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00:00Previously on Tracking Oswald.
00:0354 years ago, the President of the United States was murdered.
00:07I, for one, have never been satisfied with the record on this.
00:11CIA veteran Bob Baer launched a new investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald
00:16and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:19The official investigation tells us that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
00:25The pieces never fit together for me.
00:30When I was at the CIA, I investigated assassinations.
00:35One man can't plan this without support.
00:39Following evidence from newly declassified government files,
00:43Bob and former Police Lieutenant Adam Bercovici
00:46discovered that Oswald visited the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City
00:50only eight weeks before murdering President Kennedy.
00:54Oswald met with our main enemy,
00:57then came back and assassinated the President.
01:01If someone met with ISIS
01:03and then committed mass murder,
01:05can we really say he acted alone?
01:10The team descended upon Mexico City,
01:12where they uncovered new evidence.
01:15This is an ideal location for having an initial contact with the KGB.
01:19suggesting the Russians may have worked with Oswald to assassinate the President.
01:25What are the chances of Oswald going to Mexico City,
01:29getting to see the KGB,
01:31and then ending up with the guy in charge of assassinations for North America?
01:36If Lee Harvey Oswald was working with the KGB,
01:40it would mean that the Soviet Union was responsible for the assassination of an American president.
01:50November 22, 1963.
01:54Lee Harvey Oswald opens fire in Dealey Plaza,
01:58forever changing American history.
02:01Unanswered questions linger,
02:04breeding countless conspiracy theories.
02:06Many believe Russia, Cuba, or even the CIA supported Oswald in his mission.
02:13In 2017, the final documents from the JFK assassination are scheduled for release.
02:20More than two million files have already been declassified.
02:24No one has analyzed them until now.
02:28A CIA veteran is on the trail of the most notorious assassin in U.S. history.
02:44We have to find out what his relationship with the KGB was.
02:48I want a chronology of Oswald's movements,
02:51what we know to be fact from the Warren Commission.
02:54Let's go through the documents.
02:55I want to see Moscow through his eyes.
02:58All right.
02:59Bob and Adam access a central database
03:02with more than two million declassified CIA and FBI documents,
03:07as well as all official government reports pertaining to the assassination.
03:17Warren Commission report.
03:19He was met at the Moscow Railroad Station.
03:23It's met by Rima Shurikova.
03:26Taken to the Berlin Hotel.
03:29Stays there five days.
03:31And here we have a parent suicide attempt.
03:36Most people don't know he tried to commit suicide.
03:40Warren Commission documents report that Lee Harvey Oswald visited Moscow
03:44four years before JFK's assassination,
03:47on a mission to defect to the Soviet Union.
03:53In October of 1959, a 19-year-old Oswald is met by a state guide named Rima Shurikova,
04:01who checks him in to the Berlin Hotel.
04:04For five days, Oswald awaits word on whether he can become an official Soviet citizen.
04:10On October 21st, 1959, he's notified his visa will expire in only days, forcing him to depart the country.
04:20Oswald attempts suicide and is rushed to the Botkin Hospital.
04:29So what did he do after the suicide attempt? What do you got?
04:36Okay, he was released from the hospital on the 28th, accompanied by Rima,
04:42driven to the Hotel Berlin in an Intourist car.
04:45After he said goodbye, he checked out of the Berlin and registered at the Metropole.
04:52The Warren Commission never asked the question, let alone got an answer for why Oswald left the Berlin and went
05:02to the Metropole Hotel.
05:03What did that mean?
05:07After his stay in the hospital, he moves from his original hotel, the Berlin, to the Metropole.
05:13But what we don't know is why.
05:16Did someone else move him? Did someone intervene?
05:19That's what we have to find out.
05:31We are going into a hostile area, what the CIA calls a denied area.
05:38Everywhere we go, we are going to have a surveillance team on us.
05:43We are going to have people reporting our movements.
05:47Even though 54 years have passed since the assassination, it's still a very sensitive subject in Russia.
05:54Moscow can be very dangerous.
05:56We have to be careful about whom we're talking to.
05:59And we have to be aware of our surroundings at all times.
06:04During the 1960s, Russia and the United States are at the height of their 43-year conflict,
06:11as Premier Nikita Khrushchev blocks all contact with the West.
