OSWALD IN NEW ORLEANS
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MEMORANDUM

January 19, 1976

To :

Files

From:

Paul Wallach

Re:

Oswald in New Orleans.

This morning I called (504/821-2000) "Chief"

Giarruso of the NOPD for the purpose of determining whether

Oswald was arrested in New Orleans other than on August 9,

1963. Lt. Hunt transferred me to Major Earl Burmaster's,

explaining that he was the "keeper of records".

After explaining that we were merely asking a

question that had not been asked (and not investigating

the NOPD) I inquired as to whether there were any other

arrests (or records). on Oswald.

Burmaster called me back

and suggested that I call Sgt. Wenstein in the Intelligence

Unit (ext. 311).

I spoke with Sgt. Wenstein who promised

to get back to me.

At 3:30 p.M. I called Wenstein again. He was

out of the office, but had left the matter with sgt.

Loicano. He was most cooperative and with the Oswald file

in hand stated that the "rap sheet" revealed only the

August 9, 1963, arrest.

(Included in the documents per-

taining to said arrest was a memorandum by It. August

Lang, and an August 12, 1963, "inter-office memo" to

Major Prossens.

I thanked the Sgt. for his cooperation, leaving

my phone number should anything else come to this attention.

cc: Messrs. Johnston and Dwyer

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FILES

FROM: DAN DWYER

DATE: MAY 13, 1976

RE:

LBJ LIBRARY/KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

Sharon Faucet of the LBJ Library called me back this

morning about my inquiries of May 12, 1976.

Ms. Faucet checked

Library materials to determine if there were any records in-

dicating what was discussed at a May 10, 1967, meeting attended

by Johnson, Helms, and George Christian. Faucet told me that the

"Diary Back-Up" Records have a note about the May 10, 1967,

meeting which reads "Richard Helms wants to see you

about Drew

Pearson column."

Faucet also reported that there were no memos reflecting

a March 22, 1967, meeting between Johnson and Helms, Cater,

McPherson, and Gardner.

Faucet said the meeting probably was

about the Katzenbach

academic study and possibly about the Guam

conference which occurred the week before.

I again listed the materials Faucet promised to send the

Committee:

1). List of Helms' meetings in the White House during

the Johnson administration;

2) Copies of Johnson's Daily Diary Logs for March

19-22, 1967, and April 24-May 23, 1967;

3)

Pink sheet listing Marvin Watson/FBI memos regarding

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the Garrison trial which are withheld because of

derogatory personal information;

4) The Johnson Library's public statement on the taping

system in the Johnson White House;

5)

Copy of the back-up diary notes for May 10, 1967; and

6) List of agenda for May 11 and 16, 1967, meetings at

the White House.

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FILES

FROM: DAN DWYER

DATE: MAY 12, 1976

RE :

LBJ LIBRARY MATERIALS

Sharon Faucet of the LBJ Library called me back and

provided the following information about meetings between

Johnson and Helms in meetings at the White House which Helms

attended.

March

1 22, 1967

7:27-8:38 p.m.

Johnson

Helms

John Gardner

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Harry MCPherson

Douglas Cater

(Presumably, the meeting was about the Katzenbach

Study on CIA use of academics.)

May 3, 1967

May 10,

1967

National Security Council

Johnson

Humphrey

Wheeler

Fowler

Rostow

Francis Bator

Cy Vance

Goldberg

McNamara

Helms

Bryant

the Director of USIA

George Christian

Bromley Smith

Rusk

Asst. Sec.

Laddy

Helms

George Christian

Johnson

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1967

May 11, 1967

luncheon

May 16, 1967

luncheon

Johnson

Humphrey

Rusk

McNamara

Helms

Rostow

George Christian

Johnson

Humphrey

Rusk

McNamara

Helms

Rostow

George Christian

Earl Wheeler

Johnson called Helms

May 21, 1967

11:25 a.m.

May 22, 1967

2:21 p.m.

Johnson called Helms

Ms. Faucet said she would call back tomorrow after checking

for any memos reflecting topics discussed at the meetings on

March 22, 1967, and May 10, 1967, and if the telephone conver-

sations between Johnson and Helms were taped. Additionally, Ms.

Faucet said she would forward a list of all of Helms' meetings

at the White House and copies of Johnson's daily logs for the

days listed above.

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MEMORANDUM

TO:

FILES

FROM: DAN DWYER

DATE: MAY 12, 1976

I called Sharon Faucet (sic) of the LBJ Library in

Austin this morning and informed her that Epstein and I saw

Marvin Watson at his home in California, and that Mr. Watson

showed us about four file cabinets in the basement of his

home which he represented to contain his papers from the White

House. I also informed Ms. Faucet that Watson had said he was

moving back to Texas at the end of May and would deposit those

files in the Johnson Library.

I also requested Faucet send the Committee the Library's

public statement regarding Johnson's taping system and the list

of Marvin Watson memos/FBI memos dealing with the Garrison in-

vestigation withheld

1 from research because of derogatory material.

I also asked Ms. Faucet to check the Library's materials

for any meetings involving Helms between March 19-23, 1967, and

April 24-May 22, 1967. Faucet promised to check and call me back

at mid-day.. She also mentioned that the President met with

Defense, State, and CIA every Tuesday to discuss national security

affairs, but there were no memos of these meetings until late

1967.

Ms. Faucet also informed me that Dick Jacobs, Deputy

Archivist for Presidential libraries, was the Archives' official

in Washington

who would be handling our document request from

Austin.

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April 7, 1976

MEMORANDUM

To :

Paul Wallach

From: Bob Kelley

As I mentioned to you, Senator Mathias is making an in-

vestigation of his own as a member of the Select Committee, as

permitted by Committee procedures, into the aspect of the possi-

ble connection between Operation Mongoose and the JFK assassina-

tion.

In this connection, he is interested in obtaining any FBI

documents concerning contacts between a Cuban exile, Jose Alemar

and FBl agents, among which were SA George Davis and Paul Scran-

ton. He understands that in 1962-1963, Aleman had regular meet-

ings with Santos Trafficante which Aleman reported to SA Davis

Scranton.

In particular, Senator Mathias is interested in

any documents relating to a meeting between Aleman and Davis

and Scranton on November 22 or 23, 1963. (the day or the day

after the JFK assassination).

Also, Aleman may have had a meet-

ing with FBI agents on April 17, 1971 (the day of the Bay of Pigs

Invasion) :

I would appreciate. it if you would make a request to the

FBI for material relating to the above.

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March 17, 1976

To:

All Designees

From: Paul

Wallach

Re:

Executive Session Testimony of Edward P. Morgan

and Hank Greenspun

Attached for your review

is a copy of an article captioned

"Fidel Castro ordered Jack Kennedy's Death", as it appeared in

the March 1, 1976 edition of the Las Vegas

Sun. You will

note that Hank Greenspun wrote "evidence in my possession...

provides a clearly marked trail leading to logical conclusions

as to why the Kennedy brothers were killed. That path leads

straight to the door of a vengeful Castro.".

At the instruction of theCommittee, Fritz and I have

for the past two weeks attempted on a daily basis without

success

to contact Greenspun telephonically. A telegram.

was also dispatched to Greenspun on 3/8/76 indicating the Committee's

interest in discussing the evidence in his possession. The full

Committee unanimously approved a subpoena for Greenspun.

The Committee also approved a subpoena for Washington

attorney Edward Pierpoint Morgan. Morgan was the attorney of

record for Messrs. Roselli and Maheu in 1967. It would appear

that he was the source of the Drew Pearson 1967 assassination

article which preceeded (some might say precipitated) the 1967

1G report. It was

also Morgan's information that led Pearson

to go to Chief Justice Warren on January of 1967. Recently

received FBI reports indicate that at President Johnson's urging

the Bureau reluctantly interviewed Morgan in April of 1967.

The reports recount that Morgan's clients had told him in detailed

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fashion of "Castro's retaliation plots against Kennedy", and that

Morgan knew that "two of Castro's men were living in New

Jersey. "

The return date for Morgan's subpoena is March 19. [10am;

Room 608], and for Greenspun's, March 24 [2pm;S-407]. Senator's

Schweiker and Hart will be presiding at these executive sessions.

If your Senator would like to attend, please let me know at.

the earliest possible moment. Additionally, certain underlying

reports should be reviewed prior to the Morgan session. These

will be available for your review.

CC: Messr. Miller, Schwarz & Smothers

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Fidel Castro Ordered

Jack Kennedy's Death

Southern Nevada's Only Home Owned Daily Newspaper

Las Vegas

ICULATION 382-3078

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA; MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1976

FINAL

SUN

NEWS 385-3111

FIFTEEN CENTS

THIRTY-SIX PAGES

By HANK GREENSPUN

SUN Publisher

(C) Las Vegas SUN 1976:

Strong evidence exists leading inexorably to the conclusion

that Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro was the prime

mover in the killing of President John F. Kennedy and very

probably the assassination of his brother, Robert.

cumstantial of thee ere here revealed for he firtie ove

documented, it supplies the motive for the death of the nation's

35th chief executive, providing the important missing link to the

otherwise senseless killing. of a man who had captured the im-

agination of the entire world with his style and his grin.

The most emotional event of this generation was the quick

succession of rifle shots from a sixth story window of the Texas

School Book Depository building in Dallas,

Text o

on Nov. 22,

JOHN F KENNEDY:

1963.

The official version of the event was that three shots were

fired, and the first and third sniffed out the life of the dashing

young President - the "Prince of America's Camelot."

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wild dad d luve attair with th handsome, grinning.

Jack, and his assassination left a nation torn with grief and

SOrrOW s

know-wt

in which much of the world joined a gemancing, to

is shining star or the political firmamen

down in the full flower of life.

Many theories, some sinister, some ridiculous and some

quite plausible, were advanced as to motives and the cause of

death.

The country had been told by law enforcement in-

vestigators that an improbable young man by the name of Lee

Harvey Oswald had pulled the, trigger which sentsa bullet

crashing through the brain of the first US President to be bor

in the 20th Century.

Momentarily, it seemed certain that the truth behind the

killing would surely be developed through Oswald: Following

capture, however, Oswald himselt, before he had an opportunity.

to reveal anything, was slain in the Dallas Municipal Building by

a seamy nightclüb operator named Jack Ruby:

Public indignation sied out for the truth, and the demand

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son with the appointment of a blue ribbon panel headed by Chiet

Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren.

Among the members was Gerald Ford, a congressman at the

time and presently the President of the United States.

For many weeks, this illustrious panel, interrogated

witnesses, sifted through all available evidence and finally

rendered a 296,000-word report which in effect said that Presi-

dent Kennedy was killed by Oswald, acting alone, with no plausi-

ble determination of his motives.

The American public accepted this report with varying

degrees of reservation. Even though the investigating panel was

above reproach and appeared thorough, it was impossible to

accept all the findings at face value, with no skepticism.. z

This reporter also had doubts as to the conclusions of the

*Warren Report a napike nam

steadfastly sought to determine tRosy

one or

of a gigantic conspiracy.

The many books on the subject with their manifold

theories were not nearly as impressive as information which

came to my attention in early 1967. From unimpeachable sources

of unguestioned knowledge and integrity T learned the Cen

tral Intelligence Agency had conceived a plot to assassinate hide

Castro, whom it regarded as a danger to our, nation's securis

Castro, a dedicated Communist was now heading Cuba,

was once a friendly nation only. 90 miles from our shores

Wait the killing of Castro was viewed as an urgent need. com

ing in the aftermath, of the national humiliation attending the

debacle of the Bay of Pigs invasion financed by the CIA with the

approval of the White House.

A further motivation for the killing of the bearded Cuban

counte

averse impication or

litical career:

casioned by the slaughter of freedom-loving Cubans assisted b

U.S. advisors in the swamp waters of the Bay of Pigs.

So great was the President's concern that his brother,

Robert Kennedy, the attorney general, actually departed his of-

fices at the Department of Justice and physically located his

headquarters at the CIA in order to personally direct the counter

measures he deemed necessary to offset the harmful blow to the

Kennedy political fortunes - a blow that was spelled Bay of

Pigs." A significant part of Robert Kennedy's strategy revolved

about the plan to kill Castro. 27

investigation revealed it was a coldly-calculated plot to be

carried out through the enlistment of underworld figures who

had been active in Havana gambling operations prior to Castro's

overthrow of the Batista government and who still had contacts

in Havana

The CIA arranged the enlistment of these organized cr

figures and financed their operations. The hired killers first set

about reviving contacts in Havana that were close to the Castro

regime, secured firearms and poison, supplied by the CIA; and

then zeroed-in on liquidating Castro by a bullet or poison.

Investigation shows that five separate. and distinct

asSassination attemp' vere made on the Cuban leader's life

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Monday, March 1, 1976

Castro Ordered Jack Kenn

(Continued From Page 1).

long before the Dallas killing of John Kennedy. He also heard, that Castro,

All five failed and in the course of the last attempt, made in 1963, Castro

upon learning of the "Kennedy attempt to kill him," as he viewed it, vowed to

agents captured the CIA assassin and tortured him into revealing to Castro

respond in kind. 1

personally, the entire plot to kill him.

The aging Chiet Justice was stunned by this information, well knowing

Intelligence relayed to me in 1967 was to the effect that Castro was enrag-

that it undermined the integrity of the Warren Commission Report, his

ed and stated in substance that the business of killing heads of state could and

reputation as chairman, and that of every other member of that Commission.

would work both ways.

*I can now reveal that the Chief Justice immediately summoned James

Because of the high-placed source of the information I was sworn to strict

J. Rowley, head of the U.S. Secret Service to his office in the Supreme Court

secrecy unless I could develop independent intelligence, other than the

Building.

"plants" within the Castro inner circle. y

He informed Rowley ofeverything he had learned and demanded that

It wasn't easy in coming büt there is now credible evidence of Castro's

even though the commission jad concluded its work, the truth must be told te

purpose to respond to the attempts on his life by ordering the assassination of

the American people.

# President Kennedy:

Shortly following the tortured confession of the CIA agent, Castro met

What then developed i an almost unbelievable story of bureaucratic

self preservation.

with officials from South and Latin American states at which meeting he loud-

The head of the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting the

ly revealed in its entirety the CIA efforts to assassinate him.

life of the President, determined that "jurisdiction" in the matter rested in

He baldly told the assembly "the Kennedys have sought to kill me; I shall

mete out the same justice to them!"

Information which I have developed proves that shortly after this

Here re yen i eatin the the on command cold to hir

communique with the information that his agency would take no further ac-

meeting, a Brazilian representative sent a confidential report to Washington

tion:

recounting Castro's threat- and more, this report, which was never revealed

The matter rested there however, with Hoover apparently doing nothing

to the Warren Commission, still rests in Washington

until he received a call from President Johnson. LBJ, of notoriously short

Whaf is most significant is that Castro's threat was to the "Kennedys

fuse, said the White House had received reports of an abortive attempt by the

and not to the President alone. This becomes even more meaningful in light of

CIA to kill Castro shortly before the Dallas assassination. The President

the subsequent assassinations of both Jack and Robert Kennedy, logical

demanded to know what the BI knew about such rumors.

motivation, for which has been wholly lacking in both instances..

Evidence in my possession, coupled with documents in the hands of con-

reporte resuch nors to the resenteste then an have foreceivat

gressional intelligence agency oversight committees, provides a clearly mark-

they are without substance."

ed trail leading to logical conclusions as to why the Kennedy brothers were

However, despite thiscreport to President Johnson; the Churci

killed. That path leads straight to the door of a vengeful Castro.

Committee of the U.S. Senate has now fully documented the plot on Castro's

It is information that was withheld. from the Warren Commission,

life:

which made its teport without knowledge of Castro's threat and which

therefore exhausted every other theory, without coming up with a motive that

had adise has Preside to the heated pothat ben uly aretiere and

could be sensibly defended, on why the President was killed s

there was nothing to it, had previously certified to the Warren Commission

My investigation has definitely established that Chief Justice Earl

that the FBI's "exhaustive intestigation had established that Oswald, ac

Warren, while still sitting on the Supreme Court, was advised by a person of

ting: alone and for undermined motives;

assassinated President John:

unquestioned integrity and patriotism,

that there had been five assassinaton

Kennedy.*

attempts upon the life of Fidel Castro, instigated and implemented by the

' In light of the information urnished the late head of the FBI by the chief

CIA And thất the last unsuccessful attempt occurred In the tume frame not

of the Secret Service at that time, the conclusion is inescapable that Hoover

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Jack Kennedy's Death

e Dallas Killing of John Kennedy, He also heard; that Castro

as a matter of sulf preservation, took President Johnson oft the trail for fear

of Ge Kennedy attempt to kill him."" as he viewed it, vowed to

d.

the truth would reveal the monumental error in his report to the Warrren

• commission.

g Chief Justice was stunned by this information, well knowing

Information since uncovered by me proves that at the time Earl Warren

nined the integrity of the Warren Commission Report, his

received the information of the Castro assassination plot, another man sitting

hairman; and that of every other member of that Commission

with him while the intelligence was being relayed, leaked the information to

reveal that the Chief Justice, immediately.summoned James

the White House. so the President would be aware,

Or i the ditterent agen-

d of the U.S. Secret Service to his office in the Supreme Court

cies attempted a cover up trace veronari

What is most significant is the time frame between the last attempt on

icd Rowley of everything he had learned and demanded that

se commission had concluded its work, the truth must be told to

people.

ca: developed is an almost unbelievable story of bureaucratic

of the secret Service, the agency charged with protecting the

"sident, determined that "jurisdiction" in the matter rested in

reau of Investigation. He thereupon communicated to J. Edgar"

thing that the chief justice had told him and concluded his

with the information that his agency would take no further ac

Castro's life, which was in late spring of 1963, and the assassination of the

President which occurred on Nov: 22, 1963. Despite potential Significance

neither the head of the Secret Service nor the director of the Federal Bureau:

of Investigation saw fit to inform the Warren Commission of the proximity of

the events.

Further, official investigators of the President's death seemingly weren't

too impressed by the pattern of Oswald's travels. Information was in the

hands of the Warren Commission that Oswald had visited Moscow and had

made several trips to Cuba.

Other reports linked him with Pro-Castro revolutionary groups in both

New Orleans and Texas, but clear signs of involvement of the Cuban dictator

'T rested there, however, with Hoover apparently doing nothing®

ed a call from President Johnson. LBJ, of notoriously short

hite House had received reports of an' abortive attempt by the

astrosshortly before the Dallas assassination. The President

know what the FBI knew about such rumors.

of Hoover to the President of the U.S. read,

-We have received

¡ rumors; but we have investigated them and have found that

out substance."

r, despite this report to President Johnson, the Church

the laS senate has now fully documented the plot on Castro's:

in a death plot were ignored.

A most obvious flaw in the Warren Commission Report is the absence of

any relevant distinctions and considerations between the-assassination of

President Kennedy and the asassination of other American Presidents.

The assassins of Abraham Lincoln WillamoVcK

field and those: whosmade atter pts on the

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and even Gerald Ford all carried out their

i nefarious crimes in the most public places and in close proximity to their vic:

tims.

They acted in an emotional context with no effort to disguise their bloody

work or provide an avenue of escape.

•.!à

This pattern is absent in the case of Oswald. His crime was coldly plann-

t be told to the American people is that J. Edgar Hoover, who

President that the alleged plot had been fully investigated and

ring to tt, had previously certified to the Warren Commission

exhaustive" investigation had established that "Oswald, ac

id forrundermined motives, assassinated President John

the information furnished the late head of the FBI by the chief

service at that time, the conclusion is inescapable that Hoover

ed, down to a remarkably calculated determination of the parade route of

President Kennedy and its relationship to the upper window of the Texas

Book Depository from which he fired his rifle: He also felt he had provided and

escape route for himself which he deemed foolproof. Perhaps it was, because.

Oswald was only trapped after committing another crime, killing a Dallas

policeman.

one creas

All of this suggests that Oswald, unlike all other presidential assassins or

would-be assassins, proceeded from long and careful planning inspired by

forces beyond his own capabilities.

There is one other aspect of this horrendous crime against oner

nation's most loved of Presidents, which requires study.

cumstances, immediate

followi

Henne

depression which continued for such a long period that his

family and friends

despaired that he would not recover. There were even reports that when he

learned of the death of his brother, he cried, "My God, I have killed my

brother."

His mental attitude and long sustained depression was inconsistent with

any normal reaction of grief at the loss of a loved one.

What might have been eating at the vitals of Robert Kennedy was the cer-

tain knowledge that the CIA plot to kill Castro of which he was a pärt, led un-

erringly to the death of his brother, the President of the United States. And

possibly to his own death.

The motives of Fidel Castro, the words he uttered, documents in the

hands of the Church Committee which are a part of a still-hidden record, and

information in my files lead overwhelmingly to the conclusion that a charge of

murder against Fidel Castro for the killing of John F. Kennedy ean be sup:

ported:

I'so charge and may God have some but not too much - mercy on lus:

miserable soul:

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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRM,

JONN На ТОМЕН. ТЕЛАЗ, УІСЕ СНЛІРМАМ

РЫНТФ А. НАСУ. МІСТ.

HOWARD H, BAKER, JR., TENN.

MASTERY. MONOMLE. MINN.

WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.

RODERT MORGAN, N.C.

CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD.

RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.

GARY NAM: 4046

WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR

FREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL

CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL

United States Senate

SELECT COMMITTEE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH

RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

(PURSUANT TO 5. RES, 21, ASTH CONGRESS)

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

March 22, 1976

The Honorable Frank Church

Chairman, Senate Select Committee

To Study Government Operations

With Respect To Intelligence. Activities

Washington, D. C.

20510

Dear Mr. Chairman:

We will soon

submit our Subcommittee Report to the full

Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence on the performance of

the intelligence community in connection with the investigation

of the assassination of President John Kennedy.

As you know, this work was carried out by a very few

staff

members over a

three-and-a-half month

period and limited to the

narrow. confines of the subject stated above.

We had neither the intention nor the capability to follow

every rumor, analyze every theory, investigate every charge, or

study every

alleged conspiracy.

We were not oiven such latitude

by either our fellow committee members or Senate Resolution 21.

establishing the Select

Committee.

Thus, our Subcommittee Report does not attempt to provide

a comprehensive evaluation or

critique of the Warren Commission

Report.

It does, however, set forth information

-- pertaining

particularly to

certain U. S. and Cuban activities

-- which was

not made available to the Warron Commission but which appearsto

have been

relevant to the Warren Commission

inquiry.

Our Subcommittee Report raises new questions in the following

broad areas:

* The details of Lee Harvey Oswald's contacts with

Soviet and Cuban embassy officials in

Mexico;

* Oswald's contacts with

anti-Castro groups;

* Oswald's contacts with pro-Castro groups;

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The Honorable Frank Church

March 22, 1976

Page

2

* The degree to which knowledge of efforts to

assassinate Castro by agencies of this government

were deliberately concealed from the Warren

Commission;

* The degree to which attitudes prevalent in the

FBI in the sixties affected either the assassina-

tion investigation

or the FBI dissemination of

information

to the

Warren

Commission.

We believe such questions can only be answered by further

investigation.

Such investigation could be carried out by a

small

unit of the present Select Committee, by the Government

Operations Committée or any other appropriate standing committee

of the

Senate, or by Senate resolution establishing a new Select

Committee

for this purpose.

expertise

of our own staff members

be preserved and exploited.

lotted meme releva

In any case, the knowledge and

active in this matter

should

We believe a three

to six month

period would be required to pursue these questions.

We request a meeting of the

full Committee at the earliest

possible occasion to present

our Subcommittee Report, to discuss

its release by the Committee, and to seek guidance on further

Sincerely,

Chillinn

S. Schweiker

U.s.S.

cc: The Honorable John Tower

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MEMO RAN DUM®

To :

Paul Wallach

From:

Jim Johnston

Date :

Subj:

November 7, 1975

Telephone Conversation re: Kennedy Assassination

Plot

DI. Harrison (phone: 659-8374), who is working on a

history project with Senator McGovern, called to pass on

information he obtained

on an assassination plot against

Kennedy. A woman he talked to claims that the CIA and

OAS (the OAS was

the French Secret Army Organization

opposed to DeGaulle) plotted to assassinate Kennedy and

DeGaulle in 1961 during Kennedy's trip to France.

death would be made to appear accidental

Kennedy's

but the OAS would

claim credit for DeGaulle's.

A "hit man" was

selected and

his name is Romundo (phonetic).

The woman had planned to interview Romundo in October

or November 1972 for CBS because Romundo identified Bernard

Barker and another of the Watergate conspirators as two of

the people who contacted him about the plot.

She claims

Romundo identified these two from photographs of a group

of people, none of whom were identified for him.

General

Salan, head of the OAS, called off the assassination.

The woman originally was told by CBs that ban Kather

would go to Paris with her to interview Romundo.

Rather

backed out. She then teamed up with a man named Baer

(phonetic) who was Newsweek Bureau Chief in Paris in 191L.

She claims Baer was working for CIA and attempted to hin-

der the attempts

to interview Romundo.

She never got the

interview because

Romundo left Paris before she got to

talk to him and made off with the advance he was paid.

She talked to Peter Kalisher in Paris who gave her

some help.

He told her she was free to file a story but

because she had no verification, Kalisher did not think it

would be printed. Therefore, she has not filed a story on

this information.

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DI. Harrison

said he received the information in con-

tidence because the woman, Dorea Robineau, did not

want to talk to any authorities about this. If we are

interested,

Dr. Harrison will interview her again on tape

and furnish us a transcript.

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MEMORAN DUM

To :

Paul Wallach

From:

Dawson/Dwyer/Greissing

Date:

December 2, 1975

Subject:

Information on James P. Hosty, JI.

I.

Background Information on

J.P. Hosty, JI.

Source

A. Mr. Hosty graduated from

Notre Dame

in June 1948

B. Mr. Hosty joined the FBI

on January 21, 1952

C. S/A Hosty's first assign-

ment was to the

Louisville

Division - general in-

vestigations

D. On December 2, 1953, S/A

Hosty was transferred to

the Dallas Division

II.

Opening of the Oswald Case

A. On 6/26/62 Oswald was inter-

viewed by S/As Fain and

Carter.

Oswald was questioned

about his stay in Russia

if. Soviet agents had contacted

him in the u.s.

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before Warren

Commission

7/10/62 Investigative

Report of S/A Fain re: Lee

Harvey Oswald.

Comments

Administrative cover

sheet reveals FBI agents

asked Oswald to take a

polygraph test.

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II. Opening of the Oswald Case

Facts

B. S/A Hosty stated it was

the practice of the FBI

to interview immigrants

from behind the Iron Cur-

tain on a selective basis

and that Marina Oswald was

one of these persons to

be interviewed (SoBiR)

c.

D.

While attempting to locate

Marina Oswald on March 4,

1963, S/A Hosty determined

through INS records that

Marina had moved from Ft.

Worth to Elsbeth Street in

the Oak Cliff section of

Dallas

In a further attempt to

locate Marina Oswald, S/A

Hosty interviewed Mrs. Tobias,

the landlady. of the Elsbeth

Mrs. Tobias had evicted Lee

and Marina Oswald because

of their alleged fighting

and his alleged drinking.

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Source

kep.rt

1. The

following appeared

from

Ss/A Fain,

8/30/62 -

On 7/12/62 Hosty went

to the

INS to inquire

about Marina Oswald:

On 8/16/62 the FBI

interviewed Lee Harvey

Oswald regarding his

background.

2. On 7/25/62 the cases of

both Marina and Lee Harvey

Oswald were placed on the

pending inactive list.

Report by S/A Hosty

3/25/63 from SAC Dallas

to Director.

Report by S/A Hosty

3/25/63

from Dallas

Director.

to

Comments

Is Marina's case reopened

or changed from pending

inactive to pending status?

