Title: MEMO: CABLE FROM CHIEF, SR DIVISION, RE POSSIBLE KGB ROLE INKENNEDY SLAYINGAuthor: n/aPages: 3Agency: CIARIF#: 104-10431-10078Subjects: ANGLETONSource: AARC

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ORIGINATOR CIAFROM CHIEF SR/CI

TO ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR PLANSTITLE MEMO CABLE FROM CHIEF SR DIVISION RE POSSIBLE KGB

ROLE IN KENNEDY SLAYINGDATE 11/23/63

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Cable from Chief SR Division re Possible KGBSlaying

1 The following is the text of a cable from Chief SR Division sentvia closed channel from Frankfurt at 2316Z on 23 November for the attentionof Mr Angleton

I desire that you consider these reactions to the Kennedyassassination

Within minutes of the first news Moscow radio statementsas heard in London attributed the assassination to "rightwing elements. Only as the true identity of the believedassassin became known did Moscow begin to complain thatU.S reactionaries were using Oswald as a pawn

Should not the assignment of 13th Dept officers to the KGBresidency in the United Nations in New York be consideredin a new light

I discovered fromtArthur Marti 74 I) during our longand exceptionally valuable discussions that one of HaroldWilson's principal scientific advisors is Captain Ian Maxwellwho has a long Soviet intelligence background This mayshed new light on AELADLE's report j3.e. that Harold Wilsonmay be a Soviet agen]

2 Putting it baldly was Oswald unwittingly or wittingly part ofa plot to murder President Kennedy in Dallas as an attempt tofurther exacerbate sectional strife and render the U.S Governmentless capable of dealing with Soviet initiatives over the nextyear If AELADLE's views on Wilson and the information noted inparagraph lc above have any substance (and they cannot be ignored)this suggests that we can expect major Soviet pressures over thenext several months for which the Soviets have made carefullong-range preparations.

2 The above reference to 13th Dept officers in New York refers to thepresence reported by an FBI penetration of the KGB locally in New York orWashington of one or two known officers of the 13th Department of the 1st ChiefDirectorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the KGB This department is charged with"liquid affairs, sabotage and assassination One of the 13th Des icers

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by the way met clandestinely with a Soviet "exchange student from aPennsylvania university during the school year 1962-63 which suggests thatthe Soviet student is also a 13th Dept officer or agent Perhapssignificantly his course of studies was in food chemistry

3 You will note that Mr Murphy's comments come without benefit ofthe traces we passed to you earlier today showing that Oswald had contactwith a 13th Dept representative in Mexico City

4+ Another recently-arrived cable being sent to the Director tonightsuggests that Oswald's business with the Soviet Consul was connected with hisown visa to the USSR and Cuba (in transit) and may therefore have been

really rather than ostensibly innocent

T H BAGLEY