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committees. One of the central tenets of the lone assassin theory is Lee
Harvey Oswald's presence in Mexico City.
"Soon after the commission was created, the CIA informed Earl Warren
that Oswald had been in Mexico from September 26 to October 3, 1963 and
that he had spent most of that time in Mexico City.
"According to the CIA, Oswald had visited the Cuban Embassy in
Mexico City on September 27 and the Soviet Embassy on October 1. Proof
that Oswald had been in the Cuban Embassy, the CIA reported, came from
Senora Silvia Duran, a Mexican employed at the Cuban Embassy. Proof
that Oswald had been to the Soviet Embassy, the CIA claimed, came from
the observations of its own agents." 595
OSWALD AND THE KGB?
The CIA told the Warren Commission that Oswald had met with a
Soviet KGB officer named Valeriy Kostikov who was a specialist in
assassination and sabotage; that Kostikov was in charge of Sovietorchestrated
assassinations in the United States. Clearly, the CIA's
implication was that Oswald had been meeting with the KGB officer to plan
JFK's murder.
However, even the Warren Commission was suspicious and asked for
evidence of Oswald's activities in Mexico City. Some four months went by
before the CIA could provide anything other than the testimony of the
aforementioned Miss Duran.
Yet, as the evidence shows, Miss Duran only identified Oswald as a
visitor to the Cuban Embassy after she had been arrested by the Mexican
police at the direction (unknown to her) of the CIA. She was forced into
making the statement that the CIA wanted: that Oswald had been to the
Cuban Embassy.
After she was released from custody, she spoke out about her experience
and the CIA cabled the Mexican police to re-arrest the young lady, but
cautioned the police to make sure that Miss Duran knew nothing about the
CIA's involvement in her imbroglio.
Finally, under pressure to provide further corroboration of Oswald's
activities, the CIA managed to come up with recordings of a telephone
conversation between someone alleged to be Lee Harvey Oswald and
someone at the Soviet Embassy.
However, even the FBI, having reviewed the recording, concluded that
its agents were of the opinion, that it "was NOT Lee Harvey Oswald." 596
Despite this provocative conclusion, the FBI report never reached the
Warren Commission. Warren and company had only to rely upon the reports
from the CIA. (The FBI report only became public some years later when
Mark Lane obtained it through the Freedom of Information Act.)
In 1977 David Atlee Phillips, former head of the Western Hemisphere
for the CIA, admitted publicly that Oswald had not been to the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico City.