Mexico City Cable: Oswald-Kostikov Contact 1963

It is a SECRET CIA cable from the Mexico City station (referencing the LCIMPROVE project) reporting the Agency's intercept of an American man who contacted the Soviet Embassy on 1 October 1963 and gave his name as Lee Oswald.

He said he had visited the embassy on 28 September and spoken with a consul he believed to be Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, then asked Soviet guard Ivan Obyedkov whether any reply had arrived to a telegram sent to Washington; Obyedkov reported nothing had been received.

The cable reports that photographic coverage captured an American male entering the embassy at 1216 hours and leaving at 1222 on 1 October, describing him as roughly 35, athletic, about six feet tall, with a receding hairline. The information was attributed to source LIEMPTY.