HW 53216 104-10268-10005 “PM 1 _ of the ° Agency. This PROMIBITED | TABE Sins Been made available to the . Commission by C CIA on cn Oe Working level regarding Oswald's activity in Mexico City in September and October 1963. The Commission Staff has been in detailed communication and conversation with the Agency working levels both in head= - quarters and in Mexico City. Within the past week, _ eae significant information has. been developed by CIA regarding ne ee enaEEtnEE Ener nEEenrennren eenemer emma cy the relationship with- Oswald of certain,Cuban intelligence . Rt personnel in. Mexico’ C ity-and the reaction in Havana within the Cuban Intelligence Service to the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Commission Staff is in the course " of being briefed an the Cuban aspect. ‘Ibis. suggested that the DCI handle any question on the “Mexican and Cuban Phases of Oswald's as "technical SS questions" which members of the Coftuntsston « can develop’ from | or through their © own se sein aE oe component we ine ee ne ee ee ne i ee ee ee DoclId: 32373009 Page 57 ce CiS27 ee Page: 54. COPY NO. ‘RPHOBUCTION 212 Pa
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 \ mG ETHEL eee a SECRE T . - 10 April 1964 TO WARREN. Som MISSION: : ag E27 Luinf C5 vt» AED Fe lp © MATERIAL FROM P- 8593° 1. English translations of call made by “OSW: cam ' 27 Sep 63 (1037); 27 Sepb341626)5_ . 1 Oct 63 (1031); 1 Oct 63 (ap \ o Russian Embassy: # Sen \6a(1605); 28 s Sep & 63 (1151); Cy wv, Havana and Cuban Amb Joaquin Hernandez Armas in Mexico on 26 Nov 63. 3. English translation of conversation between Cuban Am to Mexico and President Dorticos in Havana on 26 Nov 63. — von 23-82.8 for FOIA Review on. JUN 1976 ' ij | 2. English translation of conven between President Dorticos in. | ! | TEE) Le DoclId: 32373009 Page 55
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 eld ( | | 7 KARL - 36307 “MEMORANDUM FOR: biz. J. Lee Rankin 3° Goneral-Counsel - Prealient's. Commission on the ‘ghia intelligence Service ia Prygevaiag Visa Applicants; Reaction of that Servics tothe Assassination oi ‘President Kennedy SUBIZCT: 1, Within the very recent period, this Ageacy has sscaallshed contact with a well-placed individual who has been in clove and prolonged contact with ranxing officess of the Cuban Direccion Goneral de Intelligencia (Directorate General of intelligeoce ~ DGI). His kaowledge of DGI activities, techniques and personalities te direct and Srefound., This Agency has oueried him in detail on | possible contacts between Les Harvey CSYALD and the DGI yrior., to the assassination of President Kennedy. . Acreport oa: a the infor = mation thus obtained 1s- attached t ter this memerandum, ™ 2. This source le highly enditive and of great, immediate operational significance to this Agency. The national counteriatelli- gence interest abroad requires, tnersiore, that recess to the atiached report, a2 knowledge of the existence of this source be rsatricted, a Zor the present at least, to yourself and 2 -sinimmum mamber ; od your sratte wo “pocument unbor L17 d=edS9 AL oe —_ SUN 1975 far FOIA Review on t . nes i. en Zon BPSET ro TN IE DoclId: 32373009 Page 59 REPRODUCTION
TR . - Re ee : 3, Aa uppropriate sensitivity indicator tas Deve affixed to ~ this memorandum aod the attached seport. 4, + copy of thia merhorsadum with | ita atiachment has deen _ forwarded to the Federal Burean of investigation. ‘Genet Sechard teins Richard Heims Deputy Director for Plane Attachments Distribution: aN ' Orig. 2 - Addressee es 2-ppRP” .- “Ze CECT R& A. 13. May 1964 ee eee ae TET Bee ee Ee cee es eee ee ae ae eteene ee Fee armani te mn HW 53216 DocId:32373009 Page 60
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HW 53716 104-10268-10005 a,” —~N oe eee ee Cowngraded to So Savana for iprther checking and instructions. . According to fhe by author t | ‘REPRODUCTION PROM tier OSMALD was un agent eis {DGD} ox any cthew dione Rensady. whes aaves 2 media ei oS¥aLDs patse. SOT personnal - est commentad adeut ths in his presance one day after lunch, oo | Comselate in Mactice City, where be was Bea principal DOI oiticer. YEGA mentioned that CSWALD had gone te the Cubas: Comsulato two or three Hanes tp compaction with avire applestinn coving | Whether OSWALD had any conines with VEGA om these eccasious is net known