicle

onathe corners he saw the above three men leave by the-Embassy gate

near the corner Of Tacubay where they entered a parked black car

possibly a Chyrolete

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.

MEXT -7069 (IN 68376) 26 November 1963]

X322h20426027

25 November 1963

ALVARADO called the United States Embassy.

That same

evening he met with the Embassy security officer.

[MEXL-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 19631

[Comnent: 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.n. near the Hotel Maria

Isabel. J

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Iwo Individuals appeared for the 5:30 p.mo appointment

They identified themselves and were carrying the credentials of

FBI agents ALVARADO told about his seeing OSWALD etc. Another

appointment was made for 15 the next morning at the feng Restau

rant.

THMMA -22561,5 December 1963; CSCT-3/779,136, 13 December 19631

Conment The two individuals were SuCH the Embassy security

officer, and A PLAYBECK (P), Mexican Station office ALVARADe

may have mistaken Embassy identification documents for FBI ere

25 November 1963

SALVARADO. Claimed inter alia that two persons were an

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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 sicle

AGVARADO claims that on the 18th of September he was

the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Gity and he saw Lee Harvey OStroy

ceive 15500

OSWALD was speaking with a Begro, ahout 29 year

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

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

No 392

05725

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:

"That

all right, I can do this nyself."

The "source" CALVARADO 2) 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 nest

who has blue eyes and lives at Calle Juarez 407-20

"The "source" also stated that OSWALD was given 51,500

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

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]

-I"Conment:

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. I

26 November 1963

ALVARADO meets the same two men from the Embassy whom he

had, the evening before eat 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 chree

nen 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

Cata him they out call him see number 7 to cheatie

telephone number ote the place where ALVARADO WaS LIVIng ALVARADO

was called the sine day ar sas paleand was told do met the caree

METE

ate on the Juarez monument.

(Blind memorandum

Jated 25 November 1963, Memorandun to Clark

ANDERSON Logal Attache, dated 29 November 1963; and FMMA-225

S December 1963/ and CSCT-3/179,136, 13 December 1963.J

- 26- November 1963

Station officer and local security officer are inter-

viewing a Nicaraguan who claims that on l8 September he saw Lee

Use 57646:

OsWALD received six thousand five hundred dollars during a meeting

insIde the cuban Embassy la Mexico City:

MEXI 7067 CIN 68207)

26 November 19631

[Comment:

This cable was the first report to Headquarters

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 is waiting

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for them, together they cross the Street and enter an apartmentin

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 1963]

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26. November 1963 (date of, cable)

Managua Station reports on identity of ALVARADO and

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

quarters believe it desirable to break ALVARADO, the Station

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

Mexico to question him.

MANA 4609 (IN 68452) : 26 November 19631

(Comment NIC - Nicaraguan Security Service.)

26 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Ssem natzon by cable to the riState and the whate

House

-results of ALVARADO interroga

Rest

traCe.

On 26 November 1963 Gilberto ALVARADO, a

professed Castroite Nicaraguan born 31 January

1940 in Ciudad Rama, Zelaya, Nicaragua,

Camels

to the American Embassy in Mexico and made ay

statement about Lee OSWALD. He said that one

18 September 1963 he saw Lee OSWALD receive

six thousand five hundred dollars in a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City

24l About himself, ALVARADO said-he

City awaiting false documentation so he could

go to Cuba for sabotage training a He names

three other members of his organization in Ni

caragua as Juan LORILLO, Rolan ALVARADO, and

Carlos FONSELA Amador Questioning of ALVARADO

is continuing.

5r3. (Comment: Gilberto ALVARADO Is a well-known

Nicaraguan communist underground member who is

also a regular informant of the Nicaraguan Security

Service and officer of which has provided this

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

sider his reliability to be questionable although

he has not been wholly discredited. The other men

he namestare well-known Nicaraguan communists.

check of the files of this Agency does not show sla

where Lee OSWALD actually was on 18 September 1963,

when ALYARADO says he saw OSWALD in the Cuban Eng

bassy in Mexico, but based on the informations

available to this Agency as of this date OSWALDa

visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico for the first

time after 1 September 1963-M

(DIR 85089, 26 November 1963)

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to Mexico Station that "In your

investigation, suggest you contact ALVARADO'S NIC case öfficer

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in Mexico City and ask him whether ALVARADO has ever.

told him this

story Or anything like it.

