MEMO RE SUMMARY OF REVELEVANT INFO ON OSWALD HELD BY CIA AS OF 24 NOVEMBER 1963
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 11/24/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. Our first Information on OSWALD came from a technical

operation In Mexico City and was cabled in on 9 October 1963. It

revealed that on i October 1963 Lee OSWALD had been In touch there

with Soviet Consul Valery KOSTIKOV about a telegram which the

Soviet Embassy was supposed to send on him to the Soviet Embassy In

Washington. The data showed that OSWALD had also been at the Soviet

Embassy on 28 September. Traces showed OSWALD was & former U. S.

defector to the USSR and on 10 October CIA Headquarters notified the

FBI, State and the Navy (OSWALD had been a Marine). Our Mexico Station

was told to pass its information on OSWALD to the Mexico City offices

of the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Embassy.

Since our Agency 1s not supposed to investigate U.S. citizens abroad

without special request, we did nothing further on the case.

2. After the assassination of President Kennedy on 22 November,

Mexico Station, which Immediately recalled its earlier report on OSWALD

and cabled us about It, began researching all Its files and records for

reports which might relate to him.. It turned up pictures'

of a man

• believed to be OSWALD entering the Soviet and Cuban Embassies on

various days in October, Including 1 October, but when some of these

pictures were sent to the FBI In Dallas they proved to be someone other

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than OSWALD. Mexico Station has, to date, found no pictures of

OSWALD entering the Soviet or Cuban Embassy.

3. The search did reveal more data from technical operations,

however. This Information, which comes in In great masses, bad not

been previously associated with OSWALD because his name is not

actually mentioned in It, but the subject matter shows it 1s about

him, and our expert monitor says the voice is identical with the

voice of I October known to be OSWALD's.

4. This further technical Information covers & round robin of

telephone calls and visits which OSWALD made to the Soviet and Cuban

Embassies In Mexico City between 27 September and 3 October 1963.

This has been supplemented by reports on his travel in and out of Mexico

obtained by the U. S. Consulate in the border town of Nuevo Iaredo from

Mexican Immigration Service records.

5. In brief, all this information shows that Lee Harvey. OSWALD

entered Mexico (apparently by car) at Nuevo Laredo on 26 September

1963, claiming he was a photographer, living in New Orleans and bound

for Mexico CIty. On 27 September he was in Mexico City phoning the

Soviet Embassy to ask for a visa so be could go to odessa, UssR. On

28 September, he was at the Cuban Embassy, and Silvia DURAN, & Mexican

Employee of the Cuban imbassy, telephoned the soviet imbassy about his

problem. It seems that OSWALD (whose name is not mentioned) wanted a

Cuban transit visa so he could go to Cuba and wait there for a Soviet

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visa which would permit him and his wife to go on to the soviet

Union. Silvia DURAN asked assurance that the Russians would grant

him the visa. A while later a Soviet official calls Silvia DURAN

back and explains that the visa applicant had been dealing with

the Soviet Consulate in Washington about the same matter and that

they could not be sure that he would ever get the Soviet visa.

The Soviet official added that the applicant had a letter showing

he belonged to an organization in favor of Cuba. Silvia DURAN and

the Soviet official agree to table the matter.

6. On 28 September 1963, OSWALD again visits the Cuban Embassy

and talks to SIlvia DURAN about the same matter, and she phones the

Soviet Embassy. OSWALD also talks to a Soviet official on her phone

and says he will come to the Soviet Embassy and give him what 1s

apparently & lorwarding address where he can be reached. There 1s

some hint this address may be in Cuba.

7. On 1 October, OSWALD has his phone conversation with Soviet

Consul KOSTIKOV about his visa, and on the same day, OSWALD phones

the Soviet Military Attache about the same matter. The Military Attache

gives him the number of the Consul. Finally, on 3 October, OSWALD

phoned the MilItary Attache again and tried to talk about a visa, but

the Military Attache again referred him to the Consul and give him

the right phone number.

8. That same day, 3 October 1963, OSWALD drove back Into the

United States at the Nuevo Laredo-laredo, Texas crossing point. He

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had travelled on a Mexican Tourist Card In lieu of passport.

9. On 23 November 1963, Mexican authorities, who get the same

technical Information which we do and who had noticed the name of

Lee OSWALD In It, arrested SIlvia DURAN and her husband and interrogated

them. She confirmed the information given above, saying that Lee

OSWALD had professed to be a Commnist and an admirer of Castro. She

and her husband are being held incommnicado and their arrest will

not be made known, for the time being.

10. Observation of the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico

and of their principal intelligence officers, including KOSTIKOV,

since the assassination of President Keanedy, by both technical and

physical surveillance, shows nothing unusual.

11. Mexican President Lopez Mateos 1s aware of this case ani

of the technical information Involved.

He will doubtless support any

further police action which is necessary.

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