fe the sourcs. Boweysr DG offlesre stationsd in consulates cusieesarily interview vies acplicants to determine if they 2xe DGK agents. if applicants ard. identified a0 agents, thei travel ig expedited. Otherwise, they are unlly told to come back, ; in a See days. Duritig the interim 2opiiearts' names are sebmitied  soavee, OSWALD may have Seon interviewed by VEGA ay Sis ‘assistant, Rogeliea RODRIGUSZ Lopes, but this is stricthy con- jectare.on dis part. The source does not iow Siivia DURAN or Saying pertinent pee ee em ae Present ie the ae Cuban Drobassy in Mexico in March 1954. ‘Adter the sews of the atoasstation of Precident Bemsedy _ spached the DG, sedexs sexe lazaed Ser alt OGL componeats in SO to whether | DoclIda: 32373009 Page 62
ce | em eh Pa C S Utmportaste” {importend}, Paiead wpaterial, ones cousoMiated, was to be Said pending ef ve rinetractions « Al travel by OGE eer. cal akbar ofices or bo Yeap the nee alice oy Sneby woeveahoube so that iey could Se poached immediately. Ths goures dpbs not kncetie zeasne Jor these measures bat SelHeves . St epi it te af wae ve : : . . ¥ ‘ ¢ : : o ° . ( . . a , . : : eo. “> Riana powngraded » by. cuthority, & of ‘ ‘date 5 cagiess . REPRODUCTION ; - “ ; - = | 2 ke 2 ; \ HW 532716 DBoclda: 32373009 Page 63
HW 532716 104-10268-10005 Docld:32373009 Page 64. "REPRODUCTION. PROMICITED 23 May 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR " DC/OPS | os ‘SUBJECT t Review of! Selectea Items in the Lee Harvey OSWALD:File Regarding a “a Allegations ofthe) CASTRO Cuban oo | Involvement: inthe - oe | FP. KENNEDS Assassination ; oe | 1. The atta ed $e uw and. summary was. written at. mo, i the express request of\ir. David W. Belin as a follow- up to Question 3 of his letter to the Agency of . 15 April 1975. , . . 2. The results - as I have already told him - add.. nuance, not evidence, to what the Warren Commission and . : its staff had laid before them in 1964 on this subject... fhe results of the review are stipulated in paragraph 8 — - of the Attachment. There-seemed to be no reason to... . .. oe attach copies of the case reports from.the file to this.. con eee “summary. These can be made available promptly, however, Lee on request. This summary-. -does not deal .with press,. Magazine and books that dealt with: the Subject during the period after the assaseination,. , vee 3. My recommendation: ‘fs bo do. with this. paper. as Lo. ebaee we did with the earlier: ‘one. requésted by Mr.. Belin on. ee the unidentified man: let” him. xead the entire summary DS , and then decide how much « of. fos LE. any, is pertinent | ae suroer eu ar_03543!_ ected “cs BL - of 21>
104-10268-10005 OC REPRODUCTION to his and the Comnission's needs td then decide how much will go into the classified xaco cd 4 a wy wy yy Attachment HW 532716 DBoctId: 32373009 Page 65—
104-10268-10005 - REPRODUCTION PROMIAITED SUBJECT : Review of Selected Items in the : ee Harvey OSWALD File.- tions of CASTRO Cuban’ _Jobn F. KENNEDY Rages i REFERENCE ; -Letter bi! avid, Se. ‘ ; . Mr. E,‘Henry Kaoche, 15 April 1975, parastany 2 ewptding Public Statement by CAS 7 attached ' BACKGROUND 1. On Saturday evening, 7 September 1963, Fidel CASTRO appeared at a Brazilian Embassy reception in. Havana; even more unusual, CASTRO submitted to an informal interview by the Associated Press correspondent, — : , : Daniel HARKER. | ae aan oe | 2. HARKER' s interview reached New. York on 1 Sunday, 8 September, and was in print throughoat the country. on Monday, 9 Septenber. There: gan becno question from the facts. surxounding | theé cASTRO. arance, which had. not been expected, and his agreement to the interview, that this event represented a more-than-ordinary attempt to get a. message on the record in: the United ‘States. ae HW 532716 pocta:32373009 Page 66
104-10268-10005 times ... the most opportunistic American President of ‘all time J..").— , . 4.. The interview also contained an uncomplimentary — reference to Senator GOLDWATER and Cuban delay in signing | ‘the limited nuclear test ban. There were differences in . the replay by United States newspapers like the New York Times and Washington’ papers, with a result that : 1 CASTRO'S: "message" was significantly modulated. ° 5. In New. orieans,. where Lee Harvey OSWALD resided LCE x ‘until the middie of! séptenber 1963, the HARKER story appeared in the principal morning paper, the Times-Picayune, on Monday, 9 Septembesy—page-?, under a three-column head- line: "CASTRO Blasts Raids on Cuba. Says U.S. Leaders — Imperiled by aid to Rebels." The story followed under the - HARKER by-Line:. SO oo oe se 7 - “Havana. (AP) ~ Prime Minister Fidel castro said Saturday night: ‘U.S... leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of” . Cuba. oo . . - - SESQRET - ch ge eee CICIS 37 _ _ Rea - : i ae . . PAGE 64 - of 212 HW 53716 DocId: 32373009 Page 67
