Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Ise 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/14/201 . ; Identification Form meee Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10313-10007 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  100-395934-NR TT SS Sw eee Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: WC TITLE : DATE: 04/16/1964 ‘PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : . ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 12/23/1997 OPENING CRITERIA : _ INDEFINITE COMMENTS : ' Docld: 323113591 Page 1
VReleased ander thre Wohn-P. Kennedy Assaseination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2102 Hote)... DATE: 11-14-2017 , vA . O SECRET OF =~ ...Lmont - Mohr ~ Rosen -, Deloach - Sullivan =- Malley ~ Branigan April 16, 1964 BY COURIER SERVICE ey Se Sh . scare _ - Henthan Fel bet BY bt ped bet 1 = Rose oye Honorable J. Lee Rankin. __., i> Stokes “General Counsel — - oi a The President's Comission 200 Maryland Avenue, N. 5. Washington, D. C... Enclosed are two copies of a memorandum in the _ Lee Harvey Oswald case dated April 10, 1264, classified os "Secret." The enclosed mencorandun deals erst the comments gy > and speculations of one Elizabeth Catlett? = naturalized Mexican citizen of Anerican’ o¥: ho is has presently a member of the Communist Party of aCOe mA 4 PACLASS IFIED EXCEP? HOGH We Hd 6€ & In regard to Mora's renark concerning th: importance of locating press references to Oswalc': activities in New Orleans, Louisiana, before he went to Russiz, our report dated March 9, 1964, at New Orlenis, Louisiana, sets forth the negative results of our review of New Ortc 2s newspapers for the period immediately prior to Osw: ‘s departure for France on September 20, 1959, Investisstion has previously established that Oswaid received his passport on September 10, 1959, at Los Angeles, Celifornia, and was discharged fron the United States Mavi:c Corps in California on September 11, 1959, . Additional *..crmation concerning Oswald's activitics in the Rew Orle:.s area in September, 1959, is set forth in our report in the Oswald case dated December 10, 1953, at New Orleans. It arvears that Oswald checked into the Liberty Hotei in New Orleansron Lh pie September 17, me ee BS bere. CHOW OTHER UAT LOMOORTALKED x kare Ny ARTO Ry eeTPeEhS TN enone ater Rosen ee Ses: jalipak: le { ie sageQt G2). 4A Holmes _7 Sandy Docld: 32311391 Page 2?
Release inder F vonn f. Renned aes You'will observe that Mora has been: i LS because of her illness, our source has been unable ta’ : - " .. obtain additional data concerning her comments despite DS + persistent efforts to this end. Our source is still ae . hopeful of developing further details and additional es information will be furnished to you as it igs developed. (4. : “oo For your information, copies of nelose “memorandum. have ‘been ‘furnished t t rar guclosed “Agency in ‘view of its. interest i bo o the Central Intelligence OO in Russia... p Sawai @ activities while "0. aa ‘| _ __ The enclosed letterhead as from Mexico City... It - 7 gets forth speculations of Mora that Oswald could be linked «. to Mexico only through his activities prior to going to . USSR in. 1959, Mora indicated that tie in to Mexico may lie in press references to Oswald's activities in New Orleans —*". . for the few days he was in that area prior to going to Russia | ; in September, 1959, when he was 19 years old, She also said : : that Oswald knew Mary Louise Fatterson, (an American negress = . presently attending the Friendship Schoo in USSR) when he Was. rin Russia; hence we are furnishing copies of letterhead to .. | LUCIA, "Our sources i ontact with Mora (the highly placed a! (W)fitex- 8 and Mex~-19)fafticipated spending a few days,with Mora,. - 2 swho has been i11, during first two weeks of Apriljhowever,’: |. | Du} ; they cannot assure us that Mora will be well enough for Bole _..' rvecontact as she has been ill for a long time, | an I | k Docld: 32311391 Page 3