Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Classification:- 191 -(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)and we considered that interview inadequate. (I should point out that we do not consider it totally inadequate, however. It is only on details such as Oswald's physical appearance, side comments or remarks he may have made, etc., that we would like to interrogate Mrs. Duran further. On the essential point of whether or not his contacts with the Embassy consisted of anything other than an attempt to travel to Cuba, Silvia Duran's knowledge has probably been exhausted.) 708/The Warren Commission staff's attempts to interview Ms. Duran never succeeded. 709/ Ms. Duran was not interviewed by Americans until 1976, when two reporters from the Washington Post interviewed her. 710/ On June 6, 1978, representatives of the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviewed Ms. Duran in Mexico City.VI. Information not available at the time of the Warren Commission investigationA. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran)1. House Select Committee on Assassinations 6/6/78 Interview of Silvia TiradoMs. Tirado (Silvia divorced Horatio Duran in 1968) was never questioned by American officials in 1963. Thus, the Committee established contact with the Mexican government and requested that the Mexican government make Silvia Tirado available for an interview. 711/ The Mexican
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)government complied on 6/6/78. Ms. Tirado told the House Select Committee on Assassinations the following:Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate three times on September 27, 1963, not twice as the Warren Commission previously reported. 712/ Oswald first visited the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m., requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destination. 713/ He showed her some documents, then left to obtain photographs needed for his application. 714/ Oswald returned at approximately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs. 715/ Ms. Tirado typed the application in duplicate, stapled a picture on top of each and had Oswald sign each in her presence. 716/ As identification, Oswald showed her documents he had brought: his Russian labor card, marriage certificate with the name of his Russian wife, his American Communist Party membership card and his "Fair Play for Cuba' membership card. 717/Ms. Tirado found Lee Harvey Oswald's behavior suspicious because normally a Communist traveled only with his passport as belonging to the Communist Party was illegal in Mexico in 1963. 718/There was a procedure whereby the American Communist Party would arrange visa masters for their members with the
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 13 -![TOP SECRET stamp]Cuban Communist Party. 719/ The American would then come to Mexico, visit the Cuban Consulate, and receive his visa immediately. 710/ When Tirado asked Oswald why he did not have the American Communist Party arrange his trip to Cuba, he stated tha: he had not had the time. 721/After explaining to Oswald that he had to acquire a Russian visa before he could receive a Cuban visa, Tirado jotted her name and busines: phone number on a piece of paper and gave it to Oswald who then left to get his Russian visa. 722/Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., which was after normal working hours, 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. 123/ The guard called Tirado, stating that someone who did not speak Spanish was at the gate inquiring about a visa 724/ As routine procedure, she asked the guard to escort the individual to her office. 725/ Oswald told her that he had acquired a Russian visa. 726/ Since he did not produce it when asked, she called the Russian Consulate. 727/ The Consul told Duran that Oswald had been to the Consulate requesting a vise and had been told that the reply would take approximately four months. 728/ when she relayed the message to Oswald, he got very excited, insisting that as a person who had been in jail becauseClassification:![black line]![handwriting text Classified by derivation]NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 256
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 94 -of the Cuban Revolution he should receive a visa. 729/Oswald stated that he could not wait that long because his Mexican visa expired in three days. 730/ At this point, Ms. Tirado informed Consul Eusebio Azcue of the situation. 731/ Azcue had been in his private office which he shared with his upcoming replacement, Alfredo Mirabal. 732/ Azcue polite y explained the requisites for an intransit visa to Oswald. 733/ When he noticed that Oswald was a stubborn man he told Oswald that he was obviously not a friend of the Cuban revolution be- cause he would otherwise understand that Cuba had to be extremely careful with the people it allowed in the coun- try. 734/ Azcue and Oswald yelled at each other. 735/Then Azcue went to the door opened it and asked Oswald to leave. 736/ Oswald did not revisit or telephone the Consulate. 737/ Ms. Tirado described Lee Harvey Oswald as approximately five feet six, with sparse blonde hair, weighing about 125 pounds. 738/2. CIA information not available at the time of the Warren Commission investigationa. LIRING/3 allegationIn 1967 a report that Silvia Duran had had intimate relations with Lee Harvey Oswald came to the attention