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 REPRODUCTION PROISITED *pitterly denouiicing what he called recent U.S. Prompted’ aids on Cuban terri-. Fa re prepared to ee Y in kind. U.S. leaders Oe ma if they are aiding terror~ ist plans Yo eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.’ --- World affairs eee seemed to be entering 4 more peaceful climate a few days ago, but now this trend has changed with attacks. . . ©" The U.S. is always ready: to negotiate =~ and make promises which later: it will not honor. This has happened to promises muade. during the October crisis. They have been broken as can be seen with new attacks. **But I warn this is leading to a very dangerous situation that could lead to a worse’ a crisis than October's vee" 6. ‘The. New York Times, in its coverage on.9 September, used a UPI wire service’ report which omitted any reference to the warning ‘and -threat which gave the: interview its real significance. The Washington Post did an abbreviated re- write (9 September, page A-7) which, similarly, omitted , any ‘reference. to the main thrust of CASTRO" 's remarks. - a ‘®. Docld: 32373009 Page 66.
HW 532716 assassination)that this CASTRO interview was considered in’ and its staff although Mexico Station specifically directed 104-10268-10005 REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED ao aN "the Evening Star of Hiashington, D. C., printed - the HARKER story nearly 48 its: entaxety in the second section of the b rtaeds bese B-4) and reworded the content elements and burying. CASTRO's warning to the United states leadership in the middle of the piece. 7. There is no evidence in the files on following up leads or in dealings with the Warren Commission Headquarters attention ta.the AP story very shortly after the Dallas killing. More important, the interview appears . to have been Forgotten in the contemporary political consid- eration. of relations with CASTRO's Cuba. There is no evidence in. the Agency records, either, that the Warren Commission staff itself pursued the implication of the CASTRO interview in dealing with the conspiracy hypothesis. There is no a ne evidence in the files that anything along these Lines was stated by any other Cuban leader beforé the assassination. Ee 8. The purpose of this review, undertaken at Mr. Belin’: Ss request, is to reconsider Lee’ Harvey OSWALD’ s activity on the assumption ‘that as an: avid newspaper reader’ — which ‘we now ‘from testimony of Marina OSWALD and others, = he. read. the Soe _ CASTRO warning and threat as reported above. The results: CCCLSSS . DocId: 32373009 Page 69
mem gee pROWIBITED ant ~ Of ‘the review, aanittedly heavily using the 20-—-20 quality i | of hindsight“may be sth lated.in summary = , ae . there: is: ope increment of credible . => ? efidente,‘appiying this phrase stffot , of ° —~ Mor Cuban political, intelligence Soviet or security service involvement in the as- sassination to what was developed and con- sidered by the Warren Commission and its staff. The Commission's finding that 4 Lee Harvey OSWALD was the killer of President KENNEDY and Officer TIPPIT and did them in alone and of his. own determination | stands. b. "Credible exidonae” that would - upset or significantly modi fy this judgement . did (and does) not exist in Washington. But eens eee such evidence could exist | in Moscow and/or Havana, whose voluntary inputs to the Warren Commission were minimal in quantity and quality, designed to cover up any admissions of knowledge of, or connection with, OSWALD which might be related directly or indirectly . with the assassination. “Therefore, the belief . . that there was Soviet and/or cuban (KGB and/or ; to, DGI) connection with OSWALD will. persist and a 5 HW 532716 DocId: 32373009 Page TO
