Classification: (This form is to be used fé# material extracted from ClA—contralled documents.) On March 12, 1964, representatives of the Warren Commission and the CIA confered regarding the February 12 request for the materials forwarded to the Secret Service by the Agency. _ (hetter of J. Lee Rankin March 16, 1964, JEK Doc. ¢# 3872, Slawson . Memorandum, March 12, 1964) The record indicates that the Commission at the March 12 meeting pressed for access to the om Sands Soe pt bape ot ge Pe i” last: ; atly Secret Service materials. 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 ot nr ae sources deleted. YYou will also afford menbers-of— our staff working in this area an opportunity to review the actual file so that: they may give assuranc that the ar aeny ys aaa aces RE Rankin, March 16, 1964, paragraph 2, JFK Doc. No. 3872) Rankin further indicated that the same procedure was to be followed regarding any material in the possession of the CIA prior to November 22, Classification: Ca 008053. . Classified by derivation: i Ua, ‘oie, A a a aS Rt. z Bik
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) 1963 which had not as yet been furnished because it concerned sensitive sources and methods. (Ibid.,. par. 3) f -Helms responded to Rankin's March 16 letter \© on March 24 (POTK-F O2Z=258) by two separate _FoltA Gaa- -2s5& ~ communications. (CIA Doc. DDP4- ~ 1834 hereinafter CDré3l1, ol . F3tA bm |-2s97 0" 3/24/64, CIA Doc., DDP4-1555, 3/24/64, CD 674 hereinafter) CD 631 provided the Commission with a copy of the October 10, 1963 CIA dissemination to FBI, State Dept., INS and Navy Dept. (and to the Secret Service on 22 Nov.) regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and his, presence - CeDpus! ) at the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City. The response Ss wit further revealed that on October 23, 1964, CIA had S) the Navy requested two copies of the most recent photograph of Oswald in order to check the identity of the person believed to be Oswald in Mexico citys Furthermore, the CIA stated, though it did not indicate when, that it had determined that the photograph shown to Maftuerité Oswald on November oy, 1963 did not refer to Lee jsee Hleaes, mgr ve Vol f, lane “ae. =“. GS RS. “GER... ee. A y on 4 4 oN “Gt, = GA, Harvey Oswald?” the Agency explained that it had checked the & against the press photographs of Oswald generally ' available on November 23, 1963,2 photograp. ar a ‘fh as. CD 674 reveals that on Nov. 22, 1963 immediately follow. Classification: oe 909033 Classified by. derivation:
Classification: (This form is to be used- for material extracted Ay the AS SAS SADE EOD CoA NeP doa AVGRPer 23, 1963, three cabled reports were recived at CIA headquarters from the CIA Mexico city Station regarding photographs of an unidenvtified-man“Who had visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies during October and November 1963.27 | T Parapnhrases of these cables, not revealing sensitive ae sources and methods, were attached to CD 674. ° The 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 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 soon after the ™ | .f a wide Sadak Classification: Classified by deri hh0 G f tf} a na 4 weet review at Langley the original copies ot wie of these # disseminations to the Secret ~ Service and the cables on which they were @ based, as well as the SHOESS POE the unidenti- Oe fied man" (CIA-Dee:—DDP4=1555 CD534, 24 ad March—£96 4) st het ack in ourkiles fs .On March 26, William Coleman wrote in a memorandum for the record: "The CIA directed a memorandum to J. Lee Rankin Dd 2 oe OnsMarch-—24;-Eb9¢4 (Commission Document No. 631) <7 Of in whith“it-set forth:the dissemination of / the information on Lee Harvey Oswald. I rehiive ° 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’ le us the additional information we requested." WD @ ' (Memorandum of William Coleman, March 2k, 1964) NEAR. a “TA. “AR = EE, NGS. 2 se 48.4 NG. iii, U iv ‘% Mee Nee ie oe ies f NOBAT
Classification: (This form is to be used for fiaterial extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) assassination. I hope that paragraph 4 ok of the memorandum of March 24, 1964 &) o [cp 631] sent Mr. Rankin by the CIA is not the answer which the CIA intends to give us as to this inquiry." (Ibid.) act 7 The following day, as agreed by Warren Commission and Agency representatives, Samuel Stern of the - Commission visited CIA headquarters - in Langley, - Se va or BEE rey Pe by ee ee aan pets TTA. Virginia. Sterns’ memorandum of his visit reveals that c <i he reviewed Oswald's file with Raymond Rocéa. Stern indicated that Oswald's file contained those materials furnished Previously to the Warren Commission by the ctat? the file also contained: rom thc gi Hatin in hey: co ncante reports“ of November. 22 and-Neovember € a3 3 23, Prom -the-CEA's Udwieo-Gity-Stetion - ZA y a parses wie Rad of red oo, relating to the photograpis of “‘Ghe-unidenti- weet Ams Lae eth bey OT Eyre hae ay Amaeiry O Corn fd bret 3, Eye. BD fiedindividual—mistakeniy belt eved-to~be ”y 1S BL pet oe § Lee-Harvey Oswald ‘and thé reports on “thdse net by C/A a cables furnished on November 23, 1963. Lo : ; z. AOR AERS rs ermal F F rs wh Do meee ere paral A the Secret Service Pe ceheree hy" (Memoratid um. r Be ee a og a “eva. Stern noted that these messages were accurately paraphrased in the attachments to CD 674 provided the # Taryn Y of CD G3l 5 fckd thet Cc) A esoncludégk Ae Dhote etn oF anidesti rth 1 Adi Ziad A A hot Lep it~ os b ets sificati Boot Phe Poccehs of Somat g cinereus os 334 5 3 ome = c c “a é L "Classified by swivel 0074
