“(This form is to be- used for material extracted | an : ~.from ClA—controlled documents.) vO a 1963 which had not as yet been furnished because ite concerned, sensitive sources ‘and | methods. (bia ee “Helms - responded to Rankin’ Ss. ‘March 16 letter ‘on March 24 (FOIA. $ 622-258) “by two separate” | “communications. (CTA Doc. DDP4- 1554, hereinafter epe63i, (3/24/64, CIA: Doc. , DDP4!— “1555, 3/24/64, -¢D 674 hereinafter) cD 631 provided, the. Commission with a copy of the a october 10,: 1963 CIA dissemination to FBI, state Depts, INS and Navy Dept. (and to ‘the: Secret Service on . 22 Nov. ) regarding Lee Harvey. Oswald and his presence | at the Soviet Consulate in Mexico, city. “The response - . further. revealed. that on. October 23, 1964, cra had. _ the Navy ~ requested, two. copies of ‘the most. ‘recent photograph - of Oswald in ofder. to check the identity of the: ‘Berson \ believed to be Oswald in Mexico City. “Furthernore, "the CIA stated, though it dia not indicate when, that. wit had determined ‘that the photograph. shown | ‘to Marguerite > 8 Oswald on- November 22, 1963. did not refer to Lee oo o Harvey Oswald. The ‘Agency explained that it haa checked the € . oe "-Photograp “against. the. Press photographs of Oswald generally available on November 23, 1963,” cD 674. reveals ‘that “on Nov. 22, 1963 innediately ‘follow “anne | ae | Classified d by derivation: — . eH:
(This form is: “to be used for material, extracts d- the, > assaf en bey gueper 23,"T98, chree — cabled reports were. received at CIA headquarters — | from. the (CIA: Mexico ‘city Station regarding- photographs oo of an. “unidentified man ‘who had visited the Cuban and. Hee Embassies, during October and November 1963." Paraphra as of these cables, not revealing sensitive Agency wrote’ that: the. subject of the ‘photo referenced an these cables was. “not Oswald. It was further : stated that: "In response to our meeting of 12 March and your memo of 16 March, Stern and Willens > will review at Langley the original copies of these 3 disseminations to the Secret Service and the cables on which they. were based,.as well as the photos of the unidenti- .. fied. man." (CIA Doc. DDP4- 1555 cn634, 24 oT ' March> 1964). "sources and methods, were attached co CD 574. The - a ” Ga Mazen’ 26, Williem Coleman wrote in a memorandum — for the record: . "The CIA directed @ memorandum to J. Lee Rankin. / on March 24, 1964 (Commission Document No. 631)— og. ' ain which’it-set forth: sthe dissemination of -: , ee the information on Lee Harvey Oswald. Ir lize that this memorandum is only a partial answér to our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that the complete answers will give’ us the additional information we requested.” (Memorandum o£ William Coleman, March. 24, 1964) EGA. . Coleman went. on to. state: "As you know, we are still trying to get an explanation of the photograph which the FBI '- Showed Marguerite Oswalc_soon after the | oa | eCn it. aan RARE. - - - . : < Classified by + ad 007 za
: " Classificattori . (This: form is “to be used for material extracted | . from ClA—controlled documents.) assassination. I hope that paragraph 4 'O£f the memorandum of March 24, 1964 - . (cD. 631) sent Mr. Rankin by the CIA | ~ .is not the answer which the CIA intends. — to give us as to this. inquiry." (Ibid. - ee. EA vel EA, Tabs es, ‘ vlan oe The’ following day, as agreed. by Warren Commission — and Agency representatives, Samuel Stern of the. | Commission visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. a | | Sterns' memorandum of his visit reveals that he. reviewed Oswald's file with Raymond Rocca. stern “indicated that Oswald’ s file contained those materials furnished previously. to the Warren Commission by a the CIA. The file also contained: - "cable ‘reports of November 22 and November a “23 from the cra s Mexico City Station | i relating to. the photograph of the unidenti- fied individual mistakenly believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald and the reports on “those | cables furnished ‘on ‘November 23, 1963 to ‘the Secret Service by the CIA." - (Memorandum of Samuel Stern, March 27, 1964) & & a Stern noted that these messages were accurately oo, paraphrased in the attachments to cD. 674. provided the, S NOOR. # Parag cain Wok CD Ol s ded tak CIA concladect he rep ae ds nti Fea eee A th not £¢ am aa “generally od SSIR Gente = ~ "Ss Z Ec RET iz - Classified aby nce DOT 0 0 2 i
pe Ne age Be 7 Classification: — (This form ‘is to be used for material extracted | Warren Comitessalon-wntrelledcheunents) 96.4. He also reviewed the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA's . Mexico: city Station to “ CTA headquarters — reporting Oswald's contact with the ‘Soviet Embassy. in Mexico City.» ‘In addition, Stern examined the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA headquarters to. the Mexico City Station reporting background infor- mation on Oswald." (Ibid. ) . Stern recorded that — these — messages _were “paraphrased accurately as set. forth in the CIA's. January 31 memo to the Warren Commission reporting Oswald! s Mexico city trip. ‘Lastly, Stern noted that Rocca provided him, for his review a computer printout of the references to Oswald-related documents located in the Agency's electronic data storage system. He stated "there is no item listed on the printout which the Warren Com- mission has’ not been given either in full text or. paraphrased." (tia. ) - _ ™ 5 Thus, by the 27th of March, a Warren Commission ‘representative had been apprised of the circumstances J surrounding ‘the. aySterious, photograph. 7 9 909072 . Classified by derivation:
le secret a oo Classification: "(This form is to be used for. ‘material extracted a from ClA—controlled documents.) : bh. B. Luisa Calderon | “Approximately five hours after: President Kennedy' s assassination a Cuban | government employee’ Ps cin Mexico city named "Luisa" received. a telephone | call from an unidentified man speaking Spanish. (CIA Doc. FOYA“MEXI 7105, 11/27/63, 173-615, attachment). [mis call, had been” intercepted and recorded ‘by the. CIA's Mexico city: Station as” “the. result, of its” . LIENVOY (tel. tap) operation. Jemia.y The Mexico a City Station,as- subsequently reported to cra | . headquarters, identified the. Luisa’ of. the donversn~ tion | as Luisa Calderon, who was then employed in . the c Commercial Attache! Ss “office. at. ‘the. cuban mn Consu= late. (bid. y | ‘During the course of ‘the conversation, the “unidentified caller asked Luisa if she had heard . - (of the assassination) © . - the latest news. ‘Luisa’ replied. in, a joking tone: "Yes, | of ‘course, 1 knew almost before ‘Rennedy.", (Ibid, » | co ‘CIA's St : Paraphrasing the (telephone intercept transcript, it states that the caller told Luisa a. the person NS, GEAR,
(This. form: is” “to: ‘be: used for material ‘extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) - apprehended for Kennedy’ Ss slaying was the | "President of. one of, the Committees. of" ‘the Fair. Play for Cuba." “Laisa replied that she also ‘knew, this. — Luisa inguirea whether the. person ‘being | held for the killing was a "gringo." The unidenti- _. fied caller’ replied, "yes." Luisa told her caller " “that she had learned nothing else about the assassina~ i tion. and. ‘that. she: had learned about the. assassination a “only a ‘Little: while ago. The unidentified caller commented: — | | We think that. if it had, been or had- seemed... public: ox had been one of. : the segregationists or against. . re _- .intergration who had killed ‘Kennedy, 300. ~. then there was, let's say, the 9 oe 8 - possibility that a-sort of civil ; war would arise in the United States; *— that: contradictions would be sharpened... — _° who knows: : Luisa responded: Imagine, one, “two, three and now, that makes. three. (She laughs. ) bid, Pe. 2) = oo * Raymond Rocca, in response to. a 1975 ‘Rocke= “feller Commission request for infortiation on a RE, " possible Cuban conspiracy to assassinate President ~ Kennedy wrote regarding Calderon' s.comments: i+: “GEA. Rahs. _ Classification:
° or nets ant ted eer . ; st ~55— Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex t post facto ~ _ Suggestion of foreknowledge. This is the: . Only item in. the[ intercept Jcoverage. of: the Cubans and Soviets aftGér ‘the. assassina-_ tion that contains the suggestion of fore~ knowlege of expectation. (CIA Doc., ~ Memorandum of Raymond Rocca for DC/OPS, 5/23/75, PB. 151* (see p.SSa. Sor ®) | Standing by itself, Luisa Calderon’ s cryptic. comments’ clo not merit serious attention. Her words: “may indeed indicate foreknowledge of the assassina— tion but may equally be interpreted without such. a “sinister implication. Nevertheless, the Committee has determined that Luisa ‘Calderon' s case ‘should have merited ‘serious attention in the months following the assassination. In connection with the assassination, Luisa - Calderon' s name first surfaced on November 27, 1964 ina cable sent by. then Ambassador. Mann to the State " pepartnent (CIA Doc.. DIR 85573, 11/27/63). te In that. cable Mann stated: ® ...Washington should urgently consider | feasibility of requesting Mexican authorities to arrest for interrogation: . Eusebio Azcue, Luisa Calderon and Alfredo Mirabal. The ‘two men are Cuban national and Cuban consular officers. Luisa Calderon is a secretary in Cuban Consulate here." (ibid.) e a 098075  & auied yao derivatic ion: C. _Berk «© Se ats. £
. Secret. Sse: 2 orm is is tg fe is asteral Sarstee ans ed do Seyments,) “*Regarding t the. ‘issue of whether Calderon‘ s comments. could reasonably be interpreted to indicate possible foreknowledge, the CIA position is as follows: ' During the. Rockefeller Commission inquiry, Calderon's conversation was identified | as a possible item of information from thef Agency' s JCuban. and Soviet[telephone | : intercepts Jthat might suggest foreknowledge — of a plot to assassinate the American Presi~. dent. This involves a faulty translation of an - answer Calderon gave to her caller. In answer to the latter's question as to whether she had heard the latest news, Calderon said: “Si, claro, me entere casiantes que Kennedy." The verb entere is mistranslated. Me en ere un (the first person of the verb enterars - past tense) should be. translated as + “sound: out (or I learned). /about it. -- the assassination7 . almost. before. Kennedy /did7. " In other’ words, - Calderon was saying she heard about the shooting of Kennedy almost at the time the event took place..." (CIA Doc., Memorandum Regarding _ Luisa Calderon conversation, p.l). The Committee fundamentally disputes. the narrow interpretation of Calderon's comments assigned by the Agency. It is the Committee ' s position that translation of Me Entere as. | either "I found: out" or "I. learned about". comments as a suggestion on her part of possible foreknowledge of President Kennedy's assassination. He judgpaaat of thearren Commnssiar ri “t recA a sation: 990076 20,0525 - So, a | te ete ce —_— Rw A a Ye a wm. does not foreclose interpretation of Calderoms . : The jnterpretatio, ynany event, should have exnlert te . & peeqettee ans ; erro i: 1
~~” Classification: secret — -. Classification: . (This form is to be used for material extracted faq Glan rogolled SREP terial | ‘extracted from ClA—controlled Secuments. ). “This: ‘cable does not state: the basis for a . arresting Calderon.* “However, the CIA's copy of this: - "cable bears” a handwritten. notation on its. ‘routing 7 | page. That notation states: “Info ‘from Amb Mann | for Sec Rusk re: ...persons involved with ‘Oswald in ‘Cuban Embassy." “Mann went on to. state in urgent "0, tems: “they may quickly be returned to Havana. ain oo order to eliminate any possibility that Mexican - "government, could use them as witnesses." (Ibid. ) “According. to CIA files, Calderon made - "pesarvations to return to Havana on Cubana Airlines on December | il, (1963, less than, four weeks. after the "assassination. (CIA Doc. CSCI-316/01783-65, 4/26/63) | Calderon, Azcue and Mirabal were not arrested . MOY detained for questioning by the Mexican federal police. “However, Silvia Duran, a friend and associate . . of. Calderon! Ss and the one person ‘believed: to have ~ SD ‘*It is the Committee! vs beligé ‘that. Mann was prompted | | to request the arrest of Calderon.on-the basis of Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte's allegation ‘that Calderon . Was present at the Cuban Embassy when Oswald .. _ was allegedly given a sum of money presumably. ‘to Carry out the assassination of President Kennedy. (CIA Doc. DDP4- 2741, -i1 June (1964, Attachment (c) 900077, | eatin — oe 8 8605 7 a a 7 Ce Berk ° SO, oO a | ees by deen —
- Gasefiation: secret = ‘orm is 19 Be y ied ist ster! sgt om CA eet Sd SSsyments,) -57-—— i “had repeated. contact. with Oswald while he. was®: in| 2 “Mexico city, was arrested and questioned ‘by. ‘the | Mexican police on two separate occasions. (CIA. . Doc. DIR 84950, (11/23/63, CIA Doc. DIR. 85471,. - 1727/63) | - During. her ‘second interrogation, Duran. was. questioned regarding her association with Calderon. _ There is no indication in the ¥einterrogation report | accounting for the questioning of Duran, about. Calderon. (CIA. Doc. ppP4- =0940, 2/21/64) | The information regarding " puran's Ss interrogation was - passed to the Warren, ‘Commission | on February 21, 1964, more than, two months after | | Calderon had returned to Cuba. (Ibid. )- | Information was “reported: to the CIA during, May 1964, from a Cuban defector, tying Luisa Calderon to the Cuban Intelligence apparatus. ‘The. .- & "defector, AMMUG-1, was himself a Cuban cnctiigence™ Officer who supplied valuable. and. highly reliable information to the’ CIA regarding Cuban Intelligence operations. (CIA Doc., Memorandum of Joseph Langosch » er ee to Chief, Office of Security, 6/23/64) Calderon's po Oe aes Sesto: j—sessee 000078 - - . Bec 0523 - oe wo Z on a = el % ti somes
Sesto: a his form ig te ior mgisrigl axrastss Om Cla—eentte eq Eten =“57a- me ties ‘to: Cuban intelligence were reported to the Warren | Coitimission on ‘June 18, 1964, {CIA Doc. FOIA #739- ~319, oe 6/19/64) However, the Committee has determined from. - its. review that. the CIA did not provide Calderon’ Ss. | “conversation of November 22 to ‘the Warren Commission. . 7 s - Consequently, even though | the Warren Commission was. aware that - | REI Ey a SECRET 900079 - : 7 oe 2000523 | oo : - : | ail ea
- 58 -- os | Classification: (This form | is to: be ‘used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents. ). Levee adios aa easbnnanboet iieentedict RSE ry Ar . Calderon had connections to intelligence work, as did other Cuban: Embassy officers, the. vital Link between her background’ and her comments, was never established for the Warren Conmission by the CIA. ‘The. Agency's oversight: in this - Fegard may have forclased the Commission from‘ oO actively pursuing a lead of great significance, Calderon’ s- 201 file reveals that: she. .: arrived in Mexico City from Havana on January ee 1963, carrying Cuban Passport E/63/7. “Her date of birth was “believed to ‘be -1940 (CIA Doc.. Dispatch HMMA21612, no date given) -Galderon' s ‘presence in. Mexico City was. ‘first reported by” the. CIA’ on. July” 15, 1963 in a. ‘dispatch from the CIA's Miami fiela- ‘office to the CIA's Mexico City station and to the “Chief of the ‘CIA's Special. Affairs Staff (for Cuban operations) . (CIA, Doc. Dispatch{ Loos, 7/15/63) That dispatch. had attachea to it a report -containigg biographic data on personnel then assigned to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. At page three of ‘the. attached report Luisa Calderon was listed as Secretary ‘Of the Cuban Embassy’ Ss commercial office. ‘The | 998080. oe Classification: | Classified by derivation: : Y MF
gg . Classification: ___ SE 4 (This form is to be. used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents. ).. notation indicated ‘that a report was “pending on | : - No such report is present 7 Calderon. (Ibid. pe 3 of attachment)" “The - in Calderon's - 201 File. . Agency has attempted, without success, » to locate | the report. | | Luisa Calderon's association with the Cuban DGI was first recorded by the CIA on May 5, 1964. Blind (cra. Doc.” Memorandum of [Harold Swenson, FOIA {Ooh 4V . Ah ip B i 68-290 5/5/64) “At: that time, Joseph Langosch, — ae cae ‘Chief of Counterintelligence. for: the Special Affairs ‘Staff, reported the results of his debriefing of, ‘the. Cuban defector, AMMUG-1. _ ‘The: memorandum stated that AMMUG~1. had no ‘direct knowledge of Lee Harvey oe Oswald or his activities but was able ‘to provide items” of interest based upon the comments of certain . Cuban Intelligence, Service officers. ‘(Ibid.) — Specificaliy, - AMMUG-1 was asked if Oswald was known to the:Cuban intelligence services before November. 23,. 1963. “AMMUG- -1 told Langosch “Prior to October 1963, swag . : visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Ccity—on two or three occasions. Before, during and after these > visits, Oswald was in contact with the Direccion a a aS Classification: a sete : a 005631 | 5 | Classified by derivation:
» information he had elicited from AMMUG-1 regarding -— 60 -. Classification: _ SECRET. a Deen (This - form is. to be used for- material extracted oes me from ClA—controlled documents.) ct General De Intelligencia (DGI), specifically with Luisa Calderon, Manuel Vega. Perez, and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez." ~ (Ibid. ). | Langosch thereafter wrote . that Calderon' Ss. precise Yelationship to the DGI was not clear: * As a comment to this statement he set forth the en CIA cable and. dispatch traffic which recorded her arrival in Mexico during January 1963 and ‘departure aa for ‘Cuba within one month’ after the assassination. = (Ibid. ) On ‘May 1, 1964, Langosch recorded additional, Oswald’ Ss possible contact with the DGI.- (CIA ‘bee en. wipe FOIA 687-295, attach. 3, 5/7/64) Paragraph’ 3 Of ‘this memorandum stated in part: } “a. Luisa Calderon; since. she returned | ue to Cuba, has been paid a regular - salary by the DGI even ‘though | she. has not. performed any.services.. © |. o Her home is in the Vedado section BO wnere the rents are high. © : 2 b. Source  (AMMUG) has known Calderon for several years. Before going ~ to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the department which was. known as: the “Empress Transimport." 1. Uh. Her title was Secretary General - = of the Communist Youth in the. . - ' department named in the previous’ sentence. ee ).. _ SECRET ce é | Classification: EE eS oe : =5 | 90008 a2 Classified by derivation: |
Classification: ee s z ee - a (This form is. to! be’ ‘used - for material extracted . from ClA—controlled documents.) — a (on May 8 Langosch further. ‘disclosed AMMUG! Ss : | a knowlege of the Oswald . case. (Ibid, attach. 5). _Langosch paraphrased ANMUG!s. knowledge of catderon aa a! oe as follows: Oo ‘thought that Luisa Calderon. might have: ‘had contact with Oswald because’ I learned about 17 March 1964, shortly before I made a trip to Mexico, that she had been. ‘Lnvolved with an American in> Mexico. ‘The information to which I refer was told to | Me by a DGI case officer... I had commented . - to (him) that it. seemed strange. that Luisa Calderon was receiving a salary from the DGI although she apparently did not.do . any work for the Service... (The case officer) .. . told me that hers was: a peculiar. case and — .. that he himself believed that she had been .~ : ‘recruited in Mexico by the Central Tntelligence _ Agency although. Manuel. Pineiro, the Head. Of the DGI, did-not agree. As [ recall, eS - (the case officer). had - investigated. Luisa ee eee g _ ‘Calderon. This was.-because, during ‘the ‘time she was in Mexico, the DGI had intercepted . a letter to her by an-American who’ signed “his name. OWER (phonétic) or something = ‘Similar. As you-know, the pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon names is difficult in | Spanish so I am not sure of how the name mentioned by Hernandez should be spelled. — It could have been “Howard" or something ‘different. As I understand the Matter;  °.). the letter from the American was a love _ aay letter but indicated that there was a. PS clandestine professional relationship — between the writer and Luisa-Calderon. I also understand from (the case officer) ‘that after the interception of the letter she had been followed and seen in. the — company of an American... I.do not know. if. this could have been: Oowadde + (EDAd-) oo 7 Classification: . . | Classified by derivation: | _
Classification: a (This form is to be used ‘for material: extracted. from ClA—controlled documents.) “On May ll, Raymond Rocca wrote a. | memorandum . to Director Richard Helms regarding the information  fowensongaaa elicited from AMMUG (CIA Doc. FOIA 687-295, ne, —S/11/646 Rocca | Memorandum) - ‘Rocca’ proposed | that "the. DDP in person or via a designee, perferably the former, discuss the AMMUG~1 situation on a very. restricted basis with Mr. Rankin at his earliest. “convenience either at the Agency. or at. the Commission ‘headquarters. “until this takes Place, it is not desirable to put anything in writing. (Ibid. Ps 2). “On May - 15, L964, Helms wrote Rankin regarding “AMMUG' ¢ 's information about the DGL,. indicating its ; sensitivity and operational significance. (CIA Doc. FOIA 697- -294, 5/15/64, Helms Memorandum) Attached to Helis’ _ communication was a paraphrased. accounting of Langosch' s May 5 memorandum. (Ibid.}) In that. “attachment. the intelligence associations. of Manuel Vega Perez and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez were set t fogth. a However, ‘that attachment made no reference whatsoever to Luisa Calderon... Howard Willens of the Warren Commission requested as a follow-up‘ to the May 15 memorandum,: : i |. Classified by derivation: « 000034 | SRS, “SS.
Classification: — (This. form is. to: ‘be used for material extracted ~ from ClA—controlled documents. ) : access | to the questions used in. Langosch* Ss “interrogation of. ailic. - (CIA, Doc. FOIA 739- 316, srs/e4, " Memorandum) - ‘on: ‘dune 18, 1964 Arthur Dooley of Rocca! 's Gounterintelligence Research and Analysis as Group took the. questions and AMMUG''s responses to Willens saw Langosch' s May 5 memorandum. The only . mention of Calderon was as follows: “the | precise. relationship of ‘Luisa’ Calderon to the DGE is not the Warren Commission’ Ss: office? s for Willen’ s review. So g clear. - She spent about six months in Mexico from which she returned to Cuba early in 1964. ". (Tbid.) § However, Willens’ was not shown Langosch's : memoranda, of. May 7 and May 8, 1964 which: contained “mach more detailed information on Luisa entderon, including her ‘possible association with Lee Harvey -. Oswald and/or American intelligence. (Ibid. ye ‘The Warren Commission as of June 19, 1964, haa little if no reason to pursue the Luisa | Calarge a lead. Te had effectively been denied significant . 7, 8, ll and June 19 with attachments, are not © referenced in the Calderon 201 file. (See CIA Computer printout of Calderon 201 file) Their existence was determined by the Committee' s. | indepen Ghassifieation: Qther “agency files...-! Not Ss E Cc R E Tt Classified by ae ee * It should be noted that these memoranda of May 5, - 5
| impedea ox prevented the Commission’ Ss pursuit, and the assassination of President Kennedy. 8 ut even if the Warren, Commission had learned - piece of: information that might | have raised. its: rn interest. in calderon to a more serious: ‘level. ‘The Classification: : (This form is to’ be used -for material extracted | from ClA—controlled documents. ) _ background information. “This ‘denial may have Of Calderon’ 'S potential relationship to. Oswald ee ~ Of. Calderon’ s "background and possible. contact with | - Oswald it still had been denied | the. one significant Warren Commission was never told about Calderon' Ss "conversation of November 22, ‘1964. : Classification: _ SECRE [ | eae “ EE :
Classification: . (This form is to be used, for material extract J os from CiA—controlled docu ts.) soe Say. pent ARS Calderon 201° ce aN reference to the conversation nor does it indicate’ ‘that it. was ever made kriown ‘to or - provided the. : “Warren Commission for its analysis. (CIA Comput _-print-out of Calderon 201 file) - “In an effort to determine ‘the. manner. in “which | ‘the. $ treated the Calderon conversation, this Committee _ | posed the ‘following questions. ‘to. the CIA?. a aL. Was the Warren Commission or: any Warren - ~.. Commission staff member ever given access: to the transcript of a télephone conversa-~ tion, dated November 22, 1963, between a - female employee of the Cuban Embassy / _ Consulate in Mexico City, identified - as Luisa, and an unidentified male speak-_ . ing from outside the Cuban Embassy/Con- | sulate? If so, please indicate when "= 6 _ this transcript was provided to the Warren CommisSion or its staff, which CIA official provided it, and which Warren Commission — members or statt reviewed it.) 2.. Was ‘the Warren Commission or any member — of the Warren Commission ‘or any. Warren Commission staff member ever informed Loe 4 Classified by’ derivation:
given. the: information nor. the. opportunity by - Sete: casas orm is to. + for material da cou. m mts feo is aterial _ extract Pe rom Aeon ro ols cm : oo oe _ ~65a- orally or in writing of the substance of the. above~referenced conversation ‘of. November . 22, 1963? If so,’ please indicate’ when and’ - in what form this information was provided, and which CIA official provided it. (HSCA ‘request letter of August 28, 1978)” The CIA. responded by memorandum: "Although the (Mexico City) Station considered _.the conversation of sufficient possible interest to send a copy to. headquarters, - the latter apparently did nothing with. it, for there appears to be no record in the. Oswald file of such action as. may. have been taken. A review of those Warren Commission: documents containing information - ‘provided by the Agency and still bearing | a 'Secret.or Top Secret classification does. . ; not reveal whether the conversation was | ~“.given or shown to the Commission. ae (CIA Doc.:, Memorandum Regarding Luisa | Calderon conversation, P- 1). The available evidence ‘thus supports the. conclusion that the Warren Commission was never ~ which “it could. evaluate Luisa. calderon! s ‘significance | to: the events surrounding President: * ° “Kennedy's assassination. Had the Commission. been a - expeditiously provided this evidence of her intelligence background, association. with Silvia” Duran, and her comments following ‘the assassination, — it may well have given more. serious "investigative ~ Classification: : got 0688 a | ett ana |