104-10067-10056 MEMORANDUM. SUBJECT: at me © Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination: - tour of duty. in Yugoslavia. While there he had read about the Warren Commission's investigation and had noted the pre-assassination encounter ‘in Miami with the DRE, a ClA-subsidized group. He considered the speculated as to whether DRE elements could have been involved in the ‘possibility if it had not already done so. Thomas was assigned to Miami copy oft the ‘memorandum, but Mr. Thomas is still at Headquarters. eras he al. os 2 28 February 1968 on Allegations of Involvement, CIA and Cuban he Mr. ‘Calvin Thomas of the SB Division wrote a memorandum entitled. "Possible. DRE Animus Toward President Kennedy" and dated 8 March 1967. At that time Mr. Thomas had recently returned froma in New Orleans between Carlos Bringuier of the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE) and Lee Harvey Oswald. He recalled his own dealings DRE members" whom he knew to be unpredictable and untrustworthy. He Kennedy: assassination. He recommended that CIA investigate this from July 1962 to August 1963. Neither CI/R&A nor SB has a retention “2. Mrs ‘Arthur Dooley of Cl/ R&A discussed this matter with the following members of WH/COG: coe ae | Quaes "Margaret Forsythe, She stated that CIA's inte rest in the DRE had been made known to the office of the Attorney General by letters of 9 January and 18 April 1963 addressed to J. Walter Yeagley. The earlier letter said, in part, "The DRE is of interest to this Agency which sponsors and supports its propaganda and intelligence collection activity inthe Western Hemisphere... as the DRE is not a group _ under complete Agency control, the above does not insure that | _they will not undertake isolated paramilitary operations without , prior notification." b. Messrs. |then recently returned from a tour of the Miami Station, and Carl Trettin, DC of the CI Branch, WH/COG, who knew Bringuier and was stationed
14-00000 co in New. Orleans at the time of the Oswald-~Bringuier | _ confrontations in August 1963. It was concluded that '. Oswald was never a member of the DRE, which in fact ! rejected him, and that the DRE was not involved in the _ AbBassination. : . . ‘In April 1967 the undersigned showed a copy of the Thomas - memorandum to(Mzr. Tom Flores) then C/WH/COG, who considered that it reflected inadequate information and bias. It was agreed, nevertheless,: that the charges which District Attorney James Garrison was then beginning to level against anti-Castro Cubans and this Agency necessitated careful checking. gs “The , first report in the Cl/ R&A series on Garrison, 26 April 1967, listed seven Cuban refugees then linked to the case (Sergio - ARCACHA’ Smith, Carlos BRINGUIER, Julio BUZNEDO, Manuel GARCIA Gonzalez, Pascual. GONGORA, Miguel Silva TORRES, and Garlos | QUIROGA.) It requested any additional WH/COG information about them and about the following groups: the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary . Front, the DRE, the Information Council of the Americas, and any other ‘anti-Castro groups active in the New Orleans area. The request added, "Information about CIA relationships with the above-named groups should not be restricted to New Orleans but should also include Miami and other areas to which Garrison's investigations may lead." Information was also requested. on Edward S. BUTLER, Alberto FOWLER, Emilio SANTANA, anda paramilitary training site at Lake Pontchartr a memorandum forwarded on 8 May 1967 the then AC/WH/COG provided the requested information and added, a Will continue to review all material that may contain information pertinent to this subject and will forward such information to CI/R&A on a priority basis. ne 5. Since ‘that date CI/R&A has prepared a series of reports on the Garrison case. All of these have been forwarded to WH/COG. turn, WH/COG has provided additional information from its own files and those of the Miami Station, to which it has addressed several inquiries. ; 6. CH/R&A is currently compiling a separate list of all Cubans {as well as other Latin Americans) whose names have been linked to the Garrison investigation. This list will. be forwarded to WH/COG with a request for checks if it contains any identities not previously traced against their files (including those of J MWAVE)}. Sate ee Ee iseke