Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992? (44 USC 27107 Hodgsho14 DATE: 11-14-2017 N ational Archives and Records Administration Ca Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results Viewing/Ordering Information Back to Brief Results Back to Search Exit JFK Hits 1-1 of 1 Hit 1 of 1 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : FBI. RECORD NUMBER : 124-10087-10001 RECORDS SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-82555-5652 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : LEG, MX TO : DIRECTOR, FBI ' TITLE : (No Title] DATE : 11/06/1970 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : LHO, POST-RP, ASSOC, CUBAN, ACT CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/12/1996 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE Audit history for this Record Identification Form Hits 1-1 of 1 Back to Brief Results | | Back to Search | | Exit JFK National Archives and Records Administration webmaster@nara.gov Do pub thindtdaddod da i- 8 Finder /8979/jfisnew. bt Tal
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. DATE:, 11534752017 S . t OSA FPMA (1 CFR) 101-11.6 ; | . ~~ ' —_ UNITED STATES GOMR:RNMENT “4 OM R ~ & é Memorandum ><; DN DIRECTOR, FBI (105-22555) (eee 11/8/70 +s TO : i: ATE: bey am / a EGAT, MEXICO CITY (105. Gz nue ay WN FROM\\ : Cote ldhabarstkealedtbe BSCROPEY A 7 “eS B® BARVEY“OSWALD 7 p,/)~ ADVISS > o - If - KR ~ CUBA Lippert . Fe er . Jo af “ —_ $ ee : : AHO Fi Fy as . f. Reference Mexico City letter 10/14/62 in OSWALD Ycase; E Mexico City letter 7/3C/58 and Havana letter ¢/23/58 entitled, S"TERESA PROENZA; SM - C;'' and Mexico City letter and LEM 16/5/70 entitled, "JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA; I85 - CUBA" (Bufile 105-115385) .a PPWREC C PROENZA's full name appears to be MARIA TERESA PROENZA PROENZA. She is currently said to be in. Havana, “Cuba, after spending several years in Santa Clara Province under near house arrest, She now appears to have more freedom. She is the sister of the wife of JORGE LUIS ROJAS MeNDOZA, . = a Mexican employee of the Cuban Aviation Company in Mexico City. ¢ 5 Mer brother ALVARO ESTANISLAO PROENZA PROENZA resides in : iy Philadelphia; “Pennsylvania, and is the subject of an IS - CUBA MM i e ¢ Cc. | o Pee investigation, TERESA PROENZA was the secretary of the Mexican jj ‘comminist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior to the revolution. She #/ became an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City follow- ; ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO t 5 in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and a "slave of tthe Cuban ~ 0 communist government." {/ The following information is extracted from the letter ‘ | and LHM submitted by Mexico City on 10/5/70 concerning JORGE a LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the efforts of his family to arrange oe, for his sister MARGOT RCJAS MENDOZA to leave Cuba and a. ri ee family in Mexico: U enpy $66¢,S¢0 GCL IF = aS According to information furnished b fia a a $/21/70, the RCOJAS family has become very embit fix apout th &o@ Cuba situation and Mrs. ROJAS, whose full name, pol CARIDAD SOO A 6 Bureau WA eae aaa re “ (1~105-135744) (ALVARO PROENZA mong 7 53 He) ‘(1'-64-£9479) (TERESA. PROENZA PRCENZA (1-Foreign Liaison Desk) O (1-Philadelphia) (105-11156) (ALVARC PROENZA PROENZA) (In 3-Mexico City (1-100- 1234) (TERESA PRCENZA PRCENZA ) Ce 105- cnr oA ROED Lon G5 4k ities : ~ Savings Bonds Regularly on “phe ay bl Savings Plan CLASSEPIOATYON | ACTION
