CABLE:ON 9 DECEMBER HQS FORWARDED COPIES OF DOCUMENTS FROM FIRST 60 VOLUMES ON OSWALD.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 12/10/1977
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WNINTEL RNVIEW MHSPLASH

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REFS: : A.: DIRECTOR 136271

B. DIRECTOR 135665

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ON 9 DECEMBER HOS FORWARDED VIA TOMO. NO.

214249 COPIES: OF

DOCUMENTS FROM THE FIRST 60 VOLUMES ON OSWALD.

THERE ARE TWO

SECTIONS PERTAINING SOLELY TO MEXICO WHICH

RELATIVE TO SUBJECT'S TRAVEL" AND "MEXICO., ARE ENTITLED "INVESTIGATION

THE LATTER SECTION

INCLUDES INFORMATION ON INTERVIEWS WITH TRAVELLERS AND CONTINENTAL

TRAILWAYS EMPLOYEES. AMONG OTHER INDIVIDUALS.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST:

•A.: SECTION TWO - FBI INTERNAL MEMORANDUM DATED 2 DECEMBER

1963 RE INFORMATION. RELATING TO 6.5 MM MANNLICHER-CARCANO

AMMUNITION USED IN THE ASSASSINATION. PORTION OF MEMO READS:

INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS ORDER IS THAT IT IS FOR AMMUNITION

WHICH DOES NOT FIT AND CANNOT BE FIRED IN ANY OF THE USME WEAPONS.

THIS GIVES RISE TO THE OBVIOUS SPECULATION IHAT IT IS A CONTRACT FOR

AMMUNITION PLACED BY CIA WITH WESTERN (CARTRIDGE CORPORATION) UNDER

A USMO COVER FOR CONCEALMENT PURPOSES, "

NOTE FROM FBI'S DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION DATED

25. NOVEMBER 1963, PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SYLVIA T. DURAN

OF REF B.

"SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE ARRESTED BY MEXICAN

AUTHORITIES ON 23 NOVEMBER 1963 FOR INTERROGATION.

SHE WAS

COOPERATIVEAND FURNISHED WRITTEN STATEMENTS RE TWO VISITS BY OSWALD

TO CUBAN EMbASSY IN LATE SEPTEMBER, 1963 FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING

VISA TO TRANSIT CUBA TO GO TO USSR.

CARLOS LECHUGA, CUBAN

IMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND FORMERLY CUBAN

AMBASSADOR TO

MEXICO, AND DURAN DESIRE TO MARRY."

27 NOVEMBER 1953TION THREE -MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BELMONT DATED

(DOCUMENT IS RELATIVE TO TELEPHONE CALL FROM

DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL KATZENBACH ON HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH ALEXIS

JOHNSON; DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE. JOHNSON TOLD KATZENBACH

THAT "INSOFAR AS THE INVESTIGATION

OF THIS MATTER IN MEXICO IS

:ONCERNED STATE DEPARTMENT: FELT THIS SHOULD BE COORDINATED AND

DIRECTED BY THE FBI.

STATE TOOK THE POSITION THAT THE PRESIDENTIS

DIRECTIVE TO THE FBI EXTENDED TO ANY ACTIVITY DUTSIDE OF THE

INITED STATES. AS WELL AS WITHIN THE COUNTRY.

INSOFAR AS THE

iMBASSADOR IN MEXICO IS CONCERNED JOHNSON BELIEVED HE SHOULD BE KEPT

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INFORMED OF ANY PERTINENT DEVELOPMENTS BUT THAT THE AMBASSADOR SHOLL! -

NOT BE RUNNING THE INVESTIGATION."

(CONTINUED FROM ABOVE> IN CONNECTION WITH THE

INVESTIGATION

• IN MEXICO, IT IS RECOMMENDED KATZENBACH BE INFORMED

THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT: AND CENTRAL

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)

HÄVE JURISDICTION IN DEALING WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND IN GETTING

INVESTIGATIVE RESULTS AND INTELLIGENCE COVERAGE ABROAD: THAT WHILE WE

ARE COOPERATING FULLY WITH STATE AND CIA IN MEXICO, THE RESPONSIBILITY

IN THIS MATTER SHOULD REST WITH STATE AND CIA.".

