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CIA files relating to Ruby's Cuban activities... - I. Jack Ruby's CIA file Jack Ruby's CIA file contains a memorandum dated January 7, 1964 to the CIA from Hoover. This memorandum states that Carlos Villa furnished the FBI with a letter which had been forwarded to a friend of his, Jose Antonio Juan. Mr. Juan allegedly received the letter from his son in Cuba. The letter states it is known here that Rubenstein | was here a little less than a year ago visiting a Mr. Pranski, owner of shop dealing in Tourist articles _ on Prado Street between Animas and Trocadero opposite the Seville Biltmore. (Memo, 1/7/64, To CIA from Hoover.) This memorandum also states that the FBI has developed no information that Ruby visited. Cuba except for one occasion in 1959. (Ibid.) A memorandum for James Angleton from John Sherwood, dated January 9, 1964, contained a translation of another memorandum which was sent to Carlos Marquez Sterling. (FOIA Doc. # 1213-1128). It states The Brigadier of Giron, Sr. Evididfo Pereira, who is in constant communication with Cuba, informs the General Delegate of the Movimiento Patriotico Cuba Libre,.. _ news of great importance. 1. Notify the Pentagon of this fact: Ruby, the assassin of Oswald was in Havana a year ago. He is a friend and THIS COPy is Nor FOR RELEASE
Page 2 customer of a citizen named Praskin, Owner or manager of a novelty shop for tourists located: between Animas. y Trocadero, Paseo del Prado, in. front of the Hotel Sevilla. This information. received in Miami, as. noted at “the beginning of this memorandum, were received, by Brigadier of Brigade 2506,-Evidio Pereira, who i ready to. verify -them. - “New. ‘York, 29 December” 1963." (Tbid. ). A CIA cable. from Miami, ated January 30, 1964, (WAVE 1283) reports. that an article. vad. peared’ in "the Miami News on January. 29 entitied "Ruby ‘visited cuba- Exiles Say.* This article stated Ruby flew from Mexico City to Havana in the latter part of December 1962. This cable also states that the DRE originally reported this allegation to the Miami station on January 17, and the CIA had requested. the DRE to provide originals of the bulletin and letters containing these allegations. (Ibid.) | A dispatch from Miami,. dated February 13, 1964, states that the letter, containing the allegations regarding Ruby, was sent airmail from Cuba and postmarked December 28, 1963. It was sent to a fictitious name, SRA. Juana Barreiros and received at DRE Post Office Box 168 in Miami. It was also reported by the DRE that the sender's name on the envelope,
eet ne BET ogee oe et te rod at oe Boa Alicia +: Cardoso, is false. The letter was received on January 13) 1964. This dispatch indicates Carlos-Valdes was interviewed, -on February 4, 1964 who indicated the letter was from his -sister-in+law, Graziella Rubio y Rivera. He also stated ‘the ‘story about Ruby was hearsay on the part of his sister- in-law. (Ibid. 2 “The ‘CIA has provided no information to indicate that = the. Agency conducted any further investigation of this issue.
eos Tam “ Page 4. II. John Wilson Hudson File A review of Hudson's CIA DDO file indicates that in.a report from| Jaatea August 8, 1957 or 1951 a source was of the opinion that “Wilson was very probably an intelligence agent and that he is under direction of some service." (Report from JaAugust 8, 195l,or 1957) On October 6, 1959, a memorandum for the record reported , that Hudson was. arrested with Paul Hugues in Cuba and that. | - Wilson may be summarized as a person of intelligence, but so erratic as to be considered mentally unbalanced at time. He is a soldier of. fortune,. ‘having. co begun his career.in July 1936 when he left Oxford to fight in Spain. He has been accused of working for the intelligence services of several countries, and he himself has claimed to have acted on behalf of different intelligence services. He has been consistently anti-United States. (Memo for the record 6 Oct. 1959, subj: "Carl John Wilson Hudson.) . A 201 file request was submitted from[ jon October 29, 1959. (201 File Request, from| WH/T/Chitle’,,}10/29/59) Handwritten at the bottem of this request is the statement "Tn contact with suspected Soviet Agents." (Ibid.) The ne§t file reference is in a cable dated December 19, 1959 from Havana to the Director of the CIA which states that in Ref B (HAVA 2296) Havana station reported that & ‘|(unidentified) is in contact with John Carl Wilson. (Cable, 19 Dec 1959, To Dir from Havana, HAVA 3072)