HELMS HEARING DUPLICATE - VOLUME II, COPY 6 OF HELMS HEARING.
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October

1. Memorandum for Winston m. SCOTT,

dated

1966; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

2. Note, undated, regarding contacts of ALFEREV.

3.

Director, Plans,

OSWALD with a

Department.

4.

5.

Subject:

June COBB

25 November 1964:

FOIA No. 928-9271

Memorandum for Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security

Department of State,

dated 16 September

1969; Subject:

Charles William THOMAS. [FOIA No. 1133-992]

SCI 3/779,814, dated 30 January 1964; Subject: Jack

L RUBY • Lee Harvey OSWALD.

7. PARI-1731 (IN 73050), 4 December 1963 [FOIA No.

298-697]

& Note in chArden buSES home Marcharch 1964.

dated 23 March 1964, regarding

[FOIA 618-793]

Memorandum of Conversation, dated 16 January 1964;

Subject:

CIA Work in Support of the Warren Commis-

sion.

[SX-11057 - FOIA No. 482-193]

CSCI-3/779,135 to FBI, dated 16 December 1963; Subject:

Peter

DERYABIN's Comments on the Kennedy Assassination.

[FOIA No. 413-76A]

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 5 June 1964;

Subject:

Allegations Regarding

Intelligence Training

in Minsk, USSR. [FOIA No. 726-314 XAAZ-17620]

12.

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 March 1964;

Subject:

Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee

Harvey

OSWALD and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD. [FOIA No. 627-821]

13. DIR-92725, 6 January 1964 [FOIA No. 456-771]

14.

Memorandum_ for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 6 March 1964;

Subejct:

1 REPO 31 garding

Note from

Memorandum for

Subject:

Documents Available in

dated 20

February

OSWALD's 201 File.

[FOIA No. 563-810]

17.

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 23 July 1964;

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD..

[DDP 4-3769]

18.

CSCI-3/778,881 to FBI, dated 27 November 1963;

Subject:

Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities

in Mexico

City, 13 - 24 November 1963.

[FOIA No. 187-622]

19. DIR 85246, 26 November 1963 [FOIA No. 113-48]

20.

MEXI- 7045 (IN 67281) , 24 November 1963

[FOIA No.

78-559]

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Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 Janua

Subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity

of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City

3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803? 28 September

Memorandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject:

eview of Selested Items in th

Lee Harvey OSWALD

ile Regardil-

CASTRO

Cuban

Assassination.

dated 15 May 1964;

Subject:

in

of that Service

to the Assassination of President Kennedy.

[XAAZ-36307 - FOIA No. 697-294]

Note dated 10 April 1964 listing material from P-8593

shown to Warren Commission.

[FOIA No. 653-828]

Brief for Presentation to President's Commission on

the Assassination of President Kennedy, 14 May 1964.

[XAAZ-27212 - FOIA No. 695-302A]

Memorandum for ROCCA, dated 12 May 1964. [XAAZ-22809

FOIA No. 689-2981

Letter to E. Henry KNOCHE, dated 15 April 1975.

lemorandum to chier

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD

No.

739- 319]

Memorandum for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 11

May 1964; Subject:

AMMUG/1 Information

on Lee Harvey

OSWALD. [XAAZ-27213 - FOIA Np. 687-295]

Blind Memorandum, dated 5 May 1964; Subject: Debriefing

of AMMUG/1 - OSWALD Case.

Chronology of RGR Meetings with Members of the Warren

Commission

[XAAZ-27161]

Conversatio

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Rocca Deposition PROMHBATED

a peend, R. Rocca

6 JanGE DiR 92125

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11 May 64, F01A 687-225

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1 April 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Conversation with David W. BELIN, 1 April 1975

Q:

A:

Q:

Q:

A:

that was the line of reporting in flA during the period I serve

as working level point-of-contact with the Warren Commission Staff'

It was

a multiple leveled things (a) from the Commission and AWD

personally via McCone-to Dick Helms; (b) from Helms to the two or

three components primarily concerned *SE, then SB, Dave Murphy;

LA, then WH; anch aola

"In practice, the substantive SB input worked

up by one of its

photo

for examplay search companehts headed by Lee Wigren-Minsk

et alo-passed via cl.

CI had own defector input.

In addition, on sensitive matters af concern to the inkestigation

Dick Helms and Murphy also dealt directly with the Commission. BRAufler?

Did you hear:

?? [two crypts, one sounded by "Jackenet" ?].

Belin recalled that Castro had made a speech in which

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he had charged assassination intent by emigres and had promised

retribution in kind if there was official support.

Had any thought been given to the assumption that an anti-Castro

assassination plot might have been underway, and fact it was known

to Helms and to Castro? Mr. Belin said he now knew that Helms

was, in fact, aware of something underwas regarding Castro.

He

ad no evidence to show that I RGRY hadübeen informed about it..

Would that change any of the thinking' re Oswald's Mexican trip and

contacts?

Yes, I said, though I intended to

give moke potentia importance

to Oswald's KGB contacts, and related that I

-and others--though

recognizing the wisdom of the Warren. Commission's handling--had

felt chere had been moneys the sowet aspect that should haye

been

pursued:

a.

Fact that his two

Sovtet consular contacts in Mexico City

had been identified as KGB and at

i least one both 2 had beer

traced garrizattonai

The Eth bepartment (assassinations).

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SUBJECT: Conversation with David W. BELTM, 1 April 1975

b. Our defector information strongly insists that all

Western militart defectors like Oswald--were screened by the

13th Department.

c. Thinness of file

turned over by Soviets in view of b.

1 acknowledged In retraspect that Cuban hypothesis was worth recon-

sidering, though it would appear that period of solid inter service

(KGB-UGI) relations began later, (i.e. after 1967-68, Venceremos, etc.).

Q: Why did Oswald's lies include a denial to Dallas police that he had

made the Mexican trip unless there was something important to hide

about it?

All his other lies concernedikey factual elements of his

cover story.

Why also did Marina

deny she knew anyching

about the

Mexican trip in her first story d@ the FBE-which she later

rectified

before the Warren Commission? Mr. Belin noted that he had left the

hypothesis of Castro/Cuban vavolvement opem in his book.

He added

that it would have been important to have known the facts about the

anti-Castro plot at the cmejof the Warren Commission investigation.

le felt the least he woubd have done would have been to have insiste

on the polygraphing of Marina Oswald regarding her knowledge of

Oswald's Mexican trip.

a vmon

sile Rocci

Counter Intelligence Operations

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Chronology of RCR Mcetings with

ivieinbers of the

Warren Commission

14 January 1964

12 March 1964

27 March 1964

26 May 1964

28 August 1964*

12 October 1964

RANKIN, WILLINS

RANKIN

WILLINS ETAb

(LIESLER)

"LIEBLAND"

I DeMohrenschild

"Commission" (Stairson)

"commision (Semen Bee

*Believe Mr. Rocca was at the Commission at least one other day

(probably Saturday, the 29th/erjewing proofs.

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Subject Ceneral:

Specific:

OSHALO CASSO)

TSE SOURCE DOES NOT RAVE DIRNÉCHIAGUON ISE KARVEI OSNLLO DI HI3 ACEIVITIES

BUT AS ABLE IO PROVIDE ITINSOF INTRAST BASSO ON COMENTS SE CURAN INTELIIGJNCO

CEFICELS ASUIGNED TO THE DIRECCION SEVERAL DE INIETIGENCIA, UP WHICH IIE SOURCE

RIGARE HAS A SHARE OFFICIE

THE NICULICN APPARTIG SEICH MAS FURAISHED BY

THE SOUFCE AND IS FOYED-IO QUESTIONS SUBMITIED BY XUDESK-

Prior tr-lataler 1963, ASWAL) visitad tha Cuban Eniassy In lazico

1t3 0s 1 05 red occasions

during and alter urese visita, OSWALD

as in contact with the DIROCCION GREAI DE ELICENCIA (DGI), specifical

vich luisa CaIDiROi, Hamel VaCA Peren and Rogalto RODRIGUZ I0pA3.

YECA shose Guban Intelligence prendoryn 1s MiCOS 1s tre curant

Cuoan Is chis? In rodco. le recenty jas had a tour of duty in Habaca, prior

to unich he held the same post za donas Cuban IS chiei in ferico.

RODRIGUEZ 19 a Culan

Stare anter 1a sexdeo.

Ho has three Cuban

Istolligence pseudanyus,

spiro and jose Antonio,

The prociso relationshiy

oN Lisa Calaron to tha Dil is not clam

Sha spent about six manths in Mexico fron which she rotumed to Cuba oarly ir

ConTrr: WH/SA/CI has the Lollowing roierences concerning Juisa

CALDERON Carraleros She was assigred to the cormorcial office cê tho Cuban

Ericessy in faxico City, and she had arrived in Mesdco en 16 Jamasy 1963 and

on 17, Decenber 1963 nade a reservation to roturn to Cuba on Cubana Airlines

EXT 7371, 13 Lecember 1953 IN-20351, Hit 3153." She laft redeo City for

avana on 15 Laconber 1963 using passport, E/63/7 "15XI 7423, 17 December 1963,

I-û2692. Another referenes "F2à-20971, 25 Marchi IS63," said tha ker data.of

arrival in josico was 19 January 1963 and that sha had replaced icsario VaZuEz,

a Haccar secretary in the connereial csices

. Other referesces apparcasy con

caring tua subjoct arg inl 6923 and l6I 3205 IN-56591 dated 25 january 1963

inien do not appear to add anything of interest to that siten above.

2. The source does not know whether or not. the Cuban Services used OSWALT

17 ay agerà capacity or other mannero

3.. A.

When news of the assáagiration of President kenudy roached the

ICI, 11 caused much comert concerning the fact OSWND hed buen in the Cuban

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Briosy in ladeo. In addition, ordam vora Losued ior 212 headquarberg and

fiolá afiicers of tha Dul to sort and prolage all documenta according to tiredia

that ro "Ny sucrato" (301y 390200)y

In addition, all travel by Dil, ofileers and all dei pouches were sus

pardod comporarily.

B, When the nows that

HAND tras the assassin reached tie DGi,

was no immediate conment but, when FIdel CastRO spoka on tolavision to doxy

Cuban involvenon, there was considerable comman concerning wilt's risit to

toe Cuban incassy in Merico®

At this tine VAlA, who has been mentiored proviousiy,

wil) was in Guca and cormented to a group af DeI stali olicorg that Oiaid nod come

to bro Cuban Encassy in Merico to request g visa but had bean refused VAGA did

not give any details and the subject was not pursued.

It 1s not mown inether infornation on OSWAlD's visit to the Cuban

Consulte In Mexico in September 1263 was ralayed to any Cuban service,

5. It 19 not Icons 11 the Cuban Intalligence servicos had contact risi

'the New Orlaanst Fair Play for Cuba Cormittee.

The only Molina who 1s recallad is "The Hlook", the Cuban who as co

vioted in Hey lork City for the murder of a young girl turing a clash betreen

two Cuban groups.

The DOI star. officar who had been in thy United Nationa 17

Bes Icri,

SANTIESTABA travelad to Cuca iith "The Hook" and sith another Cuban

nomad CRIalEIn and upon arrival in Cuba tried to obtain employnent for both

individuals, The names Pedro Charles sad' Peter bite no Lan significance.

7o The reaction of Soviet officials In contact with the Cuban Iate211-

sarvices 19 not know.

Nothing is known aboit Soviet proposals Lollowing the news of Presiden

Kermady's assassination.

9. The only farrication krom 13 the special natter by fidel CAStRO gre

riously mentioned,

10, Nothing 1s known about Jack RUnasruti aña Jaci RUS.

Lo Ine Jane Gilcero lOP 13 not laniliar bus, it he viaited Dod head-

warters, a photograph of him possibly could ba identirled.

OJALD's photo was seen in the newspapers but nothing 1s know scout

hin ochor than mat appeared in the press.

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proposEd Questicas or Oftald Cate

1.

Was Ise Harvey OSWAID kuoin ta the Guben Intelligence services

before 23 November 1960% Ilso which service?

2..

Were the Cuban services

using eswarD in any agent capacity, or in

any other menner, before 23

Pokenõer 1953?

3.

What was the reaction of the Cuban intelligence services to news

of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSHALD

was the assassin?.

4.

Was Information on OSWAlD's visit to the Cuben Consulete In Vexico

City in September. 1953, relayed to any Cuban service? If so, what

action was taken?

5. Was there any contact between the Cuben intelligence services and

the New Orleans' Fair Play For Cuba Committee?

6.

Has subject ever heard of Mario del ROSARIO Molina, or Pedro Charles

Known also as "peter"?

T. How did the Soviet offictals in contact with the Cuben Intelligence

services react to news of the assassination?

8.

Did the Soviets propose any type of action or Investigation to the

Cuban intelligence services following the news of President Kennedy's

assassinetion?

9. Has any provocative material deliberately fabricated by the Cuben

services or others and sent to the United States to coafuse the

Investigation of the OSWAID case?

10.

Was Jeck RURGINSIRIN aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuben Intelligence

scrices?

It so, in waat way?

11.

Does subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November

23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas and four days later proceded to

Havana by special plane.

He was 23 years old and carried a

U.S. passport.

Ee also had a Nesica tourist permit.

all Inforation Jou can on this individual.

Develop

12. Attached is a photograpà of OSVAID, end & letter from Havena

which is

self-explanatory for guidence of the case officer. Under

2o circunstraces

should the contents of the letter be made known

to the suoject.

Inis information came from the Secret Service end

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CON

ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET

FROM:

Chief, CI/R&A

TO: (Offeer designation, room mumber, and

building)

DDP

•DETENSION;

7468

RECEIVED

DATE

FORWARDED

OFFICER'S

INMALS

NO.

EXAAZ- 27213

DATE

11 May 1964

COMMENTS (Number each commert lo shon from whor

o whom.

Dram a line across column after each comment.)

Document Number 657-295

for FOlA Reviow on

. JUN 1976

7.

1200

15.

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3-42

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11 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans

SUBJECT:

• AMMUG/ 1 Information on

Lee Harvey OSWALD

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1. This memorandum a for information and for action.

The proposed lines of action are indicated in paragraph 4.

2. AMMUG/1p Elepouban Intelligence Service defector,

has produced infompation of Interest to the President's

Commission on the ssassination of President Kennedy CI

Staff learned of AMMUGA

Da 30 April. A questionnaire was

submitted by the Staff on I May (Attachment A) Mr. Swenson,

who is handling the AMMUG/1 debriefing, provided a reply on

5 May (Attachment B). It was clear from Mr. Swenson's

summary that AMMUG/1 had information bearing on the

OSWALD relationship with the Cuban Embassy and Cuban

intelligence personnel in Mexico City, albiet his knowledge

was not that of a direct participant in matters affecting

OSWALD. A follow-up questionnaire was submitted to

AMMUG/ 1 on 6 May (Attachment C). Mr. Swenson's reply

was dated 8 May (Attachment D). Attention is directed

particularly to the content of paragraph two.of Attachment D.

3. We have the problem of reconciling the operational

exploitation of AMMUG/1 and satisfying the responsibilities

we have undertaken with Mi. Rankin- AMMUG/1 is such an

operational gold mine that Mi. Swenson wants, at a maximum,

two months to work fully.: It is palpable, however, that we

must furnish to the Commission the substance of AMMUG/1's

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information on OSWALD before that.

On the previous record of

our association with the Commission, particularly with Mr. Rankin,

it seems possible for the Agency to workout an arrangement with

Mr. Rankin personally that would take care of their needs and ours

atter a frank dia cassion as the gues

4. It is recommended that the DDP in person or via a

designee, preferably the former, discuss the AMMUG/1

situation on a very restricted basis with Mr. Rankin at his

earliest convenience either at the Agency or at the Commission

headquarters. Until this takes place, it is not desirable to put

anything in writing.

Raymond G. Rocca

Chief, CI Research and Analysis

Attachments

cc: C/CI

C/WH/6 (without att)

C/WH/SA/CI (without att)

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07 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Chiet, Counter Intelligence Staff

Attention: Mr. Roca

SUBJECT General

Specific

REFERENCE

Debrieting of AMMUG-1

The Oswald Case

: Bund Memorandum dated 05 May 1964 V

1 Reference is made to a telephone conversation yesterday

with Chief, CI Staff concerning this matter.

" Because l am not aware of the information already

available to the Commission investigating the Cswald Case or

furnished by the Agency, my debrtefing of the Source has been

based on the questions prepared by the CI Staff and on what the

Source answers have suggested. I shall be glad to pursue any

other topics suggested by Cy stalk

The Following information in addition to that in the

reference might be of interest.

a Luisa CALDERON, since she returned to Cuba,

has been paid a regular salary by the DGI even though she has

not performed any services. Her home is in the Vedado section

where the rents are high.

b. Source has known CALDERON for several years.

: Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior

Commerce in the department which was known as the #Empresa

Transimport". Her title was Secretary General of the Communist

Youth in the department named in the previous sentence.

Luisa CALDERON Wa

transferred directly from her

position in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce to a post in México,

a matter of surprize to the source.

Rogelio RODRIGUEZ LOpez

(DGI pseudo MORCOS),

shortly before he left Cuba for Mexico on or about 16 April 1964,

saw CALDERON.

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4. As explained to CI Staff any publicity which would

reveal the identity of the Source, his defection to KUBARK,

or the extent of his knowleage of DGI activities might

prejudice the operationa (use of the Source himsel and of

Information which he has provided. Accordingly, it might

be appropriate to point out to the commission (as agreed

by DC/ WE/sA) that susates hopes, by using the Source,

to obtain access to DiGi personnel including those mentioned

In paragraph 3 above.

Harold F. Swenson

Chief, WH/SA/CI

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6. May 1964

Proposed Questions on Ogwald Case

REFERENCE: Debrieflag of AbiuG-1, dated s May 1964

1. The source says that polar to October 1963, Oswald visited the

Cuban Embassy la Mexico Clylogitwo or three occasions. It

is pubble knowledge he was in trico during the perlod 9-26-63

to 10-3-63.

Al When did source lear of these visite - before or after

the assassination? Please describe in detall the ciremstances

under which soures learned this information and Ideniiiles of

B) Did those visita taise place during the aforementioned

perlod or la the source referring to previous viaits.

If the

latter, try to get more spectile detaile regarding these trips

and the origle of the sou

cots normation.

The source states

@before, during, and after these visits

Oswald was In cont ct

the DGi, specifically Luisa

CALDERON, Manuel VEC! Peres and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopes.

