wag oe e t \ ) t wh, 18 Feb 65 mE, sls, 10 Mar 65 Ca What connection has MOMRERSCRILD? | with this P.O. Box 7? a, we 15 tar _ | wh, A Ase Check rece Willdas R. POSNING (sp?t) -— geORET ne oo, SECRET EMMA 25401 (Ref: DIR 88680 ~- para 256 above) In compliance with Ref, Mexi Sta contiiaces to hold several hundred hot reels covering Sov ani Cub Enb duriug perlal €2 Nov - 135 bec 63. / Sta Mexi would like to know if these reels can nev ba erased for rt-use, or if theses should be sent to Hqs for retention. MEXI 2741 (Ref: DIR €1342 - para 410 above and MEXI 2430 - para 411 above) OLENVY reporte P.O. Box of refs is mail eddreas of Almacenes Favier, large French-omed department store in Guadalajara. : HQ 13KEO (Refs HSVA 25401 - para 413 q above) Ple forvard reels mentioned in ref, with any identifying end explanatory date available, to Hos for retention. (On copy of d4cpateh is Annie G.'s writing ~ 1 Apr 65 Shipping reels to Eqs w/nierofilm sf transcripts.) MEMO to FBI froo WOFACT ~ A usually rellable source in Mexi City provided se with a copy of an annonymous letter he Sov Epp whica refers to OSWALD and which is enclosed tor your, info. / The files of this ofrica™cantain no info on William R. BOBKIVG (774sp?7?). 508 CSCI 316/01398 65 yg fapdo- : | DORKING PEXI 016 (Refs, 225.156 - 777) Correct that covera:e Sov Enb bets fas past (LIMITED and LILYRIC). [Correct that PSPRIMS visitors nav rare; / Suggest coment to ODENVY evidence thet vord has éocten around that PASWING Maxi aware identities PBPRICD visitors to Sav Exb, vhich probable deterrent to all but extresely neive. / CURTIS believes wide distribution Warren Coz report ca OSWALD case eculd have caused a decrease in visitors, Cub Enb Long distance. Woman Outside (¥9) in English iafoirs the Cub Exb there is a long Lignviy distance call from Chicago for Azb ARMAS. Man Inside (MI) says to wait a moment. Leter WO in French asus if ARMAS speaks French, ARMAS says-no, M WO continues in French and says ane is speaking for Sr. GAN (7) of Chicago, in the United States, ani continues in the sane language asking if Silvia DURAN was a friend of OSWALD, the person who assassinated is : President Kennedy. ARVAS does not understand her language and in Spaaish says that Silvia vorked for awhile in the Exbassy, but quite a while ago she left her work here and has nat. been seen since. WO continues in French and asxea if Silvia returned to Cuba. ANAS says no that she is e Mexican and therefore resides in Mexico but be dees not know her, address, ; WO, in her langunse, eek if Gilvie waa @ friend of GLWALD. Ar/3, without unteratending, ’ gays "BL" (saying "SL" to everything) andl aeka who in-talking. Wo dees not unteratan, but insists in mowing if sha (Silvia) was a friend of GJWALD. AKAAS says of “eul..eul”., ajé...muy bien. sf...8f sefiorita (it seems that what be is eaying is not being understood}. WO continuss in her language which ARS ds22 not understand ant says that he knows notbing more and that all he is saying is that “the Sra. DURAN no longer works in the Embassy and they don't knew her addreas". WO again in her language aske if SILVIA was a friend of OSWALD and 4f it is "verdad® (she says this in Spanish). ARMAS says "si..sefiora a1." WO eays thank you. ARMAS says "Buenos dias...eh...{" ‘ a cf They ot hy a Mata FORM
