CABLE - FBI DOCUMENTS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY OSWALD.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 01/27/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CITE MEXICO CITY 43699

TO: IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR.

WNINTEL RNVIEN MHSPLASH

REFS: A. DIRECTOR 154131

B. DIKECTOR 154958

C. MEXICO CITY 43602 0236567

DO. MEXICO CITY 43110

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REVIEW OF FBI DOCUMENTS RELATING TU LEE HARVEY

OSWALD TRANSMITTED BY TN-25066 WERE RECEIVED AT STATIÓN

25 JAN AND HAVE BEEN REVIEWED.

CONCUR HUS ASSESSMENT

CONCERNING POTENTIAL DAMAGE WHICH CAN BE DONE TO STATIUN'S

OPERATIONS AND LIAISON ACTIVITIES AS RESULT THEIR REVELATION.

SHOULD DOCUMENTS BE SURFACED MEXICO CITY. BELIEVE WE CAN

ANTICIPATE THAT SEWIOR MEXICAN GOVERNMENT UFFICIALS AID

OUR LIAISON COUNTERPAKIS WILL BE SHOCKEU CAS THEY WERE IN

CASE OF PREVIOUS REVELATIONSI THAT ANY GUVEFUMENT COULD

WILLINGLY REVEAL INFORMATION SO EMBARRASSING AND COUNTER-

PRODUCTIVE TO BILATERAL RELATIONS.

2. IN ADDITION TO THE DOCUMENTS LISTED IN REF BO

THERE ARE OTHERS WHICH COME CLOSE TO CONFIRMING COMMUNIST

ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FBICIA AND

MEXICAN SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFICIALS. HQS WILL

RECALL THAT KIMPACT/I SPECIFICALLY WARNED (REF D) ABOUT

- CO-OPERATION WITH THE MINISTRY UF GOVERNMENT BEING MADE PUBLIC

AND SAID THAT THIS WOULD "CAUSE GRAVE PROBLEMS FUR ALL

CONCERNED." SUM TOTAL THESE DOCUMENTS WILL GO A LONG WAY

TOWARDS CONFIRMING RECENT COMMUNIST ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS THE

VICE-PRESIDENT BY SURFACING BANNER ARTICLE IN PROMIENT LOCAL

NEWSPAPER ABOUT CIA USE OF MEXICAN OFFICIALS TU SPY ON

MEXICO (REF C).

SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS WHICH HILL SUPPORT THE

COMMUNIST ALLEGATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

A. BLIND MEMO BY FBI DATED MANCH 16. 1964 CAPIIONED.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD." FIRST PARAGKAPH:

"A CONFIDENTIAL

SOURCE ABROAU WHO IS THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR WITH THE WORKINGS

OF THE MEXICAN MINISTRY OF GOBERNACION INTERIOR HAS

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FURNISHED THE FOLLONING INFORMATION CUNCERNING THE PROCEUURES

UTILIZED BY THE MEXICAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE IN CONNECTION

WITH THE ENTRY AND DEPARTURE OF NON-MEXICAN CITIZENS INTO

AND DUT UF MEXICO. "

URGENT CLASSIFIED TELEGRAM TO DIR/FBI FRUM

LEGAT MEXICO CITY, NO. 360, DATED 2-7-64. CONTAINS STATEMENT:

*LIC. LUIS ECHEVERRIA. ACTING MINISTER OF GOBERNACION. WILL

BE NOTIFIED RE PUSSIBLE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF KOJAS. HIS

IDENTITY AND ALLEGATIONS MADE BY KOJAS RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIWV

AND ECHEVERRIA'S CUOPERATIUN REQUESTEU TO CONDUCT SAID

EXAMINATION."

MEMO TO DIRECTOR, FBI FROM LEGATO MEXICO. DATED

APRIL 28, 1964 REVIEKS INVESTIGATIUNS CARRIED OUT BY FBI

AGENTS IN MEXICO CITY. UNDER "SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA" ON PAGE

TWO APPEARS THE FOLLOWING REPORT:

"HANDLED LIAISON WITH THE

MEXICAN MINISTRY OF GOVERNMENT• RECEIVING COPIES OF DOCUMENTS

AND DATA FROM LICENCIADO (ATTORNEY) LUIS ECHEVERRIA. ACTING

MINISTER, AND THE SUB-DIKECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT UF IMMIGKATIUN.

LICENCIADO RAFAEL HERNANDEZ OCHOA. ALSO HANDLED LIAISON WITH

THE MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE AND ARRANGED FOR DELIVERY

OF A CUPY OF THE SIGNED STATEMENT OF SILVIA TIRADO DE DURAN

BY CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERREZ BARRIOS."

DO BLIND FBI MEMO DATED MAY SO 1964 AND CAPTIONED

"LEE HARVEY USHALD" SAYS ON PAGE 9:

"ON MARCH 24. 1904.

CAPTAIN FERNANDO GUTIERKEZ BARRIOS. SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE

MEXICAN FEDERAL SECURITY POLICE (DFS), ADVISED THE THIRD

CONFIDENTIAL SOUKCE ABROAD THAT HIS AGENCY HAD CONDUCTED

NO INVESTIGATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRAVEL IN MEXICO

OF LEE HARVEY OSHALU AND DID NOT HAVE IN ITS POSSESSIUN ANY

PASSENGER LISTS FROM ANY BUS LINES."

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OTHER DOCUMENTS OFFICIAL RECOGNIZE THAT CIA IS

ACTIVE IN MEXICO CITY. THAT CIA MAINTAINS A STATION IN

MEXICO CITY• HAS JURISDICTION OVER AND MONITORS THE

ACTIVITIES OF THE CUBAN AND SUVIET EMBASSIES, AND CUNDUCTS

"SENSITIVE COVEKAGE" OF THESE INSTALLATIONS (PHOTOGRAPH)*

PRIOR ALLEGATIONS OF CLANDESTINE ACTIVITIES OF THE FBI IN

MEXICO ARE ALSO CONFIRMED BY STATEMENTS SUCH AS "DECLASSIFICATION

(OF THE DOCUMENT) WOULD DAMAGE OUR OPERATIONS IN MEXICO

TwO UF THE

DOCUMENTS GO SU FAR AS TO IDENTIFY THAT THE FBI HAD A

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT (AN ACCOUNTANT) IN THE CUBANA AIRLINES

OFFICE IN MEXICO CITY. ANOTHER MEMO DATED APRIL 1. 1964

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ACKNOWLEUGES THAT CIA HAD AN OPS INTEREST AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER

IN THREE ANTI-CASTRO GROUPS, THE DRE, JURE. AND 30TH UF

NOVEMBER.

HOS STATED IN REF & THAT IT HAD MADE RECOMMENDATIUNS

TO THE FHI/FUIA FOR FURTHER DELETIONS IN. AND DENIAL OF.

CERTAIN DOCUMENTS.

WE ARE ESPECIALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FOUR

DOCUMENTS LISTED IN PARAGRAPH ONE ABUVE. PLS ADVISE URGENTLY WHAT

ACTION NAS TAKEN BY THE FBI CUNCEKNING THESE SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS.

PRESUME

• THAT ALL DOCUMENTS NON MADE PUBLIC ANU THUS TOO LATE

TO DENY THEIR RELEASE.

STATIUN PLANNING PROVIDE COPES OF ALL THE

DOCUMENTS 10 KDIMPACTA! IN ORDER TO ALERT MIM WHAT TYPE OF

PUBLICITY MAY BE FORTHCOMING.

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