124-10255-10100 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10255-10100 RECORD SERIES: SA AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-2909-487, 488 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MX TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 03/10/1964 PAGES: 29 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-2606 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: , REVIEW DATE: 10/30/1998 UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001 STATUS  Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(A) JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: INC MEMO, LHM HY 50953 Docld:323191166 Page 1
“‘DEREGTOR, FBI (105-80555) oo 3/10/64 - CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO LECAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702) (P) OAL ASSF DATION AND/OR, RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION LES HARVEY OSWALD, aka JB 93 IS + R= CUBA ENCLOSURES: | . Enclosed for the Burcau are 30 copies of a letter - head memorandum dated and captioned as above. REFERENCES: . The. te ae meetin loxico City letter dated 1/13/64; Bureau cables dated 1/25 5 Jah and 2/l12/Si; Mondeo City cables dated 1/27/6h and 3/5/51, re allecations cf YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA$ Son Antonio cable to Bureau, Dalles and Houston cated 12/22/34; Houston letterhead memorandum dated 2/23/54 ADMINISTRATIVE : Copics of enclosed letterhead memorandum were dis- peninated locally to the Charze d'Affaires of the Embassy and - to CIA. The following information was received from WINSTON M. SCOTT, Head of the CIA Station, Mexico City, by memorandum | wind ' a dated 1/20/64 to Legat, Mexico City, marked "SECRET," cap} : tioned "LES HARVEY OSWALD" and is being set forth in the He cover letter, along with the memorandum mentioned below dated HB L 3 in view of CIA's request that the information was | of gm@ not to be disseminated outside this office without prior -& aa approval of the originating office in Mexico City: . i om ae : , ‘ ea ps 4 Ths g mcnorandan set forth that on 1/17/54 a reply cBe_ Was received | CIA Representative in Fae Herida, yucstin. \ cp it ESS ‘ i 25 wo, Heal by L0E-kS g ec Y, 7 — #8 g ft da i 5 Rureau {(lres, - 30) Declassifty on: OADR yo DENT at oO t3 - Ideison f: ction) | aang = a a ae 2 Dallas, 1006-10461) | MARL ae ~ Mexleo Clty - im HY 50953 Docld:32191166 Page 2?
MC 105-3702 deseribed by SOLIS as: 30 years old, 5* 8", about 165 pounds, stocky, sitin 'moreno,* black straight hair, mustache and with a leng face. He us works as a chauffeur or farmer. SOLIS said Eladio VILLANUEVA Ramirez did not seem subject to aberrations. “"xogther Daniel SOLIS nor any of several other © | contacts in Cozumel have heard of 'Albert.'" 2. a "By memorandum dated 2/18/54, directed to the Legat, oo to Mexico City, from WINSTON MN. SCOTT, which memorandum was merked "SECRET," the following additional information was. . set forth: oe _DANTEL SOLIS was reinterviewed in February BLS) ee ee 1d furnished the following information in rep po to questioni™asked him: oo 7 . _  "eonts states he has not received cicher of the two letters Sledio VILELANUSVA claims to have sent him recently. } i i i f ' 1 . a a "SOLIS again stated thet he does not have any notebook belonging to VILLANUEVA. He said that it Lite et such a notebook came to him he would forward it to the address given. . oo. | | | | | | feo7r,TS stated that, according to his recollec- | tion, VILLANUSVA arrived in Cozumel in Jume 1963 and. | left (about) 4 July 1953 aboard a ferryboat ‘Alberto! for Pucrto Juarcez,. i 'sonTs recalls now that he had received seme a three @) letters fron VILLANUEVA. Those were mailed - in Guadalajara and were scent in the months immedi~ ; ately following VILLANUSVA's departure from Cozumel. - ~ SOLIS seid he enswered all three, and in the last 0 letter SOLTS wrote to VILLANUEVA he asied VILLANUEVA to repay the 500 pesos ($40 U.S.) he had loaned VILLANUEVA, SOLIS said he never heard Prom VILLA- HUEVA after that. . "m one of the three letters, VILLANUSVA asked . SOLIS if he would like to be a 'secret police agent! . tn Cozumel, SOLIS has no other information concerning ya : ray o7 ty . ths .- Hg aS wh HY 50953 Docld:32191166 Page 3
