DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE WARREN COMMISSION AND THE CIA
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Discussions between Warren Commission and CIA

31 January 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 31 January 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel:

"Thank you for your memorandum of January 25,

transmitting a detailed

OSWALD's stay in the Soviet Union

chronology of Lee Harvey

and

the alphabetical

list of persons in the Soviet Union who were known

to

or mentioned by Lee Harvey OSWALD or his wife.

"Based on an initial review I am confident that

this material will be of great assistance to the work

of this Commission.

However, I have a question re-

garding the mention of an appendix in the Name List.

For example,

there are references to

"Appendix B'

under items

No. 70 and No. 91.

I would appreciate

knowing whether one or more appendices have been

prepared to

the materials which can be made available

to this Commission."

31 January 1964

Letter to Mr. J. Edgar HOOVER, Director, Federal Bu-

reau of Investigation, dated 31 January 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel.

"We understand you already have furnished the

Central Intelligence Agency with the Summary Report

entitled

'Investigation of Assassination of President

John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963'

and accompanying

exhibits; the Summary Report

entitled 'Investigation

of Killing of Lee Harvey OSWALD,

Texas, 24

November 1963'; and the two Supplemental Reports to

these summaries.

At a conference on January 28,

1964,

attended by

Mr. MOLLEY and representatives of the

Secret Service and the Central Intelligence Agency,

we discussed the possibility of supplying additional

reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the

Central Intelligence Agency in order to enable that

agency

to be of further assistance to the Commission.

It was agreed that F.B.l. reports would be made avail-

able to C.I.A.

and that representatives of the two

agencies would consult regarding

the precautions to

be taken in the use of these materials.

"Accordingly, the Commission would

appreciate

your furnishing

the C.I.A. (Attention:

Mr.. Richard

HELMS) copies of the following reports:

"All correspondence carried on by Lee Harvey

OSWALD with persons in the Soviet Union, in particular,

the letters referred to on page 63 of your Supplemental

Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

"As additional materials in these general areas

its in-

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10 February 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 10 February 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"This will acknowledge with the thanks of the

Commission your memorandum

dated January 31, 1964,

relating to information developed by your Agency on

Lee Harvey OSWALD activity in Mexico City during

the period of September 28 to October 3, 1963.

"I assume - and would like to be so advised

if the

contrary is the feat - that your January

31, 1964, report is not final inasmuch

as I recall

an

investigation is currently being pursued with

respect to an allegation of some significance

which emanated from the White House and which is

not referred to in the above-mentioned report.

With respect to this allegation,

it would be

greatly appreciated if you would furnish us with

an interim resume of any developments pertinent

thereto.

"In connection with your memorandum dated

January 31, 1964, the Commission has

asked me

to request

you to submit to the Commission the

following:

(There follows twelve requirements.)

12 February 1964

Letter to Mr. Thomas H. KARAMESSINES, Acting Deputy

Director for Plans, dated 12 February 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel.

"After your conversation with Mr. WILLENS on

Monday,

rebruary 10,

1964,

the Commission

was sup-

plied by

the Federal Bureau of Investigation with

a cropped copy of the photograph reportedly dis-

played to Mrs. Marguerite OSWALD on November 23

at Dallas, Texas,

by Special Agent ODUM of

the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"In order to complete the records of the Com-

mission regarding this matter, the Commission would

like to be informed of the circumstances surrounding

the obtaining of this picture by your Agency and the

identity of the individual shown, if this informa-

tion is currently available."

12 February 1964

Letter to Honorable John A. McCONE, Director, Central

Intelligence Ahency, dated 12 February 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel.

"As you know, this. Commission. :

Central. Intelligence Agency has disseminated several

reports or communications coneerning the assassina-

tion to the Secret Service in the period since Novem-

ber 1963. All these materials reportedly carry s

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security rating which

"precludes their delivery to

the Commission by the Secret Service.

preciate your assistance in sending copies of these

reports or other materials to the Commission as soon

as possible.

"In

addition,

I would like your Agency to supply

the Commission with

a report on the information in

, 1963.

Some of this information is pro-

vided in the footnote on Page 2 of your report dated

January 31, 1964, entitled

'Information Developed by

CIA on the

Activity

of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico

City 28 September - 3 October 1963'.

The footnote

indicates that until early October of 1963 the con-

tents of this file consisted entirely of press ma-

terials and

disseminations received

from the Depart-

ment of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

and the Navy

Department.

It would assist this

Commission if a copy of the contents

file, we are also interested in

knowing what dissemination, if any, was made to other

Federal

agencies, of items

added to the file after

October 9, 1963 and prior to November 22."

6 March 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for

Plans, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General

Counsel.

"The Commission has recently received a report

from the Federal Bureau of Investigation covering an

interview that took place between representatives of

the Bureau and the recent Soviet defector, Yuri

Ivanovich NOSENKO.

"It appears to us that NOSENKO's defection,

or not it is

authentic, is of very great

interest to the Commission.

I would like to set

up a conference early in the week of March 9 be-

tween members of the Commission staff and members

of CIA to discuss this matter further and to ex-

plore generally

the work your Agency has in pro-

gress of interest to this Commission.

"Will you please contact me at your earliest

convenience to set a time for this conference."

12 March 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 12 March 1964;

Subject:

Meeting with the Warren Commission on 12 March

1964.

Mr. ROCCA met with Mr.

to discuss the current status of the CIA contribu-

tion to the work of the Warren Commission.

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The first topic raised by Mr. RANKIN

concerned information on Lee Harvey OSWALD'S

stay in the Soviet Union

as reported by the FBI,

based on their interview

of the defector, Yuriy

Ivanovich NOSENKO.

discussion is reported

in a separate memorandum.

Mr. RANKIN's staff showed us a

detailed memorandum they had prepared based on all

of the information available to them,

including

contribution concerning OSWALD's stay in

Members of Mr. RANKIN's staff then spoke

about having found a book in OSWALD's possessions

had certain letters cut out giving the impre-

that this might have formed the base or key

for a cipher system.

"5.: Members of Mr. RANKIN's

staff then com-

mented

on the testimony

of Mrs. OSWALD to the effect

that

the letters

from

her son regarding his desire

to return to

the United States had the appearance

of being dictated since they contained none of his

usual grammatical errors and

used

legal language

with which he would not have been familiar.

"6.

MI. WILLEMS noted that Mrs. OSWALD had

introduced a statement to the effect that she sus-

pected her

son

to be a CIA agent.

"7. A considerable part of the meeting from

point forward consisted of a review by Mr.

RANKIN and his staff of the gaps in their investi-

gation to date.

In connection with the Mexican

phase of

the investigation,

members of Mr. RANKIN's staff

questioned Mr. HELMS and Mr. ROCCA regarding

extent of the CIA file on OSWALD for the period

8 October to 22 November 1963.

The question of why no action was taken

by other agencies. of the government after their

receipt of CIA information that OSWALD was in

contact with the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in

Mexico City was next discussed.

"10..

The Commission, Mr. RANKIN said, would

be interested in any information held by CIA on

Jack RUBY.

Mr. HELMS was then asked if CIA had done

follow up to its original telegraphic dissemi-

nation of the information on OSWALD's visits to the

Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico City.

Mr. HELMS

replied that there had been no CIA action

our initial dissemination.

following

Mr. WILLEMS then asked

if there were any liaison problems faced by CIA in

its efforts to deal with other agencies in matters

affecting internal security.

"12.

Mr. WILLEMS then asked if CIA's intelli-

gence collection system was automated.

In speaking of the broader question of

protection for the President, Mr. RANKIN asked

about our procedures

for working

with the Secret

Service when the President travels abroad.

"14. Mr. WILLEMS asked if we could check on a

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memorandum sent to

Mr. KARAMESSINES on 12. February

regarding one of the pictures identified by Mrs.

OSWALD as that of Jack RUBY.

16 March 1964

Letter to. Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 16 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"During

we discussed

our conference of March 12, presidential

informally several questions concerning

protection, which I would. like to put informally to

obtain any comments your Agency may desire to make.

"First, at the time of the assassination, did

Intelligence Agency have any written

description of the criteria to be employed by

its

personnel in determining what information coming to

their attention should be furnished to the Secret

Service?

If not

in a written

form,

was there any

general policy with respect to this matter?

"Second, has the Central Intelligence Agency any

recommendations to make regarding possible improve-

aspect of Presidential protection,

not involving matters within its jurisdic-

tion, including intelligence arrangements and proce-

dures, liaison somg federal agencies, particular..

protection measures, and any other aspect which ap-

pears relevant?"

16 March 1964.

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 16 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"I would like to confirm our understanding of the

agreed upon

our conference on March

12, respecting

the furnishing to the Commission of

certain materials to complete your response to the re-

quest of our letter of February 1964.

"As we understand it, you will supply a paraphrase

of each report or communication described in the second

paragraph og our letter of February 12, 164, with all

indications of vour cinfidential communications tech-

niques and confidential sources deleted.

You will also

afford members of our staff working in this area an

opportunity to review the actual files so that they may

give assurance that the paraphrases are complete.

"The

same procedure would be followed with respect

to any materials described

in the third paragraph of

which have not hither-

to been furnished because

conside-

rations.s

In addition, we will be furnished

actual

copies of disseminations on October 10, 1963 to other

federal agencies regarding information on OSWALD's ac-

IVItIeS In MexiCo City,

and any other materials not

already furnished and within the scope of the third

paragraph of our letter, which do not present security

problems requiring paraphrasing.

"if these arrangements are satis factory to you,

I would appreciate your advising Howard P. WILLENS or

Samuel A. STERN fo our staff when it would be conven-

ient to have them visit your Agency to review the

files involved."

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17 March 1964

• Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 17 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"At the conference held in my office last

Thursday, March 12, we agreed to forward to you

certain

documents.

Those documents accompany

this letter and they are as follows:

"1. Three ring loose-leaf notebook

containing a file entitled "Lee Harvey

OSWALD and Marina OSWALD, Documentary

Record of Contacts with

the United States

Department of State and the Immigration

and Naturalization Service.

"2.

Copies of letters written by Lee

Harvey OSWALD to his mother, Marguerite

OSWALD, when he was living in the soviet

Union.

"3..

Memorandum dated March 12, 1964,

subject:

Certain Questions Posed by the

State Department Files.

Copy of an undated draft of a

letter found among Lee Harvey OSWALD'S

effects after the assassination, believed

to be an initial draft of the letter sent

by him to the Russian Embassy,

in Washing

ton, D. C., on or about November 12, 1963."

26 March 1964

Letter to Mr. Rizhard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 26 March 1964, from

J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed is a letter received by the Commission

from the Federal Bureau of Investigation dated March

19, 1964,

and various enclosures which set forth the

results of a recent investigation by the West German

Federal Intelligence Service.

"The Commission would appreciate your analysis

of this material.

If you believe that additional

investigation is appropriate, we would appreciate

your initiating the appropriate action through the

facilities of your Agency."

30 March 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 30 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

By cover letter dated March 23, 1964, the

Federal Bureau of Investigation delivered to the

Commission 28 reports and memoranda setting forth

the results of the investigation concerning George

and Jeanne de MORENSCHILDT requested by

this.

Commission.

These reports confirm that the pre-

sent residence of the de MOHRENSCHILDTs is in

Haiti and that they have travelled extensively

in prior years throughout Mexico and Central

America.

The Commission would appreciate your

furnishing a report from your Agency setting forth

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any information

these

subjects "Currently in your files regarding

2 April 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 2 April 1964, by

Raymond G. ROCCA, Chief, CI/R&A; Subject: Meeting with

Representative: of the President's Commission on the

Assassination of President Kennedy, 27 March 1964,

Langley.

"1. I talked with Mr. Samuel A. STERN re-

garding

the Commission's interest in original

Agency materials on Friday, 27 March 1964, from

2:30 to 4:00.

Mr. STERN hewed closely to the guidelines

which had been established between Mr. HELMS

and Mr.

RANKIN: he read - or asked to read - only papers

that had a bearing on the summarized information

that had already been forwarded to the Commission.

In the course of the discussion, he viewed the

following specific items of original Agency docu-

mentation:

DIR-74673 dated 18 October 1963

to State,

FBI, and Navy reporting contact

with Soviet Embassy, Mexico, by American,

Lee OSWALD.

(Forwarded to Commission

under cover of DDP memo, No. 4-1554,

24 March 1964.)

"b.'

MEXI-7019 (IN-66846)

dated 22

November 1963 re photos of unidentified

entering Cuban Embassy on 15

October 1963.

(To Commission under cover

of DDP memo, No. 4-1555, dated 24 March

1964.)

MEXI-7020 (IN-66891) dated 23

November 1963 which forwarded names of

three persons possibly identical with

OSWALD who flew from Mexico to U. S. in

November 1963.

(To Commission under cover

of DDP memo, No. 4-1555, dated 24 March 1964.)

MEXI-7021 (IN-66896) dated 23

November 1963 indicating that FBI agent hand-

carrying photos of person suspected of being

OSWALD to Dallas for mailing to D. C. : (To

Commission under cover of DDP memo, No.

4-1555, dated 24 March 1964.)

"e.

Six photos mailed to Washington,

referred to in paragraph 2.d. above.

(There

was no discussion as

to how the photos were

acquired.)

Copies of the three informal, un-

dated disseminations handcarried to the

Secret Service based on 2.b., c, and d above.

DIR-84915 dated 23 November 1963

to the FBl re activities of North Ameridan,

possibly identical with OSWALD, who visited

Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico on 28

September 1963. (To Commission under cover

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of DDP memo dated 31 January 1964, p. 8.)

Originals of the thirty documents

CIA's dossier on OSWALD which were for-

warded to the Commission under cover of DDP

memo, No. 4-1224, dated 6 March 1964.

(See

attachment to that memo for inventory of

documents.)

"i.

Machine run sheets on documents

accessioned to CIA's dossier on OSWALD.

Mr. STERN stated he had a keen interest in

Agency programs for electronic data handling of in-

formation.

I pointed out to him the up-dated machine

control record on the contents of the OSWALD file

and suggested that I was sure that Mr. HELMS would

be pleased to offer him and others in the Commission

the possibility of viewing the Agency's data pro-

cessing mechanisms.

It was also noted that a

derable effort had already been made by Mr. HELMS'

subordinates to interest members of the intelligence

community in an interagency approach to the machine

control of counterintelligence and security informa-

A presentation had been made before the ICIS

•on this matter and an article had been prepared for

Studies in Intelligence.

I promised to make a copy

of the article available to Mr. STERN.

STERN was eager to view our actual

meghanisms for machine control of our information

and readily accepted the suggestion that a briefing

take place. It was indicated to him that he would

becontacted by CI Staff's Machine Records Officer

who would arrange the details for the presentation

in the near

future.

Mr. STERN volunteered oneupoint in the dis-

cussion that the Agency handling of the information

in the OSWALD case was unique among what the Commis-

sion had found had happened in every other agency.

He was critical of the Navy. He raised specifically

the question:

why had the Navy not forwarded the

He added that there were six or seven other

points on which the Navy had been gigged by the Com-

mission and there would be discussion

between him and

the Navy in the near future..

He stated flatly that

no Federal component except CIA had been able to show

the Commission hard documentation which indicated

there had been immediate

action

on field reported

information by headquarters and full instructions

follow-up.

Mr. STERN tended to equate this perfor-

mance to the way we handled our data and for that

reason placed great emphasis upon what the Commission

might be able to do in its report for an improved

methodology based on machines among departments and

agencies involved in security matters."

13 April 1964

Memorandum for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 13

April 1964, by David E. MURPHY, Chief, SR Division; Subject:

• Discussions with Mr. Allen W. DULLES on the OSWALD Case.

"I. At the instructions of the DDP, I visited Mr.

DULLES

on 11 April to discuss with him certain ques-

tions which Mr.

DULLES feels the Warren Commission may

pose to CIA.

Mr. DULLES explained that while the Com-

mission

wished to clarify certain aspects of the OSWALD

case in

which

a response from CIA seemed necessary it

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not sure how the

guestions should he posed

should

respond.

Mr. DULLES hoped

that our discussions would

enable him to advise

the Commission on

the allegation that OSWALD was a CIA agent.

mentioned two sources for this accusation.

was Mrs. Marguerite OSWALD, Lee Harvey OSWALD'S

and the other was Mr. Mark LANE, Mrs.

OSWALD's attorney.

Mr. DULLES then suggested that the res-

ponse to this question could be in the form of

testimony before the Commission by a senior

CIA official or a letter or affidavit.

called that the Director of the FBI had replied

by letter to a similar question.

In any event,

Mr. DULLES felt that the reply

should be straight-

He thought language

which made it clear that Lee Harvey OSWALD was

never an employee or agent of CIA would suffice.

We should also state that neither CIA nor anyone

acting on CIA's behalf was ever in contact or

communicated with OSWALD.

I agreed with

him that a carefully.

phrased denial of the charges

of involvement ith OSWALD seemed most appropriate.

The next question concerned the possi-

of OSWALD's having been a Soviet agent.

suggested that the Commission's question on

this matter be phrased somewhat as follows:

the knowledge or judgement of CIA was Lee Harvey

OSWALD an agent of the Soviet intelligence services

of the intelligence services of other communist

states at any time prior to 22 November 1963, o1

was OSWALD solicited by

these intelligence services

to become such an agent?'

Mr. DULLES and J

felt that

it would be better to .

• confine our

response to a precise statement of fact.

in Mr. DULLES' view, could note that dis state-

possessed no knowledge either gained independently

or from

its study of the materials supplied by the

Commission tending to show that Lee Harvey OSWALD

of the Soviet intelligence services,

or the services of any other communist country, or

for that matter of any other country.

• Mr. DULLES mentioned other issues

which concerned the Commission.

He remarked that

members of the Commission could not understand why

cia had not begun an investigation of OSWALD as

soon as it received word that he had defected. I

noted that this question had been discussed with

Mr. RANKIN and his staff and there seemed to be

considerable [mis]understanding of the practical

circumstances which made it impossible for CIA to

undertake such investigation inside the USSR.

expressed the hope that it would not be necessary

for CIA to place matters

of this sort in the public

Mr. DULLES agreed.

Mr. DULLES then asked if it were normal for

the Soviet Government to permit a Soviet woman to

marry a foreigner and then allow her to leave with

her husband shortly after the marriage.

This question

perturbed the Commission and they would like to have

an answer.

I said that .

• the problem seemed to

lie more in the consular field and I suggested that

the best way to obtain an opinion on what constituted

'normal practice' in marriage cases in the USSR would

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question the Department of State. Mr. DULLES

be to

agreed.

I did offer a personal opinion in

regard. to the way in which CIA should respond.

that testimony on questions such as these would be

difficult to insert in the public record, I suggested

that it would be best if the CIA response were

ten form.

However, much will depend on the form in

which the questions are eventually put to us and I

imagine that a final decision can be made at that time.

"8.

21 April 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 21 April 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel:

"On behalf of the Commission I would like to thank

you and your representatives for the fine cooperation

which was extended to representatives of the Commission

during the course of their work in Mexico City from

April 8 through April 13, 1964.

"During their stay in Mexico City the Commission

representatives discussed with Mr. SCOTT and agents

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that portion

of the Lee Harvey OSWALD investigation which con-

cerned Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.

"Upon review of our complete

file on this matter,

we find that we lack full documentation of the inves-

tigation conducted of these allegations.

helpful if our records could be supplemented by a re-

port from your Agency supplying more details regard-

ing the investigation

undertaken by your Agency and

other concerned agencies into this matter and your

evaluation as to the truth of ALVARADO's assertions.

In particular, it would be helpful if a report could

be submitted by the expert wgo conducted the poly-

graph examination which emphasizes the specific con-

clusions which he made based on the responses by

ALVARADO in answering key questions on this matter."

22 April 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 22 April 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel:

"Throughout the course of the investigation..

"The Commission would like to know whether your

Agency possesses any information not hitherto dis-

to this Commission concerning the association

of Lee Harvey OSWALD with any communist or subversive

or individuals either in the United

or abroad,

any criminals or criminal

the United States or abroad.

"The Commission is anxious to be assured that it

possesses the full extent of your Agency's knowledge

and information concerning the aforementioned associa-

tions of Lee Harvey OSWALD.".

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24 April 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 24 April 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

an aid to testing the reliability of infor-

mation we possess on Lee Harvey OSWALD's dealings

with the Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico City

in late September and early October of 1963, the

Commission would like to have as much information

as can be obtained regarding the hours at which

these two embassies are open to the public, their

normal working hours for other purposes, and the

procedures and regulations, whether formal or in-

formal, involved in issuing Cuban visas or other

permits to

travel to or through Cuba.

In addition,

we would like

to have a description of the proce-

and regulations enforced by the Mexican au-

thorities, whether formal or informal, in connec-

tion with travel by Americans to and from Cuba

through Mexico.

"We are advised by the Federal Bureau of Inves-

tigation, from which agency representatives of the

Commission requested this information in Mexico

that your agency is in a better position to

respond to this request."

5 May 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 5 May 1964; Subject:

Meeting with Mr. SLAWSON of the Presidential Commission.

On 5 May, Mr. WHITTEN and Mr. HALL met with

Mr. SLAWSON of the Commission in Mr. WHITTEN's office.

This meeting had been requested to ask for a fresh

translation of the taped conversation between Cuban

President DORTICOS and Ambassador ARMAS (sic - HERNAN-

DEZ Armas].

Win SCOTT had told the Commission staff

visiting Mexico City that his translators,

in the

rush at that time, might have misconstrued certain

nuances of meaning in what was a difficult recording:

In view of this,

Mr. SLAWSON asked that a new trans-

Tation be made

the Cuban dialect.

if possible, by a person knowledgeable

According to Mr. SLAWSON, only Messrs.

RANKIN, WILLENS, COLEMAN,

and he presently know of

the telephone taps in Mexico City.

SLAWSON, WILLENS,

and COLEMAN were briefed on the taps during

visit to Mexico City.

"3. In about three weeks the staff will begin

presenting

to the Commission

evidence

on the conspira-

torial aspect

of the assassination.

At this time,

apparently, their evidence is against the existence

a plet.

They will wish to present to the Commission

the ARMAS-DORTICOS conversation.

SLAWSON suggested

the possibility that a knowledgeable CIA man

make this

interpreting the conversation

in the light of our study.

Mr. WHITTEN said that we will again

the tape, using the best available Cuban linquist, and

once again study the nuances of the conversation.

would have to

ter

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LUNA

According to Mr. SLAWSON,

no member of the Commission

now knows

of the telephone taps in Mexico City (he did

not mention Mr. DULLES).

"5.

Mr. WHITTEN carefully briefed Mr. SLAWSON

(probably rebriefed him) on the importance

of these

telephone taps to U. S. security and the grave damage

that would be done to U. S.

- Mexican relations if

knowledge of their existence became public.

"6. - 10.

19 May 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 19 May 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"At a meeting on March 12, 1964, between

representatives of your Agency

and this Commission,

a memorandum prepared by members of the Commission

staff was handed to you which related to the back-

ground of Jack L. RUBY. and alleged associates and/

or activities

in Cuba.

At that time we requested

that you review this memorandum and submit to the

Commission any information contained in your files

regarding the matters covered in the memorandum, as

well

as any other analyses by your representatives

which you believed might be useful to the Commission.

"As you know, this Commission is nearing the

end of its investigation.

We would appreciate

hearing from

you as soon as possible whether you

are in a position to comply.

with this request in

the near future."

19 May 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 19 May 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission wishes to consider the possibility

that during his stay in the Soviet Union Lee Harvey

OSWALD may have received medical or psychological

treatment or conditioning designed to reinforce or ac-

centuate his apparent hostility to authority and

thereby render him a disruptive factor in this country

after his return.

"We think that a study of the latest Soviet tech

niques in 'mind conditioning' and so-called

washing' would be helpful in that regard.

'brain-

We would

greatly appreciate your making such materials as you

may have on that subjeet available to Mr. Wesley

LIEBELER of our staff.

Perhaps a conference on this

subject between appropriate members of your organiza-

tion and members of our staff would be desirable."

20 May 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 20 May 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission has just received certain of

the materials which it requested of the Russian

Government on March 24, 1964.

I am enclosing here-

with two copies

each of the documents received from

the Russian

Government and one copy of the trans-

lations of

the same.

The only documents which the

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of State which were handed

to the Department by the

Government of Russia are the documents entitled

'Medical Documents'.

These will be forwarded to

soon as the Commission receives them.

"Any comments which the Central

Intelligence

Agency cares to

make on

the enclosed documents will

be appreciated."

25 May 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 25 May 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

had with Mr.

"In connection with some discussions recent the

Abram CHAYES, the Legal Adviser

Department

of State, Mr. CHAYES has informed

Commission that members of the Department of State

have informed him that at the time Lee Harvey OSWALD

received his tourist visa to enter Russia from the

Soviet Embassy

at Helsinki, Finland,

at least a week

ordinarily transpired between the time when the tou-

rist applied

for his visa

and the issuance of that

If this is true, then the fact that Lee

Harvey OSWALD obtained

tourist visa in from two

to four days may have some significance.

"From material previously supplied to the

Commission by the Central Intelligence Agency

concluded that OSWALD arrived in Helsinki on

an airplane from London on October 10, 1959,

his Soviet tourist visa was issued from the

in Helsinki on October 14, and that he departed for

Moscow on a train on October 15.

Assuming that he

applied for a visa the same day

he arrived in Hel-

four days were required for him to obatin

however, his airplane arrived too

late on October 10 for

him to reach the Soviet

apply for a visa that

same day, he

Deo ably would have is applicati

until Monday, Octo-

, to tender his application.

formation on the probable time of arrival of his

flight or the closing time of the Embassy, so we

cannot estimate whether he had sufficient time to

the airport to the Embassy before it

closed on Saturday, October 10.

"We have already asked that the Department of

State look further into this matter and

give us its

best opinion regarding the average time

required to

obtain a Soviet

tourist visa from Helsinki

in October

and also the regularity or lack of regularity

evidenced by the Soviet Embassy in this regard.

course interested in the question of the re-

procedures because we want to know whether,

if OSWALD did

in fact obtain his visa more quickly

than was normal, his doing so was significant,

whether it may have been only the result

infrequent deviation from normal procedures.

"If it is still possible at this time to deter-

mine the

approximate hour on October 10, 1959 when

OSWALD's flight arrived in Helsinski and the hour

when the Soviet Embassy closed, this information,

plus an estimate of the time required to travel from

the airport to the Embassy by commercial transporta-

tion, would

also be of assistance. to the Commission."

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24 June 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 24 June 1964;

subject: Talk with Chief Justice Earl WARREN; signed

by Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans.

"1.

Pursuant to the Director's suggestion,

I called on Chief Justice WARREN

at 11:30 in

the

office of the President's Commission.

I presen-

ted him the letter which I had drafted for the

Director's signature.

Chief Justice WARREN read

the letter carefully,

after which I gave him

some highly classified details about the NOSENKO

case and why we were unwilling to vouch for him

as a bona fide defector.

The Chief Justice that

he and Congressman FORD had already expressed

reservations about the use of the NOSENKO material

in the Commission's published report,

although

other members of the Commission

desired to use it

in some form

or other.

He concluded his remarks

by saying that based

on the Director's letter and

my observations he would see to it that the

NOSENKO information was not used. He asked per-

mission to

show the Director's letter to the other

members of the Commission, to which I replied that

he could use the letter in any way that would be

useful to him.

The Director told me that later in the

day he saw the Chief Justice who confirmed

him that the NOSENKO material would not be used

in the Commission's report."

& July 1964

Memorandum for. Deputy Director for Plans, dated

8 July 1964; subject: Discussion with Mr. DULLES/re-

garding the NOSENKO Information on OSWALD.

"1.

Mr. DULLES, with whom I spoke today,

called his earlier. conversation with.you on this

subject and said that there were still some members

of the Commission who were concerned lest they sup-

press the NOSENKQ information now only to have it

surface

at a

future date.

that this

could possibly prejudice the entire Warren

Commission report.

I told Mr.

DULLES that this

concern was understandable but that we felt the best

course by far would be to omit any reference to the

NOSENKO information in the final report.

While it

is conceivable that NOSENKO might someday be in a

position to claim that he provided information on

the KENNEDY assassination,

I said that the differ-

ence between NOSENKO's situation and that of other

bona fide defectors was such that it would be less

likely that NOSENKO would be allowed to surface in

this way.

I noted that if the NOSENKO information

were included as is in the final Commission report

and then later the facts of NOSENKO's agent, mission

became public knowledge,

this could have perhaps an

even greater negative affect on the standing of the

Commission's report.

