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 HW 53199 Bocld: 32346059 Date: 10/19/99 Page: 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM Released under the John Jf. . Eennedy CIA Wssassination Records ollection Act of 1992 AGENCY INFORMATION 104-10067-10351 JFK (44 5c 2107 Note). 80T013S7A ase#:NW 535199 Date: eee ee e ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 6-07-2017 -- DOCUMENT INFORMATION DOs THOMAS. POL. OFF. THE RECORD ‘MEMO OF CONVERSATION: FURTHER ON OSWALD AND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. 07/13/66 6 DE PAZ,ELENA GA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CONFIDENTIAL 1A, 1B RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 08/03/93 : ; JFK12:F23 1993.08.03.17:27:48:400030: FILE ORIGINAL NOT LOCATED, HOWEVER FULL TEXT COPY AVAILABLE FROM 104-10013-10078. CLASSIFIEW [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Page 1
Memorandum of Conversatio oe SUBJECT: Further on Oswald and Kennedy Assassination ; REFERENCE: Memorandum this Subject of Decesber 25) 1965 _ PARTICIPANTS? Elena Garro de Paz, Mexican writer a Charles Wa. Thomas, Political Officer Gf SOME ty nom wy vy om, care (0) SYA 37 ns eS Ae eI8 yok | Gappe er he "Mite Paz ds ribed pone developments waich may have sone bearing on h > claim ' i. | that she saw Lee Harvey Oswald at ‘a party ot the home of her cousin, Rubén’ én Pm : , When Oswald was in Mexico prior to the Kennedy eggassination. . 0 OG 0 24 lof 2. She stated that her writer friand, ertos’act » 1s quite vell acquainted ‘yc’, With Cuban Ambassador Joaquin Hernandez Armase She said Solorzano was apparently not particularly leftist but that his brother, Alfonso, was a communist. Ambas~ ' sador Hernandez hed told Solorzano thet he would very mich like to meet Sna. Paz. Solorzano accordingly crranged a party at his ow home on dune 30, 1966, and in, 59 vited both of thea. Also present vere Tito \ontcrono and his wife; Elvira*Var . the leftist Journalist with Novedades Wao is a close-personal, friend of ident ' Diaz Ordaz; Emnanue} Carballo, the pro-Castro writer;—Jo 2 head of the publi aft called Editorial Mortiz; and Soriano, the painter. _ She said Soriano wag probably invited to meke her feel at\ease, since he is a - ‘fylend of hers and was the only anti-commnist there besid erself. mnif, are 2f//5 3 3 During the ev @, Ambassador Hernandez, vhom she deseribed as intelligent end cultured, concentrated his attention on her ond did his best to flatter her ~ by lauding her literary productions. In addition, he expressed great interest in her friend, Carlos Madrazo. He issued a personal invitation to her to attend ' the ennual literary festival of the Casa de las Americas in Havana. She explained to him that she was not a Fidelista cod that she wouldn't Go to Havanese unless Juan Soriano went with her. Hernandez then invited Soriano to attend as well, . but the latter roundly denounced the Castro xvegime over the objections of the _ others present,. who urged then b yh to attend the festival. (oe Later, her octet, visene tL 2b the pro-Castro journalist, who, she _ S8Y8, personally dislikes Ambassador Hernandez, warned her not to go to Cuba alone. © a. fio sexeas oa GROUP 3 ~ Downgraded at 12-year interv ’ [H54 ve, my Pe v not automatically declassified. 4 —“/MO f/f. . . SO a rr een wes anes sone me ae ee cen en ee ee eee nyt seme te oe — 11 RATE ME Sear ne CNR er memninaeeltn ae eaten ee ana AO TE Sie Rast gan Le meade ede matt jpn vmmenune Cate mance cee are HW 53199 DBocld:32348059 Page 2
