MEXICO - CIA DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD ON MARCH 24, 1964

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10M00666R000503450003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 26
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 26, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM March 26, 1964
SUBJECT: Mexico - CIA Dissemination of Information on
Lee Harvey Oswald on March 24, 1964
The CIA directed a memorandum to J. Lee Rankin
(Commission Document No. 631) in which it set forth the
dissemination of the information on Lee Harvey Oswald. I
realize that this memorandum is only a partial answer to
our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that
the
the complete answers will give us/additional information we
requested.
We would like to know just when[the Mexican
station got the information with respect to Lee Harvey Oswald
and what was the information and how was it obtained. How
did the information get from Mexico to the CIA in Washington,
and in what foam did it come?
At what point was the information that the Lee
Harvey Oswald was probably the Lee Harvey Oswald who had
defected and was married to a Russian developed so that when
the telegram went from the CIA in Washington to the various
agencies it contained such information. In other words, I
would like to know whether this was information available in
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i1exi.,o or did this additional r- at=on get in the message
on'': after it reached T~Ta3h_r.?: ... he information ...,as
being disseminated to the varic.:3 ager.cies.
As you know, we are trying to get an explana-
tion of the photograph which t^e I showed Marguerite
Oswald soon after the assassin=-4-n. I hope that paragraph 4
of the memorandum of March 2L, 1 3,54 sent Mr. Ran-kin by the
CIA Is not the answer which the CIA intends to give us as to
this inquiry.
We should also deter = :.e .ihy the Navy never furnished
the CIA with. cc.ies of the sou recent photographs of Oswald.
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DRAFT/1 r 64/mfd
MEMORANDUM
FROM: Coleman-Slawson
SUBJECT: Statement of Pedro Gutierrez Valencia
In a letter to President Johnson dated December 2,
1963 and in three statements summarized by the FBI in Commis-
sion Nos 564, 566, and 663, Gutierrez has stated that on
September 30, 1963 or on October'l, 1963, probably the latter,
he saw a Cuban give money to an American, just outside the
Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, and he claims now to identify
the American now as Oswald. He fixes the time of the event as
approximately 10:50 a.m.
The Mexican police check of Gutierrez shows him to
be a responsible and respected person, and a car answering,: the
description of the one he claims to have seen the American and
Cuban enter has been found to have been registered during the
years 1963-64 under what is probably a fictitious name. His
statements must therefore be given serious consideration.
The following inquiries might be worthwhile:
1. Guiterrez says that the woman whose credit he
checked showed him a card which identified her as a "second
counselor" of the Cuban Embassy. (Commission No. 564, page 4.)
Perhaps CIA or FBI or some other source has a way of finding
g'~ ^?+,.,far ~ "a..'2 = ..:~*as~?~r~_,*.~~ ~~.he said that altriaugh it involved a certain smrsmt of cam~ro-
mi.se of has security arraug. nts, the e=Wreisr vas acceptable teen
balanced againet the inapt rtame of the 0cca6i?a.7
[tie than ba'ietl y discussed the statommut of Silvia Duran which we bad
read earlier in the day in the MI offices. OW CIA had not yet seen
this d-istesaeat