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104-10147-10436 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/7/1978)

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                                                  OLC  73- 5/.3 0

                                                  7 November 1978


               MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

               SUBJECT    Meeting with Mr.


                    1.  Yesterday afternoon I met with Mr.        in the
               company of Messrs. Shepanek and-Holmes.  The purpose of the
               meeting was to ascertain Mr.          recollection of cer-
               tain events in Mexico City in connection,,with the visit of
               Lee Harvey Oswald there.  I told Mr.L       [the question
               that had arisen over the memoires of Win Scott.

                    2.  While Mr.        has not read the Scott memoires,
               he said that he could offer speculation on how Scott came
               to write such a thinR.  Mr. Scott at times was prone to
               exaggeration. I       said that Oswald's visit came at
               the end of the summer.  The summer was a period when lots
               of kooks came to Mexico and contacted the Soviet Embassy.
                      said that this proved to be very time consuming
              Trom  the Station's point of view as the Station was obliged
              to  report to Headquarters and appropriate Embassy components
              on  these people when they were identified.  He considered
              this  function to be one of no profit operationally,
              although  it was of course a necessary CI responsibility.

                    3.  When Oswald identified himself in a telephone call
               to the Soviets it was viewed by        as being a meaning-
               less instance of one more probable useless contact to
               report;  for the Station had no record or file on Oswald.
                       Kwife, a part-time employee, ended up writing a
               cable.  No one thought much of Oswald,and Win Scott signed
               off on the cable without question.

                    4.  On the question of photographic coverage he said
               there is a practical explanation of why there were no
               photographs of Oswald.  He said the work was very boring.
               He believes that the Mexicans were simply not photographing

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