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JFK RECORDS

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recorded that:

when Mann heard of Alvarado's detailed

account

of payoff, he requested FBI representatives be

sent from FBI headquarters to take charge of

investigation in Mexico.

Request referred to

Bureau by Legat, Mexico City and State Depart-

visor Laurence P. Keenan should promptly depart

for Mexico City to assist in this investigation.

Mann was, tactfully told that while FBI was dis-

posea to send Keenantwas not assuminetate

The record reflects: that by November 27th, Alvarado's

allegation was being thoroughly scrutinized by American

authorities in Mexico City

Alvarado was undergoing a

detailed reinterrogation conducted by CIA representatives

at a CIA safehouse. (CIA Doc MEXI 7093, 11/27/63) During

the course of the reinterrogation Alvarado was shown photo-

9025 en pla after

* In response to Ambassador Mann!s request, the State Depart-

ment informed Mann that J. Edgar Hoover believed the FBI

Legat in Mexico City,Clarke Anderson, was fully aware of

all information then available pertaining to the assassina-

tion.

However, if Anderson believed he required additional

assistance, Anderson should so inform FBI headquarters.

(State Dept. Cable 958, 11/26/63)

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kgzaphs of cuban Consulate personnel declaimicande identi-

fied Luisa Calderon as the woman whonembraced: Oswald in-

side the Cuban Consulate on September 18. (CIA Doc. MEXI

7098,11/27/631 Mldareealso.

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Thus, by November 27th thy signs of conflict over

U.S. investigative policies in Mexico City had surfaced. -

U.S. responsibility for Alvarado, investigation of his

allegation and thesextentof Ambassador Mann's role

in

the matter were all at issue.

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Inaddition on November 26 the CIA Mexico City Sta-

tion had intercepted, taped and transcribed a conversa-

tion between the Cuban President Dorticos, in Havana,

and the Cuban Ambassador Armas, in Mexico City. During

the course of the Dorticos-Armas conversation, Dorticos

twice inquired whether Silvia Duran, during her interro-

gation by Mexican authorities,

Cubans had offered Oswald money.

Thad been asked whether the

Armas twice replied

that the Mexicans had asked no such question. (CIA DoC.

MEXI 7068, 11/26/63) This information, Mann felt, added

credibility to Alvarado's allegation.

Mann therefore

suggested that Alvarado should be put at Mexican Presi-

Matcas'

dent' Mann's disposal with the condition that Duran be

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rearrested and confronted with

Alvarado. (CIA DoC MEXI

7072, 11/26/631

On November 27, the CIA's Mexico City Station cabled

CIA headquarters detailing Manns! request that an FBI re-

presentative be dispatched to Mexico City. (CIA Doc MEXI

70.84, 11/27/63) The Mexiço City Station reported in a

second cable on the 27th that

il.

Mann

teels not tully brieted on swal Rubinstein

case. (CIA DOC MEXI 7092)'LAs a result, the

Mexico City Chief of Station recommended that FBI

dispatch a representative to Mexico City unless the

State Department could convince Mann that he was

being brieted fully on all information developed.

(Ibid.)

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a quite

As the record

reflects, both the FBI and the CIA

were seriously concerned

with Ambassador Mann!s inter-

jection of himself into the Mexico City investigation.

On November 27th, the FBI"

Liaison officer to the CIA,

Sam Papich, spoke with Birch O'Neal of the CIA's Counter-

intelligence Staff.

EC'ADuring the douse of their Montent, 1127/833

sation Papich and O'Neal discussed

Alvarado's allegations.

It was Papich's opinion that "the Ambassador down there

wants nuts" in his efforts to determine

if the Cubans had

conspired to assassinate President Kennedy. Papich com-

mented further that "It would be premature to move

Só

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quickly on that angle." O'Neal responded, "It might have

been alright if we knew we would find other confirming

stuff." (CIA DoC- IHO Ada"I Info File, O'Neal Hemorandum,

11/27/63) 2

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Alvarado also was able to identify Oscar Concepcion

Hernandez as the Cuban who had been seated at Azcue's

desk and subsequently handed a large amount of currency

to the red-haired Negro prior to its alleged passage to

Oswald. (Ibid.)

A second conversation between Dorticos and Armas

was intercepted by the CIA on November 27th. (CIA Doc MEXI

7097, 11/27/63) Armas reaffirmed to Dorticos that Duran

had made no mention of a money offer to Oswald during

the course of the interrogation by. Mexican police. (Ibia.)

Mann cabled this information ito the State Department and

also noted that Alvardo was being reinterrogated by CIA

representatives in Mexico City.

He commented:

It will not have escaped your attention

that the wealth of detail Alvarado gives

about events and personalities involved

with Oswald in Cuban Embassy is striking.

(CIA Doc MEXI 7104, 11/27/63, see also CIA

DoC DIR 85573, 11/27/63)

Mann further reported that Mexican authorities

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Alvarado

On November 16, 1977 the Select Committee interviewed

Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico at the time

of President Kennedy's assassination. V(HSCA Interview, T.