GD = 7 a a 49° | Classification: se03 tT "(This form is to be used for material, extracted ed Warren ComftensGlbrr<enralitcemens}964* He alsa or reviewed the october 2, 1963 cable from CIA's Mexico City Station to © CIA headquarters reporting Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico city in addition, Stern examined the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA headquarters to the Mexico City Station reporting background infor- mation on Oswald." (Ibid.) Stern recorded that . these messages were 2p-r reR - alt paraphrased accurately as—set—fexth in the CIA! s January 31 memo to the Warren Commission reporting Oswald's Mexico City trip.r bid Lastly, Stern noted that Rocca provided him for his review a computer printout of the references to Oswald-related documents located in the Agency's eee electronic data storage system: “Te stated "there is 6 « no item listed on.the—printeut which {the Warren Com-. alos: 4 het . . . mission| res not been given. either in full text or. Mm » ! paraphrased." (Ibid...) Thus, by the 27th of March, a Warren Commission representative had been apprised of the circumstances surrounding the mysterious photograpn. Classification: Siti.8 g09072 Classified by derivation: THEA. We. = SAD, “Se, = “TA. SER. " NERARS.. OR, Shy het i GED SHS.
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) _— t : ° —— +, Luisa Calderon Approximately five hours after President - Kennedy's assassination a Cuban government employee in Mexico City named "Luisa" received a telephone ethene thes ah call from an unidentified man speaking Spanish. 4 De Zz ce {k (CIA Doc. FO 5S, 11/27/63, 173-615, attactment) [this call had been intercepted and recorded by the CIA's Mexico City’Station as the result of its LIENVOY (tel. tap) operation] (Ibid.) The Mexico City Station,as subsequently reported to CIA headquarters, identified the Luisa of the conversa- tion as Luisa Calderon, who was then employed in the Commercial Attache's office at the Cuban Consu- late. (Ibid.) During the course of the conversation, the unidentified caller asked Luisa if she had heard (of the assassination) ior: a the latest news. Luisa replied in a joking tone: ; re] "Yes, of course, I knew almost before Kennedy." (Ibid.) wee CIA's ™ Paraphrasing the [setephone intercepd] transcript, it states that the caller ‘fotd-teisa” a the person 4 a fay oc ase go 7 wnt lasts c's DSI CER = é ; & - oS tet hon On ‘ SFP cur ‘3 PAL : i ori Ciassification: SZC R21 Classified by deh Gy. Pr Ks . NERC NUR. NAB. RA Dc i NGG | NUR, Nate. uh, i aye ae ee
54 - ' Classification: (This form is to be used foe material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) apprehended for Kennedy's slaying was the "President of one of the Committees of the Fair 4 j2 v6 Play for Cuba." Luisa replied that she also knew “far A this? Luisa inquired whether the person being held for the killing was a "gringo." The unidenti- mie fied caller replied, "yes." Luisa told her caller that she had learned nothing else about the assassina- tion and. that she: had learned about the assassination obo only a little while ago. The unidentified caller commented: We think that if it had been or had seemed...public or had been one of the segregationists or against - intergration who had killed Kennedy, then there was, let's say, the possibility that a sort of civil war would arise in the United States; that contradictions would be sharpened... who knows pe-A Luisa responded: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three. (She laughs.) (Ibid, p.2) py Raymond Rocca, in response to a 1975 Rocke- feller Commission request for information on a ‘ possible Cuban conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy wrote regarding Calderon's comments: Classification: ‘GR “Gh “WE NR WER, NER "NRHA Ce. ae Zot A ey et ch rs