06:16As the Cold War intensifies, Khrushchev and the KGB launch a new era of espionage,
06:23creating cutting-edge technology to monitor their enemies.
06:27Soviet intelligence actively works to recruit Americans to their cause,
06:32reportedly publishing a secret manual entitled The Practice of Recruiting Americans in the USA.
06:40What I'm here to do is find out if Oswald was recruited by the KGB.
06:45If he ends up working with the KGB and they plotted to kill President Kennedy together,
06:49that's an act of war against the United States.
06:53It's as true today as it was in 1963.
06:57The structure of the place hasn't changed since the 60s.
07:00Bob meets up with local investigator Jim Kovpak at the Metropole Hotel
07:06to look into Oswald's possible ties to the KGB.
07:10This would be for celebrities, foreign dignitaries.
07:13He's got almost no money at all. He's not going to stay here.
07:16The Warren Commission never came to Russia to investigate this for themselves.
07:22If they did, they would have seen that Oswald moving to the Metropole was suspicious.
07:28There's only one way he could have gotten the Metropole at this point.
07:31It's the government.
07:33Somebody made the decision,
07:36we don't need this American committing suicide here or doing something else crazy.
07:40Let's put him in the Metropole, see if he does any better.
07:43Yeah, that and it would have been so isolating.
07:45I imagine you could probably get a lot of good information on him.
07:48What's amazing is the KGB headquarters is just like a block away.
07:52After Oswald's suicide attempt, I guarantee you the KGB moved him to the Metropole.
07:59But the big question is, was the KGB watching Oswald inside his room?
08:04I want to look for hard evidence the KGB was operating inside the Metropole.
08:10Bob and Jim secure access to Lee Harvey Oswald's original room from 1959.
08:18At this point, you have to consider that the KGB saying,
08:23who is this guy?
08:24And one way to find out is put him in this room, listen to what he has to say.
08:29They're vetting him to see if he's a worthwhile recruitment.
08:33In those days, the analog equipment was huge and the microphones were large.
08:38So who knows what they had in these walls?
08:40Over 50 years later, there still should be traces of surveillance here.
08:44Bob is armed with wall-penetrating sonar that can detect anomalies within the walls,
08:50including any remnants of KGB eavesdropping devices.
08:54Let's check the walls.
08:58Side scanning radar is a state-of-the-art technology
09:01that can detect objects only millimeters in diameter through a wall up to six feet thick.
09:07It sends pulses of energy into the wall, measures the time it takes for the signal to return,
09:13and creates an image of the wall's interior.
09:24If the walls haven't changed, those spaces in the walls will still be there then?
09:29Yeah, I think there will be anomalies.
09:35There's a hole.
09:40I can imagine what it was like for Oswald being locked up in a hotel like this.
09:47From Oswald's diary, he was, you know, sitting in this room with absolutely nothing to do.
09:57As nice as this place was,
10:01it was still a prison.
10:04He must have been going out of his mind at this point.
10:13Yeah, look at that.
10:17There we go.
10:19Ooh, I'm seeing some big anomalies here.
10:23There we go.
10:26There's some hot spots in the wall.
10:28See all that down there?
10:31The radar scan seems to reveal six separate cavities within the walls,
10:36each appearing large enough to house visual and audio eavesdropping devices.
10:42For a former intelligence officer, this makes a lot of sense to me.
10:46I spent years running operations just like this.
10:49I'm now convinced this is a room that's wired for surveillance.
10:54I believe KGB was all over Oswald.
10:56But the big question is, were they simply keeping an eye on a strange foreigner
11:01who was acting erratically,
11:03or were they attempting to recruit an assassin to murder the President of the United States?
11:13CIA veteran Bob Baer has launched a new investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination.
11:20A declassified CIA document reveals that Oswald may have met with the head of the KGB's assassination squad
11:28only eight weeks before JFK's murder.
11:35While Bob is following Oswald's trail in Moscow.
11:405,700 miles away.
11:43Back at the Dallas field office.
11:46This was never released.
11:47This was not something that was looked at seriously.
11:49When I look at this, I see somebody who's lost.
11:55Former Police Lieutenant Adam Bercovici works with former FBI criminal profiler Steve Gomez
12:01to reexamine a key piece of evidence originally introduced by the Warren Commission.
