REPORT:LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA/DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 11/26/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA. This list does not include disseminations or memoranda

on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte and Silvia Tirado de DURAN. These two leads have been

treated separately ulsewhere in this study

2. Each document is listed chronologically in the first column with an indication of

the type of document involved loUT Teletype Message; PRECTOR cable disseminated

by electrical means; CSCI dissemination - through regulat liaison chapels, or

memorandum. Following the subject of the document therefts an appropriate excerpt

from the document.

3. An asterisk in the column headed by (A) indicatos that the lead originated in CIA,

either in the field of headquarters.

4. An abbreviation of a component of the U.S. Government in the column headed by (B)

was ashes than the

dicates that the originator of the lead when dot CIA and that the later

responded to the originator. An entry appearing in both columns indicates that

a U.S. representative abroad passed the lead in the field to the local CIA

station, representalive:

5 .

The last column indicates which component(s) received copies of the DIA dissemina-

tion or memorandum..

Th, entry appearing in brackets indicates the recipient) re-

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26 November 1963

DIR 85069

Subject: Travel of Pro-Communist Costa Rican

Congressman to Texas on 26 November 1963.

"A usually reliable source reported on 26 November 1963, that Julio SUNOL

Leal, pro-communist, pro-Castro deputy to the Costa Rican National Assem-

SUNOL delayed his de-

"Representatives of this Agency in Costa Rica suspect that SUNOL will try

to gather data in Texas to use in pro-communist/Castro propaganda in con-

nection with the assassination of President Kennedy.

26 November 1963 DIR 85176

Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD.:

"The following information on Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD,

wife of Lee Harvey

OSWALD, was volunteered by Moroccan student Mohammed REGGAB! born on 3

January 1938 in Safi, Morocco.

REGGAB is now living at Nuernbergerstr.

19, West Berlin:

matography

REGGAB was

a student at the Moscow. Institute of Cine-

•from September 1960 to April 1962.

1963

as.a student

and

He came to Berlin in April

on 26 November colunteered the following informa-

tion on

Mrs. OSWALD, who had been one of his girl friends in Mescow.

identified her on the basis of a

He

appeared in the 25 Movemen i see meriter name, larina, which

"REGGAB makes a favorable impression and is available for further ques-

tioning. "

26 November 1963 DIR 85177

Suits and on in WE a PresIdent

"Following is account of telephone conversation between Cuban President

Osvaldo DORTICOS in Havana and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico in Mexico City at 0940 hours Mexico City Time on 26 November

1963 as reported from sensitive source."

(See Chronological Summary on

Silvia Tirado de DURAN.)

FBI

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House; Secret Service

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27 November 1963 CSCI-3/778,881

Subject:

Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in

Mexico City, 18 - 24 November 19634

"1.

Forwarded as Attachment A is a resume of the observed activities of

Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV and Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERIEV as reported

by a reliable source in Mexico City. Attention was given to KOSTIKOV

because of the indication that he is the consul who interviewed OSWALD

on 28 September 1963 ...

ALFERIEV travelled with KOSTIKOV to nor-

thern Mexico during the early part of September 1963.

that during the period under review the observed activities of KOSTIKOV

and ALFERIEV appeared to be normal, as did the activities of the entire

Soviet Embassy complement.

Forwarded as Attachment B is a resume of telephone calls placed to

and from the Soviet Embassy on the afternoon of 22 November. Analysis of

calls made the morning of 22 November and the morning and afternoon of 23

November revealed no pertinent information."

27 November 1963

DIR 85182

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

On.23 November 1963, Richard Thomas GIBSON, who was acquainted with

Lee Harvey OSWALD, made the following statements to a close friend in

Bern, Switzerland:

"OSWALD is 'one of us'.

Iwo years ago OSNALD and GIBSON; corresponde

and OSWALD became a member of the Committee (presumably the Fai

Play for Cuba Committee). OSWALD is crazy.

GIBSON burned all of his

correspondence with OSWALD.

GIBSON is glad that he (GIBSON) is not

in New York now and he feels sorry for

Lee' who is in New York and

'Tibor'.

"3. According to other information available to our representative in

Bern, Richard Thomas GIBSON, born 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles, Lalifornia,

has resided in Lausanne, Switzerland, since April 1963.

journalist and has been

active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee since

its organization in 1960.

In Switzerland he has been involved in the

puhlication La Revolution Africaine."

FBI

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House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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26 November 1963 DIR

85246

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

"On 26 November, Dr. Jose Guillermo AGUIRRE of Mexico told the following

information to Peter MORAGA, United States Information Servite officer in

Mexico City:

"Maria Rodriguez de LOPEZ, said a son-in-law of hers.

Arnesto

RODRIGUEZ, who lives in New Orleans was well acouainted with Lee OswaLD.

Son-in-law is a Cuban who lives at 212 Jefferson Parrish, New Orleans,

tel:

• Arnesto RODRIGUEZ runs a Spanish languige school

is anti-Castro.

Vernon 5-9658° accordine to Maria Rodriaguez de LopEz her son-in-

law has a taped conversation with OSWALD."

/27 November 1963

Blind Memorandum Subject: Yuriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV.

"After examining all our traces on KOSTIKOV, we are convincad beyond

reasonable doubt that he is a staff officer of the KGB.

Contributing

to this conclusion are his associates, his movements, his Mexican and

other contacts and his cover position, as well as his involvement in

the TUMBLEWEED operation.

"KOSTIKOV's involvement in TUMBLEWEED is our only reason to believe that

he is connected with the 13th Department.

KOSTIKOV was in clandestine

contact with TUMBLEWEED (as definitely confirned by TUMBLEWEBD's photo

identification) and arranged TUMBLEWEED's contact in the U.S. with a KGB

colleague of KOSTIMOV's."

28 November 1963 DIR 85657

Subject: None given.

MOn: 26 November 1963 a British journalist named John WILSON"

and also

Known as John WILSON-HUDSON, gave information to the American Embassy

in london which indieated that an

'American gangster-type named RUGY

visited Cuba around 1959.