eeesion 2s iin form is to Fs us sed dsr material extracted rE 2S moots {s ped e ocuments ‘aterial ex racted =<contro 15) A-—conirolied Gdocumen Hs -55— Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto \ oA, f suggestion. of foreknowledge. This Is oo aan only item in the[intercept] Jcoverage] o£ 4 the Cubans and Soviets aftér the aSsassina- ~. ah € tion that contains the suggestion of fore- wi ae" ‘knowlege of expectation. (CIA Doc., Memorandum of Raymond Rocca for DC/OPS, co 5/23/75, Ps 151* (see p,SSa or®) ° Standing by itself, Luisa Calderon's cryptic e comments do not merit serious attention. Her words may indeed indicate foreknowledge of the assassina- SS. = Ea. tion but may equally be interpreted without such a Sinister implication. Nevertheless, the Committee e : > has determined that Luisa Calderon's case should have merited serious attention in the months following the assassination. In connection with the assassination, TaESa ee Ke 5 Calderon's name first surfaced on November 27, 196 in a cable sent by then Ambassador Mann to the. State (3) siU Department (CIA Doc. DIR 85573, 11/27/63). nr 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 is a secretary in Cuban Consulate here." (¢bid.) ae Rea Sectet 908675 Cjassitied BY derivation: ane Cc. Berk ‘ — - Ay
Sigssification: ee Ths fee is Q be used for materig extra Ns pam is $8 ie ied or oF Stial | extracted ——contralled do nts rom m GlA——con rs eg & ments 8) “55a~ *Regarding the issue of whether Calderon's comments > could reasonably be interpreted to indicate possible foreknowledge, the CIA position is as follows: During the Rockefeller Commission inquiry, Calderon’ s conversation was identified ao of Poney' af item of information from Agency' s] Cuban and Soviet [kelephone } lintercepec}ehat 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 1S mistranslated. Me entere (the first person of the verb enterarsede, past tense) should be translated as ".f{.I found out (or I learned) /about it -- the assassination/ almost before Kennedy /did7." 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). BW oft The Committee fundamentally disputes the narrow interpretation of Calderon's comments Ll, assigned by the Agency. It is the Committee's (eve position that translation of Me Entere as ; % either "I found out" or “I learned about” Pe 4 does not foreclose interpretation of Calderon's comments as a suggestion on her part of possible foreknowledge of President Kennedy's assassination. The ynterpretatio, prany euerk, s should have con | eft to Whe judedreSat oF the Bacren Comm $38 ion | net TALC (A | ny es aa Spar
Classification: __secret Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted (ign Gla ro tsolled SRLSP loterial extracted from ClA—controlled sacuments.) 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." Mann went on to state in urgent Dt terms: _ "They may, quickly be returned to Havana in N@igifeon, “URGE “Win Bm | Wim order to eliminate any possibility that Mexican 9) o \Sovernment could use them as witnesses." REISS ce . According to CIA files, Calderon made reservations to return to Havana on Cubana Airlines on December ll, 1963, less than four weeks after the - assassination. (CIA Doc. CSCI-316/01783-65, 4/26/63) one Calderon, Azcue and Mirabal were not arrested nor detained for questioning by the Mexican federal fere . police. However, Silvia Duran, a friend and associate of Calderon's and the one person believed to have ee TARO Cre Rot een cadhh MS moti ivethon phen ery ener ay Commit EE Te the Committee's belief that Mann was prompted ; to request the arrest of Calderon.on the basis of an Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte's allegation that Calderon -Was present at the Cuban Embassy when Oswald was allegedly given a sum of money presumably to carry out the assassination of President Kennedy. Go (CIA Doc. DDP4~ P74hy 1 June 1964, Attachment C) on ~ : ig ie “ a ed af * re ire sete x woe ae wed fe fa # clntaeatians — Secret 25.0527 | C. Berk. cet BY ss derivation:
‘< B Classification: Seceee __ i gem ig 18 be used for ansterial ax satiaster ram ClA—senireied documents.) -57= had repeated contact with Oswald. while he was in Mexico City, was arrested and questioned by the Mexican police on two separate occasions. (CIA “ ‘Dae, pe. ees ae : 11/27/63) During her second interrogation, Duran was questioned regarding her association with Calderon. There is no indication in the reinterrogation report & accounting for the questioning of Duran about Calderon. at) -€ (CTA Doc. ppp4-0940. 2/21/64) the information regarding Duran's interrogation was passed to the Warren Commission on February 21, 1964, more than two months after Calderon had returned to Cuba. (Ibid.) Information was reported to the CIA during May 1964, from a Cuban defector, tying Luisa Calderon to the Cuban Antelligence apparatus. The ?® e *. A defector, (Ant AmmuG-1. was himself a Cuban Intelligence Officer who supplied valuable and highly reliable information to the CIA regarding Cuban Intelligence operations. (CIA Doc., Memorandum of Joseph Langosch to Chief, Office of Security, 6/23/64) Calderon's Glassitication: —secres—__ 9.099078 O° ASA @ 2% Doc. DIR 84950, 11/23/63, CIA Doc. DIR 85471,72.* /B4- 5 rade oY Crass Wy “Seralise, BER ST IVATION: ‘S ey ;
Clastificatign: secret This form is tg Re used for material anastee Om Caen tralled desuments-) -57a~ ties to Cuban intelligence were reported to the Warren Commission on June 18, 1964. (CIA Doc. FOIA #739-319, 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. 800075 Qer yn mc eeCOSe9 : | CHES By SENG, Consequently, even though the Warren Commission was aware that. NER. Vee. «= SES EES.
