AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10188-10261 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-117290-844 Released under the John Kennedy Wesgasgeaination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: NW S3025 Date: 5-25-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG. MX | TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: DATE: 06/12/1978 PAGES: 2. SUBJECT: HSCA, REPRESENTATIVES, REQ INFO ON JFK DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: . REVIEW DATE: 05/01/1997 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 53025 Docld:32177177 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001
wee ee sy Tee dag, FID-36 oy. 7-27-76) ' TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE:-° CLASSIFICATION: ! - ["? Teletype fj Immediate (+ TOP SECRET I (~) Facsimile C7 Priority . [(j SECRET i = . (7 CONFIDENTIAL COM TTHAL xxi Airtel (* Routine 7 Hi get | . “4 CI EFTO pens [4 CLEAR - 4 ‘ oe a <a —= Date . _ *: = z6 a = LL p77 Sa 7 yee sa == ———--------- BOE ») F Sto > LG. & & department of the FJP. w) BY Bureau , : Sey 25 wed ne fa se ~ De i SIRECTOR, FBI ; ATIN: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT . DIVISION FROM “Xecie MEXICO CITY (175-14) (RUC) RE - Othe. ii SB - SUBJECT HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) Re Bureau teletype, 6-7-78. (C7 _ Iwo teams representing HSCA arrived in Mexico City during the period 5/28 - 31/78. The announced purpose was for one team to look into the Mexican aspects of.the assassin- ation of former President JOHN F. KENNEDY and the second would be doing the same thing with regard to the assassination’ of Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING. Yu) : on §-8-78 Eien ce that he had been approached the for an interview by one of. se teams. He was visited at his home on 5-25 - 26-78 by HONORIO HERNANDEZ ESCANDON,. of the Federal Judicial Police, who asked him if he would participate in such an interview. After consulting with this office, the source agreed. (3K) On 5-31-78, he was interviewed in his home by GARY CORNWELL, HAROLD LEAP, EDWIN JUAN LOPEZ and "DANIEL" HARDWAY. They were accompanied by Cdte. FLORENTINO VENTURA, of the Federal Judicial Police (FJP), and two other FJP representatives. After the interview, the source agreed to participate in a second interview in which his remarks would be tape recorded. This was set for Saturday, 6-3-78, but he was not contacted on that date. / w) ne ae ee On 6-5-78, he “68s visited by HERNANDEZ, Dr. ALFONSO OROZCO CONTRERAS and one member of the Committee staff, who may be LOPEZ, and served as interpreter during the earlier meeting. OROZCO was “Way as a "coordinator" of some | O at sO Db ~ i ny Mexio City Classtived py eee 4A Flu Decles€ity on: < id i ‘ j f; nS, pb we BEPL Trang Rt af 3 iis HW 53025 Docld: 3217717 Page 2?
WW 53025 DocId:32177177 Page 3 MEX: 175- “Ld noe O es ee _ - ” : i aan oe ~ .. The “source . stated. that he: had participated. ‘ina tecorded intérview which’ lasted about forty minutes. He was asked to look at two albums of photographs. ‘and was able. to pick out a photograph which: he believed:to be LEE HARVEY OSWALD, even though it was- ‘not a. particularly: good ‘likeness. Kw, The HSCA tepresentatives: apparently’ had ‘a. verbatiin - account: of information furriished by the source when he was ‘First interviewed at the U.S. Embassy after the ‘KENNEDY. assassination. ‘There were many details in this account which... * the source was ‘no longer able to remember. He did: remember. | i bumping into aman leaving the’ Cuban Embassy in México City .- ‘in late September or early October, 1963.. He can recall. that this man was counting money and: a few other. details related “to the experience. He.has consistently. stated that he. believes this man was OSWALD. MY ¥) . a The*s source: said that HSCA. ‘yepresentatives questioned him about thé Spanish- speaking ability of those who interviewed him at the Embassy. They suggested. that those conducting the- interview might have misunderstood at léast some of the information which-the source was furnishing at that time. ' They asked whether the’ statement was read back to him and signed by him... He now. is unable to recall, but believes it -was not. He states. that he did acknowledge that there - might be a possibility that some of his information was misunderstood by those interviewing him-at the time, but that he could not, after: fifteen years, _recall the etait fo ‘The Buréau will note ‘that the “Mexico City file -.-pertaining to the source was not opened until: 9-9-64, and Bureau _ authority to deal-with him on’a confidential basis was received — in a: letter dated 10-8-64. There-:was no relationship of any kind between the source and this office prior ‘to 11-22-63 and - no confidential relationship at the time he was first : - . interviewed at the US. | Embassy in Mexico City. GOW US MEX-2 as ‘Lrivolved in. some aspects. of -the ‘JAMES | EARL. RAY investigation. in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. “That 2. * source has been alerted to the visit of. the HSCA™ ‘Team, but has reported no contact. to date. / ) 3 . oa . ok” Fg to tt