WILSON himself was working in Cuba at the

time and was jailed by Castro before he was deported.

"In prison in Cuba, WILSON says he met an.Aherican gangster gambler

named SANTOS who could not return to the USA because there were several

indictments outstanding against him. Instead he preferred to live in

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relative luxury in a Cuban prison. While SANTOS was in prison, wILSON

says, SANTOS was visited frequently by an American gangster-type named

RUBY. His story is being followed up.. WILSON says he had ottee testi-

fied about Castro activities before the Eastland Committee of the U.S.

Senate, sometime in 1959 or 1960."

28 November 1963 DIR 85665

Subject: None given.

'Our Station in The Hague has reported that on 23 November 1963, a local

Castroite named Maria SNETHLAGE talked to Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS

of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague and said that she knew the 'Mr. LEE'

(sic] who murdered President Kennedy, She characterized 'LEB' as a man

full of hate and violence, and speculated that he had been misused by a

She said she had written to GIBSON (undoubtedly Richard GIBSON,

Infer we had Lausand the ether recently and was in contact not

with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy).

SANTOS and said that

"Mr. LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committeel had

been slandered.

SVET are Eed ot da hand secretary

It was another person, 'naned Lee OSWALD', who had done

it.

SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba in January and again in

May 1963.

"ack authoritie have inferne, on hat

in talking about

to be more precise, SANTOS had replied 'just wait, just wait. SANTOS is

reported to have a pro-Castro brother in the U.S.A.

"A very sensitive source reports that

after his conversations with SNETH.

LAGE, SANTOS was furious because she had

not contacted him.",

28 November 1963 DIR 85676

Subject: Travel of Soviet Diplomatic Couriers.

"1. Reference is made to your teletype of 8 November 1963 concerning the

travel to Mexico of Soviet diplomatic couriers Valentin Germanovich

PONOMAREV and Aleksey. Nikolayevich POPKOV:

FBI, State, White

House,

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[Warren Commission]

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"2.

According to our representative in Mexico City, PONOMAREV and POPKOV

left Mexico City for Cuba on 12 November via

Cubana 465 and returned to

Mexico City on 18 November via Cubana.

A usually reliable and sensitive source reported that they probably

left Mexico City for New York on 23 November via Aeronaves Flt 451. The

same source reported that one 'ANANYEV! (phonetic) of the Soviet Consulate

in New York contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City on 23 November and

requested information on which flight the couriers were taking.

Assistant

Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV provided the

of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City."

information on behalf

29 November 1963

DIR 85691

Subject: None given.

Your attention is called to a series of anonymous telephone calls

the late President Kennedy.

Our first record of this matter is a Naval

Attache cable from Canberra sent on 24 November 1963.

"8.

Australian authorities working on this case consider the called to be

They state that Soviet offices in Australia do nöt use anything

ersoviet chauffeurs; they have no record of their using a Polish chau-

ffeur.

They are continuing their investigation."

29 Növember 1963 DIR 85715

Subject: Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Information gathered from various foreign sources regarding the travel

of Lee Harvey OSWALD and his wife in 1959 and 1962.

29. November 1963 DIR 85770

Subject: None given.

On 1 November 1963, a U.S. Army Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, serial number

Headquarters Company, YeS. Army General Depot thou leance. He vasunit,

leadquarters Company, U.S. Army

scheduled for a psychiatric examination that same day. He apparently

entered Switzerland using a false Army identification card with forged

travel orders.

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Army

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White

House, Secret Service

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House, Secret Service

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On 6 and 7 November 1963 he appeared in the Press Room of United

Nations Office in Geneva and told reporters he was being per$ecuted. He

also wished to alert the world to the U. S. Government propaganda cam-

paign'. Army reports show that he voluntarily returned to his unit in

Metz on or about 11 November 1963.

Around 26 November 1963, after President Kennedy had been assassina-

ted, a Geneva journalist named Alex des FONTAINES, stringer for Time-Life

correspondent for Radio Canada, was reported to be filing a story to

the Paris office of Time-Life recounting Private DINKIN's vidit to Geneva

and quoting DINKIN as having said that "they' were plotting against Presi-

dent Kennedy and that 'something' would happen in Texas. Des, FONTAINES

had been prompted to do this by an unidentified female reporter who had

recalled such statements by DINKIN; des. FONTAINES thought he recalled he

had heard DINKIN say something like that also, and although he did not

really believe that DINKIN had grounds for his statements when he made

them, he filed the story just to be sure.

"5.

All aspects of this story were known,

as reported abovel by u.s.

military authorities and have been reported by military attache cable

through military channels."

30 Novemher 1963 " CSCI-3/778,894 Subject: Lee H. OSWALD:

Attached is an article which appeared on page 2 of the 29 November

1963 Issue of the Washington Daily News.

The article contails informa-

tion which implies that two persons might have been involved in the as-

sassination of President Kennedy:

The Washington Daily News article also states that the full-page

the ad, and that WEISSMAN resided in Dallas at a small apartment house.

The article indicates . . . that he roomed with one William BURLEY, •

"3.

The records of this office contain information about one Bill BURLEY,

a U.S. Air Force Tech SergeanElvities.

stationed in Libia in 1958 who may have

involved in nafarious

You are referred to the Office of

Special Investigations, USAF, for possible additional information.

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Our information indicates that BURLEY had contact with (foreign]

persons whose activities seem to have been questionable.

"6. The above information is provided as a result of a preliminary check

of our records.

The records of this office contain no additional informa-

tion which at this time can be identified as pertaining to the persons who

might be identical with the men who placed the newspaper ad lor to

persons

who might have been in contact with them."

3 December 1963

DIR 86496

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"On the question of why Lee OSWALD felt that he could not get his Mexican

visa extended without using his real name,

the following may be germane:

Mexican immigration records checked by the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo

and reported through the U.S. Embassy to both out office and yours,

showed

that Lee OSKALD entered Mexico on 26 September 1963 using the name HARVEY

OSWALD LEE.

