Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extrate from CIA-controlle i documents)- 263 -At 7:30 p.m., April 1, 1978, Messers. Escartin and Hernandez accompanied the House Select Committee staff for dinner and show to the Tropicana Club which, prior to the Revolution, was operated by organized crime. The Tropicana Clut is presently run by the Cuban government.At 11:00 a.m. on April 2, 1978, the Committee staff again met with Senen Buergo, Ricardo Escartin, Felipe Villa, Aramis Gueterrez and Juanita Vera. Santo Trafficante, Jack Ruby and Mexico City were the major areas of discussion. 1187, This session terminated at 1:00 p.m. At 4:50 p.m., he morning's meeting resumed. During the afternoon sesson, the major area of discussion was the alleged pro-Castro involvement in the assassination. 1188/At 9:15 a.m., April 3, 1978, the Committee staff met with the Cuban officials for a final work session. During this session, the ntelligence agencies and general questions derived from the questionnaire which the Committee had provided to the Cuban government were the major areas of discussion. 1189/ During the session, the Committee staff and Cuban officials also
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Classification: _____________(This form is to be used for internal se Pattern & Standardfrom CIA-controllec documents)TOP SECRET- 254 -exchanged listings of pending material which might becovered during a subsequent trip to Cuba by HSCA repre-sentatives and Congressmen. 1190/At 6:00 p.m. the Committee staff met with Presi-dent Fidel Castro Ruz who assured the Committee thatneither he nor his government had any involvement in theassassination of President John F. Kennedy.The House Select Committee on Assassinations staffdeparted Havana, Cuba at 10:00 a.m., April 4, 1978,arriving in Washington, D.C. at 4:30 p.m.-4272000377Classification:__________ TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:__________NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 327
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRET- 205 -Appendix 2: HSCA Procedura Write-up Mexico TripHouse Select Committee on Assassinations staffers Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap arrived at the Mexico City airport at 8:30 p.m., May 30, 1978. (All times are Mexico City times, unless otherwise specified.) They were met and escorted through Customs by David Patton, an employee of the United States Embassy.The following morning, May 31, 1978 the HSCA representatives met with U S. Embassy Political Officer Richard Howard concerning procedure. Mr. Howard scheduled a meeting at 11:15 a m. with the Chief of the CIA Station in Mexico City. This meeting was preliminary in nature and concerned procedures regarding arrangement of the interviews of ex-CIA employees in Mexico.At 12:00 noon, the HSCA representatives and Richard Howard met representatives of the Government of Mexico. The Mexican representative:; were: 1) Dr. Jesus Yanes, Advisor to the Attorney General's Executive Officer; 2) Fernando Baeza, Chief Administrative Officer for the Attorney General; and 3) Commandate Florentino Ventura, Chief of the Mexican Federal Police. The MexicansClassification:TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 328-428
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for more dextracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 66 -informed the staff members at this meeting that they had located Silvia Duran, Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran and Pedro Gutierrez Valencia 192/ and that each person was willing to be interviewed by the HSCA representatives. Procedure for conduct of the interviews was also discussed at this meeting.The Mexican government decided that the initial interview would be an informal contact with the witnesses in which the Committee's objectives would be described. The witnesses' statements would be formalized at a later, taped interview. The Mexican officials informed the HSCA staff members that they had been unable to locate Oscar Contreras, 1193/ Elena Garro de Paz, and Elenita Garro de Paz. 1194/ The Mexican Government had not had contact with the Garros since 1968. The Mexicans said that they were trying to locate the Garros through the Foreign Ministry since Elena's ex-husband, Octavio Paz, had once been an important person in that ministry. The Mexicans asked that we determine the name of the Mexican Government contact during 1964 with the Warren Commission so that they could locate their records in the Archives.The Mexican official; left to set up the preliminaryClassification: TOP SECRETClassified by agrivation:- 429NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 329
