Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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SECO20 May, 1965Subject: LIRING/4 Report of Conversation with LIRING/2.1. At 1300 on 20 May, 1962, LIRING/4 reported to Rowton at the Punto Blanco restaurant that she had seen LIRING/2 at the LIRING offices and, as instructed by Rowton, discussed with him her difficult financial situation resulting from the detention of LIRING/3. She then stated that she was seriously considering taking her long planned trip to IBRD, since there she would be able to resolve the problem of living expenses. LIRING/2 sympathized with her but asked her not to make any rash decision. He pointed out that although her temporary financial problem would be solved, the moral obligation she had to follow LIRING/3's case from as close to Guatemala as possible would argue in favor of her writing a little more. LIRING/4 told Rowton that she felt that LIRING/2 was prompted to say this in light of a comment she had just made to him that a certain Lic. Castillo, a Guatemalan lawyer affiliated with the Mexican Embassy in Guatemala City, had gotten in touch with her over the weekend and told her he had come to Mexico City in connection with LIRING/3's case which he was handling at the request of the Embassy. (LIRING/4 told Rowton that Castillo was staying in room 904 of the El Presidente Hotel and that she talked to him there for about 15 minutes.)2. LIRING/2 then said that he would do everything he could to find some sort of work to help LIRING/4 financially. He commented that work in the LIRING offices proper was out of the question, since the only persons employed there now are party members sit from the BRD capital. He added, however, that he would propose to the LIRING "consejo" that LIRING/4 be given a position in the outside cultural office. He stressed that he could not promise anything, but he would do what he could to convince the powers that be.3. LIRING/4 promised Rowton to press LIRING/2 for this job since it would indicate the extent to which the LIRING Chief trusted her and give her some official access to the establishment, limited though it might be.W.B. RowtonSE
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SECRET12 June, 1963Subject: A LACE B. Rowton Meeting with LIAING/4.1. Rowton met with LIAING/4 at the Diana Restaurant, Calle Mississippi, from 1300 until about 1410 on 11 June, 1968. LIRING/4 reported that she had finally moved into the apartment in the Edificio Coriesa with the fes pieces of furniture of the Tacubaya apartment. She stated that she intended to remain in close touch with her frieni Blanca Peña de Anard and, of course, Catalina Cepero, at whose hores she hoped to be able to take her main meals. LIAING/4 added that she was still att epting to find some sort of work to help her meet her expenses, as well as to find a person, prefertoly a student, to rent a room in her apartment.2. With regard to employment, LIRING/4 stated that LIRING/2 had told her the previous week that his reccomendation that she been employed in the (outside) LIRING cultural office had been turned down and consequently she had appealed to lexicen friends to help her find employment. The also told Rowton that she had queried LIRING/2 about FBAMEN students who might share her apertzent but was told that the only female students (two) at present in Fexico vere studying in Fåtzcuaro.3. LIRING/4 continued that she had been receiving letters regularly from LIRING/3 directly from his place of confinement. She showed Rowton a Portion of one of the letters in which LIAING/3 stated that there were about 2,000 prisoners in all and that he feels obliged to share whatever food he can purchase with the money sent to him by LIAING/4 with six others who are closest to him and whose relatives cannot provide even the essentials of a basic diet. According to LIRING/4, LIRING/3 has not complained about what appear to be very difficult conditions but has revealed his constant fear of physical violence, the threat of which he feels hangs over the prison. LIAING/4 told Rowton that she had finally obtained officially notarizeň statements from the proper Mexican authorities testifying to LIRING/3's bona fices as an artist, as requested by the Mexican Consul. She gave Howton a letter from the latter which requests this information(copy of which is attached).4. LIRING/4, in reply to Rowton's queries, stated that she still hoped to be able to make the trip to FBRUMEN but could not consider leaving Fexico at this time in vies of LIRING/3's situation and the fact that she was the only point of contact he had on the outside. Rowton sympathized with her but stressed that his ability to help her financially was limited by her