IDIR 85178, 27 November 19631

27. November 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that "After considera

Lion by BRENT and KVIGHT, we feel that investigation and analysis

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

action is taken."

[DIR: 85198 27 November 1963]

27. November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters makes dissemination to FBI, Stater and the

White House Incorporating Information forwarded to Headquarters

in MEXI-7069 CIN 68376, 26 November 1963 (qv)

[DIR 85199, 27 November 19631

27. November 1963

ALVARADO 'e story

being checked as thoroughly as Station

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assets make possible.

He also being re-interviewed in much

at rink

detail. ALVARADO is being moved to safe address:

[MEXI-7093 QN 68530) 21 November 1903)

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. ALKARADO says he has been to Cuban Consulate on

LAYER:

2 or 3 September,

15 or 16 September, 18 Septembe

, 18 September, 26 September

and 25 November The Station comments that "Station photographic

coverage of the Cuban Embassy did not include consulate gate unt

OCtObeTE ALVARADO did not appear in photographs of persons us

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Embassy gate He admits vistting the Sortet, Embassy Cord

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however, he has not been identified in photographic coverage

Soviet Embassy.

[MEXI 7098 (IN 69127), 27 November 19631

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27. November 91963

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.

[MEXT 7104 (IN 69225), 27 November 19631

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

FBI says: OSWALD, applied for unemployment insu

a cuban he Mericus

FBI, che

he could have clown to Mexico by Sep

tember

He

Orleans on 25 September and left that daya for. Texas. without

his rent He is believed to have been without funds during

perfod.

FBI says his New Orleans landlady believes he was

continuously between IZ and 25 September.

[DIR 85258, 27. November 19631

27 November 1963(date offcable)

According to Mexico-Station, ALVARADO story after

708S85

stallmentsitends prove only that he has been in Cuban Embassy and

knows some ofjemployees 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 HQ 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 exceptin pol

relative AVARavo!S alleged mission for JENEr

708013

IMEXI-7107 (IN 69310) , 27 November 19631

27 November

- 1963

Headquarters states that "in the face of mounting evi-

Edence that ALVARADO is fabricating his story of seeing

OSWALD take money in the Cuban Embassy & 4T89 you fol

Tow up with his local NIC case officer and ayall yourse

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ofithe help of the NIC service, which can

Send; (WHEELOCK), a good ClA 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.

2. The fact that ALVARADO is a calm, nice, ano

intelligent.young man does not mean he is not a

Fabricator.

FYI we and other agencies are being

flooded by fabrications on the OSWALD case from

several continents, some ariginating with people

con, the fringes of the intelligence businesse

Such fabrication are not usually done for money,

but out of sickly fancy and a desires to get

the intelligence game.

Me do not think It a remarkable coincidence e

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 ma

have heard through some: Russian or Cuban source

in the Mexican Government that DURAN was asked

whether the Cubans paid OSWALD for the alleged

assignment.

DIR 85616,

27 November 19631

captain Franklin. Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia.

Name encrypted

6 text.)

28. November. 1963 (date of cable)

Fat says their follow up byestigation of osac

vities has rpoduced "reasonable indications" that he was

Madra

Orleans on 19 September 1963.

This, coupled with earties

that he was in New Orleans applying for unemployment insurance

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

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

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

"al He have just heard by phone from KINGMAN, M

who is at home

that MEXL evaluation

Of ALVARADO

story may have been seriously warped by a piecer

sof misinfornation which has crept into this case.

From: conversation with your officers, KINGMAN:

has the: impression that they believe there 1s

other evidence that Lee OSWALD made a bank de:

posit of five thousand dollars in the United

States after he got back from Mexico on october

1963 This would tend, if true, to corroborates:

ALVARADO. story that he saw OSWALD get five u

thousande for the job and fifteen hundred for ex-

penses KINGMAN thinks he heard that CURTIS

Winston-SCOTT) got the information about the

bank, deposit from

an FBI man named Clark?

