424-10169-10005 JFK Assassination System Date: 11/18/20 Identification Form / Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10169-10005 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 105-82555-879 | Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI , FROM: LEG, MX TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : DATE: — 11/30/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : , LHO, POST-RP, OPINION DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 12/10/1997 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : v9.4 : ; HW 537333 Docld:327169186 Page i
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4-3 (Rev. 4-17-63) / oN Tolson oe Se s Belmont Yee Bot we Mehr . Casper tape OH. we ° . Calichan DEC SAAR clo py = Sullivan Tavel Trotter RADIO TELETYPE (:.))= Holmes (a AIRGRAM xx CABLEGRA PAGE TWO FROM LEGAT MEXICO CITY NO. 196 fcONSULTED BY MEXICANS, SCOTT SAID TOLD HIM HE IS CONVINCED ALVARADO'S STORY WAS FABRICATION am ENTIRE MATTER OF ALVARADO'S ADMISSION TO FABRICATION WAS FULLY DISCUSSED WITH AMBASSADOR MANN IN LENGTHY SESSION, HE ACCEPTS FACT THAT STORY WAS FABRICATION BUT CONTINUES TO FEEL CASTRO MAY HAVE BEEN BEHIND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. (THIS OPINION IN PART BASED ON TWO PHONE CALLS WHICH OCCURRED BETWEEN PRESIDENT DORTICOS OF CUBA AND CUBAN AMBASSADOR HERE ON NOVEMBER 26 LAST IN WHICH DORTICOS REPEATEDLY QUESTIONED AMBASSADOR WITH REGARD TO WHETHER SILVIA DURAN HAD BEEN INTERROGATED ABOUT MONEY WHEN a SHE WAS ARRESTED BY MEXICAN AUTHORITIES NOVEMBER 23 LAST.} aD &) AMBASSADOR MANN WAS MOST EFFUSIVE IN HIS COMMENTS CONCERNING DIRECTOR'S COOPERATION IN HAVING SENT KEENAN HERE AND REQUESTED THAT KEENAN CONVEY PERSONALLY HIS APPRECIATION TO DIRECTOR, HE STATED HE FEELS THAT WITH ALVARADO'S ADMISSION OF FABRICATION THERE WOULD APPEAR TO BE NO REASON FOR KEENAN TO REMAIN HERE ANY LONGER, KEENAN HAS RESERVATIONS TO DEPART MEXICO CITY AT 11 PM TODAY ON EASTERN FLIGHT 304 WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE AT DULLES AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON AT 6 AM TOMORROW, d-( > CLARK D. ANDERSON RECEIVED: 9:52 PM EFH CC-WIR. ROSER SRD CC: Ma. BRENNAN . ath) wi If the intelligence contained in the above -GEGRET ted outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased in order to protect the Bureaw’ 8 cry MES talms | HW $2333 BDoctd: 32169166 Page 3