This pegised that if

ile case

Qüestion

@ when ded Marina

Mire in no/ the Paines

Zilhen the identity.

8 fith Paine wit

determend what type

I Gategins enorate

was conducted

1. At this time the case of

Lee Harvey Oswald was

closed.

2. Was Lee Harvey Oswald

recruited by S/As Fain

or Hosty as an informer

on the Cuban exiles.

Hesty

1.Y Report stated they left

the house

and

were

not

evicted.

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II. Opening of the Oswald Case

E.

Facts

On March 13, 1963, S/A

Hosty verified that the

Oswalds. were living at

214 Neely Street, also

in the Oak Cliff

section

of Dallas.

F.

On March 31, 1963, S/A

Hosty request the

super-

visor in Dallas to reopen

the case to him, and he

would interview Marina in

45 days.

G.

In May 1963, S/A Hosty

found that the Oswalds

had left the Dallas area.

H.

Approximately the first

week of June 1963, S/A

Hosty received information

from the Dallas Informant

T.2 of the: FBI that Lee

Harvey Oswald had handed

out FPCC leaflets on April

21, 1963, in Dallas.

On July 17, 1963, S/A

Hosty received a

commun 1-

cation

from the New Orleans

office advising that Lee

Harvey Oswald was in New

Orleans and the New Orleans

FBI was requesting infor-

mation on Oswald be furni-

shed.

3 -

Source

Report by S/A Hosty

3/25/63.

From SAC Dallas

to Director.

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64, before the

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty, 5/5/64, before the

Warren Commission

Investigative Report

9/10/63 by S/A Hosty.

8/23/63 Airtel SAC Dallas

to

Director re: Lee Harvey

Oswald and Marina Oswald.

134

Comments

1. Because of their marital

problems S/A Hosty be-

lieved it was not the

time to interview Marina

2. Hosty wanted to deter-

mine where Lee Harvey

Oswald was working.

1. S/A Hosty does not be

lieve the Aoril 21,

1963 event took place

because he would have

heard about it.

2. At this time Dallas had

no information or evi-

dence linking the FPCC

in any way with Dallas.

1. What did Lee Oswald do

in New Orleans

to be

noticed by the FBI?

2. At this time Dallas had

no information or evi-

dence linking the FPCC

in any way with Dallas

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II.

Opening of the Oswald Case

J.

L.

Facts

7/29/63 New Orleans office

requested to verify resi-

dence of subjects

New Orleans office notified

Dallas on

Aug. 13,

1963, 0f

change of

address

for

Oswalds to 4905 Magazine St.

S/A Hosty testified he had

no further contact with the

Oswald case until October

1963.

III.

Reopening of the Case in Dallas

A. On. October 3, 1963 S/A

Hosty received a communi-

cation from New Orleans that

Oswald had left New Orleans

Marina departed in a car

with Texas plates, while

Lee stayed behind, however,

he disappeared the next day.

c.

At this time they were

aware

of Oswald's FPCC

connections.

- 4-

Source

8/23/63 Airtel SAC Dallas

to Director re: Lee Harvey

and Marina Oswald.

Comments

1. Testimony of James P.

Hosty, JI. 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission.

2. 8/21/63 report Director

to SAC New Orleans with 3

copies to Dallas.

1. Incident in New Orleans

8/9/63 re: Oswald's

arrest.

2.

However, he prepared a

report of September 10,

1963 regarding Lee

Harvey Oswald.

New Orleans Airtel to Dallas

10/22/63 Ie: 10/2/63 New

Orleans

Airtel to Dallas

(missing) .

2/25/63 Report by S/a Kaack

1. Marina departed New

Orleans 9/25/63 and

requested the Dallas

office

to locate the

Oswalds.

1. Case was sent to the

Dallas office and re-

opened to Hosty.

2. How did they (New

Orleans) know to send

the case to Dallas?

1. Was FPCC used as a

front or wedge between

CP-SWP; Cuban nationals

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III. Reopening of the Case in Dallas

Facts

D. On 25 October 1963, S/A

Hosty learned that

Oswald

had contacted the soviet

Embassy in Mexico City

in the early part of

October 1963

Source

10/24/63 Airtel from SAC

New Orleans to Director. re:

Lee Harvey Oswald (copies to

Dallas) with enclosure of

10/18/63 cablegram from Legat

Mexico City to Director, Ie:

Lee Harvey Oswald.

10/25/63 Airtel SAC New Orleans

to Director/SAC Dallas.

New Orleans advising that

they had a change of address

for Lee and Marina Oswald

to 2515 W. Sth St., Irving

Texas.

Hosty conducted pretext

interview of Marina Oswald

to verify the address

on

10/30/63.

On November 1, 1963, S/A

Hosty contacted Ruth Paine

in an attempt to locate

Lee Harvey Oswald.

10/30/63 Airtel SAC Dallas

to Director.

11/4/63 Airtel Dallas to

Director.

11/9/63 Letter from Oswald

to Soviet Embassy, Washington,

D.C.

11/19/63 Airtel SAC Washington

Field office to Director.

3/19/64 Testimony of Ruth H.

Paine before Warren Commission.

Comments

1. Gives Oswald's

address and seeks

verification

l. Ruth Paine told S/A

Hosty that Lee Harvey

Oswald lived in Oak Cliff

and worked at the TSBD.

2. Ruth Paine stated Lee

Harvey alleged

the FBI

had him fired from every

job he had.

3. Letter from Oswald

implies that he was

present during Hosty

interview of 11/1/63.

4. Possible mail inter-

cept.

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Reopening of the Case in Dallas

н.

Facts

During most of the inter-

view with Ruth Paine

on

Nov. 1, 1963, Marina

Oswald

was napping with

her children.

Sources

Testimony of James P. Hosty, JI.

5/5/64 before Warren Commission

I. On November 4, 1963, S/A

Hosty requested Dallas

become the office of origin.

F.D. 128 (change office of

origin)

5.

On 11/5/63 S/A Hosty made

another attempt to locate

Lee Harvey Oswald, S/As

Hosty and Wilson stopped

at Ruth Paines; however,

she was unable to obtain

his address.

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

JI. 5/5/64 before Warren

Commission.

Comments

1: S/A Hosty asked

Marina no questions

on Nov. 1, 1963.

2. S/A Hosty wanted

to be assured that Lee

Harvey Oswald was not

in a sensitive in-

dustry.

1. Dallas became offie

of origin for Marina

11/15/63, and

for Lee

Harvey Oswald 11/19/63

1. S/A Hosty had no

contact with Marina

on Nov. 5, 1963.

2. What was the extent

of Hosty's contacts

with the Oswald fami-

ly other than those

reported in official

FBI reports.

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IV.

S/A Hosty's Involvement With

Other Agencies On 11/21-22/63

A.

B.

C.

D.

Facts

1963, S/A

on Nov. 21, "Wanted For

Hosty took

Treason"

posters to the

Secret Service.

He also

assisted another agent

givinginformation

about a man from

Denton, Texas

As of 9 a.m. on

11/22/63 there had been no

contact between the Secret

Service and the Dallas FBI

Office

After the meeting on

11/22/63 S/A Hosty joined

an Army Intelligence Agent,

and an agent of the Alcohol

Tax unit of the Treasury

Department until 11:30

that morning

"While eating lunch S/A

Hosty heard that both the

President and Vice.

President had been shot

SOURCE

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Tesitmony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64

before

Warren Commission

COMMENTS

S/A Hosty gave his information

to S/A Warner

Who were the agents that

joined Hosty?

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V. Post Assassination

A.

B .

c.

Facts

Upon receiving word that

the President had been

shot

S/A Hosty returned

to the FBI office but

was sent to Parkland

Hostpial only to be

asked to return

to the office

At 1330, S/A Hosty

received word that Tippet

had been slain in Oak Cliff

and the suspect was

surrounded in a movie

theater

After 1400, S/A Hosty

received information

that the suspect was

identified as Lee

Harvey Oswald

D.

S/A Hosty immediately

pulled Oswald's file

when he found out

that Dallas became the

office of origin

-7-

SOURCE

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

Testimony of James P.

Hosty 5/5/64 before

Warren Commission

COMMENTS

When'S/A Hosty arrived in

the FBI office he was told

review his files for leads on

possible assassin

@'s

Oihy did testy

have Oswald's file

out at that time

1. Hosty stated he was shocked

because he had no reason to believe

that Oswald was capable to assassi-

nate the President of the United

States

Lee Harvey Oswald "was

security risk of a sort, but

the type of person who would

Oswald to Shanklin

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E.

SA C Gordon Shanklin later

sent S/A Hosty to the

Dallas Police Department

to sit in on the inter-

view of Lee Oswald

aten pro inate vas on his

way to the interview room,

he was told by Lt. Revill.

that he had a hot lead

regarding a man named Lee

from the TSBD

G.

S/A Hosty told Lt. Revill

that he believed Oswald

possessed no potential

for violence (p. 464)

4-8-

SOURCE

Testimony of James

P. Hosty 5/5/64

before the Warren Commission

COMMENTS

Testimony of James

P. Hosty 5/5/64

before the Warren

Commission

Testimony of James

P. Hosty 5/5/64

before the Warren

Commission

Testimony of It.

Jack Revill, 5/13/64

before Warren

Commission

CЕE-709,838,711

Testimony of V. J. Brian

5/13/64

before Warren

Commission

Hosty responded by telling

Revill that Lee Harvey Oswald,

an employee of the TSBD, was

arrested around 2 p.m.

2. Running

from the basement to

the third floor, Hosty told Revill

Lee Harvey Oswald was the main

suspect in this case

Revill was also told by

Hosty that Oswald was the one who

defected and returned in 1962

Lt. Revill contradicted Hosty

in his memo 11/22/63 (CE 838,709) .

states, "Agent Hosty further

states that the FBI was aware

subject (Oswald)

and they

information that this subject

capable of committing

assassination of President Kennedy

According to It. Revill,S/A

Hosty came running to him and said,

"Jack, a Communist killed President

Kennedy. . .

We had information

that he was capable of this."

Report was

within an hour

of Hosty's statement.

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SOURCE

VI. Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald

Facts

A.

S/As Bookhout and Hosty

entered

the office of

Capt. Fritz where Oswald

was being questioned by

Capt.

Fritz.

During the

questioning, S/As Hosty

and Bookhout just observed.

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

Testimony of S/A Bookhout,

4/8/64,

before Warren

Commission

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

Testimony of James W.

Bookhout,

4/8/64, before Warren

Commission

rifle.

He told Capt.

Fritz the following: 1)

he had defected to

the

Soviet Union; 2) admitted

that he was secretary for

the FPCC in New Orleans; 3)

lived at 1026 Beckley

under the name O. H. Lee;

4) has been employed at

the TSBD since

10/15/63

and has access to the

entire building; 5) went

to lunch at noon on 11/22/63

lunch and was in there

when JFK passed the building;

COMMENTS

This interview commenced

at 3:15 p.m.

and when Lee

Harvey Oswald heard S/A Hosty's

he reacted violently

stating 'I've.

so you are

roh, heard about you.

don't bother my wife,

come and

see me."

466,467

2.

According to S/A Bookhout,

both he and Hosty did

question

Oswald. (p: 310)

After Oswald denied owning.

the rifle he stated that,

"Truly, the Superintendent of

the TSBD, had one in his office

a few days before the

assassination.

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1S6./

6) he left because with

all the confusion there

would be no more work

for that day; 7) he took

a bus home,

changed and

proceeded to a movie; 8)

he carried the pistol

because he felt like it

and admitted that he had

resisted arrest; 9) denied

being in Mexico

except to

visit at Tijuana on the

border.

S/A Hosty did not tell

Police Chief Curry about

the New Orleans arrest

or the FBI file on Lee

Harvey Oswald

The interrogation of Lee

Harvey Oswald ended at

said he neved sad lostya

again

E.

At 6 p.m. on. 11/22/63,

SAIC Sorrels and 5 other

Secret Service agents

entered Capt. Fritz's

office to interview Lee

Harvey Oswald

-10-

SOURCE

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

5/5/64, before Warren

Commission

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

Testimony of S/A Bookhout,

4/8/64, before Warren

Commission

Testimony of James P. Hosty,

5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

COMMENTS

"Oswald emphatically

denied shooting" Officer

Tippit or President Kennedy

PH 312; P. 468) - Bookhout,

Hosty asked him if he had

been in Mexico City (Bookhout,

p. 311)

Remained in the outer

office of Capt.

Fritz until

8 p.m. on 11/22/63

1, S/A Hosty knew the FBI had

no jurisdiction over the assass

ination and believed if anyone

did it would be the Secret

Service

2.

S/A Hosty later discovered

no Federal Agency had juris-

diction

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VII.

F.

S/A Hosty called Sorrels

aside and told him that

FBI HQs could furnish

Secret Service HQs

• files

on Lee Harvey Oswald and

there were

two items

that

Hosty couldn't give Sorrels

because they were secret.

[contacts with the Soviet

Embassy in Mexico City and

Washington, D.C.]

Events After 11/23/63

Facts

A... S/A Hosty was not at the

Dallas Police Department

on Nov. 23 or 24

B.

C.

Worked around the clock

on 11/22/63 and 11/23/63

S/As Hosty and Brown

interviewed Marina

Oswald on 11/27/63

S/A Hosty talked with

Truly in January Truly

February 1964.

was aware of the parade

passing the TSBD

-11-

SOURCE

Testimony of James P.

Hosty,

5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

S/A Patterson memo to Chief,

1/23/64

[A-F] Testimony of James P.

Hosty, 5/5/64,

before Warren

Commission

COMMENTS

S/A Hosty also talked

S/A Patterson of the

Secret Service

and told him

Oswald had made contact with

two subversive

agents around

15 days prior to the assass-

ination.

Contact with the Embassy

in Mexico City was well before

the assassination so who or

what were the subversive agents

Oswald contacted 15 days prior

assassination

Talked with Ruth Paine on

Saturday morning, 11/23/63

S/A Gopadze (Secret Service

interpreted the interview

1. Did not question Truly

regarding the rifle in his

office

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F.

Prior to 11/22/63 S/A

Hosty knew of no incidents

where the FBI was called

in to assist the Secret

Service

and definitely

not on 11/22/63

No recollection of dis-

cussing

Lee Harvey

Oswald

with his

supervisor S/A

Kenneth Howe prior to the

assassination

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SOURCE

COMMENTS

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191: 11

- 13-

On November 27, 1963,

Secret Service

Gopadze

on "proposed interview of

Marina Oswald."

functioned as

(Gopadze

interpreter

at the interview.)

admits that he interviewed

Marina on or about October

1963, at the Paine home

Irving, Texas,

and that

Mrs. Paine served as inter-

11/30/63,

USSS Investigative

Report,

S/A Phillips and Gopadze

On November 27, 1963, the

reporting Special Agent

heard Gopadze remark to Hosty

that Marina had recognized

Hosty as the FBI agent who

interviewed her on or about

October 27, 1963.

On November 26, 1963, Marina

Oswald was interviewed by

FBI agents Hosty and Brown

in the presence of reporting

agent (Gopadze?) and Phillips

at the Six Flags Inn.

Marina

said that she and Lee flet that

the FBI was responsible for

Lee losing his jobs.

11/30/63,

USSS Investigative

Report,

S/A Max Phillips

Did Hosty

on Nov.

or both?

26?

interview

Marina

Nov.

27?

11/29/63,

USSS Investigative.

Report, S/A Gopadze

185

173

ADDENDUM TO HOSTY/FBI CHRONOLOGY OF FBI CONTACTS WITH OSWALDS

SOURCE

COMMENTS

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

Files

From:

Paul Wallach

Date: December 3, 1975

Re :

Telephone conversation with Wendall Roache

Following up on yesterday's initial phone contact,

I spoke with roache this afternoon for about 20 minutes.

He again was cooperative

and agreed to come to D.C. as long

as it was cleared with his superiors.

Roache explained that in 1963 he was in charge of

IN&S' New Orleans Border Patrol Station; i.e., Station senior,

which was not in the Customs House.

The Station reported

directly to the New Orleans District Office, which at that

time was run by Edward I. Cupp.

Bob Brewer was then in charge

of the B.R. section in the Regional IN&S Office in Richmond,

Va.

According to Roache, INGS' role is to determine who

is an alien, and prevent unauthorized border crossings.

However, frequent additional requirements were levied upon

IN&S (such as supplementing federal marshalls). In the

instant area, IN&S New Orleans was charged with the responsi

bility of surveilling various

Cuban "groups" in New Orleans.

Although Roache cannot specifically recall who initiated the

requirement, he assumes it came through Justice and stated

that Cupp should be clearer on the details.

Included in this surveillance was the group of "nuts"

headed by David Ferrie. Roache knew the details on Ferrie

i.e., dismissal from Eastern Airlines, homosexual with per-

verse tendencies ("nuttier than a fruitcake"), etc.

He stated

that Ferries' office - on a side street between St. Charles

and Camp -- (we'll have a street map for him) was under

surveillance lalthough he never surveilled it, another inspector

drove him past it and identified itl; that Lee Harvey Oswald -

who was identified by IN&S as

an American when he first appeared

on the New Orleans street scene (he does not recall the cir-

cumstances surrounding the identification) - was seen going

into the offices of Ferries'group, and "Oswald was known to

be one of the men in

the group."

Roache was aware that Ferries' group was anti-Castro,

that Ferrie had a plane at the airport la C-5

or 5wl and that

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which was "being trained by a 6-foot ex-Marine" -- at

Lake Poncetrain.

He further stated that Ferrie like young

men and was known to "give these guys all sorts of pills

at the training camp and take movies of them."

Roache stressed that the NOPD (specifically the

intelligence division) and the East Metie's (phonetic)

Sheriff's Office had reports on Ferries' group. He added

that "Garrison had something; I read his reports in the

newspaper and they were correct, "he

received good intelli-

gence information, whether he was using it for politics

Roach also noted that (1) Garrison was all eyes

and ears in the French Quarter and (2) that he had heard

Ferrie was running when he was killed.

Roache did not know:

(1) Whether Oswald ever visited the training camp;

(2) about any organized crime tie-ins;

(3) about Oswald being arrested for getting into

a fight;

(4) about Oswald's alleged anti-Cuban politics;

(5) whether Oswald had any contacts with other

law enforcement and/or intelligence agencies;

(6) of a restaurant called "Pedro's";

(7) specific dates for any facts described herein.

Roache himself had seen Oswald on only one occasion:

when Oswald was passing out handbills at a point not too far

from Jackson Square (also not too far from the Trade Mart) •

A most interesting occurence was touched on by

Roache .

He related that Ron Smith happened to receive a call

from the N.O.P.D., which at that time had Oswald in custody.

Apparently Oswald would only speak Russian and the N.O.P.D.

deducted that he was Russian.

Smith went to the N.O.P.D. and

Roache believes that he identified Oswald as an American citizen.

After that, Oswald spoke in

English.

Roache does not know if

Smith filed a report. He did state

that he talked to Smith

about it two weeks ago, adding that he had no objection to

my telling Smith

that he had referred me to him.

We generally discussed IN&S record keeping. Apparen-

tly almost all of Roache's reports to Cupp were oral. He

does not believe that any reports were written on the afore-

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mentioned points, with the exception of the levying of

requirements on IN&S.

Roache had limited, if any, contact with De Oweys,

or any other FBI (or CIA)

agent "I knew him."

He also

told me that IN&S did not have informants in these groups.

(No idea of anyone that had.)

I asked Roache who else beside Cupp, Smith and he was

likely to have known about Oswald.

(I assume we can get

IN&S records. He suggested Russell Bruce.

IN&S local investigations office (no BP office)

would have checked out Cubans, etc. in Dallas. (Let's get

their agents' lists too.)

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MEMORANDUM

January 12, 1976

TO:

From:

Re ::

Pat Shea

Paul Wallach

Carver Gayton

As we discussed, I would appreciate your interview-

ing ex-FBI agent Gayton in Seattle on Friday, January 16, 1976.

There will be two general areas of inquiry. The

first is Warren Commission related, and more specifically in-

volves James Gouchenaur's statements (which have

a ring of

plausibility) that SA James P. Hosty told Gayton that Oswald

was a psi who's "status had changed". Gouchenaur also related

that Hosty had been trying to develop Oswald as a psi, that

Oswald had a mail drop and was being pressured to inform (on

what is a good question) and that Hosty even went to Oswald's

apartment to leave a note (against Bureau regulations) when

he hadn't heard from Oswald. According to Gouchenaur, these

statements were made to Gayton after "Hosty blew an organized

crime stake out in Kansas City and Gayton helped him cover up."

Gouchenaur would also have us believe that Gayton

left the Bureau primarily because of his dissatisfaction with

their handling of the "king case" and investigation of his assas-

sination. In this regard Gayton is alleged to have stated that

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although the Bureau had been tailing King for years, the tail

was pulled off the morning of the assassination; that

the King

assassination was an embarrassment to the Bureau.

As I mentioned, it is imperative that we proceed

cautiously as there is some question as to Gouchenaur's credi-

bility. Mike and I will talk to you about this and other mat-

ters before your departure.

CC:

Mike Epstein

Tom Dawson

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MEMO RANDUM

TO:

Files

From: Paul Wallach

Date: December 3, 1975

Re: Telephone Conversation with Wendall C. Roache

Yesterday's interview with Orest Pena produced two

names

for us to follow up on (1) Wendall Roache (ISNS), and

(2) David Smith (U.S. Customs) • I immediately contacted Steve

Blackhurst and Bob McBrien, Justice and Treasury Departments

respectively, to facilitate the location of these persons.

This morning John Matson (I&NS) called and informed me

that Roache was presently with the Border Patrol in Celexio,

California (714-357-1143]. I informed Matson that I would

be in touch with

Roache; Matson suggested that I just touch

base with Roache's supervisor, Eldon Wooley.

Wooley informed me that Roache was on the 4 to 12

shift and would call me as soon as he came into the office.

Roache called at approximately 3:55 (E.S.T.). I

provided him with some background on the Committee; he knew

who we were and stated "you fellows

are doing the partial

reopening of the Warren Commission." I also told him that

although we had contacted I&NS headquarters to secure his

name, we do not discuss what a witness tells us with anyone

outside the Committee.

It is my impression that Roache was not surprised to

hear from us.

(Possibly notified by I&NS in D.C., but that

doesn't follow from my conversation with Matson.] I also

believe that Roache was relieved to hear from us. ["I've

been waiting twelve years to talk to someone about this."]

He expressed a desire to cooperate fully; willing to come to

D.C. at our convenience.

Roache immediately stated: "You want to talk to Ron I.

Smith too, don't you?"

I hedged

and asked him why did he

think that.

He responded that "Ron had gone down to the

police station after receiving a call from the police IN.0.P.D.1,

something about Oswald arrested and they thought him to be a

Russian."

Roache informed me that Smith is presently with

I&NS' El Centro Office®

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Roache began talking about Oswald. He "saw him around

frequently," and recalled "that he had an office in . . .."

I cut him off, politely suggesting that we go over all of

this in an interview session.

I asked Roache to let me know a convenient date for

his trip.

talked to someone lit was probably his supervisor

whose voice I heard in the backgroundl and then asked couldn't

we come there. I said that although it wasn't a usual practice,

it might be practical in view of our desire to also speak to

Mr. Smith.

then suggested to Roache that he let us get in

touch with Smith.

I left it with Smith that we would be

getting back to him within two days.

In view of the Smith and Roache interviews -- along with

the possibility that James Smith (U.S. Customs) is in San

Diego - it would expedite matters to have someone go out to

California. I mentioned this to Ed; we agreed to firm things

up tomorrow.

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DRAFT

To:

Files

From:

Paul Wallach

Date:

Re:

December 9, 1975

Ronald L. Smith

Ron Smith (INS) finally returned my call this

afternoon (714-352-6307; 352-0521) •

Ron did not want to

come in to testify, primarily because "he would have

nothing to add."

I stressed that our fact finding mission

required that we evaluate and put the pieces of testimony

together.

Ron agreed to come in.

Ron was a Boarder Patrol Inspector with the New

Orleans Station in 1962 and 1963, transferring to Blain

of 1963.

One seemingly

uneventful day, he received a not so unusual radio call

requesting verification of an alien, i.e., the First

Precinct of the N.O.P.D. had an individual in custody who

claimed to be Cuban.

Responding to the call, Ron proceeded

to the First Precinct where he interrogated a prisoner

(in fact, not sure if booked or aware of charges) named

Lee Harvey Oswald, who was claiming to be Cuban. (Ron does

not recall if he was speaking Spanish - and has no recol-

lection on his own of Oswald speaking Russian.) Ron could

not give me a date, the names of any persons

at the jail,

nor the specifics (or even generalities) as to what Oswald

After five minutes of "interrogation," Oswald admitted

that he was an American citizen and Smith took off.

He does not recall discussing this event with anyone,

including co-workers at INS; however, when Oswald's picture

Ron admitted frequent contact with Orest Pena. Pena's

brother told him that Orest was working for for was going to

work for) the FBI. He also recalls Custom's David Smith.

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MEMORANDUM

TO:

Files

December 11, 1975

From:

Paul Wallach

Re: Conversation with Mark Hollanbaugh (Shanklin's attorney)

I called Hollenbaugh again today to inquire as to when

Shanklin

would be appearing for his executive testimony

before the Committee.

For the record, I orginally contacted

Hollanbaugh early this week after Paul Daly had informed

me that he was representing Shanklin. Hollanbugh came on

quite strong and informed me that he wanted to review our

documents prior to Shanklin's testimony before Edwards'

House Subcommittee; after which testimony we would then talk

to Shanklin and reach a determination as to whether or not

Shanklin would appear here.

I told him that this was not

acceptable, that as I had mentioned to him in original

conversation, whatever documents we: were going to use

in Shanklin's deposition would be available to him prior

to the deposition for his review but that I in turn wanted

a commitment as to whether or not Shanklin would appear.

Hollenbaugh cited some

statutory authority for his position,

continued screaming.

I then discussed the issuance of a subpoena with Messrs.

Schwarz and Smothers who concurred in my decision and authorized

the securing of such subpoena from the Chairman. However,

in the interim -- after I had contacted the FBI's Paul

Daly to 'secure Shanklins' address for the purpose of serving

the subpoena - Hollenbaugh called me back and said that

Shanklin would be as cooperative with the Committee and that

he would be in at the earliest possible date.

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I explained to Hollenbaugh. - as had Jim Johnston - that the

earliest possible date had to

be

soon, and Hollenbaugh agreed

that every effort would be made

to

have Shanklin come in next

week.

As we left it, Hollenbaugh is going to call me tomorrow

to let me know Shanklin would be appearing.

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MEMORANDUM

December 11, 1975

To:

Thomas Dawson

From:

Paul

Wallach

Re: Testimony of FBI agents

This afternoon I again called Paul Daly to reaffirm my

request that Special Agent Gary Wilson be produced for executive

session testimony on Monday December 15, 1975. Paul informed

me that Wilson had retired and that it would take him

"sometime" to get me his address. I would like you to call

Paul back on this Friday morning.

I also informed Paul that we wanted to take testimony

from Special Agent Robert W. Bariett, Joe A. Pearce, and

John Quigley (Quigley is presently retired and living

in

Minnesota). In this regard Paul promised to inform me as

to whether Bariett and Pearce were still with the Bureau and

if not, to give me their names and address. (We have

Quigley's address). During this conversation I also outlined

the subject matters that would be covered at the deposition

at each of the affirmationed agents (as I had done with

•A. Hosty, Hietman, and Shanklain) to allow Paul to secure the.

necessary releases from their employment agreement. I would

also like you to follow up on these with Paul this morning so

that we can get the agents in here

next week.

