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104-10413-10362 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/28/1976)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch19505 and id is 1 raw text is: HSCA MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM : John-H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : Bernard Fensterwald* Jr. Comments in 22 October 1976 Issue of Washington Star 1. The following is a response to your query to Mr. Seymour Bolten concerning comments made by Bernard Fensterwald, Jr. 2. The comments made by subject in the marked-section of the at- tached newspaper clipping are partially factual and partially sheer speculation. It is true that the Agency has been particularly sensitive about the entire matter because the photographs in question originated from a highly sensitive intelligence operation which was conducted in October 1963 by the Agency against the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City. However, the material was not withheld from the Warren Commission. It should be noted that Oswald was in no sense under investigation and that at no time during his stay in Mexico City did the CIA acquire a photograph of Oswald. 3. The Agency has 12 different photographs of an individual, pos- sibly an American as yet unidentified, who was observed entering the Soviet Embassy and later the Cuban Embassy. A cropped photograph was introduced into the Warren Commission public record. The Warren Com- mission and its Staff were made fully aware in the cour s of their inquiry at Headquarters and in Mexico City of the origins of the photo- graph, and the fact that we had additional photographs of the same individual taken at different times in Mexico City. At one point our Chief of Station in Mexico City suggested that the man in the photograph was Oswald. However, this proved notsto be the case. It should be noted that Mr. Fensterwald in 1971-1972 was actually shown two of the 12 photographs during a visit to the Agency, other than the one already published in the Warren Commission report. It is a matter of more than E2, IMPDET CL BY 004645 %_ ;. .* ; j:, , a I C 280,Vc, T. - Ezocuuvo r%99Lr L 37

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