RESPONSE TO OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL REQUEST
Originator: CIA
From: TOVAR, HUGH, CI STAFF
To: NORBERT SHEPANEK
Document date: 07/28/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Liaison and Oversight Control, PCS

ATTENTION

FROM

: Mr. Norbert Shepanek

:

B. Hugh Tovar

Chief, Counterintelligence. Staff

SUBJECT

: Response to Office of Legislative Counsel

Request

REFERENCE

: OLC 78-2488

1. In order to provide answers to the questions

posed in paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of reference we

again have reviewed the files which were returned

to

Headquarters following the death of Winston Scott in

Mexico City.

These files are stored at the Agency

Records Center in Warrenton, Virginia.

=

Reference paragraph nine any files which

were maintained in the Staff on Lee Harvey Oswald

presumably have been reviewed by the members of the

House Select Committee on Assassinations.

available in Mr. Russell Holmes' office.

Your request for any and all files maintained ring

James Angleton and/or the CI Staff that pertain to

Mexico Surveillance Operations; there are several

are several

hundred reels of audio film stored in the Records

Center which contain telephone coverage of the Soviet

and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City for the period

22 November 1963 through 13 December 1963.

A review

of these tapes by persons from CI Staff and LA Division

did not uncover any information pertinent to the

assassination of President Kennedy.

The period covered

is subsequent to the time that Oswald was known to be

in Mexico.

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3.

Attached are two listings of the Mexico City

Station files in the possession of Winston Scott at

the time of his death.

Both listings are for the same

files; the 5 May 1977 listing was prepared for LA

Division, while the form 4034, dated 21 October 1977,

was prepared during a task force review of all the

files held at the Records Center.

One of the objectives

of the file review at the Records Center was better

organization of our retired files... Another was the

removal of all duplicate paper.

4. We do not have a record of any files in Mr. Scott's

safe that pertained to the Subjects in paragraph 11 of

reference.

We have reviewed the material described in

paragraph

three above and reproduced (attached) those

documents that pertain to the Subjects in paragraph 11

that might be of interest to the HSCA.

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*-B. Hugh Tovar

Attachments: herewith

(1) Inventory of Mexico City COS Records, 5 May 1977

(2) Form 4034 (File Review Worksheet)

Memorandum of Conversation, May 1/,

1964

(4)

VIR 84914 (cable), 24 November 1963

(5)

HMMW-12931, 23 September 1964

(6)

HMMW-12193, 17 December 1963

(7)

DIR 87666 (cable), 7 December 1963

(8) DIR 85039 (cable),

27 November 1963

(9) MEXI 7104 (cable), 27 November 1963

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MEXI

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Liaison and Oversight Control, PCS

ATTENTION

Mr. Norbert Shepanek

FROM

B. Hugh Tovar

Chief, Counterintelligence Staff

SUBJECT

: Response to Office of Legislative Counsel

Request

REFERENCE : OLC 78-2488

1. In order to provide answers to the questions

posed. in paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of reference we

again have reviewed the files which were returned

to

Headquarters following the death of Winston Scott in

Mexico City.

These files are stored at the Agency

Records Center in Warrentong Virginia.

2.

Reference paragraph nine any files which

were maintained in the Staff on Lee Harvey Oswald

presumably have been reviewed by the members of the

House Select Committee on Assassinations.

They are

available in Mr. Russell Holmes' office.

Regarding

your request for any and all files maintained by

James Angleton and/or the CI Staff that pertain to

Mexico Surveillance Operations; there are several

hundred reels of audio film stored in the Records

Center which contain telephone coverage of the Soviet

and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City for the period

22 November 1963 through 13 December 1963.

A review

of these tapes by persons from CI Staff and LA Division

did not uncover any information pertinent to the

assassination of President Kennedy.

The period covered

is subsequent to the time that Oswald was known to be

in Mexico.

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Attached are two listings of the Mexico City

Station files in the possession of Winston Scott at

Both listings are for the same

files; the 5 May 1977 listing was prepared for LA

Division, while the form 4034, dated 21 October 1977,

was prepared during a task force:review of all the

files held at the Records Center. One of the objectives

of the file review at the Records Center was better

organization of our retired files. Another was the

removal of all duplicate paper.

