FROM A REVIEW OF THE AGENCY'S FILE ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD, IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT THE AGENCY AND ITS FIELD STATIONS, PARTICULARLY IN MEXICO CITY AND MIAIMI, WERE NOT UNMINDFUL OF THE POSSIBLITY THAT OSWALD DID NOT ACT ALONE.
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FROM A REVIEW OF THE AGENCY'S FILE ON LEE

OSWALD, IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT THE AGENCY AND ITS

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MIAIMI, WERE NOT UNMINDFUL OF THE POSSIBLITY THAT

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From a review of the Agency's file on Lee Harvey, OSWALD,

it becomes apparent that the Agency and its field stations, parti-

cularly in Mexico City and Miaimi, were not unmindful of the possi

bility that OSWALD did not act alone!

During the first few weeks

after the assassination, Headquarters, upon at least three occa-

Sions, exhorted the Mexico City Station to continue "all your

coverage of the Cuban and Soviet installations

On -28 Novem

ber 1963, the Chief, WH/3, told the Mexico City Station that there

should be no let down in your efforts to follow all/leads and in-

vestigate all facts which bear on this case. We have by no means

excluded the possibility that other as yet unknown persons may have

been involved or even that other powers may have playéd a role."

(Emphasis added:) (DIR 85655, 28 November 1963] On 30 November,

Headquarters asked the Mexico. City Station to follow all leads and

"The question of whether OSWALD acted solely on his own has

still not been finally resolved. (Emphasis added.) DIR 86064

30 November: 1963]

And on the 12th of December 1963, Chief, WH/3÷

again asked the Mexico City Station to continue to watch for

Soviet and Cuban reaction to investigation of assassination, evi-

dence of their complicity, signs they putting out propaganda about

caser"

(Emphasis added.) "FYI only, Soviet intelligence in India

had letters sent to

(us.) leaders demanding full investigation

of case.

FDIR 88680, 12 December 19631/

The Mexico City Station, however, had already initiated a

thorough review of its holdings in an attempt ascertain what infor-

mation was available on Lee Harvey OSWALD, his presence and his

activities in Mexico City. This review Erald p the feet that.

Silvia DURAN, a Mexican national employed by the Cuban Consulate,

had dealt with OSWALD during his known visits to the Consulate on

27 and 28 September. In response to a suggestion from the Station;

the Ministry of Gobernacion arrested Silvia DURAN and her husband,

Horacio, on 23 November 1963. (MEXI-7037 (IN

), 23 November

1963]

bater the same day,

an official of the Ministry informed

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the Station that Silvia DURAN was completely cooperative and had

given a written statement attesting to two visits by OSWALD to the

Consulate IMEXI-7046 (IN 5, 23 November 1963) Although her

testimony was taken and presented, solely, by the Mexican Govern

ment authorities,

Silvia DURAN,was the only live witness on record

regarding OSWALD'S activities in Mexico City, It is from her state

ments that it was learned that OSWALD became engaged in a personal

altercation on 27 September 1963 with Eusebio AZCUE, the Cuban- Con-

sul and a member of the Cuban intelligence unit in Mexico City. He

she outival of his

Left Mexico on 19 November 1963 after beige reples by Alfredo

MIRABEL Diaz

There is no evidence in the OswALD file that Silvia DURAN

was subjected to a systematic elicitative interrogation that would

have related her dealings with OSWALD, known or confirmed by inter

cept, with the data held on the Cuban DGI (Direccion General de In-

telligercia), its personalities and methods, in Mexico City. Was it

normal for a case like OSWALD's, considering the fuss he allegedly

made with AZCUE, for the applications to be handled solely by a 1o-

cal employee and a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken

by the doI chief? whatever the answer to these questions, they were

not asked at the time.

And there remains the more fundamental ques

tion accepting the DURAN story as it stands, could it have hap-

pended without the knowledge and participation of DGI personnel in

the Consulate? This seems unlikely especially because Manuel En=

genio VEGA Perez* later cited by a Cuban Del defector as having

stated hé was aware OSWALD had made several visits to the Cuban

Consulate. It is-clear CASTRO's overseas intelligence and security

service could have more in its files than was surfaced in the

DURAN statements:

[CI Staff Review, dated 23 May 1975, pp. 16-19:1

-Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez,

alias Marcos, -and his DGI assistant,

Rogelis RODRIGUEZ Lopez, were positively identified in February 1964

by two

independent

sources as engagedrin the active development and

facilitation of the training of Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of

assassinating General Annstasio SOMOZA.

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As of September 1964, Silvia DURAN gave up her Cuban

Embassy job.

In the spring of 1967, Silvia DURAN_ was reported by

a reliable and sensitive source to have cut alf relations with

Cubans. Hor account, in 1967, of how she had been taken into

custody and had been interrogated after the

assassination re-

peated what was already known. She added, under circumstances

that did not permit, the source to challenge or elicit corrodorative

detail, that she had gone out with OSWALD during his stay in Mexico

City and claimed she had sexual relations with him, lIbid, pp.

20.1

Almost immediately after the President's assassination,

Agency field stations began receiving information from various

sources of undetermined reliability relating to the alleged assas

ssin of President Kennedy:

As the Warren Commission reported on pages 305 and 307

of its report, Literally dozens of allegations of a conspiratorial

contact between OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been

investigated

The authors of the Report go on to state

that

"Among the claims made were allegations that l

OSWALD had made a previous trip

to Mexico

City in early September to receive money

and orders for the assassination l567], that

he had flown

to a secret airfield

some-

where-in or near the Yucatan Peninsula

156819

that he might have_made.contacts.in

Mexico City with a communist from the United

States shortly before the assassination I569],

and that OSWALD assassinated the, President at

the direction of a particular Cuban who met

with him in the United States and paid him

$7,000 15701. A letter received from some

one in Cuba alleging the writer had attended

a meeting where the assassination had been

discussed as part of a plan which would soon

include the death of other non-communist

leaders in the Americas-[5711

The charge

was made in a Cuban expatriate

publication

that in a speech he delivered 5 days after

the assassination, while he was under the

influence of liquor, Fidel Castro made a

slip of the tongue and said, "The first

time OSWALD was in Cuba"'

; thereby giving

away the fact that OSWALD had made one or

more surreptitious trips to that country

[572]

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"Some stories linked the assassination

to anti-Castro groups who allegedly were

engaged in obtaining Illicit firearms in

the United-States, one such claim being

that these groups killed the President as

part of a bargain with some illicit orga-

nizations who-would then, supply them with

firearms

as payment: [573].

Other rumors

placed OSWALD

in Miami, Fla., at various

allegedly in pro-Cuban activities

The assassination was

claimed. to have been carried out by Chi-

nese Communists operating

jointly with the

Cubans: [5751* OSWALD was also alleged to

have met with the Cuban Ambassador.

Mexico City restaurant and to have driven

off in-the Ambassador's car for a private

talk. [5761 Castro himself, it was alle-

ged, 2 days after the assassination called

for the files relating to Oswald's dealings

with-two.members. of. the cuban. diplomatic

mission: in the Soviet Union: the inference

and has tant the a sline harosevered

which continued through OSWALD's

Without exception, the rumors

and allegations off a conspiratorial con-

tact were shown to be without any factual

basis, in some cases the product of mis

taken identification.

The Warren Report makes reference (bracketed numbers in

the above text) to Commission Exhibits (see Attachment I for list

Of Commission Exhibits) most of which had been furnished by the

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Only the first reference = the

ALVARADO interrogation was furnished by the Agency. The Agency

did, however, provide assistance and information to the FBI in the

latter's investigation of three of the allegations (see asterisked

Exhibits) :

The results ot the Agency's investigation of other

rumors and allegations relating to OSWALD and the possible involve-

ment of the Cubans and Soviets in the assassination, were dissemina

ted to the FBI, primarily, and to the Warren Commission (see attach=

ment Il for a lost of disseminations to the FBI, and attachment III

for a list of memoranda to the Warren Commission) -

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Among these cases, which consumed hundreds of man-hours

in Headquarters and abroad and similarly the FBI in the United

States and Mexico City was the Nicaraguan, Gilberto ALVARADO,

who contacted the United States Embassy in Mexico City on 25 Novem-

ber 1963.

The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the Warren

Commission, in its report, under- the cryptograph "D as being

illustrative of the attention given to the most serious allegà

tions

On 25 November 1963, a young Nicaraguan, Gilberto Nolasco

ALVARADO Ugarte

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telephoned the United States Embassy in Mexico City. Later that

day he met with the Embassy security officer and a Station officer.

at which time he claimed he had been in the Cuban Consulate in

Mexico City on 18 September 1963. While in the Consulate he saw a

man whom he later recognized as Lee Harvey OSWALD receive, $6,500

In cash to kill an important person in the United States.

AL. VARADO described the circumstances as follows: While

standing by a bathroom door about noon he saw a group of three

persons conversing on a patio a few feet away. One was a tall,

thin Negro with reddish hair, obviously dyed, who spoke rapidly in

-both Spanish and English. He had prominent cheek bones and a

noticeable scar on the lower right side of his chin. The second

was a white person whom ALVARADO had seen previously in a waiting

room carrying a Canadian passport.

The white person had green

eyes, blondish hair, with a pompadour hairdo, and dark eyeglasses

The third person allegedly was Lee Harvey OSWALD. ALVARADO was

convinced of this from published photographs of OSWALD following

the assassination. OSWALD was wearing a black sport coat, but-

toned-up white shirt with short collar

tabs, no tie, dark gray

pants, and clear eyeglasses. He had a green passport in his pocket

wore, a wrist watch with a yellow band, and appeared to have a pis-

to1 in a shoulder hoister. A tall Cuban joined the group momen-

tarily and passed American currency to the Negro. The Ngro then

allegedly said to OSWALD in English, "I want to kill the man.

OSWALD replied, You're not man enough, I can do-it."- The Negro

then said in Spanish, "I can't go with you. I have a lot to do:"

OSWALD replied, "The people are waiting for me back there. The

Negro then gave OSWALD $6,500 in large denomination U.S. bills,

saying, "This isn't much.&

After hearing this conversation, ALVA-

rado said that he telephoned the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City:

several times-on 20 September before the assassination innan at-

tempt to report his belief that someone important in the United

States was to be killed, but was finally told by someone at the

Embassy to stop wasting his time.

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ALVARADO was known to this Agency as a former informant

of Nicaraguan security service. His reliability was considered

questionable by American authorities although he had not been

wholly discredited. ALVARADO claimed he was in Mexico City working

against the Cuban communists for his service. The service, how-

ever, has denied that he was acting on its behalf. While investiga

tion in the United States showed that OSWALD could not possibly hav

have been' in Mexico City on 18 September Che was knwon to have been

in New Orleans on both 17 and 19 September), intensive interroga*

tion failed. to shake ALVARADO's story

On 28 November 1963, the Mexican police, interviewed him.

At first ALVARADO persisted in his story but on 30. November he ad-

mitted in a signed statement that his whole account about OSWALD

was false. H

He admitted he had not seen Lee OSWALD at all and that

he had not seen anybody paid money in the Cuban Embassy. He also

admitted he had not tried repeatedly to phone a warning to the U.s.

Embassy in Mexico City on 20 September as he had previously claimed

Instead he had first contacted the U. S. Embassy after the assassi-

nation. ALVARADO said that his motive in telling this false story

was to help get himself admitted into the United States so that he

could participate in action against Fidel CASTRO. He said that he

hated CASTRO and thought that his story about OSWALD, if believed,

would help cause the United States to take action against CASTRO.

Following the above interrogation, ALVARADO retracted, the

confession he had made to the Mexican authorities asserting that it

had been extorted from him under pressure. He was then questioned

by u,s, authorities using a polygraph machine.

ALVARADO volunta

rily consented to the use of this equipment. During the quesioning

it was pointed out to him that he was not being truthful, according

to the polygraph, in identifying photographs of OSWAlD as the per

son he saw in the Cuban Consulate.

He replied that he had full

faith in the polygraph, that he would not attempt to refute the re-

sults, and that he "must have been mistaken". In addition, he

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he changed his story regarding the day he visited the Cuban Consu-

late, finally deciding it took place on Tuesday, 17 September.

was concluded from the results of the polygraph test that ALVARADO

had fabricated his story from whole cloth

(Memorandu to J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel, dated 4 June 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy, Director for Plans.1

(Comment

Some Idea of the time and effort expended by the Agency

in breaking ALVARADO'S story may be gained from a review of the

Chronological-Summary of the Gilberto ALVARADO interrogation under

attachment IV.)

