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104-10428-10207 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/10/1977)

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                              TOT. 1009147 DEC.77      DIRECTOR 1   63

 SEC   RE  TC
 STAFF 100014Z DIRECTOR 37063
 TO:  IMMEDIATE

 WNINTEL RNVIEW MHSPLASH

 REFS: A.  DIRECTOR 136271
       B.  DIRECTOR 135665

       1. ON 9 DECEMBER HOS FORWARDED VIA T*M- NO. 214249 COPIES OF
DOCUMENTS FROM THE FIRST 60 VOLUMES ON OSWALD. THERE ARE TWO
SECTIONS PERTAINING SOLELY TO MEXICO wHICH.ARE ENTITLED INVESTIGATION
RELATIVE TO SUBJECT'S TRAVEL AND MEXICO.# THE LATTER SECTION
INCLUDES INFORMATION ON INTERVIEWs WITH TRAVELLERS AND CONTINENTAL
TRAILWAYS EMPLOYEES. AMONG OTHER INDIVIDUALS. THE FOLLOWING ARE
DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST:
         A,  SECTION TWO ...FBI INTERNAL MEMORANDUM DATED 2 DECEMBER
19b3 RE INFORMATION RELATING TO 6.5 MM MANNLICHFR-CARCANO
AMMUNITION USED IN THE ASSASSINATION. PORTION oF MEMO READS: THE
INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS ORDER IS THAT IT IS FOR AMMUNITION
WHICH DOES NOT FIT AND CANNOT BE FIRED IN ANY OF THE USMC WEAPONS.
THIL GIVESRISELTO THE OBVLOUS SPECuLATION THAT IT ISA CONTRACT FE
AtMMUNITION PACFD BY CIA wlTH WfETERN (CARTRIDGE CORPORATION) UNDER
A USMC COVER FOR CONCEALMENT PURPOSES,
      NOTE FROM FBI'S DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION DATED
25. NOVEMBER 1963, PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SYLVIA T. DURAN
3F REF B.  SHE.AND HER HUSBAND WERE ARRESTED BY MEXICAN
AUTHORITIES ON 23 NOVEMBER 1963 FOR.INTERROGATION. SHE WAS
.OOPERATIVEAND FURNISHED WRITTEN STATEMENTS RE TWO VISITS BY OSWALD
1O CUBAN EMbASSY IN LATE SEPTEMBER 1963 FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING
,ISA TO TRANSIT CUBA TO GO TO USSR. CARLOS LECHUGA, CUBAN
AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND FORMERLY CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO
4EXICO, AND DURAN DESIRE TO MARRY.
         8. SECTION THREE -MEMORANDUM FOR MR. RELMONT DATED
?7 NOVEMBER 1961. (DOCUMENT IS RELATIVE TO TELEPHONE CALL FROM
)EPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL KATZENBACH ON HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH ALEXIS
JOHNSON, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.) JOHNSON TOLD KATZENBACH
'HAT INSOFAR AS THE INVESTIGATION OF THIS MATTER IN MEXICO IS
.ONCERNED STATE DEPARTMENT FELT THIS SHOULD BE COORDINATED AND
)IRECTED BY THE FBI. STATE TOOK THE POSITION THAT THE PRESIDENT'S
)IRECTIVE TO THE FBI EXTENDED TO ANY ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF THE
INITED STATES, AS.wELL AS WITHIN THE COUNTRY. INSOFAR AS THE
iMBASSADOR IN MEXICO IS CONCERNED JOHNSON BELIEVED HE SHOULD BE KEPT


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