CABLE RE FOIA RELEASE OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD DOCUMENTS
Originator: CIA
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 12/08/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COMMO-7, CWO-2, EPS/EG-2, IP/DMS. LSN/ID.

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DIRECTOR 135665

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080103Z DIRECTOR 135665

TO: IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY.

WNINTEL RNVIEW MHSPLASH

REF: DIRECTOR 135229

1.

ON 7 DECEMBER THREE MEXICO DESK OFFICERS REVIEWED 38

FBI FOLDERS ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD WHICH WERE

AMONG DOCUMENTS RELEASEDON FOIA THAT

SAME DAY.

COPIES OF ALL SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTS BEARING ON MEXICO

WERE MADE AND WILL BE POUCHED TO STATION ASAP. IN GENERAL VAST

MAJORITY OF DOCUMENTS UNCONTROVERSIAL, AND DEAL WITH INVESTIGATION

OF OSWALD'S TRIP TO MEXICO, ALL OF WHICH IS ALREADY IN PUBLIC DOMAIN,

PRINCIPALLY IN WARREN COMMISSION REPORT.

2.

MOST POTENTIALLY DAMAGING DOCUMENT FOUND TO DATE IS

FOLLOWING 27 NOV 1963 MEMORANDUM FROM A.H. BELMONT TO UNE MR. TOLSON:

"ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SULLIVAN CALLED TO ADVISE THAT CIA HAS INFORMED

US THAT MEXICAN AUTHURITIES HAVE ARRESTED SYLVIA DURAN, JUST AS SHE

I HAVE RESTED

WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR CUBA. CIA WANTED TO KNOW IF WE OBJECTED TO

MEXICAN AUTHORITIES INTERROGATING DURAN VIGOROUSLY AND EXHAUSTIVELY.

WE AGREED TO THIS INTERROGATION. THEY WILL GIVE US THE RESULTS OF

THE INTERROGATION PROMPTLY.

SYLVIA DURAN IS THE MEXICAN NATIONAL

WHO WORKED IN THE CUBAN CONSULATE WHO REPORTED THAT OSWALD HAD BEEN

IN THE CONSULATE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ON OCTOBER 1, 1963.

TO SEEK ASSISTANCE IN GETTING A VISA FOR RUSSIA. "

3.

DESK UFFICERS PLAN TO COMPLÈTE REVIEW OF "OSWALD" FOLDERS

& DECEMBER.

EST ENG A ENTED GO IN MERCO CRY 055% .

4. UNO MAS UNO" JOURNALIST RAYMUNDO RUA (SIC) PALACIOS,

WAS ALSO IN FBI READING ROOM 7 DECEMBER AND CHECKED OUT FIVE FOLDERS

ON THE OSWALD CASE.

5. FILE: 200-120-150. EZ. IMPDET.>

ORIG: LAIMGSBIM (T. CHAMBERLIN X1034): COORD: PCS/LSN (KUHN) ,

DE/LAIN (DESMOND: AUTH: C/LA/MGSB (HAWKINS); REL: CALA (WARREN);

CL BY: 029163.

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