124-10228-10294) AGENCY. INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10228-10294 RECORD SERIES: EP AGENCY FILE.NUMBER: 105-1264-61 I DOCUMENT INFORMATION NT Ne ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MX TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 03/10/1964 PAGES: 29 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-2606 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret | ' NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: ; REVIEW DATE: 01/13/1999 UPDATE DATE: = 02/14/2001 STATUS  Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1A) JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HY 50953 Docld: 32176584 Page 1
a . « . £ . DEGACT - ae a wy DIRECTOR, FBI (105-82555) | 3/10/64 At LEGAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702) (P) CUMENT , | THFORUATIGN CONTAINED LES HARVEY OSWALD, alsa HEREIN 15 UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT is - R= CUBA _ HERE SHOWS OTHERGISE. CIA HAS NO @BJECTION TO ° DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR, A iN pF PICU H Jaolr> RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION ENCLOSURES: 7 | 7 Enclosed for the Bureau are 30 copies of a letter * head memorandum dated and eaptioned as above. . Maxico City letter dated 1/13/64; Bureau cablés dated 1/25/4 and Ey ya 3 tcxleo City cables dated 1/27/64 and 3/5/64, re allegations of YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA; Son Antonio cabis to Bureau, Dallas and Houston dated 2/22/64; Houston lctterhead memorandum dated 2/28/54. * seminated locally to the Cusrge d'aAtfaires of the Embassy and - The follewing information was received from WINSTON M, SCOTT, Head of the GIA Station, Mexico City, by memorandum _ dated 1/20/o4 to Legat, Mexico City, marked “SicRet,” can= tioned "LEG HARVEY OSWALD" and is being set forth in the cover Ictter, along with the memorandum monticned below dated 2/13/64, in view of CIA's recuest that the information was ' not to be disseminated outeide this office without prior . approval of the originating office in Mexico City: This, memorandum set forth that on 1/17/64 a reply | was received tre | CLA Representative in S) | a Classified Bj f 5,” Bureau (Enea. ~ 20) pacassily ‘ l= Liaison Section) , 2~— Eollas, 100-10#52) i+ Mexise Clty WIP:einm Netaneannay I AS SP eA NA aren ET ee A Se HY 50953 Docld: 32176584 Page 2?
SECRET, MO 105-3702 described by SOLIS as: 30 years old, 5* 8", about 185 pounds, stocky, skin tmoreno,' black straight i hair, mustache and with a long face. He usually works as a chauffeur or farmer. SOLIS said Lladic VILLANUEVA Ramirez did not seen subject to aberrations. { " "Notther Daniel SOLIS nor any of several other | se contacts in Cozumel have heard of ‘'Albert.!" : | | | By memorandum dated 2/18/64, directed to the Legat, Mexico City, from WINSTON M. SCOTT, which memorandum was. set forth: " the following additional information was. set fo " | _ -DANTEL SOLIS was reinterviewed in February 195 is | d furnished the Pollowing anformation ain to questions asked him: RSOLIS states he has not received either of the two letters Eladio VILIANUEVA claims to have sent him recently. *soLTS again stated that he does not have any notebook belonsing to VILLANUEVA. He said that if such @ notebook came te hin he would forvard ae to 7 the address given. "sorts stated that, according to his recollec= » VILLANUEVA arrived dn Commel in June 1953 end | tere’ {ebout) 4 July 1953 aboard a ferryboat ‘Alberto! | for Puerto Juarez. "COLTS recalis now that he had received sone three (3) letters from VILLANUEVA. These were mailed 4n Guadsiagera and were sent in the months inmmedi~ ot ately following VILLANULVA's departure frem Cozumel. - oy SOLIS said he enswered all three, and in the last ° sos letter SOLIS wrote to VILLANUEYA he asked VILLANUSVA . to xep2y the 500 pesos ($40 U.S.) he had loaned . : VILLAIEVA, SOLIS said he never heard from VILLA- | NUEVA after that. fm one of the three letters, VILLANUEVA asked . SOLIS if he would like to be a ‘secret police agent! | a in nies SOLIS has no other information concerning | HY 50953 Docld: 32176584 Page 3