. ¢ ; ; . oo. _¥ SECRET “== —"grow until there..ias;been a full disclosure by these governments = £ all elements of ec pagan aR area CTeRSE: a ED aN POON — AN om report should have ve left a tay in the Soviet Union wider "window" for this contingency. That, : indeed, was the opinion at the working level, particularly in the counterintelligence com- ‘ponent in ‘the CIA in.1964. As was indicated by Mr. Helms in his testimony before the Warren Commission, CIA would continue <2 S> ; still “open? ec. In the absence of: adai tional oF; D> * SS ww SS 2 | elements of "credible® evRante, < are — - ‘| "nuances" in the record that emexge as note- worthy, in the light of other conclusions. . These are reviewed and summarized below, item- | by-item. . oo o ; d. CASTRO's warning and threat of. . 7 September 1963. ~ Ns OSWALD did indeed read y Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. KENNEDY. Hearings Before the President's Commission. on the - Assassination of President KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter cited as. Hearings, Vol. V., pp. 120 - 129. See ‘especially: p. 124 -""Mr. Helms: ‘Yes. I ‘would assume . the case. could never be closed. ‘ . HW 53216 Docld:32373009 Page 71
HW 53716 — RRP RODUETHON Oo ‘PRORIEITED. o . . ; SE ET it in New Orleans. cine be. considered of \ great significance, in the light of the \ pathological evolution of OSWALD's passive/ agg eieiveinakeup after his attempt to kill Generdi WEEKER. early in April 1963 and his identification with Fidel CASTRO and the ‘Cuban revolution which is directly trace~ able as far back as his Marine Corps. . service in El Toxo, California. CASTRO's warning and threat, given to AP corres-. pondent HARKER, irrespective of whether there was any formal mandate, or. even . security service’ contact with’ OSWALD: by the Cubans ‘or the Russians - “Was. an act of singular irresponsibility and under no circumstances was excusable as retorsion for what the Cuban emigres were doing during the summer of 1963. | | CUBAN CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, EARLY 1959 (7?) sO 9. The - eeutimony of Nelson DELGADO contains an assertion of germinal significance to any review of the background ‘of Lee. Harvey OSWALD's feeling toward. and relations with CASTRO’ s Cube. . DELGADO was 3 probably the closest peer group Beg Docld: 32373009 Page 72
HW 532916 104-10268-10005 ee a ‘REPRODUCTION Loos OSWALIL eeu DELGADO that he was in or “Y ‘ t 15 @ Saban diplomatic officials in this con tsy, which DELGADO at first took to be "one of his lies, but later believed. *"2 ; 10. Actuaily DELGADO's testimony says-a lot more of | possible operational significance than is reflected. by the ca RR RR TE aA CE ‘ language of the report, and its implications do not appear ~ to have been run down or developed ‘by investigation.. Thus, icechdiateadieliabenieintetisieinanaaeeneteiennad Somme -htodciak_ baa >. the record of the beginning of OSWALD: s_relationshi pw with ; the Cubans starts with a questi mark a ae . .1ll. The period was one of transition in. vs s. - Cuban tpn tee ne ee relations after CASTRO's takeover. OSWALD, and DELGADO at | _ the outset, were CASTRO supporters, OSWALD being particu~ ' larly keen about ‘how to get to the island. DELGADO testi- - | . fied: . OS " ... I didn't know what to tell him, so I told him-the best thing that I know was to 2 — a a 0 , - Report to the President's Commission on the Assassination . -O£ President.John F. KENNEDY (Washington, 1964), hereafter '° Gited as Report, p- 687% = . °° | a L. 8. Rea — Docld: 32373009 Page T3 a
HW 53716 two hours ... _who this fellow was the 4104-10268-10005 REPRODUCTION oes SSSat the whole thing when he came “back. He never mentioned who. he was, nothing. "Mr. LIEBELER: How long. did he,talk to. hin, do you remember? "Mr. DELGADO : About an Re ahd/halt, Ss "Mr. LIEBELER: You "Mr. DELGADO : No. nwo "mr. LIEBELER: Did you connect this visit that OSWALD. had at that time with the Cuban Consulate? PROWISITED Mr. DELGADO : I did; because I thought it funny for him. ‘to be receiving a caller at such a late date ~ time. Also, “ap to this, time he hardly ever. received mail; in fact he seldom . -Feceived mail from home because I made ita " La : seldom aia r ‘ever see one for him. But every so , often, after he started to get in éontact with - “P DoclId: 32373009 Page Ba] PAGE rm of 212 COPY NO.
