vot 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 : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information SSCIA 157-10003-10422 MEMORANDUM Document Information FBI LEGAT, MEXICO CITY DIRECTOR, FBI RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ 03/19/1964 6 ASSASSINATION PLOT CORTEZ, RAYMOND (RAMON) CUBA - CHINA CONNECTION CUBA - MEXICO INTERNAL SECURITY PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unelassified 00. :. Redact 04/05/1994 box 335-5 HW 56792 . Docld: 32201611 Page’ 1 Date: 2/23/201 Released under the John . Eennedy Was5assination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ASER:INW S6vg2 Date:
this subject. The interview of J. JESUS RAMIREZ TAMAYO contained in the enclosed letterhead memorandum was conducted by SAs EDWIN O. JOHNSON and HENRY J. PRATT. All other interviews of individuals conducted in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, were conducted by SA JOHNSON. | _ SOURCES | vy tot MPLA EMZL- Taentity of Source File Location ; a T-l isco ans ® Zan 2 hameeimacit ; 6 3 Bureau (Encs: 14). "A eat a. J ee po i. / is e ~ Liaison Section) a (2 + San Antonio, 105-2927) REC an oa Ate: MAR 25 164 (1 - Miami, 105-8483) (Info.) 1 feos p A 2 # Mexies City \ a : - (1-- 105-3702) (Oswald a1 eo - - JRG: jhk ) (Osw veany io: CIA 'Sicte/RAO mee , ‘ (8) 4 OlL/CSUACSI/ U3 mn al Bot Wa cave ve rRaR by routing elip fox infos 5, ez) HW. 56792 Docld: 32201811 Page. 2 UNREC COPY AND COPY orf FNeT. qq¥ol-t . eo-rmeal, PORN. Ne. 8 a seahitte x : ‘ MAY say EOET Cre me va a * ‘ . UNisED STATES Gt i2RNMENT : To: Directcr, FBI (105-99401-3) . ~ ; “pate: 3/19/64 FRO. [til regat, Mexico City (105-3791) (RUC) . ~ 9) ” “ d ve ~/ ’  Supject: RAYMOND BUENROSTRO. CORTEZ HEREIN 1 ED 2-/ Wee IS - CUBA - MEXICO DATE By 96 ; “ ; ’ . ) eee ie *~ 3 This document is prepared ¢ : ‘ t L your Commiti-e and the content : math Mubeod it be “} ENCLOSURES 141 without the express approoal of the rer feclosed to unaythorized person-k : u : Enclosed herewith are 14 copies of a letterhead | a Zi memorandum dated and captioned as above. | M REFERENCE ; REVIEWED BY FBI/JFK TASK FORCE : : Legat, Mexico City letter #0! the ‘dated YY 2/27/64. . [J] RELEASE IN. FULL » = ADMINISTRATIVE f ASE IN PART L NS a as | [TOTAL DENIAL a ; a No dissemination of the information contained in “ - the enclosed letterhead memorandum has been made locally s ee to the United States Embassy, Mexico, D. F., inasmuch as = it is in possession of pertinent information concerning «
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2 5 st . a i > UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE : FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Washington, D. C, March 19, 1964 RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION _. Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions _ | ‘¥ DECLASsipiEn py FiQF 00) On February 28, 1964, T+l, who has furnished reliable information in the past, stated that inoviry -.  --— -~ pei, os _in the vicinity of where the address Avenida Independencia ! No, 14, Mexico, D, F,, Mexico, should be located disclosed no such building number as 14 and no information indicating on that the subject still maintained or had maintained an office in that vicinity. On March 5, 1964, T-2, who has furnished reliable information in the past, stated that it was ascertained | that there is a Calzado (shoe factory) located at Calle 56, Sector Reforma 384, Guadalajara, Jalisco,. Mexico, which is named Calzado Clarice-Creaciones Unicas. According to T.2, this factory has been closed because of a strike since 3g wary goes, and the owner of the factory, J. JESUS ~RAMIRES TAMAYO, is in the penitentiary. T-~2 stated that the watchman at the factory was not acquainted with the subject, “On March 5, 1964, J. JESUS RAMIREZ TAMAYO, Mexican Federal Penitentiary, Guadalajara, stated that he is the - owner of the firm known as Calzado Stella, He advised that he owns 180 of the 200 shares outstanding in this firm and that he is presently incarcerated in the Penitentiary pending the outcome of a law suit instituted against him by the HW..56792 ..Doeld: 322701811 Page 4
