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177-10001-10061

2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

LBJ

177-10001-10061

RECORD SERIES:

NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITI.F:

CIA

DATE: 12/13/1963

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS:

CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: IB

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

10/02/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS:

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TELEGRAM

IN. ORMATION REPÜRT

TELEGRAM

1D

COUNTRY

SUBJECT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

and e94

contrans

information

transmission

revelation

SECRET

(When Filled In)

nich in any rene to the unitedosteles

any manner

person is brohibitid

meaning.

the Espronage Laws. Title 18, U.S.Ó Sees.

CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS

NO FOREIGN

DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

CUBA

REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/658, 469

ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC

DATE DISTR.

13 DECEMBER 1963

MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS-

SINATION

OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

DATE OF

INFO.

9 DECEMBER 1963

PLACE &

DATE ACO. 9 DECEMBER 1963

APPRAISAL

REFERENCES

IN 79459

SOURCE

FIELD REPORT NO.

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT WHO IS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER AND HAS DEMON-

STRATED MATURITY, DISCERNMENT, AND RELIABILITY IN HIS PAST

REPORTING.

' 1. ABOUT 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO

RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLACING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT

- BUNDY-SMITH

- ALAXANDER

- BELK

AST

. STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENSION

GAM

BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING

"THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOSTILE - MALDURE

- RELESTAL

-"OUNSON

ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS. THE DIPLOMATIC

- KOME?,

- SAUNDRES

- SCHLESINGE

MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE

- SMECH, WM. I.

EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND-DAY WATCH OF MISSION

PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS

SECRET

NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

GROUP 1

Encluded Irom automate

downgrading and

declassoficotions

CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

NSA

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OCI ONE

STATE! INR

DIA

ARMY/ACSI, NAVY

STATE/DIR

REPCINCLANT

TELEGRAM

INS

INFORMATION REPORT

XXX

00

FBI

EXO

TELEGRAM

FORM

10-62

1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS.

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SECRET

(When red In)

CLASSIFICATION- DISSEMINATION.CONTROLS

NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

CONTROLLED DISSEM/ BACKGROUND USE ONLY.TDCSDB-3/658, 469

DOCUMENTS ON THE PREMISES," AND TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST HOSTILE

PROVOCATIONS.

2. ONE CHIEF OF MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING HIS USUAL

PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A

LONG-STANDING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO

CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST

BY CABLE. HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL

6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHORITY TO QUIT HIS POST.

3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATION FROM

HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS TO BE CONSIDERED REVOKED.

4. FIELD DISSEM: CINCIANT.

IN 79459

PAGE

SECRET

END OF MESSAGE

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS

NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/

CONTROLLED DISSEM/ BACKGROUND USE ONLY

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