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MEMORANDUM

December 11, 1975

To: Dawson and Greissing

From:

Paul Wallach

Re: Interviews of Secret Service Agents

This afternoon I spoke with Robert McBrien and after

thanking him for the documents that were sent over this

afternoon I informed him that we wanted to speak with Elmer

Moore on December 22, 1975 (at 10 am - there may be some

travel difficulties due to the holidays) and Forest

Sorrells on either the l8th or 19th of December.

Bob promised to get back to me as soon

as he made

the necessary arrangements.

If we haven't heard from Bob by Monday afternoon, I

would appreciate your giving him a call.

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MEMORANDUM

To: Files

From:

Re:

December 11, 1975

Paul Wallach

This morning I spoke with the CIA's Walter Elder about

the Claire Booth Luce allegations. I informed Walt that

Bill Pauley had denied any connection with CIA amphibious

"attacks" targeted at Cuba. Walt confirmed that Pauley

had absolutely nothing to do with this with the isolated

exception of Eastland's request, adding that "Claire is

going on 72 now."

Walt had called me about a week ago and to my surprise

mentioned that we should "pay some attention" to the

allegations in the newspaper articles that had picked up

Claire's

story. He at that time offered to be of any

assistance in this matter that we could.

I took him up

on it today and he offered to develop whatever internal

leads he could for us. However, he was emphatic that he

did not. "want any letter" from me.

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MEMORANDUM

December 12, 1975

To:

Files

FrOM:

Paul Wallach

Re: Conversation with IRS' Thomas Glynn

This

afternoon I called Tom to follow up on my written

request for IRS material prepared in conjunction with the tax

investigation of Jack Ruby (Rubenstein) in Detroit. Paul

Michel

had originally brought this investigation to my

attention.

Tom informed me that the materials were on his desk

and would be immediately, reviewed by the "disclosure staff"

to insure that no tax returns were provided to us.

(This is

in accordance with the established IRS-SSC procedures.)

Tom promised to get back to me as soon as this review is

completed (which would not take too long)

and at that time the

materials would be available for our review

at the IRS.

CC: Tom Dawson

Dan Dwyer

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MEMORANDUM

To: . Dan Dwyer

From:

Paul Wallach

Re:

Interviews with INS agents

December 11, 1975

This afternoon I spoke with INS John Matson who

informed me that Ted Baplas - an investigator who had been

in New Orleans in the early 1960's and who is still with

INS -- was up on temporary assignment in Washington and

that we could, if we desired, interview him before he left

on Saturday. As I mentioned yesterday, I set up an

interview that I would like you to handle at 10 am on

Friday morning. Anything of substance comes out I would

appreciate it if you would get it on record even if that

requires having him come back some other time during the

day if that is necessary to secure a reporter. (We don't

necessarily need a Senator as we can have him swear to the

truth of his testimony at the time he reviews it.)

With respect to my request to Matsonfor the location

of certain other INS employees that had been mentioned to us,

he provided the following information: J. H. Gunther (retired

from Los Angeles office 4 years ago); Albert Thurmond (OIC

Dallas, retired 3 years ago); W. C. Seabourn (retired from

Lavamore, California office in 1967); Paul Hiborick (now stationed

in Harlington, Texas - FTS - 8 - 734 - 4511 area code 512) ;

Art Bero (lead investigator in New Orleans - at Heckler's

office - scheduled for executive session testimony on Monday

morning at 10 am); Clarance Johnson (district director New Orleans

- retired in Portland, Oregon a year ago).

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MEMORANDUM

December 11, 1975

To: Ed Greissing

From: Paul Wallach

Re: Forest Sorrells and Elmer Moore

As I mentioned, I would like you to begin gathering

together the relevant materials for these two Secret

Service Agents and additionally prepare a very sketchy outline

that can be given to Senators and used at the interview.

(But nothing as detailed as the Hosty outline.)

CC:

Dwyer and Dawson

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MEMO TO FILES

FROM: Dan Dwyer

DATE: December, 9, 1975

RE: Notes on Testimony of Windel G. Roache, 12/9/75.

Mr. Roache suggested the names of some individuals who

would have detailed knowledge of Cuban exile activities in New

Orleansand whowe might want to contact. They

que the following.

1.

Eddie O''Donnell - former member of the NOPD, polygrapr

section; presently head of

security

at

the Roosevere hotel in New Orleans.

2.

Mr. (fnu) Johnson - Director, INS Field Office, New Orleans

in 1963.

3.

Members of. Investigative Section, INS Field Office, New Orleans.

a.)

b.)

Art Barrels

(fnu) Gunther - now in Arizona; head of Investigativ

Section, INS, New Orleans.

Jim Heissman (sic) - investigator.

c.)

d.)

Ted Paplas (sic) -

e.).

(fnu) Vickory (sic) -

Roache said that any communications about investigations from

CIA or FBI would be channeled through the Director, Mr. Johnson, or

the heads of the Investigative Section. Roache strongly hinted that we

follow up activities of the INS investigative section with regard

to matters we discussed with him.

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MEMORANDUM

November 18, 1975

TO

: Paul Wallach

FROM : Dan Dwyer and Ed Greissing

SUBJECT: Priority Secret Service Request

The following documents involve allegations of Alonzo

Hudkins and reports of SA Patterson that are needed on a priority

basis.

All documents are identified by document and tolder num-

ber and Secret Service index numbers when noted.

Document No. 15, folder -

1..

November 25, 1963 - Report of SA William H. Patterson

(relative to questioning of Marina Oswald at Dallas Police

Department)

Document No. 15, folder 3

1: December 14, 1963 - Report of SAIC Lane Bertram (Allega-

tion of Alonzo Hudkins.

2. Memo to files from Thomas Kelley USSS index No: 705.

(Include follow-up investigation of Hudkin's allegations).

3..

December 11, 1963 - Report of SA Lane Bertram USSS index

No. 640. (Allegation of Hudkins regarding Ruby's connec-

tion).

Document No. 15, folder 4

1.

January 23, 1964 - Memo to Chief, Washington; (attn:

Inspector Thacher), from SA Patterson.

USSS index No.. 974.

(Patterson identifies FBI agent who discussed Oswald's

contact with subversive agents.)

2.

January 3, 1964.- two reports. SA Lane Bertram.

USSS

index Nos.

782

and 767.

(Allegations of Alonzo Hudkins) .

cm

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TO :

FROM:

Paul Wallach

Dwyer/Greissing

DATE :

November 18, 1975

SUBJECT:

Secret Service Request

Attached are all documents, individually listed, that should

be requested of the Secret Service. Item I lists areas of request

that should provide leads into FBI documentation. . Item II lists

materials as they have been filed in Secret Service files.

Included is a brief description of the relevance of each document

(which should not be included in the document request.) The

document request might be submitted by listing the documents

as they are listed in the attached memo, excluding our description,

e. g., Document #15, Folder #3

1. 12/14/64 Report of SA Rice, USSS Index #000.

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

Paul Wallach

FROM:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

Dwyer/Greissing

November 18, 1975

DOCUMENT REQUEST TO SECRET SERVICE REGARDING INVESTIGATION

OF THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION

The following request may provide "leads" to the FBI's

investigation of the President's assassination.

reflecting SA Howlett's protective

research relative to information received from the FBI Dallas

office and subsequent Secret Service procedures investigating

right-wing elements

involved in a demonstration against Adlai

Stevenson.

Howlett's protective research in this regard centered

on activities on October 30, November 15,

and November 20, 1963

as described on Page 8 of the report of Chief James J. Reilly,

December 18, 1963.

B.

Any and all reports reflecting questioning of Donald

Wayne House on 11/22/63(or any subsequent dates) by SA's Roger

C. Warner and James Howard,

referred to in a statement of SA

Roger C.

Warner, November 22, 1963. (Illed in the secret service

"Report"').

C.

Any information pertaining to the arrest and questioning

of Bobby Savelle Janier and Gene Andre Guinn by Dallas Police

on 11/22/63, as noted in Folder #6, #1613.

II. The following documents reflect investigative concern of the

Secret Service or information which supplements investigations

later assumed by the FBI.

"Report of the United States Secret Service on the

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." (2 volumes)

B. Document #15, Folder 1

1. 11/27/63 Report of SA C.E. Taylor relative to the

return of the Presidential limousine to the White House garage

and subsequent inspection of the car by Bureau agents.

(UsSs

Index #310)

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2. 11/29/63 Report of SAIC Rice, New Orleans, includes

comprehensive review of all leads pursued in New Orleans by the

Secret Service shortly after the assassination.

C. Document #15, Folder 2

1. 12/4/63 Report os SA Rice relative to a Jack Martin

described as one of the first suspects in the investigation.

12/3/63 Report of SA Max D. Phillips and attachment

(Russian note from Oswald to Marina).

3.

12/3/63 Report of SA Vial, New Orleans relative to

alleged connection between Oswald and subversive elements in

New Orleans (USSS Index # 407)

D. Document #15, Folder 3

1.

12/30/63 Report of SA Garry W. Stigaill. (Includes

allegation of Chicago underworld informant that Ruby, Oswald and

Tippett

were acquainted) (USSS Index #737)

12/19/63 Memo to files from James J. Rowley.

(USSS Index #656)

3. 12/8/63 Report of William H. McClarin. (Information

regarding Oswald's entrance into Mexico) (USSS Index 1f659)

4. 4/1/64 Report of John J. Howlett. (Includes lengthy

interviews of proprietors of 3809 Meadowbrook address in Fort Worth,

Texas at request of Griffin of Warren Commission staff) (USSS Index

#1375)

5. 12/16/63. Report of John J. Kiljan. (Allegation that

Lee Harvey Oswald stayed at Holiday Inn in Atlanta in summer of 1963

where he left revolver.) (USSS Index #617)

6. 12/14/63 Report of Gary R. Seale.

(Allegation that

Oswald visited gun shop requesting scope

be mounted on rifle.)

(USSS Index #617)

GERRETS

7.. 12/13/63 Report of SA Anthony E. Gretz.

(Allegation

of Jack Martin pertaining to David Ferrie and Lee Oswald.) (USSS

Index #620)

8. 12/12/63 Report of William N. Carter. (Background

information on Russian associates of the Oswalds in Dallas.)

(USSS Index #613)

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12/12/63 Report of Elmer W. Moore.

(Includes

interviews of medical staff of Parkland Hospital.) (USSS.

Index #633)

Index #641)

10. Statement of Earline Roberts.

(12/15/63) (USSS

11.

12/11/63 Report of C.E. Taylor.

(Statement of

Donovan, acquaintance of Oswald in Marines.) (Usss Index 1599)

12. 12/12/63 Report of SA A.B. Wenta. (Interview

of Dr. Alexis Davison,

American physician stationed at American

Embassy in Moscow.) (USSS Index #569)

13.

12/12/63 Report of SA Leon Gopadze. (Marina states

she had no prior knowledge of Oswald's Mexico City trip.)

(USSS Index #632)

E. Document #15, Folder #4

1.

2/3/64 Report of Roger C. Warner.

(Interview of James

located in TSBD at time of the assass-

2.

Dallas

Police Report on assassination attempt against

General Walker. (USSS Index #1032)

3. 1/17/64 Report of Anthony E. Gerretts and John W.

Rice. (Interview of Mrs. Gainer, Oswald'slandlord in New Orleans,;

Garner revelas FBI agent Kaack interviewed her 4-5 times

regarding Oswald, including the day after the Oswald family had

left New Orleans

[September 27, 19631 (N.B. these events, to

SSCI knowledge have not been recorded in FBI interviews so far

reviewed.) (USSS Index #488)

F. Document #14

1. Transcription of tape of Dallas Police radio calls

from approximately 12:30 to #:00 pm, 11/22/63:

G. Document #3

1. 6/13/70 Secret Service Report relative to alleged

telegram to Jack Nellville from Oswald, 9/30/63.

2. 1/5/70 Secret Service Report relative to allegation

of Bobby Joe Sorrell and Oswald's activities in Louisville,

Kentucky in summer 1963.

3. 12/13/63 Report of SA's Gerrett and Rice relative to

David Ferrie.

H. Marina Oswald File

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I. Correspondence File

1.

Letter from Hoover to Rowley 3/26/64 re: Windshield of the

Presidential limousine.

2.

Rowley to Rankin, Memo. 1/6/64, re: protection of the

Presidential limousine.

Rowley to SAIC, 2/13/64, designating Inspector Kelley as

liaison with the Warren Cormission.

4. Rowley to Oehmann, Memo., 1/28/64 re:

J.C. Brewer and his

role in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald

5.

Additions to Roy Kellerman's testimony of 3/9/64 to the

Warren Conmission dated 3/16/64.

6. Rankin to Rowley,.

3/18/64, re: letter to Hoover requesting

the Bureau examine the windshield of the Presidential limousine.

7. Rankin to Rowley, 3/24/64, re: Parade route, who released

it to the press and with what authority? Response of 3/26/64.

8. Rowley to Rankin, 3/25/64, re: Statement of Dr. M. Perry,

made on television interview 11/22/63. Why could this interview not be

located?

9. Rankin to Rowley, 4/3/64, re: transportation to Mexico.

10. Sorrels to Rowley, 4/16/64, re: items of evidence.

11. Rankin to Rowley, 4/3/64, re: the Secret Service's failure

to place men on the rear corner of the Presidential limousine.

12. Rankin to Rowley, 4/22/64, re Sylvia Odio with two inclosures.

13. Rowley to Rankin, 4/28/64, re: information on Oswald.

14. Rankin to Rowley, 5/19/64, re: Guide book for Marines.

15. Rankin to Rowley, 6/1/64, re: tapes.

16. Kelley memo to the Files, 6/10/64, re: request to secure tapes.

17. Rowley to Rankin, 7/10/64, re: Trade Mail decision,

18.

Rankin to Kelley, 7/28/64, re: S/A Warner's interview of Miss

Carlin (Little Lynn)

19. Sorrels to Chief, 8/27/64, re, Newspaper clippings of S/A Stewart,

1/15/64.

20.

Rowley to Rankin memo, 1/6/64, SSIN #733

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21.

limousine.

J.

Folder #7

1. Report of S/A Douglas V. Chalvant, 4/5/67, re: William

Somerset, FBI Informant.

Report of SAIC Herman, New Orleans, to Assistant Director

Kelley, 2/20/67, re: S/A Anthony E. Gerrets memo of 12/13/63 re Ferrie.

3. Memo, 12/19/66 to Assistant Director Kelley from SAIC Herman

re: Dean A. Andrews Jr.'s knowledge of who killed JFK.

4. Report by SAIC Rice, New Orleans, 12/6/63, re: Dean A. Andrews, Jr.

K. Documents Indentified by USSS Index #

1. 12/3/64 Summary Report of SA's Tucker and Noonan (Includes

information relative to delivery of machine guns to Cubans).

2. Undated memorandum, Rowley to Rankin re: agreement between

Secret Service and Warren Camission. (SSIN #773)

3.

Report of 8/11/64 from S/AS Rice and Gerrets responding to

request of Wesley J. Liebler. (SSIN #1760)

Report by S/A Howlett re: the mileage of routes believed taken

by Lee Harvey Oswald on 11/22/63. (SSIN #1722)

5. Report of S/A Warner re: participants in line-up, 11/23/63,

with Lee Harvey Oswald: (SSIN #1730)

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FROM:

DATE :

RE :

Paul Wallach

Dan Dwyer

November 19, 1975

Scheduled Interview of Alonso Hudkins on November 20, 1975

I.

Background Information

A. Alonso Hudkins:

Personal Background

A Secret Service report indicated that Hudkins started

his employment with the Houston Post (the newspaper for which

he reported the President's assassination) about one month

before the assassination.

It is unknown how long he has been

affiliated with the Baltimore News American.

(George O'Toole

alleged that Hudkins was once employed by H.L. Hunt during which

time he was contacted by the CIA to undertake

an assassination

effort.)

Allegation that Oswald Was an FBI Informant

The Warren Commission met in Executive Session on January

22, 1964 to discuss the allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald was

an FBI informant.

J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel of the Warren

Commission explained that Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of

called him that morning and told him about the rumor.

are identified the source of the rumor as Dallas District Attorney:

Henry Wade:

On January 24, Chief Justice Warren and Rankin met with

Carr, Wade, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander and

Leon Jaworski and Robert Storey.

The Texas group reported that

the rumor may have originated with Alonso Hudkins, reporter for

the Houston Post.

In an undated memo for the record (probably written shortly

after the 24th), Rankin states that he discovered a Secret Service

report of S.A.

Bertram dated 1/3/64 on January 23. The report

stated that on December 18, Hudkin advised Secret

Service that

1962 by the FBI "as an informant in connection with their sub-

versive investigation"

• Hudkins also reported that the number

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assigned to Oswald was S-172.

Rankin's memo further notes

that the Secret Service ad-

vised on January 24 that Chief Sweatt stated he heard the In-

formant rumor from Assistant DA, Alexander:

The routes that the FBI-Oswald rumor followed are pe-

culiar.

The Warren Commission was informed by Carr, who heard

the rumor from Wade.

Wade's assistant attributed the rumor to

Alexander, who said he received it from Hudkins.

However,

Hudkins maintains he heard the allegation from Sweatt, who

maintained he heard it from Alexander. (N.B.

Neither Hudkins

or Alexander testified before the Warren Commission)

Hudkin's involvement in publicizing the allegation

since

1963 is more confounding.

the Philadelphia Inquirer that he had invented the numbers S-172

and S-179 (also connected with an alleged Oswald informant

status) and leaked the information during a phone conversatior

in order to determine if the FBI had tapped his telephone.

In an article published in the March 19, 1975, Hudkins

wrote that the S-172 number was "made up" by himself, Assistant

DA, Bill Alexander and Hugh

Aynesworth (who was a reporter for

the Dallas Morning News).

Hudkins arranged a conference call,

the three

30 minutes" an FBI agent visited Hudkin's office

to ask him

questions

about the Oswald story. From this exercise, Hudkins

determined that the FBI had tapped one of the three's

respective

phones.

Hudkin's Allegation That Oswald Learned of a Plot to

Assassinate Castro While Oswald Was in Mexico City

A Secret Service report by S. A. Bertram (12/14/63)

states that on December 12, 1963 Hudkins advised that he received

information from Felton West, Houston Post Washington Bureau

representative,

that Oswald heard of an American plot to assassi-

nate Castro while he was in Mexico City, September 27-October 2,

Alledgedly, Oswald was also informed that President Kennedy

and Vice President Johnson knew of the plot.

Secret Service Director Thomas Kelley talked to Felton

West in Washington.

West denied having informed Hudkins about

any allegation involving Oswald's knowledge of an assassination

plot against Castro. Director Kelley concluded Hudkins was a

usually unreliable source of information.

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D. Hudkin's Opinion That Jack Ruby's Roommate, George

Senator, Might Have Some Connection with the Murder

of Oswald

A Secret Service report of S. A. Bertram dated 1/3/64

reports that on December 16, 1963 Hudkin's called the Dallas

Secret Service office and opined, that George Senator had some-

thing

to do with the murder of Oswald.

Hudkins said that Ruby

had a brother and a nephew who worked

for Jimmy Hoffa in Detroit

and that it was his "wild guess" that the Hoffa organization

might somehow be involved in the assassination. Hudkins also

noted that Ruby's attorney, Melvin L. Belli was an associate of

Atty Abt who was the first attorney Oswald requested after he

was taken into custody.

Furthermore, Hudkins reported that Atty. Thomas Howard and

Ruby were present for the Oswald

outside of Captain

Fritz's office in the Dallas. Police Headquarters on the evening

of November 22, 1963. Hudkins noted that Howard applied for a

writ of release for Ruby "two minutes before Oswald got to the

hospital"

after the shooting by Ruby. Hudkins also noted he

knew Ruby.

II. Proposed Questions

1. Did Hudkins, in fact, participate in the conference call

as decribed in Hudkins' March story in the Baltimore News Ameri-

can. What was the approximate date of the conference call?

2. What indications did Hudkins have that would lead him

to suspect his phone was tapped by the FBI?

3. Did Alexander and Aynesworth also participate in the

conference call?

4. Who was the FBI agent that visited Hudkins "30 minutes"

after the conference call?

4a. Hudkins states in the 3/10/75 Baltimore News

American article that he participated in the conference call

at his "desk at the Houston Posti'

Where were Alexander and

Aynesworth?

Were they subsequently interviewed by FBI agents?

What assurances from this experiment did Hudkins obtain that

it was his phone and not Aynesworth's or Alexander's that was

tapped?

5. Was Hudkins ever asked to testify before the Warren

Commission?

Was Hudkins ever interviewed by a member of the

Warren Commission staff? If so, by whom?

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6.

How long was

Hudkins associated with the Houston Post

before the President's assassination?

How long did Hudkins re-

main with the Post after the assassination?

7. Why did Hudkins wait until 1973 to "clarify" his role

in the rumor that Oswald was an FBI agent?

8. Who initiated the idea for the informant story? Hud-

kins?

Aynesworth?

Alexander?

Sweatt?

Why was the number S-172

(or S-179) used (especially in light of Alexander's presumed

experience with Bureau procedures)?

9. Did Hudkins ever receive any information from Felton

West regarding Oswald's alleged knowledge of an assassination

plot against Castro?

Why, in 1963, would Hudkins place any

credence in reports of American assassination plots against

Castro?

10. Did Hudkins make up S-179?

11. What function did Ruby's relatives serve in the Hoffa

organization?

12.

Was Ruby present in Dallas Police Headquarters on Friday

evening of the 22th?

With whom did he associate while there?

13.

Did Hudkins know Ruby? If so, for how long? Have any

of Hudkin's notions about Ruby and the underworld been confirmed

since his reporting in 1963?

14.

(O' Toole alleged that Hudkins was recruited by CIA to

undertake assassination while with H.L. Hunt oil company). De-

velop more background on Hudkins. Was

he ever employed by H.

L. Hunt?

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

• Paul Wallach

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Dwyer/Greissing

List of Secret Service Agents Investigating the

Assassination of President Kennedy

I

Supervisors:

Inspector Kelley

Elmer Moore

Leon Gopadze

II Dallas Office

Forrest V.

Sorrels

Wilma J. Duncan

James M. Howard

John Joe Howlett

Charles E. Kinhel

William H. Patterson

Lillian L. Rhyan

VirginiaS. Smith

Robert A. Stewart

Roger C. Warner

III Others

Bill Carter

Gary Seals

T. Bailey

L. Heis

Tony Sherman

Charles Taylor

Arthur Blake

Max Phillips

C. Hardy

Alwyn Dicherson

Robert Jamieson

Harry Geighton

Charles Baber

Jerry

Parr

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MEMORANDUM

To :

Paul Wallach

From: Dan Dwyer

Date: November 5, 1975

Re: Oswald File at Secret Service

Ed and I completed review of over one-half of the

documents contained in the Secret Service files on Oswald.

The following are notes on areas of interest in the documents

and

recommendations for appropriate document requests.

"Report of the Secret Service on the Assassination of

President John F. Kennedy."

This is the report that Mr. Kelly

said was given to the National Archives.

It has two volumes;

the first being an overview of preparation made by the Secret

Service in liaison with Bureau and Dallas officials for the

President's trip, the second being appendices including

individual reports of Special Agents

discussing the special

action they took after the President's assassination.

particular interest are reports of activities at Parkland

Hospital and the transferral of physical evidence from Dallas

to Washington.

It does not seem unreasonable to request a

complete copy of the Report. Specific points of interest are

outlined below.

A. A report by Chief James J. Reilly dated 12/18/63

states that on 10/30/63 the Dallas FBI office gave the local

Secret Service office the name of a right-wing individual in

the Dallas area that it considered Dangerous.

The report states

that S.A. Howlett met the informant of the right-wing group in

Denton, Texas (where right-wing protesters demonstrated against

Adlai Stevenson during his visit a few weeks before) on 11/15/63.

On 11/20/63 the informant visited TV Station KRLD in Dallas

with Howlett and a representative of the Criminal Investigation

Division of Dallas Police, when film of the Stevenson demon-

stration was viewed.

informant identified the ringleaders;

stills of these were given to Secret Service agents.

Recommendation: Howlett's part of protective research

indicates that the Secret Service developed information on in-

dividuals in the general vicinity of Dallas who might be dangerous.

Request any and all memoranda relating to Howlett's investi-

gation of right-wing groups.

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B .

Secret Service Agent Roger C. Warner filed a state-

ment on 11/22/63 in which he stated that Special Agent James

H. Howard arrived with Special Agent William Duncan at Park-

land Hospital about 1:30 p.m. on 11/22/63.

Howard informed

Warner that a suspect had been captured by Fort Worth Police.

Howard and Warner went to FWPD and questioned Donald Wayne

House of Ranger, Texas.

Recommendation: This is the first substantive report

about another suspect that has come to SSC attention.

any and all memoranda of Howard and Warren that reflect results

On toward one warren

Request

of questioning of Donald House.

C. In a statement dated 11/30/63, Special Agent Andrew

Berger recounted his experiences while guarding the ER with

SA Johnson at Parkland Hospital. Berger stated that an un-

1a cat that it reen 9, brain entered the opteh d

saying he was "sent

by Hoover."

Nelson entered the ER at 1:30 p.m.

An unidentified individual

(WM, 45 yrs, 6'2") attempted to forcibly enter the ER claiming

he was an FBI agent. SA Berger and SA Johnson had to forcibly

prevent the man

from entering the ER.

SA Killerman spoke to

the man and asked him to go to the end of the hall. This event

was witnessed by Congressman Olin Teague.

SA Johnson's statement of 11/30/63, affirms Berger's

recounting of the incident.

Recommendation: Request the Bureau to grant SSC access to

reports field by SA Vincent Drain on investigation at Parkland

Hospital on 11/22/63.

II. A report filed by SA William H. Peterson on 11/25/63

reveals that Marina told Dallas Police during questioning that

she was interviewed by the FBI 10 days before the assassination.

Additionally, Peterson recounted talking to an unidentified

FBI agent present

at the Dallas Station.

The FBI agent, who

was on the subversive desk, said that Oswald had contacted two

known subversive agents 15

days before the assassination.

Recommendation: Request Peterson's memo.

Be on the lookout

for references to FBI's knowledge of Oswald's subversive contact

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when receiving materials at Bureau.

III. Lifton's analysis of the windshield issue is partially

documented in the Secret Service files. Additional infor-

mation regarding those agents who were responsible for trans-

ferring the Presidential car from Dallas to washington Is

found in the "Report" which should be requested.

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MEMORANDUM

To: Dän Dwyer, Ed. Greissing

From: Paul G. Wallach

Date: October 30, 1975

Re: Telephone conversation with David Lifton

Yesterday afternoon I spoke with David Lifton (213-826-

1610; 11818-1/2 Dorothy Street, Los Angeles, California) who

you recall had been mentioned to us by George O'Toole as the

Cartoore as the

"Warren Commission expert on the Secret Service."

Dave is presently working on a manuscript which he

hopes to have completed by the end of the year. Although he

is quite protective of his

work, he did begin to freely discuss

certain areas that he thought we should be looking into.

The first such area centers on the windshield of the

President's car. Lifton explained

that the reporters at Park-

land Hospital are quoted as

having said

that there was a bullet

hole in the windshield of the President's car.

Apparently

pictures were taken at that time but they were not dispositive

of the "bullet hole" issue.

In any event, the car was brought

aboard the plane the next day and taken to the White House.

After midnight on November 24, 1964, top FBI officials met in

the garage and examined the automobile for over three

and one-

half hours.

They were accompanied by two Secret Service agents

who did no

more

than watch the FBI conduct the examination.

T'he Secret Service agents' report allegedly states "of parti-

cular note to the FBI was the hole in the windshield."

According to Lifton, there is no Bureau report on the

examination of the car. Four days later "a windshield of the

car was removed and stored in the White House garage." Approxi-

mately four months later the Warren Commission

asked the Bureau

for a report on the windshield.

The Bureau said that it did not

have one.