It may be that OSWALD feared that any attempt to extend his

visa would

in discovery that he was in the country under a false

name; he might have had to show some identification to get the visa exten-

and he probably had no documentation in the name of HARVEY OSWALD

FBI

4 December 1963

DIR 86702

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Records of the Foreigners Records Office of the German Federal Republic

in Cologne, Germany,

show that Marina Nikolayevna PUSAKOVA OSWALD crossed

West Germany from

East Germany to Holland on 3 June 1962.

She traveled

crossing

Holland

by railry rail at the Bentheim crossing point..

into West Germany at Helmstedt on 3 June ald entering

She had West German visa

694/62 issued at the West German Embassy in Moscow. She listed her final

destination as U.S.A.'

Comment: This confirms information from the u.s.

Embassy in Moscow to the effect that the OSWALD family traveled from Mes-

cow to Rotterdam by rail around 3. June 1962. Helmstedt and Bentheim are

on the main rail route from Russia to Rotterdam.

While Lee OSWALD himself

and their infant daughter are not recorded in German records this probably

because little attention is paid to U.S. citizens and to infants in keep-

ing travel records."

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House, Secret Service

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5 December 1963 .

DIR 87189

Subject: None given.

111.

We have learned that on 3 December 1963,

a. known Soviet intelligence

officer in New Delhi,

India, working through

Indian communists, attempted

to have a number of telegrams sent to President JOHNSON, Chief Justice

WARREN, and Attorney General KENNEDY from Indian youth,

legal, and other

groups, demanding a full probe into the assassination of President John F•

Kennedy Apparently the Soviet officer undertook to pay for all

the tele-

grams; he said the whole scheme was based on orders from Moscow'-

Note: To| check on this story and to detect similar activity from

other areas, this Agency would

appreciate receiving data on any such tele

grams which

have been received."

6 December 1963

DIR 87520

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Reference is made to our OUT Telegram no.

86702 of 4 December 1963 which

gave

information on the travel of Marina OSWALD. (and presumably also Lee

Harvey OSWALD and their daughter) across West Germany on their return

from the Soviet Union.

Information now avallable from Dutch authorities

seems to confirm this.

On 3 June 1962 one M. OSVALD, listed, as a male

Russian

point.

Comment ente is believed that the isting the person as dea

It is believed that the ltsting of this person as a male

instead of female was just an error of the border officials i Note that

Oldenzaal is opposite Bentheim, the German border point where Marina

OSWALD deft Germany."

9 December

1963 • DIR 87731

Subject:

Richard BEYMER, American Movie Actor,

in Touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City.

"1.

The Mexico City

News of 5 December

1963 carried a picture of Richard

BEYMER, American movie actor, who was a delegate to the Film Festival be:

ing held in Acapulco.

"2. BEYMER was in touch with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on 2 Decem-

ber, and a person believed to be BEYMER wa's in touch with the Embassy on

3n November.

le wanted to speak to Silvia. DURAN, Who was not at the Em

assy. Another employee told him that no reply had been received from

Cuba.

FBI, State, White

House

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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"3:

This office has no information on BEYMER.

"4.

DURAN is the Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy with whom Lee H.

OSWALD was in touch regarding a visa for Cuba.

This information is for your use only and may not be disseminated

without permission from

this Agency."

9 December 1963

DIR 87796

Subject: None given.

The American Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden,

has received a letter

mailed 25 November 1963 in Stockholm alleging that the assassination of

President Kennedy was arranged by the Red Chinese.

The letter purports

to be from one

Ryo Liang Yuan of the Red Chinese Embassy in

Stockholm,

but no such official is assigned there and there is no record of Chinese

official by this name anywhere abroad.

"2. The letter is written in broken English and stated that the Chinese

communists got in contact with OSWALD when he was in the Soviet Union.

Vhen OSWALD returned to the U.S.A, the Red Chinese re-contacted him.

hreatened to expose him if he did not cooperate.

The Red Chinese ex

pected that the U.S. would attack Cuba when it learned that the assassin

sympathizer.

The Soviets would then attack the U.s.A.,

Red Chinese would ask the Soviets for atomic weapons, the Communist Bloc

would win the war, the Chinese Reds would then assassinate KHRUSHCHEV and

take over control.

113. The writer said he worked for the 'Department of State Secret', but

no department by

this name is known in the Chinese Communist Government.

Our Station in Stockholm judges this to

be a crank letter.The original

letter is being sent here for analysis."

11 December 1963 TDCSDB-3/658,408 Subject: Comments of Soviet Official regarding

Moscow Views: on International/Situation fol-

lowing Death of President Kennedy, 2. Resump-

tion of Disarmament Talks:

"The Soviet official was recently on a trip home and returned from Moscow

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to Geneva about the end of November.

cussed political topics with him, asked about the reaction in Moscow to

he death of President Kennedy the Soviet official immediately launched

into lengthy commentary. It may be that subsource's ready fisponses and

apparent spontaneity resulted from a repition of widely held views. How-

ever,

considering his position it seems more likely

that his comments were

intended for western consumption..

12 December 1963 CSCI-3/779,048 Subject: WILSON, Carlos John with aliases.

Compilation of information from Agency files regarding Carlos John WILSON

also known as John WILSON-HUDSON and John Hudson WILSON.

12 December 1963 • DIR 88643

subject:

Assassination of President Kennedy

legedly Part of Plot against all Democratic

Presidents.

111.

An undated letter,

sent to U.S. Ambassador Raymon TELLES, U.S. Em-

San Jose, Costa Rica, refers to the assassination of President

bassedy as part of a general plan to exterminate all the presidents of

the democratic world.

The writer of the letter, Rodrigo C, identifies

himself as

a Costa Rican of Marxist-Leninist ideals, whose assignment is

the assassination of President ORLICH of Costa Rica and Foreign Minister

ODUBER of Costa Rica.

The envelope in which the letter arrived is post-

marked 28 November

1963,

from Heredia, Costa Rica. The letter is believed

to be the work of a crank."

