owner to owner, beginning with ‘the first, have been unsuocessivl. “Surveillance. of the Cuban Hubassy is being maintained in. ‘the hope that ‘the J vehicle. wil reappear «- Other - ‘lines. of. investigation- -have- also been. —- ae a ian | followed out, for exaitpLe » Photographs of persons seen entering ‘or leaving : the Cuban Embassy at ‘about ‘the time when Gutierrez was there have been. . examined, Gubierres has tried to regain access to the Cuban’ nbassy. s so. ad ae Sn that he: can determine. ‘whose credit he was  Anvestigating, ¢ etc., 2. au sO" oes far with negative. results. oe | 26 Statement of Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte. ~ On November 26, 1963 > Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte 2a 23-year-old ; : : ; . no Wicareguan secret agent, at the time seeking to penetrate the Castro - forces in Cuba by going to Cuba fron Mexico to | receive ‘guerrilla training - ne aE al 7 - AE on the. island, came. tio the American Bubassy ain: Mexico (City and declared” a 2 ©. : we “that he had ‘witnessed Lee Harvey Oswald receiving a pavott to ‘ai the”. : 7 ie : : ae ” President in the: Cuban inbassy, on: | Septenber 1B. “ kvarado said ‘that Oswald” ae oe! " wais ‘given $6, 500, $5,000 as’ compensation, and $1,500. for expenses. Alvarado... : : : recited that at noon on the 18th of Septenber he went, to the Cuban Consulate: oS : to ‘turn some passport. photogréphs over to the Consul, _Basebio Ascue, to be. i . . - used in the fabrication of false travel docments : $0 ‘that: ‘he could Leave. o * - ag . "Mexico for Guba. He. sat in the ‘waiting Pony and’ saw a group ‘of spproxinately ee S "eight persons enter the Consulate and go into’ Ascoe!s office and noticed | o that someone other than, Ascue was sitting at Ascust s desk. He ‘then asked . a Cuban Consulate employee where ‘the bathroom Was , was ‘told, and’ ‘proceeded: ‘out of the waiting room in the > given direction, While standing by the bathroom door ’ he said, he saw a group of three parsons conversing in a patio a few fect away. One was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hair Merete ee ee me - oe we ce at nem niee Ene ee ee aang eens enema menntenameeruse sieccineee ante Primers oy wpaeemmaar—aec:iemreys ye san amcarmicgaes — apremary argc cemearss ome at ene Oty RIOR HW 53244 Docld: 322709897 Page 14
HW 332744° _ was an agent “for Wicaraguan ‘anti-Communist forces. American Antelligence’ eg "assignment of his to penetrate the Castro guerrilla training operations . wey " ae in Cuba. Apparently Alvarado was doing this on his on. . (Uitinately, . oS 7 A ‘this part of ‘Livaradots: story was to remain unshalen *pepanentay he ‘Was s the, 2h, . indeed. On his way to Cuba” and had had dealings with the Cuban Consulate | = _ an Mexico, City in connection with preparation of false travel documents. s = Whether he was doing this as a ‘soldier: ‘of fortune, out of conviction for. be. able ‘to! “ command a higher price fran the. Nicaraguan and other anti= oe y Communist intelligence agencies for his information, we do not. iow. 10h or ~ The comment made on Alvarado by % the CIA field man on Novenber 26 was, we a ae tHe is’ ‘young, quiet ; very serious s person, who: specks with conviction," ee _ mows _enough. ‘English. to understand conversation." ee a . Alvarado was, of course » immediately subjected to intensive oe interrogation and investigation. Apparently. even before he appeared at the Embassy, on the o6th of Noveuber ‘American intelligence Inew that he. checked back with Wicaragua and had this fact confirmed but learned that ‘the Nicaraguans. had no knowledge of Alvarado being in Mexico ab that "tame, and they said that his presence there, as far as they were con-° cerned, was unauthorized. They added that they knew nothing about any ve . the Castroite cause or to place himself in a position vinere he. would later oe \ aA 2 we Both the Mexican and American authorities: continued to interrogate ao am “ana ex cross~check Alvaradots ‘story. on Novenber 30 the CTA was “informed by - the: Mexican police that Alvarado had adni.tted ‘to them in writing that his - whole story about Oswald was ; false. He ‘said that he had not seen Oswald - ab all, and that. he. had not seen anybody paid money in the Cuban Ebasay. He also. admitted that he never tried to telephone the American a Babasey . . oo maid : _ . | - DocId:32209897 Page 15