However, it informed the Warren Conmission

that the

Secret Service had the windshield.

However, this windshield had

no hole in it.

(There is a question as to whether or not this

is the same windshield that was examined in the car.)

During the Warren Commission sessions; agent Frazier --

an FBI lab expert - testified and according

to the colloquy

apparently had a

"report" with him on the stand.

During the

exchange before the Commission, Specter

stated "this will become

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a part of our record." Although to date no "report" has

been found, Lifton

told me that handwritten notes on the

Bureau's examination of the windshield have been located.

Subsequent to the Commission's investigation, Arlan

Specter, in an interview for Life Magazine, is quoted as

stating that. "the window report was key."

As stated previously,

during Frazier's testimony Specter stated "this report will

remain a permanent part of the Archives."

Lifton feels it

is important that it was not stated that this would become an

important part of the Warren Commission's record.

Another matter that Lifton has concerned himself with

is the question of why the Dallas Secret Service agents did

not file reports until some five days (i.e. November 29, 1963)

after the events in Dallas.

Lifton told me that the report

was scattered throughout the indexes of the warren Commission

materials; he referred

me to a summary (CD-3) which he des-

cribed as an enlightening document.

Lifton mentioned an incident in which secretary tillon

-- who was heading

for Japan with numerous other officials -

returned hom when he heard of Kennedy's death and subsequently

bawled out Secret Service Chief James Reilley: Lifton thinks

it would be interesting for us to get into Reilley's and

Dillon's files.

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

From:

Date:

Re :

The Files

Paul G. Wallach

October 29, 1975

Meeting in Paul Daly's Office

Dan, Ed and I met with Paul Daly, Tom Bresson, and

Bill Nettles (324-4256) in an introductory session to our

Warren Commission-related

review.

We were informed that the Bureau did not have an

index of documents provided to either the Warren Commission

or Archives, and that the preparation of such an index would

be an extensive undertaking; i.e., producing one as requested

in my letter of October 14, 1975 would take some

45 days.

However, Bresson agreed that it would not be difficult to

cull out and produce for us all agreements between the Warren

Commission and FBI pertaining to the dissemination of documents.

Daly professed. complete cooperation while at the

same time commenting upon our Committee's finite existence.

We explained that we would be making numerous categorical

document requests in the very near future..

More specifically,

we agreed that in the first instance we would be requesting

access thereby vitiating the need for extensive sanitization

by the Bureau.

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MEMORANDUM

To :

The Files

From:

Paul G. Wallach

Date:

October 30, 1975.

Re :

Meeting at George Kalaris' Office (Chief, CI Staff)

Yestereay afternoon Ed, Dan and I met with George

Kalaris and Bob Wall to discuss the document production

problems that had arisen.

Although the CIA had originally

accorded us total review of the unexpurgated documents, they

changed in midstream taking the position that we can only

review highly sanitized versions.

Kalaris explained that the reason for the change

was that he had not realized the magnitude of classified

documents in the files; he stressed the need to protect

sensi

tive

sources and

I told him that this was

completely unacceptable to the Committee, noting that the

Rockefeller Commission had been allowed lin the person of David

Belin

to review unsanitized documents and reiterating that

we had ourselves for some six or seven days had access to

these documents.

His explanation was that it was a "mistake"

for this to have been allowed.

Our present document agreement

stands as follows:

We have the right to review all' but the

most highly sensitive documents at the Agency in

Kalaris will personally

summarize the very few highly sensitive documents.

We will be able to check any of the summaries

against the original documents. if we deem it neces-

sary and,"

more over, have the right to right to

review the

sensitive documents in their entirety

should we desire to do so.

satisfactory agreement.."I believe this is a

will begin our full-

scale review on Monday morning.

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FROM:

DATE:

RE :

Paul Wallach

Dan Dwyer and. Ed Greissing

November 4, 1975

Review of Oswald 201 at CIA, November 3, 1975

Greissing and Dwyer returned to the CIA to review the

Oswald 201 under the agreement set forth in the meeting of

1/28/75 between Mr. George Kalaris and Mr. Wall of the CI

staff and members of the SSCI.

1.

Mr. Wall outlined some security measures which Dwyer and

Greissing agreed to comply with.

First, any notes taken by

members

of the SSCI will be photocopied

at the end of each

session's review.

2.

Greissing and Dwyer were introduced to Dan Nischer

(phonetic).

Mr. Wall said that Mr. Nischer would answer any

substantive questions about the documents and the cryptograms

used therein.

3. Mr. Wall explained that some of the documents now filed

in the Oswald 201 were not filed there at the time of the

President's assassination.

Some were located in file 200

(miscellaneous international file); others in file 100 (miscel-

laneous domestic file); others in

the WH Division files (those

generated by the Mexico City station); and, others in the files

reserved for documents with sensitivity indicators.

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SECRET

MEMORAN DUM

TO :

FROM:

DATE :

RE :

Paul Wallach

Ed Greissing and Dan Dwyer

November 4, 1975

Documents filed in the Oswald 201 at the CIA as of

November 22, 1963

I.

The ClA has not yet been able to precisely define those

5 documents that were filed in Oswald's 201 file as of November

22, 1963. The CIA has no doubt that there were 2 documents

from State, 2 from the FBI and 1 from Navy; the question is

which 2 FBI documents were in the file.

The three documents

that were definitely filed in the 201 are the following:

1) State--Foreign Service Dispatch #806; "Citizenship

and Passport:

Lee Harvey Oswald"'; 3/24/61

References:

State A-173, 4/13/61

Amemb, Moscow,

D-659, 3/24/61

Received: 11/16/61 (?)

2)

State--Foreign Service Dispatch #317; 10/12/61;

enclosures:

copies of 4 letters of Oswald to Amemb,

Moscow

Reference: State OM 8/18/61

Received: 11/17/61 (?)

3) Navy--Memo to Hoover from H.T. Hadenburg, Dept. of

Navy; 5/26/62; enclosure: letter from Oswald 3/22/62

re undesirable discharge

References:

DNI memo 8083P92 of 3/22/62

DNI memo Conf.

031309Z of 3/62

Received: 5/1/62 (?)

CC:

CIA, INS

According to Mr. Wall's appraisal of the Oswald 201, the other

two (Bureau) documents are the following:

1) 7/3/61 Report of SA John W. Fain

cc: ONI, New Orleans

Received: 7/20/61 (?)

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Two

Mr. Wall called Mr. Paul Hartman to clarify the identification

of the five documents found in the Oswald 201 in 11/22/63.

Mr. Hartman advised that the two FBI documents were the following:

1) 5/12/60 Report of SA. John W. Fain "Fund Transmitted

to Residents of Russia"

Received: 5/25/60 (original

file location is noted as

74-500)

2) 10/31/63 Report of SA Kaa Ck, re Oswald FPCC activities

New Orleans

Mr. Wall promised to make more efforts to determine which two

Bureau reports were included in the 201.

II.

Two CIA documents that were forwarded to the Warren Com-

mission and that are now of interest to the SSCI surfaced

during a discussion with Don Nischer. They should be included

in a

document request.

1)

3/6/64 Memo from Helms to Rankin, complete inventory

of 30 items in possession of the CIA on 11/22/63.

2) 1/31/64 Memo from Helms to Rankin "Information Developed

by the CIA on Activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City,

9/28-10/3/63. "'

In a tootnote, Helms explains that the

Oswald 201 was opened on 12/9/60 shortly after the CIA

had received a memorandum from the State Department

which listed a number of recent American defectors to the

USSR.

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MEMORANDUM

To:

Dan Dwyer

Fron:

Paul Wallach

Date:

Re:

October 28, 1975

Anson's New Tines article entitled "The Man

Who Never Was."

Anson suggests in this article certain documents

that we would want to look at and certain individual's

files that we would probably want to review.

would probat ye wane

Mose specifically, on page 45 in the folder,

- picopy

Anson, in the last paragraph, states: "More than ten years

later

a top secret Commission memorandum which lent further

weight to the Odio story was declassified."

However, Anson

states that numerous key portions of

the document are cen-

sored.

On page 44, he also states:

"The same memorandum

that backs up Mrs. Odio, raises questions about the authen-

ticity of Oswald's passport.

The relevant section of the

meno, lowever, is almost entirely censored; nore than a

dozen lines are blanked out. Additionally, Anson refers

to a memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the Department of

State reflecting the "Director's fears" as to a

• "dual"

Oswald.

Anson tells us that this memorandum was probably

withheld from the Warren Commission; I would like to see a

copy of it now.

Finally, Anson refers to an occasion when

Mrs. Oswald visited the State Department to enquire about

Cuts chunk.

her son.

I would think that the State Department would

have memoranda in its files reflecting some meeting.

Anson's article also suggests that we should review

files in the possession of the CIA, FBI, or Secret Service

which relate to Sylvia Odio. I would also think we would

want to talk to former Warren Commission lawyer, David Slawson

and former State Department FBI liaison, Richard A. Frank

inally, I would like to see if we can get hold of Priscilli

Johnson, the then Moscow correspondent for the North American

Newspaper Alliance.

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1o:

Memorandum for the Record

From:

Faul Wallach

Date:

October 28, 1975

Re:

Meeting with James Angleton in Senator

Schweiker's office, October 3, 1975C

On Friday afternoon, October 3, 1975,

ä meeting

attended by

Senator Schweiker, Senator Hart (after the first 30 minutes) .

Rick Inderfurth, James Angleton and his attorney

The meeting was

essentially a question and answer

session between ourselves and Angleton and later evolved

into a lecture by Mr. Angleton.

Angleton focused on our

inquiry into the Warren Commission's report from his counter-

intelligence standpoint.

The first subject raised by Angleton was Nesanko's

defection.

Angleton

explained that the Agency at first had

a passing contact with him in Geneva when he claimed that he

would provide cestain information for a few hundred dollars

to take care of gambling losses.

He asked never to be con-

tacted again. Subsequently, he defected to the West and

according to Angleton, his defection was not bona fide.

(Apparently the only agency that

thought he was bona fide was

the FBI.)

Angleton mentioned Cheraponov (phonetic) who apparently

had given information to numerous tourists while they were in

MOSCOW.

The CIA had reason to believe that Cheraponov had

been identified, captured and executed. When Nesanko came out

of the East the only docunent had wịth

him was one depicting

the capture of Cheraponov at the frontier.

Angleton added

that this struck at his own bona fides and he had to correct

himself.

Apparently Nesanko was tortured upon his defection,

anâ Angleton commented that this type of pressure was not one

that a bona fide defector would have ever allowed himself to

be subjected to.

Nesanko told the Agency that an internal

dossier of Oswald's crossed his desk and that "he was a living

witness" as to Oswald's connection with the KGB.

Angleton

stressed the major defector that the Agency

had had in the early

'60's. He recounted a conversation he

had

with the major defector on the day the President was shot

during which the major defector said

"I have bigger fish.to

fry and I don'i: vant to jet involved in the Oswald case.

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However, the major defector said that the norma

handling

of military men who defected to the west went eventuatly

through Department 13 where the defector would belinterrogated

with respect to his army weapons experience.

However, nowhere

in Nesanko's papers and/or his statements, did he mention

that Oswald had gone through Department 13. (Angleton's

statements are unclear here, let's ask him again about all this.)

Angleton commented on Des Fitzgerald's trip to Paris

where he met with a Cuban agent who subsequently returned to

Cuba. This agent was never heard from again.

Angleton told us that the man sent to Cuba as the

Russian Ambassador - Alexiev

(phonetic) - was a KGB escort

officer for Raoul Castro.

This led Angleton into a discussion

of two photographs, the first being a photo found by the Mexican

police, of Leninoff (phonetic), a Mexican KGB agent with Castro,

and the second, a

Angleton told us that it was "news to him that the

Bureau had any relationship with Oswald."

He suggested that we speak to ex-FBI agent Burt

Turner (who now practices law in D.C.) about Cuba and any

possible Oswald relationship to Cuba.

Angleton told us that Eon Andronov (phonetic) wrote a

travel article on New Orleans and did an interview with Garrison.

Angleton also told us #bout Kruschev's visit with Nasser

during which visit Kruschev told an American journalist that it

was a "right wing conspiracy in the U.S. which led to President

Kennedy's assassination."

Angleton stressed that in the U.s.s.R.

(unlike the U.S.), the leadership receives strong guidance from

the intelligence community and that it is unlikely that Kruschev's

statements would have been off-the-cuff.

Angleton then noted Hammer's nephew's trip to New York

City, the ostensible purpose of which trip was to write about

the JEK assassination. The nephew is a well-known KGB agent.

My notes read "R.s. -- question re Oswald and his

defection - nothing happened - jurisdiction to Pentagon --

that's breakdown."

Angleton stated that in the old days, Oswald's return

priority for the intelligence community.

to the u.s, after his redefection would have been than highest

Howevery

Belmont left the Bureau, its counterintelligence

security) operations fell apart.

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Angleton again mentioned the double agent to) Mexico

- in complex with Leanovov (phonetic).

Angle

when men-

tioned the threat by Castro against the Preside

He told us that Des Fitzgerald would not have met the

agent in Paris unless he had specific instructions to do so.

As you will recall, Angleton told us that this agent returned

to Cuba and never reappeared.

Angleton believes this would

have given the Soviets an understanding of the seriousness of

the U.S. threat to Castro.

Angleton told us of a series of arguments he had with

Dulles when he was sitting on the Warren Commission.

He

essentially argued that we should not "close the door in the

future."

He stressed that the Soviet Union has Department 13

working under its directorate and that it is well known that

Department 13 once upon a time conducted political assassinations.

The 1961 defector told the Agency of Department 13's plan of

assassinating world leaders.

My notes state "General Rodin

was head of - his file in

Department 13 -- therefore expected

executive action to assassinate him -- 1961 defector defected

in Helsinki -- said go easy on telegrams, said agent within

•CAA organization - new man in CAA had a code name but was a

German

Angleton stressed the importance of the 1961 defector.

It broke down the Soviet's departmentalization; as the man had

been involved in various intelligence activities and Angleton

estimated that it would take the Soviets years to write a

damage report.

Therefore the second defector could have been

either to mitigate the damage or strictly vis-a-vis Oswald.

That key detecto ta no be inter gate a bea

ment 13 and this was not in Oswald's official file.

Angleton believes that Miboutou's assassination in

Kenya was by the KGB.

Angleton reiterated what he believes to be a Cuban

connection with Oswald. He noted again the name Leninov (phonetic)

and two photos of Castro with Leninov, including a photograph of

Soviet expert.

(Apparently Turner had a run-in with Hogver.)

My notes say

"Did not want to believe responsible fo

sassination

of President."

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Angleton suggested that it was "conceivable that the

1961 Russian could be brought in to testify."

Angleton told us that Cuban intelligence calls itself

DGI.

He feels that RFK's assassination was brought on by'

the underworld's animosity.

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MEMO TO :

Mr. Miller, Mr. Schwarz, Mr.

Smothers, Mr. Kirbow

FROM:

Mike Madigan, Bob Kelley y

Ed Greissing

Date:

8/9/75

Subject:

SUMMARY OF PRESS REPORTS Ie: Castro's Alleged Knowledge

Of Assassination Plots

I

Involvement of the U.S. Government

A. Kennedy was attempting to establish contact with Cuba

and according to Goodwin ruled out assassination.

Whale? B. Castro said there are no grounds on which to affirm

JFK's or RFK's awareness or involvement.

C. Castro accuses the U.S. government and holds them

accountable for these deeds.

D. Accuses President Johnson for the fact that the U.S.

organized a plan to assassinate leaders and proclaim

it publicly in an impudent manner.

E. Former CIA Chief for Latin America, David Phillips, said

on British Television that the U.S. government warned

Castro in 1968 of a plot to kill him.

F. According to Rodriguez attempts were made on Castro during

the Nixon administration.

1. attempt during his 1971 trip to Chile.

II AMLASH

A. A plot to kill Castro was hatched in Spain with the help

of Artime and the CIA.

B. Castro had Cubella investigated.

C. Castro had both Cubella and Diaz arrested.

III

Organized Crime

A. As early as May 1961, RFK knew the CIA was dealing with

organized crime.

B. Organized crime has been linked to American intelligence

since Word War II.

C. Organized crime had enjoyed a

good relationship with

Batista.

D. RFK was warned against prosecuting two organized crime

figures because it may disclose the CIA plot to kill Castro.

IV Castro

A. Castro declared he was absolute master in his house and he

vas powertud enough to give active encouragement to

revolution everywhere, and to fight the Mafia single handed.

B. According to Castro the Mafia desired his removal to

moderate the tone of the Cuban revolution.

Where.

C. Any Cuban role in the assassination of JFK is absurd.

On August 10, 1967, Castro developed the theme of an

"international Mafia" working against his interest.

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E. Castro alleges that within Cuba there were groups whose

ambitions coincided with those of the Alpha 66 exile

organization, Marquez, McNamara, Johnson and others.

V Warren Commission

A. Assassination information was withheld from the

Warren Commission.

B. David Belin agreed that the assassination information

was not presented to the Commission but it would not

have changed

the Commission's findings.

However, he also

stated that it possibly would have influenced the overall

investigation.

The Warren Commission found no substance in allegations that

the Cuban government was connected with Oswald.

D. The New Orleans Times - Picayune dated September 9, 1963

carried Castro's statement of September 7, 1963.

1. "We are prepared to fight them and answer in kind,

United States leaders should think that if they are aiding

terrorist plans to

eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves

will not be safe.

2. This appeared while Oswald was living in New Orleans.

The FBI forwarded a cable from the Director dated March

3, 1967-

Subject Pascual Enrique Ruedolo Gongora;

1. Subject arrested 14 November 1963 for carrying concealed

2. Has a

history of psychiatric care.

Subject allegedly informed U.S. authorities that

President Kennedy would be killed three days before the

assassination:

Castro had sent 6-8 teams to the U.S.

to carry out the assassination and subject was a member

of one of the teams.

4. Subject stated Castro was convinced that Kennedy was

planning to have him killed like Diem and was going to

kill Kennedy before Kennedy got him.

" Dear.

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FROM:

DATE:

PAUL WALLACH

DWYER/GREISSING

OCTOBER 28, 1975

SUBJECT: CIA'S POSITION ON SSC ACCESS TO OSWALD'S 201 FILE

Mr. Wallach and Mr. Elder initially agreed that members of

the SSC could review the Oswald 201 file at the Agency. Accord-

ingly, Dwyer and Greissing met with Mr. John O'Reilly of the

review staff on October 3, 1975. Mr. O'Reilly introduced Dwyer

and Greissing to Mr. Paul Hartman of the CI staff whose respon-

sibilities have included maintenance of the Oswald 201 since the

assassination of the President.

During the two weeks following October 3, Dwyer and Greissing

conducted a partial review of the Oswald 201 in the presence of

Mr. Hartman. (The Oswald 201 fills seven file drawers and pur-

portedly includes all materials, generated by the CIA, other

government agencies and the Warren Commission, which relate to

Oswald.

and the investigation of the President's assassination.)

Mr. Hartman, during these review sessions, outlined his involve-

ment in maintaining the files and was most cooperative in ident-

ifying cryptograms and personnel and answering questions relative

to routing materials within the CIA and filing procedures. The

last date on which Dwyer and Greissing conducted review of the

Oswald 201 was Thursday, October 16.

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On Saturday, October 18, Mr. Elder advised Wallach that Mr.

Hartman needed more time to review

the Oswald 201 before Dwyer

and Greissing had an opportunity to review them. Dwyer then

called Elder that afternoon. Elder told Dwyer that Hartman

had to review documents for "sensitive methods and techniques."

Dwyer asked if this would prevent the SSC from reviewing files

that had previously been reviewed without the sanitization of

files that Elder implied would henceforth be undertaken. Elder

approved this and advised Dwyer to call Hartman about returning.

to the CIA on Tuesday, the 21st, as had been planned at the

meeting with Hartman on

the 16th.

On Sunday, October. 19, Dwyer called Hartman who advised that

Elder instructed him to pull all documents which involve "sen-

sitive methods and techniques" and the dissemination of informa-

tion to "foreign service." Hartman told Dwyer that the SSC could

not return to the CIA until his review of the Oswald 201 was com-

pleted. Hartman indicated this would take one week.

On Monday, October 20, Dwyer called Elder to clarify the

weekend discussion with Hartman. Elder advised that the files

that had already been reviewed by SSC would not have to be inspected

by the CIA. Elder said he felt "nothing would be taken out."

Elder said that the SSC could return to the CIA on the 2lst or

22nd. Hartman was subsequently contacted; he said that any

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arrangements would have to be negotiated with Elder.

Wallach spoke to Elder on Thursday, October 24. Greissing

then spoke to Elder. Elder said he would make arrangements for

Greissing and Dwyer to return to the CIA on Tuesday morning, the

25th.

Dwyer and Greissing spoke to Elder's

secretary on Tuesday

morning, the 28th. She directed them to a review room where she

said the documents would be ready. None of the documents were

there. Elder's office was notified; the documents were purportedly

on their way. Mr. Hartman arrived about 45 minutes later:

He

advised that the CIA had a task force headed by Mr. O'Reilly who

was reviewing all the Oswald 201. Hartman advised that most of

the documents were being declassified and prepared for public

release, except those that reflected "sensitive methods and

sources" and "liaison relationships." These kinds of documents

were being whited out; they then would be ready for SSC review.

Hartman said that this project has been conducted all weekend

and that it would be completed by next Monday. Dwyer and Greissing

informed Hartman that it was, at least, reasonable to expect a

notification from the CIA that materials would not be ready,.

especially in light of arrangements made by Elder on last Thursday.

(Hartman denied any knowledge of these arrangements.) More im-

portantly, Dwyer and Greissing told Hartman that these terms of

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review were unacceptable.

The SSC should demand access to all CIA materials in their

unsanitized form. Otherwise, it is impossible to determine what

materials, if any, were not made available to the Warren

Commission.

Additionally, those materials, so far reviewed, involving

"sensitive methods and sources," contain information that was

critical to the Warren Commission's

analysis of Oswald's visit to

Mexico City. The Warren Commission

stated Oswald was in Mexico

from September 26, 1963, to October 3, 1963. One of the unanswered

questions in the Warren Commission report is the identity of the

individual pictured in Commission Document 237. The CIA denied

any knowledge of the identity of the individual.

The Mexico City section of the Oswald 201 includes informa-

tion obtained through "sensitive methods and sources." This in-

formation indicates that the unidentified individual visited the

Soviet Embassy

on October 1 and October 4, 1963, and impersonated

Lee Harvey Oswald. A dispatch from Mexico City to Headquarters

reveals that J. C. King, the Western Hemisphere Chief, knew the

identity of the individual. The "sensitive methods and sources"

the CIA wants to protect, in this case, are camera surveillance

techniques and electronic surveillance of conversations in the

Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico City, both techniques

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ago.

Any agreement

between the CIA and SSC which precludes a

complete review of Oswald materials in their raw form by the

SSC is dangerous then for two reasons: 1) it will automatically

preclude any complete review of materials the CIA had that might

have been critical to the Warren Commission findings; 2) it would

set a precedent preventing any future investigative body to

utilize all information developed by the Agency with regard to

Oswald.

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MEMORANDUM

October 20, 1975

TO

: Paul Wallach

FROM : Ed Greissing

SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with John McCann, former

Assistant Attache in Moscow

1. On October 20, 1975, I conducted a telephone conversa-

tion with a retired

(U.S.A. F.) Lt./Col. John McCann re-

garding his tour in Moscow

in the early 1960's

(Lt./

Col. McCann has been a close friend of the family for

nearly 21 years.)

2.

Upon Lt./Col. McCann's arrival in early 1960, he assumed

the position of Assistant Attache and remained in this

capacity

until his departure to the United States in

late 1962.

3. Lt./Col. McCann requested that we not discuss sensitive

details, contacts, etc., over the telephone and to save

such questions for a later time.

He reminded me that he

tos been debriefed, whereby, he however one insisted that

formation d

he will be willing to assist in any way:

interviews of Martin and Mitchell as well as Gary Powers;

yet more significant was his work with other intelligence

contacts throughout the Soviet Union.

EG/ cm

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MEMORANDUM

SECRFT

TO :

Paul Wallach

FROM:

DATE:

SUBJECT:

Dwyer/Greissing

October 22, 1975

PROPOSED AREAS OF INVESTIGATION IN THE CIA/WC STUDY

The following memo is a brief outline of proposed areas

where the CIA might not have admitted either "direct or indirect"

contact with Lee Harvey Oswald.

I. Mexico City

1.

One of the issues that was never resolved by the CIA

(or FBI) for the Warren Commission is the indentity of the individual.

pictured in Warren Commission Exhibit 237. The photograph first

Publicly surfaced on 11/23/63 when SA Bartwell Odum showed the

photograph (with an identifying background trimmed off) to

Marguerite Oswald.

Odum asked Marguerite if she had ever

seen

the man in the photograph.

Marguerite told Odum she hadn't

(but erroneously commented a few days later after seeing picutres

of Oswald's assassin in the newspaper that the photograph must

have been of Jack Ruby.

2.

Richard Helms (in addition to maintaining that the CIA

had no indirect or direct ties

to Oswald)also submitted an

affidavit stating that the CIA had forwarded a photograph of the

unidentified individual to the FBI on 11/23/63 and that the

photograph was taken outside the Untied States between July and

November, 1963.

.. Hord tu 1010/43?

Helms supplied OUT message #74673, dated 10/10/63 and

Illed to State, Navy and FBI, to the Warren Commission.. It reads,

"On 10/1/63 a reliable and

sensitive source in Mexico reported

that Lee OSWALD contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City

inquiring whether the Embassy had received any news concerning

a telegram sent to Washington.

The American was described as

approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build,

about 6'

may be identical to

tall with a receding lee Henry Oswald",

hairline.", The cable reported that Lee Oswald

; a former Marine, who had

defected to the Soviet Union.

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The physical description supplied for Lee Oswald Is:

obviously, incorrect. Oswald was 5'9"

, 160 1bs., medium build and

23 years old.

Helms also supplied OUT Message 77978; dated 10/23/63

and forwarded to Navy, to

the Warren Commission Headquarters,

requested "two copies

of the most recent photograph you have of

subject.

"(The Oswald 201 reveals that Navy did not provide

a photograph of Oswald to the CIA until 11/26/63.)

3. Materials now contained in the Oswald 201 at the CIA

reveal critical information about the "mistaken identity" of

Oswald.

According to Mr.

Hartman, in whose presence SSCI

members have been reviewing the file, none of the following

material referred to was filed in Oswald's 201 on the day of the

President's assassination.

The following information has been

obtained from "sensitive

sources and methods"which are camera

surveillance on entrance, to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in

Mexico City and taps on phone lines of the Embassies.

The CIA Station was never forwarded a photograph of

Oswald despite Headquarters request to Navy on 10/23/63 which

was predicated by a teletype from Station to Headquarters on

10/15/63 requesting "pouch photo Oswald." The Station confirmed

that the individual (who had been incorrectly referred to as

Lee Oswald on 10/1/63 by "reliable" sources in Mexico) was not

Lee Harvey Oswald from wire photos of the accused released after

he was taken into custody by Dallas police.

The material now in the Oswald 201 reveals that CIA

Station developed information on Lee Harvey Oswald on 9/28/63

when he visited the Cuban Embassy to obtain a Cuban intransit

visa to Russia. The

"sensitive source" of this information

was electrical

surveillance on the Cuban Embassy. Cables from

CIA Station to Headquarters state, however, that

the Station could

find no photographic evidence that Oswald visted the Cuban

Embassy on the 28th because it was a Saturday and, since the

Cuban Embassy was closed for operational purposes, camera surveillance

was not being conducted.

Another cable reveals that the tape of

the intercepted conversation inwhich Oswald participated was

erased.