Mann, JEK Doc. 003966) The Mann interview was prompted by

the Committee's two-fold interest in Oswald's pre-assassination

trip to Mexico City and the subsequent post-assassination ciA d»

investigation of Oswald's activities in Mexico City by the

The Select Committe basspe fia tester

GIA and FBI. Ofmore specificinterest totheCommittee-was

learning from Ambasador Mann the extent of his efforts to

investigate Oswald's Mexico City activities; especially

whether Oswald had conspired with Castro Cubans to assassinate

President Kennedy. LIbid?

During the course of the Mann interview, the Ambassador

indicated that he had received instructions from the State

lief that CIA and FBI representatives had received similar:

instructions from their respective directors. LIbid

evade Solent Carmite to study contes mine our das ere coo

1''" The Church-Committee touched upon Mann's belief that

U.S. authorities had foreclosed investigative efforts to

determine whether.

Castro

Cubans

were connected to the

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assassination

An FBI supervisor who had traveled to Mexico

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City on November 27 to assist in that aspect of the FBI

investigation testifying before the Senate Committee noted

that:

he "knows of no investigation in

Mexico to determine if there was a

Cuban involvement in the assassina-

tion of President Kennedy" other

than disproving the "D" allegation.

V (SSC, Book V, P. 42.)

Ambassador Mann was questioned about "D" during his

interview with this Committee.

'D" whose true name is Gilberto

on November 25, 1963 alleged that Oswald®

In Mexica Cit

dent Kennedy Fi, fron Cuban officials

to assassinate Presi-

U.S. and Mexican authorities later determined t

Alvarado's allegation to have been a fabrication! Mann

asserted to the Committee that Alvarado's retraction of his

Oswald allegation had been tainted

the interrogation methods

Mann stated that Mexi-p?)

utilized by the Mexican authorities.'

can police procedures were coereiverand would have caused

Alvarado to adjust his statements in order to conform to the

"Cases just

Because the Alvarado allegation stands

as the only

that!

specific substantive investigation by U.S. authorities

in

Mexico City of possible Cuban complicity in President Ken-

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on which ons?

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thes setect committee has endeavored fosi

to make two critical determinations. These are:

Jest at

1) Whether the conduct of the FBI and CIA investi-

gation of Alvarado's allegation reflected Ambassa-

dor Mann's belief that efforts to investigate fe

possible involvement of the Castro Cubans in the vi

were

for i the

assassination was prematurely terminated; and

2) Whether the investigation by FBI and CIA of Alvarado's †

allegations was subject to objective scrutiny and art

investigative diligence.

for tent

In order to make these two determinations the Committee

has reviewed the Alvarado files maintained by the FBI, CIA, is

pnoreaver..

and State Department.

In addition to Mann's initial inter- te

view, a second follow-up interview pertaining to Mexico City

aspects of the assassination was conducted by the committee on Mar

November

1978. Moreover, depositions and hearings

involving former CIA personnel concerned with the investi-

gation of Alvarado have been conducted to complete the record

of review by this Committee.

concerte

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The Alvarado Allegation and the Possibility of Cuban Complicity

into Assassination

On November 23, Ambassador Mann cabled the State De-

partment declaring:

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circumstances already developed here

this

point to possibility that Oswald may have

been Castro's agent. Mexicans are also

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keenly aware of the possibility. (CIA Doc.

MEXI 1180, 11/23/63)

CABLE, NOT

The ambasaadore suspicions verdueleá two days later.

A CIA

CAblE

•November 25, when Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte, a twenty-three

year old Nicaraguan national appeared at the American Embassy

in Mexico City. Alvarado reported to Embassy officials

that on September 18, 1963, he had witnessed a payment of

$6500 to Lee Harvey Oswald by a Cuban official in Mexico Implisd

City to assassinate President Kennedy, * VICIA DOC MEXI 7069, But

OKAY

11/26/63) Alvarado contended that, at noon on September 18, by me

while he was in the Cuban Consulate arranging ... his travel

* The CIA reported on November 26 that Alvarado:

"is a well-known Nicaraquan underground member who is

also

a regular informant of the Nicaraguan security ser-

vice,an officer of which has provided this Agency with

•his reports for over a year.

We consider his reliability

to be questionable although he has not been wholly dis-

credited."

(CIA "out Teletype No. 85089, 11/26/63).

N. Lt

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to Cuba, he observed approximately eight persons enter

care Eusebio area, the cuban corsul la Mexico

However, Aring to All a rindero

Azcue was not in his office but rather a

Cuban

man not known to Alvarado was seated behind Azcue's

desk.

Alvarado reported that after observing this man he

needed, a bathroom which

he reached by walking through a

FrIbia]

passageway onto a patio.

At the patio, Alvarado stated

he observed three men grouped together.

One man was a

man spoke with a Cuban accent fleet as

second man was described

by Alvarado as Caucasion, with

geen eyes and blond hair-

cut in a pompadour style.

Alvarado

added. that he had pre-

vously observed this man displaying

a Canadian passport in

the Consulate waiting room.I| The third man was dressed in a

black sportcoat, white pants and

FNeopen collar shirt.

also wore clear eyeglasses.

ilvarado contended

recognized this third man as lee Harvey swald following

the assassination

and after publication of Oswald's photo-

graph.

