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104-10147-10437 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/7/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch40335 and id is 1 raw text is: 104 470437. 7 November 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT Meeting with Mr.<Herbert Manell 1. Yesterday afternoon I met with Mr.' Manell'in the company of Messrs: Shepanek and Holmes. The purpose of the meeting was to ascertain Mr. Manell's recollection of cer- tain events in Mexico City in connection with the visit of Lee Harvey Oswald there. I told Mr. Manell the question that had arisen over the memoires of Win Scott. 2. While Mr. Manell has not read the Scott memoires, he said that he could offer speculation on how Scott came to write such a thing. Mr. Scott at times was prone to exaggeration. Manell 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. Manell said that this proved to be very time consuming from 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 Manell as being a meaning- less instance of one more probable useless contact to report; for the Station had no record or file on Oswald. ,Manell's wife, 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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