14-00000 ers | 4 4%, dite $@ thie wounn?? ee TIT OOLYaT? “4 a,). @ mute 4a af cot padres peyrot? tre ‘lo’ nniew about Rilvie being | Steticn OSWALD and 2 ovher young Amricane. At ' H . ' i ‘ : { : | ‘ , ' A a ‘ 1 , ee: ee | vEXt 3832 » LIZERVOT reported 15 Jun 63> that unidentified woran epaakine Prench called Cub ‘Ash WEIARLEZ Aruna froa Chica on tabal? of a RA Me, GAN (phon) anvad if Eilyia IPAM” wee {rlend of OOVALD and If she haf resumed ta Cua, Ath whe drag nyt untaretand mich French @614 DIVAN used to worn at. Enh, noglenunr S78, ‘hat ete reathag Mayi wut. haldraa not bnevé hear efidrena, Wersan avain mead if JAA was filand GUAALD, Amb did not wnidaratand question but answered yes. / Pounhing taps. i i Hl ; ' | ' i ' ' | ! ' ' ' ; EVA 26294 (Refs MEXI 3632 - pare 419 avovre) Transmitted herewith is the taps onntioned in referenced cable. ; | YEMO to FBI from WOFACT ~ reporting info in paras 419 an4 hao above. ser 316/c2654-65 EXCELSIOR - Widow of OSWALD has been bit by ber new hustend and ive ‘threatens suicide. Yennath Jess POXTER is now in the game jeil aa FULT. ; ol BATA pase _ The Ravolver and the Gun of OSWALD, Conf iscaped. DIR 52683 (Ref: DIR 57610 ~- not filed; not abatracted) If suitable access developed AZCUE ger ref, Eqs interested any new or aftermath info that can be brought to light CGGWALD's visa application at Cub Exb Mexi Sept 63, THE MEWS ~ 1 pags on PEMEDY on the zecond enniversary of his death..... Thausands of ; Memorials Immortaliz: Yennedy.....@arina Oswald Wants to Forget (now Mra. Menneth Portar .... | sbe is publishing a book)...Flowsrs Mark Assassination Site...Gov Connally Can't Porgat Tragedy | MEMO OP CONVERGATION ~ Blenn GARRO de PAZ with Charles Thomas (Political Officer) ~ Elena ; Baid abe had met OGWALD.....7 In 6 apt 63, Bfter her return fron abroad, she went to a party ‘at the home of Ruben DURAN, who is married to her cousin. Elenita accompanied her. She met party she was discourage from talking with him..../ Other gueste vere Cuban Consul, ILO Genera, CLARK Plores, Silvia DURAN, who she later Jaarmed vas OCHALD's mistrens while he was here, Bailio CAPPALLIDO, and a Latin American neveo wan with red hair, / In Mov ©% when identity of esasnsin Lecara Imown, aba and ter deuwiter went to Cub Bub end eboited "asnagain” ant other ingulia at the ataffe there. / shortly afterward, she and her déughter were visited by a friend, “Manuel CAKVILLO, then * \fficial in Secretariat of Bobernacion, and were told he hed orders to escort them to a small “and obscure hotel in center of town. They were kept there for eight days under pretext that they were in dancer. When she told CARVILLO she wanted to go to Amer Emb and explain “what she imew of OSWALD, she was told that the Arer Erb was full of Communist spies. vo Some of the other pecple at the #8 riy were taken to Veracruz to be vEro® sacted” by Gey. LO Z Arias. Raten DURAN is “protected” by Ger, CLANK Pleres and now driving a big car and looking very prosperous. / Kany Corn wanigtes telieve assansination was result of Comale plot ¢ngineered ‘by Castro.