SECRET, - | et HC 105~3702 "SOLIS contends Lhe had no information on pos~ Bible contacts VILLANUEVA might have had with Cubans or Americans in Cozumel. "SOLIS said that when VILLANUEVA was not work ing as an ‘albanil! (bricklayer), he spent his time  _- weeding and cutting brush at SOLIS' heme, VILLANUEVA was usually in the hamnock by 2030 hours. SOLIS and ~ VILLANUEVA sometimes visited the Mayalum Nightclub together; VILEANUEVA did not appear to be much of a drinker, "SOLIS said VILLANUSTA arrived ain Cozumel with a Sergeant Second Class 'POLO.' ‘'POLO' was arriving at a new assignment at the Cosumel Military Base; VILLANUEVA claimed to have met 'POLO' in Mexico City. : *POLO® came to SOLIS' house twiee after VILLANUEVA os ; Left, looicting for VILLANUEVA. o "SOLTS claims that the three letters he received ' from VILLANUEVA have all been murned,' SA JOSEPH B, GARCIA advised that after he interviewed DANIEL SOLIS at Qecmal_om 2/04 /o4, SOLIS hinted that he might/ haye miainfomed] oncerning the lensth of ROJAS® (S) ‘stay in Cozumel Yor the piurpdie of possibly protecting his ~~ “relative, ROJAS, whe is ac Sunk iy the uncle of SOLIS' wife, and also pecause he paid little attention to the actual — length of ROTAS!' stay. 4 " Tt is noted that other items contained in ROJAS . ‘ motebock, thich was obtained from SOLIS in Cozumel, were call . ing cards, one of which had the name on it of WALTER A. CATES, i Customs Agent, San Tieso, cet iifornia, U. S. Treasury Depart .. | | t ment, and the other card had the name on it of REY L. HATCH, — Customs investigator, Ue Se “proasum laredo, Texas. “‘Upen interview 3/5/64, ROJAS advised he cannot ae 1 recall who these persons are nor how he came into possession ©. of their calling cards. For information, it is lmown that , HATCH is aU. S. Customs Agent who was and may still be stat doned at Loredo, Toxas,. By ceble dated 1/25/64, the Bureau requested that» efforts be mBGS to arrange a polygraph examination of ROJAS | { { HY 50953 Docld: 32176584 Page 4
RE Se Es te ne nnn dennsn SECREE, Mo 105-3702 _ assassinaticn plot of President EENNEDY was fabricated by him, no further investigation is being conducted in the ROJAS  _ It is noted that the original of the signed state~ ment telcon from ROSAS by the members of the Mexican Federal Security Police at Guadalajara on 3/5/64.4s contained in > the 1-A section of this file in this office. SOURCES: . : Oo She confidential source abroad referred to in — enclosed momorandum is SA JOSEPH B, GARCIA, who conducted in- yestigation at Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico, and Mexico City, and who, along with SA EDWIN 0, JOHNSON, conducted a joint interview of ROJAS on 1/22-23/o8 at Guadalajara, and to whom, - along: with SA HENRY J. PRATT, ROJAS admitted on 3/5/64 at Guadalajara, Mexico, that he had never lmown OSWALD. he second confidential source abroad mentioned in enclosed letterhcad memorandu: is SA EDWIN 0. JOENSCH. CLASSTEICATION: . The enclosed letterhead memorandum has been elessi-~ . fied "CONFIDENTIAL" in order to protect cus forcign operations. — COPIES $ Atrerpeeweedeensecsnapemetiente Tr conics of enclosed letterhead memorandum are designated for Inllas as domestic office of origin. LEA D: MEXICO CIrTry AG Mexico, D. Fes Will continue to vigorously and dinmediately handie aif Investigation growing out of leads in this case and report results promptly. HY 50953 Docld: 32176584 Page 5