Although the Warren Report had used the ALVARADO case to

demonstrate the type of allegation the Agency had had to contend

with, the Schweiker Report took the Agency to task for not having

become more suspicious of possible Cuban involvement in the assassi

nation:

To some extent? the authors of the Schweiker Report are

right. There were other rumors and allegations indicating that

OSWALD may not have acted entirely on his own, however, none of

there rumors and allegations stood up under intensive investigation

Moreover, each rumor or allegation was treated as a separate and

unrelated case - the only common denominator being OSWALD. There

appears to have been no suspicion on the part of the Agency that

these rumors and allegations might have been part of a larger decep-

tion plan orchestrated by a foreign counterintelligence service

only a thorough investigation of all available information including

overt comments by responsible communist officials could have allayed

these suspicions or generated additional requirements to be levied

on Agency assets world wide. Obviously such an investigation would

have required an enormous quantity of patience, time, and personnel:

None of these prerequisites was available, especially in light of

the tremendous political pressures under which the Agency, the FBI,

the Warren Commission, and others were working precluded the initia

tion of such an investigation.

It was not until eleven years later that the Agency was

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asked to prepare a review of allegations of Cuban involvement in

the John F. Kennedy assassination. On 15 April 1975, David W.

BELIN, Executive Director of the Rockefeller Commission, addressed

a letter to the Agency in which he stated

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"As you know, there have been allegations.

thát thé CIA was involved in a plan to.

assassinate Fidel Castro. For the purposes

of this lettér, we will

assume that these

allegations are correct,.

and based. upon

this assumption I would like to know

the

answers to,the following questions:

"I,

Did anyone with the CIA tell any

member of the Warren Commission or any

lawyer serving

on the Warren Commission

staff that such plans had been underway?

If the answer is yes,

we would like to

know what person or persons with the

Agency delivered said information, to

whom it was delivered, when it was de

livered, what specifically was told ord

said, what documents there are to support

the answers to the foregoing questions,

and what response, if any, was received

from theWarren Commission.

Commission was not told about this, why

was it not told and who made the deci

sion not to deliver

such information

to the Warren Commission?:

"2.

There is evidence that Castro, prior

to November 22, 1963, knew about the exis-

tence: of such plans and the possible in-

volvement of the U.S. -Government. Did

the ClAyat any time prior to the comple

tion of the Warren Commission investigation

have any documents or other information in-

dicating that-Gastro may have known about

such plans?

If the answer is yes, would

you please furnish us with copies of all

such documents and details of any such in-

formation.

Several months prior to the assassina

tion of President Kennedy there is evidence

of a public speech by Castro that was re

ported by the Associated Press whereby

Castro alluded

to possible assassination

attempts on his life and possiblé retalia

tion. -Would you please advise us if there

is any evidence that this Associated Press

report may have appeared in any newspapers

the United States

,including specifically

any newspapers in Dallas or New Orleans.

Would you also advise us of. you have

other information of public statements of

any Cuban leader prior to November 22, 1963

indicating any awareness of possible assassi

nation plots on the lives of Cuban leaders:

14. E

Would you please advise us if there is

any information in CIA records to indicate

that at any time prior

to November 22, 1963

any foreign government of any

foreign group

was considering a possible assassination of

any

American leader. If so, would you please

advise us of all details

who in the United Star rand also advise us

Government outside

the CIA was advised of these plans or possi

bilities.

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"5.

Prior to his death Lyndon. Johnson sup-

posedly stated that he believed that although

there was no doubt that Oswald killed Kennedy

and Tippitt, nevertheless Oswald might have

been a part of a conspiracy in retaliation

to

possible United States assassination attempts

in Cuba. Would you please advise us of any.

information in Agency files showing whether

or not there

was any Communication to President

Johnson of any possible plans involving the

attempted. assassinations of

any Cuban leader

and is the answer is yes, also give us all de-

tails involving this matter.

Fletter to Mr. E. Henry KNOCHE, Assistant to the Director, Central

Intelligence Agencys dated 15 April 1975, from David We BELIN,

Executive Director, Commission on CIA Activities within the United

States .]

In its response to the above letter, the Agency noted

that the results of its review add nuance, not evidence, to what

the Warren Commission and its staff had laid before them in 1964

in this subject"

AS to CASTRO/s remarks during an informal interview by

the Associated Press correspondent, Daniel HARKER, the Agency com-

mented that "There can be no question from the facts surrounding the

CASTRO appearance, which had not been expected, and his agreement

to the interview, that this event represented a more-than-ordinary

attempt to get a message on the record in the United States "'(Em-

phasis added.) The Agency commented further that "There is no evi

dence in the files on the KENNEDY assassination that this CASTRO

interview was considered in following up leads or in dealings with

the Warren Commission and its staff although Mexico Station

speci

fically directed Headquarters attention to the AP story very shortly

after the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears to

have been forgotten in the contemporary political consideration of

relations with CASTRO's Cuba. There is no evidence in Agency re-

cords, either,

that the Warren Commission staff itself pursued the

implication of the CASTRO interview in dealing with the conspiracy

hypothesis There is no evidence in the files that anything along

these lines vas stated by any other Cuban leader before the assassi-

nation."'

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the purpose

According to the author of the review,was to reconsider

Lee Harvey OSWALD's activity on the assumption that as an avid news

paper reader - which is known from testimony of Marina OSWALD and

others he read the CASTRO warning and threat which appeared New

Orleans principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, on Monday,

9 September 1963.

The results of the review, admittedly he

fusing 20-20 hindsight, may be set out in summary:

There'is no increment of credible

evidence, applying this phrase strictly,

of Soviet and/or Cuban political, intelli-

gence or security service involvement in

the assassination to what was developed a

considered by the Warren. Commission

it's staff.

The Commission's finding that

Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of Presi-

dent KENNEDY and Officer TIPPITT and did

them in alone and-of his own determination

"b.

"Credible

evidence' that would

upset or significantly modify this judge

ment did (and does) not exist in Washing

ton.

But such evidence could exist in

Moscow and/or Havana, whose

voluntary in-

puts to the Warren Commission were minimal

in quantity and quality,

designed to cover

up any admissions of knowledge of, or con-

nection with, OSWALD which might be related

directly or indirectly with the assassina-

tion.:

Therefore, the belief that there

was Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB and/or DGI)

connection with OSWALD will persist and-

grow until there has been a full disclosure

by these governments

of all elements of

OSWALD's handling and stay and in the Soviet

Union and his contacts in Mexico City., The

Warren Commission report

should have left a

wider window!

for this contingency. That,

indeed, was the opinion at the working level;

particularly in the. counterintelligence com

ponent in the CIA in 1964.

As was indicated

by Mr. HELMS in his testimony before the

Warren Commission, CIA would continue to

regard this

aspect of the OSWALD Case as

still open.

In the absence of additional or new

elements-of'crediblé evidence?/-there are

nuances' in the record that emerge as noté-

in the light of other conclusions

These are reviewed and summarized below, item

by item*

CASTRO's warning and threat of 7 Septem-

ber 1963-if OSWALD did indeed read it in

New Orleans

- must be considered of great

significance in the light of the pathologi

-cal evolution of OSWALD's passive/ aggressive

makeup after his attempt to kill General

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WALKER early in April 1963-and hís:

identification with Fidel CASTRO and the

Cuban Revolution which is directly trace

able as far back as his Marine Corps

service in El Toro, California.

CASTRO's

warning and threat, given. to AP correspon-

dent HARKER, irrespective of whether there

was any formal mandate, or even security

service contact with OSWALD by the Cubans

or the Russians was an act of singular

irresponsibility and under no-circumstances

was excusable as retorsion for what the.

Cuban emigres were doing during the summer

of 1963:".

[Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD File Regarding

Allegations of CASTRO Cuban Involvement in the John F. KENNEDY*

Assassination. Cover Memorandum to DC/OPS dated 23 May 1975a1

[These items are to be found on pages 7 27 of the review,

a complete copy of which is attached.? See attachment v.]

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FOOTNOTES TO EXCERPT FROM

WARREN COMMISSION REPORT,

PAGES 3.05 and 307.

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ATTACHMENT

Footnote no.: 567

*This is the case of Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO Ugarte (qv)

Footnote: no. 568

* Commission Exhibit no. 2949

FBI Report, dated 13 January 1964; Subject: Lee

Harvey OSWALD!

Synopsis An undated letter contained in an envelope

postmarked

31 December 1963, at Guadalajara, Jalisco,

Mexico, received by Attorney General Robert E: KENNEDY:

Letter was signed by lario ROJAS Villaneuva.

Footnote no. 569

Commission Exhibit no. 2948

FBI Report, dated 23 January 1964; Subject:

Lee

Harvey OSWALD.

Synopsis:

Remarks by Homobono ALCARZ Aragon regarding

OSWALD.

Footnote no. 570

Commission Exhibit no. 2676

Inaccurate réference

Footnote no. 571

Commission Exhibit no. 2950

FBI Agent Report from Miami, Florida, dated 7 March

1964, Title: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Synopsis: Letter dated 1/31/64 from a writer in Havana,

Cuba, stated the assassination of President KENNEDY was,

committed by a Mexican named "DUGLAS",

and indicated

that. OSWALD and Jack RUBY knew nothing about it. This

letter was directed to Dr. Luis CONTE Aguero, Miami, Fla.

who has a nightly radio program beamed to Cuba.

Dr.

CONTE stated the author of the letter performs mainte

nance for Cuban ships and has previously furnished

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information regarded as valuable by Dr. CONTE.

Footnote. no. 572

Commission Exhibit no 2952

Letter to J. Lee RANKIN, dated 26 May 1964, from J.

Edgar HOOVER, in which the latter makes reference to

RANKIN's letter of 23 April 1964, "wherein you requested

that certain investigation be conducted based upon

testimony furnished to your Commission by Mr. Carlos

BRINGUIER-

"Item three of your referenced letter concerns an

alleged l lapsus linguae' Committed by Castro in a speech

given at the University of Havana on November 27, 1963,

at which time Castro allegedly indicated OSWALD had been

in Cuba:

Commission Exhibit no: 2953

Enclosure to above letter:

a memorandum dated 15 May

1964, setting forth the results of an interview with

Herminio PORTEDL-VILTA, writer of the above-mentioned

allegation.

Commission Exhibit no. 2954

• Copy of a translation of Castro's speech of 27 November

1963.? "A review of this speech fails to indicate any

slip of the tongue, as alleged

It is noted, however,

that page 33, last paragraph, of the enclosed Miami re-

port relating to CASTRO's speech contains a statement

wherein CASTRO refers to OSWALD's visit to the ' Cuban

Embassy in Mexico City following which he corrected

himself indicating he means the 'Cuban Consulate'

This

could possibly be the basis for the slip of the tongue

referred to by Herminio PORTELL-VILA."

[See Commission

Exhibit no. 2952.]

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Commission Exhibit no. 2955, p. 5

FBI Report, dated ís May 1964, Subject: Lee Harvey

OSWALD.

"This is the part of the article

to

which PORTELL-VILA was referring above,

the source of which is

the message from

his unknown source in Cuba.

"It is also indicated in the same

translation of his article, that he fur-

ther states that:

Besides, the information from the

anti-communist underground move-

ment which operates right under

the nose of Raul: ROA Garcia, in

the Ministry of State in Havana,

shows that OSWALD's relations

with the Fair Play for Communist

Cuba

• Cuen beret bree out soliet

Union, and that they had been spon-

sored by CASTRO's diplomatic agents

in

Moscow, at the time OSWALD

was.

there.

"As previously pointed out, PORTELL

VILA in his interview of May 13, 1964, in-

dicated that his only information in this

regard was the message from his source in

Cuba, and on May. 14, 1964, he stated that

the article expressed his interpretative

- analysis of this information.

WIt is noted that the translation also

states that:

During his speech of November 27,

1963

"at the University of Havana:

when CASTRO said "the first time

that OSWALD was in Cuba'

his tongue

was under the influence of "Poraita'

cognac

and he revealed

which is very important.

something

"It will be recalled in this respect that

PORTELL-VILA advised during his February 17,

1964 interview that he read in a November 29;

1963, publication that in a speech on November

27, 1963; Fidel, CASTRO, whether through a slir

of the tongue or as the result of influence of

liquor, made, a coment which suggested that

- OSWALD may have previously made at least

Visit: to Cuba:

He conjectured that this trip

of OSWALD could have taken place while he was

in Mexico last year perhaps while he was in

Russia.

