“… you really could not take any kind of opera­ tional action predicated on dispatch. 530/ Mr. Manell, the Chief of the Soviet Section in Mexico City recalled that the criterion for a cable as opposed to a dispatch was the perishability of the informa­ tion being transmitted. The norma …”

“… ecause it concerned an American, not be­ cause it concerned a matter was considered to be of importance. 533/ The tesimony of former CIA Mexico City officers consistently supports the position that Oswald's ini­ tial contact with the Soviet Embassy was considered t fairly routine. 53 …”

“… pe and transcript would have been sent to Washington by the first available pouch, probably by special cour­ ier. Q: Does the fact that Mexico City Station sent to Headquarters a cable reporting Oswald's contact suggest that the sta­ tion considered the contact to be im- portant?±4. …”

“… es” Classification:—- .6%7 weosabt (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled dcuments.) - 134 - colony in Mexico City who were in kind of routine contact with the Soviets, usu­ ally on cultural matters. No, I would say they were relatively infrequent. T …”

“… ots of Oswald. 559/ Headquarter's preseumption was evidently mistaken. No record exists that would indicate a reply to this cable by the Mexico City Station. The likelihood that a photograph of Oswald was indeed obtained makes the "explanation," proferred by Goodpasture, et al., even …”

“… wald's file which vas provided to her by Ms. Egerter. 568/ Once the information from the Oswald 201 and the information in the cable from Mexico City was combined, the Oswald contact took on more significance: Q: Now, once”

“Classifications in from (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) 144 - the Mexico City 10/9 cable and also disseminated in­ formation about Oswald to other branches of the Ameri­ can intelligence community. 671/ These two do …”

“… from CIA—controlled documents.) 147 - agencies gave the description that had mistakenly been connected to Oswald by the 0/9 cable from Mexico City. 579/ Ms. Egerter testified that she could not explain why the description discrepancies occurred. 580/ When Ms. Scaleti "Wk was asked …”

“… rnment ageney she might out words have had, as the '77 IGR says, "investigative responsibility. Fate the Chief of the Soviet Section in Mexico City 1 recognized such a routine investigative responsibility as part of the normal course of his duties. Heistated One of our responsibilit …”

“… ccessful areas of endeavor. They (Americans) were detected enough so that J. Edgar Hoover used to glow every time that he thought of the Mexico City Station. This was one of our outstanding areas of cooperation with the FBI. 587/ 070 Classification: Classified by derivation:, aA A …”

“… a standard operating procedure. For example, we had an agreement with the FBI that we would follow up leads on any American citizen in Mexico City who appeared around the Soviet Embassies, and so on, or anybody who was down there appearing to defect, which we might learn through our …”

“… IA" 595/ is seemingly inaccurate and misleading. This Committee has attempted to determine what actions, if any, were taken by the CIA's Mexico City Sta­ Z tion after Headquarters responded to the initial report of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet Embassy. Classification: .TD In th …”

“… was reported in an accurate and expeditious man­ ner; and 4) if it was hot reported, what was the reason for the failure to report. The Mexico City Stati on received DIR 74830 on 11 October 1963. The Mexico City copy of this cable is in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City "P" file along w …”

“… tion:11 K3 11 HiH -3 (This form is to be ued for, material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) 160 - the dates when subsequent Mexico City Station actions 0222 occurred. Ms. Goodpasture noted that "We should ask HQ for photo. No?" Barbara Manell noted that the dis­ seminati …”

“… r than clarifies it. This will be dealt with in more detail in a subsequent section. An examina- tion of documents in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Sta­ tion P file and the cable traffic from Mexico City to Headquarters after the assassination, raised a possibility that at least one …”

“… (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) - 164 - On 23 November, the CIA Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to send the full transcripts of Os­ wald's conversations and "or ginal tapes if available" to Headquarters as soon as possible,by …”

“… e back from Washington iden- tifying a Lee Oswald. 6377 On October 15, 1963, a ‘P" file was opened on Oswald. 638/ That same day the CIA Mexico City Station requested that Headquarters send them a photograph of Oswald. 639/ On that date also Ms. Manell drafted a local dissemination me …”

