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Title: 180-10113-10119Author: n/aPages: 11Agency: HSCARIF#: 180-10113-10119Subjects: HUNT, E. HOWARD; MEXICO CITY; CIASource: AARC

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AGENCY HSCARECORDNUMBER 180-10113-10119RECORD SERIES NUMBEREDFILESAGENCYFILE NUMBER 003362

DOCUMENTINFORMATIONORIGINATOR HSCAFROM ORR PATRICIATOTITLEDATE 08/05/77PAGES 7DOCUMENTTYPE MEMORANDUMSUBJECT(S) HUNT E HOWARD MEXICO CITY CIACLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIEDRESTRICTIONS 256

CURRENT STATUS REFERREDDATE OF LAST REVIEW 08/12/93COMMENTS CIA 77-4 Box 77Date in 01/25/96F F F F F F F FT F F F F F F F

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DOPY TORobert BlakeyGary CornwellKenneth KleinCharlie MathewsJim WolfDonovan GayJackie HessCliff Fenton

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8/5/77TO JH KK 062362FROM PMORE CIA Station in Mexico City

Attached find a list of individuals known to have beenconnected with the CIA station in Mexico City duringLee Harvey Oswald's visit

This information has been gleaned mainly from theexecutive session testimony of David Phillips ex-CIAagent who had been in charge of Cuban Affairs for theCIA in Mexico City Other information comes from staffinterviews with a witness Boris Tarasoff formerlywith the intercept unit of the CIA station

It has been suggested that E Howard Hunt may have beeninvolved in CIA activities in Mexico City and specificallywith the visit of Lee Harvey Oswald Many criticscite the fact that the CIA Station Chief has never beenidentified publicly as a basis for speculation that Huntpossibly .held that position This however wouldconflict with information from Phillips that the StationChief was named Winston Scott now deceased

This does not preclude the possibility that Hunt held

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another position at the station but Tarasoffwas shown photographs of E Howard Hunt which he couldnot identify nor did he recognize the name from CIA-Mexico City

I will also be forwarding an organizational chart ofthe CIA station as best I can make it out with theinformation known presently

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MEXICO CITY - CIAA review of notes taken from interviews with DavidPhillips indicates that there are a several areaswhich our witness may be questioned aboutOrganization & PersonnelPersonnel in Mexico City StationDavid PhillipsIn 1963 Phillips was in charge of Cuban affairsfor the CIA in Mexico City As such he wasresponsible for the monitoring of the CubanEmbassy

He was in Mexico City from September 1961to early 1965 succeeding Tom HazlettHe originally comes from Ft Worth and joined theCIA in 1950He recalls the Oswald tape as an intercept t4tweenthe Soviet and Cuban embassies.E 03 I headof Russian affairs at Mexico City Station wouldhave been primarily responsible for informationderived from this interceptPhillips was never in the intercept unit whichwas staffed mainly by Mexican nationalsHis immediate superior wasL. 03 3 but heanswered to Winston Scott

Winston ScottStation Chief for the Mexico City CIA Station in 1963Supervisor for Phillips in practice although thedeputy Chief of Station would normally have beenthe person to whom Phillips was to reportScott was known for his almost photographic memoryand a strong personality He did not like to delegateauthorityScott was the person who made final determinationas to whether information coming in over anintercept was to be forwarded to Washington or notScott is now deceased He died of a heart attackaround 1972 His name was not previously known publicly03 3Deputy Station Chief under Scott in Mexico CityPhillips was not sure whether it wast 03 jor AllenWhite who held this office at the time of Oswald'svisit but he feels fairly positive that it was[.03-2

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03 J (cont d)Phillips reported to Scott even thoughC 0 33wasnext man up the hierarchyPhillips believes he is retired and lives in theWashington area

Allen WhiteSucceededLO3Jas Deputy Stattion Chief Phillipsworked under him for a timePhillips believes he is retired and resides inthe Washington area

Joe PicoloCIA officer under PhillipsRobert Shaw

CIA officer under PhilipsEventually Shaw and Phillips had the "whole assignmentin Mexico CityTwo CIA operatives working 24. Tireported to Shaw One worked for the ` 0$ 73rea one worked in the] og JareaPhillips believed Shaw 4is living in the Washingtonarea and is still with the CIA03Phillip named him as the senior man in chargeof the interception of telephone conversationsof the Cuban Embassy's officesHe would have been responsible for "dozen or soinvolved in the intercept unit outside CIA headquarters03 came to the CIA from the FBI and had been withthe CIA for 3 or 4 years at the time of the Oswaldvisit