104-10268-10005 “REPRODUCTION - PROLIBITED - $s RET _ - these. Cuban ponte saris getting letter | | { | pamphlets and AN eRe ee . ; eee ee Pine receiving letters, you kn an ng HO » Maybe pamphlets, you~ know, tees church, things we get from church, you but it wasn't a church. : - "Mr. LIEBELER: Were they writt as , Spanish, any of them, do you know? ‘ MN : Pre "Mr. DELGADO : Not that<f can reca’ Oe SOY ; se no. *Mr. LIEBELER: to: believe that these things S from the Cuban Consulate? | "Mr. DELGADO :_ Well, I took it for granted that they did after I seen the envelope, you know - ee. something like a Mexican eagle, with a You 3 They had dif- big, -impressive seal, . ferent colors on ‘i (x q white; almost looked like our ~ : w. But I can't recall the s aSt new it was in Latin, ~ stand. It ~ - ; "Mr. LIEBELER: ‘You don't know for sure _-whether it was from the Cuban Consulate? a a fe, et 7 a COlis4E OT en ee “ pack 73 op 2 Le HW 53216 DoclId:32373009 Page 76
REPRODUCTION PROLIBITED * . gs ET a | oS . | | | | oOo. But he had told me ON “> prior, just. fore 3 found that envelope in his wall Locker: tha Was receiving mail from S LS ne YY time we ha work to do, and I never did ask to see that. paper again, you know. — "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he tell you what his correspondence with about? *Mr. DELGADO "Mr. LIEBELER: Did he me Dialed’ that. it had to do with the conversa you had about going over to Cuba? "Mr. DELGADO -: No. . The only thing he told me was that right after he had this con- versation with the Cuban people was that he was going to - once he got out of the service - he was going to switzernina wee "3 12. OSWALD’ s.. application to Albert Schweitzer. college, Churwalden, switzeriand, was dated. 19 March 1959, and he™ “was presumably to, eport there on “20 April 1960. Destined HW 53716 poeta: 32373009 Page TT
HW 53716 i 104-10268-10005 _we know about OSWALD's activity in the United States before REPRODUCTION: PROMGITED September 1959. ae ego 1989 he was issued a U.S. passport shia Fok sevel - among other places to ey) Cuba and than CSR. estaceres the Soviet Union from 7 Finland eee 1959. . . 13. DELGADO'S testimony has the cast of credibility. Granting that, it is of basic importance to focus attention on the male visitor who contacted OSWALD at BL Toro: Camp | and talked with him for between one and | shale. to, two hours. The event was unique in DELGADO's recollections, and” actually there is nothing like it - on the record - in, everything else or after his return to the United States. ‘The record reflects no identification of the El Toro contact. DELGADO’ presump- tion is that ‘he was fxd the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles. Assuming that, the | stlons are: Who was at, and was - there reporting Seow Los sles to Washington and Havana SS 7] . that could, in Kteeced Gopresent the opening of a Cuban RSIS) file on oswng cy we spreprenzeNS) See IDENT KENNEDY'S DEMISE BY comMUNIST PARTY CELL LEADE MORSE BENITEZ ZABOLA, 1962 . > 14. Guatemala station tonvardea to » Headquarters on 9 January 41964 a duplicate copy of a raw report, by a U. Ss. /Cuban diplomatic and consular relations ere. severed on 3. January.1961. — : ; Soy ® — 13 oo - SECRET DoclIda: 32373009 Page 758
404-10268-10005 SECRET ! ; | Hi < % ere wo -penetration dated 5 -Sé oy 1962 describing events at the Ae. Morse BENITEZ, Zabola; LO yearly Communi. ge Bae) y ceil meeting. ‘The cell leader, Guatamai: shoul a) single new party: "We need not ST AEP preoccupy oskeaies over the politics of President KENNEDY because we know, according to prognostications, that he will die within the present year, 1962." . . 15. This. report apparently had been discountéd when ‘it was received and was not forwarded unt ithe Station ; . re-reviewed all of its material after the” assassination.’ 7 The file reflects no follow-up ox formal dissemination of the report, . ENIGMATIC THREATS BY CUBAN THIRD SECRETARY IN THE mite, 7 NOVEMBER 1963 . . 16. A sensitive liaison source; reporting after the KENNEDY assassination, indicated that at the Soviet reception on 7 November 1963, the Cuban Third Secretary, . . ~ Ricardo L. SANTOS Pesa, discussed the recent refugee raids on Cuba ‘and their implications with a host-country diplomat, concluding with the admonition: 7 cee Just wait and you will see what ‘we can do. It wild happen. soon." , Asked to, be more specific, wiiat would happen soon, SANTOS replied: "Just wait, just wait.” 17, .These data were passed to the Warren Commission . by memorandum, 31 March 1964. SANTOS was. reported to have . | ove 7 ee HW 53216 Docld:32373009 Page 79