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Classification:TOP SECRET/(This form is to be used for material extracfrom CIA-controlled documents.)- 257 -interviews with witnesses. The preliminary interviewswere conducted by Gary Cornwell. HSCA staff membersDan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap were presentduring Cornwell's questioning. The Mexican Governmentwas represented by Dr. Jesus Yanes, Commandante Floren-tino-Ventura, and Jesus Meixueiro Kanty, second in com-mand to Ventura. Pedro Gutierrez Valencia was inter-viewed at 2:30 p.m. Ruben Duran was interviewed at5:00 p.m. Horacio Duran was interviewed at 5:30 p.m.Silvia Duran was interviewed at 6:15 p.m.At 9:30 a.m. on June 1, 1978, the HSCA staff re-presentatives met with the Mexican police representatives.The HSCA staff requested 1) the records of the companythat employed Gutierrez Valencia in 1963; press clippingsof the Mexican newspaper coverage of Oswald and SilviaDuran (attached); 3) once again, an interview with OscarContreras; 4) individual files on Elena Garro de Pazand Silvia Duran; 5) evidence related to Silvia Duran'sassertion that Oswald was at the Cuban Embassy on oneday only; 6) an interview with Deba Garro de GuerreroGalvan; 1195/ 7) an interview with Eunice Odio; 1196/9) an interview with Emilio Carballido: 1197/ and10) an interview with Victor Rico Galan. 1198/ The2000980 Classification:Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 330
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material exc from CIA-controlled documents.)**TOP SECRET**- 268 -HSCA also asked to be showr the Cuban Consulate.The Mexican representatives informed the HSCA staff that Victor Rico Galen had, at one time, been arrested on political charges but that he was subsequently pardoned by either Diaz Ordaz or Luis Echevarria. 1199/ The Mexicans said that they were searching for all files and newspaper articles requested by the HSCA.The Mexican officials also offered their observations orally on the preliminary interviews conducted the previous day. They pointed out that they found it strange that Silvia had toid Oswald he could not travel while in Cuba. They wondered what Duran was trying to tell Oswald and whether she thought that Oswald had some objective in going to Cuba other than that ascribed by the popular version. They also considered the manner in which Silvia obtained employment at the Cuban Consulate unusual. Generally they noted that Silvia and her brothers seemed to have almost programmed responses and a defensive demeanor. They pointed out, however, that all the Durans had been very interested in talking to us.. In their opinion, fuben Duran was the most credible of those interviewed by the HSCA the previous day.2000381Classification:431NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 331
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material exttractedfrom CIA-controllec documents.)- 269 -At this point, a Mexican official who had been checking the computer records informed us that Victor Rico Galan had died.HSCA staff members provided the Mexican authorities with the names of the Mexican officials who had been involved in the invescigation in 1963.HSCA staff members met again with the Mexican police authorities at 10:00 l.m. on June 2, 1978. At this time, the Mexican police provided the copies of the newspaper clippings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the *Excelsior*. HSCA staff members asked if the Mexicans could persuade the newspapers to reveal the sources of their stories about Oswald and Silvia Duran. The Mexican officials' response was negative. The Mexican officials informed the HSCA staff members that most of the data we wanted from the files was in their Security Service files. The Mexican officials working with the HSCA explained that they were the Mexican equivalent of the FBI and that the Security Service was the Mexican equivalent of the CIA; hence there was the usual bureaucratic protiem involved in obtaining access to the Security Service's files. Tre Mexicans informed the HSCA representatives that Emilia Carballido had been located;