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,is still in Mexico todayAnn GoodpasturePhillips mentions her as the person responsiblefor transporting the tapes from the interceptunit to CIA offices and back again

It is unclear whether she brought back tapes ortranscripts of the conversations from the RussianEmbassy It appears that she brought back transcripts

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MEXICO CITY - CIAGoodpasture (cont'd)in Spanish ie translations were done at the interceptunit when the language was Spanish The tapesthat were in Russian were brought back to CIA headquarters in all likelihood (From Phillips testimonyit'appears that the Russian translator for the CIAwas based in the Embassy where CIA headquarters were.)Goodpasture transported the tapes and transcripts insuitcases She was notified if tape was interesting or not

Phillips believes that Goodpasture is retired andresiding in Dallas Texas

Also assi~hed to Phillips replacing Joe PicoloPhillips believed O 3 presently works in theWashington headquarters of the CIA

George Misco (phonetic)Although Phillips was somewhat shakey about factswith respect to Misco he was able to tell us thatMisco was the Russian translator for the CIA andthat his office was most likely in CIA headquartersrather than the Soviet intercept unit outsidePhillips claims that Misco was not in Mexico Cityat the time of Oswald's visit

[ 0 spa 0 3 Jiater worked with Phillips whenthey were all assigned to Caracas VenezuelaPhillips maintained that it would have been L 03responsibility to decide where the inforationcontained in the Oswald intercept was to go and whetherthe intercept should be kept for any reason WinScott though would have ultimate responsibilityPhillips did no know of the L 033 whereaboutstoday

Clark AndersonLocal FBI agent in Mexico City who would routinelyreceive petinent information from the CIAHis title was Legal Attache at the American EmbassyHe is identified in the Church report only as "LegatSince he was the highest ranking '.$I official in Mexicothe FBI investigation there was under his direction

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Reference copy JFK Collection ,s.A (RCg 33)-4MEXICO CITY - CIAAnderson (cont'd)Anderson worked with Phillips in the DominicanRepublic in 1965

He is presently retired and residing in San AntonioTexasDesmond FitzgeraldChief of CIA operations in Washington CIA headquarterswho originally recommended Phillips to the Mexico City job

(Fitzgerald is mentioned in the Church report asone of the CIA agents involved with plots againstCatro's life The Church report names him as "thesenior CIA officer charged with responsibility forCuban affairs. He had a meeting with AMLASH onOctober 29 1963 for a policy discussion informingAMLASH that the U.S was prepared to provide supportfor a Cuban uprising only after a real coup hadbeen effected.)Fitzgerald is now deceased

E0308 03 a worked with him at SovietAffairs desk assisting him in the work She wouldprepare the reports to headquarters etc and hewould sign them

She had previously resigned from another staffemployee position at the CIA but was hired againon apart-time basis for her knowledge or Russianand her experience in Soviet mattersBenjamin Pepper.Worked under "3

Concerned with other matters related to Sovietaffairs such as Eastern European affairs

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Reference copy JFK Collection _,CA (RCR0233)MEXICO CITY - CIAPersonnelFrom other sources namely through information garneredby our own investigation we are also aware of othersinvolved with CIA Mexico City Station in 1963

Mr and Mrs Boris TarasoffAs one of the CIA's husband-and.wife teams theTarasoff's had the job of translating and transcribingconversations in the Russian language going inand out of the Soviet Embassy by telephoneThey were experts in voice identification using suchaids as newspaper clippings and other miscellaneousinformations about different individuals to helpdetermine geographic origins etc about personswhose conversations were being tappedThe Tarasoand transcthe specifmemoryTarasoff sTarasoff wagency abo

ffs were directly involed in the translationription of the Oswald conversation althoughics have become dim in Mr Tarasoff's

ucceeded George Miskoas never questioned by any investigativeut the Oswald conversations

Boris Tarasoff thought the conversation was mostlikely bet een Kanstaninov and Oswald and did notinvolve Koetikov or Yatskov Tarasoff knew no oneby the name of KostinTarasoff presently resides in Guadalajara MexicoWilliam BrightIdentified by Tarasoff as CIA "contact betweenthe statio and the translators It is not clearwhether Ta asoff was in the station or in a separateintercepts g unit but it appears that he wasprobably outside the stationBright seemed especially interested when the secondcall between Oswald and the Soviet Embassy wasintercepted and Oswald identified

03Identified by Tarasoff as the photographic expertat the Mexico City station at least from September1963 to November 196303 ]

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The CIA Station was housed at theable to identify several CIA positidescriptions May I suggest theframework as"a possible picturechart for September-October 1963

DEPUTYS TION CHIEF03 1Eater Allen White