Scope: This research tool indexes 37,141 records - a curated subset of the ~300,000 documents in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Releases indexed: 2017-2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025. 2,165 records have full-text OCR indexed - of those, 2,162 are sourced from the 2025 re-release (NARA has not yet published an XLSX manifest for 2025; each document’s prior-release history is shown on its page). Releases not yet indexed: 2026. Methodology
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Results for Mexico City
“… s, they principally focus on CIA operations against Cuba and Castro, Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the USSR, and Oswald's activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. The vast majority of documents pertaining to Oswald were created in response to specific inquiries from the Warren Commi …”
“… cs, they principally focus on CIA operations against Cuba and Castro, Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the USSR, and Oswald's activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They also include a large number of names traces requested by the HSCA staff, as, well as materials relating to the Garr …”
“… 4 31 Jan 64 Report, not really contemprary with this file, PILEo entitled: "Information Developed by CIA on .the Activity of ...Oswald in Mexico City..," 28 Sep—3 Oct 63 •SSFEf 14 •I Redacted copy of same - SECRET”
“13-00000 Union, and Oswald’s subsequent activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They also include a large number of name traces.. mAsauXowo requested by the staff of the House Select Committee, as we …”
“… cipally focus on CIA activities concerning Cuba and Castro, Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union, and Oswald’s subsequent activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They also include a large number of name traces requested by the staff of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, …”
“… cipally focus on CIA activities concerning Cuba and Castro, Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, and Oswald's subsequent activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They also include a large number of name traces requested by the staff of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, …”
“station Potential appeal: Tokyo station 9. Additional requests of Board to review other records e.g., history of Mexico City station, Intelligence Community Staff records■”
“… cipally focus on CIA activities concerning Cuba and Castro, Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union, and Oswald’s subsequent activities in Mexico City and New Orleans. They also include a large number of name traces requested by the staff of the House 5”
“… 14 31 Jan 64 Report, not really contemprary with this file, entitled: "Information Developed by CIA on & / .the Activity of ...Oswald in Mexico City..," oft LATEI' 14 •I 28 Sep—3 Oct 63 Redacted copy of same — SECRET”
“13-00000 @010 (24 0457 ARRB List of Exhibits Statement of T. Jeremy Gunn Exhibit A. - Cable to the Mexico City Station from CIA Headquarters, November 27, 1963. This document was released in full after a Board vote in 1995. The second line of type …”
“… full at an ARRB declassification session in July 1997. Exhibit E. Monthly Operational Report 1-30 September from the Chief of Station, Mexico City to Chief KURIOT, October 18, 1963. The CIA typically is reluctant to release information regarding”
“… I, the CIA typically is reluctant to release information regarding technical surveillance. Exhibit E is a monthly operational report from Mexico City from September 1-30, 1963, a period that includes Oswald's arrival in the Mexican capital. In 1993, the document was postponed in its enti …”
“… bt currently utilized. A fortiori would this definition include the surveillance techniques employed at the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. The "intelligence source" definition should be limited to living sources in circumstances where disclosure could reasonably be expected …”
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important exception of the FBI and the CIA. I will elaborate on the status of records
held by these two agencies later. The overwhelming majority of previously redacted
information will have been made public by the Review Board.’
