13-00000 413. klk, 415. 416, 417. 418, 18 Feb 65 10 Mar 65 What connection has MORRENSCHILD?E with this P.O. Box ?? 18 Mar 8 Apr Check name William R. BORKING (sp??) 8 June “15 June 1059 brs. SECRET HMMA 25401 (Ref: DIR 88680 - para 258 above) In compliance with Ref, Mex Sta continues _ to hold several hundred hot reels covering Sov and Cub Emb during period! 22 Nov - 13 Dee 63. / Sta Mexi would like to know if these reels can now be erased | for re-use, or if these should be sent to Has for retention. ' MEXI 2741 (Ref: DIR 81342 - para 410 above and MEXI 2430 - - para 411 above) “ ODENVY reports P.O. Box of refs is mail address of Almacenes Favier, | large French-owned department store in Guadalajara. HMMW 13460 (Ref: HMMA 25401 - para: rs @ above) Pls forvard reels nentdoned | lin ref, with any identifying and explanatory data available, to Has for retention. (on copy of déspatoh is Annie G.'s writing - 1 Apr 65 Shipping reels to Ege w/nderofiim of braneeripty. ) MEMO to FBI from WORACT ~ A usually reliable source in Mex City provided me with, /@ copy of an annonymous letter to the Sov Emb which refers to OSWALD and which ds enclosed for your info. / The files of this office contain no info on William R. ‘BOBKING (22 spr?t) CSCI 316/01398 65 MEXI 016 (Ref: HQS 146 - and LILYRIC). Correct that PBPRIME visitors now rare. / Suggest comment to ODENVY evidence that word has gotten around that PBSWING Mexi aware identities PBPRIME visitors to Sov, Emb, which probable deterrent to all but extremely naive. / CURTIS believes wide distribution Warren Comm report on OSWALD case could have caused a decrease ‘in visitors. Cub Emb Lond distance. distance call from Chicago for Amb ARMAS. Man Inside (MI) says to wait a moment. Later. WO in French asks if ARMAS speaks French. ARMAS ‘saysino. M WO continues in French and says she is speaking for Sr. GAN (2) of Chicago, in the United States, and continyes in the! same language asking if Silvia DURAN was a friend of OSWALD, -the person who assasqinated tchoat President Kennedy. ARMAS does not understand her language: and in Spanish 8 that Silvie . worked for awhile in the Embassy, But quite a while ago she left her work hexe and has| not | ! been seen since. WO continues in French and aske if Silvia returned to Cuba. ARMAS says no that she is a Mexican and therefore resides in Mexico but he does not: know her; address. WO, in her language, asks if Silvia was'a friend of OSWALD. ARMAS, without understanding, says "SI" (saying "SI" to everything) and asks who is: talking. WO does not unierstand, but insists in knowing if she (Silvia) was a friend of OSWALD. _ ARMAS says si "gui..gui".. . aj&.. muy bien. si...8i sefiorita (it seems that what he is saying is not being understood). WO continues in her language which ‘ARMAS does not understand and says that he knows nothing — more and that all he is saying is that "the Sra. DURAN no longer works in the Embassy and they don't kmow her address". WO again in her language aske if SILVIA was a’ ‘friend of: OSWALD and if it is “verdad" (she says this in Spanish). says thank you. ARMAS says “Buenos dias...eh...! 277?) Correct that coverage Sov Emb visitors same | a8 past (LIMITED t 1 i | i i i i | | ! i H Hl ARMAS says “ai|, .seflora si." Wo | 7 Woman Outside (WO) in English. informs the Cub Bub there 7) a long wamy