Alvarado alleged that while situated on the patio,

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he observed the cuban who had been seated at Azue's desk , 43

approach the red-haired Negro and hand him a sum of money.

Alvarado reported that the following exchange then transpired

between Oswald and the red-haired Negro:

Negro: (in English) I want to kill the man.

Oswald: You're not man enough. I can do it.

Negro: (in Spanish) I can't go with you. I have a lot

to do.

Oswald: The people are waiting for me back there.

V (CIA DOC. MEXI 7069, 11/26/63)

verbal

Alvarado alleged that following the above exchange he

observed the red-haired Nego hand Oswald $6500 in u.s. cur-

rency and 200 pesos.

*Alvardo stated he then saw a female

employee of the Cuban Consulate embrace Oswald and give him

FI

verong

her address.

Later,

according to Alvarado, while standing

outside the Consulate, he saw Oswald and his two companions

leave the Consulate and enter an automobile. (Ibia.) U

The CIA's Mexiço City Station reported Alvardo's allega-

on Norembers.FICIA ENTICES SO 26/6

tion. It noted in its cable to CIA headquarters that Alvarado

claimed he had, at the end of September 1963, telephoned

rade faires

* Alvarado stated that he did not see the Cuban man

Sept. 18.

again after

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the U.S. Embassy several times to report the conversation he

alleged he overheard while at the Cuban Consulate.

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Alvarado rin

told the American authorities: that he had used

an alias,

Jorge Kynaut, when he placed these calls to the Embassy.

Alvarado alleged that after his repeated phone calls to

the Embassy with no positive response from phe Embassy per-

vonne he was finally toldito "quit wasting our time.

are working here, not playing." (CIA out teletype no. 85089,

11/29/63)-N.Ldk

As cited above, Alvarado contended that he recognized

Oswald from press photographs generally available after the

Alvarmnoco.tonet.com

assassination.

As a result

Ankarado recontacted the Ameri-

can Embassy on November 25. (CIA Doc. MEXI 7069, 11/26/63) 1

On the morning of November 26 Alvarado was questioned at

the American Embassy

a CIA representative and an Embassy

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security officer.

Asá follow-up to Alvarado's initial

interrogation, CIA's Mexico City Station requested dumof

headquarter's traces on Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte. {5l, 13QGNoU63

Ambassador Mann reacted with great concern:to Alvarado's

allegation. He requested that an FBI officer thoroughly

knowledgeable about all aspects of the assassination investi-

r-....

gation be sent to Mexico City to brief him and help direct

investigation. (MEXI 1182, 11/25/63)

An FBI memorandum

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recorded that:

when Mann heard of Alvarado's detailed account

of payoff, he requested FBI representatives be

sent from FBI headquarters to take charge of

investigation in Mexico.

Request referred to

Bureau by Legat, Mexico City and State Depart-

ment.

On 11/26/63. it was decided that FBI super-

Keenan devia

Visor Laurence P. Keenan should promptly depart

for Mexico City to assist in this investigation.

Mann was tactfully told that while FBI was dis-

posed to send Keenan FBI was not assuming State

or CIA responsibilities and could only offer ad-

vice on policy matters concerning those Agencies.*

(FBI file 105-82555-656, 12/3/63( Emphasis added) V

In addition, on November 26 the CIA Mexico City Sta-

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tion had intercepted, taped and transcribed arconversation

thes

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between the Cuban President Dorticos, in Havana, and the

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Cuban Ambassador

Armas, in Mexico City. During the course

of the Dorticos-Armas conversation, Dorticos twice inquired

whether Silvia Duran, during her interrogation by Mexican

authorities, had been asked whether the Cubans had offered

Oswald money. Armas twice replied that the Mexicans had asked

no

such question. (CIA DOC. MEXI 7068, 11/26/63)

This informa-

* In response to Ambassador Mann's request, the State Depart-

ment informed Mann that J. Edgar Hoover believed the FBI

Legat in Mexico City, Clarke Anderson,

was fully aware of

all information then available pertaining to the assassina-

tion.

However, if Anderson believed he required additional

assistance, Anderson should so inform FBI headquarters.

(State Dept. Cable 958, 11/26/63)V

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tion, Mann felt, added credibility to Alvarado's allegation.

Mann therefore suggested that Alvarado should be put at the

el (Ne Mexican President Mateos'

disposal with the condition that

Duran be rearrested and confronted with Alvarado. (CIA DOC

MEXI 7072, 11/26/631V

On November 27, the CIA's Mexico City Station cabled

REPORTING

CIA headquarters detailing Mann's request that an FBI repre-

sentative be dispatched to Mexico City.

CIA DOC MEXI 7084,

11/27/63) The Mexico City Station reported in a second cable

on the 27th that "Mann feels not fully briefed on Oswald/

1/27163.

Rubinstein case. YCIA DOC MEXI 7092," As a result, the CIA's

Mexico City Chief of Station recommended that FBI dispatch a

representative to Mexico City unless the State Department could

JOHNSON?

convince Mann that he was being briefed fully on all information

developed. (Ibid.)