2 it was on a Tuesday, Septenber 17, rather. than September 18. (Alvarado oa -: i did not Imow it at the time » but. the L7th would meke it even more = * . oe oe unlikely” thant ‘the 18th. “on September 17” Oswald appeared at the’: weer oh Beare | Louisiana State Unemployment Commission in New Orleans and also cashed a check fron the Texas Employment Commission at the Winn- Dixie Store Nomber Uy25 in New Orleans.) On the basis of the poly- = “graph results “and the: qualified retractions made ly Alvarado when — ° he saw the results, and on the basis of discrepancies. which aypeared . One) Seren Pe een ree ee en Cee te a fern ed ne ec re . tee nn vite ot vos ore LA in his story, ‘the CIA in “Mexico City concluded thet in all probability he way lying, and that the reasons he gave to the Me fexican police for . lying were ‘probably sincere. No further investigation of the Alvarado Te en ioe roy incident was carried on subsequent to the foregoing. . me, oan . me . a ed Fe ee anette dee Tab ead wed Wy feet more x . a  ) Seep a re earns 2 op LR Sr EN HW 53244 Docld:32209897 Page 16
oe, : i. - a a ; ete or oe “aut. oy a a . 7 ‘and they were therefore ‘aropping him, “meopoldot is also reported to have" ea ; 7 . said "Leon" would do anything, saying that Leon had "Laughed at" the oa , : ..Cubans,, claiming they. had ‘no guts." "It would be easy. to 122 ‘Kennedy | “after the Bay of Pigs," he allegedly told Leopoldo. - | Mrs. Odio is reported to have suffered a severe pshchological , feasts cn tee a e's reaction at her place of exployment when she first : saw Lee Harvey Oswald! s “picture on television after “the assassination, ‘presumably bécause she was - oe struck by the fear that her own group was somehow involved in ‘the Kidding oo oe, he et bas | of the President 4 . ; wo oo On November 1, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald mailed a ‘Letter to the FE Communist Party : in New York city. Among other things he mentioned that : he had attended a mesting § in Dallas: on October 235 1963 of a group headed 7 i PoC. a oo by General Walker;— investigation has ied to the conclusion that this must st “ a oe - have been an. shti-Castro necting. ee Le with the ‘sole sxoeption, of Mrs. aio — and’ even she is now a ae . : oe ; = s apparently changing her story -_ every nenber of the’ Dallas anti-Castro: 7 ee 7 : SO Cuban community who has been ‘questioned on ie Harvey Oswald denies ever | ‘ ee - . having observed him ‘or having had any contacts with: him whatever: prior to a ve on . the assassination. Nor has any ‘member of that ‘coumuniity come forward to | a - volunteer any information as to contacts with Oswald. . However, Mrs. a a oe “Odio has been checked ‘oat thoroughly through her paychiatrist and friends, a cou and, with one exception 2 Layman who speculates that she may have en subconscious tendencies. to over-dramatize or exaggerate — -- the evidence is unanimously favorable, both as to her character and reliability and as to her intelligence. — She is under peychiatric treatment for a ‘disease . f . e . & pa . ~ - eee nee ete a ore emer ae teen oe centers mamren ae ee ee —— HW 532744 DBocld:32209897 Page 17
. rare in American wamen, but apparently common amonz Buropean women, known ~~ 7 as "grand hysteria," the primary symptom of rhich is occasional blackouts. . ab ao - According: to-her psychiatrist, the symptans cefinitely do not include ~ ce “hallucinations. It was one of these blackouts that she had when she first ; observed Oswald on television after the assassination. | Moreover » Some of ‘ the details of irs. Odiot s story, as it was first related to the FEL Pe en Oe ee ek ee PE! = - - i a after the assassination - unfortunately, in a rather brief interview -« a mo - heck with what we now Imow about Oswald. For ‘example: he was described - “ as quiet and reticent » an impression Oswald usually gaves "Leopoldo" | later told Mrs. Odio they had checked back on him in New Orleans ’ véhicch is where Oswald.in fact had come from; Leopoldo sixtid he ‘was told by New | | Orleans that "Leon" was "Loco," a texm Carlos Bringuier may very well have. ; : - - used to describe hims and most importantly, of course, the name "Leon oo . ny a Oswalalt is: “80. ) close! to "Lee: Oswald" as to raise the: ‘strongest: suspicions. ae Even if it was only: tLeon," there is a similarity. We contemplate taking Bee lirs. Odiots deposition at the earliest opportunity, in an effort to | The evidence here could lead to an anti-Castro Cuban involvement ' dn the assassination on some sort of basis as this: Oswald could have — a become known to the Cubans as being strongly pro-Castro. He made no / | " secret, of his sympathies, and so the anti-Castro. Cubans must Have realized - that the Law~enforcenent authorities were also awe re of Oswald!s feelings _ ‘and’ that therefore, sf he got into trouble » the public would also | ‘learn of them. The anti-Cuban group may even have “believed the fiction HW 532744 Bocld: 322709697 Page 13