[1]177-10001-10061 | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
[2]. JFK Assassination System Date: 8/26/201
[3]Identification Form :
[5]Agency Information
[7]AGENCY:  LBJ
[10]RECORD SERIES: = NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32
[12]AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
[14]Document Information *
[16]ORIGINATOR: CIA
[17]FROM:
[18]TO:
[20]TITLE:
[22]_ DATE: — 12/13/1963
[23]PAGES: 2
[25]SUBJECTS :
[26]CUBA
[28]DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT
[29]CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified
[30]RESTRICTIONS: 1B
[31]CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
[32]DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 10/02/1998
[34]OPENING CRITERIA :
[36]COMMENTS : DOC. #170
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[41]IN. ORMATION REPRT)
[43]. CENTRAL "INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - we ; My
[45]This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning. of the Espionage Lows, Titie 18, U.S Secs.
[46]793 and 794, tha transmission or revelation of whi ich in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law
[48]ad CLASSIFICATION <= DISSEMINATION CONTROLS .
[49]SECRET — no ForRIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/
[51](When Filled In) CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY
[53]COUNTRY CUBA REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/658 , 469
[54]suBECT ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC bate bist, 13 DECEMBER 1963
[55]MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS-
[56]SINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY PRECEDENCE ROUTINE: ‘
[57]DATE OF REFERENCES IN 4
[58]INFO. 9 DECEMBER 1963 (9809
[59]PLACE &
[60]DATE ACO. 9 DECEMBER 1963
[62]APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO.
[64]SOURCE A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT WHO IS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER AND HAS DEMON-— |
[65]STRATED MATURITY, DISCERNMENT, AND RELIABILITY IN HIS PAST
[66]REPORTING,
[68]‘1, ABOUT. 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT . —BUNDY-SMITH
[69]JOHN F, KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO
[70]RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLAC ING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT
[72]STATUS. THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE TO APPREHENS | ON
[73]“BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND ING
[75]‘THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOST ILE
[76]ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS, THE™ DIPLOMATIC .
[78]MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE
[79]EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND-DAY WATCH OF MISSION
[81]PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE "NO COMPROMISING
[83]_ CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS.
[84]SEC R E T NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/
[86]FORM 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. ; - ; . (15-20)
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[90]iP GLASSTFICATION DISSEMINATION. CONTROLS - Te
[91]. ‘NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM “ABROAD/ .
[92]s E C R E T CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE. ONL DosDB-3/658, 4 469.
[94] SOCUMENTS ¢ ON THE PREMISES, " ~ AND TO Be ‘ON ‘QUARD AGAINST HOSTILE
[96]-PROVOCATIONS, oo oe
[97]2, ONE CHIEF OF. MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING | HIS USUAL
[98]PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE. PERMISSION TO ACCEPT A
[100]LONG~STAND ING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO
[101]CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY SUBMIT HIS REQUEST
[103]BY CABLE, HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL .
[105]6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHOR ITY TO. QUIT HIS PosT.
[107]3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER. THERE HAD BEEN NO- INDICATION FROM
[108]; HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS TO BE CONS IDERED REVOKED.
[110]u, FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT.
[112]END OF MESSAGE
[114]“ *" GLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS os
[115]“NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM. ABROAD/_ _
[116]CONTROLLED 1 DISSEM/ BACE <GROUND USE ONLY .
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