(04-10922-10006 a \ & [1] UNCLASSTFigD =] INTERNAL [] CONFIDENTIAL © []_ SECRET | . ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET : } | SUBJECT: (Optional) J, Edgar Hoover Memo Inspector General ; a DATE . orricer's COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom | neceve | FORWARDED INIT fo whom. Drow a line across column ofter.each comment.) TO: (Officer designation, room number, ond building) SUBJECT: J, Edgar Hoover: ‘Memo : 16 Memorandum: 76- 3370 dated. 16 November 1976 -. Subject: Washington Post Story of — _- 13 November 1976 "Oswald Reportedly Told Cubans. of oo Plan to Kill SFR. . . ot TheCI Staff has located the "Hoover Memo" which we think is that re- | ferred to by the Press. It is a “ voluminous memo consisting of. ten | chapters. Attached herewith is a copy of the table of contents and the relevant pages pertinent to the Post story. . | ‘f . | H. Waller spector General \610 “smetes (] SECRET ©] CONFIDENTIAL «= INTERNAL «= ()_UNCLASSIFIED
“¢ ' Pooch C/E/ Federal Bureau of Investigation : 8 JUN 1364 June 5, 1964 By Liatsan Director Ce - Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 _ ATTENTION: Deputy Director, Plans Dear Sir: Bn : _ a vou information, I am enclosing communications which may be of interest to you. oo - [[] No further investigation is contemplated.with regard to this matter. (__] You will be advised of the pertinent developments in connection ' with this inquiry. ; co Status of case: [7] Completed (_] Incomplete Very truly yours, Enc. | ; (Upon removal of classified enclosures, if any, this transmittal form becomes UNCLASSIFIED.) SECRET
13-00000 ta pjzc f C/E/ , Federal Bureau of Investigation "8 JUN 1984 June 5, 1964 By Liatsan - Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 ne Qh ATTENTION: Deputy Director, Plans Dear Sir: ee | Soave your information, Tam enclosing communications which may be of interest to you. J No further investigation is s contemplated with regard to this matter. (] You will be advised of the pertinent developments in connection _. with this inquiry. ([] Status of case: | oO Completed {__] Incomplete o Very truly yours, Ene. ‘f (Upon removal of classified enclosures, if any, this transmittal form becomes UNCLASSIFIED.) SECRET
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE __ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION a : In Reply, Please Refer.to a - : | ; | ; WASHINGTON 25, D. Cc. erpn Co SELEY - MAY 18 1964 bao. ° Com chon £ tach lenewn to ete on Oowalalis - Trlp te Mexiee on his _actvities while Theres ye all. ‘ Yeriougs: vicki violaek Ils . eanedry ime: . “Orwell PROPERTY OF THE FBI oo: . This document contains neither =. -recommendations nor conclusions of © , ° - the FLL It is the property of the FEI and is loaned to your agency; it and. its contents are not to be ' @isteibuted outside your agency, SECRET 2 00° 2-2.) 7 Group I Excluded from Automatic Downgrading and Declassification ane, eS CO : 2O\- DEE To
I. if. SECRET TABLE OF CONTENTS "\ NTRODUCT ION TRAVEL’ TO MEXICO BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD - Geptember 26-27, 1963) (A) .. Passport, June 24, 1963 | OSWALD's Application for United States OSWALD's Mexican Tourist Visa Results of FBI Laboratory Examination. of OSWALD’s Tourist Card - ae Closing of United States-Mexican Border Mexican Newspaper, "Excelsior," "November 25, 1963, Issue res — ®) (G) Fa into Mexico -a@ wD (J) 1963 - OSWALD’s Trip to Mexico Checks Made on Compania de Aviacion Passenger Manifests for September 26-27, | Check at OSWALD’s Port of Entry “Check of Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Baggage ‘List for Passengers for November 26, 1963, frip from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico, D. F. List Obtained of Entry of All Non-Mexican Citizens on September 26, 21963, at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico Persons Interviewed in Mexico Who Entered Mexico September 26, 1963, at Nuevo Laredo wow A~ SECRET 14 26
