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CIA Mexico City Station Cable on Vault Door and Conference Room Security

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It was released by J.C. King, chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, and countersigned by John M. Whitten, the CIA officer who led the Agency's first internal review of Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination.

It is a routine physical-security message confirming headquarters' approval of changes to the Mexico City station's vault door and a conference room, referencing several earlier station cables.

Public-Interest Summary

This 1963 CIA cable from the Mexico City station, signed by Western Hemisphere Division chief J.C. King and countersigned by officer John M. Whitten (who later led the Agency's initial post-assassination investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald), confirms headquarters concurrence for a physical security modification to the station's vault door and conference room. The message references a chain of earlier station traffic and closes with a note that no conflicts remain, asking the recipient to verify details with an unnamed officer. Though routine in subject matter, the cable is a genuine artifact of the CIA's Mexico City station infrastructure during the exact period Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies there in the fall of 1963, and it bears the signatures of two officers central to the JFK assassination investigation record.

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J.C. King John M. Whitten CIA Western Hemisphere Division Mexico City 1963

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Provenance

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10101-10046.pdf

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