He said at the time he had

no additional

information

in this regard."

Footnote no. (573

Commission Exhibit no. 2959

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Secret Service Field Report, dated 3 December 1963,

from Chicago.

Summary: A white male, American, of unknown reliability,

in December 1963, had been attempting to negotiate a

sale of machine guns to a Cuban revolutionary whose

name" is known. The Cuban is alleged to have made a

comment the day before' the assassination of President

Kennedy that "We now have plenty of money our new

backers are. Jews as soon as we (or they) take care of

Kennedy

Footnote no.574

Commission Exhibit no. 2951

FBI Field Report, dated 30 March 1964, from Mobile,

Alabama.

"Synopsis

JERRY SUCHANAN interviewed 3/26/64, Fairhope,

Ala., where he was temporarily residing.

Stated that he

was one of agroup which fought members of Fair Play for

Cuba Committee who were distributing pro-Castro litera-

tute, Bay Front Park, Miami, Fla, October 1962. Stated

that after the assassination of President KENNEDY and

attending publicity given to subject OSWALD, he recogni-

zed OSWALD as having been one of the members of Fair

Play for Cuba group with which group he had fought.. Also

recalled that OSWALD had been in Miami in March 1963

distributing pro-Castro literature. Stated his brother

Jim BUCHANAN has specific information concerning OSWALD's

being in Miami during these periods.

Footnote no. 575

* Commission Exhibit no. 2946

Portion of an FBI Field Report, dated 12 December 1963,

from Miami, contianing information (probably from the

CIA) that a "diplomat had reported that the assassination

of President KENNEDY was allegedly the result of a plot

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prepared and executed jointly by the Chinese

communists

and FIDEL CASTRO through intermediaries."

Footnote no. 576

* Commission Exhibit no: 3047

Portion (three pages) of an FBI Report. This portion

entitled Miscellaneous Inquiries and Allegations relating

to OSWAlD refers to an Allegation by Salvador DIAZ Verson

concerning OSWALD and Silvia DURAN

"The White House at Washington, D. C."

received a paper entitled Possible Psycholo-

gical Motivations in the Assassination of

President KENNEDY! written by JOSE I. LASAGA,

2340 N: E. 7th Aveue, Apartment 4, Miami,

Florida:

"This speculative paper attemtped to

establish that

the motivation of OSWALD in

the assassination of President KENNEDY waS

FIDEL CASTRO or a CASTRO agent and that OSWALD

was so motivated during his trip to Mexico

between September 27 and October 2,

1963. The

paper included the allegation that OSWALD had

an, extended interview with the Cuban Ambassã-

dor to Mexico, whom he met at

a restaurant on

• = from where

they ueparted together in the Cuban" Ambassador's

automobile for a private conversation."

Footnote no.: 577

Commission Exhibit no 29527 p.2

Letter to J. Lee RANKIN, dated 26 May 1964, from J:

Edgar HOOVER, in which, on page 2, appears the

following paragraph

"The "enclosed memorandum of May 15,

1964, states that according to PORTELL-VILA,

he gave the original of a message received

from an unknown source in Cuba pertaining to

Lee Harvey OSWALD's' alleged relations in Mos-

cow, russia, with two Cuban Ambassadors to

Mrs. Mariada Arensberg, Secretary of the

Cuban Freedom Committee in Washington, D. C.

PORTELL-VILA believed she passed the message

ron to an unknown Government agency."

Commission Exhibit no. 2955, pp. 1-4

FBI Report dated 15 May 1964 pertaining to Dr. Herminio

PORTELL-VILA.

Contains information on OSWALD's alleged

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relations with two Cuban Ambassadors during his

sojourn in the Soviet Union.-

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AGENCY DISSEMINATIONS TO THE

FBI et al REGARDING RUMORS

AND ALLEGATIONS RELATIVE TOi

THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION.

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10 October: 1963

DIR 74673

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Contact with Soviet Embassy,

Mexico City, 1 October 1963•

Recipient:

FBI, TANS, State, White House.

23 November 1963

- DIR 84915

Information relating to telephone call on 28

September 1963 to Soviet Embassy in Mexico

City:

Recipient:

FBI

25. November 1963

DIR 84950

•Subject: Silvia T. DURAN, Mexican Employee

of the Cuban Embassy [sic - Consulatel in

Mexico City; Contact with Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Recipient:

FBI:

25 November 1963

DIR 84951

CIA requests information relating to

OSWALD's activities in Mexico City (from

FBI interrogation of OSWALD):

Recipient: FBI

2'6 November 1963

Subject: Reported Anonymous Telephone

Message.

Recipient: FBI.

26 November 1963

CSCI - 3/778,826

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Suspected

Assassin of President Kennedy. Enclöses

transcripts of telephone calls made on

27 and 28 September and 1 and 3 October 1963.

Recipient:

FBI

26 November 1963

CSCI = 3/778,829

Subject:

Same as above.

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(Comment:

This dissemination may be identical

with CSCI-3/778;826. The above SCI number

appears to be the correct one, according to

a copy of the document in CI/SIG file no.

568.)

Recipient: FBI.

26 November 1963

DIR 85069

Subject: Travel of Pro-Communist Costa

Rican Congressman to Texas on 26 November

1963.

Representatives of this Agency in Costa Rica

suspect that Julio SUNOL Leal, pro-Communist,

PrO CASTRO deputy to the Costa Rican National

Assembly, will try to gather data in Texas to

use in pro-communist - pro-CASTRO propaganda

in connection with the assassination of Presi

dent KENNEDY®

Recipient: FBI.

26 November I963

DIR 85089

Gilberto ALVARADO, a professed Catsroite

Nicaraguan, stated to US. Embassy in

Mexico City on 26 November 1963 [sic

25 November 1963] that 'on 18 September

41963 he saw Lee Harvey OSWALD receive six

thousand five hundred dollars in a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City."

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received a copy

[Warren Commission]

26 November 1963

• DIR 85176

Subject:

Marina Nikolaevna OSWALD. (infor-

mation volunteered on Marina OSWALD by

Moroccan student Mohamed REGGAB studying

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in West Germany):

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret-

Service recievd copy.

26 November 1963

DIR 85177

Subject:

Telephone Communication between

Cuban President DORTICOS and Joaquin HERNANDEZ

Armas, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy

26 November 1963

Unnumbered

Subject: HUNTER Report no 10815.

Recipient:

FBI.

26 November 1963

Unnumbered

Subject:

HUNTER Report no. 10816

Recipient:

FBI.

26 November 1963

Unnumbered

Subject:

Passage of IN 68291 from Mexico

City to the White House. (OSWALD's répor-

ted presence in Mexico. City on 18 September

- 1963. )

Recipient:

'FBI.

27 November 1963

CSCI -3/778,881

Subject. Lee Harvey OSWALD, Soviet Activi

ties in Mexico City, 18 - 24 November 1963.

Recipient: FBI.

27- November 1963

DIR 85182

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD. On 23 November,

Richard Thomas GIBSON, an American Living in

Switzerland, who was acquainted with OSWALD,

made statements regarding latter to a close

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4.

friend in Bern

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy.

[Warren Commission]

27 November 1963

DIR 85196

According to information from Nicaraguan

Security Service, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte

was a Nicaraguan intelligence source from

1962 to. August 1963.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy.

27 November 1963

DIR, 85199

Information solicited from Gilberto

ALVARADO. Ugarte.

-Recipients: FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy.

[Warren Commission]

27 November 1963

*DIR 85222

Subject: Silvia-T. DURAN, Mexican Employee

of the Cuban Embassy [sic - Consulatel, in

Mexico City, contact with Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Recipient FBI.

26 November 1963

DIR 85246

Dr. Jose GUILLERMO Aguirre of Mexico re-

ports information regarding lee Harvey

•OSWALD.

-Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. (Also relayed to S.

PAPICH of the FBI by CI Staff on 27 November

1963)

27 November 1963

DIR 85471

Subject: Rearrest of Silvia DURAN.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

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27 November 1963

DIR 85573

Information from U.S. Ambassador MANN

for Secretary of State RUSK regarding

Ambassador HERNANDEZ, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico, and Gilberto ALVARADO.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

27. November 1963

Unnumbered

Information on Arnesto RODRIGUEZ re-

layed by telephone to S. PAPICH.

Recipient:

FBI.

27 November 1963

Unnumbered

Information regarding photographic

coverage of Cuban and Soviet Embassies

In Mexico City passed to S. PAPICH of

the FBI:

Recipient:

FBI.

28 November 1963:

DIR 85657

On 26 November a British journalist

named John WILSON-HUDSON gave information

to the American Embassy in Mondon indica-

ting that an-"American gangster type named

RUBY" visited Cuba around 1959.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

28 November 1963

DIR 85662

Further interrogation of Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commission!

28 November 1963

DIR 85665

The Hague Station reports that on 23

- November 1963, a local Castroite named

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Maria SNETHLAGE talked to Third Secretary

Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Embassy.

SNETHLAGE claimed she knew the Mr. Lee [sic]

who murdered President Kennedy.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. (Warren Commission]

29 November 1963

CSCI-3/778,893

Subjéct:

Interrogation of Silvia Tirado

-de DURAN and Horacio DURAN Navarro.

Recipient:

FBI:

29. November 1963

DIR 85666

Acting upon an FBI request, the Agency requests

ALVARADO be turned over to Mexican authorities

for additional interrogation.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commission]

-29 November: 1963

DIR 85668,

Highlights from the interrogation of Horacio

DURAN Navarro and his wife, Silvia Tirado

de DURAN.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House

29 November -19:63

DIR 85670

Sensitive sources

have reported

that when the 23 November arrest of

Silvia DURAN became known to the personnel

of the Cuban Embassy there was a great-

deal of discussion.

Recipients:

FBI,-State,

White House.

Warren Commission]

29 November 1963

DIR 85691

Series of anonymous telephone calls to

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the office of the Naval Attache in Can-

berra, Australia, by a man claiming to

have knowledge, about a Soviet plot to

assassinate President Kennedy.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House;

Secret Service received copy.

29 November 1963

DIR 85714

Release of Silvia DURAN for second time

on 28 November.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy

29 November 1963

DIR_ 85744

Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte

Recipients:

White House; Secret

Service received copy.

29 November 1963

DIR 85758

Translation of interrogation of Silvia

DURAN and Horacio DURAN Navarro.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy

(Warren Commission]

29 November 1963

DIR 85770

Series of incidents which have produced

a report alleging advance information on

assassination.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy: (Warren Commission]

29. November 1963

Unnumbered memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH con

cerning rumor that OSWALD had made a

bank deposit.

Recipient: FBI

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30 November 1963

CSCI - 3/778,894

Subject:

Article in 29 November 1963

issue of Washington Post suggesting two

men; Involved in assassination.

Recipient: FBI:

30. November 1963

DIR 86063

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte admots. his "

story a fabrication.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House

Warren Commission]

3 December 1963

DIR: 86496

Information relating to OSWALD's presence

in Mexico.

Recipients FBI:

7 December 1963-

DIR 87667

Re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO

concluded

Recipient: FBI.

[Warren Commission]

9: December 1963

DIR 877311

Richard BEYMER, American movie actor, in

touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City.

Recipient:*

FBI

9 December 1963

DIR 87796

Lettér mailed in Stockholm on 25 November

1963 alleging assassination arranged by-

Communist Chinese:

Recipients: FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy. [Warren Commission]

9 December 1963

Unnumbered Memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH regarding

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identity of a source who claims plot to

assassinate Kennedy prepared and executed

jointly by the Communist Chinese and Cubans

through internediaries. (See, JMWAVE 8658

IN 75902)

Recipient:

FBI.

12 December 1963

CSCI - 3/779,048

Subject:

WILSON, Carlos John (also:

WILSON-HUDSON; John; WILSON, John Hudson.)

Recipient:

FBI.

12 December 1963

DIR 88643

Subject:

Letter Relative to Assassination

of President Kennedy, Sent to United States

Embassy in Costa Rica:

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commission]

12 December 1963

DIR 88682

Cuban Ambassador to France received in-

structions not to comment upon the

assassi-

nát ion

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

12. December 1963

Subject:

DIR 88747

Second Interrogation of Silvia

DURAN:

Recipient: FBIL State, White House.