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2. SEperformance in terms of the contract between then. Roxton rescinded LIRING/4 that he contract had terminated as of 15 May, 1968, and could be extended only on the condition that she would be able to make the trip. He added that he felt he could pay her for the period 15 May until 15 June, 1952, but that would have to constitute a final payment unless LIRING/4 could commit herself to future production. Rowton added that in addition he would have to deduct the 1,875 pesos he gave to her as a travel advance inasmuch as this money was not used for the purpose intended.5. LIANG/4 replied that, much to her regret, she could not make any firm commitment regarding the trip at the moment. She stated that she was attempting to maintain friendly relations with the LIRING personnel but had to be coutimed that vi LIRING/3's admonition to her to avoid contact with the establishment ( "la casa grande" as he described it. She then stated that she had attended a play on the evening of 7 June at which she met socially with LIRING personnel in the audience. She added that LIRING/10 greeted her codially and that she spoke briefly with LIRING/9 and LIRING/13 as well as LIRING/16. LILIG/4 also stated that she had learned from II. ING/17, who had just returned from an unexpected TDY that their mutual friend "Echemendia" had been called up on the carpet for the inferior job he had done during his last commercial mission to Mexico City. LIRING/4 also reported that she had been given a very brief note from her friend Yolande hand-carried by LIRING/17 in which Yolande wrote that she as still hoping that LIRING/4 would be able to make the trip.ROUTOR COMMENT: Roxton feels thet LIRING/4 will make the trip to PBRUMEN wit in the next two months or sooner, provided she is assured that LIRING/3 is resigned to his fate and that everything has been done to support his appeal. Roxton has told LIRING/4 that he can give her only minimum financial support in the future, and that only on behalf of LIRING/3. Roxton feels that LIRING/4 will have great difficulty supporting herself even on a subsistence level during the next month, and will probably reconsider her decision regarding the trip. Rowton feels he should not put any direct pressure re on LIRIKG/4 in the lighther personal situation.SECRET Wallace B. Roxton
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SECRET-IMA. DEJA Redes aromillas. AHyas A LA CO GRANDE, URGENTEEnvios Directamenta vasita wadleaBisos: CarlosVIA AIR MAILSra.Blanca Pena Letra "C" Depto. 2Edificio ConfesaAv Veracruz y Matehuala(Entrada You. Matehuala)Mexico 11. D.F.SECRET![stamp of GUATEMALA]
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# SECRETGuatemala, 21 de mayo de 1958.Ing. Catzzia K. SerrameConsul General de zillisicoSra. Miri Chichay de Jurado.xico, D. 2.Estimada 323:He refiero a su grata carta de 17 del actual para in-formar a Je. que Carlos se encuentra sin zovedad, sujaspecto fisicoLevantano, pues na sapido astilar esta emergencia con filosofía.Raspecte a su situación, estamos bastante pistas pues confiance ampliszente en la rectitui del juez. Ya se presenta-Poa oras bezsigos de descarga el el curão de la presente sezana se pumaré teclaración a otros cs. Hemos corrido con la suerte de que para toias Las diligencies los plazos se han acortaco a záximo.Ni un solo momento lo hemos dejado solo, tanta a él como a Manuel, pues constantemente se les ha estado visitazio, unas veces nuestro Encargado de Negocios, otras nuestro abogado asesor g el suscrito.Su carta anterior la recibió en propias mancs y tambie: le informé de la tarjeta que vt. me puso.Tanto la Sra. Marcué de Persabal, como la esposa de Manuel, lcs estuvieron visitanic casi a žiario durante su estancia en ésta. No les ha faltado mala pues la Sa. "arcué dejó 175 dola-res para que se les estuviera proviendo će lo necesario. arlos se le llevó a block para dibujo que pidió y se les llevan periodi-camente cigarros, etc.El jueves iré a verlos de nuevo y ya le informaré de su carta.No creo que sea necesario que venga Ud. pues puede tener la seguridad de que estamos haciendo todo lo que está sa nues-tras manos por resolveries su situación a la brevedad posible. No sería de lo zalo que esté ed. en contacto con la Sria de Relaciones para estar al tanto del caso, es estoy informando constantemente del curso del proceso. Creo aue será cuestión de más o encs tiempo pero tengo confiarma es que todo se resolverá favorablemente.Por conducto de la esposa de Manuel le caviš recado que sería ccaveniente enviara una constancia de Belias Artes abonan-do la conducca de su esposo y que este documento lo llevara a legali-zer ante el Consulado de Guatemala en México (Vallarta # 1) Ques ayudaría mucho para probar su solvencia zoral.SECRET