13-00000 SECRET 419, 17 June © 7 - MEXI 3832 - LIENVOY reported 15 Jun 65 that unidentified woman speaking French called chi Amb HERNANDEZ Armas from Chicago on behalf of a SM Mr. GAN (phon) asked if Silvia DURAN , | : .was friend of OSWALD and if she had returned to Cuba. Amb who does not understand rach - : See para 415 above. Who is this woman?? | | French said DURAN used to work at Emb, no longer does, that she resides Mexi but he }doss' not | | know her address. Woman again ased if DURAN was friend (OSWALD, Amb did not underatand j | question but answered yes. / Pouching tape. . i | i hoo, 18 June © HMMA 26394 (Ref: MEXI 3832 - para ing above) Transmitted herewith is the tare mentioned | in referenced cable. her, 30 June , NNO to FBI from WOFACT - reporting info in paras wa and 420 above. ‘cscx 516/026. 5 Wee, 19 Aug : | | | EXCELSIOR - Widow of OSWALD has been hit by her new husband and he threatens suicide. | Kenneth Jess PORTER is now in the same jail as. RUBY. . Of Same page : The Revolver and the Gun of OSWALD, Confiscated. he3, 18 Nov : | | DIR 58683 (Ref: DIR 57610 - not filed; not abstracted) If suitable access. “developed AZCUE per ref, Has interested any new or aftermath info that can be brought to Tent OSWALD 's Where is ref??. . visa epplication at Cub Emb Mexi Sept 63. kok, 22 Nov . THE NEWS - 1 pege on KENNEDY on the second anniversary « of his death..... Theusands of Did Marine’ 8 book ever come out?? | : Memorials Immortalize Kennedy.....Marina Oswald Wants to Forget (now Mrs. Kenneth Porter .... , she is publishing a book)...Flowers Mark Assassination Site. ‘s GOV Connally Can't Forget Tragedy fe). 10 Dec Lo MEMO OF CONVERSATION - a GARRO de PAZ with Charles Thomas (Political officer) - Blena ‘said she had met OSWALD.....7/ in Sept 6, after her return fron abroad, she went to a party How did Elena GARRO know about: Silvie being _at the home of Ruben DURAN, who is married to her cousin, Elenita accompanied her, : She met the mistress of OSWALD?? This is 1965. Station OSWALD and 2 other young Americans. At party she was discourage from talking with him.... / heard from LTRINC/3 4 in July 6r. - Other guests were Cuban Consul, AZCUB, Genera. CLARK Flores ,' Silvia DURAN,: who she later’ ‘learned was OSWALD's mistress while he was here, Emilio 'CARBALLIDO, and a Latin American “negro man with red hair. /' In Nov 63 when identity of assassin became. known, she and er daughter went to Cub Emb and shouted, "assassin" and other insults at ths staff. ‘there. /. Shortly afterward, she and her daughter were visited bya friend, Manuel CARVILLO, then official in Secretariat of Bobernacion, and were told he had orders to escort them toa small and obscure hotel in center of town. They were kept there for eight days under pretext ; that they were in danger. When she told CARVILLO she wanted, to go to Amer Emb and explain ‘what she knew of OSWALD, she was told that the Amer Enb'was full of Communist spies, .../ | Some of the other people at the arty were taken to Veracruz to be "protected" b Goy. LO LOPEZ | Arias. Ruben DURAN is "protected" by Gen. CLARK Flores and now be re a big oy. ng . very prosperous. / Meny Communists believe assassination Was result of Commie plot engineered | by Gastro. | / SECRET: How did Elena know about a red. haired ne exo i i i I | i} i i t 1 1 i : i
13-00000 Did Migdail ever publish anything on OSWALD?? See para 4oh above Has Isaac Don Levine been queried further?? No doubt Marina is hiding info. ho6,. 16 Dec Results of queries of LIONION, LICHANT/1 ete 7? OT]. 25 Dec | Lydia, Horacio and Ruben DURAN are cousins of Elena GARRO de PAZ. & Check files on AZCUE and CARBALLIDO - especially LIBNVOY during Sept-Oct 63 SECRET Note to Stan W from COS: What an imagination she has! Should we sent to Has? -Stan replied; Suggest sending. There have been stories around town about ell this, and Thomas | : is not only person she has talked to. / Migdail has a little folder into which he is putting all the little scraps he can find relating OSWALD to the Cubans; when he gets enough of them I suppose he will try to do a dope piece. / If memory serves me, didn't LICOOKIE. refer to | OSWALD and the local eftists & Cubans in one of her squibs? /. Isaac Don Levine is writing a book about the assassination; Migdail says that the Cuban connection bothers him increasingly, as