Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRET-227-story but rather that she had now given a more detailed account, Boonstra stated that the date was wrong and dismissed the entire affair. 963/One of the Mexico City Legat Officers, Nathan Ferris, in reply to Thomas' letter and memorandum, asserted that Thomas' office had been advised by memoranda dated December 27, 1965 and February 23, 1966 that since Elena Garro's allegations had previously been investigated without substantiation, no further action was being taken concerning her recent repetition of those allegations. 970/In its report, the Legat's Office concluded that either the Counselor for Political Affairs did not route the memoranda to Charles Thomas or that Thomas did not recall receiving them. 971/Thomas wrote that when he went to Nathan Ferris' office to inform him that Elena had found her calendar 972a/ and had reconstructed the date of the party as late September, Ferris replied that Elena had given the late September date when she had originally reported her story at the American Embassy. 972/ Thomas noted that Ferris explainee that someone who had been at the party had stated that there had not been any Americans in attendance. 973/Thomas wrote that he had assumed that Elena could haveClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA controlled documents.)clearly been mistaken about the identity of the Ameri-can she saw there, but neve doubted that she had seensome Americans. 974/ Thoma; wrote that Ferris had sug-gested that it was not necessary for Thomas to pursuethe matter since he considered the Oswald case closedand had heard all the rumor; before. 975/The Legal. Attache's reply to Thomas' memo statedthat Mr. Ferris had not told Thomas that someone who wasat the party had stated tha: there had not been any Ameri-cans present. 976/ The Legal Attache's memo assertedthat Thomas had been told that it would not be necessaryfor him to pursue the matte any further since Elena'sstory had been investigated previously without beingsubstantiated. 977/ In addition, the memo stated thatThomas had been told that Elena's story was considereda closed issue, not that the Oswald case was closed. 978/12. House Select Committee on Assassination's    Investigation of Elena Garro's AllegationsThe House Select Committee or Assassinations in-vestigated Elena Garro's story both through file reviewsand. personal interviews. The Committee requested and
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Classification(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 229 -reviewed the CIA's, FBI's and State Department's files on Elena Garro de Paz, Elen ta Garro de Paz, Manuel Calvillo, Noe W. Palomares, June Cobb Sharp, Victor Rico Galan, Eunice Odio, Sylvia Duran, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, Horatio Duran, Eusebio Azcue, and Emilio Car- ballido. Only the Elena Garro de Paz file contained information on her allegation::. Though all the names listed above played a role in Elena Garro de Paz' story, not one of their files included a reference to Elena Garro de Paz.Furthermore, the House Select Committee on Assassinations requested and reviewed the Central Intelligence Agency's LICOOKIE/1, LICHAN/1, LIRING/3, and TICHBORN files. Once again, not one of the files included a mention of Elena Garro's allegations. The House Select Committee on Assassinations learned that LICOOKIE/1, who first reported to the CIA Elena's allegation, was June Cobb Sharp.979/LICHANT/1 was Manuel Calvillo who had hidden Elena Garro and her daughter in a hotel the day following the assassination. 980/ He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been arrested before this fact had become public knowledge. 981/Since a file review was inconclusive, the Committee arranged interviews in Mexico with Ruben Duran, HoratioClassification:2000342392Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 292
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Classification:# TOP SECRET(This form is extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)- 230 -Duran, Elena and Elenita Garro, Silvia Duran, Lynn Duran, Emilio Carbillido and Betty Serratos. 982/ The Mexican Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassinations that Elena and Elenita Garro disappeared in 1968 during the student uprisings and have never returned to Mexico. 983/ The officials stated that Elena and her daughter might be in Spain. 984/ The Mexican government reported that Emilio Carballido could not be found. 985/ The others were interviewed between June 1 and June 6, 1978. 986/Betty Serratos, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran and Horatio Duran all stated that Elena was not the dancing type and therefore did not attend any of the twist parties at the Duran homes. 987/ Wien Silvia Duran was asked if Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties at the Duran homes, she recalled Elena attending one twist party at Ruben's home in 1963 after the Garros returned to Mexico from France. 988/ All the Durans denied that Lee Harvey Oswald had attended any parmy at one of their homes. 989/The Committee next asked the Central Intelligence Agency to arrange interview with LICHANT/1 (Manuel Calviiio), LICOOKIE/1 (June Cobb), who may have had information related to Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City. 990/ TheClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-Controlled documents.)- 2:1 -Central Intelligence Agency declined to aid the Committee in this aspect of the investigation. 991/The Committee returned to Mexico City on August 7, 1978 and attempted to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel Calvillo on its own. 992/The Mexican governmert told the Committee that June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781, on June 27, 1947 when she entered Mexico through Nuevo Lardeo. She asked, but was denied, permission to represent the magazine, *Modern Mexico*. On June 21, 1948, she received a coutesy permiet, number 25556. Furthermore, the Mexican government explained that she disappeared in 1954 and never returned to Mexico. 993/The Committee believes that this information is incorrect. According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file, she worked for the agency as an asset in Mexico from 1961 through 1966. 994/ Elena also stated that Ms. Cobb resided at her home in 1964. 995/The Mexican government told the Committee that Manuel Calvillo did not live at Cuchtemoc 877-3 as the Committee had informed it. The Mexican Government's agent-in-charge had spoken to the superintendent at the apartments at which Manuel Calvillo was believed to reside.Classification:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 294
