FORGOVT · From: WITHHELD · To: WITHHELD · OSW16 : V57 : 1993.06.24.13:24:21:680800 : FILE CONTAINS TWO IDENTICAL FILE ORIGINALS THAT ARE ONE PAGE EACH. THE REMAINDER OF THE DOCUMENT DECLARED NBR BY ARRB. · Release: Redact
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"10 A6666____ , 104-10012-10024 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 HK ■S^h G ft hi T 6/705 10 May 1982 2Dear David 0 VALERIY VLADIMIROVICH KOSTIKOV- 1. Please refer to our conversation of 6 May. KOSTIKOV, born 17 March 1933, Moscow, was posted to Beirut in 1978 as 1st Secretary and may still be there. He is identified KGB and served in Mexico City from 1961-71. There is a reference to him on page 307 of BARRON’s KGB which suggests that he may have been Department V. We do not appear to have asked LYALIN about him, and are now doing so. 2. 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. 3. The reason for our current interest in KOSTIKOV will be obvious. As you are aware, our Embassy in Beirut, in common with other Western Missions, has been subject to threats and violence in recent months, and"
"FORGOVT · From: WITHHELD · To: WITHHELD · OSW16 : V57 : 1993.06.24.13:24:21:680800 : FILE CONTAINS TWO IDENTICAL FILE ORIGINALS THAT ARE ONE PAGE EACH. THE REMAINDER OF THE DOCUMENT DECLARED NBR BY ARRB. · Release: Redact"
"… do not appear to have asked LYALIN about him, and are now doing so. 2. 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 S …"
"… 025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 HK ■S^h G ft hi T 6/705 10 May 1982 2Dear David 0 VALERIY VLADIMIROVICH KOSTIKOV- 1. Please refer to our conversation of 6 May. KOSTIKOV, born 17 March 1933, Moscow, was posted to Beirut in 1978 as 1st Secretary and m …"
"… LYALIN about him, and are now doing so. 2. 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 seekin …"