(This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) On March 12, 1964, representatives of the Warren Commission and the CIA confered regarding f the February 12 request for the materials forwarded 130 enti Rear RENTER Nn tac, mek to the Secret. Service by. ‘the Ageney” (Letter of See relA @wey-28& - ‘Lee Rankin March 16, 1964, JFK Doc. # 3872, _Siawsen™ ‘\Memorandum, ‘March 12, 1964) \- ; ne < The recor ndicates that the Commission at } the March 12 meeting pressed’ for~access- towthe. 7 ‘ fae Pt se ete Sere flee Cdn, OR, LF Ss f Secret Service materitais..... -Rankin. wrote--to- Helms” on March 16 that it was his understanding that the CIA would supply the Commission with a paraphrase of each report or communication pertaining to the Secret Service materials "with all indications of your confidential. communications techniques and confidential sources deleted. ‘You will ‘also afford membérs- of—_ our staff working in this area. an opportunity to review the actual file so that they may give assurance Or — Faik Ss 25eFf ; \ Rankin, March 16, 1964, paragraph 2, JFK Doc. No.3872)- eG Jpthat “the “pa¥apiivases-ere-compiete>"~ (ietter hein £2 Ca Ge hOB ase nnn aie tH a IPE beet signe teen cont ee ee ARTA NSM Re Seat it ahr) encase ma reaeleg Rankin further indicated that the. ‘same procedure was to be followed regarding any material in the possession of the CIA prior to November 22, 009033 5 Classified by derivation: _
(This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) . 1963 which had not as yet been furnished because & , 2B rt it concerned, sensitive. sources| cand methods.“(Ibid., > cee re ao cece ne ORE AD (fA EE LA TeaUa Se refs RE REE yoann oO ae ‘Helms responded to Rankin's March ‘16 letter & el* on March 24 (FOTATH 622-258), by. two separate ot O glé Fold Gna 2ee ote (ae NR Doc. DDP4- 1554, hereinafter CDF E315, . a ae 22 |-3sF Gye \ 3/24/64, CIA Doc., DDP4!- 1555, 3/24/64, CD 674 hereinafter) | 12 CD 631 provided the Commission with a Copy of the demas Aisebisersion8 sitet ates : a Cc we ‘october 10, 1963 CIA dissemination to FBI, State Dept., } ye INS and Navy Dept. {and to the Secret Service on ~ 22 Nov. ) regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and his. presence = at the Soviet Consulate in Mexico city. The response a - further revealed that on October 23, 1964, CIA had € ee from the Navy i requested two copies of the most recent photograph of Oswald in ‘order to check the identity . of she person’ S eb ae believed to be Oswala in Mexico city- Furthermore, the CIA stated, , hough | it did not. indicate when, that it had: determined that -the photograph shown to Marguerite | GA pc Oswald on movenber 22, 303% @ie—n sx—to-Lée” Nee js Le ble Ca ir. oa) a Ve Li fe i , Harvey Osi ngid?h'the Agency expi@ined that it had checked the % rt photograp: against the press photographs of Oswald | generally available on November 23, 1968) Da wae “7 2) CD 674 reveals that on Nov. 32, 1963 inmediately Follows rail — Classification: 909089 | Classified by derivation:
MT SY £7 LF LF f ~ 47 - ‘Classification: | (This form is to be used for material extracted the assassunapyon, Loni teP Bodh ANREP er 23, 1963, three cabled reports were received at CIA headquarters a eee A a a ee =a ae come ma ees C from the CIA earn pene nit yan apet AEL OAS ateGn rega rding- photographs / ns of an unidentified man who had visited the Cuban ons al Soviet Embassies during October and November 6K Paraphra Sas of tuese cables, not revealing Petasreay <a 59: “S oe an af sources and methods, were attached to onr hth Agency wrote’ that the subject of the photo referenced in these cables was not Oswald. It was further stated that: "In response to our meeting of 12. March and your memo of 16 March?