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104-10147-10329 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/10/1977)

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      1.  ON 9 DECEMBER HQS FORWARDED VIA T-M-.NO,  214249 COPIES OF
 DOCUMENTS FROM THE FIRST 60 VOLUMES ON OSWALD.   THERE ARE TWO
 SECTIONS PERTAINING.SOLELY TO MEXICO WHICH.ARE ENTITLED  INVESTIGATION
 RELATIVE TO SUBJECT'S TRAVEL AND MEXICO.'  THE LATTER  SECTION
 INCLUDES INFORMATION ON INTERVIEWS WITH TRAVELLERS  AND CONTINENTAL
 TRAILWAYS EMPLOYEES* AMONG OTHER INDIVIDUALS.  THE FOLLOWING  ARE
 DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST:
          A.  SECTION TWO.- FBI INTERNAL MEMORANDUM DATED  2 DECEMBER
 1963 RE INFORMATION RELATING TO.6.5 MM MANNLICHER-CARCANO
 AMMUNITION USED IN THE ASSASSINATION.  PORTION OF MEMO READS:   THE
 INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS ORDER IS.THAT IT IS FOR AMMUNITION
 WHICH DOES NOT FIT AND CANNOT BE FIRED IN ANY OF THE USMC WEAPONS,
 THISGIVES  RISE TO THE OBVIOUS SPECULATION THAT IT IS ACONTlACT  FOR
 AMMUNITION RLACED BY CIA WITH WESTERN (CARTRIDGE CORPORATION) UNDER
 A USMC COVER FOR CONCEALMENT PURPOSES,
       NOTE FROM FBI'S DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION DATED
25 NOVEMBER  1963, PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SYLVIA T. DURAN
OF REF B.   SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE ARRESTED.BY MEXICAN
AUTHORITIES  ON 23 NOVEMBER 1963 FOR INTERROGATION.  SHE WAS-
COOPERATIVEAND  FURNISHED WRITTEN STATEMENTS RE TWO VISITS BY OSWALD
TO CUBAN EMbASSY  IN LATE SEPTEMBER 1963 FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING
VISA TO TRANSIT  CUBA TO GO TO USSR.  CARLOS LECHUGA, CUBAN
AMBASSADOR TO  THE UNITED NATIONS AND FORMERLY CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO
MEXICO, AND DURAN  DESIRE TO MARRY.
         B,  SECTION  THREE -MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BELMONT DATED
27 NOVEMBER 1961.   (DOCUMENT IS RELATTVE TO TELEPHONE CALL FROM
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL  KATZENBACH ON HI$ CONVERSATIONS WITH ALEXIS
JOHNSON, DEPUTY UNDER  SECRETARY OF STATE.) JOHNSON TOLD KATZENBACH
THAT INSOFAR AS  THE INVESTIGATION OF THIS MATTER IN MEXICO IS
CONCERNED STATE DEPARTMENT  FELT THIS SHOULD BE COORDINATED AND
DIRECTED BY THE FBI.   STATE TOOK THE POSITION THAT THE PRESIDENT'S
DIRECTIVE TO THE FBI EXTENDED  TO ANY ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF THE
UNITED STATES, AS vELL  As WITHIN THE COUNTRY.  INSOFAR AS THE
AMBASSADOR IN MEXICO  IS CONCERNED JOHNSON BELIEVED HE SHOULD BE KEPT
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