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Classification:(This form is to be used for materied from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRET- 270 -that Deba Garro could not be located; and that therewas no record of anyone named Eunice Odio. HSCA repre-sentatives told the Mexicar officials that Odio, whowas either Costa Rican or (uatemalan, had been themistress of Emilio Carballido. The assassinationand the reaction of the Mexican people to it wasdiscussed.At 1:00 p.m., HSCA staff members conducted aninterview at the United States Embassy in connectionwith the CIA aspects of the Mexico City investigation.At 2:30, Gary Cornwel discussed problems withthe Chief of the Mexico City CIA Station. He requestedthat the COS cable Headquarters regarding restrictionsplaced on the HSCA staff in Mexico.At 6:00 p.m., the HSCA staff members, accompaniedby Jesus Meixuerio Kanty and his assistant, HonorioEscondon, met with the ass stant chief of the MexicanSecurity Service Nazar. Mr. Nazar gave an oral resumeof the interviews which Mexican officials conducted in1963 of Silvia, Horatio and Ruben Duran and Betty Serratos.Mr. Nazar said that the files had to be formally re-quested before ne could consider releasing them. Hesuggested that we secure statements admissible in UnitedClassification: TOP SECRETNW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 333
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRETStates courts from the witnesses whom we wished to interview. Mr. Nazar suggested that our best investigatory avenue would be to concentrate on Oswald's interrogation after his arrest on November 22nd. Mr. Nazar had a very low opinion of Elena Garro de Paz' credibility. He felt that she confused fact and fiction.June 3 and 4, 1978, were spent on CIA-related aspects of the Mexico City investigation. Two interviews were conducted. All interviews, with the exception of interviews with CIA personnel, were taped and later transcribed.At 11:00 a.m. on June 5, 1978, the HSCA staff interviewed Horacio Duran for the record. 1200/ At 1:00 p.m., HSCA staff member Edwin Lopez and Mexican officials Honorio Escondon and Dr. Alfonso Orozco Gutierrez interviewed Pedro Gutierrez Valencia for the record. 1201/ At 5:00 p.m., HSCA staff members interviewed Lynn Duran, aka Lydia Duran, for the record. 1202/On June 6, 1978 at 11:00 a.m., the HSCA staff interviewed Ruben Duran for the record.1203/ At 1:00 p.m., the staff representatives met with Commandate Ventura.The staff representatives agreed to supply the Mexicans with questions for two witnesses, Oscar Contreras andClassification:
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Classification:(This form used for Official extracted from CIA-controlled documents)Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, who could not then be inter- viewed. 1204/ Commandate Ventura authorized Honorio Escondon to interview Oscar Contreras Lartigue and Ernesto Lehfeld Miller. At 5:00 p.m., the wife of Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, 1205/ was interviewed for the record. At 5:45 p.m., Silvia Duran was interviewed for the record. 1206/The HSCA staff representatives left Mexico City at 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 1978, arriving in Washington, D.C. at 5:30 p.m., Washington time.
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Classification:(This formfrom CIA-tracted# TOP SECRET- 273 -Appendix 3: HSCA Procedural Write-up Mexico Trip 2House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7, 1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton, a State Department official, at the Mexican airport at 10:15 p.m. Mr. Patton then checked the staffers into Room 1754 at the Maria Isatel Hotel. Mr. Patton informed the staff members that Larry Sternfield CIA Chief of Station in Mexico City, wished to see us at 8:30 a.m. the following morning.On Tuesday, August 8. 1978, Committee staffers met with Larry Sternfield. He informed the staffers that the two individuals the Committee wished to interview, Daniel Flores, 1207/ aka Luis Aparicio, and Ramon Alvarez Duran, 1208/were now available.At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff members interviewed Danny Flores. 1209/ The interview ended at approximately 10: 5 a.m.Committee staff members returned to Mr. Sternfield office. Mr. Sternfield stated that it appeared that the Government of Mexico had only been able to locate two# TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 336
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Classification:(This form is use extracted from CIA-controlled docuts)TOP SECRET- 274 -witnesses for the Committee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue 1210/and Noe W. Palomares. 1211/ Sternfield asked thestaff members to whom they wished to speak. The Commit-tee staff members explained that they would like tointerview LICHANT 1, 1212/ LICOOKIE I, 1213/ LITAMIL 7, 1214/LITAMIL 9, 1215/ and LIRING 3, 1216/ Mr. Sternfieldthen stated that it appeared that the House SelectCommittee on Assassinations had already asked the Mexi-cans to locate the individuals listed above.Mr. Sternfield stated that the HSCA's interviewwith Ramon Alvarez Duran was considered "highly sensi-tive." He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotelwould be used. In one room, Ramon Alvarez Duran wouldsit, Committee staff members would sit in a second roomand two CIA personnel officers would insure that theequipment worked properly n a third room. Mr. Stern-field then phoned Mr. Niles Gooding, who had been sentto the Mexico City Station from Headquarters to arrangethe procedures for the interviews. Mr. Gooding ex-plained that in 1977 Stansfield Turner had created anew position at Headquarters to insure that importantsensitive meetings were within the guidelines previously2000987 Classification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 337