¢ * id . % Pol a ar Oficina de Hacienda de Mexico (Mexican Office of the Public Treasury) in relation to the management of the firm. RAMIREZ expressed confidence that this suit will be resolved in his favor. RAMIREZ stated that approximately one and one-half years ago during the time that his Ownership of the firm was under litigation, the Subject "illegally" purchased. the firm. RAMIREZ claimed that he never met the subject and that after the subject bought the firm, h » the subject, changed the name of the establishment to zado Clarice-~Creaciones Unicas. RAMIREZ stated that he Gid not believe that the subject ever maintained a residence in Guadalajara and he had heard from an unrecalled source in the past that the subject was a Texan who lived in Mexico City. On March 6, 1964, JOSE DIAZ GARZA, Public Relations Officer, Banco Industrial de Jalisco, Guadalajara, stated ecks f. his account were the Subject and one JOSE ee _MEDEROS HERNANDEZ. According to DIAZ GARZA, the name of MEDEROS HERNANDEZ was dropped from the account late in 1962. DIAZ GARZA related that the subject came infrequently for brief periods of time an at the bank. He stated that the subject had the reputation for being an unethical, unscrupulous businessman who was noted for not paying his employees their full salaries, in early 1962 in the name of "Calzado Clarice, ™ Calle 56, Sos en Reforma 334, Guadalajara. Those authorized to sign DIAZ GARZA stated that the subject brought several Cubans from Mexico, F., Mexico, to Guadalajara, to work in the shoe factory and that MEDEROS HERNANDEZ acted as an administrator with this firm. DIAZ GARZA stated that the an workers yho arrived from Mexied City were ROMERIO / BARBOZA, JOSE NOJUEROL and DIMAS“FIGUEREDO. DIAZ GARZA stated that he had heard nothing derogatory concerning the above-mentioned individuals. . s DIAZ GARZA informed that late in 1962, MEDEROS HERNANDEZ was shot six times with a .22 revolver when a man entered his room at the Genova Ho He stated that MEDEROS HERNANDEZ survived and that it was his opinion that the investigation of the matter seemed to a a ec that the subject had an account at that bank which was opened __
\ indicate that the Subject had hired a gunman from Mexico, D. F., to assassinate MEDERO3 HERNANDEZ who had previously claimed the subject owed him money. DIAZ GARZA stated, nowever, that the Subject was never arrested. ; DIAZ GARZA reported that the subject indicated he had bank accounts in Texas, Canada and Mexico, D. F., Mexico, and had furnished an office address of Reforma 37, Office #404, Mexico, D, F. He stated that the bank did not have a home address for the subject. — On March 6, 1964, RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, a Cuban exile who is employed by Mexalit, 15 de Septiembre and Ferrocarril Streets, Guadalajara, stated that he was aware that there had been some Cuban shoemakers in Guadalajara and that one of them had been shot, RODRIGUEZ Stated he was not personally acquainted with these individuals and knew nothing derogatory concerning them, a a JFK Act 6 (4) e ea that a an he Genova Hotel in Guadalajara by another Cuban but that he did not remember the name-of the would-be assassin, He stated that the file concerning the results of the investigation would’ be in the possession of the Criminal Courts in Guadalajara, He Stated that the records of that office contained no derogatory information concerning the subject and no indication that an arrest order had ever been issued for him in connection with the afore-mentioned shooting. —— { a on —_ = —_ that he recalled the shooting involving Cuban aliens in 1932 and furnished the name of the aggressor as JOSE MIGUEL-VALDEZ and the victim as JOSE MBDEROS HERNANDEZ. He stated that the Fourth, Criminal Court at the Penitentiary, Guadalajara, had handled the case and the file number was 354.3/98855. He stated that he had received no information indicating that the subject was involved in the afore-mentioned shooting, = 3 eee 7 ee eee
* iy en \ ca On March 12, 1964, the Secretary of the Fourth Criminal Court, Guadalajara, stated that he could not make the court records concerning the afore-mentioned shooting available for examination. He recalled, however, that he remembered the case well and that the subject had not been involved in it as a defendant. He added, however, that the subject could have been called as a witness since he had been the employer of the victim. ' On March 17, 1954, T-3, who has furnished reliable information in the past, stated that no indication of leftist or pro-Castro activity on the part of the subject in Mexico had come to his attention. % HW-56792 -Decld:322901811 Page 7