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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch40334 and id is 1 raw text is: 104. 0147-10436
OLC 73- 5/.3 0
7 November 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT Meeting with Mr. erbert Manell]
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1. Yesterday afternoon I met with Mr. I(Manelijin the
company of Messrs. Shepanek and iolmes. The purpose of the
meeting was to ascertain Mr. Laniell's recollection of cer-
tain events in Mexico City in connectio, with the visit of
Lee Harvey Oswald there. I told Mr. &anell] the question
that had arisen over the memoires of Win Scott.
2. While Mr. UManelll has not read the Scott memoires,
he said that he could ofFer speculation on how Scott came
to write such a thing. Mr. Scott at times was prone to
exaggeration. matell said that Oswald's visit came at
the end of the summer. The summer was a period when lots
ofokooks came to Mexico and contacted the Soviet Embassy.
Manell] said that this proved to be very time consuming
Trom the Station's point of view as the Station was obliged
to report to Headquarters and appropriate Embassy components
on these people when they were identified. He considered
this function to be one of no profit operationally,
although it was of course a necessary CI responsibility.
3. When Oswald identified himelf in a telephone call
to the Soviets it was viewed by qanell] as being a meaning-
less instance of one more probable useless contact to
report; for the Station had no record or file on Oswald.
anIll's wife, a part-time employee, ended up writing a
cable. No one thought much of Oswald,and Win Scott signed
off on the cable without question.
4. On the question of photographic coverage he said
there is a practical explanation of why there were no
photographs of Oswald. He said the work was very boring.
He believes that the Mexicans were simply not photographing
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