Mexico City Station TRANSCRIBER A. TARASOFF

ANNA ADAMOVIEZ TARASOFF
Anna hailed from Ohio and was educated in Cleveland amidst the nineteen twenties and thirties. The next decade she worked for a local bank and married her Russian husband Boris Tarasoff. During nineteen fifty-seven Anna became a clerk the Central Intelligence Agency translating and processing counterintelligence staff material at headquarters. Amid nineteen teen sixty three she was processing intelligence material with her spouse Boris for surveillance operations controlled by Mexico City Station. Some American officials misrepresented her Agency translations to support Lee Harvey Oswald made several visits to Communist allied embassies.

Yet some of Tarasoff's later statements, destroyed files, and contrary evidence call into question the US government’s claims that Oswald made every visit. She was officially assigned to Mexico City by nineteen sixty-four in the role of transcriber and Tarasoff continued serving the Agency as a contract employee until the early nineteen seventies. CIA administrators later discovered Tarasoff possessed two varying contracts under her differing staff positions and they fired her during nineteen seventy-one. Anna and Boris Tarasoff later that decade testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations regarding the prior transcription controversy.