As the record reflects, both the FBI and the CIA

were seriously concerned with Ambassador Mann's interjection

of himself into the Mexico City investigation. On November

27th, the FBI liaison officer to the CIA, Sam Papich, spoke

with Birch O'Neal of the CIA's Counter-intelligence staff.

(CIA DoC, IHO Add'1 Info File, O'Neal Memorandum, 11/27/63) -N.L.

During the course of their conversation

Papich and O'Neal

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discussed Alvarado's allegations. It was Papich's opinion

that "the Ambassador down there wants nuts" in his efforts

to determine if the Cubans

had conspired to assassinate

President Kennedy. Papich commented further that, "It would

be premature to move so quickly on that angle." O'Neal

responded, "It might have been alright if we knew we would

find other confirming stuff." (Ibid.) -N.L, ok

Thus, by November 27th signs of conflict with respect

to U.S. investigative policies in Mexico City had surfaced.

U.S. responsibility for Alvarado, investigation of his alle=

gation and Ambassador Mann's role in the matter. were all at

issue.

The record also reflects that by November 27th,

Alvardo's allegation was being thoroughly scrutinized by

American authorities in Mexico City. Alvarado was undergoing

a detailed reinterrogation conducted by CIA representatives

at a CIA safehouse. V(CIA Doc MEXI 7093, 11/27/63) During

the course of the reinterrogation Alvarado was shown photo-

graphs of Cuban Consulate personnel from which he identified

WOMAN

Luisa Calderon as the man whomhe claimed had embraced Oswald

inside the Cuban Consulate on September 18. (CIA Doc. MEXI

*NOt

Sures

7098,'

11/27/63) Alvarado also was able to identify Oscar

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Concepcion 'Hernandez as the Cuban who had been

seated at

Azcue's desk and subsequently handed a large amount of cur-

rency to the red-haired Negro prior to its alleged passage

to Oswald. lIbid.) - SAmE Isthat the tall Cuban?

A second conversation between Dorticos and Armas

was intercepted by the CIA on November 27th. (CIA DOC MEXI

7097, 11/27/63) Armas reaffirmed to Dorticos that Duran had

made no mention of a money offer to Oswald during the course

of the interrogation by Mexican police. (Ibid.)

Mann cabled

this information to the State Department and also noted

•that Alvarado was being reinterrogated by CIA representatives

in Mexico City. He commented:

It will not have escaped your attention

that the weälth of detail Alvarado gives

about events and personalities involved

with Oswald in Cuban Embassy is striking.

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supportive

(CIA DoC MEXI 7104, 11/27/63, see also

CIA DOC DIR 85573, 11/27/63) -N.L.

Mann further reported that Mexican authorities

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had rearrested Silvia Duran to avoid her possible pescapé

to Cuba and consequent unavailability as a witness. (Ibia.)*

Finally, Mann

requested that:

Washington should urgently consider fea-

sibility of requesting Mexican authorities

to arrest for interrogation Eusebio Azcue,

Luisa Calderon, and Alfredo Mirabal e

Cuban Intelligence Service officer at the

Cuban Embassy compound in Mexico Cityf...

They may all quickly be returned to Havana

in order to eliminate any possibility that

Mexican government could use them as wit-

nesses...

While

I realize enormous difficulty in giv-

ing us instructions, I nevertheless feel

obliged to point out again that

of the essence here. (Ibid.)

time is This not

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Notes

That day CIA representatives in Washington met with

Alexis Johnson of the State Department to discuss Mann's

request for arrests. In a cable to Mexico City Station:

discussing this meeting, CIA headquarters noted:

There is a feeling in three agencies

(FBI, CIA, State] Mann is pushing case

too hard.

Will cause flap with Cubans.

Johnson sent ODACID: (FBI) channels to

Mann to give better perspective. (CIA

DOC DIR 85469, 11/27/63)

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Johnson's "better perspective" was cabled to Mann that

day. Johnson stated in his cable that the FBI was to be

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considered in full charge of the investigation. He also

informed Mann that Oswald's presence in New Orleans from

September 17 through September 25 had been established

in conflict with Alvarado's statement that Oswald had been

in the Cuban Consulate on September 18. Therefore, John-

son stated that sufficient validity had not been established

to justify the arrests suggested by Mann. * state wept?

Cable 96111/27/6311

Though the record does disclose, as detailed above,

that Mann's efforts to investigate the possibility of Cuban

complicity in the assassination were being

limited, the record

also reveals that the FBI and CIA were continuing to investi-

gate Alvarado's story white in the process, attempting to

avoid possible serious repercussions that arrests of Cuban

diplomatic personnel might well have caused. As an FBI memo-

randum of November 27 records:

/the/ decision to act on Ambassador

* It should be noted that Oswald's presence in New Orleans

on Sept. 18 had

not, as of November 27th, been firmly esta

blished.

However, his presence

in New Orleans had been

established..for September 17 and September 19.

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Mann's suggestion is one for /State Dept.

and CIAT to make....meanwhile, the Bureau's

investigation in an effort to definitely

place Lee Harvey Oswald on 9-18-63 is

going forward...

