13-00000 | 29”, 12 Feb, et oa eel FOR JACK STEWART, MERIDA. ‘from Joe Garcia (LEGAT) requesting information containei in para 296 above. : | | BG a MRID ohol (Ref: MEXI 8194 - para 296 above) 1. Foll SOLIS reply para 1 Ref: A. sud nob Hf _ received two letters recently from VILLANUEVA. B. Would forward as requested any .;.tebook i i that turned up. C.: Best. recollection VILLANUEVA arrived Cozumel very early June cz, left Check, VILLANUEVA claimed friendship with . on k July 63 on ferry boat Alberto for Puerto Juarez. SOLIS received theee letter:, since one ALBERT. See para 277 above. | Now ithe burned, from VILLANUEVA in Guadalajara in months immediately following VILLANUEVA .j:parture fercry boat is named ALBERTO. 77. , from Cozumel. SOLIS: answered all-three. In last of three replies SOLIS asked VIL“.ANUEVA | ; 7 > repay 500 peso Loan ; SOLIS never‘heard from VILLANUEVA £ after that. VILLANUEVA i:: one of . ' { : three letters asked!if SOLIS-would like to be "secret police agent" con Cozumel. SCLIS had ~~ : i | | 298. 16 Feb. og : i no further! info on possible contacts VILLANUEVA; with. Cubans or Americans on Cozumel. VILLANUEVA when not working as lalbanil, spent his! time at SOLIS home “chapeando" (weeding, cutting brush) and usually in hammock by 2030 hrs, SOLIS and VILLANUEVA sometimes visited Mayalu: cight- club together, : VILLANUEVA did not appear km be much of a drinker. / 2. SOLIS als: said; € VILLANUEVA! arrived Cozumel with Sergeant second:class "Polo" (niclnume); Polo was urriving on new assignment: of Cozumel. Military Base; VILLANUEVA said had met Polo in Mexi City: Polo came around SOLIS house twice: after VILLANUEVA departure looking for VILLANUEVA. (COMMEND: Base asked NASSIM JOAQUIM discreetly obtain! all info: possible on Polo; will advise. Bass and JOAQUIM concur SOLIS seems be telling straight forward story. SOLIS daughter, appiurently unprized, confirmed {burning of letters, from VILLANUEVA. a | | § What happened to VILLANURVA's wel ! { | | | : : i ‘ | ' i : | | | | which contained "important papers | which had fallen from top: of bus into water. See Para 284 above. - Could Polo be Albert 7? | or gould! Pold be connected with VILLANUBVA's first| contact in Mexi - the Cuban'?? | f i —6299,. «18 Feb. END to LEGAT fron COS: ‘Subjects oSwAED “ "Memo reports info contained in pare 298 chove. 300. 20 Feb, MEXI Baha to MRID - Mr. Joseph Garcia, : LEGAT, going to Merida 21 Feb. Said would zcatact COB soom after arrival. | Garcia would’ like to meet end talk to Daniel SOLIS re VILANUEVA. He also has "few other leada" in area but did not specify whether } pertinent GFFLOOR or not. | t | ‘ i : { aa “  . 303, 20 Feb, DIR 02697 < No traces ROJAS ake VILLANUEVA ,. KUBARK now prepared to LCFLUTIER him in Texas C | | | [ | | | “ ODENVY still wants it Have told ODENVY heve and awelting their decision, cps mo | i i at (+ 302, 20 Feb, "MEMO to ¢ cos from LEGAT; Subjects ‘OSWALD, (Se e ‘pare 197 above) As reported previsusly, _ source mads available a copy of the bus manifest of a company called Transportes Frontera which | oe. | a covered the trip of ‘the bus which ‘departed Mexi ‘2. Oct 63 end scheduled arrival tims at. Wusvo - : ee —j{— | = Laredo: 6f: 6 aim: on 3-Oct.-..The passenger listed .as occupying .seat. 4 on this nanites t was’. _ OSWALD, no‘first name giyen. | Destination was given as Laredo:/ No ticket number wa listed — by OSWALD's name although ticket numbers appeared beside the names of the remaining passengers. - ; this manifest was poorly: prepared jin longhand with names of some of the passengers tziug ; incomplete ‘and in some cases illegible, Toward the bottom of. ‘the manifest is s notution, , ECRET BQ: Laredo, 7 Monterrey"; hoever, including the name of OSWALD, 10 passengers appear cn the list | seeses apeee | with @ destination of aren f Prancigeo NARA eS ticket salesman and dispatcher ut the 7 7 tittii it i ee Why no ticket umber 27 | n i | | | t | i I. a. neice nnn nn
13-00000 ' ' 7 1 : { : .3 | : | Pj ' TT TTT TS scorer! Pt Transportes Frontera terminal in Mex, | was interviewed several times, the last being | on ; 17 Dec. ALVARADO had no’ ‘recollection of OSWALD and could offer no, explanation as to why no | | ticket number appeared beside’ his name'or as to: ‘the reason for the: disarepancy in the number. 7 | of passengers listed for Laredo. / / As previously reported, ‘Francisco SAUCEDO Velez and i | | i t Dionisio REYNA Paz, ichauffeurs on the trip.'... were interviewed. They ihad no personal recollec- tionsof OSWALD nor could: they, offer any explenations} concerning the discrepancy in the number. i of passengers and the fact that no ticket number appeared beside OSWALD's name. / SOUCEDO | explained that tickets pearing a prefix. of 39 covered travel from Mex bo Monterrey and those — with a prefix of 10 covered the travelifrom Mexi to Nuevo Laredo. | He also pointed out that - '. tickets collected from the passengers on a given trip are forwarded to the offices of the bus | company in Monterrey, / On 9 Dee Telesforo QUIROGA, ticket agent at Transportes Frontera | office, Monterrey was interviewed. All tickets ‘listed by number on the passenger manifest | i for the 2-3 Oct 63 trip from Mexi to Nuevo Laredo were located. QUIROGA could offer no- = - i | @xplanation as to why no ticket number was listed for OSWALD, ‘and it was impossible for him 3 * to locate a ticket which might have been used by OSWALD. / OSWALD in Mexi stayed at Hotel del - . Comercio, Calle Sahagun 19. On 20 Jan = 6 Guillermo GARCIA Luna,, manager of this hotel, ; reported:k. The hotel does ‘not use a system of registration cards for guests, but rather uses’ - . & & registry book. On the first day a guest arrives he, himself, makes the initial entry oo in the book, this including the name of the guest, the place from which he is arriving, his occupation, and his nationality. Thereafter on each day the guest continues at the xk hotel the same info is entered in the book on the page designated for that day, but the entry is made by a hotel employee. ...Guests pay in advance. OSWALD registered on 27 Sept, arriving ‘ ' ‘being shown as "USA (Texas)", occupation "photo" and nationality was "U.S. citizen", . Hand- writing on this entry in:the registry book has been identified with known handwriting of OSWALD : by the FBI. / OSWALD was ‘listed as staying in room 18 from 27 Sept: through night of 1 Oct, - _ Mx, GARCIA Luna.said rooms 16 through 23 ocoupy ‘one floor of the hotel. He was able to furnish : 4nfo on three of the guests who occupied rooms on same floor as OSWALD because they frequently atop at the hotel when in Mexi. Guests were: Mr. PEREZ Pliego, San Luis Potosi, railroad ; employee, room 19 on 26 Sept,: 27 and 28 Sept. A Captain ESQUIVEL of Veracruz occupies room _— : 19 on 30 Sept, Mexi Army ‘Captain well-known in Veracruz according to GARCIA Luna. ./ Mario “ ' RESENDIZ, merchant, Saltillo, Coahuila, room 21,26 Sept to 3 Oct., has merchandising business i ,involving sale of flowers and: miscellaneous items in Monclova, Coahuila, also well Imown in :  Monclova according to GARCIA Luna. / ./ On 21 Jan 64 Alfonso PEREZ Pliego, Espana 404, Guadalajara, Jalisco, office address Bolivar 8-01, Mexi,; was interviewed in Mexi. He advised he frequently stops at del Comercio but had. not noticed OSWALD. / The following investigation . was conducted in Veracruz on 23-24. Jan; Exnest HOLM, Vice Consul, Amex Con, contacted Logical Co CTT WiLi.séurceslof his. office ._None ofthese sources was able_to identify:Captain ESQUIVEL.- Lt.-. COMMANDER Charles EDSON, assigned to Mexi Naval Academy as an instructor by the U, S.. Navy was unable to locate any info on ESQUIVEL. . Inspector Alberto MORALES, Veracruz Police Iept, _ was unable to obtain any info on ESQUIVEL. / Investigation continuing. / Intensive investigation FT Ds continuing to locate Mario RESENDIZ of fHoneyova. | ! i i ; ai i . ; 303. 25 Feb, - a MEMO ‘from LEGAT' to COS: ‘Subjects | ' Jack L. RUBY; OSWALD - ' Victim. = | Information has haan | pic senee rs | * ’ i : : i i | | | | discrepancy. in number of | : i: | t | |
13-00000 3ch, 27 Feb. -3¢5, 10 Mar. What hotel?? 305. 12 Mar. + comes, }- i { | oe tee be Jack Leon RUBY, Jack RUBENSTEIN, or Jacob RUEENSTENN. / Advise of any info to veri travel by RUBY | ro | poe MEMO to LEGAT from COS: Subjects: RUBY ~ Info available to this office that Ae : Loc O%e! Meet. f i ry this MEMO from LEGAT to Jone ra, lo to cos; Subjects 64 (pare 277 above): OSWALD: « Refs - Same background: info as para 277 with following additional: claimed he: could pinpoint the date 14 August 1962 as the day he arrived in Mexi bs sat in seat #14 on the bus and his hotel room was #14 and he arrived in Mexi, by “ioddence, LEGAT memo dated 13 Jan _ROJAS ‘suse he - on 14 ‘Aug 62, (That day, while waiting in ‘a park near the bus stetion of the bus.t..: Estrellas de Oro, end the: hotel, where he sayed was in the vicinity, he was contacted by an u::identified individual, who he later: learned was a| Cuban, He saw this Cuban over a period of to days and this Cuban proposed that ROTAS help him in smuggling Cuban propeganda to Mexies.) / € . / Datailgs,on interrogations concerning ROJAS,'SOLIS, etc., ended up (ys.3 22 of report from LEGAT) with :“on 5 Mar’ 64, IROJAS, at’ Guadalajara, Jalisco, continued to maintain that he had met OSWALD. at Nuevo Laredo and.again later at Cozumel, as he had previcusly declared; however, subsequently on that. day he orally admitted that he had never inowm or met OSWALD anywhere," / ‘A written, signed statement declaring 211 information had Lsen false was prepared ana signed by ROJAS . i { : ‘ MEMO to COS from LEGAT: | subjects’ OSWALD. ° Source produced original of & passenge: list. or manifest relating to departure. No. 2, Bus No. 340, 2 Oct 63, of the Transportes Frontera, . S.A. de C. V. bus line, which has: its headquarters in Monterrey, N. L. and its Mexi terminal at Buenavista Street No.: Te { The: passenger list or manifest was clear evidence tit OSWALD hed. departed ; from Mexi on the bus connected therewith which left Mexi at 1:20 p.m. and scheduled to have arrived at Nuevo Laredo, Tamps, (across border from Laredo, texas) at 5:30 a.m., 3 Octi63. vi Info on. _ passenger list is handwritten, not complete and rot all legible, etc... (report submitted. typed list of, passengers, seat number, ticket nusber and . destination, ete. ).¢."Inquiry at. Transportes Frontera Bus Terminal" - On 5 March él, ( Gilberto LOZANO Guizar advised that he is the Menager of the Mexi Terminal of Transportes Frontera Bus Company, Buenavista #7, which ‘has a franchise for :"through service" Letween . Mexi, ‘Monterrey and Laredo, but is not: permitted to sell tickets or pick up passenzsrs at " intermediate localities. if LOZANO , said that Transportes Frontere had made a complete study bed its records and procedures and:has now arrived at the conclusion that the perso: designated as--"OSULD"; on -the . 2-Oct -63- passenger manifest did not purchase a ticket and-could not have traveled on the trip to “which it relates, ‘He péinted out that the list of passenger reserva. tions; tickets sold} and! passengers actually boarding the bus in Mexi are recorded on the form which: is provided for that purpose and is maintained on a clip beard on the ccunter | from’ which ticket sales normallly are made jby the ticket salesman and dispatcher, francisco ‘: ALVARADO. ‘He admitted that ALVARADO occasionally is assisted during rush hours or a tempor- - ary absence fromthe counter by the baggage handler,’ Lucio LOPEZ Medina, who may 1ecegive and record | reservations .« on the “et but doee not handle the actual . receipt of payment oie oo on who t os oe eterna wets ere eb copemeemee: fb roceTeneme se aememeneis «a , . at v4 .f 2 . DoS a wee «
13-00000 306. (continucd) ° a a aa ee eee oe | i | | i | I ' ' { i { | a eeeeee see eg i i 4 i j i i | i ' q ‘ m4 OSWALD accually make the a to Laredo on ? Oeb.737 rare my 4 ~ en Riad Yat Na’ “h rd yo a &. 7 ae . ‘ : H : - aa : i | | von pre jot 1 | | for tickets. / According to Mr, LOZANO, ” “al neservation is recorded by assigning a seat ' ; numberas available and recording opposite the seat number assigned, the name and destination of the individual requesting the reservations. © That reservation is respected under normal conditions, until two hours before. departure time; however, in the ‘event all seats are not “Pilled, it may ibe held untilithe actual departure of the! bus: Prior to the departure of : . the bus, @ final check is made of passengers in connection with tickets sold for that particular trip, and at that:time the dispatcher communioates by radio to the company. headquarters in Monterrey the number of "paying" passengers on the bus! in relation to the Monterrey or Laredo destinations for which they purchased tickets. / Francisco ALVARADO, ticket salesman and dispatcher for Transportes Frontera,’ advised that he prepared most of . - the handwriting on the 2 Oct 65 manifest on which the name "OSWLD" and destination "Lared" appear opposite Seat No. 4. ‘He stated that he did not write the togwLp" reservation info and it was his:opinion that the reservation had been made and the info recorded by . the baggage handler, Lucio LOPEZ. ALVARADO is quite certain at the present time that the individual designated on the list as "OSWLD" did not purchase a ticket and did not travel on the trip relating to that manifest. No ticket number was recorded for that person, and @ search of. the company's records in Monterrey had failed to locate a ticket stub which . was not otherwise accounted for in connection with that particular trip. / The notations by ALVARADO of "9 Laredo, 7 Monterrey" reflected that he had reported by radio to the Monterrgy office of the company that the bus had departed with nine "paying" passengers for Laredo and seven “paying” passengers. destined for Monterrey. ‘Listed under "Name of Passengers" were “OSWLD" with no ticket number, indicating he did.not travel; “Angel PEREZ" — with no ticket number or destingtion, which confirmed that he had not purchased.a ticket and had not boarded. the bus; ‘and "Nicolas GONZALEZ" Seat No. 10, listed as having traveled on a pass to Torreon. hovel’ ALVARADO and ‘Gilberto LOZANO stated ithat. the notations on - the back of the manifest referred. to advances of funds made by ALVARADO to LOZANO from the cash for repairs, parts or other requirements. - They related that ‘the passenger lists are not kept as a permanentirecord, and, when the manifest was located in the "trash" at the request of investigators of the Mexi Presidential'Staff, the Blanks at the tope of the form had not been filled in as to time, destination, trip number, bus number, and date, but they had completed those blanks from their personal knowledge in order to make that data clear to the investigators, ‘They also had listed the names of the drivers on the formax at that tine. They affirmed that the handwritten "Transportes Frontera” at the top of the document had been added by some official of the Mexi Government after the document was borrowed from them, / Both LOZANO and ALVARADO stated that they had no recollection of _. OSWALD, . ete... J... they...could 6ffer: no explanation as-to. how Mexican authorities had arrived at the conelusion that OSWALD had travelled on the Transportes Frontera bus of 2 Oct 63, but pointed out that after the name was located on the manifest, they had not been given an opportunity of reviewing, ‘analyzing or checking out the data thereon. / Lucio LOPEZ Medina, baggage and: ‘freight handler at Transportes, related that he often: assists the ticket salesman by recording | ‘rescrvations and is quite certain that he wrote the "OSWLD" and "LARED' opposite Seat. No. 4 on the vassenger mantfaat af 9 Ant GR) Ua atataa anne.