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Classification# TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)- 232 -and was informed by the superintendent who had worked at the apartments for twenty-five years, said that no Manuel Calvillo had ever resided there. When Committee staffers gave the Mexican government Calvillo's pen name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 996/The Committee believes that there is a possibility that Mr. Calvillo lived at this address since it acquired the address from a recent CIA document. 997/The Committee believes that there is a possibility that a U.S. Government agency requested the Mexican government to refrain from aiding the Committee with this aspect of its work. 998/ (See Procedural Write-up Trip 2 Mexico City and Section VII, C, be'ow.)The Committee made every attempt possible to locate Elena. On July 7, 1978 the Committee telephoned her publisher, Mortiz, in Mexico City and inquired about Elena's whereabouts. 999/ The publ sher stated that Ms. Garro was living in the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Madrid, Spain. 1000/The Committee telephoned the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Spain and spoke to the manager who to d him that Ms. Garro had moved. 1001/ On July 14, 1978 che Committee called her publisher again and was told to contact the Mexican Embassy![Classification section]NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 295
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Classification:(This form is to be used for extracted from CIA-controlled documents)- 2:33 -in Madrid, Spain. 1002/ The publisher stated that all Elena's payments were sent here because she did not even trust her publisher with her address.,1003/The Committee called the Mexican Embassy in Madrid, Spain and spoke to Adolfo Padilla, a Mexican employee of the Embassy who stated that when Elena had visited the Embassy a couple of weeks before to pick up a check she seemed financially destitute. 1004/ He stated that when he asked Elena her new address she declined to give one, stating that she would return every few weeks to pick up checks and mail. 1005/ The Committee gave Padilla a telephone number and a message asking Elena to telephone the Committee collect. 1006/On September 5, 1978 Elena Garro called the Committee. 1007/ When it was explained that the Committee wished to talk to her in person and would pay both her daughter's and her travel from Spain to the United States, Ms. Garro asked why she should believe the Committee was what it claimed to be. 1008/ The Committee asked Ms. Garro to call back collect in the next few days when it could explain to her when and where she could receive a Committee letter delineating why the Committee wished to interview her. 1009/ The Committee wrote the letter and made arrange-Classification:
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Classification: TOP SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 234 -ments with the State Department for a letter to be hand-delivered to Elena at the American Embassy in Spain. 1010/On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Committee and asked when the letter would arrive. 1011/ The Committee explained that she could pick up the letter on Monday, September 11, 1978 from George Phelan, the Counsellor for Consular Affairs at the American Embassy. 1012/ Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter on September 11, 1978 and follow our suggestions. 1013/Ms. Garro never went to the American Embassy in Spain to pick up the Committee's letter. 1014/ The Committee, hoping she would pick up the letter before her flight date, proceeded to purchase air tickets for both Elena and her daughter. 1015/ Elena did not pick up the tickets at the airport. 1016/ The Committee has not been able to regain contact with Ms. de Paz again.The Committee also investigated whether Charles Thomas' "selection out" was related to the Oswald case. After interviewing his widow, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the Committee has concluded tha: his dismissal was unrelated. 1017/In sum, the House Se ect Committee on Assassinations has not been able to confirm the evidence that would indi-Classification:2000347397Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 297
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Classification: SECRET(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)- 23 -cate that Lee Harvey Oswald, on one night while he was in Mexico, attended a "twis: party" at the home of Ruben Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. In addition, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has been unable to confirm che allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald travelled while in Mexico City with "two beatnik-looking boys." A large par of the Committee's attempts to investigate these issues has met with frustration.D. Oscar Contreras LartigueOn March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul in Tampico, reported to the American Embassy that he had spoken to a reporter who allegedly had met Lee Harvey Oswald at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City 1018/ in 1963. 1019/ The reporter, stressing that he had only a fleeting contact with Oswald, had claimed to have known only about Lee Harvey Oswali's desire to travel to Cuba and the Embassy's unwillingness to grant him a visa. 1020/ When B. J. Ruyle asked the reporter for permission to cabie the story to the American Embassy, the reporter declined, stating that he feared losing his job. 1021/ Subsequent to the assassination, the reporter had told his editor about his contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, whoClassification:
