(This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) available for the Commission's review. Significantly, the May 8 memorandum written by Joseph Langosch ~ | follcwing his debriefing of rabisa1 indicated that - AMMUG-1 and a second Cuban Intelligence officer believed Calderon to be a CIA operative. S (CIA Doc> re cnet danny Serene an’, ee FOIA 687-295, attach 5, 578/64) a ne that this information was not provided the Warren t is possible ’ Commission either because there was no basis in f fact for the allegation or because the allegation was of substantive concern to the Agency. If the allegation were true, the consequences for the CIA would have been serious. It would have demonstrated es Sine : that a“ CIA. operative, well placed in the Cuban Embassy, — 4 may have possessed information prior to ‘the assassina- tion. regarding Oswald and/or his relationship to ‘the 5 Cuban Intelligence Service , and that Services possible involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate 3 President Kennedy. -_ | . Regarding Calderon's possible association with the CIA, Agency files reviewed reveal no y astemrstbte connection between Calderon and the CIA. As Sey T th 6900090 Classified by derivation: Classification: ___“4
49 £9 LF kT LF £9 2 £7 om on SECRET Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) However, there are indications that such contact ' between Calderon and the Agency was contemplated. _A September 1, 1963 CIA dispatch from the Chief of the Special Affairs Staff to the CIA's ~Gitef | of-Station in-—Mexico-City states in part: ...Luisa Calderon has a sister residing in Reynosa, Texas, married to an American of Mexican descent. If (CIA asset) can further identify the sister, our domestic exploitation section might be in a posi- tion to follow up on this lead...Please levy the requirement on (CIA asset) | atl _~-bhe-next, opportunity. (CIA Doc. Hai SPEER Ne... { 41935, 9/1/63) ee ARTA ttn ne jee neapeterg gfe nares ea = asewonelearctennnneinans pnessi faint tat nen An earlier CIA dispatch from the CIA-¢hie£~ of Station in Mextco-eity to the Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division records that: Wilfredo of the Cuban Consulate, Tampico, reported that Luisa Calderon has a sister residing in Reynosa, Texas...Luisa may go up to the border to visit her sister soon-- or her mother.may.make_the trip--details -not..clear“(CIA Doc. +MMa 21849, July a) q 585) AS Spach ve __ aren : AAP Te. ee pene rnerereeneeneenn n rman teat BT nr POO At the very least; the above dispatches evidenced an interest in the activities of Calderon and her family. Whether this interest took the form of a clandestine-agent relationship is not revealed by Calderon's 201 file. Classification: | “ } Dass Classified by derivation:. 197 ae é
a Wf 4 fT - 69 - Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) oe The Committee has queried Bawid_Ronis, the author of the above cited dispatch requesting that Calderon's sister be contacted by the CIA's J / 95 “domestic exploitation section. " 7 UHSCA clas SEN tue penny acme saree C state Interview of David—Ronts, 8/31/78)5 “Henis. was a member of the C CIA's s Special Affairs Staff at the time he wrote the dispatch. He worked principally at CIA headquarters and was responsible for recruitment and handling of agents for collection of intelligence data. Mr. -Rorris;7-~when interviewed by this Committee, stated that part of his responsi-~ bility was to scour the Western Hemisphere division for operational leads related to the work of the Special Affairs staff. -Rents recalled that he mormally would send requests to CIA field stations for information or leads on various persons. Often he would receive no response to these requests, _ . : which normally indicated that no follow-up had either been attempted or successfully conducted. It was Rermés' recollection that the above-cited domestic exploitation section was a task force within the Special Affairs Staff. He also stated — 5 that in 1963 the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division Classification: Clossified by DOG 92
Classification: {This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) might have been requested to locate Luisa Calderon's— sister. Rents told the Committee that he had no recollection of recruiting any person associated with the Cuban Intelligence Service. He did recall that he had recruited women to perform tasks for the Agency. However, he did not recall ever recruiting any. employees of the Cuban Embassy /Consulate in Mexico City. Finally, Mr.-Renis stated that he had no recollection that Luisa Calderon was associated * with the CIA. (Ibid. “y re 14 we - Various present and former CIA representatives were queried whether Luisa Calderon had ever been | associated with the CIA. The uniform answer was (7 that | nO one recalled such an «association, cieeoe ee ater on ak Se GSE IS RT SIA he prt $e i fBxes. Sess. Test. of Richard Heims, 8/2/78, p. 136; f wsca Class. Depo. of Raymond Rocca, 7/17/78, p. 148; HSCA Staff Interview of Yoseph Langosch, e279, / \ asccote, interview of hae wey ira: mre le, Thus;~ he aecaper ati on Calderon and the testimony of former CIA employees have revealed no connection between Calderon and the CIA. Yet, as indicated earlier, this file is incomplete:the Classification: | Classified. by derivation: SE. 7
4 4S LF £9 £7 LF LF SECRET Classification: (This form is to be d for material extracted from CiA—controlled documents.) \ . os __, a most glaring omission being the absence; from fGalseron’s ae . hec 201 filefof * cryptic remarks nF Barksron a mek a AMMUG-1 ee ae ae froadee A Tm wT RN ay PRA GA SAO This Committee's investigation of Luisa Calderon has revealed that a defector from the Cuban | Intelligence Services provided the CIA with signi- ficant information about Lee Harvey Oswald's contacts with the DGI in Mexico City. via defector was ab A e CIA cryptonym eee oer necoiaasiest assigned th CIA files reveal that A-1 defected from the DGI on April 21, 1964 in When he defected, A-1l possessed a number of DGI uently turned over to {48 “documents which were subseq eee the CIA. icra poes in 68894, 4/24/64) TU REHT LN A officer, Joseph H. earn etlta preer et yt RTE Following his defection, a clr Langosch, went.to| __|te meet Al, debrief him, L's travel into the United States. Aa, wn and arrange for A- (Ibid. On May 1, 1964, 22 reels of Langosch' s paneer *Tt is now known that A-1 did provide sig nes aes heren ) Leads to the CIA regarding Luisa Calderon t is fur ter mt that little of this information , “SfassihcGtion:.. che cia to the Warren Commission. was ma Therefore, the possibility exists that A-l had pprovided other information ta CleResfidd by derivation: e Vargpen Commission s work wAlc SE.