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104-10431-10069 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/23/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch48614 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 1431 10069 ............................. 23 November 1963 MM4ORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director, Plans FROM: Acting Chief SR Division. SUBJECT: Contact of Lee OSWALD with a member of Soviet KGB Assassination Department 1. According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee OSWALD was at the Soviet Embassy there on 28 September 1963 and spoke with the Consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich KOSTIDV. This was learned when OSWALD called the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, identifying himself by name and speaking broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the phone whether there was anything new concerning the telegram to Washington. The guard checked and then told OSWALD that a request had been sent, but nothing had as yet been received. (MEKI 6453, 9 October 1963) The FBI liaison officer, Mr. Pappich, told me on 23 November that the Bureau has reason to believe that OSWALD's visit was to get Soviet support for a U.S. passprt or visa matter fferhaps the new passport mentioned in the press articles . 2. KOSTIEDV is an identified KGB officer. He was a case officer in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department (responsible for sabotage and assassination). This operation, which is controlled by the FBI under the cryptonym TUMBLEWEED, involved a German-national resident of who was recruited in Europe, and met this year with EDSTIEDV in Mexico City and shortly thereafter with a known 13th Department officer, Oleg BRYKIN, in New York. The instructions given TUMBLEWEED by the two officers, (pinpointing objectives for sabotage) and the circumstances of their involvement in the case, left no doubt that both of them were working for the same KGB component, the 13th. 3. Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet Embassy. However, we have top secret Soviet intelligence documents, describing Military Intelligence doctrine, which show that very important agents can be met in official installations using as cover for their pres ce there some sort of open business: Vice Admiral Document Number for FOlA Review on APR 19 CLASSIF1CATION REVIEW CONo o6 APR 197 ODUCTEDON____ E._JMPDET CL BY ( RECORD COPY 3 yy'e

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