Our position is that agressive, positive:.

investigation must be continued to com-

pletely

resolve Mexico_City Angle /FBI file

105-82555-122,11/27/63/

last sentence Madder it no tatia

Furthermore, the same FBI memorandum noted: "Legal

Attache instructed to follow with CIA, Mexico City, steps

being taken to locate and identify the unidentified Negro

and Canadian referred to by Ugarte." (Ibid.) V

Nevertheless, by November 27, the record indicates

that CIA doubted Alvarado's veracity. CIA headquarters

cabled the Mexico City Station indicating

1, that FBI had

ON

AND

placed Oswald in New Orleans from September 17 through Sep-

tember 25th.

The cable concluded that the placement of

Osusid

(Alvarado in New Orleans was a further reason not to believe

Alvarado's allegation. (CIA DOC. DIR 85258, 11/27/63) 47 PrEVIOUSSE

The Mexico City Station reported to CIA headquarters .

SENTANGE

It'S OKAy,

that Alvarado's story only demonstrated that he had at some

point been inside the Cuban Embassy.

VICIA DOC. MEXI 7107,

11/27/63) The Station requested that Jerez,

Alvarado's

Nicaraguan case officer, be present at Alvarado's interro-

gation to add weight to the questioning (though Jerez would

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ask no questions). (Ibia.) V

A second CIA headquarters cable to Mexico City on

November 27 stated:

In the face of mounting evidence it

appears that Alvarado's story is a

fabrication.

Urge you to follow

up with his Nacaraguan case officer.

(CIA DOC. DIR 85616, 11/27/631

Headquarters added that Alvarado's interrogators should

probe deeply into Alvarado's makeup, appear sympathetic to

him while promising the hope of future assistance should

he cooperate with his interrogators. (Ibid.

Apparently a jurisdictional conflict over Alvarado's

custody and interrogation had begun to develop between the

FBI and CIA.

on November 28, the CIA's Mexico City Station cabled

CIA headquarters requesting that

Alvarado be turned over

his

jus

16.4

to the Mexican authorities detailing to the Mexicans Alva-

ANECIADOC, MEAl 711 3, 11/28/685

rado's falsification of his traveling papers.'

It was noted

by the station that the "Latter point alone gives Mexicans

good reasons to subject him to detailed interrogation." UCIA

DoC. MEXI 7113, 11/28/63) The Mexico City Station proposed

that it cease contact with Alvarado following his release

to the Mexican authorities. {Ibid.JV

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CIA headquarters responded that day by cable to the

Mexico City Station requests. Headquarters instructed that

Alvarado was not to be turned over to the Mexicans prior

to discussion of the matter with the FBI. The

Mexico City

Station was ordered to notify CIA headquarters if the FBI

Legat in Mexico City attempted to persuade the Station to

release Alvarado to the Mexicans.V(CIA DoC. DIR 85661,

11/28/63)

An FBI memorandum also discussed Alvarado's handling.

The memorandum reveals that:

On 11/28/63 our Legal Attache pursuant

to instructions issued by Assistant

Director Sullivan, unequivocably ad-

vised the Ambassador (MANN that the

the Uses In discussing this matter

with Assistant Director Sullivan, Legal

Attache Anderson suggested that the

best course of action would be for

CIA to turn Alvarado over to the

Mexicans and request a thorough investi-

gation of charges including a polygraph

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representativexamination. This course was adopted and the Bureaukiason

and so recommended to CIA on the after-

noon Of 11/28/630 (FBI File 105-82555-1001O

246, 11/29/63) EEmptatist

CIA Headquarters subsequently cabled the Mexico City

Station that the FBI had requested Alvarado be turned over

to the Mexican authorities who could be requested to admini-

ster a polygraph examination. VICIA DOC. DIR 85663, 11/28/63%

: The Mexicans took custody of Alvarado on November 28.

~ Apparently Ambassador Mann was pleased with the de-

velopment for an FBI memorandum records:

This morning Ambassador Mann expressed

to us his great pleasure on authorization

given for CIA to make Alvarado available

to the Mexicans. He stated he felt this

was the only way to resolve question of

veracity of Alvarado's story.. (FBI file

105-82555-384, p. 3.)

Itappens that

* Apparently, the FBI and CIA had differing views regarding

the Mexico City aspects of the assassination investigation.

A Birch O'Neal memorandum, dated November 29, 1963 reveals

that O'Neal on November 28 had advised Sam Papich of the

FBI that the CIA was not yet prepared to turn Alvarado

over to the Mexicans.

Acting on instructions from Richard

Helms, O'Neal informed Papich that the CIA considered, it

the FBI's responsibility to decide whether Alvarado would

be turned over to the Mexicans.

Papich responded that he

believed the responsibility was the CIA's.

Papich, after

consultation with his superiors, informed O'Neal that the

FBI had officially decided that

Alvarado would be

released

to the Mexicans for interrogation and polygraphing.