During the two day period of 11/22-23/63, Station cabled

Headquarters that a check of all records of photographic surveillance

* on the Cuban and Soviet Embassies from August until November re-

vealed no record of Lee Harvey Oswald visiting either Embassy.

The 201 file contains another intercepted conversation

with Soviet Consular officials in which a man identifies himself as

Lee Oswald and asks to speak to the Russian he had spoken to the

day before. (Date of conversation uncertain.) Another cable to

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Headquarters states that the only American who could possibly be

identical to Oswald is the individual "described a 6'

athletic buidl."

tall,

The files record the date of this photograph

as 10/1/63.

Souret embassy?

There are also photographs in the 201 file of the same

unidentified individual leaving the Soviet Union' on 10/4/63.

(The Warren Commission states Oswald left Mexico City

on 10/2/63.)

(It has not been determined at this point if a transcript of an

intercepted conversation exists for 10/4/63 in which an "Oswald"

has recently meen caded to the 201. It is dated 10/15/63 and

A photo of the same unidentified individual

pictures the indivudal leaving the Cuban Embassy (holding something

that resembles a visa.)

§'toola-sil he

per eated

Finally, the FS Dispatch dated 11/23/63 was pouched to

Headquarters and included 4 photos of the unidentified individual taken

on 10/4/63÷

Attached to this material is a letter addressed to

J. C. King, Chief WH Division from Winston Scott, Chief of Station,

Mexico City, in which Scott, in reference to pouched photos,

describes the unidientified individual as a man "who is known

to you.". (George O'Toole, author of Assassination Tapes and

former Chief of Problems

and Analysis Section, told the Boston

Phoenix that a CIA contact of his knows the identity of the

individual (Boston Phoenix, 5/27/75)).

The implications of these findings have great potential.

The following should be pursued.

a. Insistence on access to unsanitized material

b. Identification of all relevant cables, etc.

c. Requisition of those relevant documents.

d.

Preparation of a chronology of all known visits of an

"Oswald" to Russian and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City

it fine

at last stone:

Identification of all CIA Station, CIA Headquarters and

State employees who issued, authored, or received cables

regarding Oswald's visits to the Embassies.

*and 4 photos of the same individual taken on 10/1/63.

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II. Soviet Union

The Washington Post reported in 10/20/75 that during the

Kennedy administrations, "CIA had 3,700 employees operating

under diplomatic or other official US titles overseas."

officials were known as CAS -- Controlled American Sources.

Most of Oswald's contacts with the American Embassy in Moscow

were with Richard Snyder.

The SSCI should ask the CIA for a list

of CAS in Moscow from 1959 until 1962 to determine if Embassy

otticials whom Oswald contacted were associated with the CIA.

(NB 10/24/75. A list is unecesaary. Embasgy officials in Moscow who.

contact with Oswald should be identified.

Then the CIA could

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III. New Orleans

SECRET

A CIA report prepared in 1967 at the time of the Garrison

trial in New Orleans reveals that Carlos Bringuier, New Orleans

leader of the (anti-Castro) Cuban Revolutionary Council, had

been in contact with the Domestic Operations Division of the CIA

in New Orleans until April 1967. (The report also states that the

CRC was funded by the CIA.)

The Warren Commission Report records two events in which Oswald

and Bringuier had contact.

Oswald visited Bringuier in his shop

and asked him general questions about the CRC. Bringuier was also

one of the anti-Castroites with whom Oswald had a scuffle and was

arrested for disturbing the peace on August 9, 1963.

The SSCI should request access to all records reflecting all

Why /Bringuier's contacts with the DCD in New Orleans.

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MEMORANDUM

September 29, 1975

TO

Rick Inderfurth

FROM : Dan Dwyer and Ed Greissing

SUBJECT: Alleged Association Between

1 Jack Ruby and Underworld Header

Last week, Senator Hart expressed

interest in the possible

links between Jack Ruby and

members of the Mafia prior to the as-

sassination of the President..

Classified Warren Commission materials stored at the Archives

include FBI reports of records of telephone calls made by Jack Ruby,

the identity

of the parties phoned on Ruby's numbers (home phone

and Carousel Club line), and records of phone calls from places

called frequently by Ruby.

This data includes records from Octo-

ber 1962 until. November 24, 1963--the day Ruby shot Oswald. Most

of the calls made on Ruby's line were to Arlington, Texas (Ralph

Paul, Ruby's associate), Chicago (Ruby's relatives); and Smithfield,

Michigan (Earl Ruby, Jack's brother).

The following is a list of those classifiegmatertal with the

above-described

telephone information. After liaison with the

Bureau has been established, these materials can be placed in the

SSC document request:'

1.

2.°

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

CD 223

CD

301

CD

302

CD

312

CD

329

CD 360

CD

390

FBI list B - 11/27/63, Hoover to Rankin

FBI List B - 11/29/63, Hoover to Rankin

3/12/63 memo, Hoover to Rankin

11/29/63 memo, Hoover to Rankin

(Note: CD is Commission Document)

Copy to Elliot Maxwell

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September 29, 1975

MEMORANDUM

To:

Paul Wallach

CC: Rick Inderfurth and Elliot Maxwell

FIom: Dwyer/Greissing

Re: Senator Schweiker's Review of Selected Warren Commission

Documents Withheld from Public Research at the National

Archives.

Senator Schweiker reviewed a selected number of

Warren Commission Documents at the National Archives withheld

from public research on 9/22/75.

While reviewing the documents

the Senator expressed particular interest in the following

•areas of investigation:

1. Informants How informants are paid. Would any

of these payments be reflected in an informant's

income tax return?

Do informants sign for the

cash received from their handlers or contacts?

2.

The Bureau's informant network in New Orleans.

As

a major area for anti-Castro activity, the Bureau

might have had a center or unofficial meeting spot

for informants in New Orleans •

Was it the Custom

House?

Orest Pena's Habana Bar?

3.

4.

5.

Awclassified:3/6/64cinternaltWarren.Comnissionmemo

from.Griffinand:HubertstoRankin.proposinq.apossible

connection. between:Rubyrand Oswaldbefore:the.assassm

ination.ofthey Presidente

Ruby's 1959 tax return. The National Archives'

inventory lists Ruby's tax return as being included

in CD 367, withheld from public research.

The tax

return was not found in the CD 367 folder. Marion

Johnson advised it could be found in Vol. XXIII

of the Warren Report, Cömmission Exhibit 1716.

tape

ecording of Oswald!s: phone-calls between the Cubarty

añd Russian embassies in Mexico City. in September-1963?

The New York Times reported on 9/21/75 that phone

conversations between the Cuban and Russian embassies

in which Oswald was involved, were taped by the CIA.

A portion of the transcript of these conversations was

reviewed by Senator Schweiker at the Archives.

The

Senator suggested that the tape could be requested from

the CIA (if it still exists) and be subjected to voice

print analysis to determine if Oswald was, in fact,

the individual who visited the diplomatic establishments

Told Cure

cable)

That it was

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What is NAA-

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Who is

nite are i were

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the cuban-consulater.first-described-swaldas.ablonde

2ACIA: teletype: 0f 10/9/63-from Mexico City, givesthe

physical description for Oswald totally dissimilar tog

what. swald really looked like.y A photograph later

supplied and believed

to be one of Oswald matched the

physical description set out in the original teletype.

Neutron; Activation Analysis.

FBI Director Hoover sent

a summary of the NAA conducted on bullets allededly

fired by Oswald's rifle.

Hoover, noted that: the. NANY

teststrevealed.inconsequentialedifferences.am Senator

Schweikercsuggested-requestingetheroriginal.completey

NAA: testsreportrandecontragting ft against the summary

reports submitted to the warren Commission

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MEMORANDUM

September 23, 1975

TO .

: FILES

FROM

Dan Dwyer

SUBJECT: FBI Investigation of the President's

Assassination

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On September 18, 1975, Ed Greissing and Dan Dwyer reviewed the

Justice Department's anti-Castro files covering the late 50's

through early 70'g. The files of particular interest were those

of 1962 and 1963 during which time Lee Harvey Oswald was a member

of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and allegedly attempted

to infiltrate anti-Castro organizations in New Orleans, and possibly

in Miami and/or Mexico City.

Attached is a list of those reports contained in the anti-Castro

Department of Justice file which relate to the FBI investigation

of the President's assassination. This list is important for two

main reasons. First, the reports represent a far more detailed

knowledge: of anti-Castro activities than was admitted to the Warren ..

Commission. by the Bureau: On May 5, 1964, Rankin sent a letter to

Hoover requesting all documents relative to FPCC, JURE Daban Revo:

lutionary, Junta), DRE (Cuban Student Directorate), Alpha. 66 and 30ths

of November Movement. for Dallas--Fort Worth in 1963 and related ac-.

tivities in New Orleans, Miami, Las Vegas and

other major U. S..

cities.:

At this- point, it has been determined that Hoover responded...

to Rankin!s: request by submitting a report which simply named of-

ficial directors and key activists of each organization in each:

locality and which-briefly outlined each organization's main ac-

tivitles.

Second, the Department of Justice files are important be-

cause they contain reports on individuals allegedly involved in

arconspiracy to assassinate the President. Specifically, some of

the names mentioned of particular interest are Gerald Patrick

Hemmings, Henry Williams, Frank Sturgis', Hargraves; Augustinovich,

BiblESeynour, the McLaney brothers and Tom. Kane (an alleged alias

?

of: Oswald).

(Coup d'Etat in America, by Mike Canfield and A. J.

Weberman, outines these individuals alleged role in a conspiracy,) jer aff

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Additionally, the Department of Justice files contain reports

by SAsHarten DeBrueys,

who is alleged to have been Oswald: s«FBI

contactainethe New: Orleans area: Finally, these FBI reports refer

to a raid conducted by the FBI on an anti-Castro training camp near

New Orleans on July 31, 1963 during which ten people were arrested

and ammunition was seized. It is very probable that this was the

raid referred to by William Morrow, a former CIA contract employee

and counterfeiter for the Cuban underground (cf IX-C-2-a-w (Morrow)).

Morrow maintains Oswald was involved in this training camp and

that Ruby was involved in an underworld operation that used it

as

a transfer point for narcotics from the Carribean to Texas.

These latter considerations fall into "conspiracy" territory

which is not the direct focus of the investigation.

However, the

individuals and events mentioned in these reports have been im

plicated with Oswald's connections with anti-Castro groups and

lower CIA echelons.

These Department of Justice files should be included in a

document request at an appropriate time.

Ia..the.-best.of-the-ssS's

present knowledge, they were not: forwardedato. the Warren. CommiSalod

and represent detailed knowledge of low levelranti Castro activity

In which Oswald was: allegedly Involvedia

Selected Documents

from Department of Justice

anti-Castro files reviewed September 18, 1975

Report dated

Agent or Office

Topic

03-15-62

Miro Cardona

01-31-62

Bill Matheson

01-09-62

Dwyer, Robert J.

p. 15, Manual Ray

p. 24, Gerald P. Hemming

11-22-61

Ruben De Leon

State airgram

11-09-62

Charles Patrick Hemmings

07-30-63

Training camp

08-01-63

02-14-62

06-14-62

Dwyer

New Orleans

Hoover to Director,

BIR, State

Dwyer

Dwyer

Hargraves

Gerald Patrick Hemming

Sturgis

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07-19-63

02-14-63

03-19-64

02-18-64

01-30-64

11-14-63

10-03-63

10-02-63

10-03-63

10-03-63

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09-05-63

08-09-63

Agent or Office

Topic

Miami

Henry Williams

Dwyer

p. 15, Oswaldo Carrasso Leon

pp. 20-22, No Name Key

list of those arrested

with Hemmings

Dwyer

p. 16, Donald Miller

New York

Information provided by

Caufield

Springfield, Pa.

Bill Franklin

Newark

"Cuco" Leon

DeBruerje

Boston patrol training

camp, 10 Cuboni fr.

Miami; Rudolph Davis,

Motel Monterey

DeBrueys

St. Tamany Parish

Donald C. Steinmiyer

Lacombe, La.

Dwyer, Miami

pp. 35-37

Mike McLaney

Bill McLaney

Sturgis

Hemmings

Ammunition seized by FBI

on 07-31-63 near Lacombe

Dwyer

Miami

p. 8, Ruben de Leon

p. 15, Angel Luis Castello Carbera

p. 21, Hemmings

• Mike Morino

p. 23, Hargraves

p. 26, Henry Williomi

p. 5, Artime - RFK

New York

John E. McFarland

Edward Mireault

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105-1742 - May 28, 1963. Dwyer, Miami

Joe Garman, Robert Wilson, Roy Hargraves, William Seymour

and Robert Collins operated a training camp 40 miles west

of Miami.

April 30, 1962 - Memo re: Anti-Fidel Castro Activities

On February 11, 1962, Cuban airline pilot Raul Cross arrived

in Mexico City.

February 9, 1962, had defected and traveled

to Miami on February 10, 1962 via Guest Airlines.

105-6516 - March 30, 1962 - Cromwell - Los Angeles

Anthony Valle, 10794 Lindbrook Drive, LA, 24, California,

was one of five Directors of the Committee to Free Cuba.

March 23, 1962 - Internal Security Cuban Anti-Fidel castrosac

tivities = New Orleans - Mrs. Albeit Cerniglio, 2526 Bayou

Road, New Orleans, arranged meeting with the Federal Agencies.

Arnesto Rodriquez - 1209 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans

Carlos Brinquiu - 4336 Paris Avenue, New Orleans

January 22, 1960 - Re: Anti-Fidel Castro Activities

January 12, 1960, Raul Cross, pilot for Arbana Airlines.

The Cuban government was having thirty pilots trained in

Mexico, (using cover that they were being trained as crop

dusters). They were using instructors from Chile at $700/

month.

105-1742

February 24, 1965, alleged plot to kill anti-Castro couples

in Mexico.

Ronald L. Augustinovich, 726 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles,

7

California.

Tom Kane® Alleged code name for Oswald. A mercenary like

Augustinovich in Florida. He had gone from anti-Castroism

to pro-Castroism.

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105-1742 - Dwyer, Miami

Small independent and relatively unknown groups have tried to

establish training. camps in Florida; briefly established in

were never successful, had no significant quantity of

persons equipment or actually trained and Cubans in military

warfare.

Sturgis headed

up an anti-Castro group called La Cruzade.

April 26, 1961 - New Orleans

December

5, 1960: - Both Manuel. Quesada Castillo and Sergio

Archache Smith attempted to recruit people

--names mentioned

for Frente Revolucionario Democratico mem-

by Orestes

bership.

Pena--

Alfredo Alex Hernandez Mere

'February 6, 1961 - Sturgis was telling everybody he was a

captain in the U. S. Marine Corps and is

a war hero.

109-584 - October 18, 1960 - from Hoover to DDP CIA Giancana

stated that Castro would be done away with in the near

future. He has met with the assassin on three occasions

at the Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami.

The assassin has ar-

ranged with a girl to drop a pill

in some food or drink of

Castro's.

109-584 - September 13, 1960 - Dwyer

Mario Gracia Kohly, SI., head of Liberators of Cuba, claims

nine membership organizations.

On August 5, 1960; Kohly,

former Cuban Ambassador to Spain and presently head of the

Cuban Liberating Commandos, a.counter-revolutionary organiza-

tion, said he would have nothing to do with the FRD because

of the ex-Communist and ex-Fidel Castro elements associated

with it.

August 16, 1960 - Varona, Artime--recently left Miami for Mexico

City where they established headquarters of the FRD.

April 27, 1962 - Article, "Exiles

train again without U. S. Aid,"

appeared

in Miami Herald; concerned 22 anti-Castro groups.

CRC - The governing board for the leading Cuban revolutionary

organizations dedicated to overthrow Castro. It's head is

Jose Miro Cardone:

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MEMORANDUM

TO:

Bob Kelley

FROM:

Dan Dwyer and Ed Greissing

DATE:

August 22, 1975

SUBJ:

John F. Kennedy Assassination

This memorandum will outline the major contemporary allegations regarding.

the intelligence communities' activities prior to and after the assassination.

of President John F. Kennedy. These major allegations were derived from the

study of the following sources: the Warren Commission Report and its 26

volumes of testimony and exhibits, the review of both FBI and CIA documents

at the Archives withheld from the public, the opinions of independent researchers,

and the information volunteered from individuals previously testifying before.the,

Warren Commission:

To further substantiate those allegations which have some foundation, it

would be necessary to pursue the following courses of action; request both FBI

and CIA documents available to the SSC through the third agency rule, interview

individuals who

have been involved in anti-Castro activities, and interview in-

dividuals who have knowledge of the FBI and Secret Service investigation of the

assassination.

This pursuit will elevate the Select Committee's inquiry one phase further

and careful consideration should be given to this additional pursult.

I. Allegation Lee Harvey Oswald was an: Informer

Background:

On January 22, 1964, J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel for the Warren

Commission, received a call from Wagonner Carr', Attorney General of Texas..

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Carr advised Rankin that Henry Wade, District Attorney for Dallas, had In-

formed Carr that Lee Harvey Oswald was being paid $200 a month by the FBI

for information, from September 1962 unt1l President Kennedy's assassination.

At an emergency meeting of the Warren Commission held on the afternoon of the

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22nd, Rankin states, "(the FBI): found the man (Oswald). There 1s nothing more.

to do. The Commission supports: their conclusions, and we can go home. and that

is the end of It.!! Although records of this meeting were ordered destroyed,

classyied.

some copies of the transcripts were salvaged, with this information retrieved..

On January 27, 1964, the Warren Commission, with additional members present,

again met In Executive Session. At this meeting, the problem posed by. this

allegation was discussed. Allen Dulles stated that, even if Oswald was an

Informer, FBI agents would deny it, even under oath. As a result, the Commission

only confirmed the Bureau's contemporaneous investigation of the assassination

and did not attempt to Investigate the veracity of this allegation.

There 1s also some evidence that indicates Oswald may have been an FBI

informant in New Orleans. Orestes Pena 1s a Cuban-American who owned the Habana

Bar in New Orleans in the early 1960s and was a member of the Cuban Revolutionary

Council (CRC) and Junta Revolucionaria (OURE), both anti-Castro organizations.

An FBI report of December 5, 1963 states that Lee Harvey Oswald and an

unidentified Mexican Cuban visited the Habana bar in September 1963. Pena claims

he told Carlos Bringuler, head of the Cuban Student Directory (DKE), about Oswald's

visit to his bar, however, an FBI report by S. A. Warren C. DeBreuys dated June 19,

1964 records that Pena had no personal knowledge of Oswald in the bar and that

he never Informed Carlos Bringuier about Oswald's appearance.

Pena's testimony to the Warren Commission on July 21, 1964 clearly con-

tradicts the points outlined by DeBreuys in the June 19 report, and that, in

fact, Pena testified he had reported Oswald's appearance and behavior at the bar.

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Pena's testimony also reveals that he was heavily involved in anti-Castro

activities in New Orleans.

He testified he put up the bond money for Bringuier's

release after he had been taken into custody for fighting with Oswald in August

1963, while Oswald was attempting to distribute pro-Castro propaganda..

Pena's testimony before the Warren Commission suggests he was an FBI

informer, and that Warren DeBreuys visited him quite often after Pena Joined

the anti-Castro organizations, continually asking him for information about

Mexicans, and finally instructed Pena to refrain from becoming involved in

politics and to get information.

Additionally, Pena applied for a passport to Mexico on the same day as

Oswald. DeBrenys was transferred from New Orleans to Dallas to investigate

the assassination and then returned to New Orleans.

The SSC has recently been forwarded a letter through Senator Church's

office dated June 30, 1975 written by Orestes Pena. Prior to his: testimony*

before the Warren: Commission, Pena states: that he was threatened by : DeBreuys

and warned not to disclose Information regarding his role as an informer or

to mention: DeBrêuys name Pena volunteered to testify that Oswald was employed

by the Federal Government at the Custom's House in New Orleans; and offered

information regarding the Federal Agents with whom Oswald associated.:

Recommendations:

1. Interview Orestes: Pena regarding his anti-Castro activities

In New Orleans, his knowledge of Oswald's relationship with

anti-Castro groups and the FBI In New Orleans, and his re-

lationship with DeBrenys.

2. Interview Warren C. DeBreuys now located in the Washington area.

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To further substantiate the allegation that Oswald was an FBI In-

formant, It is fact that S/A James P. Hosty!s name, address, phone number

and license plate number appeared in Oswald's notebook. (Hosty was the

agent in charge of the Oswald case in Dallas). In his explanation to the

Warren Commission, Hosty testified that he was "trying to learn the where-

abouts of Lee Oswald.....to determine whether or not he was employed in a

sensitive industry."

In his attempt to locate Oswald, Hosty Visited a Mrs. Ruth Paine,

on 1 November 1963, believing Marina Oswald was living with her at that time.

Mrs. Paine Informed Hosty of Oswald's occupation in the Texas School Book

Depository, which was certainly "a non-sensitive position." Hosty stated

that upon his departure he left his name and phone number with Mrs. Paine,

the rationalization for his name being is Oswald's book.

It should be noted that Hosty again visited Mrs. Paine on November 5;

1963, and was, at all times, acting independently in his attempt to procure

this Information, not under the specific direction of the Bureau. The Warren

Commission as well, offered no explanation for the appearance of all the in-

formation on Hosty listed In Oswald's notebook.

James. Gouchenaus, an independent researcher, is a potential source of

Information regarding Hosty's relationship with Oswald. While living in Seattle,

Gouchenaur had the occasion to meet Carver Gayton, an ex-FBI agent. Gayton

met Hosty while serving with him in Kansas CIty: (Hosty was: transferred to.

Kansas City after the assassination). Gayton related the following information

to Gouchenaur based upon conversations he had with Hosty in Kansas City. Hosty

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had been Oswald's "handler" and the FBI listed Oswald as a "Potential Security

Informant." Hosty allegedly offered money to Oswald if he reported on a

regular basis. Oswald resisted this approach and Hosty tried to pressure.

Marina so that Oswald would comply. (Oswald, in fact, did write a letter

to

the State Department in the fall of 1963, requesting a Russian visa and

protesting the FBI's harassment of his wife).

Recommendations:

1. Interview Hosty.

2. Interview Gouchenaur about his conversation with

Carver Gayton.

3. Interview Gayton about his knowledge of the relationship

between Hosty and Oswald.

II. Allegation: A theory has been presented that by the end of the Eisenhower

Administration, the lower echelons of the anti-Castro forces established train-

ing camps throughout the Southeast. The groups were trained by ex-Batista

soldiers, as well as CIA contract agents.

Initially, the plan was to take over Cuba through the Bay of Pigs operation.

However, they failed to receive air support, causing this attempt to fail. The

groups began to distrust the Kennedys and the feeling spread through the camps.

Another plan to attack Cuba was halted when the President requested the

Lake Pontchartrain. camp be raided.

Thus; we have the allegation that the Kernedy Administration made efforts

in 1963 to dismantle CIA funded anti-Castro training groups.

On August 7, the SSC staff interviewed Robert D. Morrow who maintains

he was under contract with the CIA from 1961-1963 and headed the counterfeiting

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operation for the Agency's Cuban underground organization. Morrow was re-

cruited by Mario Kholly who was employed by the CIA as a consultant. Kholly

was responsible for organizing the Cuban underground.

According to Morrow, Kholly tried to inform Attorney General Kennedy

of missile installations as early as 1961. Kholly also tried to inform that

there would be no underground support for Cuban force Invading the Bay of Pigs.

Morrow also maintains Kholly's information about the missiles since it would

be a source of humiliation to the Administration. Furthermore, after the

missile crisis, the Administration made efforts to dismantle Kholly's operations.

(This alleged effort initiated by the Administration may possibly be related

to testimony delivered to the SSC during assassination hearings that by 1963

the CIA had lost control of the lower echelons of the anti-Castro forces).

Morrow maintains that a CIA funded training camp for anti-Castro forces

on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana was operated by. Frank Sturgis, Carlos Bringuier

(Oswald's alleged associate from New Orleans), Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and Jack

Ruby: (Allegedly, Ruby was shipping narcotics from Lake Pontchartrain to Dallas).

Morrow maintains some of the individuals Involved in the Lake Pontchartrain opera-

tion were involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the President.

Morrow maintained the Lake Pontchartrain camp was raided by the FBI, the

Secret Service and local law enforcement officials per order of the President

on August 1, 1963. Allegedly, ammunition was confiscated and I1 people were

arrested. As a result the anti-Castro Cubans sought to retaliate against the

President, thus bringing about his assassination.

Morrow was arrested on counterfeiting charges in Baltimore on October 1,

1963. Morrow, in the process of procuring kholly's diary, has already acquired

Kholly's secret papers on the organization of the Cuban underground.

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Recommendations:

1. Interview Morrow in greater detail about the Cuban underground

operations.

2.

Procure Kholly's papers, memoranda and diary from Morrow.

Determine if individuals alleged to be Involved In a conspiracy

were under contract with Agency.

3. Examine materials at the Kennedy Library relating to Kholly's

meetings with the Attorney General.

4. Examine materials at the Kennedy Library relating to the

August 1, 1963 raid on the Lake Pontchartrain camp.

5. Examine FBI reports on surveillance of anti-castro groups

available at the Kennedy Library.

III. Allegation: The Secret Service obstructed the medical investigation:

of President Kennedy's assassination.

Jim. Gouchenaur also reported to the Committee that he had information

regarding the destruction and alteration of evidence in the investigation of

President Kennedy's assassination. Gouchenaur: befriended Elmer Moore, a

Secret Service agent of the Dallas office. Moore confided: to Gouchenaur

that he was ordered by the Inspector General's office of the Secret Service-

to destroy a: photograph glven to him by Eva Grant, Jack Ruby's sister. (We

have no other: information regarding the photo)

Moore also told Gouchenaur that he had been ordered to tell Dr. Perry;

who first treated the President at Parkland Hospital, to change his medical

report, which initially indicated that a bullet penetrated from the front.

Moore also indicated that he helped to prepare the original report on the

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direction of the shots, and that the initial finding was that it was impossible

to determine from which direction the shots had originated.

Moore told Gouchenaur that: whatever he: had contributed to a cover-up.

at the time of the assassination was done on orders: from Washington and Mr.

Kelley of the Secret Service headquarters.

Recommendations :

1. Interview Gouchenaur about his discussions with Elmer Moore.

2. Interview Elmer Moore about his participation in the

Investigation of the President's assassination.

3. Procure Moore's report on the direction of the shots.

4. Interview Mr. Kelley of the Secret Service.

IV. Allegation:: The CIA withheld substantive: information from the Warren

Commission.

A.

It has recently been determined by the SSC that Oswald was a target

of the CIA mail cover operation after he had defected to Russia. Hoover sent

a confidential memo to the State Department on June 3, 1960 which raised the

possibility that an imposter may be using the credentials of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Recommendations :

Request the Agency to provide all Information regarding data

compiled on Oswald from the mail cover operation. Determine

if the FBI was forwarded copies of Oswald's mail.

B. The SSC:has determined that the CIA withheld information about Castro

assassination plots: from the Warren Commission? Richard Helms testified that

he did not think information regarding Castro

assassination plots was important

to the Commission's Investigation; he assumed Dulles would have Initiated the

inquiry since Helms believed Dulles was privy to assassination plots. This.

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935 (withheld from public review). The CIA had a "well placed individual who

has: been In close: and prolonged contact with ranking officers of the Cuban DGI.

The source "did not know whether Oswald was an agent of the daI or any other.

directorate or department of the Cuban government," but that "(the agency) has .

queried him in detail on possible contacts between Lee Harvey. Oswald and the :

DGI prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. I-

Helms: also reported to the Warren: Commission that strict security measures

were taken upon news of the assassination by Cuban intelligence... The source;

believes these orders were issued "because of the possibility that the U.s.

might have taken some- type of action against Cuba and the DGI itself."

