Section B·page 8
The University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 22, 1999
Nation
After 36 years, JFK murder still mysterious
The 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 declasified documents offer more evidence that the tapes survived.
The discovery that the voice on the tape was someone other than Oswald was disquieting 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.
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 3 a.m. CST the day after the murder.
Former FBI Agent Eldon Rudd, later a Republican congressman from Arizona, was aboard the plane.
interview. "I brought the pictures up, (from Mexico) and it was my understanding that it was just pictures."
Documents contradict Rudd's understanding.
"There were no tapes to my knowledge," Rudd said in a telephone
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.
The CIA's phone intercepts in Mexico City have been an unanswered question in the assassination case for decades, said T. Jeremy Gunn, former director and general counsel of the review board.
"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.
He also said two assistant counsels on the Warren Commission, William T. Coleman Jr. and W. David Slawson, told the review board that they had gone to Mexico City and not only read transcripts, but listened to recordings.
"We tried to find the tape," Gunn said of the review board's effort. "We were unsuccessful. We tried to get everything we could, and we end up with question marks."
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