13 December 1963

Subject:

-ALVARADO

Recipient: FBI.

CSCI -3/779,136

Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto

[Warren Commission]

16 December 1963

-CSCI - 3/779,135

Subject:

Peter DERYABIN's Comments on

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Kennedy. Assassination.

Recipient: FBI.

18 December: 1963

DIR 89970

Further Information on Richard Thomas GIBSON.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret?

Service received copy. [Warren Commission]

18 December 1963

• DIR 89980

Subject:

• Actions of Silvia DURAN after

her first-interrogation®

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. [Warren Commission]

27 December 1963

CSCI - 3/779,297:

Subject:

Assassination of President Kennedy

Carranged by the Cuban Government and the

Communist Chinese):

Recipient: -FBI.

3 January 1964

Unnumbered Memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH on

3. January 1964 regarding newspaper

article appearing in El Caribe on 27

November 1963 and possible connection

with ALVARADO's interview in the u.'s

Embassy on 26 November.

Recipient: FBI:

10 January 1964

GSCT-3/779,482

Subject: Second Mexican Interrogation

•of Silvia DURAN:

Recipient:

FBI.

[Warren Commission]

27 January 1964:

Subject!

Meri

CSCI - 3/779,729

Possible Relatives of

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Marina Nikolayevna OSWALD.

Recipient: FBI.

30- January 1964

SCI -3/779,814

Subject: Jack L RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD:

Recipient:

FBI.

4. February 1964

CSCI-3/779,817

Subject Lee Harvey OSWALD:

(Informa-

tion on names, addresses, and telephone

numbers relating to the Soviet Union.)

Recipient: FBI

718 February 1964

DDP 4-0860

Memorandum for the Director, Federali

Bureau of Investigation®

Subject: Assassination of John F. Kennedy.

("In connection with our efforts to assist

the President's Commission on the Assassina-

tion of President Kennedy by providing infor-

mation which might be helpful in interpreting

available materials relating. to OSWALD's ac

tivities abroad, we have considered the entry

-with regard-to attempted suicide. We consi

der this entry as being of considerable im-

portance and one which might be subject to

verification.")

Recipient:

FBI. [Copy to Warren Commission]

18 February 1964

ĐDP 4-0861"

Memorandum for the Director, Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

Subject:

Assassination of President. John F.

Kennedy.

(""

47 photographs which were among the

effects of Lee Harvey OSWALD, •:

-It

appears that most of the photographs were

taken in the, USSR-and depict Soviet contacts

of. OSWALD or scenes in the Soviet Union.'')

this.

Recipient:

FBI.

[Copy to Warren Commission]

18 February 1964

DDP 4-0862

Memorandum for the Chief; United States

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Secret Service:

Subject: Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy. (Verification of entry in "Historic

Diary" relating to OSWALD's attempted suicide.)

Recipient:

Secret Service.

[Copy, to Warren

Commission]

18 February 1964

DDP 4-0864

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. Hughes,

The Director of Intelligence and Research

Department of State.

Subject:

Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy. Verification of Entry in "Historic

Diary"

Recipient:

State. [Copy _to Warren Commission]

20 February, 1964

CSCI - 31779,988

-Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

(Information

regarding Annette SETYAEVNA and Lillie May RAHM:)

Recipient:

FBI.

22 Pebruary 1964

DIR 03101-

Subject:

Further Information Provided

by Moroccan Student Mohamed REGGAB:

Recipient:

White House (attention Secret

Service:)

11 March 1964

CSCI -3/780,344

Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard to

Allegations by Mohamed REGGAB Relative tò

Marina OSWALD.

Recipient:

FBI.

20 March 1964

-CSCI- 3/780,612

Subject: Assassination of President

Jöhn F. Kennedy.

(Photograph of an

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individual closely resembling OSWALD:)

Recipient: FBI.

16. April 1964

CS.CI - 3/780,996

Subject; Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO.

Recipient:

FBI.

22 April 1964

CSCI - 3/780,881

Subject: Assassination of President

John F. Kennedy. (Information regarding

- Lydia DYMITRUK)

Recipient:

FBI.

8- May 1964

11 May: 1964

13 May 1964

DDP 4-2351

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to. J. Lee:

RANKIN

Subject:

Marina OSWALD's Notebook.

Recipient: Copy Of attachment forwarded to

FBI: [Warren Commission]

CSCI-3/781,172

Subject::

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

(Traces on Soviet

names, addresses, and telephone numbers from an

address book belonging to Marina OSWALD.).

Recipient: FBI.

CSCI - 3/781,282

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Identification

of photographs sent to CIA by FBI.)

Recipient:

FBI:

15 May 1964

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to J. Lee

RANK IN.

Subject:

Role of Cuban Intelligence Service

in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of

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the Service to the Assassination of

President Kennedy.

Recipient: FBI.

[Warren Commission]

5 June 1964

CSCI - 3/781,543:

Subject Lee Harvey OSWALD. (Use of

Machine Collation Program to Check Out

< Cubans Mentioned in Letter of 27 November

1963 from Mário del ROSARIA Milina.)

Recipient:

EBI•

10 June 1964

CSCI - 3/781,8.41

Subject: Information Concerning

Jack RUBY:

Recipient:

FBI.

29 June 1964

CSCI - 3/782,058

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to

J. Lee RANKIN.

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

Recipient: FBI."

Warren Commission]

2 July: 1964

DDP 4-3401

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to

J.. Lee RANKIN.

(Remarks made by Soviet

Consul Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV.)

Recipient:

FBI." [Warren Commission]

27 August 1964

CSCI: 316/00856-64*

Subject:

No Indication of Subject's Defec-

tion Having Been Used for Propaganda by the

Cuban Government

Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission]

3 September 1964

DDP 4-4600

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Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to

J. Lee RANKIN.

Subject:

OSWALD Documents Supplied by the

Cuban Government.

Recipient;

FBI:

[Warren Commission]

6 October 1964

CSCI- 316/01446-64

Subject: VIÄDUCT Interview on 9 September

1964, His Comments on Seven Photographs For-

warded by the FBI.

Recipient: FBI.

23 December 1964

CSCI - 316/02545-64

Subject: Allegation of Unidentified Scientist

of Cuban Involvement in Assassination.

Recipient:: FBI.

2 March 1965

CS.CI - 316/00925-6514

Subject: - Marvin KANTOR, Possible Connection

with Investigation of Lee Harvey and Marina

OSWALD.

Recipient:

FBI.

30 June 1965

Subject:

Recipient:

*CSCI - 316/02654-65

Silvia DURAN.

* FBI.

2 September 1966

CSCI-316/04482-66

Subject: Rima ZMITROOK, Lee Harvey OSWALD's

Inturist Guide in Moscow:

Recipient: FBI.

14. June 1967

CSCI-316/03243-67

Subject: Allegation of Oscar COUNTRERAS,

Mexican newsman, that OSWALD visited UNAM

Campus Shortly after the Cuban Embassy Re-

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fused Him a Visa to Visit Cuba: CONTRERAS'

Statement of Dubious credibility; information

passed to Mexican authoritiés.

Recipient: FBI

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AGENCY MEMORANDA CONCERNING

RUMORS AND ALLEGATIONS. RELATIVE

TO THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION;

AND ADDRESSED TO THE WARREN

COMMISSION.

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MEMORANDA SUBMITTED: BY CIA TO THE WARREN COMMISSION ON RÚMORS AND

ALLEGATIONS RELATING TO THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION.

31 January 1964'

Subject:

Information Developed by CIA

on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in

Mexico City, 28 September - 3 Oetober

1963.

5-Márch 1964-

Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard

to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB Relative

to Marina OSWALD:

I8 March 1964

Subject: Article Alleging that OSWALD

was Interviewed by CIA in Moscow

31 March 1964

DDP 4-1655

Subject:

Repórts on Activities and Travel

of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna

OSWALD.

Enclosures include the following

Teletype Message no. 87515, 29 November

1963 - paragraph g - Maria SNETHLAGE.

Teletype Message no, 85182, 22 November

1963; Remarks made by Richard Thomas

GIBSON.

Teletype Message no. 85665, 28 Novèmber

1963, Remarks Made by Maria SNETHLAGE and

Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS of the Cu-

ban Embassy in The Hague.

3 April 1964

Subject:

DDP 4-1699

Richard Thomas. GIBSON.

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7 April 1964

4 May 1964

8 Mạy 1964

2

Subject:

DDP 4-1784

Mohammed REGGAB.

DDP 4-2256

Subject: Additional Information on Lee

Harvey. OSWALD.

"A survey of Agency files indicates that all

information known to the Agency on

OSWALD's association (with communists or

criminals, either in United States or abroad)-

has been made available to the Commission

-DDP 4-2351

Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebook:

(Compilation of traces on what appear to be

Soviet names, addresses, and telephone num-

bers from an address: book identified by

Marina OSWALD as belonging to her.)

15 May 1964

Subject:

Role of the Cuban Intelligence Service

in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of

that

Service to the Assassination of Président

Kennedy

19 May 1964

DDP 4-2534

Subject: Allegations of PFC. Eugene B. DINKIN

U.S. Army, Relative to Assassination Plot

against President Kennedy

22 May. 1964

DDP: 4-2624

Subject.

Anonymous Telephone Calls to United

States Embassy in Canberra, Australia, Rela

tive to Planned Assassination of President

Kennedy.

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27 May 1964

DDP 4-2688

Subject: Letter Accusing the Chinese

Communists of Plotting the Assassination

of President Kennedy.

(Comment:

Letter received at U.'S. Em-

bassy, Stockholm.)

1. June 1964

DDP 4-2741

Subject: Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte

Enclosures: - Out Teletype no, 85089,

26 November 1963:

_Out Teletype no. 85199,

27 November 1963.

Out Teletype no.

85662,

28 November 1963.

Out Teletype no. 85666,

28 November 1963.

Out Teletype no. 86063,

30 November 1963.

•Out Teletype no. 87667

7 December 1963.

Memorandum, 12 December 1963,

Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO.

June 1964

DDP 4-2769

Subject? Documents on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by

the Soviet Government

* June 1964

DDP

Subject: Information Developed on the

Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico

-City.

10 June 19641

-Subject:

Information Concerning Jack RUBY,

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(aka Jack TUBENSTEIN)-and His Associates.

12 June 1964

Subject:

Letter Relative to Assassination

of President Kennedy Sent to United States

Embassy, in Costa Rica.

29 June 1964

DDP 4-3347

Subject Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Moroçco:

2 July 1964:

DDP 4-3401

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

28 August 1964

DDP 454479

Subject: Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

I5 September 1964 DDP 4-4808

Subject: Information Concerning Jack RUBY

(aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His' Associates

17 September 1964

DDP 4-4839

Subject: - Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV

17 September 1964 DDP 4-4922

Subject: Eusebio AZQUE

-Former Cuban Consul,:

Mexico City:

18 September 1964! DDP 4-4953

Subject: Identification of Persons Appea-

ring in FBI Photograph no. D 33-46 (Commission

Exhibit no. 2625)•

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY:

Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADQ Ugarte

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ALVARADO Ugarte, Gilberto Nol'asco

In the following are cited those portions (including

footnotes) of the SCHWEIKER Report pertaining to Gilberto ALVARADO.

Comments relating to these portions are in roman charachters.

At noon on November 25,

'"D", a Latin American, appeared

at the American Embassy in Mexico City. 35. (EN: Ihis incident is

discussed in the Warren Report, pp: 308, 309; Cable from Mexico"

Station to CIA Headquarters, 11/85/63. [Comment:

The first cable

In the file announcing ALVARADO's Claim is MEXI-7067 (IN 68291),

26 November 1963. ALVARADO at no time appeared at the American:

Embassy some of our own reporting is in error, e.g.,. DIR 85089,

26 November 1963, a dissemination to FBI, State, and the White

House, states! "On 26 November 1963, Gilberto ALVARADO, a pro-

-fessed Castroite Nicaraguan :.: came to the Americần Embassy in

Mexico' and made a statement about Lee OSWALD." According to ALVA-

RADO's interrogation by Mexican authorities, he called the Ameri

can Embassy on 25 November and "succeeded in speaking to a high

official with whom he made an appointment for that-same day at

5:30 p.m. near the Hotel Maria Isabel. -Two individuals appeared

for the appointment." According to a

note in. the Mexico Station

file, signed by the Embassy Security Officer, A. C. PLAMBECK--

dated 25 November - these two men were SNIGHT and PLAMBECK; both.

were Embassy security officers. He told Embassy personnel that he

was in the cuban consulate on september 1l and saw cubans who dis

cussed assassination pay OsWAlD a sum of money. [Comment: During

his first meeting with Embassy officials, ALVARADO claimed he had

been at. the Cuban Consulate on the 18th of September, not the 17th.

