REPORT:PARA 2/VALERIY VLADIMIROVICH KOSTIKOV
Originator: FORGOVT
From: WITHHELD
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 05/10/1982
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

UK SECKET

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10 May

1982

Dear

David

VALERIY VLADIMIROVICH KOSTIKOV-

Please refer to our conversation of 6 May.

KOSTIKOV, born 17 March

1933, Moscow, was posted to Beirut in 1978 as ist Secretary and may stilI

about him, and are now doing so.

We also note that EPSTEIN in "Legend" claims that according to a CIA

telecheck KOSTIKOV was Lee

Harvey OSWALD's KGB case officer in Mexico City.

According to BARRON (page 335) OSWALD was in Mexico between September and

November 1963 and was seeking to obtain a Soviet visa.

There was certainly

a KGB interest in OSWALD, although according to NOSENKO this was defensive.

The reason for our current interest in KOSTIKOV will be obvious.

you are aware, our Embassy in Beirut, in common with other Western Missions,

has been subject o threats

and violence in recent months,

earlier hostile attentions from the KGB, we have been reviewing our records

of KGB staff in the area who might have been involved in promoting

strong-arm

We would be grateful for your views as to whether

the KGB are likely

be behind any of the recent incidents (possibly through

the Syrians) and for

any information on KOSTIKOV and his activities in Mexico

and in Beirut.

particular,

what are your comments on the OSWALD story; can you confirm that

KOSTIKOV is still in Beirut;

is there anyone else in Bejrut or Damascus whose

trace record suggests an Active Measures

role, or worse?

should be grateful for_an early reply

and as I said on

6 May will treat

anything you can tell us

on a strictly Service to Service basis.

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Yours ever

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