he progresses in his »amm research. IDL had long talk with Marina not long ago in Russ lan; ° IDL is Russian Jewish emigre, and reputable scholar - and left convinced that she hiding info. MEXI 5621 - Info in para 425 above. reported to Hqs..../ Station checking GARRO statements | with LIONION, LICHANT/1 and other sources. Wilt cable results. (NOTE from COS to Annie | and Watson: Pls ask Thomas if he'll “follow up"; get questions from Annie G. Let's discuss. ): (Reference — MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION, /10 Dec 65) between Blena GARRO de Paz and Charles Thoines , Political Officer: On 25 Dec Elena discussed her alleged encounter with OSWALD. Also! present were | Thomas’ wife, and Elena's daughter, Elenita. Further info was given subsequently, on g Jan : 66. During this latter conversation, Elena admitted she had gone to AmEmb on an earlier oceasion with her daughter and mother-in-law and talked to two Emb officers (presumably from LEGAT) about this matter. She said since the Emb officers did not give much credence to anything they said, they did not bother to give a very complete story. The following info supplements and in | some instances corrects that given in the memo of Dec. 10. /1. Lydia, Horacio, and Ruben DURAN are all cousins of Elena. Silvia is married to Horacio, a weak man, who: ‘was converted to Communism by Ricardo GUERRA. Elena has nothing to do with Silvia whom she detests and considers a whore. Ruben was born in U.S. and served in U.S. army during war. o's Party was held at home of Ruben. / Elena believes date of party was 2 or 3 Sept 63, few days be ore visit of Sov astronaut, Gagarin, but is not sure of date.../ At the party OSWALD wore a black | sweater. He tended to be silent and stared at the floor. Two young American companions, one was very tall and slender and had long blond heir mtk which hung across forehead, gaunt face and long protruding chin; other was tall, short light brown hair.. ALL et were obviously Americans and did not mix or dance with other people. The three were friends, |, because Elena saw them by clance the next day walking. down the .street togeth vr. /, Although . Elena had returned from Europe in June or July, she had already met Eusebio AZCUR and and knows: positively he was at party. On another occasion (not clear whether before or after the party in question), she attended a party where she saw' Eusebio AZCUE; Emilio C. IDO; and a Latin | American negro man with red hair. (These last 2 were not at the DURAN party as was stated in the 10 Dec memo.) CARBALLIDO and AZCUE, with others, were in heated disc sion on that: occasion about Kennedy and they came to conclusion that the only solution to kill him. Elena said CARBALLIDO is known as a Castro agent; he had been to Red China, Sov Union, and’ many times to Cuba. Following assassination he spent.a year in Cuba, then got a Fou teaching at Rutgers Universidy through Dr. Jose VASQUEZ Amaral, formerly with Rockefeller oundation in N.Y. and who is now a £ professor at Rutgers. The day after assassination, Elenita encountered Sra. de AZCUE in Sanborns. On seeing her, Sra. de AZCUE hurried out of store... AZCUE was called back to Habana after assassination and his wife followed shortly... / PF,