We

know of,no such bank depostt and have n

never heard of one.

Pot here hasjust affirmed

they never heard this story The story of the

deposit

of five thousand dollars is therefore

almos cecertainly erroneous . Please check it

with FBid there

We have advised FRil that thi

runor exists in Mexico.

EBihas Must revied on use officral tec

for full Information on source and originsof

Tuner about five thousand dollar bam

[DIR 85654 / 28 November 1963]

28. November 19633

577 4030

Headquarters stresses, to Mexico that there shourd

be no let down i your effort to fortow all leads and Investigare

all facts which bear on this case te have by no means ace

the possibility that other as yet unknown persons may tendee

volved or even that other powors may have played a colo

continue all your coverage of Soviet and Cuban in

your liaison with Mexicans.

IDIR: 85655,1

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

Kensi

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

admits 15 In Mexico legally, 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.

[MEXE-7113 CIN

37 28 November 1963J

28 NOVE

uarters responded to the Station's request (see

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

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.

2a Advise us if the FBI in Mexico attempts to get you

to act one way of the other on the question of turning ALvArao

over to the Mexicans.!

Headquarters concludes Its message to Mexico by commen

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

He was sent

825.00666

especially to follow up leads on the entire assassination.

Hea

quarters asks that the Station cooperate with him fully

(DIR 85661, 28

28 November 1963]

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates by cable to the FBI State,

and the White House, the information obtained from ALVARADO during

night of 26 Novenber 1963. Information obtained from ALVARADO ON

the latter date was forwarded to. Headquarters in MEXI-7098 (IN

474 SA

69127) , 27 November 1963.

(See appropriate entry above.

EDIR 85662, 38 November 19637

28 November 1963

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28 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that

Mr. Clark ANDERSON, Legal Attache, told

the cost

and Ambassador MANN of rumor that

•OSWALD-had deposited five thousand dollars

in a bank in the United States rela

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One 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-

firm or deny this. He said he would check

his Headquarters.

"3. COS has not heard rumor regarding fiver

thousard dollar

deposition televigion.or

radio, but, feels sure ANDERSON or Some of

his office did hear this This Station had

nowadd tional information concerning thisp

but assume ALVARADO may have heard same

radio on television report and thus have had

hasis For five thousand dollar paymentives

NEXT-7114 ON 696210 A

28 November: 196313

28 November 1963:

The Managua Station in Nicaragua stated, thatet

requested General Gustavo MONTIEL),

cooperation Mexico through Major JEREZ and if

poss bre by sending: Captain WHEELOCK) to

Mexico MONTIEL said ALVARADO in Mexico witha

out (Servicels) authority and passed off sug

gestion use JEREZ but agreed immediately to

send WHEELOCK.

Ho wHEELOCK now jo

process getting visa and plane reservations

and will probably be in Mexico today unless

Headquarters and Mexico wish to cancel.

12- Even though his story regarding OSWALD

maybe false it possible he has been working

other angle to penetrate Cubans and (WHEELOCK)

will be able to assist in getting facts straight.

[MANA-4613 (IN 69629), 28 November 19631

* General Gustavo MONTIEL, Chief of Intelligence Service,

Nicaraguan Army:

Name encrypted in text-)

Najor 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 interrogate

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.

1'3. 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

deveropments.

The FBI

takes the position that inasmuch as

Silvia DURAN may be released some time today (28

November.

according to information which the FBI

has from the Legal Attache, ALVARADO should be

turned over to the Mexican as soon as possible,

sosthat their stories can be checked against each

#5 Mexico Station is instructed to carry out the

FBI's requests set out above.

Give full coopera

tion to the Legal Attache e

[DIR 85663, 28 November 1963]

28. Novenber 1963.

Manuagua Station reports that Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK

Garcia, a Captain National, and chief

of the Anti-Connunist Section

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

on. 29 November 1963.