16 December 1963

CSCI-3/779,135

Subject: Peter DERYABIN's Comments on the

Kennedy Assassination.

"1. Attached for your perusal are the written comments of KGB defector

Peter DERYABIN on some aspects of the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy•

As you know, DERYABIN defected from the KGB about ten years ago,

and his personal knowledge is not up to date, but he has stayed in touch

with Soviet intelligence developments to the

best of his ability.

His

comments on how Lee OSWALD and his wife must have been handled by Soviet

intelligence authorities while they were inside the Soviet Union are par-

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ticularly interesting and his suggestions for the questioning of Mrs.

Marina OSWALD are equally provocative.

We have decided to pass on his views without editing,

and this Agency

does not specifically endorse his conclusions or recommendations."

18 December 1963

DIR 89970

Subject

Lee OSWALD. Case.

"Reference is made to our OUT Telegram no. 85182 of 27 November 1963.

Richard Thomas! GIBSON, U.S. citizen who was once

associated with the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee in New York was interviewed in

early December 1963

by a ll.S. Consular officer in Paris, France, to see if he had information

on Lee OSWALD.

GIBSON said he had never

known any one by that name hut

mentioned the following two possibilities:

"GIBSON was very cooperative and said his association with the publication

'Revolution' was for purely economic reasons."

27 December 1963 CSCI-3/779,297 Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy.

"1. Reference is made to a report passed by a field office of this Agency

to your office in Miami on 7 December 1963, stating that the assassination

of President. Kennedy had been arranged in Cuba by the Cuban government and

the Chinese communists.

The report mentioned the names of fnu SAAVEDRA,,

Ramon B. CORTES, Fernandez FETTO

, and Robert INIETO.: The renot was not

disseminated by

our Headquarters because we wished to check it'

"2.

the report is still seriously in doubt.

Accordingsto him

(sourcel, the statements about the assassination being a Cuban and Chinese

communist plot were made by one Raul SAAVEDRA.:

who he says is a high Cuban

government official.: We have not yet been able to identify him.

"3.

We have not been in direct physical contact with our source since his

initial report on this topic.

As soon

as we can talk to him personally,

we will try to get more

information,

but we doubt whether this can be ar

ranged in the near future.

We wish

to point out that this source has in

the past produced several reports of a sensational' nature which turned out

to be untrue. We do not believe he deliberately submitted false informa-.

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tion, but he appears to be unable in some cases to evaluate information

properly."

27 January 1964 CSCI-3/779,729:

Subject: The Assassination of President Kennedy-

111.

In connection with

our efforts to check possible relatives of Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD, nee PRUSAKOVA, widow of the suspected assassin of

President KENNEDY,

Lee Harvey OSWALD, our attention was drawn to one

Lyudmila Nikolayevna PRUSAKOVA, who was one of 28 Soviet students invited

by the Scotish Union of Students to visit England as tourists in May 1960.

A visa application competed by PRUSAKOVA on 17 March 1960, copy of which

has been acquired from the British internal services, disclosed the fol-

lowing background information:

While there is no indication that PRUSAKOVA is related to Marina

Nikolayevna OSWALD, your Bureau may wish to discuss this information with

Marina OSWALD because of such possibility..

In the event that PRUSAKOVA is

related to (or known to) Marina OSWALD, we would appreciate being so ad-

FBI

30 January 1964

CSCI -3/779,814

subject:

Jack L. RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD -

Victim Civil Rights.

"1. Reference is made to your memorandum of ? January 1964, subject as

above,

concerning a report of a visit to Cubain early 1963 made by Jack'

L. RUBY, assassin of Lee Harvey OSWALD. :

This Agency

has received a simi-

lar report from a sounce to the effect that RUBY was in Havana in late

1962 or in early 1963.

Our source stated that following indi

vidual could verify the above information:

"Evidio Bernardo PEREIRA Açosta

(whose)

addressias of

September 1963 was 821 SW 2nd Street, Miami, Florida.

"2.

We suggest that your Bureau may prefer to interview PEREIRA Acosta:

We would appreciate receiving the results of your interview of

PEREIRA Acosta.

Your Bureau will be advised in the event we receive fur

ther information relating to this matter."

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CSCI-3/779,817

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

31 December

subject as above,. enclosed is the requested

information from the files of

on them cho the bunit gone on:

FBI:

14 February 1964 CSCI-3/779,988 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD

Subsequent to the preparation of our CSCI-3/179,817, dated 4 February

subject as ahove,

dated 31 December 1963,

in response to your communication DL 100-10461,

file number (S) 105-82555, additional information

on the subject has come to our attention.: This information was received

from your office in your communication BA 59901, dated 20 December 1963.

It is repeated below for the convenience of your personnel involved in the

OSWALD case.

18 February 1964.

FBI

Your memorandum dated 6 December 1963,

file DL 100-10461,

lists 47 photographs which vere among the éffects of lee Harvey OSWALD,

and made available to your Bureau by

•• • Of/the Dallas Police Depart-

It appears that most of the photographs were taken in the

USSR and depict Soviet contacts of OSWALD or scenes in the Soviet Union.

In connection with our efforts to assist the PresidentIs Commission

on the Assassination of President Kennedy by providing information which

might be helpful in interpreting available materials relating to OSWALD's

activities abroad, we would appreciate receiving at your eatliest conven-

ience one copy of

each of these photographs, or exemplars, from which we

can make copies.

18 February 1964

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. HUGHES, The Director of Intelligence

and Research,

Department of State.

Subject:

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

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[DDP: 4-0864]

"1.

In a document entitled Historic Diary' there appears an

entry

which refers to

"an

elderly American'. The entry is under the date 26

October 1959 when OSWALD was allegedly confined in an unidentified Moscow

hospital.

It is apparent that every effort should be made to iden-

tify the elderly American, if he existed.'