This would appear to mean that one or more contacts were

made after Oswald retarned to the United States I 6, between

10-3-63 and 11»22-63.

A) What does source mean by contact?

3) Can he break dows these contacts by the specific I-

alvidual named, place and type of contact, and date of

occurence?

() Did Oswald kaow or have reason to suspect the Intelll-

gence connections of these persons?

D) What was the purpose of these contacta?

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E) It Oswald dld not know the Intelligence aifullations of

those Iadividuals, what pretest,

Lany, were employed In

contacting him?

I) Did source evar see any documentary material on any

of these contacts, or any correspondence initiatad by or

addressed to Oswald?

G) Did the DGI ever employ physical surveillances.

technieal devices or camera equipment to cover these contacts.

I) Tho source says he does not know whether the Cuban

services used Oawald in any agent capacity or otherwise.

This obvlously makes it more Important to check out what the

source maant in question one.

3o Did the DGI ever initlate an Investigation of Oswald?

* What was the reason for parkaging files, at DGI headquarters

and field offices after news of the assassination was received?.

Sonrce was asked whether any provocative material was

deliberately fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse

the investigation of Oswald. The raply attributed to him was,

"the only fabrication known ls the special matter by Fidel

CASTRO previoualy mentloned. " Please clarly.

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08 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Counter Intelligence Staff

Attention Mg. Rocsa

SUBJECT Ceneral

Specific

Debrieting of AMMUG-1

"The Oswald Case

REFERENCE

Blind Memorandum dated 05 May 1964 v

B.

Blind Memorandum dated 07 May 1964

C. Conversations between Cl Stat and

C/WH/SA/CI

1. When the Oswald Case first was discussed with the Source the

specific questions prepared by CI Staff were posed. The answers

given by the Source were reported in Reference A.

That memorandum

which I dictated to a Cl Staff stenographer appears accurate except for

sentence #9 which should have said that the only possible "fabrication"

known by Source was the specific denial by Fidel CASTRO, on a

television program, of any Cuban knowledge of Oswald

2. On 07 and 08 May 1964 I further discussed the Oswald Case

with the Source in order to clarity exactly what he knew and what

he had heard. In the light of the explanation given by him, I believe

that a clearer understanding of what he knows can be reached if 1

record his knowledge without using the question and answer format.

Accordingly, in the following paragraphs I shall report all the

information given by the Source paraphrasing his explanations and

comments.

" I have no personal knowledge of Lee Harvey OSWALD or his

activities and I do not know that OSWALD was an agent of the

Direccion General de Inteligencia (DCI) or any other directorate

or department of the Cuban Government.

1 first heard of OSWALD aiter the assassination of President

Kennedy when new, media carried the name of OSWALD.

Personnel in the DCI first commented about the case, so far as

I can recall, one day after lunch when a group of officers, of

whom I was one, were chatting.. The officers present were about

ten including Roberto SANTIESTEBAN, Norberto HERNANDEZ

de Curbelo, Andres ARMONA, Pedro FARINAS Diaz and

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Manuel VEGA Perez.

Manuel VEGA Perez previously had

been assigned to Mexico in the Cuban Consulate where he

was the principal intelligence officer of the DGI.

VEGA

mentioned that OSWALD had gone to the Cuban Consulate

two or three times in connection with a visa application

during the timethat VEGA, w as in Mexico. I gathered

although I do not know that VEGA made any specific

statement to this effect, that VEGA personally had seen

OSWALD. I well could have reached this conclusion

because normally VEGA and his assistant in Mexico for

the DGI, Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez, would see persons

applying for a visa to go to Cuba. This is because DGI

officers are charged with expediting the granting of visas

of agents of the DGI.

Such agentsion appearing at the

Consulate use a special phrase to indicate their relationship

with the DGI. ( do not know the particular phrase used

in every case. I do knownthat agents from El Salvador in

requesting visas always made mention of the name "Mauricio" )

The DCI officers ata, Consulate interview visa applicants to

find out if they areagents. If the visa applicant does not use

one of the indira ed phrases, the DGi officers, instead ol

granting the vist immeciately, tell the applicant to return in

a few days. The officer then notifies Habana and requests

authority for the visa. I cannot recall if VEGA even made the

statement that he had requested permission to issue a visa to

OSWALD, but I feel sure that he would have done so because

VEGA had said that OSWALD had returned several times and

this would be the usual procedure.

I believe that Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez also would have

seen OSWALD because he worked with VEGA and also would

have screened visa applicants.

I thought that Luisa CALDERON right have had contact with

OSWALD because I learned about INMarch 1964, shortly before

I made a trip to Mexico. that she had been involved with an

American in Mexico OThe information to which I refer was told

to me by a DG care oricer named Norberto HEHNANDEZ de

Curbelo.

(a rememser me conversation with HERNANDEL

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because he gave me $40. 0u to buy some shoes and

- other items during my trip to viexico.) I had

commented to HERNANDEZ that it seemed strange

that Luisa CALDERON was receiving a salary from

the DGI although ste apparently did not do any work

for the Service. CHERNANDEZ told me that hers was

a peculiar case and that he himself believed that she

had been recrüited in Mexico by the Central Intelligence

Agency although Manuel PINEIRO, the Head of the DGI,

did not agree. As Krecall, FERNANDEZ had investigated

Luisa CALDERON. This was because, during the time

she was in Mexico, the DGI had intercepted a letter to

her by an American who signed his name as OWER (phonetic)

or Something similar. As you know, the pronunciatior

of Anglo-Saxon names is difficult in Spanish so I am not

sure of how the name mentioned by HERNANDEZ should be

spelled. It could have been "Howard" or something different.

As I understood the mattet, the letter from the American

was a love letter but-ifdicated that there was a clandestine-

professional relationship between the writer and Luisa

CALDERON. Fa sounderstood from HERNANDEZ that

after the interception of the letter she had been followed

and seen in the company of an American. I do not know if

this could have been OSWALD. I, myself, considered the

case of Luisa CALDERON unusual because I had known her

before she went to Mexico when she worked in the Ministry

ol Exterior Commerce in the Empresa Transimport Department

where she was Secretary General of Communist Youth. She

was transferred directly from that position to a post in Mexico

which seemed strange.

The only other person about whom you asked me in connection

with this, whom I recall, Is Sylvia: DURAN and I know very

little about her.

What happened was that I was in the Cuban

Embassy in Mexico on 23 March 964 about 1230 in the afternoon

preparing to return to Habana the sameday. I was talking to

some other Cubans including Rogello RODFIGUEZ Lopez and

Ínu BUENAVENTURA of the Cuban Embassy; a courier named

"Enio", a courier named, "Tato", and one other Cuban whom I

cannot recall.

We saw a pretty girl standing at the end al

the reception room, and someone asked who she was, and one

of the group said it was Sylvia DURAN

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I recall that, after the news of the assassination of

President Kennedy reached the DGl orders were issued

for all offias of theOCl, at Headquarters and in the field

to sort and package all documents according to whethe

they were "muy gesreto" (very secret), "secreto" (secret),

or "importante" (important). The material, once packaged

was to be held pending further instructions. All travel by

DGl officers and all DGI pouches were suspended temporarily.

In addition,

I recall that DGI Headquarters personnel were

instructed either to remain in the DGI Headquarters offices

or to keep the DGi aware of their whereabouts so that they

could be reached immediately. I do not know the reason for

these measures but I believe it logical that they were issued

because of the possibility that the United State might take

some type of action against Cuba and the DGI offices. As

nearly as I can recall. we were able to unpackage DGI files

and use them normally about the óf December 1983."

3. In brief, the Source does not claim to have any significant

information concerning the assassination of President Kennedy or

about the activities of OSWALD. If the paraphrased comments of

the Source are considered to fee further clarification, I suggest that

Mr. Rocca, who is most familiar with the details of the OSWALD

Case, talk to the Source. This can bevarranged at any time. Mean-

while, I shall have a questian asked in a forthcoming ICFLUTTER to

determine whether or not the Source seems to have concealed any

information on this matter.

Harold F. Swenson

Chief, WH/SA/CI

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particularly interested in para-

graph 3 of Mr. Dooley's memo

of record, attached.

'over to wind upfloose end we

had with regard to the AMMUG

information we had previously

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The Source is believed to be very reliable. We have

established through independent evidence and cross-

checking that the major part of the intelligence

information furnished by him is inquestionably

true.

For example, we knew independent of this

Source that Manuel VEGA,Perez and Rogelio

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ANGTION

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1. On 15 May 1904, we provided the President's Comuissio.

of our debriefing of Cuban defector ACIG 1 who had

no personal Inowledge of Oswald and no information linking him to

the Cuban intelligence services in any manner. As a folloi-up,

Mr. Howard P. Willins of the Commission asked if he could

questions used in the interrogation.

On 18 June, I took the questions and sourse':

to the Commission and showed them to Mr. Wittens.

and returned the questions. to me with the observation that

vily thorough and fully satisried his céquirements.

sair no need to pursue this angle any further.

ansvers exhibited to Me. Willenstare attached.

with th: Commission did va disclose thu sourse's Identity

il. Willuns indicated that the Commission was vinding

up its investigation.

He was highly complinentary of CIA, jeferrilo

to the agency personnul he encountered here and in Maxied as "real

Mr. Willens asked that I convey his best regards to

Attachment: a/s

Document Number 739-319

for FOlA Reviow ol'.

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6 May 1964

Froposid Questions on Oswalu Case

RETENCia: Dubidoris di stiban Sourca dates May 19644

1.

The source

says that prior te

getober 1963, Oswald visitid tha

on two or three occasions.

10-3-63.

When did source liain of these visits - before of arter

the assassination? Please describe in detail the circumstanses

under which source learned this information and identities of

the persons involved.

2.

tix si visits take place during the aforementiund

try to got more specific details regarding these trip:

and the origin

of the gourcals information.

T source atatug that before, during, end after thuse visits

Oswald vas in sontact Withüthe DCI, specifically Luisa

• CALDERON, Manuel VEGA Perez and Rogello RODRIGUEZ Lopez.

would appear to mean that one or more contacts were made

Osvali returned to the United States 1.e, between 10-3-03 and

11-22-63.

A) Ihat dies source mean by contact?

Can ho wreck dum thuse contacts by the specific

individual maned, place and type of contact, and date

occurrence?

Did Oswald know or have reason to suspeüt the

intilligence connections

of these persons?

D)

What was the purpose or these contacts?

It Oswald did not know

the intulligence arfiliations

thesa individuals, what pretexts, if any, were employed in

contacting him?

F)

Did

cred see any documentary naterial on any oi

these conta:ts,

or ony correspondence initiated by or addressed

to oswaldl?

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4.

5.

Did the DGI ever employ physical surveillances,

technical devices oi camera/equipment to covar these contacts?

IL)

The source says he does not know whether the Cuban

survices used Oswald mango agent, capacity or otherwise.

obviously maks it maxe important to check out what the source

meant in question on.

Did the DOI iver initiate an

Investigation of Oswald?

What was

reason foi packaging files at DGI headquarters

and fiald offices after news of the assassination was received?

usked whether any provocative material was deliberately

fabricated by the Cubans (Question 9) to confuse the investigation

The reply attributed to him was, "the only fabrication

known 1s the special matter by Fidel CASTRO previously mentioned."

Addendun 18 Juna ith retacense to 15;

The only possible fabrication known by source vas the spicific

denial by Fidel CASTRO on a IV program of any Cuban knowledge

of Oswald.

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5 May 1964

Subject - General: Debrieting of Cuban Source

Specific:

OSWANd. Ease

The source does not have afege knowledge of Lee Harvey OSWALD

or his activities but was able to provide items of interest based on

Cuban intelligence officers assigned to the Direccion General De

Inteligencia.

The information appearing below was furnished by

the source and is keyed to questions submitted.

1. Prior to October 1963, OSMALl visited the Cuban Embassy

in Mexico City on two or three occasions. Belore, during and atter

these visits, OSWALD was in contact with the Direccion General De

Inteligencia (DGI), specifically with Lursa CALDERON, Manuel

VEGA Perez and Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Dópez.

VEGA what Cuban intelligence pseudonym is MARCOS

is the current CubanIS chefrig Mexico.

He recently has had a

tour of duty in Habana, prior to which he held the sarne post as.

now as Cuban IS chief in Mexico.

RODRIGUEZ is a Cuban IS staff officer in Mexico. He has

three Cuban intelligence pseudonyms, Eduardo, Casimiro and Jose

Antonio.

The precise relationship of Luisa CALDERON to the DGI is

not clear. She spent about six months in Mexico from which she

returned to Cuba early in 196%.

2. The source does not know whether or not the Cuban Services

used OSWALD in any agent capacity or other manner.

3. A. When news of the assassination of President Kennedy

reached the DGI, it caused much comment concerning the fact

OSWALD had been in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.

In addition,

orders were issued for all headquarters and field officers of the

DGI to sort and package all documents according to whether they

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were "Muy secreto" (very secret), "secreto" (secret), and

"importante" (important). The material once packaged was to be

held pending further instruêtions. In addition, all travel by DGI

oificers and all DGI pouched were suspended temporarily.

B. When the news that

OSWALD was the assassin reached

the DGI, there was no immediate comment but, when Fidel CASTRO

spoke on television to deny Cuban involvement, there was considerable

comment concerning OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.

At this time VEGA, who has been mentioned previously, was in Cuba

and commented to a group of DGI staff officers that OSWALD had come

to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico to request a visa but had been refused.

VEGA did not give any details and the subject was not pursued.

4. It is not known whether information on OSWALD's visit to

the Cuban Consulate in Mexico in September 1963 was relayed to any

Cuban service.

It is not known if the Cuban intelligence services had contact

with the New Orleans' Fair Play for 'Cuba Committee.

6. The only Molina who-is recalled in "The Hook", the Cuban who

was convicted in New York City for the murder of a young girl during

a clash between two Cuban groups. The DGI staff officer who had been

• in the United Nations in New York, SANTIESTABAN traveled to Cuba

with "The Hook" and with another Cuban named ORIHUELA and upon

arrival in Cuba tried to obtain employment for both individuals. The

names Pedro Charles and Peter have no known significance.

7. The reaction of Soviet officials in contact with the Cuban intelli-

gence services is not known.

Nothing is known about Soviet proposals following the news of

President Kennedy's assassination.

9. The only fabrication known is the special matter by Fidel

CASTRO previously mentioned.

10. Nothing is known about Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY•

11. The name Gilberto LOPEZ is not familiar but, if he visited

DGI headquarters, a photograph of him possibly could be identified.

12. OSWALD's photo was seen in the newspapers but nothing is

known about him other than what appeared in the press. st

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1 MAY 1964

Proposed Questions on Oswald Case

1.

Was Lee Harvey OSWALD known'to the Cuban intelligence services

before 23 November 19632 If so which service?

2. Were the Cubarg

using OSWALD in any agent capacity, or in

any other manner,

be

are 23 November 1963?

3. What was the reaction of the Cuban intelligence services to news

of President Kennedy's assassination? To the news that OSWALD

was the assassin?

4. Was information on OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico

City in September 1963, relayed to any Cuban service? If so, what

action was taken?

5.

Was there any contact between the Cuban intelligence services and

the New Orleans' Fair Play for Cuba Committee?

6. Has subject ever heard of Mario del ROSARIO Molina, or Pedro

Charles known also as "Peter'?

7. How did the Soviet officials in contact with the Cuban intelligence

services react to news of the assassination?

8.

Did the Soviets propose

any type of action or investigation to the

Cuban intelligence serkices following the news of President Kennedy's

assassination®

9. Was any

provoçative material deliberately fabricated by the Cuban

service

othereland sent to the United States to confuse the

investigation

the OSWALD case?

10. Was Jack RUBENSTEIN aka Jack RUBY known to the Cuban intelligence

services? If so, in what way?

11.

Does subject know a Gilberto LOPEZ who entered Mexico on November

23, 1963 at Neuvo Laredo, Texas and four days later proceded to

Havana by special plane.

He was 23 years old and carried a U.S.

passport. He also had a Mexican tourist permit. Develop all

information you can on this individual.

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COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES

Washington, DC 20500

Nelson A. Rockefeller,

Chairman

John T. Connor

C. Douglas Dillon

Erwin N. Griswold

Lane Kirkland

Lyman L. Lemnitzer

Ronald Reagan

Edgar F. Shannon, Ir.

David W. Belin,

Executive Director

April 15, 1975

Mr. E. Henky

Knoche:

Assistant to the Direetor

Intelligenge Agency

Washington, DaQy"

Dear Mr. Knoche:

As you know, there have been allegations that the CIA was

involved in

a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro.

purposes of this letter, we will assume that these allegations

are correct, and based upon this assumption I would like to

know the answers to the following questions:

Did anyone with the CIA tell any member of the Warren

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 delivered, what specifically was told or said,

what documents there are to support the answers to the fore

going questions, and what response, if any-was received from

the Warren Commission. If the Commission was not told about

this, why was it not told and who made the decision not to

deliver such information to the Warren Cormission?

There is evidence that Castro, prior to November 22, 1963,

knew about the existencevof such plans and the possible

rolvement of the U.S. Government.

Did the CIA at any time prior

o the completion of the Warren Commission investigation have

any docunents' or other information indicating that Castro 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 information.

Several months prior to the assassination of President

Kennedy there

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to possible assassination

retaliation.

attempts on his life and

possible

Would you please advise us if there is any

evidence that this Associated Press report may have appeared

in any newspapfrs in the Wiited States, including specifically

any newspaper in Dallas or New Orleans.

Would you also

advise us you have any other information of public state-

ments of any Cuban, leader prior to November 22, 1963 indicating

any awareness of possible assassination plots

on the lives of

4. 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 consider-

ing a possible assassination.of any American leader.

would you please advise us of all details and also advise us

who: in the United States Government outside the CIA was ad-

vised of these plans or possibilities.

Prior to his death Lyndon Johnson supposedly 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 if the

answer is yes, also give us all details

involving this matter.

Sincerely yours,

David W. Belin

Executive Director

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MEMORANDUMSTOR: Man Rocca

"Internet Mame Regarding Agaucy's Pestion in

Dealing

with

The DDP called me this afternoon, 12 May, to state

that the

Directos has received a telephone call from RANKIN

regarding the Commission's desire to interview him at 1030 AM,

Thursday.

MI. HOOVER is scheduled to appear at 9:00 on that

morning.