The only way for the Commis-

sion, to avoid this and still use the information

would be for them to indicate that doubt existed

regarding the source of the information.

be opposed to this because it would signal to NOSENKO's

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3 July 1964

Letter

to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 3 July 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed is a copy of a letter

Leonard C.

ME KE Lee RANKIN dated Juse 23,

Department of State,

and all the

enclosures thereto.

Most of these enclosures are

Spanish.

The Commission would appreciate the Central

Intelligence Agency translating

them for us at its

earliest convenience.

The Commission would also ap-

preciate any comments which the Agency cares to make.

"Also enclosed is a memorandum from the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, dated

March 26,

'Signed statement of

Silvia Tirado de DURAN'

We believe that this memorandum

is a translation of

one of the enclosures in the letter

dated June 23,

and have enclosed it in case it may be of

assistance to your translators.

The information in

the memorandum from the Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion was obtained confidentially at an earlier date."

3. July 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans;

dated 3 July 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed is a letter from Leonrad C. MEEKER,

Acting Legal Adviser, Department of State, to J.

Lee RANKIN, dated June 29, 1964, and the enclosures

The information obtained in the third

enclosure to this letter seems inconsistent with

the comments made by the Central Intelligence

Agency in paragraph 6 of its memorandum

1964, subject:

'Rephy to questions con-

tarned in your memorandum dated 12 March 1964°

We bring this to your attention because of the ob-

vious importance of the point at issue.

"We would appreciate the comments of your Agency

in the light of the information developed by the De-

partment of State.

If you believe

that a conference

a representative of the Commission or with a

or persons at the Department of State, or

The Department of State, through Mr.

Thomas ERLICH,

has already indicated its willingness to confer on

this point at any reasonable time."

8 July 1964

Memorandum for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 8

July 1964; subject:

Discussion with Mr. DULLES regarding

the NOSENKO Information on OSWALD.

Mr. DULLES, with whom 1 spkoe today, re-

called his earlier conversation with you on this

subject and said that there were still some members

of the Commission who were concerned lest they sup-

press the NOSENKO information now only to have it

surface at a future date.

They expressed concern

that this, could possibly prejudice the entire Warren

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Commission Report.

DULLES that this

concern was understandable but

that we felt the best

course by

far would be to omit any reference to

the

NOSENKO information in the final report.

While it

is conceivable

position

to claim that he provided information on

the KENNEDY assassination,

ence between NOSENKO's situation and that of other

bona fide defectors was such that it would be less

likely that NOSENKO would be allowed to surface in

this way.

were included as is in the final Commission report

and then later the facts of NOSENKO's agent mission

became public knowledge, this could have perhaps an

even

greater negative affect on the standing of the

Commission's report.

The only way for the Commis-

sion

to avoid

this and still use the information

would be for them to indicate that doubt existed

regarding the source of the information.

We would

be opposed to this because it would signal to NOSENKO'S

principals something of how we viewed this case and

could also bring about renewed press and public in-

terest in NOSENKO.

Mr. DULLES and I then exchanged views on

the possibility of finding language which would al-

lude to the existence of otherm unverified informa-

tion on the OSWALD case.

This language would per-

mit the Commission to

say if challenged in the future

that it had taken the NOSENKO informa-

tion into consideration in the final report but at

the same time it would not be presented

which would be at variance with the important opera-

tional considerations we have raised.

It was agreed that an effort might be made

to find

such language if Mr. DULLES is again unsuc-

cessful in persuading his colleages to eliminate any

reference to the NOSENKO information from the report.

To attempt this, however, we would have to know pre-

cisely in what context the Commission intended to

make use of the NOSENKO information.

This, Mr. DULLES

will have to determine from Mr. RANKIN.

"4..

.. "

9 July 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 9 July 1964; subject:

Discussion with Warren Commission Staff Member; signed by

Lee. H. WIGREN, C/SR/CI/Research.

With the approval of C/SR and the DDP, I met

with Mr. W. David SLAWSON of the

staff..

purpose of this meeting was to discuss

apparent incon-

sistencies in material provided the Commission by CIA

and by the Department of State which were called to

attention in a letter from

the General Counsel of

Commission to Mr. HELMS, dated 3 July 1964.

By way of introduction, MI. SLAWSON said that

the portion of the Commission's report that he was

writing, he would have to deal with the question of

whether

or not the OSWALDs' departure from the USSR -

and the circumstances (i... timing) of that departure

were unusual or suspicious in any way. He expressed

his belief that they probably were not and cited

Soviet relaxation in such matters in the post-Stalin

However, he wanted to be

sure in his own mind

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that our information was

not in conflict with that

which the Commission had received

from State since

all of that information would

remain in the records

of the Commission.

"3.

After stating my belief that there was no

real disagreement or inconsistency between

infor-

mation from CIA and that from State,

I expressed the

view that the matter resolved itself into three

questions:

Do the Soviet authorities normally

permit Soviet citizens married

to foreign

nationals to emigrate from the Soviet Union

to the homelands of their spouses?

Do they normally permit such Soviet

citizens to accompany

(i.e. depart simultane-

with) their spouses from the Soviet

"c.

How long does it take such Soviet

citizens to get Soviet exit visas for such a

purpose (time lapse from application to gran-

ting of visas)?

Concerning the first two questions (3a and

3b above) I pointed

out that we had addressed

to the question of Soviet citizens

accompany their spouses abroad while

State dealt only with the

larger question of Soviets

married to foreigners being allowed to emigrate with-

out reference to whether or not they left simultane-

ously with or at another time from their spouses.

Mr. SLAWSON commented that this explanation was most

helpful and he reread what both we and State had said

in that light.

the statements in paragraph 6 of our memorandum of

6 April 1964 concerning Soviets being permitted to

accompany their foreign spouses abroad were based on

a review of 26 cases, of which 10 involved Americans:

In only four of these cases did a Soviet wife leave

the USSR in the company of her foreign husband; in

and in the remaining seven cases

are known to permit us to categorize them.

that although State's information began by citing

the issuance of 724 quota and non-quota immigrant

visas by the American Embassy in Moscow during the

period FY 1954 to December 1963, it did not indicate

now many of these visas were for soviet citizens who

had married U.S. nationals.

Actually State provided

detailed information for only sixteen cases and did

indicate in many of these whether or not the

Soviet was permitted to accompany the foreign spouse.

In response to a question from Mr. SLAWSON

I stated that most of the 26 cases upon which we based

our statements involved foreign students,

exchange

teachers and other relatively transient persons,

while a number of cases have certain points in

they bear little similarity to the OSWALD case in that

none involved a defector who married prior to repatri-

ating. I noted that paragraph 6 of our 6 April 1964

memorandum to the Commission had pointed this out.

Mr. SLAWSON indicated he was now satisfied on this

Concerning the length of time taken by Soviet

authorities to process visas for Soviet citizens married

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to foreign nationals (question 3c above), I stated

that, in my

opinion, the information provided by

State (in the third enclosure to Mr. MEEKER'S

substantially corresponded

to the views ex-

pressed in paragraphs 6 and 7 of our memorandum

the Commission dated 6 April 1964.

asked if it would be possible to elaborate para-

graph 7 of our memorandum of 6 April by providing

statistical breakdown of the cases on which our

statements were based. I indicated that this could

be done.

"8.

At this point Mr. SLAWSON stated that as a

result of our discussion he felt that the question of

possible inconsistencies had been resolved..

However,

he asked that we send

a brief written reply to the

Commission's letter of 3 July 1964 embodying the sub-

stance of what I had said concerning the basis for

statements included in our 6 April 1964 memorandum.

"9.

"10.

17 July 1964

Memorandum of Conversation, dated 17 July 1964;

subject: Use of NOSENKO Information in Warren Commission

Report. [Participants in meeting held on 16 July 1964:

J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel of the Commission, Mr.

SLAWSON, MI. Tennent H. BAGLEY, and Mr. Lee WIGREN.]

At mr. HELMS' request we discussed with

SLAWSON

and Mr. RANKIN how and in what manner

NOSENKO's information might be used in the published

report of the Warren Commission.

Mr. HELMS had dis-

cussed this problem with Mr. DULLES and Mr. RANKIN

and Mr. MURPHY had also discussed it with Mr. DULLES

(the latter conversation was reported in a memoran-

dum of 8 July 1964).

Mr. HELMS'.

instructions to me

were to discuss the matter cooperatively but

leave all decisions to Mr. HELMS.

Mr. SLAWSON, with whom we gpoke alone for

the first 20

minutes, had drafted a memorandum to

Mr. RANKIN proposing

a text embodying NOSENKD's in-

formation for the Commission's report. He invited

us to read and comment on it.

After reading Mr. SLAWSON's proposed text,

I told him

that CIA wanted to assist the Warren Com-

mission in any way possible.

For a number of reasons

text could be damaging to the interests

of the Commission:

Regardless

of the wording

of the

source description, it was very.

likely that

the press would very quickly be able to i-

dentify the 'confidential Soviet Union Source'

as NOSENKO.

(Neither Mr. SLAWSON nor, later,

Mr. RANKIN disagreed with this.)

"b. NOSENKO is very likely to be uncovered

publicly as a KGB plant at some time in the future.

When this occurs unsophisticated readers of the

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Commission's report will be inclined to read

his

statements through

a mirror

and to assume

that the reverse of what he said

was true;

i.e.,. that OSWALD was a KGB agent, perhaps

dispatched on a mission to kill President

Kennedy.

The inclusion of NOSENKO's informa-

followed by the later revelation that he

was a Soviet plant, would cast a shadow over the

reliability of the

report and the judgement of

the Commission.

Revelation that NOSENKO had any speci-

fic knowledge of OSWALD's case in the Soviet

Union would be seized upon by

an alert press

the most intriguing new item

in the whole report.

It would make NOSENKO into a public figure again

and would raise demands for

public appearances

and testimonies.

This would have catastrophic

our current plans to get to the bottom

of the NOSENKO affair and,

among other things,

would lessen our chances of eventually learning

the true story behind his OSWALD information.

we might be able in this way to contribute

significantly to the work of the Commission.

Mr. SLAWSON immediately and without further

discussion said

that he was convinced of the validity

of our

arguments.

NOSENKo's name or information were included in the re-

portission spokesmen whether or not NOSENKO,

the press representatives would specifically ask

publicized KGB defector, had been asked for his know-

ledge of the affair.

be in the position of having overlooked this source

nor of having withheld matters relevant to the inves

tigation.

However,

since NOSENKO appears to be a

KGB plant,

not appear necessary or desirable to

information in full and Mr. RANKIN

agreed that

there would be

a public tendency to mirror-read NOSENKO's

after he was revealed to be a KGB plant.

At this point we all agreed that some language

could be found which would protect the Commission

later accusations of having used planted information

or of witholding testimony.

CIA's aim was to avoid

NOSENKO's becoming a public figure or mystery or center

of attention.

We whated if possible to slide through

the publication of the Warren Commission report with

our handling of NOSENKO as untroubled as possible.

Since Mr. RANKIN seemed rather certain that the press

ask whether NOSENKO had been

consulted, even if

did not appear in the report,

it might very

well be in CIA's interest,

as well as

the Commission's,

to have NOSENKO's name mentioned

in the report. (in a

manner which would discourage further questions).

inclined to say,

at one point, something to

the effect that the Commission received information

from various confidential sources, without specifying

what information or which sources were involved, which

'did not affect the Commission's conclusions'

We also discussed the possibility of drafting a state-

ment to be used by Commission members should they be

questioned by the press.

agreed that Mr. RANKIN and Mr. SLAWSON

work out some phraseology which

would meet our

that they discuss this wording with CIA,

perhaps with Mr. HELMS present.

"8.

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28 July 1964

Memorandum of Conversation, dated 28 July 1964;

subject: Use of NOSENKO Information

in Warren Commission

Report.

[Participants in a meeting on

27 July 1964:

Mr. Allen W. DULLES, Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, and Mr. David

SLAWSON of thé Warren Commission; Mr. Richard HELMS., Mr.

David E. MURPHY, and Mr. Tennent H. BAGLEY of CIA.]

This discussion,

following

earlier ones on

the same subject,

called by Mr.

RANKIN to discuss

proposed drafts for inclusion or non-inclusion of

NOSENKO's information in

the report of the Commission.

Mr. SLAWSON had

prepared

a short

memorandum with three

attachments, offering alternative dratts.

A copy of

Me. SLAWSON's memo;

which was

an informal one and

for permanent Commission records, is attached.

Of these drafts, one (#2) names NOSENKO, ad-

mits

he had direct knowledge of OSWALD's case in the

USSR

and comments that his reliability is uncertain.

Another (#3, parts 1 and 2) includes information from

NOSENKO about OSWALD which would be included in the

report; NOSENKO is not named as the cource.

(#4) is for inclusion in the Commission report if no

NOSENKO information is used, explianing why certain

information was not included in order to protect the

Commission from later charges of having failed to

use NOSENKO's information.

The CIA representatives thought that it woutd

be undesirable to

include any NOSENKO information in

and after some discussion, there was

agreement

on this view.

circumstances which

• contributed to this conclusion are summarized here:

NOSENKO is a KGB pland and may be pub-

licly exposed as such some

time after the ap-

pearance of the Commission's report.

evaluate the accuracy

nor the significance of his having reporting it.

Even without public discrediting of the

source, specific aspects of NOSENKO's information

are likely to lead to questions and doubts on the

part of perceptive readers.

Once NOSENKO is exposed as a KGB plant,

there will arise the danger that his information

will be mirror-read by

the press and

leading to conclusions that the USSR did direct

the assassination.

The Agency's greatest contribution to

the resolution of the questions at hand would be

to break NOSENKO and get the full story of how c

and why he was told to tell the story he did

about OSWALD.

While we have no certainty that

we can ever do this, if we are to succeed we need

time and must in the meantime avoird creating

pressures which might force us to release NOSENKO

to the public domain.

(There, articulate and

plausible,

he would

ungestionably be able to es-

tablish himself beyond hope of dislodging, since

his story cannot be easily be pierced even by

trained specialists, much less by private citizens

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however intelligent.)

The release of the fact

that NOSENKO knew specifically about the OSWALD

case would, of course,

create such pressure,

and

no hedging

on source description could protect

his identity.

The Commission

representatives,

particularly

Mr. RANKIN, felt that

of NOSENKO might be

inevitable, at least when after the publication of its

report, the press would ask the Commission about him

and whether he had had anything to contribute.

HELMS suggested that CIA could provide a number of

Soviet intelligence defectors to testify to the Com-

mission, and the Commission could then report that

'defcetors',

and without naming NOSENKO,

had given information.

in general'it was agreed that the Agency

already provided such defector information in its

previous reports,

and that wording to this effect

could be worked into the Commission's draft #4, which

was otherwise quite suitable

from the point of

of the Agency and the Commission.

• At Mr. HELMS' sug-

gestion,

it was agreed that CIA would

draft a few sentences. to this effect.

"5.

"6.

"7. Mr. BAGLEY reported that, in response to the

Commission's

request, we have tested, in the soviet

Embassies in Stockholm and Helsinki

the time required

to get a Soviet tourist visa,

and find that 2-3 days

is impossible and five days the apparent minimum in

both places.

In one, however,

it was implied that

shortage of hotel space might be a contributing factor,

so these findings might not be valid for the month of

October, when OSWALD apparently got his visa in two or

three days."

10 August 1964

Memorandum

for Deputy Director for Plans, dated 10

August 1964; subject: Status of Support to the Warren

Commission.

"3. Further on the status of our work with the

Commission, we have supplied them with the study on

hunting clubs in the USSR. We are now awaiting a call

from Mr. RANKIN or MT. SLAWSON

to go over with them

the Soviet portion of the chapter

on foreign conspi-

racy to determine how they have handled the NOSENKO

material.

On 28 July we agreed they would try to fit

it in with that from other

defectors. which we have

supplied.

do not hear from them by 12 August,

we will call Mr. SLAWSON."

I1 August 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 11 August 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Department of State has very recently

informed the Commission that it has files which in

clude information about persons who were confined to

the Botkinkaya Hospital in Moscow during the Fall of

1959, the same period during which Lee Harvey OSWALD

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according to his

Is listoric Diary and informa-

tion supplied by the Russian Government,

fined to that Hospital.

W. David SLAWSON of the

Commission staff discussed with Mr. Raymond ROCCA

of your Agency

on August 10, 1964, the possibility

of the Agency's attempting to locate and question

Mr. Waldemar Boris KARA-PATNIIZKY in West Berlin.

Mr. KARA-PATNITZKY, according to information fur-

nished by the Department öf State, was admitted to

the Botkinkaya Hospital in late September, 1959,

is an American, and is now

75 years old.

fore, may very

ente the edent Aerican S

referred to in his Historic Diary as having been

confined in the same ward with him

"Mr. SLAWSON forwarded to Mr.

ROCCA via hand

delivery on

August 10, 1964,

Mr. KARA-PATNITZKY'S

passport file, obtained from the Department of

a Secret Service Memorandum to me dated

1964 and carrying Secret Service no.

August Secret Service Memorandum dated August 5,

1720, Special Agents Thomas and Wong and a copy

of a letter I wrote to the Secret Service describ-

ing the work we asked the Service to do in respect

to this problem in connection with two other per-

sons who might have related to it.

"Mr. ROCCA told Mr.

SLAWSON the Central Intelli-

gence Agency would proceed immediately to locate

Mr. KARA-PATNITZKY and carry out whatever question?

ing of him is deemed appropriate, and he asked that

this matter be confirmed to you by letter."

20 August

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for

Plans, dated 20 August 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General

Counsel

"Enclosed is a copy of a letter to me from the

Department of State dated August 4, 1964/ concerning

the allegations of a Soviet citizen, Konstantin

Petrovich, SERGIEVSKY, who walked into the British

Embassy in Moscow on

July 29, 1964. The Commission

would appreciate receiving the comments of the Cen-

tral Intelligènce Agency on this matter."

24 August 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard

HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 24 August 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed

and marched attachment A is a list of

documents supplied to the Commission by the Central

Intelligence Agency which the Commission contemplates

using as

Unless otherwise indi-

cated the Commission contemplates publishing each

suchydocument in its entirety.

"We would appreciate receiving a letter from you

approving the publication of the documents on the at-

tached list.

If you believe that some of these docu-

ments, or portions of them should not be published,

will

you please provide me with an itemized list of

your objections, as a basis for discussion.

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20 August 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 20 August 1964,

subject: Report of the President's Commission on the

Assassination of President Kennedy.

"David SLAWSON, during a discussion on

topic, mentioned that he was

sending

over this after-

or tomorrow (via Mr. RANKIN) an advance copy of

a draft of the portion of the Commission's report

on the foreign conspiratorial angle of the Kennedy

assassination.

It would include a precise indication

of what attachments and quotations were going to be

This would be for our reading and approval."

24 August 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 24 August 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed and marcked Attachment A is a list of

documents supplied to the Commission by the Central

Intelligence Agency which the Commission contemplates

using

as authority in the 'Possible Foreign Conspiracy'

section of its report.

Unless otherwise indicated,

Commission contemplates publishing each

such document

in its entirety.

"We would appreciate receiving a letter from you

approving the publication of the documents on the at-

tached list. If you believe that some of these docu-

ments, or portions of them should not be published

will you please provide me with an itemized list of

your objections, as a basis for discussion.

"The second page of attachment A

also contains a

list of documents

entitled

'State Department Files'

These are papers which were sent to the State Depart-

ment by the Central Intelligence Agency

and turned

over to the Commission by the Department.

The Com-

mission does not contemplate citing any of them in

its report.

However, unless the Central Intelligence

Agency objects, the Commission will leave them in the

State Department files, where they will presumably, be

transferred to some depository,

such as the National

Archives,

and there made available for examination by

anyone with a legitimate interest in them.

each of these State Department documents have been

enclosed with this letter to aid in your identification

of them."

I September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 1 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Enclosed

are the original and only photographs

in our possession of Lee Harvey OSWALD's application

for a Cuban visa and the reply from Havana to the

Cuban Embassy in Mexico City conditionally rejecting

that application, both of which have just been deli-

vered to us by the government of Cuba.

Also enclosed

are copies of the translations of these documents

prepared for the Commissiom by the Department of State.

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"The Commission would appreciate the Central

Intelligence Agency, at its very

earliest opportu-

testing these documents to

certain their authenticity and for any

other pur-

pose it deems appropriate.

In particular,

but not

intended as a limitation, we would appreciate your

attempts to ascertain whether the signature

H. OSWALD' is in the handwriting of Lee Harvey

OSWALD, and whether the notation at the bottom

the application,

'Hotel del Commercio,

Room 18-46-50-

61,, is in the handwriting of Silvia DURAN or some

other appropriate person employed in the Cuban Em-

bassy in Mexico City at the time OSWALD was there.

'We would also appreciate your preparing several

copies of the enclosed

photographs for the Commission's

11 September 1964

Memorandum for the Record, dated 11 September 1964,

subject: Delivery of Backup Memoranda to the Warren

Commission.

At 1430 hours on this date, I departed

Headquarters enroute to the offices

of the Warren

Commission to deliver a series of memoranda de-

signed to back up certain

statements contained in

the Warren Commission report.

SLAWSON indicated that there would

probably be additional requests

for backstopping

memoranda coming to CIA for the Commission next

He said he realized that responding to these

requests would take time and merely asked that they

be handled as expeditiously as possible."

11 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 11 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission would like to publish as a part

of its Report the memorandum to me from yourself,

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD, dated 2 July 1964 (Commis-

sion Document No.

1216) concerning statements made by

an official in the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City.

"We would appreciate receiving

the approval of

the Central Intelligence Agency to

do so as soon as

a substitute memorandum

containing

substantisily the same intormation which

can be published."

12 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 12 September 1964, from

J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission would like permission to publish

Procedures and

Regulations for Issuance of Cuban Visas; Mexican Control

of U.

S.

citizens' Travel to and from Cuba. (Commission

Document No. 944).

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SEGRET

If it is not possible for us to publish the

entire document, we would like at least to be able

to publish paragraphs 3 through 6."

12 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 12 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission would appreciate receiving

memoranda

the Central

Intelligence Agency

which can be published

cited as authority for

the following propositions:

"(1) It is not unusual for a Latin

American to exaggerate the lightness of a

North American's skin or jair color.

(This

is in reference to Silvia DURAN's identifica-

tion of OSWALD as 'blond'.)

"(2)

The Hotel Berlin and the Hotel

Metropole were both under the same admini-

stration and both are closely watched by the

KGB.

" (3)

The 'Passport and Visa Office'

which Pimma SHIRAKOVA

told Lee Harvey OSWALD

had been notified of his desire to become a

citizen of the Soviet Union,

is probably

the Visa and Registration Department of the

Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Y (4)

There have been allegations that

Syliva DURAN and her husband, Horacio DURAN

Navarro, are members of the Communist Party.

"(5)

The usual. Soviet procedure is to

send defectors who have carried out their

defection' in Moscow to some place in the

Sovoet Union

other than Moscow reasonably

soon

after it has been determined toaaccept

the defector. (In establishing how long Lee

Harvey OSWALD probably waited to be accepted

by the Soviet Union for residence there for,

Commission would like to have authority

relying upon the fact that so long as OSWALD

was

in Moscow staying in a room at the Metro-

pole Hotel, he probably had not yet been ac-

cepted for residence in the Soviet Union,)"

21 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 21 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"FBI photograph exhibit No. D33-46 (Commission

Exhibit No. 2625) shows

Lee Harvey OSWALD

group of men who Marina has identified as fellow

workers at the Minsk radio and TV factory.

A copy

of this photograph has been enclosed with _this

letter in order to assist your ready identification

"I know that the CIA has already furnished to

the Commission a 'Name List with Traces'

, (Appendix

C to Chronology

of OSWALD in USSR, October 1959

June 1962 - Commission Document No.

we do not know the names of the persons in the

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photograph, however;

we have no way of identifying

them from

the name list.

If the CIA can

be of help

in this matter, it will be greatly appreciated."

22 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 22 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"Reference is made to paragraph d of Attachment C

to your memorandum

dated 31 March 1964, subject: Re-

ports

on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD

and Marina Nikolevna OSWALD (Commission Exhibit 2676);

concerning

the hotels at which OSWALD stayed in Hel-

sinki, Finland.

"The Commission would appreciate receiving a

memorandum from you stating

the substance of

referenced paragraph which will be published."

22 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 22 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission would like to publish as a part

of its Report your memorandum

to me dated May 4,

1964,

subject: Additional Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD

(Commission Exhibit No. 869).

"We would appreciate receiving

the approval of

the Central Intelligence Agency to

do so.

A copy

of the memorandum was given to Mr. ROCCA on Septem-

ber 18, 1964 for ready reference.".

22 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 22 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel:

"The Commssion would like to publish as a part

of its Report paragraph 10 of your memorandum dated

February 19

subject: Information Developed

by ciA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexi-

co City,

September 28 to October 3,

1963, which per-

tains to Cuban Consul Usebio [sic] AZCUE.

"This letter is to confirm clearance for pub-

lishing this portion of your

membrandum with the

sole exception of the words

'to us' which are to

be deleted:

This clearance was given by Mr. Ray-

mond ROCCA on September 18."

23 September 1964

Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans,

dated 23 September 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel.

"The Commission would like to publish as a part

of its Report your letter of May 4, 1964,

subject:

Additional Information on Lee Harvey OSWALD.

(Commission Exhibit 869)

"This letter is to confirm clearance for

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publishing

this memorandum.

Verbal clearance

was given on September 18, 1964."

30 September 1964

Letter to Honorable John A, McCONE, Director, Central

Intelligence Agency,. dated 30 September 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel.

"We appreciate the cooperation of your Agency

furnishing to the Commission a number

of documents

which aided us in the preparation of our summary

report.

"The Commission wishes to publish

at the earliest

opportunity the attached list of classified documents

which were cited in the summary report' documents."

and requests

your authorization to declassify these

13 October 1964

Letter to Honorable John A. McCONE, Director, Central

Intelligence Agency, dated 13 October 1964, from J. Lee

RANKIN, General Counsel:

are enclosing a copy of your SECRET document

dated January 31, 1964, concerning information develo-

ped by CIA on

the

activity of Lee

Harvey OSWALD in

Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963.

"We have deleted all references to the Secret

Agent by the marking,

Since this document was

cited

in our summary

are requesting your

authority to publish it in

not agreeable, may we have a

ment which may be published ,synopsis of this docu-

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JUNL

LIST (INCOMPLETE) OF REQUESTS FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF

INVESTIGATION FOR ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION FROM THE CIA

26 November 1963

Subject: Richard Thomas GIBSON

(Paraphrase) During the afternoon of

26 November, INANITION/17 passed to the

FBI representative in Bern a report

(quoted in full in the cable).

The FBI

representative immediately notified

ELMARD (P) and after discussing the con-

tent of the report it was agreed that

ELMARD would contact Swiss authorities

soonest.

ELMARD emphasized the utmost

importance the United States Government

attached to follow-up of this matter.

ELMARD received prompt answers to initial

questions and arranged to meet with

Swiss security officials in company with

the FBI representative in Bern.

[BERN 2492 (IN 68312), 26 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Subject:

Rumored $5,000 bank deposit made

by OSWALD upon his return from Mexico on.

3 October 1963.

FBI has just levied on us an official

request for full information on source

and origin of rumor about five thousand

dollars bank deposit.

[DIR 85654, 28 November 1963]

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28: November 1963

Subject:

Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO:

The FBI liaison officer (S. PAPICH) offi

cially advises that the FBI requests CIA

turn ALVARADO over to Mexican authorities

and that CIA request the Mexican authori-

ties to interrogate ALVARADO in detail:

FBI reports that it understands that the

Mexican authorities have a capability of

polygraphing and requests that CiA tea

quest Mexican authorities that he be poly-

graphed:

The FBI expressed a desire to have the re

sults of the interrogation as soon as possi

blo and that the legal Attache be kept advised

of developments:

1749

IDTR: 85663, 28 Novembes 2963]

29 November 1963

Subjects Ricardo SANTOS

Mr PAPICH referred me to DIR 85665, 28 November

Lose hereterred to the fact, that there isaa

report that the Third Secretary of the Cuban a

Embassy in The Hague, Ricardo SANTOS, has a pro

CASTRO brother in the United States.

He-stated

that he vould appreciate our checking our files

or taking such other steps as may be indicated

torprovide the Bureau with the identity of the

brother

said to be in the U..S.

[Memorandum from

CI/SIG to Chief, WH/3g 29

November: 1963.]