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Classification: ______(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 195 -TOP SECRETof the Central Intelligecne Agency's Mexico City Station. 739/The source, LIRING/3, stated that he had recently re-ceived a call from Silvia Duran. 740/ A telephone tapon LIRING/3's telephone con Firmed that Silvia Duran hadcalled LIRING. 741/ LIRING: 3 reported that he had visitedSilvia to renew acquiaintancees. 742/ During the visit,Duran told LIRING/3 that she had met Lee Harvey Oswaldat the Cuban Consulate when he applied for a visa andhad dated him on several occasions. 743/ Duran admittedthat she had had intimate relations with Oswald, but in-sisted that she had no idea of his plans. 744/ In addi-tion, Duran told LIRING/3 that when the news of the as-sassination became public knowledge, the Mexican govern-ment arrested her and during the interrogation beat heruntil she admitted that she had had an affair with LeeHarvey Oswald. 745/ Rowton 746/ counseled LIRING/3against any further contact with Duran because the Cubansor the Mexican police might become suspicious of him. 747/There is no indication in Rowton's report as to why con-tact with Silvia would make the Cubans suspicious.The CIA Mexico City Station reported this informa-tion to Headquarters:First, that Silvia Duran had sexual intercourseClassification: ______
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# Classification(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 196 -with Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions when the latter was in Mexico is probably new, but adds little to the Oswald case. Second, the Mexican police did not report the extent of the Duran-Oswald relationship to this Station. 749/In the chronology of the Mexico City investigation of Oswald, Raymond Rocca notes: "Why didn't Mexico police give us all info?" 750/ This was not the first report of such a relationship between Oswald and Duran. Elena Garro had reported the same information to Charles Thomas in 1965. 751/That the Mexican government did not disclose all the information in its possession to American authorities raises one of three possibilities:1) the Mexican government did not want to disclose that one of its citizens had had intimate relations with the assassin of John Kennedy; or2) Silvia Duran was a Mexican penetration agent in the Cuban Consulate and the Mexican government, was protecting its informant by minimizing her relationship with Oswald; or3) they forgot, i.e., a pure and simple mistake.
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)- 197 -b. The possibility that Silvia Duran was an agent for either American, Mexican or Cuban IntelligenceSince the publication of the Warren Commission Report in September 1964, critics have written about the possibility that Silvia Duran was an intelligence agent for either the Americans, Mexicans or Cubans.1) Was Silvia Duran an agent, asset or source for Mexican or American intelligence?In an effort to resolve this question, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files on Silvia Duran. 752/The Committee found no evidence in this file review that Silvia Duran was either an American or Mexican intelligence agent.In addition, the Committee has interviewed most of the Mexico City Station employees about the possibility. Only David Phillips, Chief of Covert Action and the Cuban Section in the Mexico City Station in 1963, a position which made him very knowled leatie, considered that Duran was possibly an agent or source. Mr. Phillips stated that
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 198 -"at one time the agency pitched 753/ almost everyone at the Cuban Embassy." 754/ Mr. Phillips stated that he had first heard Duran's name from the telephone intercept transcripts. 755/ But Mr. Phillips asserted that the CIA had no interest in Ms. Duran because "she wasn't friendly with anyone." 756/ Mr. Phillips had previously mentioned the CIA Mexico City Station's interest in recruiting a former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico named Lechuga. 757/ Mr. Phillips was shown a memorandum written by W. David Slawson of the Warren Commission staff regarding a trip to Mexico by Warren Commission staff members which said:Mr. Scott's (Chief of the CIA Station in Mexico City) narrative disclosed that the CIA's action immediately after the assassination consisted basically of alerting all its confidential sources of information throughout Mexico to immediately channel all information into their headquarters, and of compiling as complete dossiers as possible on Oswald and everyone else throughout Mexico who at that time the CIA knew had had some contact with Oswald... This meant especially Silvia Duran, who because she had previously been having an affair with Lechuga, the former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and presently the Cuban representative at the United Nations, had previously been of substantial interest to the CIA...758/Mr. Phillips was surprised by this and stated that "No one let me in on this operation." 759/ ButClassification: TOP SECRETNW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 261
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Classification: _________(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 199 -TOP SECRETMr. Phillips added that he doubted that Duran would have been pitched because the Station could not identify any of her weaknesses. The Committee staff members then told Mr. Phillips about the reporting on file concerning Ms. Duran from one of the Station's penetration agents, LITAMIL/9, at the Cuban Embassy. At one point LITAMIL/9 had reported to his case officer that all that would have to be done to recruit Ms. Duran was to get a blonde, blue-eyed American in bed with her. 761/ With this, Mr. Phillips said that it did indeed sound as if the Station had targeted Ms. Duran for recruitment, that the Station's interest had been substantial, and that the weaknesses and means had been identified. 762/ Mr. Phillips pointed out, however, that because Duran had been targeted did not necessarily mean that she had been pitched. 763/ In addition, he stated that he had never heard that Duran had been pitched. 764/Mr. Phillips did state that he would expect that Ms. Duran's file at the CIA would be "very thick" because of all the telephone intercepts that concerned her and the substantial interest that the Station had in her. 765/ He stated that much of the material in her file should predate the assassination. 765/ Mr. Phillips stated thatClassification: _________2000910                                                                                                    306NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 262