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SECRETPerdóneme si con anterioridad no le había informato, pero consideré que era innecesario acerlo mientras no se tuviera algo concreto como es la declaración de los testigos de descargo.Tenga confianza y calza que estamos viendo éste caso con profuzio interés y simpati.De ruego saludar de zi parte a zi buen amigo מיךiel (su siegre) de quien hace res no tengo coticias y decirle que s: anigo će Arriaga lo recueria con afecco.Procuraré teneria informada y puede/escripirme cuantas veces lo dasee.Suyo afmo. atto. y 5. S.SECRET
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SECRETClima ada:Estas en el, papel para mi asunto que presupusimos; El que esta in unidad de la ciudad? y saber. Te veré si y sabes alguien ya te interrumpio y debe decir como fue.Estar sin saber(SIN CUAL FUE LANo preocuparte. todaHubo ya a la persona o debe decir directamente. Mui minisculas aun que presumible. Toda la correspondencia esta encubierta.Lei ya venta que mandaste al Consul.NO SE TE OCURRA POR NINGUN MOTIVOSALIR DE MEXICO.Recibe Todo mi cariñoCarlos
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SECI.18 June, 1968CONTACT REFERT1.  Agent: LIRING/42.  Date and Site of Meeting: 1300, 18/6/60; Diana Restaurant.3.  Date and Site of Next Keeting: 1030, 20/6/58; Diana zestaurant.4.  Information/Reports Passed by Agent: LIAIK/4 reported to Roxton that she had received tac distressing letters free HEING/3 complaining about the miserable conditions under which he is living - very meager food, unsanitary quarters, and the constant fear of physical violence. IIANG/4 showed doston a paragraph of one of the letters in sich LHRING/3 asks her to appeal to the "socic" to influence the judge by a ratificación of 100 quetzals so that se voulu dismiss cue case when it finally came to trial early the following conth. LIRING/3 stated that the judge to be influenced was a certain Juan Sanchez, Cficial Tercero del Juzgado Cuarto de Primera Instancia. HRING/3 added that he felt there was no other sclution, since it had become evalent that the Mexican Imbassy could do nothing to speed up the final release and that if Roxton could not intervene, anything.could happen.IING/4 also reported that she had beer asked by LIRING/9 to see him the next day (19/6/68) at his office. She did not know the purpose of the invitation, but assured LIXING/9 wanted το be briefed on the latest developments in the LINING/3 case.5.  Information/Guidance Given to Agent: Rowten simpathized with LIRING/4 in her distress over the desperate situation being 'faced by LIZING/3 but stressed that intervention on his part was not as easy as LIKING/3 might think. Ee pointed out that since LIRICG/4 to date had not been able to zake the 3 trip he could not ask his own colleagues in Euroje to intervene through their Guatemalan government contacts and that therefore anything that he could do himself would not be effective. LIZING/4 did not volunteer any indication of her intention regarding the trip, and Kovten felt he could not press her in view of her frame of mind at the time. He suggested that they meet again after LIRING/4 talked with LIRING/9 in the hope that the latter nicht make some important comments on the case.SECW. Rowton
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SECR9 July, 1968Subject: Wallace B. Rowton Meeting with LIRING/11.1. After several days of attempts by Rowton to met with LIRING/11 in the vicinity of his (LIRING/11's) residence( which is about six blocks frog Rowton's home) Rowton finally succeeded at about 1600 on 5 July,1968.2. Rowton hadchecked the home address of LIRING/11 about 1550 that day and when he had found that LIRING/11's car had not beeen parked in front, hailed a cab passing in the opposite direction. As an after-thought, however, Rowton asked the cab to go around the block on the off chance that he might catch LIRING/11 approaching his home from the intersection of Gutenberg and Ejercito Nacional. Fortunately just as Rowton's cab approached LIRING/11's apartment house, he spotted LIRING/11 alighting from his car in front of the building. Rowton stopped the cab and ran over to greet LIRING/11.3. LIRING/11 although obviously surprised at seeing Rowton in that area, responded cordially. Rowton alleged that he had