O'Neal

later informed Papich that the CIA was immediately comply-

ing with the FBI instructions. (CIA Doc. O'Neal Memo to

the

Record, 11/29/63, CI/S16, Soft File on LHO)V

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problem is

The Mexico City Station that day requested that a Must

Spanish speaking polygraph operator be sent to Mexico City Also,

to polygraph Alvarado, dICIA DOC. MEXI 7120, 11/28/63)

unclean

CIA headquarters replied that

no Spanish speaking polygraph inhy

operator was then available. VICIA DOC. DIR 85667, 11/28/631

giving

On the morning of November 29, Alvarado was interro-

gated for one hour by the Mexican authorities. He was

further interrogated for three hours that afternoon. At

the close of these sessions, the Mexican interrogator con-

cluded that either Alvarado was telling the truth or "he

my

is the best liar I have talked to inmany years and I

have talked to some of the biggest." VICIA DOC. MEXI 7156,

11/30/63)

The Mexico City Station had also reported on November

29th that Alvarado had repeated his original statement to

the Mexicans but that he had failed to identify a photograph

of Silvia Duran. It was noted that the Mexican interrogator

did not believe Alvarado's story and would attempt to

"break"' him. O (CIA DOC. MEXI 7127, 11/29)V

During the evening of November 29, Alvarado's Nicaraguan

case officer Jerez met with the Mexican interrogator UCIA

DOC, MEXI rica 11/30 3and bretted the interrogator on

Alvarado's background.

Jerez had indicated to the Mexico

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City Station that Alvarado's reporting had been "75% accu-

rate" and that he had in the past furnished good information

on Communist activity. He did indicate that Alvarado

tended to "go:off on his own at times" making him impossible

to control.'

(Ibia. )

On November 30 the Mexican interrogator reported to Win

Scott that Alvarado had signed a statement stating that

his story of seeing Oswald inside the Cuban Embassy was

a complete fabrication. FBI Legal Clark Anderson advised

Bureau headquarters:

Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte in Mexico City.••

has confessed to the Mexican official that

his statement on Oswald was fase...o

Alvarado stated his motive was personal.

And did not involve his country.

He said

he wanted to give the U.S. a reason for

overcoming Castro. Our Legal Attache

said Ambassador Mann is very pleased at

the way the FBI handled the matter and

has so advised the Department. Ambassador

Mann also wanted his personäl-gratitude

extended to the Director.

SA: Lawrence Keenansent. to México from the

Seat of Government to handle our aspects

of the matter will be returning to Wash-

ington, D.C., tomorrow afternoon with full

particulars.

(FBI File 105-82555-823,

11/30/63)V

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Nevertheless, it appears that Ambassador Mann main-

tained certain reservations regarding Alvarado's interroga-

tion by the Mexicans. Mann cabled Washington on November

30th and indicatét Alvarado's admission thats

Mani

a fabrication. "e stated that he accepted Alvarado's

confession but that there were still unexplained circum-

stances in Mexico City connected with the assassination.

He indicated his desire to be kept informed of any new

investigative developments because the

inquest for evi-

dence would continue. VIMEXI 1213 NOV. 3043 An FBI meriorandum

stated that:

"/Ambassador Mann/ accepts fact that

story was a fabrication but continues to

rees castro maleave been benina Kennedy:

assassination.

Ilt was turther notec

DON

that Mann based his feelings in part on the

INAN Dorticos Armas conversation which had con-

cerned possible questioning of Silvia Duran

NOT

about cuban offers of money to oswala to

Quots

carry out the assassination.? (FBI File 105-

82555-879)

CIA Headquarters on November 30th also expressed some

concern over Alvarado's interrogation by the Mexicans. Head-

quarters inquired "what threats, promises, inducements,

tacties were used by the Mexican interrogator AN enda pil slobir

Alvarado mistreated?"

"CIA headquarters

Nst urged that the Nicara-

It was also stated that

guans not do away with Alvarado!'

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the question of Oswald acting

on his own still re-

mained unanswered. (CIA DOC. SIR 86064, 11/30/63) V

It should be noted with some concern that while the

cable traffic reviewed indicates

Epthat Alvarado gave a full

confession of his fabrication,

'the summary of his interro-

gation by the Mexicans is not so precise.

A CIA translation of the Mexican interrogation states

in part:

a. That spontaneously, and after reconsideration,

he desires to state that the North American to

whom he had referred in the body of his state-

ment and whom he saw on 18 September of this

year in the Cuban Consulate looked like, and

he was 60% sure that he looked like, Lee Harvey

Oswald, the assassin of the President of the

United States. (emphasis added)

b. That after the assassination of President Kennedy,

Alvardo took advantage of these occurrences,

giving versions such as the above one, for the

purpose of provoking a strong reaction in favor

of the United States against the government of

Fidel Castro Ruz.

(CIA Doc. DDP4-2741, Memo from R. Helms to J. Lee

Rankin, 6/1/64, Attachment F, p5)

As the above quotation clearly indicates, Alvarado

did not in fact completely retract his original allegations.

Why both the FBI and CIA reported that Alvardo had admitted

total fabrication when the Mexican interrogation summary

records only that Alvardo was "60% sure" that he had seen

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Oswald is not answered by review of the available record.

In addition the record does not indicate whether Ambassador

Mann or the FBI and CIA representatives in Mexico City had

access to the Mexican interrogation report as of November 30th

when Alvarado's retraction was reported

to FBI and CIA Head-

quarters.