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Classification:# TOP SECRET(This forn be used for material extracted from CIA-olled datay.)- 2'5 -arranged. Mr. Gooding stated that the Central Intelligence Agency had been unde greater Congressional scrutiny the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in order to demonstrate the Agency's good faith, had engaged a retired Army officer to act as liaison at sensitive interviews by Congressional representatives. Mr. Gooding then explained that the HSCA staff would be escorted by two CIA personnel to the interview with Ramon Alvarez Durant.At 10:55 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff members interviewed Ramon Alvarez Durant. 1217/At 12:30 p.m., Committee staff members telephoned Captain Fernandez Ventura Gutierrez. His secretary explained that Mr. Ventura was not in the office, but that she would have him call us when he returned. At 6:30 p.m., since Mr. Ventura had not yet returned the staffer's call, they again called his office. His secretary apologized for Mr. Ventura and explained that he had not yet returned to th/e office and she assured us that Mr.Ventura would telephone upon his return. At 9:15 p.m., Dr. Jesus Yanez, the Assistant to the official mayor, telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura was very busy on an important assignment and asked usClassification:# TOP SECRET2000993derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 338
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Classification:(ThisfromTOP SECRETl extracted- 276 -  to visit the Police Station known as the Procuraduria  General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning.At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staffmembers met with State Department Official RichardHoward to alert him that the Committee would requestthe Mexican officials to make Silvia Duran availablein Washington for an HSCA hearing. Mr. Howard explainedthat once we had permission from the Mexican government,the State Department would insure that she was inWashington when necessary.At 11:00 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staffmembers met with Dr. Jesus Yanes and Ciprianio MartinezNovoa. Mr. Yanes told Committee staff members thatCiprianio Martinez Nova, the Mexican agent in charge,would try to aid us in all our interviews. Mr. Martinezthen briefed the Committee staff members on their up-to-date progress:Oscar Contreras Lartigue had been located and pre-interviewed by Mr. Martinez in Tampico, Mexico. TheCommittee would fly to Tampico on Friday, August 11,1978 at 7;35 a.m. to interview him.Noe W. Palomares had been located and could beinterviewed during the afternoon of Thursday, August 10,2000380 Classification: TOP SECRET 439Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 339
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# TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 2'7 -1978 at his office, Cerrada de la Presa 4. His phone number, 595-0891, was made available to the Committee.June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781, on June 27, 1947. she entered Mexico through Nuevo Lardo, Texas. She requested but was denied permission by the Mexican government co represent the magazine, *Modern Mexico*. On June 21, 1948, she received a courtesy permit, number 25556. She disappeared in 1954 and never returned to Mexico.The Committee staffe's did not tell the Mexicans that the House Select Committee on Assassinations had evidence from review of June Cobb's 201 file that she was in Mexico in the Sixties.Eunice Odio Infante, a Costa Rican, received a three-month tourist permit from the Mexican government on February 9, 1964. She remained in Mexico, illegally residing at Nacas-45-a, un:11 1972. She applied to write for the *Excelsior* magazine on many different occasions, but was rejected every time. In 1972, Ms. Odio married a Comminist painter, Rudolfo Sanabria Gonzalez and movedClassification TOP SECRET