been in Switzerland and Canada most of the time since he had last seen LIRING/11, and to his regret had lost contact withthemutual friends, LIRING/3 and Iden A. Rowton continued that he had written LIRING/3 at least five letters from Europe had not received any answer, and had found that he had moved from his Atoyac address as well as his Tacubaya studio. LIRING/11 did not volunteer any information concerning the whereabouts of LIRING/3 but immediately gave Rowton the news that Iden A was working at a sort of night club (giving the name and street on which it was located.)4. Rowton then said that he had hoped to be able to invite LIRING/11 to-lunch but he had to take a short trip to Nuevo Laredo to attempt to arrange for the purchase of a car. (This was thrown out as bait in view of a comment by LIRING/4 that LIRING/11 was scheduled to return PCS and would have to sell his car). LIRING/11 did not react to this, simply suggesting that Rowton get in touch with him as soon as Rowton returned.5. Rowton then returned to the waiting cab and continued his trip, taking the opportunity to mention to the driver in the course of conversation that he was a businessman from Europe (Switzerland) who often visited Mexico.SECRETWallace BRowton
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Subject: LIRING/4 report of activities.9 July,19581. Foston met with LIRING/4 at 1000 on 8 July, 1968, at the Sears Restaurant on Insurgentes. He had not seen her for the previous ten days because of his leave (28/6/50-5/7/68).2. LIRING/4 reported that an old friend, Iden A, had arrived the previous week from the ISRAEL capital, and that she had seen him several times prior to his moving to Cuernavaca. She commented that Iden was divorced and lived alone (his wife having been a notorious model of loose morals). She added that his apparent age is 40, and that he must have political influence since he obtained a six-month exit permit following the invitation of Siqueiros.3. LIRING/4 then related that she received a message early in the previous week that Iden A was trying to get in touch with her and she accordingly went to the LI-LG offices on 27/6/68 to find his address. Then she entered the office of LIRING/9, she found it crowded and was on the point of leaving (after getting the address of Iden A) when LIRING/9 approached her and asked her to take a ride in his car so that he could "chat" with her. LIRING/4 told Foston that she assumed that HELG/9 was enroute to one of the Secretariats in a rush and had asked her to accompany him to that he could save time by talking to her on the way. She was therefore surprised when he drove her to the Vaca Negra en Insurgentes and later returned with her to the office.4. According to LIRING/4, LIRING/9 asked her routine questions as to how she was making out living as she was on her own. LIRING/4 relied that she was doing the best she could to raise enough money to survive, through part-time work arranged by Sra. Chuzaceira of Artes Plasticas, the sale of some of LIRING/3's paintings and financial help from her father (all of which is partly true). She then asked LIRING/9 for a "loan" to tide her over the weekend, to which he responded with a 100 peso bill. LIRING/9 consented that things were going well with his office financially as a result of the increased fees. He dropped the figure $6,000 (US) as receipts for the previous month LIRING/4 asked Foston for his opinion as to why LIRING/9 would take off an hour or so on such a busy day to drive her around town, commenting that she herself could not understand his motives. She did not get the impression that he was interested in her "personally" since in that case he would have invited himself to her apartment to asked her out to dinner in the evening.5. Foston replied that he assumed that LIRING/9 had received some sort of
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2. SECRETofficial request from his superiors to determine the conditions under which LI.G/4 was living as well as her general attitude following the arrest of G/3. LI.LG/4 promised to continue to see LIHING/9 and her other LIR KC friends as often as possible, but stressed that she could not tarry herself at them without attracting undue attention.6. LIES/4 then continued that when she finally got in touch with Iden A he was acat cordial, inviting her for a trip to Cuernavaca, and expressing concern for the welfare of I.G/3. Iden commented to LIRICG/4 that he had arrived from the capital with only twenty Mexicer pesos which he had left from a crevious trip and that he would have to count of the generosity of