12:06The personal diary of Lee Harvey Oswald.
12:10In terms of Oswald, we have something that is really a little treasure in terms of an investigation.
12:16We have his diary.
12:17That's a window into his personality, a window into his soul.
12:21So right here is going to be one of the early diary entries.
12:26Lee Harvey Oswald penned a personal diary during his visit to Moscow in 1959.
12:32During that trip, Oswald attempted to defect to the Soviet Union.
12:37But when his efforts failed, he attempted suicide and was rushed to the local hospital.
12:45This is the critical diary entry because it's a big moment for Oswald when he finds out that he's got
12:52to leave.
12:54Eve, 6 o'clock.
12:56Receive word from police official, I must leave country tonight at 8 p.m. as visa expires.
13:03I am shocked.
13:05My fond dreams are shattered because of a petty official, because bad planning.
13:10I had planned too much.
13:147 p.m.
13:15I decide to end it.
13:20Soak wrist in cold water to numb the pain.
13:26Then slash my left wrist.
13:31Plunge wrist into bathtub of hot water.
13:37I think when Rima comes at 8 to find me dead, it will be a great shock.
13:44The thing that just pops out from this diary entry, Adam, is the part on the fourth line where he
13:51says dreams are shattered.
13:55You can just see his world is crumbling.
13:59He's waiting and he's ready to go for the phone to ring to come down to meet with the Soviets
14:04once again.
14:04And it's not happening.
14:07So it looks like all the waiting and the nervous energy is causing him to now do something.
14:14He now comes to the mindset of, I'm going to attempt suicide.
14:22So what's also interesting about what he writes in this part of the diary is the fact that he had
14:28been planning this for two years.
14:29So let's think about this.
14:30He is about, he's 19 when this is taking place.
14:34So if he's been planning this for roughly two years, that takes him back to 17.
14:39And he's in the military, he's in the Marines.
14:41You know, did something happen in the Marine Corps that started to trigger this plan of one day he's going
14:48to defect and become a Russian citizen as he tried to do and as he describes here.
14:52Also is consistent.
14:54And what we know about Oswald is that nothing that he does is really random.
14:59He's a planner.
15:00To me, it appears that he wasn't really trying to commit suicide.
15:04He didn't want to die.
15:05He wanted to make some type of action that was going to get the Soviet Union's attention to get them
15:12to realize, hey, don't throw me out of the country.
15:14Let's talk to me some more.
15:16And by him then having to go to the hospital, they're not going to throw him out.
15:20Oswald's next diary entry is dated October 28th, 1959, written less than two weeks after his attempted suicide.
15:29Reema notifies me that pass and registration office wishes to see me about my future.
15:35We enter the offices to find four officials waiting for me, all unknown to me.
15:40They ask how my arm is. I say, OK.
15:43They ask, do you want to go to your homeland?
15:46I say, no. I say I want to reside in the Soviet Union.
15:50They say, we'll see about that.
15:51You can bet money that at least one of them, if not more, are KGB agents.
15:56They're going to try to figure out, what do we have here?
15:59He's being brought into the Soviet machine, their way of dealing with people that are trying to defect,
16:04and maybe even their way of dealing with people that they're going to turn.
16:07As Adam and Steve uncover possible contact between Oswald and the KGB,
16:14Bob Baer continues his investigation on the ground in Moscow.
16:20We need direct access.
16:21There's just too much stuff out there that we're not getting the original version.
16:26Bob and local investigator Jim Kovpak are attempting to track down a KGB agent
16:32with personal knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald.
16:35We need somebody from that era.
16:37Straight to the source.
16:38After Oswald's suicide attempt during his 1959 trip to Moscow,
16:45he was relocated to a hotel seemingly under heavy KGB surveillance.
16:50The question is, why?
16:53I'm absolutely certain that Oswald was moved to the Metropole so the KGB could better watch him.
16:58But we still don't know their motivations.
17:01I'm going to call on my network.
17:03Jim's going to call his.
17:04We'll see if we can find somebody.
17:07Let's get a list of people.
17:09Anybody who knew the United States, knew American targets at that time.
17:13Finding a KGB officer active in the 60s isn't going to be easy.