19940.

2.

The DDP wishes to have from you a short but

comprehensive memorandum which highlights the basic issues of

positions entered into by the Agency in its dealings with the

Commission.

For example, RANKIN indicated that the Commission

would wish to hear the Dire ctor's views as to how improvements

might be made in protecting the President's life.

Further, they

will probably ask questions regarding the possibilities that a con-

spiracy existed.

Such general questioning certainly necessitates

that the DCI be made aware of the positions taken during previous

interviews.

I raised with Mr. HELMS the nature of the recent

information which you are processing which originated with the

• sensitive WH source.

I informed him that in your view this would

raise a number of new factors with the Commission, that it should

not go to the Commission prior to the Dire cor's appearance unless

we have first had some preliminary reaction or made sure that the

Director is fully aware of its implications since it could well serve

as the basis for detailed questioning.

The DDP stated that he would

review this carefully and made a decision as to the question of timing.

3. Given the schedule, you will appreciate that the DDP

will need a paper covering the above points as soon as possible.

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Brief for Presentation to

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stalent Kome

14 May 1964

Document Number 695-302 A

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This brief is concerned yith fixe topics which, it is

anticipated, will arise, in the course of the Director's appear -

ance before the Pr

Ecident's Commission. These are:

a. Formal an@unqualified negation by the DCI

of any contact or association, direct or indirect,

between the Central Intelligence Agency and Lee

Harvey Oswald. This should be accompanied by

the tabling of an affidavit signed by the Director

and notarized. (TAB A)

b. A formal assurance by the Director that all

information in the possession of the Agency regarding

Oswald's activities and associations outside of the

United States has been made available to the

Commission through its staff, with which there has

been close and frequent contacts since the inception

of the Commission's activities. (TAB 3)

c. An interim pronouncement by the DCI on the

problem o

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activity. It is suggested that the DCI take the position

that at this time there is no conclusive evidence of

conspirataal apons or ship at dewald; that all Agency

information bearing oa this problem has been furnished

to the Commission for evaluation and consideration in the

framework of its total knowledge of the facts. The Agency,

at the present time, is lacking any knowledge of recent

information or documentation furnished by the Soviet

Government to the Commission with respect to Oswald's

• activity in the Soviet Union. (TAB C)

d. The DCI's suggestions for improving policy and

organization with respect to the personal security of

the President. Certain steps relating strictly to the

Agency's jurisdiction have already been suggested by

memorandum. It is proposed that the Director now

make specific suggestions involving legislation which

would treat information bearing on the personal security

of the President and, advisedly, other Federal officials

directly related to national security affairs in a manner

similar to what currently exists by statute for special

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nuclear material or weapons introduced to the United

States or manufactured therein. (The Atomic Weapons

Awards Act

[15 July 1955). (TAB D)

e.

Oswald"s activity ta Mexico and his possible

relationship to the Cuban Intelligence Service.

Substantive information of grave concern, to the

security of sources and methods have been developed

on both of these topics. The information and, in certain

instances, knowledge with respect to acquisition has

been made available on a highly restricted basis to

MT. Rankin and to certain elements of his staff. It is

recommended that the DCI not respond on the record

to queries on these topics. He should suggest that all

such "technical questions" be worked out in detail through the

channels and procedures that have functioned very well

-- we believe - between the Commission and particular

CIA components. (TAB E)

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Formal Disclaimer of any Relationship with Dee Harvey Oswald

injoin is:

There have been pumore and allegations which began

immediately after the assassination which branded Oswald as a

U.S. Government agent, In many instances, CIA has been

named as his sponsor. The authorship, geographical dispersion

throughout the world, the identitycof themes and the timing lend

strong support to the conclusion that these charges are elements

of a world-wide, Soyfet-sponsored propaganda and misinformation

program.

As DCI, Mr. McCore welcomes this appearance before

the Commission to make a categorical and unqualified denial of

these unprincipled distortions of the historical and personal

responsibilities for what was a dastardly and heinous act. In

witness of this, the DCI submits to the Commission an affidavit

which formalizes this statement. The affidavit is attached.

It is recommended that the DCI state concurrently with this

action that he desires to draw the Commission's attention to the

fact that the irresponsible charges that have been made, sponsored

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and replayed by Soviet blod and Communist individuals and

organs since the assadorason of the President, zecall the

methods and the puépares of the broader campaign agaiust

American intelligence and security components which has built

up momentum over the past six years. We have traced the

sponsorship of that campaign directly to individuals and com-

ponents within the Soviet police state apparatus. Their un-

scrupulous treatment of the Oswald case was neither new as a

method nor a surprise as an occurrence.

If the DCI is challenged by anyone on the Commission

about the substance or implication of his affidavit, it is recom

mended that response be along the following lines:

CIA is a democratic institution. The DCI bas

incorporated in his affidavit the results of detailed

and painstaking examination.

qualification is

raised with respect to the affidavit, he willingly

undertakes the extraordinary step of releasing any

individual in CIA to appear before the Commission

and to testify with

ypect to any knowledge beasing

on the Commission's task

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AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN A. MCCONE

STATE OF: VIRGINIA

COUNTY OF FAIRFAX

JOHN A. McCONE, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is

the Director of Central Intelligence, and that based on his personal.

knowledge of the affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency and on detailed

Inquiries he caused to be made by the officers within the Central

Intelligence Agency who would have knowledge ahou: any relationship Lee

Harvey Oswald may have had with that Agency, he cortifies that:

Lee Harvey Oswald was not an, ageat, employee, or

laformans of the Ceatral Intelligence Agency;

the Agency never contacted him. Interviewed hins,

talked with him, or received or solicited ady reports or

information from àim, or communicatedutta him, directly

or indirectly, la any othes manner;

the Agenty never furnished him any funds or money,

or compensated him, alreadylor indirectly, in any fabion;

Lee Harvey Oswald was never associated or connected,

directly or indirectly, in any way whatsoever with the Agency.

JOIN A. MeCONE

(L..S.)

Subscribed and swors to this

day of

1964, before me, a Notary Public in aid for the State of Virginia, by the

said JOHN A. McCONE, who la personally known to me and he duly

acknowledged to me the execution of the foregoing instrument

Notary Public

My commission expires

(Seal)

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Dissemination of Information to the Co

ission

The DCI should make the general statement that CIA

has supplied all the information in its possession regarding

the activities, affiliations and associations of Oswald, Copies

of the reports and access to originaldata, in specific in-

stances, has been given to Commission representatives in

accordance with the DCI's expressed instruction from the

inception that the Agency place itself completely at the

Commission's disposition;

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The Problem of Conspiracy

The DCI should note that from

start he had given

specific indications to Agency persobnel working on the

Commission's probter that a pinformation bearing on

Oswald's possible relationships with foreign sponsors be

made available to the Commission. The DCI may state tbat

he is gratified that his instructions have been carried out

allisedly and promptly. Arong the iteme of intormation

provided the Commission haye been studies on the organi-

zation and functions of components of the Soviet police

state which are

pown to include individuals and units

charged with the performance of what is euphemistically

referred to as "'executive action" … but is, in fact, charged

with assassination and sabotage.

The DCI should state that no firn evidence has thus

far developed abroad linking known Soviet, Soviet bloc or

Cuban intelligence and assassination persomet or ergani-

zations with the act committed by Tent

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on-the-recard

It is recommended that the DCIhandle any, questions

from the Commissión with respectito the apparently favorable

treatment afforded Oswald ju the USSR, the withdrawal of his

wife, his possible contact there with Soviet State Security (the

KGB), and related questions which would tend to establish

Oswald's associational link with Soviet intelligence as

"technical questions" and, therefore, beyond the scope of

present testimony. It is suggested that he rest on the fact that

the Commission has taken up these points item-by-item with

the technical levels of the Agency and that the ultimate findings

and evaluation can ouly be determined by the Commission.

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Suggestions for Improving Policy and Organization Regarding

Presidential Security

Mr. Rankin raised this question dire ctly by letter. In

its response, the Agency confined itself to elements relating

to its statutory mission. Specifically, it was suggested that:

a. The Secret Service, or Treasury, record

with the Office of Central Reference a formal require-

ment for information relating to Presidential security.

b. It was suggested that, it the Secret Service

intended to expand its

Inteltigence coverage of possible

threats to the President's security, our experience

showed that it would need a specialized organizational

component to handle that task within the Secret Service

itself.

The CIA reply also noted that the Agency was

in direct touch with the Secret Service regarding the

possible utilization by that agency of our experience in

machine data processing

On the public record, it is

suggested that the DCI not repeat this detail.

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In his presentation to the Commission after referring

to these earlier suggestions;

the DCI should state that he desires

to take the opportunity

offer

Ogdestion which he has not

tabled heretofore.

The Commission's major problem has been the assessment

of personal motive and the relationship of an individual act to

possible conspiratorial guidance. Because conspiracy is the

core of the problem, the DCI should point out the possibility of

legislative action which might be an assistance in preventing

recurrence of the national calamity it is investigating. There

is an analogy at close hand between the problem of developing in

advance information relating to Presidential security and the

problem faced by the country à few years ago regarding the

clandestine introduction or manufacture in the U.S. of special

nuclear material or atomic weapons. The remedy devised at that

time was embodied in the Atomic Weapons Reward Act of 15 July 1955

(29 Stat 365, PL.165, 84th Congress). In essence, the Act estab-

lished a substantial reward ($500, 000) for information bearing on

the Act provided by any person, and in certain instances privileged

treatment for such persons - for example, asylum if they were

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foreigners, was assured.? Finally, a Reward Board was

created to administer the purposes of the Act.

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The DCI should sugeetthat the Commission consider a

recommendation for original legislative action designed to

induce individuals to furnish information bearing on Presidential

security by offering a substantial reward and preferential treatment.

The DCI should assure the Commission that he is convinced that

the substantial award, the special treatment, and the publicity

which would attend the implementing legislation in this matter

could represent a significant inducement even to staff officers

and personnel of secret associations and state security organs

abroad whose functions include assassination and sabotage. It

is these individuals who would be privy to plans of executive action.

The reward would constitute additional inducement for such

individuals to take the risk of making important disclosures.

reward and special treatment. The DCI can assure the Com

mission that we are aware that personnel in police state apparatuses

charged with the assassination and sabotage functions have repeatedly

expressed and, in many cases, acted upon their repugnance for

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such work and for the system which calls upon them to do it.

There are specifio cases in the past ten years which document

this assertion. Trusted personnel charged with assassination

• missions have abandoned the mission even without the assurance

or the inducement which the DCI is here proposing.

In making this suggestion, 'ne DCI may go one step further

in advising the Commission to suggest that the Commission

examine the advisability of legislation making it a Federal offense

to conspire and to kill the Chief Executive. 3) The DCI could also

indicate that the Commission might desire to suggest that any

legislation along these lines should be enlarged to include con-

spiracy to kill any Federal official in the President's personal

circle of official associates directly concerned with national

security affairs. (The Agency's Legal Counsel states that

draft bills have been considered on the Hill.).

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¡ Act of July 15, 1055 (62 Siat 305, P.I. 165, Sith Cong.) -Itomic

Weavons licwards det of 1055:

*Be it enacted by the Schate une Mousc of ecpresen ritten of

the United Sinies or ducrice in Congress assembler. That this

Act may bo cired as wic Aiomic Weapons Rewards Act of 1055%.

"Sec. 2. Any person whe furnishes original information to the

Unired States

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United Sinies

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or other acquisicion by the

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weapon which has bech incroduced into the

United

Staics,

or which has been manufactured or acquired therein contrary

to the lans of the United States, or

"(b) with respect to an attempted introduction into the

Unitcd, Statcs or an attempied manufacturo or acquisition

chercin of any special nuclear material or atomic

weapon,

contrary to the laws of the United States,

shall bo rowarded by the payinent of an anount not to execed

$500,000.

of one member of the Atomic Energy Commission desiguated

by that Commission, shall determine whether any.

person "lur

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information

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arrard and the amount thercof to bo paid pursunut to section

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whether any person furnishing informa-

tion to the

United

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anard and

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amount of such award, the Board shall

take into consid-

cration

"(a) whether or not tho information is of the typo specificd

in section 2, and

"(b) whether the person furnishing the information was

an officer or employee of the United States and, if so, whether

the furnishing of such information was in the line of duty of

" he perati of 85,00 or more sull to approved or tha

"Sic. 4. If tho information lending to an eward under section 3

is furnished by an-alien, the Secretnry of State,"

the Attorncy

General, and the Director of Central Intelligence, acting jointly,

may determine that the entry of such alien into the United State:

is in the public interest and, in that cront, such nlien and the mem-

bers of his immedinte family may receire immigrant visas and

may bo admitted to the United States for permanent residence

notwithstanding the requirements of tho Immigration and Na-

tionality Act.

"Src. 5. Tho Board established under section 3 is authorizca to

hold

such hearings and make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and

amend such rules and regulntions as may be necessary to carry out

alic purposes of this Act.

"SEC.

G.

Any arards granted under section 3 of this Act shall

bo certified by the awards Board and, torther with the approval

of the President in those cases where such approval is requirca.

transmitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for payment

out of funds appropriated or arnilable for the administration of

the Yational Security Act of 10iĩ, as amended.

"Sec. 7. As used in this Act

"(a) The term ntomic enerry' means all forms of energy re-

lensed in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation.

&(b) The term atomic weapon' menns any device utilizing

tomic energy, esclusive of the means for transportin:

or pro-

selling the derice (where such means is a separable and divisible

part of tho derice), the principal purpose of which is for uso as,

or for derclopment of, a reapon, a ricagon prototypo, or 1 icapon

test device.

"(e) The term 'special nuclear material' means plutonium, or

urnium enriched in the isolope 238 or in the isotope 235, or any

other material which is found to be special nuclear material pur-

suant to the provisions of the Acomic kuergy Aet of 105%

"(d) The term "Unired Siates,' when used in a geographical

sense, inclides Puerto Rico, all Territories and possessions of the

United Stares and the Cand Zone; escept dant in section &, lie

term "United States' when so used shall have tho meaning given

to it in tho Immigration and Nationality Act."

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Mexican and Cuban Phases of Oswald's

Commission by CIA on tag

activity in Mexico City in September and October 1963. The

Commission Staff has been in detailed communication and

conversation with the Agency working levels both in head.

quarters and in Mexico City. Within the past week,

significant information has been developed by CIA regarding

the relationship with Oswald of certain Cuban intelligence

personnel in Mexico City and the reaction in Havana within

the Cuban Intelligence Service to the news of the assassination

of President Kernedy The Commission Staff is in the course

of being briefed on the Cuban aspect.

It is suggested that the DCI handle any question on the

Mexican and Cuban phases of Oswald's activlty as "technical

questions" which members of the Commission can develop

from or through their own staff with the appropriate component

of the Agency. This would he entirely consistent with the DCI's

overall assurance that he has ngo ucted his personnel to place

their information completely at the Commission's disposition.

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SHOWN

MATERIAL FROM P-8593 BASSED TO WARREN COMMISSION:

English translations of calls made by OSWALD to Russian Embassy:

27 Sep 63 (1037); 27 Sepт63((626); 27 Sepj6a (1605); 28 Sep 63 (1151);

1 Oct 63 (1031: 1 Oct 63 680 3 856V30

2. English translation of conversation between President Dorticos in

Havana and Cuban Amb Joaquin Hernandez Armas in Mexico on 26 Nov 63.

3. English translation of conversation between Cuban Am to Mexico and

President Dorticos in Havana on 26 Nov 63.

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15 MAY 105.

HEMORANDUM FOR: MI. I. Loe Banis

General Counsel

Preadin's Commisalon on it

as anton a Basident Jennedy

SUBJECT:

Bold con I elligence Serie

in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction

of that fervie to the Assassintion s

President Kensesy

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coalacs with a well placed individual who has been in clor and

prolonged contact with ranting oífiess of the Cuban Direccion

General de Intelligencia (Directorate General of intelligned - DGI).

His kaowledge of DCI activitios, techniques and personallties ia

direct and profound. Thls Agency has queried him in detail o

possible contests between Les Harvey CSMALD and the DGI prlor.:

to the aazanization of Prosident Kensedy.. A report on the irior

mation thus obtained is attached to this memorasden.

2. This source lo highly sensitivo and of great, iramediato

operational significance to thir Agency. The rational connieriatelli.

genca laterest abroad roguires, taerriore, that secess to the ariached

report, as kaowledge di the axistence of this source do rostricted,

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MEMORANDUM FOR! • DC/OPS

SUBJECT

: Review of Selected Items in the

Led HarVeY OSWALD File Regarding

Allegations of the CASTRO Cuban

Involvement in the

John F. KENNEDY Assassination

1.

The attached fewew and sumnary was written at

the express reguest of ir. David W. Balin as a follow

up to Question 3 of his letter to the Agency of

15 April 1975.

The results - as I have already told him - add

evidence,

to what the Warren Commission and

its staff had laid before them in 1964 on this subject.

Ine results of the review are stipulated in paragraph

of the Attachment.

There seemed to be no reason to.

attach copies of the case reports from the file to this.

summary

These can be made available promptly, however.

This summary does not deal with press,

magazine and books that dealt with the subject during

the period after the assassination.

My recommendation is to do with this paper as

we did with the earlier one reguested by M... Belin on

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SUBJECT: Review of Selected Items in the

Lee Harvey OSWALD File Regarding Allega-

cions of CASTRO Cuban Involvement in the

John I. KENNEDY Assassipation

REFERENCE: •Letter by David W. Belin to

Mr.

paragrapers

Henry knoche, 15 Aprid 1975,

(Regarding Public Statement

by CASTRO,

etay, attached

BACKGROUND

1. On Saturday evening, 7 September 1963,

Fidel CASTRO appeared at a Brazilian Embassy reception in

Havana; even more unusual, CASTRO submitted to an informal

interview by the Associated Press correspondent,

Daniel HARKER.

2. HARKER's interview reached New York on Sunday,

8 September, and was in print throughout the country on

Monday, 9 September. 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.

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3. CASTRO's statements to HARKER covered a range of

topics but dealt principally with American political

leadership, in particular Président KENNEDY, whom he ex-

coriated in extraordina

ovocative fashion

" ... the BATISTA of his

(" ... KENNEDY is a creti

times ... the most opportunistic American President of

all time ...").

