Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: FBI
Document date: 1963-11-27 00:00:00
Document type: CABLES

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

8/26/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

LBJ

177-10001-10019

RECORD SERIES:

NSF, INTELLIGENCE FILE, OSWALD, LEE HARVEY, BOX 9

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM:

CIA

TO :

FBI

TITLE :

Released under the John F. Kennedu

DATE: 11/27/1963

PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS :

CIA

DOCUMENT TYPE : CABLES

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

11/14/1995

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

DOC. #27, CIA, E.O. 12356, Sec. 1.3(a)(4)

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copy seit to S.5.

NECEIVED

"ASA.

1963 NOV 27 02 30

SFI 009

00 ESP

20993

DE

YEXADL

85199 27/0150Z NOV

0 2701392

FM CENTRAL INTELLISENCE AGENCY

TO FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WHITE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION ROOM AIIN: MCGEORGE BUNDY

DEPARIMENT OF STATE ATIN: MR. U. ALEXIS JOHNSON

ZEM

SECRET

SECRE I SECTION ONE OF TWO

SUBJECT: LEE H. OSWALD

REF: OUT MESSAGE NO. 35089 (DE YEKADL 85089)

1• FOLLOWING ELICITED FROM GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE

26 NOVEMBER •

20 SUBJECI BORN 31 JANUARY 1940, CIUDAD RAMA, DEPARIMENTO

ZELAYA, NICARAGUA. PRESENTLY LIVES PINO 173 COLONIA SANTA MARIA DE

LA RIBERA TELEPHONE. 41-07-31• ENTERED MEXICO BY BUS 29 AUGUST

1963 ON WAY TO CUBA TO STUDY GUERRILLA WARFARE TACTICS. WAS TO

RECEIVE FALSE DOCUMENTATION AS MEXICAN THROUGH CUBAN CONSULATE

MEXICO. ADMITTED HE REALLY ON PENETRATION MISSION FOR NICARAGUAN

SECRET SERVICE, REPORIS TO MAJOR ROGER MEREZ, NICARACUAN MILITARY

ATTACHE, PASAJE LATINO, INTERIOR 513. TELEPHONE 46-33-87, MEXICO

CITY.

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3. ON 2 SEP SUBJ REPORTED IN MEXICO TO PROFESSOR EDELBERTO

TORRES, ADDRESS CENERAL ZUAZUA NUMBER 37, INTERIOR & TORRES IS

NICARAGUAN IN CHARGE OF NICARAGUAN COMMUNIST PARTY TRAVELLERS TO

CUBA. WELL KNOWN COMMUNIST, HAS DAUGHTER IN MOSCOW.

4. ON & SEP SUBJ DISCUSSED ANTI-SOMOZA GUERRILLA ACTIVITY IN

DEPARTAMENTO ATLANTICO WITH TORRES AND BROTHERS GUSTAVO AND MUMBERTO

JEREZ TALAVERA, NO RELATION TO MAJOR ROGER JEREZ (MENTIONED

PARA 2 ABOVES. HUMBERTO IS TEACHER IN MEXICAN FEMALE NORMAL SCHOOL•

TORRES TOLD SUBJECT HE WOULD RECEIVE FIVE HUNDRED MEXICAN

PESOS MONTHLY SUBSISTENCE UNTIL TRAVEL PAPERS ARRANGED.

5. AT NOON ON 18 SEP SUBJECT WENT TO CUBAN CONSULATE TO TURN

PASSPORT PHOTOS OVER TO CONSUL AZCUE. (EUSEBIO AZCUE CONSUL

CUBAN EMB MEXICO CITY SAT IN WAITING ROOM AND SAW GROUP OF APPROX

EIGHT PERSONS ENTER CONSULATE AND GO INTO AZCUE OFFICE BUT

UNKNOWN PERSON WAS SITT NG AI AZCUE DESK.

6. CUBAN EMPLOYEE OF CONSULATE KNOWN TO SUBJ BY ALIAS AS

"JUAN JOSE," ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD, MUSTACHE, NORMAL BUILD, STRAIGHT

HAIR, CAME OUT OF OFFICE AND ASKED SUBJ TO TURN OVER PHOTOS.

SUBJ ASKED WHERE BATHROOM AND WAS SHOWN THROUGH DOOR TO PASSAGEWAY

LEADING TO PATIO. BATHROOM OFF PASSAGEWAY.

7. WHILE STANDING BY BATHROOM DOOR SUBJ SAW GROUP OF 3 PERSONS

CONVERSING IN PATIO FEW FEST AWAY, ONE WAS TALL, ININ, NEGRO

WITH REDDISH HAIR, OBVIOUSLY DYED, PROMINENT CHEEK BONES, NOTICABLE

SCAR ON LOWER RICHT SIDE OF CHIN• RAPID SPEAKER, CUBAN ACCENT,

SPOKE SOME ENGLISH. ANOTHER WAS WHITE PERSON SUBJ HAD PREVIOUSLY

SEEN CARRYING CANADIAN PASSPORT IN WAITING ROOM. CANADIAN NAD

GREEN EYES, BLONDISH HAIR, "EXISTENSIALIST" HAIRDO WITH POMPA-

DOUR, DARK EYEGLASSES OF TYPE WITH MIRROR LIXS REFLECIION

ON OUTER SURFACE. THRID PERSON WAS LEE MARVEY OSWALD. . SUBe

COMPLETELY CONVINCED FROM PUBLISHED PHOTOS THAT THIS WAS OSWALDS

NOT SHADOW OF DOBT IN HIS MIND.

