AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: RECORD SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10230-10240 DL 100-10461-9259 N DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: * LEG, MX - TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 11/06/1970 PAGES: 4 “ SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-5652 DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: barocra: 32179530 Page 1 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 08/12/1996 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: (2/14/2001
a Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 27107 | E ote}. ’ DATE: d1-14- 2017 Sgn ee MAY 1962 EDITION a _ | GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 _/ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ~ Memorandum _ DIRECTOR, FBI (1058-22555) TO FROM LEE BARVEY OSWALD suBJECT: IS - KX — CUBA Mexico City letter 7/se/ee a and Havana letter Oe bye entitled, "TERESA PROENZA; SM - C;" and Mexico City letter and LEM 16/5/70 entitled, "JORGE, LUIS: ROJAS MENDOZA; IS - CUBA" (Bufile 105- 115365). ReENZA's full name appears to be MARIA TERESA 1 PROENZA _PRf iSNZA she is currently said to be, in. Havana, Cuba, She is the sister of the wife of JORGE LUIS RQJAS } 3 MENDOZA., a Mexican employee of the Cuban AVTETION Co ny in Mexico City. Yer brother ALVARO ESTARLSIAG. SRORN RAGE: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the s Sject of an IS - CUBA investigation, TERESA PROENZA was the ecretary of the Mexican communist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior. to the revolution. ‘She became an employee of the Cuban Zmbassy in Mexico City follow- ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and a “slave of the Cuban communist government.” near house arrest. She now appears to have as freedon . The following information is extracted from the letter . and LEM submitted by Mexico City on’ 10/5/70 concerning JORGE Q LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the effort, ‘of his family to arrange for his sister MARGOT ROJAS MENDOZA to leave Cuba and eer the family in Mexico:  ” | According to information furnished by [i ro. iio 9/21/70, the ROJAS family has become very edt by fi red a Cuba situation and Mrs. ROJAS, whose full name is CARIDAD DECLASsir) . ED B 6-Bureau On ihe y Sebl Seo/ ay (1-105-135744) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA) nnmmnn nn R \ Oe (1+4-20479) (TERESA PROENZA PROENZA) Tahoe ee ee. (1-Foreign Liaison Desk) ° | (1-Philadelphia) (105- =11156) (ALVARC PROENZA PROE NZA) (Info) / 3-Mexico City “f)} “ (1-100~-1834) (TERESA PROENZA PROENZA) - Vi, LD SEARCHED “.........;... INDEXED. i (1-105-0-9027) (ALVARO PROENZA, PROENZA). fy eo fey Buy U.S. S. wine on the Payroll Savings Plan ASB ee SERIALIZED, na q-.. NED... k Ms Ae 5010-108-01 pocld: 32179530 Page 2
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote} * DATE: 11-14-2017 ce MEX 105-3762 ra rn rr ncacefrra g OENZA..PROENZA DE... JAS, complained that Cuba has beconie’ F poly e “state and that Cuban“authorities have ae) family "all fied up." ROJAS and bis wife told fey 197] that a Cuban communist named JUAN MARANE is a friend of the family. On one trip to Cuba, CACHTTH"367RS" asked him to’ look into the situation of her = sister TH ZREGA PROENZA to see how it could be straightened out. MARINE recently visited Mexico "a ucognite" and informed. the RCJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily good but that TERESA was once under a death sentence because she had dealt with LEE HARVEY OSWALD while assigned to the Cuban Embassy prior to the assassination of JOHN F,. ‘KENNEDY. Her end gnterceded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS va On told[ Max 1 that MARINE warned them not to tell the Cuban ~~ Embassy. in Mexico City that he had spoken to them about this matter. a co, re ; 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 .gxceeds any that. the source can recall in the past. (a) So The source stated that some years ago, as best he could recall, he heard TUANA LUISA PRORNZA , a sister of CACHITA who died some years ago, tebling a Similar story of how TERESA PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE’ HARVEY OSWALD at. the Cuban Embassy. the “time “TERESA ‘was employed at the embassy, she lived with JUANA® “HUISA ‘and another sister. . Within the family it has always been- said that -JSUANA ey yee 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 OSWALD investigation and it is noted that’ ‘as: set forth in exico City lett to the Bureau 1/24/64 in: ‘the CSWALD case MEY 18 and MEX 19, both of whom have furnished: reliable infor~- ation in the ‘pagt, reportéd on 1/13/64 that, ‘they had conversed with ELIZABETH CATLE Mi , Bufile 100 2395934, who told them 1 FTon she held with TERESA: ‘BROBNZA ; 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 =mbassy and the first person he ‘talked to was PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not speak Snglish, _ She turned him Fa Mocld:32179530 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 232107 Hote}: DATE: 11-14-2017 - . 7 4 y ~ OY ° . . . ~ ap While it is not clear from available information, it would appear that PR 20MNZA was able to return from Cuba for a a bat to Mexico following her dismissal and departure in 1/84, a By report dated 1/14/85 the CIA reported on the in- vestigation by the cuban government of olc line communist JOACUIN ORDCSUI MESA. -In this report it was indicated that TERESA PROENZA had bean errested at her home and was being he 1a incommunicaco {uw} . 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 OSWALU matter following the assassination of President KENNEDY than because of anything she did when CSWALD visited the Cuban Embassy. Eer harsh criticism of high Cuban ‘officials (the Ambassador and Foreign Minister) was appareptly well known in the embassy and hardly helpec her case. Pit fails to cK) indicate that she did anything for CSWALD that would substantiate the remarks made by JORG® HCJAS and his wife tof MEX 197} that ely TERSGA PROENZA had nearly been executed because Of her activities during CS7ALD's visit to the Cuban Embassy in 196 in the . absence of additional information regarding this activity, no further investigation is contemplatec at this time. it is’ noted that it is not feasible to directly intérrogate JONCE CJAS or his wife. owever {i 197)will closely follow this(K MY matter with them and any acditional, significant developments will be called promptly to the attention of the Bureau. . Cne information copy is being furnished to Philadelphia in view fF thei rest in ALVARO that[hal ake £Joncerning ALVARO PROENZA Es: isgielets te: on 7/2/79 that{he e recently visited feky the ROTA family in Mexico City and c r& remarked that ALVARO said he was surrounded vy "gusanos" (referring to Cuban exiles in a Gerogatory manner) in Philadelphia. Doclda: 327179530 Page 4