AIRTEL FROM LEGATT, MEXICO. DATED 22 NOVEMBER 1963:

"INVESTIGATION MEXICO HAS FAILED TO DETERMINE ANY INFORMATION

CONCERNING SUBJECT'S ENTRY INTO OR DEPARTURE FROM MEXICO.

KNOWN INFORMATION, AS SET OUT IN RECAB. CIA ADVISED IN "SECRET"

COMMUNICATION. SUBJECT IN CONTACT SOVIET EMBASSY, MEXICO CITY.

28 SEPTEMBER 1963 AND 1 OCTOBER 1963.

INVESTIGATION CONTINUING."

SECTION SIX - LEGATT• MEXICO CITY MEMORANDUM DATED

1963 RELATIVE TO PORTIONS OF MEXICAN TOURIST CARD

ISSUED TO OSWALD. BY THE MEXICAN CONSULATE GENERAL (EXCISED)):

TWO PORTIONS OF THE TOURIST CARD WERE MADE AVAILABLE TO THIS OFFICE

ON 12/3/63 BY (EXCISED) REQUESTED THAT THESE DOCUMENTS BE

RETURNED TO HIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SINCE THEY ARE OFFICIAL RECORDS

OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND UNDER MEXICAN LAW ARE NOT SUPPOSED

TO BE RELEASED TO OUTSIDERS. "

CABLEGRAM. TO MEXICO CITY RE GiLBERTO POLICARPO

LOPEZ (UNDATED): "AMERICAN CONSULATE, NUEVO LAREDO: CONFIDENTIALLY

ADVISED BY (EXCISED) NUEVO LAREDO, THAT HE FURNISHED INFORMATION

CONCERNING SUBJECT'S ENTRANCE TO MEXICO TO DR. RAFAEL HERNANDES..

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MEXICAN IMMIGRATION. MEXICO CITY, WHO

REQUESTED TO HANDLE THIS EXCLUSIVELY WITH MEXICAN GOVERNMENT.

ADVISES SUBJECT'S TOURIST CARD WAS ISSUED MEXICAN CONSULATE: TAMPA.

FLORIDA. "

SECTION SIX ALSO CONTAINS BUREAU NOTE ON SILVIA DURAN.

SECTION 27: WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE AIRTEL DATED

27 NOVEMBER 1963: LEE HARVEY OSWALD APPROACHED CARLOS BRINGUIER.

HEAD OF CUBAN STUDENT DIRECTORATE (CSD) IN NEW ORLEANS, LA.. DURING

APPROXIMATELY EARLY AUGUST 1963 AND HAD OFFERED, SIO CONTRIBUTION

TOWARD FURTHERANCE OF ANTI-CASTRO CAUSES OF CSD.

FORMER U.S. MARINE HE ALSO OFFERED TO ASSIST IN MILITARY TRAINING

JF MEMBERS OF. THIS GROUP... THE CSD WAS SUSPICIDUS OF OSWALD.

SUSPECTING HE WAS POSSIBLY: A MEMBER OF THE FBI OR CIA WHO WAS

ATTEMPTING TO PENETRATE THEIR ORGANIZATION.

E. SECTION 39 - UNDATED DOCUMENT "SA 105-2909'

INTERVIEW WITH RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ. APPEARING IN THIS REPORT

NAS PREDICATED ON INFORMATION RECEIVED. BY THE MIAMI DIVISION FROM

=IA, MIAMI, IN A CIA MEMORANDUM CLASSIFIED. "SECRET."

HOWEVER IT IS

BELIEVED INSTANT REPORT SHOULD BE SO CLASSIFIED AS A RESULT OF

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INTERVIEW WITH BUENROSTRO AND THEREFORE IT IS NOT BEING

CLASSIFIED.

CIA MEMO REFERRED TO WAS NOT INCLUDED.)

F. SECTION 42: MEMORANDUM FROM SAN JOSE. CA.. OFFICE

18 DECEMBER 1963: INTERVIEW BY FBI OF ROBERTO EDMOND GALLANT.

INMATE AT SANTA CLARA PRISON FARM IN SAN JOSE, CA.

