DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32307619 Page 1 Ssassiliation Records Colléction Act of 1997 (44 Tsc FIT Hote}. JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10292-10322 HQ 64-29479-1ST NR 11 Document Information FBI LEG, MX DIRECTOR, FBI 11/06/1970 4 MTP, EMP, REL, TRA, ARREST, LHO, VISIT, CUBAN EMBASSY, MX PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 05/20/1997 INDEFINITE Date: 6/17/201
Relé@ased mnder the John F. ennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USe Hote}. ‘DATE: 11-14-2017 cols ' . + MAY 1982 EDITION C) * . 0 - OC). Sok bist ween” GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 - ary aN IK _ / +s) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Lnonepelyi= rst tS).--+ , a OOH IQS ner? se cA Memorandum ra ql DIRECTOR, FBI (105-2555) CONE OAITIAL 11/6/79 TO : DATE GIA HAS 89 CRECTION TO LEGAT, MEXICC CITY (105-3702) (RUC) FROM fn CONTAINED LES ZARVEY OSWALD ; McoLASS LFLED  [sonject: 18 - K - CUBA XC fe SHOWN Reference Mexico City ‘letter 10/14/62 in osWALy cage ;  Jutexico ity letter 7/30/58 and Havana letter 2/93/88 entitled, at, | TERESA“ PROENZA; SM - ©C;" and Mexico City letter and LEM 16/5/70 i anes aaa pian tt or? rd * a " s entitlec, "JORG LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA; IS - CUBA" (Bufile 105-115365). | oO gm PROENZA's full name appears to be WARIA TERESA. ie PROENZA“ PROENZA. She is currently said to be in Havana, Cuba, iy “after “spending several years in Santa Clara Province under Ve. near house arrest. She now appears to have more freedom. a8 She is the sister of the wife of JORG LUIS ROJAS MuNDOZA, ue, a Mexican employee of the Cuban Aviation Company in Mexico City. oy Fer brother ALVARO ESTANISLAC PROENZA PROENZA resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the subject of an IS - CUBA investigation. TERESA PROENZA was the secretary of the Mexican ; communist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior to the revolution. She . became an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City follow- I ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and a “slave of the Cuban communist government." a cle - £ The following information is extracted from the letter and LHM submitted by Mexico City-on 10/5/70 concerning JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the efforts of his family to arrange for his sister MARGOT RCJAS MENDOZA to leave Cuba and join the family in Mexico: According to information furnished by ihisx 197] Bn " f 9/21/70, the ROJAS family has become very embittered about the Cuba situation and Mrs, ROJAS, whose full name is CARIDAD ORIGINAL FILED IN / “ Us 105-135744) (ALVARC | PROENEA PROENZA) Declassity on: OADR = (1334-89279) (TERESA PRosNZA” PROENZA). (i¢Foreign Liaison Desk) (1-Philadelphia) (19095-11156) (ALVARC PROENZA PROENZA) (Info) 3-Mexico City 29 yh (1-100-1834) (TERESA PROENZA ProENzZA) / gf . 297 Gm ft ~105-0-5927) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA) f: / “wae alee ear ISOhTY 20 7G 6 Bee i Vy 9 2 1 97 0 Bay U U.S. Savings Bonds Reg rly on 1 the Paral Savings Plan Docla: 3240761 Pa =]
Released under_the Won Ff. Kenedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 TSC 3107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 O O MEX 105-3702 CONFI IQENTIA "CACHITA" PROENZA PROENZA DE ROJAS, ‘complained that Cuba has become a police state and that Cuban authorities. have family "all tied up." ROJAS and his wife told MEY 197 Lt a Cuban communist named JUAN MARINE is a friend of the family. On one trip to Cuba, CACHITA RCOJAS asked him to look into the situation of her sister TERESA PROENZA to see how it could be straightened out. MARINE recently visited Mexico "incognito" and informed the ROJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily good but that TERESA was once under a death sentence because she had dealt with LEE HARVEY CSWALD while assigned to the Cuban Embassy prior to the assassination of JOHN F, KENNEDY. Her frjends_i receded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS told (MEY voters t MARINE warned them not to tell the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City that he had spoken to them about this matter. The source stated that JORGE ROJAS and his wife do not know how to cope with the present situation. They fear going to Cuba and they are speaking out against the Cuban revolution in a most forthright manner. The bitterness dis- played by ROJAS! wife far exceeds any that the source can recall in the past. The source stated ‘that some years ago, as best he could recall, he heard JUANA LUISA PROENZA, a sister of CACHITA who died some years ago, telling a similar story of how TER#ZSA PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the Cuban Embassy. At the time TERESA was employed at the embassy, she lived with JUANA. “LUISA and another sister. Within the family it has always ‘been said that JUANA LUISA worriec herself to death after TERESA was ordered to Cuba, The Mexico City Cffice has conducted a review of references to TERESA PROENZA especially those dealing with the CSWALD investigation and it is noted that as set forth in Mexico City let \ the Bureau 1/24/64 in. the OSWALD case MEY 16 and ox TAPES h of whom have furnished-reliable infor- mation in the past, reported on 1/13/84 that ‘they had conversed with ELIZABETY CATLETT MORA, Bufile 100-395934, who told them of a conversation she held with TERESA PROENZA, the Cultural Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. According to MORA, TERESA PROENZA had told her that OSWALD walked in "cold" to the Cuban imbassy and the first person he talked to was PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not speak English, she turned him DoclId: 32307619 Page 3
Released onder the John F. Kenedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 15997 (44 USC F107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 MEX 195-3702 CONF While it is not clear froin | ‘Ayailable information, it would appear that PRONNZA was able to return from Cuba for a visit to Mexico following her dismissal and departure in 1/64, By report dated 1/14/85 the CIA reported on the in- vestigation by the juban rovernment of olc line communist JOCACUIN OCRDCIUI MASA In this report it was indicated that TERESA PROENZA had been arrested at her home and was being held incommunicadcdo. A review of the foregoing material indicates that TERESA PROENZA got into trouble with the Cuban government more as a result of her criticism of the handling of the CSWALL matter following the assassination of President KENNEDY than because of anything she did when CSWALD visited the Cuban Embassy. er harsh criticism of aigh Cuban officials (the Ambassador and Foreign Minister) was apparently well known in the embassy and hardly helved her case. It fails to indicate that she did anything for CSWALD that would su ntiate the remarks made by JORGE RCJAS and his wife to/MEX 157 t TERESA PR ROENZA hac nearly been executed because of her activities during CSYALD's visit to the Cuban Embassy in 1963. in the absence of additional information regarding this activity, no further investigation is contemolatec at this time. it is noted: that it is not féasible_to cirestly interrogate JONGE RCJAS or his wife. However, {Maz 19 ill closely follow this ¢ “y matter with them and any acditional, significant developments will be called promotly to the attention of the Bureau. One information covy is being furnished to Philadelphia in view of theix interest in ALVARO PROENZA“), ' concerning ALVARO PROENZA, [Mx Tagore: on 7/5/75 that (he fate recently visited uy the ROJAS family in Mexico City anc CACHITA remarked that f ALVARO said he was surrounded by "gusanos" (referring to Cuban exiles in a cerogatory manner) in Philadelphia. Docld: 32307619 Page 4