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Classification:(This form is for material extracted from CIA controlled documents.)- 2.15 -Azcue also stated that the individual later identified as Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate about 1:00 p.m. with the photographs probably on "the date that appears on the application, that is to say on the 27th." 1087/The Committee believes that there is a possibility that the argument between Azcue and the individual occurred during this visit. 1088/Ms. Duran stated that Oswald's third and last visit occurred in the late afternoon after working hours on the 27th. 1089/ This visit is confirmed by the CIA's tap on the Soviet Consulate. 1090/In addition to the alleged Oswald visits to the Consulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the Consulates. 1091/ Several details about Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate, and telephonic contacts with both Consulates suggest that the individual involved may not have been Oswald..Silvia Duran's description of Oswald did not resemble Oswald's true physical appearance. 1092/ This description, which appeared early in the reporting of information obtained from Ms. Duran was deleted from subsequent reports and was not at all mentioned in the WarrenClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents)Report. 1093/ (See Section V, C, for details.) Eusebio Azcue's description of Oswald was similar to Silvia Duran's, but more detailed. 1094/ Perhaps the most remarkable thing about these descriptions is their similarity to Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Oswald's alleged companions. 1095/Another possible incication that an imposter may also have visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 intercepted conversation. 1096/ Silvia Duran adamantly denies that Oswald or any other American visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday, September 28, 1963. 1097/ In light of the CIA intercept of that date, Ms. Duran has either lied to the Committee or the individual who visited the Consulate on September 28 was not Oswald. 1098/ Ms. Duran, in light of the inconsistencies detailed in Sections V, C and VI, A above, may not be the most credible witness, but there are indications that she was truthful when she stated that Oswald did not visit the Consulate on September 28. The September 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald because of the marginal notations made by the CIA translator on the transcript. 1099/ The translator noted on the transcript that the caller spoke "terrible, hardly recognizable
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# Classification(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents)Russian." 1100/ On October 1, 1963, a man called the Soviet Consulate and identified himself as "Lee Oswald." 1101/ This man also stated that he had been at the Consulate on Saturday, the 28th. 1102/ The translator noted that this was the same man who had called the Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken in broken Russian. 1103/ From this information, and possibly a voice comparison 1104/, the 9/28 caller was identified as Oswald. 1105/ The problem with assuming that the caller on 9/28 and 10/1 was Oswald is that Oswald spoke fluent Russian. 1106/ Granted, Ms. Duran's denial of the Saturday visit and the proficiency of the caller's Russian is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the person who visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday and who called the Soviet Consulate on Saturday and on October 1st was an imposter. Yet the information is sufficient to question the assumption that it was Oswald, especially in light of Azcue's and Duran's descriptions and Elena Garro de Paz' allegation.The Committee notes the possibility, but does not conclude, that the missing production from the pulse camera and the LILYRIC base has something to do with the possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico.Classification:
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Classification:(This form is material extracted from CIA-controlled document).- 48 -Three calls that also occurred early on September 27, 1963 may have been by an imposter. At approximately 10:30 a.m. a man called the Soviet Military Attache looking for a visa to Odessa and was referred to the Soviet Consulate. 1108/ At 10:37 a.m. a man called the Soviet Consulate and asked for a visa to Odessa. 1109/ He was told to call back at 11:00. 1110/ At 1:25 p.m. a man called the Soviet Embassy and was told the Consul would return between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. that day.While only the callers' requests for a visa to Russia 1112/ (Odessa) connect these calls to Oswald, the HSCA believes that they do fit logically into a time sequence created by what is known from testimony and the electronic intercepts about his actions on that day.For example, the following is a reasonable possible chronology of Oswald's actions on 9/27/63 based on analysis of the available evidence. Oswald probably arrived in Mexico around 10:00 a.m. on September 27. 1113/ By 10:30 Oswald had time to arrive at the Hotel del Comercio and to place a call to the Soviet Military Attache who referred him to the Consul. 1114/ The military attache also gave the caller directions to the Consulate. 1115/
