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Subject: Phony Oswald in Mexico
Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 9:18 PM
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The following information sort of puts a dent in the "magic bullet" and "one
assassin" doesn't it? Mel
Oswald impersonator called embassy
Monday, November 22, 1999
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Hours after President Kennedy was assassinated, FBI agents
reportedly listened to a tape of a phone call that a man identifying himself
as "Lee Oswald" had placed to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
They made a startling discovery: The voice on the tape was not Oswald's,
government records say.
This controversial tape has been a question mark in the assassination
investigation since Kennedy was killed. The assassination occurred 36 years
ago today and only now have new details about the tape come to light.
The CIA said years ago that the tapes on which it recorded the call were
erased. Documents released in recent years said otherwise. The latest and
newest of declassified documents offer more evidence that the tapes survived.
The discovery that the voice on the tape was someone other than Oswald
was a "disquieting discovery because the man who impersonated Oswald was
still at large," said John Newman, an ex-military intelligence analyst,
author and professor at the University of Maryland.
Oswald was in Mexico City in September and October 1963. During his
one-week stay, he contacted the Soviet Embassy and the Cuban consulate,
inquiring about visas needed to go to the Soviet Union via Cuba.
It is widely known that the CIA bugged telephones and took surveillance
photos at both the embassy and consulate. But the agency maintained that it
had routinely erased and reused tapes of the phone intercepts. A message from
the CIA's Mexico City station to headquarters on Nov. 24, 1963, said: "HQ has
full transcripts all pertinent calls. Regret complete recheck shows tapes for
this period already erased."
It was also known that while he was in Mexico City, Oswald had contact
with Valeriy Kostikov - a man that one CIA memo described as a "case officer
in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department
responsible for sabotage and assassination." It was the caller who is thought
to have impersonated Oswald who links him to this Soviet spy unit known as
Department 13.
Newly declassified documents - some released in the past six months -
say that after the president was shot, a Navy plane carried a top-secret
package from Mexico City to Dallas and landed there about 4 a.m. EST the day
after the murder.
Former FBI Agent Eldon Rudd, later a Republican congressman from
Arizona, was aboard the plane.
"There were no tapes to my knowledge," Rudd said in a telephone
interview. "I brought the pictures up (from Mexico) and it was my
understanding that it was just pictures."
Documents contradict Rudd's understanding. A newly released memo dated
Nov. 27, 1963, from FBI headquarters to its office in Mexico City, stated:
"If tapes covering any contacts subject (Oswald) with Soviet or Cuban
embassies available, forward to bureau for laboratory examination and
analysis together with transcript. Include tapes previously reviewed Dallas
if they were returned to you."
And a transcript of a telephone call FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made
to President Johnson just six hours after the plane arrived in Dallas
supports the belief that FBI agents listened to a tape that suggested an
impersonation.
"We have up here the tape and the photograph of the man who was at the
Soviet embassy using Oswald's name," Hoover told Johnson, according to a
transcript of that call released in 1993. "That picture and the tape do not
correspond to this man's voice, nor to his appearance. In other words, it
appears that there is a second person who was at the Soviet embassy down
there."
While they would not speculate about the identity of the caller, several
assassination researchers privately offered some explanations: Oswald could
have been impersonated by a CIA officer who called the Soviet Embassy simply
to fish for details about what Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Or, maybe
someone was trying to link Oswald to the KGB's assassination unit before
Kennedy's murder.
Whatever the answer, there was plenty of reason for worry in Washington
about any evidence pointing to Soviets or Cubans as somehow involved in the
assassination. Relations with the former Soviet Union were icy. Both sides
were armed with nuclear weapons. The Cuban missile crisis was still very much
on America's mind.
"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did
not have confederates who are still at large," Nicholas Katzenbach, then
deputy attorney general, wrote in a memo on Nov. 25, 1963.
"Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off and we should
have some basis for rebutting (the) thought that this was a communist
conspiracy or ... a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the communists."
In a telephone interview last week, Katzenbach said he does not know
anything about the FBI listening to a tape in Dallas. "Whether I knew
anything about it at the time, or what I knew about it at the time, I don't
recall," he said.
Oswald's trip to Mexico City was only briefly addressed by the Warren
Commission, which concluded in 1964 that Oswald was the lone gunman who
killed Kennedy.
His activities in Mexico City were investigated vigorously by the House
Select Committee on Assassinations, which re-investigated the Kennedy murder
in the 1970s. The committee then raised the possibility of an Oswald
impersonation but said there was not sufficient evidence to "firmly" conclude
that it happened.
Many more details about the trip, however, have surfaced in CIA and FBI
documents released by the Assassination Records Review Board. The board, set
up by Congress to amass all assassination-related records, opened tens of
thousands of pages before it closed down in 1998.
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