104-10414-10380 i iy 5 P AT C r ANON | ee PROCESSING ACTION za _' | SECRET | XX namwen sor mooie Chief, Western Hemisphere Bivision __ ae INOEXING REQUIRED Chief, Special Affairs Staff a oe -: pm QUALIFIED DESK © - Chief of Station, JMWAVE _ _ CAN JUDGE INDEXING © oe MICROFILM . : Chief of Station, Mexico City: Contact Reports | ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES ~- Meetings with(ETTAMIL-9) PBRUMEN (LITAMIL=9! There are attached two contact reports covering meetings with. on 16 and 27 November 1963. we Attachment: As stated 2 - C/SAS w/att 2 ~~ COS WAVE w/att 2- Files bcc What SR ES | 8 copy _Djstripution: - CAWHD w/att 1 a pes . os é L : CROSS REFERENCE TC DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER : CLASSIFICATION. , Seapewrsscsontendse ante carute ccocemnmen | .
13-00000 , we ow (At this tine Silvie Duren was in the hands of. th a a j 28 November 1963 . MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD PROM : Lawrence ¥,. Barker SUBJECT : Meetings with(LITAMl=9} 23 and 27 Novenber 1963 1. On the night of 23 November L-9 contacted Rarker by phone and a meeting was held from 2130 to 2230 hours. G-9'S\ reason for neking the contact was to express his condolences for the recent assassination of President Kennedy. It was clear that L-9) was badly shaken up by this happening -« when he spoke of Mrs, Jacqueline Kennedy his eyes clouded up with tears. ° ‘ : 4 hd odie fee 2, (Lad) was asked if he had ever seen Aime d“a= no, Had‘he ever heard that Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy. in Mexico -= N06 ‘Did he know anyone in the Cuban Embassy that knew Oswald or knew anything about him -= Ne a Merican police but(L-9) was obviously unaware of her detention). Asked what the reacyion of those inside the Embassy was to the news of the President!s death, (L~9) said that — he had heard very little talk about it, that the Saturday morning. staff - meeting was a short, perfunctory affair, but that just about everyone seemed to be truly shocked, He had heard no one expressing pleasure about the Killing. He said that this reinforced nis belief that once Fidel Castro falls, the Cuban people, even many of those who are now classified as. Patria o Muerte types, will quickly shov themselves to be essentially good — people and essentially US-oriented. Do ort on the aftermath of his conversation with (J-9) was asked to rep es about the phone call L-9) had received from AMLEO=3 and which, | 4t was decided, with HOS and JMVAVE assent, that ain the interests of security, J (Ti-9) should report |___'L=9) said thet this went very smoothly -- that apparently did not recognize AMEN =3 when he was mentioned -= he) merely stated that he hed received a cail from Captain. (Surname), that the captain wanted L=9) to come to see him at the Del Prado, That L-9/felt that this was somewhat suspicious and told the Captain that. if -hHe wanted to see (Z-9)he should come to. L=9's) home. old(1-9) that he had. done the right thing -~ that he should not go out making mysterious meetings with people in hotels. (U-9) did not pres# the noint but he believed that (Armas) thought that the captain mentioned was Anyway, his skirts are. elean should the question _ever come up Of Wis Waving been contacted by 4-3 == , (La remarked afterwards that he amilies vere very close in Cubase he reported the contact really hated to brush off A=-3 as the tyo h, Another meeting was held from 2100 to 225 on 27 November, By this time the arrest of SqlviatDucan was puolic knowledge and L=9) made it his first topic for discussione He said that Silvia vas back in the Embassy on Monday the 25th and said that she had been held for 6 hours by the Federal She seemed to be quite pleased with her performance == said she kept reminding the police that Mexico is a free comtbry and that the constitution guaranteed her freedom from such persecution. % this the police just laughed and said that the constitution wouldn'+ do her much good in jail, she had better cooperate if she wented to get out. she freely admitted that she had seen Ssuald in the Consulate, that he came locking for a visa but that Cuba had answered the request (this seems like fast cours) to the effect that Oswald could not be issued @ transit, visa en route to the USSR unless and Police. wy a tt lees : et sw » ™ - C < : : * 8