J See para 404 above *,er p.blish anything on OSWALDTT ‘cg Igune Lin Levine been queried further?? , WD :7adt “urine fs biding info. % ru GAs, noe 2G te] . VEVUINCI Sote to Stan ¥ froc 005: ‘shat an ivasination ehe has! Shculd we sext to Frist - Sian replied: Suggest sendiss. Toatre bave beer stories arcend torn about all thia, end fuocas ia not caly perso: ske ton ‘alved 39, / Migdail has a little folder into which he S™=rreving wee #aveae Sel hzya 22 Can ring relating OS-ALD to the Cubens; wher. he gets enough of them I suppose ke vill try +o co a dep) plece, / If nerory serves me, didu’t LICCOWTZ reer to OSWALD and the local eZtists % Cubans in one of her squids? / Icaac Don Levine is writing @ took about ths assagainatica; Higdet) the Cuban connectio as be progresses in his x3ag meas. IDL had long task Varina not long ago in Russian; MDL 19 MasSiaa g2viso enigre, aud reputable ecbolar ~ and left convinced that she hiding info, . wer Lp per" n° Wrext 5621 S inte in ra 4e5 above. resorted to Has..../ Station checking CAMEO state :.enta -,ahte of wueriea of LICNION, LICHANE/1 ete 77 LIGuIGn, OIE and Other sources. wil t>4ta, B racic and Ruben DURAN ere cousins of Bee. GARGS Ce PAZ. 4 Cherian fhles on ATIVE and CARRALLIDO - arre@ciuily LIBSVCY daring Sept-Oct 63 ' i secrel a cable results, (NUE from COG to Aunle| and Watson: Pleo ask Thocas if he'll “follow up"; get questions fren Annie G. Letts discuss.) . (Reference PEMORABIUM OF CONVERSATION, /10 Dec 65) between Elena GARRO de Paz and Cherles Thomas, Political Officer: On 25 Dec Elena discusced her alleged encounter with CGWALD. Also present were Thocas' wife, and Elena's daughtes, Elenite, Further info was given subsequently oa 9 Jan 66. During thie latter conversation, Blena adaitted she had gac:e to ArEsb on an earlier occasion with her daughter and woth¢rein-luw and talked to two Erb officers (preausably fron LecaAT) about thie matter, She sada cineg the Sub of ficarve did not eiva mich credence to anythin, they said, they did not bother te aive a very complete gteory. The following info gupplements and do. sont ingtences correcta that qiven.in tbe meso of Dec 10. /1.  Lyitia, Noracto, and Huben _ DURAN are all cousins of Diena,. Silvia is married to Horacis, a weak ran, who was converted to Comsunisa by Ricanio GUERRA. Slena bas uotbing to do vith Silvina whom she detests and consicers a whore. Ruben ves born in U.S. and cerved in U.S. army during war. held at how: of Ruben. / Elena believes date of party wat 2 or % dent, 0%, fev dave terore 3 not Sure of date. i? party ComiLO wore a black @ glared @) “a8 floor. Tvo youny Arerican ¢¢ : one was very tall and silencer and had long blond hair uk v ang @Cross forehead, caunt face and leg protruding chins ¢ther was tall, short light brown hair...All three were ebviously Asericans and did not niz or dance with other peonle. The three were friends, . because Blena sav tren by chance =he next day walking down the street tecetker. / Altnough Elena tad returned fros Europe in June er July, she had already ret Eusebio AZCUE ant knows positively te was et party. On another occasions (not clear wheths the party in question), she attended a party where ohe sav Buseblo AZCUS; Tr : cob ulry Was =) CApDs ° Jade Lihat Winkngt Tel hair. (ness last @ vere not at th® ial party es waa etatead tre 19 Lec rend.) URraii tle and AZLUE, with olners, were in heated Ciseuwnlon on that gensasion about Yersedy ani taey cune to conclusion toeat the caly solutiun waa to Will him, Zlene said CARLALLICO is known as a Castro ayant; he had been to hed China, Sor Uniun, and , wany tives to Cuba. Poellowing aacesainaticn ke spent a year in Cuta, thea got a you teaching |. at Rutgers Universidy through Dr. Jose VASWEZ Amaral, formerly witn Rockefeller Feundation in H.Y¥. and vho is now a & professor at Rutzers. The day efter assassinaticn, Elenita encountered Gra. de AZCUZ in Senborns. Cn seeing her, Sra. de AZCUS hurried out of store. j AZCUB was called tack to Eabana artes acaazsination and his wife followed shortly... / ' Ls it aS ont * _ie SE wi oe