4.. The interview also contained an uncomplimentary

reference to Senator GOLDWATER and Cuban delay in signing

the limited nuclear test ban. There were differences in

the replay by United States newspapers like the

New York Times and Washington papers, with a result that

CASTRO's "message" was significantly modulated.

5. In New Orleans, where Lee Harvey OSWALD resided

until the middle of September 1963, the HARKER story

appeared in the principal morning paper. the Iimes-Picayune,

on Monday, 9 September, page 7, under a three-column head-

line: "CASTRO Blasts Raids on Cuba.

Says U.S. Leaders

Imperiled by Aid to Rebels." The story followed under the

HARKER by-line:

"Havana (AP) - Prime Minister

Fidel Castro said Saturday night: 'U.s.

leaders would be in danger if they helped

in any attempt to do away with leaders of

Cuba.'

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"Bitterly denouncing what he called

recent U.s. prompted raids on Cuban terri-

tory, Castro said: ‹

melare prepared to

fight them and answer in kind. U.s. leaders

should think

wat is they are aiding terror-

ist plans

eliminate Cuban leaders, they

themselves will not be safe.'

•.. World affairs ... seemed to be

entering a more peaceful climate a few days

ago, but now this trend has changed with

attacks.

"'The U.S. is always ready to negotiate

and make promises which later it will not honor.

This has happened to promises made during the

October crisis.

They have been broken as can

be seen with new attacks.

" "But I warn this is leading to a very

dangerous situation that could lead to a worse

crisis than October's ...'

6.. The New York Times, in its coverage on 9 September,

used a UPI wire service report which omitted any reference

to the warning and threat which gave the interview its real

significance.

The Washington Post did an abbreviated Ie-

write (9 September, page A-7) which, similarly, omitted

any reference to the main thrust of CASTRO's remarks.

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The Evening Star of Washington, D. C., printed_the HARKER

story nearly in its entirety in the second section of the

paper (9 September 1963, page B-4) and reworded the content

of the HARKER inter

wiew, placing the emphasis on the po-

litical asp

- in particular, highlighting the GOLDWATER

elements

and burying CASTRO's warning to the United States

leadership in the middle of the piece.

?. There is no evidence in the files on the KENNEDY'

assassination).that this CASTRO interview was considered in

following up leads of in dealings with the warren Commission

and its staff although Mexico Station specifically directed

Headguarters attention. to the AP story very shortly after

the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears

to have been forgotten in the contemporary political consid-

eration of relations with CASTRO's Cuba.

There is no evidence

in the Agency records, 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 was

stated by any other Cuban leader before the assassination.

8. The purpose of this review, undertaken at Mr. Belin's

request, is to reconsider Lee Harvey OSWALD's activity on the

assumption that as an avid newspaper reader - which we know

from testimony of Marina OSWALD and others - he read the

CASTRO warning and threat as reported above. The results

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of the review, admittedly heavily using the 20- 20 quality

of hindsight, may be stipulated in summary:

There is no increment of credible

evidence, applying this phrase strictly, of

soviet anayor Cuban political, intelligence

or security service involvement in the as-

sassination to what was developed and con-

sidered by the Warren Commission and its

staff. The Commission's finding that

Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of

President KENNEDY and Officer TIPPIT and did

them in alone and of his own determination

stands.

b. "Credible evidence" that would

upset or significantly modify this judgement

did (and does) not exist in Washington. But

such evidence could exist in Moscow and/or

Havana, whose voluntary inputs to the warren

Commission were minimal in quantity and

quality, designed to cover up any admissions

of knowledge of, or connection with, OSWALD

which might be related directly or indirectly

with the assassination. Therefore, the belief

that there was Soviet and/or Cuban (KGB and/or

DI) connection with OSWALD will persist and

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grow until there has been a full disclosure -

by these governments of all elements of

OSWALD's handling and stay in the Soviet Union

and Rig contact, in Mexico City. The

Warron 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

1

still open.

C. In the absence of additional of new

elements of "credible" evidence,

are

"nuances" in the record that emerge as note-

worthy, in the light of other conclusions.

These are reviewed and summarized below, item

by-item.

a. CASTRO's warning and threat of

7 September 1963 = 4f OSWALD did indeed read

Investigation of the Assassination of President John F.

KENNEDY.

Hearings Before the President's Commission on the

Assassination

of President KENNEDY (Washington,

1964) ,

hereafter cited as Hearings,

Vol. v., pp.

especially p.

124 = "Mr. Helms:

"Yes.

120 = 129. See

I would assume

the case could never be closed. "

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it in New Orleans f must be considered of

great significance. in the light of the

pathological evolution of OSWALD's passive/

aggressive makeup after his attempt to kill

Genexal WER early in April 1963 and his

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 corres-

pondent HARKER, irrespective of whether

there was any formal mandate, of 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.

CUBAN CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA,

EARLY 1959 (3)

9. The testimony of Nelson DELGADO contains an assertion

of germinal significance to any review of the background of

Lee Harvey OSWALD's feeling toward and relations with

CASTRO's Cuba.: DELGADO was probably the closest peer group

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member to OSWALD during his specialist training period

at El Toro Marine COrd Base December 1958 - September 1959.

The Warren Commission Report takes note of this:

"OSWALD tOld DELGADO that he was in

with

Cuban diplomatic officials in

this country, which DELGADO at first took

to be 'one of his lies, but later

believed. ""2

10. Actually DELGADO's testimony says a lot more of

possible operational significance than is reflected. by the

language of the report, and its implications do not appear

to have been run down or developed by investigation. Thus,

the record of the beginning of OSWALD's relationship with

the Cubans starts with a questign marka

11. The period was one of transition in U.S. - Cuban

relations after CASTRO's takeover. OSWALD, and DELGADO at

the outset, were CASTRO supporters, OSWALD being particu

larly keen about how to get to the island.. DELGADO testi-

fied:

" ... I didn't know what to tell him, so

I told him the best thing that I know was to

Report to the President's Commission on the Assassination

of President John

KENNEDY (Washington, 1964),

hereafter

cited

as Report, P.

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get in touch with a Cuban Embassy, you know.

But at that

time, that.t) told him this - we

were on friendly terms with Cuba, you know,

so this wasn't no subversion or malintent,

you know.

lidn't know what to answer him.

I told him to

see them.

"After a while he told me he was in

contact with them ...

• ... I seen this envelope in his foot-

locker, wall-locker, and it was addressed to

him, and they had an official seal on it, and

as far as I could recollect that

was mail from

Los Angeles, and he was telling

there was

a Cuban Consul. And just after he started

receiving these letters - you see, he would

never go out, but stay near the post

all the

time ...

" ... he had one visitor after he started

receiving letters he had one visitor. It was

a man, because I got the call from the MP

guard shack, and they gave me a call that

OSWALD had a visitor at the front gate. This

man had to be a civilian, otherwise they would

have let him in., So I had to find somebody to

relieve OSWALD, who was on guard, to go down

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there to visit with this fellow, and they spent

about an hour and a half, two hours, talking,

I guess, and he came back. I don't know who the

man was or what they talked about, but he looked

nonchal and)about the whole thing when he came

back.

He never mentioned who he was, nothing.

"Mr. LIEBELER: How long did he

talk to

him, do you remember?

"MI. DELGADO : About an

and half,

two hours

"Mr. LIEBELER:

You

Her

who this fellow was that

he

asked OSWALD

to?

"MI. DELGADO :

No. No

"Mr. LIEBELER: Did you connect this visit

that OSWALD. had at that time with the Cuban

Consulate?

"MI. DELGADO: I did; because I thought it

funny for him to be receiving a caller at such a

late date - time. Also, up to this. time he

hardly ever received mail; in fact he seldom

received mail from home because I made it a

policy, I used to pick up the mail for our unit

and distribute it to the guys in there, and very

seldom did I ever see one for him. But every so

often, after he started to get in contact with

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these Cuban people,

pamphlets and

Harted getting letter

apt

arted receiving letters,

you kno

know,

maybe pamphlets, you

Ittl

church, things we get from

church, you

know, but it wasn't a church.

"Mr. IIBBELER: Were they written to

Spanish, any of them, do you knows

"Mr. DELGADO: Not that I can

cec

no.

"Mr. LIEBELER:

Did

to believe that these things

from the Cuban Consulate?

iny reason

to OSWALD

"ME. DELGADO: Well, I took it for granted

that they did after I seen the envelope, you

know ... something like a Mexican eagle, with a

big, impressive seal, you know. They had dif-

ferent colors on it. red

and white; almost

looked like our

colors,

know.

But I can't

recall the

Just knew it was in Latin,

United, some

that. I couldn't under-

stand. It was Latin.

"MT. LIEBELER:

You don't know for sure

whether it was from the Cuban Consulate?

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"ME. DELGADO

No.

But he had told me

prior, just, before

Ipfound that envelope in his

wall locker. that heywas receiving mail from

them and one time he offered to show it to me,

but y waste buch interested because at the

time we had work to do, and I never did ask

to see that paper again, you know.

"MI. LIEBELER: Did he tell you what his.

correspondence with the Cuban Consulate was

about?

"MI. DELGADO: No, he didn't

"MI. LIEBELER: Did he ever

kndica

that it had to do with the conversati

to you

that

you had about going over to Cuba?

"MI. DELGADO: No. . The only thing he

told me was that right after he had this con-

versation with the Cuban people was that he was

going to - once he got out of the

service he

was going to Switzerkand... -3

12. OSWALD's application to Albert Schweitzer College,

Churwalden, Switzerland, was dated 19 March 1959, and he

was presumably to report there on 20 April 1960. Destined

for discharge

Erom the Marines on 7. December 1959, OSWALD

Hearings, Volume VIII, PP. 241 - 243.

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accelerated his exit on grounds of family hardship in early

September 1959.

aj september 1949 he was issued a

U.s. passport vatta

Man egavel - among other places to

Cuba and

the

PUSER.

Hey entered the Soviet Union from

Finland

on I

tober 1959.

13.

DELGADO's testimony has the cast of credibility.

Granting that, it is of basic importance to focus attention

on the male visitor who contacted OSWALD at El Toro Camp

and talked with him for between one and a half to two hours.

The event was unique in DELGADO's recollections, and actually

1.

there is nothing like it - on the record - in everything else

we know about OSWALD's activity in the United States before

or after his return to the United States. The record reflects

no identification of the El Toro contact. DELGADO's presump-

tion is that he was from the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles.

Assuming that, the questions are: Who was it, and was

there reporting

from Los Angeles to Washington and Havana

that could, in effecte

represent the opening of a Cuban

file on OSWALD?

"PREDICTION OF

ESIDENT KENNEDY'S DEMISE BY COMMUNIST

PARTY CELL LEADER' MORSE BENITEZ ZABOLA, 1962

14. Guatemala Station forwarded to Headguarters on

9 January 1964 a duplicate copy of à raw report by a

U.S./Cuban diplomatic and consular relations were-severed

3 January 1961.

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penetration dated 5 Januaxy

1962 describing events at the

yearly Communist Party

meeting. The cell leader,

MOrse BENITEY Zabolan

said that the Communist Party in

Guatanata should

form a single new party; "We need not

Preoccupy outs

sees over the politics of President KENNEDY

because we know, according

to prognostications, that he

will die within the present year, 1962."

15. This report apparently had been discounted when

it was received and was not forwarded until the Station

Ie-reviewed all of its material after the assassination.

The file reflects no follow-up or formal dissemination

of the report.

ENIGMATIC THREATS BY CUBAN THIRD SECRETARY IN THE HAUGE,

7 NOVEMBER 1963

16. A sensitive liaison source, reporting after the

KENNEDY assassination, indicated that at the Soviet reception

on 7 November 1963, the Cuban Third Secretary.

Ricardo I. SANTOS Pesa, discussed the recent refugee raids

on Cuba and their implications with a host-country diplomat,

concluding with the admonition: " ... Just wait and you

will see what we can do. It will happen soon." Asked to

be more specifig what would happen soon, SANTOS replied:

"Just wait, just wait."

17. These data were passed to the Warren Commission

by memorandum, 31 March 1964. SANTOS was reported to have

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a history of medical instability and was summarily recalled

from The Hague reportedly for reasons related to that fact

in April 1966.

INTERCEPTED- CONVERSATIONOF CUBAN EMBASSY

EMPLOYEE

LUISA CALDERON, AFTERNOON OF 22 NOVEMBER 1963

18.

glexico City time, about five hours after the

KENNEDY assassination, a Cuban Embassy employee named

"Luisa" received a telephone call in Spanish from an uniden

tified male outside.

19. The caller asked her if she had heard the latest

news. "Luisa" jokingly replied: "Yes, of course, I knew

it almost before KENNEDY ... Imagine, one, two, three and

now; that makes three [she laughs], what barbarians!

20. Both speakers agreed on the seriousness of the

assassination. "Luisa" also stated that the party at

Silvia DURAN's had been called off so it would not appear

that they were celebrating the death of KENNEDY, nor would

they have the party coindide with the burial. Finally she

said she punner tS move that night into the house of a

doctor (a woman Friend.

21. Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto suggestion

of foreknowledge? This is the only item in the intercept

coverage of the Cubans and Soviets after the assassination

that contains the suggestion of foreknowledge or expectation.

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22. The tenuous, enigmatic character of the conversation

is sharply highlighted by the following facts:

"Zuisa" was probably identical with

Luisa CALDERON; a Cadre worker of the Cuban

Directorate Cenéral of Intelligence (DI) .

She returned to Cuba in 1964 and was reported

to be working in DGI Headquarters.

B. The DGI element in Mexico City in the

fall of 1963 was headed by Alfredo MIRABEL Diaz

who had arrived on 2 September 1963, formally

•as the replacement of the Consul Eusebio AZCUE

(departed 19 November 1963). The deputy DGI

chief (and as of June 1964, MIRABEL'S SUCCESSOr)

was Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez.

The "Silvia DURAN" named in Luisa's

conversation was the receptionist, a Mexican

national, who dealt with OSWALD during his known

visits on 27 and 28 September to the Cuban

installationg in connection with a Cuban visa

application for stay and/or transit.

Silvia DURAN is the sole live witness on the

record regarding OSWALD's activity in

Mexico City. Her testimony, however, in its

entirety was taken and presented, solely, by the

Mexican Governmental authorities.

A direct

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confrontation with

Wider was requested by the

Warren Commission staff but rejected by the

Mexican authorities. It is from Silvia DURAN's

statements that it was learned that OSWALD

became engaged in a personal altercation on

27 September with Eusebio AZCUE.

d. Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez,

alias Marcos, and his DGI assistant,

Rogelis RODRIGUEZ Lopez, were positively

identified in February 1964 by two independent

sources as engaged in the active development

and facilitation of the training of Nicaraguan

agents for the purpose of assassinating

General Annstasio SOMOZA. VEGA, it is estab-

lished, was on post in Mexico City during

OSWALD's stay there 27 September - 2 October

1963. He left Mexico City on 3 November 1963

for Havana. It was reliably reported about

VEGA that all individuals going to Cuba, legally

or illegally, had to pass through him first. He

took the biographical data and sent it to Cuba

for name checking, a procedure which normally

took fifteen days. 5

For example, VEGA would have handled the details of the

visa action and facilitation of the trip to Cuba via

Mexico City from 28 December 1962 - 21 January 1963 that

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23. There-is

no evidence in the OSWALD case file that

?.

Silvia DURAN was subjected to a systematic elicitative

interrogation that would have related her dealings with

OSINATE

confirmed by intercept, with the data held

on the Cuban

DGI, 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 local employee and

a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken by the

DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, they

were not asked at the time. And there remains the more

fundamental guestion: accepting the DURAN story on its

face, could it have happened without the knowledge and

participation of the DGI personnel above cited? This

seems unlikely especially because VECA is later pited by

* Cuban DEI defector as having stated he was aware OSWALD

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

was taken by Vincent Theodore LEE, the organizer of the

Fair Play Committee for Cuba, with which OSWALD establishec

Dallas during the period 19 April

2 November 1963.

There is an overlap between LEE's and

VEGA's travels to Havana during that period: VEGA

departed Mexico City on 6 January for Havana and returned

on 13 February 1963.

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statements.. Coming back to the beginning: "Luisa" -

Luisa CALDERON - as a member of the DGI unit in Mexico City -

could very well have known something that would make what

she said to her unidentitied caller less a matter of

boastful self-indulgence than was assumed at the time.

SILVIA DURAN,

SUBSTANTIAL AMPLIFICATION OF ADMISSION OF

ALLEGED PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH LEE HARVEY-OSWALD, 1967

24. The defects viewed in hindsight of the Silvia, DURAN

testimony already have been suggested above. (In that

context of criticism it would also be relevant to reconsider

the implications of the two intercepted telephone conversations

on 26 November 1963 between the Cuban President, DORTICOS,

and his Ambassador to Mexico, Joaguim Hernandez ARMAS,

because the thrust of the conversation dealt with the ques-

tion whether Silvia DURAN had been asked about [or been

offered?] money payments by her Mexican interrogators.)

25. 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 all relations with Cubans. Her account, in 1967. of

how she had been taken into custody and had been interrogated

after the assassination repeated what was already know.

She added, under circumstances that did not pernit the,

source to challenge or elicit corroborative detaily that

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She had gone out with OSWALD during his stay in Mexico City

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ALLEGATIONS QE CONSPIRATORIAL CONTACT BETWEEN OSWALD AND

CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO

ALLEGATIONS OF (A) ELENA GARRO DE PRAZ AND

(B) OSCAR CONTRERAS"

26.

As

Warren Commission reported, "Literally

dozens of allegations of a conspiratorial contact between

OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been

investigated..."6 Among these cases, which consumed

hundreds of CIA man-hours in Headquarters and abroad

and similarly the FBI in the United States was the

Nicaraguan walkin in Mexico City, 26 November 1963,

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.

27. The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the

Warren Commission under the cryptograph "D."" ALVARADO

claimed that he had seen an American, whom he identified

as OSWALD, receive money some time in mid-September 1963

in a meeting in a patia of the Cuban Consulate in

6

See Report, p.

305 ff.-Some of the others were the cases

of Ylario

ROJAS Villenueve

in Cozumel and Guadaloupe,

the allegations of Enrique Ruedolo GONGORA in New York City,

the claims of Robert. Edward GALLANT, Santa Clara Prison

Farm, California, and the allegations of Ray DOBKIN's.

7

See Report

307 - 308.

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Mexico city. ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the

use of the polygraph on which ALVARADO showed evidences of

deception, and by bringing ALVARADO's former Nicaraguan

security service contrâf into the case.