ge On July 4, @ driver fron the Cuban Exbassy delivered to her home on , _ , Calle Aloncastre in Lones Virreyes en envelope containing two Lettens .. &nd some printed matter from the Casa Ge les Americas in Havana. the - first letter, written last October, gave her address as Vermont 32, and ..., ' the second letter, written in April, gave her address ag Verront 3%. The | x COvelope for the first letter, with the cbove address, was marked for ‘.. veturn to the sender, which was the Cuban Exbessy here. The second en« * . Velope, which contatned the whole package, had no address as it was hande | Carried to her. home (see attachnents). oa a 4,° i: 6e Saas Paz tated that the only possible reason the letterswere ade “dressed to her at Calle Vernont was beenuse she spent several days at ‘37+ the Hotel Verzont immediately after the Kennedy essassination (see “ay Beferenced mencon).: The correct address of the hotel, hovsver, is Vermont * 29+ She concluded the Cubes Covernnars Carried that street and number, . With a minor Crror, a3 her regular address, Ro. ry oi Since Memus), Calyillo haa taken hor to the hotel ostensibly to pro- _ tect her from the Commnists, this raised the question of how the Cubans . Jos. ' Obtained that address. She stated that es Yar es she was aware, the Dae Pis oles ' | only people who knew she hed been at’ the Hotel Vermont were Manuel Calvillo ORT eS and tye close friends of his, Eresto ce Gal Mergerita Michelena. STI 7/ wpe Be other sadtoon of these three who might have learned of It are Einice— owes ve f 6% fof Odio and J Cobb. Ske said she had elvays been very suspicious of all - pa QO '. three. of those people because they hea Gone out of their way to cultivate “foi it) * |S hew"whea she returned from Europe in 1963 ond had made such a point of . . fe A < dveing outspoken professional anti-commnists,. She reneabered that oo oy Crs ‘: Years ago Margarita Mickelena was a communist. She now wondered whether _ 7 : Calvillo end perhaps the other tuo a3 well were Cuben agents. < She stated oe again that Calvillo wes a elese personal friend of Nos Palomares and ss © Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, and that geards, presumably from Gobernacion, had been . placed outside her home when she had returned from the Hotel Vermont. In Fact, since Calvillo's recent dismissal from his position at the Secret tariat of Eiucetion (for leaking information to the press about the Fondo | / of fx) de Culturn Econorica), he had shown her two personal telegrans from a y President Dfaz Ordaz accuring him thet. another Job would de found for hin in the near future. She edded that che hed told Calvillo that she had : . Gone to the US Exbassy at one point to tell what she knew about her alleged . encounter with Oswald. To add to her suspicions, she renexbered that f° what appeared to be a Gunuan who often accompanied Calvillo and Palomares oo / Wes @ Spanish refugee nazed (fnu) Valencia. She said Valencia's first , wife vas a Russion commnist he had married during the Spanish Civil Ware # . She hed subsequently taken their children ond returned to the Soviet Union, 8. She thought it possible that the Cuban Exbassy had now deliberately given her the letters from the Cosa Ge lao Anericas with the Vermont Street address in order to frighten hor. She wes already concerned sbout what . Sppeared to be three gunshots that had been fired through her upstairs “CONPEBEEAL. TOES eee cope nme etter meen meee es mee e w com TOONS tte teen a eee tee eee eee ees HW 53199 DBocld:32346059 Page 3
Fe en ee ee cee ser ene mene ene HW 53199 , Year bedroom window while she was out of the house about three weeks ago. ' " She seid that with all the leftists in town accusing har of being an - ' agent of the FEI and the govermzent irritated with her because of her “" gupport for Carlos Madrazo, she did not feel, entirely safe living alone | With her daughter. She said her brother Was now sleeping at the house ' to ease their anxiety. % , Go ally, Sne. Paz stated that she had recently encoutered her cousin, LydieWurdn, and thet the letter had deen very friendly and wanted to wee ner xgain., She eaid Lydia was very poor and had a small dob with . Difusion Cultural at the Anthropological Museum, - a ” , & . t o. ‘ . . ‘ = 5 . : : | oe ; 3 Abtachnente: . As stated (to P/R, L, ond CBD only) P: CWlhomas hag DoclId: 327348059 Page 4
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