IMANA - 4614 IN 68671), 28 November 19631

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates the following to the FBI,

State Department,

and White House:

yActing on a request made to this Agency by

the Federal Bureau of Investigation on 28

November 1963

our Agency 1s: instructing It

In Mexico orty to tuIn over-Gülberts

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan informant who claims that

he saw Lee OSWALD accept six thousand five nue

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,

is dispatching, a senior 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 Washington 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

[MEXI-71203 IN

28 November 19631

28- November 1963

Headquarters responds that there is no Spanish-speaking

polygraphe operatore

tron;

For, reasons of security and compartmenta

preter not to have Agency operator double

tracked with Mexican operator Would only con

fuse the case Prefer to wait until all Mexi-

can resources exhausted before we decide if we

want to resume: management. of case, including

poly graph.

145.

notice."

seasoned operators avartable here on shout

(DIR 85667, 28 November 19631

28 November 1963

Sex 2n 3

Mexico Station reports that

cos in contact with acting Minister of

Gobernacion Luis ECHEVARRIA at 1430 his Mext

Co City time and ECHEVARRIA grateful that

ALVARADO being turned over to Gobernacion.

NZ. 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 (IN

7, 28 November 19631

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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:

TMEXT-7726 (IN 70T04), 29 November 19631

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 the

Station comments that ALVARADO gave the Mexicans the same story

he gave Station officers.

One difference is that ALVARADO faile

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ta identify Silvia DURAN from several photographs he was

shown

ALVARADO had identified her when he was being questioned bi

Station

-[MEXL-7127 (IN 70145) 29 November 19631

29: November 1963

des Headquarters asks Mexico Station ou

(to) continue

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

ALVARADO, and others implicated as faste as you can get intormation.

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 negativer by

0900 Mexico time

Be sure to keep us informed of what formation

if any is leaked to public information media."

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[DIR 85672, 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

In the interest of speed, Headquarters wishes to 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 commo

facilities and secretarial staff to keepsits Headquarters informed

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

If you find that the Legal Attache there does not

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

9i25-

material, they may of sourse send messages right through our

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

have been."E

(DIR 85712, 29 November 19631

29-November 1965

To votes station pondel to me move mesase o

ting that

The Legal Attache is locally being advised

by COS personally of everything Statioh learns

concerning OSWALD case and, now, on: ALVARADO

interrogation.

sure that begal Attache-s off

almost same size as the Station, has adequate

eporting needs.

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 byamemorandum

4- Headquarters is assured chat e11

known to Station on these cases is being given to

them and shortly after information obtained

[MEXI: 7128 (IN 70163), 28 November 1963]

29 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the FBI ,,State

rand the White House that "The first very Sketchy report on

MARESEARS

gress of the Mexican official interrogation of orberto ALVARADO

shows he is telling essentally the same story

Mexican official doing the interrogation of ALVARADe

doubts. ALVARADO' story and will begin work to break!

(DIR 85744 29 November 1963)

29 November 1963

Chief of Mexico Station forwards memorandum to Mr. Clark

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DO ANDERSON, Legal Attache, containing the results of three

sinte

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.

SENECT

29. November 1963

Official of Ministry Of Gobernacion stated that after

his firstzsession with ALVARADO he believed ALVARADO's story to be

a fantastic lies after second session and all previous and interin

interrogations AVARADO stacks to same story on OSWALD aCTa

Stated Archough this still prettmimary, either AVARADO

een essenesaty or he is the best That i have

many years and Tahave talked to some of the biggest." Heats

clined to believe

ALVARADO is telling the truth in general outline

but believes hets mixed up on dates.

[MEXI - 7156 (IN

5. 29 November 19631

29 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that Captain WHEELOCK has arr

in Mexico City and

1s staying at the Geneve Hotel.

+[Ibid•]

29 November 1963

Captain WHEELOCK noets with official from Ministry_of

Gobernacion; he tells the afficial that ALVARADO has been 75%

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

information on communism in the past:

WHEELOCK said, however,

Rome

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

to control.