17:18It's a pretty small set.
17:20You know, a lot of these guys aren't around anymore.
17:26If we can, we'll be at the doorstep finding out whether the KGB assassinated Kennedy.
17:32Make it happen.
17:38Reaching out to his intelligence network,
17:40Bob secures a meeting with Oleg Nechaparenko,
17:44one of the only surviving KGB agents with personal knowledge of Oswald,
17:49who's willing to talk.
17:51I have no idea what this guy knows or what he'll be able to tell me.
17:56But he's our best chance of understanding what Oswald's connections were with the KGB.
18:08When he comes in 1959, why didn't the KGB at that point try to recruit him?
18:15Well, when he said that he was a communist,
18:18the KGB didn't get interested in him.
18:41They agreed to give him temporary residency in the Soviet Union.
18:45And basically, the question of his permanent residency in the Soviet Union,
18:51and citizenship, of course, that is to be determined within a period of one year.
18:57Lee Harvey Oswald initially arrives in Moscow on October 16th, 1959.
19:03Three months later, he's moved to the city of Minsk,
19:07over 400 miles from Moscow, where he's continuously watched by the KGB.
19:11According to Oleg, this move is intended to delay the KGB's long-term decision
19:17about what to do with the American.
19:20In Minsk, Oswald works at a radio and TV factory,
19:25marries Soviet native Marina Perskova, and has a daughter.
19:29The Oswalds leave Minsk in 1962 and return to the United States.
19:36Wouldn't it have been better to just throw him out of the country?
19:51You didn't know?
19:52They were not sure yet. They wanted the time.
19:55That's perfect, yes.
19:56Well, for a year, full research of special services,
20:01of course, the picture became different.
20:04So they listened to his apartment, they put surveillance on him, everything.
20:10All that is necessary for special service.
20:14After 20 years in the CIA, I know how to assess sources.
20:17And every bone in my body tells me Oleg is a credible source.
20:21The details he recalled line up perfectly with my knowledge of KGB operations
20:26and their evaluation of potential assets.
20:30Did you meet him when he was in Moscow, Oswald?
20:34No.
20:36My first meeting with him was in Mexico City.
20:43You met him in Mexico City?
20:45Yes.
20:48September, 1963.
20:51Two months before he assassinated Kennedy.
21:03Former CIA agent Bob Baer has launched an investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald,
21:09following new evidence from declassified government files.
21:13A CIA document puts Oswald inside the Soviet embassy in Mexico City,
21:19only eight weeks before the murder of President Kennedy.
21:24Bob has secured unprecedented access to a KGB agent present at that meeting,
21:30Oleg Nechaparenko.
21:33My first meeting with him was in Mexico City.
21:39You met him in Mexico City?
21:41Yes.
21:43This puts the case in a whole new light.
21:45It's closest we've ever been to being in the room with Oswald.
21:50How long did you meet him for?
21:53Maybe 40 minutes.
21:55What was his demand?
21:58What was the problem of you?
22:01He was asked to send him a visa to go back to the Soviet Union.
22:09Basically, what he demanded from them is he wanted another visa to go back to the Soviet Union.
22:13What he told them is that the FBI was harassing him, harassing his family,
22:18that he couldn't get any kind of decent work in the U.S.,
22:21and basically he needed to go back to the Soviet Union.
22:24That's what he wanted.
22:26Who else did Oswald meet?
22:28Who else did Oswald meet?
22:31Who else did Oswald meet?
22:31Well, first, he met Valery Kostikov,
22:37who was a clerk in the consul's office for the visit of the Soviet Union.
22:43Kostikov was from Department 13.
22:48We learned from the documents that Kostikov was the head of Department 13.
22:53The section of the KGB dealing with assassinations and covert operations.
23:02The KGB's Department 13 was a special branch of highly trained personnel,
23:07reportedly handling operations known as liquid affairs.
23:11Though Valery Kostikov publicly worked as a diplomat for the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City,
23:18CIA documents report that he covertly headed this notorious section of the KGB.
23:40And then that becomes the matter of the KGB.
23:44Yeah.
23:48And I look, I open the door,
23:51there sits the head of the consul's office,
23:55the head of the KGB,
23:58there sits the guest, the visitor,
24:00the one about the KGB.