9

December -1963

Subject: Chinese Communist and CASTRO Plot:

- At 0900 on 9 December 1963 Mr. PAPICH of the

FBI called and advised that the Bureau had a

conmuntcation from their Miani field office

setting forth information which had been re-

ceived in a memorandum from our ofrice zin

Miami concerning a report which had been re-

ceived from a Western diplomat alloging that

the assassination of President Kennedy was the

result of a plot prepared and executed jointly

by the Chinese communists and CASTRO through

intermediaries:

Mr.

PAPICH stated that the Bureau would like

to

evaulate

this information if possible

said the Bureau was very

much interested in

identifying the

Source and it would appreciate

any information we can give on where and how

would help the Bureau to evaluate this informa-

tion. He said that the Bureau would find the

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identity off the source and possible access

to the source, if in this country, most

helpful. a

[Memorandum for the Record, dated 9 December

1963; Subject:

Lee Harvey OSNALD.}

18/December 1963

Subject: Nomenclature of Weapon possibly

owned by Lee, Harvey OSWALD.

-On 18 December 1963 a representative of your

Bureau requested charifying information about

certain Soviet nomenclature believed to refer

to a firearm once possessed in the Soviet Union

by Lee OSWALD.

We were asked to determine what kind of weapon

this might be

225 to the FBI dated 19 alecember

E1963: Subjectes Nomenclature of Weapon possibly

Orned by Lee Harvey OSWALD. I

*January 1964

Subjecte Jack La RUBY

Mr. CarLos VILLA, Miant, Florida, furntshed to

the FBLEon December 21,

71963, a letter, which

had been forwarded to a friend of his named

•Jose Antonio Juan. Mr. Juan had received the

letter from his son living in Cuba:

In the letter the statement was madey

"it is

known here that RUBINSTEIN was here a little

Less than a year ago visiting a ME PRANSKI

owner of a shop dealing in tourist articless

located on Prado Street, between Animas and

Trocadero, opposite the Sevilla Biltnore.*

It is requested that, through available sources

of your. Agency, you develop any information

possible relating .to the above quoted statement

in an effort to resolve the allegation that

Jack RuBY has possibly visited cuba since

1959 and has connections there.

[FBI Memorandum to the DDP, dated, 7 January

1964 Subject:

Jack Lo- RUBY.

9. January 1964

Subjecte Lee Harvey OSWALD

Attached is a copy of a memorandum from the

Federal Bureau of

Investigation on Lee Harvey

OSWALD dated 31 December-1963

and an enclosure

to the memorandum containing names and addresses

found in OSWALD's address book

and other papers

at the time of his arrest in Dallas, Texas.

will be noted that the Bureau has asked us

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SECRET.

determine whether any of the listed names,

addresses or telephone numbers have in the

past been connected with the Soviet intelli

gence services

[Memorandum for Chief, OS/SRS;

dated 9 January

1963; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.]

14 January 1964

Our Chief of Station in Mexico dispatched cable [MEXI-

(IN 98273)l. advising of a request on the part of the Legal

Attache for the development of information concerning one Daniel

SOLIS' knowledge of ROJAS, whose name appears to be ylario ROJAS

Villanuev

ax3l-year old Mexican citizen residing in Guadalajara

and information concerning the names of Cubans appearing in an

alleged notebook said to be in the possession of SOrtS and an

Meged filetal of the American Government Said to have been en

enor andung the Recoru, date A January obe subjects

larvey OSWALD.

tea

7 February 1964

•Subject Eladio ROJAS Villanueva.

The Legal Attache In Mexico City would prefer that the

Cos tell Luis ECHEVARRIA, acting minister of gobernacio, name of

subject and that with ROJAS' agreement plan to give him a polygraph

and promise ECHEVARRIA a brief statement of

the resukts of the test

6229458

The Legal Attache in Mexico City would prefer have the

BOAS

polygraph given in Mexico City; he could,

if CIA Strongly prefers

get their headquarters' and subject's agreement to go to Texas.

[MEXI - 8117 IN:15081) 7 February 19641

12 February 1964

Legal Attache (in Mexico City) requests the following

additional questions be put to Daniel sorts?

Verify If SoLIS has received to letters

recently from Eladio ROJAS Villanueva aka Eladio

VILLANUEVA regarding notebook.

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b

As SOLIS to forvard notebook if found to

MIs

Edwin O JOHNSON Consulado Americano, Guaga

Lajara Jalisco.

Letters- in possession of VIGLANUEVA indi

cate he was in Cozumel with Daniel SOLTS- for

at least three months in 1963.

_Can SOLIS-re-

call dates?

d. Ask SOLIS if VILLANUEVA was in contactwith

¿Cubans OF Anericans while in Cozumel.

N903-p6

Ask him

how VILLANUEVA occupied his time.

MEXI-8194 (TN 18129) 12 February 1964.]

25 February 196405

Subjects Jack To RUBt

We would be appreciated you couldepromptly

advise of any information avas table to you to

tend to vortfy this travel by RUBY i

Memorandum to Mr Winston SCOTT dated 1 February 1901-

from Clark Da ANDERSON, Legal Actache (Mexico City) Subject

Jack La RUBY, I

•13 April: 1964

Subjectes Lee Harvey OSWALD'S Access to Classified

Information about the U-2.

Reference is made, to your letter, dated 13

April 1964 Captioned Lee Harvey OSwALD, In

ternal, Security Russian Cubase and to the

attachment which contained statements made

by one Eugene J.

HOBBS, HMC, USN Your letter

requested certain information regarding. sub

ject's Marine assignment at the Naval Air

Statton, Atsugi, Japan, in 1957 and 19580*

MORA

Memorandum for. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

dated 13 May 1964;

from CIA. J

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10 June 1964

STONET

Subjects

-Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"It is believed this allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco, should

be investigated and you are requested to

conduct the necessary inquiries, if pos

sible

to resolve the allegation Inasmuch

1.20

as it appears that the President's Commi-

0S1S2E

ssion contemplates the issuance of its re

port in the near future, it is believed

Renaes

this matter should be handled expeditiously.

(Memorandum to Director - Central Intelligence Agency: Attention:

Deputy Director plans, dated 10 June 1964 from Directory FBI.I

28 July 1964

Subject, Lee Harvey OSWALD:

"In wer of the foregoing factors, it would

be apprectated if you would review material

224632

available to you concerning the activity of

Radio Moscow in an offort to identity the

two-minute broadcast referred co by OSWALD-

in the aforementioned documents

've would also appreciate advice as to the

telephone number in 1959 and the currents

telephone number of Radio Moscow and we would

appreciate advise as to whether or not tele-

phone number. V 36588 was listed in the 1959

Moscow Telephone Directory.

It would appear to us that if OSWALD partici

pated in a radio program for Radio Moscow, this

fact would have been known to the

KGB and a re-

ference to such participation would likely have

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been contained

in OSWALD'S KGB file.

"It woutd be appreciated if you would question

NOSENKO in light of the foregoing observations.

In this regard it is suggested that NOSENKO not

he informed of OSWALD's possession of the name,

address, and telephone number of Lev. SETYAEV."

[Memorandum for Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Attention:

2023

Deputy Director

Plans; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internals

Security

Russia

Cuba, from Director,

FBI.1

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Tab B:

FBI Requests to

CIA.

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AGENCY DISSEMINATIONS TO THE

FBI et al REGARDING RUMORS

AND ALLEGATIONS RELATIVE TO

THE PRESIDENT*S ASSASSINATION.

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SEGRET

10 October 1963

DIR 74673

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Contact with Soviet Embassy,

Mexico City, 1 October 1963:

Recipient: FBI, IGNS, State, White House.

23. November 1963

DIR 84915

Information relating to telephone call on 28

September 1963 to Soviet Embassy in Mexico

City •

Recipient: FBI

25 November 1963

DIR 84950

Subject Silvia T DURANy Mexican Employee

of the Cuban Embassy (sic- Consulatel in

Mexico City: Contact with Lee Harvey OSWALDS

Recipient. FBIe

25 November 1965

DIR 84951

CIA requests information relating to

OSWALD's activities in Mexico City (from

FBI interrogation of OSWALD)

Recipients

EBT

26 November 1963

Subject: Reported Anonymous Telephone

Message:

Recipient FBI.

26 November 1963

CSCI -3/778,826

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Suspected

Assassin of President Kennedy Encloses

transcripts of telephone calls made on

27 and 28 September and l and 3 October 1963.

Recipient: FBI

26 November 1963

CSCT-3/778,829

Subject: Same as above.

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(Comment:

-This dissemination may be identical

with CSCI-3/778,826. The above CSCI number

appears to be the correct one, according to

a copy of the document in CI/SIG file no.

568.

Recipient:

FBI:

26 November 1963

DIR 85069

Subject:

Travel of Pro-Communist Costa

Rican Congressman to Texas on 26 November

1963

#Representatives of this Agency in Costa Rica

suspect that Julio SUNOL Leal, pro-Communist,

pro-CASTRO deputy to the Costa Rican National

Assembly, will try to gather data in Texas to

usemin pro-communist pro-CASTRO propaganda

in connection with the assassination of Presi

dent KENNEDY a

Recipients FBI.

26 November: 1963

DIR 85089

Gilberto ALVARADO, a professed Catsroite

Nicaraguan, stated to US. Embassy in

Mexico City on 26 November 1963 [sic

25 November 1963] that Von 18 September

1963 he saw Lee Harvey OSWALD receive six

thousand five hundred dollars in a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City"

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received a copy. (Warren Commission]

26 November 1963

DIR 85176

Subject: Marina Nikolaevna OSWALD (infor-

mation volunteered on Marina OSWALD by

Moroccan student Mohamed REGGAB studying

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SEORET

in West Germany)

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service recievd

-СОРУ :

•26 November 1963

DIR 85177

Subject:

Telephone Communication between

Cuban President DORTICOS and Joaquin HERNANDEZ

Armas, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico.

Recipients FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy.

26 November 1963

Unnumbered

Subiect HUNTER Report. no: 10:815.

Recipient: FBI.

26. November 1965:

Unnumbered

Subjecte HUNTER Report 110: 10816.

Reciprent

FBI:

26 November 1963

Unnumbered

Passage of IN 68291 from Mexico.

Subject

City to the White Houses

ted presence in Mexico City on 18 September

19633)

Recipient: FBI.

27. November 1963

CSCI - 3/778,881

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Soviet Activi

ties in Mexico City, 18 = 24 November 1963

Recipient FBI:

27. November 1963

DIR 85182

Subject Lee Harvey OSWALD.

On 23 November,

Richard Thomas GIBSON, an American living in

Switzerland, who was acquainted with OSWALD,

made statements regarding latter to a close

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friend in Bern:

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy: . [Warren Commission]

27 November 1963

DIR 85196

According to information from Nicaraguan

Security Service, Gilberto ALVARADO: Ugarte

was a Nicaraguan intelligence source from

1962 to August 1963.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy.

27 November 1963

DIR: 85199

Information solicited from Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte.

Recipients FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy a

Warren Commission]

27 November 1963-

DIR 85222

Subjecte Silvia DURAN Mexican Employee

of the Cuban Embassy [sic Consulate] in

Mexico City, contact with Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Recipient: FBI.

26 November 1963

DIR 85246

Dro Jose GUILLERMO Aguirre of Mexico re-

ports information regarding Lee. Harvey

OSWALD.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy. (Also relayed to S

PAPICH of the FBI by CI Staff on 27 November

1963.

27 November 1963

DIR 85471

Subject: Rearrest of Silvia DURAN.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

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DIR 85573

Information from U. S. Ambassador MANN

for Secretary of State RUSK regarding

Ambassador HERNANDEZ, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico, and Gilberto ALVARADO.

Recipients::

FBT, State, White House.

27 November 1963

Unnumbered

Information on Arnesto RODRIGUEZ re-

layed by telephone to S. PAPICH

Recipient: FBI:

27 November 1963

Unnumbered

Information regarding photographic

coverage of Cuban and Soviet Embassies

in Mexico City passed to S, PAPICH. of

the FBIs

Recipients

FBI

28 November 1963

DIR 85657

On 26 November a British journalist

named John WILSON-HUDSON gave information

to the American Embassy in Mondon indica

ting that an American gangster type named

RUBY" visited Cuba around 1959.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

28 November 1963

DIR 85662

Further interrogation of Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte.

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commission]

28 November 1963

DIR 85665

The Hague Station reports that on 23

November 1963, a local-Castroite named

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Maria SNETHLAGE.

kedsto Third Secretary

Ricardo SANTOS of the Cuban Embassy

SNETHLAGE claimed she knew the Mr. Lee [sic]

who murdered President Kennedy

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. [Warren Commission]

29 November 1963

CSCI- 3/778,893

Subject:

Interrogation of Silvia Tirado

de DURAN and Horacio DURAN Navarro.

Recipient: 3 FBI.

29. November 1963

DIR 85666

Acting upon an FBI request, the Agency requests

ALVARADO be turned over to Mexican authorities

for additional interrogation

Recipients FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commissiona

29. November 1963

DIR: 85668

Highlights from the interrogation of Horacio

DURAN. Navarro and his wife, Silvia Tirado

de. DURAN.

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House.

29 November 1963

DIR 85670

Sensitive sources

have reported

that when the 23 November arrest of

Silvia DURAN became known to the personnel

of the Cuban Embassy there,was a great

deal of discussion

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

[Warren Commission]

29 November 1963

DIR -85691

Series of anonymous telephone calls to

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the office of the Naval Attache in Can-

berra, Australia, by a man claiming to

have knowledge about a Soviet plot to

assassinate President Kennedy:

Recipients: FBI, State, White House;

Secret Service received copy.

29 November: 1963

DIR 85714

Release of Silvia DURAN for second time

on 28 November:

Recipients:

FBT State, White House, Secret

Service received copy.

29- November 1963

DIR 85744

Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte.

Recipients: FBI, States White Housed Secret

Service received copy.

29 November 1963

DIR 85758

Pranslation of interrogation of Silvia

DURAN and Horacio DURAN Navarro

Recipients FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy. Warren Commission

29 November 1963

DIR 857702

Series of incidents which have produced

a report alleging advance information on

assassination.

Recipients+ FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copy, (Warren Commission]

29 Növember 1963 Unnumbered memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH con-

cerning rumor that OSWALD had made a

bank deposit.

Recipient: FBI:

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30 November 1963

8

SEt

CSCI

LONEL

1778,894

Subject: Article in 29 November 1963

issue of Washington Post suggesting two

men:involved in assassination.

Recipient: FBI

30 November 1963.

DIR 86063

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte admots his

story a fabrication.

Recipients FBI, State, White House:

Warren Commission]

3 December 1963

DIR 86496

Information relating to OSWALD'S presence

in Mexico.

Recipients

FBI&

7 December 1963

DIR 87667

Re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO

concluded

Recipient: FBI.

[Warren Commission]

9 December 1963

ADIR 87731

Richard BEYMER, American movie actor, in

touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City

Recipient FBI:

9 December 1963

DIR 87796

Letter mailed in Stockholm on 25 November

1963 alleging assassination arranged by:

Communist Chinese:

Recipients: FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. [Warren Commission|

9 December 1963

Unnumbered Memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH regarding

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identity of a source who claims plot to

assassinate Kennedy prepared and executed

jointly by the Communist Chinese and Cubans

through intermediaries. (See JMNAVE 8658

IN. 75902)

Recipient:

FBI:

12 December 1963

CSCI.- 3/779,048

Subject:

WILSON, Carlos John (also:

WILSON-HUDSON, John; WILSON, John Hudson g

Recipiento FBI.

12 December 1963

DIR 88643

Subject

Letter Relative to Assassination

of President Kennedy Sent-to United States

Embassytin Costa, Rica.

Recipients: FBI State, White House.

Warren Commission]

12 December 1963

DIR 88682

Cuban Ambassador to France received in-

structions not to comment upon the assassi

nation:

Recipients: FBI, State, White House.

12 December 1963

DIR: 887475

Subject: Second Interrogation of Silvia

DURAN.

Recipient:

EBE,

State, White House.

13- December: 1963

Subject:

CSCI - 3/779,136

Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto

ALVARADO:

Recipient:

FBI.

[Warren Commission]

16 December 1963

CSCI - 3/779,135

Subject:

Peter DERYABIN's Comments on

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Kennedy. Assassination.

Recipient: FBI

18 December 1963

DIR: 89970

Further Information on Richard Thomas GIBSON:

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House; Secret

Service received copy. [Warren Commission]

18 December 1963-

DIR 89980

Subjecti

Actions of Silvia DURAN after

hor first intorrogatzon

Recipients:

FBI, State, White House, Secret

Service received copys Warren Commission]

27 December 1963 0,

CSCI - 3/779,297

Subjects Assassination of President Kennedy

(arranged by the Cuban Government and the

Communist Chinese).

Recipients FBI.

3 January 1964

Unnumbered Memorandum

Telephone contact with S. PAPICH on

3 January 1964 regarding newspaper

article appearing in El Caribe Ton 27

November 1963 and possible connection

with ALVARADO'S interview in the U.S.

Embassy on 26 November.

Recipienta

FBI:

10 January 1964

CSCT -3/779,482

Subject:

Second Mexican Interrogation

of Silvia DURAN.

Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission]

27 January 1964

- CSCI -3/779,729

Subject!

Possible Relatives of

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Marina Nikolayevna OSWALD.

Recipient: FBI:

30 January: 1964

CSCI - 3/779,814

Subject: Jack L. RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD

Recipient: FBI.

4 February - 1964

CSCT - 5/779,817

Subject. Lee Harvey OSWALD: (Informa-

tion on names addresses, and telephone

numbers relating to the Soviet Union.)

Recipient. FBI

18 February 1964

DDP 4-0860

Memorandum for the Director, Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

Subject: Assassination of John F Kennedy.

i connection with our efforts to assist

the President's Commission on the Assassina-

tion of President kennedy by providing infor

mation which might be helpful in interpreting

available materials relating to OSWALDs ac

tivities abroad, we have considered the entry

with regard to attempted suicide.

We consi

der this entry as being of considerable im-

portances and one which might be subject co

verification.u)

Recipient: FBI. [Copy to Warren Commission]

18 February 1964

DDP 4-08614

Memorandum for the Director, Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

Subjects

Assassination of President John. F

Kennedy

47 photographs which were among the

effects of Lee Harvey OSWALD,

appears that most of the photographs were

taken in the USSR and depict Soviet contacts

of OSWALD or scenes in the Soviet Union.)

Recipient: FBI.

[Copy to Warren Commission]

18 February 1964

DDP 4-0862

Memorandum for the Chief, United States

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Secret Service.

Subjecti

Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy. (Verification of entry in "Historic

Diary" relating to OSWALD's attempted suicide.)

Recipient: Secret Service. [Copy to Warren

Commission]

18 February 1964

DDP • 4-0864

Memorandum for Mr. Thomas L. Hughes,

The Director of Intelligence and Research

Department of State.

Subject: Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy

Verifications of Entry in- Historic

Diary"

Recipient:

State ICopy to Warren Commission]

20 February 1964

CSCI - 3/779,988

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Information

regarding Annette SETYAEVNA and Lillie May RAHM.)

Recipient: FBI.

22. February 1964

DIR 03103

Subject: Further Information Provided

by Moroccan Student Mohamed REGGAB:

Recipient: White House (attention Secret

Service.)

11 March 1964

CSCI -3/780,344

Subject: Summary of Findings in Regard to

Allegations by Mohamed REGGAB Relative to

Marina OSWALD.

Recipient: FBI.

20 March 1964

CSCI - 3/780,612

Subject: Assassination of President-

John. F. Kennedy (Photograph of an

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ZZ April 1964

8 May 1964

11 May 1964

/13 May 1964

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individual closely resembling OSWALD.)

Recipient:

FBI.

CS.CI - 3/780,996

Subject: Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO

Recipient:

FBI:.

CSCT - 3/780,881

Subject Assassination of President

John F. Kennedy.:

(Information regarding

Lydia DYMITRUK)

Recipient FBL

DDP 4-2351

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDPyrto Ja

Lee

RANKIN

Subject: Marina OSWALD's Notebooks

Rectpient Copy of attachment forwarded ro

BIg Warren Commission]

CSCI: 3/781,172

Subject Lee Harvey OSWALD.

(Traces on Soviet

names, addresses, and telephone numbers from an

address book belonging to Marina OSWALD.)

Recipient: FBI.

CSCI - 3/781,282

Subject Lee Harvey OSWALD:

Identification

of photographs sent to CIA by FBI.)

Recipient:

FBI.

15 May 1964

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP., to J.Lee

RANKIN

Subject:

Role of Cuban Intelligence Service

in Processing Visa Applicants; Reaction of

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the Service to the Assassination of

President Kennedy.

Recipient: FBI [Warren Commission]

5 June 1964

CSCI - 3/781, 543*

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. P(Use of

Machine Collation Program to Check Out

Cubans Mentioned in Letter of 27 November

1963 from Mario del ROSARIA Milina.)

Recipient:

FBI.

10 June 1964

CSCI -3/181,841

Subject Information Concerning

Jack RUBY..

Recipient 2 FB1:

29 June 1964

CSCT - 3/782,058

Memor and ump from Richard HELMs ho to

J. Lee RANKIN®

Subject. Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocca

Recipient: FBI. Warren Commission)

2 July 1964

SDDP. 4-3401

Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to

J.Lee RANKIN (Remarks made by Soviet

Consul Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV.)

Recipient: FBI. Warren Commission)

27 August 1964

CSCI- 316/00856-64

Subject:

No Indication of Subject's Defec

tion Having Been Used for Propaganda by the

Cuban Government:

Recipient: FBI. [Warren Commission]

3 September 1964

DDP 4-4600

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Memorandum from Richard HELMS, DDP, to

J. Lee RANKIN.

Subject: OSWALD Documents Supplied by

the

Cuban Government.

Recipient: FBI.

[Warren Commission]

6 October 1964

CSCI - 316/01446-64

Subject: VIADUCT Interview on 9 September

1964; His Comments on Seven Photographs For-

warded by the FBI:

Recipient:

FBI:

23 December 1964

Subject:

CSCT 316/02545-64

Allegation of Unidentified Scientist

of Cuban Involvement in Assassination.

RecipientS FBI:

2 March 1965

CSCI 316/00925-65

Sub rect

Marvin KANTOR, Possible Connection

with Investigation of Lee Harvey and Marina

OSWALD:

Recipient FBI

30 June 1965

CSCT- 316/02654-65

Subject Silvia DURAN:

Recipient: FBI.

2 September 1966

CSCI - 316/04482-66

Subject:

Rima ZMITROOK, Lee Harvey OSWALD's

Inturist Guide in Moscow.

Recipient: FBI.

14 June 1967

CSCI - 316/03243-67

Subject: Allegation of Oscar COUNTRERAS,

Mexican newsman, that OSWALD visited UNAM

Campus Shortly after the Cuban Embassy Re-

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fused Him a Visa to Visit Cuba. CONTRERAS!

Statement of Dubious credibility, information

passed to Mexican authorities.

Recipient: FBI.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: Gilberto Nolasco 'ALVARADO Ugarte

19 September-1963

According to ALVARADO's statements made during an inter

view conducted in the morning of 26 November 1963 by an American

Embassy.security officer_and a member of the Mexico Station in

Mexico City, ALVARADO went at noon on 18 September to the Cuban

11202

Consulate to turn over passport photographs to the Cuban Consul

Eusebio AZCUE.

While standing by a rest room off a passage

way leading to a patio, ALVARADO saw a group of three persons con-

versing on the patio a few feet away.

One man was a tally thin

Negro with reddish hair obviously dyed He had prominent cheek

bonestland a noticeable scar on the lower right side of his chin.

He spoke radpidly with a Cuban accent and did speak some English?

Another member of the group was a white person whom ALVARADO had

seen previously in the waiting room, carrying a Canadian passport.

The Canadian had green eyes, blondish hair combed in an existen:

tialist manner with a pompadour. He was wearing: dark eyeglasses

of a type with a mirror tikerreflection ong the outer surfaces ther

third member of the group was Lee Harvey OSWALD. Her was waering a

black sport coat, a buttoned up white shirt with short collar tabs.

no tie, gray pants, and clear eyeglasses

ALVARADO saw a tall Cuban join the group momentarily and

pass American currency to the Negro. This unidentified Cuban ap-

parently came out of AZUE's office onto the patio. ALVARADO des =

cribed the Cuban as a tall, solidly built mulatto, with curly hair

who appeared to be about 37 years old. He was wearing a brown suit

and a red-striped tie.

ALVARADO never saw this man again after 18

September:

ALVARADO claimed he overheard the following conversation

between the Negro and OSWALD:

Negro (in English):

"I want to kill the man'

OSWALD

'You're not man enough I can do

it."

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Negro (in Spanish): "I can't go with you.

I have a lot

to do."

OSWALD

'The people are waiting for me-back

there."

The Negro gave OSWALD six thousand five hundred dollars

in large denomination US bills saying:

This isn't much."

Of the

sum, one thousand five hundred dollars was for extra expenses.

The

Negro also gave him about 200 Mexican pesos.

Later, ALVARADO saw a pretty girl, whom he believed to be

a Cuban employee of the Consulate, give OSWALD an abrazo embrace

and tell him she was living at Galle Juarez number 407 where he

could find her. The girl appeared to about 20 years ald and had

manners which reminded ALVARADO of a prostitute: OSWALD, the Negxo

and the Canadian then went upstairs.

ALVARADO left the building momentarily to buy popsicle

on the corner; he saw the above three men leave by the Embassy gate

near the corner of Tacubaya where they entered a parked black car,

possibly a Chrolet.

At the end of September, ALVARADO, telephoned the American

Embassy several times to report his belief that someone important

in the United States was to be killed.

When ALVARADO saw OSWALD's photograph in the newspaper,

he again contacted the Embassy on 25 November.

IMEX1-7069 (IN 68376), 26 November 1963]

25 November 1963

ALVARADO called the United States Embassy.

That same

evening the met with the Embassy security officer.

CIMEXI-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963]

[Comment: According to the Mexican police report of the interroga-

tion of ALVARADO, the latter called the American Embassy and

"succeeded in speaking to a high official with whom he made an ap-

pointment for that same day at 5:30 p.m. near the Hotel Maria

Isabel.]

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Two individuals appeared for the 5:30 p.m. appointment

They identified themselves and were carrying the credentials-of

FBI agents:* ALVARADO told about his seeing OSWALD, etc: Another

appointment was made for 9:15 the next morning at the Jena Restau-

rant:

[HNMA- 22561, 5 December 1963; CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 1963]

[*Comment: The two individuals were SNIGHT, the Embassy security

officer, and A. C. PLAMBECK (P), Mexican Station officer: ALVARADO

may have mistaken Embassy-identification documents for FBI creden

tiats.1

25 November 1963:

ALVARADO Claimed inter alia that two persons were in the

Cuban Embassy the morning of 25 November 1963 at 1100 who are in:

volved inthe plot to assassinate President Kennedy he described

them as one being a white person with a large cleft noses the

other had closed cropped hair with a copote fsic)y

ALVARADO claims that on the 18th of September, he was in

the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Gity and he saw Lee Harvey OSWALD Te

ceive 56, 500. OSWALD was speaking with a Begro, about 29 years of

age, who had a scar on his jaw, and had reddish hair which is pro-

bably tinted. The Negro spoke English well and might be a North

American. OSWALD was speaking of eliminating someone. The Negro

then said he was sorry that he could accompany OSWALD, saying:

"You understand my situation." To which OSWALD replied: That's

all right, I can do this myself."

The source' (ALVARADO?) was of the opinion that OSWALD

had come from Havana. When OSWALD entered (the Consulate 2) he

was affectionately greeted by a female employee of the Cuban Em

bassy, who has blue eyes and lives at Calle Juarez 407.

The "source" also stated that OSWALD was given $1,500

for extra expenses. Source stated that when he went to the bath

room he saw OSWALD counting the money in American dollars, on the

patio which is adjacent.

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[Blind memorandum dated. 25 November 1963]

[*Comment :

There is no indication in the file that any follow-up

was made on the information given in this paragraph. This parti

cular information appears no where else in ALVARADO's interroga-

tions.]

26 November 1963

ALVARADO meets the same two men from the Embassy whom he

had the evening before, at the Jena Restaurant on the Avenida More.

los and the Paseo de la Reforma. The two men were accompanied by

a third man named Rodolfo GAVALDON. ALVARADO went with these three

men to the cafeteria of the Hotel Francis after which they drove

up and down a few streets. ALVARADO told them again what he had

observed in the Cuban Consulate and they gave him 100 pesos and

told him they woudl call him at the number 41-07-31, which is the

telephone number of the place where ALVARADO was living ALVARADO

was called the same day at 8:45 p.m. und was told to meet the three

men later in front of the Juarez, monument.