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

30 November 1963

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

of Cobernacion told the Chief of Station that" ALVARADO has signed

2242000

a statement saying that story of seeing OSWALD inside the Cuban

302

Embassy is completely false:

He also stated that he had not

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seen anyone handed money by Cuban consular officers to said too

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

on 20 September to waty them.

His first call to the Embassy was

on 25 November, the evening he saw the us Embassy Securty

officer.

MEXT 7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963}

30 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that the Legal Attache is being

intorned of the above Information fas well as other information

ained

n. MEXT 7168)

MEXL-7168 (TN 70860), 30 November 1963)

30 November 1963. (date of dissemination)

Headquarters, disseminates Information to brotate

Departwenty and the White House, that ALVARADO sotte

was a fabrication

DIR 86063-30 November 19631

30 November 19630

Headquarters asks the Station obtain all detail

The Station is asked to "continue

tO

d11 leads and tips

The question bf whether OSWALD acted solely

on his own has still not been finally resolved

[DER 8606430 November 1963}

fallou

2: December.: 1963

Captate WHEELOCK SaW ALVARADO, during afternoon

•foT

time. Meeting lasted only goven minutes.

In brief

intervien

company of two Mexican officials, ALVARADO reverted to

Thi

vious story He claimed he did see OSWALD, did call the U.

Embassy to report (Embassy investigation does not support lat

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

fabi

cating because he was

"mentally mistreated"

.e.,

threatened

with

physical harm, although he was not actually physically mistreate

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WHEELOCK Said he unable to come to any definite conclusion as

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

turned to Managua and had chance to complete the interrogation.

200217

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

IMEX1 7203 (IN 71702) , Z December 1963J

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 polygrapha Headquarters asks that Station

have ALVARADO to be released to us for sever

WHEELOCK to Gemainin Mexico to assist

Calvin DAVIS of the Office of Security will arrive on

4 December Polygraph Should be administered in safehouse and

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

graph interview however.

he will,be assisted by Clark, ANDERSON

who has been selected here.

as interpreter.

"The FBI will notify

ANDERSON of thisThe idea is that ANDERSON would be able to

tes

tify at any later hearing:

[DIR: 86563073 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:

2-26224057l

AVARDO wiTh be taken to sarehouse or noted

suite.:

C. ANDERSON TO GARCIA will act as interpreters.

¿ Plan to "borrow" ALVARADO oarly morning of

5 December and return him that evening

(MEXI 7229 (IN 72877), 3 December 1963)

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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 F

FBI has specified that: MT. ANDERSON act as theif participant

in the interrogation and any variance should have approval of Mr

ANDERSON •

(DIR 86621, December 1963}

5 December 1963

More plans by Station for, interrogation

OB- ALVARADO

MEX-1256 (IN 74223) 5 December 1963)

Mexican Station

forwards copies of. Mexican interrogation

report on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte

Station notes thatra copy, or

this report was handed to the Legal. Attache:

LEMMA - 22501Vecembe 9031

5 December 1963

reliminary questioning Of ALVARADO took place

[MEXI 7267 (IN 74696) , 6 December 19631

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

of the week he allegedly saw OSWALD:

He thinks it was on Tues

day

which would have been I septembers

When ALVARADO-was. shown

a series of photographs during the testing, deception patterns

became evident then he was contrinted with the answered le

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

cortect, The interrogation was concluded with ALVARADO admitt

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

his identification of OSWALD

ALVARADO to be held by the Mexicans until 9 December

[MEXI-7289 (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 22s

seen someone Like OSWALD and thought it must

have been on a Tuesday, which would have made

Pit: 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-

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expected that ALVARADO will be deported:

Nicaragua on 9 December 1963

"A representative of your. Bureau:

to the interrogation of ALVARADO, participated

MIR 87662617 December 19631

7 December 19635

An official of the Ministry of Gobernacion advised the

Chief of Station that ALVARADO will be returned to Managua by:

TACA flight no 123 leaving Mexico at 0930 hours on 8 December:

(MEXT-7290 (TN 5835) 57 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 MS

ALVARADO; Nicaraguan who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD accept S6500 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

one first told his story are undoubtedly

officers of this Ageney.