{ ; BA dust (95% . os on [ prez, nodate—given) Calderon's presence in - 58 -. Classification: Lemraet (This form is to be used -for material extracted from ClA——controlled documents.) Calderon nad 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 oversight: in this regard may have forclased the Commission from © actively pursuing a lead of great significance. a ; os ; Calderon's.201 file reveals that she arrived in Mexico City from Havana on January 16, 1963, carrying Cuban Passport E/63/7. Her date of birth was believed to be 1940 (CIA Doc. Dispatch Mexico City was first reported by the CIA on July 15, 1963 ina 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 Stafet (for Cuban operations). (CIA Doc. pispater{ _}ro09s, 7/15/63) That dispatch had attached to it a report contain®&g » ° biographic data on personnel then assigned to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. At voage three of the ttached report Luisa Calderon was listed as Secretary of the Cuban Embassy's commercial office. The sac 909689 Classification: Classified by derivation: OES SE. RED, “Re, . QELS b.
59 - - Classification: RECT. (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) notation indicated that a report was pending on ; , _ No such report is present Calderon. (Ibid., p. 3 of attachment) ‘The in Calderon's. . 201 File. | Agency has attempted, without success, to locate , the report. Luisa Calderon's association with the Cuban DGI was first\recorded by the cra] on May ~5,; 1964. (CIA Doc.*Blind Memorandum of sa pergat @ 5 & 68%290 5/5/64) At ithat time, Joseph Langosch, Chief of Counterintelligence for the Special Affairs Staff, reported the results of his debriefing of the Cuban defector, AMMUG-L. The memorandum stated that ‘AMMUG-1 had no direct knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald or his activities but was able to provide . items of interest based upon the comments of certain Cuban Intelligence Service officers. (Ibid.) Specificaliy, -AMMUG-1 was asked if Oswald was known to the:Cuban intelligence services before November 23, 1963. é a Rog AMMUG~1 told Langosch “Prior to October 1963, Oswald 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: == —6 000881 “ ‘Classified by derivation: A UR. % i a a aS Neste, “AS NSE, Nipaaliad
: on™, Aw H LL? 2 Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) General De Intelligencia (DGI), specifically with Luisa Calderon, Manuel Vega Perez, and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez." (Ibid.) Langosch thereafter wrote that Calderon's precise relationship to the DGI was not clear. Asa comment to this statement he set forth the CIA cable and dispatch traffic which recorded her arrival in Mexico during January 1963 and departure for Cuba within one month after the assassination. (Ibid.) On May 7, 1964, Langosch recorded additional information he had elicited from AMMUG~1 regarding Oswald's possible contact with the DGI. ; - > FOIA 687-295, attach. 7%, 5/7/64) this memorandum. stated in part: ag Ge Luisa Calderon, since she returned to Cuba, has been paid a regular salary by the DGI even though she has not verformed any services. Her home is in the Vedado section where the rents are high. Source (AMMUG) has known Calderon for several years. Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Conmerce in the department which was known as the "“Empres@ Transimport." Her title was Secretary General of the Communist Youth in the devartment named in the previous sentence. (Ibid.) SECRET Classification: Classified by derivation: (CIA Doc Paragraph 3 of 7 oe 00.963: Se ee ee ae a Ge he % + 4 NRELFINR.