[Blind memorandum, dated 25 November 1963, Memorandum to Glark

ANDERSON, Legal Attache, dated 29 November 1963; And HMMA-22561

5. December 1963, and CSCI-3/779,136, 13 December 1963.1

26 November 1963

Station officer and local security officer are inter-

viewing a Nicaraguan who claims that on 18 September he saw Lee

OSWALD received six thousand five hundred dollars during a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

MEXT (IN (IN 68291), 26 November 1963]

[Comment: This cable was the first report to Headquarters on the

allegations made by ALVARADO.]

26 November 1963

At the appointed place and time the evening of 26. Novem-

ber, Rodolfo GAVALDON meets ALAVARADO. They take a cab to the

corner of the Hotel Maria Isabel where another American is waiting

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for them; together

they cross

the street

and enter an apartment in

a building at the corner of Oxford and Reforma. After talking with

these men, ALVARADO received 500 pesos and was told to move to a

hotel and to tell them which hotel he moved into.

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26. November 1963 (date of. cable)

Managua Station reports on identity..of ALVARADO and

suggests that "Should case develop to point where Mexico

and Head-

quarters believe it desireable to break ALVARADO, the Station

could probably arrange to have NIC officer who handled him come to

Mexico to question him."

MANA-4609 (IN 68452), 26 November 1963]

(Comment: NIC = Nicaraguan Security Service.)

26 November: 1963 (date of dissemination)

Dissemination by cable to the FBI, State, and the White:

House reporting preliminary results of ALVARADO interrogation and

results of Headquarters name trace.

661020

On 26 November 1963 Gilberto ALVARADO, a

professed Castroite Nicaraguan born 31 January

1940 in Ciudad Rama, Zelaya, Nicaragua, came

to the American Embassy in Mexico and made a

•statement about Lee OSWALD. He said that on

18-September 1963 he saw Lee OSWALD receive

Six thousand five hundred dollars in a meeting

inside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

2*2A

About himself,

ALVARADO said he in Mexico

City awaiting false documentation so he could

go to Cuba for sabotage training. He names

three other members of his organization in Ni

caragua as Juan LORILLO, Rolan ALVARADO, and

Carlos FONSECA Amador. Questioning-of ALVARADO

is continuing.

(Comment: Gilberto ALVARADO is a well-known

NIcaraguan communist underground member who is

also a regular informant of the Nicaraguan Security

Service and officer of which has provided this

Agency with his reports for over a year. We con-

sider his reliability to be questionable although

he has not been wholly discredited. The other men

he names are well-known Nicaraguan communists.

SAR

check of the files of this Agency does not show

where Lee OSWALD actually was on 18 September 1963,

when ALVARADO says he saw OSWALD in the Cuban, Em-

bassy in Mexico, but based on the information

available to this Agency as of this date OSWALD

visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico for the first

time after 25 September 1963.)"

DIR 85089, 26 November 1963}

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to Mexico Station that "In your

investigation,

suggest you contact ALVARADO's NIC case officer

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in Mexico City, and ask him whether ALVARADO has ever told him this

story or anything like it.

[DIR 85178, 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that "After considera

tion by BRENT and KNIGHT, we feel that investigation and analysis

of ALVARADO's story should be pursued further before more excutive

action is taken."!

[DIR 85198, 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters makes dissemination to FBI, State, andithe

White House incorporating information forwarded to Headquarters

in MEXI- 7069 (IN 68376, 26 November 1963 (q.v.

DIR 85199, 27 November 1963]

27 November 1963

ALVARADO'S story being checked as thoroughly as Station

assets make possibled. He also being te interviewed in much greate

detail. ALVARADO is being moved to safe address:

(MEXT -7093 (TN 68530) -27 November 19631

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

Two Station officers interviewed ALVARADO in safehouse

again night of 26 November. ALVARADO's story remained substan-

tially the same. ALVARADO says he has been to Cuban Consulate on

2 or 3 September, 15 or 16 September, 18 September, 26 September

and 25 November. The Station comments that "Station photographic

coverage of the Cuban Embassy did not include consulate gate unti

October." ALVARADO did not appear in photographs of persons using

Embassy gate He admits visiting the Soviet Embassy or times;

however, he has not been identified in photographic coverage of

Soviet Embassy

[MEXI-7098 (IN 69127), 27 November 19631

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27 November: 1963

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Ambassador MANN send message via CIA channels to RUSK

McCONE, and HOOVER in which he suggest inter alia that Washington

"should urgently consider feasibility of requesting Mexican authori

ties to arrest for interrogation: Eusebio AZCUE, Luisa CALDERON;

and Alfredo MIRABAL.

EMEXI-7104 (IN 69225) , 27 November 1963}

27 November 1963 (date of cable)

FBI says OSWALD applied for unemployment insurance in

New Orleans on 1 September, one day before ALVARADO says he saw

him in Cuban Embassy, Mexico. FBI checking all airlines to see if

he could have flown to Mexico by 18 September. He was in New

Orleans on 25 September and left that day for Texas without paying

his rent. He is believed to have been without funds during this:

period. FBI says his New Orleans landlady believes he was there

continuously between 17 and 25 September.

[DIR 85258, 27 November 1963]

27. November 1963 (date of cable)

According to Mexico Station, ALVARADO story after two in-

stallments tends prove only, that he has been in Cuban Embassy and

knows some of employees by sight, name or both. To resolve doubt

only effective way is to have cooperation of Major JEREZ directed

by his headquarters in interrogating ALVARADO.

If Ho agrees, sust

gest he be cabled urgently to cooperate without question with

American officer who will contact him morning 28 November. Station

wishes JEREZ be present during interrogation to throw all Nicaragua

official weight behind it, but not to participate except in portion

relative ALVARADO'S alleged mission for JEREZ:

IMEXT -7107 (IN 69310): 27 November 1963)

27 November 1963

Headquarters states that l'in the face of mounting evi-

dence that ALVARADo is fabricating his story of seeing

OSWALD take money in the Cuban Embassy, urge you fol

low up with his local NIC case officer and avail yourself

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of the help of the NIC service, which can

send (WHEELOCK) ,* a good CIA

in the interrogation.

that the Cubans-would-brief and payan assassin

in front

of

sible or even likely that he has been in and out

of the Cuban Embassy as. a NIC agent.trying.to

infiltrate Cuba and has picked up

faces there in so doing. All he has said about

OSWALD he could have gotten from the newspapers,

except for certain incorrect items such as his

statement that OSWALD wore glasses.

2. The fact that ALVARADO is a calm, nice, and

intelligent young man does not mean he is not a

fabricator. FYI-we and other agencies are being

flooded by

fabrications on the OSWALD case from

several continents, some originating with people

on the fringes of the intelligence business.

Such fabrication are not usually done for money,

but out of sickly fancy and a desire to get into

the intelligence game.

3. We do not think it a remarkable coincidence

that both DORTICOS and ALVARADO talk about money

paid to OSWALD. For one thing, pay for an assassin

is a factor which immediately rises in the mind of

expert and layman alike. Secondly, DoRtIcos may

have heardthrough some Russian or Cuban source

in the Mexican Government that DURAN was asked

whether the Cubans paid OSWALD for the alleged

assignment.*

While me do not insist that ALVARADe is story

/tandAbArADourder.the mest-earetingseratiny

His interrogators must proho dooply into his

make up and lead him back threugh the

[PIR: 85616,

27. November 1963]

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia Name encrypted in

text.)

28 November. 1963 (date, of cable)

FBI says their follow-up investigation of OSWALD'S acti

vities has rpoduced "reasonable indications' that he was in New

Orleans on 19 September 1963m

This, coupled with earlier evidence

that he was in New Orleans applying for unemployment insurance on

17 September 1963, means OSWALD would have had to fly to Mexico and

back between 17 and 19 September in order to be at the Cuban Embagsy

getting his pay-off, as ALVARADO Claims, on 18 September.

2With

this added information, believe Mexico can confidently regard

ALVARADO as fabricator and tailor interrogation accordingly.

[DIR 85653, 28 November 1963]

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28 November 1963

Headquarters informs Mexico that

"I.: We have just heard by phone from: KINGMAN;

who is at home,

that MEXI evaluation of ALVARADO

story may have been seriously warped by a piece

of misinformation which has crept into this case

From conversation

with your officers, KINGMAN,

has the impression that they believe

other. evidence that Lee OSWALD

posit of five thousand dollars in the United

-States after he got back from Mexico on. 3 October

1963. This would tend, if true, to corroborate

ALVARADO'S story that he saw OSWALD get five

thousand.

for. the

job and fifteen hundred for ex

penses. KINGMAN thinks he heard that CURTIS

Winston- SCOTT). got the information about the

bank deposit from an FBI man named Clark.

"2. We know of no such bank deposit and have n

never heard of one.

FBI here has just affinned

they never heard this story. The story of the

deposit of five thousand dollars is therefore

almost certainly erroneous. Please check it

with FBI there.

We have advised EBL that this

rumor exists in Mexico.

13.20

14. FBI. has just levied on us, official request

for full information on source and origin of

rumor about a five thousand dollar bank depositu

IDIR 856545

28 November 1963}

28. November 1963

Headquarters stresses to Mexico that there should

be no let down in your effort to follow all leads and investigate

a11 facts which bear on this cases

We have by no means excluded

the possibility, that other as yet unknown persons may have been-in

volved or even that other powers may have played a role Please

continue all your coverage of Soviet and Cuban installations and

your liaison with Mexicans."

[DIR 85655, 28 November 1963]

[Comment: This remark by Headquarters was in support of its posi

tion in response to Ambassador MANN's earlier message, in which

Headquarters expressed its distinct feeling that "the Ambassador

is pushing

this case too hard, and

might well create flap

with Cubans which could have serious repercussions."]

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Mexico Station requests OPIM authoritization turn ALVARADO

over to Mexican authorities with a brief explanation he claims to

be witness to payoff to OSWALD in Cuban consulate 18 September,

admits is in Mexico illegally, admits Communist Party membership,

admits visits to Soviet Embassy, claims that Cuban consulate now

involved in documenting him with false Mexican papers for travel

to Cuba. Latter point alone would give Mexican authorities good

reason to subject him to detailed interrogation.

[MEXI -7113 (IN

0, 28 November 196311

28 November 1963

Headquarters responded to the Station's request (see

above) by saying not to turn ALVARADO over to the Mexicans. *We

have officially asked the FBI for their position on this move, and

pending the FBIS answer and our final consideration, ALVARADO

should not be surfaced to the Mexicans or turned over to them.

M23

Advise us if the FBI in Mexico attempts, to get you

to act one way or the other on the question of turning ALVARADO

over to the Mexicans."

Headquarters concludes its message to Mexico by commenting

that Larry KeENAN, an FBI agent, is now in Mexico:

He was sent

especially to follow up leads on the entire assassination.

Head

quarters asks that the Station cooperate with him fully

[DIR 85661, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates by cable to the FBI, State,

and the White House, the information obtained from ALVARADO during

night of 26 November 1963 Information obtained from ALVARADO on

the latter date was forwarded to Headquarters, in MEXI- 7098 (IN

69127) 27 November 1963. (See appropriate entry above.)

(DER 85662, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

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Mexico

Station reports that

"1. Mr. Clark ANDERSON, Legal Attache, told

the_cOS and AmbassadorMANN_of.rumor that

'OSWALD had deposited five thousand dollars

in a bank in the United States':

"'2.

On 27 November Ambassador in presence

of COS asked ANDERSON about this, again and

ANDERSON said rumor was on television and

radio in Mexico.

ANDERSON said he had no

information from his Headquarters to. con-

firm or deny this. He said he would check

his Headquarters.:

"3. COS has not heard rumor regarding five

thousand dollar deposition television or

radio but feels sure ANDERSON or some of

his office did hear this, This Station had

no additional information concerning this,

but assume ALVARADO may have heard same

radio or television report and thus have had

basis for five thousands dollar payment 1

[MEXI -7114 (IN 69621) 23 November 1963.1

28 November: 1963

The Managua Station in Nicaragua stated that it had

11.40

requested (General Gustavo MONTIEL) "

cooperation Mexico through Major JEREZ and if

possible by sending Captain WHEELOCK) * to

Mexicon MONTIEL said ALVARADO in Mexico with:

out (Service's) authority and passed off sug

gestion use JEREZ but agreed immediately to

send WHEELOCK.

He (WHEELOCK- now in

process getting visa and plane reservations

and will probably be in Mexico today unless

Headquarters and Mexico wish to cancel.

Y2-Even though his story regarding OSWALD:

may be false it possible he has been working

other angle to penetrate Cubans and (WHHELOCK)

will be able to assist in getting facts straight.

[MANA -4613 (IN 69629) 28 November 19631

[* General Gustavo MONTIEL, Chief of Intelligence Service,

Nicaraguan Army

(Name encrypted in text)

Major Roger JEREZ Alfaro, Military Attache, Nicaraguan

Embassy, Mexico City

Captain Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK Garcia, Chief of Anti-

Communist Section of the Office of National Security

(name

encrypted in text

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over to Mexican

authorities

and that the Agency

request Mexican

authorities to interrogate

ALVARADO. in detail.

1'2:

The FBI reports that it understands that

Mexican authorities have a capability of poly-

graphing and requests that the Agency request

Mexican authorities that he be polygraphed..

"3:

The FBI expressed a desire to have the

results of the interrogation as soon as possible

and that the Legal Attache be kept advised of

devetopments.

"4. The FBI takes the position that inasmuch as

Silvia DURAN may be released some time today (28

November) ,

according to information which the FBI

has from the Legal Attache, ALVARADO should be

turned over to the Mexican as soon as possible,

so that their stories can be checked against each

Mexico Station is instructed to carry out the

FBI's requests set out above

Give full coopera-

tion to the Legal Attache.

[DIR: 85663, 28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Manuagua Station reports that Franklin Anthony WHEELOCK

Garcia, a Captain National, and chief of the Anti-Communist Section

of the Office of National Security, will arrive in Mexico at 0945

on 29 November 1963.

[MANA- 4614 (IN: 68671) 28 November 19631

28 November 1963. (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates the following to the FBI,

State Department, and White House:

"Acting on a request made to this Agency by

the Federal Bureau of Investigation on 28

November 1963, our Agency is instructing its

office in Mexico City to turn over Gilberto

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan informant who claims that

he saw Lee OSWALD accept six thousand five

hundred dollars in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico

City on 18 September 1963 to assassinate Presi

dent: Kennedy, to officials of the Mexican Minis:

try of Government for further interrogation and

investigation. On 28 November, ALVARADO had

still not changed his story, despite increasing

doubt that it was true.

The Nicaraguan Intelli

gence Service, for which ALVARADO once worked,

is dispatching a senior official to Mexico City

to assist in the interrogation and investigation

at the discretion of the Fedoral Bureau of In

vestigation.

Notification of: the appropriate

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Mexican

office for

the turnover was effected

at 1630 Washington time on 28 November 1963."

[DIR 85666, 28 November 1963}

[Comment:

This cable is the first time that President Kennedy

was mentioned as the target of OSWALD's alleged mission described

by ALVARADO. The conversation between the red-haired Negro and

OSWALD, as reported by ALVARADO, makes no mention

of a specific

person: ]:

28 November 1963

Mexico Station requests that a Spanish-speaking poly-

graph operator be made available for ALVARADO and possibly for

others.

[MEXI: 7120 CIN

28 November 1963]

28 November 1963

Headquarters responds that there is no Spanish-speaking

polygraph operator.

"2.For reasons of security and compartmenta-

tion, prefer

not

to have Agency operator double-

tracked with Mexican operator.

Would only con

fuse the case. Prefer to wait until all Mexi

can resources exhausted. before we decide if we

wan't to resume management of case, including

polygraph.

seasoned operators available here on short

notice.

IDIR

85667, 28 November 1963]

28 November. 1963

Mexico Station reports that

"T COS in contact with acting Minister of

Gobernacion Luis ECHEVARRIA at 1430 hrs Mexi

co City time and ECHEVARRIA grateful that

ALVARADO being turned over to Gobernacion.

2 ECHEVARRIA was given ALVARADO's present

address and alias under which he registered.

Mexicans will pick. him up and question him

on basis of very brief story given ECHEVARRIA

by COS:

[MEXI-7124 (IN

), 28 November 19631

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Mexico Station reports that the COS is handling the

OSWALD case personally and that continuous liaison with the

Ambassador and the Legal Attache is necessary." The COS wishes;

to control these contacts personally.

[MEXI-7126 (IN 70104), 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

An official of

the Ministry of Governacion reported to

the Station that ALVARADO claims he present inside the Cuban Em-

bassy when OSWALD given six thousand five hundred dollars. The

Station comments that ALVARADO gave the Mexicans the same story

he gave Station officers.

One difference is that ALVARADO failed

ta identify Silvia DURAN from several photographs he was shown

ALVARADO had identified her when he was being questioned by the

Station

[MEXT 7127 (IN 70145) 29. November 1963]

29. November 19633

Headquarters asks Mexico Station.

(to) continue

to keep us filled in on status of interrogation of Silvia DURAN,

ALVARADO, and others implicated as fast as you can get information.

We have no other ready source of information on these cases. Re-

quest you utilize capable officer for liaison with Gobernacion to

skim off details and relay them to your office for cabling to us

at regular intervals.

Request status report, even negative, by

0900 Mexico time. Be sure to keep us informed of what information

if any is leaked to public information media."

[DIR 85672, 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963

In the interest of speed, Headquarters wishes to be

"sure that you are immediately giving the Legal Attache everything

you get about ALVARADO and DURAN so the Legal Attache in Mexico

City can cable the same data direct to FBI Headquarters.

Please

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satisfy yourself that the Legal Attache there has adequate commo

facilities and secretarial

staff to keep its Headquarters informed

as fast as you keep us informed, and advise us on this.

"2.

If you find that the Legal Attache there does not

have adequate commo or staff and wants to rely on us to relay the

material, they may of sourse send messages right through our

channels, or you can rely on us to relay the information as we

have been."

[DIR 85712, 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963.

The Mexico Station responded to the above message by

stating that

The Legal Attache is locally being advised.

by COS personally of everything Station learns

concerning OSWALD Case and, now, on ALVARADO.

interrogationa

Tell sure that Legal Attacho's office,

which

almost same size as the Station, has adequate

staff for reporting needs.

Usual procedure here is that COS notifies

Headquarters reports to the Legal Attache and

to the Ambassador orally then subsequently ad

vises the Legal Attache by memorandum:

4. Headquarters is assured that all information

known to Station on these cases is being given to

them and shortly after information obtained.

[MEXT-7128 (IN 70162) 29 November 1963]

29 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the FBI, State department

and the White House that "The first very sketchy report on the pro

gress of the Mexican official interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

shows he is telling essentially the same story

The

Mexican official doing the interrogation of ALVARADO says he

"doubts! ALVARADO's story and will begin work to 'break! him."

[DIR 85744, 29 November 19637

29. November 1963

Chief of Mexico Station forwards memerandum to Mr. Clark

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D. ANDERSON, Legal Attache, containing the results of three inter

views, conducted by the local security officer and members of the

Mexican Station on 26 November 1963, of Gilberto Nolasco ALVARADO

Ugarte:

[See memorandum for complete text.]

29 November 1963

Official of Ministry of Gobernacion stated that after

his first session with ALVARADO he believed ALVARADO's story to be

a fantastic lie; after second session and all previous and interim

interrogations, ALVARADO sticks to same story on OSWALD. - Official

stated "Although this still preliminary, either ALVARADO is telling

the truth essentially or he is the best liar I have tälked to in my

many years and I have talked to some of the biggest. He is in-

clined to believe ALVARADO is telling the truth in general outlines

but believes he is mixed up on dates.

[MEXI - 7156 CIN

29 November 19631

29 November 1963

Mexico Station reports that Captain WHEELOCK has arrived

in Mexico City and is staying at the Geneve Hotel:

[Ibid.]

29 November 1963

Captain WHEELOCK meets with official from Ministry of

Gobernacion; he tells the official that ALVARADO has been 75%

accurate in his repoxting and hadchad access to and furnished

good

information on communism in the past. WHEELOCK said, however,

ALVARADO is inclined to "go off on his own' at times and impossible

to control.

[MEXI-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963]

30 November 1963

At 1030 hours (Mexico City time), official from Ministiy

of Gobernacion told the Chief of Station that'ALVARADO has signed

a statement saying that story of seeing OSWALD inside the Cuban

Embassy is completely false.

He also stated that he had not

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seen anyone handed money by Cuban consular officers.

He said too

he had not called the U.S. Embassy (as he had previously claimed)

on 20 September to warn them. His first call to the Embassy was

on 25 November, the evening he saw the U.S. Embassy security

officer.

[MEXI-7168 (IN 70860), 30 November 1963}

30 November-1963.

Mexico Station reports that the Legal Attache is being

informed of the above information (as well as other information

contained in MEXI, 7168)

[MEXI-7168 (IN 70860)

30 November 1963)

30 November 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates information to FBI State

Department, and the White House, that ALVARADO admitted his story

was a fabrications

[DIR 86063,

-30 November 1963]

30/November 1963

Headquarters asks the Station obtain all details on

ALVARADO's confession.

The Station is asked to "continue to follow

all leads and tips The question of whether OSWALD acted solely

on his own has still not been finally resolved.

DER 86064, 30 November 19631

2 December: 1963

Captain WHEELOCK saw ALVARADO during afternoon for first

time..

Meeting lasted only seven minutes

In brief interview in

Jerse

company of two Mexican officials, ALVARADO reverted to his pre-

vIous storY

He claimed he did see OSWALD, did call the U.S.

Embassy to report. (Embassy investigation does not support latter

statement. He went to say that he told the Mexicans he was fabri

cating because he was "mentally mistreated' i.e., threatened with

physical harm, although he was not actually physically mistreated.

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WHEELOCK said he unable to come to any definite conclusion as to

ALVARADO's veracity; however, he would be able to do so once he re

turned to Managua and had chance to complete the interrogation.

(NB: ALVARADO was to be deported to Nicaragua

on 4 December-)

[MEXI 7203 (IN 71702) , 2 December 1963]

3 December 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that although we are

confident that ALVARADO is a fabricator. and that his retraction

of his confession is false, it has been decided that he should be

placed on the potygraph. Headquarters asks that Station arrange

to have ALVARADO to be released to us for several days and ask

WHEELOCK to remain in Mexico to assist.

Calvin DAVIS ofthe Office of Security will arrive on

4 December Polygraph should be administered in safehouse and all

sessions should be recorded. DAVIS will be in charge of the poly-

graph interview, however, he will,be assisted by Clärk ANDERSON,

who has been selected here as interpreter The FBI will notify

ANDERSON off thisce

The idea is that ANDERSON would be able to tes

tify at. any

later hearing:

[DIR: 86563, 3 December 1963)

3 December 1963

ECHEVARRIA, acting minister of Gobernacion, agrees to

permit the COS to "borrow' ALVARADO.

Station submits plan for

handling LAVARADO:

Clark ANDERSON and Joe GARCIA of Legal Attache

office to pick up ALVARADO from Gobernacion.

b. ALVARADO will be taken to safehouse or hotet

sulte.

C..

ANDERSON TO GARCIA will act as interpreters.

d. Plan to "borrow" ALVARADO early morning of

5 December and return him that evening

[MEXI 7229 (IN 72877), 3 December 19631

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4 December 1963

Headquarters approves Station's plan and adds that the

"exact role of

the FBI men is Up,

to their local chief

The FBI has specified that Mr. ANDERSON act as their participant

in the interrogation and any variance should have approval of Mr.

ANDERSON.

(DIR 86621, 4 December 19631

5 December 1963

More plans by Station for interrogation of ALVARADO:

IMEX1-7256 (IN 74273) 5 December 19631

5. December 1963

Mexican Station forwards copies of Mexican interrogation

report on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte Station notes that a copy of

this report was handed to the Legal Attache.

[HMMA- 22561, 5 December 1963]

5. December 1963-

Preliminary questioning of ALVARADO: took place

[MEXI 7267 (IN 74696) , 6 December 1963]

6 December 1963

ALVARADO submitted to examination by polygraph

+ The

results of this examination indicated that he was fabricating his

Story

Interrogation revealed that ALVARADO was unsurelas to the

day. of the week he allegedly saw OSWALD. He thinks it was on Tues

day which would have been 17 September. When ALVARADO was shown

a series of photographs during the testing, deception patterns

became evident. When he was, contrinted with this he answered that

he had the utmost confidence in the polygraph and that it must be

correct The interrogation was concluded with ALVARADO admitting

he must have made "honest mistake" in relating original story in

his identification_ of OSWALD.

ALVARADO to be held by the Mexicans until 9 December

(MEXI-7289 (IN 75588), 7 December 1963]

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7 December 1963 (date of

dissemination

Headquarters cables a dissemination to the FBI on the

results of the examination by polygraph of Giberto ALVARADO.

"The re-interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO,

Nicaraguan informant who claimed to have

seen Lee OSWALD receive money.

to. assassinate

Kennedy, has been concluded:

Our Mexico s

City Station advises us that ALVARADO admitted

he must have been mistaken in saying that he

saw OSWALD in the Cuban Embassy. Also, he was

uncertain of the date on which he might have ge

seen someone like OSWALD and thought it must

have been on a Tuesday, which would have made

it 17 September 1963. Although the final

report of the polygraph interview is not yet

available, the preliminary finding is that

ALVARADO evidenced deception reactions when

talking about OSWALD.

MIt is expected that ALVARADO will be deported

to Nicaragua on 9 December 19630

"A representative

ofrvour: Bureau participated

in the interrogation of ALVARADO

IDTR 87667527 December 1963J

7 December 1963

An official of the Ministry 9f Gobernacion advised the

Chief of Station that ALVARADO will be returned to Managua by

TACA flight no 773 leaving Mexico at 0930 hours on 8 December.

MEXT 1290 IN 75835), 7 December 19631

13 December 1963 (date of dissemination)

Headquarters forwards a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on Gilberto ALVARADO. to the FBI:

Attached is a translation of the Mexican

police interrogation report on Gilberto

ALVARADO, Nicaraguan who claimed to have seen

Lee OSWALD accept $6500 in the Cuban Embassy.

in Mexico City to assassinate President

Kennedy The report states that ALVARADO re-

tracted these assertions and admitted that he

made them to induce the U. S. to take stronger

action against Cuba.:

The two persons whom ALVARADO met and to

whom he first told his story are undoubtedly

officers of this Agency:

His claim that they

used FBI credentials is,

of course, absolutely

Our officers use no credentials in

Mexico City.

"3.

As you know, ALVARADO retracted the con-

fession of fabrication which he made to the

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Mexican police and had to be reinterro:

gated by representatives of this Agency

and your Bureau.

This later interroga-

tion showed that he was probably lying."

[CSCI 3/779,136

13 December 1963. (Comment: Translation was

made of the Mexican police report forwarded to Headquarters as

an attachment to HMMA-22561, 5. December 19630]

31, January 1964

The Agency forwards a memorandum to the Warren Commission

enclosing a presentation of the information developed by CIA on or

about Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City. A summary of the informa-

tion relating to the monetary payment to OSWALD and the investiga

tion of this allegation appears on pages llthrough 14 of the en:

closure.

[Memorandum for Mr J. Lee RANKIN, dated 3l January 1964, subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD

in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963.1

:21 Apri1,1964

The General Counsel, Je Lee RANKIN, of the Warren Commiss

sion forwards the following memorandum to the Deputy Directer for

Plans:

"On behalf of the Commission I would like

to thank you and your representatives for

the

fine cooperation which was extended to represen

tatives of the Commission during the

Course of

their work in Mexico City from April 8 through

April: 13,

1964-I am informed that Mr. SCOTT,

the Chief of your Station in Mexico City, was

particularly generous with his time and advice

and, in fact, contributed greatly to the success

of our mission in Mexico.

"During their stay in Mexico City the

Conmission representatives discussed with

Mr. SCOTT and agents of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation that portion of the Lee.

Harvey OSWALD investigation which concerned

Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte, We are aware, of

course, from-previous reports that the allega

tions made_by ALVARADO_were thoroughly inves-

tigated by Central Intelligence Agency and

Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives

in Mexico City in liaison with the responsible

lawrenforcement authorities.

Reference is

made to the discussion of these allegations in

your memorandum dated January 31, 1964 at pages

-14.

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"Upon review of our complete file on

this matter, we find that we lack

mentation of the investigation conducted of

these_allegations.: It would be helpful if

our records could be supplemented by a report

from your Agency supplying more details re-

garding the investigation undertaken by your

Agency and other concerned Ageneies, into this

matter and your evaluation as to the truth of

ALVARADO's assertions:

In particular, it would

be helpful if a report could be submitted by

the expert who conducted the polygraph exami

nation which emphasizes the specific conclusions

which he made. based

responses by ALVARADO

in answering key questions on this matter.'"

