Released under the rapt = Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 : SEA aT bi i aii ‘ : 4 a AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD_ NUMBER: — 124-10082-10361 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109090-151ST NR 126 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR. FBI TO: RANKIN. J. LEE TITLE: DATE: 04/16/1964 | PAGES: 3 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-3575 | DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: ° CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW _DATE: — (6/17/1996 UPDATE DATE: 01/22/2001 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: DoclIda: 32147909 Page 1
Released under Hote) ~ DATE... : “4 -” — el tN ee aba FR i i pe NLT AGI TE pen poy 44a el John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 -14-2017 { CER ET -——ODNEENTIAL L .. slmont Mohr Rosen DeLoach Sullivan Malley Branigan April 16, 1964 a fel fe et pet tH Btaoedt Oy a a ae BY COURIER SERVICE { ON 1 - Lenihan \ a aa er yi 1 = Rose ) Honorable J, Lee Rankin ft ~ Stokes 4, - Ge 1 Counsel ae ed Gk Aa :IFic.| § The President's Commission — cl ge4HQ Oe. \ 200 Maryland Avenue, Nw Eo oe Ho / a Washington, D. C. Seige dena FY Dear Mr, Rankin: . (over) 2 4 i m= Enclosed are two copies of a nemcrandum in the > ” Lee Harvey Oswald case dated April 10, 1954, classified ios "Secret." The enclosed menorandun deals with the coments o> « and speculations of one Elizabeth Catlett Nora, a = u naturalized Mexican citizen of American origin who is bis s presently a member of the Communist Party of Moxico (BY 2) = In regard to Morats renark ccucerning the. inportance of locating press references to Oswald's activities in New Orleans, Louisiana, tefore he went to Rusia, our report dated March 9, 1904, at New Orloans, Lovis:.:..., sets. forth the negative results ef our revicy of New Orleans , newspapers for the period ismediately prior to Oswald's departure for France on Septeuber 20, 1959, Investigation has previously established that Oswald received his pin.sport on September 10, 1959, at ics Avceles, California, and was discharged fvca the United States Marine Corps in California on Septenbcr 11, 1959. Additional interzation concerning - Oswald's activities in the New Orleans avea in Septenber, 1959, ig set forth in our report in the Oswald case dated December 10, 1963, at New Orleans. It appears that Oswald e ) checked intd the Liberty Hotel in New Orleans;on hi. 2) September 17, 1959-( BYU ba- 1090 4¢O _— — fe neat ae NOT agian yf KY af a Va ' on fam douner ia Gale an lassizicat Fosen 2. a : fs . » 2 "JCS: jalipak als DR oe Sullivan Tavel 4. 4 Mie eed aes nm. vate 2 3 i . . . Gandy DocId: 32147909 aaLns 2 D ed p GbE if 3 25 yay Bri ‘ 7 = MAIL ROOM Page 2?
, Reléased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (4a Use 2107 /—— Note) . _ BATE? 11-14-2017 ( a ar rr re , me a } a | cae Be , : KL. ne \~ a : ee ee L x “ oo + 2 : ay oa -.1. |. Honorable Je Lee Rankin 3 ey You'will observe that Mora has been ill and ' because of her illness, our source has b obtain additional data’ conc een unable to oncerning her comments despite rerE: 4 persistent efforts to this end, » sy al : ¥ + # ‘ i | | +i t 2. Our source is still / hopeful of developing further detaiis and additional a Joa information wild be furnished to you as it igs devetonea(¥\ ut} ee re For’ your information copies of the enclos sed my be tye “memorandum have been furnished to the Central Intelligence °° : ‘Agency in view of. its Anterest in Oswaid' ar -in RB RAG ussia¢- “eh 8 activities while 4 x So ES, eo ; Sincerely yours, ote! ar ons’ Pee wig bae, : eo : elt oon * gloat ’ ." Lt cecadhy nig tips Bear Hoover . i : . F my ve ‘. ' : : . | | a : Enclosures (2).-: ‘ll -  NOTE: Poy! ‘The enclosed lettcrhead is from Mexico City. It Poy as “sets forth speculations of tiora that Oswald could be linked Panny to Mexico only through his activities ovrior to going to “of is . USSR in. 1959, Mora indicated that tie in to Mexico may lie “.fo =. 4 im press referenceg to Oswald's activities in New Oriecans  " * for the few days he was in that aren pxicr to going < rane 9 Russia 4s “; ‘in September, 1959, when he was 19 years old, ' She also Said 5 i -* that Oswald knew Mary Louise Patterson, jan American negress — mt presently attending the Friendship School ix: USSR)when he was.) * . ? in Ru hence we are furnishing copies ci letterhead to nr ur_ sources in contact with Mora (the highly placed . TS Os and Mex-12) }Janticipated spending a few days h Mora, ta be o has been ill, antic first two weeks of eR ever, ‘ . they cannot ‘assure us that Mora will be well”enough for fi recontact as she has been ii1 for a long time. | ‘ yt t ‘s ° ot "SEE NOTE CONTINUED PAGE THREE ole DoclId: 327147909 Page 3