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3& OSWALD WAS WEARING BLACK SPORT COAT, BUTTONED UP WHITE

SHIRT WITH SHORT COLLAR TABS, NO TIE, DARX GRAY PANTS, CLEAR

EYEGLASSES.

S• SUBJ SAW TALL CUBAN JOIN GROP MOMENTARILY AND PASS

AMERICAN CURRENCY TO NEGRO.

THIS UNIDENTIFIED CUBAN APPARENTLY

CAME OUT OF AZUE OFFICE INTO PATIO. DESCRIBED AS TALL, SOLIDLY

BUILT MULATTO, CURLY HAIR, BROWN SUIT, RED STRIPED TIE, ABOUT

37 YEARS OLD. SUBJ NEVER SAW. IHIS MAN AFTER 18 SEP•

10. SUBJ OVERHEARD FOLLOWING CONVERSATION BETWEEN NEGRO AND

OSWALD: NEGRO: (IN ENGLISH) I WANT TO KILL THE MAN.

OSWALD: YOU'RE NOT MAN ENOUGH. I CAN DO IT.

NEGRO: (IN SPANISH) I CAN'I GO WIIH YOU. I MAVE A LOT TO DO.

OSWALD: THE PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR ME BACK THERE.

11• NEGRO GAVE OSWALD SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS

IN LARGE DENOMINATION US BILLS SAYING "IHIS ISN'T MUCH." OF SUM,

ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED WAS FOR EXTRA EXPENSES. ALSO GAVE HIM

ABOUT 200 MEXICAN PESOSA

12. LATER, SUBJ SAW PRETTY GIRL, BELIEVED CUBAN EMPLOYEE OF

CONSULATE, GIVE OSWALD EMBRACE AND TELL HIM SHE LIVING AT CALLE

JUAREZ NUMBER 407 WHERE HE COULD FIND HER. GIRL APPEARED

ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD, MANNERS REMINDED SUBJ OF PROSTITUTE, OSWALD,

NEGRO, AND CANADIAN THEN WENT UPSTAIRS.

13• SUBJ LEFT BUILDING MOMENIARILY TO BUI POPSICLE AT CORNER,

SAW THREE PERSONS OF PARAGRAPH 7 LEAVE BY EMBASSY GATE NEAR

CORNER OF TACUBAYA. WHERE THEY ENTERED PARKED BLACK CAR, POSSIBLY

CHEVROLET• SUBJECT RE-ENTERED CONSULATE WAITING ROOM AND LATER

WAS APPROACHED BY TALL CUBAN OF PARAGRAPH 9 WHO CAME OUT OF

GP- 1

SECRET

3600

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SFI010

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DE YEKADL 85199 27/01472 NOV

RECEIVED

WHASA

0 2761392 ZYM

FH CIA

1953 NOT 27

02

/ TO FBI

WHITE HOUSE ATIN: MCGEORGE BUNDY

DEPARTMENT OF STATE ATTN: U ALEXIS JOHNSON

Coy sat to S.s.

40

021000

SECRET FINAL SECTION OF INO SECRET

AZCUE OFFICE AND TOLD SUBJ COME BACK NEXT DAY WHEN FINGERPRINTS

WOULD BE TAKEN AND SUBJECT WOULD FILL OUT FORM FOR TRAVEL DOC-

WHENTS.

14. SUBJECT RETURNED CONSULATE NEXT DAY 19 SEPT ABOUT 0845

AND FILLED OUT FORM• WAS TOLD WOULD BE HELPED BY EMBASSY OFFICER

TO MAKE UP FALSE MEXICAN PAPERS. MANY PEOPLE IN WAITING ROOM,

VERY BUSY, DOOR FINALLY CLOSED IO KEEP OTHERS FROM ENTERING.

SUBJECI WAS TOLD TO CONTACT PROF EDELBERTO TORRES. WENT TO TORRES

HOME BUT TORRES GUATEMALAN WIFE SAID TORRES AT SOVIET EMBASSY.

WENT TO SOV EMB ABOUT 1130 BUT WAS NOT ALLOWED ENTER ALIHOUGN HAD

BEEN THERE EARLIER OCCASIONS WITH TORRES• DOCTOR NOEL JARQUIN

TOLEDO, NICARAGUAN COMMUNIST WHO HAD BEEN IN MOSCOW, APPROACHED

AND SAW SUBJECT AT GATE, ASKED WHY ME WAS THERE. SUBJECT

SAID WAS LOOKING FOR TORRES. JARQUIN INFORMED HIM TORRES

WAS INSIDE. TORRES CAME OUT AND WENT WITH SUBJECT TO CUBAN

CONSULATE, TORRES ENTERED CONSULATE OFFICE, LATER EMERGED TELLING

SUBJ "YOU HAVE NOTHING FURTHER TO DO HERE UNTIL I CONTACI YOU*.