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“… y worried about congressional committees holding hearings and disclosure of sources and methods, such as the fact that Oswald had gone to Mexico City and been observed by photographic surveillance, and how was that going to be handled by a congressional committee? So I do believe it has …”
“… 7 1) document example1 - Potential appeal: (Tokyo station ( 9. Additional requests of Board to review other records e.g. / history of Mexico City station, Intelligence Community Staff records Notes : o Board does n't accept "principle" postponementn't- requires evidence as justifi …”
“… registry; and, the assignment and use of alias's pseudonyms, crypts, etc. - c. Requests for subject specific matters which included: The Mexico City Station annual reports; the existence of DRE monthly reports; Oswald's pre assassination files; and, a search for any documents or inform …”
“… ation and files, which included: Requests for information and files on AMWORLD, QKENCHANT, an index to the HTL’INGUAL materials, and the Mexico City electronic surveillance tapes. e . Requests for individual specific information and files, which included both CIA and CIA associated in …”
“… ctive. Contains pre assassination documents; materials collected after the assassination and during the Warren Commission investigation; Mexico City files, Garrison investigation materials plus other documents related to the assassination or Oswald received over the years. A microfilm …”
“… ersons of interest to HSCA including documents prepared by the Agency as a result of the investigation, eight boxes of security files and Mexico City cable chrono files. The boxes contain a significant amount of duplication (most of the Oswald 201 documents appear multiple times in this …”
“… ditional assassination records. Theses requests generated several 100 additional assassination records including 185 audio tapes from the Mexico City telephone taps. Additional material related to the JFK Act including DO cables to the field and working files of the HRP project officer w …”
“… ts, handwritten scraps - every imaginable form of documentation, with a tremendous amount of duplication, in one instance, 54 copies of a Mexico City cable. Every one of these pieces of paper had to be handled according to NARA instructions, as a unique document for inclusion in the NA …”
“… r which much more information could be withheld than was defendable under the JFK law. A major part of the JFK story was Oswald's trip to Mexico City; it took several months for the DO to agree to allow acknowledgment of the existence of a station in Mexico City and many more months to …”
“… ere. One issue, for a long time, was acknowledging that the teltaps were station activities. The ARRB insisted on nearly total release of Mexico City Station traffic, history, personnel, and project approvals because Oswald's trip to Mexico City remained one of the most controversial c …”
“… JFK Declassification Experience exile groups and CIA involvement in Project MONGOOSE were declared relevant. Hundreds of JMWAVE cables, Mexico City Station documents, and Cuban names, and many with their crypts, were released. 15. (U) Those records that the Board concluded "truly h …”
“… on each side as to the basis bulk of the information in the HSCA's report and reasons for their respective recommen on CIA activities in Mexico City—the dations and determinations."26 The Review "Lopez" report—because of the high public Board did consult with government offices to inte …”
“… Security Agency employees that it encoun 2 DATE : 23 NOV 63 Q HU IN CS FILE NO. 3 -1" tered. The Review Board would have consid TO 1 MEXICO CITY 23kd6317 182.... ered releasing names of National Security ROMI DIRECTOR CSiCOpy; Agency employees if it determined that a par LAN----- …”
“… licly acknowl CS Comment: *Reported that on i October 63, an American male who said his name was Lee Oswald was at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. edged senior officials, jeopardized the poten 201-289248 tial security of U.S. cryptographic systems Document Number 40-541 -200-5-41 …”
“… of the United the U.S. and were more lic (e.g. that the Soviet Embassy States, the disclosure of which would likely to face harm if the in Mexico City wassbugged demonstrably impair the national security of Board disclosed their during the alleged visit of Lee the United States;| relatio …”
“… , the the FBI was "ODENVY." The Review Board Review Board released a group of CIA crypts made a blanket decision to release all U.S. from Mexico City with the "LI" digraph. CIA government crypts. The Review Board nearly eventually agreed to release its crypts and always released CIA cry …”
“… uglines because the Agency Review Board recognized that certain CIA never offered the Review Board any evidence surveillance operations in Mexico City in to explain why the Board should not release 1963 were already well-known to the public them. An example of a CIA slugline is because …”
“… Review Board did not believe that its released the location of CIA installations votes to release CIA surveillance methods in relating to Mexico City during the time Mexico City in 1963 would jeopardize cur- period 1960-1969. Likewise, the Review 53”
“… cations in rule, and except for the specific time win CIA documents relevant to Oswald's visit to dows described above, the Review Board Mexico City. CIA did not raise significant protected all information that identified CIA objections to the Review Board's release of its installation …”
“… ed in Beirut in 1978... and may still be there.” (The author EPSTEIN in Legend claims KOSTIKOV was Lee Harvey Oswald’s KGB case officer in Mexico City.) The British desk accepted the release of the one pertinent paragraph (one of five paragraphs in the document), and the Board agreed to …”
“… of information conveyed to a high Government official and to Drew Pearson in that he, McCone, had stated that CIA had uncovered a plot in Mexico City indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald had received 1 $6,500 to assassinate President Kennedy. The Agent elaborated by stating that if this we …”
“… t two weeks. s (2) With regard to the "$6,500 story," McCone advised that as soon as the original report was received from his people in Mexico City, he contacted President Johnson and informed him of the development. He explained to the Presi dent that this was a matter which require …”
“… ITED 21. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] 22. Memorandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject: Review of Selested Items in the Lee …”
“… handling--had felt there had been more to the Soviet aspect that should have been pursued: a. Fact that his two Soviet consular contacts in Mexico City had been identified as KGB and at least one (both ?) had been traced organizationally to the 13th Department (assassinations). REPRODUCTION …”
“… 63 and on 11 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlines MEXT 7371, 13 December 1963 IN-80351, HM-0153." She laft Mexico City for Havana on 15 December 1963 using passport E/63/7 MEI 7423, 17 December 1963, 11-02692. Another reference "HMMA-20971, 25 March 1963, sa …”
“… ITED 21. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] 22. Me morandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject: Review of Selested Items in the Le …”
“… 63 and on 11 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlines MEXT 7371, 13 December 1963 IN-80351, HM-0153." She laft Mexico City for Havana on 15 December 1963 using passport E/63/7 MEI 7423, 17 December 1963, 11-02692. Another reference "HMMA-20971, 25 Mar ch 1963, s …”
“… ITED 21. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] 22. Memorandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject: Review of Selested Items in the Lee …”
“… handling--had felt there had been more to the Soviet aspect that should have been pursued: a. Fact that his two Soviet consular contacts in Mexico City had been identified as KGB and at least one (both ?) had been traced organizationally to the 13th Department (assassinations). REPRODUCTION …”
“… 63 and on 11 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlines MEXT 7371, 13 December 1963 IN-80351, HM-0153." She laft Mexico City for Havana on 15 December 1963 u sin g passport E/63/7 MEI 7423, 17 December 1963, 11-02692. Another reference "HMMA-20971, 25 March 1963, …”
“… 21. Memorand um for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; Subject: Inf ormation Developed by CIA on t he Activ ity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 Septe mber 3 October 1 963. [FOIA No. 509-803] 22. Memorandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject: Review of Selested Items in the L …”
“… ndling--had felt there had been more to the Soviet aspect that should have been pursued: a. Fa ct tha t his two Soviet consular contacts in Mexico City had bee n identi fied as KGB and at leas t one (both ?) had been”
“et consular contacts in Mexico City had bee n identi fied as KGB and at leas t one (both ?) had been traced organizationally to the 13th Depa rt ment (assassinations). REPRODU …”
“… handling--had felt there had been more to the Soviet aspect that should have been pursued: a. Fact that his two Soviet consular contacts in Mexico City had been identified as KGB and at least one (both ?) had been traced organizationally to the 13th Department (assassinations). REPRODUCTION …”
“… 63 and on 11 December 1963 made a reservation to return to Cuba on Cubana Airlines MEXT 7371, 13 December 1963 IN-80351, HM-0153." She laft Mexico City for Havana on 15 December 1963 using passport E/63/7 MEI 7423, 17 December 1963, 11-02692. Another reference "HMMA-20971, 25 March 1963, sa …”
“… ITED 21. Memorandum for J. Lee RANKIN, dated 31 January 1964; Subject: Information Developed by CIA on the Activity of Lee Harvey OSWALD in Mexico City, 28 September 3 October 1963. [FOIA No. 509-803] 22. Memorandum for DC/OPS, dated 23 May 1975; Subject: Review of Selested Items in the Lee …”