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Classification:(This form is to be used moretol extracted from CIA controlled do- 219 -During the 10:37 a.m. call to the Consulate, the caller learned that he could contact the Soviet Consul at 11:00 a.m. [^1] This done, Oswald then visited the Cuban Consulate where he arrived around 11:00 a.m., on his way to the Soviet Consulate. This meeting lasted only approximately fifteen minutes. [^2] Oswald was then sent to obtain photographs and to the Russian Embassy to get the necessary Russian visa. [^3] Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. [^4] At this point he had his encounter with Azcue and completed his application. Oswald realized at this point that he would have problems obtained the visas. [^5] After this visit to the Cuban Consulate, which lasted approximately fifteen minutes [^6] Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald claimed had assured him that he would have no problems obtaining a visa. [^7] Hence, the 1:25 call. [^8] During this conversation Osvald learned that the Consul would be in that evening between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. [^9] Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate at 4:00 and Silvia Duran called the Soviet Consul on his behalf. [^10] Hence, the 4:05 and 4:25 5.m. caiis involving Duran. [^11]But there is a proelem with attributing the first three calls on September 27, 1963 to Oswald. The conversa-Classification:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 312[^1]: 1116/[^2]: 1113/[^3]: 1113/[^4]: 1120/[^5]: 1122/[^6]: 1123/[^7]: 1124/[^8]: 1125/[^9]: 1126/[^10]: 1127/[^11]: 1123/
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Classification:(This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA controlled documents.)- 250 -tions are all in Spanish. With the exception of the 1129/ testimony of Delgado, the evidence indicates that Os- 1:30/ wald did not speak Spanish. Hence, either the above detailed calls were not made by Oswald or Oswald could speak Spanish.There is not enough evidence firmly to conclude that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the other hand, the evidence is of such a nature that the possibility cannot be dismissed.C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in Mexico City?When the Warren Commission wrote about Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City, it concluded:The Commission undertook an intensive investigation to determine Oswald's purpose and activities on this journey, with specific reference to reports that Oswald was an agent of the Cuban or Soviet Governments. As a result of its investigation, the Commission believes that it has been able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's actions during this time.By Saturday, September 23, 1953, Lee Harvey Oswald had failed to obtain visas at both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. From Sunday, September 29, through Wednesday morning, October 2, when he left Mexico City on a bus bound for the United States, Oswald spent considerable time making his travel arrangements, sightseeing and checking again with the Soviet Embassy toClassification:
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Classification:learn whether anything had happened on hisvisa application. 1131/Subsequent to the Warren Commission's Report,the allegations of Elena Garro 1132/ and Oscar ContrerasLartigue 1133/ came to the attention of the UnitedStates investigative agencies. The main allegation ofboth these people, that they met Lee Harvey Oswaldin Mexico City, remains to this day without direct corro-boration. Yet the Committee feels that it cannot dis-miss these allegations without giving them any considera-tion.The testimony of Silvia Duran and the Cuban Consu-late Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's lastcontact with the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, Septem-ber 27, 1963. 1134/ The transcripts from the CIA's wire-taps on the Soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visitsto the Soviet and Cuban Corsulates on Saturday morning,September 28, 1963. 1135/ Oswald's last telephoniccontact with the Soviet Corsulate came on Tuesday, Octo-ber 1, 1963. 1136/ Oswald's activities on the days be-tween September 28 and October 1 are not clearly recorded..The Warren Commission speculated that he spent mostof this time sightseeing ard making travel arrangements. 1137/
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Classification:(This from Central Folles documents. extracted)- 252 -It is entirely possible that Oswald did spend some of his time during this weekend sightseeing and making his travel arrangements. It is also entirely possible that, after his failure to obtain his visas on Saturday, September 28, that Oswald did not give up completely and did attend a party where he would have come into contact with the Cuban Consular officials and, later, sought help from pro-Castro students.It is entirely possible that Ruben Duran had a "twist party" on September 30, or October 1 1138/ as Elena Garro has claimed. Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia Duran all admitted that they frequently had twist parties in 1963. 1139/ Only Silvia Duran recalled Elena Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at the Durans' home. 1140/ She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter, > Elenita, attending one twist party at Ruben's home in 1963. 1141/ The other Durans adamantly denied that Lee Harvey Oswald had attended a twist party at one of their homes. 1142/Many of the details of Elena Garro's allegations have not been, or cannot be, corroborated. For example, Elena's allegation that some of the people who had been2000355415NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 315
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Classification:- 253 -at the party were taken to Veracruz under the protectionof Governor Lopez Arias 1143/ has not been verified. RubenDuran denied that he had ever discussed the assassinationwith Elena Garro. 1144/ Eusebio Azcue denied that hehad discussed President Kennedy with Emilio Carballidoat a party at the Durans' home as alleged by ElenaGarro. 1145/ The Committee has not been able to verifywhether or not guards were posted outside of Elena'shome in 1963 as she claims.But other details of Elena's story are very credi-ble. Perhaps the most striking is the suggestion thatOswald's relationship with Silvia Duran was more exten-sive than just the business contacts in the Cuban Consu-late. 1146/ Another detail is the manner in which Elena'sallegations were handled, and the manner in which thisCommittee's attempts to investigate those allegationshave been frustatred. 