PROMIBITED §¥ ET - . “4s ™ . ,@ history of medical instability and was summarily recalled : rN _ from The Hague reportedly for reasons related to that fact ce eee et car in April 1966. =. INTERCEPTED- CONVERSATTONOF CUBAN" ‘EMBASSY EMPLOYEE, LUISA CALDERON , APTERNOON OF 22. NOVEMBER 1963 1s. At KENNEDY assassination, a Cuban Embassy employee named” "Luisa" received a telephone call in Spanish from. an uniaen> ~ . - tified male outside. van oe 19. The caller asked her if she had heatd’ the _tatest Wa’ news. "Luisa" jokingly replied:. "Yes, of § ‘pour Sr “knew it almost. before KENNEDY ... Imagine, one, two, three and now, that: makes three {she laughs], what. barbarians! eee” _ 5 ‘20. Both speakers agreed, on the seriousness of the “assassination. nuuisat so s stated that the party at Silvia DURAN's had-beé eine off so it would not appear | said shen ee ove that night into the house of a doctor (a wom riend. , 21. Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto suggestion.” of. foreknowledge? “This is the only item in the intercept | coverage ‘of the Cubans and Soviets after the assassination that contains the suggestion. ‘of foreknowledge or. expectation. 15 HW 53216 DocId:32373009 Page 30
104-10268-10005 | | | | ae ; pirectorate: eendral of Intelligence (DGI) . to be working in DGI Headquarters. : » The DGI élement in Mexico City in the’... REPRODUCTION = REPRODUCTION 22. The tenuous, _ontdqnatic character of- the- -conversation . - a Luige CALDERONY. avcadre worker of the Cuban eturnhed to Cuba in 1964 and was reported fall of 1963 was headed by Alfredo MIRABEL Diaz > who had arrived on 2 September 1963, formally ~ ‘as the replacement of the Corisul: Eusebio AZCUE” (departed 19 November 1963). " the-deputy det chief (and as of June 1964, MIRABEL's successor} _ was Manuel Engenio ‘VEGA Perez. Cc. The "Silvia DURAN" named in Luisa‘s conversation was. the rYeceptionist, a Mexican , national, who dealt with OSWALD. during his known visits on 27 and 28 September to the Cuban ._ installation$ in connection with a Cuban visa application for stay and/or transit. . _§ilvia DURAN is the sole live witness on the record regarding OSWALD's activity in : Mexico city. Her testimony, however, in its . entirety was taken: and presented, solely, by the Mexican Governmen al authorities. A direct cocanga PAGE 18 of, 212 HW 532716 Bocld: 32373009 Page 61
104-10268-10005 REPRODUCTION PROWMBITED ove confrontation. with er | was requested by the Warren ‘comi's's ton “staff but rejected by the ~ Mexican Cautnorietes. It is from Silvia DURAN's A = bowen Cengaged in a personal altercation on 27 September with Eusebio AZCUE: d. Manuel Engenio VEGA Perez, alias Marcos, and his DGI assistant, Rogelis RODRIGUEZ Lopez, were positively identified in February 1964 by two independent ‘sources as engaged in the activé development ' ‘and facilitation of the training of .Nicaraguan agents for the purpose of assassinating Ss Gerieral Annstasio SOMOZA. VEGA, it is estab- ished, was on post in Mexico City during OSWALD’s stay there 27 September - 2 october 1963. He left Mexico City on 3 November 1963 for Havana. It was reliably reported about _ VEGA that all individuals going to Cuba, legally ‘er illegally, had to pass through him first. He took the biographical data and sent it to Cuba ' for name checking, a procedure which normally. took fifteen days.> _ For’ example, VEGA would have handled the details of. the - Visa action and ‘facilitation of the trip to Cuba via Mexico City from 28 December 1962 - 21° January 1963 that * MONET ee = ae HW 532716 DocTd: 32373009 Page 62
HW 532716 104-10268-10005 - REP RODUIETION RTE ron ae confirmed by intercept, with the ‘data held a on the’ ge DGI, its personalities and methods, in Mexico City. Was it normal for a case like OSWALD's, oe i considering the fuss he allegedly made with “AZCUE, for the ‘applications to be handled ‘solely by a local employee and a lame duck like AZCUE whose slot had been taken: by the - , DGI chief? Whatever the answer to these questions, “they were not asked at the time. And there remains the more ES fundamental question: accepting the DURAN story on its co | , face, could Te FAVE happened without the knowledge and _ participation of the DGI personnel above cited? This seems unlikely especially because ‘VEGA is later gited by a Cuban DGI defector as having stated he was aware OSWALD made several visits to the Cuban Consulate. It is clear aE ELEN EE ITY ET CASTRO's overseas intelligence and security service could have more in its files than was surfacéd in the DURAN ‘e was taken by. Vincent Theodore LEE, the organizer of the Fair Play Committee for Cuba, with which OSWALD established Yelations from Dallas during the period 19 April -. 2 November 1963. ‘There is an overlap between LEE's and VEGA's travels to Havana during that period: VEGA departed Mexico City on 6 January for Havana and. returned ~ . on 13. February 1963. ; vO cee c 53. - 80_ of 212 . COPY HO. Docld:32373009 Page 83
