Title: MEMO: CABLE FROM CHIEF, SR DIVISION, RE POSSIBLE KGB ROLE IN

KENNEDY SLAYING
Author: n/a
Pages: 3
Agency: CIA
RIF#: 104-10431-10078
Subjects: ANGLETON
Source: AARC

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CHIEF
SR/CI
PLANS
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
ASSISTANT
SR DIVISION
MEMO CABLE FROM CHIEF
ROLE IN KENNEDY SLAYING
11/23/63
2
ANGLETON
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at 2316Z on 23 November
channel
from Frankfurt
via closed
of Mr Angleton
that
I desire
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you consider

these

reactions

SR Division
sent
for the attention

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Kennedy

Within minutes
of the first
Moscow radio
statements
news
as heard in London attributed
the assassination
to "right
of the believed
wing elements.
Only as the true
identity
became known did Moscow begin to complain
assassin
that
reactionaries
U.S
were using
Oswald as a pawn
Should not the assignment
of 13th Dept
officers
to the
in the United
in New York be considered
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residency
in a new light

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scientific
advisors
is
Ian Maxwell
principal
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who has a long Soviet
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intelligence
background
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on AELADLE's report
that Harold
Wilson
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a
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was Oswald
it baldly
or wittingly
of
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unwittingly
part
a plot
to murder President
as an attempt
to
Kennedy in Dallas
further
exacerbate
sectional
strife
and render
the U.S
Government
less
of dealing
with Soviet
initiatives
over the next
capable
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noted in
year
lc above have any substance
be ignored)
paragraph
(and they cannot
that we can expect
this
over the
suggests
major Soviet
pressures
next several
for
which
the
have
Soviets
made
months
careful
preparations.
long-range

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to 13th Dept
The above reference
officers
in New York refers
to the
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FBI
of
the
KGB locally
in New York or
reported
by
penetration
presence
of one or two known officers
of the 13th Department
of the 1st Chief
Washington
of the KGB
Directorate
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is charged
with
Intelligence)
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and assassination
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was in food chemistry
significantly
note that
comments come without
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the traces
to you earlier
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today
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