We assume the lead is

still outstanding. It is our recommendation that the Department of State

urgently request through its channels a careful search of Embassy and Con-

sular records in Moscow which might reveal the Identity of an elderly

American hospitalized at the end of October 1959 and possibly registered

with the Embassy as a tourist. An independent confirmation of this de-

tail could be of freat significance in validating the entries of OSWALD's

'Historic Diary' and would possibly lead to the development of additional

information on OSWALD's stay in the USSR."

Nois

19 February 1964

• Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Cuban Consulate and Embassy in Mexico City®

[DDP 4-4581]

"1.

Reference is made to your letter of 10 February 1964, telative to in-

formation supplied by this Agency on the activities of lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City . ..

"3. We surmise that the reference in OSWALD's letter of 9 November to a

man who had

since been replaced must refer to Cuban Consul Busebio AZCUE,

who left Mexico for Cuba on

permanent transfer on 18 November 1963,

four

days before the assassination.:

AZCUE had been in Mexico for eighteen

years and it was known (to us) as early as September 1963 that he was

he replaced.

His replacement did arrive in September. : AZCUE was schedu

led to leave in October but did not leave until 18 Novemberl

"4. We do not know who might have told OSWALD that AZCUE or any other

Cuban had been or was to be replaced, but we speculate that Silvia DURAN

or some Soviet official might have mentioned it if OSWALD complained about

AZCUF's altercation with him."

20 February 1964 CSCI-3/779,988

P. C.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

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Concerning the entry on

SETYAEV - Radio Moscow

, page 63 of OSWALD's address book:

a report from your office dated 20 December

1963, subject: Lillie May RAHM, Contains the following information:

Annette (nee ZUGOFF) SETYAEVA, " • Is married to a Leo SETYAEV who -

worked for Radio Moscow;

5 March 1961 Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB

Relative to Marina OSWALD.

[DDP 4-1171]

On 26 November 1963, Mohammed REGGAB, a Moroccan student in West Ber-

lin, made a statement that he could supply information on a Marina Niko-

lovna' who he asserted was identical with Mrs. Marina OSWALD. The attach-

ment is a summary of our findings in regard to REGGAB's allegation.

report covers investigation including polygraphing in Berlin and inquiries

conducted in Morocco during the period 26 November 1964 to 1 March 1964.

It is our conclusion that REGGAB's story of his acquaintance with

Mrs:

Marina OSWALD is a fabrication."

20 March 1964

CSCI - 3/780,612

Subject: Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy.

In the course of our research of files pertaining to areas of the

USSR in which Lee Harvey OSWALD allegedly resided, a photograph of an in-

dividual closely resembling OSWALD was uncovered.

"2. Dur files indicate that this photograph (Attachment A) came from a

color transparency taken in Minsk, USSR,

on or about 11 August 1961, by

an American

tourist, Mrs. Monica F. KRAMER, whose address atthe time was

P. D. Box 985,

Solvang,

California.

Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN, both of whom are United States citizens,

were contacted hy this Agency on a one-time basis, following/their return

from their. tour of the USSR.

KRAMER,

• furnished this Agency with 160 color transparen-

cies taken during the trip.

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interviews of Mrs. KRAMER and Miss NAMAN by your office might possibly

provide ....

27 March 1964

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".

IDDP 4-1606]

"2..

We have received a report that the hospital to which OSWALD was taken

by Soviet authorities after the suicide attempt mentioned in his

Diary' may have been the Botkinskaya Hospital in Moscow.

1962 Moscow telephone directories for Organizations and Institutions,

a hospital named:S. P. Botkina. Our specialists advise that a native of

Moscow would normally refer to this hospital as the 'Botkinskaya'...It is

said to be the hospital to which foreigners and diplomatic personnel are

generally taken in the event of an emergency or serious illness, and the

building or wing of the hospital is reported to be especially designated

for this purpose.

have been patients at the

contained in your files or those of your Embassy in Moscow."

31 March 1964

Subject:.

Memorand A Wiles en one Counce and Marina

Nikolevna OSWALD.

(DDP 4-1655]

"1. Reference is made to the second paragraph of your memorandum dated 12

February 1964,

and the second paragraph of your memorandum of 16. March

1964

Service.

relative to disseminations of information made by CIA to the Secret

"3. Attached to this memorandum are exact copies of two teletyped messa-

ges relative to the travels and activities of the OSWALDs (Attachments A

•. • In Attachment C. OUT Teletype: no. 85715.

are found refer-

to two other teletyped messares (OUT no. 85182 and OUT no.

which describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON, •

Paraphrases of no.

85162 and no. 85665 are included as Attachments D and E.''

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3: April 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel

Richard Thomas GIBSON®

ADDP 4-16991

Attached to this memorandum is the exact text of OUT Teletype no.

89970, dated 18 December 1963, which contains the report of an interview

with GIBSON held by a U.S. consular officer in Paris.

This message was'

disseminated to the White House, Department of State, Federal. Bureau of

Investigation, with a copy to the Secret Service."

7 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Mohammed REGGAB

(DDP 4-1786]

REGGAB has not written since his return

i has ditten since i ate one me apparents has net

to Morocco, and

apparently

come back to Berlin.

Knowledgeable sources which are usually reliable

state that, as of 10 March, REGGAB has not fulfilled the legal formalities

required of foreigners arriving in that city. It is apparent therefore.

that he has not returned to Berlin."

20 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Report Pertaining to Allegations Concerning Anton

ERDINGER.

[DDP 4-1997]

"1. We have studied the

report forwarded by your letterlof 26 March

A review of CIA files reflects no pertinent data on theliprincipals

involved.

State

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_report) was under investigation in 1963 by|West German

authorities. He was a journalist and correspondent for an Fist Berlin.

radio station.

The basis for, and the outcome of, the investigation is

not reflected in CIA files.

However, In vlew of the peripheral nature

of

his involvement in the matter being considered,

, his activities are be-

lieved to have little or no bearing on the investigation."

24 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Lydia DIMYTRUK; Acquaintance of Marina OSWALD.

[DDP 4-2099]

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"1.