28. The ALVARADa story is a particularly acute repre-

sentation of the difficulties that beset the evaluation of

observed evidence: certain elements of the story persist

despite the impeachment of its major premises. ALVARADO,

whose account did not become public until the release of

the Warren Report in October 1964, talked consistently of

the presence in the Cuban Consulate transactión of a Negro

with red-dyed hair.

29. Elena GARRO de Paz is a mecurial.

siculate and

socially prominent Mexican writer, married, but separated

from a high-ranking Mexican foreign service official. She

is also the cousin of Horacio DURAN, the husband of

Silvia DURAN, cited above. There is a strong personal

antipathy between the two women descending from

Elena GARRO's trenchant anti-Communism,

30. From October 1964 until his retirement in the fall

of 1969, a U.S. Embassy officer, Charles THOMAS, persistently

kept up a stream of reports and memoranda reflecting GARRO's

account of what had actually gone on between OSWALD, the

Cubans and in particular Silvia DURAN in September 1963,

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31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in

a Mexico Station Memorandun of Recora dated 12 October 1964:

"Elena GARRO [said) that she and her

daughter were invited to a party at the cuban

Embasay daring the period she now finds out

that ostip tas here in Mexico prior to the

assassination. She was invited by a Mexican

secretary in the Cuban Embassy whose husband

is a cousin of the GARRO family [Horacio DURAN].

At the party she saw three Gringos, not

drinking, not mixing and more or less just

standing around together like three bumps on a

log. They were so obviously out of place that

she asked someone in the Cuban Embassy about

them and was told that 'they were just passing

through." She claims that on the way these

three Gringos stood out she took a good look

at them as did her daughter. When the

assassination occurred and OSWALD's picture was

spread into the newspapers, both Elena and

her daughter immediately said that he was one

of the three Gringos "without a doubt' at the

party."

32. GARRO repeated her story to Mr. Charles William

THOMAS, an Embassy political officer on 10 December 1965:

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In september 190 after her return from abroad, she went

to a party, accompanied by her daughter, at the home of

Ruben DURAN Temphasis added). Ruben is one of the two

bothers of Horacio DURAN, who married her cousin. She

net

OSwALD and two other young Americans. At the party

she was

discouraged from talking with him. Other guests

were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark FLORES,

Silvia DURAN, who she later learned was OSWALD's mistress

while he was here, Emilio CARBALLIDO and a Latin American

Negro man with red hair [emphasis addedl. In November 1963

when the identity of the assassin became known, she and

her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted

"assassins" and other insults at the staff there.? shortly

afterward, she and her daughter were visited by a friend,

Manuel CARVILLO [OT CATVILLO], then an official in the

Secretariat of the Gobernacion and were told he had orders

to escort them to a smaliVand obscure hotel in the center

of town..

were, kept there for eight days under pretext

that they wer

anger. When she told CARVILLO she wanted

to go to the American Embassy and explain what she knew of

OSWALD, she was told that the American Embassy was full of

Communist spies.

33. On 25 December 1965 and 9 January 1966 in further

interviews with THOMAS, GARRO and her daughter elaborated and

These particulars were not confirmed by independent observers

at the

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in certain particutars significantly modified her earlier

account.

She also acknowledged that she and her daughter

had been interviewed by Embassy officers to whom she claimed

they did not give a'very complete story because the

Embassy officers did not appear to give much credence

anything they said.

34. It developed that GARRO and daughter had been

interviewed by the Legal Attache on 17 and 24, November 1964.

Her information had been similar to what she claimed in her

account to THOMAS but had not been substa@tiated by inquiries.

The Fal representative therefore considered the matter closed

and reaffirmed his disengagement from the matter to the CIA

Chief of Station on 27 December 1964 and to the Ambassador

on 25 February 1965.

35. The Embassy Political Officer, however, persisted in

his interviews and reporting. In a memorandum of conversation,

13 July 1966, CARRO identified the place to which she had been

taken by CALVILLO as the Hotel Vermont.

(This detail checked

out

affirmatively: CARRO was at the Hotel 23 - 24, 25 - 27

and 28 - 30 November 1963.) In another, on 7 February 1967,

GARRO " S

nửing

vicissitudes with the Cubans are set out..

And finall

THOMAS's retirement from U.S. Government

service, the Department of State, at his request;

28 August 1969, disseminated to CIA and FBI a compilation of

his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews.

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36. There the matter rests. GARRO's chronology of the

events she described as having occurred in the Mexican capital

in September 1963 hever coincided with the confirmed data

of OSWALD's presence there.

Her story, however, had two

points.con

squant with allegations by others regarding

OSWALD:

NARADO's allegations regarding the

Negro with the red-dyed hair (this detail could,

however, have been gleaned from the

Warren Commission's published account of the

"''" casel and

b. Silvia DURAN's later claim of

intimate personal contacts with OSWA

37. Beginning in March and amplified in

1967, the

American Consul, Benjamin J. RUYLE, in Tampico developed a

contact with a local Mexican journalist,

Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who claimed to have encountered

OSWALD with other pro-CASTRO students at the

University of Mexico campus in September 1963.

38. In June 1969 CONTRERAS was interviewed by a CIA

officer:

He studied lay at the University of Mexico

for three years

approximately 1960 - 1964. He

belonged to a clandestine pro-CASTRO revolutionary

group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD

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case he was extremely cautious and although he

was not able of willing to give dates and

names, he said OSWALD visited the University

of Mexi

go campus shortly after the Cuban

Embass

efuse

ahim a visa to visit Cuba®

nguiries regarding pro-Cuban

revolutionary groups at the triversity and

was directed to CONTRERAS and his friend.

OSWALD met CONTRERAS and four other persons-

as they came out of a round-table discussion

held in the faculty of Philosophy.

OSWALD

told the group it was urgent that he visit

cuba and the Cuban Embassy had dented him a

visa. He requested aid from CONTRERÁS' group.

CONTRERAS and others mistrusted OSWALD because

they felt he was a CIA provocation. The group

allowed OSWALD to accompany them the rest of the

day, that night and part of the next day. OSWALD

was very introverted and appeared to be slightly

czazy. OSWALD made no jentton of an absessination

plot but kept

inging,

ithe point he had to

travel to

ky.

39. At this

FBI knowledge, the matter was

turned over to the Mexican authorities who determined that.

CONTRERAS was indeed at the University of Mexico but only

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for the years 1959 - 1960 and that he had been publicly

associated in protest activity for the Student Revolutionary

BlOC (BER) in January 1961-

However, the group ceased

functioning as

such in the

middle of 1962, and

Oscar

CONTRERAS was never one of its leaders. No further

work is

retkacted in the files on the coNtReRas allegations.

Apart from the unsustained claims made by CONTRERAS about

his own presence at the University, there is an additional

element that undermines the credibility of his account:

OSWALD's Spanish, which was barely adequate to get him méals

near the hotel, seems hardly likely to have permitted'him to

carry on for an extended period with @universign'student

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31 January 1964

MOCRANIA FOR: ME. J.

SUBJECT:

matio:

eveloped by ClA on tDo

Lee flarvey OSWALD is

Mesico City, 29 September - 3 Cctober 1563

as Transmitted to Warren

Commissi

1. I am enclonia, a presentation of the inicrication

developed by CIA on an abou, Lde Harpey OSWALD in Mexico

City. We have included in this paper only hard, substantive

Informacion, Asy julyers that ae made repesent Fo

fessional evaluations by individuals who have worked over

the years as specialists in their fielda, Speculaston, rusOs,

and vagse detail not directly related to OSWALD's activity

have not been inchiled.

2. Pursuant lo our diacnasion on 14 January 1564, I

bave gives the enclose as amropriate classificatio, The

compromise of this mnterial in its muesent form would lead

direttly to the destruction a currezt sources aad methoda al

this Agency in lexico and elsewbere.

Docuttent Number

509-803

(signed)

Richard Holy

for FOlA Revien 07: MY 1975 Deputy Director for Plane

Enclosure

Orig & 1 - Addressee w/att

1 ~ DDP #/att

1 - WH/3 (Mr. Whitten) w/att

• S/CI /att v

- Chiel, CIREA w/att/

CI/RGRoccasde/ 31 January 1964

CS COPY

memo

CIA dated 10 7e6 1964

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31 January 196%

dise...

Laformation Developed by CiA on the Activity o!

Leo Farvey OSWALD irakarica City

28 Septarber - 3,Ocroges

1963

r.iy

I. OSWALD'S Activity in Mesico City

1. On 9 October fão CIA Siation in Mexico City rescivad

the following iaformation liban a reliable and proven source:

An American nomed Ise OSWAID lad contacted

the Soviet Embassy is Mexico City on Tuesday, l Octobes

1963. He had spoken in halting Russian to ice Soviet

Embassy guard, Ivan Ivazovici OBYEDKOV, to Wbora

he said ho had visited the Imbassy two days earlics,

Saturday, 28 Septomber. Fo asked whether there had

boen a seply to a telegramn that the Consul with whom bo

had spokes, but whose name he could not recall, bad

promised to serd to Washingior, OBYEDKOV had

attempted to establish the mintity of the Coasu with

whom OSWALD had tiredi l i bad beez a dari curcos.

then it had pa doably beez KOSTIOV, OBYEDKOV,

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Moralia I.

after a chock with Sovic: Consular personnel, assured

OSWALD the telegram had beca sent to Washington but

no ansVes had been roceived.

I'do lacoration wa fervaded by ello ta GA oadguariere

tho same day it was received

matters revealed the possibility of an idcatity between the Lec

OSWALD Woo had sposea with OSYEDKOY, and presumably

with KOSTISOV, and the defector returnoe, Lee Harvey OSWAID.*

3. On 10 October 1963 CIA Headguarters disueminated by

cable the report in substantially the form and in the detail

indicated above, is garagraph 1, to the Federalagoncies wiose

jurisdictional interesta had been established by a review of

OSWALD's file: the Federal Burcau of Investigatios, the Depart

* The CIA file on Lee Hazey. OSWALD was opezed an 9 Decomber

1960 to accommodate biographic i fo-mation developed by CIA in

response to an inquiry from the Depaitmeat di Stato oz a list oi

Amcrican defectors in Soviet Bloc countrios. OSWALD's was

among the names in the list.

• I'ho Department of State inquisy

was dated 25 October 1960.. An laterim reply was given by CIA

03 3 Noverider 1960; a final resty, on 21 Noveraber 1950. Ustil

ezaly October 1953 the costests ci tis OSWALD fils bold by ClA

consisted entlicly, of press materials and disseminationa

received from tao Departmost of Stata, the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, and the Navy Department.

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ment a State, the Navy Dopa-tinest, and tho Immigration aed

Naturalization Service.

A commont was incided in the report

noting the likelibood that the subject, Ize OSWALD, was

probably identical with the former Marise who had deiecica to

tho Soviet Union in 195% (I'he repori diaseminatod by CIA is

Washingtos on 10 October alco iscluded a physical doucription

o an irdividual who sas believed to have been the OSWALD when?

b=d contacted the Soviets in Mesico City. It was subsequenty

established by investigation that the description did not pertaia

tO OSWALD. I

So Os the same day, 10 Cotaber 1963, CIA Headquariora

sent a longthy cable surmary to the Vicrico City Station d the

background information holi in the Headquarters: file oz

OSWALD. An instruction was incluled for the Messico City

Station to pasa the substarce aí its 9 Coiober repori to the local

representatives of the same Fede-zi departments and ageacies

that had been given the information is Washingtor, This

instruction was immediately carried out, in this maarer the

information on OSWAIDia contact with the Soviets on l Cctaber

was passed in Mexico City to the Embassy, the FBI representstive,

tho Naval Attacho, dad so the affice of the Immigration and

Naturalisation Service.

There were no requests from recitants

the report for furthor information or for follow-up investigation.

WAr

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5. hitor to ascascimtion di President & cnadiy and the

DETOSE 0E LOG TAFUSY OSHALD, & Latensiva review of all

evaliable sourcos was andertitor la ilexico City to deterraine

E30 purpose @ OSWALD's visita. It was learned that OSWALI

hed also muciteù tho Cuber Coasuiato la Mexico City and lad

alsou those ma,a close a Merican ational sumad Silvia

DURAN. After the assassiantion and to publicity about Ico

OSWALD, Silvia DURaN bed told a nuraber of relativos zad

Inlonde that she had talkei to OSWALD about a Cubas visa.

Silvia DUBAN and he= husband, Fiorazio DURAN Navarzo, wera

demned and questlosed by the Mexican police frozi 23 to 25

November 1963.

6. Alter giving some of tse desails of her own personal

badigroud - she ls an adraitiod Leitist sympathizor and had

forcaly worked for the Vesicar-Cubar Instituto of Cultural

Balacions - Silvia DURAN said that woon she first heard oí the

dust of President Kennedy elo d been deprossed and iaought

dae assassin must haver been a maniac. Waen she learsed diat

do was associated with the "Fale Play for Cuba Commalite"

she did not ba

have

7.

She talkerl about the case to her husband and whoa cie

heard the zame of Ice OSWALD seestioned, she recognized it is

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tic man vino had core to the Consulato about two months befozc

do get a visa to transit, Coa

• his way to the USSR. She

scalised iat hechad saia ho was married to'a Bussian and tira:

as bad patenged to da "Tale Play for Cubal

gIous. Sac checised

no: file on him In the Consular archives and frora the descidivo

data, she was suro it was the same man. He was short, blend,

poorly dressed and his face got rod whea he talled, lie was

denied a Cuban transit visa because he ali not yet have a Soviet

visa, aad he was told to get tho Soviet visa flrst.. but it was noted

has this would take about four months. She had assed tho Cubaz

Consul himselí, Eusebio AZCUE, to talk to OSWALD and they

had an argument when AZCUE urged OSWALD to leave Mesico

instead of waiting there. The Consul had phoned te Sovlei Cor-

sulate and talked to the parson handling OSWAiD's case, who

had said it would take about four months to hear from Moscow

abor: the Sovict visa. The same

literaoon, OSWALD bad como

backs again and she had t

the same thing. She gava

OSWALD a slip of pepar with harame and telephone sumber 0a

It in case ha

Wet got his Souper visa. He did not call backs, she sald.

8. Silvia DURAj"s husband, Moracio DURAN Navairo, gavo

essentially the same story, as he had previously heard it irom

his wiio aiter the assassination. He had never had asy persoaal

contact with OSWALD.

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9. Siivia DURAN was reinterrogated by tho Mesican police

from 27 to 29 Noversuez Dul she did noi change or add materially

to hor story about OSWALD.

JOnGUE HERNANDEZ A mai, soportod or tie isaimeniend

intesrogation

The

Cuban Goverament sea the Mosican Governmezi a still note c

protest.

which the Mexicans ejected.

11. We are -clinbly informed that on 25€

Lover her

genito

sire

day aster DURAN'a release, Cuba Frediden DOTTICOS queried

FERNANDEZ about his soot, HERNANDEZ confismed that

there had been an zicacation botween OSWAID zad Consul

AZCUE, DORTICOS made a pesticient but unsuccessául cfior:

to determine from HERNANDEZ whethes tho Mexican ausborities

had questioned Mas. DURAN about money, of thought that the

Cubans bad paid OSWALD :

126, The CIA follaw-us inycetigation pacducca the following

confirmed reauta which have a bearing on lies. DURANts account:

27 September. In mid-aftersooz, Silvia DURAN

informed tho Soviet Embassy that a male American citizen

had requested a visa to transit Cuba on his way to the

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Soviot Union. She desired to know who the Amorican had

talked with ai the Sovict Consulate, Also, she indicaiod

that the Cuben Consulate coul: great him the visa azd

arrange immigration dctails ll tiso conceasion of a Soviet

Vies vero angured.

127 Septembci. Purcuzmi to her inquist, Silvia

DURAN recelved a confleration se osa de sorict salamay

that the American had beon to the USS inatallation

He

bad shown them a letter from the Soviet Consulate ini

Washington indicating that he lad feet long gwalting a

visa for himself and lis wise to go to the

USSE. NO

answer bad come from Washingion; however, the waiting

period was somotimes lour oi five raonths. The American

21s0 bad a lester attesiing that be was a member a a pro

Cubaz organiestios but he did elaimed that the Cubana

would noi give hirs a visa unlesa ho had alrezay received

a Russian visa. .

Although the Americay was still at tho Cubaa

Consulate,

Silvis

IN' repeated that see douid not give

him a transi: visa unlecs a Soviet viaa was forthcoming,

notwithstanding the American's wish to go to Cuba to wait

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there for his Soviet vish, Accosding to DURAN, tha

appropriataly annotato tho Americaa's card. Ihe Soviet

28 September. Silvia DURAN was again visited

It tie Cubez Embasay is Vicsico City by the Americao

secking a Cuban transit visa. irs. DURAN coutzctediat

least iwo members of the Soviet Imbaasy and facilitated

= diroct conversation betveez eno óf the Saviets and the

American, ConveSSing in poOr Russias

tac-Amczican

stated that he already had beca to the Sovict Consulate

and had icit an address. The Sovict official replied that

ho was aware of that. The American suggested tent ha

had not known his address then, and he had gore so te

Cubas Embassy to ask for tha address, because they bad

15. The American then accceed to the Soviet dificialls

invitation to come by and give them the addsesa.

d. 1 October. In mid-morning an unidentifiod

individual, speaking broken Russian, cortacted the Sovict

Vilitary Attacho in Mesico City. He said he had been to

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Iac Embassy tho previous Saiday (28 Septemaca) und

had tallicd with a Consultrao had said they would serd a

telegram to Washiagtoan bed there been arcoly? Hic

was teferred to the Coatulate for the information.

These additional materials were norantly disseminaris in

Washington by tue CIA to the White House, ins Dopestmost gf

State, asd the Federal Eureau of investigation.

e. 1 Octobes. See paragraph I above for Lee

OSWALD's contact with tho Soviet Cosawatc.

II. Valsriy Vi-dimirovich KOSEIOV

13. It la believed that the Soviet oficial wist whom

OSVAID dealt in Mesico Gity was Consular Attacho Valeriy

Vi-dimirovich KOSTIKOV, ba's in Moscow, 17 March 1933.

A photograpa a KOSIIKOV is attached. In his lettes of

? November to the Soviet Consulate is Washiarton, OSWALD

wrote about his Mincetings will Comrado JOSTIN (sic) ef the

Soviet Union ia Mesico Cua Messigo. " There in no afficial

as the Soviet Embasey 1a Mesico City with a name resembling

"ISOSTIN", othey than Consul KOSTIOV.