It should be noted that David Belin, Assistant Counsel to the Warren

Cormission, has stated that Information on assassination plots might have In-

fluenced the overall investigation.

The question of Cuban Involvement in the President's assassination might ..

be viewed in light of Castro's statement of September 7, 1963. The Cuban leader

said::

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"We: are prepared to fight: them and answer in kind.....

United States leaders should think that: if they are

aiding terrorist plans: to eliminate Cuban: leaders,

they themselves will not be safe."e

Recommendations:

Request CD 935 and other documents listed in Appendix B

relevant to the CIA's Investigation of the President's assassination.

V.

Appendix

Attached are Appendix A and B which are Warren Commission documents

furnished by the FBI and CIA. These documents are withheld from public research.

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They have been reviewed at the Archives and according to the "third ageney"

rule can be requested from the appropriate agencies: Most of this material

withheld from research involves personal matters that are not relevant to

public interest. Some of the documents, however, deal with contemporaneous

allegations and reports at the time of the assassination involving subjects

related to the anti-Castro Cuban issue and comprising theories more recently

developed.

Recommendation:

Request documents listed in Appendices A and B from the appropriate

agencies.

cC:

Fritz Schwarz

Bill Miller

Curt Smothers

Pat Shea

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Appendix A

Documents To Be Requested from The FBI

Warren Commission

Document Number

CD 111

CD 212

CD 227

Date of Memo

12/17/63

12/20/63

4/9/64

8/17/64

1/31/64

2/17/64

2/19/64

5/26/64

5/7/64

4/7/64

4/15/64

4/24/64

7/14/64

Topic

Allegation of Edward Partyko

Hoover to Rankin. "Ruth Hyde

Paine"

Hoover to Rankin (allegations

involving Cubans)

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

of phone call from Phoenix to

Dallas

Hoover to Rankin (comments

relative to Oswald and Ruby)

Hoover to Rankin (Gimberling

report, including pp. 39-42)

Hoover to Rankin (allegations

involving Oswald in New Orleans)

Hoover to Rankin (includes

discussion of interview of Marina)

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

involving Mexico City).

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

Involving Mexico City and

Albert Osborne)

Hoover to Rankin (includes

references to Cormissions'

trip to Mexico CIty)

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

that Weissman, Ruby and Tippett

met in Ruby's night club)

Hoover to Rankin (includes

allegations made by Mark Lane)

Hoover to Rankin (includes

report on Albert Osborne)

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Appendix A (Cont'd.)

Documents To Be Requested From The FBI

Warren Commission

Document Number

CD 273

Date of Memo

11/23/64

12/5/63

CD 301

CD 812

12/4/63

CD 1539c

from FBI list B

from FBI list B

from FBI list B

from FBI list B

from FBI list B

from FBI list B

FBI # DN 89-41

• 10/19/64

7/16/64

9/23/64

11/25/63

11/26/63

11/25/63

11/30/63

11/28/63

11/26/63

Topic

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

of Carlos Quiroza)

Hoover to Rankin (allegation

of phone call from Chapel Hill,

N.C. to Dallas)

Report on phone call

FBI reports on Jerry Buchanan

and Nathaniel Uyle

Hoover to Rankin (includes

report on Orestes Pena)

Hoover to Rankin (report on

Albert Osborne)

Hoover to Rankin (reports on

allegations of Sylvia Odio)

Report on allegation of

R. E. Chambers

Report on allegation of

Jonathan C. McDonald

Allegation of Enrico Aaron

de Dusseldorf (Henry Edward Scott)

Report on allegation of

James E. Shock

Report on allegation from

Christine Price

Report on allegation from

Bernadine Christian

Allegation Involving postal

clerk in Wyoming

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Appendix B

Documents To Be Requested From CIA

Warren Commission

Document Number

CD 100

Date of Memo

12/13/63

CD 347

1/31/64

CD

384

2/19/64

CD 426

2/21/64

CD

528

3/18/64

CD 692

3/6/64

CD 698

3/31/64

CD 935

5/15/64

CD 943

May 1964

Topic

"Analysis of World Reaction

to President Kennedy's Assass-

Ination." (includes reaction of

Cuban government)

Helms to Ranidn (Information

Developed by CIA on the Activ

ity of Lee Harvey Oswald in

Mexico City)

Helms to Rankin (Helms replies

to question posed by Rankin)

Information developed by CIA

on Oswald In Mexico City.

Helms to Rankin (includes

translation of interrogation

of Silvia Duran)

Helms to Rankin (Includes

Helms' denial of CIA

interviewing Oswald in Moscow)

Helms to Rankin (includes

reproduction of CIA dossier

on Oswald dated 12/9/60)

Helms to Rankin. Dissemination

of information made available

to Secret Service by CIA.

Helms to Rankin. "Reaction of

Cuban

Intelligence Service to

Assassination of President

Kennedy."

Helms to Rankin. "Allegations

of PFC Dinkin U.S. Army,

relative to assassination of

President Kennedy."

TOP SECRET

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Warren Commission

Appendix B (Cont'd.)

•Documents To Be Requested From CIA

Warren Commission

Document Number

CD 944

Date of Memo

5/19/64

CD 990

5/27/64

CD 1000

6/1/64

CD 1012

6/3/64

CD 1551

5/22/64

Topic

Helms to Rankin. Hours of

work at Cuban and Soviet

diplomatic installations in

Mexico City.

Discussion between Drew

Pearson and Khrushev regarding

assassination.

Helms ro Rankin. Allegation

that Oswald accepted $6,500

in Cuban Consulate in Mexico

City.

Helms to Rankin. Information

on George De Mohrenschildt.

Helms to Rankin. "Conversa-

tion between Dorticos and

Cuban Ambassador Armas."

TOP SECRET

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September 23, 1975

MEMORANDUM

To: Paul Wallach

From: Dan Dwyer and Ed Greissing

Subject: CIA/FBI Investigation of the President's

Assassination

I. DOCUMENT REQUESTS

This part of the memo will summarize and sexpand those

considerations relative to the initial request to the Agency

and the Bureau discussed on September 19th.

A. It was proposed that briefings can be arranged at

the Agency

and the Bureau to clarify the SSC's

investigation and, thereby, hopefully, facilitate

document requests

in the future.

A review of the

internal memoranda of the Warren Commission indicates

that the following personnel assisted Hoover and

Helme in handling document requestarof, the Warren

Commisston:

1. Bureau Personnel

Belmont, Al

Cadigan, James C.

Cunningham, Cortlandt

Frazier, Robert

Gauthier, Leo

Hines, Bill

Latana, Sebastion

Lernihan, Robert

Malley, James R.

Roggs,

Richard

Shaneyfelt, Lyndal I.

Stokes, John

Stombaugh, Paul

(Sorcer 12/18/64, Letter of thanks to Bureau

‹Personnel in Rankin. to. Hoover)

2.

Agency, Personnel

Dooley, Arthur

Hall,

Thomas

Murphy, David

Rocta, Raymond

TOP SECRET

Whitten, John M.

Wigren, Lee

(Source: Warren Commission internal memo.)

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B.

C.

The Agency and especially the Bureau forwarded thousands

of documents to the Warren Commission. Although the Archives

has provided an inventory of all documents collected by

the Warren Commission from the Bureau and Agency the

SSC is assuming an overwhelming responsibility in account-

ing for that information provided to the Commission.

Therefore it seems reasonable that the SSC's initial

request, augmented

by briefing with the CIA and FBI, focus

on the following:

l.. An inventory from the FBI and the CIA of

all documents

forwarded to the Warren Commission.

2. Copies ofrakkrequests.forard defrom Ran nettinover

and Helms.

(N.B.

It is unclear at this point

whether these letters should be requested from the

Archives or from the appropriate intelligence agency

to which they were forwarded.)

This approach does not seem unreasonable; the Bureau

and the Agency undoubtedly have maintained inventories

described above.

Additionally, this approach would be

advantageous for the following

reasons:

1.

It would free the SSC from the immediate task of

accounting for documents forwarded to the Warren

Commission.

2.

It would transfer the burden of responsibility for

clarifying what documents were given to the Commission

to the FBI and CIA..

3. It would provide a relatively simple way to determine

what documents were not provided to the Commission.

4.

It would preclude, to a certain degree, serious

confrontationbetween the SSC and the FBI or the CIA

on whether documentation had previously been provided

to the Warren Commission.

Futurerdocuments requests to the FBI might then centes

otherfollowings

Any and all documents relating to the destruction

of a letter hand delivered to the Dallas FBI

office by Oswald about 10 days prior to the assass-

ination including namesof individuals involved in

the letter's destruction.

TO

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=3-

Meucuss

also,

Who else AT DaT

musted of

We.

2 Administrative cover: pagea:to the following

EBIinterviews of. Lee: Harvey Oswaldy

a.

6/26/62 interview by agents John Farn

and Burnett Tom Carter at Fort Worth

b. 8/16/62 interview by agents John Farn

and Arnold J. Brown at Fort Worth.

C.

8/10/63 interview of Oswald by agents

John I. Quigley at New Orleans

D.

Future-document-_requests:to:.the CIAsmight-focus.on

the SSClazdetermination that:Oswald and.his wife,s Marinay were

targets of the mail, cover operation The product of this

operation should be analyzed in terms of information not

provided to the Warren Commission. It should also be

determined if any of the information was "tasked" to

the Bureau.

II. It-has beer determined by the military task forcerag

results of the NSA-watch-list.caserstudy/thatrOswaldJackw

Ruby and: Barl C.-Ruby, Jack'8 brother, werentargetedAn NSAS

spokesman reported: that Oswald/ssnamer'appearedw.inthe.rhyming

dictionaryson: the day of the: Presidents-assassination. Thers

following lines of inquiry should be constdered»

Á.

The dates of which Oswald and the Ruby brothers' names

were placed on the watch list.

в.

The amount of product.

Ç. The information contained in

i TOP SECRET

P. A determination if the product was forwarded to the FBI

and CIA and how these

agencies might have used the

product in the investigation of the President's assass-

ination.

_who-ger copyr

111. Amosthe ssestaff interviered Howard EaSimm, an

attorney at DOJ from 1956 to 1966.

Simm's comments turned his

involvement with the Warren Commission. Sunniesupheld the

Commission's findings.:but.objectedato.what.hexcharacterizedwas the

incompetents mannez in which theevidence was handled: Sing assisted,

Jo Lee: Rankimin-selecting exhibits.used.byathesCommission.in

iterrepostm

Simmms possibly could have been involved with the selection

of evidence at the DOJ end of the investigation. In addition to

other individuals listed in part I, Simms could provide

information about the relationship between the intelligence

agencies and the Warren Commission when the SSC's study reaches

an interviewing phase.

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MEMORANDUM

SEL COM

FILE: IX.2.a - S/

- WASit

TO:

WARREN COMMISSION FILE

FROM: BOB KELLEY

DATE: JULY 22, 1975

SUBJ: JACK RUBY'S BROTHER, EARL RUBY (MEMCON with Paul Michel)

Paul Michel, currently with the Special Prosecutor's Office and slated

to join the Select Committee staff, in the near future, came to G-308 today

with information he: had received from a former Internal Revenue Services

official: with: respect to Jack Ruby's brother,, Earl- Ruby.

This former IRS official (hereafter "source") saw Sen. Schweiker ap-

pear on Face the Nation last Sunday. Sen. Schweiker's comments with regard

to the Castro assassination attempts and the JFK assassination reminded

source of an investigation he conducted in theIRS Intelligence Officerine

Detroit in: late 1963 or early 1964.

Source: had ans IRS:- agent: bysthesname

of: Al- Biernat; who is still with the IRS: Intelligence Office in etroity

check on Ruby's brother Earl, who lived in Detroit at that time.

Biernat

checked the long distance telephone and telegram records for Earl Ruby's

telephone number.

Biernat-found that there, were: recorde: of a telegram ter

Cuba, charged to Earl Ruby's telephone number: In addition, there weres

records: of: long: distance telephone calls: byrEarl-Ruby to. Robert. Welch, the

John. Birch Society leader. Finally, there were records: showing Earl Ruby

had: called Jack. Ruby: in Dallas in this,-same time frames

Source recalled that the IRS Detroit Office sent this information to

the IRS Headquarters in Washington. IRS Headquarters forwarded this infor-

mation to the FBI as a matter falling within the FBI's jurisdiction with

respect to the Warren

Commission investigation.

Source recalled that the

IRS Detroit investigation of Earl Ruby's telephone records followed, or was

prompted by, a similar check made by the FBI.

Source understood that the FBI

forwarded the IRS Detroit investigative record to the Warren Commission.

Source further: recalled that: after: the::Warren: Commission issued its

report he asked Bernat to check the report to determine whether there. was

apy deterence, tomthe information developed on Earl. Ruby's telephone records.

Herewse thatchtemnat told him there was-no such reference.

Michel suggesta: that we get in touch with-Bernat. at the IRS Detroit*

Officextordevelop, further information and to determine whether any documents

still exist: reflecting the Detroit investigation or forwarding of that infor-

mation to: the FBI.

BK; rs

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ALLEGATION

I. Oswald was paid Informer of FBI

1. FBI was informed about forthcoming assassina-

tion by Oswald. The record is allegedly in

the form of a TWX message which appeared on

November 17, 1963 on the FBI teleprinter in

New Orleans relayed from Dallas via Washing-

ton. William S. Walters, FBI security clerk

in New Orleans, allegedly retained a copy

and gave it to D. A. Garrison.

2. Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, 1n-

forms J. Lee Rankin that Lee Harvey Oswald was

employed by the FBI at $200 a month from

September 1962 up to the time of assassina

•tion.

Top Secret Executive Session of Warren

Commission of January 27, 1964.

Rankin

states it is a "dirty rumor" and that it

"must be wiped out."

3. a. FBI agent James Hosty's name, address,

phone

number and license plate found in

Oswald's notebook.

b. The Warren Commission maintains Oswald

conceivably received the data from Mrg.

Ruth Paine with whom Marina was living.

c. Hosty testifies he only gave Mrs. Paine

his name and phone number in an inter-

view of November 1, 1963.

d. Hosty allegedly had developed Oswald as

an informer.

-4. a. "On April 21, 1963, Dallas confidential

Informant I-2 advised that Lee H. Oswald

of Dallas, Texas, was in contact with

FPCC In New York City at which time he

advised that he passed out pamphlets for

the FPCC."

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DRAFT I

23, 1975

Page 1

SOURCE

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1,

p.||83

January 27, 1964 tran-

script of Commission

Executive Session;

printed in Whitewash

IV by Harold Weisberg.

4 H 451

IX-2'-C-a-W (Gouchenaur) ;

conversation with Bob

Kelley

CE 829, p. 2; FBI re-

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ALLEGATION

b. Hosty testified that this information was

provided by "FBI field office in New York."

c. Hoover's description of FBI Oswald file

discloses no such New York-Dallas transmis-

sion.

d. Allegation:

Oswald.

agent I-2 was Lee Harvey

5. Oswald telephoned FBI Dallas office on Noven-

ber 20, 1963 and informed them Kennedy would

be assassinated on November 22, 1963. FBI

teletype allegedly sent to Hoover and New

Orleans.

6. Oswald made attempts to infiltrate pro-Castro

groups in New Orleans (notably Cuban Revolu-

tionary Council--CRC--headed by Carlos

Bringuier).

7. a. FBI knew

before the assassination about

Oswald's use of 544 Camp Street, New

Orleans address of FPCC. Not mentioned in

appropriate contemporaneous reports.

FBI

did not give documents to Warren Commis-

sion.

b. 544 Camp Street address had once housed

offices of CRC (Cuban Revolutionary

Council) and FBI Agent Guy Banister who

was active in intelligence work against

Cuban groups.

c. Banister had given his address

as 531

• Lafayette Street, New Orleans, which

Is game corner building as 544 Camp Street.

II. Two or more people were impersonating Lee Harvey

Oswald.

1.

Hoover's memo to State Department (June 3,

1960) presents possibility that an imposter

may be using Oswald's credentials.

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SOURCE

Warren Hearings,

Volume 4, p. 444

CE 833

Blumenthal and Rosen

in Boston Phoenix,

IX-C-2-a-G2, p. 21

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1,

p. 32

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1

Hoch, Paul; IX-C-2-a-G4,

P. 55

Hoch, Paul; IX-C-2-a-G4,

p.

IX-C-2-a-G2, p. 39;

New York Times

February 23, 1975

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ALLEGATION

a. J. G. Harris, independent researcher,

found memos in Archives.

b. W. David Slawson, counsel on Warren Com-

mission, says he thinks he saw memos

(now at USC) .

2. Lee Oswald placed at car dealership in Dallas

November 9, 1963.

(Warren Connission places

Oswald at Paine's home in Irving, Texas

writing letter to Soviet Embassy in Washing-

ton.

3. Lee Oswald allegedly discussing dishonorable

discharge with Selective Service on October 25,

1963.

(Warren Commission places him on bus

traveling to Mexico City.)

4. a. Out teletype 74673 (October 10, 1963) from

Mexico City to State, CIA and Navy re

American male, age 35, athletic build,

six feet tall, contacted Soviet Embassy

on October 1, 1963 and Identified himself

as Lee Oswald. Believed identical to

Lee Harvey Oswald.

b. Original photo of "Lee Oswald" taken in

• Mexico City October 4, 1963.

c. Author George O'Toole tells Boston Phoenix

that an intelligence contact of his knew

who the mystery man was and that "if O'Toole

were given subpoena power, he would produce

him and prove that this Oswald was a pro-

fessional assassin."

5. Perry Raymond Russo, Niles "Lefty" Peterson

and Sandra Moffet McMaine, Russo's girlfriend,

claim to have seen Clay Shaw, David Ferrie

and LEON Oswald (a man who looked Iike Lee

Harvey Oswald) at Ferrie's apartment in

September 1963. (At the end of the meeting,

the possibility of killing the President was

allegedly discussed.)

6. Harry Dean told the CTIA in 1968 that William

Seymour was using the name Oswald in Mexico,

Louisiana and Texas in 1963 and attempted

to convince people that he was Lee Harvey

Oswald®

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SOURCE

New Times article in

IX-C-2-aG2

New Times article in

IX-C-2-a-G2

CD 631

CD 1287

Boston Phoenix,

May 27, 1975

IX-C-2-a-G2

New Orleans Times

Picayune file of CIA;

from Sprague in

IX-C-2-a-G1

Sprague; CTIA files

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ALLEGATION

7. a. Allegedly, William Seymour, Loran Eugene

Hall, Lawrence Howard visited home of Sylvia

Odio on September 26, 1963.

These men told

Sylvia Odio that the President would have

to be assassinated and that Leon Oswald would

be the one to do it.

b. William Seymour allegedly resembles Lee

Harvey Oswald.

8. a. William Seymour was seen fleeing Texas

Book Depository by Dallas Deputy Sheriff

Roger Craig.

"312"

b. Allegedly, William Seymour had claimed he

was Lee Harvey Oswald at the Sports Drome

(rifle range) in Dallas, gun shop and a

new car agency at which "Lee Oswald" drove

car at 70 mph (Lee Harvey Oswald could not

drive).

9. a. Allegedly, there was an anti-Castro Cuban

In Dallas who resembled Lee Harvey Oswald

very much.

Group of anti-Castro Cubans

held meeting at 3126 Hollandale Street.

b. Warren Commission received allegations that

Oswald had attended meetings of a Cuban

group at "3128 Harlendale Street.

III. FBI conducted an incomplete and inadequate inves

tigation of the assassination.

1. FBI Agent Robert Burnett finds Oswald in movie

theatre in Dallas after the assassination.

Phoenix reports Burnett's name shows up in

part of Warren Commission investigation of

possible conspiracy; Burnett not questioned

by Warren Commission.

2. Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald which appeared

on cover of LIFE is allegedly a bogus photo-.

graph. FBI was unable to determine if the

rifle Oswald is holding is the Carcano model

used in assassination.

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SOURCE

Sprague material

Sprague material

Raznikov, Richard in

Pacific Sun article,

February 28, 1974;

In IX-C-2-a-N1

Hoch material

Volume 19, p. 534

Boston Phoenix,

May 27, 1975 1n

IX-C-2-a-G2

New Times article in

IX-C-2-a-G2

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ALLEGATION

3. a. In September 1963, the President gave a

speech in Miami.

A Miami police informer

who had infiltrated the National States

Rights Party interviewed one of its upper

echelon named Mr. Milteer.

Milteer ad

vised that Kennedy would be assassinated

in Miami or some other city from a high

building and that a patsy would be picked

up by police.

Milteer said a man called

Brown would be likely to commit assassina-

tion. Allegedly, the Miami police for-

warded this information to the FBI who

in turn forwarded it to the Secret Service.

b. Milteer called informant on November 22,

1963, a.w., Implying the President

would be killed in Dallas.

c. A tape of the September 1963 conversation

between Milteer and the informant was

made public in 1967.

IV.

4. "Federal agents" retrieved film of motorcade

from Beverly McGann (employee of Ruby's).

"Federal agents" never returned f1lm to

Mrs. McGann.

The film is never mentioned

In the Warren Report findings.

Oswald had relationships with individuals con-

nected with CIA activities.

1. George DeMohrenschildt

a. Worked for French intelligence in World

War II.

b. Traveled to Guatemala in 1960 when Guatemala

was used as jump off point for Bay of Pigs.

c. "Came in contact" with Clay Shaw in New

Orleans.

d. Had ties with CIA front men

1. George Brown - President of Brown

Foundation; a CIA conduit.

11. John Mecom - founder of San Jacinto

fund, CIA conduit.

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SOURCE

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1,

p. 70

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1,

p. 32

Sprague, IX-C-2-a-G1;

p. 32 (see also

IX-C-2-a-S1 for Aaron's

conversation with Crosby

in Minneapolis) which

supports this allegation

Sprague

New Times article in

IX-C-2-a-G2

Boston Phoenix,

May 27, 1975,

IX-C-2-a-G2

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ALLEGATION

2. George Bouhe

a. Aided Marina Oswald in Texas

b. Personal accountant for Lewis MacNaughton

who is associated with Karl Hoblitzelle

of the Hoblitzelle Foundation which

served as a CIA conduit.

3. Oswald met Albert Osborne (alias John Bowen),

an alleged CIA employee on bus trip to

Mexico City®

4. Oswald's name on list of Mexican travel per-

mits is follwed by that of William G. Gaudet,

former employee of CIA.

5. a. Oswald met at plane on return to U.S. by

Spas T. Raikin, former Secretary General

of the American Friends of Anti-Bolshevick

Bloc of Nations which allegedly has intel-

ligence agencies in Far East and Europe.

b. "Raikin was himself some kind of agent

either for FBI...or CIA...or Army In-

telligence."

6. Marilyn Murret, cousin of Lee Harvey Oswald,

allegedly was à CIA agent.

V. Individuals found behind the Grassy Knoll at

Dealy Plaza were involved in the assassination.

1. Three "derelicts" found in railroad boxcars

behind Grassy Knoll were taken into custody

but never booked, photographed or finger-

printed at Dallas Police Station. They

were released..

The Warren Commission did

not Investigate this incident.

2. Iwo of the "derelicts" are allegedly E.

Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis due to

"striking resemblances."

3. Hunt testified he was in the Washington area

at time of assassination; testimony supported

by two children and a former domestic employee.

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SOURCE

Boston Phoenix,

May 27, 1975,

IX-C-2-a-G2

Sprague In IX-C-2-a-G1

and Warren Commission

Exhibit 2121

New Times article in

IX-C-2-a-G2

New Times article in

IX-C-2-a-G2

Peter Dale Scott quoted

In Boston Phoenix

May 27, 1975 1n

IX-C-2-a-G1

cf. CD 1080

Sprague;

p. 65

IX-C-2-a-G1,

1) Michael Canfield in-

terview

2) Robert Groden and

Alfred Dinacci

IX-C-2-a-W (Dinacci

and Groden

Rockefeller Commission

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ALLEGATION

4. Sturgis testified he was in Miami; testimony

supported by wife and nephew.

5. Hunt, Helms and Lyman Kirkpatrick and Enrique

"Harry" Williams met in Washington on Novem-

ber 22, 1963 to plan CIA backing of Cuba in-

vasion troops training in Florida Keys.

6. Photo of elderly gentleman "derelict" taken

into custody behind the Grassy Knoll is Fred

Lee Chrisman, a minuteman from state of

Washington.

7. John Blumer, one of the individuals allegedly

Involved in CIA training for Cuban covert

operations at camp near Lake Pontchartrain,

Louisiana, may be of the "derelicts" taken

Into custody behind Dealy Plaza. Allegedly

President Kennedy ordered the camps raided by

FBI and Secret Service in July 1963; eleven

people were allegedly arrested.

VI. Miscellaneous allegations of conspiracy to ag-

sassinate the President.

1. Richard Giesbrecht, a Canadian resident, over.

heard conversation on February 13, 1964 in

Horizon Room at Winnepeg National Airport al-

legedly between David W. Ferrie and unidenti-

fled individual concerning how much Ferrie

had told his wife about the assassination.

2. a. Rear photo of James Hicks with 'walky-talky"

in back pocket taken at Dealy Plaza,

November 22, 1963.

b.. Allegedly. James Hicks operated a communi-

cations center out of the Adolphus Hotel

off Dealy Plaza.

c. Jack Ruby telephoned the Adolphus Hotel on

November 23, 1963.

d. Hicks told Jim Garrison he was

a radio com

municator between rifle teams at Dealy

Plaza.

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Page 7

SOURCE

Rockefeller Commission

Sprague interview

Pacific Sun article

February

• 28, 1974;

IX-C-2-a-N1

Pacific Sun article

February 28, 1974;

IX-C-2-a-N1

Sprague; IX-C-2-a-G1,

p. 82

Sprague material

Sprague, Richard

Groden, Charles

Grant, Eva (Ruby's

sister) testimony

Sprague; CTIA material

from New Orleans DA's

office

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ALLEGATION

e. James Hicks last placed at Air Force Hospi-

tal at Fort Sil, Oklahoma.

3. a. Clay Shaw, David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald

all knew each other.

b. Shaw, Ferrie, Oswald and Ruby met in New

Orleans on several occasions.

c. David Ferrie had known and taught Lee

Harvey Oswald as flight instructor for

CIvil Alr Patrol in Louisiana in 1950's.

d. Photograph of Ferrie and Oswald in CAP

squadron.

4. Harry Dean told CTIA that various meetings had

been held by Ferrie, Shaw, William Seymour and

others in Mexico City apartment of Guy Gabaldin

who was a member of the OSS and who worked for

the CIA in Mexico City.

5. Mary Hope and Ronald Augustinovich attended as-

sassination planning meetings in Mexico City

in October 1963.

6. David Ferrie arrested by New Orleans police

November 26, 1963. (Allegedly, FBI 1n-

terviews with Ferrie are still classified.)

7. a. Allegedly, William Seymour, Loran Hall,

and Lawrence Howard visited home of

Sylvia Odio on September 26, 1963.

b. Loran Hall came to the attention of the

FBI on November 23, 1963 when he re-

trieved a pawned rifle.

DRAFT I

Page 8

SOURCE

Groden in IX-C-2-a-W

(Groden and Dinacci)

Sprague; material from

New Orleans DA file

Flammondi, Paris In The

Kennedy Conspiracy,

1969

Photographic evidence

files of CTIA

Sprague; CTIA files

Sprague; CTIA file

Crosby In IX-C-2-a-G4,

p. 58

Hoch material in

IX-C-2-a-G4

Hoch; in IX-C-2-a-G4,

P. 6

35;

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DATE

6/26/62

LOCATION

Fort worth

7/12/62

Dallas

8/16/62

Fort Worth

7/12/62

to Dallas

3/4/63

3/4/63

Dallas

3/11/63 .

