i) ww wy 25 HW 50529 DocId: 32246610 Page 25 ice and charge twenty-five cents.” hear that, Mr. Rodriguez, Oswald started bitching about the 24 | . 4 lemonade. My bartender asked me, "Do we sell lemonade here?" in Spanish. My bartender and me, we talk in Spanish all the || time. I said, "Yes, we sell lemonade. Get a glass of water and put two or three spoons of sugar and half a lemon and put | According to the bartender, because I did not price of the lemonade for twenty-five cents. He said I was a Capitalist or something like that. So I told the bartender that the second drink, he can go and drink it somewhere else. He had to pay for the first one. Q Did you personally see Oswald in your bar? A. Yes, I did personally see him in my bar. Q Can you identify the people that accompanied | Oswald in your bar? A, No. ! QO Were they’ Cubans? A. They looked Spanish. My bartender, Mr. Rodriguez, would answer the question much better because he came exactly to the table where those people were sitting. 4 Q Do you recall whether any of the Spanish individuals spoke with any particular accent? A. No, I was not there. I was away from where they were sitting. Century Reparters, Inc. (713) 4646-0903 . . : |
yn. ? Y : i 24 25 i ! All that I knew chat was talked in that conversation was because the bartender told me about it. a Bo you recall seeing Oswald in New Orleans | at any other times? A. I told you already where I saw him. Q Do you recall applying for a passport in i New Orleans on June 24th of 1963? A Yes, Sir. Q I am referring now to Warren Commission | Pena Exhibit No. l. A That's all right. Don't show it to me. I. want you to put this down. The government said -- I said that I took the passport at the Customs House Building and the government said that they did not issue me the passport in that building. I would like to find out who is right, the. government or me. Q When you say "the government” has said this, what particular agency or individual are you speaking of? A . Just the government. Government agencies. “Q  . -—Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a passport in New Orleans on the same day, June 24th, 1963? A I was told so by Mr. Weisberg, a Do you remember seeing Lee Harvey Oswald on A. No, I do not remember. I do not remember seeing . | HW 50529 Docld:34246610 Page 26 Century Reporters, inc. . i }
an 14 15 22 23 25 §0529 Docld: 32246610 Page 27 H i } i 1 i : bo ON him. present at the Q Do you think if Oswald had been th. same time applying for a cvassport that you would remember seeing him? AL Yes, sir. -Q When r stated that Oswald applied for a passport in New Orleans on June 24th, 1963, I was referring to Warren Commission Exhibit No. 781. Have you seen a copy -of this Warren Commission Exhibit? A. The only thing I saw was my own. I was told that he was -- applied for the passport the same day I applied. that is what I was told before. Q, | At this time have you seen a copy of Warren Commission Exhibit 7812 | A . This time, yes, sir. Do you know why your name would have been Th. OP : . ommi-ccted from a list provided by the State Department to the Warren Commission which included the names of the people who applied for passports in New Orleans on June 24th, 1963? I am specifically referring to Warren Commission Exhibit | No.. 952. A. I do not know but maybe they did want to skip “me. because I did work for them as an informant. Q Are you saying that because you worked for the. FBI as an informant, you name might have been purposely Century Heparters, Inc. {713) 484-0093
1 | ommitted from this list? 2 . A. Might be. Oo a Do you. know whether passports were issued 4 in New Orleans at different locations? 5 : A That I do not know, sir. 6! a After you were issued that passport, sir, did 7 you ever travel to Mexico? 8) - A. Yes, sir. | OO oo ; | 9 0 . Do you recall when you traveled to Mexico? 10 A. I used to travel there almost every year. 1 It is a different part every year, to a different part of i2 || the world. | | . 13 I | Q. Did you ever travel to Mexico in the fall of 14 || 1963, specifically in September or October of 1963 just before 15 the assassination of President Kennedy? 16 |: A. I do not believe so. 7 | Q bid you ever see Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico? 1g i AR No. | , - 19 | | Q Did you gyex go to Mexico or any other countries | on any Entelligence mission? | ial on | Be No, sir. 29 Q Did you ever do any work for the Central @ oe 73 Intelligence Agency? | 4 | AC ‘I will not answer any questions about the 25 Central Intelligence Agency. oS Century Heparters, Inc. HW 50529 DocId:34246610 Page 28 (713) 464.0003
| 28 rH Q Mr. Pena, I would like to show you again the | document labeled JFK Exhibit No. 94 which is a release letter 3 | from the Central Intelligence Agency to the House Select 4 | Committee on Assassinations. I would like to ask you again 5 | whether you would answer any questions concerning any - 6 | relationship you might have had with the Central Intelligence “dd | Agency? gl OR No, sir. 9 0 Will. you answer any questions concerning any 10 possible relationship with, the Central Intelligence Agency at any future time? , —_ ~ 12 | OB, Maybe if you investigate and get the real { : . 1 | facts of the training camp that was run by the FBI and the | CIA of the United States in New Orleans, the camp in New 15 Orleans. Maybe I will remember something else later on. Q I would next like to ask you if you Know or 7 ew in 1963 any of the following individuals: Sergio Arcacha | + ay } Smith? 18 | 19 A Yes, sir. He was the leader of the Cuban i ; aan : ° : 30 | Revolutionary Front. . ae Do you know whether he has any connection with | | the assassination of President Kennedy? 22 | é - : ( i A, I can't answer that question but he was very 23 fi close to Warren C. de Brueys. He was very close to David 24 Ferrie. Century Reporters, [ne. {F713} 464-0003 HW 50529 DocId: 37246610 Page 29