a SECRET MC 105-3702 "gonTs contends he had no information on pos- Sible contacts VILLANUEVA might have had with Cubans or Americans in Cozumel. . "SORTS said that when VILLANUEVA was not work ing as an Taber mil? (bricklayer), he spent his time weeding and cutting brush at SOLIS' home. VILLANUEVA was ucusily in the hammock by 2030 hours. SOLIS and- VILLANGEYA sometimes visited the Mayalum Nightclub togcther; VILLANULVA did not appear to be much of a drinker, "SOLIS said VILLANUEVA arrived in Cozumel with & Sergeant Second Class 'POoLd.' ‘POLO’ was arriving eat a new assigmacnt at “the Cogumel Military Base; VILLANUSVA claimed to have met ‘POLO’ in Mexico City. - PPOLO? came to SOLIS’ house twice after VILLANUEVA Left, iccicing for VILLANUSVA. "SOLTS claims that the three ictters he received from VILLANUEVA have ait “een buried, a ee oe nr ce SA JOSEPH B, GARCIA advised that after he interviewed DANIEL SOLIS at Cozumel on 2/24/64, SOLIS hinted that he mich have miainfomed| Jgonce ormiing the lensth of AOJAS® S aBtay in Cozumel Tér the purpos possibly protecting his | relative, ROTAS, who is actunily the umele of SOLIS! wife, | and also because he paid little attention te the actual iength of ROJAS! stay. It is noted that other items contained in ROTAS! notebook, which was obtained from SOLIS in Cozumel, were call. - ing cards, one of which had the name on it of WALTER A. GATES, customs Agent, San Diego, California, U. 8S. Treasury Denart~- . Ment, and the other ecard had the name on it of REY Lk. HATCH, Customs Investigator, Ue S. Treasury, Laredo, Texas. , ‘Upen interview 3/5/64, ROJAS advised he cannot reek who these persons are nor how he came into possession their callin; cards. For information, it is know that HATCH tf aU. &. Customs Agent whe was and may still be stationed at Laredo, Texas. . «By eable dated 1/25/64, the Bureau requested that - eiforts be made’ to arrange a polygraph examination of ROJAS . . 4 . HY 50953 Docld:32391166 Page 4
a aie MG 105-3702 - ‘Skt, - assassination pilot of President KENNEDY was fabricated by a hin, no further investigation is being conducted in the ROJAS _ matter. 36 456 noted that the original of the signed state~ ment talon from ROJAS by the mombers of the Mexican Federal Security Police at Guadalajara on 3/5/64 4s contained in the 1-A section of this file in this office. The confidential source abroad referred to in 7 enclosed memorandum is SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA, who conducted in- vestigation at Cozumel, Quintana Reo, Mexico, and Mexico City, end yho, along with SA EDWIN 0, JOHNSON, conducted a Joint. anterview of ROJAS on 1/22-23/o4 at Guadalajara, and to whom, along with SA HENRY J. PRATT, ROSAS admitted on 3/5/64 at Guadalajara, Mexico, that he had never known OSWALD. | The second confidential source abroad mentioned in enclosed letterhcad memorandum is SA EDTIN 0, JGENSON. CLASSIFICATION: mie enclosed letterhead memorandum has been classi-  - fied "CONFIDENTIAL" in oxder to protect our foreign operations. — COPIES 3 . To copies of enclosed letterhead memorandum are designated for Dallas as domestic office of origin. LEAD: a | | _ MEXICO Crry At Mexico, D. F.3: Wiil continue to vigorously and ( | immediately Randic a vestigation growing out of leads in nO case and report results promitly. | | ! } | HY 50953 Docld:32191166 Page 5