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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch19449 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 i40801411
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MEMORANDUM FOR: LA/EICO I
Mr. William Sturbitts 0
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SUBJECT : Review of Lee Harvey OSWALD 201 File
for Freedom of Information Request a
REFERENCE Request Number 75-105, 2 June 1975
1. A review of the Lee Harvey OSWALD file (201-289248) C
*has been completed by the Mexican Branch in connection with
reference Freedom of Information request. Most of the
information contained in the file that pertains to Mexico
came from sensitive snure and methods, such as photo
surveillance, and mail intercept
operations. Although the mail intercept and photo
surv eil1la nee a ivities have ilii:11 5c
considered sensitive. ahie is still WEl
activ, n there fore, is sensitive] .
2. The Mexican information reviewed covered -th ee
areas: aS
a. Sylvia DURAN Tirado. A Mexican female
employed by the Cuban Embassy in Mexico who provided C
assistance to OSWALD in his attempts to obtain a Cub
visa. Information regarding DURAN appears in the Warren
Report, however, it is not attributed to the Agency.
The Government of Mexico (GOM) did arrest and interrogate
DURAN re her connection with OSWALD,.and a copy of the.
GOM deposition appears in the Report. The deposition was
turned over.to the Commission.by the GOM via State Department.
Since.knowledge of DURAN's.contact with OSWALD originally
GOM's and Agency's attention &r tWa-tI
all mention of Agency knowledge or
participation in DURAN's arrest and subsequent interrogation
has been marked for non-release.
b. Photo of unidentified 'man taken in front of
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico. his photo was taken by
1t9ation Mexico photo surveillance of the Soviet Embassy
during the month of October) 1963. When news of the
.arrest of' OSWALD as Kennedy's assassin became known,
the Station immediately forwarded copies of the photo
to the FBI in the mistaken assumption that the photo.,
was of OSWALD taken -while he was in. Mexico that. fall. C
It its. later determined that the photo was not of OSWALD L
:'and in fact had been taken after h had depaited Mexico.
(OSWALD was in Mexico from I26. S Ipteabor thru 3 October .1963.)
Even though the photo was not of O'SWAI) it had been shown
Ato OSWALD's wife cndit : mot11eur, wi. t h. the background partially](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch19449&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)