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Classification:TOP SECRET(This form to be added to material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 2:36 -had advised him not to report it. 1022/ The reportergranted B. J. Ruyle permiss on to cable the story tothe American Embassy when Ruyle promised that it wouldbe handled with the strictest confidence. 1023/ Ruylewrote that he thought the reporter was genuinely con-cerned about his job. 1024/A letter from B. J. Ruyle to the State Departmentdated May 11, 1967 provided additional details of thereporter's story. 1025/ The reporter alleged that heand some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald asthey exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia(School of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous Univer-sity of Mexico. 1026/ Oswald told the group that he hadgone to the National Autonomous University of Mexicolooking for pro-Castro students who might help him per-suade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. 1027/Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a mem-ber of a pro-Castro group 11 New Orleans. 1028/ Oswaldremained with the students the rest of that day and even-ing, as well as the following day. 1029/ The reporterdescribed Oswald as a strange and introverted individualwho spoke very little Spanish. 1030/2000940339Classification: TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 299
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents)The State Department forwarded a copy of Ruyle's letter to the Central Intelligence Agency. 1031/ On June 14, 1967, CIA Headquarters sent the Mexico City Station a copy of Ruyle's letter to Bowles. 1032/ CIA Headquarters considered Ruyte's report "the first piece of substantive info about Oswald's sojourn in Mexico" since the assassination. 1033/ Consequently, Headquarters cabled that though it understood the source's reluctance to become involved "the fac: remains that this info cannot continue to be withheld or concealed." 1034/Headquarters instructed the Mexico City Station to elicit the identity of the source from Ruyle. 1035/ In addition, Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle's source, that Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. 1036/ The final sentence of the dispatch, "It is our hope that the facts obtained through these interviews will help to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement of anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, etc. are false," 1037/ explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for pursuing the story.On June 29, 1967, the Mexico City Station cabled![Classification top secret]Classified by derivation:
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Classification:![image of top secret stamp] (This form is to be used from CIA)Headquarters that a station officer had gone to Tampico where he had interviewed Rule's source, Oscar Contreras. 1038/The cable reported that Contreras was a reporter for El Sol 1039/ in Tampico; was circa thirty years old; married, with three children; studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; belonged to a pro-Castro group at UNAM; was persecuted by the Mexican police for this affiliation and moved to Tampico to escape the persecution 1040/.Contreras told the Mexico City Station official that he and four other individuals 1041/ had met Oswald as they exited a roundtable discussion held at the School of Philosophy at UNAM. 1042/ Contreras stated that Oswald had made inquiries on the UNAM campus about pro-Cuban groups and had been directed to his group. 1043/ Contreras reported that though the group initially mistrusted Oswald fearing he was a "CIA provocation," they allowed Oswald to remain with them that day and night and part of the following day. 1044/ Contreras noted that Oswald never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that he had to get to Cuba. 1045/ In addition, Oswald had exhibited no homosexual tendencies while he was with the![image of top secret stamp] (Classification:)NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 301
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Classification(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)group. 1046/On July 4, 1967, Headquarters cabled the Mexico City Station that Contreras story should be explored to the fullest even though he might have fabricated it. 1047/ Headquarters suggested that the FBI handle the story. 1048/ The following day, July 5, 967, the Mexico City Station cabled that it preferred turning Contreras' case over to the Mexican authorities and to the F.B.I. 1049/ The same day, the Chief of Station informed the Legat of Contreras' story, but asked him not to take any action without first consulting the Mexico City Station. 1050/On July 10, 1967, Jeremy K. Benedum ("JKB") wrote a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government review of Oscar Contreras' file. 1051/ According to a memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM law school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, born 2/14/39 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. 1052/ The memo also reported that a newspaper article appearing in "Excelsior" listed an Oscar Contreras as a signer of a protest for the Bloque Estudiantil Revolucionario 1053/ which had been formed mid-1961. 1054/ The memo speculated that Contreras probably signed the protest as a front man to protect the real leaders of the group. 1056/ The Mexico
