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104-10422-10022 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992]
(1) 'What',Collection requirements were issued to the field with
regard 'to Kennedy's assassination?
As soon as the name of Lee OSWALD was mentioned in connection
with the assassination of President .Kennedy on 22 November. CIA
file checks were begun and the Mexico City Station was asked by
cable for more information on OSWALD. Within a week twenty-seven
cabled reports had been sent to.the White House, the Department of
- State, and 'the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
CIA field stations provided bits of information during the
week aite< the assassination. The Mexico tity Station reviewed tie
trans-eripts-e -i-
ing him by name; these transcripts connected him also to the Cuban
Consulate in Mexico City. Several Mexicans were arrested and
questioned about his activities, giving 'a good picture of what he .
was really up to. -A host of fabricators, some anonymous, bombarded
overseas embassies with spurious tips on the case. -All of these
leads were soon discredited, but they were still coming in.
In light of OSWALD's defection to the Soviet Union where he
Shad remnaiid for almost Lhree years and his trip to Mexico City
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foreign assets.
As the Agency responsible for the collection of foreign coun-
terintelligence information , it was the Agency's responsibility
to support the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its investigation
of the President's assassination by
a. Obtaining detailed information on every aspect of OSWALD's
activities and movements abroad;
. b. Studying this information in light of the Agency's .know-
ledge of-the mission and operations of foreign intelligence
services - particularly the Cuban and Soviet services, and](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch79510&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)