In fact, at no time,

did he refer to the date 17 September.

Later,

during his interrogation in connection with the,polygraph examina-

tion on 6 December 1963, ALVARADO revealed he was "unsure of the

day of week allegedly saw OSWALD.. Thinks that it was on Tuesday!'

which would have been 17 September:: (MEXI-7289 (IN 75588), 7 Decem

ber 1963).1 He later repeated his story to the CIA Mexico Station

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chief. [Comment: At no time, at least there is no mention in the

tiles, did ALVARADO repeat his story to the "CIA Mexico Station

Chief' ALVARADO first told-his-story, as indicated above, to two

officers from the Embassy Security Office. The next morning, he

met with PLAMBECK from the Embassy Security Office, and a Station

Officer. During another meeting that evening (26 November), ALVA-

RADO was interrogated by two officers from the Station. - (Note for

the Record, dated 25 November 1963, signed by PLAMBECK; Memorandum

for Clark ANDERSON, Legal Attache, dated 29 November 1963, from -

Winston M. SCOTT: L The CIA and the Warren Commission Later con-

cluded that the story was a fabrication,

but the Agency was clearly

concerned with "D's story at the time: 36

EN: "D" later admitted

that the story about OSWALD had been fabricated.

Cable from Mexico

City to CIA Headquarters, 11/30/63. It had also been determined

by the FBI that OSWALD was probably in New Orleans ön september 17:

Cable from-CIA Headquarters to Mexico, Station, 11/28/63.) [Comment:

There were actually two cables, DIR 85258, 27 November 1963,

and

DIR 85653, 28 November 1963, which indicated OSWALD was in New-

Orleans on 17 and I9 September 1963÷1

Later in that day 126 November 19631, the Mexico Station

cabled Headquarters on the details of its interrogation of "D" 39-

TEN:

table from Mexico station to CIA Headquarters, 11/26/63.)

[MEXI-7069 (IN 68376), 26 November 1963.1 It- also reported other

information from a sensitive and reliable source which tended to

-*=r

confirm "D''s story that OswAld may have been paid by the Cubans

to assassinate President Kennedy. [Comment:

It would appear from

this statement, the authors of the report were referring to MEXI-

7069

7069 (IN 68376); however, this cable does not contain any remarks

alluding to information which "tended to confirm ip's' story'

This information appears in MEXI-7072 (IN 68406), 26 November 1963,

which contains Ambassador MANN's message to RUSK, McCONE, andL

HOOVER: MANN's statement reads as follows: *While we recognize

lack of established reliability of Nicaraguan and danger of reaching

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hasty conclusions, we suggest that DORTICOS! preoccupation with

money angle of interrogation of Silvia DURAN tends to corroborate.

to some extent authenticity of the Nicaraguan's statement. Thus,

there appears to be a strong possibility that a down payment was

made: to OSWALD in the Guban Embassy there, presumably with promise

of-a subsequent payment after assassination." The Ambassador was

reading somewhat more into the situation than was: the case... The

reference, to DORTICOS = the Cuban President - relates to two tele-

phone conversation between DORTICOS and HERNANDEZ, the Cuban Amba-

ssador to Mexico, on 26 November 1963. The first conversation,

which took place at

0924; was forwarded, in resume, to Headquarters

on 26 November 1963 (MEXI-7068 IN:

__?; the second conversation,

which took place at 1839, was forwarded, in resume, to Headquarters

on 27 November 1963 (MEXI -7097 IN

) In the first conversa-

tion DORTICOS asks (if) "the Federals of that country wanted Senora

DURAN to say something, that they had some interest in, and had

offered some money to the American?" To which HERNANDEZ answers

that there was nothing about money. In the second conversation,

DORTICOS is quoted as saying:

"I was referring as to whether they

had threatened her so that she would make a statement that the Con:

sulate had given money to the man - that American." HERNANDEZ ars-

wered that

"nothing absolutely was given her" [sic]. "It would not

appear from a close reading of these two conversations that they

contain information "which tended to confirm 'D's' story

This report has never been satisfactorily explained, although it

was made available to the warren Commission "Staff'" In any event,

these reports certäinty must have fueled suspicions of cuban in

volvement in the assassination. Based on the evidence it reviewed,

the warren Commission later determined that "D''s story was a fabri

cation. [Comment: This statement appears to be gratitous - the

Warren Commission did not ask. about-the ALVARADO-case until-21:

April 1964. - On that date RANKIN addressed a letter to Richard

HELMS in which he stated inter alia "We are aware, of course;

from previous reports that the allegations made by ALVARADO-were

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thoroughly investigated by Central Intelligence Agency and Federal

Bureau of Investigation representatives in Mexico City in liaison

with the responsible Mexican law-enforcement authorities: Refer-

ence is made to the discussion of these allegations-in your memo-

randum dated January 31, 1964, at pages 11 - 14-

'Upon review of our complete file on this matter, we

find that we lack full documentation of the investigation conducted

of these allegations. It would be helpful if our records could be

supplemented by a report from your Agency supplying more details

regarding the investigation undertaken by your Agency and other con-

cerned Agencies into this matter and your evaluation as to the truth

of ALVARADO's assertions In particular, it would be helpful if a

report could be submitted by the expert who conducted the polygraph

examination which emphasizes the specific conclusions which he made

based on the responses by ALVARADO in answering key questions on

this matter."*

(Letter to Richard HELMS, DDP, dated 21 April 1964,

from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.) The Agency responded on 1

June 1964. (Memorandum to J. Lee RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964, from

Richard HELMS, DDP; Subject: Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.)]

The American Ambassador in Mexico later sent a cable

[MEXI-7072 (IN- 68406), 26 November 1963] to State Department through

CIA channels:

In that cable he gave his opinion that the cubans

were involved in the assassination, and recommended certain inves-

tigative steps which should be taken in Mexico.

40 TEN:

Cable fron

Mexico Station to CIA Headquarters, 11/26/63.)

By November 27, the Mexico Station and CIA Headquarters

were also beginning to question the accuracy of "Du's stroy.

•The

cables between the Mexico Station and Headquarters indicate the

possibility that the story was a fabrication. Nevertheless, on

November 28, Headquarters cabled a reminder to the Mexico station

to "follow all leads".

The station was instructed to continue in-

vestigating the possibility of cuban or soviet involvement, because

Headquarters

had not excluded. the possibility.that other.persons

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were involved with OSWALD.:

44. (FN: A cable from CIA Headquarters

-to Mexico Station;: 11/28/63- DIR-85655, 28 November 1963] -

-Latèr that day 127 Novemberl Headquarters Learned that

Mexican-authorities-planned-to-arrest-silvia-DURAN-again-and- warned

the station that the Mexicans must take' responsibility-for the ar

rest. After learning that the, u.s. Ambassador was-continuing to

press for a vigorous investigation into cuban involvement, Heäd-

quarters also warned the station Chief that the Ambassador was.

pushing the case too hard and his proposals could lead to a "flap"

with the cubans d6 CEN:

1 cable from CIA Headquarters to Mexico.

Station, 11/28/63.) DIR 85655,_28 November 19631 Finally,, the

Agency concluded that "D''e story was a fabrication and terminated

its interest in him. 4? (PN: Ibid.):

On November 30, Director MCCONE met with the President

at 17•a.m.

While there was a discussion of the allegations

made by "D" the memorandum records no action was required on the

mines -=.

"OSWALD situation". 49 (PN: Memo-andum for the Record by Director

McCone, 12/2/63): [Comment: Memorandum not available in the file.]

On December 1, MeCONE met with the President and BUNDY.

MeCONE's memorandum of the meeting indicates they again discussed

"D''s' story.

Later that day, Headquarters cabled the Mexico Station

and stated that the white House had been told the story was a fabri.

cation.

Later that day [2 December], the Mexico Sta-

reported it had reason to doubt its earlier conclusion-that "D"

was fabricating. [Comment: The authors of the Report give no

source for this statèment. Moreover, they-leave the reader in the

air as to what was the outcome of further investigation-to deter-

mine whether-the earlier conclusion that ALAVARDO was fabricating

was: an accurate conclusion. The-facts are as follows:

On 2 December, Captain WHEELOCK* saw. ALAVARDO during the

#_Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, chief_of. the Anti-

Communist Section of the Nicaraguan Office of National Security,

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On 2 December, Captain WHEELOCK saw ALVARADO during thé

afternoon for the first time.. In a brief interview, which lasted

only seven minutes, in the company of two Mexican officials;

ALVARADO reverted to his previous story. He claimed he did see:

OSWALD and that he did call the Embassy to report. (Latter state-

ment not supported by Embassy investigation.) ALVARADO went on to

say that he told the Mexicans he was fabricating because he was

"mentally mistreated", specifically because he was threatened that

he would be hanged by the testicles.

Actually he was not physically

mistreated. WHEELOCK said he was unable to come to any definite

conciusion as to ALVARADO's véracity, however, he would be able to

ido so once he returned to Managua and had a chance to complete the

interrogation. (MEXI-7023 IN 71702, 2. December 1963)

On 3 December 1963, Headquarters tells the Mexico Sta-

...'

tion that although Headquarters is confident that ALVARADO is a

fabricator and that his retraction of his confession is false, it

has been decided that he should be placed on the polygraph.

Head-

quarters- asks that the Station arrange to have ALVARADO released

to CIA custody for sevéral days and ask WHEELOCK to remain in Mexi-

co to assist.

A polygraph operator from the Office of Security will

arrive on 4. December.

He will be incharge of the polygraph inter-

view, but will be assisted by Clark ANDERSON (Legal Attache), who

has been selected as an interpreter.

The FBI will notify "ANDERSON

of this.

(DIR 86563, 3 December 1963)

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, Chief of the Anti-

Communist. Section of the-Nicaraguan Office of National Security.

arrived in Mexico City on 29 November 1963. WHEELOCK went to

Mexico in response to Mexico Station's request for assistance in

interrogating ALVARADO, For further details

see accompanying

chronological summary on Gilberto ALVARADO:

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ECHEVARRIA, the acting minister of gobernacion, agreed

to permit CIA to "borrow" ALVARADO. - The plan was to pick up

ALVARADO-on 5 December and return him that evening. (MEXI-7229

IN-72877, -3 December 1963) ALVARADO was picked up as planned and-

underwent preliminary questioning on 5 December. The next day-he

underwent a polygraph interview. - The results of this lintervien

indicated. that ALVARADO was fabricating his-story. Interrogation

revealed that he was unsure as to the exact. day of the week he alle

gedly saw OSWALD. He thought it was on a Tuesday which would have

been the 17th of September. When ALVARADO was shown a series of

photographs during the testing, deception patterns became evident.

When he was confronted with this he answered that he had the utmost

confidence in the polygraph and that it must be correct.

The in-

terrogation

was concluded with ALVARADO admitting he must have made

an "honest mistake" in relating the original story in his identifi-

cation of OSWALD.

(MEXI-7289 IN 75588, December)

Following the receipt of the results of the anove inter-

view with ALVARADO, Headquarters disseminated the results to the

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"The re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

Nicaraguan informant who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD receive money to assassinate Kennedy,

has been concluded...

Our Mexico City. Statión ad=

vises us

that 'ALVARADO admitted he must have

been mistaken in saying that he saw OSWALD in

the Cuban Embassy.

he was uncertain of

the date on which he might have seen someone

like OSWALD and thought it must have

been on

which would have made it 17 September

Tuesday Although the final report of the poly-

deception reactions when talking about OSWALD:

"It is expected that ALVARADO will be de-

ported to Nicaragua on 9 December 1963.

"A representative of your Bureau partici-

pated in the

interrogation of ALVARADO.