Siqueiros for his living expenses during his anticipated three-month star in Mexico. RG/4 told Newton that she felt certain that could not ex vet determine vasther or not her was pro-regime. She explained that at their first meetings she felt it best to steer clear of politics and let Iden A do the talking. LI-RING/4 aided that she expected to see Iden whenever he came to Mexico City and if and when she herself could take a brief trip to Cuernavaca (if Howton felt that necessary).7. LIRIEG/4 then asked whether Howton had been able to arrange some sort of intervention with the judge who would preside over the court in LIRING/3's case. When Roxton replied that he had asked some of his friends to inform him as to the status of the case, she commented that Iden B had offered to do what he could since he bed close friends on the Guatemalans. Howton suggested that LIRING/4 get in touch with Iden B again and find out as many details as possible concerning the channels he would use both in Mexico Cit and Guat-mala City. HIRING/4 explained that at that point all she knew was that Iden: whom she described as an active member of the CE Mexico, had a close friend among the Guatemalan exiles and that this friend could forward bribe money to the judge through his family in Guatemala City. CLC/4 promised Howton that she would try to meet with this Guatemalan to get details from him.8. LIRING/4 also reported incidentally that IlaG/16 tad left PCS and that her friendętle wife of iILING/17, Las plastice to go sa home leave in the near future. She added that she thought that LIKING/16's replacement ves a bit tonto".  LI/4 also mentioned that she had learned foom Iden A that Iden C had been forced to take "incefinite leave" frce her job which was tantamount to dismissal.SECRETWallace B. Howton
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SECE9 July, 1968Subject: LIRPC/4 Report of Activities.Iden A is Orlando Suarez, Director de Cultura.Iden B is Arturo Serrano.Iden C is Mercedes Morales.Wallace B. MortonSECRE
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# SEC12 July,1968Subject: LIRING/4 Report of Activities.1. Rowton met with LIRING/4 at a safercom of the Suites Marne for about two hours on the morning of 10 July and again on 12 July, 1968. Rowton attempted to clarify his position for the future with LIRING/4, as well as LIRING/3. He stated that he was doing the best he could to determine the probable outcome of the case of LIRING/3, and stressed that any precipitous intervention, even if could be arranged, might do more harm to LIRING/3 than good at this point. LIRING/4 confessed that her only concern at the moment was somehow to get LIRING/3 out of prison and back to Mexico. She admitted that it was hard for her to be concerned about the future. Particularly about either her or LIRING/3's usefulness to Rowton, in view of what had happened to him. She said that she felt he had sacrificed enough during his three month imprisonment in such a "horrible" place, and that Rowton should himself "influence" the judge to speed up the formalities and issue a verdict simply expelling LIRING/3 and his companion. She did not see any other solution in view of the inability of the Mexican Consulate to arrange the release.2. In reply to Rowton's query, LIRING/4 stated that she had seen Arturo Serrano of the CP Mexico during lunch at his home on 10 and 11 July, 1968, and that the latter had told her that he would arrange for the 100 Quetzal bribe to be transmitted to the judge concerned via the CP Mexico and the CP Guatemala. He added that, of course, the bribe would finally be offered by a person in Guatemala completely clean of any CP ties. LIRING/4 continued to Rowton that she then alleged to Serrano that she would telephone her father at once so obtain the money. Serrano suggested that a letter or telegram might be more advisable, at which LIRING/4 wrote a letter to her father in his presence and accepted an offer from his to accompany her to the post office to mail the letter at once. LIRING/4 told Rowton that in fact she does not expect any further financial help from her father (who is unwitting of LIRING/3's situation) since he is very ill with cancer of the throat and in no position to help her at this time.3. Rowton then expressed to LIRING/4 his doubts that the bribe would work but he agreed that it might be worth trying, particularly through Serrano. Rowton added that if this did not work would be only one alternative. Rowton, through his contact in Europe, might be able to approach the Guatemalans on a level higher than the judge and offer to supply them with