His claim that they

used FBI credentials is, of course,

absolutely

Our officers use no credentials in

Mexico City.

"3.

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 reinterro:

gated by representatives of this Agency

and your Bureau.

This later interroga-

ation showed that he was probably Lying

[CsCT 3/779,136-13 December 1963.

(Commento Translation was

made of the Mexican police report forwarded to Headquarters

an-attachment: to. HMMA-22561, 5 December 19630) 1

31 January 1964

The Agency forwards a memorandum to

o the Warren Commissto

enclosing a presentation of the information developed by CIA ontor

about Lee Harvey OSWALD: In Mexico City.

A sunmary.

mary of the informa

tron relating, to the monetary payment to OSWALD and the investe

tron of this allegation appears on pages lIthrough 14. of

ther

* Closure P

Memorandu to Mad Lee RANKTN, dated 31 January a Subec

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee harvey osAby

in Mexico City! 28 September 3 October 19630

21 April 1964

The General Counsel, J, Lee RANKIN*

of the warren Commi

sion forwards the following memorandumato the Deputy Directorefor

/ Plans

HOn behalf of the Conmission 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, 1964JI am informed that Mr. SCOTT,

the Chief of your Station in Mexico City, was

particularly generous with his time and advice

and, In fact, contributed greatly to the success

of our mission in Mexicos

"During their stay in Mexico City the

Commission representatives discussed with

Mr. SCOTT and agents of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation that portion of the bee

Harvey OSWALD investigation which concerned

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarto,

course, from previous reports that the allega-

tions made by ALVARADQ 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

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JUpon review of our complete file on

this matter, wexfind that we lack full docu-

mentation of the investigation conducted of

these allegations:

It would be belpful if

our records could be supplemented by a report

from your Agency supplying more details re-

garding the investigation undertaken by your

Agency and other concerned Ageneies intosthis

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 exami

nation which, emphasizes the specific conclustons

which he made based on the responses by ALVARADO

iu answering key questions on this matter

0.4014

(letter to Mr Richard Helms, Deputy Director for Plans

lated 21 April 1964 from I Lee RANKIN

1 June 1964

In response to the above letter from the General Couns

of the Warren Commission, the Agency forwarded by memorandum the

texts of the following disseminations relative to AAkADos that

were made to other Up Governent agencies:

To Out teletype No:

85089,

dated 26 November 1963

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO-

brOUT Teletype No- 85199,

dated 27 November 1963,

Subjeet:

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

OUT Teletype No

85662, dated 28 November 1963

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

d. OUT Teletype No. 86068, dated 30 November 1963

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

e. OUT Teletype No. 85666, dated 28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

f. Memorandum, dated 12 (sic 13] December 1963,

Subject: Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO:

OUT Teletype No. 87667, dated 7 December 1963,

Subject.

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

132213

[Memorandum for ME. J, Leo RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Gilberta

ALVARADO Ugarte:

13 October 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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124

dated January 31, 1964 concerning informa.

tion developed by CIA on the activity off

Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September

3 October 1963.

"We have delatod all references to the secre

Agent by the marking, "D Since this docu

ment was cited in our summary- report, we are

requesting your authority to publish it ins

this ferme

If this is not agreeable, may we

have a synopsis of this document which may be

published.

[Letter to John A. MCCONE, Director, Central Intelligence

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

Counsel. Enclosures: Commission Documents: 347 and 10843J

20. October

*1963

Tho Deputy Dizoctor For Plans forwaras

to the General Counsel of the Warren Commission

responsenta

the latter saletter of 13 October 1964.

"The Commission's Report (pages 307-308)

contains information furnished by this Agenc

in memoranda dated 31 January and I June 19643

Since both include information relative to ins

telligence methods and operations which should

not be placed in the public. domain, suggest

the use of the revised and consolidated verse

sions dated 4 June 1964 which is forwarded as

an attachments

[Memarandum for Mr

Lee RANKIN, dated 20, October 164

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director, for Plans-1

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