{Stérn and{willens fo watt review at Langley the original copies of these Bs “Gisseminations to the Secret . Service and the cables yon, which they were based,. as well as the Bholse"OF the. unidenti- fied man (CIA-—Docs “—DDP4=1555 epestso4 March 3964) wet arein our€iles - yo Pas .On March 26, William Coleman wrote in a memorandum for the record: a) "The CIA directed @ memorandum to J. Lee Rankin ’ on=-Mareh—24;,-15¢64 (Commission Document No. 631) in which’ it-set forth :the dissemination of the information on Lee Harvey Oswald. I realize that this memorandum is only a partial answer to our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that the complete answers will give’ |, & us the. additional information we Waren 3f, 96a Mal § Tet os, Nea © ~ bes ad Coleman went on to state: "As you know, we are still trying to get an . > explanation of the photograph which the FBI. showed Marguerite Oswald. > after the we Classification: Classified by Jor 0 670 b
(This form is to be used for material extracted , ¢ from ClA—controlled documents.) . assassination. I hope that paragraph 4 lk of the memorandum of March 24, 1964 E> oO [cD 631] sent Mr. Rankin by the CIA is not the answer which the CI Se to give us as to this inquiry "(Ibid® . Mack a7? i The following day, as agreed by Warren Commission and Agency representatives, Samuel Stern of the | : . é Commission visited. ‘CIA. headquarters - in Langley, oO Le. Virginiay \ pe €L So Sterns' memorandum ‘Of “his visit ‘vreveals.th 4 he reviewed Oswald's file with Raymond ern indicated that Oswald's file contained those materials furnished- -préqiously to the Warren Commission by of BF SERN tia Caer neret a taealld the Gal 'y "cable reports of November 22 and—Hevember the "file also ‘contained: ~ a t . 23, ftom the-czats Henice-city-station ah oo we fi yee relating tothe photography of “bhe-unidenti- wet Cate: Meg ete O Ct olga Sink A we Oy BAD _fbed-indtvidual_mistakenty-believed-to-be “ Lee-Harvey-Gewald "and tae reports .on thdse hg © A THe cables furnished- on November 23, 1963 : ” 27 Pate, o. fone ane ir aaa the Secret Service. bythe-Gin. " Me of & ad PAG a er ES onywarch 277-1964) see Stern noted that these messages were accurately - paraphrased in the attachments to cD 674 provided the # Paragraph q of cD G3i s toed nee CIR concludeetMeie / Dhote raph of anidentiFied indi vinuel Aid nctte piel f Aigasikice ggoe. “PRS TA ceohs of Co ate _ . ajti+s std iegutat 2 Classified by of OTA Hy 6 @ 4 onset ng correct BB res.,
- 49 - Classification: : . —_ pol FT (This form is to be used for materi ex gga , ; Warren ComiteesGld n-wntrelledcgcumentsiggh? ” ye A1so G Df. reviewed the October 2, 1963 cable from joa’) pel v i re a )4 g.~“Neslegsbieeserern to ° CIA headquarters reporting Oswald" ontact with the Soviet Embassy “eo bd in Mexico city: “tn Aaaition, Stern examined the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA headquarters to aw AdprraRrs cae the, Mexico City Statéen reporting background infor- . mation on Oswald. Y(Ipiaay “Stef recorded ~ é vy 7 that . these messages were eid aa RB ole. paraphrased accurately ag-set—foxth in the CIA’ s January 31 memo to the Warren Commission reporting Oswald's ISO) Lastly, Stern ‘noted that Rocca provided him es ‘a Mexico City trip. bids for his review a computer printout of the references to Oswald-related documents 0 eee </ Stated "there is RA, ae: 6 « no item listed en_the-printout which fehe Warren Com-. fis ~ mission| res not been given either in full text or. paraphrased." ( (Ibid. ye ( Su NN oe ae Er Thus, by the 27th of March, a Warren Commission : Se, ss 5 vO . xepresentative had been apprised of the circumstances surrounding the mysterious photograph. y Classification: 4 00072 ? Classified by derivation:
a ay ay ay a7 27 a7 fe «~ _ Creeteetion: —— (hs i is fo 1 acs used for pete extraste con tro € documen (i fA~—cont ro ocumen -~55— Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto © f suggestion of foreknowledge. This is the only item in the intercept coverage of the Cubans and Soviets after the assassina- tion that contains the suggestion of fore- 4 ‘knowlege of expectation. (CIA~Doc.7-— pace [GY Memorandum of Raymond Rocca for. sPCsOPS » > 8023/75. Pp. Pe 1S) sae pS Sa Ser Standing by - by itself, Luisa Calderon's cryptic comments do not merit serious attention. Her words may indeed indicate foreknowledge of the assassina- tion but may equally be interpreted without such a . Sinister implication. Nevertheless, the Committee ; | has determined that Luisa Calderon's case should have merited serious attention in the months following the assassination. In connection with the assassination, re hetasahe he _ Calderon's name first surfaced on November 27, 1964 oN. . Tra Jf 7 oN in a cable sent by then Ambassador _ Mann in_to-the State lias? ae *s pe 1 (2.9 Rpt Department (CTA Doc. DIR-85573,. 11/27/63) . “93 Nene ESS > ae, agape saeeanann NENA ae In that cable Mann stated: ..-Washington should urgently consider ; \ feasibility of requesting Mexican authorities to arrest for interrogation: Eusebio Azcue, Luisa Calderon and Alfredo Mirabal. The two men are Cuban national and Cuban consular officers. Luisa Calderon i mga retary in Cuban Consulate here." (Gbid.. way ~m fof Classification: —secoes wenn 2U00520 | | | | Clase’ & derivation, __C. Berk
*Regarding the issue of whether Calderon's comments could reasonably be interpreted to indicate possible foreknowledge, the CIA position is as follows: ie < Classification: —Secret —__ This form ig to Re ued for materiql extracted a 4 rom ClA—centralieg documents.) ~55a~ During the Rockefeller Commission inquiry, Calderon's conversation was identified as a possible item of information from the Agency's Cuban and Soviet telephone intercepts that might suggest foreknowledge of a plot to assassinate the American Presi- dent. This involves a faulty translation of an answer Calderon gave to her caller. In answer to the latter's question as to whether she had heard the latest news, Calderon said: “Si, claro, me entere casiantes que Kennedy." | The verb entere is mistranslated. Me entere (the first person of the verb enterarsefie, past tense) should be translated as “./f.I found out (or I learned) /about it -- the assassination/ almost before Kennedy /did/7." In other words, Calderon was saying she heard about the shooting of Kennedy almost at the time the event took place..." (CIA Doc., Memorandum Regarding Luisa Calderon conversation, p.l). The Committee fundamentally disputes the narrow interpretation of Calderon's comments assigned by the Agency. It is the Committee's position that translation of Me Entere as either “I found out" or "I learned about" does not foreclose interpretation of Calderon's comments as a suggestion on her part of possible foreknowledge of President Kennedy's assassination. The jnterpretatio, pnang evar’, should howe san eft to Bais By Geeta
am 18,8  CassiGcatien: Government could use them as witnesses. w ab) Classification: Classification: ~" (This form is to be used for material extracted frome Glan-rortsolled GRE PEP terial extracted from ClA—<ontrolled sgcuments.) This cable does not state the basis for arresting Calderon. * However, the CIA's copy of this cable bears a handwritten notation on its routing page. That notation states: “Info from Amb Mann for. Sec Rusk re: ...persons involved with Oswald in Cuban Embassy. ota Mann went on to state in urgent terms: "They may, ‘quickly be returned to Havana in order to eliminate any possibility that Mexican According to CIA files, Calderon made reservations to return to Havana on Cubana Airlines on December 11, 1963, less than four weeks after the Oe eget i assassination. ( (CIA Doc. CSCcI- 316/01783- ~65, 4/26/64) ee norte cena ew -Calderon, Agcue and Mirabal were not arrested nor detained for questioning by the Mexican federal we Te police. However, Silvia Duran, a friend and associate { ¥ of Calderon's and the one person believed to have ——— ead adh nes wot athe. ipben tev yi etd Pay Comat 11S +t is’ the’ Committee! s belief that Mann was prompted P to request the arrest of Calderon. on the basis of og Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte's allegation that Calderon -Was present at the Cuban Embassy when Oswald was allegedly given a sum of money presumably to e..assassination of President Kennedy. ' _Retaehmen eC) Vo The Nene ag EEN EET 79 : | . Berk | Slesif by derivatiom Cc. Be assitie y derivation: {n er | a Cth actrees T,
7 a a a a ae ~ Classification: , ii ‘orm is 19 is used for matsiis! satester om ClA=ssnirsiied dosuments,) wo 5 J oe had repeated contact with Oswald while he was in Mexico City, was arrested and questioned by the _ . [67 Mexican “potice-on-two-separate occasions? “(crass on oe. DIR 84950, 11/23/63, CEA Doc. - DIR 85471,°7 2° (By oe ayar/63} iJ During her second interrogation, Duran was questioned regarding her association with Calderon. 1 There is no indication in the reinterrogation report e rn accounting _. for the questioning | of Duran. about“Calderon. AG - cra Doc. DDP4- ~0940, 2/21/64) _Bhe information regarding eee 4 Nia, 0 anime arm eneere ra phen nat ma rmaner nt ene Duran's interrogation was passed to the Warren Commission on February 21, 1964, more than two months after Calderon had returned to cuba (ibid) —— f a Information was reported to the CIA during May 1964, from a Cuban defector, tying Luisa Calderon to the Cuban Intelligence apparatus. The defector, aiftiac- 1, was himself a Cuban Intelligence officer who supplied valuable and highly reliable information to the CIA regarding Cuban Intelligence ../7 2? pectenat Aye nel ate meetih ketene maa Laue ye operations {(CTA Doc. , Memorandum of Joseph Lai gdosch-— aes c to Chief, Office of Security, 6/23/64) Calderon's a TT Daren em me TS RENE Glassificatian: —s44._________ 099078 OTE DAR! | PAD SLOT OU, | ela By derivation: —_C. Berk ow :
Classification: se _ This form ig tg i used for material satrastes am, ClA—soniralled assumenys,) ~57a- (7S ties to Cuban intelligence were reported to the n Commission on June 18, 1964.--“(cra Doc. FOIA #739-31 eee OE ate te AE CORONA A vemereenene nent eo -teev omer ranean onemnettti, ace Stet 8 A oc aa PPR ne RENEE 6/19/64). However, the Committee has determined from its review that the CIA did not provide Calderon's ‘ conversation of November 22 to the Warren Commission. | Consequently, even though the Warren Commission was aware that Agta wed. Pane 0529 . | Clete = derivation 1
LT LF LF rat -~ 59 -. Classification: Gr ae (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) Calderon had connections to intelligence work, as did other Cuban Embassy officers, the vital link between her background and her comments was never established for the Warren Commission by the CIA. The Agency's oversi¢ght in this regard may have forclased the Commission from — actively pursuing a lead of great significance. Calderon' s-201 file reveals/that she noe ance ee re aad Z Pomme jexrived 3 in “Mexico ‘City “from Havana on January 16, / 1963, carrying Cuban Passport B/63/7. Her date of birth was believed to be 1940 (CIA Doc. Dispatch sera mete et ag HMMA21612, no-date“given) Calderon’ S presence in my Mexico City was first reported by the CIA on July ‘ OR Ome sem ne mee 15, 1963 in a dispatch, from the CIA's Miami field office to the CIA's Mexico City station and to the Chief of the CIA's Special Affairs Staff (for Cuban operations). (CIA Doc. Dispatch JFCA-10095, 7/15/63) “GEER. That dispatch had’ “attached to ita ‘Feport containing biographic data, on personnel then assighed to the _ : > ett 9 rf — nt annater, H 1 4 mse errs BE TET aie ee Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. At page thredvof the REE. attached report Luisa Calderon was listed as Secretary of the Cuban Embassy's commercial office. The wre, | cee «999930 Classification: __._— iad | 5 Classified by derivation:
LF LF SF LF LF ~ 59 — Classification: —_—_S£c¢R5T (This form is to be used for material extracted from CiA—controlled documents. ) notation indicated that a eport was pending on ,. No Such report is present Calderon. (ibaa. Pe 3 of attachment) ‘The fin Calderon's ' 201 File. . Agency has attempted, without-success, to locate _ the report. “gy ee Luisa Calderon's association with the Cuban oo re . a ee i — Blind Memorandum of) Hazold-swenson, At that time; Joseph—ha DGI was first recorded d by the CIA on May 5, 1964. 177 / 4 a (CIA-Doc.* ‘A. 682290 5/5/64), Chief of Counterintelligence for the Special Affairs Staff, reported the results of his debriefing of the Cuban defector, AMMUG-1. The memorandum stated GHB. ‘that somtie-1 had no direct knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald or his activities but was able to provide | Ne, items of interest based upon the coments of cartgin— {> Cuban Intelligence Service officers (Ibid /)) spbditicaliy, “xeftoG-1 was asked if Oswald was known to the:Cuban SE. intelligence services before November 23, 1963. aiitec- 1 told Langosch "prior to October 1963, Oswald A Com visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City_on two or three occasions. Before, during and after these visits, Oswald was in contact with the. Direccion Classification: == OH HBL Classified by derivation:
_ 50 -. —f Classification: 5 IR ET (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) General De Intelligencia (DGI), specifically | | with Luisa Calderon, Manuel Vega eee ? eS ‘Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez." Langosch thereafter wrote that Calderon's precise relationship to the DGI was not clear. As a comment to this statement;he set forth the i -. CIA cable and dispatch traffic which recorded her — arrival in Mexico during January 1963 and departure wal OO one month after the. assassination. On May 7, 1964, Langosch recorded additional information he had elicited from mee 1 regarding en JOS weweniigt ane, amie . Oswald's possible. e¢ontact with the pst. “(CTA Doc) C Leenrnmenritensen © POIA 687-295, attach. 3, 5/7/64) { Paragraph | 3 of een cena aregereaare ee tte EAE IIS area apm pm Rt rhe Ny mete this memorandum stated in part: a. Luisa Calderon, since she returned _ to Cuba, has been paid a regular. salary by the DGI even though she has not performed any services. Her home is in the Vedado section wnere the ts are high. b. Source (aabeee) has known Calderon for several years. Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the department which was known as the "Empres@ Transimport." Her title was Secretary General of the Communist Youth in ion fo? 25 department may cape . sentence. ((Ib iay 5 a Classifications - 0 09622 Se. Classified by derivation:
LI LT ha -~ 61 - Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) On May 8 ‘Langosch sbreher_cissiesed Sew AMMUG' s a emeoere f& ,¢ knowledge of the Oswald cas&, (Ibid, attach. attach. aS AR ENS _ Langosch paraphrasea famue: s knowledge of ¢C @aideron ¥ S | as follows: I thought that Luisa Calderon might have > had contact with Oswald because I learned about 17 March 1964, shortly before I made a trip to Mexico, that she had been involved with an American in Mexico. The information to which I refer was told to me by a DGI case officer... I had commented to (him) that it seemed strange that Luisa Calderon was receiving a salary from the DGI although she apparently did not do any work for the Service. (The case officer) told me that hers was’ a peculiar case and that he himself believed that she had been recruited in Mexico by the Central Intelligence Agency although Manuel Pineiro, the Head of the DGI, did not agree. As I recall, (the case officer) had investigated Luisa Calderon. This was because, during the time she was in Mexico, the DGI had intercepted a letter to her by an American who signed ‘his name OWER (phonetic) or something Similar. As you know, the pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon names is difficult in Spanish sO. ft am not sure of how the name different. As I understand the matter, the letter from the American was a love letter but indicated that there was a clandestine professional relationship between the writer and Luisa Calderon. I also understand from (the case officer) that after the interception of the letter she had been followed and seen in the company of an American. I do It could have ‘been "Howard" or something ‘ Classification:
LT “I LF LF LF = 62 = Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted : ; from ClA—controlled documents.) On May ll, Raymond Rocca wrote a memorandum to Director Richard Helms regarding the information lb e2-& f hoa? oT A Swenson } ed elicited from seems {Cia Doc. FOIA 687-295 ww. - me tee eggpemeee ag ae TS il (s/i1y64,. Rocea Memorandum) Rocca proposed that "the ee — DDP in person or via a designee, perferably the —f former, discuss the AMMUG— 1 situation on a very restricted basis with Mr. Rankin at his earliest convenience either at the Agency or at the Commission headquarters. Until this takes place, it is not ; _/& we won desirable to put anything in wea ting. \ (Tbid. p. 2 > On May 15, 1964, Helms wrote Rankin “yagarding ; A-(% . AMMUG's information about the DGI, indicating its sg t/ _sensitivity. “and . operational significance.,~ (CIA Doc. — eae cetera nt, nec : \ Fora 697-294, 5/15/64, Helms Memorandum) im) { Attached een to Helms' communication. was a parap rased accounting 5 ed ay a iS? that oe owen gett ececene erereeee ne of Langosch's’ May 5 memorandum. attachment the intelligence associations of Manuel a, Vega Perez and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez were set forth. However, that attachment made no reference whatsoever to Luisa Calderon. 5 Howard Willens of the Warren Commission requested as a follow-up'to the May 15 memorandum, © ; Classification: 90008 A Classified by derivation:
MT LY LF ST hE ME MP * -83- SEegtey Classification: =» 9 #7 (This form is to be used for material extracted , from ClA—controlled documents.) access to the qesteon used in Langosch's /¥C ers Arma rae rn is ny ee geet 7 (cra Doc. FOIA 739- 316, 6/19/64> alt C interrogation of atc. a« mameeenet —— = ae ee (Memorandum) -on-Jine 18, 1964 Arthur Dooley of Rocca!s +o Rchterintettigence Sesearch and Analysis (i's Group took the questions and po re to the Warren Commission's offices for Willen's review. _ Willens saw Langosch's May 5 memorandum. The only mention of Calderon was as follows: "The precise. relationship of Luisa Calderon to the DGI is not clear. . She spent about six months | in Mexico from which she returned to Cuba early in 1964.%° . “(ri : - Se However, Willens was not shown Langosch's memoranda, of May 7 and May 8, 1964 which contained . § much more detailed information on Luisa Calderon, including! her. possible association with Lee Harvey / we § Oswald and/or American intelligence (tbia‘) ya) or) The Warren Commission as of June 19, 1964, “ had little if no reason to pursue the Luisa Calderon ( lead. It had effectively been denied significant * It should be noted that these memoranda of May 5, = 7, 8, 11 and June 19 with attachments, are not y referenced in the Calderon 2901 file. (See CIA Computer printout of Calderon 201 file) Their existence was determined by the Committee's. independGhassifiéation: other agency files. 2 . — 000085 Ss E AAT. Classified by derivation:
- 64 ~ Classification: gegen (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) background information. This denial may have impeded or prevented the Commission's pursuit of Calderon's povéntial relationship to Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy. But even if the Warren Commission had learned of Calderon's background and possible contact with Oswald it still had been denied the one significant piece of information that might haveraised its interest in Calderon to a more serious level. The Warren Commission was never told about Calderon's conversation of November 22, 196/4. “Neve. “RP. NR. uF ee NS. Classified by derivatioW) st) 3 0 3 a
