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104-10431-10078 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/23/1963)

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To:       Assistant Deputy Director, Plans

From      Chief, SR/C.

Subject:  Cable from Chief, SR Division, re Possible KGB role  n  enned
          Sl.ins

     1.  The following is the text of a cable from Chief, SR Division, sent
via closed channel from Frankfurt at 2316Z on 23 November, for the attention
of Mr. Angleton:

          1.  I desire that you consider these reactions to the Kennedy
               assassination:

               a.  Within minutes of the first news, Moscow radio statements
                   as heard in London attributed the assassination to right-
                   wing elements.. Only as the true identity of the believed
                   assassin beca   known did Moscow begin to complain that
                   U.S. reactionaries were using Oswald as a pawn.

               b.  Should not the assignment of 13th Dept. officers to the EDB
                   residency in the United Nations in New York be considered
                   in a new light?

               c.  I discovered from Arthur Martin   f       duringour  long
                   and exceptionally valuable discuss    ,hat   one of Harold
                   Wilson's principal scientific advisors is Captain Ian Maxwell,
                   who has a long Soviet intelligence background.  This may
                   shed new light on AEIADLE 's report ff.e., that Harold Wilson
                   may be a Soviet ageng.

           2.  Putting it baldly, was Oswald, unwittingly or wittingly, part of
               a plot to murder President Kennedy in Dallas as an attempt to
               further exacerbate sectional strife and render the U.S. Government
               less eapable of dealing with Soviet initiatives over the next
               year?  If AEIADIE's views on Wilson and the information noted in
               paragraph le above have any substance (and they cannot be ignored),
               this suggests that we can expect major Soviet pressures over the
               next several months, for which the Soviets have made careful,
               long-range preparations.1


     2.  The above reference to 13th Dept. offi
presence, reported by an FBI penetration of the
Washington of one or two known officers of the
Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the KGB.
liquid affairs,  sabotage and assassination.


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