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Classification TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 2:8 -to Rio Neba-16 Apartment 410. On May 24, 1972, Ms. Odio was found dead in her bathub. The official presiding at her autopsy concluded that Ms. Odio had poisoned herself.Emilio Carballido Fontanes was in Carcas, Venezuela, on vacation and scheduled to return to Mexico in early September. His address is Constituyentes 207. His phone number is 515-8345.Consuelo Esperon's (ITAMIL 7) personnel record in Mexico could not be located. When the Mexican officials inquired about her at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City prior to the Committee's trip, no one at the office remembered that she had worked there. Committee staff members were told that Esperon was probably dead. No basis was given for the Mexican government's conclusion.Carlos Jurado J. Delmar (LIRING 3) was born in Cuba on November 3, 1927. He entered Mexico July 1, 1965 and taught Graphics and Art at U.N.A.M. until January 1, 1968 when he disappeared. The Mexican officials assumed that he returned to Cuba.Classification TOP SECRET2000391NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 341Classified by derivation:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 2:9 -General Jesus Jose C'ark Flores 1218/ died in the early 1970's.Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, 1219/ Academic Coordinator at the School of Interior Design, had not yet been located.Luis Alberue Suoto (1.ITAMIL 9) lives at Michelet #7, Apartment #301, Colonia Ancura, Mexico City. His phone number is 545-9947. The landlady at his apartment explained to the Mexican officials that Mr. Alberue had left town hurriedly on Monday, August 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing to know when he returned, had placed a piece of scotch tape on the bottom right edge or his door. Mr. Martinez explained that he checked it every four hours and would notify us if Alberue returned before we left.Manuel Calvillo (LICHANT 1) did not live at Cauhtemoc 877-5 as the Committee had stated. The landlady for the past twenty-five years at the apartments told Mr. Martinez that Manuel Calvillo had never resided there. Committee staff members explained that Calvillo went by a pen name which would be forwarded to the Mexican officials the following morning.Classification: TOP SECRET
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Classification: ur SEORET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)-281)When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms. Silvia Tirado Bazan could estify at an HSCA hearing, the Mexican officials stated that they would have an answer for the staffers by Friday morning. The Mexican officials explained that they would have to speak to her to insure that she was wil ing to travel to Washington.On Thursday, August 10, 1978, at 11:00 a.m. the Committee staff members me with Dr. Jesus Yanez, Agent Ciprianio Martinez Novoa, Captain Florentino Ventura Gutierrez and Attorney General Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo's "pen name" was given to the Mexicans who stated that they would check it with the landlady at his alleged apartment building.Committee staffers returned to their hotel room with Agent Ciprianio Martinez Novoa after the meeting. Agent Martinez attempted without success to telephone Oscar Contreras Lartigue to inform him of our visit. At 3:30 p.m., Agent Martinez finally reached Mr. Contreras' child who informed him that Mr. Contreras was not in Tampico. He had traveled to Mexico Cit for a Partido Republicano2000393Classification OP. SECRETNW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 343443Ciassified by derivation:
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Classification(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 28 -Institucional convention. When Agent Martinez asked the child if he knew where his father was staying in Mexico City, he responded that he did not. Agent Martinez explained to the child that he would call at a later time to speak to his mother.Agent Martinez telepioned Noe W. Palomares at 4:00 p.m. and arrange an interview for 6:30 p.m. that evening. Mr. Martinez asked Committee staff members to meet him at his office at the Procuraduria General at 6:00 p.m.At 6:00 p.m., August 10, 1978, Committee staff members met Agent Ciprianio Martinez at the Procuraduria General. Martinez then drove the HSCA representatives to Mr. Palomares' office. At 6:30 p.m., Committee staff members interviewed Noe W. Palomares. 1270/Following the interview, Agent Martinez returned to the Maria Isabel Hotel with Committee staff members. He attempted to reach Mrs. Contreras telephonically at Tampico twice without success. At 9:45 p.m., he finally contacted her. Mrs. Contreras told Agent Martinez that Mr. Oscar Contreras had told her that he would try to get a roomClassification TOP SECRET