(DIR 87667, 7 December 1963)

Except for forwarding to the Warren Commission various

reported material on ALVARADO, the Agency had completed its inves-

tigation of the allegation that the Cuban Consulate had given

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OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars to assassinate an un-

-named-target.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO. Ugarte:

18 September 1963

According to ALVARADO!s statements made during an inter-

view conducted in the morning of 26 November 1963-by an American

Embassy security officer and a member of the Mexico Station in

Mexico City, ALVARADO went at noon on 18 September to the Cuban

Consulate to turn over passport photographs to the Cuban Consul

Eusébio AZCUE." =

While standing by a rest room off a passage-

way leading to a patio, ALVARADO saw a group of three persons con-

versing on the patio a few feet away. One man was a tall, thin

Negro with reddish hair, obviously dyed. He had prominent cheek

bones, and a noticeable scar on the lower right side of his chin.

He spoke radpidly with a Cuban accent and did speak some English.

Another member of the group was a white

person whom ALVARADO Fad

seen previously, in the waiting room, carrying á Canadian passport.

The Canadian had green eyes, blondish hair combed in an existen-

tialist" manner with a pompadour He was wearing dark eyeglasses

of a type with a mirror-like reflection on the outer surface.

The

third member of the group was lee Harvey OSWALD.

He was waering a

black sport coat, a buttoned up white shirt with short collar tabs,

no tie, gray pants, and clear eyeglasses:

ALVARADO saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and

pass American currency to the Negro. This unidentified Cuban ap-

parently came out of Acue's office onto the patio. ALVARADO des-

cribed the Cuban as a tall, solidly built mulatto, with curly hair,

who appeared to be about 37 years old. He was wearing a brown suit

and a red-striped tie. ALVARADO never saw this man again after 18

September:

ALVARADO claimed he overheard the following conversation

between the Negro and OSWALD:

Negro (in English)

"I want to kill the man"

OSWALD

'Youre not man enöugh.. I can do

it. "

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Negro (in Spanish):

"I can't go with you.

I have a lot

to đọ. "

OSWALD

The people are waiting for me back

there.

The Negro gave OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars

in large denomination US bills saying:

-This isn't much." Of the

sum, one thousand five hundred dollars was for extra expenses.

The

Negro also gave him about 200 Mexican pesos.

Later, ALVARADO saw a pretty girl,whom he believed to be

a Cuban employee of the Consulate, give OSWALD an abrazo embrace

and tell him she was living at Calle Juarez number 407-where he;

could find her. The girl appeared to about 20 years old and had

manners which reminded ALVARADO of a prostitute. OSWALD, the Negro

and the Canadian then went upstairs.

ALVARADO left the building momentarily to buy popsicle

on the corner; he saw the above three

he men leave by the Embassy gate

near the corner of Tacubaya where they entered

a parked black car,

possibly a Chvrolet.

At the end of September, ALVARADO telephoned the American

Embassy several times to report his belief that someone important

in the United States was to be killed.

When ALVARADO saw OSWALD's photograph in the newspaper,

he again contacted the Embassy on 25 November:

IMEXI- 7069 (IN 68376), 26 November 1963]

2.5 November 1963

ALVARADO called the United States Embassy.

That same

evening he met with the Embassy security officer.

IMEXL 7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963]

"Commént:

According to the Mexican police report of the interroga-

tion of ALVARADO, the latter called the American Embassy and

"succeeded in speaking to a high official with whom he made an ap-

pointment for that same day at 5:30 p.m. near the Hotel Maria

Isabel.]

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Two individuals appeared for the 5:30 p.m. appointment.

They identified themselves and were carrying the credentials of

FBI agents.* ALVARADO told about his seeing OSWALD, etc. Another

appointment was made for 9:15 the next morning at the Jena Restau-

rant.

[HMMA -22561, 5 December 1963; CSCI -3/779,136, 13 December 1963]

*Comment: The tio individuals were SNIGHT, the Embassy, security

officer,- and A. C. PLAMBECK (P), Mexican Station officer.

ALVARADO

may have mistaken Embassy identification documents for FBI creden-

25 November 1963

ALVARADO Claimed inter alla that two persons were in the

Cuban Embassy the morning of 25 November 1963 at 1100 who are in-

volved in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy.

He described

them as one being a white person with a large cleft nose. The

other had closed cropped hair with a copote (sicl.*

ALVARADO claims that on the Isth of September, he was in

the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and he saw Lee Harvey OSWALD re-

ceive $6,500. OSWALD was speaking with a Begro, about 29 years of

age, who had a scar on his jaw, and had reddish hair which is pro-

bably. tinted. The Negro spoke English well and might be a North

American. OSWALD was speaking of eliminating someone.

The Negro

then said he was sorry that he could accompany OSWALD, saying:

"You understand my situation."

To which OSWALD replied:

"That's

all right, I can do this mysélf."

The "source' (ALVARADO?) was of the opinion that OSWALD

had come from Havana. When OSWALD entered (the Consulate ?) he

was affectionately greeted by a female employee of the Cuban Em-

bassy, who has blue eyés and lives at Calle Juarez 407.

The "source" also stated that OSWALD was given $1,500

for extra expenses.

Source stated that when he went to the bath

room he saw OSWALD counting the money, in American dollars, on the

patio which is adjacent.

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[Blind memorandum dated_25 November 1963]

[*Comment

There is no indication in the file that any follow-up

was made on the information given in this paragraph.

This parti-

cular information appears no where else in ALVARADO's interroga-

tions.]

26 November 1963

ALVARADO meets the same two men from the Embassy whom he

had, the evening before, at the Jena Restaurant on the Avenida More:

los and the Paseo de la Reforma.

The two men were accompanied by

a third man named Rodolfo GAVALDON. ALVARADO went with these three

men to the cafeteria of the Hotel Francis after which they drove

up and down a few streets. ALVARADO told them again what he had

observed in the Cuban Consulate and they gave him 100 pesos and

told him they woudi call him at the number 41-07-31, which is the

telephone number of the place where ALVARADO was living. ALVARADO

was called the same day at 8:45 p.m. and was

told to meet the three

men later in front of the Juarez monument.

(Blind memorandum, dated 25 November 1963; Memorandum to Clark

ANDERSON, Legal Attache, dated 29 November 1963; And HMMA-22561,

5 December 1963, and CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 1963.]

26 November 1963

Station officer and local security officer are inter-

viewing a Nicaraguan who claims that on 18 September he saw Lee

OSWALD received six thousand five hundred dollars during a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

IMFXI-7067 (IN 68291), 26 November 1963]

[Comment: This cable was the first report to Headquarters on the

allegations made by ALVARADO.]

26 November 1963

At the appointed place and time the evening of 26 Novem-

ber, Rodolfo GAVALDON meets ALAVARADO: They take a cab to the

corner of the Hotel Maria Isabel where another American is waiting

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for them; together they cross the street and enter an apartment in

a building at the cornér of Oxford and Reforma.

After talking with

these men, ALVARADO received 500 pesos,

and was told to move to a

hotel and to tell them which hotel he moved into.

[HMMA - 22561, 5 Décember 1963; CSCI -3/779,136, 13 December 19631

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26 November 1963 (date of cable)

Managua Station reports on identity of ALVARADO and

suggests that "Should case develop to point where Mexico and Head-

quarters believe it desireable to break ALVARADO, the station

could probably arrange to have NIC officer who handled him come to

Mexico to question him."

MANA-4609 (IN 68452) , 26-November 1963)

(Comment. NICE Nicaraguan Security Service.)

26 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Dissemination by cable, to the FBI, State, and the White

House reporting preliminary results of ALVARADO interrogation and

results of Headquarters name trace.

"1:

On 26 November 1963 Gilberto ALVARADO, a

professed Castroite Nicaragúan born 31 January

1940 in Ciudad Rama, Zelaya, Nicaragua,

to the American Embassy in Mexico and

came

made a

statement about Lee OSWALD. He said that on

18-September 1963 he saw Lee OSWALD receive

six thousand five hundred. dollars in

a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City--

About himself, ALVARADO said he in Mexico

City awaiting false documentation so he could

go to Cuba for sabotage training. He name.

three other members of his organization in Ni-

caragua as Juan LORthLO, Rolan ALVARADO;- and

Carlos FONSECA Amador.

Questioning of ALVARADO

is continuing:

(Comment:

Gilberto ALVARADO is a well-known

Nicaraguan communist underground member who is

also a regular informant of the Nicaraguan Security

Service- and officer-of-which has provided this

Agency with his reports for over a year. We con

sider his reliability to be questionable although

he has not been wholly discredited.

The other men

he names are_ well-known Nicaraguan communists.

check of the files of this Agency does not show

where Lee OSWALD actually was on 18 September 1963,

when ALVARADO says he saw OSWALD in the Cuban Em-

bassy in Mexico, but based on the information

available to this Agency as of this

date' OSWALD

visited the Cuban Embassy

in Mexico for the first

time after 25 September 1963.)"

DIR 85089, 26 November 1963]

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to Mexico Station that "In your

Investigation, suggest you contact ALVARADO'S NIC case officer

in fort

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in Mexico City and ask him whether ALVARADO has ever told him this

story or anything like it."

[DIR 85178, 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that "After considera-

tion by BRENT and KNIGHT, we feel that investigation and analysis

Of ALVARADO's story should be pursued further before more excutive

action is taken."

[DIR 85198, 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters makes dissemination to FBI, State, and the

White House incorporating information forwarded to Headquarters

In MEXT-7069 (IN 68376; 26 November 1963 (q.v.)

[DIR 85199, 27 November 19631

27 November 1963-

ALVARADO's story being checked as thoroughly as Station

assets make possible.

He also being re-interviewed in much greater

detail.

ALVARADO is being moved to safe address.

(MEXI -7093. IN 68530), 27 November I9631-

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

Two Station officers interviewed: ALVARADO in safehouse

again night of 26 November.

ALVARADO's story remained substan-

tially the same. ALVARADO says he 'has been to Cuban Consulate on

2 or 3 September, 15 or 16 September,

18 September, 26 September

and 25 November. The Station comments that Station photographic

coverage of the Cuban Embassy did not include consulate gate until

October." ALVARADO did not appear in photographs of persons using

Embassy gate. He admits visiting the Soviet Embassy 6 or 7 times;

however, he has not been identified in photographic coverage of

Soviet Embassy.

(MEXL-7098 (IN 69127), 27. November 1963]-

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27 November 1963

Ambassador MANN send message via CIA channels to RUSK,

MCCONE, and HOOVER in which he suggest inter alia that Washington

should urgently consider feasibility of requesting Mexican authori

ties to arrest for interrogation: Eusebio ACUE, Luisa CALDERON,;

and Alfredo MIRABAL:"*

[MEXI 7104 (IN 69225), 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963 (date, of cable)

FBi says OSWALD applied for unemployment insurance in

New Orleans on IT September, one day before ALVARADO says he saw

-him in Cuban Embassy, Mexico. FBI checking all airtines to see if

he could have flown to Mexico by 18 September. He was in New

Orleans on 25 September and left that day for Texas without paying

his rent.

He is believed to have been without funds during this

period. FBI says his New Orleans landlady believes he was there

continuous ly between 17 and 25 September:

EDIR 85258, 27 November 19631

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

According to Mexico Station, ALVARADO story after two in-

stallments tends prove only that he has been in Cuban Embassy and

knows some of employees by sight, name or both.

To resolve doubt

only effective way is to have cooperation of Major JEREZ

directed

by his headquarters in interrogating ALVARADO.:

If HQ agrees sug-

gest he be cabled urgently to cooperate without question with

American officer who will contact him morning 28 November. Station

wishes JEREZ be present during interrogation to throw all Nicaragua

official weight behind it, but not to participate except in portion

relative ALVARADO'S alleged mission for JEREZ.

[MEXI-7107 (IN 69310) < 27 November 19631

27 November - 1963

Headquarters states that "in the face of mounting evi-

di

dence that ALVARADO is fabricating his story of seeing

OSwALD take money in the Cuban Embassy, urge you fol-

low up with his local NIC case officer-and avail yourself

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of the help of the NIC service, which can

send (WHEELOCK), a good CIA asset

in the interrogation:

it incredible

that the Cubans would brief and pay an assassin

in front of a NIC interloper..

We think it pos-

sible or even. likely. that he has been. in and out

of the Cuban Embassy as a NIG agent trying to

infiltrate

the names and

tates ther cun so doing All he has shades out

OSWALD he could have gotten from the newspapers,

except for certain incorrect items such as his

statement that OSWALD wore glasses.