13-00000° SECRET BS , . Page -.- (8) Interview of ROBERTO MORALES, Driver i: a o£ Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. 516 from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on ee a te trip. for September 26 and 27, 1963 BB | ~ -(L) Interview of ERNESTO HERNANDEZ, co-driver .. of Plecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. S1G 07° ee from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on 0 _Septenber 26 to 27, 1963.. . mee OSWALD IN MEXICO city ar (a) © "New York Times" Newspaper Account - @B) OSWALD's Visits to Cuban and Soviet --. Diplomatic Establishments - , Investigation by Mexican Authorities . ©. Other Inquiries by Mexican Federal Security Police. - @) Hotel Accommodations of LEE HARVEY a _ OSWALD in Mexico City — 7 2 AB Le, 2. | OSWALD's Registration at Hotel ar oe Pe 2. Examination of Handwriting on ee _ Hotel. Register by FBI Laboratory AD See 3, ‘Identities of Persons at Hotel _ le - During: Same Period as OSWALD . AB 4, Interview of Manager and eens Other Personnel at Hotel _ Se GB ‘5, Other Inquiries in the Area of — - the Hotel del Comercio, Taxi ne oe . Stands, and Bus Terminals ee BT 6 Inquiries in Neighborhood of ; oe Hotel del Comercio : . «68 - B = .SECRET
13-00000 IV. oo 7 Be Reputation of Hotel: el Comercio a -— OBSNAED'S DEPARTURE FROM MEXICO | SECRET a Interviews of Guests at Hotel del: ‘Comercio Interview of HERBERT ROBERT. VOORHEES, - . Passehger on Transportes del Norte Bus | >. Traveling from San Luis Potosi. to ‘Nuevo- —@ (0) ‘List for October, 2, 1963 ‘Record of Location of Transportation i "Sold to H. 0, LES ; - @) acne Laredo on October 2 to 3, 1963 | — "Cheeks « of Records of Other Bus. Lines ae oY Transportes del Norte Passenger Interview of ROLANDO BARRIOS RAMIREZ | Interview of Personnel at ‘Transportes oo 23 del, Norte, Terminal, Mexico City — ;  @) Yaterviews of ‘Personnel at Transportes - del Norte Bus Terminal Restaurant, — eo _ Monterrey, | Nuevo Leon @ Inquiry at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Main Offices of Transportes del Norte cers Bus ‘Passenger ANASTASIO RUIZ MEZA - identified Photographs of LES HARVEY OSWALD ; Interview of Transportes del Norte - - Passenger JOSE BARRIGA BERNAL @ List Obtained of Departure of Non- Mexican Citizens on October 3, 1963, at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas emcee ~ Cm SECRET Page oo Ba 22 78 ee é:)
13-00000. SECRET Dee Additional List of Persons Who Departed on October 3, 1963, and _ ' Entered on September. 26, 1963 . oo an. OSWALD's Travel Documents and . ay ‘Transportes Frontera Bus Line (BY ‘Enquiry at Flecha Roja Bus Terminal : ~ ommn | INQUIRIES CONCERNING OSWALD 'S TRAVEL  «)- OSWALD*s Time of Arrival in Mexico city. @) Efforts to Locate Flecha Roja - lexican Government Records _ Passenger List Be) Transportes del Norte Passengers =) Ticketing Procedures by Transportes = QF) ‘Transportes del Norte Bus Line Originating in Guadalajara Operations, Honterrey ~. del Norte Bus Line 7 MISCELLANEOUS. INQUIRIES Ar: ‘MEXICO CITY. oo CONCERNING OSWALD (A) ‘Telephone Numbers in. OSWALD's . Address Book @) . Possibility OSWALD Sent or Received tloney (c) Inquiries at Hotel. Cuba () Jad Alai in Mexico City | (B) OSWALD's Luggage -» D = SECRET Page... 7 mo ee | 108 - ae - - ne. a ; an 4a 14 116
13-00000  @) “VET. AL ay oe @n “ALLEGATION BY YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEYA @ oe (cc) _ @) .. VERY, SECRET Arrest, Interrogation and Physical . Condition. of SILVIA DURAN : fo About OSWALD's Activities | oe, Bracelet, Post Cards, Race Track Pamphlet ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA's Concern Information Concerning CHARLES SMALL, ALLEGATION BY PEDRO GUTIERREZ VALENCIA (F) Further Interviews of GUTIERREZ “Basis for Inquiry cee, Interviews of GUT TERREZ VALENCIA Character and Reputation of GUTIERREZ Inguiry Concerning ERNESTO ‘MITRANI ae Inquiries Concerning Renault . Information From CLAUDIO: OLIVEROS | Inquiries Concerning DURAN Family Basis. for Inquiry Initial Interviews of YLARIO ROJAS Reinterviews of ROJAS | Discrepancies in ROJAS* ‘Story ROJAS Involved in JACOB. Se FLOYD Matter ROJAS* Admission of Fabrication _ Page 153 gag apg eee ee | Information Concerning ARTURO GAONA pumas isa): | an aa aa | ae yar oe 149
13-00000 mx. OA “MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS = - RELATING TO OSWALD. — NS | (a): allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON i oe "+ @®) Information Furnished by ROBERT KAFEKE ~~ (C) Allegation by ROBERT EDMOND GALLANT, “@) ‘Allegation by HECTOR FRANCISCO SERRANO -- (B) “Allegation by LUIS FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ - @). Allegation by ROBERT HIMES ae (G) Allegation by ANDREW CHAMPION that a. —: @ “Allegation by ALBERTO GODOY that Film SECRET ALLEGATION BY GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE -. Concerning OSWALD and SILVIA DURAN we . Santa Clara Prison Farm, Santa Clara, >... California, that OSWALD was in the . .- “. . Cuban. Embassy in Mexico, D. Bee on os daly 12, 1963 : Friend of FRANCIS H. FIEDLER of New | Orleans, Louisiana, was OSWALD .. -in his Possession Might Depict LEE -HARVEY OSWALD and JACK RUBY Together — (I) _ Letter to Attorney General ROBERT Fe | ae mye KENNEDY from ERNESTO FLORES LUNA. (3) "Information from JOSE GARCIA LUCHICHI -, that American Woman in Monterrey, Mexico, ~— 198 ‘Telephoned Dallas Before and After Assassination of President KENNEDY (X) Allegation that STEVE KENNAN Might - Have Met OSWALD in Mexico -F- SECRET | Page pT eS 17 ee vc:
13-09000 SECRET . Page Information from ARTURO ALCOCER RUIZ 180 Information that ERNESTO ‘RODRIGUEZ, _:.°. New Orleans, Louisiana, Possessed taped Recordings | of OSWALD's Spanish SS an ¢ SECRET
13-00000 on SECRET IX. ALLEGATION BY criserro NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE “The first. confidential ‘source abroad ativiged that on November 25, 1963, GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE, a _ Nicaraguan citizen born January 31, 1940, in Ciudad Rama, ‘Departamento Zelaya, Nicaragua, made contact with the United , States: Embassy at Mexico, D. F., and advised the following: ~ ALVARADO entered Mexico illegally ‘from. Guatemala on ene August 29, 1963, traveled to. Mexico, D. F., and subsequently made contact with EDELBERTO TORRES, a Nicaraguan communist 7 . residing in Mexico City. From this contact a plan was developed for ALVARADO to travel to Cuba to study guerrilla | warfare tactics. He had octasion to visit the Cuban Consulate in Mexico, D. F., several different times for the purpose of - obtaining travel docunientation for Cuba by furnishing false . sy - identification papers as a Mexican citizen. ee 7 — _ ALVARADO claimed that the real purpose ‘behind ie eee proposed travel to Cuba was a penetration mission for the oe Nicaraguan Secret Service. He stated that on September 18, . 1963, he went to the Cuban Consulate, and while sitting in _. the waiting room saw a group of approximately eight persons - enter the Consulate and the office of Cuban Consul EUSEBIO — AZCUE.' A person unknown to him was sitting at AZCUE's desk. — ‘A short time later, while ALVARADO was standing near the door -to the men's room at the Cuban Consulate, he noticed three - men. conversing a few feet away from him. One of them was a tall, thin Negro with reddish hair; the second was a man whom ALVARADO. had seen previously holding a Canadian passport.in the waiting room of the Cuban Consulate; and the third person, — - according to ALVARADO, was LEE HARVEY OSWALD. . " ALVARADO stated that a tall Cuban joinea ‘the above _ group momentarily. and passed some United States currency to -. the Negro. _ The following conversation ‘between the Negro and - OSWALD was overheard. by ALVARADO: Negro (in English): I want to kill the man. . OSWALD: You're not man enough. I can do it. ~ 157 ~ : SECRET - ~
13-00000 SECRET Negro Cin Spanish): can't go with you. x have | a lot to do. a OSWALD: The people are waiting for me back. there, 7 ALVARADO | stated that the Negro then gave OSWALD — ” $6, sain United States currency of large denominations, ” -gaying’ "This isn't much." Of this sum, $1,500 was for tes | _SEpenses. The Negro also gave OSWALD about 200 Mexican PeSOSe i United States bank notes. were in a small pack about one fourth “In a jater interview, ALVARADO stated that the o£ an inch thick, bound with a paper band, which the Negro. broke before counting out. $1, 500 extra for. expenses: and 1 $5, 000 coat as “advance payment. " ao the ‘ALVARADO stated that OSWALD had carried a green ae Tee: passport in his pocket, and he believed he saw OSWALD wearing = - er pistol in a shoulder holster, but he was not sure of this - “- .. point, He stated that OSWALD had long shoes and a wrist watch . With a yellow-metal band. According to ALVARADO, OSWALD - 7 - appeared to be completely at home at the Consulate and to ‘nov and to be known by Cuban Consulate’ ‘personnel, . ‘ALVARADO was arrested and interrogated by  Wentcan” authorities: on November 28, 1963, and a copy of the interro- Ty. Watton report by the Mexican authorities revealed the following: — ‘At the outset ALVARADO's story generally resembled - 7 that. “peeorded above. He repeated to the Mexican ‘authorities the details of the scene in which he saw the Negro, the -- Canadian and the American conversing together, the delivery .. Of the money to the American by the Negro, and _the conversation . he overheard. . -_ ALVARADO advised the interviewing ‘Mexican n officials — that upon seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspapers . - following the assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY, he — recognized OSWALD as the American he had seen at the Cuba, Consulate... An excerpt from ALVARADO*s statement to. Mexican authorities, as translated from Spanish, is as follows: cowsctgaa ~ 158 ~ SECRET
SECRET ", ....Spontaneously and after reconsidering he - desires to state that the american to whom he - yeferred in the body of his statement and whom - he saw the 18th of September of this year in the Cuban Consulate had a certain resemblance, about. -.. gixty per cent, to LEE. HARVEY OSWALD (assassin. 0 of the President of the United States); That ‘after the assassination of President KENNEDY the oo witness took advantage of this fact in his favor  —. - to exploit it, furnishing versions such as those | - dinitially set forth, for the purpose of provoking © "an energetic reaction from the political point of | . Wwilew on. the part of the United States of America . against the government of FIDEL CASTRO RUZ and . that he had no motive other than the profound - hatred he feels for communism. That all his life ‘the witness has dedicated himself to combating — communism and he regrets at this moment not having — - accomplished his objective in the sense of causing . @ reaction on the part of the American 1 Government’ against FIDEL CASTRO.". wo wel) Because ‘of the fact that subsequent to ‘making the. ~ above-mentioned statement to Mexican authorities, ALVARADO — claimed that he had changed his statement because of fear, --he was interviewed at considerable length on December 5 and 6, 1963, in Mexico, D.- Fes by representatives of the ‘United _ ‘States Government. 17 advised as follows: After yeiterating his story, “ALVARADO + was | afforded a ‘polygraph examination on December 6, 1963. During the course of the examination he was asked, "Is this the American you saw - in the Cuban Consulate?" At the time he was shown photographs of OSWALD. | Each time he was asked this question, he ‘definitely responded, “Yes,” but. it was noted that the polygraph indicated a "deception response" on these answers. These responses and those with respect to other questions led to the conclusion that ALVARADO was a fabricator. It was specifically. pointed out to him that the polygraph indicated that he was not being = 159 = SECRET
SECRET © .., truthful in. identifying photographs of OSWALD as being | of a person he saw in the Cuban Consulate, and he was y asked _ for his explanation thereof. ALVARADO replied that he had full faith in the - poayetnpt and would not attempt to refute its results. He -. went on to say that the only explanation he could offer was a - that he had seen an American in the Cuban Consulate on... -. September 18, 1963, who resembled OSWALD, and that upon ele Bee ' seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspaper, he built - up within himself, either consciously or subconsciously, a_ os ‘complete belief that. the: person he had seen. in the Cuban .. of Consulate was OSWALD.. ot On December 8, 1963, Mexican ‘quthorities | deported oes : ALVARADO. from Mexico, D. Poy. to Managua, Nicaraguae «Oooo 8 ees fo X. 7 MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS / RELATING TO OSWALD. (a) “Allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ YVERSON = - Concerning OSWALD and SYLVIA DURAN — ~ According ‘to the first confidential source ‘abroad, ©. the white House at Washington, D. C., had received a paper. entitled "Possible Psychological Motivations in the Assassi- nation of President KENNEDY" written by JOSE I. LASAGA, 2340 — N. E, ?th Avenue, Apartment 4, Miami, Florida, | — “This speculative ‘paper attempted to establish that oes “the motivation of OSWALD in the assassination of President . ‘KENNEDY was FIDEL CASTRO or a CASTRO agent and that OSWALD . was so motivated during his trip to Mexico between September — 27 and October 2, 1963. The paper included the allegation that OSWALD had an extended interview with the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, whom he met at a restaurant on the outskirts of Mexico, D. F., from where they departed together in the Cuban a a ae Anbassador's automobile for a private conversation, —- LASAGA had advised the White House that he received _ the above report from ANGEL FERNANDEZ VARELA, an employee of the Voice of Cuba in Miami, Florida, who received the infor- mation from SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON, who reportedly was in nd SECRET cS COPY 261-2992 49