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18a AT THE END OF SEP SUBJECT PHONED AMERICAN EMBASSY

SEVERAL TIMES TO REPORT HIS BELIEF SOMEONE IMPORTANT IN U.S.

TO BE KILLED, USED NAME JORGE KYNAUT (PHONETIC) TO PROTECT IDEN-

TITY. WAS ASKED IF CALL RELATED VISA MATTER, REFLIED NO, POL-

ITICAL MATTER, WISHED SPEAK IO PERSON OF CONFICENCE. FIRST TIME WAS

SCREENED BY TWO FEMALES, FINALLY SPOKE TO MAN WHO SAID HE WOULD

CALL BACK• SUBJECT LEFT PHONE NUMBER 32-19-52 (SINCE CHANGED).

MAN NEVER CALLED. SUBJECT TRIED REPEATEDLY CONTACT EMBASSY BY

PHONE WAS FINALLY TOLD "QUIT WASTING OUR TIME, WE ARE WORKING

HERE, NOT PLAYING."

19. WHEN SUBJECT SAW OSWALD PHOTO IN NEWSPAPER HE AGAIN CON-

TACTED EMBASSY, 25 NOVEMBER.

20. SUBJ HAD TANK MAINTENANCS TRAINING IN CANAL ZONE WHEN

WITH NICARAGUAN ARMY, SAYS IS STILL NICARAGUAN COMMUNIST PARTY

MEMBER, WAS ORIGINALLY CONVINCED MARXIST, LATER BECAME DISILL-

USIONED, HAS BEEN PENETRATION AGENT FOR NICARAGUAN GOVERNIENT FOR PAST

FOUR YEARS. SCHEDULED ENTER CUBA WITHIN TWO MONTNS.

21. SUBJECT EXPLAINED HE OUTRAGED BY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

WHICH HE 30 PERCENT SURE COMMUNIST PLOT"• DORS NOT WISH BECOME

INVOLVED IN BIG PUBLICITY SPLASH, HOPES U.S. WILL KEEP NAME

SECRET, BUT WILLING DO WHATEVER NECESSARY.

22• FIELD COMMENT: SUBJECT IS YOUNGS QUIET, VERY SERIOUS PER-

SON, WHO SPEAKS WITH CONVICTION. KNOWS ENOUGH ENGLISH TO UNDER-

STAND CONVERSATION•

GP- 1

4308

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15, UNIDENTIFIED GIRL. ENTERED CONSULATE AT THIS POINIS

GREETED TORRES. TORRES REPLIED "NOI NOW, COME BACK TOMORROW".

16. ON MIGHT 19 SEP TORRES HAD MEETING OF ABOUT EIGHIEEN

NICARAGUAN COMMUNISTS AT HIS HOME TO DISCUSS RECENT GUERRILLA

ATTACK IN SEGOVIA REGION DE NICARAGUA, TORRES ANNOUNCED 5

GUERRILLAS KILLED, SAID NEXT YEAR WOULD BE TOUGH ONE BECAUSE US

POLICY MIGHT CHANGE, COMMIES MIGHT BE ISOLATED. TORRES ASKED

SUBJECT IF HE KNEW LAGUNA DE PERLAS AREA OF NICARAGUA WHERE

US TRAINING CUBANS, CALLED IT ZONA GRINGA. SUBJECT REPLIED DID

NOT KNOW AREA•

17. ON 26 SEP TORRES SENT ENRIQUE CUADRA COLLADO, EMPLOYEE

OF CARION ENVASES DE MEXICO, LAGO DE CHAPALA 1S, TO TELL SUBJECT

HE SHOULD GO CUBAN CONSULATE, SUBUECT WENT, WAS TOLD WAIT,

CONSUL VERY BUSY SAW CANADIAN AGAIN, CANADIAN WAS SMOKING

CIGARETTE, WEARING ROLEX WAICH WHICH CONSULATE EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING

BUY FOR THOUSAND PESOS. CANADIAN REFUSED SELL, HAD BOUGHT WAICH

MEXICO AND TAKING MOME AS SOUVENIR• CANADIAN HAD BATCH OBSCENE

PHOTOS WHICH SHOWING TO CONSULATE EMPLOYEES, CARRIED CAMERA

STRAPPED ACROSS CHEST. RED HAIRED NEGRO SNOT ANTONIO GARCIA

WHOM SUBJECT KNOWS BY SIGHT> CAME IN AND TOOK CANADIAN UPSTAIRS.

CANADIAN HAD FLASHED LARGE WAD OF US DOLLARS. CANADIAN SAID

"I'M GOING, THE SKIES ARE CLOUDING UP AND THEY"RE WAITING FOR ME

AT HONE"•

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