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23 November 1963
MIORAND1M FOR: A3sistant Deputy Director, Plans
FOM: Acting Chief, S Division
SUBJECT: Contact of Lee OSWALD with a rember of Soviet KGB
Assassination Department
1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD
was at the Soviet Embassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the
Consul, Valeriy Viadimirovich_1STVt This was learned when OSWALD called
. the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and speaking
broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the phone
whether there was anything new concerning the telegraa to Washington..
The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but
nothing bad as yet been received. (MI 6453, 9 October 1963) The FBI liaizon
officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 Novmber that the Bureau has reason to
believe that OS'ALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. passort or
visa matter §verbaps the new passport mentioned in the press articlef .
2. KOSTIEDY is an identified KGB officer. He was a case officer in :n
operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department, (rsponsible
for sabotage and assassination). This operation, which is controlled by the
FZ1 under the cryptonya TMIMEED, involved-a German-national residenat-f
LIZ]who was recruited in Europe,. and met this year with DSTIEDV in Mexto
City and shortly thereafter with a known 13th Department officer, Oldg BRYKN,
in New York. The instructiona given TUMBLEED by the two officers, (pinpointing
objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances- of their involvement in the lie,
left no doubt that both of ther were working for the same KGB component, the
13th.
3. Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to
have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret
Soviet intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, - vhich
show that very important agents can be met in official installationa using as
cover for their presence there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch18713&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)