Reference is made to the report of Special Agent Robert P. GEMBERLING

dated 30 November 1963,

This communciation reported an interview

by the FBI of My. George A. BOUHE on

23 November 1963 in which Mr. BOUHE

referred to a Lydia DIMYTRUK of Fort Worth, Texas, who allegedly had asso-

ciated with Marina N. OSWALD:

The files of this Agency contain the following pertinent information

on one Lydia DYMITRUK who may be identical with the Lydia DIMYTRUK referre

to above:

28 April 1964

CSCI-3/780,996

Subject: Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO, Espionage -

Russia.

"1..

Reference is made to your memorandum dated 6 March 1964, subject as

above,

file (S) :65-68530, in which you requested information which would

tend to corroborate or disprove NOSENKO's information concerning Lee

Harvey OSWALD. Our files contain the following information from NOSENKO

on OSWALD which may amplify of contradict the information forwarded in

reference:

29 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc:

Subject: Photograph of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

[DDP 4-2160]

"1.

As the result of a search of our graphics files for pictures perti-

nent to the story of Lee Harvey OSWALD's Sojourn in the USSRi we have

found the attached photograph (Attachment 'A') of a group of persons stan-

ding near the Palace of Culture in Minsk. This photograph was taken by an

American tourist in Minsk on or about 11 August 1961.

Although the persons

in the photograph are not identified in our files, we believe on the basis

of comparison with other pictures that the second person from the right is

Lee Harvey OSWALD.:

"3.

It is worth noting that the person believed to be OSWALD is. wearing

a short-sleeved

shirt of the same design or pattern as one worn by

OSWALD in pictures taken of him in his apartment in Minsk in 1962•

Copies

of two such photographs, which were found among OSWALD's effects after his

arrest and forwarded to us by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are

attached for comparison purposes.

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• Attachment 'A' appears to substantitate OSWALD's presence in Minsk at

least during the summer of 1961 and to indicate that he had contact at

least on one occasion with American tourists visiting that city, as he

once claimed in a letter to his brother, Robert OSWALD."

8 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebook.

[DDP 4-2351]

"Attached herewith is information from this Agency's files on the entries

in Marina OSWALD's notebook, a copy of which was received from the Federal

Bureau of Investigation under their communication dated 13 April 1964

Copies of this attachment have been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation."

11 May 1964

CSCI-3/781,172 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Intetnal Security

Russia - Cuba.

response to your communication dated 13 April 1964, file number

(S) 105-8255, subject as above,

attached herewith is a compilation of in-

formation from the files of this Agency on names, addresses, and telephone

numbers relating to the Soviet Union, which were extracted from an address

book identified as belonging to Marina OSWALD."

15 May 1964

Memorandum For Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Role of the Cuban Intelligence Service in Processing Visa Appli-

gants; Reaction of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy.

"1. Within the very recent period, this Agency has established contact

with a well-placed individual who has been in close and prolonged contact

with ranking officers of the Cuban Direccion General de Intelligencia

(Directorate General for Intelligence - DGI). His knowledge of Di activi

ties, techniques, and personalities is direct and profound. This Agency

has queried him in detail on possible contacts between Lee Harvey OSWALD

and the DGI prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. A report on

the information thus obtained is attached to this memorandun."

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19 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Allegations of Pfc Bugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to As-

sassination Plot against President Kennedy.

IDDP :4-2534}

1810

Reference is made to paragraph 2 of your memorandum, dated February

12, 1964, requesting that the Commission

be: furnished copies of dissemina-

tions relative to the assassination of President Kennedy that were sent to

the Secret Service.:

"12.

Immediately after the assassination the CIA Station in Geneva, Swit

zerland,

reported allegations

concerning a plot to assassinate President

Kennedy.

that were made by Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, serial number

RA- 76710292, on 6 and 7 November 1963, in Geneva while absent without leave

from his unit in Metz, France.

Available details of this charge, together

with information on its exploitation by Alex des FONTAINES, a Time-Life

stringer in Geneva, were disseminated as OUT Teletype message no. 85770,

on 29 November 1963•

This dissemination was sent to the White House,

Department of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a copy to

the Secret Service.

Since the Geneva Station cooperated with the U.S. Military Attache in

assembling information on this affair, and the Military Attache reported

through his channels, the Commission may have already received information

of PFC DINKIN's allegations.'

19 May 1964 . CSCI-3/781,386

Subject: Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK)

"I. Reference is made to your communication of 1 May 1964 requesting tra-

ces on Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK) •

"2. The files of this Agency, contain the follawing pertinent information

on one Pavel DYMITRUK, born 28 February 1924 in Starlye-Derend, USSR, who

appears to be identical with Subject and his wife Lydia DYMITRUK:

22 May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General, Counsel etc.

Subject:

Anonymous Telephone Calls to United States Embassy in Canberra,

Australia, Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy.

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I refer again to paragraph two of your memorandum, dated 12 February

1964, relative to disseminations

to the Secret Service made by CIA.

"2. On 24 November 1964, CIA received from the Department of the Navy a

copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia IN 67327,

TOP SECTRET, later downgraded to SECRET), reporting a telephone conversa-

cion the previous day with an anonymous individual who had described him-

self as a Polish chauffeur for the Soviet Embassy of that city. This indi

vidual, while discussing several matters of intelligence interest, touched

on the possibility that the Soviet Government had financed the assassina™

tion of President Kennedy.

Reference was made in this cable. to the receipt

of a similar anonymous telephone call on 15 October 1962.

"'3.. Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the following action:

"4. The CIA Station in Canberra arranged for discussion of the calls with

the Australian security service. In the opinion of the Australian authori-

ties, the caller was a crank.....

27. May 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassina-

tion of President Kennedy.

"1. Reference is made to paragraph two of your memorandum dated 12 Febru-

ary, requesting copies

of disseminations relative to the assassination of

President Kennedy that were sent to the Secret Service.

"2.

Shortly after the assassination the United States Embassy in Stock-

holm received a letter, mailed on 25 November 1963, which accused the

Chinese Communist of plotting this act. This information was disseminated

on 9 December to the White House, Department of State, Federal Bureau of

Investigation, with a copy to the Secret Service. The exact text of the

dissemination

is attached to this memorandum.