FLetter to Mr. Richard Helms, Deputy Director for Plans;

dated 21 April 1861, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel 1

1 June 1964

In response to the above letter from the General Counsel

of the Warren Commission, the Agency forwarded by memorandum the

texts of the following disseminations relative to ALVARADO that

were made to other U. S. Government agencies:

OUT Tetetype No. 5089, dated 26 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto

"ALVARADO

b.

OUT Teletype No. 85199,

dated 27 November 1963,

Subject

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

OUT Teletype No.

85662, dated 28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO:

d. OUT Teletype No. 86068, dated 30 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

OUT Teletype No.

85666,

dated 28 November 1963,

relative to Gilberto ALVARADO.

Memorandum, dated 12 (sic - 13] December 1963

Subject: Mexican Interrogation of Gilberto ALVARADO:

•OUT Teletype No. 87667,

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

dated 7 December 1963,

(Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 1 June 1964, from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject: Gilberto

ALVARADO Ugarte.]

213 October 1964

The General Counsel forwards the following letter to

the Honorable John A. MCCONE, DCI:

We are enclosing a copy of your SECRET document

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dated January 31-99%h, concerning informa-

tion developed by CIA on the activity of

Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September

3 October 1963.

"We have deleted all references to the Secret

Agent by the marking, "D". Since this docu

ment.ias.cited in our sunmary report, we are

requesting your authority to publish it in

this form. If this is not agrecable, may we

have à synopsis of this: document which may be

published."

[Letter to. John A. McCONE, Director, Central Intelligence

Agency, dated 13 October 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General

Counsel. Enclosures: Commission Documents 347 and 1084]

20. October 1963

The Deputy Director for Plans forwards a memorandum

to the General Counsel of the Warren Commission inresponse.to

the latter/stletter of 13 October 19642

"The Commission's Report

contains information

in memoranda dated 31 January and l June 19643

Since both include information relative to in-

telligence methods and operations which should

not be placed in the public donain, I suggest

the use of the revised and consolidated. ver

sions dated 4 June 1964 which is forwardedas

an- attachment.

[Memorandum for Mr Jo Lee RANKIN, dated 20 October 1964

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans.1

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Gilberto Nolasco

ALVARADO Ugarte

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SILVIA TIRADO BOZAN DE DURAN

Personal information taken from her interrogations on 23 and

28 November 1963:

"Silvia Tirado de DURAN stated

she is Mexican

by birth, Dyears old, married, no religion, employed,

Navarro since 5 November 1958

and that they have a

daughter named Patricia three and one-half years old;

that in July or August of 1961, she was offered

ployment as coordinator at the

Mexican-Cuban Institute

of Cultural Relations,

then headed by Lic. Augustin

Cue CANOVAS.

That since that time she had frequently

visited officers of the Cuban Embassy, having personal

friendship with

Ambassador PORTUONDO,

the cultural

attaches Teresa PRONZA and Luis ALVERU as well

with other employees.

Her contacts were principally

with Maricarmen OLAVARRI, Secretary

to Consul Eusebio

a Spaniard and relative of AZCUE, and who re-

500 pesos monthly.

"In December 1961 she and her husband made a trip

to Havana by plane.

They pald for their own tickets,

but all other expenses of their visit to all the 1s-

lands were paid by the Cuban Institute of Freindship

with the Peoples (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los

Pueblos - ICAP) and the Cultural House.

"She sympathized with the Cuban movement since its

beginning; that she was a coordinator of the Mexican-

Cuban Institute of Cultural Relations since July or

August 1961 and that she studied for the career of an

English-Spanish

secretary at the Escuela Bancaria.

She mastered engine as

knows some French,

ing philosophy.

a leftist ideology, by con-

viction, and is in accord with communism, but does not

belong to any political group nor has she participated

in meetings or acts of this nature.

That officers of

Embassy, incliding the Consul, have been in

her home; that she knows almost all the principal lef-

tists in Mexico without being a friend of them; that

for one visit to Brownsville, Texas, she has

not been in the United States."

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 21 February 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Translations of Interrogation Reports of Silvia DURAN.]

she knew Carlos LECHUGA Hevia who was

Cuban Ambassador in Mexico and who arrived here when

she was working as Coordinator in the Mexican-Cuban

Institute of Cultural Relations.

She became friendly

with this person but she never did any personal work

for him. She said that this Ambassador came to her

house to visit her on the occasion of a party which

she held.

She considers him as a friend and she saw

frequently

"She said that while she was'working in the afore-

mentioned Institute, and before working as

a secretary

in the Consulate she went to the Cuban Embassy to help

The help she rendered there consisted

of answering the telephones and doing secondary tasks.

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The Cultural Attache PROENZA never assigned her any

work outside the Embassy.

She said that she had

know PROENZA before she had been coordinator for the

Institute since she was

a good friend of Paul FLORES

Guerrero,

the husband of DURAN's sister-in-law, who

and a half

that DURAN met PROENZA.

"She stated

that she has had her present ideology

for about five years, and

tion and studies.

She said she had not belonged nor

does she belong to any student groups.

"DURAN indicated she was acquainted with the

Leninist Spactacus League (Liga Leninista Espartaco)

but that she

is not in

agreement with

that her

husband shares her opinion.

They admire

Jose REVUELTAS

as a writer but not as a politician since they are in

disagreement with his book entitled

"The Headless Pro-

letariat"

(Proletariado sin Cabeza) in which he tries

to prove the inexistence of the Mexican Communist Party

(Partido Communista Mexicano, PCM) while it

is obvious

that this party does indeed exist, although it is dis-

organized.

She said that she had

not belonged to

organization but that she is friendly with its leaders

as Jose REVUELTAS and the two LIZALDES:

"She disclaimed membership in the PCM, and said

she had not tried to joon it

because she was in disa

greement with it except for

its support of Cuba."

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 21 February 1964,

from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Translations of Interrogation

Reports of Silvia DURAN.]

At the time of her arrest on 23. November 1963,

DURAN had been employed by the Cuban Consulate in

Mexico City as a temporary replacement for Maricarmen

OLIVARRI upon the latter's death in July 1963. Mari-

carmen OLAVARRI had served as secretary to the Cuban

Consul Eusebio AZCUE, who left Mexico on 18 November

after having been replaced by Alfredo MIRAVAL

DURAN's duties included the preparation of visas

and the handling

of visa

applications which

were for-

warded to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs for

approval.

[MEXI-7065 (IN 67737), 25 November 1963; FBI Report, dated

18 May 1964.]

Horacio DURAN Navarro - Mexican by birth; an industrial

designer, forty years old he lived the first eight.

and lives in Mexico City at

Constituyentes, Dept. 3.

years of his life in

to Meixco.

He received a degree from the Escuela Nacional

de Artes Plasticas.

Formerly married to Lucille DEJARDIN,

but divorced her

on 5 November 1958 after six years of

marriage.

He then married his present wife Silvia Tirado

de DURAN.

[DIR 85668, 29 November 1963.]

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26 November 1962

2 a

SECRET

(Date of dissemination)

A usually reliable and

sensitive source in Mexico

City reported that on 26 November 1962 Gladys LECHUGA,

wife of Carlos LECHUGA, Cuban Ambassador to the United

Nations, formerly Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, said that

she had received two letters from her husband in New York.

He asked for separation and said that the person in whom

he is interested is Silvia T. de DURAN; that she is "of

his ideas" and was willing to go to Cuba. According to

source, Teresa PROENZA, Cultural Attache at the Cuban Em-

bassy in Mexico City said that DURAN had never been a

Marxist or a communist.

Another usually reliable source with good contacts in

the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City reported in November 1962

that LECHUGA and DURAN did have an affair. The Cuban Embassy

was aware of it, but efforts were made to keep it from be

coming known.

Information from a source whose reliability could not

be judged reported that LECHUGA had offered to marry DURAN,

a Mexican married woman, after divorcing his wife, since she

(Silvia DURAN) was ready to accompany him to Cuba.

[DIR 84950, 25 November 1963; dissemination to the FBI.]

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27 September 1963

In mid-afternoon, Silvia DURAN informed the Soviet

Embassy that a male American citizen had requested

a visa

to transit Cuba on his way to the Soviet Union.

She wan-

ted to know who the American had talked with at the Soviet

Consulate.

Also, she indicated that the Cuban Consulate

could

grant him the visa and

arrange immigration

details

if the concession. öf a Soviet visa were

assured.

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey

OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963.]

27 September 1963

At 1605 hours (Mexico time) on Friday, 27 September

1963, Silvia DURAN, a Mexican national, a local employee

of the Cuban Embassy; Consular Section, a receptionist [sic]

speaks with an unknown male at the Soviet Embassy.

Silvia

DURAN tells the man that the American citizen was

there,

the one who wants

a visa for Cuba on his way

to the Soviet

Union, and he wants to know with whom

he was talking there

because she (Silvia DURAN) had

sent him to the Soviet Em-

bassy saying that if they accepted him and

gave him a visa,

then the Cubans (Embassy) would also give him a visa without

further paper work, only advising

immigration in Cuba. The

American, she says, wants to know with whom he had talked

there because he says he was told there would be no problem.

The man in the Soviet Embassy says to wait a moment.

different Soviet speaks, and Silvia DURAN explains the same

thing to him. This man says to leave a name and telephone

number and

says he will call back. Silvia DURAN gives the

telephone number 11-28-47 (Cuban Consulate). She also takes

advantage of the conversation and stated she has moved and

wants to advise the Soviet Embassy

of her change of address

so that she can receive the Soviet Embassy's bulletin.

The

man says to call KOUKHARENKO to give her new

address, then

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he asks the name of the Consul or

Cultural Attache. Silvia

DURAN says the name is Teresa PROENZA and the telephone num-

ber if 14-13-26. The man says thanks.

[Memorandum for Deputy Chief, Operations Staff, dated 2 May

1975, from Raymond G. ROCCA; Subject: Review of Agency

Holdings Regarding Photograph of Unidentified Individual

in Mexico City Published by the Warren Commission.]

27 September 1963

Pursuant to her inquiry, Silvia DURAN received a con-

firmation from

the Soviet Embassy

that the American had been

to the USSR installation. He had shown them a letter from

the Soviet Consulate in Washington

indicating that he had

been long awaiting a visa for himself and his wife to go to

the USSR.

No answer had come from Washington; however, the

waiting period was sometimes

four or five months

The Ameri

can also had a letter attesting that he was a member of a

pro-Cuban organization but he had claimed that the Cubans

would not give hin a visa unless he had already received a

Russian visa.

Although the American was

still at the Cuban Consulate,

Silvia DURAN repeated

that she could not give him a transit

visa unless

a Soviet visa was forthcoming, notwithstanding

the American's wish

to go to Cuba to wait there for his So-

viet visa. According to DURAN, the American knew no one in

Cuba and

she intended to annotate appropriately the American's

card.

The Soviet official echoed her statement that the

American

was not known.

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey

OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963.1

27 September 1963

At I626 hours (Mexico time) on Friday, 27 September

1963, an unidentified male, a Soviet, calls the Cuban Con-

sulate, asks Silvia DURAN if the American had been there.

Silvia DURAN says he is there now.

The Soviet says the

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showed papers

SEGRET

from the Consulate in Washington,

that

he wants

go.to

the Soviet Union and be there for

a long

time with his wife, who is Russian, but the

answer

has not come from Washington in respect to this problem,.

and

according to this procedure it takes four to five

months, but without peraission from

the Soviet Union they

should ask, or'better said, they cannot issue a visa there

without

asking Washington. However, according to this man,

he showed

a

letter indicating he was a member of an organi-

zation in favor of Cuba and that the Cubans said that they

cannot issue a visa without his having a visa for the Soviet

Union, and

now he (the Soviet) does not know

what to do with

him (the American), because they have to wait for an answer

from Washington.

Silvia

DURAN agrees the same problem exists with the

Cubans, that the problem with him (the American) is that he

does not know anyone in Cuba and therefore if that is true

it will be difficult for him to get a visa for Cuba, be-

cause he was thinking of processing his visa (for the Soviet

Union), because he knew it would require waiting a long.

time

for his visa to the Soviet Union while in Cuba, and from

there go to the Soviet Union. The Soviet said the thing is

that if his wife right now were in Washington she would re-

ceive her visa right now, or permission, from the Soviet

Union,

to return to her country, she is going to receive her

visa in Washington but having this visa, she could communicate

to any place this permission, for example here or any place

she could

receive

it (visa or permission), but right now they

do not have

them. Silvia DURAN says certainly and they can-

not

give a letter either because they do not know if the visa

will be approved. The

Soviet says he cannot give a letter

or recommendation either because he does

not know him (the

American) and asks to be excused

for bothering her.

Silvia

says that's all right and many thanks.

[Memorandum for Deputy Chief, Operations Staff, dated 2 May

1975, from Raymond ROCCA; Subject: Review of Agency Holdings

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Regarding Photograph of Unidentified Individual in Mexico

City Published by the Warren Commission.]

28 September 1963

Silvia DURAN was again visited at the Cuban Embassy in

Mexico City by the American seeking a Cuban transit visa.

Mrs. DURAN contacted at least two members of the Soviet Embassy

and facilitated a direct conversation between one of the so-

viets and the American.

Conversing

in poor Russian, the Am-

erican stated that he already had been to the Soviet Consu-

late and had left an address. The Soviet official replied

that he was aware of that. The American suggested that he

had not known his address

then, and he had gone to the Cuban

Embassy to ask for the address, because they had it.

The

American then acceded to the Soviet official's invitation to

come by and give them the address.

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey

OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September - 3 October 1963.]

28 September 1963

At 1151 hours (Mexico time)

on Saturday, 28 September

1963, Silvia DURAN calls the USSR Embassy and talks to an

unidentified

Soviet. She says that in the Cuban Embassy

there if a North American who was at the Soviet Embassy. The

Soviet says wait a minute.

Silvia DURAN speaks English with

someone - and comments

in Spanish that they gave APARICIO

telephone number 14-12-99 and to take the number down - Silvia

DURAN then

says the American citizen is going to talk with

you, i.e., the Soviet. The American first speaks Russian and

the Soviet

speaks English.

They continue in English. The

American talks broken Russian and says I was in-your Embassy

and spoke to your Consul. Just a minute. A Soviet takes

the phone and asks the American in English what does he want.

The American says please speak Russian. The Russian says

what else do you want?

The American says I was just now at

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your Embassy and they took my address.

The Soviet says. I

know that.

The American, in hardly

recognizable Russian,

says I did not know it then..

I went to the Cuban Embassy

to ask them

for my address, because they have it. The

Soviet

say's why don't you come again and leave your address

with

us, it is

not far from the Cuban Embassy. The American

says I'll

be there gight away.

[Memorandum for Deputy Chief, Operations Staff, dated 2 May

1975, from Raymond G. ROCCA; Subject:

Review of Agency Hold-

ings Regarding Photograph of Unidentified Individual in

Mexico City Published by the Warren Commission.]

23 'November 1963

Mexico Station suggests to the Ministry of Gobernacion

that Silvia DURAN, who is a Mexican employee at the Cuban

Embassy and who put Lee OSWALD on the telephone from the Cu

ban Embassy

to talk to the Soviet Embassy on 28 September,

be arrested immediately and held incommunicado until she

gives all details relating

to OSWALD known to her.

[MEXI - 7029 (IN

), 23 November 1963.1

23 November 1963

LIC. Luis ECHEVARRIA informed the Chief of Station at

1800 Mexico time that Silvia DURAN and her husband had

al-

ready been arrested.

They are presently under interrogation

by Gobernacion authorities. The Chief of Station asked

ECHEVARRIA to take measures requested in DIR 84916 [see

below]. ECHEVARRIA promised to try to keep arrest secret.

He definitely promised

all information obtained from DURANS.

First report should be ready by 2000 Mexico time.

Station

added that it will not be possible to keep arrest from her

family and from Cuban Embassy very

long.

[MEXI-7037 (IN 67236), 24 November 1963.]

23 November 1963

→: (Date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation

information regarding Silvia DURAN,

arrested

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by Mexican authorities before 6:00

for interrogation.

[DIR 84950, 25 November 1963.1

p.m.

on 23 November 1963

23 November 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico City Station that the arrest

of Silvia DURAN

is an extremely serious matter which could

prejudice United States Government freedom of action on the

entire question of Cuban responsibility.

With full regard

for Mexican

interests, Headquarters

requests the Station to

ensure that her arrest is kept absolutely secret, that no i

information from

her is published or leaked, that all

such

information is cabled to Headquarters, and that the fact of

her arrest and her statements are not spread to leftist or

disloyal circles in the Mexican Government.

[DIR 84216, 23 November 1963.1

23 November 1963

At 1915 hours (Mexico time), the Mexico City Station

advised the Legal Attache of Silvia DURAN's arrest and of

Headquarters'

desire for secrecy. The Legal Attache had

not heard of the arrest although he had talked to Gobernacion

contacts several times during the last hour. The Station

indicated that it had also

informed the Ambassador.

[MEXI -7042 (IN

), 23 November 1963.1

23 November 1963

Silvia DUPAN was arrested at home with her husband and

members of the family who were having a party.

"*All were

taken to jail. Since she had told not only her husband but

other members of the family about OSWALD's visits after she

read the name and saw his picture on television, she attribu-

ted her arrest to a denounciation by a cousin whom she does

not like. The Station then indicates that the source of the

Mexican Government's knowledge (of her contact with OSWALD)

has not been

revealed to her.

IMEXI-7054 (IN 67378), 24 November 1963.]

LUTI

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23 November 1963

Silvia

DURAN had the impression that OSWALD had or be-

lieved he had made arrangements

in Washington

whereby in-

structions would be sent to the Soviet

Embassy

in Mexico to

issue a Soviet entry visa in a manner which would

not require

him personally to visit the Soviet Embassy. Failure of nis

real or imagined instructions to work smoothly caused him to

become rude to the Soviets. Her impression was that he was

simply a "comrade" who could not live confortably under the

rigors of capitalism and wished to return

to his spiritual

home in the USSR. If OSWALD talked to anyone else in the

Cuban Embassy, she was unaware of it.

[MEXI-7054 (IN 67378), 24 November 1963.1

23 November 1963

According

to source,

the staff meeting at the Cuban

Embassy on 23 November was very short and somber.

The

general impression was one of shock and disbelief.

[MEXI-7115 (IN 69636) , 28 November 1963.1

24 November 1963

Luis ECHEVARRIA told the Chief of Station that Silvia

DURAN was completely cooperative and gave a written state-

ment attesting to two visits by OSWALD. She could not remem-

ber the exact dated but said it was the latter part of Sep:

tember. OSWALD showed her a American passport showing a

long stay in the USSR. OSWALD said he was a communist and

an admirer of CASTRO. He wanted her help to get a transit

visa to Cuba in order to go to the USSR.

She said she could

only arrange transit through Cuba if he already had a Soviet

visa. The Soviets told her that they had further checking

to do before they could issue a visa. DURAN did not know

why he returned to the United States without a visa. DURAN

told Gobernacion that she had recognized OSWALD on the tele-

vision on :22 November 1963.

The Chief of Station has told the Ambassador of DURAN'S

arrest and will brief the Legal Attache at 0930, 25 November,

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at a meeting in the Ambassador's office.

[MEXI-7046 (IN 67278), 24 November 1963.1

24 November 1963

Luis ECHEVARRIA is aware of the United States Govern-

ment's concern regarding any leaks and

has warned Silvia

DURAN about talking. He feels, however, that at least the

fact of the arrest may well be leaked by other members of

her family who were picked up at the same time. The Chief

of Station will continue to push the need for secrecy.

DURAN and her husband will be released but will be kept

under close surveillance.

[MEXI-7054 (IN 67378), 24 November 1963.]

24 November 1963

Headquarters asks the Mexico Station that when Lee OSWALD

was in Mexico City in late September and early October to get a

-Soviet visa and a Cuban transit visa, did he want to travel

to Cuba right away, alone, or have his wife join him there

and then leave later? Although it appears that he was then

thinking only about a peaceful change of residence to the

Soviet Union, it is also possible that he was getting docu

mented to make a quick escape after assassinating the Presi-

dent.

[DIR 84920, 24 November 1963.]

25 November 1963

Headquarters asks that LITAMIL/9 be queried as to his

knowledge regarding Lee OSWALD's contacts with the Cuban and

Soviet Embassies.

[DIR 84926, 25 November 1963.]

25 November 1963

The Mexico City Station responds that LITAMIL/9 was

asked this point during the night of 23, November, but he dis-

claimed any knowledge of OSVALD's visits.

The Station has

instructed him to report any new facts or significant

reactions

of his associates.

[MEXI-7065 (IN 67737), 25 November 1963.1

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25 November 1963

(Date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates information on Silvia DURAN

to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

[DIR 84950, 25 November 1963; Subject: Silvia T. DURAN,

Mexican Employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Con-

tact with Lee OSWALD.]

25 November 1963

Silvia DURAN returned to her

office.

She seemed quite

please with her performance. Her account of the interroga-

tion"

contained little new except that the police had threa-

tened her with extradition to the United States to face

OSWALD. She had no fear of a confrontation with him.

[MEXI-7115 (IN 69636), 28 November 1963.1

25 November 1963

The FBI interviewed Salvador DIAZ Verson (on an unknown

date) in Miami. The latter stated that while he was in Mexi-

co City from 20 to 29 November 1963, attending the Congress

of the International Federation of Professional Newspaper

Organization, he was

at the offices of the newspaper Excel-

sior on the night of 25 November 1963. There he learned

through the Mexican press that the Mexican Government had

arrested one Silvia DURAN; that DURAN allegedly had OSWALD

as

guest in her house during his visit to Mexico; that

DURAN placed OSWALD in contact with officials of the Cuban

Embassy in Mexico City. DIAZ Verson went on to cläim that

he was told by Dr. DORRELL Navarros, an exiled Cuban news-

paperman employed by Excelsior that OSWALD and DURAN on the

day following OSWALD's arrival in Mexico City went to a res-

taurant called the Caballo Blanco or possibly the Caballo

Bayo where they met an official of the Cuban Embassy. DIAZ

Verson claimed he knows nothing about OSWALD and the Cuban

official leaving the restaurant together in a car.

(NB: DIAZ Verson was interviewed by the FBI sometime before

11 January 1964.)

[Memorandum to Mr. Clarence A. BOONSTRA, Charge d'affaires

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ad interim, dated 29 January 1964, from Clark D. ANDERSON,

Legal Attache;

Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD. Copy

to Win-

ston

M. SCOTT. 1

26 November 1963

Mexico City Station forwards to Headquarters

a trans-

lation of a conversation between Cuban President DORTICOS in

Havana and Ambassador Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas in

Mexico City

at 0924 hours on 26 November 1963.

DORTICOS was concerned whether the Mexicans had ques-

tioned Silvia DURAN about the passage of money to the "Ameri-

can". The Ambassador responded that she had not been asked

about money.

[MEXI - 7068 (IN

) , 26 November 1963.1

26 November 1963

The Cuban Government passes a note to the Mexican Am-

bassador to Cuba, Gilberto BOSQUES, protesting

the action of

the Mexican police in questioning an employee of the Cuban

Consulate in Mexico City about OSWALD's reported application

for a Cuban transit visa during his visit.

In its note, the Cuban Government had charged that its

Consulate's employee, Senora Silvia DURAN, had been detained

by the police on 23 November, held in prison until midnight,

physically mistreated, and subjected to insinutations about

alleged "intimate relations" with OSWALD.. The Cuban note

said that this "illegal" investigation corresponded to the

plan

of reactionaries. in the United States

who were using

President

Kennedy's assassination to promote a war policy on

the bases

of

accusations against Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Alleging that the Mexican police actions had disregarded the

minimum guarantees

owed to employees of

a consular office,

the Cuban

note concluded that the incident had damaged the

friendly relations between

the two countries.

[U. S. Embassy Despatch, Mexico City, dated 2 December 1963,

despatch no. illegible.]

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26 November 1963

Mexico City Station forwards Ambassador's message

for

passing to the Secretary of State, Mr. McCONE, and Mr. HOOVER.

In his message, the Ambassador suggested that the Mexi-

cans should

rearrest and interrogate Silvia tirado de DURAN

along the following lines:

"a.

Confront Silvia DURAN again with Nicaraguan

and have Nicaraguan inform her of details of his

statement

to us.

"b.. Tell Silvia DURAN that she is the only liv-

ing non-Cuban who knows the

full story and hence

she is in the

same position as OSWALD was prior

to his assassination;

her only chance for

sur

vival is

to come clean with the whole story

and

/ to cooperate completely with the Mexican Govern-

ment in return for Mexican Government protection.

She will not in any case be allowed to leave

Mexico."

The Ambassador asks for immediate instructions on

whether

"we are

authorized to request President LOPEZ

Mateos

to rearrest and take Silvia DURAN into protective

custody.

Danger of her disappearance or murder may

be

immediate and great."

[MEXI-7072 (IN

) , 26. November 1963.]

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to the Mexico Station that in

lieu of arresting Silvia DURAN, she be placed under close

surveillance by CIA on by Mexican authorities.

[DIR 85198, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

—: (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates information obtained from

Silvia Tirado de DURAN to the Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion. The dissemination is based upon MEXI-7054 (IN 67378)

and MEXI-7065 (IN 67737).

[DIR 85222, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

At 1215 hours (Mexico time), Luis ECHEVARRIA, acting

Minister of Gobernacion, informed the Chief of Station that

Silvia DURAN had been rearrested because she was attempting

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[MEXI-7101 (IN 69048), 27 November 1963.1

27 November 1963

Headquarters instructs the Mexico Station that,

in

light of DURAN's second

arrest, Mexican

authorities

should

interrogate Silvia DURAN to the extent necessary to clarify

outstanding points which have been raised by your cables

during

the last 48 hours. Haadquarters goes on to say that

the Station

may provide questions to the Mexican interroga-

tors. "but

we do not want any Americans to confront Silvia

DURAN or be in contact with her."

[DIR 85318, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963-

With reference to DIR 85318 (see above entry),

Head-

quarters tells the Mexico Station that it wants to be cer-

tain "that there

is

no misunderstanding between us, we want

to insure.

that

neither

Sylvia DURAN nor the Cubans

gets the

impression that the Americans

behind her rearrest.!" In other

words, we want Mexican

authorities to take

responsibility

for whole affair."

[DIR 85371, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

: (Date of dissemination)

Headquarters reports Silvia DURAN's second arrest

to the Federal' Bureau of Investigation, the State Depart-

ment, and the White House. Dissemination based upon

MEXI-7101 (IN 69048), 27 November 1963.

[DIR 85471, 27 November 1963.1

27 November 1963

Mexico City Station forwards to Headquarters a trans-

lation of a second conversation between President DORTICOS

and Ambassador HERNANDEZ Armas which took place at 1839

(Mexico

time) on 27 November. DORTICOS appeared to be still

concerned whether the Mexicans had threatened Silvia DURAN

to force her into making a statement to the effect that the

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(Cuban) Consulate had given money "to the man

.. • that

American". The Ambassador responded that at no time had

they done

such a thing.

[MEXI-7097 (IN

), 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

LITAMIL/9 reported that after Silvia DURAN's first

arrest it was public knowledge that there was a great deal

of discussion of this action in the Embassy. LITAMIL/9

described DURAN as being very intelligent and quick witted.

According to source, there was almost no discussion

about the

assassination in the Embassy, nor did he hear any

expressions of pleasure.

[MEXI-7115 (IN. 69636), 28 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

Headquarters requests Mexico City Station not to take

any action to rearrest Silvia DURAN or to arrest others

without approval from

Washington.

[DIR 85178, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

Headquarters suggests to the Mexico City Station that

"in lieu of arresting DURAN, she be put under close surveil-

lance by the CIA or by Mexican authorities."

[DIR 85198, 27 November 1963.]

27 November 1963

Headquarters informs the Mexico City Station that the

Department of Justice is preparing a report on the whole as-

sassination case and will undoubtedly

want

to include the

detailed data on OSWALD's activities in Mexico.

Obviously.

the

telephone tap material cannot be used, but the statements

of Silvia DURAN which carry essentially the same import could

be used without compromising Mexico Station's sources or re-

vealing the nature and extent of your liaison.

Therefore re-

quest you cable in a translated version of her statements and

obtain [official Mexican] permission to use these statements

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in the official report,

DEGREE ncidentally will be pub-

lished.