hb. feartin.e) 25 Dee. t fl $ “1aen pio * of Bhesa and Blenite Cheep “ier cig GUEPRA and Rosario 32 GOTFFA, Whe sre they erred ew Cyards oitalges r house? 23% a Stantiiy v Copel aunty « Yaene pag Le precede? one. TBST “400%, Canta Blcan, Diin't WH be aralin aistress was A SECRET Oe ; a es : we i : : ' ) SeeRET my ph . i H 5 t ' oot i : | others present at DUPAN party were Evrecio end E41 viag Lydia DUPAT; Elena's philocowmmist © sister, Diva GUCHIERO; Gen, Joat Jeava CLAN Ploree and mistreca, & Guat worans @ madical doctor from balinie Kvpitels @ young Ararican couple, both fat and blend, who wars spending their honeymouwn in Mexiy a WG yr old Meaxt woran in a red dreos; and « stranus man who claimed to ba Mexican but did not loom or talk like one. His first nane was Alejandro and he Gub- . sequently wrote Zlenite several lowe Istters. Sane sumed these in to the Arey Ue . Ricardo CUERPA and wife Rosario CALIRLLANGS were uapposed Co come to party but dechined to .- come when they learned she (Elena) would be there. / On Sat., 2% Nov 63, Elena's brother drove her and Elenite to Cub Exb at 3 pn. der brother was embarrassed by their behavior and drove a block up the street to vait for then after letting them out.: Ths two women then went inside gate and shouled “assassin” and other insults, Later that day a friend, Manuel CALVILLO took then to s-all hotel for safety.....Sinc® Elena could not remember name of botet, wurweser showas to the part of town where Bbs recenbered it te be - Vermont Hotel, Calle Vernont 29, one ani a half plocks west of Insurgentes just couth of Vieducto. Elena - said hotel is owaed by soceamme fron San Luis Potesi and used by business7en from that area. She and Blenita did not resister. CALVILLO registered them as relatives or friends of hb fron San Lule Fotos. / Slena and Blenita sav newspapers with OSWALD's picturs and mew they seen him at party. Whea CALYILLO visited then at hotel, she told him she wanted to report to Amer Emb what she knew about OSWALD'e conrecticns with local communietea and with AZCUE, CALVILLO said she shouldn't go teceavze the Aver Bub vas Tull of Coniinist opies, When ohe returned to ber howe the following week, guards were pated oiteids it./ tnen 245 rave ter sister, Lava CURIVERA, ud ¢@ wre, de CUP TUE BA the latter wes terrified tecause of OTTALD'® presence ab tna wen vary anury with TAN ns tanuausve sha thyiet they had taven “be mivad in the asnarsinatioa pl for many. Abert, em OSL Ease bea Fon ite, for Bea,?) da Cal LAME OUSE wan rwlied tn ry 40% Silat VN eh OS Ld beat, bee TT anh en WAIT RTOWN Wraaih pacar Th pavaad et OL L9 bid flat baws tt Uy, ASE TTT CAT TARR OUE TAT ETE TT a ad TT na, ecrunpany Vane bo tha hear Bay Lo JALL what BIA Fiaw of Gd, / Gnortly afier asseasina- tien, Frtlia CAPEALLIVO, took UIVANS ta Jalaga, Varaarun end rape them out of, tha way for @ while until the initeatl shock of auansnination wore off. CANMBALLIVA has conneat dione with tha Univeraity of Veracruz Ireas, / Dhortly attar annassination, an Avar vysan, Juna COB, cane and syent esveral Cayn in Zlenats house. Une was sent vy thelr mutual friend, Runice ODIO, a Custe kican who in now Jun COLN's rowiwate and who wad furmarly the mistress of VAYQUEZ Anoral whea he vas with Rovkefeller Foundation, and Ersesto ds ls PENA. June CoER erpreassed interest in the assessinition. Sha succeeded in getting Deva GUERFZAO drunk one night, and the letter told ali she mew about OSWALD and the party at the nome of Ruben. COBB then wanted then to tell what they knew to the Amer authorities. Claiming to be CIA agent, she acvised arainst going t%2 Aner Exb and urged thes to go to Texas to tell their : etory. Falling in this, she said she would arranges a metting in a quiet cafe with the Chief of the CIA in Mexico. The ometing did not materiglize, however, becaune aha vas asbed to leavezka Zlenats house. CORB hni kicred the cat. / At end of Jan Ob, Ruben‘ visited Blena, His said he waa going to visit the JS. and wanted her to protect him aa mich an pone ible whlde ba weo avey.../ Gin sonthn alter assassination, whan sho waa talking, to Nov PALOUAIGN of They stayed there until the follicwing Friday and hardly left their room. ' ‘ Swe tT ot £ “ie