14-00000 f- REPRODUCTION | PROMI ED ft‘ : .@ ; . “ S™e Ey 31. The first reference to the GARRO story was noted in eto a Mexico Station Memorandum of Record dated 12 October 1964: Lo "Elena GARRO [said] that she and her : a” daughter ‘were. invited ‘to a@ party at the Cuban Embassy during the period she now finds out that Sspat was’ here in Mexico prior to the assassins: ‘She was invited by a Mexican secretary in the Cuban Embassy whose husband is a cousin of the GARRO family [Horacio DURAN]. At the party she saw three Gringos, not drinking, not mixing and more or less just standing around together like threa bumps on a log. They were so obviously out of place that she asked someone in the Cuban Embassy about them and was told that 'théy were just passing through.' -She claims that on the way these three Gringos stood out she took a good look at them as did her daughter. When the @ssassination occurred and OSWALD's picture was Spread into the newspapers, both Elena and her daughter immediately said that he was one of the three Gringos ‘without a doubt’ at the party." . 32. GARRO repeated her story to Mr. Charles William THOMAS, an Enbassy political officer on 10 Decenber 196s : 22 . i ee eae ® REPRODUCTION
14-00000 Pp. | PROHIBITED SS ra “In September 1963\after her return from abroad, she went to a partys ‘accompanied by her Caughter, at the home of Ruben : Doran Temphass added]. Ruben is one of the two bedthers of Horacio DURAN, who married her cousin. She “net OStiAgD, and two other young Americans. At the party she nis Niscouraged from talking with him. Other guests were the Cuban Consul AZCUE, General Clark FLORES, Silvia DURAN, who She later learned was OSWALD" S Mistress while he was here, Emilio CARBALLIDO and a Latin American Negro man with red hair [emphasis added]. In November 1963 when the identity of the assassin became known, she and her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted "assassins" and other insults at the staff there. ® Shortly afterward, she and her faughter were visited by a friend, Manuel CARVILLO for. caLV2LO1, then an official in the Secretariat of Mie Goberneion and were told he haa Orders 4 to escort thew to, a smaklvand obscure hotel in the center MR SSaet of town. eP wert, kept there for eight days under pretext , s€ that they ver ~, nger. When she told CARVILLO she wanted —— to go to the American Embassy and explain what she knew of OSWALD, she was told that the American Embassy was full of Communist spies. 5 a rv 33. On 25 December 1965 and 9 January 1966 in further: “ interviews with THOMAS, GARRO and her daughter elaborated and 8 These particulars were not confirmed by independent observers at the time. 93 ® Eek 2 SeACUC re
14-00000 PRONIBITED ¢’. | ° e xa mm in certain partiguiars significantly modified her earlier account. She “B1so- acknowledged that she and her daughter had been siterviened by Embassy officers to whom she claimed they dia not give. a ‘very complete story because the A Embassy oftieged did not @ppear to give much credence to NN aN, anything ‘they said. . oN 34. It developed that GARRO and daughter had been LL tea interviewed by the Lega pU_and24 Nawenher 1964, Her: information had been similar to what 5s aimed. AD, her EE een Sint lee to what she oa The FBI representative therefore considered the matter Closed and reaffirmed his disengagement from the matter to the cTA Chief of Station on 27 December 1964 and to the Ambassador On 25 February 1965. 35. The amesssy Rolitical officer, however, persisted in his interviews and Zeporting. In a memorandum of conversation, 13 July 1966, GARRO Adengitiea the place to which she had been taken by CALVILLO as the Hotel Vermont. (This detail checked out SEFLmativedy. “GARRO was at the Hotel 23 - 24, 25 — 27 and 28 ~ 30 November. 1963. ) In another, on 7 February 1967, GARRO's cxthigling’ WSiecteudes with the Cubans are set out. And final u SSouns's retirement from U.S. Government , service, the Department of State, at his request, ; 28 August 1969, disseminated to cTa and FBI a compilation of his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews. ~ 24 & Cecgs 53 REPRODUCTION — PAGE 86 of ele PROMOTED ea
14-00000 ; &, ~"" “36. There the matter rests. GARRO's Chronology of the events she cescribed. as havin occurred inthe Mexican capital of “OSWALD's presence there, Her story, however, had two points. cone RARE with: ‘allegations by others regarding oswatp: OXY” << ww” | SenRADO '« allegations. regarding the Negro with the red- ~dyed hair [this detail could, however, have been gleaned from the Warren Commission's published account of the . Fp" case] and b. Silvia DURAN's later claim Of oe CRO a ad intimate Personal contacts with RRS ¥ es 37. Beginning in March anda amplified Sh y< 1567, the American Consul, Benjamin g, RUYLE, ampico developed a contact with a toca Horicen joumtine, Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue,, who claimed to have encountered OSWALD with other Pro~CASTRO Students at the University of Mexico campus in September 1963. 38. In June 1969 CONTRERAS was interviewed by a CIA officer; for thres ySacs approximately 1960 - 1964, He belonged to a. Clandestine Pro~CASTRO revolutionary group at the University. Regarding the OSWALD 25 | & - SORE Celiscg REPRODUCTION = age BT ug 242 PASE
14-00000 REPRODUCTION oe PROMIBITED wees REPRODUCTION PROGIBITED ¢ ‘ . Py OS oe Sn ee lee = Sa OM case he was extremely cautious and although he pane was not able Qe wdbling to give dates and Za oN names, he Said.OSwaLp visited the University Aw of Nexig® Gampud shortly after the Cuban a iad a a GeO a visa to visit Cuba. ‘@) megan quiries. regarding pro-Cuban NS revolutignary groups at the University and mae was directed to CONTRERAS and his friend. OSWALD met CONTRERAS and four other persons as they came out of a round-table discussion held in the faculty of Philosophy... OSWALD told the group it was urgent. tliat he, visit | Cuba and the Cuban Embassy haddeniea him a visa. He requested aid from CONTRERAS’ group. CONTRERAS and others mistrusted OSWALD because they felt he was a CIA provocation. The group allowed OSWALD to accompany them the rest of the day, that night and part of the next day. OSWALD was very introverted and’ appeared to be slightly crazy. OSWALD nade fo, nentog of an assassination Plot but kept nging eb thet point he had to travel to co Ne 39. At thi Soh h FBI knowledge, the matter was turned over to the Mexican authorities who determined that CONTRERAS was indeed at the University of Mexico but only 26 |