Released under the John fF. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 . % . Pa ' MEX 105-3702 "CACHITA" PROENZA PROENZA DE ROJAS, complained ‘that Cuba has become a police state and that Cuban authoriti 1o7hth Bee family "all tied up." ROJAS and his wife tolapucr 1974 S7zthat -] a Cuban communist named JUAN MARINE is a-friend™of the family. On one trip to Cuba, CACHITA ROJAS asked him to look into the situation of her sister TERESA PROENZA to see how it could be straightened out. MARINE recently visited Mexico "incognito" and informed the ROJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily good but that TERESA was once under a death sentence because she had dealt with LEE HARVEY OSWALD while assigned to the Cuban Embassy prior to the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY. . Her iends _interceded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS tolapts ay oot MARINE warned them not to tell the. Cuban - CI] ' Emba ae xico City that he had spoken to. them about this matter. The source Stated that JORGE ROJAS and his wife do not know how to cope with the present situation. They fear going to Cuba and they are speaking out against the Cuban revolution in a most forthright manner. The bitterness dis- played by ROJASS wife f ceeds any that the source can recall in the past. en) The source stated that some years ago, as best he could recall, he heard JUANA LUISA PROENZA, a sister of CACHITA who died some years ago, telling a similar story of how TERS PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the Cuban "mbassy. At the time TERESA was employed at the embassy, she lived with JUANA LUISA and another sister. Within the family it has always been said that JUANA LUI worried herself to death after TERESA was ordered to Cuba. | Ww) The Mexico City Cffice has conducted a review of references to TERESA PROENZA especially those dealing with the OSWALD investigation and it is noted that as set forth in ; exico City letter to the Bureau 1/24/64 in the CSWALD case Pa.) zy 18 and MEX 19 both of whom have furnished reliable infor- mation in the past, reported on 1/13/64 that'they had conversed with ELIZABETY CATLETT MORA, Bufile 100-395934,. who told them of a conversation she held with TERESA PROENZA, the Cultural Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.City’: According to MORA, TERESA, PROENZA had told her. ‘that: -OSWALD walked in "cold" to the Cuban Zmbassy and the first person’ he - talked to was PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not A Rng “she turned nin BDoclId: 32149125 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote), DATE: 11-14-2017 het . os cn ‘ . . ~ aw . - on ~” Conti tial | £t: ‘would appear that PRON INGA was able to return from Cuba for avi to_tie ed following her dismissal and departure “in 1/64.4 hs venice? ee Fag SS aah nesiceteo bes Yost dated 1/14/65 the CIA reported on the in- vestigation by the heey tee ak of old Line communist JCAZUIN OCRDCAUI . MESA Th-this{ revort, it was indicated that a TERESA PRCENZA had y; er ested lat Uher'shome_and was being held incommunicaco, . - . ae ee £1 review of the foregoing material indicates that LK} TERESA PR 4A got into trouble with the Cuban government more as a result of her criticism of the handling of the CSWALU matter following the assassination of President KENN#DY than . because of anything she did when SWALD visited the Cuban ‘ Embassy. Her harsh criticism of nigh Cuban officials (the Ambassador and Foreign Minister) was case. git well known in the embassy and hardly helped her case. it fails to indicate that she did anything for CSWALD that wgyid stantiate Tk the remarks made by JORG# NCJAS and his wife tofine 137#that Ww) &) | TERZGA PROENZA had nearly been executed because. her activities during CSVALD's visit to the Cuban fmbassy in 1¢ 33 In the Ric absence of additional information regarding this activity, no {| further investigation is contemplatec at this time. it is noted that it is not feasible.to dcixectly interrogate JORGE RE ROJAS or his wife. However oo 197kwill closely follow this A] matter with them and any acidiVional, significant developments will be called promptly: to the attention of the Bureau. X Cne information copy is being furnished to Philadelphia | in view fo) their j terest in ALVARO PROETZ Proncerning ALVARO PROENZA Piex 19 dorted on 7/2/73 tha ( " recently visitec | the ROJA pare y in Mexico City and CACHZ rked that ALVARG said he was surrounded by "gusanos" (referring to Cuban exiles in a derogatory manner) in Philadel phia.9gy ORRUT! CONF AL ConfdMential | DoclId: 32149175 Page 4