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 ~ DoclIda: 32373009 Page 64 cut all. relations with Cubans. Her account, in 1967. 6 REPRODUCTION - PRONIBITED - statements. Coming back to the beginning: "Luisa"™ - : Luisa CALDERON —- a8 “2. meiber of the DGI unit in Mexico City - uld ver peti ‘have _kndin something that would make what SILVIA DUE - SUBSTANTIAL AMPLIFICATION OF ADMISSION OF ALLEGED PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH LEE HARVEY - OSWALD, - 1967 24. The defects viewed in hindsight of the sitvia, puna testimony already have been suggested above. (in that | context of criticism it would also be relevant to reconsider’ the implications of the two intercepted telephone conversations on 26 November 1963 between the Cuban President, DORTICOS, and his Ambassador to Mexico, Joaquim Hernandez ARMAS, because the thrust of the conversation dealt with the ques- tion whether Silvia DURAN had been asked about for been _ offered?] money payments by her Mexican interrogators.) 25. As of September 1964 Silvia DURAN gave up her . Cuban Embassy job. In the. spring of 1967 Silvia DURAN ~ was ‘reported by a reliable and sensitiye source to have .< | how she had been taken. into custody and had boon fnteréantag 19 2% sg BOREL. GOC1S54
104-10268-10005 ™, “Sem ‘Nicaraguan walkin in’ Mexico City. 26 Novembe& 6 REPRODUCTION PROWIBITED ad SE ET "she had gone out with OSWALD during his stay in Mexico City and claimed she ha@Seexual relations with him. ALLEGATIONS ° ox CONSPYRATORIAL ‘CONTACT BETWEEN OSWALD AND CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO “ALLEGATIONS: OF (AY: SBLENA GARRO DE PRAZ AND (B) OSCAR.‘ “> é SS 26s Bs arren Commission reported, "Literally dozens of a egations of a conspiratorial contact between ne = OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been. ad investigated ..."6 Among these cases, which consumed hundreds of CIA man-hours in Headquarters atid, abroad: Ce and similarly the ‘FBI in the United States, > wa Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. 27. The ALVARADO case is taken up in detail by the Warren Commission under’ the cryptograph "D."" ALVARADO —$—$— $$ $e . claimed that he had seen an American, whom he identified as OSWALD, receive ‘money some time in mid-September 1963 in a meeting in a patio of the Cuban Copsulate in See Report p. 305 ff. . Some of the others were the cases - o£ Ylario ROJAS: Villenueve in Cozumel and Guadaloupe, tthe allegations of. Enrique Ruedolo GONGORA in New York city, ' the claims .of Robert. Edward GALLANT, Santa Clara Prison. cacisss HW 53716 DocId: 32373009 Page 85 ‘PAGE - 5 BO COPY NO.
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 ‘despite the impeachment of its: major premises. aLvasabo \ oe ‘ s RET. XN Mexico city. ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the A a use of the polygraphXon which ALVARADO showed evidences of deception, and by" bringing ALVARADO's. former Nicaraguan security service context ’ by into the case. ANS OS: observed woe certain elements of the story persist w whose account ‘aia not become, public until the retease of the Warren Report in October 1964,. talked codsisténtly of ee . nS the ‘presence in the Cuban Consulate trangac ction of 4 Negro SOX” with red-dyed hair. ; LS Va wr 29. Elena GARRO de Paz is a mecurial, SRiuate and . deere eee aeaemmmmmmenanemneatened socially prominent Mexican writer, married, but separated from a high-ranking Mexican foreign service official. She is also the cousin of Horacio DURAN, the husband of Silvia DURAN, cited above. There is a strong personal a een ee rT . antipathy between ‘the two women descending from CL . Elena GARRO's' trenchant anti-Communisn, 30. - Prom October 1964_ until his retirement in the fall of 1969, a U. s. Embassy’ officer ’ persistently kept up a stream of reports. and memoranda reflecting GARRO's account ‘of what ‘had: actually’ gone on between OSWALD, the. Cubans and <. particular Silvia DURAN in September 1963, including a Fepeated’ “teference .to a Negro with - red-dyed hair. “Ser | Docld: 32373009 Page 86 “COPY NO. “RePRODUCTION ‘PROMIBITED