“… ell said that "They had no need to know all those other details'' 644/ There are no indications that any other actions were taken by the Mexico City Station prior to the”

“… of that action has been made available to this Committee. It is unlikely, but possible, that this information that was developed by the Mexico City Station after 10/11/63 was reported to Headquarters. Elsie Scaleti pointed out that a report of this additional information on Oswald's …”

“… d to say, in important il­ legal manipulations of sneiety, secretly. We were running, at that time, a vast poli­ tical action program in Mexico City to try to { } swing Mexico around from its Leftist direction to a middle of the road direction and it succeeded. Classification: 0G91 …”

“… main thrust of the Station's effort was to attempt to recruit Russians, Cubans and satellite people. 65^/ Perhaps the nature of the CIA Mexico City Station's handling of the Oswald case prior to the assassination can best be summed up in Dave Phillips' response when he was asked how …”

“Octo- ber, Ann Goodpasture had argued this very point with Win- 6598 On the lay of the assassination, the ston Scott. 657/ Mexico City Station cablei Headquarters, that it was sending Classification: ts as soon as possible "copies of only visitor to Classified by derivat …”

“… re is no record that indicates that these transcripts of Oswald'; calls were sent to Head­ quarters by special courier. On the 23rd, the Mexico City Station reported all of the substantive Oswald co 1versations to Headquarters by cable. Logically, one would expect that since the circu …”

“in DIR 84886. 675/ At this point, according to the files and records made available to the HSCA staff by the CIA, the Mexico City Station had informed Headquarters of Classification: ; ■ ' * - 0 Classified by derivation: AD .4 NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 194”

“… d be noted that the 10//10:45 conversation makes reference to the fact that Oswald was also at the Em­ bassy on 9/28. The next cable,that Mexico City sent to Headquarters said, in part, ’Other than Info already sent re Oswald's connection with Sov and Cuban Embs, no other info availabl …”

“… lp.n 7^ 7 0WVR3L3 (This form is to be used for material extracted b from CIA—controlled documents.) FOOTNOTES FOR LEE HARVEY OSWALD, MEXICO CITY AND THE CENTRAL INTE: -LICENCE AGENCY 1/ See Warren Report, pp. 299-304, 733-736. In support of • its account of Oswald's contacts with …”

“… . document listed a Central Intelligence Agency . "release 89 . dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.) 7) A memorandum dated 5/14/64 to the United States Em- bassy in Mexico City from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Mexico. (Commissi …”

“… s, un- dated, pp. 1-2. 25/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63. 26/ Ibid., para. 5, C. There were two common means of communi- cation between the CIA Mexico City Station and CIA Head- quarters: cables and dispatches. A dispatch from Mexico City to Headquarters always has the letter prefix "HMMA. II …”

“… 307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c. 77/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, para. 3. 78/ This assumption is consider ed reasonable in light of the desire of the Mexico City Station to establish coverage of the newly reopened Cor sulate entrance. See HMMA 22307,10/18/63. 79/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 3. 80/ …”

“4/28/78, p. 15. Herbert Manell was in charge of the Soviet Branch of the CIA Sta­ tion in Mexico City. Barbara Manell was his assistant. Classification: Classified by derivation: NW 48327 Docld:32263889 Page 208”

“Operations," pp. 10-11. Hereinafter cited as Levister Memo. Paul Levister pseudonym) was a Headquarters tech- .nician. He was in Mexico City from 22 September to 1 iOctober, 1963, preparing a report on this electronic intercept operation. (HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 8.) This r …”

“… e unilateral surveillance was not directed at the Soviet diplomatic compound but rather at the private apartments of Soviet officials in Mexico City. (Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 56; Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 7; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 7; HSCA Deposition o …”

“Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 8, in whcih the Chief of the Soviet Section in the Mexico City Station claims never to have heard of such summaries. 221/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp. 2-3. 222/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, ). 8; Levi …”