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA controlled documents.)City Station cabled the information to Headquarters the following day, June 11, 1969. 1056/The Committee has determined that the Central Intelligence Agency's main interest in Oscar Contreras was "to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement of anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, etc. are false." 1057/ After the CIA Mexico City Station official's interview with Contreras 1058/ revealed nothing that could be useful to the agency, it decided to allow the FBI to follow the story through. 1059/ Nonetheless, the Agency's Mexico City Station interviewed the key witness, reviewed pertinent files and records about the witness in the Mexican government's possession, and reported all the information to Headquarters expeditiously.VII. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico CityA. IntroductionAfter the Warren Commission published its report two very important allegations related to Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City came to the attention of the United States investigative agencies. In 1964, ElenaClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents)Garro de Paz reported that she had seen Lee Harvey Oswald, accompanied by two other mer, at a party at the home of Ruben Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. [^1]In 1967, Oscar Contreras Lartigue reported that he met Lee Harvey Oswald on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. [^2]In addition, the testimony of the Warren Commission's primary witness related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado Duran, has been called into question by the critics throughout the years. [^3] Some of the information that is inconsistent with Ms. Duran's original story--that Oswald visited the Consulate on two occasions which were the only times she saw him--was available at the time of the Warren Commission's inquiry although it was ignored. [^4] Some of the information has developed after the publication of the Warren Report. [^5]The Garro and Contreras allegations, in conjunction with the inconsistencies of Ms. Duran's story raise three major questions: (1) did Lee Harvey Oswald or an imposter visit the Cuban Consulate ir Mexico City?; (2) other than his visits to the Cuba: Consulate, what were Lee Harvey Osward's activities in Mexico City?; and, (3) was Lee Harvey Oswald travelling alone in Mexico? TheseClassification:[^1]: 1060/[^2]: 1061/[^3]: 1062/[^4]: 1063/[^5]: 1064/
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Classification:![TOP SECRET logo] (This Real extracted from GA Controller c- 212 -three questions overlap somewhat in detail; e.g., if Oswald was not traveling alone, did one of his companions impersonate him at the Cuban Consulate? Nonetheless, each of the three questions will be dealt with in separate sections below.In an attempt to answer these questions the House Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) interviewed Mexican 1065/ and Cuban cicizens 1066/ who could have knowledge of Oswald's visit to the Cuban Consulate; 2) interviewed Mexican citiens 1067/ who could have knowledge of Oswald's activities and associations in Mexico City; 3) conducted an extensive review of the files of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that pertan to Oswald's sojourn in Mexico City. 1068/B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact the Cuban and Sovet Consulates in Mexico City?Lee Harvey Oswald himself probably visited the Cuban Consulate at least once since his application for a Cuban instransit visa bears his signature. 1069/ Though the Cuban Consulate allowed visa applicants to take blank![image]Classification:![image]Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 305
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.- 243 -applications out of the Consulate to be returned when completed, 1070/ Silvia Duran stated she was certain that Oswald signed the application in her presence. 1071/ Oswald's signature on the Cuban visa application, however, does not by itself rule out the possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in contacts with the Cuban and Soviet Embassies.An analysis of the telephone conversations which the CIA's Mexico City Station intercepted by tapping the Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's telephone reveals that someone, later identified by the CIA as Oswald, visited the Cuban Consulate at least two times and the Soviet Consulate at least three times. 1072/ On September 27, 1963, at 4:05 p.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet Consulate. In this conversation she referred to an American seeking an intransit visa to Cuba. 1073/ The substantive information given indicates that she was discussing Oswald. 1074/ At this time the individual using Oswald's name already had been at the Soviet Embassy at least once, since Siivia requested the name of the Soviet Embassy official who dealt with the American. 1075/ Silvia also stated that the American was, at that time, in the Cuban Consulate. 1076/ At 4:26 p m. a Soviet Consular officialClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents)- 244 -returned Silvia Duran's call. 1077/ This official stated specifically that Oswald had visited the Soviet Consulate. 1078/On September 28, 1963, at 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet Consulate. 1079/ She put the American, later identified as Oswald, on the telephone. 1080/ The American, who was at the Cuban Consulate at the time, said that he had just been at the Soviet Consulate. 1081/ The conversation ended with the American stating that he was returning to the Soviet Consulate. 1082/Analysis of Silvia Duran's and Eusebio Azcue's testimony would tend to indicate that Oswald, or someone impersonating him, visited the Cuban Consulate at least one and possibly two additional times on September 27, 1963. Silvia Duran says that Oswald first visited the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m. requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destination. 1083/ Ms. Duran sent Oswald to obtain photographs that he needed for the visa application. 1084/ Eusebio Azcue recalls that this visit probably occurred on the date on the visa application, 9/27/63. 1085/Ms. Duran also stated that Oswald returned at approximately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs. 1086/ EusebioClassification: