[RESTRICTED]
Originator: CIA
From: [RESTRICTED]
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/22/1998
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ACTION: LA/DEFLT (045) INFO: CIC/CEG, CIC/CEGLA, CIC/LA, LA/LGL, LA/MXG,

LA/MXO,

LA/MXSTB, LADORECORD, LIMITED, MDSX, ODPD,

ORMS / LA,

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221701Z MAY 98

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MEXI 29121

SECRET 221709Z MAY 98 STAFF

CITE MEXICO CITY 29121

TO: PRIORITY DIRECTOR.

FOR: LIMITED DISSEM LA/SA INFO LA/MXO, LA/MG, CIC/LA

SLUGS: WNINTEL IHSOMBRERO

SUBJECT: IHSOMBRERO RESPONSE TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION REVIEW BOARD

QUESTIONS

REF : : NONE

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FYI ONLY.

2.. ON 6 MAY 1998, ISOMBRERO PROVIDED STATION WITH A WRITTEN

RESPONSE TO THE 10 QUESTIONS POSED BY THE JFK ASSASSINATION REVIEW

*BOARD (ARRB) REGARDING TELTAP TRANSCRIPTS OF CALLS MADE BY<LEE HARVEY>

*<OSWALD>TO THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN MEXICO CITY.

THIS REQUIREMENT WAS

TRANSMITTED TO STATION VIA E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE FROM LA/SA.

3. AS THE FOLLOWING RESPONSES FROM IHSOMBRERO ARE INCOMPLETE, WE

ASKED THEM FOR REPSONSES TO THOSE QUESTIONS THEY DID NOT FULLY

ANSWER

WE ARE NOT CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL GET ANY FULLER RESPONSES

SOON,

OR AT ALL.

FYI, WE MADE NUMEROUS REQUESTS OVER THE PERIOD OF

SEVERAL WEEKS FOR THIS INFORMATION.

THE COS REQUESTED THE INFO

DIRECTLY FROM IHSOMBRERO/6310 WHO THEN PASSED THE REQUIREMENT TO

IHSOMBRERO/7154.

.C/EXT GEORGE R. CRIALEX THEN REMINDED S/ 7154

REPEATEDLY OF OUR INTEREST. IN THE RESPONSES TO THESE QUESTIONS.

WE

DO NOT THINK THAT IHSOMBRERO DELIBERATELY STONEWALLED US ON THIS.

MORE LIKELY WE BELIEVE THAT THEY CONSIDER THIS MATTER TO BE A LOW

PRIORITY FOR THEIR SERVICE.

A.

CAN WE HAVE THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS? ACCORDING TO

ISOMBRERO, THERE ARE DOCUMENTS AND TWO INFORMATION CARDS. CONCERNING

THE DEBRIEFING OF MEXICAN NATIONAL SILVIA ( (DURAN) ! .

ONE OF THE

DOCUMENTS CONCERNS AN AMERICAN BY THE NAME OF VINCENT THEODORE

((LEE) ), AND THE OTHER ONE CONCERNS NICARAGUAN CITIZEN GILBERTO

• ( (ALVARO)) UGARTE ALSO KNOWN AS ALBERTO ( (SANCHEZ) ) WHO SUPPOSEDLY

*MET WITH<LEE HARVEY OSWALD.> AT THE SAME TIME THERE WAS A NOTE ON THE

VISIT OF OSWALD TO MEXICO CITY.

•(IHSOMBRERO DID NOT REPLY AS TO

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WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN HAVE THE DOCUMENTS. WHEN ASKED, WE WERE TOLD

THAT THEY WILL CHECK AND GET BACK TO US.)

B. DOES THE DATE AND LOCATION APPEAR ON THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS?

IS THERE ANY INDICATION AS TO WHEN AND WHERE THEY WERE ADDED?

IHSOMBRERO PROVIDED NO ANSWER RE THE DATE AND LOCATION OF THE

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. ISOMBRERO REPLIED THAT THERE ARE DATES AND THAT

THEY KNOW THE LOCATION OF THE FILES.

THE INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED

BY THE DIRECTORATE OF FEDERAL SECURITY (DES) .

IS THERE A SPANISH VERSION OF THE TRANSCRIPT AND IF SO CAN

WE HAVE ONE IF IT EXISTS? IHSOMBRERO RESPONDED THAT THERE IS ONLY

ONE TRANSCRIPI ON SILVIA DURAN: THEY ARE STILL DETERMINING WHETHER

OR NOT WE CAN HAVE A COPY.

WHERE WERE THE TWO TRANSCRIPTS FOUND? WHO FOUND THEM?

THERE WAS NO ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION AND

WE ASKED AGAIN FOR A

RESPONSE.

E.

WHAT ELSE IS IN THE FILE OR BOX WHERE THESE TWO TRANSCRIPTS

WERE FOUND?

THERE WAS NO ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION AND WE ASKED AGAIN

FOR A RESPONSE.

F.

ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL FILES ON THE ASSASSINATION OR

POST-ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION STILL IN EXISTENCE? YES, THE

DEBRIEFING OF SILVIA DURAN.

G.

WERE ANY FILES ON THE ASSASSINATION OR POST-ASSASSINATION

INVESTIGATION DESTROYED UNDER A ROUTINE RECORD DESTRUCTION SCHEDULE?

ISOMBRERO DOES NOT KNOW IF ANY FILES ON THE ASSASSINATION OR

POST-ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION WERE DESTROYED UNDER A ROUTINE

RECORD DESTRUCTION SCHEDULE.

H.

ARE THERE ANY TELTAP TAPE RECORDINGS FROM THE ERA 1960-63

THERE ARE NO TELTAP TAPE RECORDINGS FROM THE ERA

STILL

IN EXISTENCE?

1960-63 IN EXISTENCE.

I. ARE THERE ANY INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE TELTAP,

THE SILVIA DURAN INTERROGATION, AND/OR ANY POST-ASSASSINATION

INVESTIGATION WHO COULD BE INTERVIEWED BY THE ARRB?

( (GUTIERREZ) ) BARRIOS AND LICENCIADOS FERNANDO ( (ORIIZ)) DE LA PENA

AND CARLOS ((DURAN) ) LANZ DEBRIEFED SILVIA DURAN. ISOMBRERO DID NOT

SAY IF THESE INDIVIDUALS COULD BE INTERVIEWED BY THE ARRB. WE ASKED

AGAIN AND ARE AWAITING A RESPONSE.

J.

ARE THERE ANY PERSONS KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE FILING SYSTEM

AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT BOTH IN 1963 AND TO THE PRESENT WHO COULD BE

INTERVIEWED BY THE ARRB AND MIGHT HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE

DISPOSITION OF ANY TELTAP INFORMATION,

RECORDS, AND/OR ANY ASSASSINATION OR POST-ASSASSINATION RECORDS IN

THE ARCHIVES?

THERE IS NOBODY THAT HAS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE 1963

FILING SYSTEM AND/OR RECORDS MANAGEMENT AT THE PRESENT WHO COULD BE

INTERVIEWED BY ARRB AND WHO COULD HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF ANY TELTAP

INFORMATION, ANY SILVIA DURAN INTERROGATION RECORDS, AND/OR ANY

ASSASSINATION OR POST-ASSASSINATION RECORDS IN THE ARCHIVES.

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