13-00000 4o7. (continued) 25 ‘Dec. . i _ Others present at DURAN party ere | Horacio and Silvies tate DURAN; Riena's p phtLodommunist . | sister, Deva GUERRERO; Gen. Jose Jesus CLARK Flores and his mistress, a i oh woman 3 a medical doctor from Dalinde Hospital; @ young American couple, both fat’ and [blond, who were spénding | ; their honeymoon in Mexis; a ho yr. old Mexi woman in a red dress; and a strange, man who claimed : to be Mexican but did not Look: or talk Like one. ' His first name was Alejandr and he gub- Check pics of Elena and Elenita | _ sequently wrote Blenita several love letters, . She turned these in to the Amer Enh. Ricardo GUERRA and wife Rosario CASTELLANOS were supposed to come to pa. but dediined to Check Ricardo GUERRA and Rosario | come when they learned she (Elena) would be there, / On Sat., 23 Nov oF Elena's brother CASTELLANOS de GUERRA. Whg,are they . drove her and Eleniga to Cub Enb at 3 pm. Her brother was embarrassed their behavior enemies of Elena?? _ and drove a block up the street to wait for them after letting them out.| The| two women then 7 . went inside gate and shouted "assassin" and other} ins insults. Later that day a friend, Manuel Check LICRANT/1 CALVILLO took them to small hotel for safety.....Since Elena could not remeni r name of hotel, she took Thomas to the part of town where she remembe it to be - Vermont Hotel,| i Calle Vermont 29, one and a half blocks west of Insur ntes just south re) Viaducta. Elena said hotel is owned by someone from San Luis Potosi and used by: businessmen from. that area. She and Elenita did not register. CALVILLO registered: them as relatives | or friends of hi from San Luis Potosi. They stayed there until the following Friday and hardly le their room. / Blena and Elenita saw newspapers with OSWALD's picture and knew they seen him at /party. When CALVILLO visited them at hotel, she told him she wanted to report to Amer Emb what she knew about OSWALD's connections with local communis ts and with AZCUE. CALVILLO said she shouldn't go because the Amar Emb was full of: Communist spies. ‘When she returned to. her house Can this be checked - guards outside her house? the following week, guards were posted outside it, When she saw her sister, Deva GUERRERA, sR the latter was terrified because of OSWALD's - “presence at the DORAN party. Sra. de GUERRERA: F was very angry with DURAN 's because! she thought they had become involved in the assass ation , ' plot for money. About 2 nonths after assassination, Sr. (or Sra.7) de mao was called in never to reveal Why won't Elena identify 2 Communists?? | by two communists, whom = she refuses to identify, and was warned with treat: , to anyone that she had been to a party with OSWALD. She remained | 80 (Seri that she would not accompany Elena to the! Amer Emb: to tell what she » ew of OSWALD. / Short. after sassine- tion, Emilio CARBALLIDO, took DURANS to Jalapa, Verac z and kept them out of] the way or a while until the initail shock of assassination wore off GARBALLIDO has |c na GORE s with “e a& Can trip to Veracruz ‘be proved?? : University of Veracruz Press / Shortly, after assess tion, an Amer woman, a, fuse OBB ; 2 Check Eunice ODIO, Costa Rican. Didn't, ' @gme and spent several days in ‘Elena's house. She was sent by their mutual f iend’, lee | Elena first say VASQUE?, Amoral's mistress was a ODIO, a Costa Rican who is now June COBB's roommate and who was formerly ithe mistress of | Guat??? VASQUEZ Amoral when he was, with Rockefeller Foundation, and Ermesto de la PENA. June COBB | expressed interest in the assassination. She succeeded in getting Deva GUERRERO drunk one | night, and the latter told all ‘she knew about OSWALD aha the party at the h of Rubex . | COBB then wanted them to tell what they knew to the Amsr authorities, Claiming to be CIA 7 ; : : : : agent, she advised against going ‘to! Amex, Enb ‘and urged) ‘them to go to Texas to|tell| their | : Do st ‘Failing in this, she said she would arrange a t in a quiet ‘cafe with) the Chie Does B COBR know COST ee of the CIA in Mexico, The meeting did not uatertelice ceaager because ehe yes asked to f a leavekin Elena's house. COBB had kicked the cat, / At end of Jan 64, Ruben! visited Elena; SECRET He said he was going to visit the U.S. and wanted her to protect him as much possible white he was evay.../ 8 Six months after assassination, when she was talking to Noe P, RES of ‘