HW 53716 4104-10268-10005 Sa aoe REPRODUCTION oo ee) 31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in a Mexico Station Memoranfum of Record dated 12 October 1964: "Elena GARKO™ [said] that she and her = daughter: ere- thwitea\ Seo a party at the Cuban. 2 Ema ay a@dring- the berioa she now finds out that SSHRRR assassination. ‘She was invited by a Mexican was ‘here in Mexico prior to the secretary in the Cuban Embassy whose husband . is a cousin of the GARRO family [Horacio DURAN]. At the party she saw three Gringos, not drinking, not mixing and more or less just standing around together like three bumps ona “log. They were so obviously out of place that she asked someone in the Cuban Embassy about ° *, them and was told that ‘hey were | just passing through. * She claims that on the way these three Gringos stood out she took’ a good look ‘> at them as did her daughter. When ‘the : assassination occurred and OSWALD" s picture was spread into the newspapers, both Elena and her daughter ‘immediately said that he was one of the three Gringos ‘without a doubt’ at the | party." . 7 . on 32. _ GARRO’ repeated her story ‘to Mr. Charles William ; ; a - THOMAS, an ‘Embassy ‘political officer on 10 December 1965: . 22° SECREI_- DoclId: 32373009 Page 67
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 ‘REPRODUCTION , In September ae her return fxom abroad, she went — : ¢t : ‘ te, _¥ SECRET ae ; | | t : ae , ers Of: Gant DURAN, who married her cousin. She Wit ao f : MEE O AED ie she w \iiscouraged from talking with him. Other guests” “ahd two other young Americans. At the party . ' were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark.’ ‘FLORES, Silvia DURAN, who she later learned was oswazD’ s. mistress. : while he was here, Emilio CARBALLIDO and a Latin ‘American Neg YO Man with red hair {emphasis added]. In November 1963 when the identity of the assassin became known, she and | 3 her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted “assas$ins" and other insults at the staff there.*® shortly ~ afterward, she ‘and her Gaughter were visited by a friend, Manuel CARVILLO lor CALYEELO1, then an official in the Secretariat of ‘tHe: GoBe tacion and were told. he had orders to escort thes a sf ‘Mina obscure hotel in the center of town. ( Se ReBt there for ‘eight days under pretext that they\wrer ger. When she told CARVILLO she wanted _ ‘to go to ‘the hin rican. Embassy and explain what she knew of” . OSWALD, she was told. that the American ‘Embassy was fall of Communist spies ° 33. ‘on 25 ‘December 1965 and 9 January. 1966 in further’ interviews with THOMAS , GARRO and her daughter ‘etaboratea “and These. particulars were not confirmed by independent observers, at the. time. . . Docld: 32373009 Page 56
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 DoclIda: 32373009 Page 89 PRONIPITED _in certain particulars significant x modified her earlier Fen account. She (also acknowledged that she and her daughter they<@ oe . CS? ogi osticard 2S? anything © hey said. cer closed The ‘FBI representative therefore considered the. and rea Trmed his disengagement from the matter to the CIA ’ Chief of Station on ‘27 December 1964 and to the Ambassador . on 25 February 1965. oe 35. The Embassy Political officer, however, persisted in his interviews and reporting. In a memorandum of conversation, 13. duly 1966, GARRO _idShgitied the place to.which she had been taken by CALVILLO as _te Zotat Vermont. (This detail checked And "a OMAS's retirement: from U.S. -Governnent service, the Department of State, at his request, oe 28 August 1969, disseminated to CIA and FBI a ‘compitation of “> his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews. cceises
HW 53716 104-10268-10005 \ i t ™“ ‘American Consul, Benjamin J. RUYLE, in Tampico developed a i anennt Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who Claimed, to have encountered REPRODUCTION ROWIBITED “36. There the matter rests. GARRO's chronology of the eee events she described. as _ havin oc d_in_the Mexican capital in September 1963. hever_ coincided with the confirmed data of SWALD's [presence ; there. Her story, however, had two points. copsnant sallegations by others regarding eswaso: EL”. a. RADO's allegations regarding the Negro with the red-dyed hair {this detail could, however, have been gleaned from the oe, Warren Commission's published account of the | "Dp" . case] and b. Silvia DURAN's later claim <x "intimate personal contacts with OSWAT . . 37. ‘Beginning in March and anpliticS 4 wih 8, the Y contact with a local Mexican journalist, OSWALD with other pro-CASTRO students. at the University of Mexico campus in ‘September 1963. 38. In Jane _ 2969 CONT: SRAS was interviewed by a | cia. officer: | “Hellstudied lay at the University of Mexico LES SQIQRY for - thee t approximately 1960 - 1964. He: belongea toa clandestine pro-CASTRO revolutionary | group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD, cee £55 ° ~ 87 oot 253 COPY NO. DoclId: 32373009 Page 930