"3.

In view of the fact that this letter was received at the United States

Embassy,

the Commission may have already received information about the

document from the Department of State.!

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3 June 1964

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN,

• General Counsel etc.

Subject:

Documents: on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by the Sovlet Govern-

ment.

\[DDP 4-1764]

"I.

The Soviet documents forwarded to this Agency under your letter of 20

May 1964 provide some additional detail on OSWALD.

The infortiation in

these documents parallels that already available from other sources,

does not contradict our previous information. The documents do clarify

somewhat OSWALD's alleged occupation at the Minsk radio plant giving the

original Russian terms used in decsribing his job.

"2. The following points relating to the documents are worth noting:

A significant omission from the materials provided is the letter

OSWALD allegedly wrote to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citi-

zenship.

"'B.

OSWALD signed a receipt in 1960 for his Identity Document for

Stateless Persons,

and a second receipt in 1962 for his Identity

Document for Foreigners.

The similarity of wording of the receipts

regarding his understanding of Soviet residence and travel regula-

tions further supports our belief that such regulations are identical

or nearly identical for bearers of either type of identity document.

This means that OSWALD should have obtained permission in July 1961

to travel to Moscow, but, as we know from other cases, failure to ob-

tain travel permission is not uncommon and not a serioustoffense.

"c. The includsion of Marina's exit visa

'application' Is singular

in

view of the fact that the Commission had not requested information

on Marina.

"d.

The Soviet translators for OSWALD's darly documents are believed

to be identical with persons already referred to in OSWALD's 'diary'.

The format and wording of subject documents appear to be consistent

with Soviet practice."

3 June 1964

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Subject: George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

[DDP 4-2770]

"1.

Reference is made to your memorandum of 31 March 1964 requesting any

information on George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT that is available in CIA

files. Our review shows that the files contain reports received from

other U.S. Government agencies, primarily the FBI as well as some informa-

tion developed by

references

this Agency in 1957 and 1958. The review also produced

to information in the records of the Coordinator of Information

and the Office of Strategic Services According to records lof those agen-

cies, George de MOHRENSCHILDT had been considered for employment in 1942

but was not hired because he was alleged to be a Nazi espionage agent. No

information developed by CIA (or its predecessors) before the assassina-

tion of President Kennedy had established any link between the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs and Lee Harvey OSWALD or his family.

You may also wish to make inquiries at the Office of Naval Intelli

gence; the Assistant Chief of Staff,

Intelligence, Department of the Army;

the Department of State,

and the Civil Service Commission because these

departments also have information about George de MOHRENSCHtLDT."

5 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk,

(DDP 4-28441

Allerations of the existence of a Soviet intelligence and/or sabotage

training school in Minsk, USSR, have come to the attention of the Agency!

from press reviers. Also, there had been an informal inquiry from a mem-

ber of the Commission, Mr. DULLES, very recently on this detail.

this opportunity

to furnish to the Commission the information which the

Agency had on this topic."

A careful review of CIA files has produced no hard information regar-

ding Soviet intelligence or sabotage training in Minsk since 1947.

5 June 1964

CSCI-3/781,543

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"1. As your Bureau is aware, the Clandestine Services is developing a

machine collation program to handle information on the Cuban intelligence

23.

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and security services.

As yet, the data base is very narrow,

with the re-

sult that any search against the program has a very limited chance of such

•cess.

Nonetheless, a search was made using those items of information whic

which are known relating to the two letters from Havana, one dated 10 No-

vember 1963 and addressed to OSWALD, and the other dated 27 November 1963

and addressed to the Attorney, General.

hold any interest.

The print-out listed 19 names, of which only two seemed to

A review of the files

on these two eliminated one,

leaving a single candidate.

At the same time, a routine name trace has been run in the main index

on the name Mario del Rosario Molina, the name with which the 27 November

1963 letter was signed.

There were no traces on that name, but informa-

was available on two persons with somewhat similar names.

10 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel,etc.

Subject:

Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His

Associates.

"1.

Reference is made to your memorandum of 19 May 1964, requesting that

this Agency furnish any information inlits files relative to Jack RUBY

his activities, and his associates.

Examination of CIA records has failed

to produce information on Jack RUBY or his activities.

We also have no in

dication that RUBY and Lee Harvey OSWALD ever knew each other,

ciated, or might have been connected in any mahner whatsoever."

12 June 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Letter Relative to Assassination of, President Kennedy Sent to

United States Embassy in Costa Rica.

[DDP: 4-2988]

"1.

The information given below, and the attachment to the memorandum,

are furnished in order to complete the Commission's file on crank letters

generated by the assassination of President Kennedy. Since the letter was

received by a United States Embassy the Commission may have received this

information previously from the Department of State.

"'2. The United States Embassy in San Joge, Costa Rica, in late November

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1963. received a letter claiming that the assassination of President Kennedy

was part of a plot to kill all the presidents of the free world.

This un•

dressed to Ambassador Raymond TELLES.

the White House, the Department of State, and the Federal Bureau of Inves-

tigation. It was not sent to the Secret Service:

"3. This letter was adjudged to be the work of a crank.

Details of the

document were passed to the Government of Costa Rica.

No further informa-

on the writer

of this document, who signed himself RODRIGO C., has

ever been received."

29 June 1964

Memorandum

for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier,

Morocco.

[DDP 4-33471

"1.

The reference memorandum [FBI Memorandum,! dated 10 June 1964] con-

tained a request that this Agency conduct inquiries in Tangier, Morocco,

to resolve certain allegations concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Our inquiries

have been completed and the results show that the entire story concerning

OSWALD's presence in Tangier has no basis in fact.":

30 June 1964

CSCI - 3/782,058

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

"Reference is made to your memorandum, dated 10 June 1964, requesting this

Agency to conduct the necessary inquiries to resolve allerations that Lee

Harvey OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco:

The inquiries were completed on

19 June 1964 and the results

show that the allegations have no basis in

fact.

the

Ydur representatives, Mr. S. J. PAPICH was verbally notified of

results

and: at his suggestion.

the results. were forwarded, by memo-

randum. to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President

Kennedy.

