We've known for years of Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to the Soviet Embassy
in Mexico City on 1 October 1963.
It was alleged by the CIA he met with the consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov,
who the CIA identified as a KGB officer and a member of a unit “responsible
for sabotage and assassination”.
So even the CIA were thinking of a Soviet conspiracy.
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Originally Posted by The Guardian
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 Kostikov. 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 “anytihng new concerning the telegram to Washington.” The guard chekced and told Oswald that a request had been sent, but nothing had as yet been received.
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 US passport or visa matter.
The CIA chief the calls Kostikov “an identified KGB officer” and a member of Department 13, a unit “responsible for sabotage and assassination”. He cites a source, a German national woman who lives in Oklahoma, met with Kostkikov and another Department 13 officer, Oleg Brykin. “Of course it is not usual for a KGB agent on a sensitive mission to have such overt contact with a Soviet embassy,” the CIA chief continues..
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But a 2013 Frontline story by John Newman states that a CIA intercepted phone call to Kostikov was made by someone impersonating Oswald.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/ar...d-mexico-city/
We know that the CIA had two phone tapping ("teltaps" in CIA jargon) operations in progress in Mexico City targeting the Soviets and Cubans and that
one of these was done in collaboration with the Mexican Government with whom they shared some of the intelligence.
The CIA and the Mexicans were certainly keen not to reveal to anyone they were doing this.
Echoes of the
Zimmermann Telegram in not wanting to tip their hand.