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 200 -TOP SECREThe would be very surprised if Ms. Duran's 201 file was small and contained only a few pre-assassination documents. 767/ This is in fact the case of the Headquarters 201 file. 768/ This Committee has asked the CIA to make Ms. Duran's Mexican "P" 769/ (personality) file available for review. The CIA informed the Committee that there was no "P" file available on Ms. Duran. 770/Another CIA employee, Dan Neiscuir, who worked on an "Oswald Task Force" in late September or early October of 1975 dealing with Freedom of Information Act law suits brought against the Agency concerning the files on Lee Harvey Oswald, stated that he believed that Ms. Duran may have been a source of information for either the CIA or the Mexicans. 771/ Mr. Neiscuir could not recall why he specifically had this recollection, but thought that it was due to something he had seen in Oswald's file. 772/ He said that it may have been the Agency's attempts to protect Ms. Duran after the assassination and the heavy cable traffic that those attempts generated that led him to his inference that she was a source of information for either the Agency or the Mexicans. 773/Despite LIRING/3's case officer's asking LIRING/3 not to recontact Ms. Duran, Mr. Phillips' statements, andClassification: TOP SECRET2000917 -367NW 48327 DocId:32263889 Page 263
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controllec documents.)- 201 -Mr. Neiscuir's hazy recollections, the committee cannot definitely resolve whether Silvia Duran was a Mexican or American intelligence agent or source.(2) was Silvia Duran a Cuban intelligence agent?In an effort to resolve this question, the HSCA reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files on Silvia Duran. 774/ The Committee found no evidence in the files that would indicate that Ms. Duran was associated with Cuban intelligence.In addition, the HSCA interviewed most of the Mexico City Station employees about the possibility that Duran worked for Cuban intelligence. Only Barney Hidalgo, a CIA officer who travelled to Mexico City in 1963, considered the possibility to be likely. 775/ Mr. Hidalgo, professing not to remember all the details, stated that he thought that Duran was a Cuban intelligence agent. 776/ Hidalgo said:> At the time when this contact told me of> Silvia Duran I tied the two together, yes,> sir. I don't know, now at that time it> was obvious to me as an intelligence agent> that there was some connection there but> it was of no interest whatsoever to me,> I do remember that when I next saw this> contact of mine I mentioned the fact to> him and let him proceed to do whatever heClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 202 -wanted to. 777/Mr. Hidalgo further stated that he never resolved the issue. 778/With no corroborating evidence for Mr. Hidalgo's memory, the Committee must conclude that Silvia Duran was probably never employed by Cuban Intelligence.B. The Cubans1. Eusebio. Azcue Lopez.When Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban Consulate, Eusebio Azcue Lopez, a Cuban citizen, was the Cuban Consul. 779/ Because he had diplomatic immunity, the Cuban government had never been asked to make him available for questioning. 780/ The Committee, in an effort to investigate Oswald's contact with representatives of the Cuban government, asked the Cuban government to make Eusebio Azcue available for Committee and staff interviews. 781/ The Cuban government complied with the Committee's request on April 1, 1978. 782/During that interview. Mr. Azcue alleged that the man Jack Ruby shot in the Dallas Police Station was not the same individual who had visited the Cuban Consulate in 1963. 783/ In addition, Mr. Azcue stated that AlfredoClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 203 -Mirabal, who in September 1963, had recently arrived from Cuba to assume the Consul's duties, had also been present during Oswald's visit. 784/ During a second trip to Cuba, the Committee interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. 785/ Subsequent to this second trip to Havana, the Committee asked the Cuban government to make Eusebio Azcue and Alfredo Mirabal available for the public hearings on September 18, 1978. 786/ The Cuban government complied with the Committee's request.Eusebio Azcue Lopez told the House Select Committee on Assassinations at a public hearing on 9/18/78 the following:An individual who gave the name Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate on three occasions in late September 787/ and early October 1963. 788/ The individual first visited the Cuban Consulate during working hours, requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destination. 739/ The man showed the secretary, Silvia Duran, some documents 789a/ which he believed would be sufficient to obtain a visa. 7895. When the secretary would not grant him a visa, the man asked Azcue to see whether upon examination of the documents he could
