Agency: WC
Originator: FBI
Document date: 3/9/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : WC

RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10282

RECORDS SERIES :

09: OSWALD, LEE, POST RUSSIAN PERIOD 3-1

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

Released under the John

issassination Records

Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54653 Date:

10-23-2017

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OSWALD, LEE, TRIP TO MEXICO, BANKS

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Commission No.

664

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Oswald, Jee H. Post-Russian Period

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

3-1

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

BONTEX NIAL

March 9, 1964

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

05 7779203-2001452

on January 4, 1964, a confidential source, who has:

furnished reliable information in the past, advised that

check was made on this sate at Teiegraos

Nacionales, a

Mexican Government-owned telegraph system, which handles

traffic with Western Union Telegran and other United States

cable companies to determine whether LEE HARVEY OSWALD sent

or received

any money during the

time he was in Mexico from

September 26, 1963, to October 3, 1963.

This

source advised on January 6, 1964, that it would

institute an initial check of all banks in Mexico to which LEE

HARVEY OSWALD would have been most likely to have sent or

received money in Mexico.

on January, 13, 1964, ALFONSO FRIAS, Assistant Chief

of the Bank of Mexico Police at Mexico, D. F., Mexico, who

has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that!

a check of the records of Telegraros Nacionales had failed to

disclose any record of money sent or received by LEE HARVEY

OSWALD during the time he was in Mexico through use of communi-

cation channels handled by this Mexican Government-owned

telegraph system.

CONFI

NTIAL

tron

Excluded from Automatic

Downgrading and

Declassification

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CONFID

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ATIAL

FRIAS advised also that a complete check of three

panks, Banco del Pais, S. A., Banco de Comercio, S. A., anc

Banco

de Londres y Montreal

in Mexico, failed to disclose any

record of money sent or received by LEE HARVEY OSWALD to, these

banks.

FRIAS advised also on January 13, 1964, that a check

of records of all other banks in Mexico was continuing.

on January 17, 1964, FRIAS advised that a check of

records of all banks in

MeXICO, D. F., Mexico, had been completed

and no information was found that OSWALD had sent or received

money during the time he was in Mexico.

On March 6, 1964, FRIAS advised that all banks in

Mexico, including all branch banks, were checked officially

for LEE HARVEY OSWALD and no information was available that

OSWALD had received and sent any money through these banks

during the period in which he was in Mexico.

FRIAS advised that these banks included not only the

three listed above but also the following additional banks:

Banco Nacional de Mexico

Banco Mexicano, S. A.

Banco Comercial Mexicano, S. A.

Banco de Londres y Mexico, S. A.

First National City Bank, Sucursal

en Mexico

Banco de America.

FRIAS advised also that the above check made of all

records of Telegrafos Nacionales and of all banks in Mexico

CONFIDE

NTIAL

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CONFIDEX

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could not include any possibility of money sent or received in

Mexico if OSWALD had used any name other than that of LEE

HARVEY OSWALD or his aliases which include the names of

' 0. H. LEE and ALEK JAMES HIDELL.

CONTEDACTIAI

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