sex pow Warren Commission for its analysis. . ™ \ reference to the conversation nor does it indicate™ that it was ever made known to or provided the © - -—print-out of Calderon 201 file) - 65 Classification: (This form is to be used. for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) (CIA Comput treated the Calderon conversation this Committee posed the following questions to the CIA: 1. ‘In an effort to determine the manner in which the f Was the Warren Commission or any Warren Commission staff member ever given access to the transertptr-cof-«—telephone-conmersa- tion,. dated November 22, 1963, between a female employee of the Cuban Embassy / Consulate in Mexico City, identified as Luisa, and an unidentified male speak~ ing from outside the Cuban Embassy/Con- sulate? If so, please indicate when this transcript was provided to the Warren Commission or its staff, which CIA official provided it, and which Warren Commission members or staff reviewed it. SE. ER. . Was the Warren Commission or any member of the Warren Commission or any Warren Commission staff member ever informed ATES Es, i a Classification: NEE 000087 ' Classified by derivation:
Classification: —ssese< This orm is to e used for roend extracte m mis. ie ateri extracte fro eq do rom A—ontre e Sguments -65a-_ orally or in writing of the substance of the above-referenced conversation of November 22, 1963? If so, please indicate when and in what form this information was provided, nd-which CIA official provided it. /(H request lettér-of-aAugu ; ) The ‘CIA~zespaqnded by nenorandun: _) ancora aT ERM IIHF IR AO “Although the (Mextree-¢i-t-})—Statben considered the conversation of sufficient possible interest to send a copy to headquarters, the latter apparently did nothing with it, for there appears to be no record in the Oswald file of such action as may have been taken. A review of those Warren Commission documents containing information provided by the Agency and still bearing a Secret or Top Secret classification does not reveal whether the conversation was S99 --Given-or-~shown..to the. Commission..." ——. 4 (CIA Doc., Memorandum “Regarding “Luisa - Cee conversation, p. l) ener a ot Pe moR ene. peace ey een — . The available evidence thus supports the conclusion that the Warren Commission was never given the information nor the opportunity ‘by which it could evaluate Luisa Calderon's | significance to the events surrounding President Kennedy's assassination. Had the Commission been expeditiously provided this evidence of her 4 intelligence background, association. with Silvia Duran, and her comments following the assassination, it may well have given more serious investigative Classification: 000683 ||) Cpasifindbyydasivetingn oa Bexk |
49 4Y 49 LT 4 47 47 - 66 - Classification: ane to her potential knowledge of Oswald his form is to be used for material extracted _and the cuban qqyernme AMP Bikd BoRRERRPLE involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Two difficult issues remain which are raised by the Committee's finding. First, why didn't ‘ the Agency provide the Calderon conversation to the : Warren Commission; secondly, why didn't the Agency reveal. to the Warren Commission its full knowledge of Calderon's intelligence background, her possible knowledge of Oswald and her possible connection to the CIA or some other American intelligence apparatus. The first question can be explained in benign terms. It is reasonably possible that by sheer _ oversight the conversation was filed away and not , recovered or recollected until after the Warren Commission had completed its investigation and . ; see ” oS J aire’ portions AS Hostnate Ker tin -published its report. (See above CIA explanation) 3 As for the Agency's withholding of information ; concerning Calderon's intelligence background, the f record reflects that the Commission was merely informed that Calderon may have been a member of of 7 / ‘the DGI. (CIA Doc. 5/5/64, ee nears \s i t1\ Memorandum . 5 The memoranda which provided more extensive examina- tion of her intelligence background were not made SET oe a Classification: _ 999989 ; ‘Classified by derivation: _