DISPATCH RE CUBAN EMBASSY TRASH CONTAINING SIGNATURES
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, WH DIVISION
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 10/6/64
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY

RECORD NUMBER

RECORD

SERIES

AGENCY FILE

NUMBER

Assassination Records Review Board

Final Determination Notification

: CIA

: 104-10005-10285

: JFK

201-289248

Released under the John

?. Kennedy

Assassination Records

collection act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel .

Case#:NW 53199 Date:

06-05-2017

May 20, 1996

Status of Document:

Postponed in Part

Number of releases of previously postponed information: 16

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

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

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

States or to any individual.

Number of Postponements: 5

Postponement # 1 (Page RS):

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

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

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

John Scelso.

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

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

Postponement # 2 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: LI-crypt

Release Date: 03/2006

Postponement # 3 (Page 1):

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

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

Substitute Language: LI-crypt

Release Date: 03/2006

Postponement # 4 (Page 2):

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

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

Substitute Language: LI-crypt

Release Date: 03/2006

Postponement # 5 (Page 2):

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

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

Substitute Language: LI-crypt

Release Date: 03/2006

Board Review Completed: 05/14/96

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER

RECORD SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

CIA

104-10005-10285

JFK

201-289248

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR

FROM

MEXICO CITY

TO

CHIEF, WH DIVISION

TITLE

DISPATCH RE CUBAN EMBASSY TRASH CONTAINING SIGNATURES

DATE

10/06/64

PAGES

4

SUBJECTS : SIGNATURES

CUBA EMBASSY

DOCUMENT TYPE

CLASSIFICATION

RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

OPENING CRITERIA

COMMENTS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

SECRET

1A, 1B

RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

06/17/93

OSW11: V51 1993.06.17.18:08:41:340000:

[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

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FILE TITLE

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DOCUMENT DATE

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DISPATCH

PROCESSING ACTION.

XXXX

MARKED FOR INDEXING

TO

INFO.

FROM

chief, KUDESK

Chief, WH DivIsion

Chief of Station, Mexico CIty N

NO INDEXING REQUIRED

ONLY QUALIFIED DESK

CAN• JUDGE. INDEXING

MICROFILM

SUBJECT

Lee Harvey OSWALD

ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES

References:

• A.

B.

Co

O CUBAN EMBASSY: TRASH CONTAINING

SLGNATURES AND

TYPEE SAMPLES

HMMW 12889,

10 September 1964

DIR 50132,

18 September 1964

MEXI 0969,

22 September 1964

1. Attached for Headquarters retention are:

An Item dated January 1964, recovered from Cuban.

Embassy trash by LITAINI/2, which may have been

prepared on the same typewriter used to prepare

the visa application form of Reference A; and

three Xerox copies of the signature of Merey

*MARTINEZ (full name: Mercedes #MARTINEZ del

Cueto) taken from a letter from her to LITAMIL 9,

dated September 1964.

Mercy MARTINEZ Is listed by the Cuban Foreign Ministry as Sub Director

of the Secretariat of the Ministry. Her Immediate superior 1s Juan NIlO *OTERO

Rodriguez for whom

1 she signed the letter of Reference A.

so. It is requested that every effort be made to insure that the attachment

re handled in such a way as to protect LIlAMIng and the MllAINi-2 trash operatio

from compromise.

RECORDS OFFICER STAMP

The following action is

authorized!

Laurence F1

DE SENSIT/ZE Willard Co CURTIS for

Attachments:

As stated = herewith

Signed:

Hartu

Distribution:

12 • C/KUDESK, w/att

1 - C/WHD w/o/att

3 - Files

R. 0: 11 - ubit C//R+A

Note:

It destruction, cite

réasons and

•Document Number

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if appropriate.

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for FOlA Review on

• JUL 1976

201-289248

GROUP 1

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downaradies aad

DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER

DATE

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6 October 1964

HOS FILE NUMBER

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DISPATCH

INFO:

FROM

SUBJECT:

Chief, KUDESK

Chief, WH Division

Chief of Station, Mexico City

Lee Harvey OSWALD

'ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES

CLASSIFICATION

SECRET dE BAT

PROCESSING ACTION

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MARKED FOR INDEXING.

NO INDEXING REQUIRED

ONLY QUALIFIED DESK

CÄN. JUDGE INDEXING:

MICROFILM

References

-A.

HMW: 12889,

10 September" 1964

B.

DIR 50732

18 Septemper

1964

.C.

MEXI: 0969;

22 September 1964

10 Attached for Headquarters retention are:

An item dated January 1964, recovered from Cuban

Embassy trash by LITAINI?, which may have been

prepared

on the same typewriter used to prepare

the visa application form of Reference A; and

three Xerox copies of the signature of Mercy

*MARTINEZ (full name: Mercedes *MARTINEZ del

Cueto) taken from a letter from her to LITAMIL-9;

dated September 19643

2.

Mercy MARTINEZ is listed by the Cuban Foreign Ministry as Sub-Director

of the Secretartat of the Ministry. Her immediate superfor is Juan NIlO *OTERO

Rodriguez for whom she signed the letter of Reference A.

: 34.

It is requested that every effort be made to insure that the attachments

are handled in such a way as to protect LITAMIL-9/and the LITAINT-? trash operatior

from compromise.

Willard C. CURTIS

Attachments:

As stated herewith

Distribution:

2 0 G/KUDESK, w/att

C/WHD W/O/att

- Files:

CROSS REFER

ENCE GROUP 14

Excluded from automatic

downgrading. and

declassication*

DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER;

- DATE

SECR

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HOS TILE NUMBECtober 1964

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