: GALLANT ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN ACTIVE

IN ANTI-CASTRO

UNDERGROUND IN MEXICO FOR PAST SIX YEARS UNDER THE NAME OF GENERAL

ROBERTO DE EDMONDO CORTEZ AND THAT HE HAD UNDER HIS COMMAND A SECRET

ARMY OF 3500 MEN THROUGHOUT MEXICO... THIS IS AN ANTI-COMMUNIST FORCE

•CONCENTRATING ON THE CUBAN COMMUNISTS IN MEXICO.

• GALLANT STATED HE HAD A "SECRET AGENT" WHOSE IDENTITY

HE ABSOLUTELY REFUSED TO DIVULGE AND WHO IS PRESENTLY WORKING IN

THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN MEXICO CITY.

THIS SECRET AGENT ADVISED GALLANT

THAT OSHALD WENT TO THE CUBAN EMBASSY ON. 12 JULY 1963 IN AN ATTEMPT

TO GET A VISA TO CUBA AND ALSO TO RUSSIA.

OSWALD STAYED IN MEXICO

CITY FOR ABOUT ONE WEEK.

THIS WAS HIS FIRST TRIP TO MEXICO CITY AND

HE ARRIVED BY AIRPLANE ALONE.

GALLANT STATED

THAT HIS SECRET AGENT POINTED OUT OSWALD

TO HIM ON IZ JULY 1963.

OSWALD HAD. ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE

AGENT BECAUSE OF HIS DESIRE TO OBTAIN THE AFOREMENTIONED TRAVEL VISA

WHICH WAS THOUGHT TO BE UNORDINARY FOR A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS CONTAINED IN SECTIONS TWO.

20225. 41 AND 42 AND PERTAIN TO GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO

THE NICARAGUAN CITIZEN WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN SUBJECT

(OSWALD) PAID A LARGE SUM OF MONEY IN THE CUBAN CONSULATE IN MEXICO

CITY ON 18 SEPTEMBER (1963):

A MEMORANDUM DATED SO NOVEMBER 1963 INDICATES THAT

ALVARADO CONFESSED TO THE MEXICAN OFFICIALS THAT HIS STATEMENT ON

OSHALD WAS FALSE.

HE STATED HIS MOTIVE WAS PERSONAL AND DID NOT

INVOLVE HIS COUNTRY.

HE SAID HE WANTED TO THE GIVE THE U.S. A

REASON FOR OVERCOMING CASTRO.

A 7 DECEMBER 1963 CABLEGRAM FROM MEXICO CITY INDICATES

THAT A SOURCE IN MEXICAN IMMIGRATION ADVISED THIS MORNING THAT

ALVARADO BEING DEPORTED TOMORROW MORNING. DECEMBER 8. TO NICARAGUA.

CABLEGRAM NOTED. "CIA HERE ADVISED BY US OF ABOVE INFORMATION,"

AN B. DECEMBER 1963 BUREAU INTERNAL NOTE INDICATES THAT

ALVARADO HAD BEEN POLYGRAPHED BY CIA. HE INDICATED DECEPTION WHEN

TALKING ABOUT OSKALD.

• HE NOW ADMITS HE MUST HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN:

TE IS TO BE DEPORTED TO NICARAGUA. ON MONDAY. 9 DECEMBER BY

DO. A 11 DECEMBER 1963 MEMORANDUM FROM LEGATTO MEXICO CITY.

IASED ON A 3 DEC 1963 CONVERSATION. INDICATES THAT THE CIA SENDING

'OLYGRAPH EXAMINER TO MEXICO CITY TO INTERVIEW ALVARADO AND THAT.

EGATT SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN INTERVIEWS AS AN INTERPRETER.

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DINTS DUT THAT ENTIRE INTERVIENS HAD BEEN TAPED BY CIA AND THAT CIAY

OLYGRAPH EXAMINER WAS CALVIN DAVIS.

¿• THE ATTACHMENT TO A 13 DECEMBBER 1983 MEMORANDUM FROM

EGATT, MEXICO WAS A COPY OF FINGERPRINT CARD AND PHOTOGRAPHS

F ALVARADO.

SANTIAGO IBANEZ LLAMAS. HEAD OF THE INSPECTION SECTION

F THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO MADE

HESE ITEMS AVAILABLE TO THE LEGATT.

HAVE FOUND NO REFERENCES tO TELTAPS IN THE FIRST 60

ECTIONS

DF THE OSWALD FILE WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN

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