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Jane Roman (1914–2008) was a senior liaison officer in the CIA's Counterintelligence Staff (CI/Liaison) under James Jesus Angleton during the period of Lee Harvey Oswald's pre-assassination CIA paper trail. Roman's signature appears on the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA headquarters to the Mexico City station responding to the station's report on Oswald's visits to the Cuban and Soviet embassies. That cable stated the agency had last reported on Oswald in May 1962 — a characterization that omitted multiple FBI reports on Oswald's 1963 Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities in New Orleans that had been routed through CIA in the weeks immediately prior. In 1994 and 1995 interviews with historian John M. Newman, Roman acknowledged the omissions and characterized the cable as "indicative of a keen interest in Oswald held on a need-to-know basis." Roman is not implicated in the assassination; her significance lies in documenting what CIA counterintelligence knew about Oswald before November 22, 1963 and how that knowledge was handled.
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Per CI/Liaison routing logs, Roman reads an FBI report describing Oswald's September 1963 Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities in New Orleans. She signs the HQ cable to Mexico City six days later; that cable does not reference the FBI report.
The CIA headquarters cable responding to the Mexico City station's report on Oswald's Cuban and Soviet embassy visits is dispatched over Roman's signature. The cable states the agency had last reported on Oswald in May 1962. Several FBI reports on his September 1963 New Orleans activities had been routed through CIA in the intervening weeks and are not referenced in the cable. Not fully declassified until 2002.
Interviewed at her home in Washington by historian John M. Newman. Acknowledges the omissions in the October 10 cable.
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“CIA · From: FREDRICK C. WICKHAM · To: ELEANOR E. NEIMAN · JFK-M-16 : F5 : 2000.02.08.16:41:32:357044 : · Release: Redact”
“CIA · From: WE/1 - GRANQUIST · To: CI/OPS/SOVSAT · JFK64-54 : F12 : 20040315-1058302 : · Release: Redact”
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John M. Newman's 1994–95 interviews; Roman's own account of the October 10, 1963 cable.
Full declassification of the cable (2002 release) and surrounding CI/Liaison routing materials.
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Follow-up interview; characterizes the cable as "indicative of a keen interest in Oswald held on a need-to-know basis."
Former senior CIA CI/Liaison officer; date approximate.
“CIA · From: C/WH/4/CI · To: JANE ROMAN, CI STAFF LIAISON GROUP · JFK64-11 : F3 : 1998.02.19.18:57:00:686102 : · Release: Redact”
“CIA · JFK-M-17 : F8 : 2000.02.14.15:12:41:437044 : UNIT INDEX: 54 PAGES ARE DIFS · Release: Redact”
“SEE TITLE · From: [RESTRICTED] · To: HQ · INC 23 MEMO, ENVELOPE, 2 LET, 6 A/T, 2 LHM, RS, NEWS ARTIC, 2 LIST, SUMMARY · Release: Redact”
“FBI · From: SHRODER, R. I. · To: ROSEN · Release: Redact”
“FBI · From: DIRECTOR, FBI · To: SECRETARY OF STATE · EBF, INC 2 ADMIN PAGE, 3 T/T, 34 MEMO, 5 LTR, 2 LHM, 6 NEWS ARTIC, 8 A/T · Release: Redact”
“FBI · From: PAPICH · To: BRENNAN · MEMO · Release: Redact”
“FBI · From: PAPICH · To: LALLIER · MEMO · Release: Redact”
“FBI · From: PAPICH · To: LALLIER · MEMO · Release: Redact”