CONTACT OF LEE OSWALD WITH A MEMBER OF SOVIET KGB ASSASSINATION DEPARTMENT
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PLANS
To: ACTING CHIEF, SR DIVISION
Document date: 11/23/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM : ACTING CHIEF, SR DIVISION

TO : ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR,

: CONTACT OF LEE OSWALD WITH

ASSASSINATION DEPARIMENT

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A MEMBER OF SOVIET KGB

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35,4 3-5958

23 November 1963

£X-25550

PINORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director, Plans

FROM:

SUBJECT:

O Contact of lee

1. According to an Intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWAID

was at the Soviet Embassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the

consul, Valerly Vladimirovich KOSTIKOY. This was learned when OSWALD called

the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, Identifying himself by name and speaking

broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the phone

whether there was "anything new concerning the telegram to Washington."

The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but

nothing had as yet been received. (MEXT 6453, 9 October 1953)

The FBI llaison

officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau has reason to

believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.s. passport or

visa natter Lperhaps the new passport mentioned in the press articles.

2.

KOSTKOV de an entaned KGB afficer. He was a case officer in an

operation Waich is evidently sponsored by the KCB'E 13th Department (responsible

for sabotage and assasstratIon) - rais operation, which is controlled by the

FBI under the cryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of

Orlahona who was recruited in Eurage, and met this year with KÖStIXOV in Mexico

City and shortly thereafterwith a kn

in New York. The instructions gave

objectives for sabotage addre

Lumina mathe two officers, (pinpointing

left no dout that both of then vere vor in lot the same ke carponent, the

danwir invalvement in the case,

FROHIBITED

3.

have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret

Soviet intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, which

show that very impartant agents can be met in official installations using as

cover for their presence there some sort of open business:

Vice Admiral

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I.. BEKRINEY, in a top secret lecture to a Soviet Military Intelligence course

at Military-Diplomatic Academy, 1960, sald,

"Case officers who uselas

such non-clandestine meetings within a legal residency should be

restricted to a minimum both as to place and time. Meetings of

this type should be carried out only in exceptional cases with

tested and rellable agents in order to avaid provocation by the

local counterintelligence service against the Soviet installation

being used as corer.

Such meetings are held as a rule in the work

offices of the case officer or of the agent during working hours.

It is necessary that such meetings be conducted naturally, that

they do not attract the attention of outsiders, and that the receipt

and transmittal of intelligence matters, properly camouflaged, be

carried out discreetly. In setting up such meetings, measures gainst

tapping must be taken. One must bear in mind that a meeting with

persons outside official premises and during non-working hours usually

signifies a relationship between the two parties that is above and

beyond official mattersDEPRODICTION

Also,

such contact in official

used by the azents ows

carelessness.

Again Admiral BEKRaNEV

"Some agents, because of

violation of the rules of security througa pecullar personal

rashness, approached our case orricers at places not stipulated

as operational meeting sites,

his Soviet Installation" and discussed personal contact arrangements,

while others still showed up personally at the Soviet Installation In

order to contact the case officer.

4. I called the above connections to the attention of Mr. Pappich by.

phone to his FBI office at 1030 hours on 23 November.

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