11.

KOSTIKOV is the senior aficer of five Soviet

Consular representatives who deal with visas and related

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The tollowing action Is

authorized: DE SENSITIZE

Signed:

& DIRECTOR

ROM & MEXICO CITY

3)

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SECRET 240406Z

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AVEN? REDWOOD LGIMPROVE

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CONDUCTED ON 1 6 APR 1976

REF DIR 84885

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SUBJ'S FURNITURE.

•3. NOU 60 AND 7 MAR 61 WITH JUAN SEDILLO RE INSURANCE SUBJ CAR.

• 3 NOV GO SERGIO DURAN OF NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK RE PICKUP

OF MONEY. 14, 15 NOV HUMBERTO GONZALEZ RE PICKING UP NEW CAR.

25 -28 NOV SUBJ TREATED AT SANATORIO REFORMA (USUALLY USED SY

SOVS BY WELL KNOWN LEFTIST DR. CARLOS NOBLE HOYO WHO USED

for FOIA Review od

FREQUENTLY BY SOVS.

23' DEC WITH THIRD SEC CUBAN CULTURAL ATTACHE

ISRESA PROENZA RE ARRANGING PRESS CONFERENCE FOR ROLANDO CUBELA

APR

PRESIDENT

OF CUSAN FELL

18 FES AND 2D MAR 61 WITH DENTIST DR.

Document Number

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LESLIE VALERY FOR

APPOINTMENT FIX SON'S TEETH: VALERY 201-289248

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TALKS FAMILIARLY WITH SUBJ AND INVITES HIM TO PRESS CONFERENCS

TURE AT HOTEL REFORMA WASRE A CURAN TO SPEAK. 3 MAY WITH GUADALU:*

PEREZ MACIA OF GOBERNACION RE OBTAINING UNDETERMINED) VISA-

JUNE AND 6 JULY WITH OSCAR

SANTAELLA, FORD SALESMAN. * JUNE WITH

JUAN GARCIA AND ENU PEREZ OROZCO, DODGE SALESMEN. 2 AUG CALLS

ROCER OR ROBERT KAIZ OF "FRANCE FRESSE" TO INVITE TO SOVEMB PRESS

CONFERENCE.

NE WAY AND 16 JUNE 1962 CALLS EDMUNDO JARDON OF PRENSA

LATINA IO GET TOGETHER. 14 JUNE ASKS SPEAK WITH DR. GUILLERNO

MONTANO ISLAS, PROMINENT MEXICAN PRO COMMIE LEADER WELL KNOWN

HOS. 22 JUNE HE AND TASS REP ANATOLIY PAVLENKO INVITED TO LUNCHEON

BY MEXICAN PRESIDENT'S PRESS SEC HUMBERTO ROMERO. 25 SEP IS INVITED

TO LUNCHEON WITH DR. IGNACIO CHAVEZ, RECTOR AT UNAM. 3 DEC ACCEPTS

INVITE ATTEND BUFFET FOR PRESS ON BEHALF CARL J. HIMAIL, U.S.

NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: 23 JAN 63 HORACIO CHANCACLINI OF UNITED

NATIONS POSTPONES HIS APRONTKENT WITH SUBJ. 19 FEB FNU SABINO

CASRERA OF INSURANCE FIRM RE PAYMENTS.

8 MAR INVITES CANADIAN

NEN SPAPERMAN JOHN AL IUS TO STAG DINNER..

30 APR REQUESTS APPSINT MENT

WITH RICARDO POERY CERVANTES, PROMINENT LETTIST JOURNALIST IN

~ CLOSE FREQUENT

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15 AND T7 MAY TALKS WIS, NEW YORK

TINES RÉP PAUL KENNEDY WHO INVITES SUBJ DINNER 26 MAY. 18 CAY

DIRECTOR OF VOZ DE MEXICO AND POM CENTRAL COMMITTEEMAN MANUEL

TERRAZAS GUERRERO, ASKS SUBJ FOR SOV FINANCIAL SUBSID.Y*: 2.3-MAY

SUBJ CALLS JOHN RETTIE (SEE MEXI 4743). 14 JUNE CALLS WELL KNOWN

LEFTIST CLEMENTINA BASSOLS TO INTERVIEW HER. 14 OCT INVITES

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IXFCICIASION TO PEIER MORAGA, UNTUSY STANES INFORMATION/CEFICIA II MÉXICO CINY: .

ARTA RCORTEIZ DE LOPEZ, SAID A SON IN LAW OE ESAS

PARNESIO RODRIGUEZ,

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IN LA# IS A CUBAN NEO LIVES AS 212 JUMERSON PAPRISE, NEW ORLIZANS,

IL: VINOS 5.9658. ARNESTO RODRIGUSZ RUES A SPANISE LANGUAGE SCEOCE

ATO IS ALLI CASTRO. ACCORDING TO MARIA RODRIGUEZ DE LOPSZI FER' SON

II LAZ HAS A TATO CONVERSARIOS VOCEROn Number 113-48

for FOIA Raview en APR 1976

ENID OF MESSAGE

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D:240-5-41

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CONDUCTED ON 2 4 MAY 1979

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DOC. MICRO. SER

MAY 1 5 1975

MICROFILMED

TO

Director

Federal Sureau Of Investigatio

attention:

At: 55. Papich

SHOS

Deputy Diractor (Plana)

SUBJECT:

°1001.

27110063

81602

10.224F

PERRE DES (3D)

at (a)

201-3:5052

korarded as Attackont 1 13a ream of the ouserved

0l33661017d4los of Valenty Madluirorics:0s114T 208 1ran Carlo

TIC I?RISy as raported by a rottable source 1a harico City.

Go Metici

its maty

3933 (500 CEC1-3/173, 825,

25 Hovenber 1563)

ALTERIST 1227

ellad with tOsTITOY to forthern lerico dring the early part

nAre bein

c] September 1963.

soarce reported that during

in confuci

under revier the observed activities a losti and AlaISY

appeared to be noral, as did the activities of tho entire

soviet sabrary complement.

Forvarded as Attachrent. B 1s a resune of telephoze

calis placed to and irom the Sovlet Abasay on the afternoon

o1 22 joverber.

Analytayat enlts nade. the soring of

22 Novenber and the mening'and altersóon oz 23 jovenber re

roaled no pertinent laforsat long

Techalenl suvatin

no of the hones of several know

and suspected soviet intelligence officors produced no perti-

nent intonation

forwarded as Attacment c is a 1iat 1eaati ying the

Sovleta whose names appear in Attachsents A and B.

Because of the extrue sensitivity of the encloaed

Icornation, ve urge that the source data and the isfomation

be given the nost secure handling pousiblo.

1 10r bachyond une only and any not be dissenterted v1tbout

permission from this Agency.

RECORD COPY

Document Number 187-l022

for FOlA Reyiew on APR 1976

C3CJ-3/753,881

CLASSIFICATION REVIEW

CONDUCTED CN_

24 MAY 1975

_IMPOET CL BY G1322

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Distribution:

úrig. & 1 - Addressee

1 - FI (201-239243)

1 - CINIA

1 - CI/IZA

27 Noveabor 1963

BASICS:

УEXI-7050

HEX1-7038

HCXI-7036

MEXI- 7034

3777-7032

NO. PROJECT

(IN 67292)

(IN 67253)

(11 07237)

(I767731)

(IN 67198)

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EnClOsUre A

18 November

0857 - Alferler entorg Embassy alone (Departura not noted)

*3se - Joatsor enters alone

2829 - Goation departs alone

1556

Sostizoy entera alone

1711

#Fostilor departs alone

1759 - Roatikon enters alone

19 November

1210 - Alforder enters Eubassy alone

1312 • Allerley departs w1th Carasche

1352 - Alerter and Carnarchey retura

1413 - Kostlion departs aloner

1333 - Alterter enters alone

1633 - Fost1k0 est

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20 November

No coverage

21 November

0852 - Alferiev

entera sparaz gita wife

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0917 - Alferley departs alone

0949 - Alterley enters alone

1133 - Bostikoy departs with Shubin

1206 - Alforter departa alone

1240 - Jostitor enters with Shubta

1310 - Kostikoy departs

Anitar driven by IGh chaurfour Talinia

1341 - Loatikon enters 1th Kalinia

1353 - Alterior entora alone

1427 - Kostilor departs alone

1630 - Kostikov enters alone

22 November

0853 - Alferier enters Inbassy alone

0904 - Kostikoy enters alone

1005 - Kostihoy bas diacussion with Shubis

1016 - Kostikor departa with Shubin

1028 - Kostikov enters With Shubin

2030 - Bostitor departs fith vice and Shubla

11s0 - sostion vire and Subta returs

1302-1312 - Kostlion apeaks in garden with fazantser

1336 - Bostikoy departs with Shubin, Shpakerich, Turyglo,

driven by Kalinin

1402 - All above return

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1702 - justlloy departs in car vita fantly

1453 - Alerter deraits alone

1436 - Alferfer enters alone

1508

Tilerior departs alone

1517 -Ällerter enters alone

1539 - jostlior enters alone

33 November

1130 - Lostirov speaks with Kazantser and shubid

1133 - Restiloy departs with Inzastsey and Sbubin

1200 - Alleriey enters alone

1240 - justlion, inzintsey and Shubig enter

1110 - Sost 10y playe volleybart sAl Marskor, StudIe

1430 - Kostikov departs with Siubin and Ronzechenko

1440 • Alferfer departs alone

21 November

1100 - Allerter enters Eabassy alone

1207 - Kostitov enters wiStep and Shubia

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1326 - Allericy departs with-Shengalor

1110 - Allerley enters with Stengalev

1140 - Aliented tostitor, iantay had i unidentified

Soviet vestors depart (a'a car)

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Ly 22 loveaber coverage of soviei imbassy posal.

131 22 Movember coverage follows:

1250 - Cuban Consul lIrado Mirabal Diaz asks to speak

ults latstov. latter apparently unavailable and

Koatikoy comes on line with folloring conversation

nos:

Forglye ap for arriving late.

MID: Did you recover the suitcase?

KOS: Jes

HIR: Then 1t was arriving on the other trip..

KOS: Tes

MIR:

I called to tell you the following, that regarding

to see 11

that natter that we had talkad about sars because

're would spend Sunday In Chacultepec

ay miie 1s preparing sone food to eat there.

HES:

I'm sorry but I've just made plans for another

trip and l's leaving this very day.

So please

forgive ne for not being able to go wits you.

KIR; J'd l1te to tale to Pavel Tatsion.

ROS:

wait a sinute, he'll core nogd

HI:

Il ha"s busy 1'15

callims later; but I'll be

available for the nest half hour at telephone

50. 11-38-47.

BOS: 0.f.

1334 ~ Reporter requests statement. Unidentitied Soviet

male refusen.

1323 - Fenale lapiles to Bukbarenio that the Soviet Asbassador

has said to nate zo atatement.

1445 - Yugoslay Abissador Viadoy calls and speaks with Soviet

Ambassador tararov i wasslar.

Talk bricfly about

assasstaattos telltyg

Mutile

each other what they know, which

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1550 -üntientilled woman advises Sovieta 01 assaasination.

1s11 - inidentifled reforter isha lur Yarantser, advisad

that sarantser notjju, will be back dorizy, 0939-1:00.

1913

1632 - Unidartified leale reporter told Soviet Imbassy not

worklay today, saturday or sunday.

1715 - Laporter calls for statenant. Mona gives.

- Kazantser cails his resilence, personal call.

1741 - Reporter told to call back onday.

1750 - laidentsiled sale asis for Icanor.

Hot 11.

1755 - zhove calls agala

- reportar told call baci tonday

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AITACIMANT C TO CSCI-3/T73,881

1. Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERIEY

- Pravia Corespondest

3. Falerty Tadinirovich KOSTIACY - Attacho Consular Offica

3. Alelsay Ivanovich CARlASCHSY

—Coasul

1. VItally Bartsovich SHuBt

5. Tux fartriyavich sALININ

- Attache

— Chaufieu

8. Boris Ale

Madorich KAZANTSSY - Counselor

7. Vladiatr

Ivanovich SEATVICH - Ihird Seeretary

8. Nadinir Ivanovich ANDRITiT - first Secretary

9. Vadiady Vasilyovich TURYGIN - Third Secretary

10.

Pavel Antonoyich IATSKoY

• Attache

11.

Vladintr PORZEUNTOY

• Code Clark

12. Cennadiy STROGANOY

- Radio Operator

13. MIsolay Petrovich SLAviOT

15. MadimIr SOMINCHONKO

15. Lev FedorOViCh SHEHIGALEY

...= Code Cleri

- Secoad Secretary

= Saployee, Comercial

17. Sergey Semyonovich KUXHARSVIO - Second Secretary; Sa

Fiet Inforeation

18. Nikolay Sergeyevich IOsOY

• Third Secretar

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22 Lorensor coverage of Soviet intesy noraa!.

22 jayencer coverage tollo!

1250 - Cuban Consur Alfredo Mirabal viaz sals to speais

with Tatarov:

K08:

NI3:

Did you Jacoper the suitcase?

KOS: Yes

WIn: Then it us arriving on the otzer taig.

303: Yes

MI3:

I called to tell you the lollowing, that regarding

to see 11

ve would spend sunday la Chapultepee

tast untter that ve had talked about pars because

Iy wile lo preparing some josd to eat there.

ACE:

bat l've just sade plana: for anothes

trig and l'a loaving this very day.

So please

jorgite se los not belez able to go with you.

dIB;

3OS:

MIR:

I'd lize to tall: to Pavel Iatsson.

Wait a slaute, be'll case 20m.

11 ha's busy I'11 call bla later, but 1'11 ke

availaole for the next half hour at telephone

20. 11-2847.

#0S: D. f

133% - Ruporter requests state

Untientified Soviet

1303 - Benale taplies to Fukhurento

at the soviet insaseador

3n9 sald to sake no stati

orsnade Tahoy calls and speaks viti Soviet

Anbagaador. Lazier

#Fusalaa.

Talk briefly about

255aa9i1at103 +

each other tint they baos, which

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appears to be only what they got from the radio.

1550 - Unidentified woman advises Soviets of assassination.

164 - Unidentifled reporten asks for Kazaatsev, advised

that Kazantsey not 1a, will be back Honday, 0930-1400.

1615 = UnidentifIed male asks for Kustarenso, told be 1sn't

1n.

1652 - Unidentified fenale reporter told Soviet Inbassy not

working today, Saturday or Sunday.

1716 - Reporter calls for Statement. Mone given.

• Kazantsey calls hia residence, personal call.

1744 - Reporter. told to call back bonday.

1750 - Unidentified male asks for Leonov. Not 1n.

1755 - above calls again

- Reporter told call bacis jonday.

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I. Ivas Cavillorich ALYPRIET:

- Prayds Correspondent

3. Talerly Tadiatrovich $03T110Y - Attacbe Consular Office

3. Alaises Ivazovies CAriSca

1a Tatally Boriorica stati

• Attache

• Chan? lour

5. BOrLa BlaksandroriCh SACANTSEY - Counsalos

7. Madinir Irazovich SPANYICh - Third Sacrotary

3. TAdilE ITINOViCh ANDREILY - P1I9I Sacrutary

9. Madial Vasilyevich TUNGIN- Third Sacretary

10. Pavel satorovich YATSROY

- Attache

11. Vladial- FORSEUROY

- Code Clerk

13. Gennadly STROGALCY

- Radto Cerator

13. MikOlaY PeLTOViCH SISTROY

- Code gloris

-Second Secratasy

15. Loy Pedoroyich SarcAtE!

16. Oleg MaksOViCh LECIIFORENSO

- Inplores, Commerelal

office

18. Elbolay Sorguyich LEONOV

•• Third Secrotary

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23 JU::

MEMORANDUM FOR: MI. J. i00 Rankis

General Counscl

Prosident's Commission on tha

Assassination of Presiden: Kennedy

SUBJECT:

Lbertaivey Oswald

Wales

lo Mi. James y. Llebeler of your staff phoneá me last

Frlday and seguested that CIA furalsh tie Commalasion with an

atleavis respecting the origin and circumstancos of a piotograpa

oí an vainawa ladividual uitica was furnished by this Agency to

the Fedeal Bureau astavestigation on November 22, 1963.

I aga forwarding an aifidavit wita talo meriorancun

which I trust wiil satialy your necds. Decause of tho extremo

'onnitivity of the source lavolved, I have reiralaad from acding

furthar detalls.

3. Che Central Intelligonce Agoney recommends tiat

thia photograph nos be reproduced in the Commission's report.

because it would jeopardiso a most confidential and productiva

operation. In addition, li could ba embarrancing to tao indi

vicual involved who as far as thla Agoncy in aware, haù no

connection with jee Harvoy Onwald or the ansosalration of

President Kennedy.

affired to thia communication.

In vlaw of the above, a senaltivity indicator has been

Richard Helms

Deputy Diractor for Plana

Attachment - a/

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20 February 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CA/REA

SUBJECT:

Documents Available in OSWALD's 201 File •

I. A maching listing of documents officially recorded as being

in OSWALD's 201 file wastrequested and is attached. The actual

machine work of this type was begun in 1963, but a few items of previous

dates were also recorded.

2. A comparison of the documents physically available in the

201 file and those recorded as being in the 201 file has shown that 37

documents which should be in the 201 file are not available in it. This

total is made up of:

2 dispatches

7 memoranda from the FBI

1 CSCI

2 State Department documents

25 cables.

3. Machine inquiries for the location uf these documents have

not been made.

Denier inbo. 5563-810

pees

for FOlA Review on

JUN 1976

rEilly

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Ko So Lee Ranidir

would you please be good enough to tele

phone me on lendar, l larch, Er which tims I

Plance at this material

a yet have it an emportanity to

Richard Reins

111:00

12/3/64

Rackin's 86-

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6 March 19614

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XAAZ-22595

aMar 6.4.

MEMORANDUM FOR: MI. J. Lee Rankia

SUBJEGT:

"Infastation in CIA's Possession

Fior to November 22, 1963 a

to Darren Commission

This refera to your letter of February 12, 1961

addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence which bas

bees passed to me los reply.