[DIR 95245, 27 November 1963.1

27 - 29 November 1963

Silvia DURAN was arrested for the second time on 27

November, interrogated

on the 28th, and

released

on the

29th of November.

The interrogation was based upon ques-

tions prepared by

the Station and approved by the Legal

Attache.

"a.

Asked her relations with a number of indivi-

duals including some invented names and others

registered owners of cars she had been seen in

during a January 1963 surveillance. Disclaimed

knowledge of all.

Claimed never a member of the Liga Leninista

Espartaco or

inasmuch

as she did not agree

with ideas of neither except for support of cuba.

ic.

Claimed-no affiliation with ICAP, nor connec

tion with the Soviet Embassy which

only visited

twice, once for GAGARIN - TERESKOVA reception and

once at anniversary of Revolution.

Remembered OSWALD perfectly and denied he wore

glasses.

Otherwise no additions to original story.

"e.

No

• Knew of no re-daired negro in the Cuban Embassy.

new people arrived

at. the Embassy around the time

of OSWALD's visits.

Admitted to a one two-week trip to Cuba in 1961.

trips

since then and does

not plan to go.

She de-

nied having

asked

the Ambassador to send her there

first interrogation."

[MEXI-7364 (IN 79373), 12 December 1963]

28 November 1963

Mexico City Station comments that the second pickup

of Silvia DURAN, which was made on the Government's initia-

tive without prior consultation with Station or the U. S.

Embassy, obviously evidence of a great desire of Mexican

authorities to be of service. Immediately after pickup,

ECHEVARRIA had received instructions from LITENSOR per-

sonally not to release DURAN until Winston SCOTT said so.

At Headquarters' request, Chief of Station furnished in-

terrogation questions to ECHEVARRIA night of 27

November.

[MEXI-7118 (IN 69656), 28 November 1963.]

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23 November 1963

The Mexico Station advises Headquarters that it is

sending a photostatic copy of a ten-page statement by

Silvia DURAN obtained from Luis ECHEVARRIA. Roger T.

KINGMAN (P) will carry the document to Washington where

he is arriving at Dulles Airport at 0800 on 28

November

1963.

[MEXI-7105 (IN

), 27 November 1963.1

28 November 1963

In light of DIR 85371, the Station felt it had no

alternative but to inform ECHEVARRIA that neither SCOTT

nor the U. S. Government making an official request for

DURAN's continued detention. The decision to release her

must be theirs (the Mexicans).. This was done at 1200

noon (Mexico time) on 28 November:

[MEXI-7118 (IN 69656), 28 November 1963.]

28 November 1963

Luis ECHEVARRIA advised the Chief of Station that un-

less there are significant developments from the present

interrogation of Silvia DURAN )based upon questions furnished

by the COS on 27 November) or from the interrogation of Gil-

berto ALVARADO, DURAN will be released during the night of

28 November or early morning 29 November.

[MEXI-7124 (IN 69676), 28 November 1963.1

28 November 1963

Luis ECHEVARRIA advised the Chief of Station that the

Mexican Government had refused to accept the very rude note

of protest handed to the Mexican Ambassador BOSQUES in Havana

on 27 November by Raul RDA, the Cuban foeign minister.

[MEXI-7124 (IN 69676), 28 November 1963.]

28 November 1963

The

Mexican Foreign Minister Manuel TELLO announced on

28 November that the Mexican Ambassador to Cuba, Gilberto

BOSQUES, had been instructed to return as "unacceptable" the

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Cuban Government's note of November 26 which had protested

the actuon

of Mexican police in questioning an employee of

the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City about OSWALD's reported

application for a Cuban transit visa during his visit.

[Embassy Despatch, Mexico City, dated 2 December 1963;

DST

29350.1

29 November 1963

ECHEVARRIA advised the Chief of Station early on 29

November that Silvia DURAN had been released again at about

1900. hours (Mexico City time) on 28 November.

DURAN is

under close surveillance and will be apprehended any time

information received warrants such an action. She still ap-

pears to the Mexicans to have been involved only in busi-

ness of possible Cuban and Soviet visas for OSWALD:

[MEXI-7125 (IN 70103) , 29: November 1963.j

29 November 1963

(date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates highlights of official

Mexican interrogation of Horacio DURAN Navarro and Silvia

Tirado de DURAN.

[DIR 95669, 29. NOvember 1963.]

29 November 1963

(date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the FBI, State Department,

and the White House information relating to Silvia DURAN con-

tained in MEXI-7115 (IN 69636), 28 November 1963.

[DIR 85670, 29 November 1963.]

29 November 1963

The Chief of Station passes to the Legal Attache a

copy of a ten-page statement of information obtained by the

Ministry of Gobernacion during the first detention of Silvia

DURAN.

Memorandum for Mr. Clark D. ANDERSON, Legal Attache, dated

29 November 1963, from Winston M. SCOTT.]

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29 November 1963

Headquarters wants to be sure that Mexico City Sta-

tion is immediately giving the Legal

Attache everything the

Station receives from ALVARADO and Silvia DURAN so that the

Legal Attache can forward the data directly to FBI Headquar-

ters. If the Legal Attache does not have sufficient commu-

nications facilities or staff, he can send his messages

through Agency channels, otherwise, Headquarters will con-

tinue to disseminate information to the FBI. Indicate on all

cables whether the Legal Attache has been given the same in-

formation being

reported to Headquarters.

IDIR 85712, 29 NOvember 1963.]

29 November 1963

Headquarters disseminates to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, the Department of State, and the White House

information relating to Silvia DURAN's (second) release.

[DIR 85714, 29 November 1963.1

29 November 1963

(date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation, the Department of State, and the White House,

a rush translation of a report by the Mexican police of an

interrogation of Silvia Tirado de DURAN, her husband, Horacio

DURAN Navarro, and others immediately following their arrest

on 23 November 1963.

[DIR 85.758, 29. November 1963.]

11 December 1963

The Legal Attache in Mexico City passes to the Ambassa-

dor and to the Mexico Station an FBI memorandum concerning

OSWALD's activities in Mexico City from 27 September through

2 October 1963.

(Memorandum to The Ambassador, dated 11 December 1963, from

Clark D. ANDERSON, Legal Attache; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.]

12 December 1963

The FBI is pushing to wind. up its analysis of the

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Mexican

aspects of the OSWALD case and urgently needs the

results of the interrogations of Silvia DURAN and her husband

during their

second

arrest.

[DIR 89642, 12 December 1963.]

12 December 1963

: (date of dissemination)

Headquarters disseminates to the Federal Bureau of In-

vestigation, the Department of State, and the White House,

information obtained from the second interrogation of Silvia

DURAN. [Based unon MEXI-7364 (IN 79373), 12 December 1963.]

[DIR 38747, 12 December 1963.]

13 December 1963

Mexico City Station forwards to Headquarters two copies

of the Mexican Government interrogation report on the "second

arrest" of Silvia Tirado de DURAN... A copy of the report was

passed

to the Legal Attache on 13 December 1963.

[HMMA-22625, 13. December 1963.]

21 December 1963

Headquarters tells Mexico Station that the present plan

for passing information to the Warren Commission is to elimi-

nate any mention of telephone taps, in order to protect the

Station's continuing operations. Headquarters will rely in-

stead

on statements by Silvia DURAN and on the contents of

the Soviet Consular file which the Soviets gave to the Depart-

ment of State. The file shows that both OSWALD and his wife

were dickering with the Soviets in Washington by mail so

as

to obtain permission to return to the Soviet Union.

Exact detailed information from LITAMIL/7 and 19 on

just what Silvia DURAN and other officials

said about OSWALD's

visits and his dealings would be valuable and usable corro-

borative evidence.

Headquarters requests

the Station to ques-

tion them carefully ion these points, while attempting to ob-

tain as much authentic data

as possible' without mixing in what

they have picked up from the newspapers.

[DIR 90466, 21 December 1963.]

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27 Decemher 1963

LITAMIL/D reported on 27 December 1963 that Silvia

had not returned to work since her release from her second

arrest. Silvia's husband was ingry over Foreign Minister

ROA's note which made a cause celebre of the affair. He

told a Cuban Embassy official that ROA's note was inaccu-

rate in claiming that Silvia had been mistreated by the

Mexican police.

[MFXI-7615 (IN 91179), 2 January 1964.1

2 January 1964

LITAMIL/S has nothing additional to offer beyond the

account in MEXI-7115 except that Silvia DURAN said at that

time she was perfectly willing to travel to the

United States

to confront OSWALD if necessary. LITAMIL/9 did not talk to

Silvia about the OSWALD visit, merely stood around with other

staff members while Silvia recounted her arrest, interroga-

tion, and release. She did not mention any details about her

encounter with OSWALD.

[MEXI-7615 (IN 91178), 2 January 1964.]

1 and 9 January 1964

Salvador DIAZ Verson was interviewed by a Special

Agent of the FBI on 4 and 9 January 1964. : DIAZ Verson

furnished information which he had obtained while atten-

ding a Congress of the International Federation of Pro-

fessional Newspaper Organizations (FIOPP), in Mexico

City, from

20 November

to 29 November 1963.

[FBI

Field

Memorandum from Miami, Florida, dated 2 March

1964; Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD, Internal Security - R.

DBA- 66399.1

10 January 1964

(date of dissemination)

Headquarters forwards dissemination to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation containing a translation of the

official Mexican police report on the second interrogation

of Silvia DURAN, done on 28 November 1963.

[CSCI-3/779,482, 10 January 1964.]

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11 January 1964

On 11 January 1964, Dr. Eduardo BORRELL Navarro Was

interviewed in Mexico City by a confidential source. He

made the following statements regarding Salvador DIAZ Ver-

son's allegations concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD.

Salvador DIAZ Verson Was in Mexico City as he claimed

and did discuss Lee OSWALD with BORRELL and other Cuban

exiles. BORRELL did not tell the story credited to him by

DIAZ Verson concerning the visit to a Mexico City restaurant

by OSWALD and Silvia DURAN. BORRELL had never heard this

story

or any similar story before.

BORRELL knew of no meeting between OSWALD and Cuban

Embassy officials other than the meetings which allegedly

occurred at the time OSWALD visited the Cuban Consulate in

Mexico City.

[Memorandum to. Mr. Clarence A. BOONSTRA, Charge d'affaires

ad interim, dated 29 January 1964, from Clark D. ANDERSON,

Legal Attache; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD. . Copy to Win-

ston M. SCOTT.]

13 January 1964

The legal Attache in Mexico City informed the Mexico

Station of current problems in the FBI's investigations of

leads pertinent to Lee Harvey OSWALD:

"'a.

FBI Headquarters sent a cable to Mexico stating

that Salvador DIAZ Verson was the

source of the

ana-

lysis prepared by Cuban psychologist, Jose I. LASAGA

of Miami.

"b.

FBI interviewed DIAZ Verson who said that Silvia

DURAN took Lee OSWALD to Caballo Bayo Restaurant near

Chapultepec Golf Club where they met Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico,

Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas.

Then HERNANDEZ

took OSWALD for a ride in his car so that they could

talk privately.

"c.

DIAZ Verson told the FBI his source was Eduardo

BORRELL Navarro, Mexican newspaperman who writes edi-

torials for Excelsior.

The FBI

sent Matthew CRAWFORD to interview BORRELL

Navarro on 12 January.

Latter said he did not know any

more than that OSWALD had been to

Mexico and had visited

the Cuban Embassy and Silvia DURAN.

He said everything

he knew had been published and was public knowledge.

[MEXI -7776 (IN ), 14 January 1964.1

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17 January 1964

On 17 January 1964, a source who has furnished reliable

information in the past advised that he had been unable to

locate a Caballo Blanco Restaurant in Mexico City, but stated

that there is a Caballo Bayo Restaurant located on the out-

skirts of Mexico City. He advised that on 11 January 1964,

he exhibited photographs of former Cuban Consul Eusebio AZCUE

Lopez, who was in charge of the Cuban Consulate at the time

of OSWALD's visit

there, of Cuban Ambassador Joaquin HERNANDEZ

Armas, of Silvia DURAN, and of OSWALD to employees of the

Caballo Bayo Restaurant and had conducted extensive interviews

of these employees. The source said he was unable to find

anyone among

the employees who could

recall any of the persons

whose photographs were exhibited as having been at the restau-

rant.

[Memorandum to Mr. Clarence A. BOONSTRA, Charge d'affaires

ad interim, dated 29 January 1964, from Clark D. ANDERSON,

Legal Attache; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.. Copy to Win-

ston M. SCOTT.]

29 January 1964

DIAZ Verson, the source of Jose I: LASAGA's information

that the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico City had a long conference

with Lee OSWALD at a restaurant outside Mexico City, turns out

to be a highly unreliable source, with a reputation for fabri-

catior. He did go

to Mexico, via Guatamala and Nicaragua,

leaving

Miami

on 18 November 1963. He was to attend

a confe-

rence in Mexico of the FIOPP (Federacion Internacional de

Organizaciones de Periodistes Professionales) between 19 and

29 November 1963.

The FBI has questioned DIAZ Verson about his story.

He

said that Silvia DURAN, clerk of the Cuban Consulate in Mexico

City, took Lee OSWALD to the Caballo Cayo [sic] Restaurant

near Chapultepec Park where they mat the Cuban Ambassador

Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas and that HERNANDEZ Armas took OSWALD

for a long ride in his car so he could talk. DIAZ Verson said

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that his source for this information was Mexican journalist;

Eduardo BORRELL Navarro, editorialist for the large conser-

vative daily Excelsior, but when the FBI

asked BORRELL about

it he said that DIAZ Verson had made it all up.

BORRELL

said he knew nothing beyond the fact that OSWALD had been in

Mexico, had visited

the Cuban Embassy and talked to Silvia

DURAN.

A senior FBI official in Mexico, Clark ANDERSON, told

our Station Chief that he knew DIAZ Verson well wehn they

were both in Havana and that DIAZ Verson was noted for "re-

ports based on his intuitive feelings".

He rarely reported

facts.

This seems

to discredit completely the story that OSWALD

had had a long conference with the Cuban

Ambassador in Mexico

City.

[Blind Memorandum, dated 29 January 1964; Subject: Presence

of Salvador DIAZ Verson in Mexico around 22 November 1963.]

31 January 1964

The Agency forwards to the Warren Commission a memoran-

dum with an enclosure regarding "Information Developed by CIA

on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 Sep-

tember - 3 October 1963"

"We have included in this paper only hard, substantive

information.

Any judgements that

are made

represent

professional evaluations by individuals who have worked

over the years as specialists

in their fields.

Specu-

lation,

rumor, and vague detail not directly related

to OSWALD's activity have not been included."

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964,

from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for

Plans; Subject:

Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey

OSWALD in Mexico City 28 September - 3 October 1963.1

21 February 1964

The Agency forwarded to the Warren Commission a memo-

randum to which

were

attached two

enclosures:

d.

Results of the interrogation of Silvia Tirado de

DURAN, her husband, Horacio DURAN Navarro et al,

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FORE

immediately following their detainment on 23 November

1963.

b.

Results of the interrogation of Silvia Tirado de

DURAN on the morning of 28 November 1963.

[Memorandum

for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated

21 February 1964,

from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:

Translations of Interrogation Reports of Silvia DURAN.]

27. February 1964

Salvador DIAZ Verson was interviewed by Special Agent

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Miami, Floride,

on 27 February 1964, at

which time DIAZ Verson furnished the

following information:

"DIAZ Verson resides at 8770 S.W. 21st Street, West-

chester, Miami, Florida.

He is a Cuban exile, for-

merly associated with the Cuban police in 1933, Chief

of Cuban Military Intelligence Service during the

period 1949 to 1952, but primarily a newspaperman by

profession.

"He had been previously interviewed by a Special

Agent of the FBI

on January 4 and 9;

dates he furnished the data which he had

while attending a Congress of the International

Federation of Professional

Newspaper Organizations

(FIOPP), in Mexico City, from November

20, 1963 to

November 29, 1963.

"He stated he knew absolutely nothing first hand

concerning the visit of Lee Harvey OSWALD to Mexico

or of persons contacted by OSWALD while in Mexico.

He stated

as previously reported, that he did have

contact with Dr. Eduardo BORRELL

Navarro,

employed by the Mexican newspaper Excelsior,

stated he did not

, and does not, attribute to Dr.

BORRELL Navarro the information regarding the contact

Of OSWALD with Silvia DURAN, an employee of the Cuban

Consulate at a Mexico City restaurant.

"DIAZ Stated the only contact of OSWALD discussed by

him with BORRELL Navarro was that of the visit of

OSWALD to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico, and the fact

that Silvia DURAN was picked up and interviewed by the

Mexican police.

He said there was some speculation

and talk regarding the identity of the specific offi

cial of the Cuban

Consulate or Embassy with whom DURAN

may have placed OSWALD in contact.

DIAZ Verson stated

Dr. BORRELL Navarro never stated

that OSWALD went to a

restaurant in Mexico City called

the Caballo Blanco or

possibly

met an official of

the Caballo Bay thwhere OSWALD and DURAN

DIAZ Ver-

son stated he did

not discuss with BORRELL

allegation that. OSWALD was

agust, in the house of Sil-

via DURAN while he was in Mexico.

"DIAZ Verson stated the matter of OSWALD allegedly

meeting with DURAN at the restaurant and allegedly be-

guest in her home,

were strictly unidentified

questions, comments, and the voicing of thoughts. and

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speculation by a rather

large group of Latin American

newspapermen in the

offices of Exeelsior on the night

of November 25, 1963.

"DIAZ Verson stated that after

• Angel FERNANDEZ Varela

was interviewed

by the FBI in Miami,

Verson and asked:

'Just what were those details about

OSWALD meeting DURAN in some cabaret or restaurant in

Mexico City and the introduction of OSWALD to an offi-

cial of the Cuban Embassy?'

FERNANDEZ Varela admitted

he had not understood the

story too well and

had confüsed it

'a little' when he retold it.

"On February

29, 1964, upon being further interviewed

in his accounts of the

especially the sources responsible for

certain specific statements, DIAZ Verson admitted

he did make statements

Special Agent of the FBI

on January 4 and 9, 1964, slightly at variance with

and both at variance with. what he related

to another

other'special Agent of the FBI on February 27,

He stated he did not do this out of malice or

bad faith, or with intent to mislead anyone. He de-

clared he

did not regard anything he heard,

of said he

had heard

in Mexico,

as evidence, or of serious impor-

had engaged in loose talk and re-

and when challenged as

peated theory and speculahamed to admit an irrespon

sible naming of sources.

"DIAZ Verson declined to take a

polygraph examination

stating it would only humiliate him further, and show

what he had already admitted.

"With regard to a relationship between BORREL Navarro

and Horacio DURAN Navarro, DIAZ. Verson stated BORRELL

Navarro is a Cuban, only temporarily residing in exile

in Mexico City.

Horacio DURAN Navarro and his wife,

Silvia, are Mexicans.

DIAZ Verson stated that Cuba

and interrogation

py the Mexican Police; the Mexican Foreign Office re-

of Silvia DURAN

jected the protest, and in doing

so, stated DURAN

Navarro and wife are Mexican citizens.

stated this was the account published

in Mexico City

newspapers,

and he concluded the same maternal name

for BORRELL Navarro and DURAN Navarro is only

coincidence."

[FBI Field Memorandum from Miami, Florida, dated 2 March 1964;

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD, Internal Security - R.

DBA-66938.]

7 April 1964

The Agency forwards a memorandum to the Warren Commission

containing information on the actionf of Silvia DURAN on her

return to work

at the Cuban Consulate on 25 November 1963,

following her first interrogation by the Mexican authorities.

"This

item may.

be useful to the Commission in the evaulation

of Mrs. DURAN's story."

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 7 April 1964, from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans. DDP 4-1787.1

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5 May

1964

On 5 May, Mr. WHITTEN and Mr. HALL met with Mr.

SLAWSON of the Conmission in Mr. WHITTEN's office. This

meeting had been requested to asli for a fresh translation

of the taped conversation between Cuban President DORTICOS

and Ambassador HERNANDEZ Armas. Win SCOTT had told

the

Commission staff members visiting

Mexico City that his trans-

lators, in the rush at the time, might have misconstrued cer-

tain nuances of meaning in what was a difficult recording.

In view of this, Mr. SLAWSON asked that a new

translation be

made, if possible, by a person knowledgeable of the Cuban

dialect.

[Memorandum for the Record, dated 5 May 1964, by Thomas R.

HALL; Subject: Meeting with Mr. SLAWSON of the Presidential

Commission.]

5 May 1964

According to Mr. SLAWSON, no member of the Commission

now knows of the telephone taps in Mexico City (he did not

mention Mr. DULLES) .

[Comment:

This

statement does not include members of the

Commission's staff, for at least three members of the staff,

including Mr. SLAWSON, had been briefed by Winston SCOTT

on all the pertinent telephone calls during their visit in

April 1964. HМMA-23249, 14 April 1964.1

(Ibid.]

6 May 1964

(date of FBI Report)

Silvia DURAN's name appears

in Lee Harvey OSWALD'S

personal address book.

[FBI Report, dated 6 May 1964. DBA- 70129.]

19 May 1964

__: (date of FBI. Report)

Date of an FBI report containing a compilation of facts

known to date on OSWALD's trip to Mexico and his activities

there.. Also included are allegations by various individuals

concerning OSWALD's Mexico contacts.

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"On 24 March 1964, Captain Fernando GUTIERREZ Barrios,

Assistant Director of the Mexican Federal Security Police,

Mexico, D. F., made available a copy of a signed statement

which had been made by Silvia DURAN to the Federal Security

Police on 23 November 1963." A translation from the Spanish

of that statement is recorded on pages 35 through 41 of the

report.

[FBI Report, dated 18 May 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.]

19 May 1964

Mexico Station forwards to Headquarters two copies of

the Gobernacion Report on the steps taken and investigations

made by the Mexican Government as a

result of President

Kennedy's assassination. The attached copies were "unofficial"

as the Ambassador had. not yet received that report from the

Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The station noted that this report had been asked for by

the three staff members of the Warren Commission who

visite d

Mexico 8 - 13 April 1964. At that time, Acting Secretary of

Gobernacion, Luis ECHEVARRIA, promised this report would imme-

diately be sent through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the

United

States Ambassador.

A copy of the report was received by the Station from

the Legal Attache who had received a copy unofficially from

the Director of Investigations, Gobernacion, Santiago IBANEZ

Llamas.

[НMMA-23443, 19 May 1964.1

26 May 1964

The Mexican Station forwarded to Headquarters a copy

of the official report which "will be sent to the Warren

Commission as a response to the request made to Luis ECHEVARRIA

Acting Minister of Gobernacion, by the three staff members

of the Warren Commission who visited Mexico in April 1964."

The report was received by Arbassador FREEMAN on 22 May 1964.

[HMMA- 23520, 26 May 1964.]

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23 July 1964

Date of Note no. 507794 from the Mexican Secretariat

of Foreign Relations granting the permission of the Mexican

Government to publish the documents on the activities of

Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico.

[According to the source document, this note was received by

the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City on 1? August 1964.]

[U. S. Embassy Despatch, Mexico City, dated 20 August 1964.]

5 August 1964

Foreign Secretary GOROSTIZA telephoned the United States

Minister BOONSTRA with reference to Ambassador FREEMAN's dis-

cussion with him of documents which the Warren Commission

wished

to publish. "He said that. after considering further

the request by Ambassador FREEMAN and after reviewing all of

the documents, the Government of Mexico agrees to the publica-

tion of all of the documents which it provided to us regard-

ing its investigations of the activities in Mexico of Lee

Harvey OSWALD. The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs is now

preparing a Note Verbal informing the Embassy of this de-

cision but he was telephoning this to me in the event that

we wished to begin prompt action."

[Memorandum of Conversation, dated 5 August 1964, between

Foreign Secretary GOROSTIZA and Minister BOONSTRA; Subject:

Clearance for Publication of Mexican Documents by Warren

Commission.]

13 August 1964

On this

date the United

States Embassy in Mexico City

received

a note, dated 23 July 1964, from the Secretariat of

Foreign Relations. This note stated the agreement of the

Mexican Government to the publication by the Warren Commission

of the documents 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 which had been provided

to

the U.S. Embassy as attachments to the, Secretariat's note of

9 June 1964. Document no. 5 had been inadvertantly omitted.

Following a conversation between Minister Counselor C. A.

BOONSTRA and Ambassador Jose GALLASTEGUI, Secretariat of For-

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eign Relations, the latter said that it was the intention of

the Mexican Government to allow the publication of all the

documents, including document

no. 5. Accordingly;

the note

was retyped with the inclusion of document 5, and returned

to the Embassy under the same date and note number.

[Memorandum of Conversation, dated 14 August 1964, between

Ambassador Jose GALLASTEGUI, Secretariat of Foreign Relations;

and U. S. Minister Counselor, C. A. BOONSTRA; Subject: Clea-

rance for Publication of Mexican Documents by the Warren

Commission.l

8 September 1964

Mexico City Station forwards to Headquarters two photo-

static samples of Silvia DURAN'S

signature, in

accordance

with referenced cables.

[DIR 47423 and MEXI-0805.]

[HMMA- 24280

, "S September 1964.1

-14 September 1964

Mexico City Station forwards to Headquarters another

copy of Silvia DURAN's signature.

[HMMA- 24304, 14 September 1964.1

16 September 1964

Mr. SLAWSON of the Warren Commission in a discussion

relating to Silvia DURAN's handwriting sample asked if

there

-s information available regarding her current status

of moral, attitude, current employment.

Headquarters asks

the Mexico Station to furnish information relating to DURAN'S

situation

and outlook. Headquarters suggest that Mexican of-

ficials not be consulted..

[DIR 49619, 16 September 1964.]

16 September 1964

Headquarters forwards request from Warren Commission for

any substantive data which can

be cited

jin the published re-

port as an authoritative source regarding allegations that

Silvia DURAN and

her husband were or are members of the Commun-

ist Party.

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Mr. SLAWSON, the Commission attorney, recalls that

both

the Chief of Station and the Legal Attache

referred

to these allegations during SLAWSON's visit to Mexico.

Headquarters asks whether any documentary or other

evidence exists

or can be attributed to Mexican authorities.

[DIR 49941, 16 September 1964.]

18 September 1964

TSD

forwards to Chief, Counter Intelligence Staff a

memorandum on handwriting identification.

"1.

Reference forwarded (1) a poor quality

reduced size photograph of a Cuban visa appli-

cation in the name of Lee H. OSWALD with a hand-

written notation in the lower left corner that

appears to read

'Hotel del Camercon (?) /Room 18

46-60-51 (?)'

, (2)

enlarged photograph, unknowr

size, of

signature 's.

de DURAN'

, and (3) xerox

copy.

of volume 3

of the exhibits

in the

'Inves -

tigation. of

Assassination of President John F.

Kennedy,

November 22,

ting

1963', containing handwri-

specimens.of. lee Harvey OSWALD. It was re-

quested that an effort be made to determine if

Silvia DURAN ou Lee H. OSWALD wrote the notation

in the lower left corner of the visa application."

[Memorandum no. G-9813 for Chief, DDP/CI, dated 18

September 1964, from TSD/GARB/ODS.]

19 September 1964

In response to Headquarters! requests (DIR 49619 and

49941), the Mexico Station forwarded the following infor-

mation "from high official of Mexican Government in a posi-

tion to know the facts":

"a.

Her full name is Silvia Tirado Bazan de DURAN;

her husband;s full name is Horacio (DURAN) Navarro.

"b. At the time of interrogation by Mexican authori-

ties on the

OSWALD case both Silvia DURAN and her

husband denied they were members of the Partido

Communista Mexicano, Partido Popular Socialista, or

any

communist or Marxist front groups.

Both

stated that they 'believed completely in

Marxist Leninist principles and tried to live

Marxists'.

According

to Mexican official, 'No Mexican has

worked

for the Cuban Embassy in Mexico since 1959

who is not a completely convinced communist'

"e.: Both Silvia and her husband were listed in Federal

Police organization files as communists, members of the

This latter information is not releasable in do-

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Horacio DURAN continues to

live at Avenida Constituyen-

tes no. 143, apartment no.

Silvia has disappeared.

Her husband

refuses to say where she is - merely states

she is out of Mexico.

Her whereabouts are unknown and

Mexican

authorities believe she is being hidden by the

Mexican authorities report that she has not worked at

the Cuban Consulate or any

other job since her deten-

tion on the OSWALD case.

Mexican officials do not

know her present morale but bedieve she is still

fri-

ghtened

USA, and

pro-CASTRO,

pro-communist,

anti-Mexican police authorities.

Horacio DURAN has kept up payments on rent and lights.