Dallas

3/14/63

Dallas

CRONOLOGY OF FBI RELATIONS WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD

10/10/181

AGENTS

INTERVIEWEE (S)

John Fain

Lee Harvey Oswald

Burnett Tom Carter

James Hosty

John Fain

Arnold J. Brown

Lee Harvey Oswald

NATURE OF ACTION

First interview by FBI of Oswald upon return from

U:S.S.R.

Oswald agrees to contact the FBI should

he be contacted by Soviet intelligence.

Hosty checks the records of INS for background

information of Marina Oswald on the request of

FBI agent Fain.

Determination of Oswald's employment; alert Oswald

to possible Soviet interests in him; evaluation 1f

Oswald constituted a security risk to the U.S.

Hosty

Hosty

Hosty keeps Marina Oswald case in inactive pending

status for about six months.

Hosty determines Oswald moved from Fort Worth to

Elsbeth

Street in Dallas.

This ends six month

pending status of case. This starts Hosty's efforts

to Investigate Marina on the basis that the FBI

conducts investigation of immigrants on a selective

basis and Marina was, then; selected.

Hos ty

'Hosty determines from Elsbeth

Street landlady

that Oswalds were evicted 3/3/63. Postal authoriti

reveal Oswald's address is 214 Neely Street.

Hosty

Hosty then check

advising Oswald was on the mailing list of the N.Y.

Daily Worker.

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DATE

3/25/63

MID-MAY

1963

June '63

-6/17/63

8/10/63

10/3/63

10/25/63

LOCATION

Dallas

Dallas

New Orleans

Dallas

New Orleans

Dallas

Dallas

AGENIS

Hosty

INTERVIEWEE (S)

Hosty

Hosty

John I. Quigley Lee Harvey Oswald

Hosty

Hosty

NATURE OF ACTION

Hosty sends a request to FBI headquarters to

reopen Lee Harvey Oswald case.

Hosty learns that the Oswalds had left their

Neely Street address.

Hosty receives a communication dated 4/21/63 from

New Orleans FBI advising a confidential informant

reports. that Oswald was in contact with FPCC in N.Y.

at which time Oswald said he had passed out

pamphlets for the FPCC.

Hosty receives a communication from the New Orleans

FBI advising Oswald was in New Orleans and re-

questing information on him.

Interview conducted at Oswald's request to speak

to an FBI agent following his arrest on 8/9/63 for

disturbing the peace while distributing FPCC

pamphlets.

Hosty receives a communication from New Orleans

FBI advising that Oswalds had left the New Orleans

area.

Hosty receives communication from New Orleans FBI

advising him Oswald had visited Soviet Embassy in

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DATE

10/29/63.

LOCATION

Dallas

10/29/63

Dallas

11/1/63

Dallas

11/4/63

Dallas

11/5/63

Dallas

11/22/63

Dallas

AGENT

Hes ty.

INTERVIEWEE (S)

NATURE OF ACTION

Hesty receives communication from New Orleans FBI

advising that the Oswald's address

2515 W. 5th

Street, Irving, Texas.

Hosty

Dorothy Roberts

Hosty makes a pretext call to Dorothy Roberts of

2519 W. 5th St. and determines 2515 address is the

residence of Ruth Paine with whom Marina lives.

Hosty

Ruth Paine

Hosty interviews Ruth Paine who admits that Marina

lives with her but not Lee.

Paine informs Hosty

Oswald works at Dallas Texas Book Depo. N.B. Hcsty

meets Marina for first time. Leaves name and phone

number with Paine.

Hosty

Hosty makes a pretext call to Book Depo. and con-

firms 2515W. 5th St. address. Sends request to

New Orleans office to make Dallas office of origin

for Oswald case.

Hosty

Ruth Paine

Gary S. Wilson

Hosty, and Wilson learn from Paine that Oswald had

visited family. Paine did not know where Oswald

lived in Dallas.

James P. Hosty

James W. Bookhout

Lee Harvey Oswald

Interview conducted after Oswald was taken into

custody following shooting of JFKjOswald exhibits

great hostility toward FBI men especially Hosty who

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SEL COM

FILE

18-0-2-4-51

MEMORANDUM

SENSITIVE

TO

FROM

DATE

• File

* David Aaron

: May 20, 1975

SUBJECT: Warren Commission and the Intelligence Community - April 9, 1975

In discussion with Mr. Crosby from Minneapolis, he made the

following comments:

The Miami Police had a tape recording of November 9, 1963

which was released in 1967 concerning (Oswald and a Cuban?).

Crosby drew

attention to a note in the Archives concerning

a J. A. Miltier, a threat contained in the FBI file, not in the

26 volumes. The file 1s CD1347, filed Internal Security: Oswald

in Russia.

The Archives and the FBI deny knowledge of the tape

recording. Miltier denied the threat that was to be made on

Kennedy's life on December 1 to the FBI. In the threat, Miltier

apparently made some comment about Brown of the National States

Rights Party being Involved in a plot.

Comment:

I don't quite know how all this fits together,

or whether it does. But the thrust of Crosby's point was that

Oswald may have been in contact with Cubans in Florida, or some-

one posing as Oswald. He also may have been in contact somehow

with Miltier and Brown:

DA/cm

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MEMORANDUM

TO : David Aaron

FROM : Dan Dwyer and Ed Greissing

DATE

: May 29, 1975.

SUBJECT: Initial Overview of Warren Commission

The Warren Commission contains a massive amount of information

regarding intelligence operations.

Therefore, this initial overview

focuses on three main Investigative areas relating to CIA operations

and Department of State communications: (1) Oswald's Russian ex-

perience; (2) Oswald and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee; and (3)

Oswald's trip to Mexico City.

Reviewing the Commission Exhibits and Hearings necessitated a

careful reading of the Report, with particular attention to the

chronology of events and intelligence operations responses. This

approach afforded an opportunity to develop a working knowledge of

the chronology of events and an understanding of how the Report is

organized, the thrust of the Commission's analysis, and how the Com-

mission utilized Documents and Exhibits.

Focusing on limited areas of investigation proved to be a

workable and efficient research technique.

It seems reasonable

to continue with this technique but to further define specific

areas of investigation. The Mexico City case, for example, in

vites inspection of declassified Commission Documents not avail-

able in the Commission Volumes but which could easily be requested

(ef. references to these sources in Mexico City case).

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INITIAL OVERVIEW OF WARREN COMMISSION

TABLE

0 F

CONTENTS

I. Oswald and U. S. S. R. (pages 1 to 5)

A. CIA and State Department: Issuance of visa in Helsinki,

October 14, 1959.

B. Oswald in Moscow

C.

State Department communication on Oswald during Oswald's stay n

in Minsk.

D. Oswald in Minsk

a. MVD financial assistance

b. Hunting Club

E. Oswald's return to the U. s.

F. U. S.. - U. S. S. R. Intelligence communication post-assassination.

II. Oswald and Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) (pages 6 to 8)

III. Mexico City (pages 9 to 13)

A. Marina's knowledge of Mexico CIty trip

B. Bus Trip and Albert Osborne

C. Oswald's activities in Mexico City

D. Intelligence information from Mexico

IV. Appendix

Copies of selected intelligence memoranda re Mexico City

CE

833, Q. 23

CE 834, Item 57

CE

834, Item 58

CE 948, Q. 16

CE 2121, pp. 8-13

CE 2764

CD 631

"ip?.

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May 28, 1975

I.

Oswald and U. S. S. R.

A. CIA and State Department: Issuance of visa in Helsinki, October 14, 1959.

1.

CE 2676

• 2.

Report p. 258

3. CE 946р. 8

4. CE 2780

Helms.

Oswald could not normally fly to Helsinki

on October 10, 1959 and be at Hotel Torni on

October 10, 1959.

Oswald probably applies for Russian visa in Helsinki

early Monday, October 12, 1959.

Visa issued, October 14, 1959.

State Department. Waiting time for visa varies;

2-3 days usually; takes 7 days at the most, for

1962-63.

CIA memo.. In 1964, visa was issued in 5-7 days.

B.

5. CE 2773

Oswald in Moscow

1.

2.

CE 2760

Oswald arrives in Moscow on October 16, 1959:

Intorist Office guide named Rumma Sherikova.

Letter from Thomas H. Karamessines, Acting

Deputy Director for Plans, CIA; "many if not

all of the guides...are KGB agents or informants."

3. Report p. 260

5. 5 H 270

6.

7.

CE

908

CE

980

8

true of Oswald's guide.

Embassy to renounce U. S. citizenship October 31,

1959, 11 days after visa expired.

Snyder, Head Consulor In Moscow. "...if the

Soviet authorities find it in their interest to

keep a person around...then there is no problem"

(with an expired visa).

Oswald informs Snyder that as a Soviet citizen, he

would give Soviets information that might be of

special Interest.

FBI report:

record. of copy of telegram from

State Department, October 31, 1959, to Office of

Naval Intelligence re Oswald's visit to U.S.

Embassy in Moscow.

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I.

Oswald and U. S. S. R. (continued)

C.

8. CE 2750

9. CE 2752

Telegram from U. S. Embassy to Secretary of State

re Oswald's effort to renounce U.S. citizenship.

Helms. Deputy Director of Plans, CIA. Acknowledges

receipt of State Department telegram of October 31,

1959.

Re Oswald's visit to U. S. Embassy In Moscow.

10.

CE. 985

Oswald granted Russian residence papers, January 4,

1960.

11.

CE 960,

question #2

State Department. Two-month waiting period for

residence is not exceptional.

12.

CE 2762 p. 2

CIA states it-is not unusual for two-month waiting

period for Soviet Residence permit.

13. CE 2760

CIA: Re KGB and defectors.

State Department communication on Oswald during Oswald's stay in Minsk,

Russia

1. Report p. 750

2. CE 962

U. S. Embassy in Moscow last hears from Oswald

November 9, 1959.

March 25, 1960, Passport Office drafts refusal

sheet on Oswald on premise that Oswald may be a

Russian citizen.

3. CE 963

Department of State: No further action on Oswald

unless U. S. nationality is proven, lookout card

filed in Passport Office.

4. CE. 948 #13-A

May 18, 1964, State Department-No available in-

formation to

prove lookout card was filed.

5. CE 948 #13-B

May 18, 1964, State Department--Reports from Navy,

FBI and CIA were inconclusive to warrant lookout

card.

6.

CE 948 #13-C

May 18, 1964, State Department Bites that informa-

tion from Moscow beginning October

1959 was enough

to warrant lookout card.

•7. CE 2752

List of communications received by CIA from State

in 1959, 61 and '62 regarding Lee Harvey Oswald.

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I. Oswald and U. S. S. R. (continued)

D. Oswald in Minsk

a. MVD financial assistance

1. CE 24, January 13,

1960 entry

2. Report pp. 259-260

3: Report pp. 271-272

4. CE 2721

5. CE 2733

6.

CE 3125

7.

CE 2720

Oswald's diary. Oswald receives 700 rubles

monthly from MVD (Ministry of Internal Af-

fairs).

Report defines MVD functions as "economic."

Soviet practice to make defector's life

"pleasant" so he will not return to native

country.

Karamessines. Financial aid for foreigners

in U. S. S. R. 1s "well documented."

CIA memo. No secret training institution in

Minsk when Oswald resided there.

U. S.

citizens who defect to U. S. S. R.

are usually resettled outside of Moscow.

Average earnings of a Soviet industrial worker

in 1960 were about $100 a month.

b. Hunting Club

1. CE 2649

Oswald indicates he made regular weekend

hunting trips in Minsk.

CIA information on Russian hunting societies.

2. CE 2760

E. Oswald's return to the U. S.

1. CE 931

2. Report p. 275

3.

CE 960

Oswald's letter (February 5, 1961) to U. S.

Embassy in Moscow requesting passport be

returned..

Oswald unexpectedly arrives at Embassy from

Minsk, July 8, 1961.

State Department:

Re Soviet legality of

Oswald's trip from Minsk to Moscow.

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I. Oswald and U. S. S. R. (continued)

• 4. CE 2762 p. 1

5 ..

CE 935 p. 2

6.

CE 938

7. 5 H 238

8.

CE 938 pp. 3-4

9.

5 H 379-380

9.

Report p. 758

10. 5 H 591

• 11. 5 H 591

12.

CE 2771

13.

CE 2746

CIA. Re Soviet regulations on travel

require authorization.

Oswald visits Embassy January 8, 1961.

Does not mention MVD financial aid; states

he had not given secrets to Russians;

was returned passport which expires

September 10, 1961; fills out renewal

application for passport.

Renewal application for passport. Oswald

strikes out "have not" for sworn allegiance

to foreign state. (This would disqualify

him or raise questions about disqualification.)

Snyder, Consular at U. S. Embassy. "Have"

statement was either (1) typo or (2) re-

affirmation of past verbal allegiance to

U. S. S. R.

In supplementary questionnaire to renewal

application, Oswald maintains U.S. citizen-

ship, U.S. S. R. residence.

Section 51.138 of State Department Regulations

on Passports (January 12, 1962) states that

confidential information regarding a person's

communist activities cannot be considered.

Passport Office renews Oswald's passport

May 24, 1962 for 30 days, for direct return

to U.S. only.

Marina asks Colonel Askinov of MVD for as-

sistance in obtaining visas.

Marina's uncle is employee of MVD. May 24,

1962, Marina issued U. S. Immigration visa.

(First applied for July 11, 1961.)

Helms.

September 12, 1964. Length of time

required by Soviet authorities to process

exit visa application range from 5 months

to 1 year.

State Department check on Marina Oswald

with CIA, FBI, State's Office of Security

and Passport Office. (N. B. Exhibit really

doesn't provide any information.)

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I. Oswald and U. S. S. R. (continued)

14. CE 2762 p. 2

15.

CE 2773

F.

U. S. - U.

S:

1. CE 3106

2

CE

3

107

Permission for a Soviet wife to accompany

her foreign national husband abroad is rarely

given.

Helms memo stating that in some Western

European cities,

Soviet tourist visas were

being issued in 5 to 7 days in 1964.

S. R. intelligence communication post-assassination

Deleted letter from U. S. Embassy in Moscow.

Russian: citizen who knew Oswald maintains

(1) Oswald knew Ruby pre 1960; (2) Oswald

was influenced by KGB; (3) Mrs. Oswald

was a KGB agent; (4) Group of communists

helped with assassination.

Russian Intelligence work on CE 3106.

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II. Fair Play for Cuba Committee

CE 826 (p. 7)

CE 817

CE 826

(p. 3)

CE 826 (p. 8)

CE 826 (p. 9)

CE 826 (p. 4)

Received National membership card dated May 28, 1963

In the name of Lee H. Oswald and signed by V. L. Lee.

N.O. Chapter sent a card dated June 6, 1963 signed by

A. J. Hidell and given the number 33 - Received the

monthly circular but couldn't recall the name of the

publication.

Meetings were held in residences of various members.

Different individuals at both of the meetings he

attended. No regularly scheduled meeting.

Mail card stamped June 11, 1963. Box No. 30061.

Others entitled to receive mail - A. J. Hidell and

Marina Oswald.

This box was closed September 26, 1963.

Forward to 2515. W Fifth Street, Irving, Texas.

Informant No. T-2 on June 26, 1963 stated that Lee H.

Oswald, P. 0. Box 30061, New Orleans, La., wrote a let

ter on June 10, 1963 to

"The Worker" In New York. Oswald

claimed to be a long time subscriber to the magazine

and stated he was forming a FPCC in New Orleans and re-

quested some literature.

Stated on August 7, 1963 received a note through the

mail from Hidell asking him to distribute Fair Play

literature.

Hidell knew he wasn't working and had the

time. He denied being paid for this as it was a patriotic

duty. Around 1:00 p.m. on August 9, 1963, he went down

on Canal Street by himself and started distributing com

mittee literature. Made and placed a placard around his

neck and on the bottom in black print the words "Viva

Fidel."

As well as leaflets and applications, he had a thirty-nine

page pamphlet entitled "The Crime Against Cuba" by

Corliss Lamont. Gave a copy. of each to the agent at the

Interview. Around 4:00 p.I., three Cubans approached

him and he gave each

one of

the leaflets. They became

angry and destroyed the throwaways and began to argue;

caused a disturbance and they were arrested.

Informant No. I-6 stated he observed on August 9, 1963

an unknown individual handing out leaflets with "Hands

off Cuba, viva Castro."

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Fair Play for Cuba Comnittee

CE 826 (p. 5)

CE

826 (p. 6)

CE 826 (p. 11)

CE 826 (p. 12)

Lt. Martello advised that on August 9, 1963, Lee

H. Oswald was arrested for disturbing the peace;

and desired to see an FBI agent.

Oswald was interviewed by S. A. Quigley - August 15, 1963.

Stated four months ago he met his wife, married her

in

Fort Worth, and moved to New Orleans.

After coming to

New Orleans, he began reading literature distributed by

the FPCC, and it was his understanding from this that

the 0:3.

the main goal and theme of the committee is to prevent

the U.S. from invading Cuba or interfering in the

political affairs of that country. Doesn't consider

FPCC to be communist.

On August 21, 1963, Lee H. Oswald appeared on Radio Station

WDSU's "Conversation Carte Blanche" with Edward S.

Butler, Staff Director of the Information Council of

the Americas. This organization specializes in the

distribution of anti-communist education material to

Latin American countries.

Oswald stated that the FPCC

is not communist-controlled and that he, Oswald, is a

Marxist.

On August 30, 1963, Bill Stuckey had a conversation with

Oswald after the broadcast at which time Oswald

said he

had met his wife in Russia and married her there.

Oswald stated Russians had gone soft on communism

and that Cuba is the only real revolutionary country

in the world today.

Informant No. T-7, familiar with Cuban activities in

New Orleans, on September 9, 1963 said Oswald was un-

known to him.

Frank Bartes, a delegate to the Cuban Revolutionary

Council In New Orleans on September 10, 1963 said

Oswald was unknown to him.

Informant No. T-8, acquainted with some phases of the

Communist Party activity In New Orleans, advised on

October 1, 1963 that Oswald was

unknown to hi.

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II.

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

4 H 444

CE 819 (5 H 401)

I H (p. 24)

CE 1828

4 H 394

CE 2195, P. 68-69

CE 2195, p. 70-70B

Special Agent Hosty gave in his testimony that they

didn't have any Information concerning the FPCC in

Dallas or Oswald's distribution of leaflets on April 21,

1963 until early June, and no action was taken.

Mrs. Oswald said the name. A. J. Hidell was signed by her

when forced by her husband.

According to his wife, Lee H. Oswald was the lone

member of the FPCC in New Orleans. He had himself

arrested so he would become known believing this would

help when he got to Cuba--took clippings of arrest

to Mexico with him.

No record of Dr. A. J. Hidell.

Testimony of Alwyn Cole on April 30, 1964 concerning

signature of Lee H. Oswald and A. J. Hidell states

they are the same.

FBI Report December 4, 1963. Myra Silver, Secretary,

Jones Printing Company, New Orleans. States that on

May 29, 1963, a person named Osborne ordered 1,000

copies of "Hands Off Cuba" handbill. (N. B.:

Same

handbill Oswald distributed August 9, 1963 in New Orleans.)

When shown picture of Oswald, she could not recognize

him as Individual who ordered copies (N. B.: Cf. III B:

"Bus trip and Albert Osborne").

FBI Report March 4, 1964. Silver and employees of

Jones Printing Company questioned again.

Observed

pictures of Osborne and could not identify him as

man who placed order. Other employees interviewed

and could not identify photos with Osborne.

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III. Mexico City

A. Marina's knowledge of Mexico City trip

1. 1 H 21

Marina knew August 1963 that Oswald was going to

Mexico City.

2. 1 H 22-24

Marina, Oswald wants to go to Mexico City to get to

Cuba.

3. 1 H 45

4. 3 H 29

Marina; Oswald wanted Mexico City to be secret.

Deving, Texas, a tee Mexico Pays home el

• Tells

Paine he had been job hunting in Houston.

Marina cooperates with alibi.

B.

Bus trip to Mexico City and Albert Osborne

1. CE 2121, P. 8-9

No. 15 on baggage list of bus is listed as

"(FNU) BOWEN."

2. CE 2121, p. 10

McFarlonds, English couple on bus, describe

Individual

whom Oswald sat next to; "possibly"

may be John Bowen.

3. 11 H 223

Mumford, passenger on bus, identifies elderly

gentlemen from photographs of the same one whom

Oswald sat next to.

4.

CE 2121, pp. 12-13

John Bowen interviewed by "T" sources; provides

misleading information about Bowen and Osborne

on several occasions; finally admits Osborne

an alias; still maintains ignorance of Oswald.

N.B.: 1X-c-2-a-G1 in files, Sprague, Richard of CTIA

mainlains through information from Tad Szule

that Albert Osborne was a CIA front agent

working out of Mexico City in 1963.

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5. CE 2121, pp. 12-13

Bowen describes man he sat next to as 29 years

of age, 5 feet 8 inches, 150 pounds, blond hair,

dark complexion, and of Mexican or Puerto Rican

descent; could not identify Oswald picture.

C.

Oswald's Activities in Mexico City

1. CE 2478

2. CE 2564

3. CE 2120, p. 4-5

4.

CE 2121, p. 42

5. Report, p. 299

6.

CE 2564

7.

CE 2121, p. 39

8.;

CE 2121, P. 5-6

Oswald in Mexico, September 26, 1963 to November 3,

1963.

Oswald shows document of communist party member-

ship, FPCC and U. S. S. R. marriage certificate

to Silvia Duras employee of Cuban Consulate,

Mexico City, September 27, 1963.

Report from Mexico, Department öf Foreign Relations,

Oswald showed (Russian) passport; Russian labor

card and letters written in Russía to Cuban Con-

sulate; report wife was in New York (N. B.: Marina

was living with Paine in Irving, Texas)

(Question: Where does Russian passport come from?)

Compare to No. l above.

Inquiry of Federal Security Police; maintain

Silvia Duran met with Oswald twice (N. B.:

Duran recalls only one meeting.)

"When Oswald spoke to the Cuban and Soviet consular

officials in Mexico City..."

Oswald's application for a visa for travel to

Cuba; states Oswald appeared at Russian Embassy

in Mexico City and requested visa be sent to Soviet

Embassy in Cuba. (N. B.: Report implies Oswald

went to Russian Embassy. The Report Cites no

proof of this save for comments on Oswald's Cuban

visa application.

Silvia Duran makes an "unofficial" call to Soviet

Embassy; then, Informs Oswald It would take four

months for Russian visa from Cuba.

Mexican Newspaper "Excelsior" November 25, 1963

reports that Oswald visited the Consul General

of U. S. S. R. on November 28, 1963. (N. B.:

(1)

Report does not acknowledge this information

(2) Oswald allegedly visited Cuban Embassy on

November 27, 1963 (3) According to visa application,

he had already visited Russian Embassy earlier

that day.)

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III. Mexico City (continued)

9. CE 2121, p. 42

10.

CE 3047

11.

CD 963 *

12.

CE 2121

13.

CE 3126

Silvia Duran and husband arrested November 23, 1963

because Sinora Duran had contact with Oswald at Cuban

Consul. (N. B: All of Duron's testimony, which

the Report uses as the only rellable witness to

Oswald having visited Cuban Consul was (1) col

lected from her while she was under arrest,

(2) delivered to Mexican authorities and not the

Coumission Itself.)

Mexican rumor that Silvia Duran had Invited

Oswald to her house and Duran had placed him in

contact with Cuban Consul.

Mexican newspaper reporter attempts to interview

Silvia Duran in April 1964. Husband prevents

Interview because Senora Duran suffered nervous

breakdown after interrogation by Mexican authori

ties.

Erisibio Azcue, Cuban Consular, argued with Oswäld

at Cuban Embassy (N. B.: Neither the Commission

nor the Mexican authorities collected Information

from ham.)

Helms memo. Identifies the man Oswald argued

with

at the Cuban Embassy as Erisibio Azcue.

Azcue

left the Consul on October 18, 1963 after

18 years of service.

His return to Cuba was

known

since September 1963.

D. Intelligence information from Mexico City - September-October 1963

1. CD 631 **

Helms. Out teletype 74673 October 10, 1963 to

State Department, CIA, and Navy re American

male, age 35, athletic build, 6 feet tall,

contacted Soviet Embassy on October 1, 1963 and

identified himself as Lee Oswald. Believed

*

CD - Comnianion Document, none of which were printed in any Warren Commission

volumes (Source: N. Y. Review of Books, April 3, 1975.

** CD - Commission Document; none of which were printed in any Warren Commission

volumes.

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III. Mexico City (continued)

2.

CD 631

3.

CD. 631

4. 11 H 469

5.

CD 1287 *

6.

11 H 468-469

7.

11 H 468

8.

CD 674

identical to Lee Henry Oswald. (N. B.: (1) physical

description does not fit Lee Harvey Oswald; (2) no

proof in Report that Lee Harvey Oswald visited

Soviet Embassy; (3) Why Lee Henry Oswald? (4)

Marina should be Marina Prusakova, not Pusakova.)

Helms. Out teletype 7798 (October 23, 1963)

to Navy. Request two recent photos of Lee Harvey

Oswald

in effort to see if Lee Oswald and Lee

Harvey Oswald are the same individual.

Helms. Cover letter.

Never received photos

from Navy. Concluded on November 23, 1963

man was not Lee Harvey Oswald.

Helms' affadavid, August 7, 1964. Presents

photographs (CE 237) of individual fitting

description of Lee Oswald (6 feet, athletie

build, 35 years of age) that were forwarded

from CIA to FBI on November 22, 1963.

Helms. Original photo of "Lee Oswald" taken

In Mexico City October 4, 1963.

Malley affadavit. When photograph was delivered

to Warren Commission from CIA, It was cropped to

eliminate background. Identity of "Lee Oswald"

not established.

Odum affadavit. ' Showed photo to Mrs. Margeurita

Oswald on November 23, 1963 to determine if he

was a friend of Oswald's. Also cropped photo to

eliminate background.

Helms memo of March 24, 1964. CIA received cabled

reports on November 22 and November 23, 1963

from Mexico City re photos of inidentified man

who frequents Soviet Embassy. Photos forwarded

to Washington.

* Not available (quoted from N. Y. Review of Books, April 3, 1975.

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III.

Mexico City (continued)

9. CD 674 +

10. CD 566 +

11.

CE 2764

12.

CE 948 Q 16

13. CE 834, 1tem 57

14.

CE 834, 1tem 58

15.

CE 833, Q. 23

16.

CE 3152

17.

CE 2764

Helms. Cover letter states Individual was not

Oswald.

Two different photos of unidentified Lee Oswald

(N. B.: Should request them unclassified Com-

mission documents.)

Helms memo. States that while Oswald was visiting

Mexico City, he dealt with V. V. Kostechov, a KGB

agent.

CIA memo. After Lee Henry Oswald's appearance

in Mexico City, the CIA sent a report to the

Passport Office on October 10, 1963. No action

was taken to prepare a lookout card, nor was

any action intended to cancel Oswald's passport.

FBI memo. Washington Bureau received an air tele

gram from Dallas October 22, 1963 reporting that

INS In Dallas had received a communication clag-

sified "secret" from CIA. It Indicated that an

Individual possibly identical to Oswald was in

contact with Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.

CIA release to FBI, State and Navy classified

"secret" October 10, 1963. Man identifies him-

self as Lee H. Oswald.

FBI report.

Investigation prior to October 10,

1963 report from CIA was directed toward ascer-

taining the nature of Oswald's sympathies.

On October 18, 1963 an FBI liaison in Mexico City

was furnished this information by the CIA and

arranged follow up with CIA for further informa-

tion.

Helms. RE Retracted story of "D" witnessing

Oswald receive $6,500 from Negro and man with

Canadian passport to kill "an important person"

in U. S. September 18, 1963.

Helms. States that while Oswald was visiting

Mexico City September 28-October 3, 1963, he

dealt with V. V. Kostichov, a KGB agent.