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Classification:__________(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 204 -grant him a visa. 789c/ Azcue answered negatively. 789d/The individual then left to obtain photographs needed for his application: 789e/The man probably returned on September 27, 1963 789f/ with the photographs and completed the applications in Ms. Duran's presence.789g/ As the amount of time required to process this document could have taken as long as twenty days or the response could have been negative, Azcue told the man that he could grant him an intransit visa to Cuba, without consulting his government, if he had a Russian visa.789h/ The individual then left to attempt to obtain his Russian visa. 789i/After the man left the Cuban Consulate, Azcue received a telephone call 789j/from the Soviet Consulte. 790/The Soviet Consul explained that the man's documents were legitimate, but that the Soviet Consulate could not issue a visa until it received authorization from Moscow. 791/Emphasizing that the Cuban Consulate never received visitors after working hours 792/ Mr. Azcue opined that the individual probably returned to the Consulate on September 28, 1963. 793/ When Azcue explained to Oswald that he could not grant him a visa, the man made statements directed against Cuba and called Cuba aClassification:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 267
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)- 205 -bureaucracy. 794/ At that point, Azcue became upset and asked the individual to leave the Consulate. 795/ Oswald did not revisit the Consulate. 796/Mr. Azcue described the man who visited the Consulate as follows: a white male, between 5'6" and 5'7", over 30 years of age, very chin long face, with straight eyebrows and a cold look in his eyes. 797/ Azcue alleged that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who visited the Cuban Consulate in 1963.2. Alfredo Mirabal DiazAlfredo Mirabal Diaz told the House Select Committee on Assassinations, at a public hearing on 9/18/78, 797A/ the following:Lee Harvey Oswald, seeking a visa, visited the Cuban Consulate twice 798/ in September 1963. 799/ Since Mirabal could not speak English though he was the new Consul, ex-Consul Azcue handled the matter. 800/ On both occasions there were such loud arguments between Oswald and Azcue that Mirabal thought that the man's visit to the Consulate was a case of provocation. 801/Though Mirabal caught only glimpses of the man he opined that the person whose picture appears on LeeClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)HArvey Oswald's visa application was the same Lee Harvey Oswald who visited the Consulate. 802/ Mirabel was about 4 meters away from Oswald each time he caught glimpses of him. 802a/ Oswald was at the Consulate between 15 and 20 minutes on each visit. 802b/C. Elena Garro de PazOn October 5, 1964, eleven days after the publication of the Warren Commission Report, Elena Garro de Paz' story alleging Lee Harvey Oswald's presence at a party in Mexico City attended by Cuban government personnel came to the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency. 803/1. Elena's story as reported October 5, 1964Elena Garro de Paz 804/ and Deba Garro de Guerrero Galvan, first cousins of Horatio, Ruben and Lydia Duran, were invited to a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran in the middle of the week in the fall of 1963. 805/ Lee Harvey Oswald was alleged to have been at this party in the company of "two other beatnik-looking boys." 806/ The Americans remained together the entire evening and did not dance. 807/ When Eena tried to speak with the Americans, she was "shifted" to another room by one of her cousins. 808/ The memo does not state whether Elena had mentioned which cousin had not allowed her to speakClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRET- 207 -to the Americans. One of E'ena's cousins told her at the time that (he or she) did not know who the Americans were except that Silvia Duran (an employee of the Cuban Embassy and the wife of Horatio Duran), had brought them to the party. 809/The day after the party, Elena and Deba saw the three Americans on the Insurgentes, a main avenue in Mexico City. 810/ The Garros claimed that they had recog- nized Oswald's photograph when it was published after the assassination. 811/ Silvia Duran's arrest "under- lined the Garros' certainty' that the man had been Lee Harvey Oswald. 812/The source of the memo was a witting 813/ Central Intelligence Agency asset known by the cryptonym LICOOKIE/1 whom the Committee identified as June Cobb Sharp while reviewing the LICOOKIE file. According to Elena, Ms. Cobb was sent to her house shortly after the assassination for a few days, by a mutual friend, a Costa Rican writer named Eunice Odio. 814/ Ms. Garro asserted that while at her house, Ms. Cobb expressed interest in the Kennedy assassination. 815/ One night, Elena's sister Deba, who was visiting, got drunk and told the whole story. 216/Claiming to be a CIA agent, Cobb suggested that Elena andClassification:TOP SECRET200032.1NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page. 270374
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)TOP SECRETDeba go to Texas to tell their story. 817/ Elena stated that when Cobb's suggestion was rejected, Cobb stated that she would arrange a meeting with the CIA Station Chief. 818/ The meeting dic not occur because Ms. Cobb was asked to leave the Garro house evidently because she kicked Elena's cat. 819/ A notation on the memo says that LICOOKIE/1 never regained contact with Elena Garro de Paz. 820/The LICOOKIE memo was not inserted in either the Elena Garro or Lee Harvey Oswald "P" 821/ (personality) file but in a local leftist and Cuban project file. The Committee learned about the memo from Wx-7241, a chronological history of the Oswald case prepared by Raymond Rocca for the CIA in 1967. The memo was found in December, 1965 by Stanley Watson. A marginal notation on Wx7241 says, "Why was this not sent to Headquarters?" 823/ The Committee has been able to determine that the memo was forwarded to Headquarters shortly thereafter.2. October 12, 1964 CIA Memo for the RecordOn October 12, 1964 the CIA Mexico City Station's Chief of Covert Action, Jim Flannery, wrote a memo for the record reporting that Elena Garro de Paz had toldClassification:TOP SECRET