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104-10422-10022 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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              (1)  ct ction 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 CityStation 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, andfthe Federal Bureau of.Investigation.

                  CIA field stations provided bits of information during the

             week after the assassination.  The Mexico City Station reviewed the

             trans zriptsef--i-stlpoetp             aneu   wA hseveLa   n


             ing him by name; these transcripts connected-him also to the Cuban

             Consulate in Mexico City.  Sdireral Mexicans wer6 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

             had rematued fUr almost thuree years and his trip to Mexico City

             WILere-I±e hfad contact -wiL1i-m. nuiii.~ of the. Cab a, 'and78rtietC on-


             -  t  - a            q carveb~ean aen inapo ne oeg  ietion   cruld

             notb.e dismissed without exhaustive exp1oitation of all  viraI ab-1e

             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

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