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104-10147-10437 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/7/1978)

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                                                7 November 1978


              MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

              SUBJECT    Meeting with Mr.<Herbert Manell


                   1.  Yesterday afternoon I met with Mr.' Manell'in the
              company of Messrs: Shepanek and Holmes.  The purpose of the
              meeting was to ascertain Mr. Manell's recollection of cer-
              tain events in Mexico City in connection with the visit of
              Lee Harvey Oswald there.  I told Mr. Manell the question
              that had arisen over the memoires of Win Scott.

                   2.  While Mr. Manell 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.  Manell said that Oswald's visit came at
              the end of the summer.  The summer was a period when lots
              of kooks came to Mexico and contacted the Soviet Embassy.
              Manell said that this proved to be very time consuming
              from 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 himself in a telephone call
              to the Soviets it was viewed by Manell as being a meaning-
              less instance of one more probable useless contact to
              report;  for the Station had no record or file on Oswald.
              ,Manell'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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