13-00000 - ontil he received a USSR visa. She said that the cops had threatened her - \ with extradition to the US (seems unlikely) whereupon she said she would be > plad to go to the US to face Oswald, She said that complaints would be made - to President LOPEZ Mateos through Enrique*RAMIREZ,: (L=9) does not know who’ RAMIREZ is or what his access to LM is) Silvia said that she was quite sur-. a prised that word of her arrest was relayed to Raul. APARICIO Nogales so fast “by (fnuyttRego who flashed the word by 2300 hours 23 Nov. At this point :  Peresa PROENZA, one of the crowd listening to Silvie tell her tale, ordered her nephew to leave ~~ said, "we don't. vant you around here," All_in all, — Silvia thought.she did a good job of standing up to the police.(L-9/repeated, - as he has done before, that she is a very intelligmt, quick-witted girl. i She did not appear to have been roughed up in any way or to have suffered fram her "ordeal," . a Oo ee 5, (4-9) had nothing more to offer on the Kennedy assassination ~~ was again shown a photo of Oswald -- never saw the man, He said that there is not much talk around the Embassy about the killing -- perhaps because no one is expected to approve of such a thing yet at the same time no one wants to make too much fuss about it for fear of being suspected as pro-American. 6. (L-9| reported on other matters as follows: a, The Counselor of the Soviet Embassy (no name given) came to bol the Cuban Embassy at about 105 Monday 25 November, He spoke Fa with Dra, Margot MACHADO. The Ambassador was not present at the oa be Ing, Jorg é‘tamsyo was in the Embassy on Monday 25 November. | He remarked that he had been to see DTAZ0 ndaz sone time ago (| about getting a permit to send his son to Cuba to see the heart 4 specialist Dr, Enrique CABRIRA. (T's son suffers from some heart , | ailment). DIAZ Ordag questioned T closely about the projected tt trip (this was while DO was Minister of Government) and T took ot advantage of the occasion to complain to DO thet people from the procuraduria had confiscated some medical slides from a Cuban . | heart specialist at theeirport. (L-9 was the person “who eventually; Crecfovered thesé Slides), According to T, DO was Somewhat upset, : said that the procuradurie people had no business doing this, | and saw to it that the slides were returned, (f_said that Do) (an order was issued for the slides to be turned over toL-9. ; T passed word around the Cuban Embassy that everyone should be — Lf very careful to speak only the best of DO who might prove to. 2p be a useful friend, c. A meeting a Consular officers fran all Cuban Consulates was held on Tuesday. (L~9) does not mow what went on at this meeting. my . Te (L=9\was paid 12,000 pesos ~~ l),000 each for the months of Nov and | Dec plus 4,000 year-end bonus, He was told that the C/O would be out of town during most of December and he reiterated his desire to have the operation |— ; put on ice during the interim -- he is not anyious to be "exposed! to any more people, Arrangements were made for an emergency commo channel to him in case it might become necessary for us to contact him. during the C/ots absence. | Details on next page. 8, (L29) asked B to buy hin sone] eed in the US -- said that the 7 Mexican product is. inferior, Will do. (b=9J15 doing a lot more a: these days, He is now putting the finishing touches on an| a ne ae | ov i” { “Le fee af Qiwine$ ee
13-00000 vo 9, He was asked for additional detail on Luisa lta lderon w= had | little to offer except to report that Luisa had recently moved. He believed that she had been living with the MAGIADO's arid Peregrina ALONSO but found that this was a bit confining and_had moved "about ten days or two. weeks ago" to live with a Mexican family. (9) believes that her mother returned to Cuba some time ago. Her, Luisats, new phone is 30 - 62 - 65, She "talks like a Communist," and speaks English --/L~9] thinks she has been in Miami, Florida =~ does not know when, .He says she is "muy monat -- very pretty. She is about 2) years old, a Se ae 10. The commo arrangements set. up with(=9) vere as follows: — | Signal: ‘Someone will phone(L=9's) apartment at 0800 hours and will use the word "alfombra" -« rug -= perhaps \° saying, we will be buy to pick up the rug you want - _ cleaned -- something in this order that uses the word : Meeting: ALFOMBRA. (L-9) will reply, "You must have the wrong) number et The night of that same day and-on subsequent days until contact is effected(L~9) will go to a public phone booth at the corner of Reforma and Avenida Monte Altai (Lomas). - at 2000 hours == 8:00 p.m. He will be approached by an American who will have in his possession and clearly Notes visible a copy of TIME magazine and a pack of | BILTRON cigarettes , No verbal signals were laid on.{L-9/ can » be readily identified from phos on file. — : There is a bookstore ~-- the one with the huge red lighted sign LIBRERIA about a halfa block. up Reforma (up hill) from this phone booth -=(L=9 as] .{a_confirmed bookworm)can lounge around here, browsing | until 2000 hours,(I-9) is punctval ~~ always on time. Person making call. to(G- TF apartment should speak _ excellent Spanish and should keen the conversation short, DO NOT ASK FOR(L=9) by name -- he is going to say it is a wrong number, He lives alone and is always home at 0800 hours. The éontaet point (phone booth) is on the right side going up Reforma -- beyond Petroleos monument — a short distance beyond the Chalupas restaurant. —_ 7 ll. (£-9/ turned over some Havana newspapers which will be forwarded to - JHAAVE 6 f . : = na if Bf EPR La FE TR ’ : aoe