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IV.

Appendix

copies of selected Intelligence memoranda re Mexico O1t5

CE 833, Q. 23

CE 834,

Item

57

CE 834,

Item

CE 948,

To 1 58

CE 2121, pp. 8-13

CE 2764

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maintains

Under FBI procedures, the FBI Identification Division

In

a separate filing syston for handling fingerprint records.

this particular irstance,

Oswald is 337 925 D.

the FBI identification record of

hardled urder a differont file nu.ber.

The investigative reports on the subject are

In conncction with Oswald,

this Dareou utilized file cumber 105-82555 to handle the investi-

gative rocoris of Oswald.

22

ESLION:

•Assassinatich of

The FRI Report on the Investigation of the

1963

President kenncay,

page 39, states

that in Cotober;

an investigation vas initiated to ascertain the hereabouts

of the Oswalds, following advice from a rental agent that

vacated their apartnent and that Mrs.

chey ni

Oswald and

cheir child ha

departed in a station vagon with Texas registration.

What was the

reason "or this irvestigation to ascertain Ostrald's whereabouts?

SueR: In viey of Oswald's background and activities

the FBI had a continuing interest in hin.

rental agent advised on October 1

Therefore,

then the

1963,

that the Oswalds had

noved, investigation vas initiated to determine their current

veereacouts.

What was the FBI reaction to the CIA report

rogarding Oswald's visit

Mexico City?

or follo-up information by the CIA?

01

no why did the FBI not request additional

to the Soviet Enbassy

in

informatio?

Oswald in vi.r of the CIA report?

What was the FBI evaluction

receipt of

2NSH3R: The investigation of Oswald in 1963 prior to

tie Central

Intelligence Agency, conmunication

dated

Cciober 10, was directed toward the prinary objoctive of ascertainin

the

nature

FPCC or other subversive elcments.

and connection with,

of Oswald's sympathies fore Central Intelligence Agancy

comicacion which resorted that a man, tentatively identified as

which

Oswalegad been sent to lashington"

had inquired at the Soviet Embassy concerning a telegra

did not scacify the nature of

the telegran.

a

contact with the Soviet Embassy interjected

ner aspect

into the

investigation ard raised the obvious questioas

of why ha vas in Mexico and exactly that were his relations with

the

the information available was not such

that any additional conclusions could be drawn as to Ostrald's

sympathies

intentions or activitics at that time.

Thus,

lore of

the objectives of the contiruing investigation ras to ascertain

nature of his relations with the

tha

Soviets considering the possibilit

that he could have been recruited by the Soviet Intelligerce

Services.

The Coniral Intelligeace Agency

communication dated

October 10, 1963,

stated that any further information received

conceraing 0

representati

1963.

ore of

th

arranged fol

for furthcr

into !

Irrelliycace

C8023

Erbase

24.

June

196

June

or the Depax

have rcsulte

on June 26g

to

Ostrald o

We

eric

"BI

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ication Division

fingerarint records.

tion record of

on the subject are

action with Or.ald,

andle the investi

estigation of the

2ÊCS

that in Cetober,

in the thereabouts

agent that

d

their

hah la has

hed

tion.

What ras the

Id's therez outs?

nd and activitics

efore,

Then the

he Cavalds had

their current

to the CIA rcsort

Sovict E-assy

ional information

the FBI evaluation

in 1953 prior

unication

dier to

ective of ascertaicles

action mith,

Intcllissace

Taly ligade de as

orning a telegra

ly the nature of

assy interjected

the obvious questioas

is rclations riti

•le nas not

such

as to Osrald's

Thus,

one of

Tas to ascertain

tha

idering the possibilly

it Intelligerce

unication

dated

"nacion received

concorning Oswald rould be furnished and that our liaison

reprosontatives in Mexico Cizy more baing cévised.

On

October 18,

1953,

orc of our FBI liaison rcorescrictives in mexico City vas

furnished

this information by Contral

and

he

ar-arged follow-up vich Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City

FOT

further inforcation and siaried a chock to cotoblish Osald's

eatry into lexico.

Subsequent to the assassination, Central

Incelligence Agoncy also acvised us of Cowald's contact with the

Cuben Erbassy in Mexico City at too tiris of his visit incre.

QUESENG:

Mas the IBI anare of Oscald's application 03

for a passport

or the issuance of a passport on

June 3, 19533 thy did the For not request that the Pesoort derico

of the bepartment of State include Oswald on a list which rould

have reculted in advice to the FBI 0f any application for a passport?

The fBI was not chare of Corald's application

2469

1963,

to Ostald on June 25, issassport or of the issuance of a passport

We did not request the State Departmont to include

Oswald on a list which rould have resulted in aâvising us of any

application for a passport inasmuch as the facts rciating to Oswald's

activitios at that

time did not rarraot such action.

Cur invosti-

gation of Osuald had disclosed no

evidence that

Gswald was acting

under the instructions or on behalf of any foreign goverament or

instrumentality tercor.

25•

CHESTION:

What prompted the FBI efforts to locate

Ostrald on

October 18 in for: Wortn,

or Robert

Oswald on

Cetober 19

in Fort Worth (before receiving zovice on

October 25,

Oswald had

given

the Now orleans Post Orfice a forvaraing address

In IrVing, Texas)?

ARCIE:

Jessic James Garrer

4909 Magazine Strect,

to the

effect

that Oswald and his wife had vacated their apartaent

at 4935 Magazire Strect,

Texas Ticense plates prompted cür efforts to locate Ostald at

Fort North, Texas.

QUESTION:

Why did the roI make three atterots

within

agat days quercier 29 - love-bar 5, 1053) to locate ostald?

Alter

being zovised of his placo of engloyment by Mrs.

did the.

FBI attempt to locate hin through that lezd?

Were any

efforts nade between Novenber 5 and Novenber 22 to locate Oswald,

ard in rot,

tiny not?

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n Exhibit No. 834

Division Record

orth the

fact

ia, on

Times Picayune,*

:963

which

i Orleans

for

iC) literature.

the New Orleans

: New Orleans

stigation

of

stion of literature

ice to this

1 results of

and employment

re to this

id the office

: Harvey Oswald

te to this

the office of

Nikolaevna

Yecord Number 327

*y dated

1 results

cated that

Irleans, Louisiana.

he Dallas

in Appendix

d

pasiation Exhibit ito. 834

Honorable J. Lee Rankin

this Bureau dated September 12, 1963.

requesting that

the New York office furnish an

of Corliss Lamont.

It was noted propriate characterization

addition to disseminating

the FPCC in

booklets entitled "The

New Orleans,

Time Arninst Cuba

by Corliss Lamont.

An airtel from the New

Oricans office

to this Bureau dated September 24,

copies of a memorandum

dated September

her 24, 1963)

which enclosed

which set forth data surrounding Oswald's arrest concering Oswald

in New Orlans on August

Such data was obtained

from the New Orleans Police Department.

56.

Record Number 327

27 925D concerning

of the Identification Division

Oswald.

An airtel from Dallas to this Bureau dated

October 21,

1963.

received a

communication Classified Secret

that INS in Dallas

from the

Central Intelligence Agency, (CIA),

Mexico City,

indicated that an individual, possibly identical with

Ice Harvey Oswald, was in contact with the

Soviet. Embassy

in Mexico City.

A CIA Release dated Occober 10

Department of State

and Department

of the Navy

classified

reported that an

Ancrican male who identifled himsel? City, on October 1,

contacted the Soviet Embassy,

the CiA Release indicated Oswald may be Identical

to Lee Henry Oswald, born October 18, 1939, in New Orleans,

Louisiana.

Bureau dated October 25 New Or leans

airtel from the New Orleans office to this

advising that Oswald left

a forwarding address in

on September 26, 1963,

showing his new address to be 2515 West Fifth Street,

Irving.

60. An airtel from the

New Orleans office to

this Bureau dated October 24

1963

requesting the

Dallas office to locate subject and his wife.

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scedures, 1f

3 ether Govern..

•A and Secret

I or in some

otherwise

ibroad.

ong period

rill advise

ich as the

application

is usually

ookout file

ployee who

ookout file

plication 18

¡ation upon

with the

, the responsible

with the

agency (usually

of the receipt

•pplication 18

• or department

the person's

10,000 passport

ossible to

port application

• has specifically

AIZAGICENT B

QUESTION 16

What action was taken by the Department of State,

when

it received information from

the CIA in

October 1963 concerning

the appearance

of Oswald at the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in

Mexico City?

Did the Department of State at this time under-

take to prepare a look-out card or take any action intended co

result in the cancellation of Oswald's passport? If so, please

describe the actions taken.

ANSWER - A CIA report concerning (Lee Henry) Oswald's

appearance at the

Soviet Embassy

in Mexico City

only

(the report did not contain any infornation regarding

his appearance at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City)

was received in the Passport Office

on October 16,

1963.

Records show that the passport file

Lee Harvey Oswald

was obtained and that the CIA report

was read by

Mr. James F. Richie, an attorney, and by Mr. Carroll H.

Seeley, Jr.,

a supervisory attorney

in the Legal Division,

on October

22, 1963.

Since the report indicated no

ground for determining that Oswald

was Ineligible for a

passport, & determination was made that no action by the

Passport Office was required.

No action was, therefore,

taken to prepare a lookout card, nor was any action

taken intended to result in the

cancellation of Oswald's

passport.

ATTACHMENT B

QUESTION 17

He would like a description of the procedures, 1f any,

within the Department for revoking a passport already issued

should the Department determine or be informed that there are

grounds for doing

so,

and a memorandum on the differences, 1f

any, between the

grounds for refusing to issue a passport and

the grounds for revoking a passport already issued in the kinds

of situations which might reasonably have applied to Lee Harvey

Oswald®

ANSWER - The attached reprint from the Federal Register

of January 12, 1962. sets forth the

substantive and pro-

cedural regulations governing the

denial and revocation

of a passport.

The grounds for the revocation of a

passport and

the refusal of a passport are identical.

There are no differences between the substantive

or regulatory grounds for refusing

to issue a passport,

and the grounds for revoking a passport.

When grounds

are discovered for the revocation of a passport, a letter

of tentative withdrawal is prepared, setting forth the

specific regulation under which the

action is'taken,

and the basis for the action. The bearer of the passport

1e requested to surrender his passport and is informed

of his right to seek a review

of the Department's setion,

1n

accordance with the Department's Passport Regulations.

(See Attached Reprint from the Federal Register.)

There were no grounds consonant with the Passport

Regulations to

take adverse passport action against

Oswald prior to November 22, 1962.

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TUEK I

MAYDON had no independent recollection of

OSUALD but considered that OSUALD say have been in the

company of a young Amorican

couple

made of Mexican Auntgration

racorde at Nuevo Larodo, which disclosed that there

eas only

one young

'American couple

whose entry into Moxico say have

coincided with that of

OSUALD.

This couple was nanod BIld

and ELAINE ALLEN Of Mani, Florida.

On November 27,. 1983, TUEXI MAYDON advised that no

infornation had been doveloped regarding the exact time og

specific mode of travel of

Lexico,

He statod that OSHALD's entry into

September 26,

Ss he had 2a, led out are bean newood eta nige peso

OSWALD'g

on October 3, 1963, betwaan 12101 a.n

that.

2h1s shift

ALBERTO ARZALENDI CHAPA,

NoxIcan Imigration Service

On November 27,

Immigration Service

MARIO DEL, VALLE PLATA, lexican

Immigration

employee rice employee who

Nuavo Laredo. Mexico, advised

departed fron Mexico

othere with tear to is entry or copa sure dron lo% cag

Chock of Flocha Roja (Red Arrow) Baggage Liat

for Passengers for

Iron Nuevo

Laredo to

September 26, 8.

1963, Trip

Mexico, D

1963, of the Mexican bus line Flecha Roja

Tamaulipas,

Mexico, at 2800 Dol,

piecos of bargare.

The baggago list roflects the following!

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confidential source abroad adviaed en

December. 161965, nfl RooMES, driver of tho

Flecha Roja bus No, 516 on September 26, 1963, could noz

recall che passengers on the trip of September 26, 1963,

because so nuch time had elapsad; and since he makes tro

or any other passengera who vere on the bus,

JOHN H. BOWEN wan Identified from Marlean Inmigration

records as 60 years of age, born Mouston, Teras, a United

States eitizen, reuidence Houston, Texas. Mexican touriat

eard was issued to him al Nuevo Luredo, Maxico, on September 26,

1963, upon presentation of hia birth certificate.

PABLO VASQUEZ

Second

piece of luggago attributed to

PABLO VASQUEE

S. MOROU

ALFREDO BRISENO

ROIG SORQUIS

T. GONZALEZ

ANDRES MORALBR

ANDAES

Gpo. MARTINEZ (pOssibly GUADALUTH oF Capt. MARTINEZ)

(ENU) ROWEN

HARRY J. HITCHELL.

Second piece of luggage attributed to

HARRY J. MITCHCLL

10.

11.

1%.

13.

14.

LFE H. OSWAL

15.

(FNU) BOURN (belleved (dentical with JOHN H. BOURN)

16.

Second piece of luggage attributed to BOVEN

17.. JOHN MCFARLAND

18.

Second plece of lugeage attributed to JOHN MCFARLAND

The driver of thie bus was linted sa BOBBRTO MORaLEs.

The baggago llet has the

number "1g" at the bocton,

whicb, scoording to the lexico City terminal annager of Floche

ROja,-

aigolfles that 18-pleces_of_ luggage had been checked-aad.

ticketed on that bus.

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OVALD spoke to two Auntralian

in Monterray,

Jeate of Nuevo

shore cuo stria pot ott at lexico, D. %.,

Hexico, mido.

OSUALO left the bus alone at Mexico, D. P.

the HePARLANDs

above with touriat

card fM_s No.

to be the

elderly

= 101Y SWALD, Bad

Martin de Texnelucan,

Seare of Puebla.

Creanes No. dad.

Mexico.

Extenaive

InVASeIFaRiOn tO lOCAtO JOHM HOVARD BOLEN Ta mado, and the

results are set forth borelnaiter.

With ropard to the too dustralian girls in their

pipin were considored identical with

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Tol, a confidential source abroad advised on

December 16, 1963, that ROBERTO MORALES, driver of the

Flecha Roja bus No. 516 on September 26, 1963, could not

recall the passengers on the trip of September. 26, 1963,

because so much tine had alapsed; and since he makes tro

round trips between Nuevo Laredo and Mexico, D. F., each

week, he

could not recall any infornation regarding OSWALD

or any other passengers who ware on the bus.

JOHN K. BOWEN was identified fron Maxican Immigration

records as 60 years of age, born Houston, Texas, a United

States citizen, residence Houston, Texag.

card was Issued to hin at Nuevo Laredo, Mezico, on September 26,

1963, upon presentation of his birth certificate.

HARRY J. MITCHELI was Identified an 41 yeare of

ago, a United States citizen, a laryer, residence Palmyra,

MissourI.

Mexican tourist

card vas lasued to him at Nuevo

laredo on September 26, 1963.

ANNIE MARIE MITCHELL wAS Identified a apparently

being che wife of HARKY I, MITCHELL, above,

22 увата of 6gа,

• United States eitizen, residence same as husband, above.

DE, JOKN BRYAN MCFARLAND and his wife, Mrs. ANNA

MERTLE REID MCFARLAND, 10 Fulwood Park, LIverpool,

were interviewed in England and advised chay were on the

Flecha Roja bus from Nuevo Laredo, Iamaulipas, Mexico, to

Maxico, D. F.,

September 26-27, 1963.

They stated that

they observed the following during this trip:

OSWALD was on-this bus trip. craveling alone and

he sat next to an 80-year-old man, described an

• United States citizen, sho appeared to be

60 years of age and sho resides' in Cuernavaca,

State of Morelos, Mexico, and in the State of

Tennessee in the United States, This' individual

was identified further as a school teacher tho

taught in India and Arabla and currently vas

writing a book on the lisbon, Portugal, earthquake

• 10 .

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on that bus.

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During thia trip, OSVALD spose to two Australian

girls in their mid-tuenties who boarded this bus

Nonderrey.

Mexico, axico.

OSWALD left the bus alone at Mexico, D. F.

With regard to the first Individual described by

JOHN HOMARD BOWEN, listed above with tourint

card FM-5 No.

Martin de Texmelucan, State of Puebla,

investigation to locate JOHN HOWARD BOWEN

mado, and the

resulte are sot forth bereinafter.

"ita rogard to the two Australian girla la their

mid-twenties, these

girls were considered identical with

native of F1j1 Islands,

card Pa-s No. 4225035, Issued dugust 24,

1963, by the Merican

New Yoris, no York, and PANELA LILLIAN

born F1g1 Islands,

bearer of Mexican tourist card FM-S No.

sane date and place as that of TINSTON.

According to Mexica

Immigration records,

WINSTON and MUMFORD entered Mexico at

Septaber 25, 1983, one day before OSVALI

entered lexico,

PATRICIA WINSTON

and PAMELA NUNFORD advised the

following on

December 17, 1963, when Interviewed la the

United States:

WINSTON and HUFORD boarded a bus at Montertey,

State of Nuevo Leos, Mexico,

on September 26,

B962 dOst OsúAdi a passenger

passenger on this

bus and both observed him sitting next to an

Englishnan who had lived In Mexico

Thia latter individual was

as being in bis late sixties,

hoavy. build, gray

hair - balding, with a distinctive

and both belloved him

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INSTON aNd MUMPOR recalled oat has nitro

duced himsolf and exhibited

passport.

MUMFORD

OSHALD advised wINSTON and

that ho had lived in

for swo yeare

and thet he

had had a hard time getting out of

Russie.

OSWALD stated that he had

been in Japan.

OSVALD made no consent concerning communiss or

Cuba.

He did not atate why he was traveling.

Mexico, where he was going,

and he did not

to

advise

concerning hie occupation or future plans.

OSWALD stated that he was Iron Fort lorth of

Dallas, Texas.

He was obsorved to be traveling

OSHALD recommended that vIS ON and are on cilised

hate nee staye, several Pines belore.

pointed out that this hotol was Inexpensive but

that he was not staying at the Hotel Cuba on

this trip.

WINSTON and MUFORD recalled an English couple

aboard the bus.

This

identical with Dr.

couple is considered

JOHN BRYAN ACPARLAND

and

his

ANNA MERYLE REID MCFARLAND,

JOHN HOWARD BOWEN,

ALBERT OSBORNE and has resided at Calle Emilio Carranza

San words de Terence, canada fee deterained

д Prep 6000 5 705370 7333

REVEREd ALERT OSBORNE, 4, to in Mexico to long as

acquainted with Reverend JOHN HOWARD BOVEN and furnished

misleading information concerning the alleged whereabout

of BOWEN.

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(I)

Laredo, Tamaulipash

Mexico

T-1, who is thoroughly famillar with the vorkings

of the

Mexican Ministry of Gobernacion (Interior), Jurniahed

the following information concerning the procedures utilized

by the Nexican Inmigration Sorvice in connection with the

entry and departure of non-lexican citizens lato and out of

Vexico, SE la to be noted that the Nexican Imalgration Service

On January 28,

2964,

T-S,

• confidential Bource

who has furniabod roliable infornation in

the paot,

the rocords at the

doxican Ministry

of Gobornacion (Miniotry of

the Interior) reflect that ALBERT OSBORNIS

was ordered doported

from Mexico on April 5, 1958, through Laredo,

had been charged with selling an automobilo la the Osxaca,

These records

wag known && JOHN HOWARD

BOTEN and was located in lexico and determined to be without

proper Mexican Innigration papers.

On January 30, 1964, T-6,

confidential source abroad,

advised that inasmuch as ALBIRT OSBORNE bad been illegally in

Bexico,

be would be detained for deportation it locatad in

bexico,

February B, 1964,

3, 196 as d aarused that he recalied ban bus

to Mexico, D. F.,

150 pounds in weight,

Mexican or Puerto Bican deacent.

Tbis individual went to

sleep soon after boarding

the bus, and,

bus where

BOWEN claimed

that he did not talk to the above

1dentily press photographs of OStAlD.

BOVEN stated that he ia acquainted with in ALBERT

OSBORNE, described as a Baptist preacher

or missionary from

and while in Oaxaca,

Wexico, 10 1958,

BOWEN misplaced

his identification

papers and during & censua taken at Onraca

he borrowed OSBORNS 's identification papera.

BOVEN claimed

that he had never before or afterward used the name of OSBORNE.

United States.

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numbors being to nequence according to the

ordor of the panes within each

By way of example,

date and thereafter by dato,

the firat traveler in

!

travelers

antering that

port on that date

numbers do maquence, accordine to alphabetical

andar.

sequenCE

on the second day of the month and

throughout the remining 1S days of the

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cannination of Loth of tho abovo locrIbed LOLICTE

Los shorn that tiey sero prorarce on the caro typoritor.:: I-

cano batch,

'Icqulrico by our lland Olfico bavo Iallod to Lovelop

ing internation concorning cither Pedro or Futer Charica and

¡ario del Locario Colina.

CMOMISSION ExHIBIT No. 2763.

CHINTRAL INTHLLIGENCE AGINGY.

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Commieston Kxhibit 2764

ME'MORANDUM FOR:

Mr. J. Lao Rankla

Geseral Counsel

President'* Comminaton on the

Ammosination al Preslient Kennedy

SUNJECT:

Valerly Vladimirorkch KOSTIKOV

Io In reply to your roquon, I am forwardlag laformatios

on Valerly Vladimirovich KOSTIOV, one of the Soviet siliciale

with whor Loe Harray OSWALD la bollered to have dealt during

his viali to Maulco Clty as 28 Septambar - 3 Octabor 1963.

2, In hla lottor of 8 November to tho Soviet Cocoulato la

Wanhingion, OSWALD wrote about bla ".., meetloga with comrade

Koatin Lo the Embassy of tho Soriot Unlon, Moxico Cliy, Maxleo, "

There was no olficor with that name lleted as balng a morabor al

the Sovles representation ln Mexico City during September and

October 1963.

"KOSTIN" le probably Identeal with Attache

KOSTIKOV, who wan nerving in sao Consular Socion of the Sovlet

Embassy la Merleo Clty as that elme.

KOSTIKOV to ono of several

Consular representalives who deal with vians and related matters,

Paral Antanovich YATSKOV, Second Secretary of Embaudy, was las

chargo al-the Consular Section at the lae al OSWALD's tal .-

OSWALD may aloo have discussed ble rina problem with YATSKOY

and other manhers of the Consular seation.

3, KOSTIKOV and YATSKOV aro known olilcers of the

Soviet State Security Service (KGB).

The Sints Security Sarvice

to tho prinelpal Sovlas Incalligence sorrico, and lo chargod with

espiongo, countertatalligance and related matters.

An Il mbould be noiad thes Sorles Intalligence and security

officers much so HOSTIOV and TAISKOV, when pinced under

offlein cover, are regured lo perform le rouline and legitizante

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COMMISSION ExHIBIT No. 2763-Continued

mailan damandad by thair sores postlions in an embasey os

a bahard Holm

Dopaly Direstor for Plane

COMMISSION ExHLErT No. 2764-Continued

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METiTUTS INVOLVED

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

24 MAR 1964

Commiss102 No. 63/

MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin

SUBJECT:

CIA Dissemination of Information

on Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated

10 October 1963

CLASSIF

By authority

ION CANCELLU

#: 112722/72

1..

Reference is made to paragraph three of your letter,

dated 16 March 1964. You requested that the Commission be

furnished a copy of the dissemination on Lee Harvey OSWALD

made to several Government agencies by GIA on I0 October

1963.

tille of person making the channo

Name and

2.

An exact copy of this, dissemination (Out Message No.

74673) by teletype, is attached. It was transmitted to the De-

partment of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Depart-

ment of the Navy. A copy was concurrently made available by

hand to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

3.

Please note that OSWALD's middle name was errone-

ously given as "Henry" in the subject line and in paragraph two

of the dissemination. (The same error occurs in the message

to the Navy discussed in paragraph four, below.) The maiden

surname of Mrs. OSWALD was mistakenly listed as "PUSAKOVA".

On 23 October (the correct date), a teletyped message.

(Out No.

77978) was sent to the Department of the Navy referring to

Dain,

Out No. 74673, and reguesting that the Navy furnish CIA as

soon as possible two copies of the most recent photograph of

OSWALD that was available, for use in checking the identity of

the Lee OSWALD in Mexico City. These photographs had not

been supplied to this Agency by 22 November 1963.

clusion that the photograph did not refer to OSWALD was based

CLASSIFICATION SiNchotos generally available on 23 November 1963.

By aimporty

of

Archirist

of pniled States

By

NETICE

Dote

SENSITIVE

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Attachment A

Out Message No. 74673, dated 10 October 1963 and filed at 0800

hours, to Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

Department of the Navy.

Subject: Lee Henry OSWALD

i MI-A15IF

-JUN CANCELEU

CLASSIFICATION CANCELSI

By nuthority of:

sacr: 1422/12

making the change:

NNEL

1. On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive source in

Mexico reported that an American male, who identified himself

as Lee OSWALD, contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City

inquiring whether the Embassy had received any news con-

cerning a telegram which had been sent to Washington. The

American was described as approximately 35 years old, with

an athletic build, about six feet tall, with a receding hairline.

2. It is believed that OSWALD may be identical to Lee

(Henry)OSWALD, born on 18 October 1939 in New Orleans,

Louisiana. A former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet

Union in October 1959 and later made arrangement through the

United States Embassy in Moscow to return to the United

States with his Russian-born wife, Marina Nikolaevna Pusakova,

and their child.

3..

The information in paragraph one is being dissemi-

Dir

nated to your representatives in Mexico City. Any further

information received on this subject will be furnished you.

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Attachment B

CD631

Out Teletype Message No. 77978, dated 23 October 1963 and

filed at 1410 hours, to the Department of the Navy.

Subject: Lee Henry OSWALD

Reference is made to CIA Out Teletype No. 74673, dated

10 October 1963, regarding possible presence of subject in

Mexico City. It is requested that you forward to this office

as soon as possible two copies of the most recent photograph

you have of subject. We will forward them to our representa-

tive in Mexico, who will attempt to determine if the Lee

OSWALD in Mexico City and subject are the same individual.

LUN CANCELEU

CLASSIF

CLASSIFICATION CANCELED

By authority of: CQQBN.912/22/172

Name and title of person maling cise cras:

1/10/77

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5.. This memorandum and the attachments convey infor-

mation originating with very sensitive sources and methods.

They therefore bear an appropriate sensitivity indicator.

Richard Helms

Deputy Director for Plans

Attachments:

A - Copy of Out Message 74673

B - Copy of Out Message 77978

CLASSIFI

CON CANCEDED

LASSIFICATION CANCELE

By authories it: CHAP013/22/72

Name and tille of porson making the cheer.

Date

Bing

SENTIT:

HAND

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This information is being made available to the Immigration

and Naturalization Service.

LUN CANCELED

Ru, anthority she CIA prais

CLASSIF

By auth: :

Name

DAi.

CoaSt:, 14/22/12

matter the charge:

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David Aaron

ramminninn

and

Jenne Community

Scope

The purpose is to determine whether the intelligence agencies of the Federal

Government reported to the Warren Commission fully and accurately on their

relationship, contact and knowledge concerning Lee Harvey Oswald.

It would

not address other alleged questions. concerning the Warren Commission Report

and the assassination of President Kennedy.

Approach

The first step will be to examine the early Warren Commission material, the

new information that has come to light, and the charges concerning Oswald's

relationship to the federal intelligence agencies.

we will determine whether it's useful to interview additional people or con-

duct a broader investigation.

Study Team

David Aaron, Coordinator - c? Task Force

Mike Madigan - Foreign Intelligence Task Force

Mark Gitenstein - Domestic Intelligence Task Force

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