4.

We do not have a record of any files in Mr. Scott's

safe that pertained to the Subjects in paragraph 11 of

reference. We have

reviewed the material described in

paragraph three above and reproduced (attached) those

documents that pertain to the Subjects in paragraph 11

that might be of interest to the HSCA.

4s1. Leonara licCoy fori.

B. Hugh Tovar

Attachments: herewith

(1) Inventory of Mexico City COS Records, 5 May 1977

(3)

Form 4034 (File Review Worksheet)

Memorandun of Conversation, May 17, 1964

(4)

DIR 84914 (cable), 24 November 1963

(5)

HMMW-12931, 23 September 1964

(6)

HMMW- 12193, 17 December 1963

(7)

DIR 87666

(cable), ? December 1963

(8)

DIR 85039

(cable),

27 November 1963

(9)

MEXI 7104 (cable),

27 November 1963

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MEXI

7093

(cable);

26 November 1963

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5 May 1977

INVENTORY OF MEXICO CITY COS RECORDS

JOB 73-102, Space 301470

Box 1:

1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol VII Jan 1966 - June 66.

1. Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol VIII June 66 to December 1966.

1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol IX Jan 67 - June 67.

* Letter dated 14 June 67 from Jack Kaufman to Win Scott mentions

Garrisson investigation but no new details.

1 Folder {ARGROCER operation, Mexico City file.

1 Folder, COS relations with Ambassador Hill I Jul 57-30 Jan 58.

1 Folder,

.. II 13 Dec 57-15 Jan 59.

1 Folder,

III Jan 59 - Mar 60.

1 Folder,

IV Jan 60 - 30 Apr 69.

Box 2: 1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol III October 59. - Sep. 62.

• 1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol IV July 1962 - Dec 63.

3 Appointment books for years 1967, 1968, and 1969.

Pages from appointment calendars for years 1960, 1957, 1961 & 1963.

Box 3: 1 Folder, Mexico City Connendation File 1956 - 1969. */

• V1 cc DIR-84914, 24 November 63, cable from Lloyd K. Desmond to

outs deeply in late 20-28 2eing made by you...re

OSWALD case. Copy in P-8593 201-289248)

I cc DIR-87666, 7 Dec 63, cable to Mexi from Hq...presune all

concerned now agree Alvarado will be returned to Nicaragua..

(copy in 201-389248)

V1 cc HMMW-12193, 13 December 63 RYBAT dispatch from Hq to Mexico

Commendation for investigation JFK assassination... (copy in

201-287248) •

V 1 HMMW-12931, 23 Sep 64, Dispatch from HQ to Mexi, Subj:

Sylvia Duran Handwriting Samples. Says no further need to obtain

samples...File: 200-5-41.

Folder, COS relations with Ambassador Mann Vol I 6 Apr 61-26 Jan 62.

1 Folder,

II Feb 62 - Oct 67..

1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis Vol V Jan 64 - Dec 64.

1 Folder,

VI Jan 65 - Dec 65.

1 Folder,

11

X June 67 - Dec 67.

1 Folder,

11

XI Jan 68 - Nov 68.

1 Folder,

XII Jan 69 - Mar 71.

Box 4: 2 packages of semi-official correspondence, including receipts

• Ned Maxican Foreign secretary mayng be Nei An sport of tenan

OSWALD investigation.

I packet of condolence cards for death Maev Paula Scott (COS

wife who died in 1962 in Mexico).

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Page 2 inventory of Job 73-102.

Box 5: 1 Folder, Mexican newspaper clippings on leftist political

activities, March 1971:

1 Folder, Vouchers, receipts and advances for Scott for period

1959 to September 1961.

I Folder, correspondence with John Baron regarding publications

in Readers Digest and manuscriots 1970-1971.

4 Folders, drafts of writings by Scott.

1 Folder, draft of quotations from various publications.

1 Folder, vouchers, receipts and advances for Scott for period

February 1957 - April 1959.

1 Folder, notes, NIS Survey Mexico, two draft cables, NIE # 80/90-69,

28 March 1969, Economic Trends in Latin America.

1 Folder, Willard C. Curtis, Vol I 1956-Oct 1960.

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