He seems to live

as well as ever; however, the source

of his income remains a mystery.

[MEXI-0930 (IN 77619), 19 September 1964.]

22 September 1964

The Agency forwards a memorandum to J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel of the Warren Commission, containing in-

formation on Silvia Tirado Bazan de DURAN.

In response to the verbal equest of Mr. SLAWSON

of your staff,

I forward details on the political

background

and recent activity of Silvia Tirado Bazan

de DURAN.

official of the Mexican Government, in

the facts, has indicated

Mexican has worked for the

Cuban Embassy in Mexico

1959 who is not a completely convinced communist.

Both Mrs. DURAN and her husband were listed in the

Mexican security organization's files as members of

the Mexican Communist Party.

"3.

As of the date of this letter, Mr. DURAN con-

tinues to live at Avenida Constituyentes Number 3:

[sic - 143], Apartment 3.

Mrs. DURAN, however,

•out of circulation and her whereabouts are unknown.

It is reported that she has not worked at the Cuban

Embassy

or at any

other job since her detainment for

interrogation on

the OSWALD case.

Mr. DURAN refuses

to state where she is,

except for the indication that

'she is outside of Mexico'.

It is believed by the

official cited in paragraph 2 above that Mrs. DURAN

is being hidden out by the Cubans."

[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, 22 September 1964, from

Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plnas.

DDP 4-4921.]

22 September 1964

The Mexico City Station reports to Headquarters that

it does not have exemplars available for a comparison with

referenced visa application. The type face matches that of

other documents from the Embassy. The weak impression of

the top of the lower case letter "e" also appears in a docu-

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ment from

33

JECh

the Commercial Office of the Embassy and was ap-

parently prepared

on

the

same typewriter

as

the visa

appli-

Cation

form.

Stationery used for the

letter from Havana

appears to be genuine.

Both

documents

have an

authentic

flavor.

Station is attempting to obtain a blank visa ap-

plication for comparison.

[MEXI-0969 (IN 79218), 22 September 1964.1

25 September 1964

Headquarters expresses

its appreciation to the Mexico

City Station

for its assistance.

The handwritting

investi-

gation can now be considered completed.

"All Headquarters components involved in the

OSWALD affair wish to express

their

apprecia-

tion to the Station for its effort in this and

other facets of the OSWALD case."

[HMMW- 12931, 25 September 1964.]

30 September 1964

According to reliable and sensitive source Silvia

DURAN informed Raul PEREYRA of the Cuban Embassy that

she

had been on an excursion with some students to the Isla

Mujeres and Merida. PEREYRA who recently returned from

Cuba said Eusebio AZCUE sent greetings to Silvia.

[MEXI-1129 (IN

), 5 October 1964.1

5 October 1964|

(date of report)

According to LICOOKIE, "Elena GARRO de PAZ, Elena PAZ

(the daughter) and Deba Garro de Guerrero GALVAN set around

all weekend (no dates given by source) recalling details of

their having been

in a group with OSWALD here last fall dur-

ing the days that he was in

Mexico. The write-ups of the

Warren Commission report in the newspaper sparked this dis-

cussion, and they apparently had never

really sat around de-

termined

to piece it all together, although all three were

deeply affected by Kennedy's assassination, seemed literally

to adore the Kennedy family image, still follow Robert

Kennedy's career with great interest and admiration."

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The main points covered:

"Elena and Deba are first cousins of three young

can girl who was

e the hutter of for on s

the husband of Silvia

15 he find ed or dan

and Lynn.

the Mexi-

OSWALD because she had been in touch

the Cuban Embassy when he went there looking for

[She is or was also a ringleader (no ad-

tional details provided by source)

Mexican Institute, according to the source.]

"While OSWALD was here last fall the DURAN cousins

invited the GARRO

sisters and young Elena PAZ to a

'twist party'

at the home of Ruben DURAN mid-week.

communists they knew (Deba is a communist

'Elena has

been in touch with communists since she

and went to Republican Spain with

Octavio PAZ.) and a number of people

who struck

as very peculiar at the time, were there.

OSWALD was there with two other beatnik looking

one of whom was very tall and all three of

whom they remember quite well.

When they began

asking questions about-the Americans,

who were

standing together all evening and did not dance

at all,

they were shifted to another room. (the

FARRO's were); however,

they were intrigued be-

cause their cousin said he did not know who they

were, except that Silvia DURAN had brought them,:

and: none of the other guests made any attempt to

When the GARRO's were so insistent

them, the DURANS replied that the

boys were leaving

town very early

the next morning.

The next day,

well along in the day, the GARRO SIS:

ters and Elenita PAZ saw all three

on Insurgentes.

In other words, they had not left

town. At the time they they remarked about it.

"As soon as OSWALD's picture was printed in the news-

papers all three clearly remembered him, and, of

the arrest of Silvia DURAN almost immedi-

ately afterward

underlined their certainty.

were so sickened (Elena and Elenita) that they broke

off their relations with the DURANs; however, their

cousins very

nervously looked them

up later,

Guerrero GALVAN says that Lynn DURAN and one of the

DURAN boys have made trips to Texas, and that most

conspicuously they have all prospered this last year.

Always poor before, they now have an expensive. car

"Horacio DURAN

works on the El Dia newspaper."

[Blind Memorandum, dated 5 October 1964; Subject:

Mexican

Communists Who Had Contact with OSWALD, as Has Not appeared

in Warren Commission

Write-ups in Press.]

17 November 1964

Personnel from the Legal Attache's office_in the U.S.

Embassy, Mexico City, interviewed

Mrs. Flena Garro de PAZ and

her daughter, Elena PAZ Garro.

[Memorandum to The Ambassador, dated 27 December 1965, from

Nathan L. FERRIS, Legal Attache; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.]

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24 November 1964

The FBI report on information supplied on 24 November

1964 by Elena Garro de PAZ and her daughter, Elena PAZ Garro.

"They are residents of Mexico City, but declined to

supply their home address.

Mrs. PAZ stated she is a

cousin of Ruben, Lidia, and Horacio DURAN

the latter

being the husband of Silvia Tirado de DURAN.

She said

she had not furnished previously the information set

forth hereinafter because of fear of reprisals.

"Mrs. PAZ said that on August 23; 1963,

she attended

a dinner

the home of a Mexican

communist whom

Among others present at this

dinner were Cuban Consul Fusebio AZCUE and his wife.

She had not previously known AZCUE.

In conversation

with him during the course of the evening she learned

that he was supposed to return to Cuba on or about

August 27, 1963.

She later learned that he did not

depart Mexico at that time.

she had infrequent contact

with her

"According to Mrs. he DURANS; however, on a date she

cousins,

September

29, 1963, she received

fixed as Saturday from Ruben DURAN, who invited her

a telephone call

and her

daughter to attend a party

at his house during

the first past of the following

week.

She was unable

to fix

the exact date of this party, but felt it had

been held on Monday, Tuesday,

or Wednesday, September

30, October 1, and October

Z, 1963, respectively, with

the most likely possibility

that it was held on the

evening. of October 1 or October 2, 1963.

"It was Mrs. PAZ' recollection that at about 9:00

on the date of the party she and her daughter were

picked up and taken

to the party by Lidia

accompanying them was Mrs.

sister, Deva Garro de

Guerrero

GALVAN.

She described this sister

nist who was expelled from the Party for being a Catho-

".

"At

about 10:30 p.m. three young, white Americans

ved

at the party.

They were greeted by Silvia DURAN

and spoke only to her.

They more of less isolated

themselves from the rest of the party and insofar as

she observed they had no conversation with anyone else

at the party.

"The three Americans appeared to be between twenty-two

and twenty-four years of age.

One of them was dressed

in a sweater and

dark trousers and appeared to be about

five feet nine inches in height.. The second one was

chout sid fast ait heathlor in

straight hair, a long

chin,

was a bit

appearance although

his dress

included a coat.

The third

American wore

no coat.

"...

"It is to be noted that investigation has established

that Lee Harvey OSWALD departed Mexico City by bus at

8:30 a.m. on October 2, 1963,

and could not have been

identical with the American allegedly observed by Mrs.

PAZ at the party of this party were held on the evening

of October 1 or October 2, 1963.

"...

. "

[FBI Report, 11 December 1964; Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

DBA- 93645.]

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30 June 1965

(date of dissemination)

The Agency forwards a dissemination to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation containing information on Silvia

DURAN.

"1.

A usually reliable and senisitive source

reports that on 15 June 1965 an unidentified

woman speaking French called Joaquin HERNANDEZ

Armas, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, from Chicago.

The woman stated she was calling on behalf of a

Mr. GAN (phonetic); she asked whether Silvia

DURAN was a friend

of Harvey Lee OSWALD, and if

DURAN had

returned to Cuba.

The Ambassador,

who

does not understand much French,

said that DURAN

used to work

that she resides in Mexico,

at the Embassy but he

longer does, anc

does not

Knot

the address.

The woman again

asked if DURAN was

a friend of

OSWALD.

The Ambassador, who appeared

not to understand the question fully, answered

affirmatively."

[Based upon MBXI-3832 (IN 92908) .]

[CSCI-316/02654-65, 30 June 1965.]

10 December 1965

(date of report)

Charles W. THOMAS, Political Officer, U:S. Embassy,

Mexico City, reports that in the course of a discussion

about other matters, Sra. de PAZ mentioned that she had

met Lee Harvey OSWALD. She was very reluctant to discuss

the matter, but finally imparted the following information:

In September 1963, shortly after her.

abroad, she went to a party at

the home of Ruben DURAN,

married

to her cousin.

Her daughter, Elenita,

accompanied her.

There she met OSWALD and

two other

who were with him.

The three young

Americans remained

apart from the other guests.

She

expressed an interest

in

talking

to them,

but was dis-

couraged from doing so by some of the other guests.

Most of the guests at the party were communists

or philocommunists.

She remembers seeing

ASQUE [sic - AZCUE]; General Clark FLORES of

the Mexican Olympic Committee; Silvia DURAN, who she

later learned was OSWALD's mistress while he was here;

Emilio CARBALLIDO, the writer,

in the United States; and a Latin American Negro man

with red hair.

In November 1963, when the identity of Kennedy's

assassin became known,

she and her daughter went to

the Cuban Embassy and

once admitted through the front

shouted

'assassin' and other insults at the staff

there.

Shortly afterward,

she and her daughter were visited

by a friend,

Manuel CARVILLO, who was then an official

in the Secretariat of Gobernacion, and were told he had

orders to escort them to a small and obscure hotel in

the center of town.

They were kept there for eight days

under pretext that

they were in danger.

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When she tola CARVILLO she wanted to go to the Ameri-

can Embassy and explain what she knew of OSWALD's co-

nnections

here with Mexican communists and Cubans

told that the American Embassy was full of

communist

She said CARVILLO tries to give the

that he is an

extreme rightist.

He now

Bellas Artes.

of the other people who were at the party

with OSWALD were

the state of Veracruz,

where they were 'protected' by Governor LOPEZ Arias..

reportedly

'protect' by General Clark

FLORES and is now driving a big car and looking very

prosperous.

"6.

Many communists and philocommunists here believe

Kennedy's

assassination was the result of

a communist

plot engineered by Fidel CASTRO.

Ruben DURAN has

sub-

sequently

told her that he

not really a communist

and

that it had been a great

mistake to kill Kennedy."

[Memorandum of Conversation, dated 10 December 1965; Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD and Kennedy Assassination.]

16 December 1965

Mexico City Station reports to Headquarters information

provided by Elena Garro de PAZ. and reported by Charles W.

THOMAS, Political Officer of the U.S. Embassy, Mexico City.

[See preceding entry.]

[MEXI-5621 (IN

), 16 December 1965.]

25 December 1965

On 25 December 1965, Elena Garro de PAZ again discussed

at considerable length her alleged encounter with OSWALD. Some

further information on this subject was given subsequently

on 9 January 1966. During this latter conversation, Mrs. de PAZ

admitted that she had gone to the Embassy on an earlier occa-

sion with her daughter

and mother-in-law and had talked with

two Embassy officers (presumably from the Legal Attache's. of-

fice) about this matter.

She said since the Embassy officers

did not give much

credence to anything they said, they did not

bother to give

a very complete story. The following informa-

tion supplements and

in some instances corrects that given

in the memorandum of 10 December.

"1.. ...

"2. She believes that the date of the party was about

September 2 or 3,

1963.

It was a few days before the

visit of the Soviet astronaut, GAGARIN.

She believes

on honday and Tuesday She cannot contently secon

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it was a Monday or Tuesday because

it was an odd night

tp have a party.

(September 2 and 3, in fact, do fall

Tuesday.)

She cannot conviently recon-

her calendar because it is in a

away with a lot of other fur-

niture blocking it.

"3.

Although Sra. de PAZ had returned from an extended

stay in Europe only in June or July,

she had already

Eusebio AZCUE

and knows positively that he was at

the Party.

On another occasion (it was not clear

whether before or after the party in question), she at-

tended a party where she saw,

among others, Eusebio

AZCUE; Emilio

CARBALLIDO, the pro-CASTRO writer;

Latin American negro man

with red hair.

at the DURAN party as was mistakenly sta-

ted in the December 10 memorandum.)

after the assassination, Elenita de PAZ encountered

Sra. de AZCUE in Saborns.

turned and hurried out of the store.

diately called back to Havana after the assassination,

and his wife followed him shortly thereafter. (NB:

According to Agency files, AZCUE left Mexico City on

18 November 1963 - four days before the assassination.)

"5.

"6.

Later that day [23 November 1963], they were visited

by a friend, Manuel VALVILLO, who said

that they were in

serious danger from the communists and that he would take

them to a small hotel where

days.

they would be safe for a few

Among other things he said was that Sylvia

DURAN had been arrested.

This was not public informa:

tion at that time.

[According to

Elena de PAZ, CALVILLO

was known around town to be an undercover agent for the

Secretariat of Gobernacion and to be a personal friend

of Noe PALOMARES and Gustavo DIAZ Ordaz.]

about the end of January 1964,

Ruben DURAN V

visited Sra. de PAZ.

DURAN who got him invoived with OSWALD.

He said it was Silvia

He added

that he was

not really a communist and was against

assassination.

"14.

"15."

de PAZ stated that it

was common knowledge that

Silvia DURAN was the mistress of OSWALD.

The only per-

son she could remember who told her this, however, was

Victor RICO Galan, the pro-CASTRO journalist.

"'16.

She also

stated that

she understood that OSWALD

had

come to Mexico more than once."

Memorandum of Conversation, dated 25 December 1965; Subject:

Lee Harvey OSWALD and Kennedy Assassination.]

27 December 1965

The Legal Attache in Mexico City, 'Nathan L. FERRIS,

reported to the Ambassador that ". . : Mrs. Elena Garro de

PAZ and her daughter, Elena PAZ Garro, were interviewed by

personnel of this office on 17 and 24 November 1964, at

-SEGRET

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which time they furnished information similar to that set forth

in referenced memorandum. Inquiries conducted at that time,

however, failed to

substantiate the allegations made by Mrs.

Garro de PAZ

and her daughter.

"In

view

of the fact that Mrs. Garro de PAZ' allegations

have been previously checked out without substantiation, no

further action

is being taken concerning her recent repeti-

tion

of those allegations."

[Memorandum to The Ambassador, dated 27 December 1965, from

Nathan L. FERRIS, Legal Attache; Subject:.. Lee Harvey OSIVALD.

Copies sent to the DCM C. A. BOONSTRA, Mr. Wallace W. STUART,

Counselor for Political Affairs, and Winston M. SCOTT.]

29 December 1965

The Mexico Station reports to Headquarters that the

Legal Attache in Mexico interviewed Elena Garro de PAZ and

daughter Elena PAZ Garro in November 1964 and failed to

substantiate allegations reported in referenced cable [MEXI-

5621 (IN

), 16 December 19651.

[MEXI - 5741. (IN

), 29 December 1965.1

23 February 1966

In a memorandum to The Ambassador, the Legal Attache

in Mexico City, Nathan L. FERRIS, referencing the Memorandum

of Conversation dated 25 December 1965 (see entry above),

stated that "Extensive investigation conducted in

the United

States and Mexico after the assassination of President Kennedy

failed to disclose that OSWALD traveled to Mexico prior

to

September 26, 1963. OSWALD was residing in New Orleans,

Louisiana, in early September, 1963, and no information has

been obtained to indicate that he was away from that area in

early September 1903.

"In

view of the fact that Mrs. Garro de PAZ' allegations

have been

previously checked out

without

substantiation, no

further action

is being taken concerning her recent repetition

of those allegations."

Memorandum to The Ambassador, dated 23 February 1966, from

N. L. FERRIS, Legal Attache. 1

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13 July 1966

Charles N. THOMAS, Political Officer, U. S. Embassy,

Mexico City, reports further information on Lee Harvey

OSWALD and the

assassination of Kennedy.

"Sra. PAZ des-

cribed

some developments which may have some bearing on

her claim

that she saw Lee Harvey OSWALD at a party

at the

hone of her cousin Puben DURAN, when OSWALD was in Mexico

prior to the Kennedy

assassination.": (NB: This report

has

no information on Silvia DURAN.)

[Memorandum of Conversation, dated 13 July 1966; Subject:

Further on OSWALD and Kennedy Assassination.]

26 May 1967

During a meeting with his agent handler, LIRING/3

stated that "he was doing his best to keep active cer-

contacts he had had in the past that were on the periphery

of the official Cuban circle. He mentioned specifically

the case of Silvia and Horacio DURAN . ... He related that

Silvia DURAN worked as a receptionist at the Consulate in

1963-1964 and was on duty when Lee Harvey OSWALD applied

for a visa.

She had been recommended to the Cubans by Teresa

PROENZA, the Press Attache from 1959 until 1962.

LIRING/3

described Teresa PROENZA as a Cuban woman aged about 52, a

Lesbian, and

a member of the Communist Party of Cuba, who

was currently in jail in Cuba as the result of a conviction

for espionage on behalf of CIA. LIRING/3 recalled that dur-

ing his last visit to Havana, a friend of his in the Minis-

try of Education, informed him of Teresa PROENZA's present

situation and advised LIRING/3, in the event he was asked,

he deny that he had known Teresa PROENZA or had had anything

to do with her. LIRING/3 continued that just the other day

Silvia DURAN had telephoned him to say hello and that he had

visited her at her home to renew his acquaintance.

[LIFEAT SAN-26 (10.8) reveals that at about 1245

on 22 May 1967,

LIRING/3 telephoned 15-78-11 and

asked for Sra. Silvia.

When

(the maid) informed

him she was

not in, he asked for Sr. Horacio.

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When same negative reply given, he asked that

they be advised that LIRING/3 had called to

say hello.

(11.0) reveals an incoming

he obtained her number. He replies:

Institute".

She states that

dying at some school and at

the moment is free

to talk to LIRING/3.

The latter replies

he would go by to visit her (Constituyentes143,

apt.. 3) in a few minutes.!.

LIPING/3 continued that Silvia DURAN informed him that

she had first met OSWALD when he applied for a visa

and had

gone out with him several

times since she liked him from the

start. She

admitted that she had

sexual relations with him

but

insisted that she had

no idea of his plans.

When

the

news of the assassination broke she stated that she was im-

mediately taken into custody by the Mexican police and in-

terrogated thoroughly and beaten until she admitted that she

had had an affair with OSWALD. She added that ever since

then she has cut off all contact with the Cubans, particu-

larly, since her husband Horacio who was badly shaken by the

whole affair, went into a rage and has forbidden her to see

them. She added that she felt certain that her telephone

was tapped by the Mexican police, or, more probably by CIA,.

since tapping was an expensive proposition and the Mexicans

wouldn't be able to afford it for so long a period.

ROWTON (P), LIRING/3's agent handler, counseled LIRING/3

against further contact with the DURAN's on

the ground that it

might

put him under some sort of suspicion whether in the eyes

of the Mexican police or the Cubans.

He pointed out that lit-

tle -r

nothing was to be gained from such a contact."

[HNMA-32243, 13 June 1967.1

SECRET

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tat F

1. LEADS INVESTIGATED BY CIA.

•This list does not include disseminations or memoranda

on Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte and Silvia Tirado de DURAN

These two leads have been

treated separately elsewhere in this study.

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

the type of document involved (OUT Teletype Message - DIRECTOR cable disseminate

by electrical means; CSCI dissemination - through regular liaison channels, or

memorandum). Following the subject of the document there is an appropriate excerpt

from the document.

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

either in the field or headquarters.

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

indicates that the originator of the lead when not CIA and that the later

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

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

Station.

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

tion or memorandum.

The entry appearing in brackets indicates the recipient re-

ceived the document at a later time.

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(B)

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26 November 1963

DIR 85069

Subject: Travel of Pro-Communist Costa Rican

Congressman

to Texas on 26 November 1963.

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

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

tend Planned to leave San Jose, Costa Rica, poland.

for Poland 24 November to at-

SUNOL delayed his de-

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

to gather data in Texas

to use in pro-communist/Castro propaganda in con-

nection with the assassination of President Kennedy.

FBI

26 November 1963

DIR 85176

Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD

"The following information on Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD,

wife of Lee Harvey

OSWALD, was volunteered by Moroccan student Mohammed REGGAB: born on

January 1938 in Safi, Morocco.

REGGAB is now living at Nuernbergerstr.

West Berlin.

REGGAB was a student at the Moscow: Institute: of Cine-

matography from September 1960 to April 1962. He came to Berlin in April

1963 as. a student and on 26 November colunteered the following informa-

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

identified her

dent dele bit do taste a serliner zentung Marina, which

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

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

26 November 1963

DIR 85177

Subject: Telecon between Cuban President

DORTICOS and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas.

"Following is account of telephone conversation between Cuban President

Osvaldo DORTICOS in Havana and Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas, Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico in Mexico City

at 0940 hours Mexico City time on

26 November

as reported

sensitive source.".

(See Chronological Summary on

Silvia Tirado de DURAN.)

FBI,

State,

White

House,

Secret

Service

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(A)

(B)

- RECIPIENT(S) -

27 November 1963

CSCI-3/778,881

Subject:

Lee H. OSWALD/Soviet Activities in

Mexico City, 18 - 24 November 1963 m

"1. Forwarded as Attachment. A is a resume of the observed activities of

Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV and Ivan Gavrilovich ALFERIEV las reported

by a reliable source in Mexico City.

Attention was given to KOSTIKOV

because

of the indication that he is the consul who

interviewed OSWALD

on 29 September 1963

ALFERIEV travelled with KOSTIKOV to nor-

thern Mexico during

that

the early part of September 1963.

Source, reported

during

the period under review the observed activities of KOSTIKOV

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

Soviet Embassy complement.

• 21

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

and from the

Soviet Embassy on the afternoon of 22 November.

Analysis of

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

November revealed no pertinent information."

27 November 1963

DIR 85182

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

"2.

On .23 November 1963,

Richard Thomas GIBSON, who was acquainted with

Lee Harvey OSWALD, made the following statements

to a close

friend in

Bern, Switzerland:

"OSWALD is 'one of us':

Two years ago OSWALD and GIBSON corresponded

and OSWALD became

a member of the Committee (presumably the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee).

OSWALD is crazy.

GIBSON burned all of his

correspondence with

OSWALD.

York now and

GIBSON is glad that he (GIBSON) is. not

he feels sorry for

'Lee' who is in New York

and

'Tibor'

"3.

According to other information available to our representative in

ReT resichard home, Sitter a since April 193.

born 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles, California,

He is a negro

journalist and has been

active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee since

its organization in 1960.

In Switzerland he has been involved in the

publication La Revolution Africaine."

FBI

FBI, State,

White

House,

Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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(A).

(B)

26 November 1963

DIR 85246

Subject: Lee H. OSWALD.

"On 26 November,

Dr. Jose Guillermo AGUIRRE of Mexico told the following

information to Peter MORAGA, United States Information Service officer in

Mexico City:

USIS

Son-in-law is a Cuban who lives at

Vernon 5-9658.

212 Jefferson Parrish, New Orleans

Arnesto RODRIGUEZ runS

a Spanish language school

is anti-Castro.

According

to Maria Rodriqguez de LOPEZ her son-in-

law has a taped conversation with OSWALD."

27 November 1963

Blind Memorandum Subject: Yuriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV.

reasonable doubt that he is a staff officer

Contributing

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

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

the TUMBLEWEED operation.

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

he is connected with the 13th Department...

KOSTIKOV was in dlandestine

contact with TUMBLEWEED (as definitely confirmed by TUMBLEWEED's photo

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

colleague of KOSTIMOV's."

28 November 1963

DIR 85657

Subject: None given.

"On 26 November 1963 a British journalist named John WILSON, and also

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

in London which indicated that an 'American gangster-type named RUGY!

visited Cuba around 1959.

WILSON himself was working in Cuba at the

time and was jailed by Castro before he was deported

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

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

indictments outstanding against him. Instead he preferred to live in

USEMB

London

- RECIPIENT(S) -

FBI, State, White

House,

Secret Service

FBI

FBI,

State, White

House

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(B)

relative luxury in a Cuban prison.

While SANTOS was in prison, WILSON

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

RUBY.

His story is being followed up.

WILSON says he had onge

senda, so caste a tovior bef the Lastland Committee of the U.S.

November 1963

DIR 85665

Subject: None given.

of the Cuban Embassy in The Hague and said that she knew the

(sic] who murdered President Kennedy.

Mr. LEE'

She characterized 'LEE' as a man

full of hate and violence, and speculated that he had been

misused by

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

U.S. citizen of Lausanne,

Switzerland, born 13 May 1935, a Castro sympa-

thizer, who had visited the Netherlands recently and was in contact both

with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban Embassy).

Maria SNETHLAGE talked again to Third Secretary

"Later on 23 November'Mr. LEE of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee' had

and said that

been slandered.

It was another person,

'named Lee OSWALD', who had done

SNETHLAGE is reported to have been in Cuba in January

and again in

May 1963.

in talking about

attacks by Cuban refugees

'just wait and you will see what we can do... It will happen soon!:

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

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

"A very sensitive source reports that after his conversations with SNETH-

LAGE, SANTOS was furious

because she had not contacted him.W

28 November 1963

DIR 85676

Subject: Travel of Soviet Diplomatic Couriers.

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

travel to Mexico of Soviet diplomatic

couriers Valentin Germanovich

PONOMAREV and Aleksey. Nikolayevich POPKOV.

FBI

- RECIPIENT (S.) -

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

FBI

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(B)

left Mexico City for Cuba on 12 November via Cubana

According to our representative in Mexico City' 465 and returned to

PONOMAREV and POpKoV

Mexico. City on 18 November via Cubana:

A usually reliable and sensitive source reported that they probably

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

same source reported that one

'ANANYEV! (phonetic) of the Soviet Consulate

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

requested information on which flight the couriers were taking.

Assistant

Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV provided the information on behalf

of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City."

29 November 1963

DIR 85691

Subject: None given.

Your attention is called to a series of anonymous telephone calls

made to the Office of the U.S. Naval Attache in Canberra, Australia, by

a mand claiming to have had know&edge about a Soviet plot

to assassinate

the late President Kennedy.

Our first record of

this matter is a Naval

Attache cable from Canberra sent on 24 November 1963.

Australian authorities working on this case consider the called to be

They state that Soviet offices in Australia do not use anything

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

They are continuing their investigation."

29 Növember 1963

DIR 85715

Subject: Travel of Lee Harvey: OSWALD.

Information gathered from various foreign sources regarding the travel

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

29 November 1963 DIR 85770

Subject: None given.

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

RA 76710292, about 24 years old, went absent without leave from his unit,

Headquarters Company,

U.S. Army General Depot, Metz, France. He was

scheduled for a psychiatric examination that

same day.

He apparently

entered Switzerland using a false Army identification card with forged

travel orders.

Navy.

Army

- RECIPIENT(S) =

di.

FBI, State,

White

House,

Secret

Service

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren •Commission]

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(B).

- RECIPIENT(S) -

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

Nations Office in Geneva and told reporters he was being persecuted. He

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

Army reports show that he voluntarily returned to his unit in

Metz on or about 11 November 1963.

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

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

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

the Paris office of Time-Life recounting

Private DINKIN's visit to Geneva

and quoting DINKIN as having

said that "they'

were plotting against Presi-

dent Kennedy and that 'something' would happen in Texas.

• Desi FONTAINES

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

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

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

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

them, he filed the story just to be sure.

All aspects of this story were known, as reported above, by u.s.

military authorities and have been reported by military attache cable

through military channels."

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

Attached is an article which appeared on page 2 of the

29 November

1963 issue

of the Washington Daily News:

article contains informa-

tion which implies that

two persons might have been involvedlin the as-

sassination of President Kennedy.