Paragraph three o you letter requested the Agency

to supply the Commiasion with a report on imormation in the

Agencyis possession regarding iee Harvey OSWAiD prior to

¿ovenioes 22, 1963. The request was predicated upon the

¡ootacte on pago two of ClAis report to the Commission dated

31 January 1969, entitled: "Iformation Developed by CIs on

tze Motivity of lee Harvey OSAID is Mexico City, 28 Ser

terzber - 3 October 19631:

in These is attached as exact reproduction of the

¿gessy's cificial dossie on Lee Harvey OSWALD beginning

with the opening Baeet dated 9 December 1960. Ike entice

dossier carries the security classification of Secret aud

consists of thirty documerts arranged in chronological order.

On the basis of clearances froz the federal Bureau of

Investigation, the Department of State, the Depa toent of

Mavy, and the Immigration and Maturalization Servicen Ngo

were queried by us after the receipt of your letter, weare

able to maise available exact copies of all materials batie

file up to early Cetober 1963, These include:

Document Number

590-252

for EOlA Review

JUN 1976

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a.

Seven documents received from the Fedaral

Bureau of lavestigathe

ol state.

b. Pen documents received from the Department

Vic.

Bt Nawyo

Imo documents received from the Department

One document (a name check request) for the

Immigration aad Naturalization Service.

e. Four sewspaper clippings.

fo Five internal CIA notes.

8. CIA report dated 31 Jantasy 1964 to the Commission

which covery all substantive developments afacting CIA

in the matter of Lee Harvey OSWALD isaIal October to

22 November 1963. The report indicated the disseminations

of information developed by ClA that were sade to other

Federal agencies during that period. This iters, as was

poisted out at the time, is particularly senaitive and bears

appropriate senditivity isdicators.

You will note that alost all of the documenta carry

markings reguired for ClA's internal records processing. A

few of the papers contained the rames of our employees or

identllications a specific organizational components. Vie have

taken the liberty of blocking out those iteras as they do not bear

Richard Helas

Depuly Director for Plans

Attachment

Original & 2 - Addressee

1 - DDP Subject

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CI:RGRocca:de /7468/4 March 1964 (Inventory of documents contained

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Iaventory of Documents Contained in OSWALD Dossier Forwarded

to the Commissior

• 1.1. State Ielegram Nor 1307, October 34, 1959, (Confidential) V

• /2. Newspaper Article from the Washington Post, November 1, 1959

* LV3. CI/LSÑ Internal Nota dated 2 November 1959 (oral FBI name

Check regueat) and NR reply dated 4 November 1959 (Confidential)

Foreige

jarvice Despateh 234, November Ze 1959 (Gonfidentialy

• ~ J5, State Jelegram 1358, November 9, 1959 (Contidential)

,. J6. State Telegram 1148, November 9, 1959 (Confidential)

M. Newspaper Clipping from Washington Post, November 16, 1959

* W8. Newspaper Clipping from Evening Star, November 26, 1959

+ 19. DBT 49478, 25 May 1960 (Confidential)

*~20. Internal CIA Biographic Profile dated circa May 1960 (Confidential)

* 11. Letter from the Department of State (Cumming) to DDP (Bissell)

dated October 25, 1960 (DD/P 0-5679 - Secret)

y 120

caded at to state add 21 November 1960 DD/P 0-6003 -

Secret)

• vi3.

Internal CIA Request for Opening of 201 flle, 9 December 1960

(Secret)

i /14. State Memorandum of Conversation dated January 26, 1961 (OUO)

"UÍ5. State Iastruction A-273, April 13, 1961 (OUO)

~ 116.

Foreign Service Despatch 806, May 26, 1961 (OUO)

1%. Foreiga Service Despatch 29, July 11, 1961 (OUQ)

÷18. DFBZ2181, July 13, 1961 (Confidential) -

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•6 Mar 64

*19. Interzal CIA Memo, for the Record, 28 September 1961 (Secret)

* 120. Foreign Service Despatch 317, October 12, 1961 (OUO)

WEENS Name Check keguest, December 5, 1961

J22.

Nary Message 20197/RB/3, 3 March 1962 (Confidential)

• 123. DNA 1624, 26 April 1962

~124. Newspaper Clipplag from Washington Post, Juze 9, 1962.

1: -25, DBA 20883, September 7, 1962 (Confidential)

÷26. DBA 51407, 10 September 1963

* 127. DRA 52355, 24 September 1963-ole i oa

3 Noember 1565*

dore isodei

,23. DBA 55735 (ul dia:) " November 7, 1963"

i octate 1943(e5e east dos)

• J29. DBA 55777, November: 8, 1963

× 130. GIA Summary Report on Activities of OSWALD in Mesico City,

dated 31 January 1964

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FIDIT GPFLOOR

RE: BRIN 5267 (IN 90848)

IN VIEW REGGAB CONNECTION MARINA OSWALD HEADQUARTERS

DOES NOT DESIRE LONG-RANGE OPS INVOLVEMENT SUGGESTED PARAGRAPH

3 REF:

END OF MESSAGE

G/S COMMENT: *Reggab has number complex financial,

persoral problems which leading him consider return to Moscow for further

study in cinematographic institute. Believe he would definitely return if

encouraged by us and that he susceptible to recruitment as KUBARK agent

duting Moscow sojourn and possibly as long range asset in Morgeeo,

RECORDS OFFICEE STAMP

CLASSIFICATION REVIEW

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XAAZ-22641

MENORANDUM ECH: NT. J. Lee Pastin

SUBISCT:

°Beports on Activities asa Travei

Maria filalavza CSTALO as Transmileel

to barren Cimmissica

Reference in made to the second paragraga a your

memorgutus dated 12 february 1964, asd the second zara-

grapa al yeur memoradura a 16 March 1964, relative to

dissemaisatigas bi lalorration made by JIA to the Saeset

Servico.

2.

Gomediately aiter the assassination of Presidect

Kernedy Cid undertook to assemole through its statioes in

Erose all available dats, including information is the illes

of cther governments and istelligence services, on tbe

traveis and activities pi ica Harvey OSTALD and Marira

Pricoleva OSHAID. This information, as lt vas collecico,

was rade avallable to the White House, the Departzent. cl

State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Copies o

these messages were also sent to the Secret Service.

3. Attached to this Memorantum are exact copies of

two teletyped menages relative to the travels and activities

al the CSWALD: (Attachments A and B). Paragrapas g and la

a Attachment C are paraphrased. In Attackmen C, OUT

Teletype No, 85715, are found references to two other tele-

typed messages (OUT No. 85182 and OUT No. 85665) which

describe ose Richard Thomas GISON, a segro jourmalist

for FOlA Reviow on

JUN 1976

Dooumont Number.

627-82

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now residiag in Switzerland who has been active in the Fair

Flay fox Cuba Committee.

Paraphrases of No. 35132 a

No. 85665 are included an iltaginana D and 2. access to

origiral testa a paraphrased items will be provided whar

nembers of your staff visit Langley. The information on

wich paragrapha g and ho Attachmeat C ars based was

tate be a or are a tent o27 Novenes and disarain

sated on 28 Noversber.

This memorasdum asd the attachments contais

very sensitive ingrication which has a direct bearing on

sources and sethods. An appropriate sensitivity indicator

has thosefore been affixed.

Richard Helma

Decuty Director for Plana

Attachzents-

as stated

Distribution:

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1 - DDP Chrono w/atts.)

1 - C/CI/SiG w/attsi

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Attachment A

Ieletype message, OUT No. 36702, dated 4 Dacezzber 1'553,

filed at 14l1 hours, to the White Fiouse, the Department of

State and tie Federal Bureau a Investigatios, with copy to the

Secret Service.

ATT.

SUBJECT: Lee Harvey OSWALD

Recorda af the foreigners recarda coífice of the Gerinas

Fedeal epills in Colossel Gersay, show that Marina

Nisolayevna Puakova CSWALD crossed West Germany fors

East Geradeny to Folland on 3 June 1962.. She travaled by rall,

cruezing into West Germasy at Fielmstedt on 3 June and enter

ing Hollaad by rail at the Bentheir crossing point. She had

Vi est Germas visa 694/62 issued at the lest Germany Embasay

in Moscow. She listed her fizal destination as U.S.A. Coramert:

This confirms information from the U.S. Embasay la Moscow

to the effect that the OSWALD family traveled from Moacow lo

'Roterdam by fail aroud 3 June 1962. Helmstedt and Bentbeir

are on the main rall route frora Russia to Rotterdaz. While

Le OSWALD hirgelf asd their infart daughter are not recorded.

in Germas recorda this is probably because litle altection is:

paid to U.5. citizens and to irfanta in keeping travel records.

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Attaclessan: B

Icletype message,. OUT No. 87520, dated ó Decerber 1953,

filed at 1829 bours, to the tihite House, the Departicent oi

Stais and the federal Bureau a lovestigation, with copy to the

Secret Service.

SUBJECI: L0e HaRTey OSWALD

¿ Reference la cadeto out OUT telegrara iva, 36732 06

* December Is63 which gave information on the travel af

and choir daugiter) acrosa # =a: Germany on their return

from the Soviet Union, Information zow available from Dutch

authoritica seems to confizia this. On 3 Juna 1762 one

M. CSTAID, listed as a sale Russian citizer, ertered The

Netherlands by train at the Oldenzaal border poizt.

Commert; I la believed that the listing of this persoa

as a male instead si fémale was just an error of the border

atilciala. Note that Ciderusal is opposite Seatsoirs, the

German border paist where Marina CS" AID left Germazy.

CS GOPY

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ittschment C

Teletype message No. 85715, dated 29 November 1963, filed

at 1350 hours, to the White House, the Departmest of State asi

che Foderal Bureau of Investigation, witi copy to the Secret

Servico.

Io Tas following information has beez gathered irom

feliabla soureas regarding the travel al Lee Harvey OSWALD

and rigwila:

a, 2 October 1959: According ta official

British tavel records CS MAID arrived in

Southampton this date claiming on his lasding card

8iat he had no fized address but planned to remain

in the United Kingdom ons week for vacation before

going on to "some school" in Switzerland. (iead-

quarters comment: Probadly referring to the

Abest Schweitzer College in Switzerland with which

he is lonows to bave been in correspondence. )

Do 10 October 1959: According to the same

oáfcial British travel records CSWALD left London

this date by ais for Helsin

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C. October 1759: Stockaairs sewspaper, Bagers

Nricter, of 25 November 1763 states Lee OSWAL

vLad rd tho Ussa in Helsink which resuited in bi

returning to Stockhola. Iwo days after is arrived inn

Stockbols QWALD traveled directly to Mioacow.

Conciuding sertence of article states (This dicates

that the Rassian Embassy (Siocichois) Save lãs a vina, "

Aceording to a reliable source there

no tecgrd

that there was asy request for a USSB visa processed

through normal channels for CSTALD at any time

daring 195%, and source indicated it was difficult to

explais how OSWALD might have received his visa in

ta days without going through normal chassels. The.

only conclusion waich can be drawn is that OSWALD

must have received his visa directly from the Soviet

Embassy in Stockholm which occasionally is done in

special cases, but the sourco bad so evidence to confirza

this assuustion

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VA-

¿. 10 to 15 Ostober 1957: According to a very

reliable but extremely sasitive source OSiA LA stayed

at the I arnt Hotel in sciainti from 10 to 11 Cetober and

oá moved to the laus Kurti Hotel whero be stayed

until 15 Detoes, apparently waiting for a visa ta bo

issued him by the Soviet Cansulato in Helsine. Fio

traveled to the USSR by traiz, crossing at Vainitala as

15 October.

e. 13 May 1962: According to a Dutch official

source, the Detch Chargs in Moscow issued a transit

VES tO OSWALD's Wife an 13 diay, 2962, Their Fedords

reveal his wife was barn on 17 Juy 19

Lestead of

19 July 1941 and in Sever ovine's instead of blingk.

There is so record of bes having actually transited

The Netherhads.

1. 1962: Official British secorda do not sellect

that CSWALD returned to the United Stales from tbe

Ussa through the Unted Kingdon. Horever, lI ho

were merely transiting, it mould not bave been

necessary for hims to fill out a landing card, and

therefore there would be no record of his saved in

the official tallic indes.

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§- 1963: According to an extremely sensitive asa

reliable sourco, on za Novgases Naria SNETHLAGE,

head of the l'Hergroup laformatio Cuba" (Verigou

Information Cuba), toll an employee if the Cuban

Inhasay to The Hague that the was sure so bad met

that Ma. Jut is Favass, wao did the murder", 55

deseribed his as a mas o violence and entirely full o

hate and indicated that it was possible that this maz had

been misused by a group. she said she bad written to

'GIBSON" about the bad impression sha had bad of tbia

LSE, (Headquarters comment: Please refer to our

teletype Nos. 85132 abd 35665 for additional informatioa

02 CIESON,) Later, SNETHLAGE toil Castro Cubaza

la The Hagua that "MI. LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba

Committee: had been slandezed and that it was anothe

person named Lee CHALD Who bad ione it. StETHLAGE

seemed to be glad to have hea»d this 'correct" persion.

(Headguarters comment: Sir, LES may be idantical with

Vincert Theodore IRE who replaced Richard GISSON as

Head af the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.)

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Do Accordias to reliablo tore

mation, SNEIHIICE

was in Cuba in Jamary 1963,j and accordiag to an aficial

Dutch source, she again traveled to Cuba for the May Day

colobzationa la 1963.

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Attach-sent D

Teletype No, 95182, dated i Sovember 1963, filed at 1832 hours,

to tha White House, the Depastrent of State and the Fedezal

Bareas of Investigation, with copy to tha Seczet Service. (paraperase)

SUSIICT LeO HarveY OSTALD

1E==1:

lo. In conversation with a close friond in Baru,

Switzerlard, on 23 Noversibes 1963, Richard Thomaa GIBSON

remaried that OSWALD iS "ORS D 18', OSWALD and GISSCN"

had corsesponded two years previously, and OSWALD lad

joised the Committee, (Commest: Reference is presumably

to the Fair Play for Cuba Camêitoe.! GIBSON added trai lo

had destroyed all his letters from SWAID. CSWALD is

crazy, GIBSOlt tien remarsed that he la happy that he was

not is New York

i, He felt sorry for "LEZ" in New York ad

for "TIC"®

2. The inforsation given above was supplied by an

extremely sensitive source who ly usually reliable.

3. According to other informasion that was availzole..

Richard Thoras GIBSON, bors 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles,

Califorzia, is a negro jourtalist who has been active is the

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Pair Flay for cuba Commite singe 1760.

he has resided

since April 1363 at Lassara, inisterlara la tais lastes

Revolution Africa

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Atta sament E

Teletype message, OUT No. 35665, 23 Noverber 1963, filed

it 1826 hours, to the White Housê, the Departmert of State asd

the Federal Sureau of Investigation, with copy to tize Seczet

Service, (paraphrased)

ho out detong to the ague bas reposted tat or

23 Noveriner 1963, a local Castroite named Maria SNOTFLAGE

told Third Secretary Ricardo SANTOS d the Guban E=baasy in

The Fague that she lnew the "Mr. LIE" (sio) who murdered

Presidest Kennedy, Sha described 'LtS" as a mar ful of bato

and violence, add speculated that he lad been "misused by a

group' She said she had valites to CISSON (undoutedly

Richard GIBSON;

citizen oí Lausanne, Switzerland, bora

13 May 1935, a Castro y

thier, who had visited Ile

Netherlanda recently and had been in contact beth witt the

Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Sabassy)

3. Later toat sarce day Maria INSTHLAGE told Secretary

JANICS that "MI, LEE d the Fair Play for Cuba Committee!'

Iod been slandered. The assasain had been another person.

LEO OSTIAID. SNETFLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba

in Jamary and again in liay 1963..

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3o According to Dutch authorities oa 7 Noverzbe= 1963.

in maling about attacks by Cuban I ringees against the Jubar

maizland, SANTOS lad replied 'just wait add you will see wat

we caa do. I will happen sooz," Assed to be mose precise,

SANTOS bad replied "just wait, just vait", SANTu is reparter

to inaro a pro-Castrobrother la the U.5.A.

So a very sensitive source reports that altoz lis conver-

satioas with SNETHLAGE, SANTOS was very argry because she

had contacted him.

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MSMORANDUL FOR:

Me.J. Ice Raziin

General Tomisal

-President's socralarica sa tho

Asstsaniton of Frenidant Kaanady

G0AJ47:

Allegazione agerding intalligence E srising

School La 331a3%, US2B as

Transmitteel

Warren

Commission

Magations ai the cristones of a Soviet Italliguace snd/or

sabotago training school in Milaos, VUS3, have corda to tha

sitantion al sas Agazoy frena przas resione. Ale, Lore das

dio Intles, very receatly ca this datall.

to lamnisia to tha Comaniasion the iziorition psich the Agency

has on his topie.

¿ catoial roylor of Sil fles las proseced no bara

Iaformation ragarding Soviat intolligazca os sabotago training in

Maesi cinca 1957. Chaltow of information aspeliad by = bovia3

Luceros in 1719 reportos tha sictunce, as 011917, of an Intelligans=

training school la Minas, No adultonal detallo, boreras, vere

azallable rogarilag lts curriculam oz location la Miask, inforcastion

developos iros our nonrcos aiace 1919 hao tor casatloaaà, confirmed.

or corroborstad tae contiaued asiatanes of tho inatallatios.

posbor raference in CL: fles to trataing is Minak solazco

to ta- exinterca of a sabotago schoo thich fanctioned la Minai antil

tbo Dorman attack on the Soviet linien in 1941, sfor weich the school

nas norai to tentagrad.

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4. Ihasa tas itema of isiocriazion, are the caly gaza in the

posasasios al this Agency ruling to incelligenes and eabotaga

Ibay tro samleiau to the Coroniazion in

onior to complete la recoris. Houng of the saenis soarses

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16 December 1963

2ageer

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iXasbre steraaz

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Director

Federal Buremi of Investigat108

Attentica: HI. S. i. Papich

ERCH

I Douty Disori (pla)

SUBJECT : Pater DIRTAIN'S Camentason the Kenedy Assassleation

Alte.

hnd for jon pertial are the witten coments of Kea

defector Petes DINTASIN on sose aspects al the as:as51,28101 ot

Preaident elm I Kennedy. As you inor, DEYYABIN defected fron

the K03 mout ferrars ago, ood bia peracal knoledge 15 not

up to date, but he has stayed in touch with Soviet Intelligance

davelorments to the bast of his ability. Ms coments co hor

Lee CIWALD and bis tafo wunt have been handled by Borlet intell-

Igence authoritles unile they mere inaide the Boviet Union ana

farmerly Interesting and his suggestions for ths questioning

a lns. Jarine Cinel ara equally provocative.