2. The fact that ALVARADO-is a calm, nice, and

intelligent young man does not mean he is not a

fabricator., FYI-we and other agencies are being

flooded by fabrications on the OSWALD case from

several continents, some originating with people

the fringes

of the intelligence business

Such fabrication are not usually done

for money,.

but out of sickly fancy and a desire to get into

the intelligence game.

3. We do not think it a remarkable coincidence

that both DORTICOS-and-ALVARADO talk-about money-

paid to OSWALD:

For one thing, pay for an assassin

is a factor which immediately rises in the mind of

expert and layman alike. Secondly, DORTICOS may

have heard through some Russian or Cuban source

in the Mexican Government that DURAN was asked

whether the Cubans paid OSWALD for the alleged

assignment."

-HOE

InsIst

is boyond all belief, wed

it and ALVARADO under the mo

His interrogators must pro

that MEXI place

searching scrutiny

-into his

make up and load him back

(PTR 85616, 77 yven ber hong WHERLoCK carcia.

Captain

(Name encrypted in

28 November 1963 (date of cable)

FBI says their follow up investigation of OSWALD's acti

vities has roduced reasonable indications' that he was in New

Orleans on 19 September 1963. This, coupled with earlier evidence

that he was in New Orleans applying for unemployment insurance.on

17 September 1963, means OSWALD would have had to fly to Mexico and

back between 17 and 19 September in order to be at the Cuban Embassy

getting his pay-off, as ALVARADO Claims, on 18 September: With

this added information, believe Mexico can confidently regard

ALVARADO as fabricator and tailor interrogation accordingly:

[DIR 85653, 28. November 1963]

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10.

7.-

28 November 1963

Headquarters informs Mexico that

"1:

We have just heard by phone from KINGMAN,

who is at home, that MEXI, evaluation of ALVARADO

story may have been

seriously warped by a piece

of misinformation which has crept into this

From conversation with your officers,

case:

KINGMAN

has the impression that they believe there is,

other evidence that Lee OSWALD made a bank de-

posit of five thousand dollars in the United

States after he got back from Mexico on 3-October

1963.

This would tend, if true, to corroborate

*ALVARADO's story. that he saw OSWALD get five

thousand

for: the job and fifteen hundred for ex-

penses. KINGMAN thinks he heard that CURTIS

Winston

SCOTT) got the information about

the

bank deposit from an FBI man named Clark:

We know of no such bank deposit and have n

never heard of one. FBI here has just affirmed

they never heard this story. The story of the

deposit of five thousand dollars is therefore

almost certainly erroneous.

Please check it

with FBI there.

We have advised FBI that this

rumor exists in Mexico.

"'3.

1'4.

FBI has just levied on us, official request

for full information on source and origin of

rumor about a five thousand dollar bank deposit!

(DIR 85654, 28 November 1963.]

28 November. 1963

Headquarters stresses to Mexico that "there should

be no let down in your effort to follow all leads and investigate

all facts which bear on this case. We have by no means excluded

the possibility that other as yet unknown persons may have been in-

volved or even that other powers may have played a role. Please

continue all your coverage of Soviet and Cuban installations and

your liaison with Mexicans:

IDIR 85655, 28 November 19631

[Comment.

This remark by Headquarters was in support of its posi

tion in response to Ambassador MANN's earlier message, in which

Headquarters expressed its distinct feeling that "the Ambassador

is pushing this case too hard, and

might well create flap

with Cubans which could have serious repercussions."]

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28. November 1963

Mexico Station requests OPIM authoritization turn ALVARADO

over to Mexican authorities with a brief explanation he claims to

be witness to payoff to OSWALD in Cuban consulate 18 September,

admits is in Mexico illegally, admits Communist Party membership,

admits visits to Soviet Embassy, claims that Cuban consulate now

involved in documenting him with false Mexican papers for travel

to Cuba. Latter point alone would give Mexican authorities good

reason to subject him to detailed interrogation:

[MEXI - 7113 (IN

, 28 November 19631

28 November 1963

Headquarters responded to the Station's request (see.

above) by saying not to turn ALVARADO over to the Mexicans.

TWe.

have officially asked the FBI for their position on this move, and

pending the FBI's answer and our final Consideration, ALVARADO

should not be surfaced to the Mexicans or turned over to them.

11.2 .

Advise us if the FBI in Mexico attempts to get you

to act one way of the other on the question of turning ALVARADO

over to the Mexicans."

Headquarters concludes its message to Mexico by commentine

that Larry KEENAN, an FBI agent, is now in Mexico? He was sent

especially to follow up leads on the entire assassination. Head

quarters asks that the Station cooperate with him fully

DIR 856615, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates by cable to the FBI, State,

and the White House, the information obtained from ALVARADO during

night of 26 November 1963. Information obtained from ALVARADO on

the latter date was forwarded to Headquarters in MEXI-7098 CIN

69127), 27 November 1963. (See appropriate entry above.):

EDIR 85662, 28 November 19631

28. November 1

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28 November 1963

Mexico Station, reports that

!l:

Mr. Clark ANDERSON, Legal Attache, told

the COS and Ambassador MANN. of rumor that

'OSWALD had deposited

five thousand. dollars

in a bank in the United States!:

"2. On 27 November Ambassador in presence

of COS asked ANDERSON

about this

again and

ANDERSON said rumor was on television and

radio in

Mexico:

ANDERSON

said he had no

information from his Headquarters to con-

firm or deny this

He said he would check

his Headquarters.

Cos has not heard rumor regarding five

thousand dollar deposit on television or

rad10, but. feels

sure ANDERSON ór some. of

-his"office did hear this..

This Station had

no additional information

concerning this;

but assume. ALVARADO may have heard same:

radio or television®

basis'

report and thus have had

for five thousand dollar payment.'

IMEXT-7114 (IN 69621) 92

28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

The Managua Station in Nicaragua stated that it had

"1

requested (General Gustavo MONTIEL)*,

coopération Mexico through Major JEREZ and if

possiblé by sending

Captain WHEELOCK)* to

Mexico.

MONTIEL-saïd ALVARADO in Mexico with-

out (Service's) authority and passed off sug

gestion use JEREZ but agreed immediately to

send WHEELOCK.

EWHEELOCK..now..in

process getting

visa and plane reservations

and will probablybe in Mexico

today unless

Headquarters and Mexico wish to cancel.

Even though his story regarding OSWALI

may be false it possible he has been working

other angle to penetrate Cubans and (WHEELOCK)

able to assist in getting facts straight."

[MANA - 4613 (IN 69629), 28 November 1963]

[* General Gustavo MONTIEL, Chief of Intelligence Service,

-Nicaraguan Army.

(Name encrypted in text.)

Major Roger JEREZ Alfaro, Military Attache, Nicaraguan

Embassy, Mexico City:

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, Chief of Anti-

Communist Section of the Office of National Security. (name

encrypted in text.)

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over to Mexican authorities and that the Agency

request Mexican

authorities to interrogate

ALVARADO in detail:

:"2:

The FBI reports that it understands that

Mexican-authorities-have. a capability of poly-

graphing and requests: that the Agency request

Mexican authorities, that he be polygraphed.

"3.

The FBI expressed a desire to have the

results of the interrogation as soon as possible

and that the Legal Attache be kept advised of

developments:

"4. The FBI takes the position that inasmuch as

Silvia DURAN may be released some time today (28

November), according to information which the FBI

has from the Legal: Attache, ALVARADO should be

turned over to the Mexican

as soon

as possible,

so-that their stories can be checked against each

other.

"5. Mexico Station is instructed to carry out the y

FBI's-requests set out above Give full coopera-

tion to the Legal Attache.

[DIR 85663, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Manuagua Station reports that Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK

Garcia, a Captain National, and chief of the Anti Communist Section

of the Office of National Security, will arrive in Mexico at 0945

ón 29 November 1963•

MANA 4614 (IN 68671) 28 November 19631

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates the following to the FBI,

State Department, and White House:

"Acting on a request made to this Agency by

the Federal- Bureau of Investigation on 28

November 1963, our Agency is instructing its

office in Mexico City to turn over Gilberto.

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan informant who claims that

he saw, Leer OSWALD accept six thousand five

hundred dollars in the Cuban

Embassy In Mexico

City on 18 September 1963 to assassinate Presi

dent Kennedy, to officials of the Mexican Minis

try of Government for further interrogation and

investigation.

On 28 November, ALVARADO had

still not changed his story, despite increasing

doubt that it was true. The Nicaraguan Intelli=

gence Service, for which ALVARADO once worked,

is dispatching a senior official to Mexico City

to assist in the interrogation and investigation

atthe discretion of the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation. Notification of the appropriate

Ma

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=-14

Mexican office for the turnover was effected

at 1630 Washington time on 28 November 1963."

(DIR 85666, 28 November 19631

[Comment: This cable is the first time that President Kennedy

was mentioned as the target of OSWALD's alleged mission described

by ALVARADO. The conversation between the red-haired. Negro and

OSIVALD; as reported by ALVARADO, makes no mention of a specific

person.]

2.8 November 1963

Mexico Station requests that a Spanish-speaking poly-

graph operatox be made available for ALVARADO and possibly for

others.

IMEXI - 7120 (IN

3.28 November 19637

28. November 1963

Headquarters responds that there is no Spanish-speaking

polygraph operator

For reasons of security, and compartmenta

tion, prefer not to have Agency operator double

tracked with Mexican operator. Would only con-

fuse the case. Prefer to wait until all Mexi

can resources exhausted before we decide if we

want to resume management of case, including

polygraph:

"3. Seasoned operators available here on short

notice."

(DIR 85667, 28 November 19631

-28 November - 196-3

- Mexico Station reports that

"L COS in contact with acting Minister of

Gobernacion Luis ECHEVARRIA at 1430 hrs Mexi

co City time and ECHEVARRIA grateful that

ALVARADO being turned over to Gobernacion.

"2. ECHEVARRIA was given ALVARADO's present

address

and alias under which he registered.

Mexicans will pick him up and question him

on basis of very brief story given ECHEVARRIA

-by COS.

EMEXI-7124 (IN:

) 28 November 19631

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29 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that the COS is handling the

OSWALD case personally and that continuous liaison with the

Ambassador and the Legal Attache is necessary.

The COS wishes

to control these contacts personally

TMEXI=7126 (IN 70104), 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963'

An official of the Ministry of Covernacion reported to

the Station that ALVARADO claims he present inside the Cuban Em-

bassy, when OswALD given six thousand five hundred dollars.

..The

Station comments that ALVARADO gave the Mexicans the same story

he gave Station officers One difference is that ALVARADO failed

to identify Silvia DURAN from several photographs he was shown.

ALVARADO had identified her when he was being questioned by the

Station

IMEXI-7127 (IN 70145), 29 November 19631

29 November 1963-

Headquarters asks Mexico Station 1. (to) continue

to keep us filled in on status of interrogation of Silvia DURAN,

ALVARADO, and others implicated as fast as you can get information

We have no other ready source of information on these cases. Re-

quest you utilize

capable officer for liaison with Gobernacion to

skim off details and relay them to your office for cabling to us

at regular intervals.

Request status report,

even negative,. by

0900 Mexico time:

Be sure to keep us informed of what information

if any is- leaked to public information medta."

IDIR 85672, 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

In the interest of speed, Headquarters wishes to be

"sure that you are immediately giving the Legal Attache everything

you get about ALVARADQ and DURAN so the Legal Attache in Mexico

City can cable the same data direct to FBI Headquarters.

Please

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(15)

Were there any efforts made to develop an OSWALD/Cuban

connection?

(16) What form did they take?

(17) What exchanges were there with the FBI on this subject?-

(18);

What action developed from these exchanges?

(19)

What records are there on these exchanges and where are

they

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satisfy yourself that the Legal Attache there has adequate commo

facilities and secretarial staff to keep its Headquarters informed

as fast as you keep us informed, and advise us on this.

2. If you find that the Legal Attache

there does not

have adequate commo or staff and wants to rely on us to relay the

material, they may of sourse send messages right through our,

channels, or you can rely on us to relay

the information as we

have been

[DIR 85712, 29 November 19631

29 November: 1963-

stating that=

The Mexico Station responded to the above message by.

The Legal Attache is locally being advised

by COS personally of everything Station learns

concerning OSWALD cáse and, now, on ALVARADO

interrogation.

12. Fell sure that Legal Attache's office, which

älmost same size as the Station, has adequate

staff for reporting needs.