“… —controlled cocuments.) - 18 - 243/ Ibid. 244/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p. 11. 245/ After the assassination Headquarters asked Mexico City not to destroy any of the Soviet tapes from this opera­ tion. (DIR 87770, 12/9/63) A note,written by Ann Good- pasture in 1963 seems to …”

“… 9/28/63. 311/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78, p. 12; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63. 312/ CIA Mexico City Investigation Chronology,. Bulky #WX-7241, Vol. I, p. 3. The transcript of this call does not give the time the call occured. (CIA Transc …”

“… om Russian Embassy, 10/3/63. 315/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63. See also MEXI 6453, 10/8/63 and Section IV, B, below. 316/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63. (Mexico City copy.). 317/ Ibid. (1 318/ Ibid. Classification: 1 ; Classified by derivation: a Alft d NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 219”

“… 363/ It should be noted that the two sets of photographs which are missing are the most relevant of all the photographs produced by the Mexico City surveillance operations. Had a photograph of Oswald been obtained, it would have most likely have been done by one or both of the bases …”

“… distinguish between the allegation that a photograph was found at headquarters as opposed to the assertion that a photograph was found in Mexico City. It is also important to remember that these allegations are what can be termed "grapevine stores." There was a photograph found in Mexi …”

“same cable that reported Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy., (See below.) The findings of this Committ e regarding the general Mexico City surveillance operations are presented in Section II, A and B above. In summary, this Committee found that there were three photographic s …”

“dispatch tr af fic between Mexico City and Headquarters for the period from October 1, 1963 to 26 November 1963 in an at tempt to determine whether Os- wald’s photo may have b …”

“… CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63. .555/ This mistake was evidently not discovered until 1976. See WX7241, a chronology of the Mexico City investigation • prepared by Raymond Rocca in 1967 which lists the date as 1 October; A note on EMMW-15488, 5/18/67 which indi­ cates tha …”

“… istence at the time of the assas­ sination. (HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 76-77.) But the tesitmony of the persons at the Mexico City Station is consistent in saying that the tapes did not exist at the time of the assassination. (See HSCA Deposition of Fobert Shaw, 5/16/ …”

“… 76/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 6. 677/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63. 678/ MEXI 7033, 11/23/63. 679/ HSCA staff have wondered whether or not the Mexico City Station was entirely forthcoming of their own will with Headquarters. This speculation was based on three pieces of information. The fir …”

“… oint operation) and passed data to COS is important." (MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, paras. 2 and 3) The Committee declines to speculate that the Mexico City Station was possibly considering not reporting all the information available to them. It was considered that this may have been contempl …”

“… Ibid. 694/ Ibid. 695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 440; Flash Cable from Karamessines to Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA No. 403; Chronology of Raymond Rocca,”

“… 636. 696/ Blind Memo re Lee Harvey Oswald and Silvia Duran, Novem- ber 26, 1963, CIA #473. 697/ Ibid. / 9 698/ Cable :(?— ___ - from Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November 27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA #493. Classification: 3 90 g Ve Classified by derivation: NW 48327 DocId: 3 …”

“… tigative agencies--FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.-were asked to investigate the assassinatic n. When the Central Intelli- gence Agency's Mexico City Station remembered that Lee Harvey Oswald had visited Mexico City during late Septem­ ber and early October, it reviewed the electronic s …”

“made on October 1, 1963 where the “alleged" Oswald identified himself was also found. 663/ On November 23, 1963 the Mexico City Station deter- Classification:" 7-7 who 61•• CovPowi - gorgon: 001 1. 1 SZy 4erivationi- NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 247”

“… n, she did not have diplomatic immunity) because she might shed some light on the circumstances surrounding the assassination. 688a/ The Mexico City Station sent a note to the Gober- nacion head, Luis Echevarria, with Silvia Duran's address, her mother's address, her brother’s address, …”

“arrest. 672/ John Scelso, Chief of Western Hemisphere/3, stationed at Langley Headquarters, telephoned Winston Scott, the Mexico City Chief of Station, and requested that Silvia Duran not be arrested. 693/ Scott told Scelso that he could not rescind the request, and that …”