2.

He have decided to gasa. on his view without edtting:

and chla Agency does not speeifically endorse his conclusions

or roomendstions.

CSCI-3/779,135

Encloses: Per jaragraph 1

CLASSIFICATION REVIEW

CONDUCTED ON 9,5 MAY 19,6

- IMPOET EL BrO/220S

c/ww/3/J.M.Thitten:cny

Distribution:

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vinas:

Peter DOTYAIl's Coments on F

Assessinities

ranident Termedy " s

1. Te shoali understand that sy comate thica fallo are

not besed solely es the: theats that COVAiD inn npecielaally

dispatched to mader cur president. Me pery sa pessib

also eclats that OSHALD ties sent here on mei

* Kes less cupable

as the: seals for CSAID's act aust have born planted untla be

mas being traned is be lech IcT Ela alber easter He algat

Fist Beato too caution uperact da too zinde of sort

I baltevo ve can sale a good cose as to the precise

gins exerellag to the LESR and most specifically neemling to

BRUSHEY. The amasstration of enident amad sould

Dea.

vester prosure betind toe leadershly of the tSA

would antontienlly ese up. Hitest Prident Inton's Impediate

cone?letory telegra to knutcary, altor the sander.

tie tight

mentic that tisa tSA vas the chiel mayonet fu sot extending

long rangy eredit to the lal. Intenaion al long ringa creta

1s vital to the ussa at this janetune..

3. Iris lesis in into the sout messing problem sitat

The bert persistently underates the extort of the

It ves my predietion that an & recait

In the Cuben altuntion ery UsA er Cuban expairlata

cottons egatiet him till not be tatated by the fuet that these

Or tarten 32

that Prendur canse.

artervent

Gon for & long t

a A more tenable inrica ill? strengtben Kartaichay"

od in blo ruming battle its the ClOOs. Fa will tia bar

enuther reascs to say his lam ol peecefal contlatence is superlar

to tist of the CHICO"

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e. Conceivably say of President lairby's plouned

ntices so set even tons the wita the forlora daring the pre

Doction year are thus sabotaged by the preaident's surdar.

I. Ta sovieta doritualy understool that the denta

o Prentient InDY woula result 10 the enemyence of DeCAlLET.

an a strong leutera lander. DeGAulIE el sourse says "whet'a

sood far Jance is not nocessarily bad for the lea...

desert and the flouring of the arta under the lonzura. I2e

prodlen of the intellectanis in the 1858 aloud not be interagered

bа at r00y

for revolutton in the lost and they camelse ona of the rarea

balls natasy sust constantly vegan milestactucs,

ho It the uses bas my mbitious ains in nandpulatiog

U. E. rubile optodes thats muter da Fresident MaINuY vould serve

to emeronto the present d?*ferances betrees the radical luît

and right in Anaries. In l'act the usai prouda mentoe beyse

to pay the mander us coitted by the radical right an seca as

the ded tas done and before OShAID vas caytired.

a planed operatios or est ill erre the ant cordon ripove

to hasin's on ultima, as the sodet Intelligence services

heye suffered some tory toal returns rocently with anursit,

corust deletten, their lootion epulsim frun the congo,

etc. I Love Long miedieted that the U00 roald tabo 80n9 drastie

action to Halt tie rupta excalan of has security.

Can we brietty view the (SVALD operation as a mated

contios to 1111 the Presidest? Hoat tre the essential

100

The k03 bad

tho 1oi Layien will degr

to such on the spot assensment.

cocration by the les.

types.

JeR 20472 10 29303E CSMAN 1

the value that tha kus attache

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b.

I3 such on merites tha faa could not use a serie

stiven though the very real possibility ecsta shat cohat a

waited by e seriet Illagal of the KIB 13th Lepartuat- Sticklag

to coastias It vas 3 goal elen that 21à sueenel.

CEMAID dId OstITe sIcA tha bart bullaing.

ã. Ba 218 get to a trenter unich coula base been 22s

polat al contact with als Illegal case articer.

sentalaly te

Inor the ica'a penchut for using thosters for zesting places.

o: Atter his acrest, mich me cary dua to his u-

Portmata encouter with Polioem Please, CHAL did remain

s1lenti.j)'iloa 115e tha bebestor of Col. Asatia hia baberior 1

the payaa

1loo the very real possibility slate that the Ic

atended to tigrate ciAo a tor be ala the jol

81a Farttre

Bee tibe rolloing:

a MEi had accesa to the police statton. Reparte

soy he persocally boes most pallc.

D. Ee successially nilenced OSNAiD.

C. MaY remains silert and hla cover 1a holding up.

do la lan a gool Ingred ol teaporary insanity.

e. Ea bas s Isasonabla chasca to escepe the tentia sentence

* the understoned alekt be better qualipled to coment e

Who CERAID appects of this care 1t me iney the following abo

as e, below abies three postala assurs to the questica,

did ho go to Messin"

& Fast, CHALD was a sell-eade Harrtst en Catalot

sho decided to gor an his on; that 15, be undo this declaton

by binself mi yropted by so coe.

Fe posadaly was looking ter

& better life vithout mooring what the Sovlet Untos eally 13.

Seccha, ator OUAD's discharge De En "scenirable

from the lannis, he fami himsel! in a distionis as wyloat

situation: 1y 1t postale that in this sitation de las notice

by a spotter arrantter for the llogals el son other depos

west and was coride

ed an a jonsible candidate for use or

incorrect

SEGRET

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¡eterte

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anti-

the fill intretion about doNa wee pert to leacon,

tero tallored a decision to 'tavite" hin to foszon. Using ta

his som finnetal assistanto and sons niries on bou to do this.

structions for intere eneration, estinities, obe.

5-

Main 3or suna shet the Sorteta mener sir a visa

vithout zaciza an instigation de the tereon miday too

to hare to min an at lvertimtion di tbe falloring

to go to the soviet triti

contacta md his tollention!

Hoh, then mi through than dia CHiND got 21a

Soviet visal

ã. Eon long did it tairs Ice his to fat the visai

de sort

Bes Supreyes

I, Then cal bon did OSUALI travel, to tas DEsa (alr,

seas brough riden countrles; in shich combrien, 1i amy, ata

Da pase stops; bon long vere mes stopa)?

beraro he loft for the isch: personally a by telepion, by

Did no ever est coyone y guestions on trying to the

ESIT

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insist

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CORAID in BaRCo

HeR OSHAND SOFITA

nodes diservation, (mimiiasant comlate

"B. It should be noted bere that any

stay 2un is eminel by the sortet tate Bermity an a posatal

candidata for fatut me (vocial training and racutters) vithta

she BA or other comte four arist the 15i-

study aul leventlanden which contin soout as montes In Moscar,

under sol timelal stepur end natam suturt fren tho tha,

the is mies tis corelions: that CaTAL 15 Clear usa 19 whe

Sordst Intalligenes or CT Servica.

additional lagulay and imentiation al COALD was going on

verona ten to ted a dan it a tea a bore a bot deat

Connis arganisation ilthta the lah."

go After botag # len leels er mantha 1n Donora, OSHAID

egressad e vish to stay forever in the Soviet taica uni to be

"It you really

zocordance with bts inleige und conchilttles, it tas sena tia

cotting to stuty his an a potential agent.

20.

use ni

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his to tal berto sane him bapry sai ta naza sure that ha toala

not louve tha Soviet Doion) - the KCB et the sine size coutimed

to traja his, prebebly in tha vay of an old-inaniond landat,

tal1ing him that ho would be a sood fightor against Iperlaltota

a better daren in the l. S. you have to fight very bari to bury

togatber sita

HE 3202A

ase 19đ 13

Ission.to :

720m the $0720

tali to beng

the, no siva you pendantos becme ta baltave you ara a stragi

veroet to retura to thu lSA and to do scarching for cue ecrasca

conse, such sa to balf any merlem pro sortet agentsaiions a,

for Instanco, Decrea i nesber of & froo CheD Comittes es In

caro of crisis to do samtatng cutstenzire that u11l be noticeable

everyhere that will arov that you ara a ival Cornmist. Ison,

Eta part, but wita an difficulties, perminnion ma granted fo

nor to g0 with ht

at the wes md still 1a en ement or at lent a lonial hates

T at tha kilo

whether they ars Cornists or not.

13° Investigate

as s0c as 2a

with

• BD

to 101201

(SALD's vite aboula be untertaien

sian lon boing paid the greet

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ST

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Flat, wao 1s suer for education, profennics, egu,

fondly bacorand, Party airlilation (Komonal nenbership) .

Il sta was 1 menber of the Fansonal, then the konual emunizatio

1111 tate eny steps persiule againet her trueling to tue l. S.

Also, she sust bo espelled In the kendonal, and thes abe auto

settar. The sose setter vould relate to sy of hor ralitives

fatber, nother; brothent....Il they vere sanbury of the CPSU

ill monthly and quietly, with no tali gotay around about st.

e. Who balped her and bow my tim to site rupees

for the Soriet Hristay of Fordiga Afrairs to say that she

Ind marlad an Anerican altizen and vold like to go vith his to

the USA? I'' It was dons a few lives and with areas difflealtten,

then probehly it mos done oly with a little boly feta the 808,, Il

for partlantas to cone to the U. B. Nas Jrocented very manily and

gulcklg.)

Horiers:

120 were ber kasound in Islenda? Fron that aireles?

Iotallectoalet

mhes no difference If they vere agents 0s n0t.)

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1. That does sha say shout life in the sorist Unicai

jo Did lex basband lare a gun vhila bo vas in the

Sovlot Inion:: I so, her does she laa scout 1t:

Hasn 81d ho

- Bet 15: Did be bove suecdal permisalos to cary a gun:

bing this am vita bin scrosa the bardor! for you incorrution,

nobody carries deu In thu stR without to ICa eventnally

rooming of 1t.

Least of 3l1 an Arien

sho Bove isstrictiona to OSiNal to 23% f0x

firmelal annstance at the mriem Babussy upon his setu to

the USA?

I les their First child bore in Pussia bastized 1n

the Usan

11 20, 17 kat chical More 1de2 vet 1t

Did they

otize theirseccod child, bor in the U. 3-

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Iho The terestigation es the vija should be nado stey

by step, leering in wind and never forgetting tent ORND as

ml1 en she horsel? were under content cogeration and viti

constant contagta vith ongma of the it. Elthout suci

obervatic end contacta vita argent a, the 1103, to foreigna

can Live within the Soviet taica.

- 15. Is my farertigation of this tore sa should sot 1030

In vior of the extracity circussinaces

surronding this case, the FBI, througn the Deportent of State,

could logdenly mough request that the 155r provlds all.

avalable 1090 C OSHALD'S StOy 1n tha Last sod the expose

of bla; visht to the soviet Iabasay In lardeo CIty:

A. 17107117

natten con be argected to hans such & repreat.

Fe aagti lenn

Egreat deal fros the soviet realy.

Dean ess 9779577722779

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7.1d.

5X-11057

16 January 1964

1: :

22ED:*195

15 I922 CASeros

5013, Gu5y Tod

174N

LOLLLES-A2246,

SFUMICEANLUM OF CONVERSATION

TO:

SUBJECT:

Chier, SR

CIA Hore In Support of the Warren Connission

Salon to a summary of the natters ciscussed in ou

meeting with jessis.

Angleton and Rocca on the evening o

In turn, ir. Angloton was reporting to us

Departuent, Mr. Seing and Mr.

Rocca, which too: place on

afternoon of 14 January 1984.

hir. Angleton said that ir. Dales,

apparently pro

voled by press accusations that the Warren Comission has

been dilatory, assed CIA for suggestions ofquestións or

to heross rovertment.

through the Departrent of State, would seels additional evi-

dence which is presumably avallable in Soviet files which

could assist the Commission's deliberations. Mr.

not have a datalled idea of what he wanted to ask the Soviets

1os but did say that the questions should be "not too tech

Although Mr. Angleton thought that the letter should

be written only aiter the CIA report and comments have been

complated, in order to make the letter as effective as possi

ble, Ir. Dulles felt it should go now,

be phrased in gonerall-

tles and allor the soviets more flexibility in their handling

of the natter than would a more pointed letter based on our

concrete findings.

M. Dulles asked CIA only for the questions

and not for a draft letter.

Mr. Kurphy suggested that we ask

only for certain records rather than put specific questlous

to the Soviets.

Mr. Murphy suggested that these night include

Soviet tospital records connected with Lee Oswald's attamptod

suicide, city visa and registration records for loscoy and

Mins', factory personnel records from Oswald's place of employ-

ment, etc. AIso Oswald's diary noted that his case had passed

through two comissions in the Ussk; ve might ast for the

records of these commissions as velt.

Angleton said that

in tronsmitting our surgestions to ir. Lulles ve can include

any introductory paragraphs or explanatory comments that ve .

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felt necessary to explain to Mr. Dulles the direction of our

thinking about thesa proposals.

(Note: I Instructed ir. Migren to prepare a

drait of suggested queries, using the

assistance of DERYABIN and

to have this

ready;.

If possible, by the closa of

business today.)

: 3.

Ranksin stated that the Commission wants to account

1n detail, minute by minute and hour by hour, for Oswald's

tine outside the United states.

hir. Bagley suggested that

the narrative chronology of Oswald's stay in the Soviet Union

bey convertod to a chronology tabulation which would pernit us

more simplyto insert added details and dates as we learned

of then in other documentation which we can expect to receive

shortly.

This vas agreed.

(Note: I Instructed hi. Higren to begin re

casting the narrative immediately into

this form.)

Mr. Rankin said that the Comnission has a waist high

stack of documents and reports received from the fBI and Secret

Service which CIA has not yet received.

These Include Secret

Service Intervieys with Marina Oswald, letters from Lee Oswald

1n the USSR and other naterial. He promised to send this

matertal to fir. Helms shortlj..

(Hoto: We will pass appropriate parts of this

material to DERYABIN for further analy

sis along the lines of his earlier work

on documents already in our possession.)

5. Messrs. Angleton, Murphy and Bocca considered DEBYA-

BIN's Initial analysts of Marina Oswald's documents, and the

questions to which 1t gave rise,

to be a worthwarte and

impoxtant contrebution.

CIA would be unable to make any Beri-

ous

analysisor even hypothesis until some of battali

restlong Iad been answered.

Mr. Rocca suggested that DERYA-

SIN's paper be recast into nore of a questlonalre form and!

Mr. Bagley agreed, pointing out that DERABIN's cornent and

speculation could be put off to the side as explanatory con

ment on each question,

Mr. Angleton and yr.

Murphy thought that it would be desirable to send this paper

to the Warren Commission in advance of other CIA reports with

a menorandum informing the Commission that we would need

answers to this interim questionnaire in order to reconstruct

3 detailed chronology of Oswald's tine in the USSR and to

comment on his activity there.

The Commission would be asked

to procure the information fron Marina through any Agency it

might choose.

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on 3 m

(Note:

I instructed ir. Wigren to prepare

the

DERYABIN paper in this format urgently.)

6. HI. Angleton reported that he had asked the Commis

sion representatives certain questions portairing to our use

of defectors in analysing the Oswald

papers:

Has the Connission formally requesting us to

have defectors analyse the matertal?

wellins thougat that the answer

to this question is yes.

However,

Mr. Angleton asked for a formal

request from the Comission to this

effect.

The FBI. has stated that 1ts

reports are not to be passed to

Astabus, which may cause some comi

cations.

Would the Comission be prepared to assune the

burden of responsibility 1f sucha defector should disa

gree with the Commission's opinions of conjup with a

radically different hypotbesis or Interpretation?

The persons present said that the

Commisalon would.

If a defector who had contributed to the analy

sis of the documents should be unwilling to appear person

ally and formally before the Cormission, would the

Commission exercise its subpoena powers against hin?

Ar. Rankin thought that if there was

a risk involved for the defector,

Cormission would not do so.

However,

Rankin pronised to get a fornal answer

Iron the Connission on this point.

W1l1 the classification we put on our corres

pondence to the Commission be honored?

The answer was that in principle our

classlitcation: would be honored.

cises throug classi-

fIcation o1

Its naterial.

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Mr. Angleton reported that ir. Richard Davis is repre

senting the interests of the Department of state in this

Inquiry.

Thompson had ruled himself out because he was

Anbassador to the Soviet Union at the time of the events in

question.

One matter which had been brought to light by the

Ostrald case was the need for a mechanism in the United States

Government to record and assimilate our knowledge of the Soviet

handling of Anerican defectora to the USSR.

The Bureau 1s

apparently in some danger of criticisn for its fatlure to keep

in evolonisswald alter his retun

Similarly, CIA has not

systematically collected nor compiled information on sovie

defector handling.

Berlin Base had kept a list of American

defectors at one time, but these individuals have not beer

debriofed on their return to the West.

8. The Commission representatives at the 14 Jamary 1964

meeting estimated that the liarren Commission would need from

three to six nonths to complate its task.

9.

Hr. Bagley raised the question of the desirability

of having DIRYABIN participate personally, representing the

FBI as an interproter perhaps, in a debriefing of Marina.

Kesars. Angleton and urphy were convinced that cia mist avoid

direct Involvement with this investigation. Although 1t is

teed by whatever

Agency the Commission may choose to use.

Tennent H. Bagley

Chief, SR/CI

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PROCCA NoTe tO HELMS ON

Tell With DUlLES on ai Mered

Dick:

Had a briofing at Allen Dulles' house on Saturday after -

noon. (We were assembled to discuss his taping session with

XAAZ-27169

23 March 1961

4/3/64

The New

Yor'stight. None of the others were present.)

AWD ahowed me a letter ha had recelved from Rankin

recently expressing tha desire to reach a modus vivendi in

order to allay the story al CIA's possible sponsorahip al Oswald's.

activity. The point of the commounication to AWD was to suggest

that he serve as dille rexiewer for the Commiasion,. The letter

outlined alternative possibilities in this matter (affidavit from

the DCI, etc.)o.

In my presence, AWD wrote the answer:

Eo. Declining the invitation to serve as file

reviewer for good and sufficient reasons.

for FOlA Review on

Document Number

JUN

1978

i Number 618=793

ba: Stating his willingness to provide a state.

mont i gettiny to the Commalasion with reageet to

bin knowledge of Oswald during his tenure as DC]. He

noted in the thil off of the letter that as far as he could

of Oswald

remomber-he had never had any knowledge at any time

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