1133

Usual procedure here is that COS notifies

Headquarters,

reports to the Legal Attache and

to the Ambassador orally then subsequently ad

Vises the Legal Attache by memorandum:

Headquarters is assured that all information

known, to Station on these cases

is being given to

them and shortly after information obtained."

MEXT 7128 (IN 70162)r 29 November 19631

29. November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the FBI, State department

and the white House that "The first very sketchy report on the pro

gress of the Mexican official interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

shows he is telling essentially the same story

- The

Mexican official doing the interrogation of ALVARADO says he

"doubts! ALVARADO's story and will begin work to 'break' him."

[DIR: 85744, 29 November 1963]

29: November 1963

Chief of Mexico Station forwards memorandum to Mr. Clark

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D. ANDERSON, Legal Attache, containing the results of three inter-

views, conducted by the local security officer and members of the

Mexican Station on 26 November 1963, of Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO

Ugarte: (See memorandum for complete text. j

29 November 1963;

Official of Ministry, of Gobernacion stated that after

his first session with ALVARADO he believed ALVARADO'S story to be

a fantastic lie; after second session and all previous and interim

interrogations, ALVARADO Sticks to same story on OSWALD. Official

stated "Although this still preliminary, either ALVARADO is telling

the truth essentially. or he is the best liar I have talked to in my

many years and l have talked to some of the biggest. He is in-

clined to believe ALVARADO is telling the truth in general outline,

but believes he is mixed up on dates.

EMEXI-7156 (IN

7, 29 November 19631

29 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that Captain WHEELOCK has arrived

in Mexico City and is staying at the Geneve Hotel

-Ibid.]

29 November 1963

So Captain WHEELOCK meets with official from Ministry of

Gobernacion, he tells the official that ALVARADO has been 75%;

accurate in his reporting and had had access to and furnished good

information on communism in the past.

WHEELOCK said, however,

ALVARADO is inclined to so off on his own"at times and impossible

to control

(MEXI -7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963]

30 November 1963

At 1030 hours (Mexico City time), official from Ministry.

of Gobernacion told the Chief of Station that'ALVARADO has signed

a statement saying that story of seeing OSWALD inside the Cuban

Embassy is completely falses He also stated that he had not

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seen anyone handed money. by Cuban consular officers. He said too

he had not called the U. S. Embassy (as he had previously claimed)

on 20 September to warn them. His first call to the Embassy was

on 25 November, the evening he saw the U.S. Embassy security

officer,

[MEXL-7168-(IN 70860) 30 November 1963J--

30 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that the Legal Attache is being

informed of the above information (as well as other information

contained in MEXI- 7168)

(MEXI-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November: 1963):

30 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates information to FBi, State

Department, and the White House, that ALVARADO admitted his story

was- a fabrication.

[DIR 86063, 30 November 1963)

30 November 1963

Headquarters asks the Station obtain all details on

ALVARADO'S- confession.

The station is asked to "continue to follow

all leads and tips. The question of whether OSWALD acted solely

on his own has still not been finally resolved.

DIR 86064, 30 November 1963}

2 December 1963

Captain WHEELOCK saw ALVARADO during afternoon for first

time. Meeting lasted only seven minutes. In brief interview in

company of two Mexican officials, ALVARADO reverted to his pre-

vious story. He claimed he did see OSWALD, did call the U. s.

Embassy to report. (Embassy investigation does not support latter

statement:. He went to say that he told the Mexicans he was fabri

cating because he was mentally mistreated", 1.e.,,

threatened with

physical harm, although he was not actually physically mistreated.

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WHEELOCK said he unable to come to any definite conclusion as to

ALVARADO's veracity; however, -he would be able to

do so once he re-

turned to Managua and had chance to complete the interrogation.

(NB :

ALVARADO was to be deported to Nicaragua on 4 December.)

MEXE 7203 (IN 71702) 72 December 1963]

3 December 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that although we are

confident that ALVARADO is a fabricator and that his retraction

of his confession is false, it has been decided that he should be

placed on the polygraph.

Headquarters asks that Station arrange

to have ALVARADO to be released to us for several days and ask

WHEELOCK to remain in Mexico to assist

Calvin DAVIS of the office of Security will arrive on

4 December. Polysraph should be administered in safehouse and all

sessions should be recorded. DAVIS will be in charge of the poly-

graph interview, however, he will be assisted by Clark ANDERSON,

who has been selected here as interpreter.

The FBI will notify

ANDERSON of this

The idea is that ANDERSON would be able to tes-

tity at any later hearing.

[DIR 86563, 3 December 1963]

3 December 1963

ECHEVARRIA, acting minister of Gobernacion, agrees to

permit the cos to "borrow"' ALVARADO. Station submits plan for

handling LAVARADO:

-a, Clark ANDERSON and Joe GARCIA of Legal Attache

office, to, pick up ALVARADO from Gobernacion.

b. ALVARADO WITI be taken to safehouse or hotel

suite.

C." ANDERSON TO GARCIA will act as interpreters

d. Plan-to-"borrow" ALVARADO early morning of

5 December and return him that evening.

MEXI 7229: (IN 72877) • 3 December 1963]

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4' December 1963

Headquarters approves Station's plan and adds that the

"exact role of the FBI men is up to their local chief

The FBI has specified that Mr. ANDERSON act as their participant

in the interrogation and any variance should have approval of Mr.

ANDERSON.

(DER 86621, 4 December 1963}

5 December 1963

More plans by Station for interrogation of ALVARADO.

[MEXT -7256 (IN 74273), 5 December 19631

5 December 1963

Mexican Station forwards copies of Mexican interrogation-

report on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte:

Station notes that a copy of

this report was handed to the Legal Attache.

[HMMA -22561, 5 December 19631

5 December 1963

Preliminary questioning of ALVARADO took place.:

IMEXI 7267 (IN 74696), 6 December 1963)

6 December 1963

ALVARADO submitted to examination by polygraph. The

results of this examination indicated that he was fabricating his

story. Interrogation revealed that ALVARADO was unsure, as to the

day of the week he allegedly saw OSWALD:

He thinks it was on Tues-

day which would have been 17 September.

When ALVARADO was shown

a series of photographs during the testing, deception patterns

became evident. When he was, contrinted with this he answered that

he had the utmost confidence in the polygraph and that it must be

correct.

The interrogation was concluded with ALVARADO admitting

he must have made "honest mistake" in-relating original story in

his identification of OSWALD

ALVARADO to be held by the Mexicans until 9 December.

[MEXI-7289 (IN 75588), 7 December 1963]

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7 December 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters cables a dissemination to the FBI on the

results of the examination by polygraph of Giberto ALVARADO.

"The re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

Nicaraguan informant who claimed to have

seen Lee OSWALD receive money to assassinate

Kennedy, has been concluded. - Our Mexico

-City-Station advises-us that ALVARADO- admitted

he must have been mistaken in saying that he

saw OSWALD in the Cuban Embassy.

Also, he-was

uncertain of the date on which he might have

seen someone like OSWALD and thought

been on a Tuesday, which would have made

it 17 September 1963.

Although the final

report of the polygraph interview is

not yet

available, the preliminary finding is that

ALVARADO evidenced deception reactions when

talking about OSWALD.

"It is expected that ALVARADO will be deported

4 to Nicaragua on 9 December 1963:

A representative of your Bureau participated

in the interrogation of ALVARADO:

[DIR 87667, 7 December 1963]

7 December: 1963

An official of the Ministry of Gobernacion advised the

Chief of Station that ALVARADO will be returned to Managua by

TAGA flight no. 773 leaving Mexico at 0930 hours on 8 December.

(MEXI-7290 (IN 75835) 7- December 1963]-

13 December 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters forwards a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on Gilberto ALVARADO to the FBi

Attached is a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on. Gilberto

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD accept $6500 in the Cuban Embassy

in Mexico City to assassinate President

Kennedy.

The report states that ALVARADO re

tracted these assertions and admitted. that he

made them to induce the U.S:

stronger

action against Cuba.

"2c The two persons whom ALVARADO metrand to

whom he first

told his story are undoubtedly

officers of this Agency. His claim that they

used FBI credentials is,

of course,

absolutely

false Our officers use no credentials in

Mexico City

"13.

As you know, ALVARADO retracted the con-

fession of fabrication which he made to the

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Mexican police and had to be reinterro-

gated by representatives of this Agency

and your Bureau.

This later interroga-

tion showed that he was probably lying.

[SCI 3/779,136 13- December 1963.

"Comment:

Translation was

made of the Mexican police report. forwarded to Headquarters as

an attachment to HMMA-22561, 5 December 1963.)1

31 January 1964*

The Agency forwärds a memorandum to the Warren Commission

enclosing a presentation of the information developed by CIA on "or

about Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. A summary of the informa-

tion relating to the monetary payment to OSWALD and the investiga-

tion of this allegation appears on pages ilthrough 14 of the en-

closure

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; subject

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963:1

21 April 1964

The General Counsel, J. Lee RANKIN, of the Warren Commis

sion forwards the following memorandum to the Deputy Directer for

Plans:

On behalf of the Commission I would like

to thank you and your representatives for the

fine cooperation which was extended to represen

tatives of the Commission during the course of

their work in Mexico City from April 8 through

Apri1 13, 1964.

Tam informed that Mr. SCOTT,

the Chief of your Station in Mexico City, was

particularly generous with his time and advice

and, in fact, contributed greatly to the success

of our mission in Mexico.

"During

their stay in Mexico City

the

Commission representatives discussed with

Mr. SCOTT and agents of the Federal Bureau

of. Investigation that portion of the Lee

Harvey OSWALD investigation which concerned

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.

We are aware, of

course, from previous reports that the allega-

tions made by ALVARADO were thoroughly inves-

tigated by Central Intelligence Agency and

Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives

in Mexico City in liaison with the responsible

law enforcement.

authorities

Reference

made to the discussion of these allegations in

your

memorandum" dated

January 31, 1964

at pages

11 ÷ 14.

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"Upon review of our complete file on

this matter, we find that we lack full docu-

mentation

of the investigation conducted of

these allegations.

It would be helpful if

our récords could be supplemented by a report

from your Agency supplying more details re-

garding the investigation undertaken by your

Agency and other concerned

Agencies into this

matter and your evaluation as

to the truth of

ALVARADO's assertions.

In particular

it would

be helpful if a report could be submitted by

the expert who conducted the polygraph exami-

nation which emphasizes the specific conclusions

which he made based on the responses by ALVARADO

in answering key questions on this matter.

[Letter to Mr. Richard Helms, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 2i April 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. 14

1 June 1964

In response to the above letter from the General Counsel

of the Warren Commission, the Agency forwarded by memorandúm the

texts of the following disseminations relative to ALVARADO that

were made to other U.S. Government agencies:

OUT Teletype No:

dated 26 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

•OUT: Teletype No.

85199, dated

27 November 1963,

-Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

OUT Teletype No: 85662, dated

28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

OUT Teletype No:

86068,

• dated 30 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO:

OUT Teletype No.

85666

dated 28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

Memorandum, dated 12 [sic

- 13) December 1963;

Subject:

Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO:

dated 7 December 1963,

"Subject

Memorandum for Mr.-J. Lee RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964, from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte: 1:

13 October 1964

The General Counsel forwards the following letter to

the Honorable John A. McCONE, DCI:

We are enclosing a copy of your SECRET document

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dated: January 31, 1964, concerning informa-

tion developed by CIA on

the activity of

Lee Harvey ÖSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September

3 October 1963.

"We have deleted all references to the Secret

Agent by the marking, "D".

Since this

ment was cited in our summary report,

requesting your authority to publish

If this is not agreeable, may we

have a synopsis of this document which may be

published:4

[Letter to John A. MCCONE, Director, Central Intelligence

Agency, dated 13 October 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General

Counsel. Enclosures:

Commission Documents 347 and 1084-1

20 October 1963

The Deputy Director for Plans forwards a memorandun

to the General-Counsel of the Warren Commission in response to

the latter's letter of 13 October 1964.

The Commission's Report (pages 307-308)

contains information furnished by this Agency

in memoranda dated 31 January and 1 June, 1964

Since- both include information relative to in-

telligence methods and operations which should

not be placed in the public domain, I suggest

the use of the revised and consolidated ver

sions dated 4 June 1964 which is forwarded as

an attachment.!!

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 20 October: 1964

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plàns.]

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