MEMORANDUM: REVIEW OF AGENCY HOLDINGS REGARDING PHOTOGRAPH OF UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL IN MEXICO CITY PUBLISHED BY THE WARREN COMMISSION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DEPUTY CHIEF, OPERATIONS STAFF
To: ROCCA, RAYMOND G.
Document date: 5/2/75
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ROCCA, RAYMOND G.

EE MEMORANGUE EAT ASEST FOLDINGS REGARDING

PHOTOGRAPH OF UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL IN MEXICO

CITY

PUBLISHED BY THE WARREN COMMISSION.

DATE:

05/02/75

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2 May 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy

ch.

Operations Staff

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

:.

Review of Agency Holdings regarding

Photograph of Unidentified Individual

in Mexico City published by the

Warren Commission

Letter dated 15 April 1975 by

MI. David W. Belin, Executive Director

of the Commission on CIA Activities

within the United States, to

MI. E. Henry Knoche (copy attached to

accompanying report)

1.

This is further to, and in completion of, my

interim memorandum of a few weeks ago.

The attachment is a detailed

ew in narrative,

chronological order - together wit

copriate comment-

ary - of our extensive holdings

have a bearing on the matter

LE OSWALD case that

hs taken by

Mexico City Station on!, g

1963 of an

Unidentified Individual.

tion of analytical error

consequence of a combina-

and under the

stress of an urgent des

ment of the investigati

bute to the develop-

osassination, a

cropped version of one of

otographs of the

, Unidentified Individual was

Agtroauced

into the chain of

evidence in the OSWALD case on

23 November 1963 by an

FBI representative in Dallas.

The successive vicissi-

tudes which have now made this event a cause celebre

right down to the present moment are detailed in the

narrative.

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The attached report

answer to the

Fensterwald/O*

attaches to his memorandur

by-paragraph refutation

which I believe is mo

rate memorandum to

a memorandum if thab

intended to be an

ackicle which Mr. Belin

hake

epared a paragraph-

that article,

handled by a sepa-

will prepare this as Nuts:

1..

The point of the

eferenced memorandum is that

consideration should be given now to "whether or not the

entire matter can be fully disclosed at this time." This

a1oFr

submission is designed to make it possible for you, the

IG and others whom you may desire to consult to make this

decision.

The narrative-interpretive summary has been

put together in such a way that it discloses no cyptonyms.

pseudonyms or other CIA jargon.

However. its contents qo

well beyond what has been released to the public thus far

in the Warren Commission documentation.

This point must

be borne in mind in making a decision on Mr.

Belin's

guestion.

To remove any question in anybody's mind about

our good faith in this matter, the narrative is backed up

by copies of actual documentation from our files.

seems to me necessary,

in reply to Mr. Belin,

that he or

his representative review the documentation that backs up

the narrative.

The documentation has

not been keyed into

the narrative presentation, but it follows the chronologi-

cal order of presentation from 9 October into the latest

developments in the matter,

and there is an overall index

to facilitate reference to individual items.

There

The Is

is only one copy of this collectig

this is it.J

didn-t the

Lizan

As noted above, one

Mexico City on 4 October 196

photographs taken in

oduced into the

Warren Commission public

ver, it was intro-

duced into that record

versions.

Warren Commission and

made fully aware in

the course of their

adquarters and in

Mexico City of the

photograph, the fact

that we had additional phe

taken at different times

raphs of the same individual

Mexico City and on the basis

of full knowledge of these facts reached their own con-

clusions regarding the irrelevance of the photograph to

OSWALD and the assassination.

In fact, we actually hold twelve different photo-

graphs of the Unidentified Individual.

Each of these are?

reproduced in the collected documentation backing up the

narrative report (see Items 25 - 27)• Chiei, LA Division,

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had indicated in writing to

objection for Mr. Belin to

these photographs at this

Mr. Fensterwald in 1971

Mr. Houston during a

twelve photographs,

in the Warren Commis

he has published' in Vi

which Mr. Belin attaches

IOPS,

that he

has no

is desired with

ld be

noted that

dally shown, by

gency, two of the

one already published

(It is these two that

Review of Books article

is memorandum.)

It seems to me that whoever makes a decision on

whether the entire matter can be fully disclosed at this

time should bear in mind that a subsidiary decision must

also be made,

whether to crop or otherwise fuzz up

the background of the photographs or,

alternatively, to

publish the entire run of the photographs for the first

time without taking out the background.

Obviously, none

of these questions apply to the passage of this material

to Mr.. Belin and the Rockefeller

Commission itself.

think they should see the entire documentation as it

stands.

Perhaps after that, the question of what could

be discussed and the question of "how?" and "how much?"

could be taken up with Mr. Belin himself.

recommendation is that the more we can say about this

matter in a fully open and final manner, the better off

we will be as an Agency.

But it is my understanding

that there are still sensitivé aspects deriving from

fact that the operation which produced the photographs

was jointly rin with Mexican liais

and as a consequence

• publication at this time would,

at that level in Mexico.

Also

additional problems

should be noted that

the Ambassador,

according

te

J.C. King on 22 November

s memorandum to

8 in the backup

documentation),

allegedly

decision to put the pha

Tect role in the

the

hands of the

FBI

in Dallas laterally

As far as I know,

there has not been

at any time in the past

ished about this aspect

ve we had any discussions

at ay titate department about that aspect of the matter.

Raymond G. Rocca

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