24:03I'm nervous,
24:04he's a tremor,
24:05his hands were not so happy.
24:19He was crying.
24:23So he was crying, he was nervous.
24:33Olek explained to him that they couldn't give him a visa there
24:38because since he was a citizen of the United States,
24:41he told him you need to go to our consulate in Washington, D.C.
24:45And what he also said is that even if we could make a visa for you,
24:49because Oswald wanted to leave as soon as possible,
24:52it would take at least, you know, a few months.
24:54Oswald became very angry about this, hands were shaking.
24:57At this point, they've already explained to him they're not giving the visa.
25:26What else did this guy have on his mind other than political violence?
25:33Here's a guy with a revolver.
25:35Comes into a consulate.
25:37This is before metal detectors.
25:38Did you think he was crazy?
26:00Is it possible, and I have to ask the question,
26:03that the part of the KGB was meeting Oswald?
26:08Recruiting him at the time?
26:11With Oswald and...
26:13I don't think so.
26:14I will answer you with a smile.
26:18No.
26:19Not possible.
26:31What I learned from Oleg was eye-opening.
26:34The KGB looked at Oswald is unreliable, unstable,
26:39not good material for a recruit.
26:58He wasn't a tornado, he was a time bomb.
27:00Well, the bomb should be made somewhere somewhere,
27:04and he was formed as a human subject.
27:16This KGB guy, guy that we got the appointment with, Oleg,
27:20he did admit that Kostakov met with Oswald.
27:24This confirms the CIA reporting.
27:26CIA veteran Bob Baer and former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici
27:31have returned to Mexico City,
27:34armed with new information about Lee Harvey Oswald's meeting with the KGB,
27:40eight weeks before Oswald murdered President Kennedy.
27:44The KGB looked at Oswald as a ticking time bomb.
27:50They knew they didn't want their fingerprints on him in any way.
27:55I think that's right, because the Russians have better sense
28:00than to conduct violence inside the United States in 1963,
28:05that any way could be laid at their doorstep.
28:08It just doesn't make any sense.
28:09I've been working this case for over a decade,
28:12and I take my time reaching any conclusions.
28:16Eliminating the Soviets as potential accomplices to Oswald
28:20isn't something I do lightly.
28:22But after visiting Moscow and speaking with Oleg,
28:25I'm now convinced the KGB was not directly behind
28:29the murder of President Kennedy.
28:32We need to find out what else Oswald was doing in Mexico City.
28:37At the outset of the investigation,
28:40Bob and Adam searched through over 2 million declassified government files
28:44for new evidence about Lee Harvey Oswald.
28:47A CIA document led the team to Mexico City.
28:51In it, CIA Director John McComb instructs all employees
28:56not to answer questions about Oswald's time in Mexico City.
29:02The team now looks for a new lead from Oswald's trip.
29:06There's something more to his timeline,
29:08what he was doing those five or six days in Mexico City,
29:12that we need to get back into.
29:15Oswald, 63.
29:17Mexico City.
29:25Look at this.
29:28Here's the title of the document.
29:30Sylvia Duran's call to the Soviet consul
29:33regarding a North American wanting a visa.
29:36On 28th September, 1963,
29:40Sylvia Duran, a Cuban embassy employee,
29:43called the Soviet consulate saying
29:45she's got a North American there
29:47who has been to the Soviet embassy
29:49and wishes to speak with the Cuban consul.
29:53Oswald met with the Cubans.
29:55This file can completely change the course of this investigation.
29:59We have to get to the bottom of this.
30:02You know, if the Soviet Union is public enemy number one,
30:06then the Cubans are 1B.
30:10In 1959, Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba,
30:15establishing the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere,
30:19a clear and present danger only 90 miles from American shores.
30:23Castro and Kennedy become instant enemies,
30:26and America wages a secret war to overthrow the Castro regime.
30:32Sylvia Duran, who is she?
30:36Let's see what we got.
30:41All right, look at this.
30:43CIA cable, Director 84216.
30:48Arrest of Sylvia Duran is extremely serious matter
30:52which could prejudice American freedom of action
30:55on entire question of Cuban responsibility.
31:00But look at this.
31:01This cable is sent the 23rd of November, 63,
31:06literally within hours of Kennedy's assassination.