On December 2, Alvarado spoke with Jere

his Nicaraguan

case officer.

During their meeting, Alvarado asserted that

should he had been coerced into admitting that his story was a

dEtail,

2dd, Fabrication. ViCTA DOC. MEXT 7203, 12/2/63) This information

reported tó CIA headquarters by the Mexico City Station.

The Station also noted that Alvarado was to be deported to

Nicaragua where Jerez would continue Alvarado's interroga-

tion. (Ibid.)*

1S ThERE ANy REpOrtS

ON JECIZ

CoNtiNuEd

On December 3, Ambassador Mann cabled the State Depart- INTEr,

ment reporting that Alvarado'had retracted his statements to

the Mexican authorities.

Mann noted that Alvarado's story

* An FBI memorandum states in part:

As of 11/30/63, Alvarado was being held by Mexican authori-

ties on the charge that he illegally entered Mexico.

Al-

varado, in his statement to Mexican authorities, advised

that he had entered Mexico without, a Mexican visa and after

bribing

a Mexican Immigration Inspector. (FBI File 105-02555-

656,12/3/631V

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was still flawed by his placement of Oswald in the Embassy

on September 18 and his contention that he had telephoned

the American Embassy in Mexico City prior to the assassina-

tion to report his observations at the Cuban Consulate on

September 18th.*

Thus, the record tends to support the conclusion that

Alvarado had not telephoned the Embassy during late September

1963 as he had alleged. FW

The Mexico City Station cabled CIA headquarters on

December 3 noting Mann's cable to the State Department about

Alvardo's retraction of his confession. The Station also

noted Mann had recommended that a polygraph operator be

sent to Nicaragua to examine Alvarado. VICIA DOC. MEXI 7209,

243/63) CIA headquarters responded stating that Alvardo

should be polygraphed prior to his deportation to Nicaragua

and that the Mexican authorities should be contacted to arrange

* Regarding Alvarado's alleged telephone calls to the Ameri-

can Embassy prior to the assassination, an FBI memorandum

records:

Minute examination of the U.f. Embassy switchboard

"log" for late September 1963 failed to disclose

any evidence that any such calls were received

from Alvarado. Interviews of switchboard operators

also failed to reveal any information which would

corroborate Alvarado's alleged telephone calls.

(FBI file 105-82555-656, 12/3/631 V

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for his temporary release to CIA though:the Mexicans were

not to be informed of the motive behind his release. In

addition, a CIA polygraph operator was being sent to Mexico

City on December 4. Clarke Anderson was designated as the

interpreter for the polygraph sessions faDies 656 1713/653

Finally, CIA head-

quarters stated that in anticipation of the polygraph examina-

tion, Alvarado was to be well fed, rested, and not in fear

of bodily harm. As for his return to Nicaragua, the issue

was to remain open so that the polygraph operator would

have "maximum maneuvering room." VICIA DOC DIR 86563, 12/3/63)

From review of the record it is unclear whether the "maxi-

mum maneuvering room" to be given the polygraph operator im-

plied that Alvarado's polygraph examination was designed to

* This same cable noted that Anderson was to be used as the

interpreter so that he would be able to testify regarding

Alvarado at later hearings.

wear in Like thoug

Although not explicitly stated,

the hearings referred to likely were Warren Commission hear-

ings. The Warren Commission was established by Executive

Order 11130 on November 29, 1963. -

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explain why greater efforts were not: made to polygraph

Alvarado while in Mexican custody.

The original Mexico

City Station request for polygraphing Alvarado and subse-

quent headquarters response that no Spanish-speaking poly-

graph operator was available were both made on November 28

prior to the creation of the Commission. VICIA DoC. MEXI (1720,

11/28/63 and CIA Doc. DIR 85667, 11/28/63) On November

28,

the question of testimony at hearings was not at issue.

Thus, the necessity of a polygraph examination might not

then

have been. deemed of critical importance.

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prove his story a fabrication.

However, the possibility

cannot be dismissed due to CIA headquarters earlier stated

conviction that Alvarado had fabricated his

story. (See

Alvarado was polygraphed at a CIA safehouse in Mexico

'CIty (CIA DoC. MEXI 72'59

, 12/5/63)

On December 5, the CIA

polygraph operator and Clarke Anderson were able to establish

FN? - Not SUpportEO by 7267

a rapport with Alvarado. However, the subject of a poly-

graph was not then discussed. (CIA DOC. MEXI 7267, 12/6/63)V

Alvarado was polygraphed on Decmeber 6. At that time, Al-

varado stated that he trusted in the polygraph's accuracy.

Alvarado's responses as recorded during the polygraph session,

evidenced deception. When informed of these responses, Alva-

rado retorted that he must have made "an honest mistake" in

identifying the individual he observed at the Cuban Consulate

MEXI

as Lee Harvey Oswald. * (CIA Doc. V7289, 12-7/43see also FBI

file 105-82555-657)

QUOTE

NOT IN NOTES But iS IN

* During the course öf his interrogation only Anderson and the

polygraph operator had

access to Alvarado.