The Washington Daily News article also states that the

full-page

ad [placed in The Dallas Morning News on 22 November] which presumably

cost $1250. 00 was placed by (Bernard! WEISSMAN, that he paid cash for

and that WEISSMAN resided in Dallas at

a small apartment house:

article indicates..

that he roomed with one William BURLEY,

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

Reen invor ed da mach sous activitatio

stationed in Libia in 1958 who may have

You are referred to the Office of

Special Investigations, USAF, for possible additional information.

FBI

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(A)

: (B).

- RECIPIENT(S) -

Our information indicates that BURLEY had contact with [foreign]

persons whose activities seem to have been questionable.

The above information is provided as a result of a preliminary check

of our records.

The records

of this

office contain no additional informa-

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

might be identical with the men who placed the newspaper ador to persons

who might have been in contact with them."

3 December 1963

DIR 86496

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

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

visa extended without using his real name,

following may be germane:

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

showed

that Lee OSWALD entered Mexico on 26 September 1963 using

OSWALD LEF.

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

visa would result in discovery that he was in the country under a false

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

ded, and he prohably had no documentation in the name of HARVEY OSWALD

LEE.

4 December 1963

DIR 86702

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

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

in Cologne, Germany, show that Marina Nikolayevna PUSAKOVA OSWALD crossed

West Germany from East Germany to Holland on 3 June 1962.

She traveled

She had West German visa

694/62 issued at the West German Embassy.

in Moscow.

She listed her final

destination as Ul.S.A.

Comment:

confirms information from the U.S.

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

cow to Rotterdam by rail around 3 June 1962.

Helmstedt and Bentheim

the main rail route from Russia to Rotterdam.' While Lee

OSWALD himself

and their infant daughter

are not recorded in German records this

probably

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

ing travel records."

FBI

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

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(A)

(B).

- RECIPIENT(S) -

5 December 1963

DIR 87189

Subject: None given.

We have learned that on 3 December 1963 'Indian communists,

a known Soviet intelligence

working through

WARREN, and Attorney General KENNEDY from Indian youth, legal,

and, other

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

Kennedy.

Apparently the Soviet officer undertook to pay for all the tele-

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

"2.

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

areas,

Agency would appreciate receiving data on any such tele-

grams which have been received."

6 December 1963

DIR 87520

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

"Reference is made to our OUT Telegram no. 86702 of 4 December 1963 which

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

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

from the Soviet Union. Information now available from Dutch authorities

seems to confirm this.

poist. Comment enter is believed that she traine the oldenzaal border

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

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

Oldenzaal is opposite

Bentheim, the German border point where Marina

OSWALD heft Germany."

9 December 1963

DIR 87731

Subject:

Richard BEYMER, American Movie Actor,

in Touch with Cuban Embassy, Mexico City.

"1.

The Mexico City News of 5 December 1963 carried a picture of Richard

BEYMER,

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

ing held in Acapulco.

• 2"

BEYMER was in touch with the Cuhan Embassy in Mexico City on 2 Decem-

her November!

and a person believed to be BEYMER was in touch with the Embassy on

He wanted to speak to Silvia DURAN, who was not at the Em-

bassy:

Another employee told him that no reply had been received from

Guba.

FBI, State, White

House

FBI, State, White

House, Secret

Service

[Wärren Commission]

FBI

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(B)

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" 3;

This office has no information on BEYMER:

OSWALD

DURAN is the Mexican

employee

touch regarding a visa

the Cuban Embassy with. whom Lee H.

for. Cuba.

This information is for your use

without permission from this

Agency."

only and may not be disseminated

• December 1963

DIR 87796

Subject: None given.

"1.. The American Embassy in Stockholm,

Sweden,

has: receivedi a letter

mailed 25 November 1963 in Stockholm alleging that the assassination of

President Kennedy was arranged by the Red Chinese.

The letter purports

to he from one Ryo Liang Yuan of the Red Chinese Embassy in Stockholm,

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

official by this name anywhere abroad.

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

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

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

threatened to expose him if he did not cooperate.

The Red Chinese ex-

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

was a Cuban sympathizer.

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

Red Chinese would ask the Soviets for atomic weapons,

the Communist Bloc

would win the

war, the Chinese Reds would then assassinate KHRUSHCHEV and

take over control.

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

no department by this name is known in the Chinese Communist Government.

Our Station in Stockholm judges this to be a crank letter. The original

letter is being sent here

for analysis."

FBI, State, White

House, Secret Service

[Warren Commission]

11 December 1963

Full dissemination

lowing

Death of President Kennedy 2. Resump-

tion of Disarmament Talks:

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

-908

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(A)

(B)

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12 December 1963

to Geneva about the end of November.

When source, who has previously dis-

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

the death of President Kennedy the Soviet official immediately launched

into lengthy commentary.

It may be that subsource's ready responses and

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

How-

ever, considering his position it

seems more likely that his comments were

intended for western consumption."

CSCI-3/779,048

Subject: WILSON, Carlos John with aliases.

Compilation of information from Agency files regarding Carlos. John WILSON

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

FBI

12 December 1963

16 December 1963

DIR 88643

Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy

Allegedly Part of Plot against all Democratic

Presidents.

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

kessedy as part,

refers to the assassination of. President

i unlated letter ele othere the die peelient

the democratic world.

The writer of the letter,

Rodrigo Cut

identifies

himself as

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

the assassination of President ORLICH of Costa Rica and Foreign Minister

ODUBER of Costa Rica.

The envelope in which the letter arrived is post-

marked 28 November 1963,

from Heredia, Costa Rica.

to be the work of a crank."

The letter is believed

CSCI -3/779,135

Subject:

Peter DERYABIN'S Comments lon the

Kennedy Assassination.

Attached for your perusal are the written comments of KGB defector

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

Kennedy.

As you know,

DERYABIN defected

from the KGB about ten years ago,

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

with Soviet intelligence developments to the

best of his ability.

His:

comments on how Lee

OSWALD and his wife must have been handled by Soviet

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

10:-

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House

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ticularly interesting and his suggestions for the questioning

of. Mrs.

Marina

OSWALD are equally provocative.

We have decided to pass on his views without editing,

does not specifically endorse his conclusions or recommendations."

and this Agency

December 1963

DIR 89970

Subject: Lee OSWALD Case.

85182 of 27 November 1963.

Play for Cuba Committee in New York was intervieved in early December 1963

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

on Lee OSWALD.

GIBSON said he had never known any one by that name but

mentioned the

following two possibilities:

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

'Revolution' was for purely economic reasons."

27 December 1963

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

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

to your office in Miami

on 7 December 1963,

stating that the assassination

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

the Chinese communists.

The report mentioned the names of fnu SAAVEDRA,:

Ramon B: CORTES, Fernandez FETTO:

disseminated by

and Robert NIETO:

The report was not

our Headquarters because we wished to check it

the report is still seriously in doubt. According to him

(sourcel, the statements about the assassination being a Cubanland Chinese

communist plot were made by one Raul SAAVEDRA,

says is a high Cuban

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

113.

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

initial report on this topic.

As soon as we can talk to him personally,

ve will try to get more information, but we doubt whether this can be ar-

ranged in the near future.

We wish

to point out that this source has in

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

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

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man citizenship.

[Comment:

The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of a book

by Joachim JORSTEN entitled,

lished by Marzani and

"OSWALD - Assassin or Fall Guy?'" (1964) pub-

Munsell Publishers,

Inc. of New York,

in which

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

Marzani, a

"Cuba Vs.

published in 1961. DOESTEN Was coauthor of a pamphlet,

is revealed in a German Security

dated November

8, 1937, to have been

an active member of'

since May 12, 1932;

he was issued Commu-

nist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch) No.

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

Record - House,

28 September 1965, pp. 25391-25393.]

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

27 January 1964. CSCI-3/779,729

Subiect: The Assassination of President Kennedy.

In connection with our efforts to check possible relatives of Marina

nee PRUSAKOVA,

widow of the suspected assassin of

Nikolayevna OSWALD'Lee Harvey OSWALD, our attention was drawn to one

President KENNEDY,

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

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

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

been acquired from the British internal services, disclosed the fol

lowing background information:

While there is no indication that PRUSAKOVA is related to Marina

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

Marina OSWALD because of such possibility.

In: the event that PRUSAKOVA is

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

30 January 1964

CSCI-3/779,814

Subject:

Jack L.

RUBY, Lee Harvey OSWALD -

Victim Civil Rights.

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

ahove, concerning a report of a visit to Cuba in early 1963 made by Jack:

RUBY, assassin of Lee Harvey OSWALD...

This Agency has received a simi-

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

1962 or in early 1963.

vidual could verify the above information:

source stated that following indi-

"Evidio Bernardo PEREIRA Acosta

(whose) address as of

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

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

We would appreciate receiving the results of

interview of

PEREIRA Acosta.

Your Bureau will be advised in the event we receive fur-

ther information relating to this matter.".

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CSCI-3/779,817

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

In response to your communication, DL 100-10461, dated 31 December

1963, yOUr file (S) 105-82559? this

subject

as above, enclosed is the requested

information from the files of

agency.

This information covers names,

addresses, and telephone numbers relating to the Soviet Union."

4

February 1964

CSCI -3/779,988

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

Subsequent to the preparation of our CSCI-3/779,817, dated 4 February

1964, subject as above, in response to your communication DE 100-10461,

dated 31 December 1963, file number (S)

105-82555,

additional information

on the subject has come to our attention.

This information was received

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

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

OSWALD case. . ..

18 February 1064

Subject:

Your memorandum dated 6 December 1963,

file DL 100-10461

lists 47 photographs which were among the effects of Lee Harvey OSWALD,

and made available to your Bureau

•of the Dallas Police Depart-

It appears that most of the photographs were taken in the

USSR and depict Soviet contacts of OSWALD or scenes in the

Soviet Union.

In connection with our efforts to assist the Presidents Commission

the Assassination of President Kennedy by providing

information which

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

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

¡ence one cony of each of these photographs, or exemplars,

from which we

can make copies.

18 February 1964

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

and Research, Department of State.

Subject: Assassination of.President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

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Entry in "Historic Diary".

[DDP 4- 0864]

• In a document entitled 'Historic Diary' there appears an entry

which refers to

elderly American':

The entry is under the date 26.

October 1959 when OSWALD was allegedly confined in an unidentified Moscow

hospital.

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

tify the

elderly American, if he existed.

assume the lead is

still outstanding.

our recommendation that the Department of State

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

sular records in Moscow which might reveal

the identity of an elderly

American hospitalized at the end of October 1959 and possibly registered

with the Embassy as a tourist.

An independent confirmation of this de-

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

'Historic Diary'

and would possibly lead to the development of additional

information on OSWALD's stay in the USSR."'

19 February 1964

Subject: "Cuban don ta and he syn excoral counsel ete

[DDP 4-4581]

Reference is made to your letter of 10 February 1964, i

relative to in-

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

in Mexico City . ..

We surmise that the reference in OSWALD'S letter of 9 November to a

man who had since been replaced must refer to Cuban Consul Busebio AZCUE,

who left Mexico for Cuba on permanent transfer on 18 November 1963, four

days before the assassination.. AZCUE had been in Mexico

for eighteen

years and it was

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

he replaced..

His replacement did arrive in September.

AZCUE was schedu-

in October but did not leave until 18 November.

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

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

or some soviet official might have mentioned it if OSWALD Complained about

AZCUE's altercation with him.".

20 February 1964

CSCI - 3/779,988

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD:

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Concerning the entry on page 63 of OSWALD's address book:

SETYAEV - Radio Moscow

a report

from your office dated 20 December

1963, subject:

Lillie May RAHM, contains the following information:

Annette (nee ZUGOFF) SETYAEVA,

.. is married to a Leo SETYAEV who

worked for Radio Moscow; •

March 1964

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

Subject:

Summary of Findings in Regard to Allegations by Mohammed REGGAB

Relative to Marina OSWALD.

[DDP 4-1171]

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

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

lovna' who he asserted was identical with Mrs. Marina

OSWALD: The attach-

ment is a summary of our

findings in regard to REGGAB's allegation.

covers investigation including polygraphing in Berlin and inquiries

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

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

Mrs. Marina OSWALD is a fabrication."

20 March 1964

CSCI -3/730,612

Subject: Assassination of President. John F.

Kennedy.

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

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

dividual closely resembling OSWALD was uncovered.

Our files indicate that this photograph (Attachment A) Came from a

on or about 11 August 1961, by

co on treas tory takes. MoMina. "SAME, Mose address at the time was

an American

P. D. Box

985, Solvang, California:

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

contacted by

this Agency on a one-time basis, following their return

from their tour of the

USSR.

Mrs. KRAMER,.

cies taken during the trip.

furnished this Agency with 160 color transparen

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This office would be interested in any pertinent information which

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

provide ...

27 March 1964

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

and Research, Department of State.

Subject:

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Verification of

Entry in "Historic Diary".

[DDP 4-1606]

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

by Soviet authorities after the suicide attempt mentioned in his 'Historic

may have been the Botkinskaya Hospital in Moscow.

The 1958 and

1962 Moscow telephone directories for Organizations and

Institutions, list

a hospital named S. P. Botkina.

Our specialists advise

that a native of

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

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

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

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

for this purpose.

We would appreciate receiving information on any Americans who might

have been patients at the

'Botkinskaya' in

the fall of 1959 that may be

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

31 March 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel

Subject:

Reports on Activities and Travel of Lee Harvey OSWALD and Marina

Nikolevna OSWALD:

[DDP 4-1655]

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

February 1964,

and the second paragraph of your memorandum of 16 March

servicee

relative to disseminations. of information made by CIA to the Secret

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

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

are. found refer-

which describe one Richard Thomas GIBSON,

85162 and no. 85665 are included as Attachment's D and E."

Paraphrases

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3 April 1961

Subject:

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

Richard Thomas GIBSON.

[DDP 4-1699]

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

dated 18 December 1963,

which contains: the report of an interview

consular officer in Paris.

This message was

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

investigation, with a copy to the Secret Service."

7 April 1964

Subject:

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

Mohammed REGGAB

[DDP 4-1786]

The CIA Station in Berlin has reported that, contrary to his promise,

REGGAB has

not written since his return

to Morocco, and

apparently has not

come back to Berlin.

Knowledgeable sources which are usually reliable

seated fores

as of 10 March,

REGGAB has not fulfilled the legal formalities

arriving in that city. It is apparent, therefore,

that he has not returned to Berlin."

20 April 1964

Subject:

ERDINGER.

Memorandum for Mr.

J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

BND Report Pertaining to Allegations Concerning Anton

[DDP 4-1997]

We have studied the BND report forwarded by your letter of 26 March

A review of CIA files reflects no pertinent data on the principals

involved.

There is one report to the effect that Guenther GRONA (mentioned on

page 4 of the BND report) was under investigation in 1963 by West German

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

radio station.

and the outcome of, the investigation is

Petected in celest However a view ot the peripheral nature of

involvement in the matter being considered, his

activities are be-

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

State

P.C.

FBI

24 April 1964

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel: etc.

Subject: Lydia DIMYTRUK; Acquaintance of

Marina OSWALD:

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

dated 30 November

1963,.

communciation reported an interview

by the FBI of Mr.

referred

George A. BOUHE on 23 November 1963 in which Mr. BOUHE

to a Lydia

DIMYTRUK of Fort Worth, Texas, who allegedly had asso-

ciated with Marina N. OSWALD.

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

one Lydia DYMITRUK who may be identical with the Lydia DIMYTRUK referred

above:

28 April 1964

Russia.

CSCI - 3/780,996

Subject: Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO, Espionage -

FBI

tend to corroborate or disprove NOSENKO's information concerning Lee

Harvey OSWALD.

Our files contain the following information trom NOSENKO

on OS ALD which may amplify or contradict the information forwarded in

reference:

29 April 1964

Subject:

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

Photograph of Lee Harvey OSWALD.

[DDP 4-2160]

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

nent to the story of Lee Harvey OSWALD's sojourn in the USSR, we have

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

ding near the Palace of Culture in Minsk.

This photograph was taken by an

American tourist in Minsk on or about 11 August 1961.

Although the persons

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

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

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

It is worth noting that the person believed to be OSWALD is searing

a short-sleeved

sport shirt of the same design or pattern asione

worn by

his

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

attached for comparison purposes:

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"4. Attachment 'A' appears to substantitate OSWALD's presence in Minsk at

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

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

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

8 May 1964

11 May 1964

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

Subject:

Marina OSWALD's Notebook.

[DDP 4-2351]

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

in Marina OSWALD's notebook, a

copy of which was received from the Federal

Bureau of Investigation under their communication dated 13 April 1964.

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

vestigation."

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

Russia - Cuba.

In response to your communication dated 13 April 1964,

file number

numbers relating to the Soviet Union, which were

extracted from an address

book identified as belonging to Marina OSWALD.".

5 May 1964

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

Subject:

Role of the Cuban Intelligence Service in Processing Visa Appli-

cants; Reaction

of that Service to the Assassination of President Kennedy.

with a weld placed Individe perho has be agency bas established do coatt

been in close. and

prolonged contact

with ranking officers of the Cuban Direccion General de Intelligencia

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

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

information thus obtained is attached to this memorandun.

FBI

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19 May 1964

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

Subject:

Allegations of Pfc Eugene B. DINKIN, U.S. Army, Relative to As-

sassination Plot against President Kennedy.

IDDP 4-2534]

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

12, 1954,

requesting that the Commission

be furnished copies of dissemina-

tions relative to

the assassination of President Kennedy that were sent to

the Secret Service.

Immediately after the assassination the CIA Station in Geneva,

zerland, reported allegations

concerning

a plot to assassinate President

that were made

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

on 6 and 7 November 1963,

in Geneva while absent without leave

from his unit in Metz, France.

Available details of this charge, together

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

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

on 29 November 1963.

This dissemination was sent to the White House,

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

the Secret Service.

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

assembling information on this affair, and the Military Attache reported

through his channels,.

the Commission may have already received information

Of PFC DINKIN's allegations."

19 May 1964

CSCI - 3/781,386

Subject: Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel DYMITRUK)

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

ces on Paul DIMITRIK (aka Pavel. DYMITRUK) •

The files of this Agency. contain the following pertinent information

one Pavel DYMITRUK,

born 28 February 1924 in Stariye-Derend, USSR, who

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

22 May 1964

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

Subject:

Anonymous Telephone Calls to United States

Embassy in Canberra,

Australia, Relative to Planned Assassination of President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-2624]

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

1964, relative to disseminations to the Secret Service made by CIA.

CIA received from the Department of the Navy a

copy of a cable from the

On 24 November 1964, aval Attache in Canberra, Australia IN 67327,

tion the previous. day with an anonymous

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

vidual, while discussing several matters of intelligence interest, touched

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

tion of President Kennedy.

Reference was

made in this cablelto the receipt

of a similar anonymous telephone call on 15 October 1962.

"3.

Upon receipt of this cable from Navy CIA took the following action:

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

the Australian security service.

In the opinion of the Australian authori.

ties, the caller was a crank.

27 May 1964

Subject:

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

Letter Accusing the Chinese Communists of Plotting the Assassina-

tion of President Kennedy.

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

requesting copies

of disseminations

relative to the assassination of

President Kennedy that were sent to the Secret Service.

Shortly

after the

assassination the United States Embassy in Stock-

holm received

a letter, mailed

on 25 November 1963, which accused

Chinese Communist of plotting this

This information was disseminated

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

Investigation, is attached to this memorandum.

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

dissemination

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

Embassy,

the Commission

may have

already received information about the

document from the Department of State."

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3 June 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

Documents on Lee Harvey OSWALD Furnished by the Soviet Govern-

(DDP 4-1764]

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

May 1964 provide some

additional detail on OSWALD:

The information in

these documents parallels that already available from other sources,

does not contradict

our previous information.!: The

documents do clarify

somewhat OSWALD'S

alleged occupation

at the Minsk radio plant giving the

original Russian terms used in decsribing his job.

12.

The following points relating to the documents are worth noting:

A significant omission from the materials provided is the letter

OSWALD allegedly wrote to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citi-

zership.

OSWALD signed a receipt in 1960 for his Identity Document for

Stateless Persons,

and a second receipt in 1962 for his Identity

Document for Foreigners.

The similarity of wording of the receipts

regarding his understanding of Soviet residence and travel regula-

tions further supports our

belief that such regulations are

identical

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

This means that OSWALD should have obtained permission in July 1961

P. C.

Warren Commission

3 June 1964

The includsion of Marina's exit visa 'application'lis singular

in view of the fact that the Commission had not requested information

on Marina.

The Soviet translators for OSWALD's early documents are believed

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

• •

The format and wording of subject documents appear to be consistent

with Soviet practice."

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

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5 June 1964

5 June 1964

[DDP 4-2770]

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

information on

Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT that is available in CIA

Our review

shows that the files contain reports: received from

references to information in the records of the Coordinator of Information

and the Office of Strategic Services... According to recordsiof those agen-

George de MOIRENSCHILDT had been considered for employment in 1942ñ0

but mothered been a ten at pee to see be one nees sassina-

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

SCHILDTs and Lee Harvey OSWALD or his family.

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

gence; the Assistant Chief of Staff,.

Intelligence, Department of the Army;

the Department of State,

and the Civil Service Commission

because these

departments also have information about George de MOHRENSCHILDT."

Subiect:

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

Allegations Regarding Intelligence Training School in Minsk,

[DDP 4-28441

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

training

school in Minsk, USSR,

have. come to the attention of the Agency

from press reviews.

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

ber of the Commission,

DULLES, very recently on this detail.

this opportunity to furnish to the Commission the information which the

Agency had on this topic."

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

ding Soviet intelligence or sabotage training in Minsk since 1947..

CSCI-3/781,543

Subject: Lee Harvey OSWALD.

the Clandestine Services is developing a

machine collation program to

"1. As your Bureau is aware handle information on the Cuban intelligence

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and security services.

the data base is very narrow,

with the re-

sult that any search against the program has

a very limited chance

Nonetheless, a

search was made using those items of information which

which are known relating

one dated 10 No-

vember 1963 and

addressed to OSWALD,

and addressed to the Attorney General.

OS ALD, atte the other dated 27 November 1963

hoid any interest.

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

review

of the files

on these two eliminated one,

leaving a single candidate.

the name Mario del

a routine name trace has been run in the main index

At the same time' rosario Molina, the name with which the 27 November

1963 letter was signed.

There were no traces on that name, but informa-

tion was

available on two persons

with somewhat similar names.

10 June 1964

Memorandum for Mi. J.

Lee RANKIN,

Genéral Counsel,etc.

Subject:

Information Concerning Jack RUBY (aka Jack RUBENSTEIN) and His

Associates.

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

this Agency furnish any information intits files relative to Jack RUBY

his activities, and his associates.

Examination of CIA records has failed

to produce information on Jack RUBY or his activities.

We also have no in-

dicati, they ved lee connected in ey manner het over,

were asso-

12 June 1964

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

Subject:

Letter Relative to Assassination of President Kennedy Sent to

United States Embassy in Costa Rica:

[DDP 4- 2988]

"1. The information given below, and the attachment to the memorandum,

are furnished in order to

complete the Commission's file onlcrank letters

generated by the

assassination of President Kennedy. Since the letter was

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

information previously from the Department of State,

112,

The United States Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, in late November

242

FBI.

State

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FBI

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1963 received a letter claiming that

the assassination of President Kennedy

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

This un-

dated letter,

dressed to Ambassador Raymond TELLES.

was ad-

the White House, the Department of State service.

disseminated to

and the Federal Bureau of Inves-

tigation.

It was not sent to the Secret.

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

Details of the

document were passed

to the Government of Costa Rica.

No further informa-

tion on the writer of this document, who signed himself RODRIGO C., has

been received."

29 June 1964

Subject:

Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN,

General Counsel etc.

Investigation of Allegation that OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

FBI

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

tained a request that

this Agency conduct inquiries in Tangier, Morocco,

to resolve certain allegations concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD.:

Our inquiries

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

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

0 June 1964

CSCI - 3/782,058

Subject: Investigation of Allegation that

OSWALD was in Tangier, Morocco.

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

The inquiries were completed on

19 June 1964 and the results

show. that the allegations have no basis in

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

randan, to the Presidents commissi

the results were forwarded, by memo-

Commission on

the Assassination of President

A copy of that memorandum is attached for your files and for any

additional action you may wish to take."

1 July 1964

subject:

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

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

[DDP 4-3889]

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FBIT

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FBI

FBI,

mission

Warren Com-

Warren Commission

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111.

In response to your memorandum of 25 May 1964, we have established

that the only direct

flight from London

to Helsinki

on 10 October

1959 was

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

OSWALD had taken this

flight, he could not normally have cleared customs

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

night) on the same day.

This is based on the

judgement of officers in

this Agency familiar with the Helsinki airport.

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

more circuitous flight from

with a stop at Stockholm

Copenhagen,

or some other city.

Ay additional intormation received will be forwardéd

to you promptly."

2 July 1964

Subject:

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

Lee Harvey OSWALD.

# [DDP 4-3401]

remarks have been recently attributed to Soviet Consül

Warren Commission

6 July 1964

'I met OSWALD here.

He stormed into my office and

wanted me to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans.

He told me that he had lived in the USSR.:

I told him that

I would have to

check before I could recommend him.

was nervous and his hands

trembled, and he stormed

of my office:

I don't believe that a person as nervous as

OSWALD, whose hands trembled could have accurately

fired a rifle.

"2.

Dur Mexican Station has checked its records for the period OSWALD

and has advised it is quite possible that OSWALD

vasus Me had talked with valery Kostikov when he actually had spoken

to YATSKOV;

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

superior YATSKOV.

14.

Investigation."

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

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

Warren Commission

FBI

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Subject: Statements Reportedly Made by George and Jeanne de MOHRENSCHILDT

Concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the Assassination of President Kennedy.

[DDP 4-3479]

The information furnished below has been received from usually reli-

able sources and consists of statements

reportedly made by the de MOHREN-

SCHILDTs concerning Lee Harvey OSWALD and the assassination of President

Kennedy.

"'a.

Kennedy,

among the guests attending a cocktail party in Haiti.

The

de MOHRENSCHILDTs were asked if there was

any substance to the view expressed in certain foreign

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

well bested dallas millionaires.

that the Kennedy assassination was

MOHRENSCHILDT said that President Kennedy was hated

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

likely that certain reactionary elements in Dallas had!

organized a plot to get rid of Kennedy and used a dis-1

turbed person such as

OSWALD to achieve their ends.

Mrs: de MOHRENSCHILDT agreed fully with this

thesis.

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

27 August 1964

CSCI- 316/00856-64 Subject:

rity, Russia - Cuba.

Reference:

Lee Harvey OSWALD - Internal Secu-

Your Memorandum dated 28 July 1964.

"1. A review of the results of monitoring Soviet foreign broadcasts at

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

taned was conducted with negative results.

Therefore,

it is assumed

that such a tape,

if broadcast at all, was aired over

a local USSR facili-

ty for internal consumption.

"?.

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

attempt had been made by the Soviets

to exploit OSWALD for propaganda

purposes, such as Radio Moscow broadcasts,

telecasts, or lectures.

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

281=

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NOSENKO later reviewed this statement and confirmed it. "

Reference document is FBl request to ClA

requesting the latter

identify broadcast by OSWALD in USSR sometime hiffore early January 1960.)

28 August

Memorandum for Mr. J.: Lee RANKIN;

Konstantin Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

General Counsel etc.

Subject:

[DDP 4-4479]

Petrovich SERGIEVSKY

The files of this Agency contain no identifiable traces on Konstantin

on his sister.

"2.: We have no information which would either

confirm or refute allega-

tions that Lee

OSWALD made

of more visits to the city of Gorky

in April and May 1960 or at any other time.

The term 'mokrym delam' which appears in theinotes which SERGIEVSKY

brought with him to the British Embassy may be translated

'wet affairs'

affairs'

It is an expression or jargon usid by the KGB to refer

to activities involving kidnapping or assassination.

RANKIN asked for Agency comments concerning allegations of a Soviet

Embassy Nonsen outy sevsky; who walked into the British

1 October 1964

Subject:

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

Joachim JOESTEN

[DDP 4 - 5110]

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

the U.S. authorities

at the end of World War II:

The documents concern

dates publishers 193 to November 1937 and contain the statement that

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

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

ted at JOESTEN as early as 1936.

At that time the Communist Party had been

been outlawed in Germany and the German authorities apparently had begun

collecting information about JOESTEN and his activities.

Their investiga-

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

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P.C.

State

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Warren Commission,

FBI, State, IGNS

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