31:10They're not even wondering whether there's a connection.
31:13They just go right for the arrest.
31:16She is clearly a key witness,
31:18which the Warren Commission would have found essential
31:21to explain what happened.
31:23All right, you want to access that?
31:24Yeah, let's look at that.
31:36Hey, guess what?
31:37Nothing.
31:43You're telling me that we're getting a blank to the key witness
31:47to the murder of the President of the United States, a blank?
31:50This isn't the key witness that we're saying,
31:52it's the key witness the CIA is saying.
31:55And the Warren Commission doesn't talk to her.
31:59The CIA put an arrest warrant out for Sylvia Duran
32:02one day after the assassination.
32:04But the Warren Commission completely ignored this piece of evidence.
32:08Was this just an oversight or something more nefarious?
32:11Why didn't the CIA talk to her?
32:13If she was arrested,
32:15she made a statement to the Mexican police.
32:19That means that the Mexicans had a file on this woman.
32:24We need to get back into the police files at any cost.
32:27I agree.
32:31Bob and Adam meet up with historian Jorge Sanchez
32:35at the National Archive
32:36to investigate this mysterious woman.
32:40Okay, let me tell you here,
32:42I got this, the original files of Sylvia Duran.
32:46This is the federal police, right?
32:48Yes, sir.
32:49This is the date of the 23rd.
32:51Look at the length of that.
32:52And how do they get so much information within 24 hours?
32:5524 hours of difference.
32:57When Sylvia Duran is arrested,
32:59she gives testimony of her relationship with Oswald.
33:03What does she say?
33:05She says that she was in a normal day in her work
33:09in the Cuban embassy, in the consulate,
33:11when Lee Oswald arrives and solicitates a visa.
33:15He applies for a visa?
33:17Yeah.
33:18When Lee Oswald came into the embassy without photographs,
33:22Oswald was so angry and so crazy in the moment.
33:28What you're telling me is that Sylvia Duran
33:31was working in the Cuban embassy
33:32and Oswald comes in to ask for a visa.
33:36She tries to assist him,
33:38gives him all the documents he will need,
33:41but he doesn't have the required photographs
33:43to complete the visa application.
33:45When she informs him that they need the photos,
33:49he turns dramatic
33:55and starts to make a scene at the consulate.
34:05Duran, in her statement to the police,
34:09says she met Oswald only once.
34:13She never saw him again.
34:14That's what she says.
34:16That's what she says.
34:17What's confusing for me is,
34:19why would she have her own file if she's just a clerk?
34:24What's the explanation for her arrest?
34:27You don't go arrest a Mexican working for the Cuban embassy
34:31simply because she took a visa application.
34:35I have the same suspicion.
34:37I think what's crazy about this
34:40is the United States asked for her arrest.
34:43In other words,
34:44the United States had something against her.
34:48Either from telephone taps,
34:50surveillance,
34:51or a source in the Cuban embassy,
34:53they knew she was more than a clerk.
34:56It's explosive.
34:57I mean, we have to find her.
34:58We have to talk to Duran.
35:05Declassified CIA documents
35:07reveal a possible connection
35:09between Lee Harvey Oswald
35:11and a Cuban consulate employee
35:13named Sylvia Duran.
35:14A warrant for Duran's arrest
35:17was issued by the United States
35:18only one day after the Kennedy assassination.
35:21But the Warren Commission
35:23never questioned her.
35:28As the team begins their service,
35:29in search for this mysterious woman,
35:31Bob's local investigator verifies
35:34that Mexican police believe Duran is alive
35:36and in Mexico City.
35:38You know, we got some limitations here.
35:40We're in a foreign country.
35:42Yeah, they're not going to much appreciate it
35:43if we go over the line here.
35:46Sylvia Duran is one of the last living witnesses
35:49before the assassination.
35:51We need to track her down
35:52and see if she'll tell us the secrets
35:54she's been keeping all these years.
35:59We need to find out where she lives.
36:01Yeah, let's do a skip trace.
36:05A skip trace is something that is used
36:07by both law enforcement
36:09and private investigators
36:10to locate people.
36:11It's looking for utilities.
36:12It's looking for electrical bills.