1147/In 1965 Elena Garro reported that Silvia Duranhad been Oswald's mistress while he was in Mexico City. 1148/In 1967 this report was confirmed by a CIA agent whotalked to Silvia Duran. 1149/ The CIA Station did notconsider the information significant and told the agentto end his contact with Ms. Duran. 1150/ If that informa-Classification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for materials extracted from CIA documents.)TOP SECRETtion is accurate, then that Silvia invited Oswald to a party would not have been surprising. Silvia Duran admitted that the Mexican police had questioned her on this point but denied that she had had an affair with Oswald. 1151/ Ms. Duran denied having any extra-marital affairs while she was married to Horacio Duran. 1152/This denial is not consistent with evidence of her reputation at the Cuban Consulate. A CIA penetration agent there reported to his case officer that all that would have to be done to recruit Silvia Duran, whom he referred to by using the Spanish word for whore, would be to get a blond blue-eyed American into bed with her.. 1153/There is also CIA information that indicates that Silvia Duran had an affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico in the early 1960's. 1154/The HSCA attempted to interview the CIA penetration agent about Ms. Duran. 1155/ An interview with the agent was also desired so as to attempt to verify whether Elena Garro had created a cisturbance at the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963. 1156/ The Committee's attempts to interview this agent were frustrated. 1157/Ms. Garro's claim that she stayed at the Hotel Vermont was verified by the Mexico City Legal Attache onClassification:TOP SECRETNW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 317
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Classification:(This form be extracted from CIA controlled documents.)TOP SECRET- 255 -October 13, 1966. 1158/ Ms. Garro claimed that she had been held there by Manuel Calvillo whom she believed worked for the Mexican Ministry of Government. 1159/In 1963, Mr. Calvillo was an unwitting asset of the Central Intelligence Agency. 1160/ Ms. Garro claimed that she told Mr. Calvillo her story on November 23, 1963. 1161/ Yet the CIA Mexico City Station did not receive a report from Calvillo on this matter until November 24, 1964, the same day that Elena first told her story to American officials. 1162/ For these reasons it was felt that Manuel Calvillo could well be a key to determining the veracity of Ms. Garro's story. The Committee's attempt to interview Mr. Calvillo were also frustrated.There is also circumstantial corroboration of Ms. Garro's allegations regarding June Cobb Sharp. For example, Ms. Cobb was indeed a CIA agent and she did file the first report of Ms. Garro's story. 1164/ It should be noted that this first report was accurate in its detail in that Ms. Garro's story remained essentially the same in subsequent repetitions. Ms. Garro claimed that she kicked Ms. Cobb out of her house. 1165/ There is a notation on Ms. Cobb's report that she was not able to regainClassification: TOP SECRET
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Classification:(This form is to TOP SECRET from CIA-controlled documents.)- 256 -access to Ms. Garro. 1166/ The Committee attempted to obtain an interview with Ms. Cobb, but was once again frustated. 1167/Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City Station and the Legal Attache's office in Mexico City handled Ms. Garro's allegations reveals that, at best, her allegations were handled in an irresponsible manner because they were dismissed after a superficial investigation. The first report that came to the CIA was misfiled and forgotten. 1168/ The Legat, after talking to Elena, dismissed her story after interviewing one person whom she said may have been at the party. 1169/ The manner in which the official American community handled Charles Thomas' reporting is detailed in Section VI, C, 11, above. Mr. Thomas speculated in 1969 about why Ms. Garro's story had been largely ignored by the American officials in Mexico:It would appear that whereas the FBI has discounted the Elena Garro allegations, the CIA is still considerable disturbed by them. The CIA may not have pressed for further investigation, however, for a number of reasons: 1) considering the sensitive overlap and subtle competition between two intelligence collecting agencies, it had to yield to the FBI's clear jurisdiction; 2) there are obvious complicationsClassification:
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Classification:(This form is to be used forfrom CIA-controlled documents)TOP SECRET- 257 -In conducting such an investigation in a foreigh country; 3) there is a close and delicate relationship between the CIA Station Chief and the former Minister of Interior--President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; and 4) some of the people appearing in the Elena Garro scenario may well be agents of the CIA. Under the circumstances it is unlikely that any further investigation of this matter will ever take place unless it is ordered by a high official in Washington. 1170/The Committee attempted to locate Elena Garro.Although the Committee established telephonic contact with Ms. Garro, the Committee was totally frustrated in this aspect of its investigation, but yet believes that there is a possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald did attend a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran.The Committee also considers it possible that Lee Harvey Oswald contacted pro-Castro students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, hereinafter UNAM) as claimed by Oscar Contreras Lartigue. 1172/ Silvia Duran admitted that she had told Oswald of two ways in which he could get a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intransit visa by first obtaining a visa to another Communist country such as Russia; 2) he could obtain a regular Cuban visa by knowing someone in Cuba who would vouch for him. 1173/Classification:TOP SECRETClassified by derivation:
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Classification:(This form is to be used for materials sostracted from CIA-controlled documents)TOP SECRETIt is possible that after Oswald's attempts to obtain a visa by the first method were frustrated on Saturday, September 28, that he made one final effort to locate someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to vouch for him.There is no direct evidence about how Oswald could have learned of the pro-Castro group at UNAM. There is a possibility that Ernesto Leffeld Miller, a friend of the Durans who borrowed Horacio's car often took Lee Harvey Oswald to the campus of the National Autonomous University. On the days when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Consulate, Mr. Miller did also. It is possible that Silvia Duran asked him to escort Oswald to the campus. Mr. Miller denied having ever met Oswald. 1174A/ Oscar (ontreras says that Oswald first contacted him as he was leaving a round-table discussion at the school of philosphy. 1174/ It is known that, in 1963, the Durans were close friends with the Chairman of the Philosophy Department at UNAM, Ricardo Guerra, who held seminars on Kant, Hegel and Marx in the Durans' home. 1175/ It is possible, if Silvia Duran had more than just a purely business relationship with Oswald,2000371Classification:422Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 321
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# Classification TOP SECRET(This for material extracted from CIA molled documents.)- 259 -that she referred Oswald to one of Guerra's Marxist seminars in his search for help. Unfortunately, Contreras does not name who headed the round table discussion at which he met Oswald. 1176/ Silvia Duran denied that she referred (swald to anyone for help. 1177/Ricardo Guerra is present y the Mexican Ambassador to East Germany and was not available to the Committee for an interview. On both of the Committee's trips to Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee that Mr. Contreras would be made available for an interview. The interview never occurred. 1178/ Although the Committee's attempt to inves:igate Mr. Contreras' allegation met largely with frustration, the allegation can not be dismissed.## D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald alone while he travelled to Mexico?The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald travelled alone while he was in Mexicc. 1179/All of the witnesses, with the exception of Elena Garro de Paz who stated that Oswald was accompanied by two "beatnik looking boys" 1130/ at Ruben Duran's party, have stated that when they saw Oswald in Mexico he wasClassification:![Classification Stamp]2000972NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 322![Classified by derivation]
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Classification:___________(This form is to be used for materials extracted from CIA-controlled documents.)alone. Although the American authorities did not handle the Elena Garro allegation properly, the Committee does not believe that it can readily dismiss Ms. Garro's allegation that Oswald had a companion in Mexico in light of: 1) the corroboration of details of Ms. Garro's story; 1181/ 2) the possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico 1182/ and 3) the siniliarity in the description of Oswald by Ms. Duran and Mr. Azcue and the description of Oswald's companion by Ms. Carro. 1183/Classification2000373Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 323423
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Classification:(This form is to deforTOP SECRETfrom CIA-controlled documents.- 251 -Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 1Select Committee mempers Chairman Louis Stokesand Congressman Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G..Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell and Ed Lopez of the SelectCommittee staff arrived in Cuba at 3:30 p.m., March 30,1978. They were met and escorted through Cuban Customs.by the Mayor of Havana, Honorable Oscar Fernandez Mell,the Minister of Justice, Dr. Armando Torres Santrayll,Señor Buergo, Ricardo Escartin and the Cuban governmenttranslator, Juanita Vera. At approximately 7:30 p.m.Señor Mell escorted the Select Committee staff to arestaurant in Old Havana. The following day CongressmanRichardson Preyer arrived in Cuba at 7:00a.m.At 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 1978 the Select Committeerepresentatives met with Ficardo Escartin, Senen Buergoand Captain Felipe Villa of the Ministry of the Interior.The Cuban Government gave the members and Committee itsofficial reply to the Committee's' questionnaire, givento the Cuban government prior to the Committee's tripto Cuba.At 3:00 p.m., the Select Committee met again withClassification.424Classified by derivation:NW 48327 DocId: 32263889 Page 324
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Classification:(This form is to be used for official use only from CIA-controlled documents)- 262 -Ricardo Escartin, Senen Buergo, Felipe Villa and Juanita Vera. During this session, the two major areas of discussion were Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the dates of Jack Ruby's visits to Cuba in 1959. 1184/At 7:30 p.m. the House Select Committee on Assassinations staff dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando Torres Santrayll.At 9:00 a.m. on April 1, 1978, the Select Committee staff again met with the same Cuban officials for a third session. Santo Trafficante was the major area of discussion. 1185/ At noor, Committee members and staff representatives met with Cuba's Minister of Education, Honorable Jose Ramor: Fernandez, who gave a presentation on the improvement in quality of Cuban education since the Cuban Revolution.Following Señor Fernandez's discussion, at 3:15 p.m., Eusebio Azcue was interviewed by the Committee staff representative. Azcue was questioned extensively about Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City, Oswald's alleged visits to the Cuban Consulate, and Señor Azcue's alleged argument with Lee Harvey Oswald. 1186/Classification: