v9.1 HW 54653 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 : DoclId: 32246606 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10075-10166 NUMBERED FILES 010136 Document Information HSCA GENZMAN, ROBERT BLAKEY, G. ROBERT 07/31/1978 4 DE BRUEYS, WARREN C. POLITICAL AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD FBI, ADMINISTRATION SUMMARY Unclassified Consulted Withhold 07/22/1993 Box 187. Page 1 Date: 10/1/201 Released under the John Kennedy Wss5assination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 54653 Date: n1O-23-2017
anf | | MEMORANDUM ‘ Po SUMMARY OF DEPOSITION TO: G. Robert Blakey ; Chief Counsel “FROM: Robert Genzman- Staff Counsel DATE: July 31, 1978 . RE: _ Summary of Deposition of Orest Pena .- June 23, 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana Pena was an FBI informant in ‘New Orleans beginning in 1959 or 1960. (p. 5) He reported to FBI Special Agent Warren C. de Brueys for a:number of years, the exact number of which he cannot remember, (pp. 6, 7) He spoke to de Brueys many, many times. (p. 9) He provided information which he obtainéd in connection with his position as a bar owner in New Orleans. (p. 6) He was.never paid for the information he. provided. (Pp. D PO ee a - Pena worked in some capacity for another United States government agency, which he refused to. identify... (pp. 9, 10) © He refused to answer the question of whether he has had any relationship with the CIA,:.even when shown the CIA release letter labeled JFK Exhibit #94. (pp. 27, 28) Pena never worked for Fidel Castro. (p. 6)° In regard. to the allegation that ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was an FBI informant, Pena saw Oswald at a restaurant on. Decatur and Iberville Streets in New Orleans in the company of "other federal agents from the Customs House Building." (pp. 11, 12) De Bruyes was among this group. (pp. 12, 17) Pena refused _ to say whether the ever observed Oswald and de Brueys speaking together. (pp. 12, 13) He believes the two knew each other "very, very well.” (p. 13) Pena saw Oswald, de Brueys, and . other government agents leaving the restaurant and going ' to the Customs House Building.» (pp. 16, 17) When Oswald was '"transferred to Dallas," de Brueys was "transferred to Dallas”: at the same time. (p. 13) Pena is "very, very, very sure" -. that de Brueys was transferred to Dallas before the Kennedy “assassination - (p. (13) Pena believes: that Oswald was an~agent of the U. S. government. (p. 18)
Summary of Deposition of Orest Pena . | Page 2 é Pena contends that there is a connection between the Kennedy assassination and Cuban training camps in New Orleans. (pp. 14, 15, 28, 33) Pena did not testify on all relevant issues before the Warren Commission, because de Brueys had threatened him before he was scheduled to testify, and because - Commission Counsel Wesley Liebeler did not cooperate. (pp. 18, 19) © 'Pena told a number of people, including Mark Lane and Harold Weisberg, that Oswald was an FBI informant. (pp. 20, 21) In 1975 Pena publicly alleged that Oswald was an FBI informant on CBS’ television. (p. 18) Oswald | once entered Pena's, bar with two or three Spanish~ looking individuals and ordered lemonade. (pp. 23, 24, 25) -Pena saw Oswald handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee _ pamphlets in New..Orleans. (p. 22) He saw the fight between Oswald and Bringuier. (P- 22) Pena later posted bond for Bringuier. (. 23) , Pena has- ‘been told that he ‘and Oswald each applied for _ a passport in New Orleans on June 24, 1963. (p. 25) He does not remember seeing Oswald at that time. (p. 25, 26) He thinks the would have remembered seeing Oswald if he and Oswald had applied at the same time. (p. 26) He does not know why his name was omitted from a State Department list (Warren Commission Exhibit 952). which included the names of people who applied for passports in New Orleans on June 24, 1963. (p..26) He thinks that his name might have been omitted purposely on account of his informant status. (pp. 26, 27) Pena does not believe he traveled to Mexico in the Fall of 1963. (p. 27). _ He never saw Oswald in Mexico. (p. 27) He never traveled to Mexico or to any other countries on any intelligence missions. (p. 27) cs HW 54653 Docld:32246608 Page 3
TO: FROM: ‘ DATE: -RE: HW 54653 Banister, Bringuier, ‘Cabellero, Castro, DoclId: 32246606. MEMORANDUM G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel Robert Genzman, Staff Counsel July 31, 1978. Index of Orest Pena Testimony : June 23, New Orleans Balter Building Guy Batista, Fulgencio Carlos CIA Juan Ilario Fidel "Cuban Revolutionary Front ..Cuban Training Camp de Brueys, Warren C.. FBI Fair Play for Cuba Com=: | Pe. mittee Ferrie, David Garcia, Hector Jose Garrison, Jim Gaudet, William G. Habana ;Bar Page 4 PP- Pp. PP- pp. PP- PPp- Pp- . PP- Pp. 34 PP- pp. .. 26, pp. Pp. Pp. p. PP- 45, 13, 28, 1978, 21 32 14, 16, 22, 23, 30 _ p. 18 27, 28 15 16, 19, 20, 28, 33, 9, 16, 7, 34 6, 14, 10, ll, 19, ‘12, 20, 9, 10, ll, 14, 21, 22, 23, 8, 19, 5, 6, 17, 28 74 18, (22 29, 30, 31, 32 21, 33 31 33 23, 24
International Trade Mart pp. 16, 32 Lane, Mark Liebeler, Wesley McHoward, Dave Maloche, Frank Mexico Oswald, Lee Harvey - Pedro the Greek Pelaez, Commandante ', Perez, Victor | Polygraph Rogue, Mr. “Rodriquez, Ernesto | Shaw, Clay Smith, David Smith, Sergio Arcacha State, Department of Tambarella, John Weisberg, Harold .HW 54653 Docld:32246608 Page 5 p. 20 pp. 18, 19 p. 8 p. 8 _— 27 pp. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, ‘17, 18, 22,°23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33 pp. ll, 12 p. 22 pp. 11, 17 pp. 10, 33, 34 pp. 16 pp. 23, 24 “pp. 31, 32 p. 16. . pp. 6, 9, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34 : | p. 26 pp. 8, 9 . pp. 20, 25