36:14It's looking for anything that can,
36:15that that person has put down
36:17in terms of landmarks for us to find.
36:20It gives us a chance
36:21to go out and find specific places
36:22that we can start knocking on doors
36:24and track those people down.
36:27I got the address.
36:29The skip trace yields two addresses
36:32in and around the Mexico City metropolitan area.
36:40Hello?
36:41Yes, we're looking for Mrs. Duran.
36:47You don't know the name, no?
36:52Okay, thank you.
36:56Next right up here?
36:58Yep.
37:00The first address associated with Duran
37:03comes up empty.
37:04The next location is five miles away
37:07in the southeast corner of Mexico City.
37:15You guys hang way back.
37:18Cameras in her face.
37:20It's going to be intimidating.
37:24How if you're 80 years old,
37:26you walk up here?
37:32Do you hear it?
37:33Yep.
37:40Mrs. Duran?
37:44Mrs. Duran, this is Bob Baer.
37:46We're doing an investigation.
37:47Could I get some time?
37:49We just want to come in
37:50and talk for a few minutes.
37:53I don't have time to talk.
37:55Roll it.
37:57Please, just five minutes.
38:04It's not going to open up.
38:06I don't want to force it.
38:07Hiding from us.
38:08It's because she's got something to hide.
38:12Bob and Adam leave the apartment
38:14they believe belongs to Duran.
38:16Where are you?
38:18But they continue their efforts.
38:20The team tracks down Duran's
38:22last known phone number.
38:23On the record to tell us
38:25exactly what happened.
38:27She's agreed to meet us tonight,
38:29so we'll head back to her place
38:31this time with a plan.
38:33All right, now I'm going to get back
38:34to you in three hours.
38:36All right.
38:37The team is about to make contact
38:39with a possible accomplice
38:40to Lee Harvey Oswald.
38:43Sylvia Duran has agreed to speak on camera
38:46for the first time in more than 50 years.
38:56A declassified CIA document
38:58from one day after the JFK assassination
39:02reports a warrant issued for the arrest
39:04of a mysterious woman named Sylvia Duran,
39:08a clerk working within the Cuban embassy
39:10in Mexico City who may have been an accomplice
39:13to Lee Harvey Oswald.
39:26The team has managed to track down
39:28her current address
39:29and has arranged
39:31to speak with her.
39:44What's right, neighbor?
39:46Yeah.
39:53Did you know Mrs. Duran?
39:54This is Mrs. Duran's apartment, right?
39:57Yes, she went in two hours.
39:59I said she won't go to the place.
40:02If you can't be here, you can take it.
40:06Okay.
40:07Okay.
40:08She got up and left.
40:11That tells me a story.
40:13If you're going to come leave your apartment,
40:16and to avoid us,
40:18she doesn't want to say anything.
40:20For me, that tells me the whole story.
40:22She ran for it.
40:24The fact that Sylvia Duran will not talk to us
40:27makes me even more suspicious
40:29about what she knows.
40:30The fact that an 85-year-old woman
40:33made a run for it
40:34tells me she'll take her secrets to the grave.
40:38Now, it's absolutely crucial
40:39we find someone who will tell us what she knows.
40:42If we can find another witness,
40:44someone who can shed light on this mystery,
40:47we could find evidence linking the Cubans
40:50to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
40:53That would change U.S. history.
40:56Let's move on.
40:58Yep.
41:03Next, on Tracking Oswald.
41:05We're going to go see this guy,
41:07see if he'll talk.
41:07I'll see what this guy has to say.
41:09She said that she saw only in the consulate.
41:12Obviously, he's lying.
41:14Sylvia embattled him.
41:16100% his frame of Sylvia.
41:18We have to dig deeper
41:20about Oswald's connections with the Cubans.
41:23My hunch is that Oswald's first contact
41:26started right here in New Orleans.
41:29The deeper we get into it,
41:31the more this guy does not look like a lone wolf.
41:34He had accomplices.
41:35We've got to figure out what they were doing here.
41:38This is incredible.
41:40Oswald stormed into the embassy
41:42saying, I'm going to kill Kennedy for this.
41:45This document could finally reveal
41:47Oswald's motive for the assassination
41:50of John F. Kennedy.
41:52That is something else.
41:53This is explosive.
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