A copy of that memorandum

is

attached for your files and for

any

additional action you may wish to take. "

1 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. etc.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD's Arrival Time in Helsinki on 10 October 1959.

[DDP 4-3889]

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"1.

In response to your memorandum. of 25 May 1964

we have established

that the only direct flight from London to Helsinki on 10 October 1959 was

Finn Air flight 852 which arrived in Helsinki at 2333 (11:33 p.m.). If!

OSWALD had taken this flight, he could not normally have cleared customs

and landing formalities and reached the Terni Hotel downtown by 2400 (mid-

night) on the same day This is based on the judgement of officers in

this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport.

"2. We are presently attempting to determine if OSWALD could have taken a

more circuitous flight from

with a stop

at Stockholm, Copenhagen,

or some other city.

Any adaitional infornation received will be forwarded

to you promptly."

2 July 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

[DDP: 4-3401]

"I.

The following remarks have been recently attributed to Soviet Consül

Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV in Mexico City regarding the subject.

'I met OSWALD here.. He stormed into my office and

wanted me to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans.

He told me that he had lived in the USSR.

I told him that

I would have to check before I could recommend him..

He

was nervous

and his hands trembled, and he

stormed

out

of my office:

I don't believe that a person as nervous as

OSWALD, whose hands trembled could have accurately

Fired arifle.'

"2.

Our Mexican Station has checked its records for the period OSWALD

was in Mexico City and has advised it is quite possible that OSWALD'

though he had talked with Valeriy KOSTIKOV when he actually had spoken

to YATSKOV; or that he first spoke to KOSTIKOV who turned him over to his

superior YATSKOV.

"4:

A copy of this memorandum has been forwarded to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation."

6 July 1964

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Subject:

Statements Reportedly Made by George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

Concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the Assassination of President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-3479]

"1i

The information furnished below has been received from usually reli

able sources and consists of statements reportedly made by the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the assassination of President

Kennedy:

"ai

Shortly after the assassination of President

Kennedy, George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT were

among the guests attending a cocktail party in Haiti.

The de MOHRENSCHILDTs were asked if there was

any substance to the view expressed in certain foreign

periodicals such as L'Express, a left-wing Parisian

weekly newspaper, that the Kennedy assassination was

a plot organized by Dallas millionaires. George de

MOHRENSCIILDT said that President Kennedy was hated

by the Dallas elite, and he felt that it was very

likely that certain

reactionary elements in Dallas had

organized a plot to get rid of Kennedy and used a dis-

turbed person such

as OSWALD to achieve their ends.

Mrs. de MOHRENSCHILDT agreed fully with this thesis.

"3. A copy of this memorandum is being forwarded to the FBl."

27 August 1964

CSCI-316/00856-64 Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Secu-

rity, Russia - Cuba. Reference:

Your Memorandum dated 28 July 1964.

A review of the results of monitoring Soviet foreign broadcasts at

the time when an interview with Lee Harvey OSWALD had apparently been

Therefore, it is assumed

taped was conducted with negative results. aired over a local USSR facili-

that such a tape, if broadcast at all, was

ty for

internal consumption.

With respect to the same question, Yuriy NOSENKO was asked if any

attempt had been made hy the Soviets to exploit OSWALD for propaganda

purposes, such as Radio Moscow broadcasts, telecasts, or lectures.

NOSENKO replied that this had not been done either in Moscow or in Minsk.

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NOSENKO later reviewed this statement and confirmed it:"

Reference document is FBI

request to CIA requesting the latter to

identify broadcast by OSWALD in USSR sometime before early January 1960)

28 August 1964

Memorandum for Mr.

Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

[DDP 4-4479]

The files of this Agency

contain no identifiable traces on Konstantin

Petrovich SERGIEVSKY or on his sister.

"2..

We have no information which would either confirm or refute allega-

tions that Lee Harvey OSWALD made one or more visits to the city of Gorky

in April and May 1960 or at any other time.

The term 'mokrym delam' which appears in the notes which SERGIEVSKY

brought with him to the British Embassy may be translated 'wet affairs' or

'liquid affairs'.

It is an expression or jargon used by the KGB. to refer

to activities involving kidnapping or assassination.

(NB:

RANKIN asked for Agency comments concerning allegations of a Soviet

citizen Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY, who walked into the British

Embassy in Moscow on 29 July 1964)

1 October 1964 •

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel etc.

Subject: Joachim JOESTEN

[DDP 4-5110]

"1.

Attached are reproduced copies of a set of German documents seized by

the U.S.

authorities

at the end of World War II.

Joachim JOESTEN, author of Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?, Marzani & Mun®

sell Publishers,

Inc., 1964. The captured documents in this set range in

dates from July 1936 to November 1937 and contain the statement that

JOESTEN had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1932.

You will note that the attention of the German security organs was direc-

ted at JOESTEN as early as 1936.

At thattime the Communist Party had been

been outlawed in Germany and the German authorities apparently had begun

collecting information about JOESTEN: and his activities.

Their investiga-

tipp seems to have culminated in the proposal for revocation of his Ger-

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man citizenship.

[Comment: The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of a booki

by Joachim JOESTEN entitled, "OSWALD - Assassin or Fall Guy?" (1964) pub-

lished by Marzani and Munsell Publishers,

Inc of New York in which

JOESTEN states that there is no question in his mind that OSWALD was a mi

NOT CIA

agent.

Marzani, a known communist, was coauthor of a pamphlet,

"Cuba Vs. CIA". published in 1961.

JOESTEN: is revealed in a German Security

Police memorandum, dated November 8, 1937, to have been an active member of

che German Communist Party (KPD). since May 12, 1932' he was issued Commu

nist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch) No. 532315.

Cited in "The Soviet and Communist Bloc Defamation Campaign", Congressional

Record - House, 28 September 1965, pP. 25391-25393.]

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