At all other

times Alvarado remained in the custody of Mexican Immigration

Inspectors, pending his deportation to Nicaragua.

In addition,

during the

course of his polygraph session, although not

known: to. Alvarado, a CIA technician tape-recorded the questions

and responses V(FBI file 105-82555-1338) : \ Consequent to

Alvarado's polygraphing, Anderson notified FBI headquarters

and commented:

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The

tage recordings were subsequently made available)

by the CIA to the EBI (pitiatnampa)

After being informed of the results of Alvarado's

polygraph, CIA headquarters directed the: Mexico City Station

to avoid any action which would induce Alvarado to reassert

his original story. As a result, the CIA requested both

the Mexican and Nicaraguan authorities to avoid any puni-

tive treatment of Alvarado. JICIA DOC. DIR 87666, 12/7/63)

Alvarado was returned to Managua, Nicaragua on Decem-

ber 8, 1963. (CIA DOC. MEXI 7289, 12/7/63)V

SAyS hE wAs scheduled to

Not that hedid,

*I|While writer not qualified to interpret polygraph results,

Alvarado's insistence that he saw person identified by him

as Oswald at Cuban Consulate on or about September 18 last

would seem to clearly indicate fabrication. 'VFBI file

105-82555-657, 12/6/63) (See also CIA DOC. MEXI 7289, 12/7/6376

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HSCA Conclusions

The record reviewed by this Committee, as set forth

above, supports the following conclusions:

1) Immediately following President Kennedy's assassina-

tion the possibility of Cuban involvement was given

serious consideration by United States government re-

presentatives in Mexico City. Cuban complicity was

of particular concern to the American Ambassador,

Thomas Mann. His suspicions were based upon Oswald's

past contacts with both the Cuban and Soviet Consulates

in Mexico City, the allegations of Gilberto Alvarado

Ugarte, and suspect conversations between the Cuban

President Dorticos and the Cuban Ambassador to

sought

himself

Mexico Armas.

Because of Mann's immediate posture

he intervened himself into the United States' in-

vestigation of Oswald's activities in Mexico City.

Both CIA and FBI representatives in Mexico City had

to contend with the Ambassador and probably felt

that his efforts only further complicated an already

complex situation. Therefore, CIA and FBI representa-

tives in Washington, D.C. were able to impress upon

the State Department, particularly Alexis Johnson,

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that Mann was not in charge of the investigation

and should be so informed. It is most likely, as

a result, that Mann's statement to this Committee

that his efforts to investigate the possibility of

a Cuban assassination conspiracy were prematurely

cut off reflect the instructions he received from

the

his superiors that the FBI was in charge of Mexico

City investigation necessarily implying to Mann that

he was not. However, the Committee has found no

evidence to support Mann's contention that CIA and

FBI representatives in Mexico City received instruc-

tions to cut off investigations of possible Cuban in-

volvement in the assassination. But it is the Com-

mittee's fontention that both the CIA and FBI were

subject to political considerations created by the

extraordinary circumstances surrounding the assassina-

tion. In particular,

Mann's request that Cuban

di+

plomatic personnel be arrested created an issue

pregnant with

serious consequencesp at the very feast,

1. Without substantive evidence to support such action,

creatingastrain upon the

relationship between

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the Governments of Mexico and the United States. Ma Ge

2) The record does reflect that both CIA and FBI re-

presentatives in Mexico City fully cooperated dur-

ing the course of the investigation of Alvarado's

allegation. Nevertheless, the Committee review of

FBI and CIA files tendsto show that by November 27,

1963, prior to Alvarado's interrogation by Mexican

authorities, FBI and CIA doubted Alvarado's vera-

city. As a result, the subsequent investigation of

Alvarado was colored by the CIA and FBI position

that Alvardo was a fabricator. Whether this

stance ultimately affected the resolution of Al-

varado's allegation cannot today be determined.

a) The record further reflects that Ambassador Mann,

following Alvarado's polygraphying by CiA and EBly

reports on December 6 agreeing with the FBI and

CIA position that Alvarado was a fabricator. How-

over, Ambassador Mann persistedein his belief,

though not supported by the evidence, that the Cuban

government was in some manner connected to the

assassination of President Kennedy.

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A) From FBI and CIA files reviewed, the record tends

to show that the FBI and CIA investigation in

Mexico City was subject to some jurisdictional

uncertainty. Whereas, with regard to the Alvardo

investigation, it was the FBI's initial stance

that this was a DIA matter, the CIA did not become

actively involved in resolution of the issue until

it had received authorization to do so from the

FBI. However, this concern of proper jurisdictional

authority does not now appear to have impeded in

any manner the substance of the investigation

undertaken by both the FBI and CIA.

It-would have better served the expedition's resolu-

tion: of Alvarado's allegation had-Alvarado been sub-

ject to a polygraph examination prior to December 6,

1963. Such an examination might well have helped to

resolve Alvarado's: contention that Oswald was in Mexico

on September 18, 1963. As the record indicates, Os-

wald's presence in New Orleans on September 18 has

never been definitely established. However, based

upon the sum of evidence reviewed by this Committee,

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resulting in the ultimate conclusion that Alvarado's

allegation was indeed fabricated.

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